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Israel Lobby Criminalizes Children's Books
October 22, 2019 by Richard Silverstein 9 Comments
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A few years ago, Iranian author and Rutgers faculty member, Golbarg Bashi, published a children's alphabet book, P is for Palestine (now out of print). It is an abecedary for children, teaching them words associated with the Palestinian struggle for justice and national rights. Somehow the book has become a cause celebre for the pro-Israel community in the New York metropolitan area. A prominent local rabbi declared the book a travesty and threatened to evict a Manhattan bookstore selling it from the synagogue's annual book fair. The bookstore caved to pressure and released a statement saying it opposed the book's content, but continued selling it, hiding it behind the counter as if it was a banned substance.
Highland Park police standing guard outside children's book reading
Then a few months ago, Bashi scheduled another book reading at the Highland Park (NJ) public library. Once again, the Israel Lobby voiced its anger and the Library canceled the event. That's when Palestine Legal got involved and negotiated an agreement with the Library to reschedule the event to a later date. That was yesterday. To attend the event, one had to call the library to make a reservation. In order to avoid pickets there, both the author and the attendees were forced to enter by the back entrance. These knuckleheads have turned our public libraries into battlegrounds just as anti-abortion campaigners turned clinics into war zones in their battle against a woman's right to choose.
In the lead-up to the event, two New Jersey pro-Israel groups filed a lawfare suit against both the Library and the town council claiming that they violated federal law by aiding and abetting terrorism:
The…Central Jersey Jewish Public Affairs Committee (CJJPAC)—a pro-Israel advocacy organization…in concert with Zachor Legal Institute, an anti-BDS legal think tank—is launching action against both the borough of Highland Park, N,J., and its library.
…The Zachor Legal Institute, wrote to the Mayor…and president of the Library Board…informing them that the town "appears to be in violation of federal law, including the anti-discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) prohibition on providing material support to designated foreign terror organizations."
…"We understand a number of groups affiliated with the BDS movement have coerced the library into allowing the use of library facilities to spread hate-filled propaganda to children…
We agree with the Lawfare Project that, based on First Amendment law, the library can and should prohibit the reading of a book to children that legitimizes violence.
…The [legal] action will support the removal of federal funding and seeks federal government censure for a town taking federal funds used to promote anti-Semitism. "The nature of the book reading and its propagating of anti-Semitism towards Jews in Israel are believed to meet the definition of anti-Semitism as used by the State Department and the Department of Education.
…Two of the primary promoters of the reading, Samidoun and Jewish Voice for Peace, have ties to organizations that are discriminatory and provide support to terror organizations. Consequently…the reading constitutes a violation of the anti-discrimination provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ("Title VI"), as well as a potential violation of 18 U.S.C. 2339B (the "Material Support Statute")…
Graphic art from P is for Palestine: and the letters fly free…
Needless to say, all of these charges are a pack of lies. Virtually every sentence is a lie, and in some sentences there are multiple lies. The claims will be laughed out of court if these groups dare to bring an actual lawsuit. But that is not the real goal. These shysters know they cannot win. But they can browbeat and hector public bodies like towns and libraries into cutting off the Palestinian community from access to public venues. They can seek to ostracize points of view critical of Israel by transforming them magically into advocacy of terrorism and anti-Semitism.
Now the Town and library face tens, if not hundreds of thousands in legal fees defending themselves from pro-Israel holy-rollers who have nothing better to do with their lives than squelch speech and literature which expresses pride and dignity in the culture and traditions of Palestine.
Ben Shahn Warsaw 1943, Martyrology, "These I Remember"
There are many atrocious things that Israel has done to the Palestinian people. Among them, they've criminalized childhood, culture, national identity and language. Now, their foot soldiers in the Diaspora want to criminalize children's books which express pride in Palestinian identity.
Jews Should Know Better
This reminds me of another tragic episode in the long Jewish tradition of suffering. The Romans too sought to ban a book which threatened the conquerors of Judea, because it taught Jews pride in their culture, identity and traditions. They banned the book and banned its teaching. Anyone caught doing so would be put to death.
The book was the Torah. And one of the rabbis who was executed by the Romans for braving their edict was Rabbi Hanina Ben Tradyon, as portrayed in the Martyrology recited on Yom Kippur:
Rabbi Hanina…also chose to teach Torah in public in spite of the decree, holding a Sefer Torah in his arms. After his capture, they wrapped him in a Sefer Torah and piled branches about him, lit them, and placed wet wool over his heart so that he would not die quickly. He told his disciples what he saw: "The parchment is burning but the letters are flying free!"
Books have always been viewed as seditious by conquerors and tyrants. Those who write and teach books have often been targeted for offending the powerful. But somehow the book haters always lose and the books themselves live on despite attempts to suppress them. Even those who choose to burn books cannot prevent the letters from flying free and conveying their message of freedom and justice to the rest of the world.
Filed Under: Jews & Judaism, Mideast Peace, Politics & Society, The Arts Tagged With: censorship, israel-lobby, palestine, religious freedom
Joshua Tartekovsky
Did you just compare 'P for Palestine' to the Bible?
I understand your liking of a good analogy but do you really not see the difference?
Reply to Joshua Tartekovsky
@Joshua Tartakovsky:
No, YOU did.
A good rule of thumb for hasbarists like you is not to summarize my views, paraphrase them or characterize them on my behalf at all. You will invariably be wrong, as you are in this case. And your bad faith in doing so annoys me.
You are done in this thread.
Doctor Chukwuemeka P. Akwanga
Mr. Richard Silverstein,
The Lobby's 'lawfare' here, is not less obnoxious then then book publisher's attempt to politically indoctrinate pre-school kids.
"Hey teachers, leave those kids alone"–Pink Floyd
Reply to Doctor Chukwuemeka P. Akwanga
Doctor: ah so we have a Kenyan Christian Zionist. Aren't you a bit outside your wheelhouse, Doc ?
A book author reading a children's book to children is "indoctrination?"
Are you daft?
And whatever you do, do not EVER quote Roger Waters' lyrics to support Israeli apartheid. That is far beyond the Pale.
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Link corrected: Israeli NGO channel suspended
@Richard, wow. Just when you think that the pro-Israel lobby and the hasbarists couldn't get more petty and venomous when it comes to anyone speaking up for the Palestinians in any way, shape or form. Barring the usual slander, demonization, and attacks on Palestinians and Arabs, the vitriol targeting groups like Jewish Voices for Peace or IfNotNow is also particularly reprehensible.
I am not a Christian Zionist, I am proud Igbo Jew.
This book is indoctrination.
"I is for Intifada, Intifada is Arabic for rising up for what is right, if you're a kid or a grownup!" with an image of barbed wire, and "M is for Miftah, Key of Return, Mama's Mama and My Jiddah's mama's for which I yearn!"
The husband of the author is full of hate.
"Bashi's husband, Hamid Dabashi, also a Columbia professor, has also recently been accused of posting anti-Semitic comments on Facebook about Jared Kushner.
Dabashi referred to "Jared Kushner's Zionist kins [sic]" who "kill and rob Palestinians," and described the Jewish White House adviser as a "creature."
Columbia University President Lee Bollinger distanced himself from Dabashi's views in a statement, saying, "I want to completely disassociate myself from those ideas. They're outrageous things to say, in my view."
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@ Doctor: I don't care whether you're the chief rabbi. YOu're a cheap propagandist.
Hamid Dabashi is a distinguished historian at Columbia University. His work is published in mainstream publications including the NY Times. I could care less what Lee Bollinger thinks. He runs the University's fundraising operation and must cater to rich pro-Israel Jews. He has to say that.
Jared Kushner is a spoiled rich kid brat suckled on the milk of Palestine hate. He's given tens of thousands of dollars to settlements. He is a "creature." I'm a Jew. I can say that. If I can, Hamid Dabashi can. So sue me!
BTW, there's nothing anti-Semitic about a refugee expelled from her land wanting to return. Nor is there anything wrong for rising up for what is right, including the right of return. Again, I'm a Jew. I support the right of return. THere is no reason Goldbarg Dabashi can't support it too. So sue me twice!
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Dick Cheney, Hugo Chavez and Bill Clinton's Band
Why Venezuela has Voted Again for Their 'Negro e Indio' President
by Greg Palast
There's so much BS and baloney thrown around about Venezuela that I may be violating some rule of US journalism by providing some facts. Let's begin with this: 77% of Venezuela's farmland is owned by 3% of the population, the 'hacendados.'
I met one of these farmlords in Caracas at an anti-Chavez protest march. Oddest demonstration I've ever seen: frosted blondes in high heels clutching designer bags, screeching, "Chavez – dic-ta-dor!" The plantation owner griped about the "socialismo" of Chavez, then jumped into his Jaguar convertible.
That week, Chavez himself handed me a copy of the "socialist" manifesto that so rattled the man in the Jag. It was a new law passed by Venezuela's Congress which gave land to the landless. The Chavez law transferred only fields from the giant haciendas which had been left unused and abandoned.
This land reform, by the way, was promoted to Venezuela in the 1960s by that Lefty radical, John F. Kennedy. Venezuela's dictator of the time agreed to hand out land, but forgot to give peasants title to their property.
But Chavez won't forget, because the mirror reminds him. What the affable president sees in his reflection, beyond the ribbons of office, is a "negro e indio" — a "Black and Indian" man, dark as a cola nut, same as the landless and, until now, the hopeless. For the first time in Venezuela's history, the 80% Black-Indian population elected a man with skin darker than the man in the Jaguar.
So why, with a huge majority of the electorate behind him, twice in elections and today with a nearly two-to-one landslide victory in a recall referendum, is Hugo Chavez in hot water with our democracy-promoting White House?
Maybe it's the oil. Lots of it. Chavez sits atop a reserve of crude that rivals Iraq's. And it's not his presidency of Venezuela that drives the White House bananas, it was his presidency of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC. While in control of the OPEC secretariat, Chavez cut a deal with our maximum leader of the time, Bill Clinton, on the price of oil. It was a 'Goldilocks' plan. The price would not be too low, not too high; just right, kept between $20 and $30 a barrel.
But Dick Cheney does not like Clinton nor Chavez nor their band. To him, the oil industry's (and Saudi Arabia's) freedom to set oil prices is as sacred as freedom of speech is to the ACLU. I got this info, by the way, from three top oil industry lobbyists.
Why should Chavez worry about what Dick thinks? Because, said one of the oil men, the Veep in his bunker, not the pretzel-chewer in the White House, "runs energy policy in the United States."
And what seems to have gotten our Veep's knickers in a twist is not the price of oil, but who keeps the loot from the current band-busting spurt in prices. Chavez had his Congress pass another oil law, the "Law of Hydrocarbons," which changes the split. Right now, the oil majors – like PhillipsConoco – keep 84% of the proceeds of the sale of Venezuela oil; the nation gets only 16%.
Chavez wanted to double his Treasury's take to 30%. And for good reason. Landless, hungry peasants have, over decades, drifted into Caracas and other cities, building million-person ghettos of cardboard shacks and open sewers. Chavez promised to do something about that.
And he did. "Chavez gives them bread and bricks," one Venezuelan TV reporter told me. The blonde TV newscaster, in the middle of a publicity shoot, said the words "pan y ladrillos" with disdain, making it clear that she never touched bricks and certainly never waited in a bread line.
