text:
Maritime Security / Reference Library
Abraham Lincoln Carrier Group Departs San Diego on Scheduled Deployment
Sailors man the rails as the USS Abraham Lincoln passes North Island. Navy photo
The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group departed San Diego Monday morning on a regularly scheduled deployment in support of global maritime security operations. Carrier Strike Group 3 includes the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, Carrier Air Wing 9, the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay, and the guided-missile destroyers USS Fitzgerald, USS Gridley, USS Sampson and USS Spruance.
"The entire CSG 3 team is trained and ready to deter and, if necessary, win conflicts as called upon by our nation's leaders," said Rear Adm. J.T. Anderson, commander of the group.
Get Times of San Diego Daily by Email
"As we leave today on this routine, scheduled deployment, I know the sailors and Marines of this team will continue to serve this great nation and its people.
It is our honor to do so," he said. The units of the strike group began their pre-deployment training cycle in April and recently completed a month-long integrated exercise during which the group was certified for deployment.
"These sailors are incredible professionals who have trained exceptionally hard to ensure they are ready for any operational obligations required of us on deployment," said Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, the Abraham Lincoln's commanding officer.
"They are absolutely prepared for today's deployment, and I have no doubt they will represent our nation proudly as we defend our national interests," she said.
The Abraham Lincoln is deploying with new F-35C stealth fighters, which the Navy said makes the air wing "more lethal and survivable in today's contested battle space."
Support Times of San Diego
With the generous support of readers like you, Times of San Diego publishes timely and accurate news coverage for a better-informed community.
Helps us grow with a monthly contribution.
Maritime SecurityReference Library
Tags: HONORNATIONALsecurity


Do you live in the Lowcountry with a muscle car or truck?
Do you love to drive your vehicle?
If you answered a yes to these questions, you came to the right place!
Lowcountry Muscle Car is a non-profit auto club dedicated to everything fast. From vintage American muscle cars and trucks, to home built custom street rods, to today's high-tech performance vehicles. Big block or small block, Ford, Chevy or Mopar... If it's fast you need to be here.
Thank you for visiting our website. We hope you enjoy your stay! Please visit all of our links to find out who we are, what our purpose is, where we meet, when we meet, and other interesting news.
It must be built by an American manufacturer.
It must have rear wheel drive.
It must be powered by a V-6, V-8 or a V-10.
It may be a kit car of American manufactured cars (street rods, Cobras, etc.).
The greatest feature of our club is variety. We don't care if you own a t-bucket, hot-rodded pickup, 180 HP '80s Trans Am, or the latest performance machine in the muscle car wars. Each of these is a Muscle Car in its own right and you're more than welcome to join the club.
At only $20/year, you'll not find a better value for continuous family friendly fun!


Courtesy of Facebook, Ross Sparkman has written an article introducing his presentation: 'Transforming your workforce through Strategic Workforce Planning'. Click here to see all BTOES19 Speakers.
Depending on the industry and business, for many organizations, the concept of these new technologies and ways of working may still be an abstract theory. For these organizations, the notion of machine learning, artificial intelligence, automation and the GIG economy is either not on the radar, or seems like something that will happen too far in the future to start thinking about or planning for today. What many organizational leaders may not be aware of, though, is how soon these technologies could potentially begin to impact their organizations.
So what can an business leaders do to ensure their organizaiton's workforces or 'people' are positioned to flourish and not flounder amist this ever changing landscape of work? One tactic can be to explore the concept of Strategic Workforce Planning.
Fundamentally, the easiest way to define Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) is to drop the first two words in the term Strategic Workforce Planning and explore the meaning of the last word 'planning.' Doing so in the context of the organization's people will provide a much more intuitive explanation as to what SWP is. SWP at the most fundamental level is a framework for analyzing both the current and desired future states of the workforce. Assessing these different workforce states across different points in time will provide insight into what, if any, gaps exist between where the company is with their people today, and where it should be with those same people in the future.
If done properly and with the right support and direction, this type of analysis will shed light on specific areas in the workforce that require attention to achieve that desired state.
Identifying improvements is the first step in a guideline towards specific action steps that need to be taken for the desired future state.
SWP is not a silver bullet that will solve all the challenges an organization faces. Rather, it's a map that can help guide the business towards some desired state. To that end, executive sponsorship is very important. There needs to be a sense of organizational commitment and a willingness to see the plan executed from start to finish.
It's also not a simple 'one-size-fits-all' methodology or framework. In fact, an important part of the SWP process involves understanding — in the context of the organizational culture — how to customize and develop a plan that will meet the cultural nuances and operating processes of that organization. The organization should approach the plan with a level of creativity and openness to interpretation.
Good SWP is not something that will happen overnight. Hence the need for commitment. Embedding SWP into a cross-functional, enterprise-wide operating process takes time. Moreover, realizing and being able to measure the impact and ROI of SWP will require even more time.
For an organization that has laid out a five-year Strategic Workforce Plan, it's not unreasonable to see the net benefits to the company for up to two to five years after the initial execution of the plan. It's necessary to think of SWP as being a cultural shift towards one that is proactive and future facing.
It's also something that will probably not be well understood by the masses. Like implementing any new initiative, process, or program in an organization, it's likely to face significant resistance due to paradigm shifts in thinking (Lewin, 1947).
Anticipating this resistance by incorporating a well-thought-out change management and communications strategy as part of the broader SWP will greatly increase the likelihood of a successful implementation.
SWP benefits the organization because it provides managers, leaders and HR professionals with insights regarding the current and future state of the workforce. Workforce insights of this nature provide these managers, leaders and HR professional with the information they need to make optimal workforce related decisions. Having the knowledge and ability to make the "best" decisions for the organization's workforce will, in turn, lead to cost effectiveness, efficiency gains and performance improvement for the organization (Wood, Bandura, and Bailey, 1990).
SWP is also a mechanism for bridging the gap between the organization's corporate strategy and its workforce strategy. Aligning corporate and workforce strategies are crucial for maximizing future company performance. This is because so much of the organization's corporate strategy is dependant on having a workforce in place that has the talent necessary to execute on the strategy's objectives. Developing a workforce with this talent begins with alignment of workforce and corporate strategies, which is exactly what SWP helps the organization do.
What parts of an organization stand to benefit most from SWP? A better question might be to ask, what parts of the organization will not benefit from SWP? The purpose of SWP is to align the current and future workforce with the organization's strategy. The organizational strategy is dependent upon the separate components or functions of the business, which are in turn dependent on the people working in these functions. It's easy to see why every aspect of the business stands to benefit from SWP.
A good SWP should look across the entire organization to see how, within these functions, employees, both at an individual and group level, contribute to improving the organization's performance.
Looking across the organization as described above provides the Strategic Workforce Planner with insight into the cause and effect relationships between different functions, and how relationships across those functions must be considered holistically to develop a robust and efficient Strategic Workforce Plan.
Ross Sparkman is the author of the recently published book "Strategic Workforce Planning: optimized talent strategies for future growth: and is expert and thought leader in the fields of Human Capital Strategy & Talent Analytics. With over 15 years experience in Talent Analytics and Strategic Workforce Planning, he uses his background in statistics, business strategy, HR and HR technology to consult with C-Suite officers and senior leaders on strategic methodologies and frameworks for HR and corporate strategy alignment. The end goal is to provide these senior leaders with improved data and insights to make better 'people' related decisions that ultimately improve organizational performance. Click here to see all BTOES19 Speakers.
Lewin, K., 1947. Quasi-stationary social equilibria and the problem of permanent change. Organization change: A comprehensive reader, pp.73-77.
Wood, R., Bandura, A. and Bailey, T., 1990. Mechanisms governing organizational performance in complex decision-making environments. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 46(2), pp.181-201.


text:
Žemaitėliai (formerly known as ; ) is a village in Vilnius District Municipality, Lithuania inhabited by Russians Pomorian Old Believers. According to the 2011 census, it had population of 21.

History
Žemaitėliai village (known as Mitrophanovka then) with a community of Old Believers was established not later than 1876. A church was built in 1928, a cemetery and a library (with 285 books in 1936) established. Local Old Believers were mostly wealthy farmers (owners of 18–25 ha plots of land), masons, joiners, freelance workers. The community was hit by World War II and Soviet rule, when men were taken to the Red Army and some families deported to Siberia. In 1950, there were 45 families of Old Believers, but because of strong USSR anti-religious campaigns and propaganda of atheism as well as urbanization, the community shrank to only 10 families in 1997. After 1990, local church was restored. During the holidays, Old Believers from nearby Paberžė, Anavilis, Purnuškės, Akmena, Visalaukė villages gather in Žemaitėliai. A community house was built in 2014. There is an Old Believers church in Akmena village, located some  from Žemaitėliai.

References

Villages in Vilnius County
Vilnius District Municipality

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


text:
Home / News and events / Bernicia leads new consumer regulation pilot programme
Bernicia today welcomed the news that it is one of eight social housing landlords chosen to lead a pilot programme testing new consumer regulation for the social housing sector.
The Regulator of Social Housing today published Reshaping consumer regulation: our implementation plan. This sets out the steps RSH is taking to get ready for the landmark Social Housing Regulation Bill, which has nearly finished its passage through Parliament.
The legislation will bring about one of the most fundamental changes to social housing regulation in over a decade. It will set new expectations on the services that landlords need to provide for their tenants, introduce regular consumer inspections of social landlords and give RSH stronger powers to hold landlords to account.
Subject to the Bill being passed in early 2023 and receiving the necessary directions from government, RSH expects to implement the new approach from April 2024.
The new approach will include inspecting all large social landlords against the new standards, including housing associations and local authorities, every four years. These inspections will build on the regulator's experience in carrying out its intensive and challenging in-depth assessments for economic regulation.
To help test the new inspection regime, the regulator has launched a pilot inspection programme. The social landlords included in the initial wave are Bernicia, Brunelcare, Cheshire Peaks and Plains, Eastbourne Borough Council, Folkestone and Hythe Borough Council, Guinness Housing Association and Torus62.
Fiona MacGregor, Chief Executive of RSH, said: "We are making significant progress in gearing up for new consumer regulation, which will empower tenants and give us stronger powers to hold landlords to account.
"It is vital that landlords get ready now. Tenants deserve quality services from their landlords, and homes that are safe and of a decent standard. Where there are issues, landlords should act to put things right – before we start carrying out our consumer inspections."
Bernicia Chief Executive John Johnston said: "We welcome the opportunity to be one of the eight social housing landlords participating in this pilot programme.
"As part of the preparation for our in-depth assessment later this month with the Regulator of Social Housing, we expressed how equally important we consider the Consumer Standards to be, and the importance we at Bernicia place on a strong tenants' voice that works with us to shape services, monitor performance and help guide the overall direction of the organisation.
" I hope the proactive consumer regulatory regime will give assurance as to the great work the majority of housing associations undertake on behalf of tenants on a daily basis, whilst also driving up standards and holding organisations to account where required".

