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Falcons and Falconers, Mobs and their Masters
Aw, look at me, I'm ramblin' again...
This morning I was looking for that quote (by Schuon) promised in the previous post, but in so doing fell into another unanticipated rabbit hole. Then again, maybe that's why I find the post s'durned innarestin'.
Schuon is like Dávila in his compressed rabbitholery: the sentences are fractal, such that each one contains a whole essay or book or even doctrine, so to utter One is to mutter it All.
Remarkable when you think about it. I know of no other writers who do that. Some come close, and some do it sometimes, but these two are masters of fractal speech. Which is a real thing requiring a real explanation, not something I just made up. Oh, we'll see about that!, said the rational side of his brain.
I assume you know about fractals, but a brief review never hurts:
a fractal is a detailed, recursive, and infinitely self-similar mathematical set.... Fractals exhibit similar patterns at increasingly small scales.... [and] can also be nearly the same at different levels.
Fractals exist in nature, but how? To put it more philosophically, by virtue of what principle are fractals possible and even necessary? As Mandelbrot, the discoverer of fractals, remarked, "A fractal is a shape made of parts similar to the whole in some way." I would say that if fractals are in nature, this must be because nature is fractal, which is what Whitehead suggested in so many ways (before the formal discovery of fractals). For example,
in a certain sense, everything is everywhere at all times. For every location involves an aspect of itself in every other location. Thus, every spatio-temporal standpoint mirrors the world.
Dávila suggests that
Phrases are pebbles the that the writer tosses into the reader's soul. The diameter of the concentric waves they displace depends on the dimensions of the pond.
This implies that the soul is a series of concentric circles, and this would be correct. It is why we apprehend the world as just such a series, except that different people locate the circles around different centers, from energy to idea to soul to matter to unalloyed grievance (in the case of the left).
Leaving the dimensions of the pond to the side, there must be a center, or we couldn't think at all. Now, this center is the ground of thought, and -- whether implicitly or explicitly, coherently or incoherently -- a prolongation of the absolute.
Let's bring this down to a practical level: why is the nation of E pluribus unum -- of all places -- engaged in a civil war? Easy: different unums, which is to say, Absolutes.
The (real) Absolute includes the dimension of first principles, which you might say are as Son to Father. The Absolute "iterates" in time and space as (for example) principles of logic, natural law, and human nature. These constants are all different, and yet the same; they are brothers and sisters, related through blood to the vertical Absolute. They are also fractal, in that each "contains" and reflects the others, so it is more like an interlocking net than, say, a pointillist painting.
The point is, everything isn't just connected, but interior to everything else. On the metaphysical side, this is expressed by Whitehead; on the scientific side, by quantum physics; on the psychological side by intersubjectivity; and on the religious side by the great I AM or the irreducible interpersonalism of the Holy Spirit.
Ultimate reality is and must be personal, which is to say, Person, or human persons would be impossible. And a person is never just a person-in-isolation, or a monad; rather, a person is always implicitly person-in-relation, and this principle is the last (and first) word.
I need to emphasize how literal I'm being here. It's similar to how the Bible doesn't mention the word "Trinity." Rather, the Trinity is needed in order to tie up various loose ends that otherwise make no sense. It is the Truth of these lesser truths -- as in how quantum physics is the truth of Newtonian physics, which is the truth of our common sense world of experience.
Likewise, the Absolute is Person(hood); conversely, if it isn't a person, then truly, the center cannot hold, mere an-archy is loosed upon the world, and uh oh, here comes the blood-dimmed mob.
Again, I'm not trying to go all visionary on you this morning. Although Yeats words have become a cliche used by both right and (without irony or self-awareness) left, he was definitely on to something concrete. Yes, he was a visionary, but a vision is not a hallucination.
Let's put it this way: both the left and right agree that the gyre is widening. If there exists a "responsible left," it has lost control of its falcon mobs. But the falcon masters don't call their birdbrains mobs. Rather, they would no doubt say that a vast image troubles their sight, with the shape of a businessman and the head of a tyrant, a rough beast slouching toward re-election!
Back to what is at issue in our civil war: ultimately it is the Absolute on one side, and Absolute Relativism on the other. The latter, of course, reduces to nihilism, but don't tell the nihilists! Nevertheless, this is the only way to understand the ground of leftism.
For example, on one side we have the Constitution, on the other side whatever they want the Constitution to say. But if the Constitution can say anything, then it says nothing.
Which was true of the Soviet Union. The communist bill of rights was much better than ours. But what did it actually mean in practice? That's right: nothing. No, worse than nothing!
The clock is ticking down, so I want to get back to Schuon, which is where this all started. He writes that "If there is such a thing as abuse of the intelligence, it is to be found in the substitution of the relative for the Absolute..."
Intelligence on one side, abuse of it on the other. No wonder we're in a civil war.
Matrices of Life, Mind, and Spirit
I want to tie up some loose ends from yesterday's post. In so doing, we'll no doubt loosen some tight ends, but that's how it is with thinking: it is always a dialectical process of loosening and tightening, or what I call mental metabolism.
You could say that it is analysis (breaking down, loosening) and synthesis (integrating, tightening), but these two poles are always necessary for any deep thinking. Really, it is what makes us human instead of computers or robots or ideologues.
Schuon touches on this somewhere. If I'm lucky, I'll find it right away. If not, I'll move on.
Damn. I'm looking for something totally unrelated, but it is as if the first book I pick up comments on what I've already said: "The image of man presented to us by modern psychology is not only fragmentary, it is pitiable." Quite true. Which is why it no longer interests me; or, it interests me, but only up to a point -- the point at which psychology shades off into theology (and vice versa, for the dimension of psychology is a prolongation of something higher; the converse -- that religion is reducible to psychology -- is a popular delusion).
"In reality man is as if suspended between animality and divinity," but "modern thought -- be it philosophical or scientific -- admits only animality, practically speaking."
Now, if you haven't understood that literally, then you haven't understood it. For what is man in the absence of divinity? Correct: he is an animal, nothing more, nothing less. What we call "man" takes place in the nonlocal space between animality and divinity.
Which touches directly on the Kavanaugh madness and on our civil war more generally. Since the 1960s in particular, the left has been attacking and undermining every human norm, including norms of sexuality. Mission accomplished. Now what?
Well, now we are bearing witness to an unleashing of all the primitive energy which the norms had previously structured and channeled. Note also that what had been a spontaneous order that was evolved in order to cope with this perennial and insoluble problem, now had to be an external order imposed by some top-down bureaucracy -- e.g., campus sex police.
It is no different than if we had abolished the civilizational norms that channel any other instinct, say, aggression. Which liberals also did. Only when he has eroded law and order does the ahistorical liberal discover why law and order were there to begin with.
Thus, the soft-on-crime mania of the 1960s was followed immediately by a hard-on-citizens mania on the part of criminals for the subsequent two or three decades. Criminals are stupid, but not so stupid that they don't know how to recognize and respond to incentives. The same pattern repeated with President Obama's ceaseless attack on police. As we know, inner city blacks were and are the predominant victims of the Ferguson Effect.
Anyway, man exists in a matrix; and not just one, but several. Now, matrix comes from mater (mother), which is in turn related to uterus or womb. If you really want to know what distinguishes man from woman (womb-an) -- or maleness from femaleness -- it would be this matrix. A matrix is a space of organic growth and development. You can actually turn this around and say: where there is growth and development, it is contained by a matrix, whether visible or invisible, local or nonlocal, vertical or horizontal, spatial or temporal.
For example, if you try to grow a pine tree at the equator -- or a palm tree in Alaska -- it's the wrong matrix. Nothing has changed except for the surrounding space, but this space is everything, in the sense that it a necessary cause of growth, whereas the genetic form is only a sufficient cause.
Well, it's the same with humans: humans require a matrix, beginning with the literal matrix, AKA womb. But that is hardly the last womb we inhabit! Early infancy is literally the attempt to recreate the conditions of the womb, only on the outside. Eventually the child moves on (in) to higher and more subtle matrices, and is contained by the symbolic worlds of language, culture, religion, etc. To be so contained is to be human; an uncontained human is a psychopath, literally.
It occurs to me that our republic is supposed to be contained in and by the Constitution. No American disagreed with this proposition until Woodrow Wilson, and the left has been disagreeing with it ever since. They do not wish for state power to be contained, structured, and channelled by the Constitution. Rather, they want it to be constrained by their own wishes and desires, which is no constraint at all.
Their judicial philosophy is by no means a mirror image of ours, in which case we would say "a pox on both louses."
Rather, to take one obvious example, there is nothing about abortion, pro or con, in the Constitution. Thus, the right and proper thing for SCOTUS to have done in 1973 would have been to turn it back to the states. But if constitutional conservatives behaved like the left, they'd invent something in the Constitution to make abortion a federal crime -- say, an infant's right to privacy. This guy provides additional examples:
WE DON'T HAVE A "RADICAL RIGHT-WING SUPREME COURT," despite lots of mewing on the left to the contrary. Here are the sorts of things that would be at the top of the agenda for a radical right-wing Court: (1) ban abortion nationwide as a violation of the right to life protected by the due process clause; (2) rule that publicly-provided (but not funded) education is unconstitutional because it inherently involves viewpoint discrimination by the government, or at least require vouchers for those who object to the public school curriculum; (3) overrule an 1898 precedent and completely abolish birthright citizenship; (4) Use the First Amendment as a sword to require "fairness" in the left-dominated media.
