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Social Equity Applicants Partner with Ayr for Sunday Expungement Clinic
The vertically integrated Multi-State Operator (MSO) Ayr has partnered with social equity license applicant The Library of New Jersey for an expungement clinic on Sunday in Rahway.
Last year Ayr bought Garden State Dispensary (GSD) chain. They now operate its locations in Woodbridge in Middlesex County, Union Township in Union County, and Eatontown in Monmouth County.
The expungement clinic will take place from 10:30 am to 5:30 pm. It's at 1579 Irving Street in Rahway in Union County. Those looking for help need to bring their arrest record along with the case docket number if known.
"Despite the legalization of cannabis across 35 plus states, two-thirds of the U.S. population, the criminal justice system still grapples with a host of issues related to the War on Drugs, which continues to disproportionately impact Black and Brown Americans," said Chairman and CEO of Ayr Jonathan Sandelman. "The main objective of our 'Changing Legacies' program is to create an ecosystem of support, partnership, and hope for that better future."
The Rahway expungement clinic is part of their efforts across the states in which they operate. They want the events to serve as models for similar events in the future. Ayr expressed their commitment to righting the harms of the past and creating opportunities for the future.
Community-Minded Social Equity Applicants
Partners Charles Penn and Corey Dishman of the Library of New Jersey are seeking a cannabis retail license and a cultivation license in West Orange in Essex County as Social Equity Applicants.
Dishman and Penn have lived throughout Essex County. Dishman currently lives in West Orange. He was looking for expungement sponsors and connected with Ayr. They are merely sponsoring the event and have not bought stock in the company.
"Ayr has the same values and mission as we do," he noted.
He explained they named their company "The Library of New Jersey" since a library is a peaceful place of knowledge which is the type of place they want to make.
"We wanted to create an upscale environment different from other retail establishments," Dishman added.
Helping People
Like a regular library, they plan to have several books, resources, and education available there.
"Those are all things that will be included in our environment," he said.
They are passionate about uplifting their community by offering educational programs through Stockton University and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to 20 applicants. The program would focus on general job seeking and readiness skills like writing a resume and interviewing.
"We want to be influential in the community beyond just the sale of cannabis," Penn said.
He is also eager to make cannabis consumption mainstream.
Being very civically minded, they want to educate and empower their communities. Dishman explained the company is based on its four pillars of education, community, equity, and equality.
Their previous efforts included sponsoring the feeding of 10 families and donating food for 150 people to a food bank. They have ambitious plans for similar efforts and more expungement clinics.
Dishman has been involved in civic community activism for many years. He previously worked with the noted civil rights organization, the People Organization for Progress (POP), with whom he engaged in civil rights protests and efforts to combat violence in Newark, East Orange, and Irvington.
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Grey Beard
Dreams interpret long beards as a sign of power and luck. It symbolizes the regaining of dignity. This carving creates a sense of prestige while adding a sense of realism and photographic precision to the creation.
This distinguished image is carved to represent the prominent and expressive brushstrokes of a Van Gogh piece while adding a sense of magic to the representation. It appreciates the beauty and process of growing old and grey.
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Celestial Diva
The woman is crafted by incorporating the perfection and beauty of mahogany wood. She truly is seductive, and the curves and arches of her body are brilliantly complemented through the details that the artist has carved to represent her as a unique celestial nymph.
The dark wood makes the pigment of her skin exotic and allows it to radiate genuine beauty. Adorned with jewelry, diadems and flowers she holds a beauty that is truly splendid.
Lotuses of Righteousness
The lotus flowers bloomed to announce the birth of the Lord Buddha in sacred Lumbini. The most profound symbolic meaning the lotus flower gives is that though it lives in muddy ponds, rooted in mud, its flowers and leaves are never dirty.
This represents a righteous way of life by upholding the Lord Buddha's teachings without becoming tainted by the material world. The wooden carving recreates the image of the birth of Lord Buddha and portrays the significance it holds in Buddhist history.
The Secret Look
This wood carving conceals the secret of its beholder and adds a sense of curiosity. The gesture of a finger placed in the beholder's mouth reveals that he has formed a relationship based on trust with the viewer. The expression and detail of the face capture the transparency.
The product is exclusively hand crafted using mahogany wood and will bring a tongue in cheek sense to the space in which it is displayed, while adding a notion of humor.
The Giant Family
The magnificence of the elephant family can also connect to the beauty of human family relationships. The artist has incorporated the feeling and emotion of harmony and has interpreted his thoughts on the importance of healthy relationships.
This wood carving appeals to those who have warmed towards depth and warmth of such relationships. The precise detail of the elephants and its surroundings capture the beauty of nature and appreciates it. The product is exclusively hand crafted using mahogany wood and builds an emotional connection.
Spirited Beings
The magnificence of the elephant is said to connect human beings on a spiritual level. They are strong and powerful animals who can be spiritually connected to control and power. Life is compared to this action where we must feed on positivity.
The craftsman has been influenced by these feelings and interpreted his thoughts on being in control of our own lives. The incorporation of cutlery relates to how humans eat their food by using cutlery and pick on what they want to consume. This creation speaks on a very interpretative spiritual level and will bring a sense of prosperity to the space in which it is displayed.
Ageless Leader
Carved with an eye for intricate detail is the prince who accompanied his princess by bringing Buddha's Tooth Relic to Sri Lanka. The details of the carving, paint the picture of Prince Dantha to be protective of his princess along their long journey. He is seen as strong and alert because of the tools that he carries for self-defense.
This carving is inspired by a twentieth century wall painting in the temple of Kelaniya by a local artist Solius Mendis. It is one of the most popular Sri Lankan paintings and this carving has been hand crafted to represent the significance of this incident in Sri Lankan history.
Arrival of the Treasure
After eight centuries of its existence in India, the Tooth relic was secretly brought by Dantha and Hemamala to Sri Lanka in order to safeguard it. The Tooth Relic plays a very important role as it held the governance of the country and was safeguarded by the ruler of ancient Sri Lanka.
This carving is inspired by a twentieth century wall painting of the temple of Kelaniya by a local artist Solius Mendis. It is one of the most popular Sri Lankan paintings and this carving has been hand crafted to represent the significance of this incident in Sri Lankan history.
The Ultimate Repast
In Christianity, The Last Supper, also known as the Passover meal is the final meal that Jesus Christ shared with his Apostles before His crucifixion. The Last Supper is associated with the commemoration of the life and legacy of Christ.
This carving is inspired by the late 15th-century mural painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci titled 'The Last Supper'. It is one of the western world's most recognizable paintings and this carving has been handcrafted out of mahogany wood to characterize each individual in the carving in a unique manner.
This wood carving celebrates the hard-working laborer and the hardships of his profession. The chiselled face of a man with a turban and his beard wrapped around his face crafts the laborer's determination and prestige.
The precision and detail of the carving capture the reality and the dedication he has towards the family he works tirelessly to provide for. This wooden carving focuses on the character traits of a common laborer that is not given prominence in society and analyses his values and personality.
Ancient Princess
Carved from the wood of the mahogany tree is the woman who concealed the most sought-after object– Buddha's Left Tooth Relic in the coils of her hair. Hemamala is a legendary woman in the history of Sri Lanka and is the epitome of courage and determination. This carving has been hand made by giving prominence to intricate detail complimenting the feminine beauty of Princess Hemamala.