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


In the three years after he arrived in Washington in 2014, Matthew G. Whitaker received more than $1.2 million as the leader of a charity that reported having no other employees, some of the best pay of his career.The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust described itself as a new watchdog nonprofit dedicated to exposing unethical conduct by public officials. For Whitaker, it became a lucrative steppingstone in a swift rise from a modest law practice in Iowa to the nation's top law enforcement job. As FACT's president, he regularly appeared on radio and television, often to skewer liberals.But FACT's origins and the source of funding used to pay Whitaker — now the acting attorney general — remain obscured. An examination of state and federal records, and interviews with those involved, show that the group is part of a national network of nonprofits that often work in concert to amplify conservative messages.
In fund-raising speech, Trump says he made up trade claim in meeting with Justin Trudeau | WE HAVE THE RECORDING YOU IDIOT!


3K Medical line was established in 2008 by founders with a 30 year experience in the medical sector.
The human's resource starring both in an administrative as well as in a clinical level was based in the thou rough knowledge and in the, many years lasting, occupation with the pharmaceutical and parapharmaceutical products.
Today, the company employments forward and distribute an enormous and constantly developing range of pharmaceuticals rendering 3k Medical line among the most powerful presences of the Greek market.
Company's main goal is the achievement of the best sale-prices, keeping in the same time the highest quality of products and services as far as our clients are concerned.
The high certified products' quality is of at most importance for us. Therefore it is essential for us that our pharmaceuticals and cosmetics will always be distinguished for their exceptional quality elements and features.
Always willing to serve our clients' from the level of the order up to the delivery of the goods in a productive and flexible manner.
Our response is immediate as far as our clients' demands are concerned. Furthermore, the deliveries are direct with every day deliveries irrespective of the high, the each and the extent of the order. The sufficient equipment that we have in our possession including trucks, cars and equipped vehicles, help the deliveries to reach their destination time.
The respect to the client, his needs and the specialties of each order is one of our principles. In such a way we create long-lasting co- operations, based in healthy business bonus.
© 2018 3K Medical Line S.A.


Take a stroll down the tree-lined avenue of main street on a perfect Saturday with a slight breeze. That was our inspiration for this uptown chic skirt! With its casual heather grey, lightweight fabric, this maxi skirt is ready for a stroll. Knotted design on the hip with an elastic waistband and a shorter inner skirt for coverage. Finished hemline all around. Pair it with our Go-To Tank, Fresh Laundry Bralette, and Miami Fedora to get this look!
Elizabeth is 5'5" and is wearing a small. *Please note she is wearing 4.5" wedges in this photo and the skirt is sitting slightly above her hips.


text:
ADR1FT has Been 'Hand-Selected' by Oculus to Launch 'Day and Date' with Rift
By Jamie Feltham	 On Sep 24, 2015
Arguably one of the most anticipated upcoming virtual reality (VR) videogames in development right now is developer Three One Zero's ADR1FT. The title has been a long time coming, first confirming support for the Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) back in early 2014. It's since been suggested that ADR1FT will also support other HMDs such as PlayStation VR, though a specific release date has not been announced. Today, the developer has finally revealed a launch window for the title, attaching it closely to its original VR HMD.
ADR1FT will be launching 'day and date' with the Oculus Rift in Q1 2016. The team behind the title confirmed as much in a recent tweet after the title was shown in a sizzle reel at the Oculus Connect 2 developer conference at the Loews Hotel in Hollwood, California. In fact, Three One Zero noted that the title has been 'Hand-Selected' by Oculus VR itself, assumedly to be a part of the company's launch line-up. The developer had previously suggested the title was aiming for release this year, so this could be seen as a delay of sorts.
Launching with the Oculus Rift itself also means that ADR1FT will be supporting the Xbox One gamepad on PC, which will be included in the kit. It's not yet known if the developer has any plans to support Oculus Touch, which is the company's position-tracked input solution that provides 'hand presence' within VR titles.
ADR1FT is a first-person experience that has drawn comparison to the celebrated 2013 blockbuster, Gravity. Players are cast as an astronaut that survives a massive accident that leaves him stranded in space, and must make their way through the wreckage of a space station, finding supplies to survive as they go. Three One Zero intends the experience to be mid-length.
VRFocus will continue to follow ADR1FT closely, reporting back with the latest updates on its progress.
Adr1ftOculus RiftVirtual Reality


text:
Q: why there is a difference between GPS time to date I have some trouble decoding the Date(1561525200000-0500) into a readable date.
It should be 10-10-2017.
I use python.
datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(1561525200000/1000)

The result is
datetime.datetime(2019, 6, 26, 5, 0)

I don't know what is the problem. There is difference between expected and real dates.
So what is this date format? Is there any format not GPS time but works?
I already found some but nothing works.
It drives me crazy.

A: here's a way how you could parse the UTC offset - split on the sign of the offset and parse accordingly:
import re
from datetime import datetime, timezone, timedelta

datestring = '1561525200000-0500'

parts = re.split('(\+|\-)', datestring)

if len(parts) > 1:
    dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(float(parts[0])/1e3,
                                tz=timezone(timedelta(hours=int(''.join(parts[1:])[:3]),
                                                      minutes=int(parts[-1][2:]))))
else: # string contains no UTC offset...
    dt = datetime.fromtimestamp(float(parts[0])/1e3, tz=timezone.utc)

# dt
# datetime.datetime(2019, 6, 26, 0, 0, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(days=-1, seconds=68400)))

