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The Definitive How-To Guide
Von Karen Kilgariff, Georgia Hardstark
Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered (2019) details the personal lives of the women behind the hit true crime podcast My Favorite Murder. Spanning their formative experiences and the things they learned while making the show, this book shares the stories that shaped the authors into who they are today.
Self-improvement junkies
Fans of My Favorite Murder
People dealing with mental health issues
Karen Kilgariff is a comedian, sitcom writer, podcast personality and television producer. She's appeared on Conan, Mr. Show and The Book Group and has written for TV shows such as Baskets and Portlandia. Her musical comedy album Live at the Bootleg was named one of Vulture's Best Stand-up Specials of 2014.
Georgia Hardstark is a food writer, podcaster and television presenter. Together with Alie Ward, she's hosted several shows for the Cooking Channel, including Classy Ladies and Tripping Out with Alie & Georgia.
When it comes to your well-being, screw politeness – but don't blame yourself if you fail to take action.
As everyone knows, it's hard being a kid. This was certainly the case for Georgia Hardstark, whose worries about things like her flat chest and her hyperactivity led her to suffer from low self-esteem. But when she discovered the underground feminist punk movement known as Riot Grrrl, Georgia threw her doubts aside and became a fearless, outspoken feminist.
Riot Grrrl helped Georgia realize that kindness was not the same as remaining polite when people tried to take advantage of her. She learned to say "fuck politeness," especially when it came to predators. For example, at a bar late one night, a man bought her a shot in spite of her persistent refusal. Instead of accepting the drink politely, she poured it onto the floor in front of him and went home.
But even while Riot Grrrl was helping Georgia become a strong, assertive woman, she discovered that it isn't possible to be courageous in every circumstance. After graduating from high school in 1998, Georgia moved from Orange County to Los Angeles and worked as a waitress. One day, one of her regular customers, a middle-aged man named Lawrence, showed her his photography portfolio and asked if he could take her picture.
She was flattered and even dressed up for the occasion in platform sandals, a tight shirt and extra makeup. But when Lawrence suggested that he drive them to a picturesque lookout in the Santa Monica Mountains, Georgia intuitively felt that something wasn't right. Still, not wanting to disappoint him, she agreed to the plan.
Riding in Lawrence's car, Georgia feared that she was about to become a murder victim. And on the cliff, Lawrence's uncharacteristically soulless gaze confirmed that she was right to be afraid. But she continued to play along, and even agreed when Lawrence asked her to take her shirt off for a picture. In the end, Lawrence didn't harm her, and drove her back to the parking lot where they'd met. As soon as they pulled in, Georgia jumped out of the car and ran away.
Georgia was so ashamed that she had let Lawrence photograph her shirtless that she didn't tell anyone about the incident until bringing it up on My Favorite Murder years later. With the help of her therapist, Georgia came to realize that while self-advocacy is important, mastering it takes practice. Like the many victims she read about in true crime stories, failing to stand up for herself in a frightening situation didn't mean that she was to blame for another person's actions.
Being healthy requires good friends and positivity, but it may also require therapy.
A teenage shoplifting incident taught Georgia the importance of friends and family.
Georgia's decades-long obsession with true crime stories preceded her friendship with Karen.
A lifetime of therapy taught Georgia not to fear a diagnosis.
Before becoming a full-time comedian, Karen worked her fair share of odd jobs.
We need to shift the conversation from victim blaming and find creative ways to identify and stop killers.
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Back Brummienomics for regional infrastructure, council leader says
A top council leader has said regions such as the West Midlands should use their assets to supercharge investment in infrastructure, following reports ministers are planning radical reforms to get pension funds investing in building projects.
John Clancy, leader of Birmingham City Council, wrote on his blog on Sunday that: 'It is time for cities and city regions to take even more of a leading role in the post-Brexit economy.'
Birmingham City Council leader John Clancy
Describing ideas he has been putting forward for some time as 'Brummienomics', he said: 'We need to use the great assets in the region to back up a much wider regional wealth fund over which we have control and which we do not have to go cap in hand to London for.'
Last week, chancellor Philip Hammond revealed that the Government was working with the West Midlands Combined Authority on a second devolution deal to include new powers on transport and other areas.
Mr Clancy said a 'dynamic West Midlands triangle of wealth' made up of publicly-owned assets, 'mighty regional pension funds' and the wealth of the private sector in the region 'should not be seen as some sideshow in a combined authority: it should be its engine'.
He added: 'We're not asking for powers as such to do this (especially as, to coin a phrase, "we're going to do it anyway!").'
Mr Clancy was responding to a report in the Financial Times that ministers across the Government are working on schemes to get pension funds investing in building projects ahead of the Mr Hammond's Autumn Statement.
The paper said one idea being considered by the Government is to give regional mayors powers to create "city bonds", raising up to £1bn that would be underwritten by the Treasury.
The FT quoted a Government source as saying: 'If you've got a long-term infrastructure need why wouldn't we be looking to put sensible money into that?'
It said ministers had privately admitted surprise at how much foreign funds such as Canada's Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan had invested in British building projects.
West Midlands in talks with Govt over 'Devo 2'
Mayors still needed for best devo deals
Grayling backs 'local solutions' with £12m for Midlands Connect
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    ['others/ssh_config']='.ssh/config'
)

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    ['others/sift.conf']='.sift.conf'
    ['others/spacemacs']='.spacemacs'
    ['others/sshrc']='.sshrc'
    ['others/sshrc.d']='.sshrc.d'
    ['others/tmux.conf']='.tmux.conf'
    ['others/wgetrc']='.wgetrc'
    ['qutebrowser/keys.conf']='.config/qutebrowser/keys.conf'
    ['qutebrowser/qutebrowser.conf']='.config/qutebrowser/qutebrowser.conf'
    ['ranger/commands.py']='.config/ranger/commands.py'
    ['ranger/rc.conf']='.config/ranger/rc.conf'
    ['sublime-text-3/Packages/ChromeRemoteReload.py']='Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/ChromeRemoteReload.py'
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    ['sublime-text-3/Packages/User/Package Control.sublime-settings']='Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User/Package Control.sublime-settings'
    ['sublime-text-3/Packages/User/PHP Companion.sublime-settings']='Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User/PHP Companion.sublime-settings'
    ['sublime-text-3/Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings']='Library/Application Support/Sublime Text 3/Packages/User/Preferences.sublime-settings'
    ['vscode/settings.json']='Library/ApplicationSupport/Code/User/settings.json'
    ['vscode/keybindings.json']='Library/ApplicationSupport/Code/User/keybindings.json'
    ['vscode/snippets']='Library/ApplicationSupport/Code/User/snippets'
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DOTFILES_ROOT="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"

user()    { printf "\r  [ \033[0;33m?\033[0m ] $1 " ; }
success() { printf "\r\033[2K  [ \033[00;32mOK\033[0m ] $1\n" ; }
fail()    { printf "\r\033[2K  [\033[0;31mFAIL\033[0m] $1\n" ; echo '' ; exit ; }
link_file() { mkdir -p "`dirname "$2"`" ; ln -s "$1" "$2" ; success "linked $1 to $2" ; }
copy_file() { mkdir -p "`dirname "$2"`" ; cp -r "$1" "$2" ; success "copied $1 to $2" ; }

echo 'Installing public dotfiles...'

do_symlinks() {
    echo 'Symlinks...'