But to feed and house the darker folk in those bread and brick lines, Chavez would need funds, and the 16% slice of the oil pie wouldn't do it. So the President of Venezuela demanded 30%, leaving Big Oil only 70%. Suddenly, Bill Clinton's ally in Caracas became Mr. Cheney's — and therefore, Mr. Bush's — enemy.
So began the Bush-Cheney campaign to "Floridate" the will of the Venezuela electorate. It didn't matter that Chavez had twice won election. Winning most of the votes, said a White House spokesman, did not make Chavez' government "legitimate." Hmmm. Secret contracts were awarded by our Homeland Security spooks to steal official Venezuela voter lists. Cash passed discreetly from the US taxpayer, via the so-called 'Endowment for Democracy,' to the Chavez-haters running today's "recall" election.
A brilliant campaign of placing stories about Chavez' supposed unpopularity and "dictatorial" manner seized US news and op-ed pages, ranging from the San Francisco Chronicle to the New York Times.
But some facts just can't be smothered in propaganda ink. While George Bush can appoint the government of Iraq and call it "sovereign," the government of Venezuela is appointed by its people. And the fact is that most people in this slum-choked land don't drive Jaguars or have their hair tinted in Miami. Most look in the mirror and see someone "negro e indio," as dark as their President Hugo.
The official CIA handbook on Venezuela says that half the nation's farmers own only 1% of the land. They are the lucky ones, as more peasants owned nothing. That is, until their man Chavez took office. Even under Chavez, land redistribution remains more a promise than an accomplishment. But today, the landless and homeless voted their hopes, knowing that their man may not, against the armed axis of local oligarchs and Dick Cheney, succeed for them. But they are convinced he would never forget them.
And that's a fact.
Greg Palast's reports from Venezuela for BBC Television's Newsnight and the Guardian papers of Britain earned a California State University Journalism School "Project Censored" award for 2002. View photos and Palast's reports on Venezuela at www.GregPalast.com.
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"Blowin' the Bazoo" in Bel-Air with Bob "Bazooka" Burns
Posted on February 7, 2011	by Steve
Bob Burns and his famous Bazooka
Renowned for his homespun philosophy and amusing anecdotes about a cadre of fictional relatives from his home town of Van Buren, Arkansas, Bob Burns was a popular presence on both radio and in films throughout the 1930's and 1940's. his rise to prominence came as the result of the "Bazooka," a singularly unique musical instrument of Burns' own invention, which he created by combining two lengths of pipe with a whiskey funnel. The name for the device was derived, according to Burns, from a local expression for loud-mouthed people who were said to be "blowing their bazoos." Although Burns' creation never really caught on with other musicians, it did earn lasting fame when the U.S. Army named their shoulder-mounted artillery cannon after it during World War II.
Musically inclined since childhood, Burns began performing as a youth in local bands and orchestras in and around his native Van Buren. He made his professional debut in black face as part of a traveling show, the Black Cat Minstrels, which toured the South around 1911. Over the next twenty years, Burns struggled to make a name for himself in show business with mixed results, working his way through carnivals, vaudeville and nightclub appearances. During the frequent lean times, Burns would take whatever jobs he could including farm work, door-to-door sales, and barking for a side show in Atlantic City. It was while performing on the Jersey boardwalk that Burns met his first wife, Elizabeth Fisher, who worked in a concession stand a few yards from Burns' operation.
It was the microphone that made Burns a star
After their marriage in 1921, Burns returned to vaudeville where he would remain for the duration of the 1920's, generally performing a black face act that combined comedic patter with interludes on the bazooka. In 1930, with vaudeville in serious decline, Burns thought a great opportunity had come his way when Fox Pictures, who had been looking for actors who could perform Southern dialect, offered him a film contract. After a few lackluster roles, however, Burns was dropped by the studio. It was the necessity to find work after losing the Fox contract that was to lead to the medium where Burns would find true success. His first appearance on the radio came late in 1931 on KHJ's "Fun Factory" program. This led to other jobs on other Los Angeles stations, and although the pay was not high, it did provide at least a steady income and gave Burns valuable experience and exposure.
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"Grandpa Snazzy" was so popular, he began popping up in postcards.
Perhaps it was the years of uncertainty and poverty, but even after attaining international fame, Burns was extremely hesitant to spend money, continuing to live in a $22.50 a month apartment at 816 1/2 North Las Palmas Avenue in Hollywood while making thousands and thousands of dollars a week. However, after the tragic death of Elizabeth, who died unexpectedly after an operation in 1936, Burns' lifestyle began to change. The following year he remarried, wedding his former secretary, Harriet Foster, on May 31, 1937. At first they moved to a rented bungalow in Larchmont Heights near Paramount and NBC at 337 North Larchmont Boulevard. The bungalow, which had been designed by architect Harley S. Bradley in 1924, was a step up from the Las Palmas apartment, but it was still a far cry from a radio and movie star's mansion. Finally, by the end of 1937, Burns decided the time had at last come for a star to live like a star and he went all the way, shelling out an impressive $85,000 for a recently built mansion in ultra exclusive Bel-Air at 1021 Stone Canyon Road.
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Sited on four acres of grounds skillfully laid out by prominent landscape architect Katherine Bashford, Burns' grand new home had been completed early in 1937 for businessman Robert J. Pringle at a reported cost of $90,000. The elegant English County estate, with its whitewashed brick exterior and brown shake roof, had been designed by the very talented H. Roy Kelley (1893-1989), a major figure in Southern California architecture during the period. Kelley was renowned for his exceptional renditions of period revival homes built from Palos Verdes to Pasadena throughout the 1920's and 1930's, which earned for him a heap of honors from both the architectural press and his fellow practitioners. His design for the Pringle house was no exception, taking the 1938 "House Beautiful" prize from the Architectural League of New York, the fourth time he was so honored.
The loggia off the living room and library.
One of the most admired attributes of an H. Roy Kelley residence is how well it relates to its outdoor setting. Kelley was a master at creating a harmonious flow between the spaces through the use of windows, French doors, loggias and terraces and the Kelley houses, whether they be English like the Pringle house, Hacienda Spanish or Monterey, were always bright and sun-filled. There is nothing gloomy about an H. Roy Kelley house. For the twelve-room Pringle house, Kelley created a series of terraces and loggias surrounding both the front and rear elevations with Bashford continuing the effect through garden terraces leading to the enormous pool and pool house. The effect was one of great charm and easy livability. As House & Garden was to write in May 1937, "Loggias, opening from the house and the pavilion beside the swimming pool, permit shaded comfort out-of-doors while the terrace and garden between the pool and the house invite leisurely loitering in the open air."
Burns "leisurely loitering in the open air."
The handsome interior was equally well planned, graceful and relaxed with an easy flow through the principal rooms consisting of a large paneled living room painted a creamy white, an adjacent library and a sunny floral-papered dining room highlighted by a large bow window offering a cheerful green view of the rear gardens. Upstairs were four principal bedrooms and baths with the maid's rooms placed above the attached garage.
Bob and Harriet Burns in the paneled living room.
Now, Bob's in the dining room.
What would Grandpa Snazzy think of Harriet's elegant dressing room?
In its overall appearance, Burns' showplace residence could not have been more diametrically opposed to his folksy, down-home image, looking more likely the place of residence of C. Aubrey Smith or Ronald Colman than "The Arkansas Traveler." Burns seemed almost immediately sensitive of this disparity or perhaps he wanted a reminder of his humble origins and within a month of moving in, he added a homey touch, an authentic log cabin made entirely out of logs shipped in from the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, which Burns used as his "refuge."
Burns and his Bel-Air "Refuge."
Ultimately, it appears the grand estate was too much for Burns and his Hillbilly image and in 1940, less than two years after moving in, he and his family relocated out to the 200-acre ranch he had purchased in the then very rural Canoga Park at 20525 Sherman Way. "All them butlers and liveried chauffeurs got into my hair," declared Bob to Hedda Hopper. After he retired in 1947, Burns devoted his time to his ranch, turning it into what the LA Times declared to be "an agricultural showplace" and becoming Canoga Park's "honorary mayor."
The Canoga Ranch was only a part of Burns' vast land acquisitions in the San Fernando Valley and by the time he died in 1956 at the age of 64, the man who was said to have once ridden the rails as a hobo, was considered one of the wealthiest men in show business. The Canoga Ranch has since been subdivided, but his Bel-Air home remains. I wonder what became of the log cabin?
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Steven Keylon says:
I just found your website a few days ago, it wonderfully researched and written, nicely illustrated and very entertaining. Thank you for doing all of this!
I'm researching and writing about the life and career of Katherine Bashford. I had found the Pringle residence in California Arts & Architecture and in the Architect and Engineer, but didn't know that Bob Burns was the owner very soon after it was completed. The pictures you have here are great!
I wanted to point out that the landscape was created in collaboration with her partner Fred Barlow, Jr. He began working for Bashford in 1930, and became a full partner in the firm of Bashford and Barlow in 1936. When Bashford retired in 1943, he took over the business. He died in 1953.
I look forward to your future posts!
Thank you so much for the comments and great info on Fred Barlow, Jr.! I'm very happy to hear about your Katherine Bashford project and look forward to reading it!
Michael S. Burns says:
Wow, Great site!
Thanks SO much, Michael! Are you related to Mr. Burns?
SheilaA says:
As the owner of an H. Roy Kelley home, I am always looking for other examples of his wonderful architectural style. This well written article is a great addition to my collection.
Thank you Sheila for the kind words and I'm glad particularly in hearing from someone who owns and appreciates an H. Roy Kelley home. He was extremely talented and his homes have a timeless quality about them that make them as attractive today as they were in the 1930's. I think he is highly underrated and deserves far more recognition than he has presently gotten. Thanks again and hopefully I'll put up more Kelley houses soon.
Mary-Lynn says:
You know how we like Then and Now picures Steve! What does it look like now? And who is the lucky occupant these days?
christina burns says:
Just came across this. Really enjoyed it!
Linda Doughty says:
Where can I find photos of the Canoga Park home? I lived on Cozycroft Ave in CP from 56-65 and went to church at The 1st Baptist Church of CP. I remember before the church bought it, there were horse stables and fancy rich people (we use to look over the fence) and the arbor over the driveway entrance. It had a high white fence all around it with lots of bushes blocking the view. After the church bought it we had BBQ's and sleep overs. It was huge and beautiful! This is all from a child's view, so I would love to see some pictures.
rosemary1818 says:
Having lived for 15 years in Bob Burns' home town, Van Buren, I came to have a great appreciation for the man himself, apart from his career. I have done a lot of research about him, and even contacted the Canoga Park historical society to inquire about photos of Bob's unique home and ranch there. They said none exist in their history collection. What a shame. Bob designed the 23-room, single-story house that was built in a horseshoe shape. It included a substantial shop where Bob even built furniture for the house. He also built and installed an irrigation system for his row crops. He raised prize hogs and smoked them in a smokehouse he built for that purpose. Bob was no "gentleman" farmer. He worked his farm every day of his life after he bought the property. Bob was quoted as saying he grew or raised everything a family would need except salt and pepper. His three children from his second wife never knew Bob had won great fame until after their mother died.


