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Budget March 2020 - Main Environmental Tax announcements
As with every Budget, the Chancellor has announced measures that will probably draw very different reactions from the business sector and from environmental lobbyists. Energy intensive sectors will broadly welcome the changes announced, but it is difficult to reconcile the rather muted changes being introduced by the Chancellor with the government's declaration that we are in a 'climate emergency'.
Climate change levy ('CCL'), the closest thing the UK has to a carbon tax, is being tweaked to further encourage business consumers to move from gas to electricity, on the basis that the increasing level of generation from renewable sources is making electricity the more environmentally friendly option in the future. This nudge is in the form of a steady increase in the rate of CCL applying to supplies of gas until it matches that for electricity sometime before 2025. Given that energy prices are determined mostly by market forces, consumers may not be immediately aware of these rate changes so it remains to be seen whether this measure will have any measurable effect.
Energy intensive sectors have been eligible for very valuable reductions in CCL rates on taxed fuels since the tax was introduced, provided they entered into an agreement with the government (a Climate Change Agreement) to reduce their energy use and emissions by certain levels. The idea was that heavy industry would be able to use the savings in their energy costs to invest in better energy efficiency, and if they failed (as a sector) to meet their agreed reductions they would be penalised accordingly. The CCA regime was due to finish at the end of the current reporting period (2023), but the Budget announces that the scheme may continue – after consultation – for a further 2 years.
There is even less clarity about what the UK will do regarding its likely expulsion from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme ('EUETS') at the end of the year. The EU wide scheme is a 'cap and trade' regime in which owners of facilities with large emissions (e.g. power stations and large manufacturing sites) must register and acquire adequate emissions 'allowances' to meet their agreed targets. If they emit more than planned, they must buy allowances from those who have a surplus or from a suitable market. The EUETS has been a cornerstone in the government's carbon pricing policy so if the UK is unable to remain affiliated to it after the EU exit transition period, it will either need to establish its own scheme (a 'UKETS') or introduce a carbon tax that would have the same effect of underpinning a price for carbon in the UK. The 2018 Budget first announced that a carbon tax might be introduced and legislation was drafted on that basis. This Budget reaffirmed the government's plans to introduce this tax with effect from 1 January 2021 if membership of the EUETS is not possible and sets out the government's plans to introduce secondary legislation to manage compliance etc.
Air Passenger Duty ('APD') has had a fairly high profile over the past year or so, having been considered as a means to provide support (by removing it) for failing domestic airlines, and continued debate about whether it could or should be devolved to Scotland and Wales. The Budget announced an RPI rate increase which, as the effective rates are rounded up to the nearest pound, will lead to an effective freeze in the rate for short haul flights and an increase of £2 - £4 in the rates for long haul depending on class of transport.
Aviation remains a challenging area for any government seeking to introduce fiscal measures to encourage lower emissions. So it is perhaps more significant that the Budget also announced further consultation on broader aviation tax reform in the Spring.
A couple of changes were announced about the use of Hydrocarbon Oil Duty free, or rebated diesel. Rebated fuel is much cheaper than taxed fuel so there have always been strict restrictions about where so called red diesel can be legitimately used. Discouraging the use of fossil fuel is a key part of climate change policy and the Budget announced that entitlement to use rebated fuel will be removed from April 2022 except for use in agriculture, rail and non-commercial heating. There will also be a government consultation about whether there are any other sectors that should be allowed to continue to use the fuel.
Changes to Vehicle Excise Duty ('VED') are a little contradictory – from a climate change emergency point of view anyway – in that VED will be frozen for HGVs in 2020-21 to support the primarily diesel fueled haulage sector, but will be removed or reduced for certain zero emission vehicles at the same time. Future policy may be better resolved after the government's call for evidence about VED and low emission vehicles over the next few months.
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Landfill tax rates in England will increase in line with RPI. It's very likely, therefore, that rates for this devolved tax in both Scotland and Wales will also rise to avoid 'tax tourism'.
Aggregates levy rates will freeze for 2020-21 but the tax may see more fundamental changes after it undergoes a comprehensive review later this year.
A plastics packaging tax was first announced in the 2018 Budget and the plan is to finally introduce the tax with effect from April 2022. The rate will be £200 per tonne of plastic where it comprises less than 30% recycled material, and manufacturers or importers will be required to account for it. But there remains a little nervousness in government circles about the finer details of the tax and yet another consultation is announced to further consider its design.
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Today's Music Ain't Got the Same Soul
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As a former AOP (album oriented person), I have finally come to realize that most songs, on most albums, by most artists, are crap. It's a tough admission for me to make, especially after decades of fighting against my "single-loving" friends on this very issue.
The Beatles may be one of the few exceptions to this rule. The Beatles made about five albums that were almost top to bottom perfect, but then again they had three bona fide songwriters in their group. Those three songwriters could usually write one to two great songs a piece for the albums The Beatles would release on an annual and biannual basis. When The Beatles broke up, these three artists continued that trend. They would write one to two great songs on solo albums that they would usually release on a semi-annual basis. One of those songs would get extensive airplay on the radio, and we would all run out and buy the album. To our disappointment, there would probably be only one other song on their solo albums that could be enjoyed long-term. A couple of the other songs on those albums were self-indulgent, political rants, and the rest were just filler. Led Zeppelin may be one of the other another exceptions, but they sold their souls to the devil(!), and there's Queen, but Queen had four solid songwriters in their band.
There are other exceptions to the rule of course, and I'm sure you have them in mind, but were those exceptions the first album your "my guys" made for a major label? If that's the case, you have to ask yourself how many years of writing went into the making of that first album? If that's the case, I submit that that first album was a compendium of all the years this artist(s) spent as a struggling, starving artist. Kurt Cobain once said that if he knew what he was doing, he would've spaced out all the songs on the album Nevermind, to presumably allow some of those single songs to appear as lead singles for forthcoming albums.
From what I understand of the business, and I understand very little, the first album usually generates little to no money for the artist. The reason for this is that the record company assumes all the financial risk for this unknown artist on first albums, and this unknown artist is usually so eager to sign with a major label that they forego most of their rights. Most new artists have little-to-no pull in the signing process, and most labels take advantage of them on that basis. Most labels are also hesitant to give a lot of money to a new artist, because they know that they will go out and ruin their minds and bodies on drugs and alcohol with all of their new found money. Other than the objective to make the most money they can off the artist, they might also want to keep the artists hungry enough to produce at least one more great album.
After the artist is raped by the label on the first contract for the first album, they're usually bled dry by the lawyers who seek to rectify that first deal. This gives them the hunger necessary to complete a second album. This second album is usually rushed by the artist, the label, the lawyers, and all of those with their hands in the pot trying to cash in on the success of the first album. It usually sells well, based on the success of the first one, and the critics often label this effort "the sophomore jinx". The second album usually contains the "could've beens" and "should've beens" that didn't make the cut on the first album, and that album usually sounds rushed, sporadic, and often times sub par, but we can't blame the artist too much for wanting some of the money they missed out on with the first album. If the artist was allowed some time to write a new single, and some time is usually reserved solely for studio time in the world of music –because most artists are not artistic on their time– we may get one marginal-to-good song on this record that would've been a better-than-average filler song on the first album.