    # remove dead symlinks
    for i in $(file .* | grep broken | cut -d : -f 1); do rm $i; done

    overwrite_all=false
    backup_all=false
    skip_all=false
    for K in "${!SYMLINKS[@]}"; do
        source="${DOTFILES_ROOT}/${K}"
        dest="${HOME}/${SYMLINKS[$K]}"

        if [ ! -f "$source" ] && [ ! -d "$source" ]; then
            fail "File $source does not exists"
        fi

        if [ -f "$dest" ] || [ -d "$dest" ]; then
          overwrite=false
          backup=false
          skip=false
          if [ "$overwrite_all" == "false" ] && [ "$backup_all" == "false" ] && [ "$skip_all" == "false" ]; then
            user "File already exists: $dest, what do you want to do? [s]kip, [S]kip all, [o]verwrite, [O]verwrite all, [b]ackup, [B]ackup all?"
            read -n 1 action

            case "$action" in
              o )
                overwrite=true;;
              O )
                overwrite_all=true;;
              b )
                backup=true;;
              B )
                backup_all=true;;
              s )
                skip=true;;
              S )
                skip_all=true;;
              * )
                ;;
            esac
          fi

          if [ "$overwrite" == "true" ] || [ "$overwrite_all" == "true" ]; then
            rm -rf "$dest"
            success "removed $dest"
          fi

          if [ "$backup" == "true" ] || [ "$backup_all" == "true" ]; then
            mv "$dest" "$dest\.backup"
            success "moved $dest to $dest.backup"
          fi

          if [ "$skip" == "false" ] && [ "$skip_all" == "false" ]; then
            link_file "$source" "$dest"
          else
            success "skipped $source"
          fi

        else
          if [ -L "$dest" ]; then
            rm "$dest"
          fi
          link_file "$source" "$dest"
        fi
    done
}

do_copies() {
    echo 'Copying...'

    overwrite_all=false
    backup_all=false
    skip_all=false
    for K in "${!COPIES[@]}"; do
        source="${DOTFILES_ROOT}/${K}"
        dest="${HOME}/${COPIES[$K]}"

        if [ ! -f "$source" ] && [ ! -d "$source" ]; then
            fail "File $source does not exists"
        fi

        if [ -f "$dest" ] || [ -d "$dest" ]; then
          overwrite=false
          backup=false
          skip=false
          if [ "$overwrite_all" == "false" ] && [ "$backup_all" == "false" ] && [ "$skip_all" == "false" ]; then
            user "File already exists: $dest, what do you want to do? [s]kip, [S]kip all, [o]verwrite, [O]verwrite all, [b]ackup, [B]ackup all?"
            read -n 1 action

            case "$action" in
              o )
                overwrite=true;;
              O )
                overwrite_all=true;;
              b )
                backup=true;;
              B )
                backup_all=true;;
              s )
                skip=true;;
              S )
                skip_all=true;;
              * )
                ;;
            esac
          fi

          if [ "$overwrite" == "true" ] || [ "$overwrite_all" == "true" ]; then
            rm -rf "$dest"
            success "removed $dest"
          fi

          if [ "$backup" == "true" ] || [ "$backup_all" == "true" ]; then
            mv "$dest" "$dest\.backup"
            success "moved $dest to $dest.backup"
          fi

          if [ "$skip" == "false" ] && [ "$skip_all" == "false" ]; then
            copy_file "$source" "$dest"
          else
            success "skipped $source"
          fi

        else
          if [ -L "$dest" ]; then
            rm "$dest"
          fi
          copy_file "$source" "$dest"
        fi
    done
}

do_symlinks
do_copies

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- Attack nearby opponents up to 3 times with Long Armed Devil.
- Press the Smash key twice afterwards to continue attacking. You can use Swift Assassin up to 3 times this way.
- Some SP will be used for each additional attack, up to 3 times.
- If Jade Fox is active, you can activate up to 3 Zhen Swift Assassin bombs when all of your attacks land.
Press the Smash key twice afterwards for up to 2 additional hits. You need SP to continue the attack.
Purchased for 18,000 when at least level 48.


A lunchbox learning as part of Action Against Hunger's Learning Week, from our France HQ.
A LunchBox Learning presentation organized by ACF France on the gender fundamentals. Main sociological concepts discussed : differentiated social roles and its consequences, power relationships, stereotypes, transformative actions.
Watch the session (in French) below.


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Photographs for The Atlantic accompanying Rachel Corbett's 2019 story about Medicaid Estate Recovery and Tawanda Rhodes's fight to save her home from MassHealth
When a Medicaid beneficiary dies, the value of their estate is used to pay back debts before transferring to any heirs. The estate includes any assets, such as a home, savings, or retirement account, that are in the name of the beneficiary.
"Tawanda Rhodes believed she would inherit the home her parents had bought in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood in 1979. Then she received a letter from her state's Medicaid program."
Tawanda Rhodes and the home her parents bought in the Boston's Dorchester neighborhood in 1979 for $24,000
Tawanda Rhodes with a portrait of her parents, John & Edna. John worked as a welder in a shipyard and pressed laundry; Edna worked as a cook in school cafeterias.
Tawanda's father, a Korean War veteran, passed away a few years after moving into their Dorchester home. The mortgage was satisfied by his life insurance payout.
Edna, was showing signs of Alzheimer's disease. A state guardian admitted Edna into a nursing home and signed her up for MassHealth.
Few weeks after Edna entered the nursing home, Tawanda received a notice that MassHealth had put a lien on her parents Dorchester home.
Tawanda called the agency intending to take Edna off Medicaid but, MassHealth told her that if she removed Edna from the nursing home, they would remove the lien and Edna could continue to receive Medicaid benefits.
Edna continued to stay on Medicaid; Tawanda & her husband, Oliver, relocated to Boston to care for Edna full time & cashed all of their savings bonds to renovate her parents' home.
In 2007, Oliver was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease-- Tawanda now had to take care of both her husband and mother.
After Edna's passing in 2009, Tawanda received a letter from Massachusetts Office of Health and Human Services-- which oversees MassHealth-- seeking reimbursement from Edna's estate for Medicaid payments made on her behalf. For Edna's five years on MassHealth, she owed $198,660.26.
The agency sent her a 28-page itemized bill including every Band-Aid, every can of Ensure her mother had used. Tawanda had 6 months to pay the debt or begin accruing interest at a rate of 12%. If she couldn't afford it, the state could force her to sell the home and take a share of the proceeds to settle the debt.
her attorney told her that her best option was to accept a deal from MassHealth that would keep its claim on the house but allow her to remain there as a tenant until her death. (Oliver passed away in 2018.)
The contract stipulated that if she fell behind on any of her bills or taxes, or didn't keep up on repairs, she'd have to vacate. "They were setting me up for failure," Tawanda said.
Tawanda has refused to sell her house to pay her mother's Medicaid debt. "From slavery years we never got our 40 acres and a mule; we never got reparations," she said. "My parents made their 40 acres and a mule with blood, sweat, and tears, and now they want that too?"
"After my husband died I picked up the sword again," Ms. Rhodes said. "I will fight them to the death. I will never, ever give up this fight, and I will never sign a paper saying that they own my house."


Following the green light for an EU raft of "daft" spending proposals North East MEP Jonathan Arnott has hit out at the massive waste of taxpayers' money.
The Eurocrats have earmarked €12 million to fund gap year teenagers with free 'inter-railing' around Europe and a further €2 million to help them volunteer in Africa for up to a year.
A further €800,000 is to be spent helping volunteers plant trees in the same continent and €3 million-plus on 'ocean literacy classes'; teaching refugees to play football and on a butterfly monitoring project.
"The EU is barking up the wrong tree if it thinks splurging taxpayers' money on pointless projects will make it more popular.
"People are sick to death of the EU trying to bribe young people, and throwing money away. These outrageously daft proposals just reinforce why people were right to vote for Brexit," he added.
The spending plans were amongst some 2,324 amendments to the EU's draft Budget agreed by the Parliament's Budget Committee this week. They will go to a full vote of the European Parliament on 25 October.


