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Kazungulafärjan är en tidigare färjelinje över Zambezifloden mellan Kazungula i Botswana och Kazungula i Zambia, som ersattes av Kazungulabron i maj 2021.

Fyra länders territorier möts nästan i en fyrlandspunkt vid Kazungula: Zambias, Botswanas, Zimbabwes och Namibias. Under tidigt 2000-tal kom de fyra berörda länderna överens om att gränsen skulle utgöras av två trelandspunkter i Zambezifloden, med en gränslinje på 150 meter mellan Botswana och Zambia däremellan. Över denna korta gränslinje gick färjelinjen och sedermera har Kazungulabron byggts där. Zambias och Botswanas regeringar avtalade 2007 om att bygga en bro mellan länderna. Vid Kazungula är Zambezi ungefär 450 meter bred under torrsäsongen och ungefär 700 meter bred under regnsäsongen.

Färjelinjen upprätthölls av två zambiska pontonfärjor, som vardera lastade 70 ton.

Under befrielsekriget i Sydrhodesia/Zimbabwe utnyttjades färjan trots förbud av de botswanska och zambiska regeringarna av den Zambiabaserade zimbabwiska befrielserörelsen ZAPU:s (Zimbabwe African People's Union) styrkor för att smuggla vapen från Zambia till Botswana. Den sydrhodesiska arméns Special Air Service sprängde en av färjorna efter det att den förmiddagen den 13 april 1979 ankommit till färjeläget på den botswanska sidan av floden.

I september 2003 inträffande en svår olycka vid färjeläget på den zambiska sidan. En lastbil, som var överlastad med koboltkoncentrat, kunde inte bromsa vid ombordkörning utan körde av färjan och välte ned i floden, varvid ett antal passagerare hamnade i vattnet och omkom.