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Q: Carregamento de pagina Ajax + Jquery + Ruby on Rails Opa, boa tarde galera sou um pouco novo em rails e to com uma pequena dificuldade. Tenho um formulario de login (sessions/new) e um formulario de cadastro (users/new), em cada um desses formularios, tenho um link no qual ao ser clicado redireciona o usuario para o outro formulario. Gostaria de fazer isso via Ajax + Jquery, pra ficar uma transição mais suave. Porem nunca usei ajax no rails. Se alguem puder me dar uma luz sobre o que fazer agradeço, um tutorial, ou uma dica de como proseguir. Obrigado desde ja.

A: No caso você está utilizando duas actions de dois controllers diferentes, portanto você será redirecionado de uma para a outra atravéz de um redirect_to após a criação da session.
Pelo que entendi você não deseja um redirecionamento, e sim que um form aparece na mesma tela após a criação do outro, portanto, deixe os dois forms em uma mesma action, após o envio dos dados de um, esconda-o e mostre o outro.
Em uma action você pode ter instâncias para os dois forms, enquanto o post feito em ajax, tenha actions diferentes:
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Life can be complicated, but organizing your content just got easier. With subfolders, you can quickly create a logical structure for your report and dashboard folders. The organization can be by region, role, or function, or whatever makes most sense to you. Moving content between folders is also easier.
Where: These changes apply to Lightning Experience in Group, Essentials, Professional, Enterprise, Performance, Unlimited, and Developer Editions.
Why: When you're organizing reports and dashboards in folders, subfolders make life easier for everyone. Suppose you're responsible for creating reports for your customer service organization. You already have a Sales Reports folder that you're sharing with Sales, so the sales reps can see what issues have come up. But the reps in each region only want to see the reports from customers in their own region. All you have to do is create a subfolder for each region in the sales folder, and viola!, the reps in each region get to see only what they're interested in.
And there's more. It's now a breeze to move reports and dashboards between folders. You don't have to open the report or dashboard anymore just to change what folder or subfolder it's in. Just select the Move row-level action for the report or dashboard.
What if you have a report or dashboard in one folder, but want it to be in another? On the Reports or Dashboards page, select Move from the row level action menu. A select folder dialog box opens where you can navigate to the destination folder and save.
Finally, you can also rename and delete subfolders.
You can delete an empty leaf folder or empty folder tree in Lightning Experience. An empty leaf folder is a folder that doesn't contain any reports or dashboards and doesn't have any subfolders. An empty folder tree is one with no reports or dashboards in the root folder or in any of the subfolders.


Once completed the following steps you've effectively generated strands between the objects, though they won't show up in a rendered image as you haven't defined any size or shape yet. To do this simply get a Set Data node, right click on the Value Port of the node and choose Add Port After two times so you have three values. Open the PPG, enter self.Size as Reference and set the size to 0.1 or so. Enter self.Shape as Reference1 and choose Cylinder. To loft the shape along the strand rather than using individual shapes you'll need to add one last attribute. Enter self.StrandDeform as Reference2, press enter and check the self.StrandDeform checkbox. Finally connect the Execute output of the Set Data node to the Port2 of the ICETree node.