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Green Party Leader Annamie Paul reiterates call to suspend Toronto by-elections, due to pandemic
TORONTO – "The situation in Toronto-Centre is critical - it is not like every other riding in Canada. It is the densest riding in the country, where over 85 per cent of residents live in high-rise buildings and many vote in their buildings. In some of the low-income, racialised neighbourhoods in the riding, more than 7 per cent of residents are infected with COVID-19. The Prime Minister is asking Toronto Centre residents to choose between exercising their democratic right to vote or risking a potential superspreader event.
"On October 5, Elections Canada proposed draft legislation to introduce the "three fundamental changes" to the Canada Elections Act it believes are necessary in order to administer "an accessible, safe and secure election during the pandemic." Instead of ignoring this legislation, the government should implement it without delay, and prior to holding any further elections, including those planned for Toronto-Centre and York-Centre.
"Two of Toronto's COVID-19 hot zones are in Toronto Centre. Holding a by-election in a low-income, racialised riding that has been severely impacted by COVID-19, before the new Elections Canada rules are in place, is the latest insult to a community that already suffers from neglect. The last thing our Deputy Chief Public Health Officer Dr. Njoo said in today's federal public health update was that people have a civic duty to stop transmission by avoiding personal contact. The least the government can do is to help Toronto Centre residents respect this critical request of our chief public health experts by postponing the Ontario by-elections "
For more information or to arrange an interview contact:
Rosie Emery
613-562-4916x206
rosie.emery@greenparty.ca


