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Perspectives: Brothers in Service
Author(s): Jesse Roman. Published on January 26, 2022.
Brothers in Service
Two longtime fire service leaders, Russ Sanders and Gregory Cade, retired at the end of 2021, after a combined 105 years of fire service experience. In their exit interview with NFPA Journal, they share lessons on leadership, the evolution of firefighting, and the challenges facing the next generation of fire service leaders.
INTERVIEW CONDUCTED AND EDITED BY JESSE ROMAN
Russ Sanders and Greg Cade began their careers just a year apart in the late 1960s as 18-year-old line firefighters. They left the profession in December as two of the most recognizable names in the US fire service—Sanders as the longtime executive secretary of the influential Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association ("Metro Chiefs," in the trade), and Cade for his work as US Fire Administrator and later at the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and NFPA.
Their careers are remarkable not just for their longevity and achievement, but also for their overlap with perhaps the most transformational era in the history of the US fire service.
RELATED PODCAST Russ Sanders reflects on his career with The NFPA Podcast.
When Sanders was hired in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, in 1967, "you didn't go off to training school or anything—they just told me to report to the fire station in my neighborhood," he said in December, a couple of weeks before he retired. "When I walked in the door for my first shift, they gave me fire gear and within an hour I'd already experienced my first civilian fire death. Of course, I had no clue what I was doing. When the bell rang, they told me to jump on the back of the truck, and when it took off out the door, I almost fell off. It was the Wild West back then."
Cade also has vivid memories of "hanging off the backstep of a 1945 Mac" fire truck at the Prince George's County (Maryland) Fire Department, where he began his career as a volunteer in 1968. But he also has painful memories of losing friends to needless accidents and later to preventable cancers, the result, he said, of ineffective equipment and regulations and a generally cavalier attitude toward safety. "When I started, absolutely nobody talked about safety—it just wasn't part of the conversation," he said. "We were wearing a breathing apparatus maybe half the time and you took it off as soon as you could. It was crazy, it really was."
RELATED PODCAST Greg Cade reflects on his career with The NFPA Podcast.
Five decades later, those days are distant memories—so much so that it could be argued that today's firefighters are among the most highly trained, regulated, technologically well-equipped, and safety-conscious professionals in the world. As a result, annual firefighter line-of-duty deaths have plummeted by about two-thirds since the 1970s, when NFPA began keeping track, from an annual average of about 150 to an average of 58 over the past three years.
Credit for that achievement, and for many others, is shared by countless people and organizations. But Sanders and Cade are key members of a select group that has worked methodically at all levels—locally, nationally, and globally—to move the fire service to where it is today.
Sanders was promoted to chief of the Louisville Division of Fire in 1986 and led the 700-plus-member department for nearly a decade until he joined NFPA in 1995 as a regional director. His NFPA duties included serving as executive secretary of the Metro Chiefs, a member section of NFPA and the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) that brings together the highest-ranking fire officers from the largest departments in the United States and the United Kingdom. The group provides a forum for members to address emerging issues and challenging problems, everything from technology and tactics to health and diversity. Many of the cutting-edge procedures and initiatives adopted by career fire departments over the years can be traced to the Metro Chiefs, steered in large part by Sanders.
After more than two decades at Prince George's, Cade led large fire departments in Virginia and gained a reputation for taking firm and sometimes unpopular stances to improve safety. In 2007, he was nominated by President George W. Bush to become US Fire Administrator, where he led the National Fire Academy and oversaw the US Fire Administration's educational, research, and data programs, which are promoted and shared with fire departments around the world. Cade later served as assistant director of national programs for the IAFC. At NFPA, he was director of governmental affairs for more than a decade, lobbying Congress and governmental agencies to improve public safety and increase funding for fire departments. Most recently, he was NFPA's director of field operations for the mid-Atlantic region.
Before they sailed off into the sunset, NFPA Journal caught up with Sanders and Cade for a conversation about their careers and the evolution of the fire service, and for a few nuggets of wisdom to pass along to the next generation of fire service leaders.
Do you remember what made you decide to join the fire service?
Greg Cade: I had just turned 18, and I had a couple of friends who were a part of it. At the time it sounded interesting and I thought it was a chance to learn some new skills.
Russ Sanders: In 1967, I had just graduated from high school, and I was a carpenter working on a highway project. We had an incident at the work site and the fire department showed up. It just so happened that one of the guys I knew from my neighborhood was on the fire truck. I didn't even know they paid firefighters in my town. So we got to talking, and I went by the firehouse on the way home from work that day and I signed up. I gotta be honest, what really attracted to me to the job back then was the color TV and air conditioning in the bedrooms at the fire station. I grew up living in the attic; I'd never even seen a color TV at that point, and we certainly didn't have air conditioning. And it was miserably hot in Louisville.
You stuck with it for more than 50 years, so I assume you eventually found a lot more to like than just the AC.
RS: I'll tell you, the most important thing that happened my first day—and it had an effect on the rest of my professional career without question—was the fact that I was assigned to a company that was commanded by Captain John Ridge. To this day, he was by far the greatest leader and teacher I've ever known. You could just feel this command presence when he was around. It changed my life.
RS: This is the best example I can give. In 1969, I was drafted into the US Army and went to Southeast Asia. When I came back two years later, I walked to my fire station and the first thing I saw was this person sleeping on the sofa in the training room. He was this kind of grungy looking guy. I figured it was a street person that just came in, which wasn't unusual in that neighborhood. So I kicked the couch to wake him up and I said, 'Where's the captain?' He said, 'I am the captain.' He told me John Ridge was now a major at the training bureau. I looked around at the quad company and asked, 'Where's all the personnel?' He said, 'They're in bed.' This is like one o'clock in the afternoon! I walked out of the station feeling sick to my stomach because I knew if I'd come in on the job at 18 years old and that guy had been my company commander, I'd have been hung-over and in bed, too. I would've been just like them. My whole career would've been different. I'll never forget that day. I'd learned a real lesson in leadership, and it's shaped my entire professional life.
Greg, was there a moment or circumstance that was crucial to your development in the fire service?
GC: I was very fortunate to start my career in a department at Prince George's that prided itself on being on the cutting edge of things. It helped that the University of Maryland and its famous fire protection engineering school were right down the road. We used to joke that you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a fire engineer. They wanted to be on the cutting edge, they wanted to make firefighters safe, and I took that with me every stop in my career.
What was the safety ethos in the fire service during the early parts of your careers?
GC: I'll be honest with you—I'm a cancer survivor and I've lost give-or-take half of my hearing from doing things that were just seen as normal parts of the job. When I started, absolutely nobody talked about safety. It just wasn't part of the conversation. We wore a breathing apparatus maybe half the time and took it off as soon as we could. There wasn't even proper gear. Most people were issued a set of three-quarter length boots. It wasn't that bunker pants didn't exist, but they cost like $50 more. It was an expense thing.
