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Moral Freedom and Nihilism
Moral freedom Not in Kansas Anymore
Moral Freedom and Nihilism What, me worry?
This is the seventh post on civil society in China now
When you make the rules and then act as judge and jury, its hard to do the wrong thing. So, for CCP - If CCP does it, it must be the right thing to do. A couple of my government students, and another good friend, were judges. I was impressed, but I found out later that until recently being a judge did not necessarily have much to do with attending law school, and still less with balancing of rights. Justice is not blind, and sometimes it doesn't even squint very much. Judges only nominally work for the government. They work for CCP.
Sections to follow –
Morality and nationalism
Can Xi do it?
The lesson from CPSU
E pluribus – what?
The promises from history
On The Street, Ability to Trust Depends On Freedom As A Value
Moral Freedom And Civil Society
In The Music Man Robert Preston told us there's big trouble, moral trouble, in River City. Xi Jinping also knows there is big trouble and promotes it almost as well. We know the surface troubles written up in the media – debt, unbalanced GDP, environment, population aging, health care and pensions. Deeper than these are the moral troubles. There's trouble for CCP everywhere – not only government and business, but in language and arts and entertainment and romantic relationships with foreigners. The real danger can come anywhere you find Chinese trying to think for themselves.
This moral crisis has been festering for more than thirty years, and reported on in both the Chinese and the US press. Certainly corruption in government, but also lying and cheating in business, plagiarism in schools, fake degrees and fake certification by the government of those fake degrees, complete ignoring of others in distress, bribery and sale of government offices and poisoned air, land, water and food have become daily fare.
Of course we cannot be describing all Chinese. As I noted at the beginning of this volume, we are only referencing tendencies. Of the hundreds of Chinese government officials I had as students over a period of eight years in Chicago, I do not know of one who has been involved in any episode of cheating or improper behavior in their job in China.
The moral unfreedom story is a Chinese story as much as it is a CCP story. The historical Chinese expectation is that leaders will provide a moral example. Sometimes that works, but being a moral exemplar is a tough gig. CCP corruption and venality and heavy-handedness in dealing with the people have convinced too many people that probity of leaders is one of the old values to be jettisoned. It can seem like the wild west.
On the street, Chinese don't trust other Chinese. Much vaunted harmony is an illusion. There are fighting and yelling matches over seemingly insignificant issues. It is not quite the war of all against all, but it is often not civil.
Many consumer products are not trusted, with good reason. Even now many western products are considered superior, or at least, safer, despite the international political upheavals of the last decade. Such products may be preferred even if made in China because they obtained an import imprimatur from the FDA, USDA, or similar regulatory body that is perceived – even post virus - to do its job well and without corruption.
Values promoted by CCP are derided, not for their lack of wisdom but for the hypocrisy of the messenger. The latest version is Core Socialist Values, coming out of the 18th Party Congress in 2012, the beginning of Xi's term as Party leader.
Who can argue with core socialist values like freedom and justice?
The 12 values, written in 24 Chinese characters, are the national values of prosperity, democracy, civility and harmony; the social values of freedom, equality, justice and the rule of law; and the individual values of patriotism, dedication, integrity and friendship.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_Socialist_Values
It would be reasonable to see these as CCP performative declamation – speech not meant to persuade, but to suggest a solidarity and devotion to an ethic that does not really exist.
CCP rightly sees the moral crisis as threatening to its survival. Denigration of CCP, its policies or leaders is interpreted as part of the crisis. No authoritarian government can long stand open mocking of its policies or leader. Now those who openly joke about or mock leaders can end up in jail or simply disappeared. The admonitions of Document No. 9 from the CCP General Office in 2013 are still a good guide to Xi's intentions. Warning No. 6 - Promoting historical nihilism, trying to undermine the history of the CCP and of New China. In other words, humor is in the eye of Xi, the beholder.
When Xi Jinping was made General Secretary his portfolio was principally to address this moral crisis and purify CCP and the Chinese people. There is a conundrum. The Party demands loyalty and obedience at the same time as governance demands some truth and fairness. From two decades ago, a popular saying –
If we don't root out corruption, the country will perish; if we do root out corruption, the Party will perish
Perry Link, 2002. The Anaconda in the Chandelier. New York Review of Books, April 11, 2002. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2002/04/11/china-the-anaconda-in-the-chandelier/
Xi has personally taken on the role of untying the Gordian Knot.
Geremie Barme at Australian National University summarizes the anxiety within CCP about its own legitimacy and the moral crisis in the 2014 China Yearbook: Shared Destiny. Xi is xidada, Big Daddy Xi, now the core of CCP and in street terms The Man charged with righting the ship of state and charting its course to world leadership. From the 2014 Yearbook, Barme's Under One Heaven -
… why is the mainland media presenting him more as primus than China's primus inter pares? …. Some might reason that under Xi Jinping China is not witnessing a revived personality cult, indeed, the popularity of Big Daddy Xi still lacks the hysteria and adulation achieved by the Mao cult in the 1960s, but signs of what German thinkers once called the Führerprinzip (a belief that certain gifted men are born to rule; that they deserve unswerving loyalty; and, that they take absolute responsibility for their leadership) are in evidence…. This is hardly surprising in a country where the Crown Jurist of the Third Reich Carl Schmitt enjoys considerable prestige among left-leaning thinkers.
There seems little question in late 2021 that Xi will elevate himself in 2022 to a level above Deng and just slightly lower than Mao (perhaps). He has full control of this third incarnation of CCP and Chinese rejuvenation. (The first 30 years were Mao's, resurrecting China from oppression. The second 30 were Deng's, establishing China in the world; the third belong to Xi, making China great again).
In modern China, where is morality to come from? The Confucian ideal of exemplary leaders as role models is out. Too many counterexamples – other than for Mr. Xi himself. He is now, after all, the core of CCP.
A return to morality via religion is obviously out.
Virtue ethics via Confucianism was part of "old thinking," discredited for a long time. It has been brought out of confinement as part of a new cultural China, for both domestic and international consumption. But Confucianism according to CCP does not fit with the understandings of the people. Too much "respect your leader and follow obediently." Too much "do as I say, not as I do."
CCP wants to tell a China story that can convey a sense of morality. After all, CCP claims to speak for all Chinese, so it only makes sense that it could formulate a national identity, a moral view for all. CCP nationalism is the path – a confounding of patriotism and nationalism with faith in CCP. From this melding will come morality as dictated by CCP.
Two contradictions - one lies in whether a national story can be imposed from above. Another contradiction lies in linking a national story simultaneously to morality, patriotism and loyalty to CCP. It is a tall order. But nationalism is the way forward for CCP legitimacy. Wolf warrior diplomacy, conquering free speech and democracy in Hong Kong, threats to Taiwan – all can be seen as part of sustaining CCP legitimacy, particularly if the world reacts negatively. China as victim is a time-honored Chinese patriotic theme. It is even in the extended preamble to the Chinese Constitution.
By 2021 the anticorruption campaign has done a fair job of addressing CCP corruption. The general population wholeheartedly approves, but the problem for the larger society remains. Per the quote above, corruption will be the death of either CCP or national rejuvenation. More than anything else, Party legitimacy is at stake.
CCP has spent decades parsing the collapse of the Soviet Communist Party, CPSU. Two principal conclusions are loss of faith in the party and corruption within. Xi is quite clear on the need to address both, and quite clear on his own personal role in salvation. In the Soviet Communist Party, Xi said, there was not a single real man to resist ultimate collapse. Xi will save China.
By way of unification and purification Xi wants CCP to tell The China Story to Chinese and to the world. Of course there is far more than one Chinese story. Even today there is barely one China. Legitimacy for middle class Chinese in Hangzhou is not the same as legitimacy for poor farmers in Guizhou.
China is big, old, diverse, stratified by class and location and dialects and local cultures. Tibet only became part of PRC in the 1950s. Xinjiang and Qinghai became part of the Qing dynasty in the 18th century but remain restive. The Chinese story has always been local and family oriented. There just isn't one national story to tell.
I can't do justice to Chinese diversity here. Two lines on a map can convey some impression.
The Aihui–Tengchong Line is one very simple way to see division in China. The imaginary line divides China into two equal areas. About 95% of the population lives in the eastern half. The western half of the land has 5% of the population and a large restive Muslim and Tibetan population.
Aihui–Tengchong Line
Another division is the Qinling-Huaihe Line used by geographers to divide north and south China. Very roughly, the line runs east-west midway between the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. The south gets lots of rain and is cut by many rivers; the north is dry and in need of water. Historically, the north was the cradle of Chinese civilization; now most GDP comes from the south, where Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Chongqing and Hong Kong are located.
Qinling_Huaihe_Line.png
Metaphorically, the south grows rice and people eat rice with every meal; the north grows wheat and corn and people eat noodles. Notably, buildings in the north have heat in the winter. Buildings in the south, usually not.
Even though everyone can read standard Chinese, many dialects remain unintelligible to others; religious conflicts in the west are divisive; even though Xi has declared an end to poverty in China, by my count there remain at least 600 million Chinese whose ability to achieve modernity, not to say xiaokang, the moderately successful society, is still and will remain a Chinese dream.
There are wonderful China stories to tell. There are also the China stories CCP does not want told, and unfortunately Xi's aggressive actions only bring those stories back from memory.
Reasonably, the historic default position is the tendency is to cut government some slack – we are Chinese and this is China. This is the way things work. Leaders will do the right thing. Fighting city hall is madness. Despite the millions of murders and lives destroyed in execution of landlords, the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution, and various purges, we have to look forward. Most Chinese know little or nothing of those events in any case.
What people can remember is farmland essentially stolen from farmers by real estate developers in conjunction with the government, terrible air and water and ground pollution, and beatings, threats, jailing and sometimes killings of those who protest or seek justice.
If Chinese cannot express themselves without fear, cannot fight injustice or clamor for what they want, what is a reasonable response?
In the terms proposed by Ci Jiwei, agency through freedom is impossible and agency through identification with a leader or a cause has been shown to be a fraud (see the post on Civilization State and Freedom).