November has only a week left in the calendar but I think we are all already preparing for Christmas at this point. Some earlier, some later, I am among the ones that do it early not only because I love this season but because I always try to find great ideas for you as early as possible! Be it on the design side, affordable or splurgy , I have been scouting the web for the best. This year (the winner for the budget side) Ellos Christmas editorial is very much to my taste. So much so that my take on Christmas would be almost identical if I was shopping the entirety of my selection from Ellos. I like to mix and match of course, so this will not be the result in my own home, but how beautiful is this festive editorial? Down to the colors, styling, everything is so well done I am so very impressed. In fact, I have already put an order for some decorations, and if you are planning to do so as well you should now. From experience last year I tried to buy some of their decorations mid December and almost everything was gone, so be quick if you want to be in! You can find all the range as shown in the photos here . Scroll down for the beautiful photos and check my favorites below each one!


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A Christmas of Redemption
Redemption is beautiful.
Every Christmas season, we're immersed in stories that celebrate and embrace this very thing. Often, the most memorable and beloved scenes are those that depict the beauty of redemption.
When the Grinch hears the Who's singing on Christmas morning, and in a sudden cardiac transformation, he's changed. When Scrooge's ghosts grant him respite, in tremendous joy, he runs out and buys an enormous Turkey and sends it anonymously to the Cratchits for their Christmas feast. And when Kevin McCallister's family returns home, after everything he's been through, he's happy, for the first time in the film, to be reunited with his family.
Each one of these scenes is a beautiful display of redemption.
Yet, no matter how much we enjoy it on the screen (or the page), we often struggle to believe in redemption in actual life. Maybe we struggle in some area, and wonder whether we'll ever truly get things together. Perhaps we've been wounded by someone, and we doubt that they could ever really change.
We delight in redemption in stories, but we doubt there's redemption for us.
Chapter 20 of the Book of Acts records a story grounded in this same theme of redemption. The story's setting is that the Apostle Paul is passing through the city of Ephesus, where he lived for several years, on his way to Jerusalem. He's reached a good, ripe age in life, and believes that this will be the last time he'll ever see them. The story records his final words to these friends who've meant so much to him. This is what he says.
32 "Now I commit you to God and to the word of his grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified…35 In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.' "
-Acts 20:32, 35 (NIV)
He speaks of the gospel, "the word of his grace." And he speaks of generosity, quoting Jesus' own words, "It is more blessed to give than to receive."
In commenting upon these two subjects, Paul is speaking of redemption.
This is so because our use of money always reveals something about hearts. Our transaction records demonstrate what we truly care about and believe in. So much so that an inability to practice generosity is often rooted in a misunderstanding of grace.
In commending them to the gospel, Paul is urging them to remember that their identity is found in Christ. Because when we attempt to find it elsewhere, our ability to practice generosity always becomes ensnared. And our joy is lost.
Our willingness and ability to give is restricted, because how can we give when we need the money for so many other things? To buy and outfit the perfect house. To acquire the gear and memberships we need to stay physically fit. To purchase the cosmetics and clothing we need. To stay ahead of the game by obtaining the latest tech.
Our money flows freest toward what we find our value in.
Now, these are all good things, and enjoying them isn't wrong. However, it's always worth considering whether or not we've invested too much of ourselves into something. The question being whether our commitment to any one thing has stolen our ability and willingness to be generous.
Honestly, this happens to me. I feel a resistance to giving sometimes because, in the moment, there are so many other things I'd rather use the money for. Because I get caught up believing the lie that using the money for myself will bring more joy than generosity.
Paul is urging his friends to recognize this lie, and to know that their value can never be found in anything with a tag. Nothing you buy can ever make you feel whole.
Instead, recognizing who has purchased us and what our price was, is exactly what will deliver to us security and joy. And will give us the ability to practice generosity as a way of demonstrating where our value is found—not in anything that we buy or earn, but in Christ alone.
For this reason, giving is a redemptive act. Redemption is found in grace and displayed through generosity.
Here at SMCC, we invite you to give for these reasons.
First, because it's a way to resist false, fragile identities and instead grow further into our identity in Jesus, finding greater joy in him. Second, because we do believe in redemption. Because of our trust in Jesus, but also because we see it happening in our community all the time.
For example, this past year we celebrated 103 baptisms together. That's 103 stories of redemption. 103 stories just like Alexis's.
Alexis was in a religion that taught that her worth was determined by what others thought of her. This led her to a place where her life was lonely and sad, her life was crumbling, and she didn't see a way out.
Then, she began to trust Jesus more and more, as people showed her grace when she least expected it, and had done nothing to deserve it. SMCC was a safe place for her to come and feel peace and love.
This past year, Alexis was baptized because she's learned to trust Jesus, that he is who he says he is, and that he loves her just because she's her.
Redemption is beautiful. And real.
When you give to SMCC, you're investing in just that. You're giving to help stories like Alexis's happen. And Tyler's. And Holly's. And Ethan's. And Jamie's, Alina's, and Dave's. And so many more.
You're joining in the mission of helping as many people as possible take their next step towards full devotion and full delight in Jesus Christ. In doing so, you're investing in your own delight in him as well.
So, this Christmas season, I leave you with a paraphrase Paul's final words to his Ephesian friends—
"Remember the gospel as the place where your true identity is found, and allow it to inspire you to greater joy and generosity."
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Xii) Tupperware
- Tupperware is the example of how an apparently mature brand has reinvented itself.
- It is a global organisation that sells plastic food-storage containers to suburban housewives at Tupperware parties that has moved well beyond its popular-culture stereotype with revenue now exceeding $US 2 billion from sales in over 100 countries
- In Australia, from 1998 to 2009 sales tripled and almost all homes have some Tupperware products
- Even during the GFC the organisation performed well with more people cooking at home and storing leftovers using Tupperware products plus unemployment pushed people into the home-based Tupperware sales force.
Its success is linked with a competitive advantage around products, selling methods and career opportunities for women. Yet these could be thought to be the biggest problems facing Tupperware, ie
"...daggy products, sold at 1950s-era morning tea parties by women who now have far better career opportunities in the salaried workforce..."
Lucinda Schmidt, 2010
Furthermore, during the 1980s, Tupperware had to handle the cheap imitations that flooded the market.
Tupperware reinvented itself by bringing in female cosmetic-industry designers to replace the male-dominated industrial designers. The beauty designers introduced colours, sharper designs and the categories, such as serving utensils and kitchen gadgets. Rather than compete on price, Tupperware decided to innovate with, for example the silicon cake mould, and produced products that offer lifetime guarantees. This is its competitive advantage around products.
Around selling methods - 90 percent of its products are still sold at Tupperware parties. The type of parties has changed over time from "lonely" mothers meeting their neighbours to girls" night-out for busy working women. These night-outs are more interactive and less structured than in the past and often include cocktails and cooking tips.
Around career opportunity - the initial success of Tupperware in the post WW2-era was a way for women to earn some money and to meet socially. Now most of the women involved are in full-time paid work with Tupperware and earning money similar to professional people. Furthermore, it is giving women a chance to build their own business, especially in cultures where opportunities for work outside the home is limited. In developing countries, it allows women to develop some financial independence


I haven't made any jewellery in so long, it was nice to dust off my round nosed pliers and my wire bits and bobs!
I've incorporated crochet into jewellery making before. You can read about it here:Crocheted Wire Earrings.
This time I have used a crocheted flower as an element of each earring. The beads are semi precious stones that used to be a rather boring necklace! I strung them together using eyepins and jump rings.
The earrings came together pretty quickly and took at most a couple of hours to make. This included designing the earrings and crocheting the flowers.
You Will Need: single strand embroidery thread, 2 mm crochet hook, 2 ear wires, 8 semi precious natural rough cut or chip beads, 2 head pins, 6 eye pins, 14 jump rings, round nosed pliers, flat nosed pliers, wire cutters.
1. Make the flowers using the embroidery thread and the crochet hook. Instructions can be found here (it's a tutorial for making a flower for a hair bobble, but the pattern is the same. The flower turns out smaller because the thread is finer and the hook is smaller).
2. Take one of the beads and thread it onto a head pin. Make a loop.
If you are new to this or it has been a while and you've forgotten, to make a loop, bend the end of the head pin over to make a right angle. Cut the end off so that you are left with about a cm of wire. Using the round nosed pliers and starting at the end furthest from the bead, bend the wire into a loop about half way. Adjust your hand and the pliers so that you are comfortable. Complete the loop. If the loop is not quite closed, give it a gentle squeeze with the flat nosed pliers.
3. Take another bead and thread it onto an eye pin. Make the free end into a loop. Repeat for the 2 remaining beads.
4. Attach a jump ring to the top of the flower between the petals. Attaching it here will hopefully prevent the flower from becoming stretched when you are wearing the earrings. Attach another jump ring to the first jump ring.
5. Attach 2 more jump rings to the bottom of the flower in the same way.
6. Using the jump rings, attach the rest of the elements together. Below the flower, attach 3 beads all joined together with jump rings with the last bead being the one on a head pin.
Above the flower, attach one bead and then the ear wire. Here are the finished earrings!
Lovely earrings and think adding textile touches make them so different.
These are such lovely earrings you have created. I love the crocheted motif design.
Thnaks! The flowers were a surprisingly easy way to add something a bit different.
Hi! Stopping by from Submarine Sunday. These earrings are so pretty. I just started learning to crochet and I recently learned how to crochet a flower. Thank you so much for sharing this!
Hi, such a cute tutorial thanks for sharing it at the party. Hope to see you again soon!
these are super cute! I wish I remembered how to crochet! I need to relearn..maybe take a craftsy class soon!! Thanks for sharing at TTT! Pinned and shared@ hope to see you this week with more amazing goodies!
Thanks Jess 🙂 There are videos on youtube if you want to relearn crochet!


