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What Is The Owl/Minerva Rule? Wikileaks; Trump; Clinton; Libyan Civil War; Anti-US EU-Centric #Pizzagate New World Order!
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NOTE: This blog post is *not* news, it is *not* so called 'fake news', it is informed opinion and analysis. Please use your own God given brain to assess the validity of *any* information which you are presented with, no matter how unsavoury it may be, and for goodness sakes, don't allow the *real fake news* (known as corporate mainstream media propaganda), to 'fact check' or otherwise frame important world narratives any longer. This blog is *not* a commercial pursuit like MSM. Use your own brain and perform due diligence.
The Wikileaks phenomenon is probably the most important development in the history of modern journalism, and perhaps modern politics. The Wikileaks drops of the hacked Podesta gmail account, the leaked Stratfor emails, and the hacked Hillary Clinton private-server emails, have altered the plotted course of the globalist New World Order. These leaks of, lets face it, the *cold hard truth*, have been the primary informational driver of what has become the anti-globalist Trump Revolution. This latest election in the United States was not merely a democratic election, it was the fruiting season of a *WORLDWIDE* Revolution against the globalist New World Order; an 'order' in which a Hillary Clinton Presidency was to have been the crowning event. Brexit is a symptom of this same process emerging. This Revolution was sown the day of the September 11th 2001 false-flag terror attacks, when the globalist New World Order chose to catalyze a worldwide Hegelian dialectic, which they have now failed to consolidate. Instead of surfing this dialectic to victory, the NWO have instead catalyzed a grassroots Revolution within which they will no longer be able to craft global policy whilst retaining their silk glove.
This Revolution has, and will continue to be fought, primarily on the World Wide Web. *TRUTH* is by its very nature, informational, and it is the most powerful weapon against an Empire built purely on lies. The nature of this globalist New World Order movement is complex, but thankfully it is now being brought out of the realm of 'conspiracy theory', and into the realm of conspiracy fact. Let there be light!
Another major scandal is beginning to sound from Washington D.C. known as #Pizzagate on the internet. It has come to light thanks to Wikileaks, but only because of the carelessness of the Clinton family and their (and Obama's) closest political 'connoisseurs', 'progressive' operatives known as the Podesta brothers (John and Tony): both of whom like to regularly cook, eat, and supply to their friends and patrons, 'secret pizza'. In my opinion this scandal involves a trans-Atlantic – probably world-wide – elite pedophile network, which seems to be in the shadow zone of George Soros. It seeks to compromise and then own top personalities, political or otherwise, entrapping them as servants to a covert globalist agenda – a synarchy. It is important therefore to take into consideration the sometimes subtle revelations contained within the Wikileaks Hillary Clinton private email-server dumps. Before I get into #Pizzagate, I must first explicate the content of a February 2011 WikiLeaks email (#5680) obtained from Hillary Clinton's totally insecure and illegal, homebrew server, in which Hillary was executing Secretary of State business regarding the overthrow of Moammar Qaddafi. The sender of the email, Jake Sullivan – at that time Director of Policy Planning in Obama's Whitehouse – refers, in diplomatic speak, to something known officially as the "Owl/Minerva Rule":
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From: Sullivan, Jacob J
[mailto:SullivanJJ@state.gov]
Sent: Saturday, February 26,
2011 02:44 PM
To: H
Subject: Latest
Do you think the last paragraph violates the owl/minerva rule?
They are fine with the last paragraph.
STATEMENT BY SECRETARY CLINTON Holding the Qaddafi Government Accountable
The United States strongly condemns the ongoing violence and human rights violations committed by the government of Libya against its own people. As President Obama said, these actions violate international norms and every standard of common decency. They must stop.
We are moving quickly on a series of steps to hold the Libyan government accountable for its violation of human rights and to mobilize a strong response from the international community.
Last night the United States took action to limit the ability of senior officials of the Qaddafi regime to travel. As Secretary of State, I signed an order directing the Department to revoke U.S. visas held by these officials, others responsible for human rights violations in Libya, and their immediate family members. As a matter of policy, new visa applications will be denied.
This step followed President Obama's Executive Order freezing assets and imposing financial sanctions on members of the regime responsible for abuses against their own people and the suspension of the very limited defense trade we have had with Libya, including pending sales of spare military parts and other licenses allowing private companies to sell military equipment there.
The United States is also working with our friends and partners to mobilize a strong and unified response from the international community to hold accountable the perpetrators of these unacceptable violations of universal human rights. This afternoon I continued close consultations with our European allies, including EU High Representative Catherine Ashton. Negotiations are underway at the United Nations Security Council on a resolution that would impose new sanctions and restrictions. On Monday, I will meet with a number of counterparts in Geneva and address the UN Human Rights Council, which on Friday recommended suspending Libya's membership. We are also working with partners to determine how to provide humanitarian assistance to those in need. Consistent with the President's guidance, we will continue to look at the full range of options to hold the Libyan government accountable and support the Libyan people.
We have always said that the Qaddafi government's future is a matter for the Libyan people to decide, and they have made themselves clear. When a leader's only means of staying in power is to use mass violence against his own people, he has lost the legitimacy to rule and needs to do what is right for his country by leaving, and the sooner the better. Moammar Qaddafi has lost the confidence of his people and he should go without further bloodshed and violence. The Libyan people deserve a government that is responsive to their aspirations and that protects their universally recognized human rights.
[edit: UNCLASSIFIED STAMP REMOVED FROM LAST PARAGRAPH]
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QUESTION: Can you think of why that last paragraph was so significant?
We all know now that the Obama Administration, in lock-step with the European Union, actually fomented what has now become a vicious Libyan civil war being fought between at least three different socio-political and sectarian interest groups. They first armed CIA groomed 'rebel groups' (hired mercenaries and/or terrorists) with standard NATO issue weapons, provided them with funding, and provided them with international PR/media cover. The later cover story regarding the anti-Mohammad YouTube video trailer for The Innocence of Muslims film, and its supposed causation of the murder of Ambassador Chris Stevens on September 11th 2012, is probably one of the most pathetic cover stories ever devised for a deliberate arms running witness cleanup. This whole affair since 2011 is a clear-cut Operation Gladio style NATO regime change operation. The Obama Whitehouse with Hillary Clinton acting as Secretary of State had brought United States foreign policy to a new all-time low, by plunging a Libya which had the highest Human Development Index rating on the continent of Africa, sadly, into a failed state experiencing sectarian and gangland anarchy.