Her coiled up hair radiates the divine light of the Sacred Tooth Relic while strengthening her and making her more courageous. This carving is inspired by a twentieth century wall painting in the temple of Kelaniya by a local artist Solius Mendis. It is one of the most popular Sri Lankan paintings and this carving has been hand crafted to represent the significance of this incident in Sri Lankan history.
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CandyBar offers a single subscription plan priced at $45 per month for the first store outlet and an additional $25 for each additional outlet. Features include unlimited cards, unlimited stamps, instant customer feedback mechanism, program success tracking, and 24/7 customer support. They also provide a 30-day free trial to interested parties.
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The only inconvenience I have had with Candybar since I use it has been a delay caused between the client and my computer when making stamps. But it only happened once.
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Heavy Doom Rock Titans, MOS GENERATOR, To Reissue Finest Song Collection "The Lantern"!
Tony Reed's Mos Generator, who formed in 2000 in Port Orchard, Washington from the ashes of a ten year off & on collaboration between it's three members, all of which are long time veterans of road & studio, inspired the heavy music scene since decades.
The need to strip down to the basics of hard rock was apparent from their start and continues to be the foundation for all the bands recent material. Mos Generator have released 9 full length studio albums, a retrospective album, 2 live albums and a plethora of split 7″ and 12" singles on such labels as Listenable, Roadburn, Small Stone, Ripple, Nasoni, Lay Bare, Hevi Sike, H42, Devil's Child, Kozmik Artifactz, Heavy Psych Sounds or just recently, their critically acclaimed split LP with Sludge maniacs Di'Aul via Argonauta Records.
Touring has been just as important to the profile of the band as making records has. Over the years Mos Generator has shared the stage with many great heavy rock bands across Europe and North America including extensive tours with Saint Vitus, FU Manchu, Elder, Spirit Caravan and Atomic Bitchwax. They have also played prestigious festivals throughout Europe including 2 appearances at Hellfest in France, opening up a whole new fan base to the Mos Generator sound.
After 20 years of making music the band shows no sign of slowing down. Now, the band has announced to reissue a finest collection of songs, taken from Mos Generator's pathbreaking 2007-album, "Tales from the Vault"! Re-mastered and with its blistering new mix, "The Lantern" sounds like a different album and as you have never heard the band before, this exciting collection of tracks will be a definite must-have in every Mos Generator, heavy rock and doom metal record collection. "The Lantern" will be coming out as a limited Vinyl edition only, on February 26th 2021 via Argonauta Records, the pre-sale has just started at THIS LOCATION!
"The Lantern is a collection of songs that were originally released in 2007 on a 10" picture disc as Tales from The Vault." Says band mastermind, Tony Reed. "The original album has been long out of print so it's great to be re-releasing these tracks with new mixes and new artwork. The recording sessions, from June 2006, took place in our rehearsal room and capture us live playing brand new songs. A few of them were arranged only a day or two before the sessions started. I think this element makes the songs sound reckless and raw. There is an atmosphere on this record that doesn't exist on any other Mos Generator release."
Album Tracklist:
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02. In The Upper Room
03. The Lantern
04. Nightwolf
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La ligne M10 du métro d'Istanbul est un projet de construction en cours de réalisation d'une ligne du réseau métropolitain dans la partie asiatique d'Istanbul en Turquie. Doublant la ligne M4 entre les stations Sabiha Gökçen Havalimanı qui dessert l'aéroport international Sabiha-Gökçen et Fevzi Çakmak-Hastane, la voie nouvelle est en cours de réalisation entre cette dernière station et celle de Pendik Merkez en correspondance avec la station Pendik du Marmaray. Elle devrait également être prolongée au-delà de l'aéroport vers Kurtköy YHT/ViaPort, futur pôle de liaison entre plusieurs lignes de métro, les lignes M4, M5, M10 et M34. L'inauguration de la section nouvelle entre Penkik et  Fevzi Çakmak-Hastane est prévue pour .

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Ultérieurement à , un prolongement de la ligne au-delà de l'aéroport est prévu avec les stations suivantes :

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DOWNLOAD MUSIC: Abba Blessing – I Go Wait
Audio MusicJanuary 9, 2021Orode Moses
After years of work behind the music scene, Singer-songwriter Abba Blessing makes her debut as a recording artist with the release of "I Go Wait," her very first single. It's a dream come true for the young songstress who is excited to finally share her music with the world.
"I Go Wait" offers a message of encouragement to everyone going through a phase in their lives, to "Wait on the LORD". The song title is a Pidgin-English interpretation of "I Will Wait".
Speaking about the song, Blessing said "It's a call to strengthen you and let you know that it's only the blessing of the LORD that enriches, and adds no sorrow"
"It's also a reassurance that God's promises are sure, irrespective of how long it takes they will surely come to pass" She Adds, "You may be feeling nothing seems to be working, Choose to Wait on the Lord and watch Him come through for you."
Produced by DaraMagic, the inspirational song is delivered with a fine blend of Pidgin-English and Yoruba.
Abba Blessing is one who is passionate about serving God, relating the mind of Christ through her songs, and leading souls to Christ. "I Go Wait" is the first of many more great tunes to come from the Nigerian-born talent.
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Richmond Emergency Food Bank volunteer Abdul Olorode packs boxes with food to be handed out to needy people on November 1, 2013 in Richmond, California.
President Trump's budget proposal is causing a stir, and for those who use the nation's food assistance program it could also affect what's put on the dinner table.
Under Trump's plan, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP would incorporate a "USDA Foods package" as half of its benefits. As reported by NPR, the package would include "shelf-stable milk, ready to eat cereals, pasta, peanut butter, beans and canned fruit and vegetables." Under SNAP's current program, recipients get money every month on an EBT card, which can be used on food that falls under certain guidelines.
Critics of Trump's plan say it will give a stigma to low income SNAP beneficiaries, and restrict their food choices. The USDA has said that state governments will deliver food a lower cost, although it's unclear how the food would be distributed on a state-by-state basis, so how viable is the plan?
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Station Tavern, Horley, Surrey
Picture source: Graham Norris
The Station Tavern was situated on Station Approach. This pub closed in 1993 and has now been demolished.
I was a contractor working at East Surrey Hospital from 1989 to 1991 and was staying in Horley. I used the pub Monday to Thursday and got to know some of the regulars quite well. I only had their first names Jamie, Steve, Beatle, Splif, Bob, Pete and many more. This was the first time I heard the sound of Ray Campi, when I enquired about the music on the juke box I was told that it was the pub user's personal discs. In the Christmas of 1989 Sue and Steve were calling it a day at the Station tavern and that was the last time I saw them.
Graham Norris (September 2014)
The photo below was taken in the 40s or 50s, showing Page & Overtons, and (faintly) the name "Station Hotel" as it then was, misleadingly after Horley station was 'moved' a few hundred yards south when LB & SCR doubled its tracks to 4. The old station master still lived in what survived of the original station opposite, I think his name was Patterson, but I can't remember for sure: he had waved away the trains for years as station master, but had never made the 25 mile trip to London! I can remember the Canadian, and later, U.S. servicemen who used to keep me awake as a kid, with their singing, which my grandfather tried unsuccessfully to stop as he didn't have a music license. They would swarm in, drink all the Scotch, and move down the street to the White Swan (Ind Coope & Allsop), and thence to the King's Head (Charringon) or The Gatwick, across the tracks.
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Peter Zapletal is in his third year of reviewing films for entry into Jewish Cinema Mississippi's annual film festival, but this is his first year to co-chair the event, along with Shira Moskowitz, co-chair of the festival's selection committee.
"This year, I guess they ran out of everybody else," he says jokingly, "so they asked me to head the committee."