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Contact Sara
Public faith in Labour rests on its response to the Westminster sex scandal
The Harvey Weinstein scandal has sent shockwaves rippling across the Atlantic and they have now reached parliament. For the first time, light is shining into the darkest corners and what we can see is, quite frankly, very ugly.
The fact that any man, let alone a minister, needs to be told that asking members of staff to buy sex toys represents sexual harassment is certainly depressing. Yet Mark Garnier, a Tory minister for international development, described the incident as "high jinks" and the "sugar t***" comment he made to his then aide as part of an "amusing conversation".
No Mr Garnier, those comments are about as funny as Donald Trump. The crisis for the Tory party shows no signs of abating with Sir Michael Fallon resigning last week while saying vaguely that his conduct had "fallen short" in the past.
The problem is not limited to the Conservatives. The brave interview given by Bex Bailey, a former member of the NEC and committed Labour activist, shows this a problem for Labour too. MPs and members rallied to show their support and solidarity for her across the spectrum. Stella Creasy, Jess Philips, Sarah Champion, Yvette Cooper, John Mann, Angela Rayner and others have all acknowledged Bex's courage.
Jeremy Corbyn was quick to praise Bex's "incredible bravery" and promised to launch an independent investigation. Bailey responded on Twitter that she "spoke out in hope that policy, process & culture will change. Independent agency to report to is vital."
Her rallying cry for change is one that must be heeded, especially if Labour is to be taken at its word that it stands for equality and fairness for all.
Many reports on sexual harassment in parliament have made one of three bad points (or in the worst cases have made all three). Firstly, it is happening everywhere and parliament isn't worse than anywhere else; secondly, that it is difficult to discern the line between fumbled passes and sexual harassment ; or thirdly, that the current crop of women needs to realise things used to be so much worse. These critiques fail as they assume these are relationships of equals and, as such, we should not interfere.
It is especially egregious for those involved in politics to fall foul of laws on sexual harassment and assault. A considerable amount of time is spent by MPs and peers discussing policy changes with the aim they are enshrined in law.
It is an odd kind of mental dissonance if MPs and peers act as though they believe they are above the laws that they themselves have been debating and enacting. Labour is fundamentally a party that prizes its values. It corrodes our sense of integrity if we are comfortable talking about our values without displaying sufficient commitment to live by them.
The notion that it is hard to tell the difference between a ham-fisted attempt at flirting and sexual harassment is a bizarre one. For anyone genuinely confused, you can do no better than to see what Sean Jones QC wrote on Twitter. If you really think this means you cannot flirt or ask anyone out then you have been doing it all wrong.
For those who say that things used to be worse, that is not necessarily true. Sexual harassment is often about imbalances of power rather than sex or sexual attraction.
The acceptability or otherwise of sexual harassment is tethered to the fact there are not enough women in powerful positions in our society. The World Economic Forum's equality league table shows that Britain has slipped from 9th place in 2006 to 15th this year.
There is also the ticking time-bomb of mandatory gender pay reporting for organisations employing over 250 people. Be prepared to see evidence of the true extent of the gender pay gap in early April 2018. In a society that values money and possessions, the failure to pay women their worth is a reflection on how we value them. Progress has to be fought for, now, and in the future.
Labour should not make the mistakes of the Tories and the Liberal Democrats by avoiding change. We must establish rigorous and independent complaint processes that provide proper protection for people who are sexually harassed and bullied. Any independent complaints body has to be separate from the party and there has to be an understanding that the party will listen to and implement its recommendations.
We must go further still and make it clear that this type of behaviour has no place within our party. Whilst the most serious cases will require police support, we must not avoid our responsibilities as a party to stamp out this behaviour. This means training party members and officials on how to create cultural change and making it stick. If members repeatedly fail to follow warnings about sexual misconduct, then the party should consider expulsion.
Bex Bailey's bravery has given us an opportunity to get this right. Let's not waste it.
This article was first published by LabourList on 6 November 2017.
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News > Business
Front & Center: Engraving business carries family stamp
Sun., April 7, 2019, 5 a.m.
Sister and brother, Dave Uddman and Donna Scheidt, operate The Engraver, a company started by their parents in 1981. (Dan Pelle / The Spokesman-Review)
By Michael Guilfoil For The Spokesman-Review
Five facts
Employees: three (including two co-managers)
Products: engraved trophies, name tags, personalized gifts, retirement awards
Suitable materials: plastic, metal, glass, wood and stone
More information: www.theengraverinc.com; (509) 328-9508
When Dave Uddman was 16, his dad bought him an engraving machine.
"He was a traveling salesmen who dealt with lots of jewelers," Uddman recalled, "and they all needed engraving. Dad had managed a jewelry store, so he taught me the basics.
"I practiced in my bedroom for about six months until I was proficient."
One of Uddman's first commissions was a silver plate on which a customer wanted a poem carved.
"There were so many words, it took me days trying to figure it all out."
Perhaps you could call it poetic justice, then, that Uddman has spent the past 38 years further perfecting his engraving skills.
"I rarely screw up anymore."
Together with his sister Donna Scheidt, Uddman operates The Engraver shop at Monroe Street and Garland Avenue.
During a recent interview, they discussed sport trophies, sentimentality and sibling rivalry.
S-R: Did you two get along as kids?
Donna: We're nine years apart — I'm the oldest and Dave's the youngest, with two more sisters in between. And I left home when I was 18, so we didn't really know each other well.
S-R: How did the business evolve?
Dave: Two years after working out of our home, my mom and I opened a little cubbyhole shop on Division in 1983. She'd get there in the morning, and I'd leave Shadle Park (High School) at noon and come in. My dad later quit his job and joined us, and it was the three of us until Donna arrived in '95.
Donna: I worked 10 years for GMAC car financing. When they restructured and moved to Seattle, I was jobless. So my mom invited me to come handle the office, and I've been here ever since.
Dave: Our parents, Don and Sue Uddman, are still active in the business. Mom is the owner, and they both come in several days a week to help out.
Donna: All seven of their grandkids have worked here.
S-R: Do you remember how that first commission — the engraved plate — turned out?
Dave: No. But I've screwed up a few things over the years, and we'd run around town trying to replace a silver tray or a Cross pen.
Donna: If people come in with something antique or highly sentimental — something that can't be replaced — we discourage engraving it. If they insist, they accept liability.
S-R: Have metal trophies pretty much disappeared?
Dave: Yes. We had a ton of pot-metal figures back in the early '80s.
Donna: Now everything's plastic and made in China.
Dave: We have a box of miscellaneous metal figures, and if someone comes in with a broken one, we can sometimes find a replacement.
S-R: What's your most popular engraved item?
Donna: We do lots of name tags. You can get them cheaper online, but if they're wrong, it's a hassle. And we're quicker.
Dave: Sometimes we can engrave something while the customer waits.
S-R: How about unusual requests?
Dave: We've added names to pocket watches that have been handed down from generation to generation.
Donna: One customer whose baby died brought in a plaster replica of the child's hand and had my dad mount it beneath a glass dome, with an engraved plaque next to it.
S-R: Did you earn trophies growing up?
Dave: I got a few for sports — mostly baseball. I finally got rid of them a few years ago.
S-R: What do people do with trophies they no longer want?
Donna: They ask us to take them. We explain we don't sell used parts, and they say, "But they're so nice, and my dad won them." I think secretly they want us to throw them away because they can't bring themselves to do it.
S-R: What were your interests in high school, Donna?
Donna: Computers. And I'm kind of artistic. This job fills both niches, because I'm on a computer designing, doing logos, things like that.
S-R: Did you bring any skills learned at GMAC?
Donna: Good customer service. And when I arrived, mom was still using a ledger, so I set up a QuickBooks accounting system.
S-R: Which one of you runs the business today?
Dave: We both do.
Donna: I do laser and sandblasting, payroll and accounts payable.
Dave: And I do mostly production, maintenance and computer engraving.
S-R: What lessons did your parents instill that helped you succeed these past 38 years?
Dave: Definitely hard work. We're here nights and come in on weekends until we get it done. My dad is about to turn 87, my mom is 83, and they still love to work.
Donna: They also taught us to be punctual, and do what we say we'll do.
S-R: How has the business evolved?
Dave: Technology has changed. We started out engraving trophies by hand. Computerized engravers greatly increased productivity. Then lasers came along and are 10 times faster.
S-R: How has the competition changed?
Dave: There used to be 10 or 12 local engraving shops, all mom-and-pop. Now there are three, and one of those is for sale. Many closed because their owners got older and had no one to take over the business. Luckily, our parents had us. But we wonder about what we're going to do with it in 10 years.
S-R: Did your parents one day say, "That's it"?
Donna: No, and they haven't said it yet. This is their baby. We make most decisions, but we still say, "Hey mom, this is what we're going to do," and she's real agreeable.
S-R: How has demand changed?
Donna: We're finding that the generation coming up is less sentimental. Some use plastic Champagne flutes at their weddings and don't engrave their rings, so we have only a fraction of the wedding market we used to.
S-R: How about sport trophies?
Dave: Back in the day, darts were huge, pool was huge, and youth sports.
Donna: We'd hire our kids and their friends during trophy season, and our entire backshop would be packed with orders. A decade ago, every kid on the team got a little trophy. This generation doesn't give feel-good trophies. Or they buy online, and we can't compete with that.
Dave: But we get a lot of people who bring those trophies to us because they were engraved wrong.
S-R: What do you like most about your job?
Dave: Being our own boss, and the variety of work each day.
S-R: What do you like least?
Dave: In 36 years, I've never had more than 12 days off.
Donna: We have to force ourselves to take vacations, because when one of us is gone, that work doesn't get done and we're scrambling.
S-R: What's your busiest time of year?
Dave: March to June.
Donna: That's when we do colleges, high schools, retirements, births, marriages, deaths.
Dave: And as construction picks up, we do a lot of electrical tags.
S-R: What challenges lie ahead?
Donna: Ownership transition. If something were to happen to one of us, half our business would disappear.
Dave: Donna is in her 60s, I'm in my 50s. Our main thing is what are we going to do down the road. My son has worked here a couple of times. He likes it, but I don't think it's something he wants to do the rest of his life.
S-R: You've worked side by side in cramped quarters for almost a quarter-century. Can things occasionally get tense?
Dave: We have disagreements, but no knock-down, drag-outs. In fact, along with our salesperson, Jenna, we have a lot of fun.
Donna: (laugh) People sometimes say, "That must be awesome working in a family business!" And I say, "Do you want to have Thanksgiving and Christmas and birthdays and barbecues with your co-workers?"
Writer Michael Guilfoil can be contacted at mguilfoil@comcast.net.
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Published: April 7, 2019, 5 a.m.
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The Impact of AI in Customer Experience [Webinar]
Shreyasi Dutta Updated: August 5, 2020
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) has invaded our lives and is fundamentally redefining the way we work. Across industries, it is widely regarded as a tool for increasing operational efficiency in the contact center, boosting productivity, and lowering costs. In particular, AI is having a noteworthy impact on the contact center industry, a space that represents the front line and links businesses with customers.
It's undeniable that AI (and related automated tools like chatbots and virtual assistants) has a range of opportunities to streamline customer service (CS) and lessen the challenges that arise when attempting to deliver a flawless customer experience (CX). While some fear technological advancements like AI will replace human beings in the workplace (particularly in the contact center space), human agents will remain irreplaceable because of their unprecedented ability to handle complex customer issues and deliver personalized, "human touch" service.
What Can Contact Centers Expect from AI?
Gartner predicts that in the next two years, 25% of customer service operations will be catered by forms of AI. Interested in learning more? Join Fonolo and GTACC in a one-hour webinar as we do a deep dive into the impacts of AI on customer support, service and experience. You'll hear from Kevin Hornidge, Senior Director at RBC, Flavio Pereira, Founder at Nuveo, and Fonolo's CEO, Shai Berger.
How AI Can be Used to Create Better CX
The Impact of AI on Customer Facing Roles
Plus so Much More!
Who should watch:
VPs & Directors of Contact Centers
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Kevin Hornidge, Senior Director – Intelligent Automation and Innovation, RBC
As a business technologist specializing in Intelligent Automation, Kevin has innovated at RBC, adding value for contact centers with unique perspectives on global development, big data design thinking, and delivery.
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Flavio has helped companies increase efficiencies and reduce costs through AI, Robotic Process Automation and more. Flavio takes a keen interest in creating and nurturing an environment in which teams are constantly learning and improving their performance.
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Adventure tourism started out small, but has gained market share throughout the world. This is due in part to vacationers who want something different, to be able to use their time to make a difference, or they may be looking to combine travel with their favorite sport or activity. Whatever the reason, economically depressed areas and emerging markets can capitalize on the opportunity presented by adventure tourism.
Adventure tourism infuses money into the local economy. This happens in many ways, from hosting travel groups, to support services such as food and transportation. If an economically depressed area brings adventure tourism, jobs in transporting, housing, feeding, and entertaining visitors are created.
Leaders in the adventure tourism industry are dedicated to making this tourism segement as sustainable as possible. Xola, a company that partners with new and existing adventure tourism operators, conducts industry research on the environmental impact of this type of travel. One of their reports is "Brazil, Russia, India, China and Mexico: Balancing Adventure Travel Potential with Climate Change and Water Scarcity."
Adventure tourism can bring humanitarian aid to areas that needs it. Adventure Aid is a company that combines a traveler's desire to make a difference with a community in need. If visitors help provide clean water or other needs, it not only benefits the community, but strengthens the community's ability to provide for future travellers. The more tourists, the more economic growth.
Adventure tourism is a relatively inexpensive industry to for a community to start. There are companies that specialize in helping emerging adventure tourism operators market their product. Partnering with an established company can help burgeoning markets gain credibility faster, since they can avoid the mistakes that others made before them.