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


First. Together with Holy Scripture, I assert the real presence of Christ, personally, at His Sacraments and in His Word and through His Spirit. Exactly that assertion of the omnipresence there of the Son of God, impels me to deny His physical presence in and under the sacramental elements, or even in the Bible as His Holy Word. Christ Himself insists against any view of a merely 'local presence' either in Jerusalem or in Samaria: "God is Spirit; and they that worship Him, must worship Him in spirit and in truth." John 4:20-26.
Second. Long before the incarnation of God the Son, He was indeed really present at the Old Testament preachings of His Word and at the administration of His Sacraments of Circumcision and of the Passover. Moreover, such presence must have been Spirit-ual and could not have been fleshly or physical. For the Son had then not yet become flesh.
Third. John chapter six has nothing to do with the Lord's Supper, which was instituted only later at the very end of Christ's earthly ministry. The RC Church and other groups which appeal to that passage to try to establish that Christ is physically present in the bread and the wine at His Supper, err greatly. For John 6:9-13 is not sacramental. Nor is it an account of transubstantiating bread and fishes into Himself, but rather a description of His miraculous multiplication of five loaves and two small fishes into many more untransubstantiated loaves and fishes sufficient to feed about five thousand mature men and perhaps also their womenfolk and their children. John 6:10 cf. Matt. 14:14-21 & Mark 6:36-44 & Luke 9:14-17.
Fourth. From John 6:26 onward, Jesus said to the folk: "Truly I tell you, you seek Me ...because you ate of the loaves and were filled." Then, in 6:32, Jesus implied that He Himself is the bread from heaven. He did not anabaptistically bring His flesh with Him from heaven – but only His Own Person, and indeed in a Spirit-ual way. He took upon Himself flesh for the first time not in or from heaven, but only from and within the womb of Mary as His earthly mother.
Fifth. In 6:33, He says that the bread of heaven is not His earthly flesh but He Who [personally and now incarnately] came down to give life to the world. When in 6:34, the believers said to Him 'Lord, give us this bread evermore!'– Jesus did not pick up a piece of earthly bread and turn it into Himself. Instead, in 6:35, He said to them 'I am the bread of life' [and not 'I will become the bread of life']; he who comes to Me [and not 'he who comes to a piece of earthly bread that I will turn into Myself] shall never be hue." Yet the latter indeed does happen, between Masses, to those that from time to time come and receive the RC Mass.
Seventh. In John 6:52-58, "the [unbelieving] Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"' This shows that they had a carnal, cannibalistic, materialistic, and 'localized presence' misunderstanding of what Jesus was saying.
Tenth. In John 6:61f, when even His disciples kept on murmuring about this, Jesus said to them [altogether Proto-Calvinistically and totally untransubstantiatingly]: "It is the Spirit Who keeps on enlivening! The flesh profits not at all! The words which I have spoken (or keep speaking) to you, they are Spirit and they are life! But there are some of you who do not believe" [such as Judas Iscariot whom Rome would have us believe nevertheless physically ate and drank the Divinity and also the very flesh and blood of Christ]. Compare John 6:64-71.
Eleventh. Literalistic transubstantiation would imply Judas was a God-eating cannibalistic infidel who here physically ate God and the flesh and drank the blood of Jesus, Who had as then not yet died. But He would then (against His Own Word in Lev. 26:29 & Dent. 28:53) have had to have given a piece of His flesh and siphoned off some of His blood for Judas's faithless consumption thereof!
Twelfth. While insisting on Christ's Spirit's presence during preaching (I Cor. 2:1-4. c f. Gal. 3:1) and at water baptism (Acts 1:5 cf. I Cor. 12:13), I deny (even with the RC Church) that Jesus is physically present in or under the baptismal water. Similarly, while insisting on His Holy Spirit's presence at His Supper, I deny that Jesus is physically present in or under the sacramental bread and wine. Indeed, I particularly deny that either the water or the wine become transubstantiated into His physical blood.
Thirteenth. It is obvious when Christ instituted the Supper and metaphorically or non-physically yet really called the bread His flesh – that His Own flesh had not yet been broken. He was, even after His consecration of the elements, in fact Himself still physically holding in His hand that which the Holy Bible still called bread and wine. Matt.26:26-29 & Mark 14:22-25 & cf. I Cor. 10:17f & 11:23-28.
Fourteenth. I heartily agree that the Ante-Nicene Fathers with their high view of Holy Scripture taught the real presence of our Saviour at His Table. For they believed what Holy Scripture here teaches. The Ante-Nicenes, holding with Holy Scripture to Christ's Spirit-ual presence, therefore denied His physical presence in the bread and the wine. Indeed, even no Post-Nicene Church Father advocated transubstantiation – until Radbertus in 831, and more particularly Lanfranc in 1049 A.D. Nor was this false theory ever Eastern-Orthodox theory – nor even official RC theory until it became so in 1215 A.D.
Fifteenth. After the completion of the New Testament Scriptures, Clement of Rome (who was later regarded by the RC Church as her fourth pope), wrote around A.D. 99 to his "dear brethren" alias to his fellow Christians in his Letter to the Corinthians (cps. 1 & 40) that "it behooves us to do all things in order, which the Lord has commanded us at stated times. He has enjoined gifts and services to be performed ...at the appointed times and hours." Cf I Cor. 16: If. There is no mention of John 6:32-63; nor even of the Lord's Supper; and still less of transubstantiation.
Sixteenth. Perhaps around A.D. 100, one reads in The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles (ch.14): "On the Lord's [Day] gather yourself together and break bread [but not 'Physically eat the flesh of Christ'], and give thanks! .... For this is that which was spoken by the Lord: 'In every place and time, present to Me a pure offering!' [Mal. 1:11 ]. Again, there is no mention of John 6:32-63; and still less of transubstantiation.
Seventeenth. Around A.D. 107, Ignatius wrote in his Letter to the Philadelphians (ch. 4): "Take heed then to have but one Eucharist! For there is one flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one cup to [show forth] the unity of His blood." The later and longer (Pseudo-)Ignatian version adds: "One loaf also is broken to all." Once again, there is here no mention of John 6:32-63; and still less of transubstantiation.
Eighteenth. In his Epistle to the Trallians (ch. 8), Ignatius declares: "Be renewed in faith; THAT is the flesh of the Lord – and in love; THAT is the blood of Jesus Christ!" Here again, there is no mention of John 6:32-63; nor of transubstantiation; and still less of any withholding of the cup from the laity.
Nineteenth. Irenaeus pointed out in his Epistle To Smyrna 6:2 to 7:1 that heretics "have no regard for love; no care for the widow or the orphan or the oppressed; of the bond, or of the free; of the hungry, or of the thirsty [cf. Acts 6:1f & I Cor. 11:21A. They abstain from the Eucharist and from prayer, because they do not profess the Eucharist to be the flesh of our Saviour Jesus Christ Who suffered for our sins." Here, there is no mention of John 6:32-63; nor of transubstantiation. Interestingly, in the Longer Version, there is no mention whatsoever even of the Lord's Supper.
Twentieth. Not in the Ignatian but in the later Pseudo-Ignatian 'longer version' of an Epistle to the Ephesians (ch. 5), one reads: "If any one be not within the altar, he is deprived of the bread of God." But even then, there is no mention of John 6:32-63 and still less of transubstantiation. Indeed, none of the extant writings of the Apostolic Fathers – those authorities who knew the Apostles personally – even once quote from John chapter six to prove anything at all!
Twenty-fourth. Justin concludes in ch. 67: "On the day called Sunday, all ...gather together to one place, and the Memoirs of the Apostles or the Writings of the Prophets are read .... Then we all rise together and pray .... When our prayer is ended, bread and wine and water are brought" etc. Here again, there is no mention whatsoever of John 6:32-63; nor of transubstantiation.
Twenty-fifth. In Justin's Dialogue with Trypho the Jew (ch. 41), he says that the Old Testament "offering of fine flour ...was prescribed to be presented ...as a type of the bread of the Eucharist, the celebration of which our Lord Jesus Christ prescribed in remembrance of the sufferings He endured" precisely "so that we may give thanks to God for having created the world for us" and "for having destroyed completely the principalities and powers by Him Who suffered according to His will .... Of the offerings given to Him in every place by us (the nations) – the offerings, that is of the bread of the Eucharist and likewise of the cup of the Eucharist – of these He foretells (in Mal. 1:11). Here again, there is no mention of John 6:32-63; nor of transubstantiation.
Twenty-seventh. In ch. 117, Justin told the Jew Trypho that "God, anticipating all the gifts which we bring through this Name and which Jesus the Christ enjoined us to present, i.e. the bread and the cup in the Eucharist, and which are presented by Christians in all places throughout the world, bears witness that they are well-pleasing to Him." Here again – there is absolutely no mention of John 6:3263; nor of transubstantiation.
Twenty-eighth. Also the A.D. 180 Theophilus in his Letters to Autolycus (111:4) rebukes the "godless lips [which] falsely accuse us who are worshippers of God and are called Christians ...that we eat human flesh." However, if it had then been their teaching that in the Eucharist the bread and wine cease to exist by getting transubstantiated into human flesh and blood – Theophilus could not here have resented the false accusation of the Pagans that Christians are cannibals, as being "most barbarous and impious" (as he here indeed does).
Twenty-ninth. At that same time, in his Against Heresies IV: 17:5f, Irenaeus wrote that Jesus "took that created thing bread and gave thanks and said 'This is My body [not "this becomes My body"]!' .... It behooves us [Christians] to bring a present to God, and in all things to be found grateful to God our Maker in a pure mind and in faith without hypocrisy – in well-grounded hope, in fervent love – presenting the first-fruits of His Own created things. And the Church alone presents this pure gift to the Creator – presenting it to Him with thanksgiving. But the Judaists do not offer thus. For their hands are full of blood. For they have not received the Word through Whom it is presented to God_ We [Christians] give His own to Him, announcing consistently the fellowship and union of the flesh and Spirit." Hence we Christians present to the Triune God His Own creatures of bread and wine. And we proclaim the fellowship of the flesh with the spirit, in that the flesh of every believing human being is receptive to the Spirit. Here again in Irenaeus, neither John 6:32-63 nor transubstantiation are mentioned at all.
Thirty-first. So too in Clement's A.D. 194 Stromata (I:1 & 10 and IV:26): "The Saviour, taking the bread, first spoke and blessed. Then, breaking the bread, He presented it so that we might eat it according to reason, and that knowing the Scriptures we might walk obediently .... Moses says Melchizedek King of Salem, Priest of the Most-High God, who gave bread and wine – furnished consecrated food for a type of the Eucharist." Here, there is no transubstantiation but only the Proto-Protestant doctrine of the real Spirit-ual presence of God at the Lord's Supper to the eye of faith.
Thirty-second. In his A.D. 207 Against Marcion III:19-22, Tertullian wrote that "God ...called His body bread" and that "He has given to His body the figure of bread, Whose body the Prophet of old [Jer. 11:19] figuratively turned into bread .... With this agrees also the prophecy of Malachi [ 1:11 ]: 'I have no pleasure in you, says the Lord [to the Judeans]; neither will I accept your presents. For from the rising of the sun [in the East] even unto the going down of the same [in the West] – My Name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place a gift shall be presented to My Name, a pure presentation' – such as the ascription of glory and blessings and praises and hymns." No mention here of the Lord's Supper, and still less of the Mass!
Thirty-sixth. We would also cite Tertullian's On the Resurrection of the Flesh (ch. 37), where he declares "'The flesh profits nothing' [John 6:63] .... We ought therefore to desire Him in order that we may have life, and to devour Him with the ear and to ruminate [or 'chew the cud'] on Him with the understanding and to digest Him by faith. Now just before the passage in hand, He had declared His flesh to be 'the bread which comes down from heaven' [John 6:5 I] .... Because He perceived that they were going to be scattered from Him, He says: 'The flesh profits nothing."' A stronger argument against the later error of transubstantiation, is hard to imagine!
Thirty-eighth. Nevertheless, in other cases, Cyprian cites from John chapter six with no reference to the Lord's Supper whatsoever. See for instance his Epistles 72(73):11 and his Treatises II:7 & IV: 14 & XII:I :T:22 & XI:3:T:19.
Thirty-ninth. Yet even in Cyprian, there is still no trace of the mass or of any transubstantiation. Consider, for instance, his Epistle 63:2f (62:2f) to Caecilius, where Cyprian insists: "Nothing must be done by us but what the Lord first did on our behalf, as that the cup which is offered in remembrance of Him should be offered mingled with wine .... We find in Genesis [9:20f] also, in respect of the Sacrament in Noah, this same thing was to them a precursor and figure of the Lord's passion; that he drank wine .... Noah, setting forth a type of the future truth, did not drink water but wine, and thus expressed the figure of the passion of the Lord.
Forty-second. Also in his Epistle 75(69) to Magnus, Cyprian says: "When the Lord calls bread which is combined by the union of many grains, His body – He indicates our people whom He bore as being united. And when He calls the wine which is pressed from many grapes and clusters and collected together, His blood – He also signifies our flock linked together by the mingling of a united multitude." Clearly, Cyprian is devoid of transubstantiationism.
Forty-third. The A.D. 254 Origen, in his Commentary on Matthew XI: 14, states: "The food which is sanctified by the Word of God and prayer, as respects its material part, goes into the stomach; but as regards prayer which is added to it, according to the proportion of faith, profits. It enlightens the mind which beholds that which is profitable. Nor is it the matter of the bread but the words spoken over it which profit men who do not eat unworthily. And these things I speak of the typical and symbolical body No worthless person is able to eat it. For if it were possible for one who continues worthless to eat of Him Who became flesh, Who was the Word and the living bread – it would not have been written that 'every one who eats of this bread shall live for ever' [John 6:51 ]." This is the very opposite of transubstantiation!
Forty-fourth. Also in Origen's Commentary on John, and specifically on chapter six thereof, there is no hint of ex opere operato sacramentalism. Nay more, in 1:23 & VI:26 & X:13 ("the Word of God is not flesh and flesh only"), there is not even a hint of it referring to the Lord's Supper. So too the remaining references to John chapter six in Origen's Commentary on Matthew (XII:5 & XII:33 & IV: 14).
Forty-eighth. It was only in A.D. 831 that (by Radbertus in his book The Body and Blood of the Lord) one first finds propounded the most novel notion that "the substance of bread and wine is effectually changed (efcaciter interius commutatur) into the flesh and blood of Christ" – so that once the priest has consecrated it there is "nothing else in the eucharist but the flesh and blood of Christ." Transubstantiation was never accepted in any part of the Church Catholic whether Greek, Roman, or Proto-Protestant (alias Culdee or Waldensian etc.), until the Roman Church proclaimed it dogmatically as an article of her faith at the 4th Lateran Council in 1215.
Forty-ninth. Even since A.D. 831, many Roman Catholics still opposed such transubstantiation. So: Ratramnus, Berengarius, John Scotus Eriguena, Rabanus Maurus, Walafrid Strabo, Christian Druthmar, Florus Magister, Eusebius Bruno (Bishop of Angers), Frollant (Bishop of Senlis), and Elfric. Also, according to the famous RC Cardinal Bellarmine in his De Sacramento Eucharistea (111:5 and 4 dII q.6 art. 1,2 and q. 3 art. 1,2 and I:5) – even the celebrated Cardinal Cameracensus said: "Transubstantiation cannot be proved from Holy Writ .... To this Cardinal Roffensis, Cardinal Cajetan and also Scotus all concur." Indeed, the RC scholars Gabriel, Nicolus, Cusanus, Tapper, Hessel and others all present the "Protestant" interpretation of John 6:54. See Dr. P.G. Logan's Ph.D. dissertation The History and Doctrine of Transubstantiation, Sydney, 1994, pp. 84f.
Fifty-first. In his Institutes of the Christian Religion (IV:18:5), John Calvin argues: "If Christ is sacrificed at each mass, He must cruelly be slain every moment in a thousand places. This is not my argument, but the apostle's: 'Nor yet that He should offer Himself often'; 'for then must He often have suffered since the foundation of the world' (Heb. 9:25f)... Though they [the Roman theologians] insist a hundred times that this sacrifice is bloodless (anaimakton), I will reply that it depends not on the will of man to change the nature of sacrifice. For in that way, the sacred and inviolable institution of God would fall. Hence it follows, that the principle of the apostle stands firm: 'without shedding of blood is no remission' (Heb. 9:22).
Fifty-third. Westminster says (29:6): "That doctrine which maintains a change of the substance of bread and wine into the substance of Christ's body and blood (commonly called Transubstantiation by consecration of a priest or by any other way is repugnant not to Scripture alone but even to common sense and reason; overthroweth the nature of the Sacrament; and hath been and is the cause of manifold superstitions, yea of gross idolatries(Acts 3:21; I Cor. 1:24f; Luke 24:6,39).
Fifty-fifth and finally. Let all heed Jesus, Who said: "The hour is coming, and is now, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit.... .... God is Spirit; and they that worship Him, must worship Him in spirit .... It is the Spirit Who enlivens. The flesh profits nothing. The words which I spoke to you, they are Spirit!" John 4:23f & 6:63.
Francis Nigel Lee (5 December 1934 – 23 December 2011) was a Christian theologian. Lee was particularly known for the large number of academic degrees he earned from a variety of institutions. He obtained B.A, LL.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Cape Town, L.Th., B.D., M.Th. and Th.D degrees from the University of Stellenbosch, and Ph.D from Orange Free State University, and several other doctorates from unaccredited institutions, including D.Min., S.T.D. and D.Hum. degrees from Whitefield Theological Seminary.
Lee was born in Westmorland in the UK, but emigrated as a child to South Africa, where he became a minister. Lee moved to the USA, where he served as a minister in the Presbyterian Church in America, as Professor of Philosophy at Shelton College, New Jersey and as Academic Dean of Graham Bible College in Bristol, Tennessee. Lee then moved to Australia, where he served as Professor at the Presbyterian Church of Queensland Theological Hall.