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Coronavirus cases have been reported among prisoners as of April 22
Tracking the Spread of Coronavirus in Prisons
A new Marshall Project effort has collected data on the prevalence of COVID-19 among prisoners and prison staff. Here's what we know after one month of reporting.
Coronavirus • Filed 3:05 p.m. 04.24.2020
By Katie Park, Tom Meagher and Weihua Li
Coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, criminal justice and immigration.
Note: The data in this story was compiled on April 24, 2020. Our latest numbers of COVID-19 cases in federal and state prisons are updated weekly here.
For weeks, lawyers, criminal justice reform advocates and families of the incarcerated have worried about what was happening in prisons across the nation as coronavirus began to take hold in the communities outside. Their fears seem justified.
We now can see, through data collected by The Marshall Project, that thousands of prisoners have caught the illness, and the number of cases has grown more than threefold in the last week alone. Thousands more workers, correctional officers and medical staff have been sickened. And more than 140 people—most of them incarcerated—have died thus far.
There have been at least 9,437 cases of coronavirus reported among prisoners.
Each represents 10 new cases
Source: State and federal prison agencies
For the past month, The Marshall Project has collected data from prison systems in all 50 states and the federal Bureau of Prisons to track how the virus has spread and how prisoners and corrections workers are succumbing to it.
By Wednesday of this week, at least 9,437 people in prison had tested positive for the illness. The number of new cases among prisoners is more than doubling each week, showing that the curve used to measure when the virus is under control is still soaring in prisons even as some parts of the country are starting to flatten the curve through social distancing.
Read More: These Prisons Are Doing Mass Testing For COVID-19—And Finding Mass Infections
As startling as these figures are, they are almost certainly an undercount. While most prison systems are releasing information about the number of positive tests and prisoner deaths in their facilities, far less is known about how many people are being tested. Sixteen prison systems are not releasing information about how many prisoners they are testing, including the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which has seen several major outbreaks of coronavirus in its institutions. Of the rest, only eight systems had tested more than 400 of the people in their custody by this week.
In many communities there have been efforts to bail people out of local jails—or to avoid arrests or bail decisions that would land people in jail in the first place. Similarly, several states have announced plans to release people early from prisons, where people are sentenced for more serious crimes for years or even a lifetime. But little is known about how many people have actually returned to life outside as a result of the policies prompted by the pandemic. Of those who have been released, we don't know whether they've been tested before they left prison.
Indeed, much of the remarkable growth in coronavirus cases in the last several weeks is due to a small handful of states—Ohio, Tennessee, Arkansas, Michigan, North Carolina among them—that have begun aggressively testing nearly everyone at prisons where people have become sick. This new spate of testing would suggest that coronavirus has been circulating in prisons in much greater numbers than known in past weeks, and that in the many states where tests have not been prevalent, far more people may be carrying it than are being reported.
Not all states are testing their prisoners as rapidly. While Ohio has tested more than 5,000 people in its state prisons, Arizona, with a prison population similar to Ohio's, had tested just 172 people by Wednesday.
The patchwork of testing across the country is inevitable, said Nancy La Vigne, the vice president of justice policy at the Urban Institute.
"It's hard to attribute the level of testing—whether sufficient or lacking—solely to the prison system. It's also about the context of the state government and the governors," La Vigne said. "Some states don't have the resources to purchase enough tests, or they don't make it a priority that the tests get into the prisons."
Epidemiologists and public health experts suggest that given the uneven amount of testing happening within our nation's prisons, a better way to gauge the spread of the virus is by examining the number of people who have been killed by COVID-19. Such deaths are less likely to go unnoticed than people who are asymptomatic and thus have not been tested.
The first prisoner known to have died of coronavirus was Anthony Cheek, who died in Georgia on March 26. Cheek, who was 49 years old, had been held in Lee State Prison near Albany, a hotspot for the disease. Since Cheek's death, at least 130 other prisoners have died of coronavirus-related causes.
There have been at least 131 deaths from coronavirus reported among prisoners.
Each represents one new death
The first cases of COVID-19 among prisoners were diagnosed in Georgia and Massachusetts on March 20. By that point, two months after the first reported case in the country, states were beginning to institute orders for people to remain in their homes and distance themselves from their friends and neighbors.
The Marshall Project compared the spread of coronavirus among prisoners to the nation as a whole. In the first weeks that COVID-19 made its way into prisons, the infection rate lagged well behind the country overall. In the past two weeks, that has changed dramatically. The prison infection rate now eclipses the spread among the general population by more than 150 percent.
The week of April 22, the estimated rate of infection among prisoners more than tripled from the previous week. A small handful of states began aggressively testing nearly everyone at prisons where people have become sick.
In prisons across the country, there were an estimated 696 confirmed cases per 100,000 prisoners the week of April 22.
Among the overall U.S. population, there were about 250 confirmed cases per 100,000 people on April 22.
Note: Estimates of the U.S. rate of infection use case counts from The COVID Tracking Project, which are reported on a daily basis. The Marshall Project's estimate of the rate of infection among people in prison uses reported cases collected on a weekly basis and prison population figures from the corrections agencies.
Part of this difference may be explained by the recent burst in testing in key states. We know there are many more cases now in Ohio and Tennessee because they've tested more people. But it could be because infection spreads differently in a prison than in a community where people freely move from room-to-room of their homes, from work to school to the store and back, interacting with whomever they please. It also appears that the mortality rate in prisons, at least thus far, is lower than in the greater population.
While we know considerably more about how many prisoners are getting sick, another group of people is at risk in these facilities: correctional officers and other workers. We know even less about how the virus is affecting them, though they have the potential to carry the virus both into facilities and back into their communities. It's difficult to assess how prison workers are being affected because many aren't being systematically tested.
Only five states—Idaho, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wyoming—are releasing information on the number of staff members tested for coronavirus. Where we do know about positive cases, most state corrections departments stress the numbers count only the staff members who voluntarily report a diagnosis, often in the course of calling out sick.
While nearly 4,000 prison staff members have tested positive, only 13 deaths have been publicly reported. Because we know so little about how many staff are tested, and in many states it's not clear how many people are working in prisons right now, it's impossible to say if their mortality rate is lower than would be expected.
There have been at least 3,950 cases of coronavirus reported among prison staff.
There have been at least 13 deaths from coronavirus reported among prison staff.
However, our data show prisoners who are diagnosed with COVID-19 are dying four times as often as prison staff who test positive. The different death rates may be attributed to the difference in the age distributions among prison staff and those they guard, said David Rosen, a professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"In the incarcerated population, there is a bulk of people who are young, then you have a tail-end of people who are older, who are just at more risk of mortality," said Rosen, who studies infectious diseases in the prison system. "There are greater percentages of correctional officers in their 40s than the incarcerated population. But I don't imagine you'll have officers who are older than 65."
The availability of testing inside and outside of prison walls may also make a huge difference in the mortality rate, Rosen said. Correctional officers, who are essential workers, may get more access to COVID-19 tests at earlier stages of their illness, which means they are also more likely to get timely treatment. Prisoners, Rosen said, may only get tested when they are at later stages of COVID-19, when they are much sicker.
In collecting this data, it's clear there is still more we need to know to understand this pandemic in our prisons. In the weeks ahead, The Marshall Project will continue to track data on coronavirus and assess its effects in our prison systems.
An earlier version of this story misidentified the length of time between the first diagnosed case of coronavirus in the United States and the first known case affecting a prisoner. It was two months.
Graphics by Gabe Isman and Katie Park
Additional reporting by Cary Aspinwall, Keri Blakinger, Andrew R. Calderón, Maurice Chammah, Eli Hager, Jamiles Lartey, Nicole Lewis, Joseph Neff, Alysia Santo, Beth Schwartzapfel, Christie Thompson, Abbie VanSickle.
Since March 26, reporters from The Marshall Project have been collecting data on COVID-19 tests administered to people incarcerated in all state and federal prisons, as well as the staff in those facilities. We requested this data every week from state departments of corrections and the federal Bureau of Prisons; however, not all departments could provide data for the exact date requested. These numbers have been grouped by the week the data was collected.
To estimate the rate of infection among prisoners, we collected population data for each prison system before the pandemic, roughly in mid-March, and today, mid-April. Most prison systems could provide data for the first two weeks of each month. In cases where current data was unavailable, we used the most recent available population numbers from the agencies in twelve states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Indiana, Illinois, Louisiana, Minnesota, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Ohio, Tennessee.
The overall U.S. rate of infection was calculated using case counts from The COVID Tracking Project and population data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
As with all COVID-19 data, our understanding of the spread and impact of the virus is limited by the availability of testing. Epidemiology and public health experts say that aside from a few states that have recently begun aggressively testing in prisons, it is likely that there are more cases of COVID-19 circulating undetected in facilities. Sixteen prison systems, including the Federal Bureau of Prisons, would not release information about how many prisoners they are testing.
Weihua Li Twitter Email is a data reporter at The Marshall Project. She uses data analysis and visualization to tell stories about the criminal justice system. She studied journalism and comparative politics at Boston University and graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in data journalism.
Katie Park Twitter Email is a developer and data journalist who creates data visualizations and digital features at The Marshall Project. Her work has been recognized by the Society for News Design, the Society of Professional Journalists, Malofiej Infographic Awards and the White House News Photographers Association. She previously worked at NPR and The Washington Post.
Tom Meagher Twitter Email , senior editor, joined The Marshall Project at its founding in 2014. He previously led an interactive team for the Digital First Media newspaper chain and was the data editor at the Newark Star-Ledger. He got his start in journalism covering night cops for a small daily paper in Kansas.
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Photo: September 20, 2008. Some modern items have been digitally obscured. This statue is located at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
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It's been a few weeks since the Higole Gole10 arrived for an in-depth review, and during all this time I had the chance to use the device in various environments - even took it with me when traveling for the holidays.
People are always asking what the device is for and what it really does that a tablet cannot - and they are intrigued.
Higole found a nice niche : having a touchscreen Windows 10 computer around with full-sized ports and that you can actually carry with you and use with or without an external keyboard has proven to be very useful in a number of situations, some of them explained below.
It's quite easy to setup the Higole Gole10 Mini PC - you just have to connect the power adapter and turn it on.
For the purpose of the review, I've connected the tablet mini PC to a Dell monitor and I've used both the built-in touch screen and my Minix Neo K2 wireless keyboard, which I always keep nearby as a second keyboard for the reviewed devices.
When you connect the device to a monitor you can right click on the blue Windows background, then "Display settings", and you can choose to Duplicate the displays (default option), extend them, or show only one of them. So if you want to close the Gole10's built-in display and only use the monitor you can do so here. The touchscreen and the touch-sensitive Windows logo on Gole10 will continue to work.
A little disappointment was to find out that Windows 10 is NOT activated. But fear not, you can activate it yourself by right-clicking on the "This PC" icon on Windows Explorer, then the last option from the contextual menu, "Properties". The last section on the page is about the activation.
If there's a red warning saying "We can't activate Windows on this device because you don't have a valid digital license or product key. Error code: 0xC004C003" - simply click on the Troubleshoot link below and Windows will automatically solve the problem and activate itself. Make sure you are connected to the Internet first.
If connected to the Internet, soon after the boot Windows will start to inform you that you will need to upgrade it - the Fall Creators update arrived and, sooner or later, the device will update itself anyway. So I decided to proceed with the update within 15 minutes of playing with the device.
After the update there are only ~12 GB left on the device. But fear not, you can reclaim most of the space by simply using the Windows 10 Disk Cleanup utility: press the Windows key, type "Disk clean-up", choose the "Clean up system files" option, and Windows will compute the space that could be made available again.
I was able to go back to roughly the same space used before the up.
But the Gole10 device does come with a few nice surprises.
Although it comes with the Home, and not Pro version of Windows 10 I found that it does have (at least) an enterprise feature : TPM 2.0 is enabled - as I found out by running tpm.msc, so basically you have access to better, hardware-based security.
The Device Manager reveals a few more details about the device - the SanDisk DF4032, Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11bgn 2.4G Wi-Fi Chip, Kionix KXTJ9 3-axis accelerometer.
Besides the bigger screen, the biggest improvement from the Gole 1 Plus we reviewed earlier, is the sound : with Gole10 the speakers are better positioned on the front of the device, and the results are showing - better, more powerful sound.
The device can sit on the table either in the "classic mode" or on a side, which makes easy to use in a variety of scenarios.
The new front stereo speakers are impressive (at least when compared to the previous model) - Gole10 is much more suited to be used as an online radio player or an touchscreen IPTV device, two use cases that might be less interesting but definitely cover a lot of the overall usage hours.
But there's more to that, of course. For instance, a touch-enabled control system (I will fully test this in a few weeks).
And this is not counting the "industrial use cases" Higole happily mentions.
One of the use cases that fits this device as a glove is a Home theater PC - a touch-enabled player is fun to have around.
The performance is on-par with the other devices with the Intel Atom Z8350 SoC - so no Youtube 4K, but pretty decent overall.
I've covered the Z8350 flaws when it comes to media rendering : lack of 10-bit HEVC, bitstream HD audio, no 4k or 3D ISO.
Once we get that out of the way, we end up with a decent HTPC for 1080P content, with all SD and HD files playing correctly.
Controlling Kodi with the built-in screen in dual-screen mode certainly beats any IR remote (or any remote for that matter) ... as long as you have a long enough HDMI cable.
For TV series or favorite movies, online or offline, Gole10 and KODI v17 worked just as expected.
IPTV, online radio and plain ol' Youtube work quite nicely out of the box also. Unexpectedly, I got better performance results (less CPU and memory) with Microsoft Edge when running 1080P Youtube.
As usual, I left the benchmarks for the end - here are the results for the most used benchmarking apps on Windows 10.
Results are consistent with the similar devices I've tested. One thing I noticed - the device did not overheat even after a few hours of intense benchmarking.
I have to say that the new Higole device really impressed me and aside for the lack of internal battery, it is quite useful to have around.
Compared with the Gole1 Plus, I've enjoyed the bigger screen and the new stereo front speakers, which provide a much better audio experience.
For a price in the same ballpark as the Windows 10 license, and a screen-less TV box/Mini PC, Gole10 brings a good-looking, touch-enabled, 10.1 inch IPS screen.
With projected 24/7 use, IPS touchscreen, multiple full-sized Ethernet and USB ports, stereo speakers, this device brings more to the table than a regular tablet or Windows mini PC and it's design will fit perfectly in any environment.
There is much to be done with Gole10 before it will inevitably become obsolete and eventually retiring it to a glorified photo-frame or CCTV monitor.
So if you're looking for a new computer that takes little space, can be used with or without mouse and keyboard, I can recommend the Gole10.
I for one will still use this one in the foreseeable future.
If you're thinking about getting one yourself, you can find it on GearBest for $168.99.
Looking for a coupon? You can try the GBCNA one for 14% off (almost $24).


