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UN Deducts $30m from Gaza Relief Funds, Qatar to Fuel Sole Power Plant
PNN correspondence revealed, on Thursday, that the UN has decided to deduct $30m worth of "administrative costs" from the aid donated for reconstructing the Gaza Strip.
An Egyptian official, speaking on condition of anonymity, reportedly said that a number of media outlets announced a deduction of some $800,000 by the UN, as a first payment for about 24,000 UN employees. He further stated that the total sum deducted from the expected financial aid for Gaza is $30 million, according to Days of Palestine news publication.
Egypt's foreign ministry was said to have expressed "extreme surprise" over the United Nation's decision to deduct the funds, which are urgently and immediately needed by Gaza residents.
PNN notes that the UN has suggested a proposal for the entry of construction materials to the Strip that has been described as an extension for the Israeli siege on the enclave.
The International Donors Conference, held in Cairo last month, documented some $5.4 billion pledges by the international community.
In related news, Al Ray further reports that Qatar has pledged to fund the purchase of fuel needed to operate Gaza's only power plant for a three-month period:
"Qatari Prime Minister Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al-Thani has informed Ismail Haniyeh, deputy head of Hamas' political office, that his country planned to make a deposit in the Palestinian Authority's treasury earmarked for the purchase of fuel for Gaza's power plant for three months," read a recent statement from Deputy Haniyeh's office.
PM Al-Thani's reaffirmation of his country's support for the Palestinian people, and especially those in the devestated Gaza Strip, was highlighted in the statement. Gaza's sole power plant went offline on July 29th of this year, after its main fuel tank was attacked from the air by Israeli jets.
(Palestinians have no official military to speak of; Gaza's response to the months of relentless provocations which preceded Israel's assault on the region was assumed, once again, by armed partisan factions who, despite staunch resistance, were helpless to defend Gaza's civilian infrastructure.)
Furthermore, even though the plant remains functional, it has stopped running due to chronic fuel shortage.
A relatively small stretch of land, and exceedingly overpopulated, the Gaza Strip is said to require around 360 megawatts per day – of which only 200 megawatts are currently available – to meet the needs of some 1.9 million residents. Before the air strikes, residents were making due with 8 or less hours of electricity per day.
Gaza currently has three sources for electricity, Al Ray reports: Israel, which provides 120 megawatts; Egypt, which supplies 28 megawatts; and Gaza's power plant, which generates between 40 and 60 megawatts on average, per day.
USAID Provides $100m to PA, Settlements Condemned Internationally
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced, today, a U.S. contribution of $100 million in budget support for the Palestinian Authority (PA), according to an official press release.
WAFA reports that, in a ceremony at the Office of Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, Minister of Finance Shukri Bishara, U.S. Consul General, Michael Ratney, and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) West Bank and Gaza Mission Director Dave Harden announced the U.S contribution to the PA.
At the October 2014 Gaza Donors Conference in Cairo, US Secretary of State John Kerry announced $414 million in U.S. assistance to the Palestinians, which designated $212 million to be delivered through USAID.
Today's transfer will be used to directly pay for fuel purchases and support of six hospitals in occupied East Jerusalem, allowing them to continue to provide critical services to the public.
In light of the tumultous escalation of violence in East Jerusalem, as well as Israel's continued policy of settlement expansion in the face of international pressure to resolve this historical conflict peacefully, several countries including France, Britain and Sweden have expressed dissent with Israel's handling of its affairs.
A former Israeli prison guard turned journalist, recently quoted a US official in The Atlantic:
"'The good thing about Netanyahu is that he's scared to launch wars,' the official said, expanding the definition of what a chickenshit Israeli prime minister looks like. 'The bad thing about him is that he won't do anything to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians or with the Sunni Arab states. The only thing he's interested in is protecting himself from political defeat. He's not [Yitzhak] Rabin, he's not [Ariel] Sharon, he's certainly no [Menachem] Begin. He's got no guts.'"
See http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2014/10/30/the-chickenshit-lobby-is-mad-as-hell/ for details.
Furthermore, the Japanese government, in a Wednesday press release, urged Israel to desist from implementing its plans for the construction of 500 new settlement units in occupied East Jerusalem, for the sake of progress in the peace process.
The statement deeply deplored Israel's approval to advance the construction plans, calling upon Israel to refrain from any unilateral act which would change the current status of East Jerusalem, as well as the West Bank.
"As the Government of Japan has repeatedly expressed, The Israeli decision has a negative impact on the current security situation in Jerusalem and the ceasefire agreement regarding the Gaza Strip, and clearly goes against the ongoing efforts by the international community toward realizing a two-state solution," said the release.
"Settlement activities are a violation of international law, and Japan has repeatedly called upon Israel to fully freeze settlement activities...
"Japan once again strongly urges both Israeli and Palestinian sides to act to enhance mutual trust and continue to make steady efforts for peace," it concluded.
Spain, as well, expressed regret and condemned the decision, by Israeli authorities, to proceed with the construction,according to the Spanish Ministry of Foreign affairs' website:
"The Government of Spain believes that this type of unilateral action contributes to making the future formation of a Palestine State unworkable and is therefore incompatible with Israel's formal commitment to negotiate with the Palestinians to achieve a peaceful, global and lasting solution based on the two-State principle."
WAFA reports that, once again, Spain has reiterated its position on the illegal nature of all settlements, a position it shares with the international community -- that the settlements are illegal under international law.
In related news, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International, Philip Luther, said that "Israeli forces have brazenly flouted the laws of war during the 51-day war on Gaza by carrying out a series of attacks on civilian homes, displaying callous indifference to the carnage caused." (Full report at WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency.)
Report: Over 300,000 citizens jobless in the West Bank and Gaza
The Palestinian central bureau of statistics said there are more than 300,000 citizens with no jobs in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip according to data collected during the second quarter of 2014. A report released by the bureau on Saturday stated that about 328,000 Palestinian citizens have no jobs, more than 200,000 of them are in Gaza.
Accordingly, the unemployment rate in the second quarter of the current year amounted to about 18.2 percent in the West Bank and to 44.5 percent in Gaza.
These high unemployment levels in the West Bank and Gaza led to an increase in the rates of poverty and food insecurity among the Palestinian families, the report noted.
OCHA: Gaza Power Plant to Resume Operations Depending on Fuel Supply
"Resuming the operations of Gaza power plant (GPP) is contingent on securing the necessary fuel," the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) announced Monday, in its weekly 'Protection of Civilians' report.
The report explains, according to Al Ray, that the GPP shut down on July 29th, after being hit several times by Israeli attacks, subsequently rendering the Gaza Strip to be exclusively dependent on electricity purchased from Egypt and Israel.
Also noted was the fact that, even if fuel is secured, it will be difficult to provide service to the areas most affected from the last Israeli aggression on the region, such as Beit Hanoun, Al-Shuja'eyyah, Khuza'a and eastern Rafah.
The facility is Gaza's only power plant and electricity outages now exceed 18 hours per-day, severely disrupting the provision of basic services including health and water throughout the region.
Prior to the assault, residents in the Gaza Strip were surviving on some 8 hours of electricity per day.
Gaza's per capita income does not exceed one dollar a day
The Popular Committee against the Siege confirmed that the per capita income in the Gaza Strip has dramatically decreased to one dollar a day following the Israeli recent aggression and as a result of the ongoing blockade. The committee confirmed that this rate has been the lowest since Israel imposed tight blockade on the Strip in 2007.
More than one and a half million citizens in Gaza depend on aid to survive, the committee added, pointing out that unemployment rates in the besieged Strip had surged 65 percent following the last Israeli war.
The committee stressed the importance of allowing construction materials into the Strip in order to accelerate the rebuilding of hundreds of homes, factories, and educational and medical institutions.
Egypt is expected to host a donor conference on the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip on October 12 in Cairo.
Saudi Arabia Transfers $60 M. To P. A
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia recently announced that it had transferred around $60.000.000 to the Palestinian Ministry of Finance to help cover some of its expenses for the months of July, August and September.
The money is transferred through the Saudi Fund for Development; it comes as part of monthly aid (20 Million) from Saudi Arabia, as part of its pledge through the Arab League, along with other Arab countries.
Back in February of this year, the Palestinian Authority said its budget for 2014 is around $4 billion, with a $250.000 budget deficit.
The P.A needs at least $150 million a month just to pay salaries for government employees, pensioners and social services.
It needs nearly a similar amount to provide basic services and infrastructure.
On Monday, the National Unity Government started transferring salaries to local banks in the West Bank, while Gaza Strip employees and beneficiaries have not received any money since the unity government was formed more than three months ago.
Two days ago, Prime Minister of the interim government in the West Bank Rami Hamdallah said the P.A is now working with a third party who will likely be temporarily paying salaries of Gaza Strip employees.
He refused to name the third party, but said talks and arrangements are being made to ensure the payments go through.
Settlement Products Account for Nearly All Expired Goods in Palestine
According to the Ministry of National Economy, Israeli settlement products account for about 98% of expired goods detected in the Palestinian market by Consumer Protection Directorate (CPD) crews.
A report issued by the CPD stated that Palestinian products, in contrast, accounted for only 1.9% of expired products. 350 inspection tours throughout 2,345 local stores were conducted by the Directorate crews, in calculating these statistics.
According to WAFA Palestinian News & Info Agency, the Ministry ascribed the sharp decline of expired Palestinian products in the local market to Palestinian manufacturers and traders' compliance to: "the relevant laws and regulations in force, the interest to reinforce the competitiveness of Palestinian products, the persistent control over products in the local market and the Palestinians' demand on local products which has been increasing in the wake of recent campaigns to promote the boycott of Israeli products following the last Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip."