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The most diverse Congress in US history is sworn in as Democrats take the reins of power in the House
Eliza Relman
Jan 4, 2019, 4:36 PM
Bill Clark/Getty ImagesHouse Speaker Nancy Pelosi walks into the Capitol with her grandchildren.
Democrats swept into power in the House on Thursday after eight years in the minority, electing former House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as speaker.
The incoming House of Representatives has more women, people of colour, openly LGBT members, and millennials than any other in history.
Democrats swept into power in the House on Thursday after eight years in the minority, electing former House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi as speaker, who will preside over the most-diverse Congress in US history.
Ten new senators – three Democrats and seven Republicans – and 101 new House members, 67 of them Democrats, were sworn in.
Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York, the newly-elected chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, introduced Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who has once again made history as the first woman to ever be House speaker, which is second in line to the presidency, after the vice president.
Jeffries praised Pelosi as "a sophisticated strategist, a legendary legislator, a voice for the voiceless, a defender of the disenfranchised, a powerful, profound, prophetic, principled public servant."
"House Democrats are down with N.D.P.," the Brooklyn Democrat joked, using Pelosi's initials to refer to a song by the hip-hop trio Naughty By Nature.
Roll-call for the speaker vote began just before 1 p.m. and ended an hour later when Pelosi was elected with 220 votes. Each member was called on to name their choice for speaker and more than a dozen Democrats either chose a different candidate or did not vote. Eleven of those defectors were newly-elected Democrats.
"I pledge that this Congress will be transparent, bipartisan, and unifying," Pelosi said during her speech on the House floor on Thursday afternoon.
New Dems against Pelosi:
-Brindisi (NY) Biden
-Crow (CO) Duckworth
-Cunningham (SC) Bustos
-Golden (ME) Bustos
-Lamb (PA) Kennedy
– McAdams (UT) Murphy
– Rose (NY) Duckworth
– Sherrill (NJ) Bustos
– Spanberger (VA) Bustos
– Slotkin (MI) "Present"
– Van Drew (NJ) "No"
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) January 3, 2019
The 116th Congress is the most diverse in US history, even as 90% of House Republicans will be white men.
The majority – 52% – of incoming Democratic freshmen are women, compared to just 4.5% of incoming Republicans. Overall, a record 103 women were elected to serve in the House – 22% more than those who served in the 115th House.
Another five new women senators and 10 incumbent female senators, 131 women will serve in the 116th Congress.
And 34% of incoming House Democrats identify as people of colour, compared to just 2% of newly-elected Republicans.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty ImagesRep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-NY, takes a selfie with other members prior to the start of the 116th Congress on the floor of the US House of Representatives at the US Capitol.
Congress will also be younger. The average age of the 116th Congress is 47 – a 10-year drop from the 115th Congress.
Pelosi celebrated that diversity in her speech, pointing out that this Congress will serve during the 100-year anniversary of women's suffrage.
The Capitol was full of lawmakers' family members, tourists, and reporters.
.@RashidaTlaib's kids are awesome. pic.twitter.com/L7CIxI8zjS
— Waleed Shahid (@_waleedshahid) January 3, 2019
Grace Panetta contributed to this report.
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Since ancient times, runes have been used for divination and magic, in addition to writing. The word "rune" actually means mystery, secret or whisper. Each rune has esoteric meanings and properties associated with it, beyond its mundane meaning and phonetic value. Each translates into a word or a phrase signifying concepts important to the early peoples who used them, representing the forces of nature and mind.


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Auto Shop Controller is a reliable, fast, and established auto shop management software suite designed with your automotive repair business goals in mind...Our Windows PC based software is easy to use solutions designed exclusively for your environment. Control all aspects of your auto shop from inventory, employee management, to vehicle service history and the ability to create professional invoices. This is a subscription-based application which includes our full suite of services.
Kommentare: Great features, easy to use, but if you are upgrading for a 30+ year old DOS program, it always seems to have several program errors, it may work fine if you're starting out fresh, but when you have and old (and large) database, there seems to be problems.
Wish the could make it reliable!
Nachteile: I've been using the original DOS program since 1988, rock solid for reliability, but when I upgraded to V13 there were several errors every single day I ran the program. So I had to uninstall it and go back to using my original DOS program.
Vorteile: I have been using auto shop controller for many years at my shop, one thing i can say is it is very user friendly.
Nachteile: I have had many versions of this program and everytime i get a newer version which has been about 4 times now; Ive used it since it was a DOS program. It gets worse with every update i buy, locking up , throwing errors and deleting invoices that im in the middle of! I will be looking into a new system very soon, everytime i call about the issue they sell me another update which only gets worse, totally sick of making out invoices twice!


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L'université des sciences de la vie d'Estonie (en estonien : Eesti Maaülikool ou EMÜ) est l'ancienne université d'agriculture estonienne, qui a été fondée en 1951 et renommée et restructurée en . Les enseignements de sciences de la vie et de vétérinaire étaient auparavant délivrés au sein de l'université de Tartu dès 1632.

Histoire

En 1802, le département d'agriculture est fondé et en 1848 l'enseignement supérieur vétérinaire devient possible à l'institut vétérinaire de Tartu. La faculté d'agriculture, comportant les départements d'agronomie et de gestion forestière, est créée en 1919. Les facultés d'agriculture, de gestion forestière et de sciences vétérinaires s'associent en 1951 pour former une université indépendante. Cette nouvelle institution était directement supervisée par le ministère de l'agriculture de l'Union soviétique pour former les travailleurs des fermes collectives.

Après la chute de l'union soviétique et l'indépendance de l'Estonie, l'université est restructurée et de nouvelles méthodes d'enseignement apparaissent. En 1991, elle est renommée et se diversifie avec de nombreuses spécialités, comme la protection de l'environnement ou l'architecture paysagère. L'université s'agrandit en 1996 en accueillant un institut de sciences économiques et sociales. En 2000 s'ouvrent la librairie et la cafétéria dans le bâtiment principal. En 2004 un nouveau bâtiment réservé à l'enseignement vétérinaire et des sciences animales est construit.

Composantes
L'enseignement et la recherche dont distribués dans cinq instituts:

Institut des sciences agricoles et de l'environnement
Institut de médecine vétérinaire
Institut de sylviculture et de génie rural
Institut de technologie
Institut des sciences économiques et sociales.