But Zapletal is no stranger to the world of media and arts. He moved to Jackson in 1971 to work for Mississippi Public Broadcasting as a puppeteer and became the director of production in 1998. He retired in 2003.
For the festival, he and the rest of the committee watch the works that filmmakers submit and also seek out movies from other festivals that they think will be appealing to a local audience.
"There are many film festivals with Jewish themes in places like Atlanta, Nashville, Birmingham and all around the United States, so we look at what they offer and try to figure out what would be of interest to our audiences," Zapletal says.
Their strategy seems to be working, as the festival has grown significantly since its beginning in 2002. It moved from screening at locations such as New Stage Theatre and Millsaps College to holding all of its showings at the Malco Grandview Cinema in Madison in 2012. The festival has also expanded from four to five films this year.
Zapletal says that the committee has two main criteria for choosing which films make the cut: Did they like the movie and want to see it a second time? And will it work well on the big screen?
The festival opens Tuesday, Jan. 24, with "Remember," which stars Christopher Plummer and tells the story of an elderly Auschwitz survivor with dementia who goes on a cross-country journey in search of the Nazi responsible for the death of his family.
Zapletal discovered the movie at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival and requested it for the Jackson festival because he was familiar with director Atom Egoyan's work.
"He creates an atmosphere that will grab you and not let you go," he says.
This year's selection process was easier than previous ones, Zapletal says. "In past years, we've argued, 'This one is good; this one is not so good,' but this year, when we watched the movies, we immediately agreed on them," he says. "These five came out on top of everything."
On Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 7 p.m., the festival will screen "The People vs. Fritz Bauer," which tells the story of a prosecutor's effort to bring Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann to justice.
The docu-drama "Sabena Hijacking: My Version" screens Thursday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m. and chronicles the Palestinian terrorist group Black September's 1972 hijacking of Belgian airline Sabena through testimonies from those involved and reenactments.
"It's not a story everyone talks about," Zapletal says of the film. "It even features two of the hijackers interviewed in the movie, so it brings different viewpoints for both sides."
On Saturday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m., viewers can see the romantic comedy "Moos," which tells the story of a girl who always puts others' needs before her own and decides it's time to try something different.
"When we saw 'Moos,' we knew it was a movie we liked," Zapletal says. "It was a lighter movie, which was perfect for Saturday evening."
The film festival closes on Sunday with "Fanny's Journey," the harrowing true story of a 13-year-old girl and her sisters as they tried to evade Nazis and make it to the Swiss border.
"It's really a movie that tugs on your heart," Zapletal says. "It left my wife speechless."
One thing Zapletal says that all the films have in common is their dedication to compelling storytelling.
"We felt like if we have a good story," he says. "We have a really good beginning, and we judged all of our selections from that point of view. Each one is different, and each one gives you a different experience."
Finally, Zapletal has just one piece of advice for festivalgoers: "If anybody asked me which movie to miss, I would say, 'Don't.'"
Jewish Cinema Mississippi's film festival is Tuesday, Jan. 24, to Sunday, Jan. 29, excluding Friday. Festival passes are $40 and $25 for students. Individual tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. For more information, visit jewishcinemams.com.


The lesson is based on a birthday theme. New vocabulary is introduced to increase students' vocabulary concerning birthdays such as nouns (games, presents, toys) and adjectives relevant to the story (pretty, rotten, best, worst, smelly, and broken). Two oral activities are performed to increase students' fluency in English: a) the "Birthday Song" is sung in English as well as Oscar's "Rotten Birthday Song"; b) the students read words or sentences from slips of paper as they hang them on the story map. In retelling the story as a class activity, the story map activity enhances their understanding of critical elements of the story (main characters, problem, and solution) and their perception of consequences of actions. As a final activity, the students apply their imagination and use a new word from the reading and/or story map.
Cut outs of target words (pictures with text), cut outs of main characters, slips of paper with words or sentences for story map, magnets to attach slips of paper on board, party hats and worksheets to draw on.
1)	Prepare cut outs of various target words with illustrations and of main characters.
2)	Prepare slips of papers with words or sentences for the story map. Magnets for board.
3)	Have party hats ready for reading lesson.
4)	Prepare worksheets for students (one copy per student) to draw their presents for Oscar.
5)	A banner ready for the wall reading "Oscar's Rotten Birthday Presents"
6)	Have drawing and coloring utensils ready for activity.
In a reading corner, students are seated accordingly in a circle. They are introduced to the lesson's theme- a birthday - and participate in adding key words to the theme (Happy Birthday, party, games, songs, toys, flowers). Pre-prepared cut outs of target words with illustrations are displayed one by one to deepen their understanding of the story. Moreover, relevant words contributed by the students are written on the whiteboard. To get students into the birthday party mood, the students put on their party hats and the teacher asks who knows the song Happy Birthday and it is sung by students and teacher.
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Inspired by a fence bordering a children's soccer field in Northern Ohio.
Inspired by the soft light of winter near the lake.
Inspired by winter colors on the North Shore.
Lake Michigan looking south towards Chicago.
Inspired by the Smoky Mountains, North Carolina.
Inspired by landscape colors in late summer.
Inspired by the bright colors of a sunny spring afternoon.
Inspired by the beautiful trees and landscape in the Blue Ridge Mountain area at Penland, North Carolina.
Inspired by Arizona desert blooms.
Inspired by landscape colors in late spring.
Inspired by a view of the hillside and fields at Penland, North Carlina. Painted when I was and Artist in Residency at Penland.
Inspired by the light and colors of the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina.
Painted at Penland in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville, NC. This painting was chosen to depict the "blue green hills of earth", North Shore Choral Society "Missa Gaia -Earth Mass" concert, 4/6/2014.
Inspired by colors and reflections after a rain.
Focuses on color extension, small areas of color (in this case thin lines) versus large areas.
Sun on the mountains and fields.
Painted at Penland, near Asheville, North Carolina.
This painting is about color and extension.
Inspired by the light and colors of the Inner Hebrides near Oban, Scotland.
Inspired by the Lake Country of England.
Inspired by the light in the Blue Ridge Mountains, North Carolina.
Inspired by the Smoky Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.
The green fields of earth like a mountain patchwork quilt.
Inspired by the soft light in Scotland.


It has a cone shape with a lot of knobs on its skin. It also has a crown of leaves.
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[3.2.1] Constantius, having approved her advice, sent for Julian from Athens, where he lived among the philosophers, and excelled all his masters in every kind of learning. Accordingly, Julian returning from Greece into Italy, Constantius declared him caesar, gave him in marriage his sister Helena, and sent him beyond the Alps.
[3.2.2] But being naturally distrustful, he could not believe that Julian would be faithful to him, and therefore sent along with him Marcellus and Sallustius, to whom, and not to Caesar, he committed the entire administration of that government. Constantius, having thus disposed of Julian, marched himself into Pannonia and Moesia, and having there suppressed the Quadi and the Sarmatians, proceeded to the east, and was provoked to war by the inroads of the Persians.
[3.2.3] Julian by this time had arrived beyond the Alps into the Gallic nations which he was to rule. Perceiving that the barbarians continued committing the same violence, Eusebia, for the same reasons as before, persuaded Constantius to place the entire management of those countries into the hands of Julian.
[3.2.4] Of Julian's actions from that period through the short course of his future life, may be read at large in the historians and poets, though none that have ever written of him have fully reached to the justice of his character. Whoever desires it may see his own orations and epistles, and in them survey what he performed for the public service. Indeed I would give a fuller account of him, but that I ought not to interrupt the order of my history. However I shall notice his most signal actions in their proper place and particularly such circumstances as others have omitted.


