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SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2021>Employees>Diversity & inclusion
Diversity makes us stronger
Different ideas and experiences broaden our horizons and make us more flexible and innovative. That's why we promote diversity & inclusion through an appreciative and inclusive corporate culture.
Flying the flag: To mark the 9th German Diversity Day on May 18, 2021, MTU expressed its commitment to diversity in artistic terms. An employee brought the motto #Vielfaltverbindet (#diversityconnects) to the Munich premises.
Diversity is a key element of our commercial success. We firmly believe that a diverse workforce is conducive to collaboration and bolsters our innovative capabilities and competitiveness. Given the high complexity of engineering projects, it is advantageous to have mixed teams. We see diversity as more than a strength; for us, it's part of our corporate social responsibility. As an employer, it makes us more attractive to new talent.
Promoting diversity is a key component of our corporate culture and is enshrined in the MTU Principles. To ensure an inclusive working environment within the company, MTU embraces a corporate culture based on respect and appreciation that promotes fair and cooperative conduct. MTU is actively committed to equality of opportunity and equal treatment of all employees and takes a clear stand against discrimination in the workplace. We have laid down these principles in our globally applicable Code of Conduct. We want to assign employees to positions in accordance with their skills, abilities and performance. All our employees are given the same opportunities regardless of their gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, disability or sexual orientation.→ Code of Conduct We have processes in place that allow breaches of the Code of Conduct or of internal guidelines to be reported to designated points of contact. → These are laid out in detail in the chapter Human rights.
Companies with high gender or ethnic diversity are more successful—the likelihood of achieving above-average profitability is 25–36% higher. This is one of the findings of the 2020 McKinsey international study "Diversity Wins—How Inclusion Matters." Especially in times of crisis, diverse teams are crucial, as is an inclusive corporate culture characterized by equality of opportunity, openness and belonging. Compared to earlier surveys, the link between diversity and business success has strengthened.
MTU's commitment to diversity and equality of opportunity is also demonstrated by its status as a signatory to the Diversity Charter and as a partner company of the Impact of Diversity. We also support various research projects on diversity & inclusion, and we exchange information with experts, organizations and networks on this topic. As a signatory to the UN Global Compact sustainability initiative, we commit to preventing discrimination in the workplace.
Diversity is a focus of our Innovative Culture project
With the Innovative Culture project, we want to actively develop our corporate culture in seven fields of action. In this context, cultural change also refers specifically to the promotion and use of individuals' diversity to overcome challenges for MTU and leverage innovation potential.
Reiner WinklerChief Executive OfficerMTU Aero Engines AG
"Our company is committed to diversity and equality of opportunity. Aviation is an international industry that connects cultures and people. We firmly believe that a diverse workforce bolsters our innovative capabilities and collaborative culture, which in turn ensures our competitiveness. We take a clear stand against discrimination in the workplace. Equality of opportunity regardless of gender, ethnic origin, age, religion, disability or sexual orientation is the foundation for a respectful corporate culture, which we strengthen and develop through a variety of specific measures."
Achieving diversity in any kind
Our diversity concept takes into account various aspects such as gender, cultural background, age and experience, disability, and sexual orientation and identity. The diversity officer is responsible for diversity issues throughout the Group and reports directly to the HR manager and thus to top management. They work closely with HR policy/strategy and are in continuous communication with local HR departments to effectively support the needs of local employees. The aim is to actively develop and strengthen diversity within MTU. In our internal media and via our social media channels, we regularly raise awareness for diversity and inclusion and for a discrimination-free working environment. We use training courses and presentations to draw the attention of employees and managers to the positive effects of diversity and an inclusive working environment at MTU.
We support employee resource groups (ERGs), i.e., self-organized networks and groups of employees that promote a diverse, inclusive work atmosphere. These networks offer employees a way to make their concerns visible and provide impetus for collaboration within the company. This helps us better incorporate diverse experiences and perspectives from the workforce into our decision-making. There is, for example, a Network of Engine Women (NEW) founded under the auspices of MTU's Chief Technology Officer, as well as informal networks such as one for Spanish-speaking employees.
Getting more women excited about our tech world
Aviation has always offered numerous career opportunities of a technical nature and is still dominated by men. We consciously focus on change and actively promote equality of opportunity as well as equality for all genders. It follows that one of our key goals is to increase the proportion of women in management positions to 13% by the end of 2022 for all management levels in Germany except the Executive Board. The share here was 11.3% at the end of 2021. In contrast, almost a quarter (23.6%) of places in the Development Centers, a personal development program for high-potential employees, were filled by women in 2021.
We have set a separate goal for the Executive Board: by June 30, 2022, 25% of members are to be women. The Supervisory Board has two female members each on the employee and shareholder sides. More information available in MTU's corporate governance report for 2021 (p. 109f.)
Proportion of women
This puts us almost exactly at the share of women in STEM professions, which is 15.4% according to the latest German Economic Institute spring report (May 2021). It is important to get girls and young women interested in technology at an early age, so that engineering companies like MTU become an option when choosing a career.
The Executive Board is kept regularly informed about the measures that have been initiated to promote equality of opportunity as well as equality for all genders. In addition, it presents a report on equality at the works meeting at German locations once a year. In Germany, the works council is involved in decisions subject to co-determination, such as flexible working time rules.
The principal focus of our initiatives is to secure more female employees for the company, identify and promote female talent, and offer female employees greater support throughout their careers. To this end, we participate in mentoring programs, including:
Cross-Mentoring Munich (a program organized by the City of Munich)
Mentoring Program offered by the University of Stuttgart for women studying and in research
"Project U" project for female students of STEM subjects at Leibniz University Hannover
Accelerated Leadership Mentorship Program offered by the Women in Leadership Foundation, Canada
Proportion of women GRI 102-8, 405-1
Share of women in the workforce and in management positions as a proportion of the active workforce for trainees/apprentices, relating to the Group (2020) or Germany (2019); recorded at the end of each year; we do not have figures on the proportion of women by employee group.
When it comes to the proportion of women in the workforce, we see an ongoing upswing over a three-year period (2019–2021). The current share is 15.6%. We were able to slightly increase the proportion of women in management at MTU as a whole to 11.8% at the end of 2021. We actively consider diversity and equality of opportunity when filling positions and selecting new employees. The share of women among new employees across the workforce was 20.5%. The share of women among apprentices was 14.9%.
Our efforts and progress are rated annually by the Women's Career Index (FKI), an external tool for evaluating career opportunities for women in business enterprises. MTU has had itself certified since 2016 and has always finished among the top ten since then.
In addition, we are involved in educational initiatives aimed specifically at young female talent. For instance, we are a project partner in Komm, mach MINT!, a German STEM initiative that aims to inspire more women to pursue qualifications and careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The Women Researchers Camp, organized by the Bavarian Business Education Association, has also been an integral part of our promotion of young female talent for years. Each year, we give female school students an insight into the working world of female engineers and research at our company.
Programs and initiatives (in-house and external)
Network of Engine Women
Munich Memorandum for Women in Management
Cross-Mentoring Munich Program
Women in Leadership Foundation
The MTU "Studienstiftung" foundation for female students in scientific and technical fields
The Lower Saxony Technical Internship ("Niedersachsen Technikum")
Komm, mach MINT! (a German STEM initiative)
We have a range of offers open to all employees to improve their work-life balance, including flexible working hours, services to assist families and mobile working opportunities. → More information under Collaboration and leadership.
In 2021, MTU was awarded the Success Factor Family progress index seal of approval issued by the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs. We live by a family-friendly corporate culture and we are committed to achieving work-life balance.
Inclusion involves everyone
As an early signatory to the Charter of Diversity, MTU has for years been committed to creating a working environment that is free from prejudice, one that recognizes and supports people's diverse potential. We want to be a positive example of diversity, create a culture of impartiality and ensure all employees have equality of opportunity in the workplace. This approach is inclusive of employees who identify themselves as lesbian, gay, transgender or intersex. We embrace diversity and welcome all employees who wish to enhance the company. Every person should be able to openly declare their sexual orientation or gender identity without experiencing any disadvantages as a result.
Individual talent should be able to unfold within a respectful and appreciative environment with an emphasis on solid performance and personal commitment. We support public initiatives to prevent bullying and discrimination, for instance by participating regularly in Pink Shirt Day in Canada and observing the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. We also express our appreciation for our employees in inclusive language. Since spring 2021, we have used inclusive language in our in-house and external corporate publications and in our communications with employees. We developed a guide for this purpose, which provides recommendations, examples and good reasons for use.
As part of our inclusion efforts, we recognize the importance of integrating employees with disabilities. In 2021, the proportion of our employees in Germany with disabilities was 5.1%, which meets statutory requirements. At our sites in Germany, we have elected representatives for employees with severe disabilities as well as dedicated inclusion officers who act as points of contact for issues relating to disability. Our locations, and especially new buildings, are designed with accessibility in mind. A case in point is the new company restaurant in Munich.
Strengthening cross-generational collaboration
Cross-generational collaboration makes it possible to combine valuable experiences and new impulses in a productive way. This is why we believe in good relations between young and old, and we take age diversity into consideration in our company. At our company, three generations work together hand in hand. We are meeting the challenges associated with our aging workforce in Germany and the fact that people are working longer from career entry to retirement. To secure the long-term performance of our employees, we operate a company health management system (→ Occupational health and safety). Employees in every age group receive equal access to training and development. We offer a variety of career opportunities geared toward younger generations: Apprenticeships, dual work-study programs, trainee programs and development programs for high-potential employees (→ Employee development). The interests and needs of young employees in particular are also represented by an elected youth and apprenticeship council. In 2021, we established a new network for young talent in the company, called Young Professionals.
Age groups GRI 405-1
< 30 years
Measured in terms of active workforce, at year-end in each case. For composition of workforce sizes, see the GRI Index.
Inclusion of diverse cultural backgrounds
As a globally active company, we consider internationalization to be a key dimension of diversity. Our engine business has a global outlook, and having an intercultural workforce helps us to succeed in different markets. The 2020 McKinsey study "Diversity Wins—How Inclusion Matters" comes to the conclusion that ethnic diversity among employees has a positive effect on a company's profitability. We promote internationality in our workforce and intercultural understanding, e.g. through intercultural training and cross-site dialogue formats. → Learn more about our training programs here Secondments to international locations form an important part of our HR policy for promoting intercultural skills. In 2021, some 70 employees were working for MTU abroad. Apprentices are also given the opportunity to gain international professional experience.
We have strong roots in Germany, but our character draws on a variety of cultural backgrounds. Employees of 82 different nationalities work together at MTU. We take an active stand against xenophobia and in favor of diversity and equality of opportunity, for instance as part of the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
We are diverse
is the number of nationalities represented by our employees. They work successfully together, with their individual cultural background adding different experiences and perspectives to the mix.
By promoting diversity & inclusion, we can help achieve the following Sustainable Development Goals:
102-8, 102-12, 103-2, 103-3, 401-1, 405-1
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TASState RecipientSenior Australian of the Year2022
Bruce French has dedicated his life to collecting and distributing information about edible plants. His work has made a practical difference in improving food security, nutrition and health outcomes for people in developing countries.
In 1999, Bruce founded Food Plants International, with the goal of documenting edible plants around the world. There are now more than 33,500 species detailed on its website.
Food Plants International's origins go back to the 1970s when Bruce was living in Papua New Guinea. He noticed many villagers suffering from disease and malnutrition, often while surrounded by nutritious edible plants.
From that moment, Bruce went on a mission to document the many species in Papua New Guinea. That effort soon expanded to include plants all around the world.
Food Plants International teamed up with Rotary Tasmania in 2007 and other organisations to create the Food Plant Solutions project. The aim is to provide regions with information on how to grow the most nutritious and viable food plants for their particular environment.


