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East Midlands Today video journalist Brady Haran decided to be a science guinea pig. Here he explains how researchers "photographed" his brain.
I arrived at the University of Nottingham in a relaxed mood, met by Dr Richard Ramsey from the psychology department.
I know Richard quite well, and he explained what would happen when I entered the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanner.
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Brady's brain was captured with an MRI scanner
I'd be shown a series of films - but because it's a tight squeeze, these videos would be watched via a series of mirrors aimed at a screen outside the scanner!
With forms filled out and health checks done, I was led to the scanning room.
I made sure there were no coins in my pockets and my watch was removed (I was about enter a giant magnet, after all!), then scanner operator Kay put me in place.
"The biggest problem was when I had an itchy nose"
Brady Haran
I wore ear plugs and headphones (the machine's very loud) and was given an emergency button to press if I felt panicked or wanted to stop.
Then I lay on my back and a mask-type contraption was placed over my head, before Kay slid me into the confined tube.
I was told not to move, especially not to my head, while the scanning took place... But it was so tight in there, I doubt I could have moved if I tried.
Kay would occasionally speak to me via the headphones, but the whole process was quite solitary.
Oranges and cricket balls
I watched a series of videos prepared by Dr Ramsey, and have to say they were mind-numbingly dull.
Essentially it was just a series of people picking up objects from a table, like oranges, hammers and cricket balls.
Occasionally a question would pop up on the screen - like "Did the woman have dark hair?" - which I answered by pressing buttons in my left and right hands.
I later learned that answers to these questions were irrelevant - they were simply put there to make sure I concentrated on the videos.
As I watched, Kay and Dr Ramsey were capturing countless images of my brain, monitoring the blood and oxygen flow.
Initial dizziness
Dr Ramsey will now use the data - and that taken from about 20 other volunteers - to better understand the brain.
In particular he wants to know how the brain works when we're trying to understand the behaviour and actions of our fellow humans.
It was quite painless in the scanner, though I did suffer some initial dizziness which I kept to myself (I was later told this is quite common, especially on the more powerful scanners).
The biggest problem was towards the end when I had an itchy nose but could not move my arms to scratch it!
All volunteers receive £10 for their troubles, but the greater incentive is the brain portrait presented at the end.
Mine is shown at the top of the page, but it is worth noting this "prettier" structural scan is not of great scientific interest to Dr Ramsey.
He will be using the many "volume scans" taken as I watched the videos, and closely comparing how my brain reacted to each one I watched.
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How to Detect Lying Words (…. 76% of the time)
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Yesterday I found myself watching videos of the testimonies of Dr Betty Ford and Brett Kavanaugh. I went out of the way to seek those videos out after seeing in my rss feeds totally opposite interpretations of each. One side said that Kavenaugh, for example, just oozed sincerity and honesty and had deservedly secured his appointment on the Supreme Court; the other side claimed that his presentation was viscerally insincere and false and that he had lost any chance of being honestly appointed a Supreme Court judge. Wow, now that's polarization!
James Pennebaker
After comparing the two for myself I remembered an interesting book that addresses the language of lying and honesty (among other functions of language),
Pennebaker, James W. 2013. The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
In one study Pennebaker describes some participants related accounts of real traumas in their past and others imaginary ones. The language of each was compared. Accounts of real traumas were associated with:
More words, bigger words, more numbers, more details. If you have experienced a real trauma in your life it is easy for you to describe what happened. You can describe the details of the experience without having to do much thinking. Some of the details include information about time, space, and movement.
Fewer emotion and cognitive words. If you have lived through a trauma, your emotional state is obvious. For example, if your father died, most people don't then say "and I was really sad." It is implicit in the experience. However, people who haven't experienced the death think to themselves, "Well, if my father died I would feel very sad so I should mention that in my essay." The person who has had a trauma in the past already has a reasonable story to explain it. The person who is inventing the story must do more thinking—and use more cognitive words to explain it.
Fewer verbs. There are a number of different types of verbs that can serve different functions in language. When a person uses more verbs it generally tells us that they are referring to more active and dynamic events. For a person who has had a trauma in the past, much of it is over. If you are writing about an imaginary trauma, you are living it as you tell about it. In addition, imaginary traumas cause people to ask themselves, "What would have happened? How would I have felt?" Discrepancy verbs such as would, should, could, and ought were used at particularly high rates in the imaginary traumas.
More self-references: I-words. Recall that I-words signal that people are paying attention to themselves—their feelings, their pain, themselves as social objects. By the same token, the use of first-person singular pronouns implies a sense of ownership. Not surprisingly, people writing about their own traumatic experiences were more acutely aware of their feelings and, at the same time, embraced their traumas as their own.
(Pennebaker, p. 143)
Pennebaker does not claim that those indicators are foolproof lie detectors but the follow up test analysis found them able to accurately classify 74% of the narratives.
Other tests included both a mock crime setup where participants were required to protest their innocence under cross examination and a far more laborious process of examining court transcripts of witness testimonies. A strong finding in the latter was the preponderance of I-words among those who were exonerated compared with substantially higher uses of third-person pronouns. The latter were indicators of attempting to shift the blame away from oneself and on to others. The honest accounts again used "bigger words, described events in greater detail, and evidenced more complex thinking." Computer analysis of the language again correctly classified 76% of the cases.
Recall the lies used to justify the invasion of Iraq. Pennebaker zeroes in on one particular response by Vice President Cheney to a reporter's (Wolf Blitzer) question. The highlighted words were identified by the Center for Public Integrity as truthful.
What we said, Wolf, if you go back and look at the record is, the issue's not inspectors. The issue is that he has chemical weapons and he's used them. The issue is that he's developing and has biological weapons. The issue is that he's pursuing nuclear weapons. It's the weapons of mass destruction and what he's already done with them. There's a devastating story in this week's New Yorker magazine on his use of chemical weapons against the Kurds of northern Iraq back in 1988; may have hit as many as 200 separate towns and villages. Killed upwards of 100,000 people, according to the article, if it's to be believed.
This is a man of great evil, as the president said. And he is actively pursuing nuclear weapons at this time, and we think that's cause for concern for us and for everybody in the region. And I found during the course of my travels that it is indeed a problem of great concern for our friends out there as well too.
Computer text analyses comparing the truthful with the deceptive statements resulted in findings comparable to the others reported. Truthful statements were associated with higher rates of I-words. In addition, they were more nuanced, focused on more detail, and tended to be associated with fewer emotions. The above quotation is a good example of these differences. In the truthful section, Cheney is more detailed in his information, uses more complex sentences, and uses I-words.
Other Common Deception Markers
Passive constructions: "Mistakes were made." In a delightful book on misinformation, Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me), Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson examine how people frequently avoid responsibility through ingenious linguistic maneuvers. For example, historians are in general agreement that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger frequently deceived the American people about the direction and scope of the Vietnam War during the 1970s. Years later, in an interview, Tavris and Aronson quote Kissinger as saying, "Mistakes were quite possibly made by the administrations in which I served." Note his wording. Obviously, Kissinger didn't make any mistakes. Rather, someone probably did.
Avoiding answering a question. In the mock-crime experiment where students were asked to "steal" a dollar, we asked each person point-blank: "Did you steal the dollar that was in the book?" People who actually did take the money said things such as:
I don't believe in stealing. I have a problem with it. I did it once a long time ago; I was … younger. I really didn't like the feeling of knowing they're going to catch me. I just, you know, especially you said for a dollar? I wouldn't have taken it.
Why would I? I would never even think to look in the book to look for a dollar. I was just writing in my journal for my freshman seminar.
It really offends me that you would accuse me of something like that. I would never do something like that.
The most common response of people who were telling the truth was "No, I didn't take your dollar." Unlike the liars, the truth-tellers answered the question directly without any embellishment. As these examples attest, when someone doesn't directly answer your question, there is a good chance they are hiding something no matter how earnest they may sound.
Let me be clear about that: performatives. Linguists and philosophers have long been intrigued by a language device called a performative. Performatives are statements about statements. In the statement "I promise you that I did not steal the money," the phrase "I promise you" is a performative. It is simply claiming "I say to you" or "I am uttering the following words to you." What is interesting about performative statements is that they cannot be assessed on their truthfulness. In the sentence starting with "I promise you," the claim "I did not steal the money" is not directly asserted. The truth of the phrase is that the speaker is merely saying that he or she promises that they didn't steal the money. It's a fine distinction but one used surprisingly frequently.
Toward the end of his term, President Bill Clinton was being hounded by the press concerning rumors of sexual misconduct with a White House aide, Monica Lewinsky. In a January 26, 1998, press conference, Clinton announced:
I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
A naïve human being would think that the president did not have sex with Lewinsky. Actually, the statement he said is true: "I'm going to say this again …" In fact, it is technically correct. He was saying it again. OK, so he later admitted that he had had sexual relations with "that woman" but in the press conference, he was not officially lying.
One of the great baseball pitchers of all time, Roger Clemens, was accused by former teammates of taking performance-enhancing drugs during his baseball career. In a press conference several months before later admitting that he had, in fact, taken drugs, Clemens said:
I want to state clearly and without qualification: I did not take steroids, human growth hormone or any other banned substances at any time in my baseball career or, in fact, my entire life …
There again, you can see that Mr. Clemens was technically honest. He did, in fact, state clearly and without qualification. What he stated was a lie but it was truthfully a statement.
(Pennebaker, pp. 166f)
There you have it. You need never be fooled by a liar again, at least around 76% of the time if you are as clever as a computer.
Now, let's have another look at those Ford and Kavanaugh testimonies . . . .
Author Neil GodfreyPosted on 2018-09-28 21:59:57 GMT+0000 2019-06-24 07:51:05 GMT+0000 Categories Ethics & Human NatureTags Lying, Pennebaker: The Secret Life of Pronouns
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Paul George says:
Apparently Ford can't remember when or where it happened. Is this credible? Perhaps she has a false memory.
"A false memory is a psychological phenomenon where a person recalls something that did not happen. There is a growing body of evidence that false memories are created whenever memories are recalled…The syndrome takes effect because the person believes the influential memory to be true." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_memory
Caravelle says:
What a silly thing to say; all memories are fragmentary, and the older they are the more fragmentary they get, real or false! That's not an indicator either way. And more memories are real than false (or what would be the point of them).
That memories are recreated every time they're recalled is how memory is implemented in the brain. That implementation makes more false memories than what we like to think (because we'd like to think our memories are infallible), but it's still designed to preserve an accurate-enough representation of the past more than the alternative. Otherwise, again, what would it have evolved *for*. (We can argue that there is some evolutionary advantage in having memories that are more self-serving than real, but to be useful you'd not just need the memories, you need to convince others the memories are real – which would be impossible if memories weren't mostly real, so even there reality constrains the evolution of memory)
Bob Moore says:
But I think Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov pass the truth test here.
https://www.rt.com/shows/rt-interview/438408-rt-petrov-boshirov-full-interview/
James Chapman says:
The analysts a Vox charted, in both Ford's and Kavanaugh's testimony, every instance in which they answered a question directly and every time they either refused to answer or gave an answer that didn't address the question. There is a clear pattern, wouldn't you say?
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/9/28/17914308/kavanaugh-ford-question-dodge-hearing-chart
As Pennebaker wrote,
As these examples attest, when someone doesn't directly answer your question, there is a good chance they are hiding something no matter how earnest they may sound.
I sometimes think politicians must do a special training course in how to avoid answering reporters' questions.
Paul the Uncertain says:
This is a complicated inference problem, regardless of your politics. I am unsure that low-level "scoring" heuristics are helpful for comparing witnesses' honesty in this quagmire.
The very first "pink band" (marking what Vox designates as an unresponsive answer) which I could visually resolve to click on it in Kavanaugh's compressed transcript:
Q: [Accusers have asked the FBI to investigate their claims] … why aren't you also asking the FBI to investigate these claims?
A: Senator, I'll do whatever the committee wants. I wanted a hearing the day after the allegation came up… [non-responsive testimony about what happened since then].
The witness never says "Here's why I'm not asking the FBI." "Pink" is therefore the correct designation for scoring purposes. Substantively, however, the witness is responsive. The committee determines procedure in this matter; the witness had already testified that he petitioned the committee to investigate the earliest claim in timely fashion (what "wanted a hearing" means).
All of that occurs in a context where the questionner (Senator Feinstein) is on record that she'd known of the first claim throughout the proceedings. She was in a position to cooperate with the FBI, but the committee (of which she is a member) does in fact properly determine procedure, including the extent to which the FBI is involved.
This is hardball politics, of which both Kavanaugh and Feinstein are seasoned professional players (but Dr Ford isn't). Determining the truth of Dr Ford's accusation simply is not the only purpose in asking the quesion, nor the only dimension of merit applicable to the answer.
Pink and blue, however accurately applied, just won't cut it, IMO.