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Lien externe

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Tartu

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The world's largest companies conduct extensive due diligence before engaging in financial transactions. However, despite investigating and analyzing the risks and benefits of an investment or business opportunity, even the most sophisticated entities nonetheless remain vulnerable to fraud, price-fixing, and failures in contract performance. When these schemes are revealed, financial institutions have a duty to their shareholders to recoup losses.
Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky Wotkyns LLP has represented banks, insurance companies, and other large financial institutions in disputes ranging from commercial disputes with business partners to market manipulation cases affecting the largest capital and commodities trading platforms in the world. Our attorneys have experience litigating on behalf of larger institutional clients and the unique concerns that complex litigation entails.
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Iraq's reconstruction can offer Lebanon significant opportunities
Lebanon Wire | 27 December 2003
By PARAG KHANNA
Iraq remains a violent place, but in recent weeks attention has increasingly shifted toward the long-term process of its reconstruction and political rehabilitation in the wake Saddam Hussein's capture. In both processes, Lebanon can play a crucial role. As the US experiments with democracy in Iraq, it should seek lessons in Lebanon's complex history and current political structure to understand both the difficulty of democratization in the Arab world and the perils of Western-driven "nation-building." Furthermore, as a hub of economic activity in the region, Lebanon's business community and its expertise can make it a key player in both Iraq's and the region's resurgence.
Commentators on Iraq's reconstruction have frequently invoked the post-World War II experience in Germany and Japan for guidance in restoring order and prosperity, but lessons from Lebanese history could be far more useful as America struggles to keep the lid on a looming civil war in a country many times Lebanon's size. During Lebanon's first civil war in the 1860s, French colonialists, equating Christians anywhere with Europeans, forced the Ottoman sultan to form an autonomous province on Mount Lebanon for the Maronites, a move which a century later continued to be favored by many Christians who sought an independent "second Israel." Osama Makdisi, a Lebanese historian and author of The Culture of Sectarianism, writes that traditional Lebanese social hierarchies which bridged religious differences were supplanted by the prevailing religious-nationalist ideology favored by the influx of European Jews. Orientalist influenced and politically convenient sectarian divisions swayed the British to give 80 percent of the Palestinian mandate of land and industries to immigrants instead of locals, which included many Arab Jews. Lebanese intuitively recognize this substitution of religion for family and clan-based social structures, and observe that their own history of "divide and rule" is being replayed in Iraq without regard for the consequences. Sectarian divisions were heightened in the process of selecting the interim Iraqi Governing Council. In late December, dissatisfied with the current arrangement, Iraqi Sunnis formed an autonomous State Council to represent their positions and interests. Despite the good intentions of achieving equal representation while juggling the interests of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, US interference in structuring the now de facto Iraqi regime may serve only to solidify potentially disastrous divisions. As in Lebanon, the agents of resistance in Iraq have similar motivations. Furthermore, it has been reported that Hizbullah agents have increased their presence in Iraq, but have thus far been restrained by Iran from conducting attacks on American forces. The hard lessons of Lebanon's political history provide ample guidance for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. Though Lebanese differ vastly in their opinions on the continuing relevance of sectarian divisions in social life, it is hard to deny that in politics, religion is hard-wired into the system. The favoring of Christians by the 1943 National Pact was a leading cause of Muslim riots in the 1950s, yet the post-civil war arrangement continues to mandate that the president be a Maronite Christian, the prime minister a Sunni, and the head of Parliament a Shiite. Lebanon's "consociational democracy" is a system designed to provide all groups - Christian, Shiite, Sunni and Druze -some representation in an elected government. As such, neither Sunnis nor Shiites can constitute a legislative majority without Christian support. In Lebanon, the current reconstruction effort funds the rebuilding of mosques, churches, offices and housing, making it a nonsectarian venture. Can it help make sure the same is true in Iraq? Lebanon can help Iraqis avoid repeating their fate while building a stronger state. It can serve as a base of operations for foreign firms operating in Iraq over the long-term, providing them with cultural and business expertise. Lebanon has itself developed expertise in the area of construction over the last two decades, and must assert themselves as viable candidates for Iraqi contracts as the bidding process is opened. Between 1998 and 2001, Iraq rose to the third leading market for Lebanese exports. With the military conflict in the region over, Lebanese agricultural exports should find their way back to provide for Iraq's growing demand, and its strong banking and maritime transport sectors can become key links in the new investment chain into Iraq. According to the World Economic Forum's Competitiveness reports, overall investment in Arab region has steadily decreased, yet strong opportunities exist. Given the weak levels of cellular penetration in the region, both Lebanon and Iraq are ripe for greater investment in information technology. In Lebanon, political reform is underway to make the sale of the Cellis and Libancell networks possible, which could raise up to $5 billion. The capital brought in by privatization could spur an expansion of these networks into Iraq, where cellular coverage is a lucrative proposition. Lebanon itself has only 800,000 cellular subscribers, about 20 percent of the population, thus there is plenty of room for growth in the domestic market as well. In other ways as well, Lebanon's strategic location will raise its profile in the region. The United Nations, poised to renew its operations in Iraq, may for some time to come rely on its regional headquarters in Beirut to coordinate that effort. The UN's presence also highlights the need for a regional economic development paradigm, as suggested in the widely cited Arab Human Development Report. The proposed Arab Free Trade Area (AFTA) would greatly benefit Lebanon, from which 30 percent of exports go to other Arab countries (and 40 percent to Europe). Building on the model of ASEAN or MERCOSUR, AFTA would combine Arab League and Gulf Cooperation Council countries into a customs-free zone, spurring countries in the region to overcome their reliance on import duties as a key source of revenue in favor of expanded bilateral exchange. Furthermore, this would bring Lebanon closer to more favorable trade relations with the US, which has already signed free trade agreements with Morocco and Jordan.