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Week of November 7, 2001
Wed, Nov 7, 2001 at 4:00 am
Amélie. Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The heroine of Jeunet's bold and bracing new comedy is a doe-eyed crusader who secretly resolves to emancipate all of Paris -- or at least every traumatized Parisian who crosses her path. Thanks to a luminous performance by 24-year-old newcomer Audrey Tautou, it's a beguiling quest. Like Jane Austen's greatest creation, Emma, Amélie is a tireless social meddler, but one with the imagination of an artist and the touch of an angel. Not everyone takes to Jeunet's hectic, self-advertising style (his first cult hit was 1991's surreal Delicatessen), but if you're in the mood for a little sensory overload, some spirited intellectual gymnastics and an introduction to the most intriguing new actress Europe has produced in years, get in line with the rest of the thrill-seekers. Opens Nov. 9 at the Plaza Frontenac. (BG)
Heist. David Mamet. With a movie like this, there's no risk of spoiling the ending, because the entire plot is merely a formality trudging toward a foregone conclusion. The viewer's biggest challenge is to survive fits of yawning so violent that they could disrupt ornithic migratory patterns. Gene Hackman plays a sharp-witted thief named Joe Moore who decides to quit the game and sail his handmade boat to paradise with his cunning young wife, Fran (Rebecca Pidgeon). Naturally this upsets Moore's chums in crime, the smooth Bobby Blane (Delroy Lindo) and the rumpled Don "Pinky" Pincus (Ricky Jay). Even more disturbed is Moore's fence, Bergman (Danny DeVito), who refuses to distribute the spoils unless Moore agrees -- oh, God, is it really ... yes, it is -- to do one last job before retiring. Mamet's dialogue is so stilted and inorganic that his characters seem to be wearing earplugs and reading from faded bumper stickers, and his noir direction reveals a numbing lack of intrigue. Sorting out his master plan, Moore explains, "I try to imagine a fella smarter than myself, and then I try to think, 'What would he do?''' Well, for starters, he'd pick a script that didn't suck. Opens Nov. 9 at multiple locations. (GW)
The Man Who Wasn't There. Ethan Cohen. Opens Nov. 9 at the Plaza Frontenac. Reviewed this issue.
Shallow Hal. Bobby and Peter Farrelly. As if to repent for their usual routine of mocking anybody different from the norm, Farrelly brothers present an apologia of sorts in this tale of an otherwise saintly gent (Jack Black) who just happens to have ridiculously high standards when it comes to the women he dates. Trapped in an elevator one day with terrifying self-help guru Tony Robbins, he is hypnotized into seeing only a person's inner beauty, a device wherein the fat and ugly appear to him as supermodels. It's a concept that doesn't entirely hold up logically: Though the notion that Hal can't feel the extra poundage on his lady friend is explained away with the line "The brain sees what the heart wants it to feel," the execution of it is flawed. If Hal is, as Robbins says, truly deprogrammed from conventional standards of beauty, how is it that when he looks at "nonbeauties" he sees them as women who look conventionally beautiful? So that Gwyneth Paltrow can be cast as a love interest, of course. Black seems to be improvising most of the movie: It doesn't take a master director to keep the camera on him when he's on fire. Opens Nov. 9 at multiple locations. (LYT)
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Prof. Shakeela Z. Hassan: Purpose Prize Fellow
August 16, 2007 by TMO
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CHICAGO, IL–Civic Ventures, a think tank and program incubator helping society achieve "the greatest return on experience," has designated a South Side Chicagoan, Dr. Shakeela Hassan, as one of its 2007 Purpose Prize Fellows for her work in interfaith dialogue and documentary film. The Purpose Prize is a three-year, $9 million program investing in Americans over age 60 who are leading a new age of innovation to solve critical social problems in the second half of life. In its own words, the Prize "seeks to shine a light on the critical work of individual innovators and combine these individual efforts into a wave of social entrepreneurship that could transform America."
Hassan, has been an interfaith peace-builder and policymaker for over four decades, offering a wealth of life experience as a Muslim, immigrant, medical doctor, professor, mother, grandmother, and visual artist to a wide range of inter-religious councils, boards, and initiatives. An anaesthesiologist, teacher, and former clinical care director at the University of Chicago Hospitals, Hassan brings her perspective as a caretaker and South Side community member to the International Human Rights Law Institute, Chicago Theological Seminary, the Cardinal Bernardin Center of the Catholic Theological Union, and Lutheran School of Theology. Nationally and internationally, she serves on the boards of International Museum of Muslim Cultures, Karamah: Muslim Women Lawyers for Human Rights and Hands of Peace, dedicated to Israeli-Palestinian youth dialogue and cooperation.
Recently, lifelong interests in photography and grassroots peace-making led Shakeela to documentary film development and production. After successfully fundraising for and co-producing interfaith documentaries and mentoring a number of young filmmakers in their own projects, she established Harran Productions Foundation, nonprofit organization, to nurture the most socially significant films possible. Hassan's current project is Sounds of Faith, a coproduction with renowned journalist and producer Bill Kurtis. This three-part exploration of sacred sound in the three Abrahamic faiths –Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – is being developed for national PBS broadcast in 2009; Chicago viewers can expect to view it on our own WTTW-11. The documentary will share sounds and songs from communities around the world, both inside and outside of worship, and illuminate a path for mutual understanding and appreciation between faiths through their intertwined history and modernity of sound.
Says Hassan, "The promise of my premise, and purpose of my work, is simply to humanize each community's internal struggles for peace, bring about understanding and cooperation for and with 'the other' outside of one's community, and bridge gaps and divides across faiths and fortunes with the harmony of omnipresent sound – the symphony of existence."
The Purpose Prize supports Fellows by helping develop their capacity, linking them with funders and venture philanthropists and connecting them to other social innovators over 60. The 2007 Fellows will meet for the first time at an Innovation Summit cosponsored by Civic Ventures and the Stanford Graduate School of Business's Center for Social Innovation, one of the world's leading academic centers focused on social entrepreneurship. The Summit will take place November 10-12 on the Stanford campus in Palo Alto, Calif.
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This site also provides information about all church locations and meeting times in North America.
This official web site of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has news of the Church, online copies of the Bible and Book of Mormon, and a wealth of other resources.
Most recent addresses given by the authorities of the Church in general conference. This site also has archives of conference, and information about mission reunions, etc.
Family Search - Get step-by-step research guidance on searching for your ancestors, with free access to millions of genealogical records.
LDS Links - This site maintains a directory of LDS Web sites and LDS businesses. They have quite a few listings.
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BYU Newsline. This is the award-winning online news source using news gathered by the BYU Daily Universe and KBYU-TV. They recently won an award for being the best college online news site.
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Iran's Cat And Mouse Game: A Final Outcome in the Making
By Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi • Frontiers of Freedom
Historically, efforts to prevent dead set regimes from acquiring nuclear weapons have been marked mostly by embarrassing diplomatic fiascos. The chronology of every state-sponsored nuclear program began with developing the necessary human resources to facilitate domestic plutonium production. In phase two, while diligently laboring on enriching uranium to the critical mass, all these states denied vehemently their intentions to become nuclear powers by emphasizing their governments inherently peaceful nature. In phase three they presented the rest of the world with a fait accompli, namely, the nuclear bomb.
Thus far, the Islamic Republic of Iran has followed the same well-trodden path. Most importantly, from its inception, the Mullahcracy has been, even within the Islamic Ummah, an international pariah. Isolated and therefore devoid of friends and allies, the two Ayatollahs, the late Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini and the current one Seyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei, have decided to acquire the ultimate weapon for self-preservation.
Therefore, the quest for a nuclear power Iran has started immediately after the fall of the Shah in early 1979. In 1987, the theocratic regime acquired technical schematics for building a P-1 centrifuge from the Pakistani Abdul Qadeer Khan network. The conversion of the Test Readiness Review that was done in 1987 by Argentina's Applied Research Institute allowed the regime enrichment to less than 20%. In 2002, the National Council of Resistance on Iran, the political wing of the so-called Mujahideen-e Khalq (MeK), revealed that Iran already built two secret nuclear facilities at Natanz and Arak respectively. More ominously, thousands of documents seized by Israeli intelligence agents during a raid of a nondescript hanger in Shorabad district of Tehran in 2018, revealed that the regime never abandoned its clandestine quest for building a nuclear bomb. Among the documents released to the public, one that originated in 2002, contains a proposal for "warhead", which were given the green light by the regime's top nuclear official Moshen Fakhrizadeh. His hand-written remark in Farsi in the top left corner of the document reads in English translation: "In the name of God. Right now in a treatment process. Please archive the original script of the document. Fakhrizadeh."
