The State University of New York at Potsdam will soon launch a Certificate of Advanced Study program in college teaching, the College's first program to be offered fully online.
SUNY Potsdam's new advanced certificate program is designed to provide participants with the skills they need for effective teaching in the college classroom.
"Teaching at the college level requires a specific set of skills to ensure learning objectives are met, through careful execution of pedagogical theory, the use of appropriate technologies and an understanding of how we learn. This program synthesizes these critical concepts to prepare students to be successful educators in the college classroom," said Dr. Kathleen Valentine, an associate professor of curriculum and instruction, who will oversee the new program.
Designed with the working professional in mind, the four-course, 12-credit curriculum requires no campus visits for the fully online program. Topics include curriculum design, classroom technology and the developmental needs of adult learners.
"The new college teaching advanced certificate program at SUNY Potsdam augments our rich history in preparing strong educators. We have designed this program and the coursework for anyone interested in complementing their subject matter skills with strategies in pedagogy and curriculum design, specifically for the collegiate level," said Joshua LaFave '03, executive director of graduate and continuing education.
As post-master's students, participants will develop broad skillsets useful for contemporary educators working within a post-secondary educational setting. The program is designed for faculty, graduate teaching assistants, doctoral or post-doctoral students, and other professionals who want to develop or enhance their instructional skills.


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Lt. Gen. Clarence E. McKnight, Jr. , Contributor
Retired three star U.S. Army general, former head of the SIgnal Corps
Training a New Generation of Skilled Workers
08/14/2015 10:55 am ET Updated Aug 14, 2016
For many years, U.S. manufacturers have lamented the shortage of job applicants with the skills needed to work in modern manufacturing. The old manufacturing jobs - rote repetition on an assembly line - are gone and are not coming back. We need bright young people who can handle sophisticated machinery and computers, but they are in short supply and few of them seem aware of the opportunities available in manufacturing.
Jerry Jasinowski, former President of the National Association of Manufacturers, writes a regular blog about economic and manufacturing issues. He recently penned one suggesting that old-fashioned apprenticeships are part of the solution.
I believe he is on to something. Apprenticeships are an excellent term to apply to how the U.S. army has filled its ranks over the years. Of course, learning discipline and how to shoot guns is a basic part of it, but most army jobs are demanding specialties that have little direct contact with the battlefield. A modern army, like a modern manufacturing company, is a very sophisticated operation demanding a variety of skills and knowledge.
In the army, we give applicants an in-depth testing to determine where their strongest skills and interests lie. To the extent possible, we assign them to where they are most likely to succeed, and then provide them with advanced training in their field. A key part of that is close one-on-one interaction with veteran non-commissioned officers (NCOs) who give them hands-on training until they know it backwards and forwards.
But the U.S. army, like manufacturing, is today dealing with a generation of young people who come ill-equipped with practical skills. Our foreign competitors begin to sort young people out about the eighth grade level to determine who should go on to higher education and who should learn practical skills. We used to do that, providing basic vocational training to students, but that has gone by the wayside. Our schools today are focused almost entirely on youngsters who are college bound and that is absurd. Many of them are simply not academically inclined and many who do acquire sheepskins find little opportunity in the workplace.
Sometimes the old ways are the best ways. Down through the ages young people have learned valuable skills as apprentices -- working with older people who know the ropes and also convey the basic values of discipline, cooperation and commitment that underpin the effectiveness of any enterprise. It works in manufacturing and it works in the military. We need to get back to that approach.
Lt. Gen. Clarence E. "Mac" McKnight, Jr., (USA-Ret) is the author of "From Pigeons to Tweets: A General Who Led Dramatic Change in Military Communications", published by The History Publishing Company.
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Highest Learning
The Alliance has a rich legacy of education. It was our founder's desire to invest heavily in the preparation of those who were called to take the gospel to the ends of the earth. A missionary training institute was birthed. Later came regional colleges and seminaries that remain equally committed to equipping God's people for ministry in the world's diverse mission fields and marketplaces.
Alliance global staff are starting elementary schools in parts of the world where children otherwise would have little or no access to a decent education. Other staff are teaching in colleges and seminaries to help train the next generation of national church leaders. Still others are finding innovative ways to present the gospel to the growing number of "oral learners," people who are wired to soak up knowledge primarily through stories and other cultural art forms.
Learning is a necessarily sequential process. We crawl, then walk, then run. Each step builds on the previous. And that's a good thing. Otherwise, learning would be a cumbersome and discouraging process.
But sequential learning can have an unintended downside. Our overconfidence in familiar processes sometimes makes us immovable in our methods. Believing that our knowledge and experience better qualify us to discern how to carry out God's purposes, we often deny Him the joy of doing something truly remarkable in our midst.
Allow me one very personal example. Last month my family said its final farewells to my father, who lived with us for the last six years of his life. Bringing him into our home six years ago was not an easy call. Years of bitterness and estrangement raised considerable doubts as to whether my father and I could live under the same roof. All of my knowledge and experience shouted, "No way!
But God stepped in and did something extraordinary. He called us to live together in peace. Then He released the bitterness. Healed the wounds. Restored a family. Gave a dear old man a front row seat watching his grandchildren grow up. And granted a son the glorious honor of embracing his father as he passed into eternity.
Alliance family, may we never compromise our commitment to higher learning. But in the process, may we not lose sight of the Source of our highest learning. Father knows best. We seek Him first. It's that elementary.
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Alliance College Presidents Speak Out
Every Believer Is a Powerhouse
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Whose Ambassador Are You?
By Andrew Schaeffer
Embracing the Immigrant Waves
By Janet Root
The Printed Page
A Church's Vision
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December 21, 2021, 5:30 a.m.
Here's the latest for Tuesday December 21st: Omicron spreading quickly in US; January 6th Committee wants to speak to Republican Congressman; Democrats not giving up on $2T domestic policy bill; Strong earthquake along Northern California coast.
'Why has it taken 134 years?': First Nations in Manitoba, Ontario move closer to flood compensation
More than a decade after they began, negotiations on flood claim settlements between several First Nations in southeastern Manitoba and northwestern Ontario and the federal and provincial governments appear to be drawing to a close. But some are wondering what those settlements will mean for the First Nations affected — and why it's taken so long to address flooding caused by dams that were built over a century ago. "Why has it taken 134 years?" asks Chief John Thunder of Buffalo Point First Nat
Environment Canada warns winter storms headed for southern Ontario and Quebec
OTTAWA — Environment Canada is warning residents of southern Ontario and Quebec to brace for a winter storm, prompting some school boards to revisit their plans to reopen classrooms Monday. The federal forecaster says a low-pressure system around the Great Lakes could dump snow on parts of Ontario starting Sunday night, while a storm brewing in the United States is making its way to southern Quebec. Snowfall and storm warnings are in effect across much of Ontario, with regions including Niagara,
Omicron surge creates urgent need for health-care workers in Canada's North
The continued surge of the Omicron variant in Canada's North has created an urgent need for more health-care workers, especially in the most remote communities. Ottawa says help and supplies are on the way, but some places are still waiting.
Nova Scotia students return to in-person learning
After an extended winter break and a week of virtual learning because of the ongoing wave of COVID-19, Nova Scotia students returned to in-person learning on Monday. Nova Scotia is the first Atlantic province to return to classrooms, but joined the ranks of B.C., Alberta and Saskatchewan, which reopened schools earlier this month. Ontario and Quebec classrooms also reopened Monday. "[We] certainly understand that there's anxiety about what today was going to bring and how the next five days will
Baby dolphin trapped in fishing net rescued by a Police Officer
Officer Nelson Silva of our Marine Patrol Unit received a call of a dolphin in distress in the Shorecrest area. Officer Silva located a juvenile dolphin that was trapped in a fishing net. Watch the video to see how Officer Silva helped free the dolphin! Video credit Miami-Dade Police Department
N.B. COVID-19 roundup: 115 in hospital, 4 deaths recorded Sunday
Four deaths were reported as COVID-19 hospitalizations in New Brunswick jumped to 115 on Sunday. A person age 50 to 59 in the Saint John region, a person 60 to 69 in the Edmundston region and two people in the Bathurst region — one 60 to 69 and the other 70 to 79, died due to the virus, according to the province. It brings the total number of COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to 187. According to the online dashboard, there are 14 people in intensive care and four on ventilator
One of the most famous planes in B.C.'s history, a Martin Mars water bomber used to carry and drop vast amounts of water on wildfires, is for sale for $5 million. "The opportunity to purchase and preserve a unique part of aviation history is now available for the discerning buyer, or donor," says the listing from the California-based seller, Platinum Fighter Sales. The signature red and white plane, beloved by many throughout the province, was brought into service in the late 1950s as a powerful
7-year prison sentence for Island man who abused teenage girl
An Island man who sexually abused a teenage girl has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison. Nicholas James Gallant, 38, of Charlottetown pleaded guilty to two charges: sexual exploitation of a person age 14 to 18, and sexual touching. The incidents took place in Charlottetown over a period of time beginning around June, 2019. The victim's identity is protected by court order. Chief Provincial Court Judge Jeff Lantz handed down the seven-year prison sentence Dec. 20. Gallant had been in
COVID-19: O'Toole says Pfizer's Paxlovid shipment of 30,000 treatment courses is 'insufficient'
Conservative Party Leader Erin O'Toole reacted Monday to news Canada approved the Pfizer COVID-19 antiviral treatment Paxlovid, saying the shipment of 30,000 treatment courses was "insufficient." O'Toole said the government needs to "dramatically ramp up" the number of pills on order and get them out to the provinces immediately.
Montreal area realtor Emmanuel Samedy says he's never seen the market this tight, and it's pushing buyers to do things they may regret.
After Biden's first year, the virus and disunity rage on
WASHINGTON (AP) — From the inaugural platform, President Joe Biden saw American sickness on two fronts — a disease of the national spirit and the one from the rampaging coronavirus — and he saw hope, because leaders always must see that. "End this uncivil war," he implored Americans on Jan. 20, 2021. Of the pathogen, he said: "We can overcome this deadly virus." Neither malady has abated. For Biden, it's been a year of lofty ambitions grounded by the unrelenting pandemic, a tough hand in Congres