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Pilot Review: Marcella
Marcella (Netflix)
Premiered July 1
I like to try everything that Netflix has to offer if I can, even if it's imported from another network since it's presumably acquired and distributed with good judgment. I'm also usually a fan of dark thrillers about serial killers, but I'm finding more and more lately than this genre isn't always a great fit for eager new shows. This iTV import stars Anna Friel, who I and many American audiences got to know from her endearing role on "Pushing Daisies" and who then appeared in the short-lived "Allegiance." Now she's back at home in London in a much moodier, grimmer show about a cop back on the case after a long break. What sets this show apart more than the disturbing natures of its crime is Marcella's extremely unstable state. She gives Carrie Mathison a run for her money, particularly when she started hitting Jason, pushed him down the stairs, and then blacked out, coming to only when he had already gone with no recollection of what happened in between. She's a very volatile character, and I'm sure she'll make a fascinating protagonist. I see Jamie Bamber from "Battlestar Galactica" listed as a series regular, but it looks like he doesn't appear until episode two. I was excited to recognize Laura Carmichael, best known for playing Edith on "Downton Abbey," as a woman tangentially connected to whatever's going on. This premiere didn't hook me and I don't intend to revisit this show, but it is relatively intriguing and will probably head somewhere interesting.
How will it work as a series? This is structured as an eight-episode first season, and Marcella has already become very embroiled in this case, so I'm sure that there are plenty of avenues that this story can take. There are certainly enough characters, so I imagine this complex drama will be more than capable of spinning its tale.
How long will it last? Reports from May, when the show finished airing in the UK, indicated that Friel was signed on for two more seasons even though the show hasn't actually been renewed. I think it could easily continue, and my suspicion is that Netflix will continue to partner in streaming it if iTV brings it back.
Pilot grade: B-
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Bienheureux ou bienheureuse est un titre conféré par l'Église catholique à une personne défunte au cours de la béatification en raison des actes qu'elle a accomplis au cours de sa vie ou d'un sacrifice. La béatification succède au « décret d'héroïcité des vertus » et précède la canonisation déclarant le défunt comme saint.

Liste alphabétique de bienheureux

A
  Adalbert Nierychlewski, prêtre polonais béatifié en 1999 par le pape Jean-Paul II
  Alexandrina de Balazar, mystique portugaise béatifiée en 1996 par le pape Jean-Paul II
  Alix Le Clerc, religieuse lorraine béatifiée en 1947 par le pape Pie XII
  Antoine Chevrier, prêtre français béatifié en 1986 par le pape Jean-Paul II
  Antoine Neyrot, martyr italien béatifié en 1767 par le pape Clément XIII
  Arnaud Cataneo, martyr italien

B
  Bolesława Lament, religieuse polonaise béatifiée en 1991 par le pape Jean-Paul II

C
  Charles Carnus béatifié en .
  Charles  empereur d'Autriche béatifié en 2004 par le pape Jean-Paul II
  Charles de Foucauld béatifié en 2005 par le pape Benoît XVI
  Charlemagne, roi des Francs et empereur d'Occident, toléré bienheureux par le pape Benoît XIV
  Clémence de Trèves, religieuse allemande
  Carlo Acutis, béatifié par le pape François en 2020.

D
  Daniel Brottier, missionnaire français béatifié en 1984 par le pape Jean-Paul II

E
  Étienne Maconi
  Eugénie Smet (Sœur marie de la providence)

F
  Félicité Pricet
  Fra Angelico
  Frédéric Ozanam

G
  Guillaume-Joseph Chaminade

H
  Héloïse de Coulombs

I
  Imelda Lambertini
  Inès Takeya

J
  Jacques Burin
  Jacques Haddad
  Jacques Salomoni
  Jacques-Désiré Laval
  Jean Moschus
  Jean-Louis Bonnard
  Jeanne de Portugal
  Joachim de Flore

L
  Louis Brisson
  Louis de Thuringe
  Louis-Zéphirin Moreau

M
  Marie de l'Incarnation (Barbe Acarie, o.c.d.)
  Marie du Divin Cœur (née Maria Droste zu Vischering)
  Marie Poussepin
  Marie-Christine de Savoie
  Marie-Élisabeth Turgeon
  Marie-Rose Durocher
  Marie-Thérèse de Soubiran
  Marguerite Bays
  Maurice Tornay
  Michał Sopoćko

N
  Nicolas Roland
  Niels Stensen

O
  Ombeline de Jully
  Osanna de Kotor
  Osanna de Mantoue

P
  Paul VI
  Pedro González Telmo
  Pie IX

R
  Rani Maria Vattalil
  Richard de Saint-Vanne
  Richard de Sainte Anne (Lambert Trouvez, o,f.m Rec)
  Roger le Fort
  Roméo de Limoges

S
  Sandra Sabattini
  Stanisław Tymoteusz Trojanowski
  Stéphane Nehmé

V
  Valentin Paquay
  Vincent L'Hénoret

W
  William Howard

Liste de groupes de bienheureux
 Bienheureux martyrs
 Bienheureux Guy (plusieurs personnes)
 Bienheureuses carmélites de Compiègne

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Béatification
 Canonisation

Liens externes

Sainteté
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z/Vendor Watch: The Folly of Moving Applications Off the Mainframe
by Mark Lillycrop in Enterprise Tech Journal
I really enjoyed reading Bill Carico's recent column on Mainframezone.com titled "Sanity Check: Let Me Be Perfectly Vague." The story he tells about one company's misguided efforts to save money by moving workloads from the mainframe to a distributed platform (with dire consequences), and one vendor's determination to help them do this by focusing on all the wrong issues, is all too familiar. Indeed, Bill has collected a number of similar case studies over the years, and they're available in the Re-Boot Hill archive at www.actscorp.com. It's remarkable how often companies have made similar mistakes.
As Bill says in his column, the competitive vendor will generally target senior execs within the business rather than the existing IT professionals, and will go in with a highly polished marketing presentation rather than a clear, comparative analysis of the technologies involved.
It's strange to consider that, while the S/360 architecture on which today's mainframes are based is nearly 50 years old, the platform has been under fierce attack from distributed system advocates for well over half of its life. The number of expensive attempts to move away from the mainframe that have taken place during that period is hard to assess, but large enterprises seem incapable of learning the lesson. During those years, many of the execs who were won over by glib promises of cost savings and simplified technology from competitive vendors have now moved on, and a new generation of mainframe-skeptic CxOs need to be educated in the reasons why mainframes have endured so long and still perform a unique role within the enterprise.
Much of this "education" concerns the need to see the mainframe as more than an IT platform, to understand that it's a whole set of management disciplines and best practices that are ill-defined in other areas of IT. As such, System z potentially offers a strong foundation for today's cloud-based computing environments, which depend so heavily on seamless scalability and capacity management issues. Yet expressing these concepts in simple, bottom-line financial terms is extremely difficult.
In the IT service management area, where I currently spend most of my time, we face similar difficulties in quantifying the return on investment that many organizations are trying to make in disciplines such as change-, problem-, and service-level management. The fact these processes were introduced and nurtured in the mainframe world long before they were adopted elsewhere is often forgotten; and, properly implemented, they can help build a far stronger relationship between IT and the business than has existed until now.
As financial pressures in the commercial world show little sign of easing, senior execs will continue to face really tough financial decisions, and will continue to be won over by what seems to be a good argument for pushing Big Iron out the door and finding a more fashionable platform for enterprise applications. One can only hope they will demand a full, detailed technical comparison of the proposed solutions before they make a decision that could seriously add to their woes.
Compuware Highlights Mainframe Savings
A recent report from Compuware titled "Mainframe Efficiency in the Real World" describes how 60 companies made savings totaling $105 million by using the vendor's suite of tools. The diverse range of savings included a 50 percent reduction in CPU consumption, productivity gains of 55 percent, an 81 percent reduction in storage costs, and a batch processing window reduction from five hours to 30 minutes on a business-critical application.
While other ISVs might be able to provide comparable figures, what strikes me most about the report is the sheer scope for improvement among mainframe users that it reflects. When faced with the need for cost reductions, as discussed earlier, many users will take the drastic step of trying to move critical applications to another hardware platform, when the most obvious and straightforward savings can be gained by re-examining hardware and software contracts, implementing software asset management more effectively, and using tools such as those offered by Compuware and others to fine-tune performance and identify inefficiencies.
Mainframe Madness Is Back—and Has Been Extended
Once again, CA has provided an impressive virtual conference throughout the month of May, with a program covering a broad range of technical and strategic topics, all available through the Web. The event uses online chat and networking tools to make the more than 100 sessions as interactive as possible, creating one of the best virtual resources available to mainframe users worldwide.