Not only is the Supreme Court not about to do any of [these] things, I don't think any of these things would even get one vote on the current Court. Moreover, merely bringing the scope of Congress's constitutional back to where it was, say, in 1935, which was already much broader than the original meaning of the Commerce power, probably wouldn't get more than one or two votes. What you are looking at right now is a conservative Court that will only affect society on the margins, not a "radical right-wing" Court.
Here is the Schuon quote I was looking for, now that we're out of time:
Discernment is separative, and it is what "doctrine" refers to; concentration is unitive, and it is what "method" refers to; "faith" is connected to the first element, and "love of God" to the second.
Doctrine and method are as if two matrices, the first more spatial -- like a vast intellectual cathedral -- the second more temporal, like a growing plant. In both cases we are fed from above via love and faith. Call it the nonlocal umbilical cord without which we sophicate in mere animality.
The Politics of Projection: In-sight vs. Out-blind
Can't spellcheck 'til later. Deal with it.
Despite being a clinical psychologist, I don't think or write much about psychology per se anymore. I don't know whether it's become so internalized that I just take it for granted, or whether my concerns are so focused on a higher reality that the lower ones fade from view.
The Aphorist tells us that The lesser truths tend to eclipse the highest truths. However, it can also work conversely: sometimes the higher truths can eclipse the lower ones. Eclipse doesn't necessarily mean deny; rather, the light from one can obscure the light from the other -- as in how stars are overshadowed by the sun, even though they are much larger.
And just as one must maintain horizontal and exterior order, one must maintain vertical and interior order -- which necessarily involves hierarchy; no hierarchy, no vertical order. And I assume it hasn't escaped your attention that the left opposes all hierarchy (except when when they are at the top of the hierarchy). For example, now that more women than men attend college, feminists are not screeching that the sexes must be admitted on a 50/50 basis. Nor do we hear them complaining about "incarceration inequality":
For that matter, far too few women are killed on the job. Why do they avoid the dangerous ones? Do they think they're special?
The Aphorist also reminds us that In order for a multitude of diverse terms to coexist, it is necessary to place them on different levels. A hierarchical ordering is the only one that neither expels nor suppresses them. Psychology still exists, but it is psychology, not metaphysics or theology. If it does displace the latter two, then it inevitably ends up projecting the lower into the higher -- into the vacuum created by their absence.
Note that the same thing can happen at lower levels. For example, there was a time just yestercentury when psychology was in danger of being displaced by behaviorism. For the behaviorist, the mind doesn't exist, or if it does exist, it doesn't matter. Rather, there is only visible behavior, with no invisible mind behind -- much less above -- it.
Now, is there any truth to behaviorism? Of course. It just needs to be kept in perspective. Similarly, as mentioned in the previous post, there is surely truth in physics. But to suggest that physics is all truth is going way too far. This is when a scientific discipline becomes a mania.
And mania, like acting out, is a term of art. In psychoanalytic parlance, mania is a defense against depression. Except that in this context, depression too is a term of art. It doesn't just mean "sad" or dysphoric or bummed out. Rather, it implies the rejection of omnipotence and the acceptance of reality. You might say that it is resignation to the real. And reality can be kind of sad and sobering, at least compared to fantasy.
We're touching on some very important ideas that I'll need to flesh out further as we proceed.
Anyway, if I were to write about psychopathology, the past few weeks have provided a wealth of material. In fact, too much material. How to boil it all down to a simple explanation of the madness of the left?
By the way, another good reason to avoid psychology -- in this case psychologizing politics -- is that it's too easy to pathologize people with whom one disagrees. Anyone can do it, even a psychologist. As you know, the field of psychology leans left (to put it mildly), and there are countless papers that explain how and why conservatives are such mentally ill fascists. So if they do it to us, and we do it to them, doesn't that just prove the whole field has the validity of astrology?
Could be. Just as religion could be nonsense, since some religions believe in human sacrifice, while others call it murder.
I was trained in a certain school of psychoanalysis (itself a small and shrinking corner of psychology as such) that regards the exterior world as secondary to the interior world. No, not in the "I think I am" way of the rationalist. Rather, more like "I am this (pathological) way on the inside, so I imagine the exterior world is that way." In other words, pain, conflict, and frustration are projected from the inside out and regarded as real. You could call this the Primordial Conflation.
Now that I think about it, I am indeed tempted to think of man's fallenness in these terms. Pursuing this hunch will take us far afield, but you have to admit that a persistent bug in mankind -- ever since the dawn of history -- involves the confusion of inside and out, mind and world.
There is a section or two on this subject in our book, but the subject could easily be expanded into its own book. Or thousands of books. That is, externalization is a constant feature in human history, such that history cannot be understood at all without an appreciation of this defense mechanism.
For example, how does one understand the Aztec, whose whole civilization revolved around murdering thousands of innocent victims by slicing open their chests and cutting out the beating heart? Doing this just once would require a pretty good excuse. But thousands of times a year?
Nor do we have to go that far back in time. Nazis? Communists? Is a rational defense of these ideologies possible? Of course not. But that hardly means there weren't believed, passionately.
Speaking of which, remind me to tie this discussion into the well-written and highly entertaining The Infernal Library: On Dictators, the Books They Wrote, and Other Catastrophes of Literacy. Kalder describes the phenomenon without getting into the question of why all these hall of fame leftists are so evil and crazy, but that's our job. Suffice it to say at this juncture that
Great stupidities do not come from the people. They have seduced intelligent men first.
True then, true today. Look at all the professors and law students from elite universities who have condemned Brett Kavanaugh. These people are not stupid. Rather, they are plagued by something far worse.
Speaking of which, remind me also to bring in The Neuroscience of Intelligence at some point. Our merit-based society is indeed doing a fine job of sorting and rewarding people on the basis of intelligence. D'oh!
I was thinking about the implications of this over the weekend. No system is perfect, of course, but imagine that ours is pretty efficient at spotting and rewarding intelligence. Well, half of the population is of below average intelligence, so they might not like this system at all. There's your permanent Democrat base, right there.
Back to the defense mechanism of projection. When we act upon our projections, it is called acting out. Acting out is simply behaving as if one's projections are real. And as we've mentioned before, the great majority of "activists" -- in particular on the left -- have simply discovered an issue around which they can focus their emotional pain and then act out on it, instead of having insight into it.
Thus, "acting out" and "insight" are polar opposites: insight is the cure for acting out, while acting out is a major defense against insight. (And all psychological defense mechanisms are defenses against insight, e.g., denial, projection, rationalization, etc.).
According to Prof. Wiki, acting out
is a psychological term from the parlance of defense mechanisms and self-control, meaning to perform an action in contrast to bearing and managing the impulse to perform it. The acting done is usually anti-social and may take the form of acting on the impulses of an addiction or in a means designed (often unconsciously or semi-consciously) to garner attention (e.g. throwing a tantrum or behaving promiscuously)....
Freud considered that patients in analysis tended to act out their conflicts in preference to remembering them -- repetition compulsion. The analytic task was then to help "the patient who does not remember anything of what he has forgotten and repressed, but acts it out" to replace present activity by past memory.
In this context, "remembering" is synonymous with insight.
Let me get back to how this whole post started. It could have been anywhere, but it actually started with this guy. Look at what This Guy tweeted:
Time to get ruthless. ALL Republicans must go; every one; none should be allowed to appear in polite society again; must be shunned; relegated to the dustbin of history. White-nationalism dying a hard, mean, mean-hearted death of resentment & rage, trying to kill the country.
Where to begin? The first sentence implies that Democrats have not been ruthless toward Brett Kavanaugh, but that it's time to get that way. Not just toward him, and not even just his supporters, but to ALL Republicans, which is to say, half the country. So as to be precise, ruthless: having no pity; merciless, cruel.
So, this fellow is urging that half the population be mercilessly cruel toward the other half. Er, why? Presumably because you and I and all other conservatives are merciless and cruel. In other words, if you ask This Guy why he is so merciless and cruel, he'd have no idea what you're talking about. Rather, his whole worldview revolves around the idea that people with whom he disagrees are merciless and cruel.
It would be hard to find a more perfect example of projection. And he is urging people to act on this projection: acting out.
Could this guy really be this crazy, or is this just an aberration in the heat of the moment? Another tweet:
"Since 1992 Republicans have won only *one* Presidential Election with a *majority* of the overall vote. Minority rulers. UnAmerican."
Is such a crazy opinion susceptible to correction? If so, then it's just ignorant, not crazy. Now, our founders took great care to prevent the type of democracy he advocates. Does he know this? And does he know why democracy is so dangerous?
Yeah, let's give him the benefit of the doubt. He's just ignorant.
"Who gives a hoot anymore about what pervert Turd [by which I believe he means President Trump] thinks! What Republicans think! We KNOW what they think; cruelty is at their core."
Says the man who just advocated merciless cruelty.
Well, this sounds like something we might be able to agree on:
"I needed someplace to sooth the pain of this cruel last two weeks. I arrived at frick collection early, & began to heal some, loose [sic] myself in things bigger than I am or that *this* is. That impart the otherness & infinitude that art can grant. Art is for healing too."
Except here are some examples of what he regards as Healing Art:
We're out of time. We'll end with an aphorism or two:
The partisans of a cause are often the best arguments against it.
It is enough to know nothing more than that certain beings have adopted an idea to know that it is false.


