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SOS and ELI return to in-person events with changes
Clinton Engelberger, STAFF WRITER
Both programs under the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement are making returns after a difficult year of being fully online, with some structural and fundamental changes defining a new start for each program. ORACLE PHOTO/LEDA ALVIM
Two signature programs under the Center for Leadership and Civic Engagement (CLCE) — Stampede of Service (SOS) and the Emerging Leaders Institute (ELI) — have undergone recent changes to get back to normal after most USF students returned in person for the fall.
In response to the limited or fully virtual events held in 2020, each program is rethinking its approach for the 2021 school year. ELI, a program focused on helping first-year students polish their leadership skills, is restructuring its program to weekly on-campus meetings. SOS, a monthly volunteer event for students, is implementing new safety guidelines for its reinstituted in-person events.
ELI will be transforming its delivery method from its previous off-campus retreat style of the program to on-campus meetings, according to Anna Vest, associate director of leadership development. The program, in previous years, would engage students in a two-day retreat for an immersive experience focused on developing leadership skills.
This year, ELI is hoping to recruit 30-40 participants per cohort and 16-20 student mentors for weekly Friday sessions from Oct. 1 through Dec. 3 for the fall portion. Applications for both positions are currently open in BullsConnect and will close Sept. 19.
Eligible participants should be a first-time-in-college (FTIC) student who entered USF in fall 2020 or 2021. They should also be available to attend nine consecutive weekly sessions either from 1:30-3:30 p.m. or 3:30-5 p.m.
The weekly sessions, according to Vest, will cover topics such as personal identity to relational leadership and social change models to prepare new students for global citizenship opportunities.
During the spring semester, after the fall sessions are completed, ELI graduates will participate in "ongoing follow-up components" with mentors. The spring content will differ by including mentors hosting biweekly conversations and check-ins with their mentees. It will also include professional staff from the CLCE who will check in with participants three times during the spring semester.
Vest said changing its delivery method was necessary to provide a more personalized experience for new students and mentors. It also makes the program more accessible for students due to the increase of available positions and meetings now taking place on campus.
"The whole goal is to introduce new students to leadership concepts, and to get them comfortable and prepared for pursuing and getting involved in opportunities at USF and beyond," she said.
Upperclassmen will mentor freshmen and FTIC students on the importance of leadership on campus.
Beyond the technical goals of accessibility and expanding the program, she hopes students can feel more like they belong to a community with the recent changes.
"The goal really is a holistic approach to helping engage students … through that first academic year to really help them feel like they belong on campus, to help them feel like they have a place that reflects their personal values and their interests," Vest said. "And to also help them feel like they could be a part of a bigger thread in the fabric of the USF community."
The weekly ELI sessions will be held in the newly refurbished CLCE and Student Organization Collaboration Space in the Marshall Student Center.
While Vest said an exact office location would be revealed in the near future on BullsConnect, she said the office is very spacious and will allow students to safely practice social distancing of at least 3 feet. Students are expected to wear masks, and all chairs and tables will be disinfected regularly to ensure the program can provide a safe environment for an in-person return.
SOS, a monthly volunteer event that gives students the opportunity to understand more about their communities in line with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, is also returning to in-person activities.
Meetings for SOS were held virtually on Microsoft Teams last year, with a set start and end time and no drop-ins allowed, according to Associate Director for Civic Engagement Kimberly Fabbri-Greener. Events were also significantly scaled back so participants could complete them alone or with social distancing.
"We also weren't promoting service as part of the experience last year, so we really focused on the educational components of student creative service and the reflection components," Fabbri-Greener said.
"For service, we really focused on those independent projects that one could do either virtually or just oneself, such as going to a local park or a local beach and doing that cleanup by yourself as an independent project."
There will be two events taking place on the first and last Thursday of the month — a kickoff session and a reflection session. The first kickoff was Sept. 9.
Each month brings a new topic to learn and discuss. Fabbri-Greener said she encourages students to drop in and see what SOS is all about for themselves.
"This year our projects are really focusing on lots of opportunities to get out into the community gardens, still with safety measures in place where we're encouraging everyone to bring masks with them and to stay 3-6 feet away from other individuals and to bring hand sanitizer and disinfect the things that they're using," she said.
Vest hopes these changes will provide new students with plenty of resources as they begin their journeys at USF.
"Being a new student at a very large institution can feel very daunting, and you may not be sure about whether or not you're going to be participating in a specific student organization or even how to be involved," she said.
"[These programs] are a really good way to get your feet wet to learn about what's available, to learn about yourself and to learn how you can be a puzzle piece in the greater puzzle that is USF, and how you can help contribute to the success of yourself and other students here in our community."


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Auksztota (lit. Aukštaitija, dosł. kraj górny), określana również jako Litwa górna – kraina historyczna i region etnograficzny na Litwie, na Nizinie Środkowolitewskiej i Pojezierzu Wileńskim, w dorzeczu górnej i środkowej Wilii, nad Niewiażą, Świętą i Muszą; historyczny ośrodek ekspansji państwa litewskiego. Najważniejszym ośrodkiem miejskim Auksztoty jest współcześnie Poniewież.

Ze względu na położenie w dorzeczu górnego Niemna i w odróżnieniu od położonej w dorzeczu dolnego Niemna Żmudzi (od lit. žemai, nisko), Auksztota nazywana jest przez historyków Litwą górną (lit.: aukštas – wysoki).

Jeden z dwóch dialektów języka litewskiego nazywany jest dialektem auksztockim.

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Regiony Litwy

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Q: Working with Hibernate Queries I am new to hibernate queries, and trying to get a grasp on how everything works. I am using Hibernate 3 with Netbeans 6.5.
I have a basic project set up and have been playing around with how to do everything. I started with essentially a search query. Where the user can enter values into one or more fields.
The table would be Person with the columns first_name, middle_name, last_name for the sake of the example.
The first way I found was to have a method that took firstName, middleName, and lastName as parameters:
Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();
Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
String query = "from Person where (first_name = :firstName or :firstName is null) "+
               "and (middle_name = :middleName or :middleName is null) "
               "and (last_name = :lastname or :lastName is null)";
Query q = session.createQuery(query);
q.setString("firstName", firstName);
q.setString("middleName", middleName);
q.setString("lastName", lastName);
List<Person> results = (List<Person>) q.list();

This did not sit well with me, since it seemed like I should not have to write that much, and well, that I was doing it wrong. So I kept digging and found another way:
Session session = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory().getCurrentSession();
Transaction tx = session.beginTransaction();
Criteria crit = session.createCriteria(Person.class);
if (firstName != null) {
     crit.add(Expression.eq("firstName", firstName);
}
if (middleName != null) {
     crit.add(Expression.eq("middleName", middleName);
}
if (lastName != null) {
     crit.add(Expression.eq("lastName", lastName);
}
List<Person> results = (List<Person>) crit.list();

So what I am trying to figure out is which way is the preferred way for this type of query? Criteria or Query? Why?
I am guessing that Criteria is the preferred way and you should only use Query when you need to write it by hand for performance type reasons. Am I close?

A: Criteria is the preferred way. It uses Prepared Statements in the background, so you don't need to worry about SQL injection.

A: Criteria is the newer way.  It was introduced after the hql query layer.  Underneath the Criteria api still generates hql.  I tend to use the Criteria api because the code looks cleaner and its easier to maintain.

A: I believe its very common to write queries, specially when you want to make complex inquires, Hibernate has its own query language.
Check Hibernate Query Language HQL

A: Criteria is the best way to make dynamic queries. No need for null checks on a parameter, just don't add that criteria.

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Jamese Sweeting's father has message for persons of interest in fatal stabbing
Police want to talk to Annette Allen, Arthur Lee Miller
Updated: 6:07 PM EST Nov 5, 2013
Erin Guy
A South Florida father grieving after the death of his daughter has a message for the persons of interest in her killing.James Graham got the call last week that his 31-year-old daughter, Jamese Sweeting, was stabbed to death in Riviera Beach.Monday night, police released the names of two persons of interest. They want to talk to Annette Allen and Arthur Lee Miller.Police said Allen, Miller and Sweeting were involved in an altercation when Sweeting was stabbed.Graham is on disability and can't afford a funeral, so he spends his days outside his favorite convenience store asking the public for help.WPBF 25 News aired Graham's story Monday night. Since then, people have made donations to the Timothy E. Kitchen Funeral Home, but it's not enough.As Graham was preparing to return to his spot to raise more money Tuesday, he had a message for Allen and Miller."We have to know your side of the story," Graham said. "I have always been told there are two sides to a story. The only thing we have been hearing is speculation and everything else, but there is still your side of the story."Graham said he knows of Allen and Miller and said the two were Sweeting's friends.Follow Erin Guy on Twitter at @wpbf_erin.More From WPBF: Email alerts | Mobile | SocialLIST: County-by-county homicide rates in Florida
RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. —
A South Florida father grieving after the death of his daughter has a message for the persons of interest in her killing.
James Graham got the call last week that his 31-year-old daughter, Jamese Sweeting, was stabbed to death in Riviera Beach.
Suspect in Jamese Sweeting stabbing arrested
Arthur Lee Miller, Annette Allen named persons of interest in fatal stabbing
Monday night, police released the names of two persons of interest. They want to talk to Annette Allen and Arthur Lee Miller.
Police said Allen, Miller and Sweeting were involved in an altercation when Sweeting was stabbed.
Graham is on disability and can't afford a funeral, so he spends his days outside his favorite convenience store asking the public for help.
WPBF 25 News aired Graham's story Monday night. Since then, people have made donations to the Timothy E. Kitchen Funeral Home, but it's not enough.
As Graham was preparing to return to his spot to raise more money Tuesday, he had a message for Allen and Miller.
"We have to know your side of the story," Graham said. "I have always been told there are two sides to a story. The only thing we have been hearing is speculation and everything else, but there is still your side of the story."
Graham said he knows of Allen and Miller and said the two were Sweeting's friends.
Follow Erin Guy on Twitter at @wpbf_erin.
More From WPBF: Email alerts | Mobile | Social
LIST: County-by-county homicide rates in Florida