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Encouraging startup development is a key component of the government's plan to accelerate the transformation of industry in Taiwan, as well as a global trend. In order to optimize the environment for startup companies, the government is promoting both the "five plus two" innovative industries program and a new action plan for improving the environment for investment in startups. The action plan lays out 40 specific action items reflecting five broad policy approaches to achieve the plan's two main objectives. This active assistance will energize the development of startup firms in Taiwan and enable expansion into markets abroad.
♦ Every two years, foster at least one "unicorn," or a startup with a valuation of at least US$1 billion.
♦ For the next five years, expand investment in startups by NT$5 billion (US$170.6 million) annually.
♦ Ensuring plentiful capital for newly established startups: This approach includes such efforts as promoting preferential tax treatment for angel investors under the Statute for Industrial Innovation, enhancing cooperation with top international venture capitalists, and simplifying review procedures for overseas investors.
♦ Fostering talent and fine-tuning laws and regulations: The government will continue to relax rules and regulations governing visa requirements, employment and residency for foreign professionals, as well as improve the functionality of the National Development Council's Startup Regulatory Adjustment Platform to provide clarification when startups encounter legal gray areas.
♦ Making government a good partner for startups: Through a wide variety of channels—including government procurement, business proposal and product competitions, and open data—the government will encourage cooperation among startups.
♦ Providing exits for investors in successful startups: Greater flexibility for stock exchange listings and more corporate acquisitions of startups will provide channels for investors and owners to cash in on success.
♦ Helping startups to conquer overseas markets: The government will attract international startup accelerators to Taiwan as well as invite foreign startup professionals and overseas Taiwanese businesspeople to invest in local startup firms.


With the lovely people of Touch Arcade showing off our trailer Zen Wars has gone public, yeay! Head over to their site to read their first thoughts on the game.
I can finally also announce my partnership with Liv Games, who are publishing Zen Wars. They've been a tremendous help. The in game graphics were done by the great guys at Panzer Flakes, because I can't draw to save my life.
Expect more previews in the coming days and more news as we inch our way forward to the immanent release. If you're on facebook the probably easiest way to keep up to date is by clicking the "Like" button in the top right. Its also the best way to get into any beta testing should you be interested.
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to come out {on to | to | on | into | in} the streets
Thousands of people came out onto the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
Can we rewrite the sentence in these ways? what would they mean if possible?
Thousands of people came out on to the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
Thousands of people came out on the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
Thousands of people came out to the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
Thousands of people came out into the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
Thousands of people came out in the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
And I saw another sentence that it says "to come out onto pitch". So can I say that to come out onto <somewhere>" is used when you go to <somewhere> which is much larger and more "open" (without roof) from a place which is "closed" like a room.
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These are all valid English sentences, and they all mean roughly the same thing.
I will go into more detail below. But, I think I can provide some intuition by writing some simpler sentences to analyze.
"I'm walking onto the sidewalk"
Means: I was not on the sidewalk, but if I keep walking I will be on the sidewalk.
"I'm walking on the sidewalk"
Means: I was already on the sidewalk and now I'm walking
"I'm walking into the store"
Means: I was not in the store, but if I keep walking I will be in the store.
"I'm walking in the store"
Means: I was already in the store and now I'm walking
Now, the detailed analysis:
1.Thousands of people came out on to the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
This is only a slight variation from the original sentence where "onto" was used. The way this sentence is phrased, it emphasizes that the people are physically placing themselves on the physical streets.
2.Thousands of people came out on the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
This sentence would be a little awkward for an English speaker. It is technically still a correct sentence and it does mean what you think it means. However, the expression "came out" is often used these days to mean that a person has announced that they are a homosexual*. People reading the sentence critically might interpret your words as meaning that a bunch of people stepped out on some asphalt and told each other that they were gay. It might be best for you to avoid using this sentence, since you have better options available.
Using into or onto suggestions that people are moving from one location to another. "On" and "in" tend to be used when a person is already in the place. For example:
*It can also mean announcing that they are transsexual, bisexual or even just that they have a secret side to their life that they are revealing.
3.Thousands of people came out to the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
4.Thousands of people came out into the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
These sentences use the word "streets" in a different way than your other sentences. In these two sentences, a "street" is now being referred to as a place (4th Street) rather than a physical object (asphalt poured over the ground).
5.Thousands of people came out in the streets to attest their support for the democratic opposition party.
This sentence has the same problem as #2. However, since it also uses the word "in" it now refers to a place, rather than to the physical asphalt.
As a native English speaker, I would prefer to use #4: "Thousands of people came out into the streets" because the point of this sentence is to tell the reader that a group of people gathered in a place. We don't actually care what the people are walking upon.
Brad JohnsonBrad Johnson
You can provide...intuition, the ability to directly perceive truth without conscious reasoning? I don't think so, even if I try to let it make sense figuratively. And, since to come out has a clear and readily-interpretable meaning other that disclosing sexual orientation, it seems to me as unnecessary to mention as it would be to say that it might also mean that people had orgasms or ejaculated on the streets. Not to discourage you. Just my first reactions for your consideration.
– Jim Reynolds
I agree with Bradleaghe Johnson, but I would add that since #1, with "on to", has the same meaning as using "onto", you might as well use "onto". And, although I don't think the risk of a sexual double entendre is high for any of the renderings you cited, that risk should be nil for this one.
– Brian Hitchcock
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UNC hired an interim provost for next academic year
News | June 1, 2018
Tommy Wood
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What's next for UNC?
The university's trustees will meet June 15 to approve the 2018-19 budget.
The University of Northern Colorado announced Thursday afternoon that Theodora Kalikow will be its interim provost for the 2018-19 academic year, bringing into sight the end of a saga that lasted much of last school year.
Kalikow was previously the president of the University of Maine-Farmington, president of the University of South Maine, vice chancellor for the University of Maine system and vice president for academic affairs at Humboldt State University. Her first academic administrative position was the deanship of UNC's College of Arts and Sciences from 1984 to 1987. She has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Wellesley College, a master's in philosophy from MIT and a doctorate in philosophy from Boston University. Kalikow also won a bronze medal in the triathlon at the 2005 Senior Olympics.
Kalikow will serve as UNC's interim provost during the 2018-19 year while the university looks for someone to permanently fill the position, which was held by three different people during the 2017-18 school year.
First, Robbyn Wacker, who had been UNC's provost for more than six years, left office amid allegations she was forced out by University President Kay Norton. Her replacement, Leo Welch, had to take extended medical leave, and the position has since been filled by Nancy Sileo. Wacker has since been hired as the president of St. Cloud State University in Minnesota.
Incoming UNC President Andy Feinstein, who will take over from Norton on July 1, will lead the search for a permanent provost throughout the coming school year. The university has not specified whether Kalikow, Welch or Sileo will be considered for the permanent position, nor is it known if they have expressed interest in it.
— Tommy Wood covers education and Evans city government for The Tribune. You can reach him at (970) 392-4470, twood@greeleytribune.com or on Twitter @woodstein72.