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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accepted on offer to appear before a Senate committee and discuss the president's Russia summit but declined a similar one from the House. | Brendan Smialowski/AFP/ Getty Images
Pompeo snubs former GOP colleagues on Russia hearing
By RACHAEL BADE and NAHAL TOOSI
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declined a House panel's request to explain President Donald Trump's interactions with Russian and European leaders, snubbing his former colleagues who are deeply concerned with the president's foreign policy shifts.
Pompeo, a former House GOP lawmaker, turned down an invitation to testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee by citing a scheduling conflict, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
Pompeo, however, will appear before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday, angering House Republicans who also want answers.
"The Foreign Affairs Committee needs to hear from Secretary Pompeo soon on timely and critical issues, including Russia, NATO and North Korea," said Cory Fritz, the panel's deputy staff director.
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said that Pompeo "is in California on official business" on July 24, the day the House sought to schedule the hearing. The chamber leaves for a five-week August recess on Thursday, meaning that if Pompeo doesn't make this week's hearing, lawmakers can't talk to him until at least September.
"His schedule this week does not allow for a second day of hearings," Nauert said. "He holds both chambers in high regard and looks forward to continued cooperation with Congress."
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But that's not mollifying House Republicans who want to hear from him. Most in the lower chamber, like their Senate counterparts, were disturbed by Trump's refusal to hold Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for election interference during the widely-criticized Helsinki summit last Monday.
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Is the fabled beast poised to ship at last?
Details have leaked out of a Samsung Electronics Co Ltd mobile handset that will use Microsoft Corp's long-awaited phone operating system.
The CDMA SCH-i600 incorporates Windows Powered Smartphone 2002 software in a clamshell form factor with color screen and an integrated Secure Digital card slot. The phone appears to have an uncanny resemblance to the Palm OS-based Bluechip prototype that Seoul, South Korea-based Samsung showed at June's CommunicAsia2002 event in Singapore.
Samsung has also aligned itself with Symbian, making it the only major hardware manufacturer developing devices around all three major mobile OSs.
The SCH-i600 is only the second device based on Microsoft's much-hyped mobile phone platform to be seen in its final release form. The long-time holder of this distinction has been Birmingham, UK-based Sendo Holdings Ltd's Z100, although this device has not yet made its commercial debut.
Details of the phone appeared last week on the US Federal Communications Commission web site, after receiving technical approval. Photographs on the web site show the device sporting the logo of Verizon Wireless.
Specifications indicate the SCH-i600 is a tri-band, dual-mode unit with 800MHz and 1900MHz CDMA and AMPS capability. There is no indication yet as to whether the handset will be able to utilize Verizon's CDMA2000 1xRTT network.
Functionality in the SCH-i600's implementation of Smartphone 2002 is generally similar to that of its bigger brother, Pocket PC 2002 Phone Edition. However, support for Microsoft Office applications such as Word and Excel appears to be absent from the device's specification. No details are available regarding release date and pricing.