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Servis found not guilty
GEORGE MATTAR Staff Writer
The Tullytown Council president was ticketed in December for allegedly driving with suspended license due to a DUI.
It was a complex case for the judge, the prosecutor and even the defense attorney.
But one thing the defense attorney was sure of: His client was not guilty of the charge before the court, which was driving with a suspended license after a DUI conviction.
Judge Michael Burns and Bucks County assistant district attorney Matt Weintraub hadn't ever seen a driver's license suspension removed from a person's record after a DUI.
But there it was, in Burns' district court Thursday. The letter from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation to Tullytown council President Bryan Servis stated that the suspension of his driving privileges was lifted.
How can that be, Burns wondered. And an hours-long discussion followed, during a hearing to address a traffic ticket issued to Servis, 49, in December for allegedly driving with a suspended license.
Burns asked Weintraub how many traffic cases he's prosecuted. Weintraub said, "probably hundreds."
The judge leaned back in his leather chair and said, "I've probably done 50,000 cases and I have never seen a letter from PennDOT saying someone who was convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and then the suspension of one's driving privileges was removed," he said. "This is the first time I've seen a letter like this and it is authentic."
Turns out, the license suspension requirement was dropped during pretrial negotiations into the legality of the stop made by state troopers in Middletown on May 31, 2009.
Servis failed two field sobriety tests that day and refused to give a blood sample, which by law comes with an automatic one-year license suspension.
Although Servis' license is suspended for numerous other unrelated traffic violations - from speeding to not using turn signals - Burns had no choice but to find Servis not guilty of driving with a suspended license after a DUI conviction. The December ticket noted the license suspension was DUI-related.
Servis had pleaded guilty on June 24 to driving while "generally impaired" and refusing to submit to a blood test after he was stopped for suspected drunken driving in Middletown.
A few weeks later, Servis received the letter from PennDOT saying his license wasn't suspended due to his "general impairment" guilty plea, because it was his first DUI offense and that he had no other DUI charges in the last 10 years.
While thumbing through the stacks of paperwork that makes up Servis' driving record, Burns called him a "terrible driver" and said that the councilman didn't care (about the law).
Servis' attorney, Joe Kelly of Philadelphia, commented, "This is very confusing, chaotic in what PennDOT says, but the fact of the matter is that my client was not driving under suspension with a DUI attached to it."
Tullytown Sgt. Dan Doyle, who issued the ticket in December, testified that Servis showed him the PennDOT letter, so he ran a check of Servis' driving record.
"It showed his license was suspended, DUI-related," Doyle said.
After the verdict, Servis said he had no comment other than he wanted to "digest" what had just happened.
Weintraub wasn't pleased and said he believed the evidence was there to convict Servis. "But we had a neutral judge who was detached from the case and he ruled in the defendant's favor," he said.
George Mattar can be reached at 215-949-4165 or gmattar@phillyBurbs.com. Follow George on Twitter at mattarmuses@Twitter.com.


