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One Word, Two Actions
By Roderick Logan, DPTh, CFTP
The underlying concept of unity stems from two powerful ideas, mutual love and mutual respect. Remember, unity is not sameness. Rather, it is the couple, the family, the congregation, the team, or the people working together to move in the same direction. And, when love and respect are shared; when they are mutual attributes of the relationship, then unity is realized.
What about love and respect?
What about love and respect? Is it not just two words saying the same thing? No. In fact, in the ancient world, there was one word that encompassed both of these ideas. Although, these words share some similar qualities, love and respect are quite different. How so?
In the Western world, love tends to emanate from an emotional place. Love is an expression of how one person feels about another person, or perhaps a place or a thing. In contrast, respect is the deference, the honor, or the acknowledgment that one person shows to another. Love tends to give attention to the feelings of the one showing love. Respect, on the other hand, tends to give attention to the feelings of the other person. Again, in the Western world, these are treated as two differing, separate, or compartmentalized concepts.
In the Hebraic world, there is a single verb that has two actions. That word is ahavah. It usually is translated love, but it comes with the cultural presupposition that love cannot exist without respect. The concept behind ahavah is, benefit to another at a cost to myself.
In the Western world, it is conceivable to love another, but not respect them. You might imagine that in this situation love would be possessive, narcissistic, and self-agrandizing. Expressions of love like this treats the other person as an object. The other's humanity and personal dignity is diminished or completely dismissed. This kind of love often leads to abuse, and always regards others as merely a means to an end.
Likewise, if you imagine respecting someone without loving them, this too leads to an imbalance in the relationship. Respect without love is the consequence of fear; in particular feelings of intimidation. If one believes he or she is being manipulated by someone more powerful, more influential, or more believable than they, it is likely eventually he or she will runaway or rebel. Loyalty and long-term relationships cannot be sustained by respect alone.
Looking again at the Hebrew verb, ahavah, protection is built into the culture of the word. Ahavah does not exist without both actions - love and respect. Not only are both required and expected, but neither one exists - or allowed to exist - without the other accompanying. In other words, in the biblical Jewish world, the presence of love is always in the context of respect, and the presence of respect in the context of love. Love is the act of giving what is beneficial to the other person. So, the act of love requires not only an awareness of the need of the other person, but also a self-awareness of the would-be giver's talent and resources. A person cannot give what they do not have. To expect otherwise will lead to trauma. Love and respect working in tandem provides that there is an awareness of the other and a healthy self-awareness. In truth, the later enables the former.
Ahavah, is essentially sacrificial. There is always a cost in providing benefits to others; in meeting the needs of another person. True love provides the payment of this cost. It is absorbed by the giver. However, sacrifice is fundamentally a volunteer action. If sacrifice is compulsory or mandated, then it is no longer sacrifice. It is now servitude or slavery. The presence of both love and respect ensures that both the gift and the cost of the gift are provided freely and without reservation.
The mental images that some have grown up with which picture God as being unhappy, with a giant hammer, and ready to pounce on unsuspecting minions when they do not sway his anger does not originate from the Bible. In English, it reads:
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight (Pr 9:10).
The word translated "fear" does carry the same meaning as the English word for "fear." It comes closer to the word "respect." In other words, the biblical principle conveyed Proverbs is that wisdom is to be found when one person respects another; not just love them, but respects them.
Should we love God? Absolutely, but love of God alone is not sufficient. Just having a warm, positive, affirming emotion toward the Creator is not enough to sustain our relationship with him. If we feel our sacrifice(s) to God is compulsory or forced, then is it any wonder we often want to pick up a gun and fight or drop everything and flee? We must also respect God. We must show deference, honor, and acknowledge his ways, his instructions, and his points-of-view - as revealed through the Bible. Love without respect is not a relationship. It is imprisonment.
Likewise, our unity in marriage, in family, at work, in our city and our nation is reachable when we share and experience mutual love and mutual respect. This is an ancient biblical principle - tried and true.
Roderick Logan, DPTh, CFTP
Roderick is an Adoption Educator and Trauma Professional with Christian Family Care, in Phoenix, Arizona. He is an alum of Grand Canyon University and holds a Master's in Biblical Counseling and a Doctorate in Practical Theology from Master's International University of Divinity. He is a Certified Family Trauma Professional with the Arizona Trauma Institute and the International Association of Trauma Professionals.
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HANDS OFF OUR UNIONS!
by ganna 22.12.2020
AN APPEAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL LABOUR MOVEMENT: PLEASE GIVE SOLIDARITY TO DEMOCRATIC TRADE UNIONS IN BELARUS
STOP THE ATTACK ON THE FREE TRADE UNION OF BELARUS (SPB), STOP THE PERSECUTION OF VIKTOR STUKOV AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
The Lukashenko regime is doing everything it can to smash the democratic trade unions in Belarus. These unions, developed independently from the state unions which supported Lukashenko's failed election, represent the best of Belarusian society. Though them there is a free exchange of ideas, the organization of strike committees within factories and solidarity action with workers marching for democracy and against the regime.
Every day we are now having to defend ourselves against round after round of attacks for the unions to survive.
The latest attack is on the Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB). Viktor Stukov, chairman of the SPB, a journalist and human rights activist, was detained near his home. He arrested for breaking the law in wrongly crossing the street has not been heard from since.
Viktor has also chaired the employees of SC Polotsk-Steklovolokno, Polotsk. The workers who joined the SPB union branch have been persecuted by the company's administration and the local executive committee. They were thrown out of their rented premises and considerable funds from the union's account were seized. The registration of the branch was then withdrawn.
These details show conclusively that the attack on Viktor is an attempt to crush the Free Trade Union of Belarus (SPB) at its base. A REP (the Belarusian Independent Union of Radio Electronics Workers) activist and human rights defender Mikalai Autukhovich, who has unionized small businesses has also recently been detailed and charged with falsified terrorist charges, potentially punishable by execution or life in prison.
Support free trade unions, end the dictatorship of state controlled unions!
Our future democratic society depends on the full development of mass trade unions built on top of the ruins of the official, yellow unions. We must make it clear that these yellow unions provided the base for Lukashenko by providing the support for his campaign. These unions victimize the workers who strike and demonstrate, demand the repayment of loans when workers are victimized, and have no part in improving workers' lives.
All free trade unions are fighting for a democratic society not elite transition with a compact between the old and the new. We see our democratic society bringing democracy into the workplaces; getting rid of the Lukashenko director dictators and bring in a democratic plan of production. The dictatorship of the state controlled unions will be swept away! The people's government will rest firmly on the majority: workers in power in the state, workplaces and in society.