RS: It was the Wild West, I'll tell you. Once, we had a gasoline tanker overturn and spill thousands of gallons of raw gasoline in this valley and the driver was trapped in the vehicle. All we had were canvas coats and rubber boots, but we waded through this gasoline to try to rescue this truck guy. One spark and we would've all been cremated. But that's the way it was. You did what you had to do at the time. The same with water rescues or train derailments or dealing with all kinds of exotic chemicals. We did what we needed to do, but we didn't have the training. We didn't have the equipment. We didn't have the resources that they have today. We did our best, but it was mainly a trial-and-error kind of situation. And that's one of the reasons I think we lost a whole lot more firefighters back then than we do today.
How did you go about trying to change that?
GC: When I came to Hampton, Virginia [as fire chief in 1992], I brought that kind of safety-first outlook with me. I came in and made a list of things that needed to change and set out to do it, which was difficult as an outsider. But I was hardheaded enough and believed in what needed to be done, that I started putting policies in place. It was an interesting time—I have the lawsuits to prove it, and I won 'em all. Some of them took a little longer than others, but it was my belief that it was the right thing to do for the people that worked for us.
What was your argument to the rest of the department?
GC: I'd tell them that I worked in Prince George's County, including my volunteer time, 24 years. And in 24 years, I went to 22 line-of-duty-death funerals. I've been to all the line-of-duty funerals that I ever need. I'd say that the majority of those who lost their lives didn't need to lose them. I mean, there were open cabs and no seatbelts in fire trucks, and several of them lost their lives by just falling off the truck. I tried to instill that same type of safety attitude to all three of the departments that I was fortunate enough to be a part of, and then ultimately when I ran the US Fire Administration.
Has the past 50 years brought improvements to the fire service across the board, or are there things you would bring back if you could?
RS: Without question, time has brought improvements across the board in every aspect of the profession compared to when I came in. It's not near as exciting today, maybe, because back then it was exciting. But it's a good tradeoff.
Russ, the Metro Chiefs have always been on the leading edge of most issues concerning the fire service. What do you think are the most pressing challenges faced by today's fire service?
RS: The Metro Chiefs have a system where we actually identify those challenges by polling our members, and then we work through those challenges. Right now we're focused on ensuring diversity in our departments and figuring out how to maximize the use of data-driven decision making. I believe, and the Metro Chiefs believe, that there's strength in diversity; the different ideas, the different cultural backgrounds, all these things bring strength to a fire department and its operations, and its ability to understand a community and its needs. If everybody in the room thinks like you and looks like you, you're really not going to get any kind of creativity when you're looking for solutions to problems. We've completed a policy draft and supporting documentation on this issue that we'll present to our membership in May.
What about the data piece?
RS: Data is certainly nothing new, but the challenge facing fire departments now is how to process more data faster for preparedness, prevention, and operations, as well as for firefighter safety and well-being. It's more important than ever to manage the huge input of data we get from both structured and non-structured sources. When I say structured data, I'm talking about data that are typically well organized, easily formatted, searchable databases, things like addresses, incident numbers, response times, that type of thing, whereas unstructured data has no predefined format and is more difficult to analyze, such as social media, dispatch and radio recordings, and traffic cameras.
One of our goals is to increase the data integration into everyday activities. A key tactic in doing this is the establishment of more automated data capture. The chiefs are working to identify opportunities to integrate technology, including artificial intelligence and machine learning into their everyday data collection. They want to create partnerships with the tech industry at the national level so that publicly shared data can be coupled with the response data to better understand local communities and how to provide better fire department services. It's also a goal to train everyone in the department so that we don't just have a few technologically sophisticated personnel; the idea is to go through the ranks so that all of our personnel can be involved.
Greg, what would you identify as the biggest challenges faced by the nation's fire service going forward?
GC: A big one is resources, both money and personnel. A lot of fire departments can easily tell you what their needs are and justify them, but the communities that they serve just don't have the financial resources to support them. The federal government has done an OK job of putting out grant dollars, but that money isn't a drop in the bucket compared to the need that's out there. This is a huge issue for volunteer departments across the country, not just money but members. In Pennsylvania, they went from having close to 400,000 volunteer firefighters in the 1970s to 30,000 or so today.
GC: In the case of Pennsylvania, if you look at the central part of the state, which is beautiful country, there's not much there from an economic standpoint [in a lot of those communities] to support a fire department.
That's true in many other parts of the country as well. There's been this hollowing out of the central part of the United States, because people are leaving for jobs and opportunities on the coasts. There aren't as many people around to be volunteers [for fire departments], and on top of that it's much harder to be a volunteer than when I started, because back then there were no rules. Today, there are a lot of rules—which is really good, because we're trying to protect those people—but it means that being a volunteer firefighter requires much more time and training than it used to. I can go down to my church and volunteer two hours week, and they'll be happy to have me. If I went down to my local volunteer fire department and told them that I could give them two hours a week, they'd say, 'Sorry. Thank you for wanting to be a part of it, but two hours a week is not going to get it done.'
As the former US Fire Administrator, what can the federal government do about this crisis?
GC: I'd love to see them better fund the US Fire Administration so that they could be the key to providing training and thinking about what else we need to do. I think part of it is just getting the elected leadership to understand the challenges. It's not that they don't care; I think they care tremendously. They just really don't know what the fix should be. Part of the fix is money, because nothing is free.
As you both hang up the boots after 50-plus years in the fire service, what advice or wisdom would you offer the next generation of men and women who are just starting down the leadership path?
GC: I think the easiest advice I could give is you have to be a lifelong learner. I still try and do that. I learn things from people old and young. Another thing is to look outside of your own group of people and your own comfort zone. I've done things where people have asked, 'Why are you involved in this? What does this have to do with being a fire chief?' It has to do with growth. You don't know where you're going find those neat little things that make you think, 'Wow, how do I transition this into the fire service to make it better?' Throughout my entire career, I've seen how the fire service is pretty good at stealing ideas from other people and areas and putting them to very good use. I hope it continues. I don't have any reason to believe that it won't, because the people being hired today are just amazing, smart people.
RS: You have to embrace change. You can't fake it. Change has to energize you, because things are going change and if you're going to be an influencer or a change-factor yourself, you have to look forward to it. I've seen so many people that have to be dragged to change, and then they're reluctant and they resist—you'll never be successful that way. It's not going to be the way it was; it wasn't for me in 1967, and it won't be for the next generation the way it was in 2021. So go in with that attitude as you go up through the ranks and I think you'll have a wonderful career. I know I have. I wouldn't change what I've done for anything, not one single thing. I've loved every minute of it.
JESSE ROMAN is senior editor of NFPA Journal. Top photograph: Getty Images
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Q: Scala Play DI issue: Cannot inject into field of class or object My project has similar structure:
Application
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|--> /ApplicationA
|   -> /app
|     ->Filters.scala
|     ->AuthenticationComponent.scala
|   -> /build.sbt
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|--> /ApplicationB
|   -> /app
|     ->Module.scala
|     ->VanillaAuthenticationUtil.scala
|   -> /build.sbt
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|-> /conf
|-> /build.sbt