"Wait one cotton-picking moment here," you say. "The artist I listen to says that they don't do it for the money." That's just good business. Very few artists, outside the for reals world of rap artists, would tell us that they're in it for the money. If they believe it is about the money, and for some it is, then they're probably not very good artists. For those who are quality artists, that love the art form, money is a happy byproduct that pays the rent and the grocery bills. Money allows the artist the free time necessary to concentrate on their craft, and that is important even if they won't admit it. If an artist is in it solely for the money (or the fame), if they're being for reals, they're probably producing the schlock that comprises most of the Top 40. It is about the money though, for those artists who truly know something about business side. They know that that when a customer hands over dollars for product, they're complimenting such products in a manner that allows the artist to keep producing said products.
Sting once said: "Anyone can write a hit, but it takes a true artist to write an album of excellent material."
If that's the case, there just aren't as many artists out there nowadays. Either that or my patience for half-hearted material has diminished, because there appears to have been a dearth of great albums in the last ten years. My guess is either there are fewer spectacular artists out there nowadays, or we have over-estimated these artists in the music field for decades. Perhaps these artists were never were as intelligent, or as brilliant, as rock journalists led us to believe. I'm not just taking about the members of '80's hairbands in this critique, or the starlet that tries to show off her body parts to remain relevant. I'm talking about our favorite artists. I'm talking about the seminal artists who have graced the covers of corporate magazines for decades. I'm talking about the artists that the marketing arms of these corporate magazines, and the corporate labels, have led us to believe were complicated geniuses. Maybe they were just better than most at crafting an image, maybe they are not as deep as we perceived them to be, and maybe we need re-evaluate our definition of the term "musical genius" based on the fact that they can't come out with three decent songs every two years.
If we are to judge an artist based upon their albums, and not their singles, then we have to assume that they're not very deep. The Beatles came out with nearly three albums a year in the 60's, and they came out with some complete albums, top to bottom. With today's artist, we're lucky if they come out with an album every two years, and as I said those albums usually only produce two decent songs on average. Whatever the case is, I usually make my own albums out of all of the singles and some of the secondary songs released today. The rest of the songs released by these complicated artists are just drivel. Thanks iTunes and Spotify!
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'All Of Us Are Dead' Season 2: Everything We Know About Renewal
Recently the new Netflix original series produced in Korea called "All Of Us Are Dead" premiered and has been a total success.
Now that people have enjoyed and devoured like a good zombie the first season we are ready for the second.
All Of Us Are Dead Season 2 Renewal
Before the release of the first season, the trailer managed to have millions of views.
The inspiration for this series came from a webtoon called "Now oat our Scol" directed by Joo Dong Keun in 2009 which has more than 130 episodes, that is, we have had a series for a while.
The end of the first season left the way open for a second installment, although there has been no official announcement about this.
If you have not finished seeing it here comes a spoiler that you may or may not want to avoid. In the last chapter of All Of Us Are Dead, one of the surviving students is separated from the group because he is no longer human but he is not a zombie or this is in limbo the poor one.
Neither the protagonists nor the production. They have shared details or more information about a second season the way is more than open so that we continue to see how the infection of those who did not become zombies evolves and the possibility of finding a second vaccine.
As we told you, the original story has 130 episodes that were published between 2009 and 2011 so it is more than certain that we have more than one season.
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At the end of this season, the students arrive in the safe zone and remain overwhelmed by everything that has happened to their classmates and what the future holds.
Undeniably it is one of the best series that Netflix has recently premiered and Korea has created excellent productions of its own that are making it position itself as one of the greats within audiovisual entertainment at an international level such as Hollywood and Bollywood.
We hope to have more information officially in the coming days to know the direction we will see in the second season that will surely be on Netflix of All Of Us Are Dead.
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If you want to live a long time I have some good advice for you. Stay away from doctors. Before health insurance was invented most people did just fine living on prunes and proverbs. No prescriptions. With this in mind I have collected the following cowboy cures and home remedies.
■ Stomach Ailments- Cinnamon is said to cure vomiting, baking soda will aid indigestion and the singed hair of a black dog in mother's milk will cure cramps.
■ Rheumatism- Mix vinegar and live fire ants in an empty whiskey bottle and apply lavishly to the skin. If this doesn't work take a swig of the mixture. Drinking vinegar also is said to work for hiccups, only leave the fire ants out.
■ Toothache- Remove the skin off the frog of a horse's front foot (it must be a front foot). Char the skin over an open flame and apply it to the tooth.
Cinnamon is said to cure vomiting, baking soda will aid indigestion and the singed hair of a black dog in mother's milk will cure cramps.
■ Rattlesnake Bite- If you get bit by a rattler on an arm or leg, kill a cow and slit open its gut and stick the bitten appendage into the middle of the cow's guts and leave it there for awhile. This draws the poison out of your system. However, when you consider that a good cow may be worth more than you are, you may want to just try crushing a Texas milkweed plant and applying the milk to the bite. You still might die but your heirs will at least have the live cow to fight over.
■ Corns- This sounds a little drastic but I was told by my friend Nita Lowry one time about a friend of hers who actually chopped off his toe afflicted with a bad corn with a ball peen hammer and a chisel. If you follow this advice refer to the following treatment.
■ Gangrene- If you contract gangrene obtain a rubber inner tube and pack it with fresh cow manure. Wrap the inner tube around the skin as a poultice.
■ Whooping Cough- Drink mare's milk.
■ Pneumonia- Apply a poultice to the chest of hot cabbage leaves and vinegar.
■ Frostbite- Hold a sliced potato next to the frozen skin.
■ Black Eye- Apply a big fat juicy beefsteak and pick on somebody your own size.
■ Hair Loss- Rub the leaves of the sotol plant vigorously on your scalp. It's a lot cheaper than Rogaine and any hair that grows will be all natural and organic.
■ Hay Fever- If you are having wheezing fits and don't have enough air to blow out a candle put some coffee grounds in a pipe and smoke them.
■ Insect Bite- Hold a chaw of freshly chewed tobacco on the sting area. The sting of the tobacco will supposedly take your mind off the other sting.
■ External Parasites- This trick comes from watching a fox get rid of fleas. Put a wood chip in your mouth and slowly walk naked into a lake. As you get deeper in the water the bugs will keep crawling up your body to avoid the water. When only your mouth is above water all the bugs will hop on to the wood chip. Just drop the chip into the water and get out of the lake. Remembering you are naked, of course.
■ Coma- Bury the foot of a badger under the patient's bed. Hey, it can't hurt and it probably works just as good as what they do for you in hospitals. And it's a LOT cheaper!
■ Everything Else- Whiskey. It must be strong whiskey, strong enough to kill any germs. You wouldn't want to just antagonize them now, would you?
These cures are said to work for man or beast. But I don't recommend this last tetanus cure for humans. The instructions are to drive two dozen nails through a board in three rows so that their sharp points stick out about a half inch. Then lay the board on the horses forehead and hit the board with a hammer. The air holes thus created by the sharp nails are said to relieve the intense heat created by tetanus.