We make it clear to the world: the official yellow unions are not unions at all. Unlike the dead hand of dictatorship, the democratic unions are the fulcrum for change. REP calls on trade unions, the parties of labour, and governments internationally to demand stopping repressions against Viktor Stukov and other activists, as well as the immediate release of all illegally arrested prisoners. REP is proud of our tradition of supporting every democratic union in mutual struggle; we're building the solidarity of the future.
We appeal to comrades internationally to broaden the base of solidarity. Please could every union in every federation internationally take up our cause.
HANDS OFF DEMOCRATIC BELARUS UNIONS!
Signed Chairman of the Belarusian
Independent Union of Radio Electronics Workers (REP)
Vasili Zavadski

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Mar 23, 2021 | Blog
Tickets are officially on sale for the Atlanta rounds of the 2021 Monster Energy AMA Supercross, an FIM World Championship, season. Atlanta and the Atlanta Motor Speedway will play host to Rounds 13, 14 and 15 of the 17-race series beginning on Saturday, April 10 followed by Tuesday, April 13 and Saturday, April 17.
The Atlanta Motor Speedway joins a small list of venues in Atlanta to host Supercross dating back to 1977 at Fulton County Stadium. When the Atlanta Motor Speedway opened its doors in 1960 it became the seventh superspeedway in the country and now joins just Darlington, Charlotte, and Daytona as one of the original seven still in operation. The April triple-header will be a first for the speedway and a first for the Atlanta market.
Tickets for the 2021 Atlanta rounds will go on sale to the general public on Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. ET. Preferred customers can sign up in advance for early access to purchase tickets today, Feb. 2 through Feb. 8, by visiting SupercrossLIVE.com, starting at 10 a.m. ET.
FanFest is currently scheduled to take place at the Atlanta rounds as the venue provides adequate space to feature the race team rigs, Monster Energy exhibitions, photo opportunity set ups, food and beverages, plus authentic Supercross and racer merchandise sold via contactless shopping.
Tickets for FanFest are an additional $10 purchase. The Monster Energy Can redemption program has been halted for this season but will continue in 2022. Fans that have both a FanFest ticket and an event ticket will be allowed to move between FanFest and the stadium to watch all the qualifying sessions.
Atlanta Schedule of Events
FanFest
Saturday, April 10 – 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Featuring Freestyle Motocross exhibitions, the Unknown Industries and Monster Energy Head 2 Head Pit Bike Challenge
Tuesday, April 13 – 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Saturday, April 17 – 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
Freestyle Motocross exhibitions, the Unknown Industries and Monster Energy Head 2 Head Pit Bike Challenge
Atlanta Motor Speedway: Doors Open
Saturday, April 10 – 9 a.m. (FanFest and Event ticket required)
1:30 p.m. (Event ticket only)
Tuesday, April 13 – 1 p.m. (FanFest and Event ticket required)
Saturday, April 17 – 10 a.m. (FanFest and Event ticket required)
Supercross has implemented enhanced health measures to help ensure the highest standards of wellness when it comes to today's live experience. Seating capacity will be reduced at each stadium with a Pod Seating structure, which will allow family and friends to safely enjoy all the action while social distancing from other groups in attendance. More information about Atlanta Motor Speedway's health and safety policy can be found here. Unless otherwise exempted by law, guests age 2 and older must wear a face covering except when actively eating and drinking – Atlanta Motor Speedway's rules also apply. More information about Monster Energy Supercross' Fan Wellness can be found here.
Additional details for each race can be found on the event page listing at SupercrossLIVE.com.
Following the three rounds in Atlanta, the series shifts west to Salt Lake City for the final two races of the 2021 season taking place at Rice-Eccles Stadium on Saturday, April 24 and Saturday, May 1.
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Are you looking for the ultimate in Mopar muscle? Take a look at this nicely restored 426 Hemi Challener!? If you're a Mopar guy you already know that Hemi power is the holy grail of automotive muscle, and once you're behind of the wheel of this Challenger, you'll see why. Hemi power mated to a four speed pistol-grip and a growling exhaust make for the ultimate in street intimidation, and the real question isn't whether or not you want this car. No, it's a question of how you can be the first to throw down your deposit and take it home!
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Who doesn't like a Sublime Green E-body? Nobody we know, that's for sure. It's an awesome color that accentuates every line on the Challenger's body. It's bright and loud and fun, and the car's builder really let it be the star. There's a Rallye hood instead of a Shaker with R/T decal, and black side stripes. A simple set of R/T badges, chrome hood pins, and Hemi callout badges on the hood let you say just enough to be heard without looking like you're trying too hard. The paint job was done in 2007 and it looks great today. There are a few small marks here and there, just as you'd expect from a car that's been used to drive to shows and cruise-ins, but this car has led an easy life since it was completed. The chrome bumpers were redone, the stainless was polished, and the grille and taillight panels were blacked out to R/T spec. A flip-top gas cap and a dual cutout valance panel with big chrome tips sticking out finish off the exterior.
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Pop the hood and stand back to admire the Mopar crate Hemi underneath. It's rated at 465 horsepower and 485 pounds of torque, and you can feel every bit of it when you bury your foot in the floorboards. It's a complete package, with an aluminum water pump housing, chrome valve covers, Mopar's ubiquitous electronic ignition with an orange box ECU, and all forged internals. There's a big 26-inch radiator to keep things cool while the power steering pump and A/C compressor hang low and out of sight. A manual disc brake master cylinder offers plenty of clearance in case valve adjustments need to be made in the future. Underneath you'll find coated TTI headers flowing into one of their full dual exhaust systems with Dynomax mufflers. Suspension pieces were replaced as necessary, the brakes were serviced at the time of the restoration and there's a new fuel tank out back. The floor pans won't win any beauty contests but you can see that they're good shape-this project started with a clean car. Staggered 215/65 and 255/60R15 BFG, surround chromed Magnum 500 wheels, making it a complete package.
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Show Notes from Podcast Episode Seven - All About the Boat.
This episode is all about the boat. Hopefully I answer some questions about why, and how and what. There is a little bit of quilting sprinkled through the podcast and some listener/commenter feedback, but mainly it's boat, boat, boat. Don't say you weren't warned!
Click here for Episode Seven at Podbean.
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Hope you enjoy it! Please leave me feedback and comments and any questions here - I really appreciate them.