The code of Module.scala is listed:
class Module extends AbstractModule  {
  override def configure(): Unit = {
    bind(classOf[AuthenticationUtil])
      .annotatedWith(Names.named("authUtil"))
      .to(classOf[VanillaAuthenticationUtil]).asEagerSingleton()
  }
}

Also, ApplicationA  does not know about ApplicationB and ApplicationB depends on ApplicationA.
The code of Filters.scala and AuthenticationComponent.scala also listed:
class Filters @Inject()(corsFilter: CORSFilter) extends HttpFilters {
  @Inject
  @Named("authUtil")
  var authUtil:AuthenticationUtil = _
  def filters = Seq(corsFilter, authUtil)
}

class AuthenticationComponent   {
  @Inject
  @Named("authUtil")
  var authUtil:AuthenticationUtil = _
  def getAuthUtil():AuthenticationFilter ={

  println(authUtil == null)
  authUtil
  }
}

So, when I'm calling getAuthUtil from AuthenticationComponent it says that  authUtil is equals null, but in case of Filters it's false. The same situation is when I'm trying to inject into scala object I'm also receiving null.
Any ideas?

A: I don't recommend mixing field and constructor injection. Move it to a constructor param, and it will probably work.

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The Global Education Benchmark Group is a registered non-profit organization in the U.S. The organization is governed by a Board of Directors and run by an Executive Director and a team of staff, all dedicated to fulfilling the mission of the organization.
GEBG Senior Staff
Clare Sisisky, Executive Director
Clare Sisisky is currently the Executive Director of the Global Education Benchmark Group, working to support its member schools around the world in all aspects of global education. Clare has written and spoken on many topics relating to global and cross-cultural competencies in K-12 education. She spent 8 years at the Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia as the Founding Director of the Institute for Responsible Citizenship and the Director of Strategic Planning. Her leadership responsibilities included overseeing all the global engagement, service-learning, inclusion, entrepreneurship and sustainability programs and developing curriculum and assessment in these areas in partnership with faculty. She also led the school's strategic planning process working closely with the Head of School and the Board of Trustees. She began at Collegiate as the Director of Global Education, where she created the International Emerging Leaders program and a network of 12 partner schools around the world.
She previously worked as an administrator for a large public school district, for the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in Beijing, and was on the faculty at Phillips Academy Andover. Clare has an undergraduate degree from George Washington University and a graduate degree from Harvard University where her research included a year-long research fellowship in Mauritius and extended time in India. She is currently a doctoral student in Educational Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania. She was a founding Board Member of the Global Education Benchmark Group (GEBG) and is currently a Board Member of the Council for Standards in International Education Travel (CSIET).
Elsie Stapf, Director of Operations
Elsie Stapf has been the Director of Operations for the GEBG since 2014, using her expertise in management of all GEBG operations systems to help support member schools as the organization has grown. Elsie continues to focus on membership and leads both the benchmarking data work for GEBG and the execution of the annual Global Educators' Conference.
Prior to her work with the GEBG, Elsie spent 5 years at the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Connecticut where she supported students as a Gap Year Advisor in the College Advising Office, coordinated several globally focused on-campus programs, led travel programs throughout the world and chaired a class-wide service learning initiative. Previously Elsie also spent time working for the Becket Chimney Corners YMCA where she directed an international youth travel and service program serving more than 200 teens annually, including hiring and training all program leaders. She served as an officer of the board for Habitat for Humanity of Northwest Connecticut and chaired committees. She holds a B.S. in Biology from Truman State University and currently lives in Hawaii.
Chad Detloff, Director of Professional Learning and Curriculum
As the Director of Professional Learning and Curriculum, Chad Detloff supports GEBG's work with educators who want to infuse their curricula, programs, and schools with education for global competencies. Chad has spent his career seeking to develop self-aware, courageous, empathetic citizens who take on leadership roles to effect positive change in their various, diverse communities. Chad began his journey in this work as a student, studying abroad in Switzerland in high school and in Argentina and Italy in college.
Chad spent ten years as the Director of Global Programs at Chadwick School in Southern California, where he led a group of faculty and administrators in creating unique indicators of global citizenship–based on the school's mission and vision–and developed in-class curricula and travel programming to target these competencies. Chad has worked extensively with student leadership development and has taught a wide array of student-centered, inquiry-based courses in the Humanities and Global Languages disciplines over fourteen years in the classroom. Additionally, Chad has significant experience developing risk-management policies and procedures, training faculty and staff, and creating comprehensive systems and budgets. Previously Chad taught at the University of Barcelona and oversaw a university Spanish language program. Chad graduated from Dartmouth College with a major in Comparative Literature (Spanish and Italian). In his free time, Chad enjoys gardening, cooking, and spending time outdoors with his family.
The GEBG's Board of Directors is elected to provide mission-based and strategic governance.
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Joe Vogel, Old Trail School
Laura Appell-Warren, St. Mark's School
Wally Swanson, Wilbraham & Monson Academy
Director Emeritus
William G. Fluharty, Cape Henry Collegiate
Tricia C. Anderson, Pace Academy
Melissa Brown, Holton-Arms School
Nishad Das, Groton School
Daniel Emmerson, Felsted School
Tené Howard, Packer Collegiate Institute
David Lynn, Charlotte Country Day School
Robert McGuiness, Appleby College
Saya McKenna, Head-Royce School
Manjula Salomon, Palmer Trinity School
David Thompson, Hotchkiss School
Aric Visser, School Year Abroad
Debra Wilson, Southern Association of Independent Schools
The GEBG is supported by numerous volunteers who are professionals in the field of Global Education and serve on and lead a variety of committees, working groups and regional groups. Active committees and working groups include:
Executive Committee of the Board of Directors
Annual Conference Committee
Strategic Planning Committee
Endorsement Committee
Curriculum Working Group
Database Working Group
Regional groups provide opportunities for member schools to meet outside of the annual conference to discuss, share and collaborate. Regional Groups ideally host one regional meeting (physically) and may offer other virtual meeting opportunities. Regional groups may wish to share resources, offer professional development opportunities, or student collaborative projects.
Contact us for more information about GEBG leadership or if you are interested in serving as a leader within the organization submit an interest form here.
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What sort of time commitment are you roughly able to contribute?
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Bio (please share a bit about your professional history and organization affiliations).

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Baby boomers dominate the nation's population.
But analysts watching the health care economy say it's the youngest health care consumers who are shaping the future health care economy.
PwC's Health Research Institute is in its 10th year of evaluating the nation's health care economy. Lindsey Jarrell, a PwC partner based in Tampa, says health care companies need to pay close attention to trends involving millennials, those Americans born between 1981 and 1997.
Jarrell says some of the latest HRI reports show that the tech-centered life this generation leads is changing the way health care providers do business.
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The next three to five years, he says, are critical as health care practitioners and insurance companies juggle serving millennials, their parents and grandparents.
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Dead By Daylight: Leatherface DLC Now Available on PC
The chainsaw-wielding horror icon comes with a new set of skills in Dead by Daylight.
Larryn Bell
The iconic 70s serial killer Leatherface is now available as a playable killer in Dead by Daylight. The Leatherface DLC has officially arrived on Steam and will be available soon on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles.
In Dead by Daylight, Leatherface wields both his iconic chainsaw as well as a sledgehammer.
The horror icon is known as the terrifying murderer from the 1974 film The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. For a closer look at Leatherface in-game, check out the new Dead by Daylight Leatherface trailer below.
In Dead by Daylight, Leatherface wields his iconic chainsaw as well as a sledgehammer. This vicious masked cannibal also comes with a new set of skills and perks, which include Knock Out, Barbecue & Chili, and Franklin's Demise.
According to the Dead by Daylight website, Leatherface is just a bit…misunderstood. "Leatherface kills not from a desire to exert his will over others, to satisfy carnal urges, or even to quiet the voices in his head. He kills because he is scared. Scared that others will hurt him; scared that his family will be displeased with him, scared that their shared willingness to eat human flesh will be discovered."
Dead by Daylight is a 4-vs-1 multiplayer horror game where a crazed Killer tries to hunt down a group of four friends, similar to Friday the 13th: The Game. The Dead by Daylight: Leatherface DLC costs $3.99 and is available now for PC players, with a console release in the near future.
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Well, I may not have listened to Mama every time, but I sure do employ her wisdom now. Like any Indian mother, my mom was always in the kitchen and would come out with some gnarly looking stuff on her face. None of that, "pretty green monster " stuff. I'm talking real (sometimes smelly) goop.
Now before y'all start booing and ewwing, hear me out, one of the key ingredients that I don't see promoted in western media is one of my holy grail kitchen to skin products; licorice root. #Canigetahollaforadollahoney!
Not only is this ingredient easy to find in any South Asian grocery store under the name of "Mulethi" it's also fairly inexpensive and is essentially magic. I'm not kidding.
Licorice root and Amla powder were the two key ingredients in the face mask my mother applied twice a week for most of my life. She has impeccable skin and I truly hope one day I too can say, I get it from my mama.
Licorice root has INCREDIBLE benefits, it contains brightening properties that assist in fading scars and blemishes as well as medicinal uses for health conditions like asthma. Get the lowdown on all the licorice benefits here.
Amla or Indian Gooseberry is rich in antioxidants and can help lower cholesterol, and has major hair benefits. Check out a CurlyNikki piece on Amla here.
Now before you go mixing ingredients trying to make your facial brew, understand that licorice root powder doesn't thicken as much in liquid where as Amla does, try to find a happy medium. You're looking for the consistency to resemble a thin paste.
Step 1. Remove your makeup and cleanse your skin prior to applying. Pro Indian Mom tip: use an oil to remove makeup (my fave is jojoba) and then milk or a steaming hot towel to get the gunk off your face sans chemicals and face wash!
Step 2. Apply the goop. Take disturbing Snapchat selfies, scare your children and spouse, clean up your mess and THENNNNN use warm water to soften the mask and begin exfoliating your skin with its remnants in circular motions as you rinse it off.
Step 3. Admire your soft as a baby's bottom and brighter than sunshine skin.
Step 4. Tone with rose water and witch hazel and moisturize with Rosehip seed oil!
Mama is 53 and #SLAYING thanks to licorice root!
Let me know what you think of this monster mask or share your mama's favorite skincare tips and tricks!