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AzurRx Announces Issuance of U.S. Patent for its MS1819 lipase compound
NEW YORK, NY, July 31, 2014 – AzurRx BioPharma, Inc. today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued U.S. Patent No. 2013052180 A1 entitled "Method For Producing Lipase, Transformed Yarrowia Lipolytica Cell Capable Of Producing Said Lipase And Their Uses." This patent provides protection until June 2026.
"We are pleased with the issuance of this patent that protects our MS1819 lipase program for patients with exocrine pancreatic insufficiency," stated Christine Rigby, President and Chief Operating Officer of AzurRx. "This newly issued patent expands the intellectual property protection for our MS1819 lipase program and provides key coverage of our production and formulation methods. AzurRx now has a license from Laboratoires Mayoly-Spindler to three listed patents on MS1819, with patent protection through June 2026 in the U.S. The recent allowances of this patent also protect the company's products in Vietnam, Australia and Japan. Former allowances were already delivered in Singapore, Russia, South Africa, Colombia, New Zealand and several European countries."
MS1819 has successfully completed a Phase I/IIa human clinical trial for the treatment of chronic pancreatitis. AzurRx plans to complete the phase IIb study by 2016, in collaboration with Laboratoires Mayoly-Spindler. The market for the treatment of chronic pancreatitis is well established and growing with estimated annual revenue of over $1 billion. Current therapeutics employ animal-derived, porcine pancreatic extracts (PPEs). However, PPEs suffer from formulation problems, possible transmission of infectious agents (animal extracts), strongly suspected adverse events at high doses (fibrosing colonopathy) and limited effectiveness. AzurRx believes its recombinant lipase MS1819 will effectively address the limitations of the currently commercially-available pharmaceuticals.
AzurRx BioPharma aims to become a leader in developing non-systemic, recombinant protein therapies for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases and related conditions. MS1819 recombinant lipase for exocrine pancreatic insufficiency is the company's lead development program, and additional early stage research is being conducted for the prevention of hospital-acquired infection. The company is headquartered in New York, NY, with scientific operations based in Langlade, France.
Company website address: www.azurrx.com
About Laboratoires Mayoly Spindler, SAS
Mayoly Spindler is a French, independent, family-owned pharmaceutical company, active in research, development, manufacturing, registration and marketing of pharmaceuticals and dermo-cosmetics in more than 70 countries. The company aims to become a global reference in gastroenterology and hydration. Mayoly Spindler is headquartered in the Paris area, France, and employs 750 people worldwide.
Company website address: www.mayoly-spindler.fr
This press release may contain certain statements relating to future results which are forward-looking statements. These statements are not historical facts, but instead represent only the Company's belief regarding future events, many of which, by their nature, are inherently uncertain and outside of the Company's control. It is possible that the Company's actual results and financial condition may differ, possibly materially, from the anticipated results and financial condition indicated in these forward-looking statements. Additional information concerning the Company and its business, including factors that potentially could materially affect the Company's financial results, are contained in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements included in this press release are made only as of the date of this press release, and we do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or correct any forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that subsequently occur or of which we hereafter become aware.
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Many expats are misinformed about the status of their South African citizenship, and whether it can ever be removed, or revoked. Many people assume that their South African citizenship is fixed, perhaps because about five years ago, it was incorrectly announced that you cannot lose your South African citizenship.
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Former South African citizens by birth or descent, who gave up their citizenships or automatically ceased to be South African citizens, may apply to have their South African citizenship reinstated. Applications can be made at a South African embassy or mission. It takes four to six weeks to reinstate your citizenship if you are able to provide the necessary documentation, including a copy of your ID book.
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Ron DeSantis as a Covid model is a sign of utter national failure
Places like New York and Italy that had big early COVID-19 outbreaks generally ended up with higher death tolls than places that were better-prepared for the virus by the time it arrived.
But then there's South Korea, which in the early phases of the pandemic was one of the countries that suffered the most. But then, unlike the United States — and also unlike Asian success stories that closed their borders rapidly and simply never had a big outbreak — Korea actually triumphed over the virus and beat it. Dylan Scott has an article out in Vox that tells the tale and I strongly recommend it, mostly because it serves as a searing expose of how phenomenally stupid the COVID-19 debate in the United States has been.
South Korean officials made a plan. They needed to test as many people as possible, as quickly as possible, to figure out how bad the outbreak was. Then they had to find out who might have come into contact with the infected people. And they needed all of those people — both the …