These Shabby Chic arrangements are sure to add a bit of color and beauty to any occasion! It is great to dress up with a classy event/ venue or use in rustic decor.
This works great for wedding centerpieces, decor for a home or office, events or just to have.


Publishing a thesis is not really a child's action and any person who may be to jot down a thesis facial looks disorder in relation to complete constructing, structure of hints, deliverance of viewpoints with real reviews and using a regular approach for writing articles. For college kids, thesis posting is an exercise that needs dedication and effort in conjunction with immediately after all school legislation and laws for penning. As youngsters are certainly not encountered in terms of creating a thesis, they could require the assistance of some thesis writers. The place that the kids can discover thesis freelance writers? Which service provider can provide them with professional Ph.D. or Master's dissertation thesis writers? Pro thesis authors may be found in coming up with corporations, which can be operative for making thesis for students' efficiency. Yet, in advance of when wanting to know any within the net thesis journalist, make certain that the online thesis author is trained and veteran with respect to article writing as well as being not truly interested in accommodating you with plagiarized and problematic thesis. Make sure you select the thesis helper that is experienced and educated and is aware of all school patterns and principles for school creating.
Talk to our organisation for anybody who is hunting for a Ph.D. thesis copy writer or just a Masters thesis editor. CustomWritings.com is a specialized thesis simply writing supplier, which could be well-known globally for the composed thesis and thesis authors, who are one of the most thorough and skilled professional folks the coming up with sector.
We have a power team of the best thesis writers who seem to be Ph.D.'s and Masters' in several scholastic disciplines brought about by which, they keep capability of crafting a thesis actually quite perfect and error at no cost. Our patrons fancy us as a consequence of our complex thesis freelance writers who attempt to in no way let you down these with their features of customized thesis composing. Our thesis freelance writers are calm practical thesis authors who constantly generate no-plagiarized and error complimentary thesis for any purchasers for only a quite less expensive. Think about yourself as part of a jury, paying attention to a legal professional who may be offering an cracking open debate. You'll keep asking soon if the legal practitioner believes the charged to become remorseful or otherwise not remorseful, and how the legal practitioner offers to persuade you.
Readers of scholastic essays are similar to jury people: previous to they also have learn too far, they want to find out what the essay argues and moreover what sort of journalist intentions to make the issue. After looking at your thesis fact, your reader has to presume, "This essay is going to aim to influence me of anything. I'm serious to help with thesis check the way i could very well be., though i'm not assured but still" Progressively thesis composing proves to be among the most frightening and hard piece in the form of the acquirement through the education. Many students regard thesis authoring for a significant challenge between them along with their qualification, it is far from only since thesis coming up with is difficult, but as well as seeing as when you are hitting towards your finals the responsibility using the effort is more than doubled and mainly because of the insufficient time generating thesis appears to be difficult. Basically without need of exclusion, all college graduate students have to publish a thesis or dissertation. When they accomplished their course regimen, applicants are anticipated to receive discovered to get results and write down medically and independently. It truly is visible to lecturers that an vital understanding are frequently missing with a lot of students, additionally. For that reason, you can find a wonderful requirement of educated generating competencies coupled with subject-dependent administration of remaining written documents – something which "Thesis Creator" is meant to shield. This will take the type of a wide open digital trying to learn surrounding through which classmates can choose from various convenient techniques.


text:
Q: How to count the non-null digits of a number and the digits divisible by 3 if (c % 3 == 0)
{
    d=d+1;
}
else
{
    cout << "The number has no digits divisible with 3" << endl;
}

But the thing is, c was used before in a while structure because I had to use it to calculate the sum of the number's digits and other things.
If I try to write this outside of the while, I believe c will get the value only of the first digit of the number because of the loop. I tried giving the value o c to another variable but it's still the same.

A: Maybe you should try putting your logic in another while loop, similar to the one you used before.
You can also try calculating the number of digits divisible by 3 in the same loop that you calculate the sum in
while(...)
{
    ...
    sum = sum + c;
    if(c%3 == 0)
    {
        d = d+1;
    }
    ...
}


text:
Oh So Geeky
Showing posts with label dceu. Show all posts
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020) Sparks New Life in the Comic Book Genre
Since director Patty Jenkins's Wonder Woman successful run in 2017, the DCEU has been steadily rebuilding its reputation. With follow-up films like Shazam (2019) and Aquaman (2018), fans love or hate the direction of the studio's franchises. Shouldered with keeping their winning streak alive and kicking off a stream of female-led films in 2020, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) raises a little hell in the comic book genre and breaks a few glass ceilings of her own.
Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) has broken ties with The Joker, but the immunity her relationship brought has now expired. Formerly under the protection of her ex's power, Quinn's gotta fend off Gotham City's worst nightmares when they come to collect. As her emancipation invites more obstacles than she bargained for, Quinn's sets off a rebellious chain-reaction with teen thief Cassandra Cain (Ella Jay Basco), marginalized cop Renee Montoya (Rosie Perez), vigilante Dinah Lance (Jurnee Smollett-Bell), and The Huntress (Mary Elizabeth Winstead against a diabolical club owner Roman Sionis (Ewan McGregor).
Labels: comic books, dc, dceu, film
Welcome to OhSoGeeky.com! My name is Katy Rochelle, a freelance writer geeking out loud about film, books, and fandom. You'll find reviews, editorials, and features for all things pop culture. Learn more by starting here!
New Rescheduling Dates for 2020 Movies
Due to the corona-virus, our regular summer of movie-going has been postponed. With cineplexes closing temporarily (or forever) and theatr...
Ranking All of the Oceans Movies
In 1960, The Rat Pack united to knock over a few casinos in Las Vegas. Over sixty years later, rebooted by director Steven Soderbergh, the...
Book VS Movie: Beverly Marsh
Stephen King has created quite a few memorable female roles – an author's obsessive admirer in Misery , the telekinetic outcast in Car...
15 Killer Quotes by The Walking Dead's Rick Grimes
Rick Grimes is the bad-ass leader on The Walking Dead. As a former police officer, a father, and a leader, he is willing to do anything t...
Wonder Women: Lisa Freemont in Rear Window (1964)
When one thinks about the intriguing elements of Alfred Hitchcock's filmography, the abundance of "icy blondes" he utilized ...
articles artwork award shows blogathon books dc disney film film essays geeky lifestyle harry potter lists marvel star wars stars i love television shows trailer reaction wonder women
Blog Archive January (7) December (4) November (3) October (2) August (4) July (2) June (1) May (6) April (4) March (4) February (8) January (6) December (5) November (5) October (3) September (3) August (4) July (8) June (8) May (7) April (10) March (5) February (5) January (7) December (7) November (4) October (6) September (4) August (8) July (7) June (9) May (8) April (9) March (8) February (9) January (7) December (12) November (7) October (6) September (4) August (5) July (7) June (8) May (9) April (10) March (13) February (10) January (6) December (11) November (10) October (9) September (8) August (9) July (7) June (5) May (9) April (8) March (10) February (10) January (7) December (9) November (9) October (11) September (3) August (6) July (4) June (6) May (5) April (4) March (3) February (7) January (4) December (8) November (2) October (6) September (4) August (2) July (2) June (1) May (7) April (1) March (3) January (1) December (1) November (1) May (2) March (1)
Titles and images to movies, books, and television shows are owned & copyrighted by their respective owners. Credit is given unless author or origin is unknown. Content on this site may not be distributed in any way. For more information please read my Disclosure and privacy policy.