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Definition and Components of Our Solar System
The solar system is the planetary system composed of celestial elements held together with the Sun by gravity. The Sun is a G2-class main-sequence star 1.39 million kilometers in diameter, representing 99.86% of the solar system's mass.
The solar system is located in the Local Interstellar Cloud, located in the Local Bubble of Orion's arm, within the Milky Way. The Milky Way is between 150 and 230 thousand light-years in size and has between 100-400 billion stars.
In the space between these celestial bodies is interplanetary matter. The main component of the interplanetary medium is the solar wind, which is a stream of charged particles flowing from the Sun.
Components of the Solar System
In addition to the Sun, the Solar System contains eight planets, five dwarf planets, more than one million known asteroids, 644 planet moons, dwarf planets, and asteroids, and 3,701 known comets. Most of these objects revolve around the Sun in orbits with slight inclinations relative to the ecliptic.
The most prominent elements orbiting the Sun move in the same virtual plane called the ecliptic plane.
1. the Sun: the Central Star of Our Solar System
The sun is the unique star in our planetary system and the solar energy source.
The sun contains by its attraction all the planets of the solar system that orbit around it and other bodies that belong to him.
It is a medium star but, due to its proximity, it is the only star that can be seen with the naked eye in its circular shape.
The Sun emits energy in the form of radiation from the nuclear fusion reactions of hydrogen atoms inside it. This energy is vital for Earth's life (heating the planet, allowing plants to photosynthesize, etc.)
After the Sun, the closest star is Proxima Centauri, a low-mass star located 4.2465 light-years.
2. Planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
The solar system includes:
Inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars.
Outer planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
All the planets and most solar system elements rotate around the Sun in the same direction that our central star rotates (counterclockwise when viewed from the Sun's North Pole). However, the time they take to orbit the Sun is not the same: while the Earth's orbit is about one year, the orbit of Neptune takes 135 years.
Most planets revolve around their axis in the same direction as they revolve around the Sun, except Venus and Uranus.
Planets orbit the Sun following Kepler's laws. According to Kepler's laws, each object does not rotate in circular orbits, but on an ellipse, in one of whose foci is the Sun.
3. Satellites of Planets and Moons
Most of the planets in the solar system have their subordinate systems. Many are surrounded by satellites; some of them are larger than Mercury.
The four largest planets are gas giants. These planets also have rings, thin bands of tiny particles that rotate in very close orbits almost in unison.
4. Dwarf Planets
A dwarf planet is a spherical object that moves in a heliocentric orbit but has not cleared the surrounding space.
5. Other Small Bodies
The terms minor planet and planetoid refer to a classification, currently in disuse, that until 2006 included the bodies of the solar system
Small bodies of the solar system are grouped into:
Asteroid belt.
Trans-Neptunian objects and the Kuiper Belt.
Before 2006, there was the concept of the minor planet. This definition included the system solar bodies that, not being satellites or comets, turned out to be smaller than the "traditional" planets but more significant than meteoroids, commonly defined with a maximum size of 10 meters.
What Is the Origin of the Solar System?
According to modern thinking, the solar system was formed about 5 billion years ago due to the accumulation and compression by the gravity of a cloud of gas dust called the solar nebula.
In the compression process, the dimensions of the solar nebula decreased, and the rotation speed increased. As a result, most of the mass had been concentrated, and it began to heat up much more than the surrounding disk.
The compression speeds of the clouds parallel and perpendicular to the axis of rotation were different. It caused the flattening of the cloud and the formation of a characteristic protoplanetary disk and a hot, dense protostar in the center. The accretion of this disk formed the planets.
In 50 million years, the pressure and density of hydrogen in the center of the protostar became high enough to start a nuclear fusion reaction of hydrogen atoms.
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Big Win for Religious Freedom and the ULC
By Brother Kevin,
June 14, 2016 in Legal Questions
Brother Kevin
Location:Folsom, California
Andre Hensley notified me that the New York Supreme Court has handed down a decision in a case that has a lot of significance for religious freedom in general and for the Universal Life Church specifically. In Oswald v Oswald, the court held among other things, that the Universal Life Church is a "church" within the definition of the New York statutes.
As church president, Mr. Hensley was called to New York to testify in this case, which the court relied upon heavily in making its determination. It will be interesting to see whether that information is redacted from the case file when this information is posted by "you know who" or whether he will attempt to usurp credit for this victory as with everything else.
The court's ruling may be found here
Location:Here, not There
Simply awesome. True religious freedom in action!
Location:southern mich/northern indiana
while it is about time,is the law changing for new york state,and even more so,for new york city?
mdtaylor
Location:Wheelock Creek, Flo, Texas, USA
That's great news Bro. Kevin!
ClericThomas
I'm an Atheist ULC clergyperson and don't believe in supernatural powers but consider my ministry work as valid as any other members ministry work who may be religious in nature. So this is good news for me also.
On 6/15/2016 at 1:18 PM, mark 45 said:
It doesn't change the law, no. New York City was already accepting ULC ministers and issuing them the required permits to officiate marriage. That issue was resolved quite a long time ago.
There were those who claimed that the state law of New York did not include ULC ministers, for various reasons, and pointed to an old divorce case for support of that idea. Which to me, always seemed silly, because if true, that would have meant that the New York City Clerk's office was issuing the permits to ministers who were not authorized by the state law to officiate marriage. (Not to mention that pesky old First Amendment!).
In issuing this decision, the state's highest court ruled that Universal Life Church is a church within the meaning of the statute. Nothing "changes" other than that the question has be resolved. It seems highly unlikely that the case would be heard by the SCOTUS, but let's hope it is! I cannot imagine the SCOTUS issuing a different ruling, and that would then be persuasive in getting the few remaining recalcitrant jurisdictions to quit playing games with religious liberty.
thank you bro kevin.it has been a very long time since new york was talked about.
i suspected nothing changed,new york is one of the hardest places to get a permit to conduct marriage(especially if you are ulc).while i have no plans to officiate a wedding there,i can't say it would never happen.
I received this information from Dusty Hoesly, a member of our ULC community who has been following this case closely. It appears that the state of New York has a different understanding of the word "Supreme" and especially "Supreme Court" than the rest of the world, and that this case still has a path to appeal even within the state. So far the courts are ruling in favor of religious freedom on this one, but it will continue to be one to keep an eye on!
Dusty wrote:
I quickly scanned the court decision, and sure enough the judge rules that the ULC counts as a religion in New York. However, the New York State court system is funny, and they call their trial and superior courts "Supreme Court," their courts of appeals "Appellate Divisions," and their supreme court the "Court of Appeals." So, in this instance, while the signature at the bottom of the decision says Acting Supreme Court Justice, Judge Sise is really a local county judge and not a member of highest court in the state.
In 2013, the Third Appellate Division ruled in favor of the ULC while deciding an issue regarding this same case. However, that court sent some matters back to the lower court for further considering, including deciding whether the ULC counts as a church. That question was resolved by the case you sent me, in which the lower-level court judge ruled in favor of the ULC as a church when deciding the ultimate issue: the divorce proceedings of the Oswald couple.
I hope this helps. New York's court system is confusing and I'm still trying to get the hang of it.
tylwoo
Thanks so much for this . I was just asked to officiate a wedding in NY and I was hesitant to say yes and have been stressing over it. But now I that I can!
Rev Dr Robert
Brother Kevin, thank you for posting this. The reason why this order may be appealed is because of the divorce settlement. But generally the appealing part has to specify those matters/decisions on appeal. Most states also have a 30-day peripod (from the date of the entry of the order) to file the appeal. (yes, I am a retired lawyer - emphasis on the "retired"). I hope that the individual monitoring this will check it to see if an appeal in filed.
But the bottom line, it's a great decision for the Universal Life Churc
Location:FL
That's good news.
revcharles
Location:Tacoma Washington
Thanks for the great news!!
Rev Charles Hicks
Location:Knoxville,Tennessee
Great news it's time
Bro. Hex
Location:Dayton, OH & Tucson, AZ
On 6/14/2016 at 5:43 PM, Brother Kevin said:
It will be interesting to see whether that information is redacted from the case file when this information is posted by "you know who" or whether he will attempt to usurp credit for this victory as with everything else.
Actually, No, I don't "know who", Brother Kevin. Could you please educate me ? ( private message OK)
34 minutes ago, Bro. Hex said:
He's referring to someone who tried hijacking the ULC name and calling his faction the true ULC. His organization has a reputation for ripping people off under the guise of providing service, which they at times never delivered.
FredClaus
Way to go. I wish I had done my brothers wedding now.
ULCneo
Location:United States
On 6/30/2016 at 12:45 AM, Brother Kevin said:
The Supreme Court will most likely deny cert to such a case; history establishes that the court has a dislike for hearing "religion" cases in which the government is appellant. Therefore, they will most likely only grant cert to hear such a case only where the circuit courts of appeal are in disagreement on an issue of law. The court tends to abstain from hearing issues of state law, to be sure, unless there is a significant constitutional question that hasn't been decided and the circuit court decisions are ambiguous as to the established law on the given subject matter.
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RBurkett67
Location:Falling Waters WV
That is truly remarkable. Hooray for us!!!!!