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) had its own doubts about Tehran peaceful intentions and sincerity. As a result, the Board of Governors adopted a resolution on September 12, 2003, calling on Tehran to suspend all enrichment as well as all reprocessing-related activities. Moreover, the same resolution called upon the Iranian regime to declare all material relevant to its uranium enrichment program. Finally, the Board demanded that the regime allow the IAEA inspectors to undertake unencumbered environmental sampling at any location. The deadline for compliance was set at October 31, 2003.
In its reply, the regime seemingly indicated its readiness to comply. On October 21, 2003, Tehran agreed to meet the IAEA demands by the designated date. However, on June 18, 2004, the IAEA complained of Iran's non-compliance. Again, Tehran notified the IAEA on November 14, 2004, that it will suspend enrichment-related activities for the duration of talks with France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In this manner, Tehran prevented the IAEA Board of Governors to notify the UN Security Council. On February 27, 2005, the Russian Federation and the Islamic Republic of Iran concluded an agreement to supply fuel for the nuclear reactor in Busher. A provision of this agreement mandated that Iran shall return the spent nuclear fuel to Russia. Next, Tehran announced on August 8, 2005, that it has commenced the production of uranium hexafluoride at its Isfahan facility. Following this announcement, the United States, France, and Germany froze negotiations with Tehran. Shortly thereafter, on September 24, 2005, the IAEA adopted a resolution declaring Tehran in noncompliance with the previous safeguard agreement. Most glaringly, this resolution stated that Iran's nuclear activities combined with the absence of their peaceful nature are within the competence of the UN Security Council, opening the way for future referrals.
Sure enough, on February 4, 2006, the Board of Governors of the IAEA referred the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN Security Council. Pursuant to the resolution, the Board of Governors deemed it "necessary for Iran" to immediately suspend its enrichment related activities, reconsider the construction of the Arak heavy-water reactor, ratify the additional protocol to its safeguards agreement, and fully cooperate with the IAEA's investigations. As a result, Tehran informed the IAEA on February 6, 2006, that it will "voluntarily" implement the additional protocol and other non-legally binding inspection procedures. Nonetheless, on April 11th, Tehran announced that it successfully enriched uranium for the first time to 3.5%. The enriched uranium was produced at the Natanz pilot enrichment plant. On June 6th, the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and the Federal Republic of Germany (the P5+1) proposed a framework agreement to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Then, on July 31st, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1696, elevating the IAEA's demand for Tehran to suspend all enrichment-related and reprocessing activities legally binding for all member states. Tehran responded on August 22nd. On the one hand, it rejected the demand to suspend enrichment, but on the other hand, added that the resolution contained "elements which may be useful for a constructive approach."
As a reply and for the first time, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1737 on December 23rd, imposing sanctions on the lslamic Republic of Iran for its refusal to suspend its enrichment-related activities.
According to the resolution, states were prohibited from transferring sensitive nuclear-and missile-related technology to Tehran. Moreover, the states were obligated to freeze the assets of ten Iranian organizations and twelve individuals for their involvement in Iran's nuclear and missile programs.
In 2007, Tehran continued to defy the international community. Thus, the UN Security Council again unanimously adopted Resolution 1747, demanding that the Islamic Republic of Iran suspend uranium enrichment. Three rounds of talks followed. These talks brought forth on August 21st, a so-called "work plan." This work plan mandated that Tehran must answer specific and long-standing questions about its nuclear activities, including activities suspected of being related to nuclear weapons developments. To make the point, the Bush administration made public on December 3rd, an unclassified version of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program. While stating "with high confidence" that Tehran stopped pursuing its nuclear weapons program approximately around the fall of 2003, it could not state with the same degree of confidence that Tehran had not resumed those activities as of mid-2007. More alarmingly, the National Intelligence Estimate concluded that the Islamic Republic of Iran was technically capable of producing sufficient quantities of weapon-grade
The year 2008 witnessed another UN Security Council Resolution. Resolution 1803, added new sanctions to the previous ones. Among its other provisions, it broadened the blacklist with seven new entities and thirteen more individuals. In conjunction with this resolution, the P5+1 states also proposed that Tehran shall freeze its enrichment activities in exchange for no more sanctions.
The year 2009 was a significant one for the international community. First, Tehran announced on February 2nd its successful launch of a satellite. On
September 25th, the Obama administration revealed the existence of a second secret uranium enrichment facility at Fordow, in the mountains near the holy city of Qom. On October 1st, the Obama administration agreed the supply 20% enriched uranium in exchange for Iran removing from the country the majority of its 3.5% enriched uranium. The so-called "fuel swap", the stupid brainchild of the Obama administration, was never fully implemented by Iran.
The year 2010 saw the same old pattern. Tehran started to produce 20% enriched uranium on February 9th. On May 17th, diplomacy kicked in once more. A joint declaration by Brazil, Turkey, and the Islamic Republic of Iran tried to breathe fresh air into the old fuel swap proposal. The United States, France, and the Russian Federation rejected the proposal on the grounds that Tehran stockpiled more 3.5% enriched uranium than it is willing to give up and that Tehran systematically misled the IAEA, the UN Security Council, and everybody else concerning its additional enrichment activities. On June 9th, another UN Security Council resolution followed. Resolution 1929 significantly expanded sanctions against the theocratic regime. It also banned Tehran from nuclear-capable ballistic missile tests. Finally, the resolution imposed an arms embargo on the transfer of major weapons systems to Tehran. On June 24th, the U.S. Congress adopted the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act, tightening U.S. sanctions against legal entities investing in Iran's energy sector, and imposing new sanctions on legal entities that sold refined petroleum to Tehran. On July 26th, the European Union joined the United States by agreeing to impose its additional sanctions on Tehran. On September 16th, the Obama administration decided to act. The Stuxnet computer virus attacked the Natanz enrichment plant.
The year 2011 commenced on a negative note. The January 21st and 22nd meeting in Istanbul between the P5+1 group and the Islamic Republic of Iran ended without any real results, because the latter laid down two unacceptable conditions. First, Tehran demanded that the P5+1 group recognize its right to enrich uranium. Second, that sanctions must be lifted unconditionally. On May 8th, the Bushehr nuclear power plant started operations and, according to Russia's Atomstroyexport, it successfully achieved a sustained chain reaction. On the same day, Tehran announced that it intends to triple the rate of 20% enriched uranium production, utilizing more advanced centrifuge designs. In addition, it declared that production will be shifted to the Fordow plant. On July 12, Catherine Ashton, the EU foreign policy chief sent a letter to the chief negotiator of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Saeed Jalili, proposing "meaningful discussions on concrete confidence building steps" to address the international community's concerns about Iran's nuclear "ambitions." On November 8th, the IAEA published a report underlying the concerns of the organization about Tehran's nefarious intentions. To wit, on the last day of the year, the U.S. Congress passed legislation to empower the federal government to sanction foreign banks doing business with the Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The year 2012 began with a sour note for Tehran. The European Union decided in early January to ban all member states from importing Iranian oil, beginning on July 1, 2012. Moreover, the decision also barred member countries from providing the legal protection and indemnity insurance for tankers carrying Iranian oil. The intervening months between March and August were spent on arduous negotiations between the P5+1 group and Tehran with barely any meaningful progress. In August, the IAEA highlighted the futility of diplomacy with Tehran. On the 30th of this month, it was reported that Tehran produced more 20% enriched uranium than was needed to fuel its research reactor. The IAEA upped the ante on November 16th, by stating that Tehran was busy installing more centrifuges at Natanz and Fordow.
The year 2013 was consumed by slowly progressing negotiations between the P5+1 group and the Islamic Republic of Iran at a variety of locations.