I disagree. First, "wanted a hearing" is completely different from "called for an investigation". To illustrate, this was a hearing but I'd hardly call it an investigation, both because there was no effort to comprehensively interview all relevant witnesses, and because the questions themselves (when they were questions) were haphazard, not consistently truth-seeking, and with little of the follow-up that truth-seeking would require.
Second, I disagree that the answer was "substantively responsive". His answer *can be interpreted* as responsive, but not in a way that stakes a specific position that the questioner could follow up on. For example, talking about how the committee decides procedure ignores the fact that he can ask the committee to do things as a person involved (like some accusers apparently did according to the question, and like the committee itself has to officially ask the White House in the first place, as it apparently doesn't have the power to directly ask the FBI itself). It sounds like that's what the question actually asked (what with the reference to the accusers, who also don't decide committee procedure), but did he misunderstand it, and answer a different question like "will you use your authority over the FBI to launch an investigation"? Did *I* misunderstand the question? Did he understand the question, and basically answer "no, I won't call for an FBI investigation, but also won't protest if the committee calls for one"? Did he purposefully choose to confuse the issue to avoid "being caught saying" "I won't call for an FBI investigation"? Did he sincerely misunderstand the question, or state his answer in a confusing way?
It's hard to tell which of these is the case, and it's hard to formulate a follow-up question that would clarify, given the "he misunderstood the question" and "I might have misunderstood his answer because it was confusing" hypotheses demand different kinds of follow-ups.
I've been in such conversations, where I got replies that weren't straight answers to my question, but that I could plausibly interpret as containing or implying said answers, but that answer seemed to contradict other things the person had said, and the reply could also be plausibly interpreted as a misunderstanding of my question because it did qualify as a straight answer to a different, related question, but also maybe the person involved is deliberately trying to avoid answering my question because they think I want to use the actual answer against them, but maybe they're misunderstanding my intentions and if I explained where I'm going with this they'd be happier answering?
It's extremely hard to deal with such situations, and when it happens I try very hard to ask clear questions and demand straight answers, even when it seems redundant, because it's the only way to tell all those scenarios apart, and if you don't you easily fall in long acrimonious debates with both sides arguing past each other. And doing that I often find I was the one misreading things in the first place !
That's why straight answers are important, and why being "substantively responsive" is no substitute for it.
And even if you disagree with their metric, there is the fact they applied it to both Ford and Kavanaugh – do you find they did so inconsistently? If not, are you arguing that the differy found between the two doesn't mean what they claim, and if so how?
@Caravelle: Thank you for your follow-on comment.
While the verb _to want_ has many possible meanings, its meaning was unambiguous when spoken to a member of the committe that received the communication being referred to, which had already been described to the committee shortly before. Judge Kavanaugh's opening (sworn) statement included the claim,
"The day after the allegation appeared, I told this committee that I wanted a hearing as soon as possible to clear my name. I demanded a hearing for the very next day."
source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/26/us/politics/read-brett-kavanaughs-complete-opening-statement.html
On another matter, a reply from which the information sought may be confidently inferred is substantively responsive to a query. "Why aren't you asking the FBI for something?" "Because I've already asked you for something related." Omitting the word _because_ doesn't change the substance of the reply, although we seem to agree that for syntactical scoring purposes, its absence was justly "penalized."
I have no objection to Vox' metric, nor how they applied it, nor do I deny that the outcome supports what people generally (including me) seem to agree upon anyway. Dr Ford's tone and demeanor greatly contrasted with Judge Kavanaugh's.
I'm unsure precisely what Vox or James Chapman are claiming follows from that widely acknowledged contrast. Given the number of dimensions along which Dr Ford's situation differs from Judge Kavanaugh's, I won't hazard a guess about which specific differences are casually related to the observed contrast.
"What I'm arguing" is the first sentence of my comment: This is a complicated inference problem, regardless of your politics.
The difference I was highlighting between "wanted a hearing" and "called for an investigation" wasn't between "want" and "called for", but between "hearing" and "investigation". As I said, I think this very hearing illustrated the difference between the two things. It is true Judge Kavanaugh argued elsewhere that they were the same thing for the purposes of discussion (all the times he brought up how the FBI would ask the exact same questions the senators at the hearing would), but I don't think he is correct on that at all. Which is another illustration of how his non-straight answer makes it hard to find something solid to follow up on – you'd have to clarify whether there is a disagreement on semantics, or whether it's worth going into another completely separate argument over whether an FBI investigation and a congressional hearing actually are equivalent for the purposes of the two parties, and whether that depends on the purposes of the two parties…
> "Because I've already asked you for something related."
It isn't the lack of the word "because" that is penalized there IMO, it's that even with the "because" it would be a non-sequitur. If you add a "because", then you also need to add an explanation for why asking for the "something related" justifies not asking for the original thing. This could be because the person considers the two equivalent, which leads to the question of how they think they're equivalent, whether this is something both sides can agree on or whether it's another point of substantive disagreement, or if the person is trying to pass them off as equivalent to avoid answering the question, or if they're misunderstanding the question (or the assumptions behind it) in such a way that they think the "something related" is more important to the questioner than it is…
> I'm unsure precisely what Vox or James Chapman are claiming follows from that widely acknowledged contrast.
OK; I haven't actually read the source article so I don't know either 🙂 (so, you know, take the things I said higher up about "what penalized what sentence" with a grain of salt; I assumed we were talking in generics but maybe you're referring to a part of the article where they made their analysis explicit and it might not match with anything I've said!)
The thing with the Kavanaugh testimony is that he made plenty of statements that were false, extremely misleading or completely implausible on their face. Also, he consistently went on tangents and attacked the questioners instead of giving straight answers, sometimes not answering a question at all. You don't need subtle sentiment analysis when the words themselves tell the story.
Since Kavanaugh is a judge you'd think he wouldn't be silly enough to lie. His professional life has been spent sniffing out lies and so knows the tactics that liars use. Surely he wouldn't risk it. That said, I wasn't impressed by the manner of his testimony . . . "The lady doth protest too much, methinks" . . . hope I'm wrong.
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Microsoft discontinues long-awaited Windows 10X operating system
Microsoft has confirmed that it will not bring Windows 10X to the OS market in 2021. While the company has not said that Windows 10X is dead, it is the message that we can interpret from the language. The software giant said it would be implementing Windows 10X features to Windows 10.
Windows 10X is dead!
In the past years, there was much hype about Windows 10X, promising better performance, extended battery life, and support for devices with a foldable display. It was also rumored that Microsoft would introduce 10X to the market in 2021.
The decision not to introduce Windows 10X to the market does not surprise. Despite the attention Windows 10X grabbed in the announcement phase, it could not attract the traction that Microsoft expected.
Therefore, the decision to implement the features of Windows 10X to the regular Windows 10 version seems better than making all the portability and efficiency-based features exclusive to a specific version of the OS.
Microsoft added here that many elements from the 10X shell are already available in the Dev and Insider Program channels of Microsoft Windows 10. It would be safe to assume that the features have received commendable feedback from developers and testers so far.
It is also worth noting that Microsoft is said to bring a visual overhaul to Windows 10 in the latter part of the year. Many sources have noticed that the visible changes in this overhaul bear similarity to the design seen on Windows 10X.
Therefore, it is very well possible that the Sun Valley design overhaul, which we can expect in later 2021, brings some of the UI elements that we have seen on Windows 10X.
Judging what the company has done in the past, this transition action might appeal to the company rather than admitting that Windows 10X failed. Regardless of whether Microsoft acknowledges the failure, we would not see 10X anymore.
At its core, Windows 10X was the OS release that would expand the possibilities of Windows. It should have increased the compatibility to foldable smartphones and portable devices, but that seems to be a dream at this point.
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Confused at Work? You're Not Alone.
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Pastors and their congregants share something surprising in common that is now obvious for the first time in generations: they are all confused about work.
In early 2020, as the pandemic increased and the world shut down, our news feeds felt heavy with articles from the marketplace touting waves of layoffs and predictions of a second major depression as unemployment, and furloughs reached rates not seen in this generation. A year later the statistics around jobs remain unclear.
Reports say that a record 95 percent of US workers are considering quitting their jobs, citing burnout as a major factor, and in April 2021, in what's being called the "great resignation," more people quit in the span of one month than ever before. Yet McKinsey and Company's recently published report, The Future of Work after Covid, illuminates that low wage workers will continue to struggle to find new work post Covid because of automation.
The messages and realities about work, regardless of one's status, seem uncertain.
Pastors, too, are experiencing uncertainty around their work. At a recent conference for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church denomination, George Roberson, a senior pastor from Memphis, Tennessee, stated in his plenary address that every pastor he has met with this year, including himself, has contemplated leaving their jobs. Barna data reveals that more than one third of pastors officially state that they are currently considering leaving ministry all together.
If pastors are struggling with work, how can they unify and encourage others struggling with work?
Pain Unifies
Exacerbated by COVID-19, for the first time in modern history, both pastors and their congregants — from artists to business leaders to low wage workers — are united by one thing about work: its toil. For some, work is ideal and prosperous, but only at times. But for all, work can be fruitless and menial.
As organized religion wanes in the US and church attendance (even online) at an all time low, can workplace toil be not just a pain point exacerbated by COVID-19, but an opportunity for the church to exemplify Christ? What if we allow this pain to reveal our own brokenness, the dark side of systems, and the hope of the gospel, not just for ourselves, but for all creation? Let the struggle of work produce unity rather than disparity.
Clarity and Action in Our Work Struggles
What could it look like to bring the toil of work, regardless of ministry context, into the day-to -day of our churches? In order to see the pain of work through the lens of the gospel, pastors must first examine their own toil and also understand the specific pain of their congregants. Here are a few practical ways to clarify and take action around the difficulties of work both within and outside the church walls.
Examine the Toils of Ministry Leadership
When you think about the frustrations of your pastoral work, what are your main pain points? These pain points can reveal the idolatries that exist in your own heart around work as well as the systems around you that may be broken and contributing to the hardships. The following questions will help you examine your toil as a pastor or ministry leader:
Do you feel isolated without an ability to see your congregation? Are you scared and even angry about whether they will come back?
Are you unable to conceive of your church financially pulling out of Covid?
Are you tired of someone being mad at you every week over big and small things from the role of politics in the church to racial reckoning to vaccines, to masks?
Are you worried that if you quit your job that you will not have the skills to do any other kind of job without serious retraining?
Taking the time to examine the brokenness around work in your own heart and institutional systems will prepare you to more empathetically engage in the pain of laity.
Identify the Struggles of Your Congregants' Work
By engaging with congregants in one-on-one workplace site visits or in small groups, church leaders can gain clarity about the typical pains of those in their church body. The areas of stress and suffering can inform spiritual leaders about how to apply the hope of the gospel in a message that is meaningful to the day-to-day reality of the individual at work. These questions can help your conversations with people and help you identify where they struggle in their work.
Do low wage workers struggle to see work as good? Are they being taken advantage of by their bosses?
Do professional business leaders wonder about their calling and whether it is worth it?
Have artists lost their drive to create? Have they lost their confidence in their ability to perform? Have they lost their financial flexibility to focus on their art?
As you interact with your congregants, the toils of workers should reveal misplaced affections and broken systems.
Find the Common Ground in the Toil of Work
If pastors and congregants are both in pain due to work, finding common links may provide a fresh perspective and a sense of unification in the present. Here are a few questions to ask yourself about your work as a pastor.
Is your sense of pastoral isolation relatable to business workers whose jobs have been moved entirely remote?
Could your exhaustion from all the anger and division compare to the toils of someone in school leadership trying to open the doors for kids?
Can giving sermons to a camera be a connection point to the artist who has moved to YouTube?
If financial stress has pushed you to find second streams of income, does that help you relate to the worker covering two shifts at the plant?
Though the toils have different contexts, finding the similarities in our work stress through examining our own idolatries and the broken systems in which we work can allow us to together understand the work of Christ on our behalf.
Seek — and Find — Hope
Each time we experience a workplace toil, whether fair or unfair, it is an opportunity to examine the cross, remembering our troubles are nothing Jesus did not face. Pastors and congregants can look to Christ for hope. We can look to Christ, not the success of our church or our business, as our identity. We can look to the misery Christ experienced for our sake as we look to our own misery. We can see Christ as the ultimate liberator of broken systems. We can push against darkness in his strength. And we can do it together, at work.
If we allow work to become a place that reveals our misplaced affections and broken systems that need our help, then suddenly the hope we profess might feel more relevant to our congregants. Struggles at work, while different because of Covid, are not new. Let's collectively embrace the toil of labor to the glory of God. Now that will take some work.