Well, you guys voted and so I took on the challenge. The giant blue and white quilt is basted, my knees are busted and I've pretty much worked out how I'm going to tackle the quilting designs. And now I need a cup of tea.
The boat tour. Welcome aboard!
Warning - this is a picture heavy post.
Lots of people are pestering me for more pictures of our new home. And I am nothing if not obliging! The picture above is Cerego berthed at the boatyard dock. That's my husband beside her, so you can get an idea of scale. She is a wooden boat, built in 1943 for the Australian Navy and was meant to be used as a mine sweeper. She is 20.1 metres long, which is about 66 feet. The rust is not from her structural bolts - don't worry!
down to a storage type locker. Large, dark and dingy. It has water storage barrels and other junk in it at present.
When you walk in through the back door, you see the main cabin, which is in the picture above and below. Above, in the corner with the rubbish bag, is probably where my sewing table will be set up. You can see the doorway that leads forward to the galley and wheelhouse.
the yucky and really rough cabin that will be bunk rooms and play room for the kids. At the front of this cabin is the door leading to the engine room, you can see that below.
The areas below decks are where the work really needs to be done. Panelling and painting and walls and bunks and portholes and light prisms.
So come back up out of the kid's room into the main cabin and walk forward to the galley. This is the nice part of the boat. There is a microwave, electric oven, gas hob, decent sized fridge-freezer and, best of all, a good-sized pantry. The photo below is looking back toward the main cabin.
Carrying on forward toward the wheelhouse, you pass a little narrow (and steep) staircase.
If you head down this staircase (almost a ladder really) you get to the forward cabin. Another area that needs major work.
This icky looking bunk will go and be rebuilt in a more efficient way. Lots of painting etc again.
If you turn around, the photo above shows what the back of the cabin looks like - usually without the silly lad making faces!
Above is the wheelhouse. It all looks 'proper' up here, like what you expect a boat to look like.
What a about a bathroom? No, we don't have to hose off with saltwater! Down the other side of the boat (starboard) is a little cupboard cabin. Internally this sits between the galley and the main cabin.
And inside this little cabin is an almost full sized shower and toilet. Yay! If you've ever used a standard boat toilet, you'll know why this is big deal.
Back out onto the back deck, now head up that ladder.
And you reach the top deck. The photo above is looking back toward the ladder. This will eventually have a handrail around the sides, and Hubby has plans to put the spa pool up here.....yes, I said spa pool! We have a little plug in portable one that he thinks we need. I'm not so sure.
Right at the front of the top deck, you look over and down and you get a grand view of the anchor chains and winch. You're standing on top of the wheelhouse.
So, I hope you enjoyed the tour. I'll write more soon about why we are embarking on this adventure.
Where will I put the pets?
Today, if all goes well, and I see no reason it shouldn't, we become the owners of a boat. A pretty big boat, but not as big as my house. And that is significant, because the plan is that we move onto this boat and live on it for a while.
WHAT?! When did this all happen?! Well, I'm going to write more about this, but one of our first considerations was where do we put the pets?
Part of what decided us to buy the boat was the availability of a cheap berth in a convenient location. We have two dogs. Sam is very old and sits on her mat all day, but Emma is younger, dopey and super enthusiastic. We won't be moored out in the water, so we will be able to step off the side and walk the dogs easily, and Emma will probably go to work with my husband every day. His work will be a very short bike ride down the road.
So it may take some adjustment, but I think we will manage with the dogs. We do have options of placing them with friends, but that wouldn't be our first choice.
I think the the cat will transition easily, it will just mean a litterbox. And hopefully he'll keep the seagulls off the roof!
The chickens, ducks, sheep and cows will either have to find new homes (some of them were planned for the freezer shortly anyway) or we will 'gift' them to our tenants. That's another thing we have to do, find tenants for our lifestyle block. Oh man, the list of to-dos is huge!
I will try and post pictures of my new abode soon.
I've been sewing a few zippered pouches up out of bits and pieces. They are so quick and easy. I remember when I was intimidated by zippers, but they're really not that scary. And the pouch tutorial that I follow has tabs on the end of the zip so it is perfect for beginners - not too tricky.
They are lined, so there is a tiny bit of hand sewing on the lining to finish them off, but that only takes seconds. The fabric pieces aren't big so it can use up scraps and I often pick up perfectly good zippers at op shops, so these pouches can be a frugal make too.
There are a million different zipper pouch tutorials out there. Just google it and pick whichever one takes your fancy. Seriously, they are easy, satisfying, use up scraps and make great gifts - give one a go today!
Shownotes for Episode 6 of The Slightly Mad Quilt Lady Podcast.
In this episode I goof up and tell you it's Episode 5, give you an update on myself, what I've been working on quiltywise, a book review, and a short synopsis of the history of quilting in New Zealand.
The photos below are of my ombre hand dyes. The first set are of the two navy pieces. The fabric on the left is PFD Kaufman Kona Cotton. The fabric on the right is PFD P & B Muslin. And the fabrics were layered together and dyed in exactly the same process at exactly the same time. There isn't much difference, although the Kona is slightly darker overall with a very slight yellower overtone.
The next photos are of the warm black dye. The fabric on the left is the General Products Cotton Sheeting that I often use because it takes paint really nicely. But it's interesting to note how lighter in colour it is from the fabric on the right, which is PFD Kaufman Patina Cotton Poplin. However, the poplin is very light weight and it sucked up that dye so fast it's given it horizontal striations. Again, both fabrics were layered together and dyed at exactly the same time with the same process.
Ok, selfie time. Here is the linen blouse I was talking about. As soon as I put it on I realised that my plan to perhaps wear it belted is not happening because that will cover the wicking line.
My kids took this one of the back for me. I was hamming it up as daughter was getting annoyed that I wasn't doing the proper 'model' poses. Ug, she watches too many girlie cartoons.
So let me know whether you think this technique is a keeper or whether I should chop it up for a quilt!
And here's your next vote. Above is The Big Blue and White Quilt. Below is Creme Brûlée. Which one should I baste and quilt next?
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The opening of the Dorothy Collard Challenge Exhibition happened at Lake House Arts Centre in Takapuna, Auckland on Tuesday - April 29th. I made it down for the official opening and prize giving. No, I didn't win a prize - but I sold my quilt, 'Freedom from Physiology' so I'm one happy lady!
Seeing as I probably won't ever see it again, I thought I'd share the process of making it. The theme was 'The Space Between' and I contemplated lots of ideas before I decided to look at the spaces between the barbules of feathers.