On January 9, and January 10, 2014, the member states of the P5+1 and the Islamic Republic of Iran met a third time in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the implementation of the Joint Plan of Action, agreed upon on December 30-31, 2013, in the same place. As a result, the parties agreed that the implementation will begin on January 20th. Simultaneously, the IAEA certified that Tehran in compliance with the provisions of the Joint Plan of Action. Accordingly, the United States and the European Union waived the specific sanctions listed in the November 24, 2013, deal and also released a schedule of payments for Tehran to receive the oil money that various states withhold.
Subsequent meeting mainly in Vienna, Austria, between February and July 2014, involved negotiations concerning a comprehensive nuclear agreement. The rest of the year was consumed with more negotiations. In January 2015, negotiations continued in Geneva. In February, additional negotiations took place in Vienna.
Ominously enough, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opined in his speech before a joint session of the U.S. Congress that any Iran deal "would all but guarantee that Iran gets (nuclear) weapons, lots of them." In the same vein, Senator Tom Cotton of Kansas and forty five of his colleagues signed an open letter to the Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran. They warned, as it turned out prophetically, their counterparts that any agreement reached without Congress's approval could be revised by the next president "with the stroke of a pen."
During the month of March, more negotiations took place in Lausanne, Switzerland. Finally, on April 2, 2015, the parties announced that they reached an agreement on the general framework of a comprehensive deal.
Again, the Foreign Relations Committee of the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution that required the president to submit any agreement to Congress for a vote. This resolution was approved by the full Senate on May 7, 2015, by a vote of 98-1.
On July 14, 2015, the member states of the P5+1 and the Islamic Republic of Iran signed the nuclear deal, officially named the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in Vienna, Austria. Commonly known as the Iran Nuclear Deal or simply Iran Deal, it mainly dealt with enrichment-related activities. Tehran's stockpile of low-enriched uranium was reduced by 97%, from 10,000.00 kg to 300.00 kg. This reduction had to be maintained for fifteen years. For the same period, Tehran was ordered to limit its enrichment of uranium to 3.67%. Yet, after fifteen years, all physical limits on enrichment will be removed. Moreover, for ten years Tehran must put two-thirds of its centrifuges in storage, with enrichment capacity being limited to the Natanz plant. There, the centrifuges must be the type IR-1. The IR-2M centrifuges must be stored in Natanz and monitored by the IAEA. Finally, Tehran shall not build any new uranium-enrichment facilities for the next fifteen years.
On the other hand, Tehran was allowed to continue its research and development work on enrichment, but only in Natanz. The Fordow facility was barred from enriching uranium for fifteen years.
To monitor the implementation of the JCPOA, a comprehensive and multilayered inspection regime was set up. However, prior to January 16, 2016, several exemptions were granted to Tehran that weakened from the get go the severity of the enrichment provisions.
Sanctions in the form of "snap back" provisions were also included in the JCPOA. Specifically, the deal established a "dispute resolution" process. Accordingly, a Joint Commission was created to monitor implementation. If the Joint Commission cannot resolve the dispute, the UN National Security Council had to be notified. Finally, future reinstatement of the sanctions allowed Tehran to leave the JCPOA altogether.
After fifteen years, Tehran will be free to do whatever it wants.
Criticism of the JCPOA both within Iran and in the rest of the world was instantaneous. Benjamin Netanyahu called the Iran nuclear deal a "historic mistake." Addressing President Barack Obama he stated: "In the coming decade, the deal will reward Iran, the terrorist regime in Tehran, with hundreds of billions of dollars. This cash bonanza will fuel Iran's terrorism worldwide, its aggression in the region and its efforts to destroy Israel, which is ongoing." In the United States, criticism centered on ignoring Tehran's ballistic missile program and the lack of provisions regarding the regime's support for terrorist groups and organizations across the region. The $150 billion plus money transfer from the Obama administration
to Tehran in cash only strengthened opposition to the deal.
On October 13, 2015, the Iranian Parliament approved the deal. The next day, the Guardian Council ratified the JCPOA. Two days later, the P5+1 and the Islamic Republic of Iran formally adopted the JCPOA.
On October 21st, the United States raised Iran's ballistic missile test as a possible violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1929 at a meeting of the Security Council.
On November 21st, Tehran tested another medium-range ballistic missile in clear violation of Resolution 1929.
On January 16, 2016, the IAEA verified that Tehran met its nuclear related responsibilities. On February 26th, the IAEA published its first quarterly report on Tehran's post-implementation day nuclear activities. The report noted that Tehran met its general obligations with some minor deviations. However, missile launches continued unabated.
More ominously for the JCPOA, then Republican candidate Donald Trump stated at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference on March 21, 2016, that his "number one priority is to dismantle the disastrous deal with Iran." After having been elected president on November 8, 2016, Donald Trump again labeled the JCPOA as the worst deal ever negotiated and pledged its renegotiation.
On January 28, 2017, Tehran test fired a medium-range ballistic missile, in defiance of UN Security Council Resolution 2231. On March 23rd, Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, introduces the Countering Iran's Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017, targeting Tehran's ballistic missile program and its support of global terrorism. In spite of Democrat opposition, the full Senate passed the Act 98-2. On July 25th, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 3364, the Countering Adversarial Nations Through Sanctions Act, which was designed to impose new sanctions on Iran, North Korea and Russia.
As the years have gone by, the JCPOA has turned out to be a great hoax. Its main objective to prevent Tehran from achieving military nuclearization within ten or even fifteen years could not have been accomplished. The reason for this was and is obvious. Tehran was building and operating many secret enrichment plants that were not included in the JCPOA, which only listed Natanz and Fordow. In this manner, Tehran has operated two nuclear programs: one for the gullible international community and a secret one that has continued to develop military nuclear capability unabated. For this reason, the IAEA quarterly statements concerning Tehran's compliance with the limitations of the JCPOA were technically correct, but in reality absolutely meaningless. Clearly, President Obama and his administration intentionally fooled themselves, lied to the American people, and misled the entire international community.
Adding insult to injury, the JCPOA has never been a mutually ratified international treaty. The Obama administration did not even submit it to the U.S. Senate for ratification. According to U.S. as well as international law, the JCPOA has remained a nonbinding agreement among the signatory states.
Thus, President Trump's withdrawal from the JCPOA in May 2018, based on what he termed as "Iran's secret nuclear weapons program" was absolutely justified. As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated, maintaining the fiction of the JCPOA merely would have resulted in certain nuclearization of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
The recent elimination of Qassem Soleimani, the resulting threats by Tehran to withdraw from the JCPOA, and the invocation of the dispute resolution process by Great Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany were the last nails in the coffin of this fake and, therefore, useless agreement.
Legally, the fact that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is much more significant. Based on this Treaty, Tehran is subject to all the limitations on its enrichment activities. Accordingly, Tehran cannot exceed enriching uranium to more than 5% U-235. Any violation of this limit will automatically trigger the intervention of the IAEA and the UN Security Council. Should Tehran repudiate the NPT, UN Security Council Resolution 1540 must be activated.
In this case, Tehran's production of weapons-grade uranium must be considered as a "threat to international peace and security" pursuant to Chapter VII of the UN Charter that calls for necessary actions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Throughout 2017, 2018, and 2019, Tehran's noncompliance with its obligations under numerous UN resolutions, in particular Resolution 2216 respecting the prohibition of "direct or indirect supply, sale, or transfer" of short-range ballistic missiles and other equipment to Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, and Egypt, has become legendary. In addition, Tehran has continued to flaunt the JCPOA restrictions on the number and type of centrifuges that it was allowed to operate under the agreement. On September 7, 2019, Behrouz Kamalvandi, the spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced that technicians introduced UF6 to cascades of 20 IR-4 and 20 IR-6 centrifuges, clearly exceeding the number of machines permitted in a cascade under the research and development terms of the JCPOA.