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Scott Wiener's SB 50 is a WIMBY Bill
By John Mirisch
Councilmember and former three term mayor of Beverly Hills
Zev Yaroslavsky, former LA County Supervisor and former LA City Councilmember, astutely noted that state senator Scott Wiener's SB827, which would take away local zoning authority from cities and replace it with Sacramento-mandated levels of density in certain areas, was a "real estate bill, not a housing bill."
The exact same assessment should apply to SB50, Wiener's latest iteration of SB827.
And I can prove it.
Yaroslavsky famously took the acronym of the developer-funded YIMBY groups that supported SB827 ("Yes in by back yard," which itself is derived from NIMBY, "not in my back yard" — get it?) and put a new twist on it, describing the bill's supporters as WIMBYs. That would be the acronym for "Wall St. in my back yard."
Wiener's latest is cut from the same WIMBY cloth and is still a real estate bill, not a housing bill.
Sure, Wiener has learned a lot from the failure of SB827. In fact, if I were a Vegas oddsmaker, I would bet on SB50 to pass. Wiener is a smooth operator and a savvy politician. He backed state Senate President pro tem Toni Atkins early in her bid for the top Senate spot and was rewarded with the chairmanship of the powerful Senate Housing Committee (which had previously been chaired by senator Jim Beall as the combined Housing and Transportation Committee).
Scott Wiener has reached out to unions, throwing out the bones of PLA's and union wages to remove opposition to his "build, baby, build" mantra.
The gentrifying effects of displacement were a major criticism of SB827.
So he's tried to deflect criticism from racial justice groups who had commented "Scott Wiener is to gentrifiers what Donald Trump is to racists" by creating carve outs for some of their communities and adding measures which he claims would prevent displacement.
Like SB827 – perhaps even more so — SB50 is aimed at eliminating or reducing single-family housing, which acolytes of Wiener's guru Richard Rothstein ("The Color of Law") have described as "racist" and "immoral." Yet this time around, Wiener has softened his rhetoric. In fact, Wiener is now taking pains to point out that he himself grew up in a single-family house.
He has added provisions that supposedly would address affordability issues which were a mere afterthought with SB827 (to which he eventually added a few band-aids supposedly addressing the issue).
Most of all, Scott Wiener has tried to create a narrative in which 1) cities themselves are responsible for California's housing affordability crisis; in which 2) we have to do "something" to address the crisis; and in which 3) his "solution" is that "something." Never mind if his prescription will actually achieve its intended effect – which for the sake of gaining support is ostensibly more affordable housing – it's "something."
Yet Wiener's learnings all seem to have been strategic rather than substantive. They are all political. SB50 is the proverbial lipstick on a pig and his "solutions" are the urban planning equivalent of trying to cure diabetes with Prozac.
Wiener's bill is still WIMBY. Big WIMBY. And his housing "solutions" really just are smokescreens cleverly designed to use the housing affordability crisis to increase developer profits.
Wiener's WIMBY goals should come as a surprise to no one.
Scott Wiener was the California Building Industry Association (CBIA) legislator of the year. The bulk of his campaign cash comes from developers. Yet Scott Wiener denies being a developer shill.
Let him prove it.
One simple amendment to his bill would certainly be a great start.
But it won't happen, because SB50 is a real estate bill, not a housing bill.
Now, I personally believe local government, when done right, is the best form of democracy, because it's closest to home; I believe in individual communities and in the right of those communities to self-definition and self-determination. I don't believe that Wiener's backwards-looking take on urban planning using stale theories of TOD (transit oriented development) or the "corridors of density" they would create make any sense from an urban planning perspective. I believe urban planning should be forward-thinking (AOD or autonomous oriented development would be one such example), respectful of the unique DNA of our communities and tolerant of various lifestyle choices. Those communities looking to densify should look at organic nodes of density rather than corridors.
Wiener's scapegoating of cities as a ploy to impose one-size-fits-all Sacramento diktats is both offensive and deceptive. His bill does nothing to address the root causes of the state's housing affordability crisis, namely job creation/job concentration and income inequality. His bill does nothing to create sustainable housing solutions by addressing the geographic inequities within the state which result from economic development which is skewed towards the Bay Area and the Southern California coastal areas.
But if one were to accept Wiener's bomb- and rock-throwing attempt at urban planning, then a simple amendment could change the direction of SB50 from a hardcore real estate bill towards the actual possibility of becoming a housing bill.
It's pretty simple: any statutory upzoning that SB50 allows should be restricted to non-profit affordable housing developers.
That's it. It's now essentially a housing bill (albeit still a flawed one).
Let's face it. It is pretty absurd to put non-profit developers in the same boat as for-profit developers. Sure, one could argue that both provide housing to varying degrees — in the same way that Martin Shkreli's Retrophin and St. Jude both offer treatments for cancer.
But it's really pretty simple: the goal of non-profit developers is to create housing. The goal of for-profit developers is to create profits.
Big difference.
What's more, for-profit developers, for obvious reasons, compete directly with non-profit developers. For land. For construction workers. For building materials. They also, for obvious reasons, have a lot more resources. They make affordable housing projects more expensive for non-profit developers. Allowing only non-profit developers to benefit from any statutory upzoning would not only help level the playing field, it would ensure that the goal of creating affordable housing would be achieved in the most efficient, least disruptive manner.
Think about it: when a non-profit developer builds affordable housing, 100% of the units are affordable. With the inclusionary housing advocated by Wiener, the number of affordable units would be a fraction of the total (not to mention an even smaller fraction of the value of a project and an even smaller fraction of the overall square footage).
Right now cities can create inclusionary housing policies of up to 15% of units without having to perform "nexus" studies and without fear of being sued by developers. At the present, SB50 has a blank placeholder for an inclusionary housing percentage. Let's say Wiener goes hog-wild and includes a 20% inclusionary housing requirement for his for-profit developer buddies (which he won't do, because it would squeeze their profits).
Even with a figure of 20% inclusionary housing, non-profit developers could still build at least 5 times the amount of affordable housing as Wiener's CBIA cronies. Actually more than that since the inclusionary figure represents the number of units and, of course, the affordable units in for-profit developments tend to be the smallest size units.
Furthermore, additional market rate housing actually itself increases the need for affordable housing, as a recent nexus analysis for Wiener's San Francisco itself shows. So SB50 aims to create more market rate housing, which would in turn exacerbate the housing affordability problem by creating an even greater demand for affordable housing. It's the very definition of a vicious circle and it could and would be mitigated by amending to the bill and solely creating incentives for the addition of non-profit affordable housing only.
Without wanting to sound too much like a ginsu knife commercial: there's more! For-profit developments only have a limited window of affordability. In other words, after a fixed period of time, developers can reclaim the affordable units and go back to market rates.
In contrast, non-profits can keep their housing affordable forever.
Not only would amending SB50 to only allow upzoning for non-profits actually have the effect of creating more housing, it would also avoid the disruption, displacement and inequity that can occur when luxury projects include a minimum of "affordable" units. A 50 unit luxury condo development could, for example, contain five small studios with non-access to some of the luxury amenities, as well as a separate entrance – a so called "poor door."
By only allowing non-profits to take advantage of upzoning, we could avoid such humiliating scenarios and instead work with the non-profits themselves to organically integrate their projects within our individual communities. Eliminating profiteering would also allow non-profit housing developers to get the best value-for-money possible by focusing on the actual creation of affordable housing rather than profit margins.
But Scott Wiener is quick to defend developer profits at the same time he denies being a developer shill. On a recent podcast in which Wiener was lobbed softball after softball by the star-struck hosts (who completely ignored Wiener's war on single-family housing), he sarcastically remarked: "Heaven forbid that developer made a profit from building that home. Otherwise the developer wouldn't have done it."
Bingo. Nailed it: the developer's motivation is profit — not the creation of housing.
Of course, Wiener's snark completely ignores the non-profit developers, whom he begrudgingly and under his breath admits also provide housing. The implication is that rather than making it more attractive – or possible – for non-profits to provide housing, Sacramento should let developers profiteer as Wiener somehow seems to think that they are "doing well by doing good," to quote an old Tom Lehrer song.
Amending SB50 to only allow non-profit housing developers to take advantage of upzoning would have the impact of creating more affordable housing. Instead of expending his energy by attacking cities, Wiener could work on bolstering the resources of non-profit housing developers by bringing back redevelopment with the intention of using the lion's share of funding thereby generated for affordable housing.
But that's nothing a corporatist like Scott Wiener is really interested in; instead he prefers to embrace the Reaganomic YIMBY mantra that market-rate housing, including ultra-luxury housing in which worldwide capital can find a place to park funds, will "trickle down" (or "filter," in their parlance) to the peons and reduce overall housing costs.
As if producing more Rolls Royces is really going to bring down the price of Priuses. Of course, these trickle-down, "the market will solve everything" theories sound even more bizarre coming from Wiener and the self-styled "progressive" YIMBYs than they do coming from Arthur Laffer and Robert Mundell, but make no mistake about it: Blackstone, the Koch Bros, Wiener and his YIMBYs are all singing from the same hymn sheet.
This also may explain why Wiener did not support Prop 10, which would have given cities more leeway to introduce rent control and rent stabilization ordinances which would actually have protected tenants against runaway housing costs. It should come as no surprise to anybody that Prop 10 — to the tune of some $100 million — was violently opposed by Blackstone and Wiener's Koch Bro Bros. And it also likely explains why Wiener vocally opposed Prop C in San Francisco, which raised taxes on corporations to increase funding to address homelessness (fortunately, despite Wiener's opposition, Prop C passed).
Yes, here's a guy who in connection with his bill SB50 points to 17,000 homeless kids in the LAUSD on the aforementioned podcast, but who at the same time opposed a measure to raise $300 million a year to provide services to… homeless kids in San Francisco. As if more luxury housing created by Wiener's SB50 would somehow help the homeless kids, but additional funding would not. Yes, Sacramento can sometimes put Lewis Carroll to shame.
While SB50 remains a real-estate bill masquerading as a housing bill, let's hope that other legislators who are actually interested in effective rather than punitive measures to address the housing affordability crisis look to create bona fide housing bills.
Senators Jim Beall and Mike McGuire seem to understand that one-size does not fit all and are drafting housing legislation with understanding and respect for the individual needs and situations of our state's unique and varied communities. My guess is they are not going to be interested in the developer giveaway approach Wiener has chosen with SB50. If their own bill looks to differentiate between those whose lone goal is affordable housing and those whose main goal is profiteering, then we may actually be on the right track to finding real, reasonable, workable and fair solutions to the housing affordability crisis.