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Die Präsidentschaftswahl in Ghana 1960 fand am 27. April 1960 zeitgleich mit dem Referendum über die Erste Verfassung Ghanas statt. Insgesamt 2.098.651 Wähler hatten sich registrieren lassen, 1.140.699 gültige Stimmen zur Frage "Do you accept Kwame Nkrumah or Joseph Boakye Danquah as the first President under the new Constitution?" wurden abgegeben.

Mit dem Inkrafttreten der Ersten Verfassung am 1. Juli 1960 übernahm der bisherige Premierminister Nkrumah das Amt des Präsidenten.

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Here's a Fun Oscars Song!
Do you love The Lonely Island? I like'em just fine! And they've made an Oscars song that stars Thor and Wonder Woman! That's pretty fancy and I'm glad we all get to enjoy it!
As for the Oscars themselves, I'm glad Shape of Water won. I think it was my favorite movie out of the nominees I saw, though I felt Get Out should have won, as it was the better movie. At the very least, I'm glad Phantom Thread didn't win, because I didn't see it, and I was convinced that they'd pick some artsy movie I didn't see.
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Honey production in Israel – a sweet undertaking
BY BATSHEVA POMERANTZ, IPS
Honey is a popular ingredient in Rosh Hashana dishes, and the greeting Shana tova u'metuka ("A good and sweet year") is on everyone's lips. At the festive Rosh Hashana meal, a piece of challah trickled with honey is followed by a slice of apple dipped in honey, and honey cake tops off the feast as a classic dessert.
Due to increased local demand for honey in recent years, the proverbial Land of Milk and Honey (whose 90,000 beehives produce a whopping 3,600 tons of honey annually) has found itself in the unlikely situation of having to import honey in order to maintain its honey industry.
In order to solve the problem, the Jewish National Fund earmarked forests for beehives and agreed to provide the Honey Council with some 100,000 nectar-producing saplings and plants each year. When this didn't suffice, the Jewish National Fund, together with the country's 500 apiarists, took further action and in early 2006 implemented the planting of some 200,000 additional trees as a source of nectar for bees. Beekeepers can now travel with their beehives to one of 6,300 pasture points situated around the country.
The raising of honey bees first took off in the Land of Israel in the late 19th century, although in the biblical era dates were made into honey, and many believe the notion of a "land flowing with milk and honey " actually referred to date honey.
Fifth-generation apiarist Malka Ben Zeev of the Dvorat HaTavor Land of Silk and Honey Center in the Lower Galilee can trace her profession to her Hungarian ancestors. Her agronomist husband, Yigal, learned the art of rearing silkworms in Iran in the late 1960s while an emissary of the Israeli government. The two joined forces, and in 1970, the newlyweds established the only silkworm breeding farm in Israel and began developing a successful honey production business at Moshav Shadmot Dvora, a stone's throw from Mount Tabor and the second century BCE Silk Road.
Dvorat HaTavor, which is recognized by the Israel government as an agro-tourism attraction, enjoys visits from students of all ages, retirees and groups of young people from the Diaspora. A program in Arabic is geared to the Arab residents of the Galilee.
The Visitors Center employs Galilee residents — often recently discharged IDF soldiers — as guides to explain about removal of the combs and extraction of the honey from the hives, each of which produces approximately 45 kilograms of honey a year.
"We place our hives in Galilee fields where there are natural wild flowers," Malka explains, "and avoid orange or avocado orchards that are sprayed with pesticides. The bees graze on white forest flowers according to the season. In the summer our honey is produced from thistles."
Israel has two to three blossom seasons when the bees suck the nectar from more than one hundred types of plants, starting off the fascinating production process. The plants are divided into cultivated plants, such as citrus (from which most of the honey is produced in Israel), and wild flowers. The flowers from which the nectar is collected affect the flavor and color of the honey. Plants include avocado, marjoram, eucalyptus, thorns, citrus, three-lobed sage, thyme and clover.
Some types of honey, such as those made from avocado and eucalyptus nectar, are suitable for roasting meat, while others, from the nectar of wild flowers, are suited for light repasts consisting of leafy salads, fruit and yogurt. Honey produced from citrus is suitable for baking cakes and dishes with a dough base.
Honey was used for thousands of years for health purposes, and its long shelf life has been proven by the discovery of jars of still edible honey entombed with Egyptian mummies. According to the Honey Council, honey is a sterile natural food and can be effective in warding off winter illnesses, boosting appetite and energy. As a sweetener, honey is 25 percent less caloric than sugar, with 25-30 calories per teaspoonful.
Healthy by-products of the beehive include propolis, "the natural antibiotic," which naturally protects the beehive from illness. It is scraped from each hive in small quantities and used in anti-fungus creams, creams to soothe the skin and sprays for irritated throats. Another healthful by-product is pollen, which is used to nourish the bees, and which is rich in vitamins, including vitamin B-12. "Propolis and pollen are expensive because of the intensive work needed to extract them from the beehive," notes Malka.
Finally, let us not forget the hard-working bees, who must visit over 4.5 million flowers and travel over 140,000 kilometers to produce a single kilogram of honey so that we may enjoy this traditional treat on Rosh Hashana.
Note: In 2004, the Apiarists Organization in Israel changed the name of its profession. Until then an apiarist was known as a kavran, which although spelt differently sounded identical to the word for 'undertaker' in Hebrew! An Israeli apiarist is now called a dvorai, from dvora (bee).
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Aaron Ekblad scored 26 seconds into overtime as the Florida Panthers beat the Colorado Avalanche 4-3 in Denver on Monday night.
Mike Hoffman had a goal and two assists, Troy Brouwer and Evgenii Dadonov also scored, and Roberto Luongo made 36 saves for the Panthers. Luongo picked up his 485th career win to move into sole possession of third place in NHL history.
Derick Brassard scored against his former team hours after being traded to Colorado, Tyson Jost and Mikko Rantanen also had goals, and Semyon Varlamov stopped 34 shots for the Avalanche, who saw their four-game winning streak stopped.
Ekblad got the game-winner when Hoffman twirled and fed him coming down the right side, and Ekblad trickled the puck past Varlamov for the win.
Florida entered Monday 10 points out of the second wild card in the Eastern Conference and fading in the playoff race. The Panthers and Avalanche completed a deal ahead of the NHL trade deadline that sent Brassard and a conditional sixth-round pick to Colorado for a third-round pick.
Brassard, who was traded to the Panthers from Pittsburgh on Feb. 1, made an immediate impact. With the game tied at 2-2 he skated into the Florida zone, took a pass from Ryan Graves and beat Luongo at 7:49 of the third period for the 3-2 lead.
It was his 11th goal of the season.
Hoffman tied it at 11:57 when his shot from the left circle went off Varlamov and in. It was Hoffman's 27th of the season.
Colorado opened the scoring early in the second and then the goals came in bunches late in the period.
Jost got the first one at 2:12 and Rantanen made it 2-0 at 14:31 when his snap shot beat Luongo. It was his 26th of the season.
The Panthers got back into it with two goals in the final 94 seconds of the period. Brouwer got the puck in the slot and shot the puck under a sliding Alexander Kerfoot to make it 2-1 at 18:26.
Colorado defenseman Nikita Zadorov went off for on interference minor seven seconds later, and Dadonov tied it with his 22nd goal at 19:35.