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Just after 7:30am, the team saw an alpha male trek out of a nearby thicket while holding just an arm of the baby albino, according to the findings, which have only just been published.
A number of other chimps came rushing in, which began biting the fingers, leg, and ears of the screaming infant that was eventually taken by an adult female who then killed the baby albino.
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text: 20 INTRODUCTION. from the queen's love of outward magnificence in religion, and partly in compliance with the papists.. Many of our excellent reformerswho had espoused the cause of nonconformity, in the days of King Edward, retained their principles, and acted upon them, during their exile in a foreign land, especially those who being driven from Frankfort, settled at Geneva and other places. Nor did they forget their principles upon the accession of Elizabeth. Having settled for several years among the best reformed churches in Europe, they examined more minutely the grand principles of the reformation, and returned home richly fraught with wisdom and knowledge. They wished to have the church purged of all its anti- christian errors and superstitions, and to have its discipline, its government, and its ceremonies, as well as its doctrine, regulated by the standard of holy scripture. On the con- trary, many of the bishops and clergy being too well affected to popery, opposed a thorough reformation, accounting that of King Edward sufficient, or more than sufficient, for the present church of England. Therefore, so early as in the year mentioned above, there were many warm debates betwixt the two contending parties.t In addition to the oath of supremacy, a compliance with the act of uniformity, and an exact observance of the queen's injunctions, a public creed was drawn up by the bishops, entitled , A Declaration of certain principal Articles of Religion," which all clergymenwere obliged to read publicly at their entrance upon their cures. These were, at this time, the terms of ministerial conformity. There was no dispute among the reformers, about the first and last of these qualifications, but they differed in some points about the other two. Many of the learned exiles and others, could not, with a good conscience, accept of livings according to the act of uniformity and the queen's injunctions. If the popish garments and ceremonies had been left indifferent, and some liberties allowed in the use of the commonprayer, the contentions and divisions which afterwards followed, would no doubt have been prevented. But as the case then stood, it was almost miraculous that the reformation did not fall back to popery ; and if some of the nonconforming divines had not its part complied, in hopes of the removal of these grievances at some future period, that would most probably have been the unhappy tt Burnet's Hist. of Refor. vol. iii. p. 305.' + Ibid. vol. ii. p. 407.-Baker's MS. Cotten, vol. xxvii. p. 1ST.


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In the Midst of a Drought.
By Mark Behle on January 14, 2016
"The ground is cracked because there is no rain in the land; the farmers are dismayed and cover their heads."
(Jeremiah 14:4)
These words from Jeremiah reflect the current situation here in Lesotho. The drought afflicting much of Southern Africa has an unyielding grip on Lesotho. It is mid-summer here, and while the trees and shrubs are green, the rest of the landscape is mostly barren and brown. Late rains or several weeks in summer without rain are not unusual occurrences here but what is happening this season appears to be unprecedented, at least in recent memory. No one seems to remember anything like it. During September and October I did not keep track of the rainfall, but I'm sure we did not have more than a couple of days of rain, if that. In November, in Morija where I live, we had a half-day of rain. In December we had twenty minutes! The New Year has so far been dry, too. Without a doubt it has been the driest summer in memory.
Along with the drought there have been many windy days with blowing dust that turns the horizon into a bleak brown haze. Temperatures have been in the 90's instead of the 80's. Many springs and dams have dried up. Rivers have stopped flowing. The weather forecasters said months ago that the current El Nino would bring us a dry summer, but no one expected it to be as bad as this. Current predictions are that rain will only come in March, which is normally the end of the rainy season and far, far too late to help farmers this season.
Water shortages, needless to say, are common. The vast majority of Lesotho's population does not have piped water in their homes. People depend on community taps or natural springs to source their daily water needs. Next door to me is the Morija Theological Seminary where pastors and evangelists are trained for our partner church the Lesotho Evangelical Church in Southern Africa (LECSA). The seminary depends, like many people and LECSA institutions in Morija, on piped water from springs on the Makhoarane Plateau. But the springs have dried up and water shortages have disrupted classes.
One of the largest rivers in Southern Africa is the Senqu (also called the Orange). Its source is in the northeastern mountains of Lesotho and then meanders west all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. Even this river is a mere shadow of itself and can be crossed on foot in some places instead of by ferry boat which is unheard of for this late in the summer.
In the early morning when I drive to work in Maseru, I pass community water points where women and girls are usually gathered with dozens and dozens of large plastic containers waiting to be filled. Lately, on some days I find no one and realize that there is no water flowing that day.
Lesotho's Prime Minister, Mr. Pakalitha Mosisili, has declared a state of drought emergency and is appealing to donors for assistance. Given that a quarter of the population regularly receives, or is in need of, food aid, the effects of the drought could easily double that figure.
Heat and drought are images that come to my mind when thinking about the story of Jesus being tempted in the wilderness, a story often associated with Lent which starts in February. This season of the church is traditionally viewed as a time of personal spiritual reflection often accompanied by soul-searching and, hopefully, a sense of renewal as time in spiritual disciplines such as prayer, fasting and reading of Scripture draw us closer to God. Questions may abound: "What is God saying to me in my present situation?" "Why have prayers for rain gone unanswered?" "Should I act in faith (plant, believing that rain will come) or listen to reason (the weather forecaster)?" Like David in Psalm 63:1, we may want to cry out, "O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water." We long for the certainty of God's presence and love. While we cannot always rely on the weather or our personal feelings to know God's will, we can count on God's promise to be with us in all situations. Jesus, the promised Immanuel, is "God with us". In the midst of our droughts, literal or spiritual, in season and out, let us remember that God really is with us!
Mark Behle serves with the Lesotho Evangelical Church. He is working to identify development projects, assist the church in preparing project proposals and coordinating project implementation. His appointment is made possible by your gifts to Disciples Mission Fund, Our Churches Wider Mission, and your special gifts.
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Tokyo, Japan – Researchers at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, used a sophisticated physical model to simulate the behavior of fluids moving through pipes. By including the possibility of shear-induced bubble formation, they find that, contrary to the assumptions of many previous works, fluids can experience significant slippage when in contact with fixed boundaries. This research may help reduce energy losses when pumping fluids, which is a significant concern in many industrial applications, such as gas and oil suppliers.
Fluid dynamics is one of the most challenging areas of physics. Even with powerful computers and the use of simplifying assumptions, accurate simulations of fluid flow can be notoriously difficult to obtain. Researchers often need to predict the behavior of fluids in real-world applications, such as oil flowing through a pipeline. To make the problem easier, it has been common practice to assume that at the interface between the fluid and the solid boundary–in this case, the pipe wall–the fluid flows without slipping. However, the evidence to support this shortcut has been lacking. More recent research has shown the slippage can occur under certain circumstances, but the physical mechanism has remained mysterious.
Now, to more rigorously understand the origin of flow slippage, researchers at The University of Tokyo created an advanced mathematical model that includes the possibility of dissolved gas turning into bubbles on the pipe's inner surface.
"The no-slip boundary condition of liquid flow is one of the most fundamental assumptions in fluid dynamics," explains first author Yuji Kurotani. "However, there is no rigorous physical foundation for this condition, which ignores the effects of gas bubbles."