FOREIGN TRAVEL SCAMS- After telling the cab driver which hotel you want to go, he "shares" with you that the hotel is closed or usually overbooked or just not a nice place and because you are a nice American, Canadian, etc., he wants to steer you some place better (for which he will get a commission).
Experienced traveler Matthew Karsten advises "Call your hotel in advance and make sure they're open. Ask if they offer shuttle service and then schedule a pickup." If not, tell cabbie you have a reservation. Otherwise get out and call another cab.


Manufacturing Information Systems (MISys, Inc.): Welcome to TPAC in Vancouver BC.
I'm here in Vancouver BC with a couple of other MISys guys attending the annual TPAC (Third Party Access Conference) which, as its name implies, spotlights third-party application software designed to work with Sage ERP Accpac. Each year, software developers and Accpac business partners converge here for several days of sharing information related to extending Accpac into markets beyond core accounting.
Although MISys will be attending and promoting our manufacturing solution for a range of Sage accounting products (notably Peachtree accounting, Simply accounting, and Accpac) at the annual Sage Insights Conference scheduled for the Washington DC area on July 10-15, 2011, this TPAC conference affords us the ability to be in closer contact with the Accpac partners with whom we work all year.
Last summer, Sage announced its intention to reposition Accpac as a more horizontally oriented accounting system, while focusing on the newly-acquired Sage ERP X3 as the vertical solution of choice. Apparently X3 has a strong manufacturing component, but the fact remains that across most of the Accpac consulting world, "manufacturing" and "accpac" are spelled "MISys." We've worked hard over the past 25 years to create and maintain this close relationship with Sage and Accpac partners and to be regarded as the manufacturing system of choice for Sage Accpac ERP (now Sage ERP Accpac).
Even though Sage's reorganization has removed MISys from their corporate pricelist, sales of our Accpac-based manufacturing solution have actually spiked in recent months. There seems to be an enthusiastic group of Accpac consultants and VARs who understand and value MISys Manufacturing as the solution of choice for manufacturing companies seeking an integrated business management system. Today MISys enjoys its position as a Gold-level Development Partner.
Last week MISys completed a 4-part webinar series that explore the various points of integration between MISys Manufacturing and Sage ERP Accpac. If you missed attending these webinars, you will find streaming videos covering the same material on the MISys website at www.misysinc.com/accpac/.
Whether you are an Accpac partner or a manufacturing company looking over Sage Accpac ERP as a possible solution, we hope you'll take advantage of this valuable resource.
Again, go to www.misysinc.com/accpac/ for complete information about the Accpac manufacturing solution.