But why did Obama and Clinton – who are both compromised and under the influence of Machiavellian billionaire kingmaker George Soros – deliberately remove Qaddafi in the first place? The answer to this question is quite simple: The European Union, having thus far failed to secure access to alternative natural gas energy supplies independent of Russia, needed to clear away regional upstart nationalist regimes (self-interest patriots), in order to secure much needed energy resource competition; this is standard New World Order NATO policy. This is why Vladimir Putin was so vocal about Qaddafi's violent ouster, and also why Putin has stood firmly in support of Bashar Al Assad's Syrian regime. Libya has natural gas resources of its own, including vital access to the already developed Greenstream Pipeline route connecting up to Sicily and then along the spine of Italy, right into the core of industrial Europe. Italian imports provide an essential pipeline corridor for potential natural gas imports from central African nations like Nigeria via Niger and Algeria or Libya. This also keeps the otherwise impoverished Italian E.U. third-wheel satisfied.
The pipelines and geography of Libya provide a highly desirable network route required to diversify North and Central African pipeline infrastructure so far too heavily reliant on Algerian cooperation. The Sudanese gas fields are also accessible through Libya, not to mention possibly providing an alternative route other than Iraq and Syria into Europe for the GCC piped natural gas. In order to get this GCC natural gas into Libya however, it would require a submarine Red Sea link and otherwise undesirable Egyptian cooperation, or else some kind of an engineering miracle to connect Sudan up with Saudi Arabia near Jeddah. Note that the attempted Obama assisted Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt by Morsi, was a heavily Qatar supported operation. France also has its paws all over these areas of Africa, including the natural resource deals brokered by heavy corruption or outright theft in the wake of regime changes. Qaddafi was also promoting a gold backed Dinar to act as a solid reserve currency for Africa, in competition with the USD and Euro. On the other side of the Med, Syria's Assad blocks E.U. pipeline access to Qatar's massive offshore natural gas field – explained previously (Nabucco+some).
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NOTE: Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) is the largest fossil fuel company in Nigeria – a subsidiary of *Royal Dutch Shell* exploiting the Niger Delta reserves – which operates over 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) of pipelines and flowlines, 87 flowstations, 8 natural gas plants and more than 1,000 producing wells. SPDC's role in the Shell Nigeria family is typically confined to the physical production and extraction of petroleum. It is an operator of the joint venture, which composed of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (55%), Shell (30%; Anglo-Dutch), Total S.A. (10%; French) and Eni (5%; Italian), makes it a pre-eminent African-E.U. concern with no U.S. interests. Until relatively recently it operated largely onshore, on dry land, or in the mangrove swamp. The Trans-Saharan Pipeline has not yet been built due to regional security issues, but the Shell-Total-Eni consortium has expressed much interest in working with Algeria, Niger, and Nigeria on the project. A permanent European military presence in the region due to 'terrorism', may provide the cover required to force an agreement on the issue. In the meantime, the Libyan natural gas reserves which are already online through Greenstream, can provide extra capacity to help displace Gazprom dominance in the E.U. Energy Market.
Ever wonder why the Clinton Foundation was so close recently to the Gulf Cooperation Council regimes? It is actually because Hillary works directly for George Soros, relying mostly on his Open Society 'activist' (brown shirt) front networks, and his financial cooperation with biased advocacy fiefdoms such as David Brock's Orwellian involvement in founding Media Matters and CTR. Soros prefers to spend most of his advocacy dollars using his own organizations, rather than directly donating to Democratic Party campaigns and Super PAC's, though he still managed to cough up nearly $10 million in direct donations for Hillary's 2016 Presidential campaign – one of her largest donors, as always. George Soros, in turn, works primarily in the interest of other E.U. oligarchs and their pro-MENA integration schemes, and their vehemently anti-Russian geopolitical forays. Such "stateless statesmen" have hijacked U.S. Foreign Policy to serve a trans-Atlantic, primarily E.U-centric, New World Order, which has decided to sacrifice European peoples on the altar of 'diversity' to secure elite wordwide wealth networking possibilities with foreign authoritarian regimes; the main price of these self serving manoeuvres, being, that Islamic Sharia law will be allowed to infiltrate western cultural zones.
There is a reason that Soros' private constellation of off-shore 'Quantum Funds' are not incorporated in New York City from where Soros operates his subversive and financial Empire, or in Delaware where most American tax avoidance shell corporations are registered, but rather in the Netherlands Antilles island of Curaçao. While Delaware companies are suitable for tax avoidance purposes, they are not at all suitable as secrecy jurisdictions insulated from U.S. intelligence, law enforcement, and other government agencies. Curaçao, Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos, however, are far better for the purposes of secrecy, which is why, for instance, the Vatican City IOR and APSA also heavily utilize the Cayman Islands and Turks and Caicos. Curaçao is a quasi E.U. jurisdiction under the Sovereignty of the Royal family of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands; the perennial Royal patron of the Bilderberg Group pedophile confabs. The Bilderberg Group represents the legacy financial players behind the NATO powers, but it is internally split between a traditionally Anglo-American coterie (ie, Pilgrims Society), and a Continental European coterie (ie, Le Cercle and, notably, Opus Dei and various other Catholic power players). The sadistic Belgian satanic pedophile ring which came to light during investigations into the infamous Dutroux Affair of the 1990's, which was shut down by the highest levels of the judiciary and government in Belgium, was most definitely connected via the Belgian aristocracy to many elite personalities attached to Biderberg and its sub-groupings such as Le Cercle.
"What you have to understand, John, is that sometimes there are forces and events too big, too powerful, with so much at stake for other people or institutions, that you cannot do anything about them, no matter how evil or wrong they are and no matter how dedicated or sincere you are or how much evidence you have. This is simply one of the hard facts of life you have to face."
– William Colby. Former CIA Director, Le Cercle member, and Opus Dei sympathizer, giving advice to his friend Senator John DeCamp, urging him to cease his investigation into the Franklin child abuse affair and to write a book about his experiences ('The Franklin Coverup', 2nd edition, foreword).
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WWIII: The Loosing Of The Four Angels Bound Up In The Great River Euphrates!
Genesis 16:11-12] The angel of the LORD said unto her [Hagar], Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael … he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him.