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We Were Believers Once, and Young
by Gilbert Meilaender October 2009
A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, With "On My Religion"
by John Rawls
Harvard, 275 pages, $27.95
To read A Brief Inquiry is to be led to ponder whether, as Wordsworth wrote, the child is father of the man. For the book makes available a text that was not generally known to exist, the senior thesis written by the late John Rawls in 1942 to complete requirements for graduation from Princeton. After graduating, Rawls enlisted in the army and served in the Pacific"returning after the war to earn a Ph.D. in philosophy and become an extraordinarily influential moral and political philosopher.
Thus, A Brief Inquiry Into the Meaning of Sin and Faith makes available the thoughts of a twenty-one-year-old Rawls and, perhaps surprisingly to many who know his mature work, a deeply religious Rawls. The book also includes a brief piece titled "On My Religion," written (though not for publication) by Rawls sometime in the 1990s. In it he makes clear that by June 1945 he had abandoned the Christian beliefs so resoundingly asserted in the thesis three years earlier, and he offers some speculation about why his beliefs had changed.
Along with these two pieces by Rawls himself, the book contains an introduction written by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, which attempts to sort through continuities and discontinuities between the young Rawls of the thesis and the well-known scholar of later years. It also includes a roughly seventy-five-page essay by Robert Merrihew Adams called "The Theological Ethics of the Young Rawls and Its Background," which examines the argument of the thesis in detail. Adams' essay is helpful for understanding and situating Rawls' thesis"though seldom has a piece of undergraduate writing received such rigorous analysis from an eminent scholar, and it led me (perhaps counterintuitively) to wonder whether the thesis really merits quite this level of attention.
Cohen and Nagel write that "the thesis is an extraordinary work for a twenty-one-year-old, animated by youthful passion and powerful ethical conviction, often vividly expressed, and informed by erudition and deep philosophical reflection." This strikes me as rhetorical overkill, although clearly the author of the thesis is a very bright and thoughtful student. As a stylist, the undergraduate author is clearly father of the man. There is a labored quality to the thesis, as it sets out what will be done and extends promissory notes in a manner all too reminiscent of A Theory of Justice , the great 1971 work that was to make Rawls' reputation.
What is most striking to me about the undergraduate thesis is a feature about which I am somewhat ambivalent, for it goes beyond work one might ordinarily expect from an undergraduate in its theoretical ambition. The young Rawls does not content himself with analyzing and evaluating the work of important scholars. (He does, though, make use of some, perhaps especially Emil Brunner and Anders Nygren"and makes still more use of the Bible, "always the last word in matters of religion," as he writes.) The thesis is less analytical than constructive, as the undergraduate Rawls attempts to develop his own view of "the inner core of the universe," at the heart of which are the concepts of community and personality.
About this I am, as I said, ambivalent. Even granting that a senior thesis comes at the end of the undergraduate experience, one's energies may be better focused on understanding and analyzing the thought of important thinkers than of constructing one's own system. And certainly, at least for this reader, it is the constructive parts of the thesis that are least clearly formulated. One may, as Cohen and Nagel do, note certain continuities and discontinuities between them and views developed by the mature Rawls, but there's not much else to be gained from them.
About the content of the thesis I will say relatively little. Rawls develops a distinction between what he calls naturalism and the view for which he argues, which makes personality and community central. He acknowledges that his use of the term naturalism is somewhat idiosyncratic and stipulative. Roughly, he means to distinguish natural relations, in which a person is drawn toward an object, from personal relations, in which two subjects meet in mutual community. In natural relations, an active subject stands over against an object; the relation is not mutual. In a personal relation, both subjects are active"revealing themselves to each other and, sometimes, judging each other.
Thus, any ethics that focuses on our desire for various goods, even one that is quite concerned to distinguish proper from disordered desires, is condemned by Rawls. From this perspective he can and does lump together Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas. "They have all failed to understand the communal problem and consider ethics a matter of relating persons to proper objects, such as the Form of the Good, Truth, or God, who is conceived by Augustine and Aquinas as the most desirable object."
One sees here the considerable influence of Nygren on Rawls, even when it comes out with undergraduate confidence in these sentences from the preface: "I do not believe that the Greek tradition mixes very well with Christianity, and the sooner we stop kowtowing to Plato and Aristotle the better. An ounce of the Bible is worth a pound (possibly a ton) of Aristotle." And in the rejection of every eudaimonistic strain of thought (since even the attempt to sort out ordinate and inordinate loves still assumes that the point of the moral life is to relate ourselves properly to desired objects), one can see the germ of Rawls' later Kantianism, which took shape in a theory of justice based not on goods to be sought but on fair terms of cooperation.
Having developed his reasons for rejecting naturalism in favor of persons-in-community (with, by the way, the inner life of the triune God as a model), the young Rawls completes the thesis with chapters on the meaning of sin and the meaning of faith. These chapters are also constructive, as he attempts to think through theological concepts from the normative standpoint he has developed. The "appetition" that seeks God as its object turns out to be, fundamentally, sin. "If one cannot have faith in God just because He is what He is, but has to add that He is most satisfying in His beauty and such an object that we shall never crave anything else"then perhaps it is better not to be a Christian at all."
There is, I would note, no creaturely neediness here. The young Rawls' religion is fundamentally ethical, concerned with the proper structure of personal relations in community. But the most fundamental religious impulse of all"to worship the One for whom we are made and apart from whom we cannot be fully ourselves"is less in evidence.
Those interested in connections to the political theory of the mature Rawls are likely to be struck by the thesis' rejection of any community "based upon mutual egoism or mutual advantage." Indeed, he writes, "all 'contract' theories of society suffer from this fundamental defect." Because Rawls might be said to be the greatest social-contract theorist of the last half of the twentieth century, this looks like a large discontinuity in the development of his thought.
In their introduction, however, Cohen and Nagel argue that such is not the case. Rawls' mature concept of justice as fairness did not depend, they suggest, on a vision of self-interested individuals bargaining about the terms on which they would live together in society. Rather, he used "the idea of a contract under the veil of ignorance principally as a device for representing the value of fairness." This seems strained, for, even behind the imagined veil of ignorance, in which one does not know one's own life circumstances, one must somehow ask what sort of risks one would be willing to run in order to share a life in community. Self-interest has not been eliminated.
The concluding chapter on faith includes a long discussion of conversion, an intriguing attempt to interpret the doctrine of election in communal more than individualistic terms, and a puzzling rejection of the "false conception" that God might be angry and punish. What Christians may sometimes imagine as the anger of God is really the experience of being "left within the aloneness of sin." What makes this puzzling is its appearance in a thesis that exalts personal relations between subjects, who may, of course, hold each other responsible and judge each other. Why God should here be conceived less personally than human subjects is hard to understand.
One of the peculiarities of the short later document, "On My Religion," is that at certain places it articulates viewpoints the author of "A Brief Inquiry" should have known were questionable. For instance, the older Rawls rejects a notion of "salvation by true belief," even though the young Rawls had already distinguished faith (as trust) from belief (as a cognitive state). He rejects notions of predestination, characterizing them as depicting "God as a monster moved solely by God's own power and glory," even though he had himself once taken the meaning of election to be that "God is working to establish a community." And perhaps most surprising, the man who had placed community at the heart of Christian faith writes that "Christianity is a solitary religion." The last of these, in particular, is genuinely puzzling.
"I started [the war] as a believing orthodox Episcopalian Christian, and abandoned it entirely by June of 1945," Rawls writes in "On My Religion." He does not claim that he can really account for or explain the change, but he mentions three incidents that, at least in memory, seem to have been important. The first of them is something for which an unnamed Lutheran pastor, then serving troops in the Pacific, has a lot to answer. At least as Rawls remembered it, this pastor "gave a brief sermon in which he said that God aimed our bullets at the Japanese while God protected us from theirs." This depiction of so clearly partial a divine providence angered Rawls; he even says that he "upbraided" the pastor for using Christian teaching in a way designed simply to give false comfort.
The second incident"a striking one that we can easily imagine would embed itself in Rawls' memory"grew out of the death of Deacon, a friend and fellow soldier. One volunteer was needed to give blood; a second, to scout out some Japanese positions. Because Rawls happened to have the needed blood type, Deacon received the other assignment and was killed by a mortar attack.
The third incident""really more than an incident," Rawls notes"was news of the Holocaust, gradually making its way to troops in the Pacific. The link between these three incidents seems clearly to involve a questioning of the notion of divine providence. A religion that had been focused on morality ran aground when it came to seem out of kilter with morality. "To interpret history as expressing God's will, God's will must accord with the most basic ideas of justice as we know them."
These issues are, of course, profound and troubling. One could hardly argue that Rawls was wrong to be troubled by such questions. His reflections seem to have led him away from Christianity, though not from some form of theism. What he lost in that movement, however, was a God who cares enough about us to involve himself in our life and history. Lacking such a God, we are left with our own efforts"both theoretical and practical. In his last major work, The Law of Peoples , a work with explicit ties to Kant's vision of perpetual peace, Rawls concludes by claiming that, because it is not entirely unreasonable to hope for the establishment of a just social order, we have reason enough"even apart from the realization of such an order"to "reconcile us to the social world." So long as it is reasonable to hope that we"or others in the future"may achieve such a society, we can do our part now in pressing toward that goal.
An eschatological hope, a quasi-religious conviction, continued to be needed to give meaning and point to the work to which Rawls devoted his life. This is, however, a rather different hope from that with which the young Rawls concluded his senior thesis, picturing the entire Creation as moving toward "that great day" of the Lord, which "may not be so far off as we think." Whether the hope that moved the younger Rawls, grounded in a God who enters our struggle and fulfills what we are unable to do, was not in fact the more reasonable hope is a question that the trajectory of Rawls' work may invite us to consider yet again.
Gilbert Meilaender , a member of the First Things editorial board, holds the Deusenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University.
Articles by Gilbert Meilaender