The Ministry also documented cases of forgery and disinformation involving the relabeling of contraband settlement products by Israeli traders, and the promotion of them as being originally made in Israel.
Other cases reportedly involved other Israeli traders forging the place of production and place of origin, in an apparent attempt to put these products in line with the relevant Palestinian standards.
The Ministry pointed out that the detected expired products included food, tobacco, beverages, crude oil and other petroleum products, animal and vegetable oils, fats, chemicals, manufactured products, equipment and transportation tools, WAFA reports.
Israel misappropriates $3.5 billion of Palestinian resources per annum
UNCTAD's report on assistance to the Palestinian people outlined how Israel's misappropriation of Palestinian natural resources in the West Bank topped an annual average of 3.5 billion dollars. According to a section of UNCTAD's report, entitled "Palestinians denied access to their productive resources for development in Area C of West Bank," Israel holds sway over 62 per cent of the West Bank, which is rich in natural resources, denying Palestinians' the right to use their own natural resources and building on their own land.
The report said the government of Israel has designated 39 per cent (more than twice the area under Palestinian control in Area A) for settlements and their future expansion.
Israel transformed 20 per cent of the C Area into closed Israeli military areas (including "firing zones") and 13 per cent for natural reserves, it added.
The total direct and indirect cost of occupation in Area C is estimated at a minimum of 35 per cent of Palestinian GDP ($3.5 billion), the report further found out.
Israel's exploitation of the eastern West Bank Dead Sear area, a prominent destination for tourism and recovery trips, has hit 1.1 billion dollars, according to an Israeli report issued in 2013.
Palestinians are further denied the right to make use of the remaining sections of the C Area, amounting to around 28%, the report pointed out.
UNCTAD: Israeli occupation devastated Palestinian economy
UNCTAD's Report on Assistance to the Palestinian People 2014, released Wednesday, has outlined how the economy of the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) lost ground and slowed further in 2013 and 2014 due to the Israeli occupation, resulting in weak growth, a precarious fiscal position, forced dependence on the Israeli economy, mass unemployment, wider and deeper poverty, and greater food insecurity. According to the report, Palestinian women continued to bear the brunt of occupation, condemning them to one of the lowest labor participation rates and the highest unemployment rate in the world.
At the same time, devastation caused by recent military operations in Gaza will accelerate ongoing reversal of Palestinian development, the report warned.
As noted by UNCTAD, economic growth in OPT, measured by gross domestic product (GDP), declined from an annual average of 11 per cent in 2010 and 2011 to a mere 1.5 per cent in 2013, much below the rate of population growth, resulting in lower income per capita. Unemployment remained extremely high at 36 per cent in Gaza and 22 per cent in the West Bank, and only one in four households was classified as "food secure" or having reliable access to food.
Conducted before the outbreak of the Gaza offensive on July 7, the report does not take into account the destructive economic aftermath of the confrontation.
"However, even before the latest military operations," UNCTAD pointed out: "Gaza's local economy was in a state of total collapse, chiefly because of the accumulated impact of a tightly maintained seven-year blockade and two previous devastating Israeli military operations in November 2012 and December 2008. The consequences will be grave for the Palestinian people and their economy," UNCTAD economists warn.
According to the organization, any lasting recovery of the Palestinian economy in general will be impossible to attain without a sustained effort on the part of the international community to bring about an end to the restrictions on movement in and access to the West Bank, alongside the complete lifting of the blockade, which has been smothering Gaza's local economy and isolating 1.8 million people from the outside world.
In a section of the report entitled "De-development of the Occupied Palestinian territory is accelerated" UNCTAD wrote: "The seven-year Israeli blockade has not given Gaza's local economy a chance to recover. Exports from Gaza are almost completely banned, imports are severely restricted and the flow of all but the most basic humanitarian goods has been suspended for years. Gaza's local economy has been further suppressed by restrictions on the transfer of cash, including dollars and Jordanian dinars, which have stunted its banking sector."
"The most recent Israeli military operation in Gaza compounds the dire socioeconomic conditions and accelerates "de-development" in OPT, a process by which development is not merely hindered but reversed by the forces and policies of occupation. In addition to the deaths and mass displacement of thousands of Palestinian civilians, the military operation inflicted massive damage on Gaza's physical infrastructure," UNCTAD reported.
"According to the latest United Nations estimates, more than 40,000 housing units, 141 schools, 29 hospitals, dozens of factories and vast areas of cultivated agricultural land, as well as Gaza's only power plant, were destroyed or damaged" UNCTAD documented, declaring: "Recent communications between Palestinian officials and the United Nations team on the ground indicate that the cost of reconstruction and rehabilitation is in the billions of dollars."
As a number of UNCTAD experts have noted, it is crucial for the international community to base future recovery and reconstruction efforts on the fact that the devastation in Gaza is not just the result of the latest confrontation but is rooted in prolonged occupation, protracted conflict, a sustained, tightly maintained blockade and the recurrent destruction of Gaza's infrastructure, as has been documented annually in UNCTAD reports on the Palestinian economy since 1985.
A special section of UNCTAD's report focuses on the impact of the continuing occupation of Area C and asserts that the lack of sovereignty over economic and natural resources deprives the Palestinian people of the opportunity to pursue and achieve sustainable economic development.
Israel effectively bans all Palestinian construction in 70 per cent of Area C, allowing just 1 per cent for Palestinian development, while restricting construction in the remaining 29 per cent. In violation of its international obligation as the occupying Power, Israeli policies in Area C and the ongoing construction and expansion of illegal settlements have altered the West Bank's landscape into an archipelago of disconnected islands, the report says.
Furthermore, settler violence against Palestinian civilians and property exacts high socioeconomic tolls on the Palestinian people. For instance, in 2013 alone 10,142 productive trees were reported burnt, uprooted or vandalized, the report notes.
The UNCTAD report adds that while the displacement of Palestinians continues, the number of settlers in the West Bank, who live in at least 125 settlements and 100 outposts, rose from 800 in 1972 to more than 360,000 in 2012.
The report also notes that in the last five years, 2,224 Palestinian structures were demolished including residential structures and schools, while 2,417 Palestinians in Area C were displaced. In 2011 alone 1,000 structures were demolished.
In close cooperation with Palestinian counterparts in the public and private sectors, UNCTAD continues to support Palestinian economic development endeavors by carrying out policy-oriented research, implementing technical cooperation projects and providing advisory services.
Turkey to mitigate Gaza's energy shortage via power ship
Turkey has initiated contacts with various parties to deliver a Turkish floating power-generating ship to the Gaza Strip so as to relieve the power crisis rocking the beleaguered Palestinian enclave, Turkish Consul-General in Jerusalem Mustafa Sarnic said Tuesday. "Gaza's electricity network has been badly damaged and we are ready to offer help in this regard," Anadolu Agency quoted Sarnic as telling reporters in his residence in East Jerusalem.
"Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz suggested sending a floating power-generating ship to Gaza to provide the enclave with electricity for a definite period until the crisis is over," he added.
The Turkish diplomat pointed out that "the Palestinian Energy minister met with Turkish officials in Istanbul and Ankara for talks held towards that end. If an agreement is reached, the ship would provide 80-100 megawatts for Gaza."
"Turkey is set to send 1,000 mobile homes worth $5 million to give shelter to those who had their houses destroyed during the Israeli war," he further declared.
"Since the early moments of the Israeli offensive on Gaza Turkey has made sure to stand by Palestinians in the besieged Strip," he stated, adding: "The Turkish government and people immediately stood by the Palestinians. We did our best and are ready to do more."
He pointed to the 84 Palestinian casualties transferred to Turkey to receive urgent treatment and surgeries due to the critical wounds they sustained in the Gaza offensive, vowing, "Turkey is ready to heal the wounds of other Palestinian war victims whenever considered necessary".
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"It was mind-blowing. That's all I can say. I have no other words," says third-year student, Jeremy Thudian.
Redeemer alumnus and Las Vegas based mentalist, Ryan Edwards, performed a show on Monday, April 1 in the Rec Centre. The show was a fundraiser for World Renew and was put on by Redeemer's Student Senate. Over fifty students came out to see the show and support the charity.
The show started off with Edwards placing one metal spike into one of five bags and having first-year student Michelle Wright mix up the bags so no one knew where the spike was. Then, one by one, audience members told Edwards which bag to slam his hand down on, praying that the show wouldn't be cut short by a trip to the hospital.
When it came down to the last two bags, everyone was on the edge of their seats, wondering if the audience members had made the right decision. He slammed his hand down on the bag and the crowd was in awe—there was no spike in the bag. The audience had chosen correctly.
"The whole thing was nerve-wracking. If he had messed up, it would almost have been on my shoulders. Everyone kept asking me where the spike was and I honestly had no idea. I was amazed," Wright commented after the show.
Edward's other tricks blew the audience away. He consistently had correct predictions and left the audience wondering how he did it.
The last trick of the night was arguably the best. First-year Jessica Don was asked to bring her phone up to Edwards who opened up the calculator app. He then called on audience members to yell out random numbers and Don picked a function to apply to these numbers. After about eight numbers, the final number equalled out to be 401,191,059.
At first, the crowd did not know how this number applied to anything else from the evening. Edwards wrote it out on a piece of paper so the whole crowd could see it. He then amazed the audience.
"It's April 1st (4/01), in 2019 (19) and if you look at your phones, the time is 10:59 (1059). Everyone immediately pulled out their phones and saw that Edwards was correct. It was 10:59 pm. Everyone went wild.
"I had been pretty skeptical at first but that last trick really blew me away! It was amazing," commented second-year student, Dan Wolfert.
It was a night to remember as many students could be heard talking about the performance in the days following the show.