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The REAL Pittsburgh A.A. FAQ
Wednesday, April 5, 2006 - dr.bomb
The Frequently Asked Questions page on A.A.'s Pittsburgh Area Central Office website is pretty thin. While this wonderful organization within my backyard does claim to field questions the answers, from the very brief to just flat-out cliche-ridden nonsense, left a lot to be desired.
So, for the sake of Informed Consent, is the expanded version for those who really want to learn something about the organization before making a firm commitment to it. The original questions and answers are presented in blockquote italics with paragraphs of information for your enlightenment.
1. Am I an alcoholic?
If you repeatedly drink more than you intend or want to, if you get into trouble, or if you have memory lapses when you drink, you may be an alcoholic. Only you can decide. No one in A.A. will tell you whether you are or not.
Be careful with the word "alcoholic". It does not just refer to merely drinking a lot against one's own better judgment. According to The Buchmanese Lexicon (BD = Buchmanite Definition):
alcoholic (noun): BD: 1. Someone who habitually drinks far too much alcohol, 2. Someone who is hyper-sensitive to alcohol -- something like allergic to it -- perhaps because he inherited a gene -- and he is someone who will become readdicted to alcohol and go on a binge and drink for years if he drinks even just one beer, 3. An immoral person who is resentful, angry, manipulative, self-seeking, dishonest, selfish, and a prime example of instincts run wild, self-will run riot, and the Seven Deadly Sins... and on and on and on.... (kudos to Secret Agent Orange for those definitions) ...in reality: 1. A person who deliberately drinks alcoholic substances habitually and to excess just to feel that deeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep pleasure alcohol provides then rationalizes the choice for consumption by blaming other people, places and things for their own decision they themselves and nobody else put into action. 2. A believer in the philosophy that one is powerless over the decision and action to voluntarily consume alcohol and is dependent upon someone or something outside of themselves to make their decisions for them. i.e. One who switches from alcohol dependency to another dependency, absolving one's own personal responsibility for poor decision making prior, during and after the consumption of intoxicants in the process. (See alcoholism)
Of course no one in A.A. will tell you directly that to be an alcoholic means to be a devout adherent to the dogma of alcoholism, as practiced by A.A. itself just as a Catholic practices Catholicism. A.A. members are masters as being deliberately oblique regarding that fact. The double-bind is this as practiced within A.A: If one is there and states they have a drinking problem then they will think that they are a "problem drinker", a.k.a. an alcoholic. If one is unsure if they are a real alcoholic, as in one of the many true-believers within the rooms, then the claim is that the person is in denial, a sign that the person is an alcoholic nonetheless. In other words, no matter the circumstances, you must be one or you wouldn't be in that room to begin with.
Apologists for A.A. claim that the idea of being in denial is only a new idea and one which A.A. does not endorse along the lines that it isn't mentioned with the first sacred 164 pages of Alcoholics Anonymous. The fact is that A.A. does endorse that idea 100% and was still published within that book:
"Most emphatically we wish to say that any alcoholic capable of honestly facing his problems in the light of our experience can recover, provided he does not close his mind to all spiritual concepts. He can only be defeated by an attitude of intolerance or belligerent denial."
-- William Griffith Wilson, "Spiritual Experience", pp. 570 Alcoholics Anonymous (Third Edition)
The fact is that the idea of being in denial is not concerning the person's drinking problem. Only the individual knows for certain through their own ambivalence (they want to quit but feel that they can't) and by showing up at A.A. they believe that, through its own P.R., that it has the answer. The truth is that the person new to A.A. can see simply that it is intensely religious and A.A. does its part to claim that it's the newcomer's perception which is askew.
Certainly, if there is denial being practiced it is definitely being practiced by A.A. itself, especially concerning its religious trappings. A.A. will not admit that most who come to A.A. are aware of their drinking problem and want to learn how to quit without having some foreign philosophy imposed upon them.
As for the claim that "No one in A.A. will tell you whether you are or not" an alcoholic...
That is a lie!
That lie is proven by A.A.'s own book, Alcoholics Anonymous, within its "Story of Fred":
"He made up his mind to quit drinking altogether. It never occurred to him that perhaps he could not do so, in spite of his character and standing. Fred would not believe himself an alcoholic, much less accept a spiritual remedy for his problem. We told him what we knew about alcoholism."
-- William Griffith Wilson, "More About Alcoholism", pp. 39-40 Alcoholics Anonymous
And isn't it a little suspicious that this organization will literally talk people out of quitting drinking? You have every right to be suspicious. There will be more on that later for more will be revealed.
2. What happens at an A.A. meeting?
An A.A. meeting may take one of several forms, but at any meeting you will find alcoholics talking about what drinking did to their lives and personalities, what actions they took to help themselves, and how they are living their lives today.
An A.A. meeting is a form of ritualized protracted procrastination comprising of one big group circle jerk: Mutual masturbation for only not drinking for one day rather than quitting for good, going ALL IN, for one LIFETIME at a time. The membership gives witness to divine intervention, forms all sorts of complicated excuses for continued chemically-enhanced stupidity by doing their best to hide the real reason why they stayed loaded: Because it felt good!
Instead of quitting and moving on with a post-addiction life, those who remain become addicted to the group itself. A hierarchy is established in which one's rank is determined by how long ago they had their previous drink. The power structure is maintained by its rank and file, also known as oldtimers, who threaten that IF one doesn't do as the group dictates THEN that person will drink. In fact it is common for newcomers to be told that IF they don't want to be in A.A. THEN they can go to the bar instead. Very rarely, if ever, is one encouraged to just independently quit. In fact that's considered "going it alone" and is frowned upon within A.A
The nature of the recovery group movement, further dependency based in social cultism as the "cure" for substance dependency, is no accident. The book Alcoholics Anonymous even admits it:
"You say, "Yes, I'm willing. But am I to be consigned to a life where I shall be stupid, boring and glum, like some righteous people I see? I know I must get along without liquor, but how can I? Have you a sufficient substitute?"
Yes, there is a substitute and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous."
-- William Griffith Wilson, "A Vision For You", pp. 152 Alcoholics Anonymous
The truth is that life is wonderful after one resolves their addiction, indeed "curing" themselves, once and for all. When one quits for good they realize that it's A.A. which promotes the fear that life is meaningless either without alcohol (or any other recreational drug, for that matter) or without its meetings. Of course one will find the same old challenges and problems to solve but that's life and that's normal. It's just easier to handle life itself without the twin monkeys of addiction and "recovery" on one's back to complicate matters further.
For more details of what happens within the rooms I highly recommend reading Rebecca Fransway's "12-Step Horror Stories" (2000, See Sharp Press). It's the other side few ever read about within the corporate-owned/corporate-subsidised mass media (much less A.A. and its promotional front organizations).
3. Is A.A. a religious organization?
No. Nor is it allied with any religious organization.
How can the directive to "turn our will and our lives over to the care and direction of God" (Step 3) not be religious? Or how can "Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our contact with God" (Step 11) not be religious? According to the American Heritage Dictionary, prayer is this:
prayer n. 1.a. A reverent petition made to God, a god, or another object of worship. b. The act of making a reverent petition to God, a god, or another object of worship. 2. An act of communion with God, a god, or another object of worship, such as in devotion, confession, praise, or thanksgiving. 3. A specially worded form used to address God, a god, or another object of worship. 4. prayers. A religious observance in which praying predominates. 5.a. A fervent request. b. The thing requested. 6. The slightest chance or hope. 7. Law. a. The request of a complainant, as stated in a complaint or in equity, that the court grant the aid or relief solicited. b. The section of the complaint or bill that contains this request.
Even when it lies by hamfistedly using synonyms, as in claiming that A.A. and its "suggested" program of "recovery" is spiritual and not religious, such a simple fact cannot be refuted. Likewise, for a religious organization which claims not to be one and just a simple program, it's REAL purpose as stated within the book Alcoholics Anonymous proves this to be a lie:
"Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God and the people about us."
-- William Griffith Wilson, "Into Action", pp. 77 Alcoholics Anonymous
A.A. is a direct descendant of the Oxford Group Movement (OGM) in which renegade Lutheran minister Rev. Samuel Shoemaker helped to spread within the United States, where William Griffith Wilson and Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith were both members. Originally known as The Alcoholic Squadron, this sect of Buchmanism splintered from the OGM due to internal conflicts. Contributing to the split between The Alcoholic Squadron and the OGM would happen to be from the actual founder of the OGM, Dr Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman, who stated within a 1936 World-Telegram interview, "I thank Heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler..." The fallout from that interview with Buchman's praise of Hitler and fascism in general, all the better according to Buchman to bring the world under theocratic control, merited a name change of the OGM into Moral Re-Armament (MRA).
Quite the contrary to what A.A. members state, A.A. itself was never based upon any form of Christianity. Again, A.A. via cofounder William Griffith Wilson states:
"Early A.A. got it's ideas of self-examination, acknowledgement of character defects, restitution for harm done, and working with others straight from the Oxford Groups and directly from Sam Shoemaker, their former leader in America, and nowhere else."