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Oregon Delegation Announces Federal Public Health Emergency for Oregon as Smoke Continues to Blanket State
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden, along with U.S. Representatives Peter DeFazio, Earl Blumenauer, Greg Walden, Kurt Schrader, and Suzanne Bonamici, today announced that U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has granted the delegation's request for a public health emergency declaration for the state of Oregon.
The public health emergency comes as smoke from unprecedented wildfires continues to blanket the state, and most of Oregon is suffering from hazardous air quality. Portland's air has ranked worst in the world among large cities in recent days.
"Oregon was already facing one major public health emergency, with a once-in-a-century pandemic. Now, deadly fires and hazardous air are compounding the public health dangers our communities face," said Merkley. "We need as much federal support and assistance as we can get to weather this storm and help Oregonians stay healthy and safe during this double crisis. This declaration will help get housing supports to people in need, target response to families particularly vulnerable to this health emergency, and make sure our communities get through this disaster as safely as possible."
"Oregonians choking on smoke and facing the massive challenge of unprecedented wildfires in the middle of a devastating pandemic fully realize the state faces a public health emergency," Wyden said. "I know from the devastation I saw throughout Oregon last weekend that while much work remains to be done for an overall response to this disaster, today's announcement is both welcome and timely."
"The hazardous air conditions in Oregon are threatening the health of Oregonians across the state, while the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has shut down indoor spaces that have been used for respite from wildfire smoke in years past," said Representative Peter DeFazio. "I'm grateful to HHS for their quick action in granting the Public Health Emergency request to give our state greater flexibility to address the healthcare needs of Oregonians during this difficult time."
"I am thankful to Secretary Azar for rapidly approving the public health emergency related to the wildfires in Oregon. This quick approval means that we have the resources to continue to fight COVID-19 while also having the additional resources to respond to the devastating fires. I am grateful that Oregon is continuing to receive the support from the Trump Administration to begin the recovery in Southern Oregon," said Representative Walden.
"Oregon currently has the worst air quality in the entire world," said Representative Schrader. "Smoke from the West Coast fires has traveled to the East Coast and to parts of Europe. Even Oregonians who have not been displaced by the fires, are facing serious health consequences all while battling a global health pandemic. This much needed public health declaration will help get resources to those who need it most and help get supplies to Oregon hospitals."
"Smoke is making it hazardous to breathe in Oregon – a threat that is severely compounded by the pandemic," said Representative Suzanne Bonamici. "I'm concerned about the long-term effects of smoke inhalation and other health challenges for our vulnerable communities. I'm encouraged that the Department of Health and Human Services quickly granted our request so we can protect the health of Oregonians at this critical time."
Merkley, Wyden, DeFazio, Blumenauer, Walden, Schrader and Bonamici had urged Secretary Azar on Monday to grant the declaration. In their request, the delegation noted that smoke can make individuals more susceptible to respiratory diseases—including the coronavirus—and that the pandemic had closed indoor locations that had been used to shelter Oregonians from hazardous smoke in the past.
With the Public Health Emergency, among other resources, Oregon is receiving:
An Incident Management Team (IMT) and regional emergency coordinators who will coordinate with state and local health authorities and emergency response officials, medical personnel, and oversee equipment deployment in response to the state's request;
The activation of the National Disaster Medical System, which will provide technical assistance to state officials, and members from the Urban Search and Rescue Teams, the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, and the Victim Information Center; and
Valuable data and tools to support counties' emergency response, including the number of Medicare beneficiaries who rely on electricity dependent medical equipment—such as dialysis and home oxygen—to help anticipate, plan for, and respond to the needs of at-risk populations.