To do this, the researchers combined the Navier-Stokes equations, which are the basic laws that govern fluid flow, with Ginzburg-Landau theory, which describe phase transitions such as the change from a liquid to a gas. The simulations revealed that flow slippage can be caused by tiny microbubbles that form on the pipe wall. The bubbles, which are created by the shear forces in the fluid, often escape detection in real life because they remain very small.
"We found that the density changes that accompany viscosity variation can destabilize the system toward bubble formation. Shear-induced gas-phase formation provides a natural physical explanation for flow slipping," says senior author Hajime Tanaka.
Says Kurotani, "The results of our project can help design new pipes that transport viscous fluids, like fuel and lubricants, with much smaller energy losses."
The work is published in Science Advances as "A novel physical mechanism of liquid flow slippage on a solid surface." (DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aaz0504)
About Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo
Institute of Industrial Science (IIS), the University of Tokyo is one of the largest university-attached research institutes in Japan.
More than 120 research laboratories, each headed by a faculty member, comprise IIS, with more than 1,000 members including approximately 300 staff and 700 students actively engaged in education and research. Our activities cover almost all the areas of engineering disciplines. Since its foundation in 1949, IIS has worked to bridge the huge gaps that exist between academic disciplines and real-world applications.
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https://www.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/news/3271/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aaz0504
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Home » About Lagardère » Governance » Ethics and Compliance
The trust of our stakeholders is based on our commitment to act with integrity every day. This principle has led the Lagardère group to define rules of conduct and principles of action that shall guide the behavior of all employees, suppliers and other stakeholders, in terms of ethics, environmental, social and societal responsibility.
"The Lagardère group's success is based on a set of strong principles and values, which form the basis for our actions and are an integral part of our identity. One of the Group's greatest strengths is the commitment of our people to integrity and excellence in all that we do."
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Governing principles applicable to the whole Lagardère group
The 2020 Code of Ethics is one of the fundamental documents underpinning the Lagardère group's policy regarding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Anyone who works for the Group, in any capacity, is required to comply with the code which may be used as a decision-making tool when the need arises. It is intended to draw attention to the framework in which our day-to-day activities belong.
Made up of seven chapters (Upholding fundamental rights; Relations within the Group; Relations with external partners and competitors; Relationships with clients; Respect for shareholders; Social responsibility; Environment), it ends with a "statement of compliance to be signed by employees" that each person must fill in and return to its company's Human Resources manager.
This code is available on the intranet portal in English, French, Spanish and German.
Anti-corruption Code of Conduct
Compliance with laws and regulations in the countries where the Lagardère group operates is an imperative for all employees. Each of them must commit to preventing the risk of corruption, in order to protect the Group, its image, its reputation, its economic interests and those of its partners.
Designed as a practical tool for employees and partners of the Lagardère group, this Code aims to: offer a common vision of the standards of probity specific to the Lagardère group; concretely illustrate the behaviors to apply or to proscribe in its activities; identify the people to contact in case of doubt or questions.
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By Rotary Club of Estes Park |
July 10, 2019 at 10:00 a.m.
The Town of Estes Park Public Works Department is pursuing federal grant funding in excess of $50 million for trail, roadway, bridge, and Big Thompson River channel improvement projects to be built by 2025. Additionally, roundabout control upgrades are under design for three intersections in Estes Park. Construction is anticipated in 2020, 2022, and a future date to be determined by funding availability.
Greg Muhonen, Director of the Town of Estes Park Public Works Department, will be speaking to the Rotary Club of Estes Park on Thursday, July 11, at their regular noon meeting. His program will focus on trail grants and roundabouts.
Muhonen earned a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Stanford University, completed graduate studies in Arctic Engineering at the University of Alaska, and is a Licensed Professional Engineer. He has used his training and life experience to serve the transportation infrastructure needs of Larimer county residents for over 33 years.
His civil engineering work experience spans private land development, land use entitlement review, traffic engineering, municipal policy, and public works capital project design and construction. He was honored as Employee of the Year for the City of Loveland Engineering Division twice and for Program of the Year for the Larimer County Urban Area Street Standards.
As Estes Park Director of Public Works for five years, he oversees all aspects of the streets, parks, engineering, facilities, parking/transit, and fleet divisions for the Town. In 2017, he received the Public Works Project Award for the Estes Park Transit Facility Parking Structure.
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service and help to build goodwill and peace in the world. There are 1.2 million Rotary members in 34,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Rotary clubs have been serving communities worldwide for more than a century. Rotary clubs, around the world, initiate projects that address critical issues such as conflict resolution, hunger, poverty, disease and illiteracy.
The Rotary Club of Estes Park meets this Thursday in the Timberline Conference Room at the Ridgeline Hotel in Estes Park, located at 101 South Saint Vrain Avenue. Visitors interested in learning more about Rotary and its programs are welcome to attend. Buffet is served at 11:30 a.m., the Rotary business meeting opens at noon, and the program begins at 12:30 p.m.
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After having graduated in jazz guitar from the Conservatoire R. de Bruxelles and played various kinds of jazz music, Marki started composing tunes with harmonies and rhythms adjusted to Beatrix's lyrics, whispering voice and flute solos.
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Bix writes the lyrics, sings and plays flute solos in Bix&Marki.
Born in Stockholm. She grew up in Rome in a Norwegian, British and Italian family, speaking 3 languages. At the age of 7, her family moved to Paris, where she completed her secondary studies in French schools and also learned to play the classical flute. While studying at university in Oslo she also started to paint and to do theatre. She was a trainee for 6 months in NYC at the New Dramatists' studio. She then studied art in Oslo and at the Fine Arts Academy of Budapest. In 1990 she won a prize in an art competition in Austria, giving her the chance to come to Japan. In Kyoto she studied Japanese calligraphy and worked on performance art between 1995 and 1999, together with philosopher Michael Lazarin and musician Mamoru Katagiri (Marki). She also played music for dance companies in the Kansai area from 1997 to 1999. She moved to Brussels in 1999 continuing to paint, to exhibit works and to give concerts. As well as learning to play jazz at the Music Academy of Brussels, she played in the Bix Medard electropop group and founded the Brussels Language Activities, school of language and culture. She got a Master's degree at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon in 2008. After moving back to Tokyo in 2010 she started Bix&Marki, a musical duo of original French songs. While working on her music and painting, Bix teaches French at universities, specializing in role-play and language, through art and personal expression.
Mamoru writes the music for Bix&Marki, exploring special jazz harmonies in a contemporary way. He lived in Belgium for 10 years, and graduated from the Conservatoire R. de Musique de Bruxelles in 2010. He is influenced by European jazz music. His playing is like knitting harmonies together in a colorful pattern of sounds.
Mamoru went on a trip to NYC and Europe with his guitar on his back in 1990 after he studied jazz in Kyoto for 5 years with guitarist Takeshi Yamaguchi and had played in jazz units in the Kansai area. He came back to Kyoto and created a gypsy-jazz music unit with violinist Makoto Kobayashi. He also played in blue-grass music bands.
He met Beatrix and philosopher Michael Lazarin in Kyoto, and founded the Phylloxera art performance group in 1995, which continued to present performances until 1999. He started composing music for Phylloxera and for dance groups, like Taihen and Mau dance in 1997. On an invitation from painter Yoshi Fujisawa, he went to Brussels in 1999, together with Beatrix, and after 3 years, entered the Conservatoire de Musique de Bruxelles. He majored in jazz and graduated to a Master Degree at the Conservatoire in 2010. He moved back to Japan, Tokyo, in 2010, where he composes for Bix&Marki, plays concerts and teaches the guitar.