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August 22, 2018 Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 9:36 am Finance Tagged with: AI, arctic, Brexit, Cohen, free trade, genocide, Greece, Manafort, tourists, Trump 6 Responses »
Henri Matisse Laurette in a green robe 1916
• Cohen Pleads Guilty, Says Violated Campaign Law At Direction Of Candidate (ZH)
• Paul Manafort Found Guilty On 8 Counts, Mistrial Declared On Other Ten (ZH)
• Genocide of the Greek Nation (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Call For Two Years Further Freedom Of Movement After Brexit (G.)
• Britain Extends Lead As King Of Currencies Despite Brexit Vote (R.)
• Bank of England Chief Economist Warns On AI Jobs Threat (BBC)
• Our Economic System Was Designed To Burn Everything In Its Path (NO)
• The Economy of Permanent War (Connelly)
• Tourists Are Destroying the Places They Love (Spiegel)
• Arctic's Strongest Sea Ice Breaks Up For First Time On Record (G.)
What comes next? Cohen's lawyer has said he will prove collusion, which is Mueller's mandate, but that lawyer is a bit of a shady character too.
President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to campaign finance violations and other charges, saying he made payments to influence the 2016 election at the direction of a candidate for federal office, potentially delivering a legal blow to the president. Cohen, 51, who agreed to a plea bargain with federal prosecutors earlier in the day, pleaded guilty to eight counts total, including five counts of tax evasion and one count of making a false statement to a financial institution. He also pleaded guilty to one count of making an excessive campaign contribution on Oct. 27, 2016, which is the same date Cohen finalized a payment to adult-film star Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement over an affair Daniels alleges she had with Trump.
The most damaging statement by Michael Cohen was made when, acknowledging the charges against him, Cohen said he was directed to violate campaign law at the direction of an unnamed candidate for federal office, whom he did not name. At the same candidate's direction, Cohen said he paid $130,000 in violation of campaign finance laws to "somebody" to keep them quiet, which was later repaid by the candidate. He said he arranged to make payments "for (the) principal purpose of influencing (the) election" at the direction of a candidate for federal office; Cohen did not give the candidate's name, but those facts match Cohen's payment to Clifford and Trump's repayment. Cohen's exact words: "I have donated the money that was in the account in coordination with and at the direction of a federal candidate."
Cohen also tells the federal court he evaded substantial taxes on his income, with Bloomberg noting that the sentencing guideline calls for 46 to 63 months in prison. The prosecutor told the judge the purpose of the payments was to ensure that the individuals did not disclose "alleged affairs with the candidate." Besides the $130,000 payment, Cohen admitted to making an illegal contribution of $150,000, which was how much McDougal received from the National Enquirer's publisher to quash her story. As Bloomberg explicitly adds, "at no time was the candidate's name mentioned." The prosecutor also said Cohen failed to report $4 million on taxes and lied about debts and banking details on loan applications.
His voice cracked as he answered questions from Judge William Pauley III. As Bloomberg notes, Cohen was shaking head and appeared to be holding back emotions as judge reviews possible sentence. Cohen faces a likely prison sentence of 46 to 63 months, the judge said.
A mover and a shaker. Can't help thinking we're reading a real bad novel. Can't wait for the movie.
Jurors in the trial of former Paul Manafort have reached a verdict on eight of the 18 counts against the former Trump aide. After a day of passing notes to the Judge, they said they were unable to reach a decision on the other 10. Manafort was found guilty on all five tax fraud counts, while the other three are related to his failure to disclose foreign bank accounts and bank fraud. The verdict comes at the end of two and a half weeks of testimony, which included 27 witnesses and 88 documents submitted into evidence. Earlier, the jury asked Judge T.S. Ellis earlier in the day what would happen if they couldn't reach a verdict on a count, and Ellis told them to keep working on it.
"If we cannot come to a consensus for a single count, how can we fill in the verdict sheet?" the jurors asked in the note. "It is your duty to agree upon a verdict if you can do so," said Ellis, who encouraged each juror to make their own decisions on each count. If some were in the minority on a decision, however, they could think about the other jurors' conclusions. Give "deference" to each other and "listen to each others' arguments," said Ellis, adding "You're the exclusive judges … Take all the time which you feel is necessary." Manafort stands accused of 18 counts of tax evasion, bank fraud and obfuscating foreign bank counts in the first trial brought against him by special counsel Robert Mueller as part of his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election – despite the charges stemming from his work for the then-Ukrainian governing party.
"The declaration that the Greek crisis is over is merely a statement that there is nothing left to extract from the Greek people for the interest of the foreign banks."
Traditionally, when a sovereign country, whether by corruption, mismanagement, bad luck, or unexpected events, found itself unable to repay its debts, the country's creditors wrote down the debts to the level that the indebted country could service. With Greece there was a game change. The ECB, led by Jean-Claude Trichet, and the IMF ruled that Greece had to pay the full amount of interest and principal on its government bonds held by German, Dutch, French, and Italian banks. How was this to be achieved? In two ways, both of which greatly worsened the crisis, leaving Greece today in a far worst position that it was in at the beginning of the crisis almost a decade ago.
At the beginning of the "crisis," which would have easily been resolved by writing down part of the debt, the Greek debt was 129% of Greek GDP. Today Greek debt is 180% of GDP. Why? Greece was lent more money to pay interest to Greece's creditors, so that they would not have to lose one cent. The additonal lending, called a "bailout" by the presstitute financial media, was not a bailout of Greece. It was a bailout of Greece's creditors. The Obama regime encouraged this bailout, because the American banks, expecting a bailout, had sold credit default swaps on Greek debt. Without a bailout the US banks would have lost their bet and paid default insurance on Greek Bonds.
Additionally, Greece was required to sell its public assets to foreigners and to decimate the Greek social safety net, reducing pensions, for example, to below subsistance incomes and so radically reducing medical care that people die before they can get treatment. If memory serves, China bought the Greek seaports. Germay bought the airport. Various German and European entities bought the Greek municipal water companies. Real estate speculators bought protected Greek Islands for real estate development. This plunder of Greek public property did not go toward reducing the debt that Greek owed. It went, along with the new loans, to paying the interest. The debt, larger than ever, still stands. The economy is smaller than ever as is the Greek population that bears the debt.
The declaration that the Greek crisis is over is merely a statement that there is nothing left to extract from the Greek people for the interest of the foreign banks. Greece is sinking fast. All of the income associated with sea ports, airport, municipal utilities, and the rest of public property that was forcibly privatized now belongs to foreigners who take the money out of the country, thus further driving down the Greek economy.
Shifting goal posts, rearranging deck chairs.
Britain would face labour shortages in London and the south-east from a no-deal Brexit, according to a report calling for the government to extend freedom of movement for EU migrants to protect the wider economy. The Centre for Cities thinktank urged the government to extend freedom of movement for two years after the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019, in the event of no deal on the terms of exit and future relations with the union. Publishing a report on EU citizens working in British towns and cities across the country, the Centre for Cities warned cities such as Oxford, Cambridge and London, where the vote was in favour of remaining in the EU, are reliant on EU migrants, making them particularly vulnerable to tougher immigration rules should Britain crash out without a deal.
The report said about one in 10 employees in major southern cities were from the EU. It said they had brought with them "significant economic benefits" to the wider British economy, which could be put at risk from a no-deal Brexit. Andrew Carter, chief executive of Centre for Cities, said: "[The government] should continue to allow EU migrants to come and work in UK cities for at least the next two years, even if there is no Brexit deal in place. This will be crucial in helping cities avoid a cliff edge in terms of recruiting the workers they need." The report comes ahead of the government's publication of a series of technical notices detailing the impact of a no-deal Brexit.
How far removed the City is from the country.
Britain has extended its lead in the global currency trading business in the two years since it voted to leave the European Union, in another sign London is likely to continue to be one of the world's top two financial centres even after Brexit. Leaving the European Union was supposed to deal a crippling blow to London's position in global finance, prompting a mass exodus of jobs and business. But with eight months to go, London has tightened rather than weakened its grip on foreign exchange trading, a Reuters analysis shows. Foreign exchange – the largest and most interconnected of global markets, used by everyone from global airlines to money managers in transactions worth trillions of dollars a day – is the crowning jewel of London's financial services industry.
Reuters' analysis, based on surveys released by central banks in the five biggest trading centres, shows forex trading volumes in Britain had grown by 23 percent to a record daily average of $2.7 trillion (£2.1 trillion) in April compared to April 2016. That was double the pace of its nearest rival, the United States, which was up 11 percent to $994 billion, mostly out of New York. That means about two-fifths of all trades are handled in Britain, nearly all of them in London – a daily volume almost equivalent to the annual economic output of the United Kingdom. The next three biggest markets are Singapore, which fell by 5 percent to $523 billion; Hong Kong, which grew 10 percent to $482 billion; and Japan, which increased by 2 percent to $415 billion.
Time for a new Karl Marx?!
The chief economist of the Bank of England has warned that the UK will need a skills revolution to avoid "large swathes" of people becoming "technologically unemployed" as artificial intelligence makes many jobs obsolete. Andy Haldane said the possible disruption of what is known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution could be "on a much greater scale" than anything felt during the First Industrial Revolution of the Victorian era. He said that he had seen a widespread "hollowing out" of the jobs market, rising inequality, social tension and many people struggling to make a living. It was important to learn the "lessons of history", he argued, and ensure that people were given the training to take advantage of the new jobs that would become available.
He added that in the past a safety net such as new welfare benefits had also been provided. Mr Haldane's points were echoed by the new head of the government's advisory council on artificial intelligence, who also warned there was a "huge risk" of people being left behind as computers and robots changed the world of work. Tabitha Goldstaub, chair of the newly formed Artificial Intelligence Council, said that the challenge was ensuring that people were ready for change and that the focus was on creating the new jobs of the future to replace those that would disappear. "Each of those [industrial revolutions] had a wrenching and lengthy impact on the jobs market, on the lives and livelihoods of large swathes of society," Mr Haldane told me for the Today Programme.
"Jobs were effectively taken by machines of various types, there was a hollowing out of the jobs market, and that left a lot of people for a lengthy period out of work and struggling to make a living. "That heightened social tensions, it heightened financial tensions, it led to a rise in inequality. "This is the dark side of technological revolutions and that dark-side has always been there. "That hollowing out is going to be potentially on a much greater scale in the future, when we have machines both thinking and doing – replacing both the cognitive and the technical skills of humans."
"The shocks to our current system that arrive early are better than the ones that come too late."
Boom and bust cycles in the extraction economy have always brought incredible destruction and pain, especially to those closest to the land. Not by accident but by design – billions of dollars of wealth has been stripped from the land for the benefit of mostly outside investors who never intended a long term sustainable plan for rural or Indigenous communities, much less the ecosystems they rely on. But with accelerating climate change, we now have boom, bust and burn (this burn has many forms, fire is just one). And it affects everyone. The truth is this economic system has always been on fire. The terrifying object at the end of the extraction economy is the devastating and total incineration of almost everything we know and love.
This is the only endgame in the extraction economy — it is what happens when a model dependent on infinite growth is played out on a planet with finite resources. The extraction economy is an extinction economy, or maybe more accurately an extinction machine. It has always burnt everything in its path. That is what it's designed to do. The people and living things on the periphery have always felt it first. But now in a world of global climate disruption, the match has burned down to our fingers. There is no periphery and no centre. Just one interconnected and interdependent world – on fire, together. It is not a bad thing to see this laid bare. We need new models for a sustainable civilization, and this will be a big lift that will require change at every level of social organization. The shocks to our current system that arrive early are better than the ones that come too late.
Free trade requires permanent war.
Dr Kadri says that free trade is 'a poisonous concept' that requires a state of permanent war. "In way we are caught in a catch-22 situation," he says. "War is awful, but it does wonders for the macroeconomy." "One need only look at what has occurred in Yemen, Gaza, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq to discover the new shape of war and what happens to countries that attempt to control their own resources in an age where war and war spending have become all the more necessary to take the market out of its slump." Syria's GDP was $73 billion in 2012, a 73% decrease in economic output from 2008, according to Statista. Cumulative GDP loss between 2011–2016 is estimated at $226 billion, according to the World Bank.
"Why would the US be interested in billion dollar trade, when it has made more than a trillion out of war in Syria?," he says. "If you want cash in against the Syrian government, you spend a trillion dollars mobilising intelligence in the west, another couple of trillion sowing dissent, saying Syria is bad, we have a bad guy in power, we should kill him and free this country, maybe bring in ISIS, al-Qaeda or some other obscurantist group. They're willing to pay even tens of trillions, because they will earn back every penny." "If they spend ten trillion on this war, they're going to earn $10–20 trillion back," he says.
[..] The former UN economist says that free trade basically dislocates resources and never re-employs them back. "It either drives resources out of business, or it simply destroys them," he says. "If you force governments in sub-Saharan Africa or the Middle East to subsidise their agriculture, while the EU, for instance, spends a trillion euros a year subsidising its agriculture, you already have an economic imbalance in the way policy occurs." In many cases, war is actually more profitable than trade.
Make every single part of the travel industry pay for the destruction it causes.
It's not just Europeans exploring each others' countries. The boom is also fueled by people from countries that have benefited handsomely from globalization. Much of the responsibility for the growth in global tourism lies with members of the newly emerging middle classes in Russia and with people from the Far East and Arab countries. They also bear a significant share of the responsibility for the growing problems. The boom, after all, is also producing losers, and many of them have begun revolting, as recently seen in the pilot strikes at European budget carrier Ryanair, whose poor working conditions and low wages are what make the airline's low-cost strategy possible in the first place.
But residents of the cities and regions affected are perhaps the biggest losers. When, for example, it becomes more lucrative for property owners to rent their apartments out to tourists on a daily or weekly basis than to locals who need an affordable place to live. Or when commuters have to squeeze into overcrowded public transportation because local buses and trains have been filled to capacity by tourists. Or when people no longer feel comfortable in their neighborhood because they have become a minority in the cafés and restaurants they traditionally frequented. That is, assuming they can get in at all or afford the new prices.
The tourism industry suddenly finds itself confronted by a group that it hadn't previously paid much attention to. Having always focused on the guests, it tended to overlook the hosts. "Tourism is a phenomenon that creates many private profits but also many socialized losses," says Christian Laesser, a tourism professor at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. Often, the profits benefit very few – the landlords and hotel owners primarily, but also, to a much lesser extent, the often poorly paid employees working in the travel sector. The rest are stuck with the noise and the mess, the high rents and the feeling of being a stranger in their own country, like being an extra in some Disney World for tourists.
The last ice area. That sounds ominous.
The oldest and thickest sea ice in the Arctic has started to break up, opening waters north of Greenland that are normally frozen, even in summer. This phenomenon – which has never been recorded before – has occurred twice this year due to warm winds and a climate-change driven heatwave in the northern hemisphere. One meteorologist described the loss of ice as "scary". Others said it could force scientists to revise their theories about which part of the Arctic will withstand warming the longest. The sea off the north coast of Greenland is normally so frozen that it was referred to, until recently, as "the last ice area" because it was assumed that this would be the final northern holdout against the melting effects of a hotter planet.
But abnormal temperature spikes in February and earlier this month have left it vulnerable to winds, which have pushed the ice further away from the coast than at any time since satellite records began in the 1970s. "Almost all of the ice to the north of Greenland is quite shattered and broken up and therefore more mobile," said Ruth Mottram of the Danish Meteorological Institute. "Open water off the north coast of Greenland is unusual. This area has often been called 'the last ice area' as it has been suggested that the last perennial sea ice in the Arctic will occur here. The events of the last week suggest that, actually, the last ice area may be further west."