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Apple Must Face Keyboard Suit
by Kirsten Errick
On December 2, Apple moved to dismiss an ongoing suit pertaining to the design of its keyboards (In Re: MacBook Keyboard Litigation 5:18-cv-02813). The motion was rejected by Judge Edward Davila of the Northern District of California. The class action lawsuit was initiated by approximately ten consumers, who claimed Apple knew and hid that its "butterfly" keyboards were easily susceptible to issues and often failed as a result.
Customers stated their MacBook, MacBook Pro and MacBook Air keyboards "suffered from sticky keys, unresponsive keys and keystrokes" that failed to register when tiny amounts of dust, dirt, or debris collected under or near the keys. Users claimed that Apple also failed to provide a sufficient and effective solution. Apple would often replace a faulty keyboard with a new keyboard with the same issues. Further, Apple violated various states' consumer protection laws.
The suit applies to Apple laptops with butterfly keyboards including the 12-inch 2015 MacBook and the 2016 or newer MacBook Pro. Apple created a program to fix the flawed keyboards. On its website, Apple described these keyboard issues as, "[l]etters or characters repeat unexpectedly; [l]etters or characters do not appear; [k]eys feel sticky or do not respond in a consistent manner." The program aimed to have repairs ready the next day.
Judge Davila rejected Apple's proposed bid to dismiss the suit. He wrote that Apple had not provided "an effective fix."
"What made it a huge problem for users was that [the keyboards] weren't recoverable," Kyle Wiens, founder of the tech repair website iFixit said. "Every single one of their laptops since 2015 has gotten a 1 out of 10 on our repair index [iFixit's rating system]."
The order quoted the complaint in relation to the defectiveness of the keyboard and its inability to perform and essential function. "Apple's butterfly keyboard and MacBook are designed and produced in such a way that when minute amounts of dust or debris accumulate under or around a key, keystrokes fail to register properly… [w]hen one or more keys on the keyboard fail, the MacBook can no longer perform its core function: typing." Additionally, the complaint alleged that Apple's patent filing indicates that it was aware of its keyboard failures, despite marketing it otherwise; this is materially misleading consumers.
The order stated, "Apple's Motion to Dismiss the FAC, Apple argues that its Program provides Plaintiffs the remedy they seek, and thus, 'moots their claims and eliminates their ability to establish injury or standing.'" However, "[b]ecause Plaintiffs establish standing, the court DENIES Apple's Motion to Dismiss all of Plaintiffs' claims under Rule 12(b)(1). Because Plaintiffs adequately plead claims under the CLRA and Song-Beverly Act that the Program does not moot their claims, the court DENIES Apple's Motion to Dismiss these claims under Rule 12(b)(6)." Further, Apple acknowledges the faulty keyboards on its service website, thus validating the Plaintiff's claims. Apple's motion to dismiss the case is denied and the suit will proceed.
In November, Apple introduced a new MacBook Pro without the butterfly keyboard; instead, it has the standard scissor keyboard. The terms 'butterfly' and 'scissor' describe the mechanism below the key. Butterfly keyboards are composed of four fragile pieces that have the key go down less when pressed, in comparison to scissor keyboards. However, the thin design meant that if one key broke, it was impossible to replace that one key. Instead, fixing it meant taking nearly half the device apart or users would have to send their laptops in for repairs.
Plaintiffs seek monetary damages and equitable relief, among other relief and compensation.
The plaintiffs are represented by Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith, as well as Girard Sharp. Apple is represented by Morrison & Foerster.
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Q: Cannot log in via a display manager on Debian Jessie I updated libc on my Debian (Jessie) and with it hundreds of packages. Now I can't sign in using a display manager. After entering password and signing in it loads with a black screen and then pushes me back to the display manager.

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*Logging in via a virtual terminal and startx with my desktop environments (xfce, xmonad) still works.

*I installed another display manager (gdm, lightdm, xdm) and tried to log in with different users (including users with empty sessions) and I even replaced systemd with init, but that didn't help. And I installed a fresh xorg.

*I installed not just libc, but the development files libc-dev-bin in this one step. So there are even more new packages.

*My system is multiarch. Got i386 and amd64 packages installed.

*I have one screen and use the Nvidia card and proprietary drivers via bumblebee. Usually everything runs on the Intel graphics card.

*Years ago, the system was an Aptosid. But I changed all repository sources to Debian. After many updates, all packages should be from a Debian repo by now, I guess.

*I don't know if its a bug, but I can't start a terminal emulator on X, which has been started with startx. I have this issue since some years but it wasn't a problem. Running a terminal as root still works on any X.

*It has installed some libwayland-* packages, but i don't have weston installed.

*I updated some libpam and libdbus packages now. No difference.

*I checked the auth logs and other logs, but i couldn't find anything useful. Suggestions where I should search next?

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Admiral of the Fleet Bruce Austin Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape,  (5 February 1888 – 12 February 1981) was a senior Royal Navy officer. He served in the First World War, saw action during the Gallipoli Campaign and took part in the internment of the German High Seas Fleet at the end of the war. He also served in the Second World War initially as Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy and then as second-in-command and afterwards as commander of the Home Fleet, leading the force that destroyed the German battleship . He went on to be First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in which role he assisted in establishing NATO and agreed to the principle that the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic should be an American admiral, in the face of fierce British opposition.

Early naval career
Born the son of General Alexander Fraser and Monica Stores Fraser (née Smith), Fraser was educated at Bradfield College. He joined the Royal Navy as a cadet in the training ship HMS Britannia in September 1902 and passed out as a midshipman in the battleship  in the Channel Fleet on 15 January 1904. He transferred to the battleship  in the Channel Fleet in February 1905 and, having been promoted to sub-lieutenant on 15 March 1907, he joined the battleship  in May 1907. He moved to the destroyer HMS Gypsy in September 1907 and, having been promoted to lieutenant on 15 March 1908, he joined the cruiser  in the Mediterranean Fleet.

Fraser transferred to the Home Fleet in August 1910 and remained there serving in  until July 1911 when he joined , the Royal Navy's school of Gunnery at Whale Island in Portsmouth harbour where he commenced the 'long course' to qualify as a specialist Gunnery Officer. He assisted on the Advanced Gunnery Course at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1912 and then joined the instructing staff at HMS Excellent in 1913.