There are two responses to moral unfreedom. One was described in the previous section – the frenzied consumerism as a way of expressing oneself. A second way of responding, not independent of the first, is a nihilism about life, work and the future.
One sees this is the current fad for "lying flat" – young Chinese frustrated with excessive demands at work and little prospect of life changing for the better are choosing to simply respond to orders and not seek to develop themselves. Think of it as a cohort of people choosing a life work slowdown or working to rule. David Bandurski of the China Media Project, writing in a Brookings piece -
For China's young workers, the pressure to forge ahead and innovate is compounded by the pressure to consume. Before the new millennium, Chinese were culturally savers, and consuming on credit was exceptionally rare. It was generally supposed that conspicuous consumption was something unsuited to China's national conditions. Over the past decade, however, these assumptions have been turned upside-down. Chinese can now be counted among the world's most conspicuous consumers….. But as consumption has become a perceived necessity, a form of psychological reprieve from the pressures of work, and even a patriotic duty, some young Chinese have buckled under the immense pressure to keep up…. For young people struggling under the weight of both extreme competition and its would-be reward, the empty promise of consumerism, it can seem that there is no escape from exploitation. And in a society where more open forms of protest, such as labor activism, are quickly suppressed, they have found release, if not relief, in online expression. The "lying flat"movement ….
David Bandurski. China Media Project. The 'lying flat' movement standing in the way of China's innovation drive. September 7, 2021. Available at https://www.brookings.edu/techstream/the-lying-flat-movement-standing-in-the-way-of-chinas-innovation-drive/
In Civilization State and Freedom I presented Ci Jiwei's argument for Chinese nihilism. What Bandurski is describing is just that – nihilism about the prospects without moral freedom and a reaction against only choices as ability to work and consume.
If Chinese are not permitted to remember the past or comment on the future, what is left? In Moral China in the Age of Reform Ci observes that retaining human dignity is a fundamental goal for us all, and that we find dignity through agency – how we impact the world or feel respected by the world. As I noted in Civilization State, Ci sees the modern Chinese moral problem in how to express individual agency.
There cannot be agency as freedom, in which people find agency and dignity is their ability to express their thoughts, write what they wish, meet with whomever they want. The other choice is to find agency and ultimately human dignity in identification with a leader or a cause, like CCP or rejuvenation of the Chinese people. In today's China agency through identification seems ridiculous.
What is left? Ci sees a nihilism in much of Chinese society now.
Ci Jiwei posits three dimensions in which the current nihilism is manifest – decline in belief in communism as an ideal; abandonment of belief in altruism and collectivism; and pursuit of a hedonism, in pleasure and consumer goods.
One sees all three dimensions of decline in daily life. Communism was originally supposed to transfer power from corrupt rulers and capitalists to the masses. But capitalists and intellectuals are now explicitly promoted as party members in the 1982 constitution; with this, and promotion of big business generally, there is almost non-existence of belief in communism. More to the point, most of the 100,000,000 CCP members are at least nominally middle class. CCP is the bourgeoisie.
Xi Jinping remarked on the thirty year cycles of CCP history. From founding in 1921 to takeover in 1949 (with a few years added for consolidation of gains) was the period of revolution. Mao promised then (and repeatedly) that the ultimate goal of CCP was a democratic China with free speech, free media, rule of law and one-man-one-vote election of leaders. The second thirty years from 1950 to 1980 was transition from feudalism and capitalism to the basics of the socialist state. The third thirty years from 1980 to 2010, or let us say 2012 when Xi took power, was emergence of China as a world power. The next thirty years to 2049 (hundredth anniversary of founding of "new China") will mark remaking of the world in the Chinese image, returning China to its historical position as zhongguo – the central states of the Wei and Yellow river valleys, yes, but also the center of the universe.
Certainly some Chinese are fond of this meme, but many don't find a dignified role for themselves in this historical whitewashing. I don't want to be a cog in a machine, whether socialist or capitalist. The CCP Constitution says China is in the early stages of socialism and will remain there for a hundred years (to 2049, if one is measuring) after which time … well, datong or some form of harmonious life will emerge. Lots of Chinese don't want to wait that long.
"To get rich is glorious" is not a direct Deng Xiaoping quote. It is illustrative of the Deng reforms and the "Age of Ambition" that Evan Osnos describes in his book. People took to the idea but that was then and this is now. To the extent Chinese remember or know of the struggles and mass killings of the first thirty years, and then Tian'anmen and Tibet and Xinjiang, now the pressures of consumption and 996 and a collapsing real estate market, the exalted history and future are hollow. Without an ability to find agency in freedom or identification with a cause, there is a general decline of belief in public morality. One can't easily find meaning for oneself. One can only rely on oneself, and personal goals are all that matters.
At work people still need to adhere to the party line – the mass line as it is called. Building the future, positive energy, advancing the cause of the great Chinese people. Ci Jiwei tells us that while there is some benefit to this understanding of the world, it is ultimately a false premise -
People live in two worlds, then, an internal and external world. In the external world, people mimic the truth and meanings provided to them, adherence to which is critical for continued employment and promotions if in government, state owned businesses, or academic world. People go through motions of assent. The internal world of belief and meaning is starved, however.
The conflict easily leads to a nihilism, in which there is no meaning – one could compare it with the postmodern theories of literature. In China, nihilism has led to a guilt-free pursuit of wealth and pleasure … (Ci, page 26)
Ci Jiwei, Moral China in the Age of Reform, Cambridge University Press, 2015
As Ci says, the result is a vacuum of belief and meaning. The conflict easily leads to a nihilism, in which there is no meaning – one could compare it with the postmodern theories of literature. In China, nihilism has led to a guilt-free or meaning-free pursuit of wealth and pleasure for some who can afford it.
The shared moral order is no more. Any corrupt CCP leader is a poster child for nihilism and harmony is an empty word.
Lucian Pye –
This distinctively Chinese relationship between the state and society was sustained by a shared belief in a moral order, the upholding of which gave the government legitimacy, and the existence of which gave the people security and peace. Although most traditional societies had comparable moral orders, elsewhere the process of modernization involved transitions to political orders based on competing economic and social interests.
Lucian Pye. China: Erratic State, Frustrated Society. Foreign Affairs. Fall, 1990. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/1990-09-01/china-erratic-state-frustrated-society
Ci Jiwei says that the distinction – agency through freedom and agency through identification - should not be framed in terms of more freedom or less. On the street, day to day freedom to consume, to make decisions about one's path in life, is as equal in China as in any western country. The crucial distinction, Ci says, is that the value of freedom – freedom as a right – has no purchase in China. Freedom is not available as a way of projecting self in the world.
In a conflict, someone experiencing agency through freedom feels free to express his views and need not fear the guanxi or the power of the other. He experiences his actions as free actions, not controlled or monitored by others. A person who experiences such freedom is free to trust others. Someone who experiences agency through identification with a leader is always subject to the fear that another person is a better or more powerful follower. A person's actions must be self-censored, and trusting others can be risky until you know their status as a follower.
To invoke A.C. Graham's apt characterization of western and eastern philosophy, 'the crucial question for all of them [was] not the Western philosopher's "What is the truth?" but "Where is the Way [Dao]?" – the Way to order the state and conduct personal life.' In China, the Way can only be the government's way.
Yuri Pines and Gideon Shelach. 'Using the Past to Serve the Present': Comparative Perspectives on Chinese and Western Theories of the Origins of the State. Page 130. In Shaul Shaked, ed., Genesis and Regeneration: Essays on Conceptions of Origins. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Science and Humanities, 2005. pp. 127-163. Available at http://yuri-pines-sinology.com/files/state-final.pdf
Moral freedom in the west has an added benefit – it is the means by which the society enforces some norms of behavior. This is Pye's progression from civility to social capital to civil society. It is the way of introducing a sense of shame in an otherwise highly individualized culture. But the civility that must be prior to civil society – the extension of Confucian benevolence and reciprocity to strangers – cannot develop when strangers are in fear of each other.
Shame functioned in a stronger way in China when China was a village society. When everyone knows everyone else untoward acts more clearly reflected on the individual – and his family, and his ancestors. If there were no sense of shame, and no civil society, social cohesion would be lost. Shame was the glue.
But now this is a most serious problem within China. When business and social affairs were conducted within the family, or clan, or at most, within the village, a sense of shame was easy to instill. Uncivil actions reflected not only on the individual, but on parents and ancestors. Shame was a form of social control.
In "modern" China, with business conducted over provinces and oceans – the same sense of shame is no longer available as a social control. What shame accrues to cheating the foreigner? (Actually, cheating the foreigner is sometimes seen as a good thing. China wins! Chinese get revenge on the waiguoren for a hundred years of shame.) And there is little shame in hurting other Chinese, who may be far away and in any case are not part of the family or clan or business network. Preserving the family business, preserving the family sense of face, is paramount. Caveat emptor is the rule in libertarian, individualist China.
As Xi Jinping and other leaders have acknowledged, the moral compass is missing. So, sell products that are defective, milk that kills babies, use waste oil in making food, do whatever you want to make money, because money is the only thing that matters, and there is no local network to provide a sense of shame in doing the wrong thing. This is understood at the highest levels of the Chinese Communist Party, and hence the purification campaign for Party members and for all Chinese. Get rid of the evil western ideas that are polluting Chinese and the CCP.
Some of what we in the west see as lying is really attributable to the lack of proper divisions in society as proposed by Plato. Corruption in government and business is expected in a relationship society. In one leader there can be both government rule and profit seeking. Truly, one hand washes the other.
The two systems – guardians and traders – are really quite distinct in moral values. I discussed the Jane Jacobs perspective from her book Systems of Survival in the section Lack of Trust and Lack of Communication. Avoiding a mixing of the moral syndromes is not simply for convenience. It is a fundamental and universal moral issue. The con man in The Music Man was able to dodge the reckoning. Mr. Xi hopes he can do the same for China.
Next: Failures of Civilty and Social Capital in China Now