Details - The 400 CBA is a FAAC 230v hydraulic ram operator for condominium & industrial swing gates for up to 2.2m ..
Details - The 400 CBAC is a FAAC 230v hydraulic ram operator for condominium & industrial swing gates for up to 2.2m per leaf ..
Details - The 400 CBC is a FAAC 230v hydraulic ram operator for condominium & industrial swing gates for up to 2.2m ..
Details - The 400 SB is a FAAC 230v hydraulic ram operator for condominium & industrial swing gates for up to 4.0m per leaf, c..
Details - The 400 SBS Long is a FAAC 230v hydraulic ram operator for condominium & industrial swing gates for up to 7.0m per leaf, ..
Details - The 400 SBS is a FAAC 230v hydraulic ram operator for condominium & industrial swing gates for up to 5.0m per leaf, compl..


With a global move underway to green the transport sector—in particular, to reduce the impact of privately-owned vehicles—analysts predict that the end of the age of the internal combustion engine is just down the road. The primary catalyst for this move toward greener options can be attributed to the Paris Agreement—a treaty struck among the countries of the world in a bid to save the planet from the impact of climate change, the main driver of which is anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Around 15 percent of global gas emissions are generated by the transport sector.
For Lebanon, the case is slightly more alarming as seen from the results of several studies undertaken by the environment ministry and the UNDP. For example, around 25 percent of the country's national greenhouse gas emissions emanate from the transport sector—more specifically, from land-based transport. The official number of registered vehicles in the country has surpassed 1.6 million, with 42 percent of these vehicles being older than 20 years and almost 60 percent being 15 years or older, bringing the number of outdated vehicles on Lebanon's streets to nearly 1 million. This indicates an excessively high vehicle ownership rate (with 250 cars per every 1000 people), dominated by old vehicles. In 2016, Lebanon's transport sector consumed 2.8 million liters of gasoline. The externality cost (the economic losses incurred due to air pollution, carbon emissions, congestion, and accidents) of this volume of gasoline is a staggering $3 billion per year, or around $2,000 per vehicle.
In addition to contributing to climate change, the transport sector in Lebanon is responsible for 93 percent of the country's carbon monoxide, 67 percent of non-methane volatile organic compounds, and 52 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions—all of which are air pollutants that have a disproportionate impact at the local level. Lebanese living around major road axes and in large cities are exposed to these pollutants on a daily basis.
Back in 2015, UNDP estimated the mobility cost in Lebanon—that is, the cost of one passenger traveling one kilometer in a passenger vehicle, including externality components of pollution, travel time, congestion, and accident costs. This study found an average (albeit conservative) mobility cost figure of 48 cents per km. It was also found that the most critical sub-indicator pointed to excessive energy consumption by the passenger transport sector (cost of fossil fuel). In fact, Lebanese consume close to 2.7 times more gasoline annually than the world average.
In an attempt to combine local benefits with global ones, a national mitigation plan for the transport sector was approved last October by the Council of Ministers. The incentive program aims to remove cars that are older than 15 years old and replace them with fuel efficient (hybrid and electric) vehicles. Replacing the 1 million older model vehicles on Lebanon's roads would result in a 14 percent reduction of the country's greenhouse gas emission by 2030 (nearly 1.1 million tons of carbon dioxide), a reduction in gasoline consumption by 466 million liters in total over a 12 year period, and less air pollution. Subsidizing these vehicles may also stimulate the market for new car purchases.
This spring, Parliament legislated the reduction or removal of customs taxes on hybrid and electric vehicles (EVs). This incentive was laid out in article 55 of the 2018 budget law. For private vehicles, customs and excise taxes are reduced by 80 percent for hybrid and 100 percent for electric vehicles, though the owner will still have to pay the registration and circulation fees (the latter is known as "mecanique"). For taxis/service vehicles, the customs and excise taxes are reduced by 90 percent for hybrid and 100 percent for EVs, in addition to a total exemption on registration and circulation fees.
This program does not contradict the efforts of the government to establish a public transport system. In fact, it complements the efforts underway to green the land transport sector. Both approaches contribute toward meeting Lebanon's global commitments under the Paris Agreement, as well as the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to Good Health and Wellbeing (SDG 3), Affordable and Clean Energy (SDG 7), Sustainable Cities and Communities (SDG 11), Responsible Consumption and Production (SDG 12), and Climate Action (SDG 13).
As global markets shift toward hybrid and electric cars, projections suggest that the upfront cost of these vehicles will become competitive on an unsubsidized basis starting in 2025 and reach parity by 2029, a trajectory that will accelerate as battery prices decline. For Lebanon to secure a smooth transition, and renew its private vehicle fleet with hybrids and electrics, certain actions must be undertaken at the national level in the medium term. In relation to electric vehicles, the implications of the current state and quality of the power grid for the charging of these vehicles must be assessed, likewise the impact of this activity on the power sector (for instance, additional capacity requirements) and the proper alleviating measures (time-of-use pricing, for example). In parallel, it might also be useful to assess the current and required regulatory framework to further promote hybrid and electric vehicle usage, including building codes to introduce charging stations at home and in offices, where a certain percentage of parking bays must be installed with conduits to allow charging stations to be set-up.
Necessity dictates a plan for infrastructure and the provision of incentives to encourage and accommodate the growth of green mobility (including public transportation). A comprehensive plan must also be set out to prepare the electricity grid to accommodate increased demand generated by EV charging, and studies must be done to examine comparative emissions from EVs versus conventional vehicles. To be truly effective, this approach will also require the continued greening of the electricity grid, since an electric vehicle is only as clean as its power supply.


text:
Mixing and Blending Material Handling Containment
Current Headlines Upcoming Events
Protein Evolution, Inc. Unveils New Technology That Infinitely Recycles Textile And Plastic Waste
NEW HAVEN, CONN.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Today, Protein Evolution, Inc. (PEI) launched out of stealth, unveiling groundbreaking technology that transforms textile and mixed-plastic waste into an infinitely reusable resource, helping the chemicals industry transition to a lower-carbon, circular economy.
Leveraging recent breakthroughs in natural science and artificial intelligence, the company designs enzymes to break down end-of-life textile and plastic waste into the building blocks that make up new textile and plastic products. PEI's proprietary process is the first of its kind that is built to scale, creating a cost-effective solution with immediate applications for the petrochemical industry, global consumer goods companies, textile manufacturers and others that are looking to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil fuels.
Protein Evolution's initial funding, totaling more than $20 million, comes from notable entrepreneurs and industry leaders. The fundraising round was led by Collaborative Fund's recently announced climate fund, Collab SOS, which is in partnership with iconic fashion designer and pioneer in sustainable materials Stella McCartney. Additional funding came from New Climate Ventures, Eldridge, Nextrans, and Good Friends, which is backed by the founders of Warby Parker, Allbirds and Harry's.
"Despite significant and aggressive industry commitments toward sustainability, the current approach to plastic recycling is costly, ineffective and resource-intensive," said Connor Lynn, PEI Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer. "Right now, it's far cheaper for petrochemical companies to produce new 'virgin' plastics than it is to recycle existing materials, which is one of many reasons why used plastic is piling up in our oceans, landfills and incinerators. PEI has innovated a low-energy, cost-competitive process for upcycling finished plastics that's poised to meet both industry concerns and deliver massive environmental benefits. We're working hard to usher in a new era of plastics—one that's truly sustainable and circular."
"Corporations, and the actions they take today, play a significant role in charting the course of the climate future," says Sophie Bakalar, a partner at Collaborative Fund and PEI Board Member. "The technology that Protein Evolution has developed allows the world's largest consumer brands to meet sustainability commitments at scale, without compromising on cost or quality of materials. Our investment in PEI is an incredible opportunity to support an innovator who will soon become a leader in the global bioeconomy."
Protein Evolution's technology iteratively tests, evaluates and maps tens of millions of unique enzymes to identify the most effective way to recycle waste materials into reusable chemicals. This approach will help to decarbonize the chemicals industry and will carry significant impact in the emerging bioeconomy as companies, communities and governments are required to meet global sustainability goals in the years ahead.
"Nature has already produced a bacteria that can break down plastic for emission-free recycling, but it's extremely slow. If we had a few million years to wait for evolution to run its course, we'd have something much more efficient," said Scott Stankey, PEI Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer. "Our technology condenses a million-year evolutionary process into a single day—helping us create an affordable, scalable and effective solution to revolutionize the plastic waste industry."
"As the bioeconomy continues to grow, and scaling biomanufacturing continues to become more crucial to support that growth, it's clear that the work Protein Evolution is doing will help lay the foundation for the future of synthetic biology," said Jonathan Rothberg, co-founder and Chairman of Protein Evolution. "At 4Catalyzer, we've created a number of world 'firsts' in the health technology industry, all of which aim to help heal the people we love. I am incredibly proud of the work the team at Protein Evolution has done to leverage 4Catalyzer's strengths in AI and synthetic biology to help heal the planet we all love and depend on."
The Protein Evolution team works in tandem with pre-eminent researchers who are pushing the boundaries of protein engineering and materials innovation. The team expects to launch its first commercial partnership by the end of 2022, addressing the needs of global consumer brands seeking to recycle and transform textiles and mixed-plastic waste.
About Protein Evolution
Protein Evolution aims to help the chemicals industry transition to a lower-carbon, circular economy. The company was founded in 2021 by Yale University alumni Connor Lynn and Scott Stankey, in partnership with Dr. Jonathan Rothberg, a world-renowned scientist, entrepreneur and National Medal of Technology and Innovation recipient. The company's first product is an enzymatic process that enables textile and plastic waste to become an infinitely reusable resource. Based in New Haven, Conn., Protein Evolution has a partnership with ESPCI Paris and 4Catalyzer, a life sciences accelerator dedicated to making a global impact through bold innovations in medicine, engineering, machine learning, life sciences and biotech.
For more information, visit www.pei.bio.
I agree to the Privacy Statement
Get the latest industry news, insights, and analysis delivered to your inbox.
Join your peers
I agree to the Privacy Statement.
{{@if(it.items && it.items.length)}}
{{@each(it.items) => link, index}}
{{@if(link.imageUrl && index == 0)}} {{/if}}
{{ link.title | safe}}
{{@if(index < 5)}}
{{ link.summary | safe }}
Contact Chemical Online