I've blogged about my weight loss journey from the start but I will admit that I have gotten a little more quiet lately about it on the blog. To be honesty I'm a bit of an instagram addict these days (hah!) and use that to document most things, but today I thought it was time to do a new blog post sharing a few pictures (ok maybe more than a few hehe) of my summer and talk about why this summer has been so enjoyable for me.
First and foremost, as an update, I started trying to lose weight in January of 2014. I'm a little over a year and a half into this journey and have lost about 92 pounds to date. I'm still working towards hitting the big 100 pounds gone but I'm still really happy with where I am right now.
Well, for the first time in my 24 years of life I wore a bikini this summer and I enjoyed it every time!!!
I have to say that I do not think that your appearance or weight should dictate how happy you are as a person as a whole. Obviously I am not that vain ;) I've always been a happy person even when I was heavy but since losing the weight I literally feel like I am a completely new girl and I'm happier now than I ever thought possible!!! Being so much more happy and confident has lead to me seriously having a BLAST this whole summer.
It helped that I had some fun events planned throughout these last few months but that coupled with my new outlook on life has led to so many fun memories I thought I would share a little bit of what I have been up to!
This summer I was lucky enough to go down the shore with my parents I think...four times total! They have a large RV that they park at a campground outside of Ocean City New Jersey which is where we vacationed every summer growing up. I got to go down for a few weekend trips this year and had a blast. One of the reasons why I loved going? Running on the boardwalk!
My parents are active so they would ride their bikes every morning while I ran on the boardwalk near the ocean. One of my favorite things!!! On one trip I ran all the way from our campground over the bridge into Ocean City and then ran on the boardwalk for a total of 11 miles. I was so proud of myself!
Besides going to the beach with my family I had a few other weekend trips. My husband had an awards banquet for Civil Air Patrol in Gettysburg in May. We made a weekend out of it and went out with friends and did some sight seeing (read: wine tasting) and I had fun having an excuse to dress up in a fancy dress!!
Summer time is also wedding season! I spent a weekend in the Poconos for one of my friends bachlerette party. I was nervous going into it: it was a whole weekend at a house in the middle of no where with like 14 other girls I didn't know (I only knew 2-3 of the girls going) and I thought it was going to be so lame. It ended up being a BLAST and I made so many new friends! We had fun chatting, drinking (of course), relaxing, and even doing a little crafting!
And one out in Lancaster for our friends Alex and Katie. This was the first wedding we went to and I forgot to get a picture WITH my husband. Hahahah! I made sure to correct that when we went out to the wedding in Pittsburg!
I also had a quick trip to Florida earlier in the summer in June when I went to visit Cousin Corporation that I already blogged about. Worth mentioning one more time though because of how awesome it was. BEADS and FLORIDA. Come on now, you are really talking in my love language now!!!
Right after my trip to Florida I had a long weekend beach trip planned with some of my college girlfriends. I felt so spontaneous on this trip: I was supposed to drive down on a Thursday night after work with one of my other friends. Only bad thing about doing it that way is that I wouldn't get there until super late at night on Thursday and the weather for the weekend was looking terrible but Thursday it was GORGEOUS. So Thursday morning I show up to work and had a pre-planned meeting get canceled and i thought to myself....why don't I just leave now??? I talked to my boss who OKed me taking an extra day off and I left the office and drove right down to the beach!!! This may not sound like the craziest thing in the world but I've never driven myself alone down to Maryland so I felt super impressed with myself and enjoyed some time on the beach Thursday in sun before I could get into the hotel. It was so worth the spontaneity!
We went on a weekend trip to a friends cabin in the MIDDLE OF NOWHERE Pennsylvania (seriously. The cabin did not even have running water. THERE WAS AN OUTHOUSE I HAD TO USE) but luckily there were a few wineries in the area so that made up for the no running water thing just a LITTLE bit.
Tried some new wineries with friends that we met on a cruise a few years ago and keep in touch with at least once a year ever since!
Whew. So there are about four months of condensed pictures of all of the fun things I've done. Hah! Seriously though. I'm sitting here typing this on Monday night after the long holiday weekend where we spent time with friends and family having cook-outs, hanging out and just having fun and I literally feel so blessed in life now. Yes, I still would have had fun doing all of these things if I was 90 pounds heavier but I am SO GLAD that I spent the time to make my health a priority and get fit because I know that I feel happy and confident in myself as a person now and that has made every experience this summer so much more enjoyable.
Summer maybe almost officially over now but I really am looking forward to starting a new season and making more memories with my new outlook on life!!
Thank you for being such a wonderful inspiration! I'm down 43 lbs since November and I have to agree that this summer was nice to be a little less self conscious in a bathing suit and shorts.Next summer I'm going to buy all new clothes!
You look awesome!!! You have any tips on how you lost the weight?
You look amazing! I'm super impressed!
Wow. You look fantastic. Great job!
You look so wonderful! I'm glad you had such a fun summer and got to show off your good looking body.
I'm also glad you liked Smith Mtn. Lake. We live about 45 minutes from there. It's one of my favorite places to spend the weekend.
Holy cow! You look amazing! I am so proud you have lost of this weight.... for you! So inspiring!!


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Teaching tomorrow's physicians
IU Health Arnett Hospital
There is a nationwide shortage of physicians. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges, the U.S. could see a shortage of 100,000 or more physicians by 2033. The severity of the problem varies from specialty to specialty. According to an article by Time Magazine, "Neurology and psychiatry, as well as pulmonary and critical care medicine are headed for larger shortfalls due to the complex, chronic conditions America's aging population must manage."
This is a concerning situation that could lead to poorer health outcomes for many patients. Rural communities tend to suffer more, as high educational debt tends to lead new graduates to seek higher paying positions in larger metropolitan areas.
One physician at IU Health Arnett has made it his mission to change the outcomes for Greater Lafayette and nearby communities by teaching the physicians of tomorrow—Akram Al-Makki, MD, FACP, FASN.
Al-Makki joined the IU Health Arnett nephrology department in 2004. Stephen Ash, MD, FACP and his life-long pursuit to make hemodialysis technology simpler and safer was a big factor in Al-Makki's decision to move to the area. Ash was a physician he admired and wanted to learn from. Al-Makki also knew he wanted to become more involved in academics.
"When you take the oath, part of the mission should be sharing your knowledge with both students and patients," shares Al-Makki.
The road to becoming a physician
It takes 10 – 14 years to become a physician. Physicians must complete a four-year undergraduate program, an additional four years of medical school, then three to seven years in a residency program to study the specialty they choose to pursue.
Since 1971, the Indiana University School of Medicine has offered medical education on the Purdue University campus in West Lafayette, Ind. Originally, medical students would spend the first two years of classes in West Lafayette then transfer to finish their third and fourth years of medical school in Indianapolis.
Shadowing opportunities in Greater Lafayette were sparse, but that needed to change, according to Al-Makki. The Graduate Medical Education (GME) program for medical students was established at Arnett Hospital in 2009 and Al-Makki volunteered to serve as the Internal Medicine and Nephrology Education Site Clerkship Director. In 2012, he was appointed Director of the program—an appointment that was based on his advocacy for research, having a passion for education and believing in the importance of constantly learning.
Medical student rounding with Dr. Al-Makki
"I formulated vision and mission statements that I used as a guide and inspiration to strongly encourage my fellow physicians to volunteer to teach medical students," shares Al-Makki. "Policies, procedures and orientations were developed. I helped advance the program and expand the number of physicians involved in medical education and students rotating at IU Health Arnett."
Growing physician involvement
Within two years, the number of physicians involved increased from around 40 to more than 120. Today, more than 140 IU Health Arnett physicians are involved with medical student education.
In line with Al-Makki's vision, the IU School of Medicine added a third year of medical education to their West Lafayette regional campus at Purdue in 2012 and a fourth year in 2013. Led by medical education and research experts, the IU School of Medicine in West Lafayette follows the school's statewide core MD curriculum. Like all IU School of Medicine statewide locations, the West Lafayette campus offers community participation opportunities and exceptional clinical education through student groups, medical service-learning programs and other extracurricular activities, and a strong partnership with local clinical providers to ensure students get authentic experience in applying basic science concepts to real patient cases.
Keeping medical students in our community
Now students at the IU School of Medicine in West Lafayette can complete all four years of their medical education in Greater Lafayette. Two graduates from the first class to remain in Greater Lafayette all four years joined local medical practices in our community after finishing their post-graduation residency training. Many others who have graduated since 2014 have also returned to serve our community after finishing their residency training.
"Teaching is my passion," shares Al-Makki. "The best way to learn is to teach. The students enrich my experience and that of the patient. They add a lot to what we do every day, help us stay up to date on technology and they ask questions—which stimulates the brain."
Jake Whiteside is one of the medical students from the IU School of Medicine-West Lafayette campus completing his four years of medical education in the Greater Lafayette area. West Lafayette was a draw because his best friend lives locally. Being a husband and father of three young children, he also did not want to move his family for clinical rotations in his third and fourth years of medical school.
Jake Whiteside, medical student
"Being here, I knew I would have a lot more one-on-one education," shares Whiteside. "I appreciate being involved with the patients and being able to ask questions. I also ask my mentors to challenge me."
How do the patients react to the medical students?
"The patients receive more attention," adds Al-Makki. "The addition of the medical students provides a good discussion of the issue and possible solutions which helps the patients. I also ask the students to review the patient history with me and the patient."
Whiteside shares that learning at Arnett and in the Lafayette area has been a good fit for him and his family.
"My physician mentors and the team at IU Health Arnett have been friendly, approachable and flexible—always willing to work around anything I need in my professional and personal life," shares Whiteside. "I really feel that we are all in this together."
Whiteside has found his passion in general surgery—his past experiences in general and bariatric surgery research contributed to his excitement to learn more about general surgery and its subspecialties, including hand surgery, bariatric surgery and robotic surgery, among others. Whiteside has matched into an active-duty surgical residency program at Wright Patterson Air Force Base/Wright State University and will begin his surgical training there in summer 2023.
Will he return to Indiana? He hopes so.
"It is a great place to live and work," adds Whiteside. "The Midwest offers a lot of flexibility."
Al-Makki expanded locally a statewide summer educational program called Hospital Medicine Education (HME) and secured funding to provide a grant to a female and a male student moving from their first year into second year. The eight-week program allows the students to rotate through various departments at Arnett, in hopes that the students will be interested in remaining in our community. The HME program has become very popular with the medical students.
Al-Makki is continuously working to improve health care at Arnett by advancing the quality of medical students and physicians' education through collaboration with the IU School of Medicine and its curriculum priorities. His work in raising the engagement of medical education has resulted in a higher level of professional satisfaction of physicians through mentoring and teaching students.
"I take pride in what we have accomplished," shares Al-Makki.
Day in the Life, Team Member Profile
Akram Al-Makki, MD, FACP, FASN