On September 16, 2019, cruise missiles and drones attacked a Saudi Arabian Oil Company (ARAMCO) facility in Abqaiq, eastern Saudi Arabia. The investigation launched after the strikes determined that the missiles and the drones were fired from Iranian territory. The rest of the year 2019, was filled with threats and lies by AyatollahKhamenei, President Rouhani, and Foreign Minister Zarifagainst the United States and President Trump personally.
Most recently, on January 15, 2020, PresidentRouhani made the announcement that his country now enriching uranium at a higher level than before. To wit, Ayatollah Khamenei, the real leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, just followed up with another provocative sermon on January 17, 2020. The so-called Supreme Leader praised the retaliatory strike against the United States and described all Americans as "clowns" who cannot be trusted. Reacting to the Iran-wide protests against the regime and him personally he mocked President Trump's sympathy declaration for the Iranian people calling it a "poisoned dagger" into the back of the entire nation.
Without a doubt, the Mullahcracy in Tehran has been constituted from its inception as a theocratic dictatorship that uncompromisingly has been committed to foment permanent instability across the globe, especially in the greater Middle East and South-East Asia. Internally, the regime has established a ruthless and cruel oppression against its opponents and anybody else deemed to challenge and thus jeopardize the religious and cultural uniformity of the country. Internationally, the Mullahcracy has become the source of permanent instability in the greater Middle East and beyond. The timeline of recent events has demonstrated the increasing aggression of Tehran, which has been connected with the regime's internal predicaments. The most recent attacks against American military installations and the shooting down of the Ukrainian civilian airplane have shown the increasing desperation of the Mullahs.
The more than forty years of Mullahcracy has demonstrated that the regime has been incapable of reforming itself. On the contrary. Even according to official Iranian statistics, in the year 2018 alone, more than 100,000 Iranians committed suicide, and many more were killed or executed. Tragically, 75% of the suicide victims were between the ages of fifteen and thirty four. These numbers show that the younger generation that comprises the majority of the population reject the religious, ideological, and political foundations of the theocratic regime. Clearly, the regime is increasingly incapable of suppressing the opposition by only applying ruthless terror. Since the fraudulent elections of 2009, the Islamic Republic of Iran has experienced six major nationwide uprisings. Now, the Iranians' patience broke irreversibly. By discrediting itself in the eyes of the world, the bloody and corrupt Mullahcracy signed its own death warrant. With the exception of a minority that benefits from the all-pervasive corruption of the regime, nobody trusts and supports the Islamic Republic. Presently, even the resignation of the Ayatollah Khamenei will not pacify the Iranian people any more, because the reason for the rot of the regime is he himself.
More disappointingly, the Mullahs have shown total resistance of any moderation both domestically as well as internationally. Now, when the regime is bankrupt both ideologically and economically, the Ayatollah's and his minions' diminishing rule will surely be more ruthless at home and increasingly aggressive abroad. Under these circumstances, diplomacy definitely will not work. The only solution is to remove by any means this cancerous tumor from the international body politics. Nothing but total regime change will bring a permanently satisfactory solution for the Iranian nation and the rest of the world.
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Zuboff, S. (1984). In the Age of the Smart Machine,. New York, Basic Books.
Computer based technologies are not socially neutral. Technology both imposes and produces new patterns of information and social relations. The two resulting potential faces of technology is to automate leading to dull jobs with lack of meaning, or infomate, leading to higher participation, more stimulating, challenging jobs, and greater satisfaction. Because the infomating tendencies are not currently recognized, there are often unintended consequences to the addition of new technologies.
Technology functions to amplify and surpass the organic limits of the body. In creating jobs that demand less of the body, industrial production has tended to give jobs that give less to the body" However, information technology can redirect the negative, seemingly deterministic effects of automation.
From ancient times people have generally loathed physical behavior, and have given it low status. Throughout history we have developed ways to control and distance ourselves from the animal life of the human body. Humanization is tempering animality with rationality, aesthetic grace, and moral choice. We see it in the rationality (tacit knowledge) of skilled workers versus the total indifference of laborers.
Taylorism was a purification of effort. The implicit knowledge of workers was gathered and analyzed through observation and measurment, leading to the development of new division of labor and a control mechanism (incentive payment systems, monitoring, standard procedures). With the advent of mass production and the assembly line, there were fewer opportunities for craft work. James Bright and Harry Braverman have pointed out how technology has deskilled workers. Blauner though has shown how technology has opened up work flexibility, and can aid in social integration between worker and management.
Chapter Two: Abstraction of Industrial Work
Some skills are inexplicably hard to assimilate into technology. These are often action-centered skills that are sentient, action dependent, context dependent, and personalized. The advent of computerized automation has caused a loss of some of these action-centered skills. An alternative to this is to replace cause-and-effect reasoning with scientific reasoning. The new technology can free up time for more reflection by workers, but it requires training them in intellective skills such as abstraction, explicit inference, and procedural reasoning.
Chapter Three: White Collar Body in History
Unlike blue collar work, managers carved out the rationalization in their work and left the craft skills of management intact. The rational, routinized part was pushed downward. Barnard describe executive work as oral and face-to-face. They focus on relationships, strategy building, intuition, non-verbal behavior, interpersonal skills, informational skills, decision making. Their work plans are not explicit to allow flexibility, and they have a preference for live action. In effect, through industrialization and automation executives lost what was WORST with their jobs.
However for clerks, the advent office automation created a role for lower-status, less skilled clerks. This new brand of Taylorism in the office reduced the need for judgement and communication and required more concentration and repetitive activity.
How will information technology change the power relationships? Or will power relationships change the use of technology?
Managerial authority is the legitimization of imperative control. In history it initially arose from land ownership. During the industrial revolution the protestant ethic gave a religious valuation of hard work, and new western philosophies and legends emphasized the self-made man. Education came to define class boundaries, and with Darwin came a belief that those in control must somehow be naturally superior.
Managers became intrinsically different from workers, each with their own psychology and social orientation. By the late 1800's the entrepreneur began to be replaced by the professional manager, and with Taylorism there was an expansion of middle management who derived their authority from domination of information. The great depression damanged and called into question this managerial authority, and the Human Relations School began to point out that cooperation and consensus was a better way to build imperative control. Managers couldn't just appeal the workers rational self-interest.
Today people firmly believe that educational preparation is necessary for managerial work. However, with the advent of information technology and infomating the "prospect of shared access to information threatens the fundamental distinction between managers and the managed".
Chapter 7: Dominion of the Smart Machine
Managers often block development of intellective skill in workers because they fear a loss of authority.
"To fully grasp the way in which a major new technology can change the world... it is necessary to consider both the manner in which it creates intrinsically new qualities of experience and the wan in which new possibilities are engaged by the often-conflicting demands of social, political, and economic interests in order to product a "choice". Thus technology can be either restricting or unleashing depending on one's choices. It can abstract work and increase it's intellective content, or increase control and remove skill from the job.
THe intedependence of the three dilemmas of transformation I have described -- knowledge, authority, and technique-- indicates the necessary comprehensiveness of an infomating strategy. The shifting grounds of knowledge invite managers to recognize the emergent demands for intellective skills and develop a learning environment in which such skills can develop. That very recognition contains a threat to managerial authority, which depends in part upon control over the organization's knowledge base.
The interdependence among these dillemas means that technology alone, no matter how well designed or implemented, cannot be relied upon to carry the full weight of an infomating strategy. Managers must have an awareness of the choices they face, a desire to exploit the informating capacity of the new technology, and a committement to fundamental change in the landscape of authority if a comprehensive infomating strategy is to succeed. Without this strategic commitment, the hierarchy will use technology to reproduce itself.