-- William Griffith Wilson, pp. 39, Alcoholics Anonymous Comes Of Age
For more information on A.A.'s ties with the OGM/MRA, I highly recommend Charles Q. Bufe's Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult Or Cure? (1998, See Sharp Press) and Michael Lemanski's "A History Of Addiction And Recovery In The United States" (2001, See Sharp Press). Likewise, both also detail the hidden structure of A.A. regarding its numerous front groups which perform the promotion of A.A. which A.A. claims it doesn't engage in, such as the National Council on Alcoholism (now known as the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence), founded by A.A. member Margaret "Marty" Mann and A.A. apologist Elvin Morton Jelinek with both Wilson and Smith as primary board members during its formative years.
4. There's a lot of talk about God, though, isn't there?
The majority of A.A. members believe that we have found the solution to our drinking problem not through individual willpower, but through a power greater than ourselves. However, everyone defines this power as he or she wishes. Many people call it God, others think it is the A.A. group, still others don't believe in it at all. There is room in A.A. for people of all shades of belief and nonbelief.
First off, none of the membership has resolved their problem drinking but simply substituted one addiction for another: religomania for dipsomania. Ask any of them, point-blank, in regards to all of the problems their own over-indulgence in alcohol produced and ask them if they will ever drink again in this lifetime. The hostile and defensive reaction you'll receive will reveal the double-edged sword of the membership requirement as stated within A.A.'s Preamble: As long as they remain in profound self-doubt and ambivalence regarding their own behavior toward their habitual self-intoxication then they can claim that they merely want to stop...but for only one day. Which brings to mind if they know that it's wrong for them to drink just for today then why keep the option open for the day after?
Secondly, drinking alcohol is indeed a 100% volitional action based in individual willpower. Indeed, isn't one choosing between meeting attendance and drinking? Isn't the action of choice itself an affirmation of willpower? Anyone has the choice to drink or not just as they have the choice to dance or not. Unfortunately, due to A.A.'s indoctrination based upon pseudoscience, fascism-based religion of the OGM/MRA and many numerous conditions attached to their tentative daily abstinence from self-intoxication, the belief is that with so many things out there which can provide convenient excuses for drinking then actual permanent abstinence is considered impossible.
Which brings this brief discussion to God in A.A.: A.A. is itself practicing a distinctly monotheistic religion known as Buchmanism or, if you will within the context of A.A. itself, alcoholism. The irony is that A.A. considers that this God is the One with all power and should be sought out. Which begs the question: If this deity had "all power" then why even create this whole bureaucracy to begin with and let millions suffer a mere "daily reprieve" rather than be cured outright? The answer is that this deity of convenience, a product of the OGM/MRA and infused with the same fascistic leanings, is nothing more than another excuse for A.A. to use fear to keep its membership coming back. In this case, just as it has no information to teach people to quit drinking once and for all (as noted previously it does tell people to drink if they're skeptical), it leverages that fear by insinuating that it's the only thing which works. That means one has to endure a religious conversion for the goodies of abstinence, even if that "gift" is only for one day. Likewise, IF one doesn't keep their faith in A.A. in order THEN they will drink and die.
Regarding the claim that, "There is room in A.A. for people of all shades of belief and nonbelief."...
An entire chapter within the book Alcoholics Anonymous (Chapter Four: "We Agnostics"), a chapter which contains ZERO information on how to quit drinking, is nothing more than an extended rant by William Griffith Wilson denouncing anyone who may not accept Wilson's religion as being an agnostic or an atheist. The penalty for not believing what Wilson and A.A. believes is, of course, death:
"To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alternatives to face."
"At first some of us tried to avoid the issue, hoping against hope we were not true alcoholics. But after a while we had to face the fact that we must find a spiritual basis of life—or else."
-- William Griffith Wilson, "We Agnostics", pp. 44 Alcoholics Anonymous
Within the sequel to Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions, Wilson even details how he and his wonderful fellowship kicked out a man simply because that man didn't believe in Wilson's specific God. With that in mind, even a Christian who realizes that man does have the choice to sin or not would be regarded as an atheist or agnostic within the context of A.A.'s own religious fundamentalism (or someone to put aside their religion for awhile, for that matter).
Unfortunately, according to OGM/MRA dogma, one is considered powerless over sinning. That means, in light of A.A.'s First Step where Wilson simply replaced "alcohol" for "sin", one can never be redeemed. To be concerned about, marginally skeptical of or rejecting A.A.'s dogma outright is considered "blasphemy".
5. Can I bring my family to an A.A. meeting?
Family members or close friends are welcome at "Open" A.A. meetings. Discuss this with your local contact.
You could bring your family, but do you really want to? Realize that A.A. and its 12-Step clones are the de facto dumping ground for convicted felons, ranging from substance addicts, rapists and pedophiles (among others), from the judicial system. The rank and file, those with plenty of Time, have not resolved their addictions at all and have become much worse in regards to their new addiction to The Program. There are also those who simply go not to resolve any addiction at all but to take advantage of those who are new and know not what they're in for. A.A. is a conmans' paradise.
When realizing what a cesspool Buchmanism is, the best thing one can do is to keep their family away from it, especially away from its counterparts Al-Anon and AlaTeen. Speaking of Al-Anon, a simple thing to keep in mind is this simple formula:
A.A. = Alcoholics Anonymous = Al-Anon
It's the same thing, with the same 12-Steps, but targeted towards the problem drinker's family. Keep your family away from it, in all of its forms, or they may wind up getting hurt from Buchmanism's own government-coerced criminal element. In fact, I highly recommend NEVER sharing any personal information at ANY meetings whatsoever as well with those facts in mind.
6. What is a Home Group?
A home group is a meeting that you select to attend regularly and participate in the functions helping the group to operate to serve other alcoholics
What's not stated is the belief among the rank and file that IF A.A. were to go away THEN many of these so-called alcoholics will drink and die. It's an addiction itself when people feel they need to attend not for the sake of their own drinking problem but a twisting of morality through guilt. To them it's considered unconscionable to not have a home group which needs people to attend. Not for the sake of helping people quit drinking but to keep A.A. alive so that others can attend and be recruited.
7. What is a Sponsor?
A sponsor is a woman or man (preferably stick with the same sex) that will guide you through the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The sponsor is actually a proxy for A.A. itself: To act as if they were your friend if only for the sake of keeping you, the sponsee, in line. There are no rules to confidentiality with A.A. so, if the sponsor has a problem with you, they'll probably tell their sponsor, and so forth and so on. Conversely, since all of the sobriety is predicated on a series of conditions (IF...THEN...) to be fulfilled, IF you don't do as your sponsor a.k.a. A.A. proxy dictates THEN you will drink and die.
Likewise, knowing the criminal element which A.A. is largely composed of, more than likely you'll be conned. Just as you wouldn't want to bring your family to any 12-Step meeting or related function that recommendation goes DOUBLE for allowing even one of those degenerates into your life and your own home.
Finally, why the same sex rule? Because outside of the prevalent binge drinking and gossiping, sexual relationships occur frequently. Worse, rape is a de facto outcome regarding the populace within the rooms, where sex itself is an unbridled power play. For women, they are considered second-class citizens both from within and according to A.A.'s own outdated misogynistic dogma.
That's not to say that women within the rooms can't be as manipulative as the men. In general ALL of the rank and file cannot be trusted. Trust your own intuition. If something doesn't seem right then get out of there, pronto!
8. What is the Big Book?
This is our textbook that shares how thousands of people have had a daily reprieve from the disease of alcoholism.
The implication is that by referring to the book, Alcoholics Anonymous (its actual title), as a textbook is that it has some important educational merit in teaching people how to quit drinking. The fact is that there is no such advice to be found within its obsolete and sacred pages (especially the first 164 which A.A. refuses to change...not out of factual basis but since A.A. believes William Griffith Wilson to be "divinely inspired" regarding the authorship of such pages). However, there is explicit advice to try drinking again:
"We do not like to pronounce any individual as alcoholic, but you can quickly diagnose yourself. Step over to the nearest barroom and try some controlled drinking. Try to drink and stop abruptly. Try it more than once. It will not take long for you to decide, if you are honest with yourself about it. It may be worth a bad case of jitters if you get a full knowledge of your condition."
And, if you should pass that test by not having "jitters", A.A. will congratulate you in your return to moderate drinking:
"If anyone who is showing inability to control his drinking can do the right- about-face and drink like a gentleman, our hats are off to him."
-- William Griffith Wilson, "More About Alcoholism", pp. 31 Alcoholics Anonymous
Again, from an organization which claims to be abstinence-oriented and where many felons are mandated by the judicial system to attend, isn't it suspicious for A.A. to tell people to try drinking again (much less celebrating that fact)? From my own personal experience I've personally witnessed people being told during meetings to go out and drink if they happen to disagree with any of A.A.'s dogma. It appears that A.A. is the FIRST moderate drinking organization.