All four of these geopolitical cornerstones of Islam struggle for control over the central killing fields straddling the Euphrates, where oil and natural gas resources and control of pipeline transit zones is essential to their power and prestige. These energy resources in turn control the macroeconomic and foreign policy of the USA, British Commonwealth, EU, Russia, India, and China. If system collapse and mutual annihilation occurs, who wins? This is referred to in the Holy Bible as the Armageddon. The sixth and second last Angel of the Biblical Apocalypse is about to sound: Get right with God!
… the Sixth Angel is first covered in Revelation Chapter 9 …
Revelation 9:13-18] And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand [200 million]: and I heard the number of them. And I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
… the Sixth Angel is further covered in Revelation Chapter 16 …
Revelation 16:12-17] And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. [7th and last angel intervenes to end the wars of man: a 'great earthquake' causing 'great hail' – ie, volcanic: Yellowstone?]
The Euphrates river is highly important geo-strategically and historically. It begins in Turkey, travels through Sunni dominated north-east Syria, flows through Sunni dominated northern Iraq, and finally empties into the Persian Gulf, but not before travelling though Shia dominated southern Iraq (see below map). This stark Sunni-Shia divide occurs just north of Karbala, a most Holy City and site in Shia Islam, besides Mecca, Medina, the Holy sanctuary in Jerusalem, and Masjid 'Alī, in Najaf, 45 miles south of Karbala. in the month of Muharram (Oct 3 – Nov 1 in 2016), Karbala hosts an annual pilgrimage of Shia from across the Islamic world. This pilgrimage rivals those at Mecca, and is the location of the massive twin shrines of 'Abbās and Husayn, both sons of 'Alī ibn Abī Tālib. Shia believe 'Alī to be the legitimate successor of Muhammad rather than Muhammad's Father-in-law Abu Bakr, who won the Ridda Wars, cementing power in Arabia after Muhammad's death. This divide stems from the moment Muhammad died, but an event 50 years later wrote it in blood for all time.
Two sons of 'Alī were killed at the Battle of Karbala in 680AD. In combat against Yazid I of the Sunni Umayyad Caliphate – who's capital was in Damascus – the small band of Husayn became surrounded in Karbala and forcefully separated from the water of the Euphrates, threatening his group with death by dehydration. 'Alī's son 'Abbās was sent on a mission to retrieve water from the Euphrates for the encircled family of Muhammad, but was caught and killed. At the ensuing battle the same day – the Day of Ashura – 'Alī's other son Husayn (the Shia Imam) was beheaded together with all but one male by Umar, leader of the Kufan Umayyad army, whom only spared Husayn's son Zayn. Zayn was the 4th Imam of the Twelver, and 3rd Imam of the Ismaili sects of Shia, providing legitimate blood lineage to Muhammad, which is in opposition to Sunni practice which eschews the importance of lineage. Due to their lineage from Muhammad, modern Sunni's revere both Husayn and 'Abbās as Holy Martyrs for Islam, simply considering this event an unfortunate situation where a ruling Caliph (Yazid I) rashly killed an illustrious Imam and his brother.
Shia however view this event differently, because it epitomizes the Caliph vs Imam rivalry born from two separate systems of political and religious regime legitimization. As such Karbala provides a rallying point for Shia identity like no other place, making the city and it's story, a probable flash-point, for manifestation of ideological and physical conflicts. This rift is central to God's plan for judgement, because it runs deeper than the ethnic and political divisions between the three core – and competing – Sunni civilizations centered on ethnicity: Arabs; Egyptians; and Turks. This deeper divide is fundamentally religious, being the foremost obstacle to uniting world Islam into a unitary Sunni Caliphate or Shia Imamate. Iran makes intense political use of this divide, bringing the fourth great Islamic ethnicity – Persians – into the mix, maintaining its strong influence in the almost totally Shia oil bearing lands of southern Iraq. This rift condensed only 50 years after the initial Sunni-Shia dispute, but the story importantly involved water from the Euphrates – or lack thereof.
Shia poetry emphasizes the importance of the Euphrates river water in this particular narrative, and since the Euphrates has changed course over 1400 years towards the direction of Karbala, Shia's are heard to proclaim "the Euphrates has come to 'Abbās now". This saying alludes to 'Abbās' mission to retrieve the water, having been achieved in death rather than life. Karbala is just south-west of the capital city Baghdad (80-85% Shia), and both are just north of the ancient city of Babylon (indicated on the below map). This is Babylonia proper. As ever, this area is key to Judeo-Christian eschatology, because a repeat of the capture of Babylon by the Achaemenid Empire of the Medes and Persians in 539BC – which also freed the Jews from Babylonian captivity – is prophesied in the Book of Revelation to trigger the end-times Armageddon (end of the age). The developing story of the Biblical Ishmael and his progeny, connect up with Judeo-Christian eschatology here: Time is a stream with many tributaries, all of which are joining right now, like a flood!
The 4 'Angels' are ethnic and sectarian EGREGORES of these 4 Islamic cornerstone populations!
Egregore (also egregor) is an occult concept representing a "thoughtform" or "collective group mind", an autonomous psychic entity made up of, and influencing, the thoughts of a group of people. Likewise, a collective possession of a national interest, manifesting through State political, economic, social, and leadership systems. Because egregores are primarily conscious at the hierarchical apex – power and Mammon (money) – the Islamic faith tends to manifest around them as a tool of manipulation for dark intent – quite evident in Wahhabism. This intent is diametrically opposed to the politically disinterested and peaceful wishes of many Muslims, though their leaderships cannot resist the urge towards conflict: BABYLON BECKONS!
Sectarian map of the Middle-East and the Four Angels bound in the Euphrates.