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21st century's movements for self-determination : the Sri Lankan case study by Saba Navalan
Democracy and Class Struggle publishes this contribution of Comrade Saba Navalan for an understanding of the setback of the Tamil struggle for self determination.
While we agree with much of what he says on Sri Lanka in this article we sharply disagree with Comrade Navalan's view that national struggles in Western Europe are passé.
This was a view expressed by Paul Lafargue to Marx in the 19th century and Marx ridiculed it then and we are sure he would do now.
For a revolutionary perspective for National Liberation struggles in Western Europe see our recent contribution from Occitany
However this article is about Tamil Struggle and on that question we are in complete agreement with Comrade Navalan.
This is the text of a speech given by Comrade Navalan to Kurdish Comrades
This voice is raised on behalf of a people who were discriminated against, fighting for their rights to self-determination.
When the whole world watched, children, women and elderly were cornered into a tiny area, smaller than Hyde Park corner and massacred.
Yes, we live in an era where children were massacred without knowing the reason for their murder.
We have seen newborns crying in hunger on the laps of mothers who lay dead in a corner of Sri Lanka, a beautiful island, which was turned into a slaughterhouse. The cry of those killed still lingers in the air. The biggest human catastrophe of the century was accomplished in broad daylight without witnesses.
The genocide committed by the Sinhalese majoritarian nationalism for over sixty years was yet again repeated in a small region in Vanni. The perpetrators of the genocide proclaim that they have been right in doing such an ethnic cleansing. The ruling class of Sri Lanka boast to the world that they have wiped out terrorism.
Vanni where they cornered the 300, 000 innocents along with the LTTE fighters, had been a land of prosperity. People have never expected foreigners to help them. Today, Vanni has turned into the breeding ground of international terrorism.
In the five square kilometer area where innocent Tamil community had been isolated, according to U.N, over 70,000 people were annihilated in a few nights during May 2009; mercilessly butchered because they dared to fight for their rights to self-determination.
In the North and East of Sri Lanka reside the ethnic Tamil population; in the Centre of the country are Plantation Tamils; Muslims are also spread across these geographic regions. These are the nationalities which have been oppressed in the country. The Sinhalese Buddhist State represented majoritarian hegemony. The armed struggle waged for over thirty years against persecution by a majoritarian state for securing the right to self-determination was wiped out by genocide.
The role of the imperial powers:
The perpetrators of genocide celebrate their victory of 'war on terrorism', standing on the coffins of those killed, they talk about peace. When the genocide occurred, the United States remained a mute witness; The United Nations too remained a spectator. Today, these imperial powers want to exploit the people who survived the catastrophe. Warplanes are replaced by business eagles who circle over Vanni. Multi –Nationals corporates from all over the world are occupying the peaceful and 'marketable 'Sri Lanka. The perpetrators of genocide are even marketing their strategy of 'war on terrorism'.
Due to the thirty years of the liberation struggle, the world's elites have established a totally imperial friendly government as well as pro-imperial resistant forces, the so called 'freedom fighters'.
The armed struggle waged for self-determination was handled by the imperialism for thirty years from the day it emerged as armed struggle.
On the one side was India's expansionist regime; on the other side were the US and European imperial powers which expressed solidarity with the cause of the Sri Lankan Tamils. Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam(LTTE) and other Tamil outfits trusted these countries. Indian intelligence and western powers provided help, support, weapons and training to handle them, to the Tamil outfits in order to use them as pressure groups against Sri-Lankan government.
While the war was going on, the international neo-liberal order –known as neoliberal globalization- was imposed in South Asia. As in any stage of imperialism, the major instrumentations of these international power relations have been corruption, subversion and war. The devastating war of the century –the war on the people who fought for self-determination- in south Asia backed by the imperial power provided them a 'marketable environment'. They managed to implement an imperial friendly government which is ever ready to sell even its own peoples' lives to its masters.
These imperial powers used the 'liberation movements' as pressure groups against Sri Lankan government and the other enemies who stood for the national economic development, have now established a local imperial friendly government.
However, the Sri-Lankan 'war generation' has learnt a political lesson. Today, the much-needed emergence of at least a small section of population which understands what imperialism is has taken place.
This section of population looks up to the struggle of other oppressed nationalities, instead of looking up to the super powers. The new generation of the oppressed ethnic groups recognize the struggle of those fighting for self-determination in Kurdistan, Kashmir, Nagaland, and Baluchistan which was not the case during the past 30 years of war.
Thus, the powers which targeted the self-determination struggle have inadvertently helped the innocent people learn lasting and valuable political lessons.
We all know that the struggle for right to self-determination is closely associated with anti-imperialism and national consciousness which emerges from national capital accumulation. In the case of Sri Lankan Tamils' Struggle for rights to self-determination, all the liberation movements were somehow associated with the major imperial powers which historically destroyed national struggles in various part of the world.
The question that invariably arises now is - how that is possible? How those fundamentally contradictory forces collaborate with each other? So, naturally we need to question the nationalism on post-globalized era.
Let us briefly look at the historical framework on how the concept of self-determination was born.
Historically, the concept of self-determination and national consciousness were in existence during the feudal period. In the feudal mode of production, religion used to provide the philosophical framework in order to unify the society. In the feudal production the lords' benefit from the product of the labor of serves thorough various mechanisms such as working on the land of the lords, giving over the fraction of the crop and so on. In capitalism, the capital class owns the means of the production and extracts surplus value from the workers. However, the workers have certain level of freedom compared to feudalism. The unifying factor of workers, capital owners and various layers of class configuration in the system is nationalism. Nations and nationalities were born only after the demise of feudalism. When nations and nationalities were born, people were united by the idea of nationhood. Nationalism formed the philosophical basis for such a structure.
The birth of capitalism and market economy coincided with the creation of nations and nationalities. The creation of a market around a population shaped a nation with self-determination rights.
Populations divided by many languages eventually found a language to unite themselves as national identities were formed.
In France, only fifty per cent of the people spoke French when the nation was formed.
The formation of France as a separate nation made the entire population adapt to a single language.
In Italy, the modern Italian was spoken by just 12 per cent of the population when the national boundaries were created.
It took just one generation to unite the population by a single language.
Capitalism and markets strengthened nations in a short span of time. Capitalism could not spread uniformly in some part of the world such as Balkan nations, leading to creation of different markets in that region. Different nationalities were formed around different markets. Without compromising their self-determination rights, they formed nation-states comprising many identities.
Nationalism and the sense of unity led to nationalist struggles against foreign capital.
Does this national capital still exist in any part of the world? If we begin to analyze Europe where the nations emerged, we will only find the anti-national powers. The historically formed national governments today use their markets for multinational capitalist interests. London Olympics 2012 was a good example for such a trend.
The British Government presented nationalistic slogans at an unprecedented level during the games.
The inauguration ceremony proclaimed the pride of English national identity. However, Coco Cola and Mc Donald which challenge the British economy had a free run at the games. No British drinking water was allowed in the Olympic stadium. All the drinking water sold at the stadia were manufactured by Coco Cola. Other national brands were banned in the stadium. The majority of the sponsors and advertisers did not have anything to do with British national economy.
Nationalities, self-determination rights and nationalisms are passé in Europe now. Ethnic nationalities formed with the birth of capitalism are gone now.
If we look at the process of how the nations were naturally formed, we will get the answer on current social formation of European Society.
It took just a century for the people of Arabian origin settled in Toulouse and Marseille in France to lose their identities. They are now assimilated with the French society as French. Once the 'forming nation' process was completed at the beginning of 19th century, the assimilation process was also stopped. Therefore Moroccans, Algiers and Tunisians keep their individual identities even after five generations. In Italy and the other part of the world also, people retain and uphold their original cultural identities. These nations have failed to create a sense of national identity as they are no longer nation states.
So, the nationalism became an anti-social concept in Europe. In the European context, nationalism is seen as a fascist tendency. Now the underlying philosophy of the nationalism in Europe has its roots in Nazi thoughts. British National party, English Defense league in the UK and Front National in France are the brief example of the national parties.
What about the IIIrd world counties or our so called 'developing countries'?
While in Europe, nationalism is viewed as a fascist attitude, fascist imperial friendly governments in Third World –so called 'developing' countries, nations marginalize minority ethnic nationalities and destroy movements which fight for self-determination rights. The mode of production in those countries has always been for the benefit of colonial and imperial power.
In Third world countries like Sri Lanka, the formation of national identities similar to Europe did not occur. The culture and the dynamics of capitalism and its production could not mature in these countries.
Even before national identities were formed, these countries were colonized. The feudal economic structures were replaced by imported economic structures of colonial governments. The replication of alien economic models in feudal conditions led to a half-baked market economy. The new markets led to creation of national identities around them. National identities could not mature completely as the process of market creation did not have a free run.
In Nagaland, people speaking various languages call themselves as a nation. The Tamil-speaking Muslims in Sri Lanka, though they are scattered geographically, call themselves a nation. The ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka don't have a market to unite them; yet they call themselves a nation.
These are people who are in the process of forming themselves as nations. However, the social model of the imported capitalism coincided with the establishment of a new class pattern more complex than simple distinction between capital owners and production workers. Comprador class -the local agents of imperial corporate economy- which occupies the upper layer of the society and it is considered as anti-social as well as the other semi-feudal elements, middle class, land owners and poor farmers forms the III world ethnic groups.
As the national identity formation process was not complete in these societies, the religions still play a key role as they played during the peak of feudalism. Religions such as Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity continue to unite people. Hindu domination throughout India, Sinhala Buddhist domination in Sri-Lanka, Islamic national consciousness in several nations and so on explain the existence of the remains of feudalism and incomplete national formations.
Within the power configuration of the third world countries, the upper layer of each ethnic group is held by pro-imperial forces which is also the obstacle for the formation of national capitalism. The outcome of this social order has never formed a single homogeneous national-capitalist class. The class foundation of such social arrangement helps the imperial power to hold a local pro-imperialist class.
However, the ethnic populations, especially the ones oppressed by majoritarian nationalists, resist forces which want to stall their natural process of growth and development. The struggles are anti-government and anti-imperialist in nature.
The upper middle class or the upper fraction of the middle class takes over the leadership of these struggles. This upper middle class is mostly formed with the owners of small-medium business and managerial workers. Although they have fundamental contradiction with the pro-imperial classes, in the absence of national capitalist they are comfortable to associate with the imperial class.
When a self-determination struggle becomes powerful, the upper middle class leadership associates with the imperial-friendly classes. Therefore, national struggle turns into an anti-social movement at some stage. This has made liberation movements acquire a fascist nature. This leads to the death of liberation movements as they become pressure groups in the hands of Imperialist forces.
This is in this background to understand why the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which became a reactionary and anti-social movement within few years of its formation, were decimated after 30 years of struggle, losing thousands of young lives for the cause.
However, the national liberation struggles will continue until the formation of national identities and national economies is completed in these 'developing' nations. How do we save these national struggles from decimation and structure these struggles as people-centric? This is the uppermost question we have to address in right earnest. In this context we need to begin to talk about class struggle.
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Never stop doing the things that will sustain and revive your marriage!
1.Make his dreams… your dreams. Treasure them like your own. Ask him about what he hopes to do some day and let him know that you believe in his dreams… and him. Plan out together the steps you can take to make those dreams come true.
2. Be extravagant in your love. Go big. Pour out your heart generously.
3. Feeling edgy? Snappish? Droopy? It tends to come with the territory – just avoid taking it out on him. It's not really his fault, after all. Speak his love language – what says love to him. And speak it often!
4. Ask him the kinds of things that make him feel loved by you. He might have an answer ready and he might not. If not, then ask if he'll think about it.
5. Intertwine your lives wherever possible. Run errands, go for walks, curl up on the couch. Just seek to be together. Don't wait for "date night" to find things you share in common.
A good friend recently confessed something to me. She struggled with jealousy….of me.
Really… jealous of me? How could that be? We've been friends for many years and she knows I've had my share of grief and trials. Nothing overly amazing in my life.
What was there to be jealous of? Then she came out with it: she was envious of the kind of husband I had. She wished hers was more like mine. ????
I could only stare at her. I sure didn't get it. So she clarified. She couldn't help but notice how much time my husband and I spent with one another.
The two of us are often found together – working in the yard, out on a walk, over at the cafe, or maybe standing in line at Costco. But always together.
It wasn't like that with her husband. The two of them lived functional, but basically separate lives.
And she wished they had what we had. If only they were as closely connected as we were. If only her husband was like mine.
Now it was my turn to confide. All that time we spend together? It's not only him. It's me. Yes, it's true. I'm nearly shameless when it comes to orchestrating time together. Any excuse will do. I'll do whatever I can – to get close to him.
It can be up to me to make the move.
If I smell coffee brewing in the morning? (That man wakes up waaaay to early, if you ask me). I'll drag myself out of my comfy covers to have a cup with him before he dives into his work.
If he's off to run errands, I'll run out to the truck and ask if I can come along. He gives me a grin and tells me to hop on in. Who cares if he's only going to the farm supply store? It's a Chicken-Feed Date and I'll take it.
If he's working in the garden, I'll join him out in the green bean patch. We both weed. I talk the entire time. And he listens (I think).
And if it's the end of the night and he announces that he's heading to bed? Well, I'll give him a wink and tell him to wait up, 'cause I'm coming too.
6. Forgive. "A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers." ~ Ruth Bell Graham. This is one of the truest statements ever made. Decide you're not only going to be his lover – you're going to be his forgiver. Be quick to forgive and get good at it. You'll probably have lots of opportunity to practice it.
7. Then forget. Once it's been forgiven, put it behind you and never pick it back up again. Here's the hard part: letting it go. Resist the temptation to grab it back and maybe even throw it at him when it happens again. I'm sorry, but this doesn't count as true forgiveness. Forgive as God has forgiven you—as far as the east is from the west (Ps. 103: 12).
8. Cling to each other in the hard times. Don't let trials pull you apart, but be sure they bring you closer together instead. This decision is best made before the trial comes.
When our daughter was born with severe brain damage, the hospital warned us that most marriages don't make it through a tragic situation like ours. That thought terrified me. So we looked at each other and decided – right then and there – we were going to stick through it together.
9. Start each day with a smile and a kiss. What better way to begin? Set the tone for the day with a simple gesture of love for each other.
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This tip discusses Microsoft Exchange backup performance dilemmas and how to fix them.
Microsoft Exchange is one of the most popular business messaging and collaboration tools in today's enterprise. However when it comes to backing up Exchange, the Microsoft Exchange Server has some limitations that produce significant bottlenecks.
The problem lies in the Exchange Backup API, which all third party backup products must use to access the Exchange databases. This API is single-threaded, which can throttle performance of a fast backup system.
Given a sufficiently fast backup system, there are several ways to improve backup performance with Microsoft Exchange. One of the most straightforward is to back up multiple Exchange databases simultaneously. The backup operation for each database runs its own instance of the Backup API, which considerably speeds the backup -- assuming the other components, such as tape drives, disk performance and communications links are up to the task. Given the appropriate backup software, you can use a single tape drive by interleaving the data on the tape.
Hewlett Packard discusses the problems of backing up Microsoft Exchange and the possible solutions in the context of its Ultrium tape system in a white paper titled "Performance Tuning Microsoft Exchange 2000 using HP StorageWorks Ultrium 460 and Veritas NetBackup 4.5".


