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Obama To 23 Million Struggling Americans: 'The Private Sector Is Doing Fine'
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Romney: "Is he really that out of touch?"
It didn't take long for Mitt Romney to hit the hanging curve Barack Obama threw earlier today in his press conference. Speaking in Iowa, a key swing state in the election, Romney asked whether any American President has been more out of touch with economic reality…
Read the complete article at HotAir.com
Later that same day, Obama: Let me be clear, the economy's not doing fine
…You know it's a five-alarm fire when the damage control can't wait two days for Axelrod's obligatory dreary appearance on the Sunday shows. Status of America's pain: Felt.
"It's absolutely clear the economy is not doing fine," the president said while sitting alongside Philippines President Benigno Aquino in the Oval Office. "That's the reason I had a press conference. That's why I spent yesterday, the day before yesterday, this past week, this past month and this past year talking about how we can make the economy stronger. The economy is not doing fine. There are too many people out of work. The housing market is still weak, too many homes underwater and that's precisely why I asked Congress to start taking some steps that can make a difference."…
…Republicans nationwide are dutifully rubbing his face in his mess this afternoon, first and foremost among them the man of the hour in Wisconsin, but here's my favorite reaction. Remember how Team O made McCain choke in 2008 when he said the "fundamentals" of the economy were strong? Well, it's payback time:
[F]ormer McCain aides, now, are relishing the moment.
"McCain was trying to calm people at a moment of real crisis — i think his intentions were good," one former top aide said in an email. "Obama's just trying to build support for raising taxes and make the case for his own stewardship."
Another former McCain aide was blunter.
"We very much look forward watching Team Romney put Obama's head in a vice over this," he emailed "What goes around comes around, assholes."
Words to live by, my friends….
The entire article, with video, is at HotAir.com
When hashtags collide: Taking Obama to task over headwinds, claim that private sector is 'doing just fine'
…Yep. Worse, people understand that he didn't misspeak; he actually meant that. To Obama, government jobs are all that matter. The State should control all. Representative Ellison said as much last week; the most disappointing jobs numbers to him were cuts in government jobs…
Related: White House on Cory Booker: "He's dead to us."
A few weeks ago, Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) went on TV and expressed his opinion about the Obama campaign's attacks on Bain Capital…
…And here's what he gets for being honest…
…"He's dead to us," one ranking administration official said of the prevailing feelings at the White House and Obama headquarters in Chicago…
Booker's big mouth ruins relationship with Obama, Cabinet hopes
Democrat Lanny Davis: "You have Vicious People who are Working for the President. . . There is a very Serious Problem Within the Obama Campaign" – Audio 6/8/12
"You have vicious people who are working for the president — not the president — who are saying that Corey Booker, one of the great supporters of President Obama's policies, is 'dead' because he's giving the president good advice, disagreeing with the Kool-Aid drinking people in the campaign who think the way to win the presidency is to trash the other guy rather than to defend your own guy's record. . ."
"There is a very serious problem within the Obama Campaign. . ."
Update: The "devil" campaigns for Barack Obama
That Wintour pitch, coming in the middle of tough economic times, seems to have the same feel as Marie Antoinette offering a couple of peasants a chance to hang out with King Louis XVI and the aristocrats just as the Bastille was being stormed.
The most amazing thing about this Wintour video was it was actually released to the public by the Obama campaign itself.
Update 2: A killer rabbit of a killer quote and The source of Obama's "killer rabbit of a killer quote"
…In my view, Obama was driven to his unfortunate remark by frustration with the private sector for "sitting on its money." Since the president always thinks it's about him, I imagine that he takes it personally that businesses are hoarding their money, rather than expanding rapidly, as he wishes he could direct them to do. Since he naturally takes an adversarial view of the private sector, he must feel it is out to get him…
Update 3: Video: Axelrod dodges CNN question on "private sector doing fine" … three times; Update: "Fine?"
June 9th, 2012 | Tags: #doingjustfine, #headwinds, Anna Wintour, Bain Capital, cultural elite, David Axelrod, government jobs, hashtags, Lanny Davis, liberal elitism, Mitt Romney, private sector, public sector, Rep. Keith Ellison, Twitter | Category: Barack Obama, Economy, federal employees (civilian), Glenn Beck, Politics, Progressives, unemployment, Video


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### Configuration

Services (config/services.php)
```php
$di = new \Phalcon\DI\FactoryDefault();

new \PhalconRest\ServiceProvider($di);
```

Router (config/routes.php)
```php
$router = new \Phalcon\Mvc\Router(false);
$router->removeExtraSlashes(true);
$router->setDefaultNamespace('Controllers');

$rest = new \PhalconRest\Mvc\Router\RestGroup();
$rest->setNamespace('Controllers\Api')
    ->setPrefix('api/')
    ->setIdFilter('[0-9]+')
    ->initDefault();

$router->mount($rest);

return $router;
```

### Controller

ExampleController.php
```php
<?php

namespace Controllers\Api;

class OrdersController extends \PhalconRest\Mvc\ControllerBase {

	public function initialize() {
		$this->rest->setViewsDir('api/');
	}

	public function indexAction() {
		$this->view->total = Order::count();
		$this->view->orders = Order::find();
	}

	public function getAction() {
		$order_id = $this->dispatcher->getParam('id');
		$order = Order::findFirst($order_id);
		if (!$order) {
			throw new \PhalconRest\Exception\NotFound();
		}

		$this->rest->order = $order;
		$this->rest->pick('orders/_item');
	}
}