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The Saucers That Time Forgot
The Murky and Quirky History of UFOs © Curt Collins and Claude Falkstrom
Captured Flying Saucers: The North Hollywood Disc, July 10, 1947
July 10, 1947, The News-Palladium from Benton Harbor, Michigan reported an Associated Press wire story:
North Hollywood, Calif., July 10 - A saucer-shaped mechanical contraption, resembling a chicken-brooder top with a few gadgets added, was found in a geranium bed at the home of construction engineer Russell Long last night and the first official reaction was from Fire Battalion Chief
Wallace E. Newcombe, who looked at it skeptically, and said:
"It doesn't look to me like it could fly."
Long called the Van Nuys fire department and excitedly pointed to the metal saucer, 30 inches in diameter, which he said had been belching smoke from two exhaust pipes and emitting a blue-white glare.
The Southeast Missourian, July 10, 1947
The Federal Bureau of Investigation had a look at the device:
FBI file begins at page 60 of this PDF.
This news stories shows that Russell Long's discovery of a counterfeit disc was just one of many in the first few weeks of 1947's flying saucer fever.
San Bernardino Sun, July 11, 1947
"Among the many "hoax' saucers was this fraud found in a North Hollywood yard. It was made of galvanized iron, a radio tube, a piece of pipe." Saturday Evening Post, May 7, 1949
Fire Battalion Chief Wallace E. Newcombe, "It doesn't look to me like it could fly."
PROJECT 1947 - Saturday Evening Post - May 7, 1949
"What You Can Believe About Flying Saucers"
The object was determined to be of Earthly origin, but the identity of the hoaxer was not determined, so in that regard, the case remains unsolved.
As with so many of the most interesting UFO cases featured here at The Saucers That Time Forgot, Project Blue Book has no file on this incident.
By Curt Collins - September 29, 2017
Labels: 1947, Captured Flying Saucers, Counterfeit, Crashed Saucer, FBI, Hoax, Unsolved
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A family physician (see our FAQ for physicians) can refer patients to the Breast Rapid Diagnostic Unit if the patient has an abnormality on a mammogram, breast ultrasound or a clinical finding that is highly suspicious of breast cancer.
Once the referral has been received, the nurse navigator contacts the individual.
Individuals meet with the nurse navigator at the Breast Rapid Diagnostic Unit and undergo assessment that includes a clinical breast exam. Individuals then get a state-of-the-art digital mammogram and ultrasound. Based on the results of these tests, they may receive further tests including an ultrasound-guided core biopsy and fine needle aspirate biopsy.
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All individuals assessed are asked about breast cancer risk factors such as family history, and receive personalized screening recommendations.
Individuals return the next day and meet with a breast physician to discuss their diagnosis and treatment options.
Those who do not have a diagnosis of breast cancer but who may be at high risk are referred for genetic assessment and risk management in the high risk clinic.
A note is sent back to the referring physician summarizing all findings and management recommendations.