text:
New landlord spends $2 million to upgrade Bankers Row office buildings
jostrowski@pbpost.com
After paying $21 million for two office buildings on Bankers Row in Palm Beach, a New York investor has dropped an additional $2 million to upgrade wiring, roofs, air conditioning and security.
"We're really bringing the building up to what we consider New York Class A office space," said John O'Connor of O'Connor Capital Partners.
O'Connor Capital bought 230 and 240 Royal Palm Way in January. The two buildings contain about 30,000 square feet of office space. Lease rates are $45 to $50 a square foot.


On February 15, our community came together for our long anticipated Fall in Love with Fashion event at Venga Venga - Otay Ranch mall.
Over 100 people showed up to support our cause including business owners, individuals, and volunteers. We were overwhelmed by the turn out and the amount of support we received by the community and our sponsors.
It was an amazing experience to feel the spirit of love and giving, which were the guiding forces behind our Fall in Love with Fashion event. In these turbulent economic times; it gives us hope to see that there are still business that put the community first. Thousands of dollars were raised as a result of the event, which will benefit the International Children's Cancer Foundation (ICCF) and Fundacion Castro Limon. The event also gave our community a chance to come together and support a great cause.
More children die of cancer every year than adults died in 9/11.Cancer kills more children than AIDs, asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis and congenital anomalies combined. The average age of death for a child with cancer is 8, and even younger in underdeveloped countries like Mexico.
Our charity fashion shows were founded to give these underprivileged kids the hope they need to overcome this life-threatening disease.
Our next charity fashion show will be Saturday March 15 in Conjunction with the star studded San Diego Latino Film Festival Gala!
Included with your $30.00 ticket purchase: *Candy & Gourmet Brilliant Treat's Bar, Tequila/Mezcal Bar, DJ. Live Band by Emerging Luneaux, Catered hordeuvres by Achiote Restaurant, SAPPORO Beer, and Fashion Show.
Proceeds from the event will be going towards supporting the Media arts Center Of The San Diego Latino Film Festival!!
We'd like to thank all of our sponsors for their continued support and we look forward to another successful charity fashion event next month.


Defense TechConnect is the innovation source for national security needs. Through our coverage of emerging technologies, best practices, funding opportunities, and future trends; webinar series; annual conferences; and exclusive private-sector innovation network, we accelerate the development and deployment of state-of-art solutions for the warfighter.
Reach a targeted and engaged audience of military, acquisition, and innovation leaders. Our programs include content and display opportunities, event sponsorship, and custom research programs crafted to fit your brand's objectives. To start building a comprehensive program for your brand, request our media kit.
TechConnect provides custom technology prospecting and innovation challenge services to corporate and government clients. Access the largest innovation pipeline on the planet. Through a TechConnect prospecting or challenge program, rapidly gain access to the topic emerging technologies aligned with your or your customer's needs.
To request additional information, please contact Chris Erb, cerb@techconnect.org.


text:
Review: How To Destroy Angels - 'Welcome Oblivion'
'Welcome Oblivion'
COLUMBIA RECORDS
With Trent Reznor announcing that his other band will be returning to life later this year, those who have so far whole-heartedly disavowed How To Destroy Angels will be able to breathe a sigh of relief. But if his past four years away from his main project that made him has been about anything it has been about exorcising his other ambitions. So far this has seen him receive a Golden Globes and an Academy Award for his experimental style of film soundtracks, which would seem like enough for most people. But for Reznor it isn't. As the long-awaited début album from How To Destroy Angels 'Welcome Oblivion' attests.
Last year's 'Omen' EP might not have been the revelation that was hinted at in the self-titled début EP, but it did provide an intriguing glimpse of things to come that the full-length 'Welcome Oblivion' expands on. The opening track 'The Wake-Up' gives us a 'Year Zero' style attention grabber right off the bat while the cuts from the EP 'Keep It Together', 'Ice Age' 'On The Wing' and 'The Loop Closes' sit prominently within the track list with their blend of glitchy electronica, dissonant industrial and haunting and rhythmic acoustic embellishments that stylistically inform the majority of the album. Songs like 'Welcome Oblivion', 'We Fade Away' and 'Hallowed Ground' give the album a dark and delectable underbelly that invites the listener to sink into layers of melodic analogue bliss. 'How Long?', on the other hand, replicates the style of the band's cover of Bryan Ferry's 'Is Your Love Strong Enough?' with it's funky but still rather straight composition that sees Maandig's luscious vocals receive a cleaner presentation.
Though the album takes its cues from a younger selection of artist such as Salem and Burial, the album is somewhat self-referencing as there are ideas that were hinted at on Nine Inch Nails records such as 'The Fragile' and 'Year Zero' played out with a more experimental zeal that has no doubt come from Reznor and Ross' recent soundtrack work.
The main criticism of the album is that there is always a sense that the band are holding something back. At times the vocals can be too understated and the songs sometimes feel like they're waiting for a "kick" that never quite materialises, which is a little frustrating given the band's collective history. Certainly if HTDA were a brand new band without the hindrance of any kind of pedigree, then no doubt 'Welcome Oblivion' would have critics hailing them in the same way as they did when 'Pretty Hate Machine' was released. But with an impressive list of albums to their name for comparison, it leaves 'Welcome Oblivion' feeling like it could deliver more.
With the reactivation of Nine Inch Nails on the horizon, How To Destroy Angels' future has a big question mark hanging over its head. Which is a shame, as the project is a refreshing change of pace from the 47-year-old Reznor that is not only deeply engrossing but also capable of going in a number of very interesting and perhaps challenging directions that are just hinted at here.
Posted in: How To Destroy Angels,music,Welcome Oblivion
Review: Tyler Milchmann - Strange Days'
Review: Resonance Room - 'Untouchable Failure'
New Alfa Matrix singles from Kant Kino and Pouppée...
Review: Ogenix - 'Ogenix'
Review: Interstitial - 'Judge A Crook By His Cover'
Review: Clara Engel - 'The Lovebird's Throat'
Emilie Autumn European tour announced
Review: Quasimodo - 'Liberty, Equality, Atrocity'
Review: Projekt F - 'Skins'
Review: Cold Divide - 'Weaponized'
Review: Ross Tregenza - 'Snowdrift'
Live: Hocico - Electrowerkz, 9th March 2013
Interview: Broken Links
More announcements for WGT
Review: From The Bogs Of Aughiska – 'Roots Of This...
Review: Death Of Self - 'Embracing The Things We H...
Sam Rosenthal to embark on book tour
Nick Cave launches Spotify App
Review: Joe Black - 'Satan In A Sunday Hat'
Latest from WGT
Peter Murphy announces Bauhaus 35th Anniversary to...
Editorial: March 2013
Review: Ghostfeeder - 'Hard Times For Dreamers'
Review: Faderhead - 'FH4'
ALT-FEST launches Kickstarter campaign
Lovelorn Dolls release video for 'Purple'
Arts Of Darkness: Steven Archer
Latest artists for WGT
Juggernaut Services to release 'Foundations'
Plastic Noose announce 'Fractured Despondency'


It's a bold statement but the Owl reckons that reds from the premium, regional, vineyards areas of South Australia provide the best value for money wines in the world.
The premium wine regions straddle the right latitudes for flavour ripeness, being not too hot and not too cold.
Gently rolling to flat land with water is available allowing efficient viticulture which keeps costs down.
Ample numbers of highly skilled wine makers and other scientific and technical people guarantee good wines plus as a group they are keenly focused on costs.
The positioning of the wine regions means they are exposed to cooling weather from the Great Southern Ocean while being warmed by the inland heat of the Australian summer.
The vineyard regions vary in height from sea-level to many hundreds of metres which adds flavour complexity.
Try for yourself with Glug's Regional Reds of South Australia mixed dozen available only this weekend.