```

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Workflow Analysis – Our consultant, Lucy Gray, urged us to begin the staff development process by focusing on "workflow". Lucy and administrators held conversations with members of every academic department, discussing how the new tools could accomplish and improve the way they conducted their classes on a daily basis– assigning, collecting, and evaluating student work for instance.
Unboxing– We had a special "unboxing" basic training event for the staff when they received their iPads.
Super Tuesdays– Our own advanced teachers conducted voluntary after school workshops on key apps like Dropbox, Evernote, and iAnnotate PDF. These were extremely well attended.
"Ten Things" – We wrote learning modules for ten activities that would serve as milestones for staff technical competency. The activities were required and included using Google Cals, Evernote, iMovie, Moodle, iPhoto, Dropbox and Explain Everything.
In order to support the quest for the "Ten things", we hosted several drop-in "labs" during the summer. These were staffed by volunteers, whose only reward was a free lunch. The turn-out was terrific. and by summer's end some of the learners had become trainers.
Our ten new staff members attended three summer mornings of "boot camp", specifically designed to raise the technology bar high for our newbies and to give them a head start on the iPad.
For a full day of August in-service we flew in Cheryl Davis from California to give us a keynote address on "retrofitting the Classroom for the iPad." She, Lucy Gray and some of our in-house technology exemplars conducted workshops through the day.
All ninth graders were required this year to take a course called Design Foundations. Much of their time is spent in our new Mac Lab learning how to use photoshop, design web pages and edit using FinalCut Pro X. Next year we will be offering a Set Design course and a video editing course which have been made possible by this introductory curriculum. We will also have a second Mac lab next year. The entire staff was given a presentation on Design Foundations. The Curriculum Council is exploring ways for courses of all disciplines to reinforce the skills learned in our new course.
Our focus on training has shifted to utilizing student expertise. We have identified, trained and branded a group of iPad users named iWizards. They will assist in tutoring all members of our community in iPad skills.
The iWizards will soom be spending a full day together with Lucy Gray at their elbows, creating the Curriculum for this year's Ninth Grade Tech Orientation. They will create multimedia tutorials to support their presentations on topics like Dropbox, iPhoto, Pages, and iAnnotate PDF. You will be reading more about this activity on these pages after March 4.
The staff have not even had their iPads for a year, but it is not too early to plan more professional development with them. Before long we will return to where we started, surveying them to discover what they need to rock their classes with the iPad and Google Apps for Education. After all, for all the great technology, the teachers remain the key to great instruction.