By Thomas Cleary, Shambala, Boston, 1990, ?
[p21] The behavior of sage kings did not hurt the feelings of the people, so even while the kings enjoyed themselves the world was at peace.
The evil kings denied the truthful and declared them outlaws, so as the kings enjoyed themselves everything went to ruin.
When like and dislike began to have their say, order and chaos went their ways.
[p21] Culture is a means of joining people. Feeling are inner connections with an impulse to act outwardly. Obliterate feelings by culture, and you lose feeling. Destroy culture by feelings, and you lose culture.
When culture is orderly and feelings are communicated, this is the peak of human development.
This means that it is a virtue to take an overall view.
[p25] The world can be gained but not taken; rulership can be accepted but not sought. Rely on intelligence, and people will contest it; rely on power, and people will fight it.
[p28] If you ride on the knowledge of the multitude, it is easy to gain dominion; if you only use your own mind, you cannot even preserve yourself.
[p28] When there is overt public acceptance of what is still only an idea in the mind of the leadership, it means truthfulness has hit its mark.
[p29] When manners and habits are changed without any commands or directives being issued, that can only be by the influence of kindness–laws and punishments are insufficient to bring it about.
[p29] The abilities of one man are insufficient to govern a single household; but follow the measures of true reason, based on the nature of the universe, and the whole world is equal.
[p30] The way of the ruler is round, revolving endlessly, with a nurturing spiritual influence, open and selfless, harmonious, always in the background and never in the forefront.
The way of the minister is square, deliberating on what is right and applying appropriate measures, initiating suggestions for action, keeping to the job with distinct clarity, thus achieving success.
Therefore, when ruler and minister differ in their ways, there is order; when they make their ways identical, their is disorder. When they each manage to do what is appropriate for them and handle their own responsibilities, then superior and subordinate have the means to work together.
[p34] Useful suggestions should not be rejected just because they come from people in low positions, nor should useless suggestions be followed just because they come from people in high positions. Right and wrong are not a question of social status. Enlightened leaders listen to their ministers: if their plans are useful, the leaders do not look down on them because of rank; and if what they say is feasible, the leaders do not care about how they say it.
Ignorant rulers are not like this. As far as their familiars and associates are concerned, even if they are dishonest, the rulers cannot see it; and when it comes to strangers and people of lowly status, even when they are diligent and loyal, the leaders cannot know it. Those who have something to say are badgered about their choice of words, while those who have criticisms are punished as if they had committed a crime. If you want to illumine a land and sustain the communities this way, that is like covering your ears to listen to music or covering your eyes to look at a painting–even if you have good hearing and eyesight, you will still be far off.
[p54] When culture has but a superficial influence, power has a limited effect. When virtue is liberally applied, authority's reign is extensive.
[p71] If you focus on people's shortcoming and forget about their strengths, then it will be hard to find worthy people in all the world.
[p72] A way that can be spoken of is not an eternal way; a name that can be named is not a permanent name. What can be written down or passon on to others is the dregs.
[p73] For those in prison the days are long, but for those condemned to die the days are short. The length of days has its own measure, but they seem long in one place and short in another. So there is unevenness in the heart.
[p73] Something that is kept inside and never divulged, something in the feelings that never sprouts–no one ever heard of this.
[p74] Outwardly go along with the flow, while inwardly keeping your true nature. Then your eyes and ears will not be dazzled, and your thoughts will not be confused, while the spirit within you will expand greatly to roam in the realm of absolute purity.
[p75] We may see the tip of a hair while failing to hear a peal of thunder, or hear the melody of a song while failing to see a mountain. Why? A small fixation of attention results in a large measure of heedlessness.
[p75] When people bring up your flaws, you resent them for it; but when a mirror reflects your ugliness, you consider it a good mirror. If people can deal with others without getting the ego involved, they will avoid being dragged down.


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Uruguay cruises past 10-man Ecuador in Copa America opener
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Uruguay's Edinson Cavani celebrates scoring his side's second goal against Ecuador during a Copa America Group C soccer match at the Mineirao stadium in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Sunday, June 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Eugenio Savio)
By Debora Rey, Associated Press
BELO HORIZONTE, Brazil (AP) — Uruguay started the Copa America in style, showing why it's considered a top favorite for the South American title.
With Edinson Cavani and Luis Suarez in top form, Uruguay earned a comfortable 4-0 win over 10-man Ecuador in its opening match on Sunday.
Cavani, Suarez and Nicolas Lodeiro scored in the first half, and an own-goal by Ecuadorean defender Arturo Mina after halftime sealed the victory for a dominant Uruguayan squad in the Group C match at the Mineirao Stadium.
"It was an important first step for us," Cavani said. "We have to try to keep this momentum during the rest of the tournament."
Uruguay played with an extra man from the 24th minute after Ecuador's Jose Quintero was red-carded for elbowing Lodeiro during a ball dispute. Quintero was initially given a yellow card, but video review determined he deserved a red.
Uruguay was already in control when Quintero was sent off at the Mineirao, which held a small crowd of about 13,000 people.
Lodeiro opened the scoring in the sixth minute, controlling a pass from Suarez inside the area and lobbying the ball over a defender before finding the net.
"After the red card the game opened up and we dominated," Lodeiro said. "It was an important opening victory. We have to keep going game by game, always trying to improve."
Cavani had two close-range attempts saved by Ecuador goalkeeper Alexander Dominguez before finally scoring with a volley in the 33rd, then Suarez added to the lead after a corner kick in the 44th.
The fourth goal came when Mina as he tried to clear a ball crossed into the area in the 78th. The goal also had to be confirmed by video review.
Uruguay had two goals disallowed for offside, one in each half.
Ecuador finished with only on shot on goal, coming in the first minute of the match.
"They were better than us in every aspect," Ecuador coach Hernan Dario Gomez said. "Uruguay is a great team, very experienced."
Guest Japan and two-time defending champion Chile will play the other Group C match on Monday in Sao Paulo.
Uruguay is the Copa America's most successful team with 15 titles, one more than Argentina. Its last Copa America title was in 2011.
Ecuador made it to the quarterfinals of the 2016 Copa America.
Uruguay next faces Japan on Thursday in Porto Alegre, while Ecuador takes on Chile in Salvador.


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Re-Energize, Re-Commit, Re-Launch
My earlier, cryptic announcement about the diminishing availability of The Radical Leap and The Radical Edge perked a little excitement among some folks and caused some consternation with others.
I take both reactions as a compliment–so, thank you to all.
Leap and Edge aren't going away, though–not by a long shot.
I'm over-the-moon to announce that this October will mark the publication of The Radical Leap Re-Energized. You won't find it anywhere yet. Not even on Amazon. So, if you'd like us to notify you when it comes available, please let me know through the contact section on this site or in the comments below.
I'll give you more details later; for now, here's my intro from the new book. I think it'll fill in a few of the blanks:
The Radical Leap Re-Energized: Doing What You Love in the Service of People Who Love What You Do
I've always considered myself to be a business guy.
Having started out as an entrepreneur in my late 20's to early 30's, I've worked for the last two decades in leadership development in the corporate world. I spent 6 years as Vice President of The Tom Peters Company, whose founder and namesake is arguably the most influential "management guru" of our time. In addition to Tom, I count among my mentors Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner, co-creators of the legendary Leadership Challenge books and the phenomenal research behind them. The business world has been my laboratory, my university, my playground and a major part of my personal, social fabric. I've had exposure to or worked with just about every kind of business and industry you can imagine.
Again: business guy.
So, when the first version of this book was published in 2004 under the title, The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership, I was proud to see it featured as a Reader's Choice Award winner in Fast Company Magazine and displayed in the management sections of retail and airport bookstores around the country. And then in 2009, when it was listed in Covert and Sattersten's The 100 Best Business Books of All Time—right next to Tom's In Search of Excellence and Jim and Barry's The Leadership Challenge—well, to say that blew my mind would rank among the 100 Biggest Understatements of All Time.
I've been deeply gratified and, to be honest, more than a little surprised by the business world's warm reception to Leap.
But the biggest surprises have had little to do with business, per se.
Over the short years since Leap's first publication, I've heard from principals, schoolteachers and students; pastors, rabbis and clergy people of all stripes; bloggers and social media mavens; volunteer workers and non-profit missionaries, who've reached out to me to say that the ideas and inspiration in this book have helped them excel as leaders and succeed in changing their pieces of the world for the better. And several of these people—I'm grateful to say—I now count among my dearest friends.
In other words, it turns out that The Radical Leap wasn't just a "business book," after all.
The Radical Leap Re-Energized represents a re-launch and a re-commitment to a universal set of life-changing/world-changing ideas. This new incarnation is actually two books, The Radical Leap and The Radical Edge, woven together into a new, expanded and rejuvenated work. Even though I originally wrote it in two separate endeavors, this full story is, in retrospect, the way it was always meant to be.
I didn't make these ideas up—I think you'll find that they're timeless and universal—but I did make up the story surrounding them.
This book is a novel—a parable, so to speak. I've taken broad, creative license with the story and the characters in it in order to create an entertaining delivery system for ideas and practices that are anything but fictional.
Part One: The Radical Leap offers a foundation, an operating system, for Extreme Leadership, and Part Two: The Radical Edge, takes it deeper with some significant personal applications and calls to action.
This book will take you a few hours to read and a lifetime to practice. If you do, my hope is that you'll strive to do what you love in the service of people who love what you do; that you'll become the walking, talking, living, breathing example of Extreme Leadership in action.
That, I believe, is how individually and collectively we're going to have a real shot at changing the world for the better, in business and beyond.
Filed Under: Great Books, Leadership Tagged With: leadership, publishing, the radical edge, the radical leap, the radical leap re-energized
Stephanie Dulmage says
I'd love to know when when the book is available.
Rlyons says
Please notify me when the book is available. I have followed all three books and use GTY on a regular basis. While my company, Champion, is probably too small for you to address, if you are ever in Scottsdale, we make great Espresso in our office and would love to talk over a cup at your convenience.
Jeff Voorhees says
Please let me know when this new book is available. Can't wait to read it.
Still practicing GTY in Fargo. When you are coming back this way again? You're always welcome!
John Hopkins says
Steve, our conversation last year was a great inspiration for me. I was just talking about cultivating love with some good friends. After teaching them the concepts from Radical Leap, they're carrying the message to high school students they work with. Please let me know when your new book comes out!
Pastor says
I'm one of those Pastors who let you know that I felt the implications of this leadership approach was more than a "business world" idea. These lessons work in every area of life, including or should I say especially in our spiritual lives. I always thought that the two books would work better in a continuous volume. Looking forward to having a copy as soon as they are available.
Steve Bell says
Let me know – when the book is ready. Big fan of Leap, Edge and GTY.
Arthur Forbus says
Fantastic I cannot wait, please let me know when it is ready!!
Jean Latting says
I stumbled across this article and am glad I found it. Your
book will be worth reading…
Steve A says
I'm not a school teacher, pastor, blogger, or media maven, but I am a fan of LEAP and EDGE. I cannot tell you what reading your first book did for my personal morale. Given to me by my Office manager when I was in the management training program, I read, reread and reread it again and again. (Still do). Too bad he never read it once. This quick to read book should be in every business management college without exception. Brilliant work Mr. Farber. My personal status message on my company IM is "Can YOU answer the 2 questions?" gets people asking all the time, my response, read the book, and maybe then you can.