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Q: Protractor AngularJS mouseOver field to reveal hidden buttons to click I am new to protractor.  I am trying to hover over a field that will show hidden icons to click on. There is a list of 'Bookings'(Sometimes only 1 sometimes many) that when hovered over reveals a button that will edit or delete that booking.  I am having trouble filtering to the booking I want to hover over the field to reveal delete or edit buttons.

Booking Name

Start Date

End Date

Owner

Status

Below is what I have and I believe I am way off. I have the booking name itself set to elementText however it is stored in the database with a unique id. Any help would be great.

if (elementText == bookingName1) {
  console.log('Found booking: ' + elementText);
  //bookingToEdit = bookingList.get(i);
  var list - element = element.all(by.click('bookingsCtrl.selectBooking(bookingName1)')).first();
  browser.actions().mouseMove(list - element).perform();
}

A: From what I understand, this is a use case for filter():
var desiredBooking = element.all(by.exactRepeater("booking in bookingsCtrl.bookings")).filter(function (booking) {
    return booking.evaluate("booking.postAs").then(function (bookingName) {
        return bookingName === desiredBookingName;
    });
}).first();

// delete it
desiredBooking.element(by.css("div[ng-click*=deleteBooking]")).click();

Assuming booking.postAs is a booking name.

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'Fatherhood broke me down': Justin Timberlake gets VERY honest about being a dad
The 38-year-old singer/actor admits he found the first 8 months of parenting tough...
By Elizabeth Atkin
Justin Timberlake has really opened up about being a dad to 2-year-old Silas, his son with actress wife Jessica Biel.
In a surprisingly candid new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, the 38-year-old Can't Stop The Feeling singer admitted that fatherhood didn't always come easily.
"At first, it broke me down," he confessed.
"Those first 8 months felt like those old [Ed Sullivan] shows where people are balancing spinning plates on poles, except if you drop one, they die."
Firstly, Justin gets a 10/10 from us for this spot-on parenting analogy ??
And secondly, we can def relate to what he's saying here. We so remember how that new, life-altering responsibility can be incredibly overwhelming (and stressful), especially when you're running on next-to-no sleep ?
But the star didn't just reflect on the past few years. He also talked about his atypical childhood in the interview, and explored how that affects him as a dad today.
(If you remember, Justin found fame at the age of 11 in The New Mickey Mouse Club alongside Britney and Ryan Gosling, and then went on to become a pop megastar in *NSYNC as a teenager.)
"I have some faint images from my childhood, but no, I can't really remember not being famous," he told the publication. "I think we can all agree that I did not have a normal childhood."
"You go through your life with your own traumas, big and small, and think, 'It's not that bad, I have a lot to be thankful for, my parents did the best they could,'
"But then you have a child of your own, and suddenly it opens all the floodgates, and you're like, 'No, no, no! That childhood trauma really did f*** me up!'"
He also revealed that he's not sure whether he'd want a grown-up Silas to mirror his career in the spotlight…
"Would I want my child to follow my path? You know, I haven't been able to answer that question in my mind. If he wanted it bad enough, I suppose I could teach him a lot about what not to do."
But for all the cloudy moments of uncertainty and stress that being a parent can bring, there's often a silver lining. And for Justin, it seems it's getting to share what he does with his son:
"Watching him jump around to Can't Stop The Feeling, starting to learn words because of that song – it's the best thing in the world."
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The idea of what constitutes literacy in the classroom is mostly determined by middle-class school officials and state and federal administrators. The discourse of minority populations is marginalized and not readily recognized or incorporated into mainstream instruction. This impacts not only the ability of these students to be accountable members of the classroom community but also their future chances of becoming powerful members of a society whose voices are heard and respected. There are many reasons why a student might struggle to perform in the literacy classroom. For the purposes of this paper, I focus on current and relevant studies that can be generalized to determine the cultural and class factors at play in this issue.