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2009 RH Eve
Rabbi Marc E. Berkson - Rosh Hashanah Eve - 2009/5770
Shabbat shalom-shana tova–Baruchim Ha-Ba'im-Welcome-Welcome home!
So a story. This past winter, a number of us gathered at Olin-Sang-Ruby Union Institute, at OSRUI, our camp on the shores of Lac LaBelle, for our annual Congregational Family Retreat. We had come together over a Shabbat, over a weekend, congregants of all ages, to learn and discuss what our Director of Life Long Learning, Amy Kazilsky, and I called "Adam, Adamah, and Adonai: The Relationship Between Humans, Nature, and God." Yes, we liked the alliteration the Hebrew provided-taken from a title of a book written by Rabbi Jeff Sultar. More important, however, was the fact that we were blessed with the presence of Phillip Katz, the designer of this beautiful home, and we wanted to study what Judaism teaches about our responsibilities to God's world and how we were incorporating them into our new home in its architecture and then how we could continue to do so in its use. And Phillip was a wonderful teacher; he taught but he also challenged. "What words," he asked, "would you like above the aron ha-kodesh, above the ark?"
Phillip, as you know, I was not thrilled by the question then. I had wanted that question posed some six years ago, as we began the process of planning this building. For just as God creates with words-"and God said, 'Let there be light'"…and there was-so do we. Even the Hebrew word for word reflects creation. For word in Hebrew is devar-and devar also has the meaning of thing. Thus devar, word, is a concrete entity, a tangible reality, a building block. The social construction of reality. And, for us, hearing is believing.
Still, we who were there at OSRUI, the forty or so of us, talked about an inscription. One clear possibility was a verse from the 25th chapter of Leviticus-"v-asu li mikdash v'shachanti b'tocham-and let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them." Someone noted that a most traditional inscription above the ark is "Da lifnei mi atah omed-know before Whom you stand." Clearly something very important to remember each and every time we enter here to pray. Someone else suggested the Shema, our proclamation and our mantra, if you will. Yet another suggested the Priestly Benediction, those words bestowed by Moses and Aaron upon our ancestors in the wilderness of Sinai asking God to bless us and to keep us. We even worked that weekend at camp on pieces of wood left over from these beams above us placing upon them verses from Torah and from other Jewish sources with artistic reflections which we then brought back here to form an exhibit in our front entryway until it was closed by construction. Many of you may have seen it. And it was in those pieces of wood that we found our words, our verse, our inscription. At first, I thought it was the building creating those words. But then I remembered Phillip's early discussions with us, with people talking about warmth and intimacy and light, with the clearly expressed desire to take advantage of this beautiful pastoral setting; with the loudly expressed concern never to close ourselves off from God's greater world. I knew then the verse, I knew then the words, and I knew then that those words were in the building blocks of this sacred space.
Take a look, above the ark, there, the first three words of the 24th Psalm-"L'Adonai ha-aretz u'melo'ah-The earth is the Eternal's and all its fullness thereof." And the verse continues-"tevel v'yoshvei vah-the world and all who dwell in it." We are tenants in God's garden and our task is to till and to tend, to serve and to guard the bounteous gift of this world. Our relationship with God is dependent upon our relationship with the world God has lent to us for safekeeping. And this building is open on all sides to God's world, its design so conscious of that relationship. The windows-so many which literally open-east and west, north and south. The wood. The stone.
Yet the words of one verse are always intimately connected to those of the next. So the 24th Psalm continues, "Ki Hu al yamim y'sada v'al n'harot y'chon'nenah-for God has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers." Those words were creating within our artist, within Tobi Kahn. Simply look around the sanctuary, at the necklace of silver and gold which encompasses and embraces us. (Those of you further back, in our expansion space and in Surlow Hall, can come see this necklace later.) Tobi's work takes us to God's creation of this world, perhaps to those seas and river with God's word transforming chaos into order, into that creation for which we must care today. On each panel, God speaks to us, as Tobi's work is open to us as on parchment and the latticework of Phillip's panels as lines of God's words in a sefer Torah.
The words of the 24th Psalm helped to build this building. Our tradition ascribes its composition to King David who wrote its words when he acquired the land on which to build the ancient Temple in Jerusalem, to have its words read when the Temple was dedicated by his son, by Solomon. Even today it is part of our liturgy as we recite its words every Monday and Thursday when we return the Torah scroll to the ark and read it as the psalm every Sunday. Through our choir, we will sing its closing verses at Ne'ilah on Yom Kippur. In a sense, Phillip and Tobi were our David and Solomon, or, even better, our Bezalel and Oholiav–God's artists who designed the mishkan, the Tabernacle in the wilderness– letting these words sing and create and build through them.
So much more of this building, of this sacred space, reflects God's handiwork through Phillip and Tobi. Jewish numbers are everywhere. Ten-in the beams and columns and in the piers around the sanctuary. Seven–through the menorot behind me. Two–again in the menorot and in the doors of the ark, and, of course, one. Similarly, the numbers in the dimensions of this sacred space reflect that handiwork as does the orientation of the entire building. We enter from the west and move in a processional from the most secular to the most sacred, ultimately facing that place where Solomon built the ancient Temple. That same orientation will also be reflected in the beautiful parohet, the work of another artist's hands, those of Nina Edelman, which we will all see tomorrow when we open the ark to read God's words. In her striking colors, we all will see the seven choice fruits and grains native to the land of Israel. Finally, above me, one of those fruits as our ner tamid, the rimmon, or pomegranate, placed right in the middle of the oculus. Yes, it is the first fruit of the season ever reflective of knowledge and fertility and abundance and shalom, and, of course, today, of health. Yet open the pomegranate up and you will find 613 seeds. Those 613 mitzvot in Torah reflect the same. Open it up and…. Surely, God is in this place.
Thus, in the midst of all of this beauty, I have been pondering a wonderful quote I saw in an article in Sh'ma Magazine by Edgar Bronfman and Beth Zasloff. The article contained a discussion about Abraham and Sarah who were renowned for their hospitality. Abraham was the Conrad Hilton or Howard Johnson of the wilderness, if you will, pitching his tent wherever wayfarers would be passing by, making sure that the flaps of that tent would be open on all sides. He would even seek out travelers, bringing them into his tent and washing their feet, providing them food, giving them drink, tending to their animals. Most dramatically, as he sat at the entrance to his tent recovering from his own brit milah, he saw some wayfarers off in the distance and, in spite of his own pain, got up and brought them in unto him.
And now that quote – for Abraham teaches us that it is not enough to say to someone "Come in and sit;" rather, we must say "come in and sit with me!" Only then can we begin to learn and grow together. Of this building, we can surely and proudly say, "Come in and sit." Like Abraham's tent, it is open on all sides, as I have already noted, allowing God's larger world to flow into our worship space while, at the same time, never allowing us to close ourselves off from that larger world.