Deeper Shadows, Hush Down, Double Talk, Flexible Heart.
Jaakko Eino Kalevi's new and first-full length album was released three days before his live show at the Courtyard, Hoxton. The eponymous record is consistently good, and more than a decent follow up to its prequel 2013 EP, Dreamzone. At some moments a Scandinavian electronic pop, at others, a new-wavy saxophone rock with dashes of disco, it is wondrous, oneiric and unquestionably original. Unfortunately, that doesn't translate too well into his live performance.
Looking very tall beside the members of his band – a brilliant and flirtatious sax player, a somewhat tired-looking backup singer, and a talented drummer – Kalevi appears rather shy in his white shirt and long blond hair with which he covers half of his face. It might be the constant feedback sound from the speakers or the almost unbearably hot atmosphere in the venue, but the audience does not seem to be responding too well to the first few songs. Yet as soon as Deeper Shadows starts playing, they indulgently dance and cheer. Hush Down, however, is the one that finally eases the tension and livens the party.
The room seems to keep getting sweatier, but the energy of both the audience and the performers increases correspondingly. The pastel-coloured haze of Double Talk, his latest single, is received with excitement. It appears to be the kind of amateurish performance with raw delivery that the London-based fans appreciate as authentic, and that the many Finnish fans among them enjoy with pride. They may lack a little rehearsal – it is somewhat sloppy – but the potential is certainly there.
The last three songs of the encore, Flexible Heart, The Search and On Knowing, are the highpoint of the night. Even when, at times, it is hard to tell whether the former tram driver is playing deadpan or just plain bored, Kalevi says good-bye with a sweet bow to the audience that leaves out any previous expectations of an ironic resolution to his act. As it keeps evolving, it will hopefully sacrifice a bit of the rawness for a performance that is at the level of his wildly interesting proposal.
For further information about Jaakko Eino Kalevi and future events visit here.


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Q: Line integral using Stokes' Theorem. Let $\vec{F}= 2y \hat{i}+ x^2 \hat{j} + xy \hat{k}$ and let C be the curve of intersection of the plane $x + y + z  = 1$ and the cylinder $x^2 + y^2 = 1$. Then find the value of $$\left|\oint \vec{F}.d\vec{r}\right|$$
My question is can I use Stokes' Theorem in here? (Why or why not?) If yes, then which surface should I consider for evaluating the Normal vector? (That of the plane or that of the cylinder?). Also, kindly provide me with the solution of this problem. Thanks :)

A: $\iint \nabla \times F\ dA = \oint f\cdot dr$
$\nabla \times F = (\frac{\partial}{\partial y} xy - \frac{\partial}{\partial z} x^2,\frac{\partial}{\partial z} 2y- \frac{\partial}{\partial x} xy,\frac{\partial}{\partial x} x^2 -  \frac{\partial}{\partial y} 2y) = (x, -y, 2x-2)$
..... you can skip much of what follows, I am complicating things more than I need to ....
the normal to the surface is $(\frac {1}{\sqrt 3},\frac 1{\sqrt 3},\frac 1{\sqrt 3})$
$\iint \frac {3x - y - 2}{\sqrt 3} \ dS$
Parameterize that surface?
$u = \frac {x-y}{\sqrt 2}\\
v = \frac {x+y - 2z}{\sqrt 6} \\
w = \frac {x+y+z}{\sqrt 3}$
This coordinate transformation is orthonormal.
jacobian  $\ dx\ dy\ dz =  du\ dv\ dw$
In these coordinates $w = 0$
The semi-major axis of this elipse is at the point $(0,\sqrt {3},0)$
and the semi-minor axis is at $(1,0,0)$
or
$x = \frac{1}{\sqrt 2} u + \frac {1}{\sqrt 6} v + \frac{1}{\sqrt 3} w\\
y = -\frac{1}{\sqrt 2} u + \frac {1}{\sqrt 6} v + \frac{1}{\sqrt 3} w\\
z =  -\frac {2}{\sqrt 6} v + \frac{1}{\sqrt 3} w$
$x^2 + y^2 = 1$ with $x+y+z = 0$ becomes $u^2 + \frac {v^2}3 = 1$ with $w= 0$
Putting it together we have
$\iint \frac {a_1 u + a_2 v  - 2}{\sqrt 3} \ du \ dv$
We don't need to work out what the linear coefficients of u,v are because whatever they are, over this ellipse:
$\iint a_1 u + a_2 v\ du\ dv = 0$
$-\frac 2{\sqrt 3} A$
$A$ is the area of the ellipse.  $A = \pi\sqrt 2$
The integral evaluates to $-2\pi$
.... Resume here, I don't have the heart do delete it .......
instead of the coordinate transformation, we can say:
$x = x\\y = z\\ z= -x-y\\dS = (-\frac {\partial z}{\partial x},-\frac {\partial z}{\partial y}, 1)\ dx\ dy$
$\iint (x, -y, 2x-2)\cdot (1,1,1)\ dx\ dy\\
\iint x -y+ 2x-2\ dx\ dy$
$\iint x -y+ 2x \ dx\ dy$ are odd functions evaluated over a region that is symmetric.
$\iint -2 \ dx\ dy = -2\pi$
How did this compare to calculating it directly?
$(x,y,z) = (\cos t, \sin t, 1 - \cos t - \sin t)
dr = (-\sin t, \cos t, 1 + \sin t - \cos t)$
$F\cdot dr = (2\sin t, \cos^2 t, \cos t\sin t)\cdot(-\sin t, \cos t, 1 + \sin t - \cos t)\\
-2\sin^2t + \cos^3 t + \cos t\sin t + \cos t\sin^2 t - \cos^2 t\sin t$
That is going to be a snap to integrate.  Most of those terms evaluate to 0
$\int_0^{2\pi} -2\sin^2t + \cos^3 t + \cos t\sin t + \cos t\sin^2 t - \cos^2 t\sin t \ dt\\
\int_0^{2\pi} -2\sin^2t\ dt\\
-2\pi$


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More investment in local loan funds needed to protect press freedom
The idea of press freedom often conjures images of harassed and targeted journalists and editors who struggle to circumvent difficult press laws. But press freedom also encompasses financial freedom.
Without viable funds, the hard-pressed wins can be lost, jeopardizing both access to independent information and the future of the publication.
Over the years, the idea of securing financial sustainability has become more central in the fight for a free press. But how do news organizations find the money they need to survive?
During the Media Development roundtable, Harlan Mandel, director of the New York-based Media Development Loan Fund, explains that while there are some resources available, there's no panacea for closing the capitalization gap that many publications around the world face.
One of the leading vehicles for funding is through loans, such as those distributed by the MDLF. Mandel explains the idea of a revolving loan fund, which since 1995 has provided US$110 million in loans to 79 independent news outlets in 27 countries.
"The model of recycling the funds really works," says Mandel. "We have very reliable clients, with only $1.9 million in losses to date."
Most of the businesses the MDLF helps are already in the red when they intervene. Once they start to become more financially viable, the organization focuses on helping them implement a long-term plan, increasing their chances for long-term survival.
Thirty-eight million people get their news from current MDLF clients, and after five years of working with MDLF the average client has tripled its sales. However, there is still a need for more funds, and it will take both private and public partnerships to close the gap.
"The role of the public sector is to help bridge that gap. It can be done with the products that we offer," says Mandel. This means the public sector will help encourage the private sector's help by taking on some of the risk.
"The idea is that there's been a lot of focus on content," says Justin Arenstein, digital strategist consulting for Google and the African Media Initiative (AMI). "They need to be strong viable financially so the content will not be undermined. You have to focus on the business of the news."
Alexandra Waldhorn
E-Mail: andalexra@gmail.com
World News Media Congress Blog
The 71st World News Media Congress, the 26th World Editors Forum and the 3rd Women in News Summit took place from 1 - 3 June 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland.
In this blog, WAN-IFRA provides previews, interviews, summaries of the presentations and other useful information about the Congress.
Participants were also very active on Twitter throughout the event under the hashtag #wnmc19.
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In 2011 the newspaper world gathered in Vienna, Austria for IFRA Expo 2011, 63rd World Newspaper Congress and 18th World Editors Forum.
This is the event's live blog.


Addressing an issue of first impression, Judge Kevin Carey (Bankr. D. Del.) ruled that a preference action defendant could use their allowed administrative expense claim as a setoff against any preferential transfer exposure. In so deciding, the Court rejected the plaintiff's arguments that such a position (i) is inapposite to the Third Circuit's prohibition against utilizing postpetition goods or services as subsequent new value or (ii) violates Bankruptcy Code section 502(d). To the former, the Court found that the defendant's setoff claim was distinct and could not be considered subsequent new value under 11 U.S.C. § 547(c)(4), as that defense is concerned entirely with prepetition activity; by contrast, the defendant asserted a valid setoff claim since the opposing obligations (i.e., the preference claim against the administrative claim) both arose on the same side of the bankruptcy petition date. With respect to the plaintiff's second argument, the Court found that administrative expense claims are accorded special treatment under the Bankruptcy Code and are not subject to section 502(d).
Quantum Foods, LLC, et al. (the "Debtors") initiated these bankruptcy cases on February 18, 2014 (the "Petition Date"). In the ninety days prior to the Petition Date, Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc and Tyson Foods, Inc. (collectively, "Defendant") received approximately $14 million in transfers (the "Transfers") from the Debtors. Postpetition, Defendant provided the Debtors with approximately $2.6 million in products, an amount which was accorded administrative status by the Court (the "Admin Claim") but was never paid by the Debtors.
On March 25, 2015, the official committee of unsecured creditors (the "Committee") appointed in these cases commenced the instant avoidance action seeking to avoid and recover the Transfers under Bankruptcy Code sections 547, 548, and 550, and to disallow any of Defendant's claims until the voided Transfers were returned. Defendant answered and asserted counterclaims and third-party claims against the Debtors. The Committee filed a FRCP 12(c) Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings with respect to Count I of the counterclaims and third-party complaint. Oral argument among the Committee, the Debtors, and Defendant took place on February 3, 2016.
Defendant contended that the Committee's claims to recover avoidable preferential transfers are post-petition causes of action and that Defendant is entitled to set off any recovery claims by the amount of its allowed postpetition Admin Claim. Defendant argued that its Admin Claim is an extrinsic setoff claim, wholly unrelated to the concept of any new value defense or to the section 547 preference analysis generally.
The Court began by recognizing that the question presented was one of first impression: Whether an allowed post-petition administrative expense claim can be used to set off preference liability? The Court noted that there is no provision in the Bankruptcy Code that deals expressly with postpetition setoff.
Setoff or Disguised New Value?
Having found that Defendant's claim is an assertion of setoff rights and not new value, the Court provided further analysis of the setoff claim. Noting that "setoff is only available in bankruptcy when the opposing obligations arise on the same side of the… bankruptcy petition date," the Court found that the Admin Claim is "clearly a post-petition obligation of Debtor" and that a "preference claim can be asserted only after the filing of a bankruptcy petition." As such, setoff is permissible in this case since the opposing obligations arose postpetition.
Therefore, the Motion was denied.
This is at least the second important 2016 preference opinion issued by Judge Carey which cuts in favor of defendants. See also Forman v. Moran Towing Corp. (In re AES Thames, LLC, et al.), summarized here. For vendors maintaining a high level of postpetition business with a debtor, the ruling takes on added importance.
Notwithstanding, it is interesting to question how certain tweaks to the fact pattern would have affected the Court's analysis, if at all – i.e. what if the Debtors had paid Defendant's Admin Claim earlier in the case (which, in a sense, is indirectly addressed in this opinion)? What if, at the time the avoidance action was brought, no order had been entered granting the administrative expense?
This entry was posted in Setoff (11 U.S.C. § 553), Subsequent New Value (11 U.S.C. § 547(c)(4)) and tagged 502(d), Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Friedman's, In re Lids, Judge Carey, Judge Walrath, Third Circuit on August 24, 2016 by Bayard, P.A..