Youth: Your elders have lived way more life than you. They've seen the results of many various issues and ideas. They have a first hand experience of history to reference. They've earned their $2 discount at the movies. You should listen to them.
Elders: Don't complain about the laziness of younger generations and then get upset when they passionately care about something you happen to disagree with. They have the power of optimism and energy. They also know how to set up your smartphone.
We need both a knowledge of history and a hope for a better future. Start talking to each other. Worry about changing your mind more than changing someone else's.


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I wish to seek treatment for some pretty dark issues I've been having for the past several years. I am well below the poverty line, and I don't trust religious people. So, I can't go to a church and accept the free "help" there. I've been looking online for someone locally, but every practitioner seems to start at $60/session, and most don't charge on a sliding scale. That's like half my weekly pay. I've been trying non-stop to get a full-time job or even a second part-time job to suppliment the expense, but have had no luck. I have a petrifying fear of driving and I can't afford a phone. So, all the helplines are ironically of no help. Is there anything I can do?
Psychological help can be affordable. The main low-cost option in many communities is community mental health centers (CMHCs). CMHCs often charge a sliding scale fee. In some cases, their services may be free of charge. Generally, your local CMHC can be located by doing a Google search, by checking the local Yellow and White pages, or by calling your local health department.
I would also suggest calling the United States Department of Health and Human Services National Mental Health Information Center, at 800-789-2647. They may be able to direct you to free or low-cost mental health counseling in your community.
Another option may be to contact your local National Alliance For The Mentally Ill (NAMI) chapter. NAMI members often are very knowledgeable about the mental health system in their respective communities. They may be able to assist you.
The fact that you have limited transportation options and you don't have a telephone will likely hinder your ability to access treatment. Hopefully, you have a friend or family member who can assist you in accessing treatment. In the interim, I would advise you to see a primary care physician, if possible. He or she can evaluate your symptoms, make appropriate referrals and prescribe medication, if necessary. Medication could temporarily provide symptom relief while you attempt to become connected with more permanent psychological treatment options.
Finally, you may want to consider an online service such as Live Person. Here is a link where you can read more about their services. I hope you are able to find help that you desire.