SUNNI WAHHABISM: Light Violet SUNNI: Light Green SHIA: Dark Green
+ ABOVE: MAP OF MIDDLE-EAST SECTARIAN AND POPULATION DEMOGRAPHICS (7450px x 5793px .PNG 2.5MB) +
+ ALSO SEE: IRAQ: ETHNO-SECTARIAN AND POPULATION DEMOGRAPHICS MAP (3837px x 3868px .PNG 803KB) +
+ ALSO SEE: SYRIA: ETHNO-SECTARIAN AND POPULATION DEMOGRAPHICS MAP (4938px x 4249px .PNG 947KB) +
+ [MAPS FROM DIRECT URL: MAPS AVAILABLE AT GULF2000 PROJECT, CREDIT: DR. MICHAEL IZADY.] +
Now we see Russia and China being pulled into Syria and Iraq respectively, with Shia Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia – and the other Sunni GCC countries – ratcheting up their sectarian feuds, whilst global demand for their oil plummets due to the onset of a global economic depression. Syria is in flames, Turkey is refusing to remove troops from Northern Iraq, whilst Iraq moves closer to Iran, both with fresh new long term Chinese oil contracts. North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Canadian and U.S. Tight Oil independents and western Big Oil operations, are now being bankrupted, whilst world stock markets implode and currency wars intensify.
Egypt and Russia are courting each other, the latter of which is militarily dug into Syria, whilst the former has a history of cooperation – albeit aborted – with Syria, under Nasser's Pan-Arabism pipedream. On January 21st, 2016, Chinese officials toured Egypt, signing deals for $15 billion in development credit, which Egypt desperately needs right now. China has great interest in good relations with the owners of the Suez Canal – for obvious reasons of secure market access to the EU. Meanwhile, Russia's economy is collapsing due to EU sanctions on Russian natural gas imports (and other imports), but mostly because of the low oil price, both of which are eating into Russia's foreign reserves, which will be fully expended by the end of 2016 according to the Russian ministry.
Russia is waiting for the call from Iraq – and Iran – to close the military support gap between the Mediterranean and the Zagros, though Iran is being courted by the west to prevent this (which isn't working). Turkey and Saudi Arabia have had meetings about a strategic alliance, and their ISIS Trojan horse proxies will lose their grip on the Euphrates, unless Turkey and the GCC 'confront' them (invade Assad), head-on in Syria, where the Russian bear awaits. Saudi Arabia and Turkey have been furtively suggesting such an invasion for the last few months. Ukraine is on a simmer … NATO is awaiting the right time to pounce on Russia. This post will be extended in a PART II to analyze the Biblical and Eschatological aspects of this developing WWIII.
The Four Angels in the Euphrates,
are about to be loosed!
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Nice weather is upon us, at least in most of the country, and it's time for hunters and target shooters to get back to school for safety and accuracy. The best accuracy training remains dry-fire. Dry-fire is actually better than live-fire because live-fire is not as easy to read. What I mean is the instant the hammer drops during dry-fire, the shooter will know exactly where the round would have struck the target. Live-fire requires greater alertness to see the sights prior to the hammer actually striking because recoil will move the firearm to some small degree. Dry-fire remains the purest, most accurate measure of marksmanship. Faults are more easily spotted. Of course, live-fire is used for training, too. Reading targets, and reading the sights at the instant the round is discharged, and immediately after discharge, is not as accurate a measure as proper dry-fire. Dry-fire is explained in The Perfect Pistol Shot and you'll find it previously addressed in this blog.
We still get assaulted over the principle of using a light grip but most often, apparently, by those who have never applied the principle but are certain it would not work if tried. Again, this is in the book and throughout this blog. I'm trying not to abuse reader patience by continually repeating myself but marksmanship is simple in scope, just exacting in execution. Meaning, there's only so much to talk about because these simple precepts are mastered through understanding and application, not continual revision.
The term "gun nut" appears in my writing from time to time and is not meant to disparage those that like guns. Rather it is meant to label those who chase after products at the expense of foundational skills. Marksmanship requires work; there's no shortcut but the diligent student can grasp the principles in one session. Consistency, skill, and knowledge will take awhile but the average shooter can double proficiency without much effort within a couple of hours. Its not about guns. A marksman with a bad gun beats a poor shot with a good gun. Treat marksmanship as a learnable skill and ignore talk of "born-marksmen", and "best guns."
The new book Practics: Handgun Defense System is on sale at the big on-line retailers now. It is not a marksmanship book. It is a defensive skills book for advanced shooters. I mention this because the first book called The Perfect Pistol Shot was occasionally berated for having little defense application. Please read the blurbs and reviews before purchasing any of my books, I do try to be as clear as possible about the limits of my knowledge, writing, and offered materials.


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In a randomized study, weight loss and home-based exercise did not improve lymphedema symptoms in breast cancer survivors.
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Breast cancer patients commonly undergo surgery to remove lymph nodes in their armpits, which can lead to chronic swelling called lymphedema. Other cancer treatments, such as radiation, may also increase risk of the condition, which affects around 1.4 million breast cancer survivors in the U.S. Doctors recommend exercise and weight loss for women who are overweight following breast cancer treatment in hopes of lessening the chance that patients develop lymphedema and improving outcomes in those who do develop it.
However, the randomized Women in Steady Exercise Research (WISER) Survivor study, the results of which were published in JAMA Oncology on August 15, 2019, found that a year-long weight loss and home-based exercise program did not improve lymphedema symptoms in overweight breast cancer survivors.
Ten years ago, researchers showed that when breast cancer survivors with lymphedema took part in a guided weight-lifting program at community fitness centers, their lymphedema flare-ups and symptoms decreased. The women also had greater strength improvements than those assigned to the control arm of the study. This study, called the Physical Activity and Lymphedema (PAL) trial, demonstrated that resistance exercise was not only safe but also beneficial for patients with breast cancer-related lymphedema.
"What I heard from colleagues following our results is that many survivors will not be able to get to the gym and that the exercise program should be home-based. So I said, 'OK, let's try that,'" says Kathryn H. Schmitz, an exercise researcher at Pennsylvania State College of Medicine in Hershey who was principal investigator on both the PAL trial and the WISER Survivor study.
For the WISER Survivor study, Schmitz and her colleagues set out to test a home-based exercise program. They also wanted to test whether women who lose weight would see improvements in their lymphedema symptoms.
For the new study, 351 women with breast cancer-related lymphedema were randomly assigned to a control group or one of three interventions: exercise, weight loss or both. Women who took part had a body mass index between 25 and 50—considered overweight or obese—and had finished their breast cancer treatment at least six months before the beginning of the trial. The majority of the women had well-controlled lymphedema at the start of the trial.
All the trial participants received compression garments for their lymphedema, as well as lymphedema care from certified lymphedema specialists. Those randomized to do home-based exercise also received resistance exercise instruction from fitness professionals. Those in the weight loss group received counseling from dietitians and, for the first 20 weeks of the study, followed a meal replacement program that emphasized fruits and vegetables.