I'm trying to understand the inherent tradeoff between roles and permissions when it comes to access control (authorization).
Let's start with a given: in our system, a Permission will be a fine-grained unit of access ("Edit resource X", "Access the dashboard page", etc.). A Role will be a collection of 1+ Permissions. A User can have 1+ Roles. All these relationships (Users, Roles, Permissions) are all stored in a database and can be changed on the fly and as needed.
(2) In this scenario what useful value do Roles even provide? Couldn't we just assign 1+ Permissions to Users directly? What concrete value of abstraction do Roles offer (can someone give specific examples)?
(1) What is so "bad" about checking Roles for access control? What benefits are gained by checking for permissions instead?
At the moment of checking, the calling code only needs to know "does user X have permission to perform action Y?".
The calling code does not care about and should not be aware of relationships between roles and permissions.
The authorization layer will then check if the user has this permission, typically by checking if the user's role has this permission. This allows you to change authorization logic without updating the calling code.
If you directly check for role at the call site, you are implicitly forming role ⇄ permission relationships and injecting authorization logic into the calling code, violating separation of concerns.
Should you later decide that role foo should not have permission baz, you would have to change every code which checks if the user is a foo.
Roles conceptually represent a named collection of permissions.
Let's say you are adding a new feature which allows a user to edit certain settings. This feature should be available to administrators only.
If you are storing permissions per user, you would have to find all users in your database which you somehow know are administrators (If you're not storing role information for users, how would you even know which users are administrators?), and append this permission to their list of permissions.
If you use roles, you only have to append the permission to the Administrator role, which is both easier to perform, more space efficient, and is less prone to mistakes.
The more common or widely held a permission is, the more user roles you would need to check to ensure that someone is able to access a given system. This would also lead to the issue that every time you modify permissions for a role, you would need to modify the check to reflect this. In a large system this would become very unwieldy very quickly.
If you simply check that the user has the permission that allows them access to the developer portal for example, it doesn't matter what role they hold, they will be granted access.
To answer your second question, the reason you have roles is because they act as easy to modify and distribute "packages" of permissions. If you are have a system that has hundreds of roles and thousands of permissions, adding a new user (for example a new HR manager) would require you to go through and give them every single permission that other HR managers hold. Not only would this be tedious, but it is prone to mistakes if done manually. Compare this to simply adding the "HR manager" role to a user's profile, which will grant them the same access as every other user with that role.
You could argue that you could simply clone an existing user (if your system supported this), but while this does grant the user the correct permissions for that moment in time, attempting to add or remove a permission for all users in the future may be difficult. An example scenario for this is if maybe in the past the HR staff were also in charge of payroll, but later on the company gets large enough to hire staff specifically to handle payroll. This means that HR no longer need to access the payroll system, so that permission can be removed. If you have 10 different members of HR, you'll need to manually go through and make sure you remove the correct permission which introduces the possibility for user error. The other issue with this is that it simply doesn't scale; as you gain more and more users in a given role it makes modification of a role much more difficult. Compare this to using roles, where you would only need to modify the overarching role in question to remove the permission, which would be reflected by every user that holds that role.
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Address Violence Against Women and Girls Now!
October 11, 2016 10:54 am | Published by Cedovip
Violence against women and girls is perhaps the most widely spread and socially tolerated form of human rights abuse in Uganda and around the world. It includes domestic and sexual violence, forced and early marriages, bride price-related violence, widow inheritance, and female genital mutilation. However, in many communities in Uganda, when a man beats his wife, neighbors and close family members often ignore the situation because they consider it a private matter. Others see it as a sign that the man cares about his wife.
Violence against women and girls results from a complex interplay of individual, family, communal, and societal factors. In today's hierarchy of social power, men hold a higher status. Husbands, male partners, and even male relatives use violence as a way of imposing their will over women. Much of the violence is justified by, and perpetuated as, "tradition" or "culture." Children observe and internalize these behaviors, learning that violence is an acceptable means of getting their way, thereby perpetuating an intergenerational cycle of violence.
In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, and in Uganda in particular, customary practices rule the day and subject many women and girls to discriminatory conventions in their daily lives. For many Ugandans, laws, including those targeting violence against women and girls, do not have any practical impact. The issues that increase women's vulnerability to violence are most often the same as those governed by customary law: marriage and divorce, inheritance, child custody, or family disputes. Rarely does customary law, which is often based on patriarchal values, act in women's best interest. While statutory law protects women from discrimination, including violence from their partners, it is not enforced. Women are unaware of, and therefore are unable to use, the provisions of the law to claim their rights.
In addition to customary law, poverty also creates the conditions for violence against women and girls. Poverty is widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, with the majority of the population living in rural areas. Violence keeps women in poverty and poverty keeps women exposed to violence. Various studies indicate a strong link between a household's socio-economic status and risk for gender-based violence. The unequal power relations between men and women also leads to women's lack of access to land and other income-raising resources.
Women who have experienced violence are up to three times more likely to be infected with HIV; figures from 2006 indicate that women comprise 59 percent of those living with the disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Women who attempt to negotiate safe sex practices are vulnerable to violence. Those women are more likely to be subjected to violence when they disclose their HIV-positive status.
Despite the violence that women and girls experience, they contribute in important ways to the well-being of their countries and families. In rapidly changing economies in Africa, women fill key gaps in employment. Women find ways to earn and increase their income, secure health care for all family members, and provide education for children. The new roles that women and adolescent girls are taking on represent an opportunity for transformative shift toward gender equality.
The field of preventing violence against women and girls is rapidly growing and providing opportunities for addressing a widely tolerated injustice. Programming organizations are working closely with researchers to establish the most effective interventions. Some available evidence indicates that interventions to address these types of violence have to be designed at multiple levels in order to challenge the underlying beliefs that define the range of acceptable male and female behavior while breaking the acceptance of violence against women and girls in public and private life. Undermining the legitimacy of this violence can pave the way for informal sanctions against men who abuse their partners. Interventions that have shown promising practices include the following:
Gender transformative programming effects changes in the attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and practices of men and helps break social acceptance of violence against women. One such program is SASA!, implemented by the Center for Domestic Violence Prevention in Uganda. The SASA! Activist Kit for Preventing Violence against Women and HIV is a community mobilization intervention that seeks to change community attitudes, norms, and behaviors that result in gender inequality, violence, and increased HIV vulnerability for women. SASA! is an acronym for the phases of the program: Start, Awareness, Support, and Action. In the Start phase, community activists and staff from institutions like the police and health facilities are trained in issues of violence, power, and rights. These leaders then carry out the next three phases of the program through informal activities in their local networks using four strategies: local activism, media and advocacy, community materials, and training. All activities and materials focus on critically analyzing power inequalities and encouraging positive behavior change.
Women's economic empowerment programs need to integrate participatory training on understanding gender, HIV, domestic violence, and sexuality to the activities of an existing group lending and savings scheme. Key programs include Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS and Gender Equity (IMAGE ) in South Africa.
Social norms marketing and edu-tainment efforts include the creative use of media and entertainment culture together with strategies to encourage dialogue to reinforce social change messages at a community level. Key programs include Sexto Sentido/Puntos de Encuentro in Nicaragua, Soul City in South Africa, and Breakthrough in India.
Interventions to address alcohol abuse integrate programming related to harmful alcohol use into ongoing work on men's sexual and reproductive health. Key programs include Rishta Project in India.
The U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals, which came into effect this past January, recognize that gender equality and women's empowerment are prerequisites for development. The main targets for the fifth SDG—gender equality—are to end all forms of discrimination against women and girls everywhere as well as to eliminate all forms of violence against, and exploitation of, women and girls in the public and private spheres. Successful programming should involve multi-pronged community interventions that aim to shift norms around the acceptability of men's use of violence toward women, challenge gender roles that grant men power over women, reduce harmful drinking, and, most importantly, work with both men and women, as well as girls and boys, to encourage new models of equitable relationships and more flexible gender roles. Given the urgency of the issue and the possibilities we have, the time to act is now!

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I was drawn to the original picture of this model because of her eyes and the intensity of her expression looking into the camera. I knew I had to take this shot into Photoshop and see what I could do.
The result has a robotic 'fembot' like quality to it that I found worked well with the pose. I paid close attention to enhance details of the iris while retaining the purity of the sclera.


Even though I know how the technology works, the following experience was still amazing and, should I say, so sweet. I had just returned from a morning meeting and had just half an hour to eat something before my next meeting. Normally, I would just go to the restaurant and order something, but today I was running really late. So I decided to order a take out, but I didn't have the phone number of the eating place.
Now, I had previously seen a feature in Google Maps where you could see the businesses operating within a region. So I pulled up maps.google.com and typed in my zip code and the word "restaurant". The place I was looking for came up on the map (among other places). There was a phone number and next to that was a simple link "call". When I click it, it asks me for my phone number which I type in and press a button "Connect for free". The next thing I know, my cell phone is ringing and I am talking to the order person at the restaurant.
That is the kind of user experience that really blows you away. What also struck me is how different the paradigm is from the typical Yellow Pages. In fact, what I was doing was the web equivalent of searching the Yellow Pages, but Google Maps presented a completely different interface that presented a more intuitive way of getting things done.
It is only circumstance that I want to have a takeout, but I might have been just looking to actually go to the place and eat there. The map interface with directions would allow me to calculate how much time I would have to reach the place and also to get to the next place I wanted to. In addition, there are links to see more details about the restaurant and, of course, to get to their web page.
A lesson here is that sometimes users may actually like your web application for some throwaway feature that you put in there, instead of the main purpose your application was built for.