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ESI Appointed Fellows
Dr Orla Fennelly
Implementation of artificial intelligence in healthcare: a scoping review
Unity Health Toronto
Dr. Orna Fennelly is a chartered physiotherapist and post-doctoral researcher at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science, University College Dublin (UCD). Orna completed her PhD on the evaluation of a national physiotherapy-led health service initiative in orthopaedic and rheumatology services using a mixed methods approach. Most recently, Orna has been working on a number of projects with collaborators across the Health Service Executive (HSE) and UK National Health Service (NHS). These projects respectively aim to synthesise the available literature related to the implementation of an electronic health record (EHR) and the capture of clinical data within an EHR resulting in several reports and key considerations, and to evaluate the implementation of a technology-enhanced waiting list management system across several hospitals. Additionally, Orna co-ordinates and lectures on several modules within the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Sports Science and continues to work as a clinical physiotherapist. With a keen interest in leveraging digital technology and data to augment health services, as well as informing the development and optimisation of such technologies based on the most up-to-date literature, Orna is very excited to continue developing her skills in evidence synthesis during this fellowship.
Dr Maria Noonan
Physiological track and trigger/early warning systems for use in maternity care
Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Group
Maria Noonan is a lecturer at the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Limerick since 2006. She is a registered midwife and registered tutor and has worked in a variety of clinical settings in midwifery and as a midwife tutor in the University Maternity Hospital Limerick. Maria's clinical interests lie in women's psychological health and care during the continuum of pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood. Maria's research plan centres around the following themes: midwives and Public Health Nurses' knowledge perceptions and practice in relation to perinatal mental health, development of effective assessment strategies for student midwives and student midwife education.
Dr Olga Cleary
Exploring the Existence of Gender Inequity with an Intersectionality Lens in Academic Health Care, Health Sciences and Health Policy and Interventions to Optimise Gender Equity
Unity Health Toronto/Joanna Briggs Institute
Dr. Olga Cleary is a PhD graduate in Health Services Research with over fifteen years' experience working across health research, policy and practice sectors. Dr. Cleary examined the prevalence and patterns of multimorbidity in an Irish population for her PhD studies and has been working on integrated care in the Irish health services since 2017. She has strived to embed healthcare policy reform in national health programmes, most recently in her role as Senior Programme Manager on the Integrated Care Programme for the Prevention and Management of Chronic Conditions under the Office of the Chief Clinical Officer in the Health Service Executive. She is currently engaged in Primary Care Development in South East Community Care (HSE) and holds an Adjunct Teaching Fellowship at the Centre for Health Policy and Management, School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin.
Dr Kwok Ng
Strategies for enhancing the implementation of school‐based policies or practices targeting risk factors for chronic disease
Cochrane Public Heath
Dr Kwok Ng is a postdoctoral researcher at the Physical Activity for Health Cluster and Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Limerick. At UL, his main research area is on health and health behaviours during early adolescence through the Healthy Ireland Demonstration Project (HIDP) led by Professor Catherine Woods (UL) and Professor Donal O'Shea (St. Vincent's University Hospital, UCD). A core area of the HIDP is the school-based policies and practices for reducing sedentariness, increasing physical activity and improving healthy eating and health literacy. Dr Ng is also a member of the Finnish Health Behaviour in School-aged Children Study – a WHO collaborative study – where he is the co-chair of the chronic conditions and disability working group. He has led chapters in Finnish national Physical Activity reports in relation to young adolescents with long term illnesses and disabilities. Dr Ng is the Vice-President of the European Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (EUJAPA) and the European Representative of the International Federation of Adapted Physical Activity (IFAPA) since 2015. Dr Ng serves as an editor of open access journals BMC Public Health, European Journal of Adapted Physical Activity and Injury Epidemiology.
Dr Michael Connolly
Communication Between Healthcare Professionals And Patients Regarding End Of Life Care
Cochrane Consumers And Communication Group
Michael Connolly was appointed Joint Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing at UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems and Our Lady's Hospice and Care Services. Michael qualified as a Registered General Nurse in 1992 and has worked mainly in acute medicine, older person care and palliative care. He graduated from the Milltown Institute in 1998 with a BA (Hons) degree in Philosophy and from UCD in 2002 with an MSc (Nursing) (Education). He completed his doctoral research with the UCD Equality Studies Centre.
Michael began working in UCD in July 2001 and is currently the Programme Director for the Graduate Diploma/MSc in Palliative Care and is Head of Subject of Adult General Nursing at UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. Michael has considerable experience in palliative care education and research and was centrally involved in the development of the Palliative Care Competence Framework (2014).
Samantha Dick
Digital Interventions In Drugs And Alcohol Prevention And Treatment: A Systematic Review Of Research And Service Provision
EPPI-Centre
Samantha holds a BSc in Public Health from University College Cork, and an MSc by research from the Health Information Systems Research Centre at University College Cork. Her thesis examined randomised controlled trials as a method of evaluating mobile health interventions.
Samantha is currently working as part of a multi-disciplinary team on the development of a digital behaviour change intervention for illicit substance use among third level students.
Dr Aoife Egan
Rapid Review On The Effects Of Recreational Cannabis Use In Patients With Diabetes
Dr Aoife Egan graduated from the School of Medicine at NUI Galway in 2007. She completed her clinical training in General Medicine and Endocrinology in 2014 and was awarded a PhD from NUI Galway in 2017. The title of her doctoral thesis was "The Importance of a Continuum of Care Before, During and After Pregnancy in Women with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes along the Irish AtlanticSeaboard".
Aoife is currently working as a fellow in the Division of Endocrinology at Mayo Clinic Rochester, USA dividing her time between clinical and research activities.
Dr Jenny McSharry
Scoping Review On Knowledge Acquisition Assimilation And Use At The Organizational Level
Dr Jenny Mc Sharry is a lecturer in the School of Psychology and Assistant Director of the Health Behaviour Change Research Group (HBCRG) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Jenny is a chartered Health Psychologist and current chair of the Psychological Society of Ireland Division of Health Psychology. Jenny's research uses systematic evidence synthesis and intervention development approaches to explore and target behaviour change in healthcare. Jenny has a particular interest in implementation science, and the application of behaviour change to promote the uptake of research into practice. Through an Irish Research Council New Foundations Grant, Jenny led on the development of IMPlementation science Research NeTwork (IMPRNT) to develop implementation science capacity in Ireland.
Jenny has received a number of awards in recognition of her work including the Psychological Society of Ireland Division of Health Psychology Hannah McGee Excellence in Research and Practice Award (2017), the European Health Psychology Society Early Career Award (2015) and the Psychosocial Aspects of Diabetes Early Career Researcher Travel Award (2015).
Dr Hannah Delaney
Mobile-Based Technologies To Support Client To Healthcare Provider Communication And Management Of Care
Cochrane Effective Practice And Organisation Of Care
Dr Hannah Delaney is an experienced mixed-methods researcher with expertise in both qualitative and quantitative methods. She is a Post-Doctoral researcher with the HRB-Trials Methodology Research Network at NUI Galway and Trinity College Dublin. Prior to this Hannah worked as a Senior Researcher on the health policy team at the Scottish Centre for Social Research in Edinburgh, where she led multiple studies relating to: health behaviour, alcohol and tobacco control, and research with children and young people.
Hannah obtained her PhD from the University of the West of England in 2016, her research in active travel behaviours explored the experiences and sharing practices of cyclists and pedestrians on shared-use paths; through in-depth interviews, video ethnographies and on-site surveys.
Hannah is currently working on a 3-year HRB funded study where she is applying her health research skills and mixed-methods experience to trial methodology, specifically trial recruitment. The TRAIN study (Training tRial recruiters; An educational INtervention) will develop and evaluate an education and training intervention for recruiters to randomised trials.
Ciara Gleeson
Pulmonary Rehabilitation For Adults With Asthma
Cochrane Airways Australia
Ciara Gleeson has over 20 years clinical experience as a physiotherapist. She works as a Clinical Specialist in the multidisciplinary Respiratory Assessment Unit in St. James's Hospital Dublin. The service offers comprehensive chronic respiratory disease care from exacerbation through to stable disease management including the delivery of a hospital-based PR programme.
Ciara has a postgraduate Diploma in Statistics and a MSc Physiotherapy both from Trinity College Dublin (TCD). She has led initiatives such as a joint Hospital/ community based PR programme and lectured at undergraduate and postgraduate level in TCD on chronic respiratory disease management. She has clinical audit and research skills along with experience in the dissemination of research findings at national and international conferences. She looks forward to developing skills in evidence synthesis and the fantastic mentorship opportunity with the high quality review team that this Fellowship offers.
Dr Paul Macdaragh Ryan
Quality Improvement Strategies For Diabetes
Dr. Paul M Ryan is a researcher within the Centre for Research in Vascular Biology and a medical trainee (MB BCh BAO) in his final year of study within the School of Medicine in University College Cork. He holds a PhD in Microbiology, examining the interaction between the gut microbiome and host cardiometabolic function, as well as the influence of commonly prescribed hypocholesterolemic and anti-diabetic therapeutics on the gut microbiome.
Dr. Ryan contributes to ongoing research exploring the gut microbiome and bile acid metabolism in the context of heart failure in a porcine model of metabolic syndrome. He currently has 23 peer-reviewed publications with 290 citations, as well as nominations and awards relating to research and its dissemination.
Dr Pauline Meskell
Adult Specialist Services For Victim-Survivors Of Sexual Violence And Abuse
Pauline is a senior lecturer in the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, EHS Faculty at the University of Limerick. Pauline's research interests lie in the areas of self-management of chronic diseases including renal disease, Ageing, Dementia, outcome measurement, and Evidence Synthesis. She has been involved in both Cochrane and non-Cochrane systematic reviews and qualitative evidence syntheses.
Pauline has expertise in mixed method research having been involved in research studies using mixed methodology. Pauline has a keen interest in gaining experience and developing expertise in mixed method evidence synthesis and is really looking forward to working as a member of the mixed method synthesis team.
Dr Dervla Kelly
Lecturer in the Graduate Entry Medical School
Dervla Kelly is a lecturer in the Graduate Entry Medical School at the University of Limerick and part time community pharmacist. Dervla graduated with a B.Sc. in Pharmacy and a PhD in Epidemiology from Trinity College Dublin. She has been a postdoctoral research fellow at New York University. Her research interests are in the area of safe and effective use of medicines, including antibiotics, medication for mental health conditions and primary care medication management initiatives. She is one of the leads of Patient Perspectives arm of the UL Cancer research cluster at the University of Limerick.
The mission of Evidence Synthesis Ireland (ESI) is to make evidence syntheses more usable in every sense of the word – better designed, conducted and reported, more useable for decision makers and more usable within health care policy and clinical practice decision making across the island of Ireland and beyond.
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Das Erzbistum Concepción (lat.: Archidioecesis Sanctissimae Conceptionis) ist eine in Chile gelegene römisch-katholische Erzdiözese mit Sitz in Concepción.