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Q: With a few data points can a generate a close equation to meet them? I have
1x = -40, 2x = -41 , 3x = -54

and getting a few more. Can I generate a equation for a graph that gets close to this?
I was trying to get Wolfram Alpha to do this.
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Sorry for lack of clarity
I am hand measuring signal to distance in meters
I have
at 1 meter: -40 (signal strength)
at 2 meter: -41
at 3 meter: -54

And I could keep measuring
is it possible to come up with some kind of math to estimate signal strength for  any distance?
Im thinking smooth line on a scatter plot

A: The process of fitting a smooth curve (or surface) to a set of data points is called non-linear regression and is part of statistics.  For an overview see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlinear_regression .
There are many curves that will fit your data.  Getting more points is a good idea.  See also "curve fitting" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve_fitting
There are some online tools for this.  For example, if you want to fit your data with a polynomial go here http://www.xuru.org/rt/PR.asp
For other types of curve fitting try:  http://www.xuru.org/rt/TOC.asp
Of course there is commercial software for this and other statistical modeling tasks as well.

A: You have given three data points:  (1,-40), (2,-41), (3,-54).  Through any $n$ points there will be a polynomial of degree at most $n-1$, so there will be a quadratic that fits them exactly.  Lagrange interpolation is one way to find the polynomial.  Excel has it built in.  However, the interpolation can be very sensitive to errors of measurement, so you might want to fit the best quadratic through more points.  It will not go exactly through the points, but will be much less sensitive to error.  Again, Excel will do the fit to any order you like.  Chapter three in Numerical Recipes (obsolete versions are  free) has a good discussion.
If these are signal strengths measured in dB, you would actually expect that once you get far enough away they should fit a straight line if you take the logarithm of the distance.  The power drops as $r^{-2}$ and taking the logarithm makes that a line.  The three you give do not.

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Bill 50 Power Lines in Alberta May Be Stopped | R.E.T.A.
With recent polls showing support for the Alberta PC Party plummeting, a number of electricity transmission projects may well be stopped.
A Forum Research poll conducted just after the election was called this week showed that 41% of Albertans favored the Wildrose Party compared to only 31% who favored the PC Party. A recent Ipsos Reid poll put the Wildrose and PC parties neck-and-neck at 38% support. And, a recent poll conducted for the Edmonton Journal suggested the PCs had 37% support to the Wildrose's 34%.
So what does this have to do with the fate of several high voltage power lines? Well, the Alberta PC government has legislated the building of numerous new overhead 500kV power lines, much to the discontent of Alberta landowners, homeowners, big industry, many other businesses, and many municipalities who argue that these lines are not safe and they are not needed. As a result of the PCs mishandling of electricity transmission, it has become one of the major issues during the current election campaign.
TransmissionHub points out that the Wildrose Party sides with opponents of the Heartland Transmission Project, Western Alberta Transmission Line and Eastern Alberta Transmission Line. Leader Danielle Smith has said a Wildrose government would stop these three projects. Local natural gas-fired generation, the federal government's push to transition away from dirty coal-fired generation, co-generation of power by big industries, and the lack of any significant bitumen upgrading in Alberta, are all factors in negating the need for the new 500kV lines that the Alberta PCs want built.
Two of the most contentious pieces of electricity-related legislation, the Land Assembly Project Area Act (Bill 19) and the Electric Statutes Amendment Act (Bill 50) would be repealed by a Wildrose government.
The Alberta Liberal Party, Alberta NDP and Alberta Party are also opposed to the needless construction of all these massive power lines.
Another sore point with many Albertans is the Alberta government's refusal to support the burying of high voltage power lines whenever they run near residential areas, schools, daycares and hospitals. Hundreds of studies clearly show that overhead high voltage power lines have negative impacts on property values, health, safety, the environment, viewscape, agriculture and tourism. Burying lines eliminates these impacts. All opposition parties support the burying of high voltage lines in specific circumstances such as a portion of the Heartland line where it directly and adversely impacts 5,200 homes, and several schools and daycares.
The transmission companies and the Alberta government argue that burying these lines is far too expensive. The fact is when you combine the capital, maintenance and transmission loss costs over the life of a line, underground lines are cheaper than overhead lines.
Electricity transmission is but one of many issues that have been mishandled by the PCs. We at RETA look forward to a change in government, because the PC government refuses to listen to Albertans' legitimate concerns about electricity transmission (and generation as well for that matter). The only hope for an end to these massive overhead lines getting built is to make sure the PCs do not form the next government.
~ by RETA on March 30, 2012.