Likewise, as with a previous quote above, a contradiction is revealed within A.A.'s own divinely-inspired propaganda: A.A. states that it doesn't diagnose alcoholism and yet they did that with Fred while he was in the hospital recuperating from his own overindulgence in alcohol. That's not education. That's indoctrination.
As for the "disease" of alcoholism, there is no pathological evidence of one. Despite Margaret "Marty" Mann's claim:
"I wasn't mad or vicious—I was a sick person. I was suffering from an actual disease that had a name and symptoms like diabetes or cancer or TB--and a disease was respectable, not a moral stigma!"
-- Marty Mann, "Women Suffer Too", pp. 227 Alcoholics Anonymous (Third Edition)
(.PDF-linked articles from Microsoft Encarta Deluxe 2004)
...when one actually reads about what diabetes, cancer and TB actually is (much less human disease in general), her analogy falls to pieces. It doesn't matter if you have an entire organization and its membership parrot the same lie for truth and fact is not made "true" via consensus just as if all of them parroted that "2+2=5".
The whole idea behind the disease mythology is to simply destigmatize chemically-enhanced stupidity. While one can't really live down the mythological disease nonsense when one is literally a minority of one within the rooms, one can do something about stupidity: You learn from your mistakes, choose to quit being such a self-indulgent ass and wise up. You probably even did some very stupid things while drunk as a skunk. You can choose to live smarter and simply preserve your better judgment by never drinking/drugging again.
There is no disease called alcoholism or addiction, therefore there is no excuse to drink against your own better judgment.
9. What is the 12 & 12?
This is a book that can be purchased at your local meeting. It explains the 12 steps and the 12 traditions of Alcoholics Anonymous.
The book, which is entitled Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions, even contains some very dark passages which detail how to kick people out who choose not to abide by A.A.'s spirituality, nevermind the fact that they clearly want to learn how to quit drinking. "The Story Of Ed", detailed in pp. 143-145 within the essay on the Third Tradition, describes how Wilson and his lackeys kicked Ed out not because of his drinking problem but because he didn't accept Wilson's theology.
This book, the sequel to Alcoholics Anonymous and written by William Griffith Wilson in the middle of his eleven-year depression, is not as politically correct as its predecessor. Much of Alcoholics Anonymous's content was corrected not to be as offensive towards Catholics, especially in light of the Vatican denouncing the OGM in light of Buchman's pro-Hitler remarks. As A.A. became accepted within society as its ties with OGM/MRA were forgotten or covered up accordingly, Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions was much more brash in its outright bigotry towards those who wanted to quit drinking but could not accept its theology:
"To the doubters we could say, "Perhaps you're not an alcoholic after all. Why don't you try some more controlled drinking, bearing in mind meanwhile what we have told you about alcoholism?""
-- William Griffith Wilson, "Step One", pp. 23, Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions
Again, one should be suspicious of any organization which claims to be pro-abstinence yet tells people who have some healthy skepticism towards the dogma in question to drink more.
10. How do I join A.A.?
You are an A.A. member if and when you say so. The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking, and many of us were not very wholehearted about that when we first approached A.A.
Note the arrogance of the group proclamation that "many of us were not very wholehearted about that" regarding one's desire to stop drinking. The truth is, according to Charles Bufe's Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult Or Cure?, that at least 60% of people in A.A. were coerced by the medical profession and the criminal justice system into attending A.A. Coercion is now A.A.'s primary source for new members and, regarding the criminal justice system, that coercion is literally at gunpoint.
Quitting drinking and attending A.A. are two completely different activities. In my case, I thought that A.A. would teach me how to quit. Years later, as I revisit A.A.'s material and look back at those events in my life within the rooms where I though the answer was there, I realize now that A.A. has never had any intention of teaching people how to quit. Blinded by desperation I believed the lies. After all, when one learns how to quit one can't meet A.A.'s requirement of possessing the "desire to stop drinking" because one simply has decided to NEVER drink again. Conversely, people who want to drink again also can't meet A.A.'s membership requirement for they also have no desire to stop either.
What A.A. teaches in lieu of the skill of abstinence is to instill profound self-doubt to the point one that one's own self-confidence is wrecked. Uncertainty is what A.A. capitalizes upon as it teaches its membership that their own confidence is a liability and that the future is always unknown. Never, when one says that they'll never drink again, will they be supported by the organization. Instead the person will be told that they'll drink again and to "keep coming back"...or else.
That's not support. That's sabotage.
11. If I go to A.A., does that commit me to anything?
No. A.A. does not keep membership files, or attendance records. You do not have to reveal anything about yourself. No one will bother you if you don't want to come back.
True. No one will bother you as long as you're perceived to be outside A.A. instead of inside A.A. A.A. will do what it can to shun those who reject its dogma while encouraging those who embrace and internalize it. After all, who is going to evangelize A.A. via the Twelfth Step? A dissenter? As for those who've had significant time within the rooms, the rank and file will perceive something is wrong with that individual and attempt (in vain) to win that person back into the fold. Since A.A. can't find out about anyone's whereabouts, newcomer and former oldtimer alike, fantasies and gossip based in ill-will runs rampant.
Likewise, the more one trusts A.A. the more one will have the tendency to reveal more about themselves and their life. Usually through A.A.'s proxy, a sponsor, that information will be disseminated, as there is no confidentiality within the rooms for each and every meeting is public for the sake of attracting potential walk-ins. While one is given the directive of "what's said in the rooms stays in the rooms", that statement rings hollow as gossip about the demise of former members and their own exploits is usually issued by oldtimers as a series of examples of what happens when A.A.'s doctrines are not followed.
Then there are the apologists: Those who know the facts and horrors of A.A. but still cling upon the mishappen idea that A.A. "helps" people or excusing it with "whatever works". A.A. loves apologists for no matter how critical they may appear to be they'll still repeat the lie that A.A., despite its "flaws", is still a good abstinence-based organization. And besides, the apologists who create programs of their own which involve meetings are not The Real Thing, which is A.A. Apparently, the unspoken rule is to speak good things of A.A. no matter what...or else! Not that A.A. will give an apologist the time of day, though.
12. What happens if I meet people I know?
They will be there for the same reason you are there. They will not disclose your identity to outsiders. At A.A. you retain as much anonymity as you wish. That is one of the reasons we call ourselves Alcoholics Anonymous.
How does A.A. know that one's identity will not be disclosed? If disclosure does result, what form of enforcement is in place to reprimand errant members short of the threat of drunken debauchery? The fact of the matter is that A.A. does not govern over its membership and groups. This fact is stated within the short version of Tradition Two and within the long form of Tradition Nine:
Tradition Two: "For our group purpose there is but one ultimate authority—a loving God as He may express Himself in our group conscience. Our leaders are but trusted servants; they do not govern." (emphasis added)
"All such representatives are to be guided in the spirit of service, for true leaders in A.A. are but trusted and experienced servants of the whole. They derive no real authority from their titles; they do not govern." (emphasis added)
-- William Griffith Wilson, "Traditions— Long Form", pp. 191-192, Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions
In other words, the Traditions are just for show: To present the appearance of a standard for ethical conduct which flat-out contradicts itself. What good are the Traditions when they will NEVER be enforced?
Besides, the real reason for A.A. anonyminity is this: Most of its evangelizing ("Twelfth-Stepping") members in its early days went back to their drunken ways. Ebby Thatcher, William Griffith Wilson's sponsor, went back to bottle. So did Russell Firestone and Morgan R, two early A.A. proselytizers. And, of note, most of the writers of the stories within the First Edition of the book Alcoholics Anonymous. In fact, A.A. was such a failure that even Wilson admitted it during the memorial service of Dr. Robert Holbrook Smith:
"You have no conception these days of how much failure we had. You had to cull over hundreds of these drunks to get a handful to take the bait."
Bill Wilson's Speech at the Memorial Service for Dr. Bob, Nov. 15, 1952
An internal A.A. memo, recently published online after roughly fifteen years, disclosing the composition of A.A.'s abstinence time showed that members with lots of abstinent time are rare. In fact, that very memo discloses much more, such as up to 95% of newcomers leave within the first year. Of those who remain, only half of them will even approach five years of "long-term" abstinence within the rooms. If there's anything which can be proven is that A.A. has been and always will be an outright failure.
No wonder its membership remains anonymous! Would you want to be personally associated with an outright failure of a so-called "quit-drinking" program?
If you've been introduced to A.A. and are skeptical of it, that's your better judgment kicking in. Trust yourself! If you do meet someone you know who is in A.A., do them a big favor and let them know the truth about A.A. and that you can provide them with information which A.A. chooses not to disclose up front, especially the fact that most people with do make it on their own, WITHOUT A.A.
Articles: (more available here)
Lies Recited At Most A.A. Meetings - The beginning of the Fifth Chapter ("How It Works") within the book Alcoholics Anonymous is chock full of lies.
12-Step Assumptions and Fallacies - Witness how the 12-Steps can turn someone into a fear-filled true believer. Also check out the analysis of the 12-Steps in the online versions of Chas Bufe's Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult Or Cure and Ken Ragge's The Real A.A.: Behind The Myth Of 12-Step Recovery.