There was a size requirement (20 inches by 30 inches portrait) so I cut my white fabric about four inches bigger both ways than needed so I'd have wiggle room and cropping choice later. I folded up my fabric and tea dyed it by placing it in a strong tea solution, letting it soak, then letting it dry, ironing it and then washing it out.
I taped it down to stop it shifting and wrote general information about birds, feathers and flight loosely across the fabric in an archival fabric marker. Then heat set it again.
I took a sketch of a feather I had made a couple of years earlier and altered it slightly then enlarged it to fit the size of my piece. I numbered my segments then traced them onto paper-backed fusible webbing.
Once I had auditioned and chosen my fabrics, I 'windowed' the fusible web cutouts, ironed them the wrong side of the fabrics and cut them out. I formed up the feather shape on my non-stick iron sheet first before placing them on my background fabric and raw edge appliquéing them down by machine.
This is the step that I missed getting in-process pictures of. I found the background needed 'more', so I cut out a feather shape from freezer paper and used both the negative and positive image to stencil (using oil paint sticks) the feather onto the background.
I drew little textbook-like sketches of the closeup anatomy of feathers onto used teabags and then adhered these to the background with fabric medium. You might remember my post on teabag experiments.
And then it sat on my design wall for fricking ages quite a while whilst I hemmed and hawed about the quilting. It came to me in the end that I wanted to contrast the freedom of flight with the complicated anatomy and physiology that makes it possible. So I quilted flying bird silhouettes, curves and swoops.
Above is a terrible shot of the cropping process. I take multiple photos of the cropping choices I have to help me decide where to cut.
And then I square up and slice. DO NOT slip with your rotary cutter at this point!
I used coloured pencils to shade the birds to give them a little more substance and to link them back to the colours of the feather.
A photo of the back (because I know there are plenty of back fanatics out there - I'm one of you!).
And a picture of the front. I finished it with a facing with non-mitred corners using Susan Brubaker-Knapp's tutorial.
My Artist's statement was: The spaces between the barbules of a feather give the strength, lightness and flexibility necessary for flight. Yet the bird knows none of this, does not care about it's anatomy, just leaps with faith...and soars.


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EU fans need to ratchet down the hysteria over Brexit, says … Barack Obama?
AllahpunditPosted at 8:21 pm on June 28, 2016
Via NPR, I … did not expect the cosmopolitan-progressive-in-chief to be out there urging calm when the rest of the international political class is screeching that Brexit is the EU's 9/11. I wonder if he'd be this chill if it weren't an election year. Maybe so — maybe he's just trying to rebuild some goodwill with the UK after his notorious "back of the line" comment about Brexit in April. But it's in the Democratic Party's interest to limit the economic fallout from Brexit as much as possible before November lest working-class Americans decide to roll the dice on Trump and protectionism. Could be this is simply O trying to talk the markets up for Hillary's benefit.
The point he makes has been made a lot in the last 24 hours: Maybe the UK will end up in the same sort of relationship with the EU that Norway's in. Norway isn't a member of the Union but it does maintain robust trade with it, which is the top priority for pro-Leave politicians in the afterglow of the big vote. If Britain can keep the economic benefits of EU membership while shrugging off the costs of EU bureaucracy and micro-management, well, what a sweet deal Brexit would be. Just one problem: How do you get the EU to go along with that, knowing that other countries will follow Britain's example if Brexit is all upside and no downside for the UK?
London cannot "cherry-pick" from the benefits of the E.U. without accepting its basic strictures, German Chancellor Angela Merkel told her Parliament on Tuesday before she traveled to Brussels for the dinner meeting with British Prime Minister David Cameron and the other E.U. leaders.
"Those who want free access to the European domestic market will have to accept the basic European freedoms and the other rules and duties which are linked to it," Merkel said. "This applies to Great Britain just like to everyone else. Free access to the domestic market is granted to those who accept the four basic European freedoms — of people, of goods, of services, of capital."
Or, more succinctly: "Marriage or divorce, but nothing in between," said Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel.
A "friends with benefits" deal with little Norway is one thing but replicating it for a major power like Britain is an invitation to EU disintegration. Verrrrry weird that EU superfan Barack Obama would float the possibility without emphasizing that fact. Another not-so-minor hitch to the UK/Norway comparison: As part of its trade deal with the EU, Norway subscribes to the EU's open-borders immigration policy, a key reason why Brexiteers voted to Leave last week. At a bare minimum, I would think, the pro-Leave Tories will need a substantial drop in foreigners migrating to the UK in the first few years after the divorce is finalized so that they have something tangible to show Brexit supporters as a reward for their vote. If you're going to preserve the same (or a similar) trade relationship with the Union and you're going to be stuck with Angela Merkel's come-one-come-all refugee resettlement extravaganza (or some homegrown parliamentary version of it), then what's the point of leaving? Why not remain in the EU and at least enjoy some say over those immigration policies?
Two clips here, one of O on Brexit and the other of him chortling over the idea that Trump isn't one of the "global elites."
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Ed Morrissey Jul 15, 2019 2:01 PM
Incentives.


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Joana Cook
Dr. Joana Cook is a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation (ICSR) at King's College London. Cook is also a Teaching Fellow at King's where she co-convenes the MA Homegrown Radicalisation course, and an adjunct lecturer at Johns Hopkins University where she co-convenes an MA course on radicalisation. She has previously worked with Public Safety Canada's Research Affiliate Program (Kanishka); as Editor-in-Chief of Strife based out of King's; and as a journalist in Canada and southern Africa. Her research focuses on women in violent extremism, countering violent extremism, and counter-terrorism practices in Yemen and the wider MENA region.
She has presented her research to senior government and security audiences in a number of countries, and at institutions such as Cambridge, Oxford, the London School of Economics, and IISS (amongst others). She has also been featured in media such as Time, the Telegraph, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post and on BBC World News, Sky News, BBC Radio, the National Post and CBC.
Cook holds a PhD from the Department of War Studies at King's which examined women in relation to post-9/11 U.S. counterterrorism responses in Yemen and the wider MENA region. She holds a MA in Conflict, Security and Development from King's College London and a BA in Political Science from the University of Regina. In 2016 she was a recipient of the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (CCSF)
Analyzing the formal and informal roles of women in security and justice in Yemen: Reflections for future considerations
Published in 2016 • TSAS WP16-08
joana.cook@kcl.ac.uk


Having broken away from my Saturday morning posting routine, I find a dilemma that is impossible to ignore.
My artistic integrity is purely shaped by the natural force of my muse — and my muse does not always meet an audience's expectations for consistency.