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Q: Drop down menu aligned to left I was working on this site and added the header menu with drop downs. The third menu item WINDOWS SUPPORT sub menus are aligned to the left while others are aligned to to the center of the dropdown.I have edited the css to
.sub-menu li a {

text-align: center;
}

but the dropdown area is aligned to the right compared to others.Please help me in making it align correct.Thanks!!

A: i checked your site. just add these two classes in your css. it will resolve the problem.
#mainmenu .menu-item-292 ul
{
 left:-15px;
}

#mainmenu .menu-item-292 li
{
 padding-left:15px !important;
}

A: watch your css file and remove this 2 lines
#mainmenu .menu-item-291 a{margin-right:15px;}
#mainmenu .menu-item-292 a{margin-left:-16px;}

If you want to make more space use padding and border-box:box-sizing

A: You have
   #mainmenu .menu-item-292 a {
        margin-left: -16px;
    }

It's pulling over both the "Windows Support" anchor, and all anchors below it.

A: Try this
Add margin-left: 0; css for given anchor tags into your style.css file I guess at line no. 383
#header #mainmenu ul.children li a, #header #mainmenu .sub-menu li a {
    color: #FFFFFF;
    font-family: 'menu-font' !important;
    font-size: 13px !important;
    padding: 5px 20px;
    text-align: left;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    margin-left: 0;
}

I hope this solves your problem!


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Social work graduate Alice Miles fuels fire
by Lindsey Giardino, Jun 07, 2022
Alice Miles, a 2022 social work graduate of Newman University, walks across the stage to collect her degree.
For 2022 social work graduate Alice Miles, walking the stage at the Newman University commencement ceremony was well worth traveling 500 miles from Colorado Springs.
"I've spent the last several years with all of these amazing people, so of course, I'm going to walk with them," Miles said with a smile. "I've had the unique opportunity to meet them and grow with them, and this is that moment to celebrate."
Donning her vibrant red diversity and inclusion stole from Newman, Miles said she was proud to represent her Cherokee background at graduation.
"Natives come in all different colors and all different backgrounds, and they are not as erased in history as they are painted to be," she said.
Helping others heal through social work
Miles has known since childhood that she was meant to be a social worker.
That's in part due to her unique ability to make people feel comfortable and guide them on a path toward healing. She wants to use those skills to help people find peace.
Miles chose to earn her bachelor's degree in social work from Newman University's Colorado Springs campus, and was initially drawn to the program's commitment to being trauma informed.
"I'm very impressed with the program, given how new it is," she said. "The relationships you get to build with the faculty is probably the strongest part of the program that helps you understand foundational and detrimental concepts in social work. I don't think there's a better program, because I looked."
(From left to right) Newman University 2022 social work graduates Brandy Remy, Alice Miles and Dalton Shealy.
After graduating with her BSW, Miles immediately started her studies in Newman's Master of Social Work program. She felt her undergraduate experience equipped her with everything she needed to not only begin graduate school, but also to actively work in the field of social work.
Miles plans to wrap up her master's degree by next spring and then pursue a career in military family life and counseling.
Building her own nonprofit
Currently, Miles works as a case manager at Mt. Carmel Veterans Service Center in Colorado Springs, where she assists veterans and their families, as well as active-duty military.
"The interpersonal relationships have helped me understand how to more effectively intervene on the individual and family level," she said.
Miles also keeps busy as she builds her own nonprofit focused on assisting male victims and survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse.
"I would not be able to do that or make any of the connections and network like I do without the background behind me that I have with Newman and the relationships I've made," she said.
Miles added that creating a nonprofit starts with determination. It continues because of her internal fire that she keeps on burning.
"You have to learn how to stoke that fire by yourself and have amazing people who can poke at you when you get tired," Miles added. "So you find your tribe, you find your support system and you keep going, even when you're tired, you just keep going."
And in all she does, Miles is guided by a simple motto: "If we take care of the moments, the years take care of themselves."
If we take care of the moments, the years take care of themselves."
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Pale ale is a golden to amber coloured beer style brewed with pale malt. The term first appeared in England around 1703 for beers made from malts dried with high-carbon coke, which resulted in a lighter colour than other beers popular at that time. Different brewing practices and hop quantities have resulted in a range of tastes and strengths within the pale ale family.

History
Coke had been first used for dry roasting malt in 1642, but it was not until around 1703 that the term pale ale was first applied to beers made from such malt. By 1784, advertisements appeared in the Calcutta Gazette for "light and excellent" pale ale.

By 1830, the expressions bitter and pale ale were synonymous. Breweries tended to designate beers as "pale ales", though customers would commonly refer to the same beers as "bitters". It is thought that customers used the term bitter to differentiate these pale ales from other less noticeably hopped beers such as porters and milds.

By the mid to late 20th century, while brewers were still labeling bottled beers as pale ales, they had begun identifying cask beers as "bitters", except those from Burton on Trent, which tend to be referred to as "pale ales".

Types
Different brewing practices and hop levels have resulted in a range of taste and strength within the pale ale family.

Amber ale

Collier Brothers of London applied for the UK trademark of The Amber Ale in 1876 and the trademark was maintained through changes in ownership until it expired as UK00000009744 in 2002. It was a "pure delicately hopped Pale Ale" positioned between their light bitter and IPA. Since the expiry of the trademark some traditional British bitters have been rebranded as amber ales, in some cases to distinguish them from golden ales sold under the same brand eg Shepherd Neame Spitfire.

Amber ale is an emerging term used in Australia, France (as ambrée), Belgium and the Netherlands and North America for pale ales brewed with a proportion of amber malt and sometimes crystal malt to produce an amber colour generally ranging from light copper to light brown. A small amount of crystal or other coloured malt is added to the basic pale ale base to produce a slightly darker colour, as in some Irish and British pale ales. In France the term "ambrée" is used to signify a beer, either cold or warm fermented, which is amber in colour; the beer, as in Pelforth ambrée and Fischer amber, may be a Vienna lager, or it may be a bière de garde as in Jenlain ambrée. In North America, American-variety hops are used in varying degrees of bitterness, although very few examples are particularly hoppy. Diacetyl is barely perceived or is absent in an amber ale.

American pale ale

American pale ale (APA) was developed around 1980. The brewery thought to be the first to successfully use significant quantities of American hops in the style of an APA and use the name "pale ale" was the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, which brewed the first experimental batch of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale in November 1980, distributing the finished version in March 1981. Anchor Liberty Ale, a 6% abv ale originally brewed by the Anchor Brewing Company as a special in 1975 to commemorate Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775, which marked the start of the American War of Independence, was seen by Michael Jackson, a writer on beverages, as the first modern American ale. Fritz Maytag, the owner of Anchor, visited British breweries in London, Yorkshire and Burton upon Trent, picking up information about robust pale ales, which he applied when he made his American version, using just malt rather than the malt and sugar combination common in brewing at that time, and making prominent use of the American hop, Cascade. By 1983, it was commonly found. Other pioneers of a hoppy American pale ale are Jack McAuliffe of the New Albion Brewing Company and Bert Grant of Yakima Brewing.