Goodfellows is a tradition that apparently can't be replicated on a larger scale. Something about it just fits Henderson perfectly.
HENDERSON -- Goodfellows is a tradition that apparently can't be replicated on a larger scale. Something about it just fits Henderson perfectly.
Richard Pendergraft, a longtime organizer and spokesman for the Henderson nonprofit, said super-sizing the Goodfellows effort for larger cities has been tried. But to no avail.
He recalls that officials with the U.S. Marines Toys for Tots program once observed the Goodfellows program for several years running with an idea of making it a national model for larger cities.
To his knowledge, nothing came from that.
"You can't take this nationally," he said. "You can't find this community nationally. It isn't me; it's the community of Henderson."
He thinks it has to do with the number of families here that have deep roots. "You won't find that in a city like Chicago or New York. People in Henderson sink or swim together. I've always believed that."
Proof of that: Never once has the yearly Goodfellows effort, a multi-faceted holiday party funded by thousands of dollars in community donations, failed to meet its annual goal.
"I've been scared a few times," joked Pendergraft, but people here always come through.
The goal this year is again $35,000. That will allow the Goodfellows organization to provide clothing, toys and a big party at South Middle School on Dec. 17 for about 600 low-income Henderson children between the ages of 4-11.
The children in need are identified with the help of the Family Resource Centers at each school in the county.
At the party, besides gifts of clothing and toys, there will be clowns, balloons, cake, games and, of course, Santa.
The Gleaner will again be acting as a clearinghouse for the tax-deductible donations from the public.
If you'd like to be a Goodfellow and help out, donations can be mailed to The Gleaner, 455 Klutey Park Plaza Drive, or dropped off Monday through Friday during business hours, which are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Checks should be made payable to Goodfellows.
All donations will be printed in The Gleaner and placed online as soon as possible, and we'll keep a running tally of how close we are to the goal for the year.
Meanwhile, on Dec. 17, the doors to the party will open at about 11:30 a.m. The party will start at 12:30 p.m.
Volunteers will also be needed to help with "bagging day," which will begin at 8 a.m. Dec. 16 at South Middle School. That's when all the clothes and toys that Pendergraft and his helpers, like his brother Larry, have purchased on sale through the year will be prepared for the eager children.


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I went again this year to join in the festivities and I have to say it was a magical night that had me wishing I could plan my wedding day all over again.
The venue was changed this year to Capitale located on Bowery in NYC. The place was buzzing with excitement and energy and there was so much to see. I met a lot of different vendors this year and although it was tough, I have picked my top 3.
I do not have the dates of next year's event, but I suggest you start looking for it around next February, as it usually falls in the March/April time frame. You will be happy you attended – it's an easy stress free event that makes wedding planning enjoyable. You can be assured that it will be a memorable fun night and you will get more done than you could ever imagine.
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The Bank of Japan has been forced into desperate measures by effectively reducing its repo rate to zero and agreeing to purchase massive amounts of securities including those backed by collateral which could be of very questionable value.
With the BOJ leading the way down this path, and with spot gold surging to more than $1325 an ounce, one is tempted to ask what more can central banks do when they reduce interest rates to zero and start buying all the dodgy paper that private banks don't want?
The Nikkei 225, in knee jerk fashion, responded positively to the weakening of the yen which followed the BOJ move, but within a couple of hours the Japanese currency was again headed higher on all major cross rates. It will be revealing to see just how long the BOJ waits before instigating another round of currency intervention.
AUD/USD registered above .9750 since Friday, and as can be seen on the hourly chart, somewhat like the chart for EUR/USD, it will be interesting to see whether buyers show up near the current level. A break of the trend-line would suggest that the Aussie dollar may struggle to regain sufficient momentum to take out the July 2008 high.
3. Most significantly the failure to regain a foothold above the Kijun Sen level marked at point B.
On the 240 minute chart there appears to be some support around the .9550 level which should be tested in coming sessions.
The Russell 2000 is finding it hard going to penetrate the critical 680 level and the waning appetite for the higher beta stocks need to be monitored for clues as to the near term direction of US equities in general.
The Indian stock market as represented by the Mumbai Sensex, which has to be my favorite global index longer term, has registered a couple of candlesticks which may indicate that a consolidation lies ahead.
The long term chart for AUD/CHF suggest that this risk on/risk off pair is approaching a fairly critical juncture which is worth monitoring periodically. Needless to say a break below the base of the weekly cloud formation would suggest that risk assets would no longer be in favor.
Brookfield Properties broke out to a new multi-period high on a sharp increase in volume and as the chart reveals there is evidence of an elongated cup and handle formation which can precede major breakaway moves.
Constellation Energy Group (CEG) dropped below its 200 EMA and violated an uptrend line on heavy volume in yesterday's trading.