Am 22. März 1563 wurde aus dem Gebiet des Bistums Santiago de Chile das Bistum La Imperial herausgenommen und als eigenständiges Bistum errichtet. 1603 wurde dieses umbenannt in Bistum Concepción. Am 20. Mai 1939 wurde das Bistum zum Erzbistum erhoben.

Das Erzbistum ist Träger der Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción.

Siehe auch
 Liste der römisch-katholischen Diözesen

Weblinks

 Erzbistum Concepción bei gcatholic.org

Concepcion
Concepción (Chile)
Concepcion
Gegründet 1563


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Mitsubishi Electric today announced it has developed a prototype electric vehicle (EV) motor drive system with a built-in silicon-carbide inverter. The EV motor drive system, the smallest of its kind, will enable manufacturers to develop EVs offering more passenger space and greater energy efficiency.
Mitsubishi Electric plans to commercialize its new EV motor system after finalizing technologies for motor/inverter cooling, further downsizing and additional efficiency.
- Achieves further system downsizing (14.1L, 60kW) with smaller motor resulting from improved thermal resistance between motor drive system and cooling system.
- Equal to existing EV motors in power and volume, enabling replacement.
- Integrates cooling system for motor and inverter thanks to cylindrical shape of power module accommodating parallel cooling ducts for motor and inverter.
- Ensures stable cooling with even a low-power pump.
Global demand for EVs and hybrid EVs (HEVs) has been growing in recent years, reflecting increasingly strict regulations for fuel efficiency and growing public interest in saving energy resources and reducing carbon dioxide emissions. As EVs and HEVs require relatively large spaces to accommodate their robust battery systems, there is a strong need to reduce the size and weight of motor systems and other equipment to ensure sufficient passenger space.
Pending patents for the technology announced in this news release number 94 in Japan and 29 abroad.


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Q: How to write only the last 10 lines to a file in C? I am trying to implement a simple command history. This programme writes all commands to a text file, but I want it to store only the last 10 commands.
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#define SIZE 10

void last_ten_commands(char *command)
{
    FILE *fp;

    fp = fopen("history.txt", "a+");
    fprintf(fp, "%s\n", command);
    fclose(fp);
}

int main(void)
{
    char  command[SIZE];

    fputs("Enter the command\n", stdout);
    while (1) {
        scanf("%s", command);
        if (strcmp(command,"exit") == 0)
            break;
        last_ten_commands(command);
    }
    return 0;
}

A: The simplest way is to keep the history list internally in the program, as a simple ten-element array, and flush the array to file when the history changes.
To know what index in the array to place the next element, use e.g.
current_index = (current_index + 1) % 10;

That will make sure that you don't go out of bounds of the array, and that it circulates when it reached the tenth element.
As for the history array, it could be a simple array of char *, or similar.


So after pretty good results at both the Whistler and Seymour 5 Peaks races I can definitely see the benefits of the Ketogenic diet. I had lots of energy for both races and had no difficulty with recovery whatsoever. In fact, I was ready for another run after my Seymour Race yesterday!
Though the week leading up to the race was a challenge. I wrote in my previous entry about my headaches which I thought may be attributed to a sodium deficiency. This was followed by 2-3 days of very low energy which included several unexpected naps and longer than usual sleep. So I think sodium was likely an issue and I did uptake my sodium content quite a bit with mostly miso and tamari.
Instead, muscle cells take up acetoacetate, reduce it to betahydroxybutyrate, and return it back into the circulation. Thus after a few weeks, the predominant form in the circulation is beta-hydroxybutyrate, which also happens to be the ketone preferred by brain cells (as an aside, the strips that test for ketones in the urine detect the presence of acetoacetate, not beta-hydroxybutyrate). The result of this process of keto-adaptation is an elegantly choreographed shuttle of fuel from fat cells to liver to muscle to brain.
So I do wonder if there was also another transition period I went through.
That said, I threw out any notion any sort of carb restriction today at the Metro Vancouver Feast of Fields where I ate any damn thing I pleased! So we'll now see how my energy holds up this week.
This week I made up a batch of keto-granola and a blueberry-chia pudding. They were pretty good for first runs, but I am sure I can make them both much much better. Having some new foods in my diet was a nice change and I think I can play with both recipes quite a bit. I also bought some nice organic ground beef and have been adding it to my Miso soup.
At this point I need to think about how I want to proceed with this diet and with races for the remainder of the year. The last 5 Peaks race is September 26 which is the day I fly back from Whitehorse. I will try to get an earlier flight so will continue to train for that race. I also hope to do a 5k In the Bay area in October to check my time against my earlier times. Then after that I think I will likely focus more on cycling and upper body strength as well as swimming to start preparing for next season and to prepare for some triathlons. I think I may throw some mountain biking in there as well, such as the Test of Metal in Squamish.
Looking forward to more cross training and getting in the pool to see how I can fare in the triathlons. If I can get my swimming up I think I could do quite well.


Could someone explain how the two auto trading commands work listed below. I tried to use them but did not see the trigger or stop hit at the price I specified when it should have.
make sure you do not put the statements in a condition.
They must be re-evaluated every tick.


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Don't be afraid to ask. Go ahead and ask your server about dishes that you really love. While they may not give you a play-by-play of each ingredient and how much to add, they may be able to identify that something-special that elevates the dish and that sets it apart when you try to duplicate it at home. Imitation is a sincere form of flattery so don't be worried about offending your chef or server; just ask!
Know your spices. The key to making a dish stand out often lies with the spices used. There is a difference in taste when using fresh or dried herbs and spices, so experiment to find the correct flavor profile. Also, consider what you are drinking with your meal as different wine pairings or spirits may enhance or diffuse flavors, making something taste better when eating out in a restaurant.
Paprika is a popular restaurant spice, but few home cooks actually use it for more than a colorful garnish. Paprika pairs well with citrus, and it has a very mild, mellow flavor even though it is made from dried chili peppers.
White pepper is a softer, tamed-down version of black pepper. The light-color works well in creamy dishes, sauces, or even eggs- when you don't want the sharp flavor or black pieces of pepper in the dish.
Cumin is found in many restaurant kitchens, though many home chefs tend to shy away from the smoky, sweet flavor of this yellow-colored spice. It brings an appealing hue to a sauce or dish, and the spiciness is popular in curries and ethnic cuisine.
Jot down notes. Carry a notebook in your pocket or purse to capture thoughts, flavor profiles, and information that may help you later when you want to prepare something similar. Use your phone to take a picture of the menu, which often offers a list of basic ingredients that may help you when you go grocery shopping.
Search for recipes online. Armed with the notes from your meal, look online for any sites that the restaurant might use to promote their product. Many will share recipes, cooking tips, and even secrets that can help their clientele make the same dishes at home.
Talk to your server about dishes that you are excited about, and see if the chef is willing to share his or her secrets with you. Get more familiar about spices, and ingredients in general, to ensure you are using them right and that you are getting the best quality to use at home. Take a few notes during dinner to remember highlights of your meal and to remind you to search online for the restaurant's most popular dishes and perhaps even their own recipes. Visit the best bar and grill in your area to try new foods.