Women in the combined weight loss and exercise group lost an average of 8.06% of their body weight, and those in the weight loss group lost 7.37% of their body weight. "This is a fairly hefty weight loss for a breast cancer cohort. It's difficult to get participants to lose more weight than this," Schmitz says.
Meanwhile, women in the control and exercise groups lost 0.55% and 0.44% of their body weight, respectively.
However, none of the groups showed significant improvements in their lymphedema. Lymphedema exacerbations and self-reported symptoms were not different in the intervention groups compared to the control group. Researchers also assessed lymphedema by measuring arm volume. Women assigned to the weight loss and the weight loss plus exercise groups had greater decreases in the volumes of both their affected and unaffected arms over the course of the study than the control group. However, the difference between their arm volumes remained relatively steady, a sign that their lymphedema was not improving and that their arm volume decreased due to weight loss. Women in the exercise group did not see significant changes in their arm volumes compared to the control group.
"Our study shows that weight loss doesn't work to improve lymphedema symptoms, so we need to stop telling women that are overweight that their lymphedema symptoms are their fault," says Schmitz.
Joseph H. Dayan, a reconstructive surgeon at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City who was not involved in the study, suggests another explanation for the study results. The minimal lymphedema of the participants at the beginning of the study could be the reason why the arm volumes did not improve greatly between the control and intervention arms by the end of the trial. "This study says that modest weight loss in somebody with minimal lymphedema may not make much of a difference," says Dayan.
Schmitz remains optimistic about the benefits of exercise. Although the researchers intended for the women in both the PAL and WISER Survivor Trials to complete the same resistance exercises, the women in the new study did not gain as much upper body strength as the participants in the PAL trial did. Schmitz says she and her co-investigators suspect that the women in the WISER Survivor trial, who were less likely to adhere to their exercise plans, ultimately got a lower dose of exercise than the participants in the PAL trial.
"There is a lot of research, including our prior trial, telling us that weight training is not only safe but helpful for lymphedema symptoms," Schmitz says. What the new study shows, she adds, is that unless patients continue to progress and incrementally lift heavier weights, whether at home or at the gym, they are not likely to see decreased lymphedema symptoms.
Nicole Stout, a researcher in the Rehabilitation Medicine Department at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, who was not involved in the study, says that the study will help guide future research into managing lymphedema. "Lymphedema is a difficult condition to manage and to improve," she says. "I suggest clinicians assess their patients for early detection of symptoms consistent with lymphedema. When these symptoms are present, we can introduce early conservative management including compression sleeves."
For both Stout and Dayan, the study highlights the issues with a one-size-fits-all recommendation for breast cancer patients with lymphedema. "I don't look at these results and say 'weight loss doesn't matter and exercise doesn't matter,'" Stout says.
Dayan agrees. "I still recommend exercise and weight loss for patients. But the effects will be different for each individual," he says.
Anna Azvolinsky is a science writer living in New York City.
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Modest Mouse have announced details of a North American tour, set to kick off on August 17 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Former Smiths' guitarist Johnny Marr will not join the band on the outing which will see stops at several festivals including San Francisco's Outside Lands and Seattle's Bumbershoot.
The band's most recent album 'We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank' was released in 2007. They will release a 7" single entitled 'Autumn Beds'/'Guilty Cocker Spaniels' in celebration of Vinyl Saturday on June 20. The day is intended to bring business to independent record stores, which have been struggling in light of digital downloads.


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By Rollin Bishop - August 5, 2019 11:57 am EDT
President Donald Trump today delivered a statement in the wake of this past weekend's tragic mass shootings. 20 people were killed in El Paso, Texas at a Walmart on Saturday, and nine were killed Dayton, Ohio on Sunday, marking a weekend full of deadly gun violence for the nation. After stating that America must condemn racism, bigotry, and white supremacy, as well as pointing to the perils of the Internet, President Trump later went on to say "we must stop the glorification of violence in our society." The first item on that list? Video games.
"This includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace," President Trump said. "It is too easy today for troubled youth to surround themselves with a culture that celebrates violence. We must stop or substantially reduce this, and it has to begin immediately."
You can check out President Trump's full remarks (or close to it -- the video begins in the middle of a sentence at around 22:15) in the official White House video below:
The speech from President Trump also suggested various policy changes and other programs, including but not limited to mental health reform, social media protocols, "red flag laws" to prevent access to firearms for certain individuals, and speedy death penalties in addition to cracking down on violent video games.
This marks the latest instance of mass shootings leading to politicians wholly or in part blaming violent video games. It's become something of a popular scapegoat whenever gun violence comes up despite there being little if any definitive evidence to link the two. It's worth noting again that President Trump first mentions racism, bigotry, and white supremacy, which certainly seems like a set of problems entirely separate from video games and any normalization of violence associated with them.
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After a merger that saw him become the new executive director of Cannabis Growers of Canada, Ian Dawkins said he's ready to continue working to provide a united voice for the cannabis industry.
Earlier this week, CGC absorbed cannabis entrepreneurial trade association CARDAGAN, a move Dawkins said was a natural fit for both groups.
"The best way for us to move forward is to unite into some kind of broadband trade association that would stand up for interests and push back against the negative messaging that we're hearing," he said. "We all agreed on the core, key things, which are the the rights of small and medium sized cannabis businesses to participate in this economy."
Dawkins said the group aims to not look at dispensaries and growers separately, but viewing the industry as a whole and making sure it's accessible to the average Canadian.
"There's a threat out there, there's businesses that are trying to put us all out of business and block us from this market and participating in cannabis," Dawkins said.
Dawkins said the group will be able to do more outreach than ever, letting the community know that there's someone willing to speak for the "mom and pop" shops.
"I now have access to the best subject matter experts, CGC they know more about growing and the medical system here than just about everyone, and it allows me to take more of a role in political advocacy and setting up meetings to politicians and articulating to them who we are, and what we stand for, and who our membership is."
With the Allard decision still fresh on many people's minds, Dawkins said now is the time to unite for businesses that have been, and continue to be, under pressure.
"They've been under so much threat of legal action and police involvement their whole lives, their whole careers, their whole businesses, that if you're a grower, until yesterday morning you were holding your breath," he said. "People haven't been able to organize and communicate between themselves.