I remain torn — almost wanting to shed a tear.
Properly adhering to my muse is critical, and produces the best artistic results in my experience. It also remains the approach that I most enjoy.
But meeting audience expectations as a professional entertainer is also critical, because if the bills do not get paid, then my muse loses this entertainment channel fwiw.
Maybe I will post an answer next Saturday morning.


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Reading: Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Senior...
Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Seniors Care
Francisco Velazquez ,
Fraser Health Authority, CA
Erin Bampton,
Ken Casorso,
Cathy Nelson,
Suzanne Fox
SARS-CoV-2 presented as a complex public health challenge – particularly for spread, morbidity and mortality in seniors' homes. Viewing the need for a rapid and adaptive strategy, the British Columbia Government and Public Health Officer established the Facility Staff Assignment Order (Single Site Order or SSO). The SSO protected society's most vulnerable – the elder population in Long Term Care, Assisted Living, mental health and extended care hospital facilities. To ensure success, system-wide governance was envisioned and established with many stakeholders. Fraser Health implemented and sustained the SSO within the region, which includes 1.8 million people.
Aims Objectives Theory or Methods
The SSO was implemented to lower the risk of COVID-19 transmission by limiting staff movement between facilities. Planning and implementation required system wide collaboration and governance. Competencies for development and application of this new model required mechanisms for timely data collection, changes to Human Resources models, amendments to union agreements, and parameters for accountability.
Through application of change principles such as Prosci's ADKAR Model of Change, a multi-system, multi-stakeholder approach was used in the planning, implementation, communication, sustainment, and evaluation. Stakeholders included the Government, Health Authorities, Unions, Health Employees Association of British Columbia, Care Home Leaders, and others.
Highlights or Results or Key Findings
The SSO undertaking was unprecedented and many components required a rethinking of old processes. A people-as-partners approach facilitated the coordination of the model development and implementation. This system wide governance approach enabled the timing and consistency of communication across all stakeholders and regions. Per change principles, this assisted with adoption, reinforcement and sustainment.
With the newly formed alliances, the following were developed: wage levelling guide, funding template for employers, mechanism to disperse funding to health authorities (and in turn to employers) and processes for monitoring commitments and expenditures.
Through shared relief pools, sites were supported with immediate and urgent staffing needs, specifically with outbreaks. Where needed, Medical Health Officers in each Health Authority assessed and provided exemptions where a health professional required access to more than one site.
The goal of the SSO is to sustain the benefits of the model for the protection of vulnerable populations in higher-risk settings, while recognizing the operational needs of facilities and staff. There are many clear benefits to the single site model that could be considered in a post-pandemic environment.
Implications for applicability/transferability sustainability and limitations
Fraser Health and stakeholders have experienced both benefits (reduced spread of SARS-CoV-2) and challenges (reduced casual pools, reduced employee choice for work settings). Implications for sustainability include: Addressing long-range wage leveling and benefits harmonization; Ensuring staffing capacity and maintaining relief pools; health care professionals choosing a workload of multiple sites.
How to Cite: Velazquez F, Bampton E, Casorso K, Nelson C, Fox S. Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Seniors Care. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2022;22(S2):107. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC21224
Velazquez, F., Bampton, E., Casorso, K., Nelson, C. and Fox, S., 2022. Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Seniors Care. International Journal of Integrated Care, 22(S2), p.107. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC21224
Velazquez F, Bampton E, Casorso K, Nelson C, Fox S. Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Seniors Care. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2022;22(S2):107. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC21224
Velazquez, F., Bampton, E., Casorso, K., Nelson, C., & Fox, S. (2022). Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Seniors Care. International Journal of Integrated Care, 22(S2), 107. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC21224
1. Velazquez F, Bampton E, Casorso K, Nelson C, Fox S. Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Seniors Care. International Journal of Integrated Care. 2022;22(S2):107. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC21224
Velazquez F and others, 'Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Seniors Care' (2022) 22 International Journal of Integrated Care 107 DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC21224
Velazquez, Francisco, Erin Bampton, Ken Casorso, Cathy Nelson, and Suzanne Fox. 2022. "Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Seniors Care". International Journal of Integrated Care 22 (S2): 107. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC21224
Velazquez, Francisco, Erin Bampton, Ken Casorso, Cathy Nelson, and Suzanne Fox. "Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Seniors Care". International Journal of Integrated Care 22, no. S2 (2022): 107. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC21224
Velazquez, F, et al.. "Adaptive Strategies to Apply a New Model of Integrated Care: The Single Site Order in Seniors Care". International Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 22, no. S2, 2022, p. 107. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.ICIC21224


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'The People' Confront Enbridge Executive In Solidarity With MI CATS 3
Update: this report is now available for download as a PDF here.
Documents recently obtained from the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), the federal regulatory agency tasked with overseeing and inspecting millions of miles of pipelines across the US, show that the Keystone XL Gulf Coast Project has not been adequately inspected.
The inspection documents are available here (see "References" below) for public scrutiny and perusal. For construction and inspection purposes, KXL-South was split into 3 "spreads". Included below are links to "inspection reports" for each spread, as well as a spreadsheet (no pun intended) listing repairs done on faulty welds on spread 3 (4) and a general welding document listing failed weld rates for various welders of the pipeline. (5)
In what follows, we offer comments on the general nature of the inspection reports, followed by comments on specific noteworthy aspects of them. As we'll be repeatedly referencing the documents, we encourage you to open them and see them for yourself!
Looking at a typical inspection report (1, 2, 3), you'll see entry fields for "Date", "Hours Worked", "Weather", "Temp" (low and high), "Owner/Operator", "Spread" (usually), "Owner", "Contractor", and "Observed Activity". Below these are 3 boxes that establish location, namely "Station #", GPS location, and approximate MP (mile post). And below that is an open space for comments. Finally, below this space is (sometimes) a line for the inspector's name and signature.
That's pretty much all there is to these inspection reports. PHMSA apparently sees measurements such as the day's weather as more meaningful than measurements that actually establish code compliance during pipeline construction. And in these documents, a lot of the useful information isn't even there. Looking at the boxes that establish location, you'll notice that they're almost never filled out in any of these inspection reports. Spread 2 has at least a few mile post markers listed here and there, but Spreads 1 & 3 are virtually devoid of any useful geographical data. So what good are these inspection reports if they can't be meaningfully tied to where they were done?