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Trump Sends Troops to Border as Response to 'Caravan'
Posted 11:02 PM, October 25, 2018, by Associated Press, Updated at 11:01PM, October 25, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is planning to dispatch 800 or more active duty troops to the southern border at the direction of a president who has sought to transform fears about immigration into electoral gains in the midterms as a caravan of thousands of migrants makes its way through Mexico.
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis is expected to sign an order sending the troops to the border, bolstering National Guard forces already there, a U.S. official said Thursday. The action comes as President Donald Trump has spent recent days calling attention to the caravan of Central Americans slowly making their way by foot into southern Mexico, but still more than 1,000 miles from U.S. soil.
Trump, who made fear about immigrants a major theme of his 2016 election campaign, has been eager to make it a top issue heading into the Nov. 6 midterm elections, which will determine control of Congress. The president and senior White House officials have long believed the issue is key to turning out his ardent base of supporters.
The additional troops would provide logistical and other support to the Border Patrol, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a plan that had not yet been finalized and formally announced.
It's not unusual for the National Guard to help with border security. Although active duty troops are sometimes called on for domestic emergencies like hurricanes or floods, they rarely deploy to the southern border. Fears of militarizing the border were fanned by a May 1997 incident in which a Marine on a counter-narcotics mission shot to death an 18-year-old who was herding goats in Redford, Texas.
In the current situation, active duty troops will not be on armed security missions that could lead to a similar incident.
The additional members of the military would assist the Border Patrol by providing things such as vehicles, tents and equipment. There already are about 2,000 National Guard troops there under a previous Pentagon arrangement.
Trump has used the caravan to bolster his election-season warnings that the U.S. is being infiltrated by illegal immigrants "pouring across the border," whom he has painted with a sinister brush.
He has claimed without any apparent basis in fact that "Middle Easterners" were among the shirking group. At rallies and on Twitter, Trump has tried to portray the Democrats as pro-illegal immigration, even claiming, with no evidence, that Democrats had organized and paid for the caravan.
He tweeted Thursday that, "Democrat inspired laws make it tough for us to stop people at the border" and said he was using the military to respond to what he called a "National Emergency."
The migrants in the sprawling caravan — once estimated by the United Nations to number more than 7,000 — are hoping to make it to the United States. Most are Hondurans, seeking to escape the poverty and violence that plagues the region.
The caravan swelled dramatically soon after crossing the Mexican border on Oct. 19, but sickness, fear and police harassment have whittled down its numbers. Since entering Mexico at its southernmost tip, the group has advanced roughly 95 miles.
Trump tweeted a direct message to the migrants Thursday, urging them to return home.
"To those in the Caravan, turnaround," he wrote. "We are not letting people into the United States illegally. Go back to your Country and if you want, apply for citizenship like millions of others are doing!"
The migrants have largely been disconnected from news reports about them while on the road. When asked about Trump's tweets critical of the caravan and his vows to keep them out, they have generally responded that he should stop attacking them and said they would keep trying to reach the United States.
Trump earlier this year ordered the deployment of National Guard members to the U.S.-Mexico border to respond to a spike in illegal border crossings. But those members remain under the control of the governors of the states where they're positioned, and their activities are limited to supportive roles, such as providing surveillance.
The addition of 800 or more active duty troops, if approved, as expected, by Mattis, is in response to a request from the Department of Homeland Security, which manages the Border Patrol, a U.S. official said.
DHS asked for help in various forms, the official said, including air transport and other logistical assistance. It was not immediately clear why active duty forces were chosen, since National Guard troops can perform the same functions. Earlier this year Mattis authorized Pentagon funding for up to 4,000 National Guard troops on the border and thus far only a little over 2,000 have been used.
Federal law prohibits the use of active duty service members for law enforcement inside the U.S. unless specifically authorized by Congress.
Trump had tweeted Monday that he'd alerted Border Patrol and the military that the caravan was "a National Emergy," but the Pentagon said then that they'd received no new orders to provide troops for border security.
But Trump told a rally crowd in Wisconsin on Wednesday that moves were underway.
"Wait'll you see what happens over the next couple of weeks. You're going to see a very secure border. You just watch," he told the crowd. "And the military is ready. They're all set."
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Fall elections leave Sept. 11 behind
Votes in 2002 races hinge on domestic concerns, giving Democrats a boost.
By Liz Marlantes Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
As congressional candidates head into the summer campaign season, the most striking feature of Campaign 2002 so far may be how little Sept. 11 and the war on terror are affecting it.
President Bush's renewed focus on domestic issues – he promoted his welfare plan and education reform on last week's jaunt through the midwest – mirrors what has been going on in most congressional campaigns for months. Issues such as the economy, education, Social Security, and the cost of prescription drugs are dominating the political landscape, much as they did in the 2000 election, while terrorism and Sept. 11 hardly come up.
Incumbents often state their support for the president, but most challengers do so as well, making the point essentially neutral. And while conventional wisdom has held that incumbents may benefit from the war environment, that hasn't proved true so far: Three House incumbents were already ousted in primaries.
Analysts say wars or crises often have a surprisingly negligible impact on subsequent elections – the most recent example being the Gulf War, which did little to help then-President Bush or his party. Widespread support for the war on terror makes it even less of an issue. And while Sept. 11 may have diverted attention from domestic concerns, analysts say these issues were always likely to return to the fore, as the crisis subsided.
"It's as if you're sitting at the kitchen table, paying your mortgage and Visa bill, and all of a sudden, your house is on fire," says Norman Ornstein, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute. "You put those bills aside, and you put out the fire. But at some point, you have to return to paying the mortgage and paying the Visa bill."
According to a recent survey conducted for congressional Republicans by Public Opinion Strategies, 79 percent of voters rated domestic issues as more important than foreign ones in determining how they would vote. This corresponds with a recent strategy memo put out by the Democratic group Democracy Corp., which points out "reason to believe that people are turning to the domestic issues where Democrats score strongly."
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But even last November – just two months after the attacks – the crisis had no discernable impact on gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia. In both races, the focus was largely on domestic issues – and Democrats took both seats away from the GOP. Democrats are expecting to pick up a number of other governors' seats this fall.
"Gubernatorial elections are the definition of 'all politics is local,' " says B.J. Thornberry, executive director of the Democratic Governors' Association. "Jobs, economic development, education, access to healthcare ... are the core thematics of these races."
Of course, these issues also give candidates the chance to offer solutions and clear points of disagreement – whereas the war on terror has been virtually impossible to campaign on.
Democrats have been unwilling to criticize Mr. Bush on the war. And while many Republicans have been hoping to benefit from his wartime popularity – and a number are running ads featuring Bush – they, too, have had to tread carefully so as not to appear to use the war for partisan gain. Indeed, recent polls indicate there may not be much of a coattails effect for Republicans, as Democrats are slightly ahead in generic congressional ballot tests.
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Some candidates who have tried to use Sept. 11 as a campaign tactic have actually seen their efforts backfire.
Former HUD secretary Andrew Cuomo, who is running for governor of New York, recently charged that Gov. George Pataki (R) had not shown leadership in the wake of the attacks, and instead relied on Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. In the days following the remark, Mr. Giuliani and a number of other officials spoke out on behalf of Governor Pataki's leadership – and Mr. Cuomo's poll numbers plummeted.
"Unfortunately, it didn't have the effect Cuomo was intending," says Joseph Mercurio, a GOP consultant in New York. "It reinforced the governor's favorability ratings."
The remark could continue to haunt Cuomo, he adds, particularly as the Democratic primary in New York will be held on Sept. 10 – the day before the anniversary of the attacks.
In fact, if there's one way the war on terror might affect this year's elections, say analysts, it's through the anniversary. September is usually the month when most voters start paying attention to politics, and when most campaigns hit their stride. But with all the media coverage that will likely surround the anniversary, it may be difficult for candidates to get their messages out.
In New York, "the governor and the mayor are going to be right up front, acknowledging the anniversary – and here's poor Andrew Cuomo and Carl McCall trying to finish a primary," says Mr. Mercurio. "It's going to be a very difficult environment for them."
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Dr. Lorraine C. Taylor is the Executive Director of North Carolina Central University's Juvenile Justice Institute. In this role, she serves as a researcher, faculty member, and program developer. Her work is "guided by a risk and resilience perspective that focuses on promoting success for young people with limited economic and social resources." Utilizing a "systems" perspective, Dr. Taylor examines how institutional, community, family, and individual-level risk and protective factors operate in shaping outcomes for marginalized, underrepresented youth. Her published work includes topics such as academic socialization, parenting in the context of economic hardship, and promoting social and emotional competence for boys of color.
Currently, Dr. Taylor is a Principal Investigator on a Misdemeanor Justice grant through the Arnold Foundation and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. She also is Principal Investigator on a SAMSHA-funded grant focused on Campus and Community partnerships to prevent HIV and substance abuse. Dr. Taylor serves on several community boards and is Chair of the DMC sub-committee of the State Advisory Group on Juvenile Justice.
Dr. Taylor earned a B.S. degree from Howard University and a Masters and Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Taylor participated in the first Square One Roundtable convening "Examining the History of Racial and Economic Inequality: Implications for Justice Policy and Practice."