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In a world of broken relationships and hurting people, it can seem like all we ever see is heartache—that marriages are doomed from the start and romance isn't worth the risk.
Don't let the world define romance for you! See how God is at work in the hearts of His people—knitting together hearts in a love that forever endures.
This book is filled with 25 different true stories. Stories from Love at First Sight to 2nd Chance Love Stories and many in between.
From the 'Maybe we should try church' couple.
To the 'Surprise by Love' couple.
And many many more stories in between.
to invite God into their marriages.
Each story ends with thoughts to ponder and questions to ask yourself.
The book is written for the believer and non-believer and ends with the plan of Salvation inviting the reader into a personal relationship with Jesus.
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I love Sunday Supper. It's a day/evening in our home of either a super simple relaxing meal. Or one when I pull out all the stops.
Super Simple meals might be nachos from left over chicken or steak.
Or a new one found on Pinterest or another blog.
his yummy sounding recipe at the Fabulous Party.
his blog and check out the recipe!
It's a day that usually nothing happens after church so an afternoon of cooking is perfect. Spending time in the kitchen chopping and mixing and cooking is fun and relaxing to me when I'm not tired.
It's not typically a meal with a fancy set table. Or even china.
But maybe a meal with special dishes or the table set for a theme.
paper towels for the napkins. One of our favorite meals!
I wonder why we seem to always have a seafood boil on the weekend. It's such a super easy meal! Everything thrown all in one pot eaten mostly with your fingers except for the potatoes.
Oh I am getting hungry!
Or it might be the night I decide to cook a super pull out the stops meal that has a ton of ingredients and alot of work.
Chili Relleno's start with fresh poblano peppers that have to be charred or steamed in the oven and then seeded and stuffed with Monterrey Jack Cheese (Mozzarella works in a pinch). A fritter type batter is prepared and then the chili's dipped and fried.
Alot of work but oh so worth the effort! Oh so yummy.
My recipe is from this cookbook bought way back in the day.
It is full of wonderful yummy recipes.
Or there is the option for the super easy version. I use on week nights when I am tired but craving one of my favorite dishes.
Not quite the same but still super yummy. I cut the recipe in half for just two of us and then there are leftovers for lunch.
Oh I enjoy Sunday Suppers. A great time for making some great food and enjoying it with family or friends.
So what's on your Sunday Supper dinner plate?
Super simple or pull out the stops and spend the day cooking?
Linking with a few more parties.
Link up any day, any time!
I sure do hope the Cat In The Hat doesn't sneak in!
Fabulous Party. This sounds so good I am trying tonight!
I really need to re-think the whole menu thing. Lot's of changes going on here. The Cowboy is officially retiring which means he's home for lunch. Which means I need to have food for lunch planned or he'll eat leftovers planned for later in the week!
Here's what I am trying for this week.
As I've said before. The same ole same ole. I need some menu ideas!
Puddles, hyacinths,crocus, lettuce sprouts that may have drowned, potatoes and onions that probably drowned.
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it was a lovely place to visit. Constance shares scripture that she has journaled and illustrated. I hope you will go by for a visit. Click here. I think I could spend all day reading her lovely posts.
Don't be mad Carol...I need help thinking what to call this prompt!
not old but Carol's fun blog has been around a little bit.
And she posted the most links at the Fabulous Party last year so that puts her blog in the 'old' category just because it's not new to me!
But it might be new to you.
Go over and see her at Comfort Spring Station. You'll find some fabulous recipes and much more! Click here to visit Carol!
I am featuring Carol here today because I got a chance to visit with her and interview her for the Fabulous Party.
I'll be sharing the interview soon.
Curtains for master and living. Need to price rods.
No real Ta Da this week. Just spent the week reading.
I found this party this week.
An applique quilt I need to finish. I will not tell you how old this block is. I have taken my time on completing because I wasn't sure about quilting it. Now I have the knowledge and I am ready to start!
It's always so hard to choose which posts to feature!
Go over to Ash & Eileen's at Just Measuring Up for the instructions. Click here.
Suzy is a new visitor to the party. She blogs at Just Simply Somethings she shared a post about a craft that might be new to you. It is called 'Felting'.She shared the sweetest little creatures made from felt.
Click here to read this fun post!
I just know spring is around the corner. Little bunnies are showing up everywhere!
I am so gad your here. Today is the perfect day to visit the blog.
Today is a special day because I am featuring my Holiday blog.
I wanted to tell you all about in case you haven't found it!
everyday a holiday in our homes.
And then something happened. I came up with this Fabulous idea.
And the Fabulous party began. The Fabulous party is over a year old now.
I thought well maybe it was meant to be and so I left it and began posting the party on both blogs. And made this button.
It's supposed to look sparkly. Do you think it does?
them on the side bar at Our Holiday Journey.
I also feature them here on my Happy Homemaker post.
Sandra at Family Corner. Sandra provides the prompts. I have a added a few prompts of my own to make my posts more personal to me and the blog(s).
Last January I did something different at Our Holiday Journey.
I ran a 12 month giveaway. Each month I tallied links and the blogger that linked the most posts one a prize.
Carol writes a delightful blog. She shares about living in Florida.
The Fabulous Party is supper simple to follow and link.
I have intentionally made the party super easy to find (I hope).
The party goes from Sunday to Sunday. You don't have to wonder when you can link. Any day. Any time.
Building a community here and at Our Holiday Journey is important to me. I hope we'll become kind of a family.
With all that said. I have made linking at the party simple. I am backtracking here but I didn't mention 'rules'. There are non.
Well there is one and it's important.
everyone I write a special Halloween post the week of Halloween to share the posts that I find that are not spooky or creepy and just fun.
look forward to reading what crazy thing I just might be writing about. Sometimes I write random posts on My Journey Back.
And sometimes I get off track . . . like now. I was going to share one more new thing I am planning. I am planning on writing and sharing your our posts about Holidays. Kind of getting back to what I originally planned.
I have a whole list of parties that I link at. Below this post you'll see the list. If you have a party I would love for you to link at my party too!
I hope you've enjoyed visiting today. Come back soon and let me know you came by!


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Chimp's Pics Sell for 76K at Sotheby's
Mikki the chimp posing with his camera in Moscow's Red Square.
They're askew and out of focus, but a set of photos taken by a talented Russian chimpanzee sold at auction Wednesday for 50,000 pounds ($76,680).
The blurry images of Moscow's Red Square by simian snapper Mikki were part of a sale of Russian photography at Sotheby's in London.
They were snapped up by a Russian buyer.
Mikki, a popular performer with the Moscow Circus, was trained to take pictures in the 1990s by Russian conceptual artists Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid as part of a project to challenge concepts of artistic value.
The sale also included images of Mikki taken by the duo.
Jo Vickery of Sotheby's contemporary art department said, "You know when people say with contemporary art, `I could do that', this really talks to that."
The buyer, Russian art collector Kira Flanzaich, said the photos were a fine example of conceptual art.
"Sometimes you think that animals can maybe photograph or do other things better than a human being," she said. "So we could see it in this particular piece, because Mikki took the photographs that are quite good of Red Square."
Unfortunately Mikki was not around to enjoy the praise and success his snaps garnered. The chimp died in 2007.
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I made a quick cheat sheet for the bar to help me decide what lite beer I should order when both calorie counting and beer swilling... It's almost business card size, so should fit in your wallet pretty well.
I've only included common lite beer brands, and I included Guinness as a point of reference.
Oddly enough, Guinness isn't so bad when it comes to calories, something to really consider when you are contemplating the calories to quality ratio. Having said that, it does have 10 grams of carbs. But take note, one of my favorite lite beers, Sam Adam's light, isn't all THAT lite now is it?
Got any other beers you think should be added to the cheat sheet?
Check out this great book on Worldwide Beer Nutritional Values!
1,100 beers with their nutritional values...calories, carbs, abv.
Thanks for the comment and link Bob! I gotta get a copy of that book when it comes out!
So let me ask you Bob, what's your favorite "healthy" beer?
They're all healthy. As you know, moderation is the key.
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The 1991 South Kesteven District Council election for the South Kesteven District Council was held in South Kesteven in 1991.