The Big Pro-Addiction Swindle - More facts and tons of quotes from Alcoholics Anonymous and Twelve Steps And Twelve Traditions proving that A.A. has no interest in teaching people how to self-recover from addiction.
Disease Or Doctrine? - The entire disease mythology of addiction is debunked, using a copy of Micro$quish Encarta and Alcoholics Anonymous no less.
Books: (more available here)
Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult Or Cure? by Charles Bufe (available online)
The first critical history/analysis of A.A. ever published in book form. Well-researched, painstakingly documented. The greatly expanded second edition includes a new chapter on the treatment industry plus new appendixes on coerced A.A. attendance and the secular alternatives to A.A. [Actually, the REAL alternative to A.A. is just quit drinking once and for all for one LIFETIME at a time by NEVER putting alcohol into your body again. Anything less is just procrastination. --ed]
The Real A.A.: Behind The Myth Of 12-Step Recovery by Ken Ragge (available online)
Without doubt the best description/analysis of the A.A. indoctrination process ever written, and an excellent compliment to Charles Bufe's Alcoholics Anonymous: Cult Or Cure? Where Bufe concentrates on history and ideology, Ragge concentrates on psychology.
Rational Recovery: The New Cure For Substance Addiction by Jack Trimpey (website)
Simply the best book which describes and teaches how a person can self-recover from substance addiction without treatment, shrinks or meetings.
Twelve Step Horror Stories: True Tales of Misery, Betrayal and Abuse in NA, A.A. and 12-Step Treatment edited by Rebecca Fransway, Ed. (available online)
Full uncensored stories detailing the dark side of addiction "treatment" and meetings.
Websites: (more available here)
The Orange Papers: The definitive and very scholarly website which deconstructs A.A. and provides a wealth of detail regarding that organization's history and (lack of) effectiveness.
More Revealed: Ken Ragge's website which features online books for your research needs regarding the truth about A.A.
Rational Recovery: All you need to cure yourself of substance addiction once and for all is right here! :-)
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Tonle Bassac Commune
After achieving independence in late 1953, Cambodia was faced with some serious problems in terms of transportation, the lack of a practical port that could handle large vessels.
In the period prior to the French protectorate, King Ang Duong had a very good and straight road built between the-then capital, Oudong, and Kampot which is on a river adjacent to the south coast and the sea. In more ancient times a route had existed between the Mekong delta and the various capitals which came in to being further inland in the Khmer Empire. Obviously this route still exists, but even when ostensibly under Khmer control in the 17th century, Portuguese missionaries noted that it was far from safe, and the mouth of the river was apparently controlled by a treacherous Indian pirate. With control of the delta area shifting to the ever south-spreading Vietnamese in the late 18th century, things became more difficult so the port at Kampot was developed.
During the near-century of the French protectorate, and colonization of adjacent Vietnam and Laos, most trade went through Saigon, Cambodia remained a backwater during the period and saw relatively little progress in terms of development compared to its eastern neighbor.
After independence, which it has to be said was a very gentle transition in contrast to events in nearby Vietnam, Cambodia managed to remain on good terms with the French. As the route from the delta to the Phnom Penh port went through an often volatile South Vietnam, and relations were not always as good as often reported, the new government needed a new route for exports and imports that was not so dependent on external events. The idea of using the Phnom Penh to Bangkok railway, which did actually run a straight-through route for a couple of brief periods, was entertained, but this didn't get away from the problem of dependence on other countries.
The solution that was eventually put into place was the port at Sihanoukville, built with French aid, and the Khmer-American Friendship highway which linked this once-remote area with Phnom Penh. A railway was later built with Chinese aid, but that's another story. In the meantime, before the new port and links to the capital were finished, something else needed to be done.
The port on the river in Phnom Penh had only been able to handle relatively small ships, so an Office of Dredging was set up. Their mission was to constantly dredge the Tonle Sap River, both at the port and the area down-river. One of the perhaps unplanned results of this was the creation of 700 hectares of land around Phnom Penh, some previously swampy or flood-prone land, but much of it where there was once a river. Sothearous Boulevard used to run along the river front, if you look at it now its hundreds of meters from any large body of water. All the land to the east of Sothearous Boulevard was actually river up until the late 1950s.
If you study the old maps it also appears that Koh Pich or Diamond Island, was not originally an island at all. It is also land reclaimed from the Bassac River. What happened was that as the Bassac River was filled in to create the land where the parks, casino and new National assembly and Australian embassy now stand, a channel was left between this reclaimed land and the other part. The main course of the Bassac River was changed and cut through the top of the peninsula where Chhba Ampul, across the Monivong Bridge is now. At the northern part of this peninsula you can see evidence of this where roads which were once much longer now suddenly stop and drop into the river.
Part of what was prime, flat, reclaimed land with an unbroken view and breeze coming off the nearby rivers was developed in the early 1960s. It was built around the same time as Olympic Stadium, and designed by the same architect, Van Molyvann. At first it was planned as housing for visiting athletes for the 1966 Ganefo Games, a short-lived Asian alternative to the Olympics,
but ended up more as affordable housing for civil servants. There were two parallel long blocks of five-story apartments. They looked very smart and had nice open spaces with trees around them. Nowadays it is hard to imagine what they originally looked like.
Most current residents would recognize the scruffy-looking White Building, or Boudeng as it's often called by locals. What many people don't realize is that the nearby, modern-looking Phnom Penh Center was once its sister Gray Building. Ironically the white building is now gray through neglect, while the gray one is now painted white. Quite different in its original construction, the Gray Building was rebuilt in the early 1990s into the more regular square-shaped office block shape we know today. Pictures from that time show the area having still having many open spaces. By the end of that 1990s this was not the case, and a giant shanty-town had spread out between all around the buildings and adjacent areas. No-one really cared about this land for a long time, it was a dirty lawless slum and continued to be till fairly recently. The area was staunchly pro-ruling party, in a city that wasn't always reliable in that regard. Any sign of trouble and the Tonle Bassac crew could be relied on to lend a hand. This became less important over the years though, and as investment mushroomed in Cambodia, land became hugely valuable. At the same time I'd imagine that there were decisions made to get rid of many of the slums around town, perhaps because besides being eyesores they were lawless places which a lot of crime in the city emanated from.
The triangular patch of slum between Boudeng and Sothearous Boulevard went up in flames sometime in 2003, in rather suspicious circumstances. Not in any way related was the statement later in the year by the city governor that arson was no longer an acceptable way to deal with disputes over property. The slums around there weren't actually as bad as they often initially appeared. They had streets, barbers, grocery shops, cafes and all sorts of other businesses going on, and were very vibrant rather than in any way threatening during the day. I only ever went there at night with friends who lived there and wouldn't have ever wandered in there alone. No big deal, the most obvious difference was the amount of kids sniffing glue around the alleyways; I guess they'd spent all day out strolling in the traffic in town.
It's all completely gone now, the inhabitants have been moved to districts on the edge of the city, sometimes given plots of land and/or compensation, other times not, especially for those who tried to hang in too long and push for too much compensation, or those who couldn't for one reason or another prove they had any right to live there. There were promises made to the occupants of this area and other places around the country concerning ownership or rights to stay in homes they had occupied for more than a certain number of years, but these promises later turned out to be empty.
The development of the area has been slow. The adjoining Koh Pich has seen a lot of construction, but other than the new Australian Embassy, not much other than a few new roads have been built on where all those slums once were. Little other than green metal-fences can be seen, with attendant security guards.
The picture of the village militia training in 1993 is by Roland Neveu.
The Cambodian Living Arts picture, one of my favorite pictures ever, is by Isabelle Lesser.
Labels: boudeng, evictions, militia, new khmer architecture, tonle bassac, urbanization, van molyvann
Location: 25Z Blvd Samdach Sothearos, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Thank you. It really pains me that nobody seems to comment, when you put so much work into these posts. They're appreciated.
Phnom Penh past said...
No worries, most people probably just read it and don't comment, and besides, I only put it up yesterday!
zetacarlotta said...
Thanks. really interesting to read the whole story. What I can't understand is if the Grey Building (that now is yellow) was destroyed and then rebuilt or just restored. I talked with people living in the WhiteBuilding and they told me they never destroyed it, but it's hard for me to see the shape of the grey building in it.
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Q: how to make sure at least one field is not empty?(its ok if only one is not empty) I'm writing a registration endpoint for an api i'm working on and i'm using nestjs and class-validator to validate the input data.
The user can register using either their phone number or email address or both. So to validate the input, I should make sure that at least one of them is provided. But I'm having a hard time figuring out how to do it without making a mess.
This is my dto:
export class register {
  @ApiModelProperty()
  @IsNotEmpty()
  @IsAlpha()
  firstName: string