Canterbury Kings vs Wellington Firebirds 28th Match Super Smash League T20 2018-19 today match prediction. Burger King Super Smash League. We provide 100 % sure today cricket match prediction tips by raja babu. Who will win today match CKS vs WFB. Super Smash toss prediction. Live score with ball by ball update. Cricket toss prediction free.
The 28th match of Super Smash League 2018-19 is Scheduled to play between Canterbury Kings vs Wellington Firebirds on Saturday, 9th February 2019 at Hagley Oval, Christchurch. We are posting safe and secure today match prediction for all matches of Super Smash League free.
Canterbury Kings had not performed as per expectations. They had played a total of nine matches till now with just two wins and seven losses. They are laying at the bottom of the points table. They are the only team who are no longer in contention for the semifinal spot.
The performance of Wellington Firebirds has been better than Canterbury Kings. Wellington Firebirds had played nine matches with three wins and six losses. They are at the fourth position on the table of Burger King Super Smash League this season.
The performance of Wellington Firebirds had been good in previous so far, so the winning chances of today match for Wellington Firebirds have been increased. Winning chances of both teams are mentioned under.
This match will be played at Hagley Oval, Christchurch. The pitch here at Hagley Oval should be good for batting as it is in most places around New Zealand. We should have a very high scoring match is we get some warm and sunny conditions. A score of 200 may be just about par.
The weather forecast for Christchurch for match day is almost decent. There are some chances of rain but we that there will be no disturbance during this match.