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Let's take Eckhart Tolle's quote and say 'yes' to life. So, stop what you're doing, (which is reading this post – and I thank and appreciate you for doing so, it means the world to me that you are taking time out to join me, it truly does) but, let's just take a second to stop reading and say 'yes' to life.
Here's a little exercise; stand-up, have a little jump about, give yourself a little shake, feel the vibrations running through your hands, legs and feet … then punch the air like you've just been told the most exciting news ever. When you punch the air, shout 'YES!' Repeat this until you feel the vibes in your body lighting up. Keep shouting, 'YES!' until you feel it! Until you feel the shift in your mind and soul. Feel the excitement.
Now, if you're not feeling the 'YES!' If you're feeling more on the 'NO!' side of things, let's look at this. It's ok to feel as if there are more 'Nos' than 'Yeses' in your life, but the key is to not dwell on the 'Nos' … the key is to turn the 'Nos' into 'Yeses', turn these 'Nos' into opportunities, see the challenges, take the learning and turn these life curveballs into 'Yeses'.
You see, whatever your thoughts, the universe is mirroring that right back to you. So, if you see these 'Nos' ask yourself, why is this happening? What can I take from this experience? What can I learn? What can I do differently? Believe that this, 'No' has happened for a reason so that you can get your 'Yes'. Believe in that 'Yes'. Sometimes life is a mini roller-coaster (or a humongous gigantic one) whichever we have to say 'Yes' and turn up. Even on those days when we feel it is impossible to say, 'Yes'.
One of the best ways we can turn our 'Nos' into 'Yeses' is through gratitude. You'll have heard me say this before and that's because it's true. I turned my own life around by focuses on my 'Yeses'. Many many many moons ago, before I discovered the Law of Attraction, before I started my spiritual path and before I started surrounding myself with positivity, I was the 'Mood-Hoover' you'd want to avoid. Now, don't get me wrong there was much to be 'mood-hoovering' about … Jeez, was there ever! However, when I realised I could change my 'Nos' into 'Yeses' my life changed.
Once I started to turn up and shout, 'YES!' Once I sought the 'Yeses' I bought more 'Yeses' to me. This is one of the reasons I write my blog, because this stuff works! It really works guys! I want you to have the 'Yeses' in your life. I'm drawn to write weekly about inspiring you because I truly believe, I had to have my 'Nos' so I could turn them around into 'Yeses' and then spread the word that the Law of Attraction is always working, and the universe is always responding … so if we concentrate on our 'Nos' we will get more 'Nos' – so turn those 'Nos' into 'Yeses'.
You may still be in the 'No' mode at the moment but truly think about things that are good in your life.
Start by writing a gratitude list.
Take a small gratitude list; write down 20 things you appreciate in your life. When you've done this list, say each one aloud, then do the exercise at the beginning of this post; punch the sky and shout 'YES!' Do this repeatedly, every morning this week.
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Islamic State leader dead in US raid
Jack Detsch October 27, 2019
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed during a raid in northwestern Syria, says President Donald Trump.
REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
US President Donald Trump makes a statement at the White House following reports that US forces attacked Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in northern Syria, in Washington, Oct. 27, 2019.
Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself after elite US troops cornered him during a raid in northwestern Syria on Saturday, US President Donald Trump said today. A senior US official informed Al-Monitor of Baghdadi's death before the White House announcement, which came after months of the Pentagon probing near the militant group chief's suspected hideout in the contested city of Idlib.
Baghdadi, whom the United States had pursued without luck since first deploying American forces to Iraq to roll back the IS caliphate five years ago, detonated a suicide vest under the pressure of the special operations raid launched from Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, Trump said.
The official, speaking not for attribution, described the effort as a "complex airborne raid" led by US Army Delta Forces supported by intelligence collection by the CIA and the Syrian Democratic Forces, the Pentagon-backed group that served as the main fighting group for the American-led fight against IS.
Trump, who watched the raid on drone feeds in the White House Situation Room alongside Vice President Mike Pence and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, said Baghdadi died "whimpering, crying, and screaming all the way" as he ignited his suicide vest with three children in a dead-ended tunnel.
Baghdadi's body was mutilated by the blast, Trump said, DNA and biometric test results gave immediate positive identification. "It was him." The United States had the IS leader under surveillance "for a couple of weeks" and knew the Idlib compound had tunnels but had to cancel two to three efforts, the commander in chief added, as it appeared the head of the self-declared caliphate might be on the move.
"He died like a dog," the president said during a question and answer session at the White House on Sunday morning. "He died like a coward." US forces took fire after landing at the compound after a one hour, 10 minute flight, Trump said. No US forces were killed in the raid. Defense Secretary Mark Esper told ABC's Martha Raddatz that 100 special operations forces flew into the compound on CH-47 Chinook helicopters.
After word of the raid, first reported by Newsweek, broke early Sunday morning, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazlum Kobane, tweeted that "five months" of joint US intelligence cooperation with the Kurdish-dominated units had led to Baghdadi's death.
"Important to note that these operations require a presence on the ground to develop these networks," said the senior official. "It will be harder to do this as we withdraw."
Turkey, which launched an incursion into northern Syria on Oct. 9, did not provide support, but was informed of the US raid because of the operation's proximity to the Turkish border. Russia and Turkey brokered a cease-fire in Idlib earlier this summer before the Bashar al-Assad regime intensified an offensive to retake the province, one of the last opposition strongholds in Syria.
The US deconflicts airspace with Russia in northwestern Syria where the raid took place, but the Pentagon would not have told Moscow the reason for launching the operation, the official said. Iranian officials also told Reuters that they were given notice of the raid.
The United States had launched multiple strikes this year targeting Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda Syrian affiliate in Idlib, near Baghdadi's purported hideout. The same intelligence effort helped lead to the raid that killed the IS leader, the senior US official said.
The move came as the US began to put troops back into eastern Syria this weekend, as Trump appeared to reverse his decision to withdraw most American troops from the country. Trump teased the news of the raid Saturday night, tweeting, "Something very big has just happened!" but providing no other details.
On Saturday, hours before the raid that killed the IS leader, US troops began to reinforce positions in Syria's oil-rich Deir ez-Zor region alongside the SDF, a US defense official told Al-Monitor, as images of military vehicles crossing back into the war-torn country from Iraq surfaced on social media.
The Pentagon "will not discuss details or timelines" of troop deployment, the defense official said.
The senior US official who had provided details on the raid said US troops had crossed back over the border from Iraq, where leaders said earlier this week that US troops departing from Syria could not stay.
Speaking at the White House on Sunday, Trump acknowledged that a residual presence of American troops would stay in Syria to guard the war-torn country's oil deposits.
"We're out," Trump said. "But we are leaving soldiers to secure the oil."
Found in: Idlib, Trump, Syria Conflict, Islamic State
Jack Detsch is Al-Monitor's Pentagon correspondent. Based in Washington, Detsch examines US-Middle East relations through the lens of the Defense Department. Detsch previously covered cybersecurity for Passcode, the Christian Science Monitor's project on security and privacy in the Digital Age. Detsch also served as editorial assistant at The Diplomat Magazine and worked for NPR-affiliated stations in San Francisco. On Twitter: @JackDetsch_ALM, Email: jdetsch@al-monitor.com.
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import type { IGatsbyNode } from "../redux/types"

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const referenceMap = new WeakMap<any, any>()
function memoizedProxy<T>(target: T, handler: ProxyHandler<any>): T {
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let shouldWrapNodesInProxies = !!process.env.GATSBY_DETECT_NODE_MUTATIONS
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}

export function wrapNode<T extends IGatsbyNode | undefined>(node: T): T {
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}

export function wrapNodes<T extends Array<IGatsbyNode> | undefined>(
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}

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Slightly happier looking than the coupe, the Mistral Spyder bears an uncanny resemblance to the later AC 428 – both styled by Pietro Frua. It was so close that there's some parts interchangeability between the two, a side benefit of being built in the same factory. Unusually, the Mistral was offered with either aluminium or steel body, with no discernible difference in weight. However, the survival of the former is much higher than for the latter. The final 4-litre Mistral was a genuinely quick car, though, and had a top speed of over 140mph.