Alma Whittaker, daughter of thief turned wealthy botanist Henry Whittaker, grew up in a household where she was free to explore her scientific interests despite living in a time where women were not considered to be intelligent enough for such pursuits. This book takes the reader through the establishment of the Whittaker fortune, Alma's development into a world reknowned botanist in her own right, and then explores her romantic and philosophical explorations.
This book began with such promise. I found the historical and botanical aspect of the story to be interesting and engaging. The character of Alma was well developed, to the detriment of the other characters.
My opinion of the book changed dramatically in the last half. The tone changed and the plot became more spiritual and lacked focus. There was a sense of author detachment and disengagement. I missed the book I began with.


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Traveling war memorial stops in Tampa this week
Jenny Dean | WTSP
TAMPA, Fla. — As the home of U.S. Central Command, Tampa has a rich history with the military.
It's one of the reasons why the city is a perfect place to remember our fallen service members.
A traveling memorial will give everyone a chance this week to honor so many who have served our country in the Global War on Terror.
It will be set up at MacDill Park on the Riverwalk, a small park with a big meaning. It honors the contributions that MacDill Air Force Base has made to the community. It's also home to a beautiful memorial honoring Gold Star Families.
The new, temporary exhibit is called "Remembering Our Fallen." It's a photographic war memorial honoring those who have been killed in the War on Terror. It's unique because it allows you to put a face with a name and truly understand the sacrifice they have made.
The exhibit is especially important to Gold Star Families. Craig Gross lost his son Corporal Frank Gross in July 2011. He was killed in an IED attack in Afghanistan. Corporal Gross' picture is part of the exhibit.
"There's a saying that a soldier will die twice. The first time when they're killed in action and then the second time when people quit mentioning their names and forget their sacrifice. So this is very, very important," Gross said.
Ben Eason is with CRISP Tampa, which helped bring the memorial to Tampa.
"There's photographs of like 5,000 people who have given their lives since 9/11 so it's really impactful. It goes from 2001 to summer 2021 when they put it together," Eason said.
The "Remembering Our Fallen War Memorial" will also feature Tribute Towers to recognize servicemen and women who died from training accidents or attacks while stationed stateside or on overseas bases. Those who return from war with invisible wounds or post-traumatic stress will also be included in the towers.
The exhibit goes up Wednesday morning at Macdill Park on the Riverwalk at 100 N. Ashley Drive.
It should be set up by noon Wednesday and stand all week long through Sunday. You'll be able to check it out from morning until dusk.


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Q: How to use text-shadow in GTK+? I'm trying to add some glowing to the titlebar of the active window using text-shadow, but it simply doesn't work. However, I can change the colours and padding:
.header-bar.default-decoration {
    padding: 2px; /* Works fine */
}
.header-bar.default-decoration:active {
    text-shadow: 1px 1px 5px #FFF; /* Doesn't work */
}

It works if I just put it directly, without pseudo-classes, but that sets all windows, not the active one only.
I tried using :hover too, but it also didn't work. It seems that properties like box-shadow or text-shadow don't work within pseudo-classes. How can I make that glowing happen?