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Bentz Law Firm attorney David Barton was selected to lead a continuing judicial education panel discussion on judicial ethics at the September 2019 Administrative Meeting of the Pennsylvania Superior Court. Among our nation'€™s busiest appellate courts, the Superior Court bench consists of 15 commissioned judges who are elected statewide, and six senior judges temporarily assigned to serve on the court.
Barton recently concluded a four year term on Pennsylvania's Court of Judicial Discipline, including one year as its president judge. Appointed to that court by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in 2015, Barton has also served as a magisterial district judge in Allegheny County since 1996. Since 2015, he has helped to craft the Pennsylvania judiciary'€™s equal access to justice and language access efforts with the Administrative Office of Pennsylvania Courts.
Amy Bentz has been selected to the 2019 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list.
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David Barton Elected President Judge of Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline
(Harrisburg, Pa.) -- Bentz Law Firm attorney David Barton, who has also served in the Pennsylvania judiciary for 21 years, has been elected President Judge of the Pennsylvania Court of Judicial Discipline. Barton was appointed as a judge on the court in May, 2015, by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
"Public confidence in our judges and justices is essential if our judicial system is to fulfill its role in our system of government. The Court of Judicial Discipline helps to maintain this confidence. I'€™m deeply gratified that my colleagues on the Court have elected me to serve as President Judge," Barton said.
Established by the Pennsylvania Constitution, the Court hears and decides cases filed by the Judicial Conduct Board alleging judicial misconduct involving every commissioned and senior judge who serves in the state judiciary.
Leonard Spagnolo Awarded Martindale-Hubbell's Silver Client Champion Award
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"I'm honored to be selected by so many respected judges for this award concerning my efforts for district judges across Pennsylvania,"€ Barton said. "As judges, we all have an obligation to work for the betterment of our judicial system and the citizens of Pennsylvania," he added.
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Barton, a member of the group that drafted the plan, told the Lawyer's Journal that "The plan benefits litigants by ensuring they will have equal access to justice."€ He also advised that "advancing education of court system personnel and system-related personnel will prepare them to address [language access] needs. Judges will be better prepared and have much more knowledge of how to handle such cases."
Barton was also selected to serve on a newly created team that oversees the judicial system's efforts with language access, in order the ensure that the Pennsylvania judicial system complies with the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as it relates to equal access to justice.
"Pennsylvania is the 10th most linguistically diverse state. Just over ten percent of our 12 million citizens speak a language other than English at home," Barton said.
Amy Bentz has been selected to the 2017 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list and named a Rising Star for 2017.
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Amy Bentz Selected as Program Chair
Attorney Amy Bentz has been selected to be the Program Chair for the Surety Claims Institute Conferences for the years 2017 and 2018.
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Bentz Law Firm attorney David Barton recently completed a historic New Markets Tax Credit refinancing of a large construction project for The Chicago Tabernacle of the Assemblies of God. Representing faith-based lender Heritage Investment Services Fund, Inc. (HIS Fund), Barton, along with HIS Fund special counsel David A. York, attorneys for U.S. Bank Community Development Corporation, and attorneys for the Chicago Tabernacle of the Assemblies of God, recently completed the refinancing of nearly Nine Million Dollars in debt which permitted the Chicago Tabernacle to take advantage of an additional $1.5 Million in investment.
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David Barton Appointed to Court of Judicial Discipline
David Barton was sworn in on June 5, 2015 as a judge of the Court of Judicial Discipline. Barton was appointed to a four year term by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. The Court of Judicial Discipline has jurisdiction over all judicial officers in Pennsylvania and must hear and decide formal charges which are filed against a judicial officer.
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Amy Bentz to Speak at Surety Claims Institute Seminar
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Jordan Harvey (Mission Viejo, California, Estados Unidos; 28 de enero de 1984) es un exfutbolista estadounidense. Jugaba de lateral por la izquierda.

Trayectoria

Inicios e Universidad
Harvey comenzó a jugar al fútbol en los Strikers FC en su época de escolar. Como universitario en la Universidad de California en Los Ángeles jugó durante cuatro años en los UCLA Bruins, entre el 2002 y 2005, donde disputó 69 encuentros y anotó 7 goles y 9 asistencias. Mientras estaba en la universidad, jugó además en el Orange County Blue Star de la USL Premier Development League.

Profesionalismo
Harvey fue escogido por el Colorado Rapids en el noveno puesto del Draft suplementario de la MLS 2006. No debutó con los Rapids hasta el 2008, y durante la temporada 2009 fue el jugador que más minutos jugó en el club con 2613 minutos disputados.

El 25 de noviembre de 2009 fue seleccionado por el Philadelphia Union en el Draft de expansión de la MLS 2009. Harvey anotó su primer gol en Philadelphia, de cabeza, el 15 de abril de 2010 en la derrota por 2-1 ante el Toronto FC.

Fue intercambiado al Vancouver Whitecaps FC el 7 de julio de 2011. Se estableció como titular del equipo en la temporada 2012, año en que jugó 26 encuentros en el campeonato. El 19 de junio de 2013 anotó el gol número 10.000 de la historia de la MLS ante el Chivas USA. Jugó en Vancouver hasta la temporada 2017, el quinto año que jugó más de 2000 minutos en la temporada de manera consecutiva.

Fichó por la nueva franquicia de la MLS, Los Angeles FC, para la temporada debut de 2018. Renovó su contrato con el club al término de la temporada.

El 26 de febrero de 2022 anunció su retiro como jugador a los 38 años.

Selección nacional
Harvey jugó dos encuentros con la selección de Estados Unidos sub-17 en la Copa mundial sub-17 de 2001 y un encuentro con la selección de Estados Unidos sub-20 en la Copa Mundial sub-20 de 2003.

Vida personal
Se casó con la cantante Kimberly Caldwell el 31 de diciembre de 2014 en Palm Springs, California. Su hija, Harlow Monroe Harvey, nació el 7 de octubre de 2015. En agosto de 2019 confirmó que sería padre por segunda vez.

Estadísticas
 Actualizado al último partido disputado el 3 de noviembre de 2018.

Palmarés

Referencias

Enlaces externos
Perfil  de Jordan Harvey en el sitio web del Los Angeles FC.
Perfil de Jordan Harvey en MLS Soccer.
Perfil de Jordan Harvey en Twitter.

Futbolistas de Estados Unidos
Futbolistas de California
Futbolistas masculinos de UCLA Bruins
Futbolistas del Orange County Blue Star
Futbolistas del Colorado Rapids
Futbolistas del Philadelphia Union
Futbolistas del Vancouver Whitecaps
Futbolistas de Los Angeles Football Club
Futbolistas de la selección de fútbol sub-20 de Estados Unidos