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China to promote internet TV services
Profits of industrial companies fell 36.7% to 781.45 billion yuan in the first quarter from a year ago
by Xu Yuenai April 27, 2020 April 27, 2020
Flat-screen televisions for sale at a consumer electronics store in 2008. Photo: Wikipedia
China will update its internet TV network infrastructure to promote Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) based services, according to the National Radio and Television Administration.
By the end of the third quarter of 2020, the upgrading of China's internet TV-related networks and critical equipment, as well as all the software and hardware sections of integrated internet TV platforms, will have been completed.
The move is part of China's measures to implement a national plan to encourage the large-scale adoption of IPv6, according to a circular jointly issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the National Radio and Television Administration.
IPv6 is the latest version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the internet. It allows much higher theoretical limits on the number of IP addresses than the current IPv4 system.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a non-profit organization, began to develop the IPv6 standard in 2018. In July 2017, the IEF ratified the IPv6 as an internet standard.
Industrial profits
Profits of China's major industrial firms dropped in the first quarter of this year with signs of improvement in March, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Monday.
Profits of industrial companies with annual revenue of more than 20 million yuan (US$2.83 million) totaled 781.45 billion yuan in the first quarter, down 36.7% from the same period last year. The contraction narrowed from the 38.3% year-on-year decline in the first two months.
Profits in 39 of the 41 industrial sectors surveyed declined, while 28 sectors saw their profit growth improve or soften in March, said the NBS.
Industrial profits warmed in March as stepped-up work and production resumed nationwide which drove up sales for industrial products, said NBS official Zhang Weihua.
China launched the commercial use of a blockchain-based service network (BSN) on Saturday as the country strives to promote the development of blockchain technology and explore innovations in the digital economy, according to the State Information Center (SIC).
The BSN was designed as a global public infrastructure network, aimed at consistently reducing blockchain applications' costs in development, deployment, operation and maintenance, interoperability and regulation.
With beta tests starting last October, the network has acquired stable functions and played an active role in the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic, said Liu Yunan, head of the SIC.
Liu also noted that the network has covered a batch of innovative applications, such as charities, item traceability, electronic invoicing, copyright protection and supply chain management.
New third board
China's National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ), also known as the "new third board," has seen a total turnover of 29.8 billion yuan since the beginning of this year.
Launched in 2013, the new third board is the third national equity trading bourse after the Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. It is designed for innovative, startup and high-growth micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises. As of Friday, a total of 8,652 companies had been listed on the NEEQ.
China has outlined a series of reforms to better orient the NEEQ to the needs and features of small enterprises and support high-quality growth of the real economy.
Kweichow Maotai, a Chinese liquor maker, and Huawei Technologies signed a strategic cooperation agreement in Shenzhen on Sunday.
The two companies will carry out comprehensive cooperation in the fields of information consultation planning, new infrastructure construction, "Smart Maotai" engineering and industrial internet platforms.
The partnership was aimed to give full play to Maotai's accumulation in the liquor industry and Huawei's advantages in the information technology sector and further promote the digital transformation and development of the liquor industry.
Chinese tech giant Tencent said it has utilized its artificial intelligence (AI) technology in the medical sector to aid the fight against the Covid-19 outbreak. Data from the firm showed that so far it owned more than 300 patents in the medical AI field, ranging from medical auxiliary diagnosis to medical record management and risk monitoring to medical imaging.
While promoting a digital medical solution amid the global battle, the Shenzhen-based enterprise open-sourced its Covid-19 self-triage assistant, an online tool backed by AI technology, to help people around the world conduct a self-assessment about potential coronavirus symptoms.
The story written by Xu Jiangshan and first published at ATimesCN.com. It was translated into English by Nadeem Xu.
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In the uLead 2015 Monday afternoon keynote, Andy Hargreaves spent some time exploring the idea of student engagement. He closed by asking us to do some deep thinking about the notion of engagement. What does it mean in our K-12 context? I felt compelled to comment on the challenge and explore this for myself.
This is my second go at writing this blog post. Wait! Maybe I am engaged with this task. Aha!!! Here we go with a clean slate, or whatever you call that in bloggers land – a clean screen or a clean digital writing space perhaps?
I am thinking that perhaps instead of getting stuck on some formal or historic definition of engagement, I am simply going to consider it in this learning context as being "in the active learning & participating zone". My way of considering this will be to consider a number of factors as they relate to the person I know best — me.
I know I can be engaged when alone or with others. A good example for me is music. I might be practicing a new piece of solo music or perhaps rehearsing with the members of my quintet. I should be totally engaged during a performance situation. Perhaps focus vs distractedness is an element of this too. Level of readiness or willingness also plays into this.
I know that I can be engaged with or without technology. For those of you that know me, I'll bet the "yah right" thoughts are flowing through your mind. So yes, there a lots of ways I engage with and through technology: learning something new, solving a problem, collaborating, reading, discussing, searching, researching … arranging a piece of music, writing a blog post 🙂 … and on the list goes. It might be the technology itself – learning to use a GoPro camera or a Myo wrist band, or the technology might simply be the means to get to another process such as writing, composing, arranging or creating.
I enjoy a great conversation too: something new, something deep or maybe just a new context. I like variety – these conversations could happen F2F, on a walk, over the phone, or online.
I know the potential level of participation and/or newness plays a role. I am sure we can all think of a scenario or two when you simply want to opt out or not be there … the KMN situations.
Timing is a factor for me. I am in tune with my high and low energy times. I might be more or less engaged depending on my energy level. Balance is in the mix too. I know when I need my introvert time – recharge time. In some ways this is a powerful force within me – a must have. I know that I will not engage well in an extroverted situation when I am in introvert recharge mode. Simple: overruled, not happening.
As I think through this, I am realizing what engagement isn't. I don't think engagement is a one size fits all "thing". There is no magic formula that applies to all people in all situations.
So, put those big paint brushes and cookie cutter ideas away. There are no everyone should do this, stop that, use this, don't use this etc. solutions. Engagement is a complicated recipe that has many variables.
Perhaps the secret is building our skills as learning chefs by being aware of the ingredients and knowing how to create that perfect recipe with the ingredients on hand.
Develop skills in reading people as individuals and groups, consider readiness and trust in trying something new, sense the energy level, learn to maximize participation, ask great questions, poke at what comes next, what if, I wonder … know your learners.