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Media and Information Literacy & Quality Journalism
By India Education Diary Bureau Admin On Jun 18, 2020
Within the framework of the UNESCO – MIL Alliance (GAPMIL*) Response to COVID-19 webinar series the UNESCO-GAPMIL webinar on "Media and Information Literacy & Quality Journalism" will be held on 18 June 2020, 8 pm Tashkent time.
Among the webinar's speakers are Ms Nozima Muratova, Vice-Rector of the Journalism&Mass Communications University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent; Ms Sheila Webber, Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research at The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; Ms Alice Lee, Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong; Mr José Manuel Tornero, UNESCO Chair on MIL and Quality Journalism at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain.
Why do we need quality journalism and professional journalists, especially in times of crisis? Why do we need media and information literacy? These and other questions will be raised by experts during the discussion.
The webinar will be held on the MIL CLICKS Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/MILCLICKS/
Learn more about other webinars by following this link: https://en.unesco.org/themes/media-and-information-literacy/gapmil/covid19
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The Uniform Residential Loan Application is the standard Mortgage Application form written originally by Fannie Mae covering home purchase, new construction and refinance loans. It is used by all mortgage loan lenders and brokers across the US. It's extremely important to make sure the information you provide is as accurate as possible because this application is used by the lender to access your ability to be approved for the loan.
If you know the loan you're applying for select the box with the loan type. If you know the loan amount minus your deposit enter the $ Amount. The interest rate should will be provided by your mortgage advisor at the time of approval, so just estimate the interest rate when entering it into section 1.
Leave the legal description of subject property blank as we will pull that information for you from the title report as well as the year built.
Property will be… Make sure you disclose which of the following three options you plan to use the home for here: Primary Residence, Secondary Residence or Investment Property.
If you are wanting to apply for a construction loan this is an area that Moreira Team does not currently serve, but we would be happy to refer you to one of our major lenders.
If this is a refinance loan: Fill in the Year acquired, Original Cost, Amount of existing liens, Purpose of Refinance.
Source of down payment: This is where you will tell the lender where the amount is coming from like a savings account, 401k, or a gift from a family member.
There are two sections to fill out here one for the borrower and the other for the co-borrower most of this section is straight forward to fill in.
All related information your current employment including pre-tax income for you and your co-borrower, just make sure you choose self-employed if you are. If you are self-employed you your "taxable income" after deductions and expenses.
Fill in the information from your W2 forms from your employers and detail it out individually. Add dividends and interest from stocks and add other income with details.
Use (B) for borrower and (C) for co-borrower.
Add rent, first mortgage, equity line, hazard insurance, real estate taxes, mortgage insurance , homeowner association dues.
In the assets column you want to enter the name of the account and then enter the cash deposit amount you will put aside in escrow account when you open a home purchase account.
List checking and savings account information for all accounts with liquid assets in them in this section. Liabilities will show on the right and this can be pre-populated from your credit report, so don't worry about filling this section out. The goal here in this section is to show your total net worth.
Schedule of real estate owned. Add all related information about existing properties you currently own here, use the continuation sheet if you need to add more.
The good faith estimate will be mostly filled in for you by the mortgage advisor you might just need to add the Purchase price.
Just check off the declarations section and leave the other boxes blank as your Mortgage advisor will take care of that for you.
Electronically sign off on your document and submit to Moreira Team. Please make sure both signatures and the date are filled in.
You only need to fill out the first part of this section and the rest is done by the mortgage advisor who is required to fill in this information on your behalf just so though federal government can keep statistics on the loan applications. Its intent is to ensure that Fannie Mae fair practices are being made by the lender.
Here is the link to the online application if you are ready to apply and start the process of getting pre-approved. A licensed mortgage advisor will contact you once completed.


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Q: apt update_cache not valid for next task Take the following playbook snippet:
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...where true geeks meet, the ones with LEDs in their ears, DRAM chips in their back pockets and fingers up their noses. They usually dream of flying into the breeze of a faraway tropical island (see photographic illustration to the right). So much for their dreams. Meanwhile, burned-out 6x overclocked CPUs and oktoberfest beer cans litter the grubby and smelly basement. Wires, warped disk drive bays and translucent plastic bezels in every conceivable shade of color abound. I bet that darn cat must have peed again somewhere. Still more multicolored blinking LEDs, smoke generators and flashing neon signs obstruct the way. Hey what's this other funny odor? Let's get outta here. No, wait.. don't leave just yet!
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Credit: Dave JacksonThe public memorial scheduled for late All That Remains guitarist Oli Herbert has been canceled, according to a post on the musician's Facebook.
The service had been set for this Sunday, November 11 at the Worcester Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was also going to be live-streamed via Herbert's Facebook.
"No additional information is available at this time," the post reads.
Herbert died in October from an unspecified accident at his home. He was 44.


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var toString = require('escodegen').generate
var translate = require('./translate')
var reverse = require(stdlib.reverse)
var free = require('free-variables')
var parse = require('./parser')

module.exports = transpile

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The grass-fed beef stick. Our pride and joy. Nick's Sticks beef sticks are chock-full of sunshine and free-range living. You can positively taste the nutritiousness (or is that the deliciousness?) of our staple product. Your brain says order it for being a clean protein, dye-free, nitrate-free, hormone-free, sugar-free, antibiotic-free snack. Your tummy will keep you coming back for the pure pleasure of its beefy taste.
Ingredients: Grass-fed beef, water, Redmond Seasoned Salt (sea salt, spices [including coriander, black pepper, celery, mustard, parsley, paprika, turmeric], garlic, onion), encapsulated lactic acid, cultured celery powder (celery powder, sea salt).


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Liverpool lost yesterday from Chelsea (0-2) but I am sure most of you are aware of that. I could not help noticing a strange coincidence that took place in that match. The first goal came late in the first half (45+3′) when Gerrard slipped giving the opportunity to Demba Ba to steal the ball and score. Was it the first time the captain of Liverpool helped eccentric Mourinho celebrate? I decided to give you the answer with a video. I hope you like it!


Why is it a noxious weed? St. Johnswort spreads easily to new sites. Over-exposure to St. Johnswort can cause various animal health problems including severe skin lesions and necrosis when their skin becomes hypersensitive to sunlight.


The South Korean trawler Seo Jin No. 11 caught fire while in harbor in Montevideo, Uruguay. The fire onboard could not be contained and the vessel was towed out to the outer harbor. The Seo Jin was loaded with ammonia for the refrigeration system and fuel onboard. Reports state 38 crew evacuated with 1 crewman lost.


This cat does not look so happy! If he could, he looks like he would like to point that remote control at his owner and turn him off! There are times I am unhappy as well, usually because someone else has the remote in their possession and is controlling the television. My tastes in programming are usually different than those of my husband, but whoever has it, has the control.
Our verse for today encourages peace. What we do to achieve it depends not on the other person but on one's self. As much as we would like to control the behavior and words of others, we cannot. We can however, control how we react when provoked. As much as it depends on us, we are to choose the response that keeps the peace.
There is a lot that can depend on me in keeping the peace. I am responsible for how I react. A gentle answer can turn away wrath (Prov. 15:1). Kindness, compassion, and forgiveness can diffuse a volatile situation and soften another's heart. (Eph. 4:32) No, I cannot control someone else, but with the help of God's Spirit, I can respond in a way that makes peace possible.
This verse is so realistic when it says,"if it is possible." When only one of two disputing people are interested in peace, it is not likely to happen (4:32). But having done all that depends on me, I can pray and trust God to work. Perhaps one day there will be peace. In an impossible situation, I have a God who does the impossible!
Thank you Lord, that Your Spirit can help me live peacefully.
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Q: What does "system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit" mean? Android version: JellyBean (4.3)
We recently hit the above mentioned error message Empty Process Limit hit thrown by the ActivityManager.  A search on Google with this string didn't result in any answer and/or explanation.
I also had a look into the AOSP source tree through AndroidXref, hoping I was going to find at least the place where this string would be printed.  Couldn't find anything related though.
It also seems to be repeated every 5 seconds (accidentally also the time-out for ANR's, a coincidence???), as can be seen in the output snippet below:
03-29 11:41:07.041 1471-1674/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:07.054 1471-1674/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:11.541 1471-1471/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:11.566 1471-1471/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:16.613 1471-1674/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:16.637 1471-1674/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:21.518 1471-1674/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:21.545 1471-1674/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:27.082 1471-1674/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:27.099 1471-1873/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:31.495 1471-1471/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:31.515 1471-1471/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:36.140 1471-1471/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit
03-29 11:41:36.164 1471-1471/system_process E/ActivityManager: Empty Process Limit hit

Next to this, we don't see it from the very beginning of the app start-up, but rather after a while (couple of minutes).
Question: what does this mean?