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More than 40% of U.S. asset owners have incorporated environmental, social and governance factors into their investment decisions, up from 37% in 2017 and 22% in 2013, said Callan's annual ESG survey report, released Wednesday.
The 43% of respondents reporting they have incorporated ESG factors is the highest level in the survey's six-year history.
On the flip side, 54% of respondents said they do not incorporate ESG factors and 3% said they were unsure, the 2018 survey found.
Among the survey's respondents, foundations continue to be the highest adopters of ESG investing by plan type. In 2018, 64% of foundations reported incorporating ESG investing, up from 56% in 2017, followed by endowments at 56% (vs. 39% in 2017); public plans, 39% (up from 35%); and corporate plans, 20% (down from 25%). Foundations have been the highest adopters of ESG investing in four out of the six years the survey has been conducted.
Large plans, those with more than $20 billion in assets, continue to be the highest ESG adopters by plan size. In 2018, 72% of the largest plans reported incorporating ESG factors, down from 78% in 2017, but up from 33% in 2013, the first year the survey was conducted. That compares to 47% of funds with less than $500 million that said they incorporated ESG factors, up from 30% in 2017 and 20% in 2013.
This year's survey also found that 40% of public and corporate defined benefit plans reported incorporating ESG investing, compared to only 13% of defined contribution plans.


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Die Missouri National Guard (MONG) des Missouri Department of Public Safety des US-Bundesstaates Missouri ist Teil der im Jahr 1903 aufgestellten Nationalgarde der Vereinigten Staaten (akronymisiert USNG) und somit auch Teil der zweiten Ebene der militärischen Reserve der Streitkräfte der Vereinigten Staaten.

Organisation
Die Mitglieder der Nationalgarde sind freiwillig Dienst leistende Milizsoldaten, die dem Gouverneur von Missouri (aktuell Mike Parson) unterstehen. Bei Einsätzen auf Bundesebene ist der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten Commander-in-Chief. Adjutant General of Missouri ist Brigadier General Levon E. Cumpton.

Die Missouri National Guard führt ihre Wurzeln auf Milizverbände des Missouri Territory aus dem Jahr 1808 zurück. Der Staat Missouri wurde allerdings erst am 1821 in die Union aufgenommen. Die Air National Guard wurde 1939 gegründet. Die Nationalgarden der Bundesstaaten sind seit 1903 bundesgesetzlich und institutionell eng mit der regulären Armee und Luftwaffe verbunden, so dass (unter bestimmten Umständen mit Einverständnis des Kongresses) die Bundesebene auf sie zurückgreifen kann. Davon zu trennen ist die Staatsgarde, die Missouri State Defense Force, die allein dem Bundesstaat verpflichtet ist.

Die Missouri National Guard besteht aus den beiden Teilstreitkraftgattungen des Heeres und der Luftstreitkräfte, namentlich der Army National Guard und der Air National Guard. Die Missouri Army National Guard hatte 2017 eine Stärke von 8.397 Personen, die Missouri Air National Guard eine von 2.193, was eine Personalstärke von gesamt 10.590 ergibt.

Wichtige Einheiten und Kommandos
 Joint Forces Headquarters in Jefferson City

Army National Guard
 Combat Aviation Brigade, 35th Infantry Division in Sedalia
 35th Engineer Brigade in Fort Leonard Wood
 70th Troop Command in Jefferson City

Air National Guard
 131st Bomb Wing auf der Whiteman Air Force Base
 139th Airlift Wing auf dem Rosecrans Memorial Airport
 157th Air Operations Group in den Jefferson Barracks

Weblinks

 Offizielle Webpräsenz der US-Nationalgarde (englisch)
 Offizielle Webpräsenz der Missouri National Guard (englisch)

Einzelnachweise

Nationalgarde der Vereinigten Staaten
Gegründet 1808
Organisation (Missouri)


Music apps have at last switched people's state of mind towards music as well as the music market both.
But you must understand that a robust app is a key to your success and for that, you need to test your app from the development stage itself.
A nice music streaming app has a simple UI that makes it simple to sort out a library of a plenty of playlists or songs available over the internet.
It's likewise totally important that your music application gets stream music properly of different devices.
It should be capable to run on iOS and Android apps, and at times, Windows app and desktop Mac.
So, what to test in a music app? While testing the music streaming apps, there are lots of factors and features to be considered for testing.
Every music app feature needs exceptional consideration, and, following the worldwide buzz of moving from song downloading to online music streaming apps, how about we give due consideration to the most important factors of music app features.
If you're thinking to develop a music app, firstly, you need to observe what all features your music app will have to proficiently test them before launching the app to the market.
The below-listed points are extremely critical factors while considering to develop the music app like Amazon or Apple and eventually, to improve a listening experience for the users.
Getting to the most used streaming music app is as basic as you can even think with all the base data and personalization, as the registration process on the app is free.
Installed with endpoints to recover an entire data about a person's profile and approval of each user with the same database of user, for example, email address, Password and so on helps in limiting the spam intervenes.
Registration can even be easily accessed through online networking systems for additional memberships.
Additionally, with the development of social media networks, users are able to share anything they loved with their friends and family members.
So, maximum music streaming platforms also offer various sharing options, incorporating a probability to follow friends and share content.
An intriguing component that enables the music app user to remain notified on the latest launch of blockbuster tracks.
A person can tune in to the most recent collection on various music tracks whenever he or she wants to.
A Personalized system to control all the tracks based on the user particular taste in music for a creating a compelling safe platform.
A user can find up as many numbers of tracks and spot the top choices.
The music streaming app can use an algorithm to slowly figure out the music choices of every app user which is one of the most engaging concepts in the advanced music applications industry nowadays.
Exploit deep learning techniques and make this factor a component of your future music streaming application.
Also, music streaming app users ought to have the capacity to locate their favorite artists, songs, music genres, trending music etc. as well as find new releases or genres.
With an advanced search option, they'll have the capacity to discover precisely what befits their music tastes with an ease and in a very less time.
It is always a good choice to give users a chance to make their very own playlists for various activities and moods.
This feature doesn't restrict here, as one can even be allowed to share their playlists with different users of the music application.
This factor proves to be very useful in the circumstances when individuals are traveling anywhere and are having a hard time to get Wi-Fi or Mobile Internet access.
A must element to keep the users connected with the music app so as to acquire the utmost from the latest updates from artists, friends, and community on the user's application circle.
Your friends and followers can listen to your preferred music tracks when you invite your friend's group through the linked email address or social media platforms to dig in all the tracks on the list.
This will be a fabulous element that would be apprehended by concert lovers. The app can assist them to hunt down the upcoming concerts or concert dates or meetups with fan clubs.
Developing and releasing a music streaming application can be a lucrative business, and, particularly when it is a quality app having all the relevant features and factors we'd discussed above.
But how to make those features effective is by implementing right testing strategies.
Significant viewpoints are that it is better to formulate test documentation comprising of Test Strategy, Checklists, and Software Prerequisites information.
All this will support in assuring the flawless user experience and steady streaming of media data.
Functional testing of music app generally includes a user interface.
A tester will check the application is performing the proposed functions, as directed by the business strategies or described in the specifications.
Usability testing is done to test the music app for adaptability, usability, and ease of use.
The testing method ensures that the application is now simple to use and provides a proper user experience to the users.
Performance of the music application needs to be tested in every likely situation.
Different real-time situations are reenacted like no or low network, low memory, low battery, server not reachable, and so on.
The application's behavior ought not to be influenced by every one of these scenarios.
Performance debasement can happen either on the server end or client end.
Thus, performance testing needs to guarantee every one of these situations is checked efficiently.
An Application Programming Interface (API) serves to connect the app to the network and to other APIs.
API is the collection of protocols, tools, standards, and code that fixes the digital world unitedly.
Thus, API testing on your music app is done so that the integrations and APIs permit operation in the highly optimal way.
It's no doubt that the majority of the smartphones rely upon the network carriers for their connectivity.
Load testing needs to guarantee that the music app ought to perform reliably across networks and across device both.
In the event that the music app is at the same time accessed by numerous users then it will extricate the server load, such loads must be recreated and tested for execution.
Cross-browser and cross-platform testing refer to testing the music app in multiple operating systems and browsers.
It is a pretty critical aspect of quality assurance. The objective of performing this test is to check compatibility testing to assure that the music app functions and seems in the same way over different browsers and platforms.
The music streaming app ought to be compatible with the current browser version and also with operating system adaptability.
For instance, when the app is run on Android it can operate perfectly on Nougat but is not supported on Oreo version.
These kinds of problems can be recognized simply by performing cross-browser and cross-platform testing during app testing process.
Obviously, you cannot manage such a prominent project without relevant professional support.
It is impossible that you have ability and aptitudes to build up and test every aspect of music streaming app all by yourself without taking help from the right specialist.
It's an excessively multi-step and tedious process.
App developers who must thoroughly consider the structure of the platform and compose a readable and clear code. So, you'll require all – Android, iOS, and web specialists.
UI/UX designers whose duty is to create an easy to use and intuitive application interface.
Project Manager who'll supervise the whole development process of music application and will turn into an intermediary for testers and the organization.
QA Engineers and testers who'll test your music streaming application and work beyond any doubt to offer hassle-free use of music app.
Marketers ready to create the savvy marketing efforts intended to advertise your music streaming application.