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Lithuanian president sees agrimin's resignation as 'basis for constructive cooperation'
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday welcomed Agriculture Minister Bronius Markauskas' decision to step down, saying that it will provide a basis for constructive cooperation between the authorities.
"The decision on the agriculture minister's resignation is welcome. I hope that this will provide a good basis for constructive cooperation with the government and the Seimas," she said in a comment forwarded to BNS by her press office.
Grybauskaitė earlier this month called on Markauskas to leave his post.
"I think such a minister has neither the political nor moral right to stay in his post. He has lost it," she said in an interview with LRT Radio several weeks ago.
The president then said that the minister's reputation would harm Lithuania's image in EU negotiations on agriculture financing after 2020.
Ruling party leader says 'very sorry' about agrimin's resignation
Markauskas steps down as Lithuania's agriculture minister
"If the head of government and the ruling majority think that such a minister is suitable for them, then I'm very sorry that we have such a ruling majority," she added.
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said in response that he would not yield to pressure from the president, adding that he would wait for law-enforcement bodies' findings on Markauskas' farming business before making his own decision regarding the minister.
Skvernelis said after the Cabinet's meeting on Wednesday that Markauskas was stepping down amid criticism over his family's farming practices.
The prime minister underlined that the minister's decision to resign was important for the stability of the government and the state.
Markauskas came under fire after the 15min.lt news website reported that his family had used several plots of land without the landowners' permission and had received EU payments for that land.
The minister says that his family farmed the land under oral arrangements with the landowners.
In its response to an inquiry from the opposition Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats, the Lithuanian Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) said on Tuesday that it had found no signs of criminal activity in the farming practices of Markauskas or his mother, Sofija Markauskienė.
However, the minister's family could have violated crop declaration rules for obtaining EU payments, FNNT said.
Skvernelis said on Wednesday that Markauskas was not facing any charges from law-enforcement bodies, but the requirements for an agriculture minister are higher than those for an ordinary farmer.
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Living area of Armidale Weejalee holiday accommodation.
Bathroom of Armidale Weejalee holiday accommodation.
Couple sitting on the deck outside Armidale Weejalee holiday accommodation.
Spacious gardens with very green well-kept lawns.
It doesn't snow often but it's beautiful when it does.
External shot of Armidale Weejalee holiday accommodation in the snow.
Garden with hedges and lawn.
A modern self-contained unit, nestled amongst beautiful gardens in a lush rural area within minutes from Armidale. A comfortable and private stay is assured with panoramic country views with an abundance of bird life.
Balmoral B&B Accommodation — beautiful outdoors!
Enjoy a relaxing stay in a self contained one-bedroom cottage located minutes from Armidale city centre. Picturesque views and open deck in a quiet rural setting.
Coningdale B&B — historic style!
Historic Coningdale Homestead, circa 1906, is a 4,300 acre workingsheep and cattle property located in Scots Corner, on the Wollomombi River.
Optional cooked breakfast, and dinners for additional fee.
Cox's on South Hill — what a view!
A quiet, home away from home on Armidale's beautiful South Hill. Moderately priced, with spectacular views. Short drive to CBD. Ideal for single or family.
Leanne & Colin Cox | 44 The Avenue, Armidale.
Beautiful rural setting, close to Armidale town and UNE.
Elderslie offers high-quality accomodation in the Armidale region situated on a stunning rural setting. Elderslie blends luxury, elegance and decorative grandeur of the 1880s with all the modern comforts expected in a luxurious Australian country home. A beautifully designed bed and breakfast homestead, it is one of the most tranquil and restful settings you could imagine, over looking a working sheep farm and rolling country hills.
Surround yourself in the peace and tranquillity where you can enjoy the native wildlife at your doorstep.
Full kitchen, dishwasher, wood heating and ensuite.
Breakfast provisions for the first morning.
3km to University of New England.
Glenhope alpaca farm is truly a memorable country experience with two private suites opening onto the rambling gardens with fabulous views of the countryside.
Choose from the Garden Suite (studio with an extra bedroom) and private outdoor living or the luxurious Conservatory Suite with a king size bed (or two singles) with spacious living, dining and kitchen area.
Self-cater or choose a fresh breakfast basket of locally sourced goodies.
Beautifully warm on cold frosty night. Free Wi Fi.
Private, safe and quiet in beautiful bushland overlooking Mt Duval. Two-bedroom full-serviced apartment, minimum 2-night stay, weekly or longer stays negotiable.
2-minute drive to UNE — 25 minute walk.
Queen-size bed in one and 2 singles.
Full kitchen, washing machine and dryer.
Peaceful surroundings, luxurious accommodation and gourmet food — B&Bs don't get better!
Situated 15 minutes west of Armidale.
Plenty of birdlife to enjoy.
The Cottage with queen size bed, self-contained with bathroom and kitchenette, fridge, and tea making facilities.
Charming historic award winning B&B set on 140 acre farm with a romantic and cosy atmosphere in an enchanting cottage garden.
Wonderful breakfasts are served to you, and included in the tariff.
Large self-contained elegant studio apartment. Quiet private tranquil setting close to the CBD. Separate entrance with own garden.
A fabulous family farmstay retreat! Self-contained, spacious country house for up to 4 couples and 4 children.
50km from Armidale, close to Wollomombi Falls and other national parks.
Trout fishing and farm tours.
Wattleton Farmstay — spectacular views!
'Wattleton' self contained cottage has 2 bedrooms + sleepout, and offers a unique experience for everyone, especially families. There's plenty to see and do.
Perfect for couples requiring privacy and seclusion, active people wanting to bushwalk, birdwatch, ride horses, fish, play tennis or swim and spa. Children of all ages can enjoy contact with our many farm animals, horse ride under supervision in the yards, or just explore and enjoy open space and freedom.
Located 35 minutes east of Armidale in rugged gorge country, Wattleton is on 600ha farm and unique farmyard friends. Play tennis, bush walk, limited horse riding, spa or swim (summer only).
Lounge, fully equipped kitchen, private bathroom.


The Blue Lagoon is located on the Sinai Pininsula in Egypt. You find it between Dahab and Nuweiba. From our camp you can enjoy an amazing overview of the lagoon and the mountains of Saudi Arabia. Egypt is a really beautiful country and many people fall in love especially with the Sinai.
Egypt (Arab Republic of Egypt) is a state in the northeast corner of Africa and has more than 87 million inhabitants. The capital of Egypt is Cairo and the official language is Arabic.
We offer to organize the transfer either from Dahab, Nuweiba or from Taba.
If you start from Dahab we send a car to pick you up from an agreed meeting point from where the driver brings you to the Blue Hole (20 min).
There are different options to go to the Blue lagoon from here. You can decide whether you want to go by boat (20 min), by camel (1h 30 min) or if you want to walk along the sea (1h 30 min). The boat trip is an amazing adventure we can highly recommend.
No matter which way you choose, you will arrive in Ras Abu Galum. Here another car picks you up and after another ten minute drive you arrive in the Blue Lagoon.
If you start from Nuweiba or Taba we send you a car that brings you straight to the Blue Lagoon.
It is necessary that you bring your passport if you are a Foreigner or your ID if you are Egyptian.
You will need it to be able to pass the checkpoints.
But don't worry it's just for your own safety!
Please notice that without your passport or ID we are not able to bring you to the lovely Blue Lagoon.
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Grants Only Go So Far
I'll be blunt: I'm worried that because of how easy and humble grants are, enabling research through grants will crowd out enabling research through more definite ways.