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Portland Trail Blazers at Cleveland Cavaliers Preview
Monday, February 25 – 4:00pm PT
Blazers injuries: Evan Turner (out)
Cavaliers injuries: Tristan Thompson (out), John Henson (out), J. R. Smith (out)
How to watch on TV: NBCSNW, NBA League Pass (outside of Portland)
How to stream: YouTube Live TV, Playstation Vue, Hulu Live TV, FuboTV, NBA League Pass (outside of Portland)
Radio: 620 AM
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The Portland Trail Blazers are looking good and feeling good after three wins in a row, all by at least 14 points. It's still so very early in his tenure with Portland, but Enes Kanter has seemed to provide a spark. Opponents have been unable to keep Kanter off the glass, and struggled to deal with the one-two punch of two quality centers the Blazers have in Nurkic and Kanter. What seemed a week ago like a brutal road trip now feels like it could be a great springboard for the rest of the season. Of course, all of those good feelings will go out the window if the Blazers can't take care of business against the 14-win Cavaliers.
The Cleveland Cavaliers have had a long season, but they may be playing their best basketball right now. Kevin Love has returned after a long absence due to injury, and if his 32-point performance against the Memphis Grizzlies is anything to go by, he is playing very good basketball. The Cavs are winners of three of their last four, the only loss during that stretch being a triple-overtime defeat to the Brooklyn Nets.
What to watch for
Kevin Love. A toe injury has kept Love out of the lineup for most of the season, but he's back — and playing well. His last game was the third time he has seen the court since returning, and in that game he put up 32 points, went 6-of-9 from deep, shot 60% overall, pulled down 12 rebounds and was a perfect 8-of-8 from the free throw line. Not bad for just 26 minutes of work. Expect Love's minutes to be restricted to under 30, but don't be surprised if his time on the court is very productive.
Rebounds, especially offensive. Portland has been a top-5 rebounding team by nearly every measure all year. Two games with Enes Kanter and it looks like the Blazers might have yet another gear. Over those two games the Blazers have pulled down a total of 113 rebounds, 38 of the offensive variety. Enes has pulled down 17 of those boards since arriving, including eight offensive rebounds. What's more, his energy on the glass seems to be contagious as others have stepped up their totals, too. Just as an example, Jake Layman added 16 of his own over the last two games, with eight of those being offensive. Kevin Love can board, but expect the Blazers to once again have a fine effort on the glass against a generally average-rebounding Cleveland team.
A revitalized Moe Harkless. After reaching double figures just six times all season before early February, Harkless has achieved at least 10 points in each of the last three games. He's also been rebounding well, playing good defense and has just looked more active and engaged. We've seen this movie before: a few games of solid play followed by some head-scratchingly indifferent play. Still, there is reason for Blazer's fans to be optimistic. The schedule has allowed plenty of time lately for recovery, so it just might be that he has finally fully healed from injury and is now fully equipped to contribute.
Having Kevin Love miss most of the season wasn't the plan, but now that he is back, Cleveland can look at the bright side according to Chad Fedor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer:
The bumpy journey without Love has led the Cavaliers to where they are today — and it's not all bad. Because of his injury and the losses that followed, they will be able to keep their protected 2019 first-round pick instead of giving it away to the Atlanta Hawks, which will allow them to add another youngster (Zion Williamson? RJ Barrett? Ja Morant?) to this nucleus — a pleasant byproduct. Love's loss also accelerated the growth of a few of the core pieces. Now those potential franchise building blocks have started to pave a path back to respectability.
Cleveland found itself in the unenviable position of needing to rebuild after having traded so many draft picks away while LeBron was in town. Still, Evan Dammarell of Forbes writes that the club is making progress:
The problem is, after trying to contend for so long the team's available draft capital was non-existent and the odds appeared stacked against the Cavaliers. Well, leading up to the annual NBA trade deadline, Cleveland general manager Koby Altman was able to make something out of nothing by moving Kyle Korver, George Hill, Sam Dekker, Rodney Hood and Alec Burks in various trades to bring in Matthew Dellavedova, John Henson, the Houston Rockets' 2019 first-round pick, the Milwaukee Bucks' 2021 first-round pick and six second-round picks over the next four years. Altman was able to ship off the majority of Cleveland's expiring contracts to help kickstart the team's rebuild.er at Liberty Ballers, Hesi-Pullup-Adio explores the hype build-up around the new Sixers line-up, which—despite shifting circumstances—has some advantages ahead:
The Cavaliers haven't won many games this year, but things are looking up and there are real positives to be found writes David Zavac of Fear the Sword:
Let's be real. This recent Cavs run has come against poor competition. They're 5-5 in their last 10 games, and they've taken advantage of games with the Bulls, Knicks, Suns, and Wizards. I don't bring it up to diminish these wins, but to give them some context. In fact, for most of the season it hasn't mattered who the Cavs played. They came into tonight's game with the Grizzlies with the league's worst net rating, having been outscored by 10.6 points per 100 possessions.
The Cavs are starting to beat some bad teams. When you've been the worst team, that's improvement. We'll take it.
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Bennett Businesses and residents, please be advised that Thursday, February 28, 2019, Bennett Avenue will be closed at State Highway 79 due to crosswalk construction.
During this time SH79 will be reduced to one lane, and flaggers will be present at all times to assist with traffic control in the area. We advise drivers to use extra caution when driving through the area.
Business and residential access will still be available by detouring to Ash Street. We understand this could be an inconvenience and apologize in advance for the traffic disruption.
We have attached a picture of the road closure and detour route for your reference.
If you have any questions about the construction or traffic during this time, please contact Town of Bennett Public Works at (303)644-3249 ext. 1004.