The most substantial section of these reports (and calling them substantial is giving PHMSA a lot of credit) is the comments section, but this section is embarrassing, too. Looking through the comments, they read like "we did this", "we saw that", "we came to inspect but it was raining so people weren't doing anything", "I warned them that so-and-so was unsafe". There's sadly a grade-school level of rigor in these reports… save for some technical jargon here and there, one couldn't be too blamed if these inspection reports were confused with the hypothetical journal entries of middle-school students visiting a pipeline construction easement on a field-trip. One of our favorite examples is below.
"Escorted Mr. Butters back to Dallas."
In short, these documents completely lack the technical rigor one would expect in adequate inspection reports, and actually read more like the inspectors' diary entries than anything that would actually leave the public confident that PHMSA's doing its job. Are these really the documents that PHMSA will present to a court to defend itself from scrutiny should Keystone South spill?
Lousy Inspection Habits
Our observations of comments in these reports reveal tendencies ranging from disturbing to downright alarming. They show that inspectors are often on-site not really doing anything useful or relevant to being on-site, inspectors offering passive advice concerning code violations rather than actively enforcing them and holding pipeline constructors accountable, and alarming negligence when faced with construction failures.
You'll notice a few of the comments in these reports indicate that the because the site was rained out, workers were mostly not doing anything, so there was nothing to inspect. On page 3 of Spread 2, the inspector indicates that they went out, saw that most activities were stopped due to rain, had a few conversations, and then went to another site and also noticed that activities were stopped due to rain. This inspector recorded 12 "hours worked" essentially for chit-chatting and for "escorting Mr. Butters back to Dallas". Uhh… really? On page 6 of Spread 3, all the inspector had to say was "conditions were very muddy and wet. Could not get around some areas due to getting stuck." Great job!
Comments in Spread 2 show inspectors passively advising on apparent code violations instead of taking more stern code enforcement action. For example, on page 1, the inspector said they "expressed a concern that it appeared adequate[sic] inspection of the field joint to assure clean and bare metal was free of debris and blasting sand before spraying of field joint". This sentence isn't coherent but it's clear that the inspector "expressed a concern" regarding spraying being done on metal which was not clean and bare, free of debris and blasting sand. On page 7, an inspector noted that "no documentation to prove instruments used to record activity was actual instrument used," but merely "advised to use better documentation in the future".
Both PHMSA and TransCanada are claiming that Keystone XL will be the "safest pipeline ever built". From such comments, one would expect pipeline construction crews to exhibit a level of care comparable to a well-trained surgeon. Instead, they're more like children casually playing Hasbro's "Operation". And PHMSA inspectors are the construction crews' caring guardians, there to advise them to be more careful lest they hear buzzes from the game board for messing up. But KXL isn't a game, it's a real pipeline that constantly threatens the well-being of those along the pipeline route due to its shoddy construction.
Lastly, we note that on Spread 1 page 4, the inspector indicated that 8 welders were being tested on site that day. The inspector indicated that he observed that the first two welds "busted out" and that he didn't observe the other six. No indication of corrective action is there at all… the inspector merely ends by saying "I left to travel back to headquarters".
Busted Welds
Suspicious Lack of Transparency
Comments appearing in inspection reports for Spread 1 indicate that on-site TransCanada officials were unwilling to show documents to the inspectors. Page 1 shows that PHMSA inspector Jim Arnold met with TransCanada's site construction manager Lance Johnson, asked for 26 different documents from TransCanada, and "was met with strong resistance to revel[sic] documents".
TransCanada refuses to show documents to PHMSA inspectors.
About two weeks later, possibly the same inspector met with Keystone "Compliance Specialist" Erik Hughes, requested documents, and was allowed to review documents, but forbidden to take them with him.
TransCanada: "Okay, look but don't touch."
I guess it's important to remind ourselves that this is TransCanada we're dealing with here, not Transparency. Jokes aside, this lack of transparency, directed at a pipeline inspector at that, is nothing less than criminal.
Does PHMSA Fear Environmental Activism?
One of the most interesting comments for environmental activists came on pages 8 and 9 of Spread 1. Nine hours were logged in on March 20 and 21 (18 hours total) by inspector Jim Arnold for allegedly driving some distance, hearing that protestors might be on-site in Oklahoma, and turning back around. Read it for yourselves:
"Enviromental" protestors rule!
It is worth noting that Tar Sands Blockade called for a week of action to stop tar sands profiteers March 16-23rd, 2013, and that a group known as Great Plains Tar Sands Resistance had an action camp in Oklahoma that week particularly against KXL south. The inspector was likely referring to said camp, though no protestors were ever known to have actually stood on an easement or even intended to do as much on the specific days in question.
Still, is it appropriate for a pipeline inspector to excuse themselves from their job due to a perceived fear that people might come to make sure they're doing their job correctly? And then to log in 18 hours for doing nothing?
Are They Really Spending All Those Hours Inspecting?
We'd like to note that while many of the inspection reports do not appear to be signed by any inspector, two names do appear a few places: Jim Arnold and Agustin Lopez. According to this chart of PHMSA employees (9), both inspectors appear to be based out of Houston, Texas.
We saw in the previous section that Jim basically admitted to doing nothing and yet clocked in 9 hours for it, both on Wednesday March 20th and Thursday March 21st, for driving some distance, and then turning around for fear of activism. How he rationalized this stretches the imagination, but it also reveals a disturbing possibility: namely, that PHMSA allows inspectors to count the time they spend driving to easements as "inspection hours".
It takes about 7.5 hours to drive from Houston, Texas, where PHMSA's Southwest regional office is based, to Cushing, Oklahoma, the northern end of KXL-south. Averaging over all possible inspection sites, one would expect it to take 7-8 hours to drive to an easement and come back. It's therefore reasonable to expect that of all the hours that PHMSA inspectors clock in, the majority of those hours are just spent behind a wheel.
It was already shown a few months back, thanks to a Freedom Of Information Act request by PEER, that PHMSA spends more time schmoozing at fossil fuel industry conferences than inspecting pipelines. It's not unreasonable to suppose that PHMSA would misrepresent the hours they say they've inspected KXL South. Indeed, it appears they've done so before:
"PHMSA's safety inspectors have spent over 150 days inspecting the construction of the Gulf Coast Pipeline project overseeing welding, coating, installation, backfilling, testing and all other construction activities to ensure that the newly constructed pipeline will operate safely," Jeannie Shiffer, PHMSA's Director for Governmental, International, and Public Affairs told DeSmogBlog.
It tortures the imagination to figure out how 150 days spent inspecting KXL South could have led to these 35 lousy inspection reports.