Thus, we can now say to others around us, "Come and sit." And they may well enjoy the view – in this magnificent sanctuary, in Surlow Hall, in the cardo, throughout the grounds surrounding the building, and then in the warmth of the daily heart of our new building, our lounge which really is our living room. We can say "come in and sit" all we want and people will do so. In fact, I would not be surprised if our new sanctuary becomes a place to which people from all across the country want to come and visit. The work which Tobi did leading to these magnificent pieces here will shortly be in a show at the Museum of Biblical Art in New York and, Phillip, this space is transcendent. But we have all learned by now that the misquoted line from the movie Field of Dreams is simply not true; while "if you build it, they will come" has a nice ring to it (even if the quote from the Shoeless Joe Jackson character in the movie was "if you build it, he will come"), it just ain't so – to use another famous line.
You see, people do not join a congregation only for a building. Yes, we knew that if we did not build it, people would not come. In the end, people join a congregation to be in the presence of God, to be part of a sacred community. With this transcendent space, we have definitely made it easier to be in the presence of God. But our task now is to be like Abraham and Sarah, to go out to others and to say, "Come in and sit with me." Those two words, "with me," will make all the difference in the world.
Our doors are open and through these doors one may find some of the best programs around. We have a superb religious school from K-4 through Kabbalat Torah along with a variety of Life Long Learning activities from those retreats at Olin-Sang-Ruby (including a new one this year for our families with very young children) to Anshe Mitzvah whose current class of adults will celebrate in the spring. We are blessed with music all around us here thanks to our Cantor with a choir which carries our prayers heavenward on wings of song to B'nai Mitzvah kids who truly leighn and chant. We gather weekly for torah l'shema, for study simply for the sake of study, in our Shabbat Morning Study Minyan working our way over the last nine years from the beginning of Genesis now nearing the end of Numbers. Our Social Action programs-from our Mitzvah Day to Tikkun Ha-Ir to the Glean Machine to our Blood Drives-keep us involved in God's larger world. And our auxiliaries' programs take my breath away as I try to get to so many of them; simply look in the service booklet to see what Brotherhood and Women of Emanu-El and YOFEE have coming up in the next few weeks from our Sukkahmobile to the Deli Dinner to Mah Johng and Munchies to the Kitchen Shower to the upcoming taste of Olin-Sang-Ruby. We even fielded a softball team this summer just as we worked a concession stand at Miller Park. The list could go on. And yet…and yet…all those programs, no matter how great, do not get people to truly come in and sit, and be, with us.
Our doors are open and we know we have to find the money to keep those doors open. Yet all of us, down deep, are uncomfortable with the consumer model with which we have struggled for years. Tickets for these, our High Holy Day services; for that matter, services rendered for fees paid. And, of course, the Bar/Bat Mitzvah. Join the congregation to celebrate that ceremony for your kids and then, when one no longer has need for those services, simply leave the congregation. The less that is demanded, the less that will be invested. People may come in and sit–for a while; but so many do not come in and sit with us. To paraphrase our teacher, Rabbi Larry Hoffman, professor of liturgy at the Hebrew Union College in New York and co-founder of Synagogue 3000, people may show up briefly for what the synagogue does but they really wish to throw in their lot with what the synagogue is.
I know, I know. For many of us, we belong to Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun for what it is-for the generations of our families who have passed through this, the first Jewish congregation in Wisconsin. We belong to Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun for its long commitment to the entire Milwaukee community. We belong to Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun for its serious Jewish study. We belong to Emanu-El B'ne Jeshurun for its joyous and joyful worship. But a building does not a congregation make. Not even a series of programs, no matter how serious, can create a community of relationships. So, yes, like Abraham and Sarah, we need to go out and ask people to "come in and sit, to come in and sit with me, with us." For everything is in relationship and what else is a relationship but a brit, a covenant, between two people? And how do we begin? In the same way that God began that relationship, that brit, with us. We begin with words, we begin with stories. There is our story-"My father was a wandering Aramaen and he set out for a land promised unto him…. We became slaves to Pharaoh in the land of Egypt and God freed us from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm….Moses led the people out of the camp toward God, and they took their places at the foot of the mountain." And then there are our stories-stories of joy and sorrow, stories of loneliness and love, stories of sickness and recovery, stories of sin and of forgiveness, stories of birth and of death. Wrote Rabbi Zoe Klein, "the strength of a community/Lies not in us, your rabbis or cantors,/ [or] in your relationships with us/But rather in your relationships with each other/The bonds you form all around…"
Think of the power of a story. I can mention 6,000,000-or Jack Dygola can tell you his story or Nate Taffel, his, or Phil Freund, his. I can talk about saying kaddish-or, as I did several years ago on Kol Nidre, tell you the story of how I struggled to say kaddish for my mother for a year, in the process binding myself to so many others. I can preach over and over the importance of organ donation in Jewish tradition, but Charlie Smith, alav ha-shalom, told his own story and moved so many of us to become organ donors.
It is taught that when a person plasters his or her entire house, a piece should be left undone in remembrance of Jerusalem. When a person prepares a feast, one small element should be omitted in remembrance of Jerusalem. When one dresses in finery, one small piece should be omitted, in remembrance of Jerusalem. In building this sanctuary and Surlow Hall, Phillip Katz left one piece undone, in remembrance of Jerusalem. Yes, I know where it is and you can try to find it; you can even ask Phillip. But another story of another new synagogue in a small village far away and long ago. When the people came for the first time they marveled at its beauty and its completeness. Then someone asked, "Where are the lamps? How will it be lighted?" The nobleman who built the synagogue pointed to brackets, which were all through the synagogue on the walls. Then he gave each family a lamp, which they were to bring with them each time they came to the synagogue. "Each time you are not here," he said, "that part of the synagogue will be unlit. This is to remind you that whenever you fail to come here, especially when the community needs you, some part of God's house will be dark."
Our lights are on-and they will always be on. But to truly light up this congregation, we need your stories. Tell me a story. Tell me your story. Tell that story to someone else. In a more organized fashion over the course of this year, we will begin to share these stories. I promise to discuss this in a far more specific and organized fashion on Yom Kippur. But know that, even before he heard my words this Rosh Hashanah, our new president wanted to find a way to let our stories be told. For Robert Friebert set out to encounter each and every outgoing and incoming board member and each committee chair. He may call these meetings one-on-ones; I prefer to call them panim-el-panim, face to face, just as Moses encountered God. He then wants our officers and board members to go out and encounter others, to listen to their stories. Those meetings could become, in Martin Buber's words, I-Thou encounters.
Thus, my request of you. This Rosh Hashanah, here in our new building, make a new relationship. Find someone you do not know well and tell a story, tell your story. Do it tonight or tomorrow or Sunday. What brings you here? What speaks to you? What concerns you? How will this new year be different from the year now ended? And what stories do you wish to write as you begin anew this year? Our words, our stories, become the building blocks of relationships and of a kehillah kedosha, a holy congregation. And from those stories we can be like Abraham and Sarah reaching out to others and exclaiming, Come in and sit with me; come in and sit with us; here you will find Emanu-el; here you will find that God is with us.
Ken Yehi Ratzon. May it be so.