Dr. Julia Boothe is a 2002 graduate of The University of Alabama School of Medicine. She completed her residency at the Tuscaloosa Family Medicine Residency Program in 2005, where she was Chief Resident from 2004 to 2005.
She is owner and medical director of Pickens County Primary Care, PC in Reform, Alabama, where she has an active private practice. She is also a Site Director for TLC2 (UASOM's innovative Longitudinal Integrated Curriculum program based on the Tuscaloosa Campus). She served as clerkship director for the Tuscaloosa Campus Family Medicine Department from 2008 to 2014, and continues to precept family medicine clerkship students and residents in her busy practice.
Presently, she is President of the Alabama Academy of Family Physicians and serves on numerous boards secondary to her commitment to the Academy. She is currently on the board of the Medical Alumni Association and serves on the UASOM Admissions Committee for the Rural Medical Scholars Program. She is active in her county medical society and is currently President of the medical staff at Pickens County Medical Center.
She is married to Aubrey Boothe, Jr. of Coker, Alabama and has two children: Laura Adelynn, age 12, and Sarah Beth, age 7. She enjoys singing at church and participates in many committees and activities at Ridgecrest Baptist in Tuscaloosa. She's a member of the Tuscaloosa Red Elephant Club and she and her family follow many activities and sports at the University of Alabama.