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Throwing soup on the issue: are radical climate protests helping or hurting the cause? | Activism
On Wednesday, activists staged a protest at the National Gallery of Australia, scribbling in blue markers on framed prints of Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup I. One of the protesters, who belonged to the group Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies, tried to glue himself to a print.
It wasn't even the first climate protest in the past week to involve soup: five days earlier, Italian activists from the group Ultima Generazione – Last Generation – threw pea soup at a Vincent van Gogh painting in Rome. Van Gogh's work, like Warhol's prints, was protected by glass.
Protests targeting famous works of art began in the middle of the year in the UK, instigated by the group Just Stop Oil, which carried out actions in Manchester, Glasgow and several London galleries. The stunts spread around the world: activists glued themselves to artworks and gallery walls in Milan (Ultima Generazione, August), Melbourne (Extinction Rebellion, October), The Hague (Just Stop Oil, October ), Potsdam (Letzte Generation, October) and Madrid (November). Galleries like Prado have "reject[ed] endanger cultural heritage as a means of protest".
The action that drew the most attention and criticism was carried out last month by activists from Just Stop Oil, who threw tomato soup at Van Gogh's sunflowers at the National Gallery in London.
The backlash has given rise to its own conspiracy theory: that Aileen Getty, an oil heiress turned environmentalist, funded the stunt in order to discredit real climate activists. ("I do not fund these groups directly, nor do I have direct control over the specific actions climate activists choose to take," Getty clarified.)
Is radical action like protests in art galleries an effective way to advance climate efforts, or, as its critics argue, does it harm the cause it's trying to advance?
The activist's dilemma
Social change research suggests that radical actions have historically been effective for two purposes, says Professor Winnifred Louis, a social psychologist at the University of Queensland.
The first is to raise awareness – especially useful in the early stages of a movement – as the media is more likely to cover actions when they are sensational or violate social norms.
The second area where radical action has been successful is preventing or blocking specific events that have no social license — "destroying a particular building against the will of the community or bulldozing trees," says Louis . In 1998, direct action – including a nine-month blockade of the mine site – helped prevent uranium mining at Jabiluka in the Northern Territory.
Just Stop Oil activists splash soup on Van Gogh's sunflowers at the National Gallery in London. Photography: Antonio Olmos/The Guardian
Christopher Wright, professor of organizational studies at the University of Sydney, cites the Lock the Gate alliance as another successful for example, by locating protests against fossil fuel extraction to "specific community concerns about how extraction will endanger their quality of life or their environment".
More disruptive action also exerts what researchers call the "radical flank effect," in which the radical faction of a social movement can increase both support for and identification with more moderate groups of the same movement. The effect has been shown in relation to the American civil rights, animal rights and climate movements.
This flank also has the effect of normalizing radical tactics over time, suggests Professor Dana Fisher, a sociologist at the University of Maryland. "The big traditional green groups that used to say 'We're just doing institutional politics' are now engaging in peaceful civil disobedience," she says.
However, research also suggests that radical tactics can reduce popular support for social movements. "This is what we in social psychology call the activist's dilemma," says Flinders University researcher Dr. Morgana Lizzio-Wilson. "On the one hand, radical actions can bring more attention to a cause, but they can simultaneously reduce support for that cause."
Just Stop Oil protesters in Trafalgar Square in London on November 1, 2022. Photography: Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock
Radical actions have proven less persuasive and more polarizing on issues such as animal welfare, abortion rights and the US presidential election, says Lizzio-Wilson. His own work, which analyzed responses to animal rights groups, found that radical actions (e.g., undercover investigations into factory farms) were seen as both less effective and less legitimate. than conventional tactics (such as advocating for legislative reform or reducing meat consumption). consumption).
"Because people felt radical tactics were less effective, it meant they were less willing to identify as animal rights activists and were less likely to act on behalf of the cause itself," explains Lizzio-Wilson.
Research in this space, however, is contested. A study by Sam Glover and James Ozden of the Social Change Lab in London found that "it is likely that a nonviolent radical flank will increase the likelihood of a global movement achieving political victories", while others have found that radical climate action does not alienate those who are already sympathetic to the cause.
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Earlier this year, the Social Change Lab also commissioned a YouGov poll of 2,000 people each, as part of three surveys conducted before, during and after the disruptive Just Stop Oil and Extinction Rebellion protests in London. It found that despite the opposition of the majority of those polled to the protests, there was "no significant negative change in the number of people saying they support the aims of Just Stop Oil".
Glover and Ozden however noted: "Because of the high levels of climate concern in the UK, it is possible that a general attempt to increase concern for climate change is now less effective than it was the previous years."
Critics divided
The opinions of experts on the effectiveness of art gallery events are particularly divided. Some have criticized them for a lack of action logic, in which an action is immediately understandable to an outsider – chaining oneself to a tree to prevent it from being cut down, for example.
Prof Robb Willer, director of Stanford University's Polarization and Social Change Lab, said while disruptive protests can work, he 'didn't see a clear path to impact' for the soup thrower . "Wealthy, left-wing art lovers are expected to take bold climate action in response to these actions? In what form ? Pressure? Donations to climate organizations? I have yet to see a compelling rationale," he wrote on Twitter.
Last generation climate activists threw pea soup at Van Gogh's The Sower at Rome's Bonaparte Palace on November 4, 2022. Photograph: ANSA/AFP/Getty Images
"The benefit of reaching large numbers of people and alienating them is really questionable," says Louis. She cites three reasons why people don't take action if they already support a cause: they don't see the action as relevant, they don't feel it's supported by social norms, or they don't don't believe it is effective. The soup protests likely increase those perceptions and "actually slow the pace of change," Louis says. "This [would] to be ironic for a movement that says "trust the science" if it didn't look at what was evidence-based in terms of tactics.
But Fisher, who contributed to the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, points out that the impact of art gallery protests has yet to be studied.
"The reason they chose this is because it really grabs attention, and it's shocking to see it until you know the artwork isn't destroyed," she adds. . Climate activists say they have target art with protective covers – no damage has been done to date on the works themselves.
"As more and more people join in divisive activism — even if it's peaceful — law enforcement tends to resort to what they call 'insurgent repression,'" Fisher says. As many have pointed out, climate activists in many places are increasingly facing draconian anti-protest laws.
The rise in disruptive climate protests likely stems from disenfranchisement – a well-established pattern in social change research. "When people feel their activism to advocate for an issue is failing, they're much more likely to use more radical tactics," says Lizzio-Wilson.
"It's actually very understandable that many climate activists are resorting to these more drastic tactics because time is running out."
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