"It's difficult, you don't know who to trust, you don't know who's good, who's bad, who's affiliated with the more criminal elements of our industry, so it's a real grab bag."
Now, Dawkins said, these conversations can begin to bring together like-minded individuals in the community that are committed to high standards of practice.
"We can be assured that the people inside CGC, the businesses who signed up, that they share your fellow beliefs," Dawkins said. "If you're a grower, you stand up for small dispensaries. If you're a dispensary, you want your product to come from the best growers, not these big LPs who are making this crap."
Dawkins said the group is busy establishing a code of conduct for members, such as looking at running all product through standard analytic labs and creating a standardized patient systems to better protect users' information.
"We can have that conversation about what are our standards for business practices as an industry, what do we expect from a good dispensary, a good grower, a good oil maker, a good lawyer – what do we want them all to do in this community," Dawkins said.
"Getting everyone to sign a code of conduct and then democratically workshop what that looks like… that to my mind is the most important thing that we do when we unite, and it lets me turn around to the politicians and say 'see, these are reasonable people, they know how to sell cannabis, they know how to grow cannabis, they make the best stuff in the world.'"
More information on CGC and becoming a member can be found on their website.
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Schubert Lieder
Schubert and Mayrhofer
Some years ago, when working in association for what used to be EMI, I had a happy involvement in the creation of Schubert Lieder on Record. I and my friend Tony Locantro, who knows more of EMI's back catalogue than anyone alive, sifted through hundreds (and hundreds) of recordings made over a century; since the fragile dawn of the recording era, in fact, when this music could be found in the piano-stool library of any domestic musician. We squeezed almost a hundred singers of around 250 songs onto 17CDs.
Faced with such a monument, like picking your way up a fell, you have to make choices. To begin with, perhaps, the well-trodden path, Ave Maria, An die Musik, Die Forelle and the like. Then what? When compiling the box, we commissioned an essay from Richard Stokes, who knows about Schubert what Tony knows about EMI, and more. Addressing Schubert through his poets, laying out the landscape of his Lieder like a musical Wainwright, he pointed out many paths less taken, all leading to the point of how Schubert married words and music. For now, my guide is Mayrhofer.
A Schubertiade reinvented by one of its participants, Moritz von Schwind. Mayrhofer is looking on from the far right.
I like Mayrhofer. A decade older than Schubert, he had undertaken theological training at the same monastery – St Florian, near Linz – where Bruckner was to become organist half a century later. The resurrected glory of the Greeks surfaces in his poetry, which Schubert set to music in 47 songs – more than Schiller, more than anyone save Goethe. The two men quickly became friends and partners in creation after their first meeting in 1814 and shared a room for two years (1818-1820) while Mayrhofer was studying law in Vienna, before Schubert moved out by strained mutual consent: the elder man's fastidiousness contrasted sharply with Schubert's personal habits. Graham Johnson suggests there may have been more to it than that, adjacent to Greek homoeroticism.
Such truth as we have lies in the songs. Einsamkeit D620 begins with a tremendous chromatic weight pressed on the shoulders of its narrator as he evokes the mixed blessings of loneliness in terms now so familiar as almost to be drowned by cliché. The young Mayrhofer in his cell at St Florian, set by Schubert teaching young countesses in deepest Hungary at the time: who would expect anything less than 'Give me my fill of loneliness'? What emerges, however, is a life in a song, as the poet passes through the social whirl, pastime with good company, rapt silence with a lover, victorious deeds, only to return, older and wiser, to solitude – 'the young man's longing'. How personal is Schubert's opening out into C major for a little Ländler in praise of friendship. Don Quixote is here in nuce, so too the Prodigal Son, maybe even the journeymen of Die schone Mullerin and Winterreise.
Einsamkeit is rarely done in concert, due no doubt to its length – around 20 minutes – but I was fortunate to finally hear it live for the first time last Saturday as part of a long and fulfilling evening at Kings Place, itself merely the prelude to the Oxford Lieder Festival, which will present all of Schubert's songs over the next three weeks. Accompanied by the festival's director, Sholto Kynoch, Stephan Loges sang Einsamkeit with wondrously steady restraint (in Oxford, it will be done by the great Robert Holl on 28 October). Later in the evening the tenor Robert Murray contributed a still and poised account of Abendstern D806, which like other Mayrhofer/Schubert masterpieces sublimates Classical allusion in the evocation of a lost world of nobility and purity, far from the 'wretched fashionable stuff' that the composer complained was pushing his songs out of the limelight. For all his famed conviviality, he was as high-minded about art as the earnest part-time poets such as Mayrhofer in whom he found intellectual mentors.
Between these song sequences, the soloists of the OAE gave a perfectly unbuttoned account of Beethoven's Septet, containing, just about, seven separate and fascinating personalities brought together as if at a Schubertiade by one common association but not necessarily friendship or sympathy. Luise Buchberger's cello solos in the two trios were delicately assertive against the introvert virtuosity of leader Matthew Truscott, Rudi Schwerdtfeger to the tee. Led by Anthony Pay's clarinet, the wind contingent seemed sometimes to carry on its own business regardless. All these quirks so suited to the Beethoven left Schubert's Octet somewhat bereft of the direction and unity – tuning and ensemble periodically drifting apart too – that this proto-symphonic work needs, especially when given with all the repeats (they may be fresher when they do the Octet again in Oxford on 17 October, without the Septet). A long hour at the end of a long day, but with many of Schubert's heavenly lengths along the way.
A footnote about poor Mayrhofer. He threw himself out of a window one day in February 1836, apparently in despair over his impossible love for the teenage daughter of his landlord. Writers in English are slowly adapting to the principle that since suicide is no longer illegal, one does not commit it. Alas the Germans have this injustice hard-wired into their language with the cruel expression Selbstmord. My dictionary lists the true (even Romantically apt?) Freitod as merely a euphemism. Time to change?
Posted on October 9, 2014 October 13, 2014 by Peter Quantrill Tagged Einsamkeit, Franz Schubert, Johann Mayrhofer, Oxford Lieder Festival, Peter Quantrill, Schubert Lieder, Sholto Kynoch


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Many media professionals in the country are forced to bid farewell to the field because of self-censorship and a lack of fairness.
One such example is of senior journalist Khairullah Aziz who not just quit his job but also said goodbye to the field of journalism for good.