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UDUS Medical Student, UNIBEN Undergraduate Arrested For Impersonation During UTME
It has come to our notice that a lady was caught at the Rainbow Digital Tech centre, one of the centres for the examination in Kano, trying to impersonate by way of trying to sit for the examination for a candidate.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it arrested a third year medical student and another undergraduate for attempting to write the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for candidates.
Fabian Benjamin, the board's Head of Media and Information, disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Friday in Lagos.
The 2019 UTME commenced on April 11 in 678 centres across the country.
According to Benjamin, in spite of the measures put in place to curb impersonation and other forms of examination malpractice, desperate individuals still attempted to commit the offence.
He said: "It has come to our notice that a lady was caught at the Rainbow Digital Tech centre, one of the centres for the examination in Kano, trying to impersonate by way of trying to sit for the examination for a candidate.
"On interrogation, it was discovered that the said lady is a medical student at Usman Dan Fodio University, Sokoto.
"Another case of impersonation was also reported in Benin,"
According to him, the second suspect is an undergraduate of the University of Benin.
"We will like to state in clear terms that the board has zero tolerance for such an offence and related crimes aimed at undermining the integrity of its examination and its processes. We have been briefed about these developments; at the appropriate time, they will face the full wrath of the law," he said.
Benjamin claimed that JAMB so far has recorded much success in the conduct of the examination.
However, he accepted that a few cases of technical hitches in some of centres had been recorded.
His words: "I must say that we have recorded a huge success so far in the conduct of the examination. Having said that, I will also like to mention that some centres have, however, fallen short of the standards of the board in terms of facilities and other logistics.
"The board is doing everything possible to ensure that candidates in such centres are not short-changed by any means.
"They should not panic as they will be relocated to new centres by the board in due course. The board will relocate them to new centres for the examination, with new dates."
He urged the affected candidates to stay abreast of happenings by checking their profiles from time to time for the new centres and dates for their examination.
He expressed displeasure at the unpleasant development and assured the candidates that the owners of such centres would be sanctioned.
"The board is not happy with this development as it has been discovered that most of such centres are mainly those situated in secondary schools, with their owners claiming to have perfect facilities on ground before the commencement of the examination. Others involved themselves in one infraction or the other. We are not going to take these issues lightly with defaulting centres and their owners. At the appropriate time, they will be sanctioned," Benjamin added.
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It is so important to think positively and to see the positives in every situation, no matter how negative things may appear at the time. This workshop provides an insight into the benefits of achieving mental toughness and a positive mental attitude and what power these can bring to us all when practiced over time.
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Many stress related problems can be made worse by low self-esteem. When you are down and depressed, any issue, no matter how big or small, can have a negative effect on the way you feel.
Having low self-esteem generally means that you have negative thoughts about the outcome of a particular situation, event or about yourself. Thinking "I can't do this" is not the same as thinking "How can I do this?" It's the classic "can't do/won't do" Vs "can do/will do" scenario.
Start your day with some positive affirmations. Talk to yourself internally or in front of a mirror, Use positive statements such as "Today is going to be a good day" or "I'm going to achieve my goals today." As a result, you will be pleasantly surprised how much your day improves.
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We are talking about the present, the here and now. Only this exact moment in time. Mindfulness is very powerful, so focus on this one, individual moment right now. In most situations, you'll find it's not as bad as you imagine it to be. Most thoughts of negativity stem from a trigger of a recent event or the exaggerated imagination (disasterising) of a potential future event. Always stay in the present moment, don't dwell on the past or look into the future for problems.
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Elisabeth is the sister of a brother widely known within international business circles. When her brother met the Chinese president, she was sitting in my office, encouraging me to do hypnotherapy.
Elisabeth was put in to deeper trance. Her eyes went through the light REM-phase and she seemed to disappear.
Elisabeth continued to talk, almost like she was on holiday, reporting about her new discoveries.
"These Masters are standing on these discs above the pyramids. They return in a silver ship. It feels almost natural. They seemed to be pleased about what they have accomplished…I felt that the secret about the origin of our planet is buried within the pyramids. I saw two sphinxes. One with a giant human head. I couldn't see the other one clearly", she said.
"Oh, I knew this all the time", she said suddenly.
After what seemed to be an eternity, she continued.
"They tell me that I am their Observer. I was meant to come and see you. That is actually what they are telling me", she said.
"It was decided", she said.
I felt I had to distract her and I continued.
"93…this is my 93 and I will have two more. You will have the same", she said without hesitation.
The truth is that this session happened 2002. Two years later she wrote to me in England and told me that her lovely dog had died. She also told me about a close friend that came to see her, and within 6 weeks he was dead due to rapidly developed liver cancer. Elisabeth knew and believed this was coming and due to that she was strong enough to really enjoy the time before her dog and friend had left. She was never in doubt of whether this was true.


Can free markets solve the food crisis?
In a remarkable turn of events, earlier prospects for more comfortable supply situations and stable prices gave way to increasingly worrisome outlooks and to an escalation of international prices to levels not seen in decades…Given the sharp run down on inventories and only modest overall global production increases for the majority of crops, world prices are likely to remain high and volatile.
That's bad news for everybody – the poor who spend so much of their meager incomes on basics, the unemployed in the developed world struggling to make ends meet, and central bankers desperately fighting inflation. It's also another reason why we should worry about the entire global recovery, which already appears to be losing some momentum. Higher food prices mean consumers have less money to spend on other stuff, and that leads to reduced demand and growth.
You'll often hear criticism that free markets are a cause of today's high food prices. The notion here is that prices are driven up by speculators looking to make a quick buck with all that cash sloshing around the world from easy-money policies in the U.S. and Europe, like the Fed's QE2. The trading of food staples on international exchanges sometimes feels even immoral. How can we trust profit-greedy financial markets to deliver food to the world at prices everyone can afford?
But if you talk to agriculture experts and commodity analysts, most of them will tell you that the role of speculation in high food prices is overstated. The problem isn't the free trading of food, but, in fact, that free markets aren't working efficiently enough.
What do I mean? First, lots of food that is actually produced out in the fields never makes it to markets, at least not in any condition to be eaten. That's because in some developing countries the physical elements of a functioning market – usable roads, efficient transportation and storage facilities – simply haven't received sufficient investment. Secondly, politicians often make matters much worse by attempting to restrict markets when they get nervous about supply. Export bans — on rice during the 2008 food-price spike, for example, or on wheat during the most recent crisis — restrict supply and create uncertainty, driving prices higher.
Then there's the information problem. Farmers in poor countries often don't have real-time access to reliable information on prices and forecasts, so, for example, they can't so easily respond to higher prices or make sound investment decisions. That's why Internet access for the rural poor is so important. The feeble quality of information extends to the entire global food market. I was a bit shocked when I began reporting on agricultural markets that statistics on the amount of food being produced and the level of reserves on a global level are not reliable. Many commodity experts use figures from the USDA, but even those are considered somewhat suspect. That leaves government officials and commodity traders guessing about the true amount of wheat, corn, rice and other staples is actually out there for sale. And that uncertainty leads to panicky purchases of grain, driving prices skyward. No one, after all, wants his country to be left short of affordable food.
On that problem we're seeing some progress, and from an unlikely source. The G20 is actually doing something productive and launching an initiative to create a system to more comprehensively collect and collate information on global supply and reserves of grain staples. It could be in place by the end of the year and would probably help reduce price volatility in agricultural markets.
Such improvements will help free markets do what free markets do best – meet demand. High prices combined with more efficient markets will induce more farmers to invest in more production, and more investors to put their money into agriculture. That, in the end, is really the only way to solve the food crisis.