  @ApiModelProperty()
  @IsNotEmpty()
  @IsAlpha()
  lastName: string

  @ApiModelProperty()
  @ValidateIf(o => o.email == undefined)
  @IsNotEmpty()
  @isIRMobile()
  phone: string

  @ApiModelProperty()
  @ValidateIf(o => o.phone == undefined)
  @IsNotEmpty()
  @IsEmail()
  email: string

  @ApiModelProperty()
  @IsNotEmpty()
  password: string
}

As you can see, i've used conditional validation which works for the cases that only one of phone number or email address is provided. But the problem is that when both are provided, one of them won't be validated and an invalid value will be allowed.
Any suggestions?

A: I think you just need to add
@ValidateIf(o => o.email == undefined || o.phone)
phone: string

and
@ValidateIf(o => o.phone == undefined || o.email)
email: string

EDITED
A small addition
I'd suggest validating like this:
@ValidateIf(o => !o.email || o.phone)
phone: string

@ValidateIf(o => !o.phone || o.email)
email: string

to properly handle null, 0 and "" (empty string)
otherwise, this will be correct as well (it shouldn't be):
const data = new register();
data.phone = '';
data.email = '';

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Paramount Pictures bringing 'The Partridge Family' to the big screen
Brian B.
The Partridge Family: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Pictures' shopping spree for popular television series to adapt for the big screen continues as the studio has bought feature film rights to hit series "The Partridge Family," which aired on ABC.
Paramount optioned the rights from TV writer/playwright Bernard Slade, who created the original series. Slade will executive produce the feature, which is out to writers.
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July 20 will mark the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11, the first space mission to put people on the moon. For this feature, we rounded up forthcoming, recent, and reissued adult and children's books pegged to the watershed achievement, and spoke with the authors of five current titles.
Narrative histories, memoirs, biographies, photo collections, and more bring space exploration down to earth for adult readers.
The SF anthology 'The Eagle Has Landed,' which Clarke edited, looks at 50 years of post–lunar landing fiction.
Atkinson, author of 'Eight Years to the Moon,' discusses the legacy of Apollo 11.
Children's publishers celebrate the moon landing and other feats, both real and imagined, of space exploration.
In 'Destination: Moon,' Simon, the author of more than 300 books for young readers, looks at the science and technology that made the lunar landing possible.
The mother-daughter authors discusses how their new picture book, 'A Kite for Moon,' went through several phases before lift-off.
Retired NASA astronaut Scott Kelly chronicled his high-flying adventures for picture book readers in 'My Journey to the Stars,' now available in Step into Reading editions.


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Slide Show: Cruise Night car of the week Q & A
By Barbaraellen Koch
Stephen Pendola, 68, of Center Moriches owns the News-Review Cruise Night Car of the Week for Sept. 15's show. Scroll down for photos and to see what he had to say about his 1970 Chevrolet Monte Carlo Club Coupe. The 3.5L V8 muscle car still has the original 350 cubic inch motor with a 325 horsepower engine.
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1) When did you get the car?
I bought the car in 1994 from Wally Schaefer in Mattituck. He did the roll cage on my son William Anthony's race car. My son saw it in the garage and called me up and said you have to buy this car. I always wanted one of these. I didn't even start it or drive it, I just picked it up.
2) What shape was it in?
It was in good condition. But it was a family car more than anything else. I made it into a muscle car.
3) What was the biggest challenge in restoring it, and did you do the work yourself?
I don't know. I wanted to beef up the horsepower so my son put a 3,000 stall speed converter and also changed the gear ratios in the rear from 308 to 355. With 355's the car gets up and goes faster. He also took out the points and put in an Eccel electronic ignition. That way it doesn't overheat. My son William Anthony, who passed away earlier this year, did all the mechanical work. He was an excellent mechanic who could do anything. There wasn't anything he couldn't tackle. He had hands of gold and was a great race driver.
4) What's your favorite thing/feature on the car?
I guess I like the way it looks. It had the original vinyl roof and interior. The color is neon blue- the original paint color and I had it repainted at Croce Body Shop in East Moriches. It had 71,000 miles when I bought it and now it has 93,000.
5) What was the first car you owned, make and model?
It was a 1957 Dodge Coronet. I bought that when I was 20 years old in 1963. I just got married to my wife, Ann. I paid $350 for it and kept it for a year. Then I bought a 1958 Chevy Biscayne.
BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Stephen Pendola holds a photograph of him and his late son, William Anthony Pendola, in front of his son's race car. His son used to drag race in Westhampton.
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ROCKYBROOK SINKERS SIGNS BASS ELITE ANGLER
Morgantown, WV - RockyBrook Sinkers (RBS) announced today it has reached a sponsorship agreement with professional angler Kenneth "Boo" Woods www.boowoodsfishing.com from Hazard, Kentucky, beginning with the 2014 season.
"I'm proud to have Boo as part of our team" said Brook Pauley, owner of RBS, "He's an upstanding individual who works hard on and off the water".
Pauley met Woods while fishing as a Co-angler on the FLW Tour. The two drew each other in a BASS Northern Open event on Lake Oneida last year which ultimately lead to the sponsorship deal.
"It was a good opportunity to spend the entire day with Boo and to see how he reacted to the ups and downs that a tournament day brings' said Pauley, "That's important to a sponsor. You want an angler who is going to represent your company in a positive manner at all times no matter how their day is going".
Woods qualified to fish the 2014 BASS Elite Series through the 2013 BASS Northern Opens. He is also a fishing guide on Lake Okeechobee in the off season. Woods will fish out of a Ranger Z520C pulled by a Dodge Ram Pickup. Both rigs will be wrapped with RBS graphics by H2O HydroWrap of Hendersonville, Tennessee.
"I've been working hard to get to this point in my fishing career" said Woods, "after fishing both the FLW Tour and BASS Opens the last few years I feel that it's time to make the move to the Elites. I'm very fortunate to sign a title sponsor like RBS. They understand the fishing industry and the hard work that it takes to be successful in it. I've been using RBS drop shot weights for the last couple years and it's a product I have confidence in and am proud to represent".
RBS makes a limestone sinker that caters to every type of fishing. Their most popular bass fishing sinkers are the 3/16, ¼, 3/8 and ½ ounce drop shot weights. Because of their unique shape and size they don't snag nearly as much as conventional weights. RBS are currently available in Walmart, Cabelas, Dick's Sporting Goods and online at www.rockybrooksinkers.com.
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Q: OpenConnect not able to reach VPN-only destinations To connect to my client's corporate network, I have been using the Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client, and this works fine but does not seem to allow me to use split tunneling (despite the fact that the VPN itself, according to the app's Statistics tab, has Tunnel Mode (IPv4): Split Include, which to my understanding should mean I can). (Yes, I understand why split tunneling can be dangerous, but the VPN's lockdown is interfering with my work and my client's IT department is uninterested in making exceptions for a contractor—and like I said, the configuration seems to allow it.)
Trying to find a way to get split tunneling to work, I've installed OpenConnect instead, and that connects just fine—it accepts my credentials, I see the company's "banner" message in the log, it works. But none of the destinations that I can access only through the VPN work.
I suspect the problem is with the routes. Both AnyConnect and OpenConnect add a number of routes to particular network destinations (the same ones), but have different values for Gateway and Interface. For an example,
AnyConnect
===========================================================================
Interface List
 14...00 05 9a 3c 7a 00 ......Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client Virtual Miniport Adapter for Windows x64
[...]
===========================================================================

IPv4 Route Table
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0      192.168.1.1    192.168.1.151     35
[...]
          a.b.c.x  255.255.255.255         On-link           a.b.c.d      2
          a.b.c.y  255.255.255.255         On-link           a.b.c.d      2
          a.b.c.z  255.255.255.255         On-link           a.b.c.d      2
[...]
      192.168.1.1  255.255.255.255         On-link     192.168.1.151     36
[...]
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0         On-link           a.b.c.d  10000
[...]
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255         On-link           a.b.c.d  10000

OpenConnect
Interface List
[...]
 63...00 ff 8d 2a 8a 57 ......TAP-Windows Adapter V9
[...]
===========================================================================

IPv4 Route Table
===========================================================================
Active Routes:
Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
          0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0      192.168.1.1    192.168.1.151     36
[...]
          a.b.c.x  255.255.255.255      a.b.c.(d+1)    192.168.1.151     36
          a.b.c.y  255.255.255.255      a.b.c.(d+1)    192.168.1.151     36
          a.b.c.z  255.255.255.255      a.b.c.(d+1)    192.168.1.151     36
[...]
        224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0         On-link           a.b.c.d    291
[...]
  255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255         On-link           a.b.c.d    291