American pale ales are generally around 5% abv, with significant quantities of American hops, typically Cascade. Although American-brewed beers tend to use a cleaner yeast, and American two row malt, it is particularly the American hops that distinguish an APA from a British or European pale ale. The style is close to the American India pale ale (IPA), and boundaries blur, though IPAs are stronger and more assertively hopped. The style is also close to amber ale, though these are darker and maltier due to the use of crystal malts.

Bière de garde

Bière de garde, or "keeping beer", is a pale ale traditionally brewed in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. These beers were usually brewed by farmhouses in the winter and spring, to avoid unpredictable problems with the yeast during the summertime.

The origin of the name lies in the tradition that it was matured or cellared for a period of time once bottled (most were sealed with a cork), to be consumed later in the year, akin to a saison.

There are a number of beers named "bière de garde" in France, some of the better known brands include: Brasserie de Saint-Sylvestre, Trois Monts, Brasseurs Duyck, Jenlain and Brasserie La Choulette, ambrée.

Blonde
Blonde ales are very pale in colour. The term "blonde" for pale beers is common in Europe and South America – particularly in France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, and Brazil – though the beers may not have much in common, other than colour. Blondes tend to be clear, crisp, and dry, with low-to-medium bitterness and aroma from hops, and some sweetness from malt. Fruitiness from esters may be perceived. A lighter body from higher carbonation may be noticed. In the United Kingdom, golden or summer ales were developed in the late 20th century by breweries to compete with the pale lager market. A typical golden ale has an appearance and profile similar to that of a pale lager. Malt character is subdued and the hop profile ranges from spicy to citrus; common hops include Styrian Golding and Cascade. Alcohol is in the 4% to 5% abv range. The UK style is attributed to John Gilbert, owner of Hop Back Brewery, who developed "Summer Lightning" in 1989, which won several awards and inspired numerous imitators. Belgian blondes are often made with pilsner malt. Some beer writers regard blonde and golden ales as distinct styles, while others do not. Duvel is a typical Belgian blonde ale, and one of the most popular bottled beers in the country as well as being well known internationally.

Burton pale ale
Later in the second half of the nineteenth century, the recipe for pale ale was put into use by the Burton upon Trent brewers, notably Bass; ales from Burton were considered of a particularly high quality due to synergy between the malt and hops in use and local water chemistry, especially the presence of gypsum. Burton retained absolute dominance in pale ale brewing until a chemist, C. W. Vincent, discovered the process of Burtonization to reproduce the chemical composition of the water from Burton-upon-Trent, thus giving any brewery the capability to brew pale ale.

English bitter

The expression English bitter first appeared in the early 19th century as part of the development and spread of pale ale. Breweries tended to designate beers as "pale ales", though customers would commonly refer to the same beers as "bitters". It is thought that customers used the term bitter to differentiate these pale ales from other less noticeably hopped beers. Drinkers tend to loosely group modern bitters into "session" or "ordinary" bitters (up to 4.1% abv), "best" or "special" bitters (between 4.2% and 4.7% abv) and "strong" bitters (4.8% abv and over).

India pale ale (IPA)

India pale ale (IPA) is a style of pale ale developed in England for export to India. The first known use of the expression "India pale ale" is in an advertisement in the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser on 27 August 1829.

Worthington White Shield, originating in Burton-upon-Trent, is a beer considered to be part of the development of India pale ale.

The colour of an IPA can vary from a light gold to a reddish amber.

Irish red ale

Irish red ale, red ale, or Irish ale () is a name used by brewers mainly in Ireland and the United States, but also in other countries. Smithwick's and Kilkenny are typical examples of macro-brewed commercial Irish red ale. There are many other smaller and craft examples, such as O'Hara's, Sullivan's, Murphy's, Porterhouse and Franciscan Well.

Irish red ales are characterised by their malt profile and typically have a sweet, caramel or toffee-like taste, low bitterness and amber to red colour - hence the name.

The term "Irish red ale" was popularised in the United States and subsequently exported worldwide. Irish brewers have increasingly adopted the term to distinguish their beers in both the domestic and international markets. In the US, the name can also be used to describe a darker amber ale or a "red" beer that is a lager with caramel colouring, for example Killian's Irish Red.

Strong pale ale
Strong pale ales are ales made predominantly with pale malts and have an alcohol strength that may start around 5%, though typically start at 7 or 8% by volume and may go up to 12%, though brewers have been pushing the alcohol strength higher. In 1994, the Hair of the Dog Brewing Company produced a strong pale ale with an alcohol by volume of 29%. In 2010, Brewdog released "Sink the Bismarck!", a 41% abv pale ale, which is stronger than typical distilled spirits (40% abv).

References

BibliographyFarmhouse Ales: Culture and Craftsmanship in the European Tradition, Phil Markowski, Great Beer Guide: 500 Classic Brews, Michael Jackson, Dictionary of Beer'', Ed: A. Webb,

External links
 CAMRA description of Pale Ale
 Difference between pale ale and india pale ale