The optimism embodied in grants and the fact that they are effective puts me in the position of doing a tightrope walk over a pit of moral hazard where, on the margin, I simply justify more inaction or pessimism. Instead I want to convince you that:
Grants are good, but they have limits and many good things fall outside of them.
The mindset that "research funding" is all that research enabling organizations do is wrong.
There are other pragmatic ways to enable research.
The implicit way that many people think of enabling research1 (especially outside of your own organization) is as a matter of how you get money to people and filter potential projects. Call this the "filtering" or "granting" approach. Funding and filtering are powerful aspects of research management, but they're just two tools in a much larger toolkit. Overfocusing on grants limits you to enabling a particular set of activities. In other words, grants only go so far.
Grants are great
The idea of grants (especially small grants) as the way to enable more awesome in the world feels like it has exploded in the "tech-adjacent/crypto" world — Emergent Ventures, Fast Grants, Impetus Grants, Gitcoin, Moth Minds, and more. Grants are also a default mode of both government and traditional philanthropic funding as well. Let's be clear: these programs and institutions are a massive boon for the world. Both new grant programs and older granting institutions have2 enabled impactful work that would otherwise not have happened, directed money towards human flourishing, and generally channeled optimism and the desire to enable awesome towards productive ends.
The granting approach has many positive attributes to recommend it. In their purest form, grants have extremely low transactions costs. Someone says "I want to do this" and the grantor says "Ok. Here's the money to do that." Put a bookmark here: this core interaction is also where the limits of the granting approach sneak in.
Grants don't require a huge time commitment or deep expertise on the part of the grantor (it's pretty straightforward to get an experts take on any particular grant). Granting doesn't require the person giving out the money to come up with good ideas. In that way it's very humble. Grants let you build a portfolio of support that, if you believe you don't have the best ideas, maximizes the chance that you'll support successful projects. It's a very indefinite optimistic way of approaching research management.
In their platonic form, grants don't require any ongoing work — you give someone money and let them rip. In part, we're seeing so many granting programs because of how they can be done well without a massive time commitment. Most of the most lauded new examples are run as side-projects by extremely busy people. Grants are a tool for some of the most effective people in the world enable research despite many other commitments. In the absence of grants, they might not help at all!
Grants are humble, fast, low time commitment, and maximize the chance that you'll support something successful — their appeal and popularity makes a lot of sense. But they have limits.
Grants have limits
Grants filter for people who know what the right thing to work on. However, not everybody who could potentially do good work knows the right thing to work on. Especially in a world of increasing specialization people often see problems only through a specific lens or only see one node in a system-level problem. More generally, people don't know what they don't know.
Small grants aren't just miniature versions of big grants — they're cats and lions, related but entirely different beasts. (What entails "small" and "big" obviously varies, but generally breaks down on whether the grantor feels like the amount is "significant" or not.)3 A small grant can generally buy a piece of equipment or enable a one full-time person project. That sort of work is very different than the multi-person, capital-heavy work that needs a large grant. In addition to enabling very different flavors of work, small and large grants require drastically different amounts of trust from the grantor. This difference is (I suspect) is why so many new, fast, low-reporting-style grants are small and have an upper size limit. Ideally, people could use a small grant to do trust-generating work that they could use to get larger grants. However, the difference in kind between the types of work can make this difficult. "How can I trust that you can coordinate a team when haven't done it before because you haven't had the resources to do it?" As a result you see many projects start with low-overhead small grants but either putter along forever or die because the criteria for larger grants are so much more stringent.
Most significantly, grants fail to address one of the biggest impediments to weird new things in the world: the shadow of the future.4 You get a grant that pays the rent for a few months, perhaps hire a contractor, buy some equipment, or do work that wouldn't normally be funded in your university. Then what? You need to either land in an institution or get another grant. Either way, you need to tune work that you did on the grant to set you up for your next steps. You haven't actually escaped institutional incentives at all. This phenomenon constantly looms over the shoulders of those of us who want to see new institutions and games in the world and deserves a much longer treatment.
Grants could arguably get around the shadow of the future by enabling side projects, but that scale is a significant limitation in itself — for many projects part-time work is different in kind from full-time work, especially with multiple people involved. Additionally, I suspect that many of the people who grants are going to are not being paid by the hour. The idea that a chunk of money can free someone up to work on a project part-time is often a fallacy.
Research management matters
Research management matters. At some point, unless a single person can do the work for a project, someone needs to play a coordinating function. Coordination involves incentivizing people to do things they wouldn't otherwise do. The actions can be at levels of abstraction and the incentives can involve various levels of coercion, but at the end of the day, effective coordination involves more than just shining a spotlight on problems and potential solutions. Vision alone is not enough. In recent memory, Mark Adreesen's It's Time to Build and Patrick Collison+Tyler Cowen's We Need a New Science of Progress were both inspiring pieces and wasted opportunities. Yes, they galvanized people, but a lot of the energy was diffused without being channeled into change. To a large extent people framed what they were already doing in a new language instead of changing trajectories. Analogously, Vannevar Bush got people excited about the idea of a Memex in 1945 with As We May Think, but it took Licklider, Sutherland, and Taylor deploying capital, nudging+enabling people to start labs, and coordinating work on different pieces of the connected personal computing vision decades later for the vision to become reality. Good research management has many dimensions and can manifest in many different ways depending on the context: from Elon Musk's involvement in minute engineering details to J.C.R. Licklider's funding labs and keeping communication channels open between them based on a fairly precise vision.5
The importance of research management is probably a "duh" point when spelled out, but if you agree that research management matters, it means that the common perception that "research enablement = research funding" is wrong. To focus only on funding is to implicitly say that filtering-based research enablement is the only option.
The reason DARPA works is not because they are exceptionally good at picking projects to fund, it's because they use that money to incentivize projects that otherwise would not be considered and coordination between them. It's not a funding organization, it's a research coordination organization.
Pure filtering-based research enablement always pushes the coordination function one level lower. Grants defer on having an opinion about what should happen beyond a binary yes/no, saying "well, the person or org receiving the grant will do any necessary coordination." The trick is that usually the recipients of a grant will have less money, social capital, and reach than a grantor, all of which makes coordination harder. Pushing coordination one level lower also subjects the coordination to the incentives of whatever institutional structure the grant is going to — be it a startup, an academic lab, or an individual out to make a name for themselves. Institutions shape how individuals interact.
In the extreme, if grants are the lauded way to enable things, everybody will end up giving everybody else grants hoping for some coordination to emerge on some distant Discord server. Grants all the way down! Too much focus on grants leads to everybody wandering through the world playing mother-may-I.
Alternatives to grants
It's easy to point out deficiencies and hard to propose concrete solutions. I'm going to list some potential alternatives to avoid the moral hazard that, on the margin, calling out the limitations of grants might just decrease the money and effort going into them without directing it somewhere productive. You'll note that some of these are tweaks on grants. Remember, I'm not saying grants are bad, there are just many other things to explore. I beg forgiveness for how sketchy these alternatives are — I plan to make them much more structural later. If any are particularly interesting, let me know.
Patronage/Fund people not projects. Instead of a one-off grant focused on an objective, pledge to support someone for an indefinite time. You don't need to be absurdly wealthy to do this — you can pool money with a number of other folks: it takes less than a thousand people each giving $10 a month to give someone an incredibly reasonable stipend. You can go one further and be a "lead patron" giving more money and publicly rallying people to give. A long-term source of funding can start to abolish some shadows of the future. Yes, this is nominally what the Patreon platform is for, but it has a number of limitations — the biggest being that it requires people to hit at least some level of local fame, filtering for people who do flashy work and are willing to ask for money in public. Do the work to find people you think are doing great work and ask what level of funding would make a discrete difference in their ability to pursue their research.