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Grand Designs Australia: South Melbourne Brick House
By Marg Hearn
Featured on the LifeStyle Channel's Grand Designs Australia. This tri-level contemporary terrace showcases the exceptional quality of living that can be accomplished on a small footprint when creative and intelligent use of space is combined with considered material selection and craftsmanship.
HOUSE South Melbourne Brick House
LOCATION South Melbourne, Vic
COST $620,000
DATE COMPLETED mid-2013
EPISODE 2 SERIES 4
The extraordinary space efficiency of this inner-city abode masterfully provides separate quarters for two families, complete with seven stunning outdoor spaces. The immediate street-facing facade of the building, however, affords few clues as to the surprising and delightful spaces within. For passers-by, the facade serves as cause for a double take and a pondering as to how long the building has actually occupied the site. Although it wasn't a council requirement, care was taken by the owner-builder, Greg Saunders, to rebuild the Victorian frontage of the former single-fronted house "as a nod to the old". Once past this, the onlooker's gaze starts to absorb the intriguing layers beyond the front and down the side laneway. A rich tapestry of striking blue brickwork signals a new residence that pays homage to the authenticity of a history-steeped suburb.
The home's main entrance takes advantage of the cobbled bluestone laneway that it borders to one side — and is sited just over halfway along its length. This is one of many devices that collectively embellish the home with a spacious feel despite the relatively compact block.
Its "simple" but thoroughly considered floorplan was developed by McAllister Alcock Architects (MAA) in collaboration with Greg and his wife, Emma Calverley. Comprising three levels, the ground floor is a self-contained private residence for Emma's parents where design for accessible living overrode the couple's initial thoughts about having two abutting dwellings.
Greg and Emma were committed to the idea of creating a home that has a warehouse feel and respects the past, but without being contrived. It's a mission that has been resoundingly accomplished. Wherever possible, Greg looked to source locally made products, old and new. The drive behind selection was quality design and manufacture, along with a contribution of integrity. In some instances, this meant tracking down fittings and fixtures from overseas, such as the sculptural Italian-crafted steel spiral staircase that greets in the entry portal and leads up to the first floor sleeping digs and bathrooms. On this same level, an office/workshop for Greg is also enjoyed by the couple's six-year-old son and makes smart use of space adjacent to the stairs.
On the second floor, an open-plan kitchen/dining and living space consumes the full length and width of the home and is bathed in natural light. Having grown up in the small country township of Yan Yean, 38km from Melbourne, Greg was keen to "borrow from the idea of being surrounded by open spaces" and being connected with the surrounds. This notion is accentuated by the private outdoor areas that flow on from each main living space or bedroom on all three levels. Those to the front, take in north-west orientation and those to the rear, have a south-east aspect. Robust custom-made steel doors and windows — reflective of those found in traditional warehouses — beautifully capture the South Melbourne urban vistas, while an additional roof garden has magical 360° views.
During the eight years that Greg and Emma lived in the original property prior to embarking on the build, they had given thought as to their exact requirements for their immediate and extended family and lifestyle. This is evidenced in the home's generously proportioned spaces that are highly functional and without wastage.
Greg was a bricklayer for 28 years before a career change to cafe ownership four years ago. He took 12 months leave to project manage construction along with the design and fit-out of the interior, while Emma, who works in the arts partnership industry, ran the cafe. Greg says having custom-made furniture to fit specific spaces (and much of that built-in) is a secret to achieving a "space that works". The metal bench seat that wraps around half of the dining table and which morphs into the stairs to the roof garden is a prime example. An integrated desk alongside the spiral stairs is another, which also cleverly doubles as a backdrop for the built-in L-shape banquette seat. A very sleek all-black kitchen, with minimal and select quality appliances, unobtrusively sits against one wall and was custom made in this way too.
Unsurprisingly, this house is of brick construction and features many masonry surfaces. "I like bricks because they don't pretend to be anything they're not," Greg says. He also advocates that, architecturally, Melbourne is deserving of materials that will "stand the test of time". One advantage of being part of the building industry for many years is the firsthand knowledge gained of likeminded tradesmen who take pride in delivering quality work and finishes. That certainly applies here. It was through Greg's work that he met Karen Alcock, co-founder of MAA. Similarly, most tradies were handpicked through previous work associations as attested by the detailing and finishes of carpentry, tiling, steelwork, glazing and concrete works throughout.
Bricklaying is, of course, Greg's forte. He was ably assisted by his former boss and later business partner to hand glaze 9500 household bricks during a four-week period. The resulting blue tones of the bricks form a literal reference to a glazed ceramic pot made by Greg in high school, which is proudly displayed in the kitchen. The exterior of the home to the laneway is solid brick teamed with roughcast render. Traditional brickwork placement has been combined with a breeze wall above the entry, created by placing the bullnosed edge of the brick to the outside. Visually, this "breaks up the wall" and, functionally, it encourages a breeze to enter and penetrate an ingenious internal wall of openable windows.
Contributing to the authenticity of the home is the way the individual textures, tones, form and materiality of a pared-back palette have been allowed to make unique statements, without being overwhelming. And, while several primary colour accents are at play, it's the application of blue in the brickwork, the staircase and the locally made tiles in the kitchen and dining space that is the unabashed hero.
The reuse of items from yesteryear contributes to the home's lived-in feel. This was a priority for the couple and also typifies their practical approach to sustainability rather than "doing things just for the sake of it." Examples include the silver metal Wilco light switches that were discovered in an old electrical shop in Warrnambool, Vic, by a friend. Greg also regularly scoured the Delta Group warehouse for materials that had been salvaged from building demolitions. The substantial metal beam that now runs from the ground to the first floor ceiling was one of those special acquisitions. Lockers from a former Cadbury Schweppes warehouse have also been repurposed as storage cupboards underneath a workbench, while the timber atop was created using remnants of a workbench that once belonged to Greg's father.
Having now experienced their first winter in the home, Greg says investing in double-glazed windows "was well worth it" as it assisted in maintaining a comfortable temperature. During the summer months, exceptional cooling from cross ventilation is assured, aided by fans and the brick and concrete surfaces, while an external frame for planting will also help to thwart heat gain.
Incredibly, room was also found to accommodate a quaint dip pool on the front deck as part of a floorplan that provides both community amenities, as well as a choice of getaway spots for family or friends to find their own urban sanctuary. Completion of the roof garden is still on Greg's to-do list as is, hopefully, getting back on his bike. And although the project had the challenge of managing a job on a tight site, he says the 14-month build was "very rewarding." It's Emma, however, that he credits for ultimately making it happen and giving him the encouragement to sift through his myriad ideas, garnered over many years, and to turn those into reality.
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Contributing to the authenticity of the home is the way the individual textures, tones, form and materiality of a pared-back palette have been allowed to make unique statements, without being overwhelming
Greg and Emma were committed to the idea of creating a home that has a warehouse feel and respects the past, but without being contrived
Wherever possible, Greg looked to source locally made products, old and new. The drive behind selection was quality design and manufacture, along with a contribution of integrity
ARCHITECT (Design and council approval) McAllister Alcock Architects (maarchitects.com.au)
Owner-builder Greg Saunders
INTERIOR DESIGN & FIT-OUT
Architecture McAllister Alcock Architects (maaarchitects.com.au) Construction Greg Saunders Brickwork Greg Saunders (owner-builder) and John Angoletti Bricks Austral Bricks (australbricks.com.au Custom window and door systems Rob Dekker (0400 429 625) Carpentry and joinery Stuart Sloane (0407 804 381) Staircase Italian Designer Staircases (idstairs.com.au)
Decking recycled timbers from Delta Group (deltagroup.com.au) Awning Insail Awnings & Shade Sails (insailyachting.com.au, 0448 155 000) Pool Waterview Swimming Pools (waterviewpools.com.au, 0407 350 408)
Kitchen Appliances VZUG (vzug.com/au/en, 03 9699 4720) Steel seat and shelf Delta Group (deltagroup.com.au) Steel balustrade Bent Metal Iron Works (bentmetal.com.au) Lighting Empirical Style (customised by Greg Saunders) (empiricalstyle.com) Kitchen sink Schott (schott.com) Ribbed glass Armac Glass (armacglass.com) Kitchen and dining room tiles SaJo (sajoceramics.com) Bathroom sink Reece (reece.com.au)
Plumbing Gordy (0418 359 394) Electrical Brandon Electrical (0418 324 319) Landscape Oliver Stone (0414 325 711)
Eames moulded-plywood dining chairs (livingedge.com.au) Bedroom scales Grays (grays.net.au)
Words / Marg Hearn Photography / Rhiannon Slatter
From Grand Designs Australia magazine Vol. 3 No. 1
Tags: Melbourne homes Grand Designs Australia Space maximising
Publish at: 19/02/2014 , last modify at: 23/03/2018 Amy Norris
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Umu-Nneochi or Umunneochi is a Local Government Area (LGA) in Abia State, Nigeria.

Officially known as "Nneochi", Umunneochi is made up of three major septs: Umuchieze, Nneato, and Isuochi. The major towns of Umunneochi are Umuelem, Ndiawa, Amuda, Ngodo-ukwu, Lokpaukwu, Leru, Lomara Lokpanta, Lekwesi and Mbala . These towns have been repeatedly reorganized. The paramount traditional ruler of isuochi is  Eze G I Ezekwesiri, the Ochi 1 of Isuochi, while the federating autonomous communities are governored by  Ndi-Eze.

Umunneochi headquarters is in the administrative town of Nkwoagu, Isuochi. Nkwoagu is also the administrative capital, which in ancient and modern times were political and administrative rallying points for the Umunneochi autonomous communities.

Umunneochi occupies 368 km with a population of 163,928, according to the 2006 Nigeria National Census.

Economy
The major occupations include agriculture and granite, quorite, and laterite mining and trading. The main agricultural food crops are cassava, yam, black beans, and cocoyam. The cash crops are palm nuts and cashew nuts. Pottery is another occupation. Nigeria's biggest cattle market is in the lokpanta area.

Infrastructure
Public and private schools and churches are present.