Do you need a best friend and spouse, or can they be rolled up into one remarkable package? How can your friendship in marriage be better?
My husband and I met when I was still in high school, and he was nineteen. I knew I wanted to go to college, so when we talked about the future, we recognized early on that we wouldn't be getting married for quite a while.
Although it didn't feel like it at the time, it was probably the best decision we made.
We were together for five and a half years before we got married. During those five years, we developed not only a romance but a deep friendship. He was the one I wanted to spend the majority of my time with, (as indicated by the miles I put on my car between college and home every weekend) and that's still how I feel today.
We never lived together before we got married. Against popular opinion, we still had the opportunity to cultivate our relationship and get to know both the good and the bad. I felt like we went into marriage with expectations that seemed to be a lot more realistic than many other couples.
And although I've had other friendships throughout the years, none were more important than mine with him.
To get off on the right foot, build a friendship as you plan a wedding, and then continue to nurture that part of your relationship once the wedding is over.
There are plenty of verses and stories in the Bible that give us examples of how to treat our friends. I believe these admonitions are kicked up a notch when that friend is also your spouse.
Friendship and marriage both need to be cultivated. Here are some verses about friendship, and how they can apply to marriage.
Follow God's example of the greatest love.
Would you be willing to die for your spouse? I definitely would, but lucky for us, this opportunity doesn't present itself too often! But what about if we look at it as giving up your life, or what you want out of life, for your spouse? Are you willing to give that up in preference of your the other person and what they want and need?
Stick by your spouse no matter what.
No matter where Elijah wanted to go, or how much he tried to shake Elisha, Elisha would not give up. He knew that Elijah's time on earth was over, but he wanted to be with Elijah as he faced the end of his life. Are you willing to go through all the seasons of life with your partner, no matter how painful?
Treat your spouse politely and thoughtfully.
Give your spouse some grace.
No one is perfect. All of our friends have faults. You do too. Are you expecting your spouse to forgive your mistakes in your relationship, yet not forgiving of your spouse's imperfections?
This is one of my favorite verses. I believe that married couples need to operate as a team. Work together in all things. The kids, the housework, the bills…everything! Do you leave your spouse out of any areas of your life, or do you work with them in any way they need to be successful?
This verse tells us that we are to sharpen one another. We do this by holding one another accountable for thoughts and behavior. Sometimes it hurts a little, but the final result is a better you with a more successful marriage. Are you helping your spouse to be better, or are you just nagging?
One way to keep these ideas in the front of your mind is to keep the scripture in front of your eyes. Here are some cute products that do that!
As a final thought, considering your spouse your best friend does not eliminate the need for other friends in your life. However, they should be secondary to your spouse.
So, do you have a best friend and spouse in two different people? If so, what is the difference in how you relate to and treat them both? Strong friendships in marriage statistically result in longer-lasting marriages, so would it be better for you to focus on building a best-friendship with your spouse and improve your overall happiness?
What do you think? Should your spouse be your best friend? Let me know your opinion in the comments.
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Great post, Tracey! My husband is my best friend. He's the one I talk with most, and who I've learned to share my heart, my struggles, my dreams with. He's my cheerleader, and I try to be his. Having this kind of relationship in marriage makes weathering life's storms easier, because we both lean on God and on each other.
great post. My husband and I had a long distance relationship before we married. To me, it was the best way to become best friends. We talked on the phone for two hours every night. And this was back when you paid for long distance. AT&T actually called him to see if he has lost his calling card!
When you are talking fo two hours every night and not doing "other" things you get to know a lot about the person you marry. We were glad though to only have a three-month engagement. It was hard to be apart as I am sure you know.
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3D printing, also known as additive printing, which transforms 3D models into solid objects by building them in layers. 3D printing has been used in a wide range of materials including thermoplastics, thermoplastic composites, metal alloys, pure metals, ceramics, and various forms of food.
We can see a rapid growth in 3D marketing and over a million of 3D printers are likely to be sold by 2020. There was a promising future for the 3D printing marketing and currently the 3D printing has limited use and it was so expensive in the market.
There were tremendous changes in the printing sectors after introducing 3D printers, so that printing, binding in Sivakasi will continue to expand in many areas in the coming years. The areas where the uses of 3D printers are hospitals, gaming sectors, customs parts replacement, automobiles and more. The replacement organs can be created using 3D printers.
In automobiles, 3D printers play a major role in designing the car in 3D. Even there is a possibility of printing on the whole body of the plane in large scale using 3D printers. The 3D technology is unpredictable and the 3D printers may also be used to make future buildings for a real.
Innovation and creativity must need for the 3D printing business. It may increase your business productivity and it greatly reducing the resources needed to design and prototype products. In recent years, 3D printing technology has gone from a cutting-edge novelty to a growing and popular industry for new start-ups.
Some of the companies like Natural Machines Foodini, SOLS, Banneya are extensively using the 3D printing technology where 3D printing is starting to shake things up, especially as the cost of 3D printing drops and the technology becomes more accessible.
3D printing is making huge leaps forward in the medical industry by giving treatment to cancer. As per source in 2014, researchers developed a fast, inexpensive way to make facial prostheses for patients who had undergone surgery for eye cancer, using facial scanning software and 3D printing.
3D printing is much more accessible for your everyday life. Since you can save so much on the printer itself, why not pay it forward and save money on items you use and buy for your home on a daily basis. Reduce, reuse and recycle is even easier with a 3D printer. Instead of throwing out that broom with the broken handle or buying a completely new dishwasher, you can print brand new pieces to replace the broken parts.
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Q: magento load product by id with limit thing i wrote a code to get product list by id below is my code :
$category_id = $_GET['category_id'];
$catagory_model = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category_id);
$collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');
$collection->addCategoryFilter($catagory_model); //category filter
$collection->addAttributeToFilter('status',1); //only enabled product
$collection->addAttributeToSelect(array('id','name','url','small_image','price')); //add product attribute to be fetched