Fraser served in the First World War, initially in the cruiser  providing naval gunfire support during the Gallipoli Campaign and then carrying troops to protect Egypt's Western frontier. He returned to HMS Excellent early in 1916 and, having been promoted to lieutenant commander on 15 March 1916, he joined the battleship  as Gunnery Officer at the end of the year. He spent the remainder of the War with the Grand Fleet and took part in the internment of the German High Seas Fleet in November 1918.

After the war and following his promotion to commander on 30 June 1919 and his appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 17 July 1919, Fraser volunteered to serve with the White Russian Caspian Flotilla; however on arrival in Azerbaijan as part of the 1920 Royal Navy Mission to Enzeli, he was captured and imprisoned by Bolsheviks in the Black Hole of Baku until released in November 1920. He then returned to HMS Excellent before joining the Naval Ordnance Department at the Admiralty in June 1922. He became Fleet Gunnery Officer for the Mediterranean Fleet in December 1924 and, having been promoted to captain on 30 June 1926, he became Head of the Tactical Division of the Admiralty in January 1927. He was appointed to command the cruiser  on the East Indies Station in September 1929 and then became Director of the Naval Ordnance Department at the Admiralty in July 1933.

Fraser returned to sea to take command of the aircraft carrier  in May 1936 and then became Chief Staff Officer to the Flag Officer Aircraft Carriers in 1937. He reached Flag rank as a rear admiral on 11 January 1938 and was made Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief Mediterranean Fleet in April 1938. He was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1939 New Year Honours.

Second World War
In March 1939, shortly before the outset of the Second World War, Fraser was appointed Third Sea Lord and Controller of the Navy. Promoted to vice admiral on 8 May 1940, he was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1941 Birthday Honours and became second-in-command, Home Fleet and Flag Officer, 2nd Battle Squadron, in June 1942. He was appointed a Grand Officer of the Dutch Order of Orange-Nassau on 19 January 1943.

Fraser was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet in May 1943 and appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 1943 Birthday Honours. In the role of Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet, he commanded the Royal Navy force that destroyed the German battleship Scharnhorst at the Battle of the North Cape on 26 December 1943. Units of the Home Fleet regularly escorted convoys to Murmansk in the Soviet Union: Fraser was convinced that Scharnhorst would attempt an attack on Convoy JW 55B, and put to sea in his flagship  to reach a position between the convoy and the German battleship's base in North Norway. Scharnhorst had her fighting ability destroyed by repeated hits from Duke of York and her speed reduced by a 14-inch shell hit to a boiler room, which deprived her of the ability to escape. She was then hit by an initial wave of four torpedoes and, after concentrated gunfire and further torpedo attacks, sank at 7.45 pm that night. Thus Fraser avenged the destruction of his old command, HMS Glorious, by Scharnhorst three years earlier. After the action Fraser and his fleet returned to Murmansk for refuelling.

For this action he was advanced to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath on 5 January 1944, and awarded the Russian Order of Suvorov, First Degree on 25 February.

Promoted to full admiral on 7 February 1944, Fraser took command of the Eastern Fleet in August 1944 and then of the British Pacific Fleet in December 1944. He commanded from ashore at his Headquarters in Sydney in Australia and built a strong relationship with the United States Navy, adopting their system of signal communications. Fraser was the British signatory to the Japanese Instrument of Surrender at Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945.

Later career

On 27 April 1946 Fraser was appointed First and Principal Naval Aide-de-Camp to the King and, in September, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Fraser of North Cape, of Molesey in the County of Surrey. He became Commander-in-Chief, Portsmouth in September 1947 and then, having been promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 7 February 1948, he became First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in September. As First Sea Lord he assisted in establishing NATO and agreed to the principle that the Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic (SACLANT) should be an American admiral, in the face of fierce British opposition. He retired in December 1951 and died, unmarried, in London on 12 February 1981, one week after his birthday at the age of 93, upon which the barony became extinct.

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World powers urge Libya to reschedule presidential vote 'swiftly'
Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the United States on Friday urged war-torn Libya to quickly set a new date for delayed presidential elections. "We call on the relevant Libyan authorities to respect the aspirations of the Libyan people for prompt elections by swiftly determining a final date for the polling and issuing the final list
Britain, France, Germany, Italy and the United States on Friday urged war-torn Libya to quickly set a new date for delayed presidential elections.
"We call on the relevant Libyan authorities to respect the aspirations of the Libyan people for prompt elections by swiftly determining a final date for the polling and issuing the final list of presidential candidates without delay," said a joint statement from five nations.
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The authorities overseeing Libya's first presidential election said earlier this week holding it on Friday as scheduled would be "impossible."
The vote was intended to mark a fresh start for the oil-rich North African country, a year after a landmark ceasefire and more than a decade after its 2011 revolt that toppled and killed former leader Muammar Gaddafi.
But speculation of a delay had been mounting for weeks. There were bitter disputes over the vote's legal basis, the powers of the winner and the candidacies of several deeply divisive figures.
On Wednesday, the chairman of the parliamentary committee overseeing the vote wrote to the assembly's speaker saying that "after consulting the technical, judicial and security reports, we inform you of the impossibility of holding the elections on the date of December 24, 2021"
It did not propose an alternative to Friday, a date set last year during UN-led peace talks in Tunis.
The country's electoral commission, the HNEC, later Wednesday suggested delaying the vote to January 24.
Libya's parliament is to meet on Monday to debate a new timeline for elections.
The election, intended to go hand-in-hand with parliamentary polls, was part of a United Nations-led peace process, yet UN special envoy Jan Kubis resigned just weeks before the ballot.
One point of contention was a presidential elections law controversially passed by speaker Aguila Saleh, which critics say bypassed due process and favored a run by his ally, eastern military chief Khalifa Haftar.
Another candidate is Gaddafi's son Seif al-Islam – a divisive symbol of the old regime wanted by the International Criminal Court over war crimes allegations.
Libya has seen a year of relative calm since the October 2020 ceasefire following a year-long offensive by Haftar's forces on Tripoli, with both sides backed by foreign states.
But with vast stockpiles of weapons left behind by the Gaddafi regime, the potential for new fighting in Libya remains ever-present.
World powers aim to sanction Libya election spoilers
Libya parliament says 'impossible' to hold presidential vote on schedule
Libya's election faces uncertainty amid immense political challenges


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Q: Need to make piechart visible on condition in report builder iam building a PIE CHART  in report builder , need to make one pie chart visible on  some condition &click

by clicking on categories piechart latitude model pie chart should appear but on condition if in categories virtualcount>0.
so following expression iam entering in vsibility expression
=IIf(Sum(Fields!virtualcount.Value, "DataSet1")>0,1,0)

When I run report, it gives me following error

A: You need to use True and False instead of 1 and 0.
Also keep in mind that the property you are setting is called Hidden, meaning a value of True will hide the chart, and a value of False will not hide the chart. From your question, it is unclear to me if you want the chart displayed or hidden when that condition is met. I think you want the 0 and 1 from your expression flipped the other way around, but like I said, it is unclear to me. If this expression does not give you the desired output, try reversing the True and False:
=IIf(Sum(Fields!virtualcount.Value, "DataSet1") > 0, False, True)