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Ohio's solar project queue on pace to surpass coal capacity this decade
Energy Harbor's announced closing of the Sammis plant means solar projects in Ohio's regulatory pipeline already exceed the coal power that will remain after 2028.
The recently announced retirement plans for one of Ohio's largest coal-fired power plants puts the state's planned solar project queue on track to surpass the state's coal generating capacity before the end of the decade.
Coal power still dwarfs solar in Ohio despite a decade of steep decline for the former. As of last year, the state was home to more than 10,600 megawatts of coal generating capacity, compared to about 112 megawatts for solar.
Utilities and other generators continue to phase out coal generation due to worsening economics and impending federal regulations. The state's remaining coal fleet without announced closing dates is now projected to shrink to about 5,000 MW by or before the end of 2028.
Meanwhile, the state has seen a flurry of applications to build large solar projects. The Ohio Power Siting Board last month had 7,783 MW of solar projects in its regulatory pipeline, almost all of which had applications pending before the effective date of a new siting law that is expected to complicate future projects.
"Increases in the cost of coal extraction, coupled with the growth of cheaper alternative energy assets, have created a pointed coal-to-renewable energy shift," said Gilbert Michaud, an assistant professor at Loyola University Chicago's School of Environmental Sustainability.
The shift also is important for addressing climate change. "The continued decommissioning of coal-fired power plants in Ohio, and the increase in solar energy activity in particular, has become a significant development toward decarbonization goals," Michaud said.
The projections are notable in part because Ohio lawmakers have spent several years putting a thumb on the scale in favor of fossil fuels. Legislation has gutted the state's renewable energy standards, subsidized old coal-fired power plants, and erected new hurdles for siting solar and wind projects, but not fossil fuels. Some of the new siting law's more restrictive provisions don't apply to projects whose applications had already been complete and in the grid operator's queue.
The figures indicate that Ohio can expect a steep curve in solar project construction over the next several years as greenlighted projects are built and more are approved. The fast growth of solar capacity also fits with the national trend. In 2011, the United States generated less than 2 million megawatt-hours of electricity from solar power. Last year the figure was more than 90 million MWh.
"There's an opportunity for Ohio to be a leader in solar energy," said Jason Rafeld, executive director for the Utility Scale Solar Energy Coalition. But, he said, not all proposed solar projects get built.
Last month, for example, Ohio regulatory staff recommended denial for the planned 300-megawatt Birch Solar project because the developer hadn't established the location of abandoned oil and gas wells. However, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources doesn't even know where potentially thousands of old oil and gas wells are in the state. The project is in the districts for Ohio House Speaker Bob Cupp and Ohio Senate President Matt Huffman, who opposes the project. Staff at the Ohio Power Siting Board also recommended denial of the 175-megawatt Kingwood solar project, which would lie partly in the township where Gov. Mike DeWine's family home is.
"If we can educate the policymakers to understand the opportunity, Ohio's solar development can be an incredible draw for businesses to locate and expand," Rafeld said. "It's already happening."
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As for coal, Energy Harbor (formerly known as FirstEnergy Solutions) told the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency last month that it will close the remaining units at the W.H. Sammis power plant in Stratton by or before the end of 2028. That date is tied to federal wastewater rules for coal-fired power plants.
That will leave only about 5,000 MW of coal-fired electric plants without announced closing dates. Those remaining plants include the 2,680 MW Gavin plant in Cheshire, the 1086 MW Kyger Creek plant in Gallia County, 1,230 MW from Units 1 and 2 at the Cardinal plant in Brilliant, and a few municipal power plants. AEP Generation Resources, Inc. plans to close its 595 MW Unit 1 at the Cardinal plant by 2030, AEP spokesperson Scott Blake said.
Capacity indicates the maximum expected output for a generation source under ideal conditions. The real-world output varies depending on weather, fuel availability, and other factors that are taken into account when grid operators decide how much generation is needed to maintain a stable system.
Competition also affects how much any power plant runs, and natural gas has been edging out coal on price. The Energy Information Administration's latest annual coal report, released on Oct. 4, shows the state's total production was less than 3.6 million short tons last year. That's less than one-seventh of Ohio's production in 2010.
Still, even if coal and solar capacities don't provide an apples-to-apples comparison, the projection that solar will surpass coal is an important milestone, clean energy advocates say.
"The end of coal is on the horizon," said Neil Waggoner, Ohio representative for the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign. "We have passed the point of no return."
Starting in 2014, FirstEnergy began asking the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for a bailout for the Sammis plant, as well as the Davis-Besse nuclear plant and its share of power from two 1950s-era coal plants, known as the OVEC plants. One of those plants is the Kyger Creek plant.
The first four units at Sammis closed last year, and the remaining three had been slated to close by June 2022. That plan was reversed after Ohio lawmakers passed House Bill 6, the state's nuclear bailout law. FirstEnergy Solutions president John Judge had told area residents that if HB 6's nuclear bailout passed, "we'll also be able to make the investments that need [to be] made in Sammis."
House Bill 6, the law at the heart of a $60 million corruption case, now subsidizes the two 1950s-era coal plants through 2030. One is the Kyger Creek plant. A surgical repeal by state lawmakers got rid of the law's nuclear subsidies earlier this year. However, ratepayers across the state continue to pay for the aging plants.
A Sept. 30 analysis by RunnerStone for the Ohio Manufacturers Association revised previous cost estimates in light of the fact that annual OVEC plant subsidies "have surged to $150 million per year." According to the analysis, that puts Ohio customers on track to "subsidize $1.8 billion in total through 2030."
A bill to get rid of the OVEC subsidies had its third hearing in the Ohio House on Oct. 27, with representatives of Duke Energy, AES Ohio and AEP all opposing the bill. A similar bipartisan bill to get rid of the coal plant subsidies had hearings this spring in the Ohio Senate.
It's unclear whether the bills will pass. House Speaker Bob Cupp, R-Lima, said on Oct. 13 that he didn't think there was support to eliminate the subsidies. And House Majority Leader and HB 6 supporter Bill Seitz, R-Cincinnati, talked about the "value of the OVEC hedge" against natural gas prices on Oct. 27. Bill co-sponsors and others strongly disagree.
"Ohioans should not be fronting the bill for aging and environmentally harmful coal plants," said Sen. Hearcel Craig, D-Columbus, co-sponsor of Senate Bill 117. "These coal plants are not competitive in the wholesale market, and their owners have made questionable business decisions that Ohioans should not be responsible for."
Instead of subsidies for coal plants, Waggoner wants lawmakers to take the energy transition seriously. Among other things, they should make sure companies will meet their obligations to complete environmental cleanups. The state's forfeiture fund for coal mines that fail to meet their obligations is "nowhere near what's needed," he said.
More importantly, Waggoner said, "we need to have a very focused and deliberate conversation around community transition and support." Multiple coal-fired power plants have already closed, and others are on the chopping block. In his view, policymakers should be "thinking about what could we do to provide support for those communities now, as well as for making sure they are able to transition to a future where they are able to grow and thrive."
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Clinton Superior Court Judge Justin H. Hunter has informed the Indiana Supreme Court that he will temporarily step down from his seat on the bench while he is deployed on active military duty. Serving in his place as judge pro tempore will be former Carroll Circuit Court Judge Donald E. Currie.
Currie's term in the Clinton Superior Court will begin effective May 1 and upon his execution of an oath of office. Currie will remain as judge pro tem until Hunter informs the court that he can resume the duties of the office, a Monday order from the Supreme Court said.
Currie will be compensated at the same rate as the regular judge commencing from the effective date of his appointment and will have authority to continue the employment of court personnel and discharge the duties of the Clinton Superior Court judge.