"I have said goodbye to the electronic media. We are not doing journalism but are being dishonest with our profession. I will not say that we broadcast fake news but we do hide the truth," Aziz, who had been associated with the electronic media for the last 15 years, wrote on his social media page after resigning from his job.
Speaking to The Express Tribune, Aziz said that he spent almost two decades in the media industry during which he had been associated with several leading news channels as well as newspapers. Like every enthusiastic journalist, he, too, was determined to become the voice of the oppressed, highlight social issues and play a part in strengthening democracy in this country.
"Unfortunately, because of self-censorship and the capitalist mentality of media house owners, non-journalist newsroom managers are deputed to impose certain agenda, which makes it impossible for journalists to perform their duties with honesty," he said. "I have worked for four news channels for fifteen years. Before that, I worked in for print media too, but I have never seen such a difficult period for journalism before."
He added that the channel he was associated with was the mouthpiece of the government and news bulletins were solely based on an agenda.
"If someone opposed the news content, higher-ups, including the executive producer or the news controller, would dismiss the objection by saying that the instructions came from the owners," he disclosed.
He said that most news channels are on the path of greediness, adding that he knows many journalists who are on the verge of leaving the industry but are forced to stay because they have to make ends meet.
"It was the policy of our channel to cherry pick statements from political leaders of the opposition and cite them without adding the context in a bid to mislead the masses," he revealed. "This is the worst form of duplicity and dishonesty."
He added that there are many examples wherein his former news channel openly carried out "black propaganda," a move which frustrated him as well as other journalists.
"The news is not cross-checked, and the position of the other party is not taken," he said. "It is easy for outsiders to say that journalists should resist unfair organisational policies and try to change the system, but in real life, it's only a fantasy," he said. "The elements that want to impose their agenda on news coverage do not consult editors, news directors, or the reporters, but they directly talk to the owners."
He added: "Seeing these things, I decided not to be associated with this field anymore. Therefore, I have opened a restaurant as a side business in partnership with some friends."
"I was passionate about journalism and had an exceptionally good salary package which made it very difficult for me to quit, but I have finally made this decision because of my personal and professional ethics. Now, I have left everything in God's hands," said a disheartened Aziz.
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Who is Robert Kardashian's First Wife? Detail About his Current Relationship
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Learn All The Details On Robert Kardashian Personal Life!!
Robert Kardashian was an American businessman and attorney best known for his role in the murder trial of former National Football League player and actor O.J. Simpson in 1995. He rose to prominence after his team successfully defended Simpson on two counts of murder.
Kardashian was also well-known for his marriage to reality television star Kris Jenner. He died of esophageal cancer in 2003, at the age of 59.
In the 2016 FX true-crime miniseries The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, actor-director David Schwimmer played Kardashian. Kardashian was the subject of a pilot episode of the comedy series Over My Dead Body in 2017.
Who is Robert Kardashian's First Wife?
Robert Kardashian's first wife was Kris Jenner. The couple got married in 1978. On April 18, 1979, Robert and Kris welcomed their first child, Kourtney Kardashian.
Kris then gave birth to their second daughter, Kim Kardashian, on October 21, 1980. Subsequently, their third child, Khloe Kardashian, was born on June 27, 1984. The pair also had a son together named Robert Arthur Kardashian, Jr, on March 17, 1987.
Robert Kardashian's first wife was Kris Jenner.
In 1991, Robert and Kris divorced. Kris later admitted in her autobiography that she had an affair with former player Todd Waterman while she was married to Kardashian.
Robert Kardashian's Other Relationship And Affairs
Shortly after announcing his divorce from Kris Jenner, Robert Kardashian began dating Denice Shakarian Halicki. He even proposed to her before breaking up with her in September 1994.
Shortly after announcing his divorce from Kris Jenner, Robert Kardashian began dating Denice Shakarian Halicki.
After that, in 1998, Kardashian married Jan Ashley. They dated seven months before Robert proposed to her in Hawaii. Their marriage, however, was annulled. Ashley claimed that Robert's ex-wife, Kris and their children played a significant role in her divorce from him. They divorced in 1999.
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After the brief marriage ended, Kardashian began dating Ellen Pierson, a real estate businesswoman. As per The Famous People, In 2003, Robert and Ellen married after a five-year courtship. Meanwhile, Kardashian was diagnosed with esophageal cancer just months before their marriage.
The long-term attorney died of cancer about six weeks after Robert married Ellen. Kardashian died on September 30, 2003, at the age of 59, and was laid to rest in Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California. Ellen and Robert had no children.
Ellen Pierson has not dated anyone since her husband's death, and she currently lives a private life away from the media spotlight.
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ST. LOUIS (December 15, 2020) – Thompson Street Capital Partners (TSCP), a private equity firm based in St. Louis, announced today that its portfolio company, T-Base Communications, has acquired Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Accessible360 (A360), a rapidly growing digital accessibility provider. Combining T-Base's highly automated and secure document accessibility capabilities with A360's web and digital accessibility expertise creates a comprehensive accessibility solution for enterprise customers. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2016, A360 (www.accessible360.com) is a leading digital accessibility auditing firm that helps organizations better serve the needs of users with disabilities across websites, mobile apps and other digital assets and remain compliant with international guidelines. A360 leverages proprietary technology and subject matter experts to effectively serve hundreds of customers in diverse end markets across the globe.
Mark Lacek, Chairman and Co-Founder of A360 said, "We are excited because now companies can work with a single entity to ensure their disabled customers can easily and effectively interact with them. I know the A360 staff has found a great home as part of the T-Base family." Michele Landis, Co-Founder and CRO, A360 added, "This combination has created the most diverse and capable full-service accessibility provider in the marketplace. I am so enthusiastic about the future."
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Information displays kept up to date thanks to Delphi application
"GDK helped us to fulfil our customers' wishes"
The interactive displays of OmniDisplay display real-time information. Behind this continuous flow of information hangs a unique Delphi application that was once built in-house, but which is now being developed further by GDK Software. "GDK helped us to fulfil the expectations and wishes of our customers," says Gary Lowrey, CEO of Initiostar.