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Did you know that brands spent $5.67 billion on influencer marketing in 2018? And this amount is forecasted to reach $8 billion by 2020.
With the rising popularity of influencer marketing and brands spending tons on money on it, it has become a lucrative way for people to earn money.
And come influencers do charge large amounts of money if they have a substantial follower base and an engaged audience.
Instagram influencers can charge anywhere between $75 and $3,000 per post. Even if you are at the lower end of the spectrum, it is still a lot of money for just one Instagram post.
This is probably the reason why so many people have chosen this path, to earn quick money and become famous.
But, if this is something you are really interested in, we have got you covered.
In this post, I have provided a detailed list of things that you need to do to become an Instagram influencer and start earning money.
Read on and learn how to become an Instagram influencer.
To become an Instagram influencer, the first thing you need to do is find a niche that suits your personality. This needs to be something you're passionate about. Something in which you have a good deal of knowledge and interest. Just because someone else is doing something and is successful, doesn't mean you should too.
To become an Instagram influencer in any field, you will have to post about it regularly and consistently. So, selecting the right niche is very important because you will have to spend a considerable amount of time researching it and posting content on that topic.
So pick a niche that you're genuinely passionate about. Maybe you're great at DIY crafts? Or maybe you love food, and have a great deal of interest in different types of cuisines? Maybe you're into fashion and are always aware of the latest styles and trends?
Your Instagram posts should reflect whatever truly interests you and not some random stuff.
Your niche might even be a combination of different things, as long as they're not random. Here's an example of an Instagram influencer whose niche is food, travel, and lifestyle. As you can see, her Instagram feed has a good balance of posts relating to all of these.
Once you have decided on your niche, you need to create an attractive Instagram profile. The very first thing that you need to focus on is creating an Instagram bio that immediately catches people's attention. It should talk about your story in a way that engages people.
Remember, it's one of the first things that a brand or a potential follower will see on your account. So if you want to know how to become an Instagram influencer, you need to first learn how to create an attention-grabbing Instagram bio.
Influencer and travel blogger Helene Sula has a compelling and attractive Instagram bio. In the name field, she has cleverly included "travel blogger," so that her profile shows up for such searches. And in her bio, she tells her story of how she moved to Germany to explore Europe leaving everything behind. Except for her pups and her husband. Now, isn't that noteworthy?
If you think you can become an Instagram influencer just by sharing photos, you clearly have it all wrong. The captions that go along with those photos are just as important as the photos themselves. Use them to tell your stories and connect with your followers on an emotional level. Give them a reason to trust you, follow you, and engage with you.
However, in your quest towards engaging them don't forget to be genuine. Because that will be easily seen through. Instead, share your personal stories in a way that your audience finds them interesting yet authentic.
Check out this inspiring story from a travel blogger, for example. She talks about how she continues traveling with a pre-existing medical condition. You can see that the post has a pretty high engagement rate which means it was well-received by her followers. And brands attach much greater importance to the engagement rate than the number of followers when they collaborate with influencers.
This is one of the pre-requisites if you want to learn how to become an Instagram influencer. Not only should each of your photos be visually-appealing, but your entire feed should look appealing when viewed as a whole. This means that all of your photos in the feed should look good, individually and collectively.
Many Instagram influencers follow a particular style of editing their photos so that the color or composition is uniform. You can use tools like VSCO or Lightroom to edit your photos or you can just use the built-in filters on Instagram. Also, make sure that your photos are taken in high-resolution and plenty of light to make them look really good.
Check out the account of this lifestyle Instagram influencer and see how beautifully he keeps the tones uniform. This gives his Instafeed an incredible visual appeal and makes it look aesthetic too.
Posting content consistently is another crucial prerequisite if you want to learn how to become an Instagram influencer. Most Instagram influencers post daily or once every two days. However, some of them post a few times a day or even a few times a week.
Studies have revealed that an increase in your content-posting frequency can boost engagement rates. However, when you decide what your posting schedule needs to be, make sure that you choose wisely. Because it needs to be something realistic that you can actually stick to. Setting an unrealistic goal to which you cannot adhere will not help you in any way.
If you find sticking to a schedule difficult, you can schedule your posts with tools like Buffer, Planoly, Preview, or Ripl. These platforms allow you to create your content in advance and set the dates and times for posting. So you don't need to do it yourself, but your content gets posted automatically.
Preview is free for use and so is Planoly for 30 photos per month on a single Instagram account. Buffer allows you to schedule up to 10 posts for free across any 3 of your social accounts. Ripl offers subscriptions starting at $14.99 per month, but also has a free basic plan with limited features.
The best tip anyone can give you on how to become an Instagram influencer is to use hashtags. Hashtags are important because they let your content to be found by other Instagram users. Instagram allows you to use a maximum of 30 hashtags on a photo, and I recommend using them all. But what kind of hashtags should you choose?
Remember that hashtags having high search volumes aren't necessarily good for you. Because high search volumes imply high competition too. So the chances of your post being discovered using those hashtags are bleak.
Instead, choose hashtags that have decent search volumes and maximizes your chances of appearing in the top posts. Ideally, use a combination of hashtags varying in search volumes from above 10,000 to 1 million. But definitely, not more than a million.
For example, this post by an influencer uses the hashtag #adventurecouple. This is the top post for this hashtag having search volumes of more than 105,000.
If you're serious about learning how to become an Instagram influencer, you need to get a business account for your Instagram. There are numerous benefits of switching to a business account.
The most important benefit is that with a business account, you get access to Instagram Analytics. You'll be able to see not only your follower demographics but also which posts are getting better engagement. You will also be able to see the days and times which give you the best engagement.
If you want to become an Instagram influencer, it is important to understand your audience and learn what content works best for them.
Follower demographics are very useful when it comes to pitching to brands for collaboration. Because numbers speak louder than words.
So, getting an Instagram business account is an important step if you want to become an Instagram influencer.
Instagram Stories are probably the biggest thing right now on Instagram. More and more users and influencers are joining this bandwagon. In fact, more than 200 million Instagram users are using them every day. This makes them a perfect weapon to grow more followers and gain visibility.
Even people who aren't your followers can discover you from your Instagram Stories. By adding hashtags or locations to Instagram Stories, you can be discovered by more people. And if you have 10,000+ followers, you can include an outbound link using a "swipe up" option on Stories.
You can even tag others on your Stories and give a shout out to other accounts. This is not only a great way of building relationships but also growing your own following. Because those accounts are likely to return the favor too. And this means you get more visibility.
Because of these benefits, a lot of influencers use Instagram Stories. And if you are serious about becoming an Instagram influencer, you should start using Stories now.
Social media is all about people and how you engage with them. Engagement is one of the most important factors that will help you become an Instagram influencer. When someone comments on your photos, make sure that you reply to them. Also, return the favor by liking and commenting on their posts.
There are actually two stages of learning how to become an Instagram influencer. The first, of course, is to grow your followers organically and engage them. The second, and probably more important for some, is to make money as an influencer.
So, once you have grown your followers above a thousand and have a decent engagement rate, start your brand outreach. The easiest way is to tag relevant brands on your photos to put yourself on their radar. Sometimes brands even feature such photos on their Instagram account giving you greater visibility.
You can also send direct messages to brands you think are relevant to your niche. Especially, if you have seen them collaborate with other influencers in your field. Work on a pitch that talks about why you are reaching out and what you can offer them. I'm not saying it's easy but you might be pleasantly surprised at the responses.
You can even join platforms like Grin, InsightPool, HYPR, InfluencerBay, TRIBE, and TapInfluence to find and connect with relevant brands. Some of these platforms need you to have a certain number of followers to be able to participate in campaigns. So, use this channel when you have reached a certain follower count.
This is a rookie mistake I've seen many Instagram influencers make to pave an easy road to success. Paid followers are no good to you. If you want to become an Instagram influencer and make money, organic is the way to go.
Also, it is not that difficult for brands to identify influencers with paid followers. And if someone realizes that you have a high percentage of fake followers, you could lose your credibility in the industry. This could affect all of your future collaborations or lack thereof.
Getting caught having paid followers can be detrimental to your success as an influencer. If you really are serious about your goal to become an Instagram influencer, you need to do it the right way.
It's true that you cannot become an Instagram influencer overnight. You will need to be patient and make sure that you follow the above steps, to become an Instagram influencer.
It might take a few months, but trust me, you will definitely start seeing results. I've seen and helped quite a few individuals land brand partnerships within a few months of following these steps. And there's no reason why you can't do so as well.
Can you think of any other tips on how to become an Instagram influencer? Let me know in the comments below. And if you're looking for some personal guidance to become an Instagram influencer, get in touch with me now!
Those are great tips. Do not buy followers – that will be more negative than positive on the algorithm.
Instagram is a powerful social media channel to target new-age audience. It especially works like a magic for fun niches – entertainment, travel, food, fashion, etc.