Weld Rejection Rates
Issues surrounding weld rejection seem pretty ubiquitous in the inspection reports of Spread 3. Spread 3 inspectors (possibly just Agustin Lopez) repeatedly noted abnormally high weld rejection rates. The gist you get from reading the comments are that welders were exhibiting generally high weld rejection rates, and that welders with unusually high rejection rates were being let go or quitting on their own.
High Weld Rejection Issues
Weld Rejection
Take a look at the spreadsheet detailing repairs made on rejected welds in spread 3. (4) The sheets list a little over 1,100 rejected welds. On the right, the rejected welds are repaired, and assessed for adequacy. Approximately 200 of those 1,100 repairs were themselves rejected (see for yourself, count all the X's on the far right column!). That's a rejection rate of 17% on repair welds… i.e. 1 in 6 welds done because they couldn't be done right the first time were themselves rejected. Most importantly, it's not known whether these 200 "double jeopardy" welds were adequately addressed.
Note as well pages 9-12 of the "General Welding" document. (5) They show recent weld rejection rates ranging 2-24%, and overall weld rejection rates a little over 12%. These rates are unacceptably high for any pipeline, let alone the "safest pipeline ever built". Just after that, the next 4 pages list the names of various welders and show their performance in terms of weld rejection rates. While some of them have fairly decent weld rejection rates which are less than 1%, some of them have absurdly high weld rejection rates ranging from 14-25%, and a majority of them have fairly high weld rejection rates which is definitely cause for concern.
It clearly wasn't by any means an elite team of welders building TransCanada's KXL-South… far from it. There seems to be a culture of lackluster performance amongst KXL-South welders, in strong contrast to TransCanada's lofty claims of excellence. This culture may have been exacerbated by TransCanada's desperate desire to build as quickly as possible.
We're glad that PHMSA released these documents to us as a result of our October 2013 FOIA request, but they show disturbing trends of inadequate pipeline inspection. We've seen:
a completely non-technical and grade-school level of rigor in documenting observations;
an at best passive encouragement of construction teams that codes be followed;
a dubious lack of transparency on TransCanada's part when PHMSA inspectors requested documents;
wasting time and energy going to sites merely to talk to workers, especially on rainy days when worker activity is reduced;
a clear and debilitating phobia of environmental activism;
the likelihood that a huge fraction of the time spent "inspecting" is actually just time spent driving to/from easements;
absurdly high weld rejection rates and a culture of lackluster performance on the part of welders
It is appalling that for a pipeline under construction to transport a highly toxic material, PHMSA only made 35 inspection visits. Most of these inspections would not be considered real inspections, so much as observations of ongoing work. There seemed to be no follow-up visits when problems were documented. Then, in September 2013, long after anomaly repairs were done at over 125 sites along the KXL-South route, PHMSA wrote two warning letters (7,8) to TransCanada concerning known code violations and the cases were closed on the same dates the letters were written, with no follow-up action taken and no response even requested from TransCanada to prove that they were responding and acting upon the warnings.
While PHMSA has spent many of its alleged inspection hours feigning inspection and wasting time, others with a greater stake in the safety of KXL-South, such as the East Texas Observer, Tar Sands Blockade, Public Citizen, and landowners along the pipeline route, have spent countless hours documenting code violations during the construction process. In this regard, Evan Vokes, former TransCanada pipeline inspector, said "I find it unusual the landowners, journalists and activists can document more non-compliance than a regulator that is supposed to serve the public interest." Evan was fired by TransCanada in late 2011 when he raised concerns about what he called a "culture of noncompliance" towards federal safety regulations amongst higher ups in TransCanada.
After spending months documenting anomalies and repairs of this pipeline, and having strong concerns about the viability of this pipe to transport toxic diluted bitumen without catastrophic leaks into our aquifers, a group of landowners and concerned citizens requested and received a face-to-face meeting with PHMSA officials in early January of this year. They requested more testing on this pipeline before it was put into use but were told PHMSA had "faith" that the pipeline was satisfactory and ready to begin operation.
Based upon TransCanada's prior record of building inadequate, leaky pipelines, based upon the lack of any real inspection oversight provided by PHMSA and PHMSA's admitted knowledge of code violations committed during the construction phase of this pipeline, it is reasonable and imperative that the southern leg of the Keystone XL be shut down and thoroughly re-tested before irreversible damage is done through a leak or a spill.
If not, and if/when KXL-South spills, here are the documents that prove to the world that everybody at PHMSA was doing their job and that KXL-South was adequately inspected.
1) Spread 1: http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/foia-spread-1.pdf
4) Repairs Spread 3: http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/multipageproject.pdf
5) General Welding: http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/GeneralWelding.pdf
Other documents:
6) Kathy DaSilva's original FOIA request: http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/foia_pdf.pdf
7) PHMSA's Sept. 10th, 2013 warning letter: http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/reports/enforce/documents/420135017W/420135017W_Warning%20Letter_09102013_text.pdf
8) PHMSA's Sept. 26th, 2013 warning letter: http://primis.phmsa.dot.gov/comm/reports/enforce/documents/420135021W/420135021W_Warning_09262013_text.pdf
9) Chart of PHMSA employees: http://www.phmsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/PHMSA/DownloadableFiles/Files/PHP_Program_Chart12-30.pdf
10) This report: http://www.tarsandsblockade.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/abysmal-inspections.pdf
Permanent link to this article: https://tarsandsblockade.org/abysmal-inspections/


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Eden Soriano Trinidad Director of Ambassadors of IFCH International Forum for Creativity and Humanity & Director of Arabic Network in the Philippines : Biography of Isaac COHEN
Poet from Israel
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dnbx_8ZC-WL8giFuqgDsZT3S6IT4Kurw/view?usp=drivesdk
Biography of Isaac COHEN
Isaac Cohen was born in Beer-Sheva, Israel, in 1960.
He now lives in Tel-Aviv, Israel. His mother Mazal Cohen was a storyteller of folk tales and stories.
He received his B.A. with Distinction in History from Ben Gurion University in Beer-Sheva, Israel.
He published a book, The Moment of Silence, in 1983.
He has done work as a writer of prose and poetry, translator, artist and painter.
His writings in Hebrew were published in an anthology at "Eiton 77", and in their literary periodical. Other literary periodicals who published his works included" Apirion", "Dimui" , "Mabua" and " Mahut."
He has studied with leading Israeli Novelists such as Amos Oz , Yehuda Amichai and Dan Tzalka.