See also
List of villages in Abia State

References

Local Government Areas in Abia State


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It gives me great pleasure to announce that Bayside Music Press is now offering the publications of James McFadyen Publishing, located in Fife, Scotland. This will give American buyers easier access to these works, coupled with fast shipping and the convenience of credit card payment through PayPal.
The first three of Mr. McFayden's Brass Band titles that we're carrying are:
Catalog # JMP-BB002
ABIDE WITH ME, arranged by James McFadyen.
Never before has a hymn tune received such a grand treatment! The arranger says, "It's a right tear-jerker at the finish line, a definite must for all Brass Bands with a supremely delicious and loud finish!"
DISTANT SKIES, by James McFadyen.
An energetic rock piece for Brass Band which is suited to 1st and 2nd Section bands, 3rd and 4th sections may find it playable from a technical stand-point but requires good strong players throughout the whole band.
PLACE WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE, A, by James McFadyen
A piece of heart-warming beauty with lush sounding chords and nice melodic figures, playable by bands at all levels.
We also have one new Bayside Music Press title for Brass Band, also now listed on our website:
Catalog # BMP-0057
ANDANTE RELIGIOSO, by Jozsef Bloch, arr. Jim O'Briant
This chorale arrangement in four parts is scored only for your low conical brasses -- Baritones, Euphoniums, Eb Basses and Bb Basses. Originally composed as a study in double-stops for two violins, it provides rich and interesting harmonic progressions that sound especially lush in the low brasses. The Cornets, Horns, Trombones and Percussion are TACET throughout. Program this in the second half of a concert and you'll not only feature your low brasses, but also give everyone else a brief rest.
All of the above selections are now available for purchase through the Bayside Music Press website at:
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The website has been up and running for less than six months, and earlier this week we had our 1000th visitor. The total is now over 1,100 "hits," and the number keeps climbing. We are presently negotiating marketing agreements with several more small publishers, and we'll let you know just as soon as their titles are available through Bayside Music Press.
Thanks to all of you who have placed orders with us! We appreciate your business!
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Hey Jim...
Glad to see theMouthPiece.com is helping forge effective business relationships across the 'pond'... great to see...
Maybe theMouthPiece.com could be mentioned to each of your clients in passing yeah? :wink: t'would be good if that were the case. Just a thought.


Here are the current course requirements for a Sociology Minor at Alverno. The courses are organized into categories to help you understand why you have to take what you do. The total number of credits requires is 21-23.
All societies have to acquire and distribute the necessities of life, and make decisions about who gets what. Thus all societies have an economic system and a political system of some type. So we ask all students to learn about these social institutions early in their major.
Sociology instills a certain way of thinking about people, social institutions, and social change. Thus we require several courses to form your sociological imagination in your sophomore, junior, and senior years.
Other elective courses are sometimes offered. Be sure to check the Alverno Course Offerings Book on line every semester and talk to a Sociology faculty member about other courses you could use as electives.


Kurt Francom of Leading Saints podcast says we need to have conflict, but not contention, in Sunday School classes.
We also talked about the new Ministering program. Have you struggled to figure out what to do? Kurt gives ideas on how to approach this. I asked him how to handle both faithful & faithless members!
Have you had good experiences with the new program, or have you just quit visiting altogether, because you're not sure what to do? Do you know people who have lost their testimonies after reading Rough Stone Rolling? Is ok to ask sticky church history questions in Sunday School? I was surprised at Kurt's candid response: "We have to have these difficult conversations." What can leaders and lay members do to improve church culture? Kurt gives some ideas.
And we say, "We did not say contention. We said conflict." If someone came to me and said and said, "No, my marriage is going great. We never have any conflict." I would say, I think there's something wrong about your marriage that you're not seeing. It is in the conflict that I have with my wife where we gain a deeper love and understanding and a deeper bond together right now. If we were just contending, if it was conflict in our marriage, yeah, that's not healthy.
But we absolutely need conflict because that helps us grow. And so in the context of our Sunday school classes, we do need more room for conflict, and that it can only begin with the bishop or the leadership saying to the Sunday School President, "This is okay." Or to be the devil's advocate at times, the raise your hand and say, "Well, I know some people see it this way. What do you think about that?" Right? And it's not about a watering down doctrine or promoting a false doctrine because you would be surprised. Many people think they know the doctrine. That's not the doctrine. There's core tenants of the doctrine.
And so to me the greater principle is as a leader, what can you do as a leader or as an everyday member? Set an appointment with the bishop and go in there with a full heart and just saying like, "I don't feel heard in Sunday school. Does that matter to you? Because when we have these lessons and I don't want to be there, if I get the impression that it doesn't matter to you, but I'm guessing that's really not how you feel." Right?
And if you can be as empathetic towards them so there'll be empathetic back. I mean we've got to have these difficult conversations everyday members saying, "I don't feel validated when I come to church and part of me wants to not come some weeks. How do you feel about that?" Right? And, if we can't have those real conversations, we'll get nowhere. And I get it that you may be thinking in your head, "You don't understand my bishop. There's not a chance in eternity that he's going to willing to have that conversation." Well, if that's the case, sit back. That's why we have a lay ministry that rotates in and out.
Would this work for you? Do you have conflict, but not contention in Sunday School? What do you think of Kurt's advice?
Renaming his podcast is another example of the confusion I have over the whole Mormon issue. I understood President Nelson to be saying that using the word Mormon excludes Christ and so should be avoided. That's something that is hard to disagree with. Yet the application of that idea makes no sense. The Mormon Tabernacle Choir is now the Choir at Temple Square. Mormon was removed but was Christ reinstated? No, a generic name was created with no hint of what the choir might represent. Here in CA there has been the Southern California Mormon Choir since 1951, it has now been renamed the Southern California Choir. Again, Mormon is removed but Christ was not reinstated and what remains is a generic name with no hint of the choir's provenance. And now the podcast, which I assume used to have Mormon in its title, I'm just guessing since I've never heard of it before now. Was Christ reinstated? No, and now the podcast has a completely generic name with no hint of what it is about. As an illustration of why these generic names are poor substitutes for their former ones, when I googled "Leading Saints podcast renamed" in order to try and find out what the podcast used to be named I got nothing but hits about the New Orleans Saints football team.
Kurt's podcast used to be called Leading LDS.
From my anecdotal experience, I would say Rough Stone Rolling has been a significant reason for some members in deciding to leave the church. My wife left the church earlier this year and I've attended a few Post Mormon (PostMo's) support group events with her. Almost all of the Postmo's I've met in those events had read the book or were familiar with it. Many shared experiences similar to Kurt's second counselor in that the book was the triggering event for them to leave.
Dave, triggering in what sense? In the sense they were encountering history they'd never encountered before?
…and yet Rough Stone Rolling filled me with sadness and compassion for those early saints and Joseph Smith. I think it increased the scope of my testimony, and I hope it has deepened it.
Yes and No. Some hadn't encountered the history before and were shocked. Some, however, had encountered various aspects of the history prior to reading the book but when they sought more information or asked questions from leaders or other members, they were told such accounts were not true, that it was just made up or exaggerations from anti-Mormons. When Rough Stone Rolling revealed such troubling aspects were true, they felt betrayed and lied to by the church.
A representative sample of active members of the church read RSR carefully and thoughtfully without prejudice. What are the results?
V% already read it but upon re-examination find it more disturbing.
W% already read it, no change; or less disturbing or boring.
X% find it disturbing enough to leave or significantly reconstruct their testimony.
I don't know the answers. But if sizeable numbers fall into the V% or the X% , then we are in trouble. Because RSR is about as friendly to orthodox belief without being deceitful as it can get. Bushman handles every unpleasant event as sensitively as possible. Since I believe people might be gullible but eventually figure things out, I think X% is going to get enormous and will be even larger in the rising generation. If I am right the church is doomed to relentless atrophy over generations if they don't change course. More than the recent tweaking of externalities.
I notice that Lutherans do not suffer a faith crisis when they discover Luther's flaws. And they were serious. They are not held historically responsible for his blunders. This is because they have moved beyond him, grateful for his accomplishments and forgiving of his flaws.
We set ourselves up for disappointment when we semi-deify Joseph Smith and then discover his serious flaws. They can no longer be hidden in the information age. The truth cries out from the ether cloud. The only way out of the corner into which we have painted ourselves is to move away from Joseph Smith. To build a church based on something more substantial than him and his successors and blind obedience to them.
The emergence of the next book; Saints the Standard of Truth clearly indicates a reluctance to face these historical problems and sows the seeds for more people to have a "faith crisis" and apostasy in the future. About every sentence is footnoted but it remains fundamentally deceitful for what it leaves veiled or unsaid. That cannot be hidden any better than before. So sad.


NEW YORK, Nov. 08, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Virgin Voyages, the new lifestyle brand set to disrupt the travel industry, today announces the breadth of its onboard eateries, which include an expansive array of restaurants ranging from haute cuisine to casual fare. With a total of 20+ food choices onboard Virgin Voyages' first ship, Scarlet Lady, the company released new designs for their restaurants, seaside lounges and casual eateries by their Creative Collective, which includes world-renowned designers from Roman and Williams, Tom Dixon, Concrete Amsterdam and Soft Room, amongst others.
RAZZLE DAZZLE - With an interior scheme that nods to the namesake, the bold camouflaging of ships from WWI using patterns of black and white paint, Razzle Dazzle was designed by Concrete Amsterdam. With vibrant and creative twists on vegetarian fare and a juice bar. The "nice" menu offers plant-based vegetarian and vegan dishes including must have muchies such as the Impossible Burger. The "naughty" side enables sailors to order meat "add-ons" and offers to spike their healthy smoothies with boozy shots. To live up to the boldness of its name, Razzle Dazzle will not simply brunch but rather Drag Brunch, where sailors are treated to a performance by the Scarlet Lady's resident drag performer and friends.