We don't mean one of those block-jawed, Tony Robbins-looking loudmouths. Saunders is not interested in motivational mantras. He's not, as he puts it, into "pulling up my big manure truck of ideas and dumping it on poor, unsuspecting you." What the celebrated writer does prescribe is the idea that we should approach every person and situation with unflinching kindness. This theme runs throughout Tenth of December, the year's standout collection of short stories. It's also central to his poignant commencement address at Syracuse University in May. Consider both required reading. In the meantime, get your guidance straight from the source.
How to Be Decent: The big kahuna of all moral questions, as far as I'm concerned, is ego. How do you correct the fundamental misperception that we are all born with, i.e.: I am permanent, I am enduring, I am central. All of the nasty stuff in this life comes out of that misunderstanding. And I'd say that's the central moral dilemma for men, women, children, old people—you name it. Or to put it another way: the separation between ourselves and everything else that we all feel, deep in our gut—is incorrect. So to the extent that we are rushing around trying to underscore that distinction and put distance between ourselves and others, and (once and for all!) "win" that game—that's an error. But not one that I've learned to stop making, at all.
I feel myself judging less and being awed more—I'm interested in people and am more inclined to see this whole thing as a crazy beautiful display, and less as a problem to be solved. And I'm more inclined, when evil does occur, to see it as a deeply regrettable playing out of pre-existing circumstances, by someone who, maybe in a very confused way, was trying to make himself happy. Something like that.
How to Write: Writing teaches the value of not being too sure—this idea of being open to what actually is, instead of trying to force your version of events on to that reality. What I think good writing does: enlivens that part of us that actually believes we are in this world, right now, and that being here somehow matters. It reawakens the reader to the fact and the value of her own existence. How? By holding up the things of the world up for examination in a semi-sacred way.
I try to keep myself as free of preconceptions about where a story's going or what it means from the very beginning. I tend to start with some little fragment that's almost not meaningful, or isn't overtly meaningful—not thematically charged or something. I'll just start farting around with that piece of text. Trying really hard to keep any bigger tension out of my head. Weirdly, you do that and the direction will tell you what the next beat of the story is, or some question that it's raising. So for me, the whole thing is to be very, very unsure about what the story is going to do.
Writing is great training for life—this idea of being open to what actually is, instead of trying to force your version of events on to that reality. No autopilot—we have to learn to continually live with uncertainty.
How to Teach: Every year is a reminder that talent is always with us. Maybe as you get older, you might tend to slip into that old guy mode—"Oh, the kids these days." But being around our students, you see that that's just false. Every generation is full of talented young people who are newly discovering the power of the word and are fired up about what it can do in its traditional form. It's just like having your faith renewed every day.
The thing I like to teach, if I can—because it's kind of a superpower—is revision. If you can open that door for a young writer, that's a lot. So this semester, I had a student who was a really amazing writer but wasn't big on revision. And we broke through that. I just made a bunch of edits and challenged her to try them—and she was very courageous, and did it—and in our conference I could see that that habit—of cutting, and being bold enough to move bits around and so forth—was now hers. She had tasted it and internalized it and would have that ability the rest of her writing life.
It's intense. These kids are so good that you always have to be at the top of your game.
How to be a Man: When I got married and we started our family, life got better and simpler, because the story of every day was: honor that connection, honor those people. It took a lot of things and attitudes off the table. I wasn't interested in the sort of surficial aspects of "being a man"—being tough, being stylish, going out, being in control of all things, being Alpha, etc. The whole definition of "man" changed, from "some sort of swaggering person always in control," to something more like: "he who provides and honors"—and that, turns out, takes a lot more real toughness than my previous mode of being. Because whatever you have to do to make it work for your family, you do it. For me, that just meant working a pretty difficult and dullish job for eight years, while I wrote my first book—a job that, at least in the beginning, I couldn't find any glamour or cool in at all. There was no way, in that job, to feel I was the master of my domain, is how I might say it. And that was great for me. Why do I have to be master of anything? So—to learn to subjugate yourself to something bigger than just yourself—I mean, that's the main thing for any adult, male or female.
How to be Himself: I'm a pretty nice guy. I'm kind of alright. I'm funny sometimes. But when you let me have eight months, I can put together a refined and more intelligent and more kindly version of myself on the page. Fiction is the one place where you can go back and refine your expressions so that it's kind of you at your very best. I think it's a little bit like a recording studio. You can go in and do take after take after take. Then, at the end, you can select the ones that sound the most natural. In my real life, I'm not so excessive or controlling. But in writing, that's the one place where I'm a fanatic.
What I'm working on is to try and live on the assumption that other people are just as real as I am. When I meet someone, to try and notice what assumptions I'm making about them and what defenses are springing into place and disable those to the extent I can. To feel: Oh, that person is just me on a different day (or, in a different life, or in the thrall of a different destiny or set of karmic circumstances.) So the idea would be to feel that the person was just as real and valid as I am. That he is interested in and worried about and afraid of the same things I am—that he loves his family and so on just as much as I do. Is it always true? No. But as a starting place there's a strange kind of power in it. It's true much more than it's false, and it serves as a wonderful door opener. And this aspiration is a great connecting corridor to a lot of other moral issues.


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AccruePartners Lands #2 on Largest Women-Owned Companies List!
Late last week the Charlotte Business Journal announced it's Largest Women-Owned Companies list. Ranked by the number of full-time local employees, 825 lands AccruePartners a number two spot this year!
In 2002, Patty Comer and Amy Pack set out to create and build a 21st Century Staffing and Executive Search firm. Between the two of them, they have reached goals beyond their original vision and have transformed AccruePartners into a team of innovative leaders – continually achieving excellence in the Staffing and Executive Search market.
We are very grateful to have such great, committed and hardworking employees representing AccruePartners. Thank you!
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Corporate Knights Magazine has released the 2012 edition of its rankings of the most sustainable MBA programs in Canada. This year, York - Schulich tops the list, and is followed by the University of Waterloo and Concordia - John Molson. A list of all 15 top schools can be found below.
Modeled on the sustainability rankings published by "Beyond Grey Pinstripes," Corporate Knights has been ranking Canadian MBA programs in terms of sustainability since 2003. The rankings are based on how well MBA programs according to how well they integrate sustainability into their curriculum and educational atmosphere.
To rank the programs, Corporate Knights evaluates MBA curriculum and associated research in terms of a school's focus on social, ethical and environmental stewardship. It also looks at student-led initiatives and institutional support for sustainability to determine a school's final ranking.
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        Error:
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</form>

I have 2 issues with this code:

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*Strings like "   code_232  ", "code_232  " "   code_232" pass the validation. I'm not expert with regex, so this could be an issue simply related to the regex i wrote: /^code_[0-9]+$/

*If i start writing "code_23892" (a correct string), i get the error
message while i'm still writing (test.code.$error.pattern = true). Is there a built-in way to avoid this? So my desidered behaviour is:

If i write "cod", and the input has still focus: no error
If i write "cod" and the input loses focus: error.
If i write "a", "ca", "coa" etc.: error, cause the pattern is already violated.

Is this already possible, or i've write a custome validation directive to achieve this?
Thanks in advance.

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Q: Error in if (sum(abs(dc)) < 1e-15) break : missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed: Kernel K-Means kernlab I am trying to implement Kernel K Means clustering with the kkmeans() function from the kernlab R package. My problem is that my code returns the expected output when I specify some numbers of clusters with the function's clusters argument, but throws an error for other numbers of clusters:

Error in if (sum(abs(dc)) < 1e-15) break :
missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

My guess is that this is a convergence issue since the error seems to arise when I increase the number of clusters, but this would be surprising since I have many more rows than the number of clusters I'm specifying. While I can specify 10 clusters with success with an 8000x3 matrix, I receive an error with 100 clusters. Similarly, I can specify 5 clusters but not 10 with a 50-row subset of that data.
Below is a reproducible minimal example where my code replicates the success and the error.
Error if centers = 10
kernlab::kkmeans(mymat, centers=10)
#> Using automatic sigma estimation (sigest) for RBF or laplace kernel
#> Error in if (sum(abs(dc)) < 1e-15) break: missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

No error if centers = 5
kernlab::kkmeans(mymat, centers=5)
#> Using automatic sigma estimation (sigest) for RBF or laplace kernel
#> Spectral Clustering object of class "specc"
#>
#>  Cluster memberships:
#>
#> 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 3 3 5 5 5 3 2 2 2 4 4 3 3 5 2 2 5 5 5 5 5 5 2 4 3 3 3 2 2 5 3 3 5 5 4 4 4 3 1 4 2 5 3
#>
#> Gaussian Radial Basis kernel function.
#>  Hyperparameter : sigma =  0.756590498067127
#>
#> Centers:
#>          [,1]      [,2]     [,3]
#> [1,] 15.75871 -16.69486 191.5841
#> [2,] 16.74850 -21.94730 186.8914
#> [3,] 15.99483 -18.95892 190.2622
#> [4,] 15.45729 -18.13571 191.9611
#> [5,] 16.69136 -22.19600 187.0055
#>
#> Cluster size:
#> [1]  7 10 12  7 14
#>
#> Within-cluster sum of squares:
#> [1] 301006.7 443237.8 607889.4 305777.1 685823.5