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Fortune Favours the BOLD!!!
Some facts about Indian Flag
August 10, 2011 ~ anandnataraj
The national flag of India is a horizontal rectangular tricolour of deep saffron, white and India green; with the Ashoka Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre.
It was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, when it became the official flag of the Dominion of India.
The flag, by law, is to be made of khadi, a special type of hand-spun cloth of cotton or silk made popular by Mahatma Gandhi.
The manufacturing process and specifications for the flag are laid out by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).
The right to manufacture the flag is held by the Khadi Development and Village Industries Commission, who allocate it to the regional groups.
As of 2009, the Karnataka Khadi Gramodyoga Samyukta Sangha was the sole manufacturer of the flag.
Usage of the flag is governed by the Flag Code of India and other laws relating to the national emblems.
The original code prohibited use of the flag by private citizens except on national days such as the Independence day and the Republic Day. In 2002, on hearing an appeal from a private citizen, Naveen Jindal, the Supreme Court of India directed the Government of India to amend the code to allow flag usage by private citizens. Subsequently, the Union Cabinet of India amended the code to allow limited usage.
The code was amended once more in 2005 to allow some additional use including adaptations on certain forms of clothing.
The flag code also governs the protocol of flying the flag and its use in conjunction with other national and non-national flags.
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Have you suffered investment losses in Business Development Corporation of America (a/k/a BDCA)? If so, the securities attorneys of The White Law Group may be able to help you recover your losses by filing a FINRA Dispute Resolution claim against the brokerage firm that sold you the investment.
BDCA is a non-traded business development company that invests in both the debt and equity of private middle market companies.
Business Development Corporation of America's 2017 annual meeting of stockholders was originally called to order on May 19, 2017 and was adjourned in order to permit additional time to solicit stockholder votes with respect to certain proposals. The Annual Meeting was reconvened on June 7, 2017 and June 22, 2017.
On June 22, 2017, one proposal was approved, but the Company adjourned the Annual Meeting with respect to the six proposals yet to be approved by stockholders, which are discussed in detail in the Company's definitive proxy statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The reconvened Annual Meeting will be held on July 5, 2017.
The White Law Group continues to investigate the liability that brokerage firms may have for improperly selling high-risk private placements like BDCA and BDCA II.
Unfortunately, the problem with Reg D private placements is that they typically have high sales commissions and due diligence fees. This provides brokers with an enormous incentive to push the product to unsuspecting investors who do not fully understand the risks of these types of investments or to outright misrepresent the basic features of the products – usually focusing on the income potential while downplaying the risks.
To determine whether you may be able to recover investment losses incurred as a result of your purchase of BDCA or BDCA II, please contact The White Law Group at 1-888-637-5510 for a free consultation.
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Choosing the right Emergency Safety Shower and Eye/Facewash stations for every situation
KEYWORDS emergency showers and eyewashes / flushing eye
There's an old saying that the 'tail should never wag the dog' and sometimes, in the increasingly litigious world of workplace health and safety, we need to take a step back and consider if the drive for compliance to standards is driving emergency safety showers and eye/facewash manufacturers to develop their products to meet standards rather than the needs of a casualty in an emergency situation.
Leading manufacturers in the USA and throughout the world continue to evolve products and methods for decontamination that meet standards set by the industry's governing bodies, an important qualification for manufacturers to be even considered as a viable supplier to operators and specifiers working in hazardous environments.
But standards are by their nature, 'standard' and for those of us that work every day in an industry striving to offer better protection in workplaces where accidents are anything but 'standard', this drive to exclusively and solely meet compliance such as ANSI Z358.1 can restrict the innovative thinking and ground-breaking engineering designs that led the early development of decontamination equipment.
Many industrial sectors such as oil, gas, chemical, petrochemical, waste management, food processing, steel, mining, pharmaceutical, construction and many more are now considered hazardous workplaces, yet the hazards workers are exposed to and the contaminant materials involved vary hugely.
So is it right to assume that one set of standards will meet every need and one type of drench shower or eyewash equipment will meet those needs just because it flows water at the right rate, the right temperature and is within easy reach of a potential hazard?
It is estimated that the USA treats around 100,000 cases of eye injuries every year. In the UK, the world-renowned Royal Manchester Eye Hospital treats around 40,000 cases in the North West region alone. So despite all our efforts accidents continue to happen and the need for effective rapid decontamination is essential.
In a study of the Manchester Royal Eye Hospital statistics it was estimated over 90% of cases seen were from dust and particle contamination to the eye rather than aggressive chemical liquids. This may well be a result of better health and safety education and mandatory practices for wearing safety goggles or glasses where risks are high. But it also highlights that industries considered less hazardous, such as general construction, where contamination from dust and plasterwork contribute to such a high number of cases.
Speak to the eye surgeons and consultants and they will say the best decontamination practice in this case is water, water and lots of it along with quick response times. Also, keeping the eye flushed for as long as possible prior to full medical support being available.
This has given rise to more portable drench showers and eye/facewash equipment being developed and utilized in an increasingly wide number of industries. Hughes Safety Showers, based in Houston, TX and Sarnia, ON in North America have seen a huge increase in sales of portable units such as the STD-40K and the ANSI Compliant 2000L Bowser. While the introduction of EyeAid, a hand held saline canister specifically designed to hold the eye open for effective flushing, has gained popularity as a quick and handy emergency tool that can even be worn by workers on a belt clip. Use of the EyeAid canister has proven especially effective at treating casualties continuously even during transit from the site of the accident to available medical support.
Manufacturers talk a lot about water flow, flow pressure, flow direction and even flow type with the 'laminar flow vs aerated' water benefits argument constantly debated between makers and users of eye face wash products.
Aerators introduce air into the water stream to produce a larger and whiter stream, soft to the touch and non-splashing. Aerated water is delivered at safe flow rates and it is claimed that bubbles created via the air mix also act as a scrubbing agent to improve decontamination performance. The softer action of aerated water does not diminish the decontamination effect and can make it easier and more comfortable for casualties to stay in position for longer without enduring the full force of water flow. The softer aerated water is claimed to be most effective in flushing contaminates away from the face and nose as it does not force contaminants deeper into soft mucous membranes.
Laminar flow eye/facewash systems, as favored by Haws and others, offer an alternative to aerated water delivering water in parallel layers at low velocity, with little disruption between layers. This creates the impression of faster flowing water but without turbulence so can be suited to some eye/facewash applications.
Water direction for eye face wash systems is another topic of some debate. The direction of the water pushes contaminates away from where the eye meets nasal cavities via the Lacrimal Duct at the inner corner of the eye socket. But others in the industry are less sure of these benefits. The Lacrimal Duct does provide access to the sinus and nasal cavities, but when the eye is opened, as it must be during effective decontamination, the duct remains closed, naturally stopping unwanted contaminants access.
The clinicians really have the last say here; not the manufacturers, not the policy makers or the compliance advisors. The best way to decontaminate is with tempered water, water, more water and rapid access to it.
The ANSI Z358.1 2014 standards are due another review and upgrade in 2019 and now the committee that contributes to the policies, which includes manufacturers, safety advisers and industry users, continue to push performance of products and their effectiveness in all kinds of hazardous workplaces.
Until then let us remember the 1000's of US workers who every day face potential hazards and ensure that our choice of Emergency Safety Showers and Eye/FaceWash equipment considers the needs of the worker and the conditions of the workplace above and beyond the demands of the policy makers.
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My goal for my week vacation to Italy with my husband was to travel with just a carry on and a purse. I usually overpack when it comes to vacation, as I keep grabbing stuff I think I might need, would be fun to have, or just in case. Packing for this trip meant being very disciplined and asking myself what I really need and what is just my overpacking tendency telling me I needed.
I traveled to Italy September 14-22, 2018 with my husband. Today was our second day in Rome. We visited the Colosseum, Roman Forum, and Palatine Hill, as well as the Alter of the Fatherland and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Let me start off by saying that I am a Virgo, and true to my sign, I worry about every little detail. I obsess over all the what-ifs, all the worst case scenarios. Planning for the first trip across the ocean that I would be taking as a grown up where it was all on me, the planning as well as the consequences of anything that may go wrong, was enough to trigger some pretty intense anxiety for me.
I have an old Samsonite two-wheeled carry on that has been my trusty companion in my domestic and international travels for over ten years. It's a heavy, sturdy thing that can take any abuse and keep going strong. But with increasingly tightening restrictions on size and weight, especially on budget airlines, it's time for me to shop around for another bag for my upcoming trip to Europe.
Planning a week long vacation to Italy on a budget started with the budget I had in mind, and the locations I wanted to visit. I wanted to visit Rome, Florence, and Venice, since I had never been to Italy before and those are the big three. I would be flying into Rome and leaving from Venice.