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Leopoldina member Reinhard Genzel receives Nobel Prize in Physics
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The astrophysicist and Leopoldina member Reinhard Genzel is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. Genzel receives this distinction together with US-American astronomer Andrea Ghez for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Both scientists are jointly awarded one half of this year's Nobel Prize in Physics. The other half is given to the British mathematician and physicist Roger Penrose for the discovery that black hole formation is a robust prediction of the general theory of relativity.
The President of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina Gerald Haug extends his congratulations to Reinhard Genzel on this prestigious award: "With this year's Nobel Prize, groundbreaking research results in the field of experimental astrophysics are recognized. We are particularly pleased that a Leopoldina member is being honored for his pioneering scientific discoveries, which shows that the Harnack Principle of the Max Planck Society is still valid".
Reinhard Genzel is considered one of the world's leading researchers in the field of infrared and submillimeter astronomy. His interests include the formation, evolution, and nuclei of galaxies, as well as the formation and evolution of black holes and stars. To study the structure and dynamics of such objects, Genzel and his colleagues have developed a number of new observation techniques and instruments in the field of infrared, submillimeter, and millimeter astronomy. For example, through 20 years of award-winning observations, Genzel was able to prove that there is a black hole of 4.3 million solar masses at the center of our Milky Way. He thus succeeded in providing the most substantial empirical evidence to date for the existence of black holes, which had been postulated by Albert Einstein at the beginning of the 20th century as part of the general theory of relativity. Reinhard Genzel has been a member of the physics section of the Leopoldina since 2002.
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The news is now public: Myriad is acquiring Counsyl, with the transaction expected to close at the end of July.
We have always respected and admired Myriad's dedication to patient care and quality. And we share common values on improving clinical decisions — not just technology for its own sake.
We are completely focused on decisions in women's health, while Myriad has a broader focus, with tests spanning Urology, Rheumatology, Dermatology, Oncology, Neuroscience and more.
Myriad has led the way in receiving premium reimbursement across a broad array of medical services, so there is much to learn from Myriad's approach in medical affairs, health economics, and its approach to working with insurers.
I really think of Counsyl and Myriad as complementary companies. Myriad has generated specific novel content and done biomarker discovery. Counsyl has been more of a platform company: delivering value to OBGYN's and their patients by making high-stakes tests clean and easy to implement in a busy OBGYN practice.
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EPA Chief: 'Holding Ourselves To A Higher Standard'
Boaters can go back to the Animas River. The Environmental Protection Agency is cleaning up political, as well as environmental damage, after this month's toxic spill at the Gold King Mine in Colorado. An EPA contractor accidently released heavy metals into the Animas River during work to stop toxins from leaching out of the mine, which was shut decades ago. That spill turned the river into an unnatural yellow-orange ribbon that ran through the landscape. Gina McCarthy is administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, and she joins us now. Administrator McCarthy, thanks very much for being with us.
GINA MCCARTHY: It's great to be here, Scott. Thanks for the invitation.
SIMON: And has that flow of toxins downstream been stopped?
MCCARTHY: Well, actually the plume has been moving down, and it's dissipated. And now the challenge for us is to make sure that we take a look at water quality, see what kind of users can return and then stay there for a while, while we look to make sure that the entire river is cleaned up from any damage associated with the spill. EPA has to take full responsibility, both today and in the future, for this.
SIMON: Do you know yet what and how this happened?
MCCARTHY: Not in detail, Scott, but, I mean, the important thing to remember is EPA was out there taking a look at assessing this mine because we knew that there was contamination from the mining areas entering into these rivers, and it had been going on for decades. But the important thing to remember is that these mining operations do leave wastewater behind, and three million gallons of it is what was released. And we feel terrible about that as the agency that's really working to make sure that this type of contamination doesn't happen. But there is a legacy issue here that we all have to turn our attention to.
SIMON: The legacy issue being - what? - thousands of mines - aren't there? - throughout the West.
MCCARTHY: Thousands of mines are there, yes. This is not by any means a situation that we're going to resolve just to take care of this three million gallon spill. This is thousands of mines in Colorado alone. And there is a need to throw some significant resources to this issue if we expect to get our arms around it and not see anything like this ever happen again.
SIMON: Why did it, according to the reports, take 24 hours for local officials to be informed?
MCCARTHY: Well, I think many were informed, but there is clearly a need for us to do a re-look at whether or not we told everybody we needed to tell in the most expeditious way. We took, I think, our lumps in the beginning for not notifying as quickly as we could, but we certainly took action. And we started our sampling quickly so that we could provide information quickly about when that plume had moved forward and whether or not the water quality was getting better. And the good news is that it is. Now, this is a horrible place for the agency that - whose mission it is to protect public health and the environment, who was solely out there to take a look at this wastewater. And I think folks might have been caught off guard, and we'll just look at it and make sure that we notify more quickly in the future.
SIMON: Governor Martinez of New Mexico asked a question that I want to put to you. Imagine what would happen if a private company caused this waste spill.
MCCARTHY: Yeah, I mean, we would certainly be on them, but I think Governor Martinez knows - and I frankly just got off the phone with her about 20 minutes ago (laughter) - she knows that this is a difficult position for EPA to be in. But I assured her and others that we are holding ourselves to a higher standard than we would hold other responsible parties.
SIMON: I understand the determination as to how and what happened has to be made after considerable investigation in the future, but can you see where a local community would now be concerned if a contractor showed up and said, we're here to clear up that mine site; don't worry, we're from the EPA?
MCCARTHY: (Laughter) I sure can see that EPA has lost some steps here. But let me be clear on a few things, Scott - is we've been doing work in these mines for decades. This is the most unusual circumstance that anyone will see, is EPA in this position. And in the meantime, until we find out exactly what happened here, I have also taken the step of making sure that we take a step back. We stop these mining assessments and cleanup until we're sure that they are not similarly situated for a potential problem, and we work through these issues together.
SIMON: Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Thanks so much for being with us.
MCCARTHY: Thank you, Scott. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