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Q: Finding the induced current in a loop and force acting on the conductor
The conductor has a velocity to the right and is part of a closed loop (see the picture). Find the direction of the induced current and the direction of the magnetic force on the conductor
There must be induced a magnetic field going into the plane of the paper to counteract the increase in flux going out of the plane of the paper. The force must be going in the opposite direction of the velocity, so using the right-hand rule: straight fingers pointing upwards through the conductor, curled fingers down and thumb to the left, giving a current going counterclockwise. Why is this not correct?
When it comes to the force, we know it must be going in the opposite direction of the conductor (Lenz' law), but what if we wanna find it using the right-hand rule? To get that right i have to use that the current goes clockwise (which is correct), but now i have to use the exterior magnetic field to get the force right? Why is this? Why do i have to use the induced magnetic field when finding the induced current, but when im finding the induced magnetic force, i have to use the exterior magnetic field. Why?
In addition, could i use that the direction of the charges is to the right, and use that to find the direction of the current? Whats the difference between a force acting on the conductor, and a force acting on electrons inside the conductor?

A: Regarding the external versus induced field question, one could argue that the induced field wraps around the conductor and any forces cancel, but other more distant parts of the loop could produce forces on the conductor. This issue makes teaching the field concept difficult. Regarding the distinction between the force on the "conductor" and the force on the electrons, there was an excellent article in the American Journal of Physics a few years back explaining how the "ILB" force is actually electrostatic resulting from a Hall effect electric field resulting from the magnetic deflection of the electrons. The ions, which make up almost all the mass of the conductor, interact with this field via the F=qE component of the Lorentz force.