Example data (50x3 matrix)
mymat <- structure(c(15.9390001296997, 15.9079999923706, 16.087999343872,
15.7930002212524, 15.9619998931884, 15.6129999160766, 15.7550001144409,
16.7740001678466, 16.9080009460449, 17.0769996643066, 16.3640003204345,
16.5960006713867, 16.579999923706, 16.4570007324218, 16.2320003509521,
16.1639995574951, 15.6180000305175, 15.5109996795654, 15.5120000839233,
15.628999710083, 16.9950008392333, 17.3530006408691, 17.2229995727539,
16.8910007476806, 17.1800003051757, 17.1709995269775, 16.9860000610351,
16.704999923706, 16.273000717163, 15.8830003738403, 15.6230001449584,
15.333999633789, 15.3839998245239, 15.3870000839233, 17.1119995117187,
17.6200008392333, 16.8349990844726, 16.4969997406005, 16.2479991912841,
16.1259994506835, 15.8059997558593, 15.378999710083, 15.4320001602172,
15.2100000381469, 15.2519998550415, 15.2150001525878, 15.4280004501342,
17.4790000915527, 16.6739997863769, 16.4330005645751, -16.6299991607666,
-16.9529991149902, -17.5610008239746, -17.8290004730224, -18.6200008392333,
-17.1079998016357, -16.25, -21.716999053955, -21.1219997406005,
-21.8209991455078, -20.1840000152587, -20.0450000762939, -20.9599990844726,
-19.5240001678466, -18.6590003967285, -19.4379997253417, -18.6280002593994,
-18.0669994354248, -16.204999923706, -15.5830001831054, -23.9489994049072,
-23.57200050354, -24.3969993591308, -23.2880001068115, -22.6019992828369,
-23.2329998016357, -22.5979995727539, -22.6140003204345, -20.8059997558593,
-19.4300003051757, -19.4729995727539, -17.5690002441406, -16.8110008239746,
-15.2930002212524, -25.2509994506835, -24.7649993896484, -24.8080005645751,
-21.9939994812011, -21.5189990997314, -20.329999923706, -20.25,
-19.1380004882812, -18.6180000305175, -18.5900001525878, -16.1620006561279,
-14.5329999923706, -14.4359998703002, -25.8169994354248, -24.2159996032714,
-22.57200050354, 190.996994018554, 190.996002197265, 190.18699645996,
191.039993286132, 190.205993652343, 191.919006347656, 191.766006469726,
187.14599609375, 186.889007568359, 186.225997924804, 188.60400390625,
187.932006835937, 187.837005615234, 188.453002929687, 189.382995605468,
189.360000610351, 191.25, 191.845001220703, 192.580001831054,
192.414993286132, 185.358001708984, 184.570999145507, 184.595993041992,
186.091995239257, 185.613998413085, 185.25, 186.235000610351,
187.003005981445, 188.744995117187, 190.169998168945, 190.921005249023,
192.628997802734, 192.768005371093, 193.281997680664, 184.602996826171,
183.796005249023, 185.414001464843, 187.811004638671, 188.615005493164,
189.263000488281, 190.167007446289, 191.781997680664, 191.837997436523,
192.582000732421, 193.399002075195, 194.184005737304, 193.509994506835,
183.776000976562, 186.173995971679, 187.774993896484), dim = c(50L,
3L), dimnames = list(NULL, c("x", "y", "z")))

A: This appears to be an issue with something randomly-generated internally by the function during your kkmeans() call. I don't have an answer for "why" this is happening and you'll likely have to check with the authors to determine if it's a bug or intended behavior.
While I reproduced your error with your data and code (running a fresh instance of R every time), the exact same function call also sometimes produces other errors and sometimes doesn't produce an error. However, whether it does so is entirely reproducible when you set.seed(), suggesting it is has something to do with starting values that determine other parameters of the model.
Below I show (a) that this can produce an alternative error (actually, I saw a third but didn't save the seed to reproduce it), (b) that even when it does "converge," it is producing pretty different clusters just on the basis of the random seed, and (c) the hyperparameter tuning is heavily influenced by the random number seed. I forgot to save the seed for the run where I was able to get some clustering results with 10 clusters.
I don't have an answer for why this happens: my hunch is that the automatically-generated settings are nonsensical/out of bounds in some cases and this is producing an error. This may be because your data are in some way strange or may be because the algorithm for setting the hyperparameter(s) doesn't make much sense. It could also be a bug, so perhaps worth posting as an issue.
In any case, a question to ask yourself is whether you want to use something where the behavior is this inconsistent at producing results, produces pretty different results across random seeds, and you don't know if the algorithm is actually doing what it says when it does, etc.
Example 1: clusters=5, no error, set.seed(123)
set.seed(123)
#>  Hyperparameter : sigma =  0.463522505156128
#>
#> Centers:
#>          [,1]      [,2]     [,3]
#> [1,] 16.53045 -21.18700 187.8918
#> [2,] 17.16138 -24.59687 184.7860
#> [3,] 15.73436 -17.87491 191.2586
#> [4,] 15.63425 -16.63862 192.0088
#> [5,] 16.19467 -20.16442 189.1617
#>
#> Cluster size:
#> [1] 11  8 11  8 12
#>
#> Within-cluster sum of squares:
#> [1] 537972.8 386310.2 544994.1 391965.9 604386.9

Example 2: clusters=5, no error, set.seed(3)
Works, but pretty different numbers of observations per cluster! Note the different hyperparameter.
#>  Hyperparameter : sigma =  0.290281708176631
#>
#> Centers:
#>          [,1]      [,2]     [,3]
#> [1,] 15.97636 -18.38464 190.5449
#> [2,] 16.24809 -20.10409 188.9572
#> [3,] 15.63660 -17.85633 191.5151
#> [4,] 17.06100 -22.70840 185.8834
#> [5,] 17.16138 -24.59687 184.7860
#>
#> Cluster size:
#> [1] 11 11 15  5  8
#>
#> Within-cluster sum of squares:
#> [1] 545547.7 538434.5 757947.0 236986.8 386310.2

Example 3: clusters=5, no error, set.seed(999)
Works, but pretty different numbers of observations per cluster! Note the different hyperparameter again!

#> Gaussian Radial Basis kernel function.
#>  Hyperparameter : sigma =  0.128189488632645
#>
#> Centers:
#>          [,1]      [,2]     [,3]
#> [1,] 16.93157 -22.25171 186.4579
#> [2,] 15.45090 -15.99500 192.8452
#> [3,] 15.73677 -18.32277 191.0152
#> [4,] 17.16244 -24.44533 184.8376
#> [5,] 16.32218 -20.69291 188.5965
#>
#> Cluster size:
#> [1]  7 10 13  9 11
#>
#> Within-cluster sum of squares:
#> [1] 294630.1 457490.3 604486.8 441669.5 539478.6

Example 4: clusters = 10, new error, set.seed(99)
New error.
#> Error in (function (classes, fdef, mtable) : unable to find an inherited method for function 'affinMult' for signature '"rbfkernel", "numeric"'

Example 5: clusters = 10, new error, set.seed(3)
Original error.
#> Error in if (sum(abs(dc)) < 1e-15) break: missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed

Not included: additional error with clusters = 10 (not finding all of the columns in the matrix) and successfully getting some clusters with clusters = 10.


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