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A New Survey Asked Employees How They Feel About Work. Half Said This 1 Thing Bothers Them Most
It makes sense when you think about it from their point of view.
By Bill Murphy Jr., www.billmurphyjr.com@BillMurphyJr
A new survey says fully one-third of employees are actively looking for a new job and hope to make a switch before the end of 2019.
In the current employment market, they feel empowered to do so. That's a good thing from a national economic perspective, but it's pretty darn frightening if you're an employer trying to hold onto your best workers.
So, what's the solution? Fair pay and good treatment matter of course. Benefits and commuting time matter, and in fact 42 percent of those surveyed said if their employer offered Summer Fridays they'd be more likely to want to stick around.
But maybe there's an additional area of focus that you should consider.
That's because the same survey, conducted by The Harris Poll on behalf of CareerBuilder, also found that 50 percent of U.S. employees feel like they're just putting in time at a job -- and not really building a career.
Day after day, week after week, month after month, that grates on them. Among the things that they say make them feel that way:
Just 32 percent of employees say they're satisfied with opportunities for career advancement;
Only 37 percent say they're happy with the level of "training and learning opportunities" they have at work;
Fully 58 percent say they don't think their company offers the kind of learning opportunities they need to advance in their careers;
And 73 percent say they wish their companies would offer "educational opportunities or workshops outside of work hours."
Now, we see these kinds of surveys often enough. And not knowing about your business, it's impossible to say whether the results here apply to you.
Do half of your employees really feel like you're not invested properly in their advancement? Are a third of them really planning to leave before New Year's Day?
For both your sake and theirs, I hope not.
But it's also worth noting that the things these employees say bother them most about work are also the results we expect to see when bosses don't lead effectively.
It comes down really to respecting people's time:
Articulating a goal that they agree is worth their efforts.
Working to remove obstacles and ensuring that they have the tools they need.
Recognizing that personal growth and security are important.
So, as a boss, it seems your options are either to give your employees ways to pursue the opportunities they want, or else stay in a perpetual recruiting mode, constantly replacing top employees who walk out the door.
Might as well throw in Summer Fridays, too.
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Expansion in UNSC's non-permanent seats only way to ensure equitable regional representation: Pakistan
Reform of the Security Council should redress existing imbalances in regional representation
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By Staff Reporter On Feb 10, 2022
UNITED NATIONS, Pakistan, which firmly opposes additional permanent members of the UN Security Council, has reaffirmed its call for equitable representation of regional groups on the 15-member body by adding more non-permanent seats to it.
"The regional distribution of 11-12 non-permanent seats proposed by the UfC (Uniting for Consensus group led by Italy and Pakistan) would ensure 'equitable representation' of each region," Ambassador Munir Akram said as the long-running Inter-Governmental Negotiations (IGN)Baimed at reforming the 15-member Council resumed the process on Tuesday.
"The reform of the Security Council should redress the existing imbalances in the regional representation – adding to the representation of the under-represented regions and at least not adding to the representation of the over-represented regions," the Pakistani envoy said.
"The UfC's proposal – to add only non-permanent members, which are elected periodically by the General Assembly – is also more democratic," he said, adding that it was fundamentally different from that of Group of four — India, Brazil, Germany, and Japan — whose members claim permanent seats as a matter of right – a right borne out of a sense of self-entitlement.
He described the G-4 claim as contrary to not only the UN Charter's precept of the sovereign equality of member states but also "undemocratic".
About references made to the "new realities" during the debate on Tuesday and the claims by some to be in the Security Council because they have greater "capacity" and willingness to contribute to international peace and security, Ambassador Akram said the contributions of small and medium states have been much more sizable than the "self-interested positions and policies of those ambitious to achieve permanent membership".
He also said, "Any state which stands in violation of the resolutions of the Security Council for over 50 years does not deserve to even claim the right to any member on the Council."
Full-scale negotiations to reform the Security Council began in the General Assembly in February 2009 on five key areas — the categories of membership, the question of veto, regional representation, size of an enlarged Security Council, and working methods of the council and its relationship with the General Assembly.
Despite a general agreement on enlarging the Council, as part of the UN reform process, member states remain divided over the details.
The Security Council is currently composed of five permanent members — Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States — and 10 non-permanent members elected to serve for two years.
In his well-reasoned remarks, Ambassador Akram said while the existence of permanent members and the veto was the underlying cause of the Security Council's paralysis, the addition of members in the permanent category would reduce the number of seats available to the rest of the UN's membership.
"If 6 new permanent members are added, as has been proposed, this would leave only 4/5 additional seats for the rest of 182 members of the UN General Assembly from all 5 regions," he said. "This would certainly not amount to the 'equitable geographical representation' prescribed in the title of the item under which we are exploring a reform of the Security Council."
The UfC, he said, was sensitive to and supportive of Africa's legitimate quest to rectify the "historic injustice" against the continent, which has no permanent seat on the Security Council. "This must be redressed as similar historic injustices against the Arab group, the OIC countries, the SIDS (Small Island Developing States), and Latin America.
Africa's desire for 'equal rights' is very different from the individual claims to permanent membership of the four countries — the continent's demand is for the region, not for individual states, Ambassador Akram said.
As an OIC member, the Pakistani envoy said that several Islamic Summit meetings have declared clearly that if there is an expansion of the Security Council, the Islamic countries must be represented in any category of membership that is created.
"We believe that the UfC's proposal regarding 'regional representation' can provide a way to redress the historic injustices against Africa, the OIC, the Arab States, the SIDs, and other regions."
"The UfC's approach would ensure not only approval of the reform proposed by the General Assembly, but it would also ensure the adoption of any Charter amendment required to reform the Security Council," he said in conclusion.
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