text:
Home Israel and Palestine Articles Israel and Palestine Conflict Israel and Palestine News Israel and Palestine Religious Conflict Israel Palestine Peace Israel Palestine Religion Map of Israel and Palestine
Understanding the Israel/Palestine conflict (a 6-minute video)
This is a simple introduction to the Israel/Palestine conflict is courtesy of Jewish Voice for Peace.
For those of us who are familiar with the real history of the Levant since 1948 this short video will do know more than restate the obvious. Those though who are only familiar with the Zionist narrative will find some hard truths here that need to be absorbed.
Father Dave
Tags: bds, israel and palestine conflit.
Filed under israel and palestine conflict by Father Dave on Jul 18th, 2014. 1 Comment.
Archbishop Tutu slams the USA for inhibiting free speech!
The former Archbishop of Capetown is now 82 years old and he's been doing his best for some time now to slip into a quiet retirement. The problem is that the man has the heart of a prophet and he simply can't contain himself and remain silent in the face of injustice and oppression!
The testimony of the prophet Jeremiah comes to mind:
"But if I say, "I will not mention his word or speak anymore in his name," his word is in my heart like a fire, a fire shut up in my bones. I am weary of holding it in; indeed, I cannot." (Jeremiah 20:9)
Tutu and Jeremiah, it seems to me, were cut from the same prophetic cloth. While the Palestinian Occupation continues in all its brutality, and indeed becomes even more brutal as more and more land is gobbled up by 'settlers', how can a man who has given his life to fighting oppression not speak out!
As articulate as ever, Tutu makes a point that I hadn't considered before – that the comparison that is sometimes made between supporters of the "boycott, divestment and sanctions" campaign and the Nazi's of World War II is not only horribly insulting to the upholders of BDS but also trivialises the horrors of the Holocaust!
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
Statement by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu on 2 April 2014
I am writing today to express grave concern about a wave of legislative measures in the United States aimed at punishing and intimidating those who speak their conscience and challenge the human rights violations endured by the Palestinian people. In legislatures in Maryland, New York, Illinois, Florida, and even the United States Congress, bills have been proposed that would either bar funding to academic associations or seek to malign those who have taken a stand against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine.
These legislative efforts are in response to a growing international initiative, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, of which I have long been a supporter. The BDS movement emanates from a call for justice put out by the Palestinian people themselves. It is a Palestinian-led, international non-violent movement that seeks to force theIsraeli government to comply with international law in respect to its treatment of the Palestinian people.
I have supported this movement because it exerts pressure without violence on the State of Israel to create lasting peace for the citizens of Israel and Palestine, peace which most citizens crave. I have witnessed the systematic violence against and humiliation of Palestinian men, women and children by members of the Israeli security forces. Their humiliation and pain is all too familiar to us South Africans.
In South Africa, we could not have achieved our democracy without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. My conscience compels me to stand with the Palestinians as they seek to use the same tactics of non-violence to further their efforts to end the oppression associated with the Israeli Occupation.
The legislations being proposed in the United States would have made participation in a movement like the one that ended Apartheid in South Africa extremely difficult.
I am also deeply troubled by the rhetoric associated with the promulgation of these bills which I understand, in the instance of Maryland, included testimony comparing the boycott to the actions of the Nazis in Germany. The Nazi Holocaust which resulted in the extermination of millions of Jews is a crime of monstrous proportions. To imply that it is in any way comparable to a nonviolent initiative diminishes the horrific nature of that genocidal and tragic era in our world history.
Whether used in South Africa, the US South, or India, boycotts have resulted in a transformative change that not only brought freedom and justice to the victims but also peace and reconciliation for the oppressors. I strongly oppose any piece of legislation meant to punish or deter individuals from pursuing this transformative aspiration. And I remain forever hopeful that, like the nonviolent efforts that have preceded it, the BDS movement will ultimately become a catalyst for honest peace and reconciliation for all our brothers and sisters, both Palestinian and Israeli, in the Holy Land.
Tags: Archbishop Tutu, bds, divestment, palestinian occupation, time, USA.
Filed under israel and palestine articles by Father Dave on Apr 10th, 2014. Comment.
Mairead Maguire speaks out in support of BDS
with Maired in Beirut
My friend Mairead Maguire is currently on route to Gaza, joining an international delegation of 100 women who will be delivering solar lamps to the women of Gaza. The people of Gaza have been suffering severe electricity shortages due to the Israeli blockade.
Mairead has joined countless others around the world in putting her support squarely behind the 'Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions' campaign (BDS) against the government of Israel.
she writes:
'The Palestinian narrative is a story of a prolonged occupation by Israel based on policies of Apartheid and racism, ongoing building on Palestinian land of Israeli settlements, house demolitions, and the continued denial by Israel of the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. Gaza, the largest open air prison in the world, of which Israel is its jailer as it holds the keys and totally controls all aspects of life of the people of Gaza. One and a half million people in Gaza, mostly under 2l years of age, continue in the words of Israeli Professor and Academic, Jeff Halper, to be 'warehoused' by Israel with all rights being violated by Israel. The Gaza port has been closed for over 40 years, their airport destroyed and crossing into West Bank blocked. The people of Gaza do not have the basic right to travel into the West Bank to visit relatives without passes from Israel, and students in Gaza are forbidden to travel to study outside Gaza. These conditions mean that Gaza is still under occupation. The Israel policies of divide and rule, keeping Gaza and West Bank cut off from each other, ensures that neither human contact or real peace negotiations can take place, (as is evidenced by the fact that at the current Peace Talks presided over by US Secretary of State, John Kerry, Gaza palestinians (in which 40% of Palestinians live) are not represented at the negotiating table.)
South African visitors to Palestine have described the situation of blockade, occupation, as far worse than anything they experienced under the South African Apartheid era.
Why has this desperate injustice perpetrated upon the Palestinians by Israeli Government Policies been allowed to go on for over 60 years, in spite of United Nations over 60 resolutions, calling on Israel to uphold International law, but continuing to be ignored by Israel?
When anyone in International community is brave enough to articulate the facts of Israel's repression of the Palestinian people they are bullied, threatened and accused of anti-Semitism. This insidious practice by Israeli Government and its policy supporters has been very effective in silencing critique or debate on Israeli/US military and financial supported foreign policy, but also causes self-censorship by many concerned for their political and professional careers, or trading profits. However, the Palestinian people take hope from those who are brave enough to take a stand, such as the Irish Trade Union Movement, Stephen Hawkins, Russell Tribunal on Palestine, and a growing international movement of support.
We all know the Jewish Narrative, particularly the story of the holocaust, but our sadness for this one of humanities greatest acts of inhumanity, should not stop us from speaking out on Israel's current policy of a 'silent genocide' of the Palestinian people, and currently today of the people in Gaza.
The denial by Israel of Palestinian basic freedoms is not a natural humanitarian tragedy, it is an Israeli Government policy, in which many Governments, Media, Corporations, and Companies (such as Hewlett Packard and G4S who profit from the illegal occupation) are all complicit if not by supporting Israeli Government through funding, trading,etc., then by their silence.
But, there is much we can all do. The greatest hope we can give Palestinian people is to tell the Palestinian narrative, even at the risk of being called anti-Semitic. This will give legitimacy to the Palestinian people and in time will force Israel to choose peace not land, as it has done for so long. The Palestinian people have asked the International community to support their nonviolent BDS campaign (boycott, divestment and sanctions) and I applaud the recent actions of the Irish Academics in responding to this Appeal, and calling for a Boycott of Israel Universities, as indeed they are part of the system which upholds Apartheid and occupation by Israel.
Professor Falk, the UN special rapporteur for Palestine, who in his 6 years has often been refused entry into Palestinian territory, by Israel authorities, has recommended that UN member states should impose a ban on imports of products from Israeli settlements. I hope many will follow his advice.
As a well supported International BDS campaign helped end Apartheid in South Africa, the Palestinian people believe, as do growing sections of the International Civil Community, that a similar International campaign will help end Israel's denial of Palestinians human rights, freedom and peace.
Get more wisdom from Mairead on the 'Peace People' website: www.peacepeople.com…
Tags: bds, israel and palestine conflict, Mairead Maguire.
Filed under israel and palestine conflict by Father Dave on Mar 5th, 2014. Comment.
The ever-increasing isolation of Israel seems irreversible!
The campaign for 'Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions' (BDS) against the Israeli government gains ground every day while defenders of the Palestinian Occupation seem to be able to do no more that trot out the same tired charges of anti-Semitism against its proponents!
As George Bisharat points out in the article below, the charge of anti-Semitism is completely without substance. Indeed there has been a tragic history of persecution of Jewish people for which all of us Europeans rightly feel a sense of shame. Even so, for Zionist politicians to manipulate this shame to justify the persecution of Palestinian people is reprehensible, and it's a tactic that is becoming increasingly transparent to the Western public.
Perhaps the most significant thing about Bisharat's article is that it appeared in the Chicago Tribune. Indeed the BDS is going mainstream!
George Bisharat
source: articles.chicagotribune.com…
Applause for the academic boycott of Israel
By George Bisharat
Israel's reflexive defenders have reverted to their customary blunt cudgel: the charge that critics of Israeli policies are anti-Semitic. Their recent target was the 5,000-member American Studies Association, which voted in December to boycott Israeli academic institutions.
The ASA vote mirrors an international movement promoting comprehensive boycotts, sanctions and divestment against Israel to compel its respect for Palestinian equal rights. The nonviolent movement was initiated in 2005 by more than 170 Palestinian civil society organizations one year after the International Court of Justice's judgment that Israel's separation barrier violates international law and should be dismantled. The movement is rapidly gaining momentum — last week, actress Scarlett Johansson scrambled to defend her relationship with SodaStream International Ltd, based in the illegal Israeli Maale Adumim settlement outside Jerusalem, and thus a target of boycotters.
The Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer inveighed against the ASA: "To apply to the state of the Jews a double standard that you apply to none other, to judge one people in a way you judge no other, to single out that one people for condemnation and isolation — is to engage in a gross act of discrimination. And discrimination against Jews has a name. It's called anti-Semitism."
This is flat out nonsense.
There has never been a "worst first" rule for boycotts. Activists urging divestment from apartheid South Africa were not racist because they failed to simultaneously condemn the demonstrably worse Cambodian dictator Pol Pot. Nor were U.S. civil rights protesters required to inventory the world and only protest if our nation exceeded the abuses of others. Boycotts are justified whenever they are necessary and promise results.
There are sound reasons that U.S. citizens should respond to the Palestinians' appeal for support: Our country is Israel's principal — and often sole — defender in the international arena. Our diplomats have vetoed more than 40 U.N. Security Council resolutions critical of Israeli practices, including illegal settlement of the West Bank. Former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice, upon leaving office, described shielding Israel as a "huge part" of her work.
Is there a double standard here? Perhaps. Consider Iran, sanctioned up, down, and sideways, by the U.N., and virtually every level of government in the U.S., down to Beverly Hills, Calif., for possibly aspiring to have the nuclear arms that Israel already has by the score. Or Iraq, which occupied Kuwait in 1990, and upon its refusal to withdraw, was forcibly ejected by a broad international coalition of forces within seven months.
Allegations of Israel's human rights violations, including torture, home demolitions, extrajudicial killings, detentions without trial, excessive force, use of human shields, and deliberate attacks on civilian persons and facilities, have been amply documented by respected human rights groups and our own State Department. More than 50 Israeli laws either privilege Jews or discriminate against Palestinians, according to Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel.
U.S. enabling of Israel, particularly in its colonial expansion into the West Bank, has voided the two-state option and fostered a single functioning state there in which only Jews enjoy relative security, prosperity, and full political rights, while Palestinians suffer gradations of oppression. It is both appropriate and necessary that U.S. citizens vocally oppose discriminatory Israeli practices and our government's complicity in them.
Discriminatory systems are inherently unstable, as the oppressed will continue struggling for equal rights, even against daunting odds. ASA members, who study, among other topics, American slavery and its demise, are acutely aware of such dynamics. Their entry to this vital discussion is therefore to be applauded — and emulated by others.
George Bisharat, a professor at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, writes frequently on the Middle East.
Tags: Anti-Semitism, bds, israel and palestine conflict.
Filed under israel and palestine articles, israel and palestine conflict by Father Dave on Feb 8th, 2014. Comment.
Canadian Anglicans make moderate progress on Israel/Palestine
"Like a mighty tortoise moves the church of God!" So the hymn goes (or at least a popular parody of the old hymn).
The 'Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions' movement (BDS) seems to be gaining real global traction.
Gideon Levy has signed on!
The Israeli McDonald's franchise has boycotted the settlement of Ariel!
The EU has made a historic decision to isolate the settlements altogether!
Meanwhile the Anglican Church in Canada has resolved to "educate themselves more deeply" about the Israel/Palestine crisis!
Against the backdrop of history the actions of the European church almost always seem incredibly insipid! Our sisters and brother in South Africa and in Latin America have often been at the forefront of social change, as were our African-American brethren in the US less than a generation ago. But when was the last time a European synod took a courageous stand for justice and peace?
I guess I should be thankful that this very moderate resolution put before the Canadian Anglican synod was actually passed. Certainly if one judges by the comments on The Anglican Journal website there are no shortage of church members who continue to equate opposition to state-sponsored violence in Israel with Antisemitism.
Perhaps that is what keeps us all so timid? Indeed the church does have a dreadful history of Antisemitism. Even so, God help us if our guilt about past sins intimidates us to the point where we remain silent in the face of institutionalised racism and abuse.
Badge of the Anglican Church of Canada
source: www.anglicanjournal.com…
Anglicans pass hotly debated Palestine – Israel resolution
By Leigh Anne Williams
After a long and passionate debate, the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada meeting in Ottawa has passed a resolution on the issue of peace and justice in Palestine and Israel.
The resolution reiterates the established positions of the church, which "recognize the legitimate aspirations, rights and needs of both Israelis and Palestinians to live in peace with dignity within sovereign and secure borders; condemns the use of all kinds of violence, especially against civilians; calls for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian Territories (West Bank and Gaza); and calls upon Israel, as an occupying power, to recognize the Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids the transfer and settlement of its citizen in occupied territories. "
However, it also calls on Canadian Anglicans to take some new steps, including educating themselves more deeply.
The resolution commits the church to act with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and other ecumenical partners to:
enable deeper church-wide awareness of and response to the call of the Kairos Palestine document: A Moment of Truth
educate the church about the impact of illegal settlements on the lives of both Palestinians and Israelis; about imported products identified as produced in or related to the illegal settlements and misleadingly labelled as produced in Israel; about the complexities of economic advocacy measures
explore and challenge theologies and beliefs, such as Christian Zionism, that support the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories
explore and challenge theories and beliefs that deny the right of Israel to exist
and strengthen relationships with Canadian Jews and Muslims, to resolutely oppose anti-Semitism, anti-Arab sentiments and Islamophobia.
Debate ranged among members, from some who said the resolution went too far and demonstrated left-wing or anti-Israel bias, to those who said it did not go far enough in addressing the oppression of Palestinians suffering under an apartheid system.
There was also a concern that this resolution followed in the footsteps of a United Church of Canada resolution that called for a boycott of goods produced in the occupied territories that are labelled as Israeli products. Bishop Michael Ingham of the diocese of New Westminster responded, saying this resolution "calls for nothing approaching that. It calls us to learn more about these products."
The motion passed with the support of 73 per cent of the almost 300 members.
Another resolution was also passed that invites Anglicans to observe Jerusalem Sunday on the seventh Sunday after Easter. The day will be used to give special attention to the work of the Anglican church in the Holy Land and to take up a special offering as a gift to the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem.
Tags: bds, church, israel, israel and palestine conflict, israel and palestine religious conflict.
Filed under israel and palestine conflict by Father Dave on Jul 20th, 2013. Comment.
เกมออนไลน์ on Dr Sara Roy accuses Elie Wiesel of denying Palestinians their humanity
Joe on Israel and Palestine Conflict
Dorian Mattar on Israel and Palestine Conflict
george pauljohn on Map of Israel and Palestine
Father Dave on Map of Israel and Palestine
I will never send you rubbish.
I will never share your details
A letter from Palestine
Will Israel listen to the World Court?
Fly the Flag for Palestine
Israel: the big lie
Massacre in Gaza
Previous Posts Select Month January 2023 October 2022 May 2021 January 2021 February 2020 July 2017 July 2016 October 2015 August 2015 July 2015 March 2015 February 2015 January 2015 December 2014 September 2014 August 2014 July 2014 June 2014 May 2014 April 2014 March 2014 February 2014 January 2014 December 2013 November 2013 October 2013 September 2013 August 2013 July 2013 June 2013 May 2013 April 2013 March 2013 February 2013 January 2013 December 2012 November 2012 October 2012 September 2012 August 2012 July 2012 June 2012 May 2012 April 2012 March 2012 February 2012 January 2012 December 2011 November 2011 October 2011 September 2011 August 2011 July 2011
israel and palestine articles
israel and palestine conflict
israel and palestine religious conflict
map of israel and palestine
Abbas AIPAC Anti-Semitism article barack obama bds benjamin netanyahu binyamin netanyahu church death in gaza east jerusalem father dave father roy Gaza Gaza Strip Hamas holy land IDF Iran israel israel and palestine israel and palestine conflict israel and palestine religion israel and palestine religious conflict Jewish john kerry mahmoud abbas minister benjamin netanyahu Netanyahu obama occupation palestine Palestinian palestinian authority palestinian occupation peace peace process ramallah syria time two-state solution uri avnery US West Bank Zionist
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Fair Use Policy
Copyright Israel and Palestine, 2023