Our journey through OB so far has led us through examples and research related to individuals and groups. The final five chapters of the textbook examine OB at the organizational and interorganizational level. In this chapter, we describe basic elements of organizational culture and structure.
Ricardo Semler was 21 years old when he took over his father's company, Semco, a firm that employed about 100 people and generated $4 million in annual revenues by producing marine pumps for Brazil's shipping industry. The company was managed in a traditional manner and had well-developed operating standards, formal rules, and detailed job descriptions that indicated the training and experience required for each position. It also had a fairly centralized authority structure and an established departmental structure. In short, Semco's structures and systems were developed fully enough for the father to hand over the reins of power to his youthful son.
I can honestly say that our growth, profit, and the number of people we employ are secondary concerns.


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India's COVID-19 count crosses 1-crore mark
Written by Epilogue on 19th December 2020
According to the Union Health Ministry, the total numbers of recovered and active cases in the country are 95,50,712 and 3,08,751 respectively. Meanwhile, the country's death toll stands at 1,45,136.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on Saturday stated that 16,00,90,514 samples have been tested up to December 18. As many as 11,71,868 samples were tested on Friday.
The health ministry said that India's COVID recoveries have witnessed a steep exponential rise – from 50,000 in May to over 95 lakh in December. The recoveries are more than 30 times the active cases (currently only 3.14 per cent of total cases).
This has resulted in "very high" recovery rate of more than 95 per cent, one of the highest globally. This is fuelled by 34 States and UTs reporting more than 90 per cent recovery rate.
The health ministry said that the central government's calibrated strategies through a "whole of government" approach have sharply focussed on high Recovery Rate and low Fatality Rate on a sustained basis.
Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday had said that health requires a holistic approach, we need to focus as much on prevention as we do on diagnosis and treatment.
"The government through its various programs is improving social determinants of health like sanitation, proper housing and providing clean cooking fuel which will aid in ending Tuberculosis," said Harsh Vardhan.
COVID-19 count crosses 1-crore mark