A: We start with the "exterior" field. When charges inside the conductor move relative to this field, they feel a force and are deflected. This causes a current to flow.
Now there is a current, there is a component of velocity of the charges that is perpendicular to the motion of the loop. And this is the origin of the force.
While it is convenient to say "Lenz's Law helps me figure out the direction of the induced field so I know what direction the current is flowing", there is no problem with saying "the charge is moving relative to the external field, and this is the resulting force and therefore the resulting direction".
The two approaches will give the same result.

A: An external force is required to keep the rod moving to the right because the interaction of the induced current with the external magnetic field produces a drag force which acts to the left. The induced magnetic field inside the loop will be opposite to the external field because it is trying to offset the increasing flux through the loop (as the loop gets larger).  The effect of the induced field on the rod will be complex because the rod is acted on by field contributions from the other three straight segments of current carrying wire.

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The University of Redlands softball team squared off against the visiting Pirates of Whitworth University (WA) in a non-conference doubleheader on Monday but came away with two tough losses. The first game went six innings and resulted in a 2-13 defeat, while the Bulldogs' woes continued into the nightcap, as they fell in a five-inning, 1-9 decision.
During the opener, Redlands trailed by six through the top of the fourth inning but cut the deficit to four with a two-run effort in the bottom of the frame. First-year right-fielder Hayley DiMase (Eastvale, CA) faced one out and runners on second and third after back-to-back singles and a fielder's choice. She drove a ball toward the shortstop, who scooped it up and threw it past first base for an error. However, the ball ended up in the dugout, which allowed both runs to score and DiMase to move to second in an odd play.
However, the Bulldogs' struggled to push any other runs across and ultimately suffered the loss.
Sophomore first baseman Ryanna Curtis (Upland, CA) recorded the only multi-hit game for the Maroon and Gray with two knocks.
Redlands looked to reset in the second game and battled through three scoreless innings with junior pitcher Nicole Stanzione (San Marcos, CA) relying on her defense to limit Whitworth's chances. In the top of the third, the Bulldogs put together a nice double-play with sophomore second baseman Desiree Moran (Bakersfield, CA) and Curtis taking care of business.
Offensively, sophomore left-fielder Jaci Sanchez (Lakewood, CA) and DiMase recorded the Bulldogs' only two hits in the first three innings.
But in the top of the fourth, Whitworth's bats came alive and scored eight runs to create quite a hole for the home team to overcome.
After the Pirates tacked on one more, the Maroon and Gray mixed up the offense, which provided a nice late-game spark. First-year pinch-hitter Tyesen Gordon (Lathrop, CA) led off with a double, while DiMase brought her home on a long single to right-center field. Unfortunately, the rally ended there and resulted in another tough loss for the Bulldogs.
Redlands (2-2) jumps into Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) action on Friday, February 15, when it hosts Chapman University at 1 p.m. at the Field of Dreams.


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Q: Passing a UITapGestureRecognizer touch onto an underlying UITableViewCell I have a UITableViewCell which contains a UITextView. I'd like for certain characters within the UITextView to be tappable - which I'm using TextKit to achieve. I've setup a UITapGestureRecognizer on my UITextView, but am using it to determine which glyphs within my text container have been selected.
The issue I'm running into is that I'd like to pass the tap onto the underlying UITableViewCell if non-relevant glyphs are tapped. What's the best way to achieve this?
NSLayoutManager *layoutManager = textView.layoutManager;
CGPoint location = [recognizer locationInView:textView];
location.x -= textView.textContainerInset.left;
location.y -= textView.textContainerInset.top;

NSUInteger characterIndex;
characterIndex = [layoutManager characterIndexForPoint:location
                                       inTextContainer:textView.textContainer
              fractionOfDistanceBetweenInsertionPoints:NULL];

if (characterIndex < textView.textStorage.length)
{
    NSRange range;
    id value = [textView.attributedText attribute:@"applicableCharacters" atIndex:characterIndex effectiveRange:&range];
    if(value)
    {
         // Handle this tap, don't pass to the UITableViewCell
    }
    else
    {
        // Don't handle this tap, let the UITableView call tableView:didSelectRowAtIndexPath:
    }
}

A: Based on my own comment, but skipping the delegate part as it is not necessary.
Public property on the cell-subclass:
@property (nonatomic, strong) NSIndexPath *indexPath;

Set this from the datasource when returning cell for indexPath...
Inside your else:
UITableView *tableView = (UITableView *) self.superview;
[tableView.delegate didSelectRowAtIndexPath:self.indexPath];


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Across the nation we're facing serious challenges in waste and recycling. We need to address these head on. To help wage Geelong's War on Waste, the City is developing a new Waste and Resource Recovery Strategy this year.
The strategy will set our long-term waste management direction, and list actions to reduce waste in landfill and improve waste recovery efforts. Before we begin designing the strategy, we'd like to hear your thoughts during February and March on four discussion topics which will inform the strategy in mid–2019.
Visit our have your say page from February 18 to provide your feedback.