$collection->addStoreFilter();

if(!empty($collection)){
    foreach ($collection as $_product){
        $categoryapi['id']=$_product->getId();
        $categoryapi['name']=$_product->getName();
        $categoryapi['price']=$_product->getPrice();
        $categoryapi['image']=(string)Mage::helper('catalog/image')->init($_product, 'small_image')->resize(250, 250);
        $mcat[] = $categoryapi;
    }
}
echo $output = json_encode(array('data' => $mcat));

my code works fine but i want to add limit so it loads products in count of 10 like for first request 1,10 and then 11,20 and then 21,30 and so on .
how can it be done please guide way to do it

A: You can add ->setPageSize($per_page) to your collection to add limit.
$category_id = $_GET['category_id'];
$catagory_model = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($category_id);
$collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product_collection');
$collection->addCategoryFilter($catagory_model); //category filter
$collection->addAttributeToFilter('status',1); //only enabled product
$collection->addAttributeToSelect(array('id','name','url','small_image','price')); //add product attribute to be fetched
$collection->setPageSize($per_page);
$collection->addStoreFilter();

You can pass the value for $per_pageby your pagination.
Hope this will help you to get the limit.

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Portable patient monitoring and clinical analysis - connected IntelliVue MP40 and MP50 patient monitors combine portability and measurement flexibility to match the pace and unique needs of intermediate care environments at the patient side.
* 30.5cm (12") color SVGA monitor display with 4 or 6 waveforms is bright and easy to read.
* 5-hour battery life** means the MP50 is convenient to use for in-hospital transfer.
* IntelliVue comes with 10 preset screen configurations.
* Customized viewing options let you view and analyze data in graphical or numerical formats, juxtapose real-time measurements and trended data, and organize every onscreen element from waveforms to data labels as desired.
* Access information from a variety of systems on the hospital network pharmacy, laboratory, ECG management systems, radiology PACS, host based hospital systems and others and deliver it to the patient monitor through IntelliVue portal technology.


Siemens PLM Software's Teamcenter Enterprise is the leading Enterprise Knowledge Management solution in the PLM space. Teamcenter Enterprise enables companies to capture and manage diverse product and process knowledge in a scalable and open web environment. Users can access this knowledge on demand and leverage it in workflow-driven processes that accelerate strategic take-to-market initiatives. Their customers are the leading worldwide companies in the Automotive, Aerospace and Defense, high-tech, and Consumer Packaged goods industries.
Due to its extensive reach and capabilities, Teamcenter Enterprise accumulates substantial amount of data throughout a product's life cycle. Accessing this data, analyzing this data to monitor performance and to identify areas of improvements on a timely basis is not only critical but also absolutely essential. Without such dynamic capability, the customers are not able to leverage their investments in the PLM solution to its fullest extent.
eQube-BI's revolutionary architecture accesses Teamcenter Enterprise's object model via its native APIs. It leverages a customer's highly customized classes, relations, and attributes AS-IS. In addition, it leverages the customer specific configuration contexts and security model AS-IS!
Other core capabilities of eQube-BI allows for highly configurable reports / analytics templates to be developed in a matter of hours. The end users then can use these templates for ad-hoc reporting. eQube-BI's powerful in-built Scheduler allows privileged users to schedule these templates to be run at any combinations of time parameters, such as daily, weekly (on one or more days of the week), monthly by date or by specific day etc.


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The guitar didn't have breaks or repairs, however there are more than average pick scratches, belt buckle rash, and other dents and dings (see photos). The guitar is setup with low action in standard A440 tuning with .10 -.52 gauge strings.


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Effects of Radiation on Thermal Comfort for Indoor Spaces
About this Free Webinar
Radiation and heat transfer from radiation play an important role in HVAC systems from office to apartment buildings but is often ignored as a negligible factor. Every element in an HVAC system (i.e. heating panels) has the potential to be radiative surfaces as they are capable of reflecting and absorbing radiation. Therefore, it is very important to simulate the airflow and temperature distribution when designing indoor spaces, and this cannot be done without including the effect of radiation.
In this webinar, we will demonstrate how to simulate flow in office spaces, while investigating the effects of radiation. We will show how this type of heat transfer affects the inhabiting humans, furniture, windows, and more, evaluate thermal comfort parameters such as PMV (predicted mean vote index) and PPD (predicted percentage dissatisfied index) and determine the overall the contribution of radiation in the indoor space.
There is no prior knowledge or software required to join this webinar. All participants can get free access to SimScale with all the required simulation features by creating a Community account on the website. If you are not able to attend the live session, we would still encourage you to register in order to receive the recording.
About SimScale
With offices in Boston and Munich, SimScale is the world's first production-ready SaaS application for engineering simulation. By providing instant access to computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis, SimScale has moved high-fidelity physics simulation technology from a complex and cost-prohibitive desktop application only available to experts in large companies to a user-friendly web application accessible to any designer and engineer in the world.
HVAC Engineers and Design Engineers who are involved in building design
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Learn how radiation heat transfer can have a large impact on the thermal comfort of an indoor space.
Jon Wilde
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With 15 years of experience in industry, Jon is an expert in CFD, application engineering and team management. Before joining SimScale, he helped to form Autodesk's current CFD solution and worked there to both support it and manage a team of technical support engineers.