Originally from California, David lived in San Francisco and Los Angeles before moving to New York in 1999. He studied art and design at the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California. It is there that he began studying landscape and figure painting, working regularly in both watercolor and oil pastel. Since coming to New York, David has been developing a number of different bodies of work: While painting abstract works based on particle tracks (bubble chamber diagrams used by physicists to study the collisions of subatomic particles) the simple beauty of the curves and spirals led him back to the figure, seeking parallels in the human form and the activation of space implied in every pose. The Fractured Figure series (2011) explores elements of graphic design and urban environments as a means to disrupt the conventional figure and set up tensions between abstraction and figuration, chaos and repose, signal and noise. His latest series takes a more abstract approach, inspired by the rhythms and geometries found in the natural, urban and scientific worlds. The use of 3d printing has been an exciting means of joining traditional and contemporary artmaking processes.


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Mahoney, Peter F; Carr, Debra; Arm, Richard; Gibb, Iain; Hunt, Nicholas; Delaney, Russ J.
The aim of this work was to further develop a synthetic model of ballistic head injury by the addition of skin and soft tissue layers to an anatomically correct polyurethane skull filled with gelatine 10% by mass. Six head models were impacted with 7.62 x 39 mm full metal jacket mild steel core (FMJ MSC) bullets with a mean velocity of 652 m/s. The impact events were filmed with high-speed cameras. The models were imaged pre- and post-impact using computed tomography. The models were assessed post impact by two experienced Home Office pathologists and the images assessed by an experienced military radiologist. The findings were scored against real injuries. The entry wounds, exit wounds and fracture patterns were scored positively, but the synthetic skin and soft tissue layer was felt to be too extendable. Further work is ongoing to address this.


For those of us working using social media, it's telling to see that some behaviours we classify as being 'standard communications 'techniques', in fact mimic the behaviours of a person with an anti-social personality disorder. Is that how we want to represent our organisation? I think it's useful to check ourselves every now and then – is this social media or corporate media?
It's not so odd to suggest that an organisation, or discipline, displays these characteristics. I recently re-read Will Black's book 'Psychopathic Cultures and Toxic Empires' and one of the main arguments he makes is that the practices, processes and habits in an organisation can be completely dysfunctional because of the legacy of charismatic, exploitative and powerful psychopaths who have previously been in charge.
Indeed, research shows that CEOs can be inclined towards these traits with 1 in 25 business leaders possibly being psychopaths.


But I would like to have this possibility for the majors, sevens etc. as well...The bass tone is always uppercase, which is fine.
Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot in advance!
> well...The bass tone is always uppercase, which is fine.
> Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot in advance!
Which input-syntax do you prefer for entering single bass-notes?
Please give a compiling example even when it does not what you want.
produce a whole bass staff.
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>> well...The bass tone is always uppercase, which is fine.
>> Can someone please help me? Thanks a lot in advance!
> Which input-syntax do you prefer for entering single bass-notes?
> Please give a compiling example even when it does not what you want.
>> Which input-syntax do you prefer for entering single bass-notes?
Always prints cis and ces not c#/cb, is this ok?
Be aware, it is not tested beyond the given example.


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Q: What's the better approach in changing the model's property value in controller Which approach is more preferrable when changing just a single value in model? Aesthetically-speaking and performance-wise.
Looks clean(albeit with the overhead of pushing the entire model again to the View):
ModelState.Remove("Name");
guestResponse.Name = "John";
return View(guestResponse);

Looks performant:
ModelState["Name"] = new ModelState { Value = new ValueProviderResult("Paul", null, null) };
return View();

If changing the model state dictionary is performant and can do this...
ModelState["Name"] = "George";

...I will use that over the first code(with Remove and return View(guestResponse)), but unfortunately, ModelState need to be assigned with ModelState and ValueProviderResult.  It looks ugly to me.
Which one do you use when changing the model's property value(s) in controller?

A: The model properties are usually bound from the request values. So if I need to change a model value inside a controller action I simply call this action with the proper request string so that I don't have to do anything inside the controller. But to answer your question both approaches will perform well, it doesn't really matter which one you use.

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In which your intrepid columnist hands over $450 to sit for the CISSP exam, only to conclude that it measures little of value.
This past Saturday, I felt like I was seventeen again. And, at least in this case, that's not a good thing.
While I would guess that I passed the exam (I'll find out in a few weeks), overall I was not impressed. If you want a test that proves that the taker has absorbed a large body of largely meaningless and mostly irrelevant data, this does the trick.
The test consists of 250 multiple-choice questions (twenty-five of which are being tested for future exams, and are not scored) taken from ten "security domains," that collective form what the organization calls the "Common Body of Knowledge" (CBK) -- a very broad, but very shallow, overview of computer security that the (ISC)^2 Web site claims "is a compilation and distillation of all security information collected of relevance to Information Security."
That's quite a tall order. But even if all security information could be distilled into a body of facts, it would be of use to almost nobody.