The SAIL Pathfinders carried out a can collection drive on Halloween to support the local food pantry. On sabbath, we handed out bags through the neighborhood, letting people know about the food pantry and the Pathfinder Club. On Wednesday night, we Picked up the donations, and one of the Church members hosted a small party for the Club. We would like to thank the generous neighbors who donated some 140 cans and jars, 30 boxes and bags of rice, beans, and pasta, plus a few dozen assorted food items, including baby food, and other items, including toiletries. These items have been donated to the food pantry, hosted by the Austin South Seventh-day Adventist Church in cooperation with the Capital Area Food Bank.


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Q: How to imply array-length (const int) at compile time from complex code How to determine array-length (#) at compile time from a complex code?
In my code, if I skimmed it, I can know how much array-size it is needed, but the related algorithm is scattering around many .h/.cpp.
(Sorry for an obscure title and introduction, I don't really know what the problem is called.)
A solid example (demo)
I want to create many type of relation 1:1 between many game objects.
Library code (static library)
GO.h (game-object):  store pointer to another-one.
class GO{//game object
    public:
    static const int numRelation=10; //#
    GO* left[numRelation];
    GO* right[numRelation];
    public: GO(){
        for(int n=0;n<numRelation;n++){
            left[n]=nullptr;
            right[n]=nullptr;
        }
    }
};

DB.h (Database): It is a utility.  It stores index of relation in userIndex.
class DB{//database
    int userIndex=-42;
    public: DB(){};
    public: DB(int us){userIndex=us;}
    public: GO* getLeft(GO* g){return g->left[userIndex];}
    public: void createRelation(GO* g1,GO* g2){
        g2->left[userIndex]=g1;
        g1->right[userIndex]=g2;
    }
};

DBGenerator.h (Database-Generator) :
It is a central system to help cooperation of many other sub-system.
It generates userIndex for DB.
class DBGenerator{//quite singleton
    int indexCounter=0;
    public: DB generate(){return DB(indexCounter++);}
};

User code (game-specific)
CageManager.h has two 1:1 relation : hen-food and hen-cage.
FamilyManager.h has one 1:1 relation hen-egg.

class CageManager{
    DB dbHenFood;
    DB dbHenCage;
    public: CageManager(DBGenerator* gen){
        dbHenFood=gen->generate();
        dbHenCage=gen->generate();
    }
};
class FamilyManager{
    DB dbHenEgg;
    public: FamilyManager(DBGenerator* gen){
        dbHenEgg=gen->generate();
    }
};

The userIndex will be reserved like this :-

I can add relation and query e.g. :-
int main() {
    DBGenerator commander;
    CageManager m1{&commander};
    FamilyManager m2{&commander};
    GO* hen=new GO();
    GO* egg=new GO();
    m2.dbHenEgg.createRelation(hen,egg);
    GO* henGet=m2.dbHenEgg.getLeft(egg);
    if(henGet==hen)std::cout<<"correct";
    if(henGet!=hen)std::cout<<"wrong";
    return 0;
}

Question
The above code works OK.    (coliru demo, ideone backup)
However, as my game grows, I need more slot.
If the amount of slots exceeds 10, I have to edit the figure (const int numRelation=10) in GO.h manually.
Another trouble is that : if I want to create a new game,
I need to modify GO.h to ensure that it will be enough (but not too much - waste memory) for the new game-logic.
How to make such variable (const int numRelation) to always has a correct figure (3 in this test)?
Other note:-

*

*I want to avoid heap allocation, so the size of array have to be fixed.

*It is performance-critical, because the database is called excessively.

*I don't know if there is an elegant way.
From what I want, GO.h will probably have to include those two manager.h.
It may break the whole architecture. (???)

A: As a general rule, constexpr finishes execution before link time.  So you cannot have a constexpr term whose value depends on things in different compilation units.
Your singleton value of "number of relations" thus cannot be calculated at compile time, nor can the index of each relation be calculated at compile time.
As a first attempt, we can get around this by asking each relation to pick a number, then verify there is no conflict.  If checked at compile time, this would generate a constexpr value that depends on different compilation units; thus impossible.
We can check for "is the index we picked in bounds" at compile time.  We can check "is there a collision" at runtime.
If we do this at static initialization time, and we require that a single line be inserted at main, we can detect if there is wasted space as well.
Replace the generation of DBs with a requirement that each relation claim an index.  Have the indexes be checked to be in bound.  At runtime, at the start of main, validate that there are no holes in your index table.  This keeps relations decoupled from each other (they don't have to know about each other).
Now, this won't work if you expect to have an engine reused in multiple different projects with a different number of relations, because one will develop holes that the other doesn't want.
We could back up our requirement; remove the need to manually write constexpr indexes, and have those also generated at startup (like your code does).  We simply add in runtime checks for "am I beyond bounds" and another check for "did we waste space" injected in helper at the start of main.
Now we get decoupling, no wasted indexes, and no manual index management.  There is a trivial startup cost (which basically matches what you pay with the above code).


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NIAMS' Intramural Research Programs Foster Spirit of Discovery
March 1, 2015 • By Gretchen Henkel
Competition on Another Pitch: Capture the World Cup Spirit to Drive Rheumatology Discovery
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NYU Langone's Division of Rheumatology in Manhattan Advances Its Mission to Understand Rheumatic Diseases, Improve Patient Outcomes
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Three factors contribute to the NIAMS Intramural Program's stature as both a training and an innovation center, says Dr. Kastner: investigators are hired to develop their own programs, driven by their own interests and curiosity, without the need to apply for grants; high-risk, high-reward projects are encouraged; and the leadership throughout NIAMS' history has set the tone for research excellence.
Dr. Kastner
'Twas Ever Thus
Although there have been many transformations in the structure of the NIH since 1950 when the first arthritis program was established, the spirit of discovery has been a constant. Paul H. Plotz, MD, MACR, NIH scientist emeritus and and winner of the ACR Presidential Gold Medal in 2013, first joined the program in 1965 and spent his entire career there, except for a two-year fellowship at the National Institute for Medical Research at Mill Hill, London, from 1968–70. During his 50 years with the program, he has served as chief of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Branch, acting scientific director and acting deputy director, in addition to conducting his own research. "I've lived through about six different names [of the Institute]," he jokes. (The current NIAMS was established in 1986; to learn more about the key events in NIAMS' history and legislative chronology establishing the Institute, visit http://www.nih.gov/about/almanac/organization/NIAMS.htm.)
Dr. Plotz
Dr. Plotz enumerates the achievements of some of the early leaders at the Institute, including John Decker, MD, "responsible for the shape and flavor of the rheumatology program in the institute"; and Henry Metzger, MD, who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and responsible for characterizing the structure of IgM.
During those early days, Dr. Plotz also worked alongside other greats, such as gout experts J. Edwin Seegmiller, MD, and William M. Kelley, MD. And before Dr. Plotz arrived, research by Joseph Bunim, MD, and Watson Buchanan, MD, resulted in the publication of a seminal article on the clinical characteristics of Sjögren's syndrome.
"Historically, NIAMS has played a key role in the treatment of lupus nephritis, through methods developed here in large longitudinal studies. And very good genetics work is being done in various parts of our Institute," Dr. Plotz adds.
Dr. Siegel (right) in the lab, where breakthroughs in the treatment of autoimmune diseases have been made.
Above: Dr. Siegel (left) examines a patient in the clinic. He notes the use of cyclophosphamide in vasculitis and lupus, and the first use of methotrexate for nonmalignant disease, were pioneered at the NIH. Below: Dr. O'Shea
No Resting on Laurels
Richard Siegel, MD, PhD, NIAMS clinical director and chief, Immunoregulation Section, Autoimmunity Branch, notes that, in recent decades, other advancements in the understanding and treatment of rheumatic disease have emanated from the NIH. For example, the use of cyclophosphamide in vasculitis and, later, in lupus and the first use of methotrexate for nonmalignant disease were both pioneered at the NIH.
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