"This hugely readable publication could be helpful to each reader drawn to Haitian Vodou, and crucial should you need to make the transition from highbrow wisdom to private adventure of a profound and unfairly missed faith. "
The Haitian Vodou guide explains easy methods to construct respectful relationships with the lwa, the spirits commemorated in Haitian Vodou, and the way to remodel the terror that regularly surrounds the Vodou faith. till lately, the Haitian perform of Vodou was once frequently pointed out with satan worship, darkish curses, and superstition. a few observed the saint photos and the Catholic impacts and wrote Vodou off as a "Christian aberration. " Others have been appalled via the animal sacrifices and the truth that the houngans and mambos cost cash for his or her providers. those that sought Vodou simply because they believed it can harness "evil" forces have been upset whilst their efforts to realize reputation, fortune, or unending romance failed and so deserted their "voodoo fetishes. " those that controlled to get the eye of the lwa, frequently acquired cosmic retaliation for treating the lwa as assault canine or genies, which purely extra cemented Vodou's stereotype as "dangerous. "
Kenaz Filan, an start up of the Societé l. a. Belle Venus, deals vast historical past details at the featured lwa, together with their mythology and ancestral lineage, in addition to particular directions on tips to honor and have interaction fruitfully with those who make themselves available. this recommendation might be particularly beneficial for the solitary practitioner who doesn't have the private assistance of a societé to be had. Filan emphasizes the significance of getting a quickened brain that could learn the lwa's wishes intuitively that allows you to stay away from developing dogma-based relationships. This operating consultant to profitable interplay with the complete Vodou pantheon additionally provides the position of Vodou in Haitian tradition and explores the symbiotic courting Vodou has maintained with Catholicism.
KENAZ FILAN (Houngan Coquille du Mer) used to be initiated into Societé l. a. Belle Venus in ny urban in 2003 after ten years of solitary carrier to the lwa. Filan's articles on Vodou have seemed in newWitch, PanGaia, and Planet magazines and within the pagan group newspaper Widdershins.
This quantity provides scholars and students with a finished assessment of the interesting global of the occult. It explores the background of Western occultism, from historic and medieval resources through the Renaissance, correct as much as the 19th and 20th centuries and modern occultism. Written by way of a special crew of individuals, the essays think of key figures, ideals and practices in addition to pop culture.
A tender family's rocking chair strikes on its own, swaying backward and forward less than the strength of a ghostly presence. An deserted schoolhouse, the location of an enormous fireplace, teems with stressed spirits. Deep in a countrywide wooded area, phantom lighting fixtures chase the terrified occupants of a motor vehicle. those chilling stories and extra watch for you inside of those pages.
This paintings is an holistic method of the cosmic beginning of humanity. the writer bargains with the advanced topic of Globes, Rounds and Chains, and gives an outline of the early races of guy on the planet. in actual fact illustrated with charts and diagrams.
HPS: Whenever ye have need of anything, once in the month, and better it be when the moon is full, then shall ye assemble in some secret place and adore the spirit of me, who am Queen of all the witcheries. There shall ye assemble, ye who are fain to learn all sorcery, yet have not won its deepest secrets; to these will I teach things that are yet unknown. And ye shall be free from slavery; and as a sign that ye be really free, ye shall be naked in your rites; and ye shall dance, sing, feast, make music and love, all in my praise.
And he taught her all his Mysteries, and they loved and were one. And she taught him her mystery of the sacred cup which is the cauldron of rebirth. And he gave her the necklace which is the circle of rebirth, and taught her all the magics. For there are three great events in the life of man: Love, Death and Resurrection in the new body; and Magic controls them all. For to fulfill love you must return again at the same time and place as the loved one, and you must meet, and know, and remember, and love them again.
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T&J debrief on the Restaurant Association Gala Dinner 2019
T&J client, Nordaq premium filtered water took centre stage at the Restaurant Association Gala Dinner held recently at The Savoy Hotel, London.
T&J Installations attended this year's Restaurant Association Gala Dinner along with its client, Nordaq. The event saw entertainment from West End performers, charity auctions with highly desirable prizes and an extraordinary menu of food and wine.
Throughout the night, Nordaq – cited by many of the world's most celebrated chefs as the 'purest tasting water' – was in generous supply – with technical support provided by T&J.
Plenty of familiar faces
As expected from a Restaurant Association event, the night saw many stars of the restaurant and hospitality industry come out to play. Claude Bosi, Head Chef at Bibendum, London – which proudly serves Nordaq filtered water to its customers – was one of many notable guests.
Also making an appearance were celebrity chefs, Raymond Blanc OBE, Francesco Mazzei and the Roux family, model and nutritionist Rosemary Ferguson and TV presenter Lisa Snowdon, among many others.
A great menu enhanced by Nordaq
The one-off menu incorporated a number of products that sponsored the event and included a starter of Loch Duart Scottish Salmon cured in "KEW Organic - Explorers' Strength Gin" with a Juniper Berry Crust and Baby Leeks Cooked in No.1 Juniper Soda.
The beautiful selection of food and wine at the Gala Dinner could be fully appreciated thanks to Nordaq supported by T&J. Nordaq complements food and drink in a unique way as flavours are enhanced by its palate-cleansing qualities.
Ian Jones, Managing Director of T&J Installations, said: "It was an amazing night of fundraising and celebration. With a food and drink menu as spectacular as was served, we could showcase the quality of Nordaq water – we felt it really shone."
Putting a 'spring' in a charity's step
The event raised an amazing £48,000 for The Springboard Charity which helps young people interested in hospitality, leisure and tourism to achieve their potential. Much of its work is focused on supporting underprivileged and disadvantaged people.
Through this, and by helping unemployed people of all ages into sustainable employment, it has a positive impact on reducing poverty.
Celebrating the Roux family
The Dinner was attended by three generations of the famous Roux family. Albert Roux OBE, Michel Roux Jr and Emily Roux were presented with The Restaurant Association Award for Services to Hospitality.
Celebrity chef, Michel Roux Jr, said: "What a fabulous evening! We were so honoured at The Restaurant Association's recognition of our family's contribution to the UK restaurant industry.
"It (the event) has also raised awareness and money for the incredible work undertaken by Springboard, they do such a great job in helping young people find worthwhile careers in hospitality."
Want to 'Experience' the purity of Nordaq?


Force touch may be a feature exclusive to the latest iPhones, but something like it is now possible on pretty much any phone out there, thanks to research from engineers at the University of Michigan.
It works not by polling sensors in the touchscreen, but through ultrasound. The phone's speaker emits a sound covering the 18-24 kHz range, well outside what a human can hear — but the device's microphone can detect it just fine. When the user presses on the screen or squeezes the phone's body, the character of the sound changes, and the software detects that.
Don't worry, though — the sound is played at a very low volume, so it won't bother any dogs or sharp-eared young folks in the area.


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Misia Sophia Doms (* 1980 in Deutschland) ist eine deutsche Philologin, Literaturhistorikerin und Hochschulprofessorin.

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Doms studierte Germanistik, Philosophie sowie Medizingeschichte an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, wo sie 2007 ihre Promotion mit einer Arbeit über Die viel-Einheit des Seelenraums in der deutschsprachigen barocken Lyrik abschloss. 2018 wurde sie an der Universität Mannheim mit einer Forschungsarbeit zu theoretischen Erwägungen und Fallstudien an deutschsprachigen literarischen Dialogen habilitiert und im selben Jahr zur Professorin an der Pädagogischen Hochschule Niederösterreich für Deutsch, Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturalität ernannt.

Doms Forschungsschwerpunkte umfassen Literatur und Kulturgeschichte von der frühen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart sowie Sprachdidaktik und angrenzende Kulturthemata.