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Saxophonist Branford Marsalis is one of the most influential and revered figures in contemporary music. The NEA Jazz Master, Grammy Award-winner and Tony Award nominee is equally at home performing concertos with symphony orchestras and sitting in with members of the Grateful Dead, but the core of his musical universe remains the Branford Marsalis Quartet. After more than three decades of existence with minimal personnel changes, this celebrated ensemble is revered for its uncompromising interpretation of a kaleidoscopic range of both original compositions and jazz and popular classics. After the Grammy‐nominated Upward Spiral, on which guest vocalist Kurt Elling was seamlessly integrated into the group, the Quartet has followed up with the Grammy‐nominated The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul, its most emotionally wide‐ranging and melody driven collection to date. John Zeugner captured the impact of the Quartet in live performance in a recent concert review, calling it "casually confident, professional, cerebral, and supercharged with energy. The Branford Marsalis Quartet…was all of those adjectives and more."
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The invasion of the German army to Poland on September of 1939 was received with great concern and worries in Tomaszow Lubelski, although none foresaw that in six days the war will knock on their door.
On Thursday the 6th of Spetember, 1939, German bomber jets burst out over the skies of town and dropped bombs upon its homes. The Jewish neighborhoods were badly damaged, a big fire broke out, and many homes burned down, including the big synagogue and Beit Hamidrash. Over a hundred were killed.
German forces entered town on the 13th of September, 1939, chasing after Polish army units who were still fighting in the area. Part of the fighting took place in the town itself, and many of its buildings were demolished or burned. Few days later, the Germans overpowered these last pockets of resistance, took control of the area, and began organizing a new order in town. They soon bestowed bad decrees upon the town's Jewry, limiting their movements, and enlisting them to forced labor. They looted shops and businesses of Jews, and began their slaughter. Six Jews were taken to the nearby forest, and there they were shot to death. Few days later, on Yom Kippur, the 20th of September 1939, the Germans retreated from the town, and the Red Army replaced them. Their treatment of Jews was better.
But the wheel of fortune continued turning and a week later, on the 27th of September, Red Army representatives had announced that they are going to retreat and move eastbound near the Bog River, the correct border line agreed upon by the Soviets and the Germans.
The Soviet representatives added that whoever is interested in leaving and moving east with them, to a Soviet controlled area, is permitted to do so. Indeed, many Jews decided to leave town and go east.
One of the main reasons many Jews decided to leave town and move east was the brutal treatment they received from the Germans. One of the most severe examples of this brutality is described in Yehoshua Biderman's story in the Yizkor book of Tomaszow. Yehoshua tells how few Germans led a group of Jews (that included Yehoshua, his father and grandfather) from Tomaszow, through the town of Narol, to the vicinity of Yaroslav, without food or water, abusing and humiliating them. The group was released few days later and returned to Tomaszow, and there they told the community leaders the hell they have gone through. The severe testimony convinced the leadership to call upon people to leave town with the Soviets. The Belz Rabbi, who was staying in Sokal at that time, had also recommended fleeing from the Germans.
Half of its Jewish residents remained in town, and they looked forward with great concern. And indeed, persecution and torture of Jews continued when the Germans returned.
On December of 1939, the Germans gathered a group of physically and mentally handicapped Jews, locked them in a shelter, filled it with water until the shelter was flooded and they drowned.
The remaining Jews immediately realized they are caught in a death trap and their chance of escape and survival are minimal. Not long after, extremely severe events fell upon the remaining Tomaszow community. The Germans prohibited Kosher Shechita (slaughtering), but the Shochet (butcher) Baruch Horovitz continued to perform the Mitzvah and when caught by the Germans, they cut off his fingers so he will not be able to continue the Shechita.
The Germans forbade assembling, not even for prayer. They closed all synagogues that survived the fires. Nonetheless, Jews had gathered for prayer at Rabbi Nachum Shemesh's. They were soon caught, Rabbi Shemesh was immediately murdered, but prayer meetings continued at the home of Shlomo Ekst, and there they prayed until the extermination of the last Jews of Tomaszow. Torah study also continued secretely, taught by Meir Kelerman and David Oifen.
On November of 1939, the Germans decided to open a ghetto in Tomaszow. They placed it on the north corner of the market, old and new, bordering with the old and new Zamoiski Street. Hans Filler was appointed commander of the ghetto. The ghetto was not surrounded by a barbed wire fence. All remaining Jews were brought in, and they were joined by Jewish refugees who had escaped from central and western Poland, and who were pushed in. The number of Jews in the ghetto, including the refugees, was about six thousand.
The next decree the Germans dropped was a "contribution", a one-time tax of a huge amount. The Jewish council (Judenrat) was barely able to collect the sum the Germans demanded. The commander of the local gendarmerie (police), who was appointed by the Germans, was Berger, a man whose cruelty and daily massacres of Jews were known all over the area.
Not long after, Jews were recruited to work in the forests, road constructing, and various works needed at the many army camps the Germans had built in the area (in preparation for an offensive of the Soviet Union). Some of the people were sent to work near Zamosc and the village of Belzec.
The German invasion to the Soviet Union on June 22nd, 1941, worsened the situation of the Jews of Tomaszow. Germans increased searches in Jewish homes in order to trace Jews who, in their opinion, infiltrated back from Soviet controlled areas until the invasion (there were, in reality, such instances).
Near the end of 1941 and the beginning of 1942, the Germans gathered labour groups of Jews of tomaszow and the area and sent them to the town of Belzec, to break the ground and build a camp. Later, in the spring of 1942, it became clear that it was the Belzec death camp, when news of the extermination of Jews had reached town.
On one of these days, the S.S commander of Tomaszow had approached the head of the Judenrat, Yehoshua Fischelson, and demanded a preparation of a list of 300 Jews for a shipment of workers. This was the second time in which the officer demanded a list of Jews. Few days later, the S.S commander came to Fischelson's home and the latter replied that he did not prepare the list, that he is not ready to assist in sending Jews for extermination in Belzec, and that he is ready to hand his wife, his son and himself. The officer pulled out his gun and shot Fischelson at his door. Fischelson was replaced by Abba Bergerboim as head of the Judenrat.
The first roundup took place on March of 1942. The German commander instructed all Jews to present themselves in the main square in the morning. They were told that they will be sent to a work camp. In the morning, the Germans, with the help of others, surrounded the ghetto and began taking Jews out of their homes, leading them to the square. They operated this way for several hours at the end in which they led them to the town of Sczczanow (Tchshanow- 30 km. south of Tomaszow), as a coverage for the final destination, and from there to the camp of Belzec, for annihilation.
The second and main roundup happened on May of 1942, on the second day of Shavuot. The Germans and their helpers made precise searches in Jewish dwellings and streets. Screaming and panic of the Jewish families was awful, but nothing stopped the murderers from gathering all the Jews, except the few needed for essential tasks. All Jews gathered were sent to be annihilated in Belzec.
Very few Jews remained in Tomaszow after this Aktzia. As mentioned, some of them were employed in works the Germans declared essential, and few who managed to hide from the Aktzia. These few Jews lived on a borrowed time, since they knew that their extermination by the Germans is only a matter of time.
The third and final Aktzia happened on October 1942, during the high holidays. In this Aktzia, all remaining Jews in tomaszow were gathered. Most of them were send to die in Belzec, with the exception of few professionals who were sent to Zamosc where they were put to work in places essential to the Germans.
After this Aktzia, Tomaszow remained "Judenrein" (clean of Jews).
It is important to state that in Tomaszow most Poles did not help Jews to hide or escape from the Germans in any other way. There were Poles who even handed hiding Jews over to the Germans. Known are tragic cases, such as those of Channa Heller and her children and Shlomo Akst and his children who were handed over to the Germans only two days before their withdrawal and the Red Army's entrance to Tomaszow.
* Tchakhonski family- hid Shlomo Goren Gozhichenski in Tomaszow for almost two years.
* Stefaniuk family- hid Rivka Dichterman in the village of Navrosc, near Laszczow, for one year.
* Basily Khmilawski- hid Clara Riger of Tomaszow in the village of Skazcisko under the cover of the name Yaroslava Khmilawska, pretending to be his sister.
* Koron & Bayak families- hid Yaakov Hirsch Griner (Father Gregor Pawlowski) in their village for many months.
* Elizabeta Wazhna- hid Channa Schpizeizen (nee Weisler) in the village of Rogozno, near Tomaszow, for almost two years.
Jewish underground groups rose during the holocaust period in 18 ghettoes, one of them was in the Tomaszow ghetto.
Following the first and second roundups, some youngsters managed to escape into the forests, but most were caught by Poles who handed them over to the Germans.
A small group of escapees was not caught, and it was successfully able to organize for resistance operation. Members of this group had obtained some weapons and established a fighting unit in the forest. The unit was led by Mendel Heller (killed in one of the battles), Shimon Goldstein and Meir Kalmacher. They were murdered by the Poles.
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