From Delphi 6 to the latest version
Dozens of companies work with OmniDisplay
The British company Initiostar was founded in 2002 by Gary. Gary soon got the opportunity to work with Adobe. "I worked out demos for Adobe Atmosphere, such as virtual environments. That's how I built a virtual race track. A Dutchman, Briton and Australian could log in at the same time and race each other. That was unique at the time! Or what about a virtual cinema or virtual café? Internet users saw each other live in the virtual environment and were able to chat with each other. It was a forerunner of today's social networking sites."
Unfortunately, Adobe Atmosphere was a niche product and support soon ended. Gary looked for new opportunities and in 2010 discovered a company that sold LED screens to financial companies, for example to display real-time prices. "A few years later, I took over this company," says Gary. "It was then that I saw the opportunity to market their main product – OmniTicker – more widely. OmniTicker shows real-time information on a narrow LED screen. With our new product – OmniDisplay – I wanted to display information on other screens, such as television screens and video walls. "
Partnership with GDK
Gary looked for a good Delphi developer to develop OmniDisplay and eventually found GDK Software. "I had a nice conversation with Marco. It didn't matter to me that the company was based in the Netherlands. As long as the time zones matched somewhat. I also looked at companies in India, but then you are talking about a difference of five to six hours. " In 2015 GDK got its own English office and James became the contact person. From that moment on, developments followed at a rapid pace.
With OmniDisplay, Gary was able to reach new companies. "A good example is Greenyard, a large distributor of fruit and vegetables. Television screens displaying real-time information from their production systems are installed in the corridors of the head office. The information is clear and everyone is kept informed. This would not have been possible without the development work carried out by James."
"Thanks to the one-to-one relationship with James, there is a partnership with GDK."
Gary Lowrey, CEO Initiostar
Content as a service
Companies can use the software to make their own displays, but a large part of the customers outsource this work to Initiostar. "We write the content, link the internal or external feeds and create the graphic elements, basically like a digital agency does. This is a turnkey solution. We call this 'content as a service'."
Considerable steps have been made, especially in the past twelve years. Gary: "That's how we built a 4K layout editor. If you have a 4K screen, you can easily adjust the interface of OmniDisplay. For that, we largely had to redevelop the editor. This project has just been completed."
Working closely together
"Together with GDK Software, we achieved what we wanted to achieve," continues Gary. "In recent years I have worked a lot with James. The added value of working with an individual is that he now knows how OmniDisplay and OmniTicker work. When it comes to improvements, we discuss the possibilities together and a plan of action emerges. Thanks to the one-to-one relationship with James, there is a partnership with GDK."
"Our future is no longer limited by technology. We work closely with Microsoft and Windows 10. We will continue to work with GDK and investigate how our products can be even better. For now we have a great product line and we enjoy great support from GDK."
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Evaluation is a critical tool for nonprofit organizations. A well-crafted program evaluation helps to ensure that programs are actually accomplishing their intended goals, provides accountability to funders, and helps map plans for the future. But only 28 percent of nonprofit organizations have promising capacities and behaviors in place to meaningfully engage in evaluation, according to a 2012 report from Innovation Network, Inc.
Here in Greensboro, a newly developed partnership is helping ensure local nonprofits are prepared to effectively evaluate their programs. Researchers and evaluators In UNCG's Department of Educational Research Methodology (ERM) and the SERVE Center are working with the Guilford Nonprofit Consortium to identify and respond to community evaluation needs. After two years of conversations with nonprofit executive directors and staff and foundation leaders, UNCG announced the launch of the Nonprofit Evaluation Support Program (NESP) in Fall 2014.
NESP guides Piedmont Triad nonprofit organizations in improving their effectiveness and better meeting their goals by providing services aimed at increasing their program evaluation activities and capacity. NESP services are delivered by program evaluation experts of the SERVE Center and UNCG graduate students specializing in program evaluation. Alongside these non-profit collaborations, NESP offers valuable hands-on learning experiences for future leaders in the field of program evaluation.
To date, NESP has hosted five pilot projects, providing over 1,000 hours of direct support to Backpack Beginnings, The Barnabas Network, The Music Academy of North Carolina, Aging, Disability, and Transit Services of Rockingham County, and the Central Carolina Health Network.
Parker White, executive director of Backpack Beginnings, worked with NESP to review and update the surveys they send to students, parents, teachers, social workers, and principals to evaluate their backpack programs. "This is the most comprehensive data we have ever collected and the suggested changes will only allow us to strengthen the surveys going forward," White says.
Click here to read more about select pilot projects.
This fall, NESP coordinated with the Guilford Nonprofit Consortium to offer various professional development and educational opportunities to nonprofit staff in the Triad. In August and September 2014 they facilitated educational workshops that focused on program improvement through evaluation, types of program evaluation methodology, data and decision making/storytelling, and a range of evaluative support options offered by NESP. Feedback from workshop participants will be used to plan future programs.
NESP's ongoing workshop schedule is currently under development in collaboration with community and organizational leaders. More workshops will be available in Spring 2015. Registration for all events will be made available at http://guilfordnonprofits.org/calendar/.
Any nonprofit or community-based organization interested in scheduling a one hour, introductory consultation with members of the NESP team to discuss program evaluation, data collection, evaluation capacity building, or other evaluation services can contact NESP through the UNCG Referral Desk at 336-505-8994 or communityengagement@uncg.edu.
Learn more about NESP by visiting their website at nesp.uncg.edu.


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Q: How to add submodules, frameworks or libraries to SVN repository I'm creating a new iOS project were I would like to use some integration libraries. I.E: facebook, sharekit, etc. I noticed most of them come as static libraries or git submodules... so the question is how would you upload those libraries into an SVN repository??. I mean it would be great for any developer to just download the svn repo content and run the app. So basically I would like to configure the project in such a way that all libraries or frameworks are linked relative to base folder maybe? And then upload all of that content. What are the recommended ways of doing it?

A: I typically just grab the resources I need, put them where I want them in my directory hierarchy locally (inside a checked-out SVN project) and then add/commit them to my repo.  Certainly no harm in doing so.  If you're looking for dynamic resource loading (a la maven for example) you'll need to go a different route, but it sounds to me like you're not.
As a side note, if you're starting a fresh iOS app and plan to integrate with a bunch of third party APIs, you might want to take a look at Temboo's SDK for iOS (full disclosure: I work at Temboo).  It greatly simplifies integrating with APIs, and with OAuth headaches in general.  The SDK is free to use and currently supports 100+ APIs, you can see which ones (and try them out) here.
Cheers

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