Prizes he won include:
He won the "Free Masons prize for writing" ,1996.
An honorable mention at "The Miriam Lindberg Competition for Peace."
The "Mifal Hapais Prize for Poetry" , in 2002.
He was the manager of the Logic Puzzles Club for "Motke" website.
He is the author of several new Herschelle jokes. (Herschelle is an Eastern European comic figure and the subject of jokes and humorous folk-tales).
His poems were translated to Spanish, Russian, Tamil and Philippine.
He is a veteran member of Voices Israel – a group of poets writing in English. Their Newsletter has published many poems of his over the years.
The anthologies "ATUNIS" (2019), "Voices"(1999, 2000) and
" Determinations 2" (1997) contain poems of his.
He is active in Israel's cultural life.
Poem Title :The Flower That is gone
After my life cycle was up
I return to my prime,
pretty as I came
to the world.
You can look at me,
just so.
You can also let me be,
In your imagination,
14.5.2020 Tel-Aviv
(C)All Rights Reserved
יצחק כהן/ פרח שפרח מן העולם
אחרישעבר מחזור
חיי.
אני שב אל ראשיתי,
יפה כמו שבאתי
לעולם.
תוכל להביט בי,
ככה.
גם
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This project is focused on strategically enhancing the human and scientific infrastructure of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). It involves a partnership between the University of Redlands (UR, the lead institution), The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB, research partner), Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI, corporate partner), and NGA. Within this program of collaboration, professionally-oriented graduate education, learning materials development, and basic research in geographic information science (GIScience) will be linked through a number of initiatives designed to streamline the flow of knowledge and experience from research and education activities to practical implementation by NGA's professionals.


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Arkadij Wasiljewicz Budakow (ros. Аркадий Васильевич Будаков, ur. 1916, zm. ?) – radziecki dyplomata.

Życiorys
Należał do WKP(b), 1937 ukończył Kirowski Państwowy Instytut Pedagogiczny, od 1945 był pracownikiem Ludowego Komisariatu/Ministerstwa Spraw Zagranicznych ZSRR, 1946-1948 II sekretarzem Ambasady ZSRR we Francji. Od 1949 II sekretarz, potem I sekretarz Wydziału I Europejskiego MSZ ZSRR, 1951-1954 pomocnik wiceministra spraw zagranicznych ZSRR, 1954-1956 radca Ambasady ZSRR w Czechosłowacji, 1956-1958 radca Wydziału I Europejskiego MSZ ZSRR. Od 1958 do października 1959 zastępca kierownika Wydziału Państw Afryki MSZ ZSRR, od 13 października 1959 do 26 lipca 1965 ambasador nadzwyczajny i pełnomocny ZSRR w Etiopii, od 15 lutego 1969 do 24 maja 1972 ambasador nadzwyczajny i pełnomocny ZSRR w Kongo (Brazzaville).

Bibliografia
 Przewodnik po historii Partii Komunistycznej i ZSRR (ros.)

Ambasadorowie ZSRR w Etiopii
Urodzeni w 1916

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So we've listened to all the feedback that you guys have been giving us and we're pleased to announce that we're launching a new and improved EMGS Mobile App. Some of the features will also tie in to the EMGS Website.
Click on the new icon below the application percentage to see what the percentage means, the approximate amount of time you should wait, and what you should do next.
Application Tracker percentages are clearer. You'll notice that we've changed some numbers in the application percentages. Some application statuses have been removed to make it clear exactly where the process is, and what's the next stage of processing. We're also adding in the approximate timelines for each status.There will be some confusion because some percentages will not be as you are used to; but don't worry, the application progress remains unchanged and has not been delayed or rejected. For example, instead of having two different percentages for VAL Approved in the Immigration system (60%) and VAL ready for collection (70%), we have combined both and will notify only when the VAL is ready for courier/collection (70%).As usual, we will notify you if any errors or corrections are required.
We fixed the notification switch issue. You can now turn off notifications for VAL application, EMGS Connect, or both.
The mobile app is available in the Google Play store now and will be available in iOS app store shortly. Go ahead and download the updated Mobile App.
Need to sweat it out, even at odd hours of the day? No problem.
The rules and regulation of working part-time for international students studying in Malaysia.
My percentage is 100 but it is red. My VAL was rejected because I didn't submit the old passport with the stamped visa page which wasn't even required in the application documents.


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Home Rural Spectrum Scanner FCC Testing New Network Outage Reporting System
FCC Testing New Network Outage Reporting System
The FCC's Homeland Security Bureau has announced that it will test a new version of the Network Outage Reporting System (NORS) over the next two months, from May 10 to July 5, 2016. The new NORS platform contains improvements that will enhance overall security and reliability, and has two interfaces: a web-based interface and an API interface for companies that want to file outage reports automatically. During the testing phase, companies must file official NORS reports in the old system, but are invited to voluntarily file duplicate reports using the new system. Companies may also voluntarily file test outage reports in the new NORS system to become familiar with it. If testing is successful, the Commission will migrate all filings to the new NORS system on July 20, 2016. A user can obtain a new UserID and password for the new system by going to https://www.fcc.gov/eform/submit/register-to-nors. The new NORS system can be accessed at https://fcctest.appiancloud.com/suite/.
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Set in a remote rural region of Tanzania dominated by mountains and precarious pot-holed roads, Mpwapawa's 32 health centres represent a vital lifeline for delivering basic vaccines to the district's 280,000 inhabitants. Yet, until recently, immunisation rates here were worringly low.
Health worker weighs a new born child at a clinic in Mpwapawa district, Tanzania.
Health workers lacked both training and the means to reach Mpwapawa's remote rural villages to check on mother and child health.
Refrigerators for storing vaccines frequently broke down and vaccination cards to monitor immunisation rates were in short supply.
When Tanzania applied for GAVI's immunisation services support (ISS), Mpwapawa was an obvious place to invest the funding.
ISS encourages developing countries to expand their immunisation coverage by offering a US$ 20 reward for every additional child injected with three doses of the diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine (DPT3) compared with the previous year.
vaccination cards were purchased to keep track of each dose of DPT3.
At the same time, district authorities worked with partners such as St.Luke's dispensary, Care International and Simavi to reach out to all communities throughout Mpwapawa. By tapping into the district's strong community structures and holding meetings with local leaders, grassroot support for immunisation increased.
Within a year, Mpwapawa's DTP3 rates - the recognised benchmark for national immunisation coverage because only robust health platforms can deliver three doses in 14 weeks - started to rise.
They have not fallen since.