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Shenmue 3 Delayed Until November 2019
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It's now coming just two weeks after Death Stranding.
Shenmue III has officially been given a three month delay. This news comes courtesy of a Yu Suzuki update to the official Shenmue III Kickstarter page. The game was originally slated to drop on August 27, 2019 but has now been pushed back until November 19, 2019.
This now places the game just two weeks after the release of Death Stranding and just four days after Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order. I'm sure there will be even more titles released in this particular window. The end of the year is usually one of the busiest...
Sonic Movie Delayed Until Valentine's Day 2020
Gotta go... take your time and avoid crunch!
Many fans were wondering just how the Sonic the Hedgehog movie team was going to drastically redesign the blue blur and still get the movie done in time for the planned November 2019 release. It probably would have involved an absolute ton of crunch for the entire animation department.
Thankfully, the release date of the film has been pushed back.
Director Jeff Fowler made the announcement earlier today via Twitter. He notes that the new release date is slated for none other than Valentine's Day in 2020. That...
Ubisoft Delays Pirate Themed 'Skull & Bones' Until Mid-2020
Open world naval pirate game to skip E3 2019.
Ubisoft delivered some sad news today. Their open world pirate themed naval combat game, Skull & Bones, has been delayed until at least mid-2020. The team working on the game even delivered word today that they would be skipping E3 2019.
Skull & Bones was initially revealed way back at E3 2017. More footage was revealed at E3 2018 and it was still looking pretty good. Last year came the first delay which pushed it into the 2019-2020 fiscal year. Today, that date has been pushed back yet again to the 2020-2021 fiscal...
BioWare Delays Cataclysm and Other Major Content Planned for Anthem
Today, the 1.1.0 update for Anthem was released by BioWare. This update includes a few significant improvements to the quality of life for those playing the game. Notably, players can now actually change their gear during missions, strongholds, and during Freeplay without having to return to Fort Tarsis or the Launch Bay.
Awesome! Seriously, this was desperately needed.
In addition to this, BioWare added in a new stronghold for players to dive into today. It's called The Sunken Cell and is tailored to those that have completed the main story. On top of this, today's...
The Sinking City Delayed Until June
Though originally slated to be released on March 21, 2019, the upcoming investigative horror title, The Sinking City, has been delayed. The new release date for the title is now June 27, 2019. This delay applies to all platforms, those being the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
We got a nice gameplay video for The Sinking City last week. The video showed off some of the investigation parts of the gameplay. I mean, it makes sense, doesn't it? You are a detective after all. You just happen to be a detective investigating weird things going on that may or may not involve a powerful...
PlanetSide Arena Delayed Until Summer, Refunds Being Offered to Upset Fans
Word came in today that PlanetSide Arena has been postponed, read "delayed," until this Summer. With this new announcement comes word that the development team is pushing for a simultaneous release on the PC and the PlayStation 4 at the same point this Summer.
First, a quick bit about what PlanetSide Arena is supposed to be. It takes many of the gameplay elements from the massive online shooter, PlanetSide 2, and adapts them to a battle royale mode in addition to 250 vs 250 team battles. A closed beta for PlanetSide Arena just wrapped up prompting another delay for...
Iris.Fall Has a New Trailer Along with a Slight Delay in its Release Date
Creepy puzzles await you in Iris.Fall, the upcoming game from NEXT Studio (audio warning) and publisher Zodiac Interactive. Iris.Fall was originally slated to launch this month but has since been pushed back ever so slightly until December 7. That's not so bad, right? It's only a month away from release as of today.
Today's news of the delay does come with a silver lining. A new trailer was released to show off a bit more of the game and its unique visual style.
Valve Delays Artifact Beta
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Valve's beta for Artifact has been delayed until November 19. The beta was supposed to begin this month but that isn't happening. There is also concern that the game itself, which is still slated to begin on November 28, will also be pushed back due to the very late start on the beta.
PC Gamer seems to be the first outlet to notice this delay. They spotted a tweet by Wykrhm Reddy, a known tester for Valve, in which the November 19 date was prominently featured for the start of the beta.
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Fortnite: Save the World Free Release Delayed
This probably won't come as a shock to some of you and will probably make others go "isn't Fortnite just a battle royale game?", but the promised free release of the Save the World campaign for Fortnite has been delayed. First of all, no, Fortnite isn't just the battle royale game. In fact, it was a cooperative game focused on building and survival against zombies long before battle royale came about. But then battle royale happened and it was made clear that the Save the World campaign took a backseat, perhaps understandably so. Save the World has been accessible only to those that payed to get into the game early but it was forever promised by Epic tha...
Wreckfest Delayed Until 2019 on Consoles
THQ Nordic and Bugbear announced that Wreckfest will not be making its planned release on November 20, 2018 on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It has instead been delayed until some time in 2019.
Anti-bullshit quote: "Wreckfest for consoles will only be released as soon as we love playing it. After the fantastic release on PC, the benchmark for the console release is much higher. At this moment, the team needs more time to polish the multiplayer part, as well as the overall performance on the game to bring it up to par with the experience on PC. We are sorry for keeping fans waiting longer because of this. However, we already have compensation
Battlefield V Delayed Until November; Beta Still on Track
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EA and DICE just announced that they have pushed back the release date for Battlefield V until November 20, 2018. This places the release at a period that's about one month after its originally planned October 19 release date.
General manager of DICE Oskar Gabrielson, made the announcement today with a lengthy explanation as to the reason why.
We believe we have one of the best Battlefield games ever on our hands. A game that will deliver on an emotional journey through the return of unseen single player War Stories, a deep multiplayer experience, Battle Royale, along with our new live service, Tides of War - a journey across multiple theaters of WW2
Battlefield V's Co-op "Combined Arms" Mode Coming After Launch
According to the multiplayer portion of the Battlefield V website, the co-op focused "Combined Arms" mode for the game will be released after the game's launch.
This mode joins the battle royale mode as being yet another piece of content that won't be ready for Battlefield V's launch on October 19. Hell, for a long time there, it was also rumored that the much discussed Grand Operations mode would also miss the October launch as well, but DICE was quick to squash that piece of misinformation.
You know, and maybe this is just crazy talk here, it is okay to delay the release of Battlefield V. Maybe give it some more...
Code Vein Delayed Until 2019
A bit of unfortunate news to start with today and that is the fact that Code Vein has been delayed until 2019. This comes directly from Bandai Namco that says the original September 28, 2018 release just wasn't going to be feasible anymore.
Rumor: Crackdown 3 Delayed Until 2019
Try to at least act surprised when you read this, okay?
According to sources close to Kotaku, Crackdown 3 has been delayed until 2019. The game was originally announced back at E3 2014. It was given a rough "2016" release window.
It did not come out in 2016.
At some point it was said to be ready for release alongside the Xbox One X in early November 2017.
It was not.
It was then pushed to a Spring 2018 release period. Looking at my calendar, I'd say that's a swing and a miss as well. Now we're possibly looking at a 2019 release for the game that long ago promised to harness the power of the ...
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As mentioned in the post "Nine Spiritual Inclinations – Start Here," different people mean very different things when they refer to spirituality in general and to their spirituality in particular, including anything from self knowledge to social activism to immersion in the Absolute. The multitude of answers people give when asked about what spirituality is for them can be classified in different ways. One way used by various thinkers and researchers, is the classification to Spirit in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person or the Three Faces of God (a concept attributed to integral philosopher Ken Wilber). Other versions of the Three Faces of God refer to I, Thou and It, to the Inner, Intimate and Infinite and to the Subjective, Collective and Objective dimensions of Spirit. The following is a brief description of each of these three "faces", "aspects" or "dimensions".
Depending on one's inclination toward Supernatural, Natural, or Paranatural spirituality, 1st-person spirituality may relate to one as Spirit, Consciousness, Ātman, the Self Absolute, and so on; or as the culmination of the cosmic creative process; or as the Entity who creates and shapes reality by one's thoughts and intentions. The movement associated with it is inward, toward one's core, essence, and the source from which everything begins – be it the divine Self, the integrating self, or the all-powerful self.
Spirit in the 2nd person, the "Thou" face of God, is also called the Collective or Intimate dimension of Spirit. It is experienced in the encounter, interaction and "I-Thou" relationship with Spirit in one's life.
In 2nd-person encounter, you open into an experience of intimate contact with the ultimate mystery of existence, letting It become Thou. You metaphorically face God, your ultimate Beloved, and become knowable to (not hiding from) that ultimate consciousness.
Depending on one's inclination toward Supernatural, Natural, or Paranatural spirituality, 2nd-person spirituality may relate to Divinity revealed in relationship, "the hyphen of I-Thou", in Martin Buber's words; to humanism, Western Enlightenment, and Deep Ecology; or to interaction with non material beings such as nature and ancestral spirits. The movement associated with it is sideways, toward connection, inclusiveness, wholeness, and integrity, be it with the Sacred, with one's people, with humanity or all of nature, or with the guiding forces and esoteric influences to which one is subject.
The most beautiful and deepest experience a person can have is the sense of the mysterious. It is the underlying principle of religion as well as all serious endeavors in art and science. . . To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly. . . , this is religiousness. In this sense, I am religious. To me it suffices to wonder at these secrets and to attempt humbly to grasp with my mind a mere image of the lofty structure of all that there is.
Depending on one's inclination toward Supernatural, Natural, or Paranatural spirituality, 3rd-person spirituality may relate to the Numinous, Absolute, Oneness, Eternity, Void, or Truth, etc.; to the Source, Ground of Being, Kosmos, Gaia and Evolutionary Impulse; or to the intricate and complex spirit world we find, for example, in Kabbalah, Theosophy, Anthroposophy, and Scientology. The movement associated with it is upward, toward the most overarching and all-inclusive view, be it out of and beyond the world of time and space, the source of the created universe, or the mixture of esoteric forces that is shaping our reality.


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Chris H. Senanayake, Ph.D.
Dr. Chris H. Senanayake was born in Sri Lanka and received a BS degree (First Class) in Sri Lanka. After coming to the United States, he completed his MS at Bowling Green State University with Professor Thomas Kinstle in synthetic chemistry. He obtained his Ph.D. under the guidance of Professor James H. Rigby at Wayne State University in 1987 where he worked on the total synthesis of complex natural products, such as ophiobolanes, and completed the first total synthesis of grosshemin in the guaianolide family. He then undertook a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Carl R. Johnson and worked on the total synthesis of polyol systems such as amphotericin B and compactin analogous, and the synthesis of C-nucleoside precursors.
In 1989, he joined the Department of Process Development at Dow Chemical Co. In 1990, he joined the Merck Process Research Group. After 6 years at Merck, he accepted a position at Sepracor, Inc. in 1996 where he was promoted to Executive Director of Chemical Process Research. In 2002, he joined Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He served 15 years as the Vice President of Chemical Development at BI and led a group of highly talented scientists, engineers, and administrative staff located in Ridgefield, CT. In 2018, he joined AstaTech (Chengdu) BioPharmaceutical Corporation as the Chief Executive Officer where he oversees all subsidiaries and founded AstaGreen Chem Inc., in Richmond, VA where he became CEO. In October 2019, he became the Chief Scientific Officer of TCG Lifesciences Pvt. Ltd. and founded TCG GreenChem Inc, in the US where he also became CEO. He was appointed President of AstaTech (Chengdu) BioPharmaceutical Corporation. Dr. Senanayake's research interests focus on the development of new asymmetric methods for the synthesis of bioactive molecules and heterocycles and on catalytic, enzymatic, and mechanistic studies. He has published and lectured in the area of practical asymmetric synthesis and many disciplines of organic chemistry how to develop drugs on an economical, greener and practical manner in large-scale operation for rapid development of drugs. He is the co-author of >500 papers, patents, book chapters and review articles, and more than 115 patents in many areas of synthetic organic chemistry, drug development, and design of improved chemical entities. Dr. Senanayake participated in many drug development activities including, Crixivan, Lunesta, Jardiance, R, R Formotorol, Desvenlafaxine, HCV and many other drug candidates.
Dr. Senanayake demonstrates the ability to define and optimize chemical research and development strategies and tactics. He is able to "connect the dots" between the purely scientific and commercial perspectives and set up creative and effective strategies for new and proprietary products in ways that build value for the organization and create a competitive advantage. He is an Editorial Advisory Board Member of the Organic Process Research & Development Journal. In 2008, he was the chairperson of Stereochemistry Gordon Research Conference. In 2010, he received the prestigious Siegfried Gold Medal Award for development of practical processes for APIs and Process Chemistry. In 2011, He was appointed as an Editorial Board Member of the Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis Journal. In 2012, he was appointed as an Advisory Board Member of the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. In 2013, he was appointed as a Board of Editors Member for Organic Syntheses. In 2016, he joined as an IQ Board Member. In November 2017, he was appointed as an Advisory Board Member of Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. In 2017, he was appointed as the Board of Director of CURE (connecting Connecticut's science community). In 2020, he was invited give the Behringer Simon Lecture at ETH on Sustainable Manufacturing Processes for APIs. He was appointed as an Adjunct Professor at Virginia Commonwealth University and also appointed a Prestigious Research Professorship at University of Toledo.
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