Public speaking ranks right up there with fear of dying! Pretty powerful! And terrifying.
But fear of public speaking can be overcome. I know because I did it. And I'll be sharing how at the Okanagan Valley Writers Festival April 7, 2018 in sunshine and wine country: lovely Penticton, British Columbia.
Best of all, I'll be with a fabulous group of other writers. Topics range from writing erotica to poetry; editing and researching; building story layers, scenes and characters; publishing traditionally and the solo route; writing a dynamite query letter, perfecting your pitch, and then selling the darn thing. Oh yes, and Snake-oil. Check it out here.


Stunning Shop Allen Roth Parsons Field 27 In Black Outdoor Pendant Light Allen And Roth Pendant Light - The image above with the title Stunning Shop Allen Roth Parsons Field 27 In Black Outdoor Pendant Light Allen And Roth Pendant Light, is part of Allen And Roth Pendant Light picture gallery. Size for this image is 630 × 630, a part of Pendant Lights category and tagged with And, Roth, light, pendant, Allen, published October 3rd, 2017 09:47:02 AM by Terrell. Find or search for images related to "Stunning Shop Allen Roth Parsons Field 27 In Black Outdoor Pendant Light Allen And Roth Pendant Light" in another posts. Back to post : Allen And Roth Pendant Light.


It would be so nice to have.
You could make up for it later. Nobody would need to know.
I understand the temptation. I've given in to it before and regretted it. So my advice to you is this: No matter what, don't touch it!
Your 401(k) savings, that is.
Borrowing money from your 401(k) has gotten popular in recent years. In fact, more than 26% of 401(k) participants had a loan outstanding in 2014. And two-thirds of those people borrowed a second time. And 25% took out a third or fourth loan. That's a bad habit to develop!
I get it. Home sweet home. A place to hang your hat. Your domain. But think about it this way: If you take out a loan now, you may not have enough money to retire later. You'll have to sell that dream home to make ends meet.
Seriously? You're willing to put your future in jeopardy so John or Jane can have a fancy wedding? I don't think so! They might appreciate it now, but they'll regret it later when they have to take care of you because you don't have the money to take care of yourself. Help pay for the wedding if you can, but your 401(k) is not a wedding fund!
Listen up, y'all: Your kids may or may not graduate from college, but you will retire someday. Guaranteed. Whether you're ready or not. It's okay for your kids to work their way through college. Millions of young adults take that route every year. There's no reason to risk your retirement so Junior doesn't have to work for his degree.
I understand this temptation because I gave into it in my 20s. My wife and I were moving and desperately needed (wanted) new furniture for the new house and a new car for the driveway. I took out money from my 401(k), even though it cost me almost half of it in taxes and penalties. I was young and stupid. If I'd have left that money alone, it would've grown to almost $500,000 by retirement. I still cringe when I think about it.
Do you see a common theme? Taking money out of your 401(k) is not a smart decision. You can find options that won't put your future in jeopardy.
Taking money out of your 401(k) doesn't give you a payoff, but it can cost you—a lot. The biggest cost to you is the potential earnings. When you take money out of your retirement account, that money isn't earning any compound interest. And some company plans won't allow you to make any contributions to your 401(k) until your loan has been repaid. That means you miss out on even more time and compound interest.
If that doesn't convince you to leave your 401(k) alone, here's another reason: If you lose your job after you take out that loan, you have to pay back the whole shebang—usually within 60 days! If you don't, then you get hit with a huge tax bill and an early withdrawal penalty.
A coach once told me, "An excuse is the skin of reason wrapped around a lie." The reasons people give for taking out a 401(k) loan are camouflaged lies. The truth is that people want the easy way out of money problems. Raiding their 401(k) is easier than getting an extra job, selling stuff, or making sacrifices.
To win in retirement, you have to follow the plan. Open a retirement fund, set up automatic withdrawals from your paycheck, and work toward saving at least 15% of your income. Regularly meet with an investing professional and stay informed about your portfolio.
But no matter what, don't touch the money in your 401(k)!