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The Parasites
Tuesday 7 August 2012 Richard 3 Comments
Why is there no entry Parasites in the Ayn Rand Lexicon?! Nor Looters, nor Moochers??! (I almost clicked Entitlement, Age of but then realised I'd misread it.)
It ain't right. 'Parasite' was one of Rand's favourite words. A search for 'parasites' delivered the goods, though. Here are some excerpts from The Ayn Rand Letter, filed under Welfare State.
Morally and economically, the welfare state creates an ever accelerating downward pull. Morally, the chance to satisfy demands by force spreads the demands wider and wider, with less and less pretense at justification. Economically, the forced demands of one group create hardships for all others, thus producing an inextricable mixture of actual victims and plain parasites. Since need, not achievement, is held as the criterion of rewards, the government necessarily keeps sacrificing the more productive groups to the less productive, gradually chaining the top level of the economy, then the next level, then the next. (How else are unachieved rewards to be provided?)
There are two kinds of need involved in this process: the need of the group making demands, which is openly proclaimed and serves as cover for another need, which is never mentioned—the need of the power-seekers, who require a group of dependent favor-recipients in order to rise to power. Altruism feeds the first need, statism feeds the second, Pragmatism blinds everyone—including victims and profiteers—not merely to the deadly nature of the process, but even to the fact that a process is going on.
[A] real turning point came when the welfare statists switched from economics to physiology: they began to seek a new power base in deliberately fostered racism, the racism of minority groups, then in the hatreds and inferiority complexes of women, of "the young," etc. The significant aspect of this switch was the severing of economic rewards from productive work. Physiology replaced the conditions of employment as the basis of social claims. The demands were no longer for "just compensation," but just for compensation, with no work required.
So long as the power-seekers clung to the basic premises of the welfare state, holding need as the criterion of rewards, logic forced them, step by step, to champion the interests of the less and less productive groups, until they reached the ultimate dead end of turning from the role of champions of "honest toil" to the role of champions of open parasitism, parasitism on principle, parasitism as a "right" (with their famous slogan turning into: "Who does not toil, shall eat those who do").
Well, what's there to say, except that Rand was right on the money? This stuff is razor sharp, and remarkably prescient, given that she wrote it in the early 1970s. And chilling. But I wonder if even Rand would have envisaged a President of the United States who, on the campaign trail just four decades later, would say to his audience
If you've got a business—you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
The obvious implication being that if you didn't build it, it's not yours, and the government is entitled to take it and "redistribute" it to "somebody else". The entitlement mentality is endemic and infects the highest levels of government in a country that was once a shining beacon of capitalism.
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Here's Brain Drill with The Parasites from their debut album Apocalyptic Feasting.


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The Coral Island
By R. M. Ballantyne
Published by Start Publishing LLC
Fifteen-year-old Ralph, mischievous young Peterkin, and clever, brave Jack are shipwrecked on a coral reef with only a telescope and a broken pocketknife between them. At first the island seems a paradise, with its plentiful foods and wealth of natural wonders. But then a party of cannibals arrives, and after that a pirate ship... what is to become of them?
R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC (January 3, 2013)
Children's Fiction > Classics
Book Cover Image (jpg): The Coral Island
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Did You Know These Celebrities Lived in a Mobile Home?
It's not because they were broke. This article originally appeared on housebeautiful.com.
By Sarah Yang
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What do Matthew McConaughey, Minnie Driver, and Pamela Anderson have in common? They were all residents at one time of a high-end Malibu trailer park, Paradise Cove. The mobile home community, which was developed in the 1960s as a beach rental vacation spot, is known as a trendy neighborhood and was once the subject of a Vanity Fair article. According to The Wall Street Journal, it seems more and more wealthy people are turning to high-end mobile homes, on the West Coast and other parts of the U.S.: "Industry executives attribute the change both to downsizing retirees and skyrocketing real-estate prices in certain areas, which are prompting more people to consider trailer park living as a (relatively) affordable option."
If you're unsure about its appeal, trailer park living has its perks, especially in Paradise Cove, where many celebs and others in the "industry" call home. Features include ocean views, direct access to private beaches, a clubhouse, tennis and basketball courts, and a children's playground. Plus, these homes can be tricked out to include hardwood or tile floors, high-tech appliances, granite countertops, and even more luxury amenities.
But don't think you'll be saving that much money by downsizing to a fancy mobile home — trailers in this exclusive community have sold for millions of dollars in the past. The Wall Street Journal reports that a couple purchased a two-bedroom trailer, 1,800-square-foot trailer for $1.25 million last spring, Matthew McConaughey's old trailer sold for $2.55 million earlier in the year, and last month, a four-bedroom, 2,200-square-foot trailer with a hot tub and two-car garage was listed at $3.75 million.
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This home (pictured above and below) was listed at $4 million last January.
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This home was listed for $3.75 million in July 2014.
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The Ricasoli II government of Italy held office from 20 June 1866 until 10 April 1867, a total of 294 days, or 9 months and 21 days. It was also known as the Government of National Reconciliation, because it led Italy during the Third War of Independence.

History
As Prime Minister, Ricasoli refused Napoleon III's offer to cede Venetia to Italy, on condition that Italy should abandon the Prussian alliance, and also refused the Prussian decoration of the Black Eagle because La Marmora, author of the alliance, was not to receive it.

Upon the departure of the French troops from Rome at the end of 1866 he again attempted to conciliate the Vatican with a convention, in virtue of which Italy would have restored to the Church the property of the suppressed religious orders in return for the gradual payment of 24,000,000. In order to mollify the Vatican he conceded the exequatur to forty-five bishops inimical to the Italian régime. The Vatican accepted his proposal, but the Italian Chamber proved refractory, and, though dissolved by Ricasoli, returned more hostile than before. Without waiting for a vote, Ricasoli resigned office and thenceforward practically disappeared from political life.

Government parties
The government was composed by the following parties:

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Global Ranking Of Happiness Has Happy News For Norway And Nicaragua
A girl in a park in Managua, Nicaragua. The country topped the list for gains in happiness.
Norway can be frigid. And the winters bring lots of darkness. But it's the happiest nation in world, according to the 2017 World Happiness Report.
Denmark comes in at #2, followed by Iceland and Switzerland. Finland takes 5th place. And, it turns out, these countries have more in common than a tolerance for cold.
Well-being is shaped by a range of factors. "All of the top countries rank highly on all the main factors found to support happiness: caring, freedom, generosity, honesty, health, income and good governance," according to the report.
The second tier of the top ten includes the Netherlands, Canada, New Zealand, Australia and Sweden (the last two tied for 9th position).
The developing world has its share of unhappy countries. According to the report, some of the unhappiest nations in the world are Afghanistan, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Haiti.
But there are encouraging signs in low- and middle-income countries. Cameroon, Latvia, Nicaragua and Sierra Leone, for example, are all on the list of the 20 countries reporting the highest gains in happiness.
Meanwhile, happiness in the U.S. has slipped a bit, according to the report. "The reasons are declining social support" as well as a decline in trust — and an increased sense of corruption, write the co-editors in a summary report. In 2015, the U.S. ranked 13th. This year, it slipped to 14th.
The report draws on survey data from 155 countries. "We ask people to think of their lives as a whole," explains report co-editor John Helliwell, an economist at the University of British Columbia who studies well-being and comparative economic growth. Each year, researchers survey 1,000 people in each country.
Some questions are quite simple, such as: In times of trouble, do you have family and/or friends to count on? Other questions measure people's perceived levels of freedom, generosity and trust — both in each other and in their governments and businesses.
The Nordic countries have among the most generous social safety nets. "Access to higher education, access to high-quality health services are part of it, explains Jon-Åge Øyslebø, minister of communications, cultural affairs and education at the Norwegian Embassy. (We reached out to him before he had heard about the top spot his country had earned in the new report.)
There are also generous social support programs. For instance, new parents in Norway are eligible for nearly a year of leave with pay. "Norway is a relatively egalitarian society with regard to both to income differences and gender," Øyslebø told us. He says he thinks this is an important part of the happiness equation.
Another factor, of course, is the economy. Overall, Norway is pretty wealthy, in part due to the natural resource of oil. But even though oil prices have declined, Norwegian level of happiness has risen, at least according to the report.
"Absolutely there's more to it than money," Øyslebø says. Many studies have shown that after people's basic needs are met, additional income is not necessarily a path to happiness.
So what's the value of these global ranking? After all, the survey data that they're based on are pretty crude measures. And at any given time, in any nation, some people are suffering while others thrive.
"The reason for taking this [report] seriously," co-editor John Helliwell told us, is that it offers an alternative to thinking of "income as the measure of progress."
Allison Aubrey is a correspondent for NPR News, where her stories can be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered. She's also a contributor to the PBS NewsHour and is one of the hosts of NPR's Life Kit.
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Kellyanne Conway Is The Wrong Person To Lead The White House's Response To The Overdose Crisis
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More than thirty days ago, President Trump declared a public health emergency on the opioid overdose crisis. In the month since the declaration, there has been little substantive progress on addressing the crisis. As overdose deaths continue to mount, the White House has failed to call on Congress to provide additional funding, neglected to nominate an Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director, continued overreliance on failed criminal justice tactics, and has reaffirmed the leadership role of Kellyanne Conway, a political consultant with no public health experience, in responding to the crisis.
While the national public health emergency fund intended to pay for the health emergency declaration dwindles to around $60,000, just this week the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced $12 million for anti-drug enforcement efforts. This focus on a law enforcement approach to dealing with drug use absent any substantive public health response is not new. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has pursued a hardline agenda on drug policy, reversing Obama-era reforms to drug sentencing and civil forfeiture practices, and using the opioid overdose crisis as an excuse for harsh immigration policies. Such overly punitive approaches have already been in place for decades, have proven wholly ineffective at reducing drug use or any drug-related harms, and have had a devastating effect on people across the US, particularly from communities of color.
"Despite declaring the opioid overdose crisis a public health emergency just last month, the Trump Administration continues to emphasize failed prohibitionist policies while ignoring proven public health measures that we know reduce overdose death, like community naloxone distribution," said Kaitlyn Boecker, Policy Manager with the Drug Policy Alliance. "As we feared, the Administration is using the overdose crisis as an excuse to ratchet up the war on drugs rather than an opportunity to save lives," said Boecker.
Evidence-based prevention, treatment, and harm reduction interventions can stem the tide of opioid overdose fatalities. The Drug Policy Alliance has detailed specific policy proposals in this regard in its "Public Health and Safety Plan to Address Problematic Opioid Use and Overdose." Trumps own bi-partisan opioid commission has also offered many health-centered recommendations.
The failure of the Trump Administration to take action on the multitude of widely accepted public health approaches available has contributed to advocates' fears that the Administration views the opioid overdose crisis as a political problem in need of a public relations response rather than a public health crisis requiring actual treatment and harm reduction interventions. The Administration has failed to develop a cohesive policy or strategy on a crisis killing more than 60,000 Americans a year, and even basic steps such as filling key agency vacancies, and requesting additional funding have been neglected. AG Sessions' reaffirmation this week of political counselor Kellyanne Conway as the lead coordinator for the Administration's opioid efforts was particularly concerning to some advocates. As a former pollster and political consultant with no background in public health, Conway brings no obvious qualifications to her role as point person on the opioid overdose crisis.
"As Gov. Christie, the head of Trump's own opioid commission said this week, 'the buck stops with the president.' If he's serious about reducing opioid overdose deaths, there's a huge amount that he can and should do immediately," said Lindsay LaSalle, Senior Staff Attorney with the Drug Policy Alliance. "This Administration must stop relying on 'just say no' prohibitionists and political appointees with no public health credentials to lead the charge on opioid efforts. There is a clear path forward if this administration decided to take the crisis seriously."
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Derriere le Miroiir, Untitled DM0152, 1953
Original stone lithograph
Rare and in good condition for its age
Printed by Maeght, Paris
Vellum paper 15 x 11 inch
Includes a certificate of authentication
Wilfredo Lam, abstract, 1953
Wilfredo Lam was a Cuban-born artist, best known for his large-scale paintings that revive Afro-Cuban imagery in order to explore themes of social injustice, spirituality and rebirth. Pursuing a career within the avant-garde, he was inspired by, and friends with, some of the most renowned artists of the 20th century such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse and Frida
Kahlo. He created a unique style that was characterized by his use of hybrid figures which went on to influence other artists. Despite focusing most on painting, Lam also worked with sculpture, ceramics and printmaking.
Tate Modern staged a retrospective of Lam's work in 2017. There is also a centre dedicated to his work in Havana.


"We're trying to promote the boaters having active involvement," Pendleton said.
The largest Fest brought about 150 boats.
Concord, N.C., band The Mighty RhythmBusters began playing on and off in Lake Wylie 20 years ago, at spots like The Knothole, Roadhouse and Fat Cats. The six-member band brings a feel-good sound, said member Keith Cash.
The band hasn't performed at a Lake Wylie Music Fest. Cash said he isn't sure what to expect, but the novelty of the setup is something that drew his group to the water.
Chris Hertz of Demperio Hertz Music performed at the 2011 Fest.
He's an architect, but lifelong music hobbyist who teams with a bass player and mandolin/guitar guy for shows when he can.
Brandon Caldwell was a hit at the first Music Fest with his sunset fire act.
The lineup from 3:30 p.m. on is similar to past Fest events with hourly performances from The Mighty RhythmBusters, Fountain Penn, Eddie Barnette Band, Josh Sanders, Red Dirt Revelators and Chubby Knuckles Band. New is an earlier start for more local acts.
Starting at 2 p.m. are performances by Tony Tbone, Demperio Hertz Music and Chris Shephard & Friends.
A couple dozen volunteers, mainly neighbors of the cove, put on the free Fest. Pendleton hopes her group is creating something unique for the lake, something edgy and fun that will show off the lake lifestyle she and others love.
"The people of Lake Wylie are lucky to have people like that," Hertz said.


There are different classifications of disc pathology. The main two are herniations and bulges. Of the two, herniations are more sever and require a longer healing process. The disc itself is comprised of a nuclear material (the Nucleus pulposus) and the outer fibers (the annulus fibrosus). An easier way to explain the structure is with a popular American staple, the jelly doughnut. The inside/nucleus of the disc has a pliable/squishy substance similar to jelly. The outer portion of the disc, annulus, has a more rigid structure like the cake in the doughnut.
passed the outer most fibers. When this herniation is severe enough it can compress the spinal nerve and cause an array of problems that can extend into the lower extremity (radiculopathy /sciatica). A disc bulge is less severe, however, since the disc is a pain receptor structure pain is felt. With a disc bulge tears in the outer fibers are present and the nucleus extends into the annular fibers. This causes an inflammatory response and the disc "bulges" taking on a physiological different shape.