Aside from the 0.0.0.0 route, all of these routes are added by connecting to the VPN. For 0.0.0.0, OpenConnect changes the Metric for route 0.0.0.0 to 36 (the values shown in the AnyConnect table are also the same as when I'm disconnected entirely). (For the record, AnyConnect also removes several IPv6 routes, which OpenConnect leaves alone—I don't think this matters?)
To contrast the additions explicitly, AnyConnect uses "On-link" for the Gateway, while OpenConnect uses an IP address that is almost the same as what AnyConnect uses for Interface. For Interface, OpenConnect uses a private IP address. The IP addresses used for AnyConnect's Interface and OpenConnect's Gateway are in a range the client owns.
The metrics are also different—AnyConnect uses 2, which is higher priority than my 0.0.0.0 route (set to 35 when disconnected or connected via AnyConnect), while OpenConnect uses 36—and also changes my 0.0.0.0 route to use 36, so the priority is the same (all other routes on my system use a Metric higher than 36, for the record).
AnyConnect also adds a route for 192.168.1.1, to 192.168.1.151, which is what OpenConnect uses for the Interface. This is the only route that one has and the other lacks.
Both also add routes for 224.0.0.0 and 255.255.255.255, but AnyConnect uses a Metric of 10000 (higher than any other route), while OpenConnect uses 291 (higher than any other addition but lower than some other, existing routes I had before connecting). Interestingly, OpenConnect uses the same Gateway and Interface that AnyConnect does for those two routes, despite using different values for all the other routes.
This is on a Windows 10 Pro x64 machine. Cisco AnyConnect is Version 4.5.03040; OpenConnect GUI is "Version 1.5.3 (32 bit) [...] Based on OpenConnect v7.08."
I don't really know that much about routing or VPNs; even coming by this much information took a lot of searching and reading. I didn't even know the term "split tunneling" before starting this. A lot of the information out there is outdated, too—Windows 10 doesn't offer a "Use default gateway on remote network" option to uncheck as a lot of other answers here and elsewhere recommend for split tunneling under AnyConnect. I don't know if there are other pertinent details I can provide, but I'm certainly happy to if anything else is needed. Obviously, I've been trying to mask my client's IP addresses, but I don't think the specific address should matter much here (I don't know that there's any reason to mask them either, but it's not my information to share so I'm not).

A: I was correct that the routes were the issue. It took a lot of trial and error to get right, but eventually updating the routes manually after connecting worked.
Strangely, route CHANGE didn't work; I had to use route ADD, even though as far as I can tell these routes already existed after I connected. I used the same destination, mask, and gateway, and then METRIC 2 IF 17 (since the "TAP-Windows adapter V9" interface was using 17—I suspect it will change with each restart? disconnecting and reconnecting seems to use 17 consistently for now but as you can see in the question it was using 63 then). After doing this, there were two entries listed in route PRINT for that destination (the one added by OpenConnect and the one I added), and it allowed me to connect.
What I consider absolutely bizarre, though, is that my newly-added route has a Metric of 37—not the 2 I put in the route ADD command, and greater than the 36 that the existing entry had. But whatever, it works.
Luckily, our project maintains a hosts file (for developers to copy into their own hosts file when they start working on it, and that our build tools check against), so I was able to write a batch script to adjust the routes. For the sake of anyone else looking to do this, my batch script looks like this
FOR /F "tokens=1" %%i IN (\path\to\our\development\hosts) DO (
    route ADD %%i MASK 255.255.255.255 a.b.c.d METRIC 2 IF 17
)

The hosts file format is the same as that of the system file: a.b.c.d URL. This script doesn't support comments (though I imagine the route ADD will simply fail) and I don't know if blank lines will be a problem or not (but again, probably just a failed route ADD).
I will probably have to adjust it for that 17 since I suspect that will not be constant; when that comes up, I'll look into how to determine what it is and use a variable for it instead. (And I'll update this answer, too.)

A: Base on KRyan's answer I modified my openconnect script (vpnc-script.js in the openconnect gui folder!) like this and it helped me in a similar situation:
for (var i = 0 ; i < parseInt(env("CISCO_SPLIT_INC")); i++) {
        var network = env("CISCO_SPLIT_INC_" + i + "_ADDR");
        var netmask = env("CISCO_SPLIT_INC_" + i + "_MASK");
        var netmasklen = env("CISCO_SPLIT_INC_" + i + "_MASKLEN");
        exec("route add " + network + " mask " + netmask);
    }

=>
for (var i = 0 ; i < parseInt(env("CISCO_SPLIT_INC")); i++) {
        var network = env("CISCO_SPLIT_INC_" + i + "_ADDR");
        var netmask = env("CISCO_SPLIT_INC_" + i + "_MASK");
        var netmasklen = env("CISCO_SPLIT_INC_" + i + "_MASKLEN");
        exec("route add " + network + " mask " + netmask + " " + internal_gw+" metric 2 if "+env("TUNIDX"));
    }

(line 175)
The bug in my opinion is here:
// Calculate the first usable address in subnet
var internal_gw_array = new Array(
    address_array[0] & netmask_array[0],
    address_array[1] & netmask_array[1],
    address_array[2] & netmask_array[2],
    (address_array[3] & netmask_array[3]) + 1
);
var internal_gw = internal_gw_array.join(".");

With a netmask of 255.255.255.255 for my internal IP passed in by var netmask_array = env("INTERNAL_IP4_NETMASK").split("."); , this gateway trick (ultimately a route goes to an interface, the gateway ip is pointless here) seems to fail

A: Not that you haven't already figured out something that works, but you seem to misunderstand how route metrics are used. They are really only a tie-breaker in a very specific circumstance. Quoting the linked answer:

Route selection on windows, involves:

*

*Finding the most specific routes to the destination

*Selecting the most specific route with the lowest metric.

And if you want to make your script less fragile, you can programmatically determine the interface number.


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ATLANTIC CITY – Hours of peaceful protests in front of the Atlantic City Police Station turned violent Sunday evening at about the same time community leaders held a virtual candlelight vigil for the death of George Floyd last week in Minnesota.
The scene was replayed in numerous cities in New Jersey and around the country, with peaceful protesters complaining their efforts to spotlight police brutality is being marred by the violence. Media reports said demonstrations went on peacefully for at least four hours and many of those attending had left when violence broke out, mostly damaging the Tanger Outlet stores.
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"Unfortunately, the peaceful protest that took place earlier by many has transitioned to criminal activity now taking place by a few," the Atlantic City Police Department said in a Twitter post at 6:15 p.m. Sunday.
View of peaceful protest outside of Atlantic City Police Station on Sunday afternoon. Photo courtesy of Meredith Winner, Mer-Made Photography
Mayor Marty Small Sr. was emotion in talking about the violence, initiating an 8 p.m. curfew, adding he will hold a news conference late Monday morning.
"I apologize for the ignorance today," Small told the Press of Atlantic City, saying that those responsible should be punished. "We are better than that Atlantic City. … I love the city. Tonight was Atlantic City at its worst."
At the Pleasantville Police Station parking lot and the Internet, several community leaders led by Mount Zion Baptist Church Willie Francois and Northfield city councilwoman Susan Korngut tried to provide an alternative to the violence.
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Olivia Caldwell, president of the Mainland-Pleasantville NAACP, called for change as well.
"There is a nationwide epidemic where unarmed black men have been targeted over and over again," Caldwell claimed. "These crimes have been perpetrated by many police departments and vigilantes alike who share a false sense of righteousness. Our children are taught that a police department is supposed to protect and serve its citizens. However in urban centers, all too often, black men are targeted as a suspect first."
Amy Kennedy, who is running for Congress in the 2nd Congressional District that covers Atlantic City and held by Republican Jeff Van Drew, appeared live on the vigil to add her voice.
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Black Rowan University graduate and businessman Nate Evans Jr. called for community policing and other ways where police and the African-American community and the police can come together. He said in talking with young people, there is currently too much distrust on both sides that needs to be broken down through conversation and learning more about each other.
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