Give fewer bigger grants, not more small grants. Big grants can be very different from small grants (see above) — they enable entire classes of activity (hiring people, buying high-quality equipment, actually quitting a job or education). It's true that smaller grants can be incredibly transformative, require less trust, and allow you to build a more diversified portfolio. But if the majority of grants are small, we're going to see primarily work that can survive or get started on small grants, slicing off a whole chunk of potential work.
Give money to incentives/Fund organizations, not projects. Instead of seeing grants as a mechanism for filtering specific projects or outcomes, you can think of them as delegating to organizations that encode a process, vision, or theory of research management. This approach is the one-level-higher version of "fund people not projects". Because institutional structures enable or constrain different activities, supporting the existence of an institution can lead to good work that doesn't necessarily fit into a grant-shaped bucket. At their core, new research organizations like Convergent Research, Actuate, PARPA or Dynamicland are attempting to shift the incentives around research and enable sets of activities that wouldn't otherwise happen.6
Create soft landing sites. If you are in a position to do so, you can give talented people an indefinite open offer of a role they would want should they ever decide they want it. An option on a job, if you will. This move addresses shadows of the future by creating a 'soft landing site' — the knowledge that their career isn't completely destroyed if they try something irresponsible for a long time and it crashes and burns. Yes, this creates some risk for you: it's another way of putting your 'money' where your mouth is. The world needs more people willing to stick their necks out for awesome without expectation of direct upside.
Front status. Many times, status can far more valuable to a project than money. People and organizations lend each other status all the time, though endorsements, introductions, titles, etc. Typically, high status people/orgs want to see a significant chunk of evidence that their status won't be lost (and in fact will probably get good ROI on it) before they're willing to lend their status to a person or organization. If you are a high-status individual or org, you can buck the trend and front people status. If you work for a high-status organization, give someone you want to support a title like "fellow" even if they aren't on payroll — it's shocking how many doors it can open. Signal boost things you aren't yet convinced you want to be involved in. Tell your friends about it. Make intros.
Do tranched funding. Understandably, most people don't want to give a huge chunk of money to an unproven idea and team. However, the difference between vague noises of support with the potential of money in the future and an extremely clear set of conditions under which a specific amount of money would be available is huge. It not only provides a goal to work for but enables someone to turn around and rally support by saying "if I can just get this much to get to milestone X, I will unlock Y" — it effectively lets them project some fraction of that future money into the present without lying. Many times, a large chunk of clearly-conditioned money in the future can be more valuable than a small chunk of money now. Like so many of these suggestions this one does require work on your part and reduces your optionality. Let's celebrate people doing work and reducing their optionality to enable awesome things!
Offer non-monetary support. For someone doing research or running a research organization, time really is money. If you don't have the money to give significant grants and don't want to pool your money with others but have valuable skills — legal, accounting, design, engineering, literature coming, internet searching — volunteering them can be far more valuable than a grant. Not only does the person not have to pay someone to do them or spend their own time doing them but they also save the time looking for someone or . The trick here is that you need to lower the transactions costs as much as possible — don't say "I want to help, use me." Instead, proactively say "I'll help you file your taxes" "design you a logo" or "build you a system that does this thing I suspect you need."
Proactively find people doing good work and fund them/nudge them to do something different. Grant applications are a demoralizing pain, even if you make your application straightforward. If you're working on something weird, you face an exhausting stream of people asking you to make it legible and justify what you're doing, trying to predict which framing will work on whom. You also need to know about a grant in order to apply for it. Instead of putting the work on other people, if you want to enable more awesome things, you can proactively go out and find people/organizations who are trying to do what you want to see more of in the world. This mode takes more work and doesn't have the same satisfying counterfactual impact as grants ("I enabled this thing that wouldn't have otherwise existed!") but can be just as important. You can go one farther and find people who you think could be doing great things but are not and nudge them with money towards the things you want to see more of in the world. Do this with multiple people! Get them to work with each other! Coordination!
Proactively match other allocators. If you see someone who you think has good taste either supporting or offering to support something, publicly +1 them. This move enables researchers to leverage their fundraising time but more importantly, it could solve the coordination problem where nobody is willing to be the first mover. Matching does happen to some extent but it is usually quiet and the onus is usually on the person raising money to negotiate it. Do we want to filter for researchers who are also master politicians?
Give people money to work on someone else's project. Grants tend to encourage a fractal scattering of projects, with everybody working on their own thing. Often, someone can have more impact by joining an existing weird project. This kind of grant exists in the traditional academic system in things like the NSF Graduate Research Program where funding is attached to a grad student, instead of a lab or project. This move also addresses the coordination problem by making it easier for projects to scale without raising additional funding themselves.
The common themes here boil down to proactivity, supporters taking on more risk, being more opinionated about what is good but less opinionated about what is going to succeed, giving up filtering specificity, and planning. Basically the inverse of the limitations of grants.
Grants are good, but they have limits — they filter for specific kinds of people and projects, force ambitious projects onto a specific trajectory, encourage portfolio theory and success bias, and continually push responsibility down a level while maintaining control.
The mindset that "research funding" is all that research enabling organizations do is wrong. Research management matters.
There are many potential alternatives and tweaks that can enable work that falls outside the limits of traditional grants. Nothing is a silver bullet, but on the margin, different approaches to giving money to support research can enable entirely different sets of activities and the human flourishing (and awesome sci-fi shit) that so often comes from trying weird new things.
Thanks to Andy Matuschak, Molly Mielke, José Luis Ricón, Michael Nielsen, and Kanjun Qiu for reviewing this essay and comments.
Thank you to all of you who are doing grants and anything to enable good research, frontier opening, and a flourishing future — I know this essay is critical in places.
While I'm focusing on research here, this concern applies more broadly to "enabling new things in the world." ↩
Or hopefully will! ↩
See this unpublished note for some rambling on caring levels around money. ↩
All credit for this term and concept goes to Michael Nielsen and Kanjun Qiu! ↩
See this unpublished note for some rambling thoughts about two axes (among many) of research management. ↩
The Overedge Catalog is a great collection of such organizations. ↩
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Analysis: Exxon enters the political fray
With a landmark visit to Baghdad, ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson has likely inaugurated a new era of engagement in the turbulent politics of Iraq.
ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson (third from left) meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki (third from right) and other senior Iraqi officials in Baghdad on Jan. 21, 2013. (Photo credit: prime minister's office)
Ben Van Heuvelen, Ben Lando, Patrick Osgood and Staff of Iraq Oil Report
For more than a year ExxonMobil has been at the nexus of Iraq's major oil policy disputes, but the super-major has kept its distance from the political fights that have swirled around its deal-making – until now.
CEO Rex Tillerson, the powerful leader of the world's most profitable oil company, has begun a new level of direct engagement with Iraq, signaling that Exxon may be adopting a more proactive approach to navigating political waves that have grown more perilous since the company signed six controversial contracts with the KRG in October 2011.


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Scathing privacy report calls Facebook a 'digital gangster'
The report was released this weekend.
Andrew Wyrich
Lawmakers in the United Kingdom accused Facebook of breaking data privacy laws in a report released this weekend, while also calling for new regulations.
The report, which was released by the country's Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, was made after the committee reviewed documents they obtained that were involved in a lawsuit brought against Facebook by Six4Three, an app developer. The documents included emails between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and other members of the company.
The committee's report was made as part of a broader investigation into the spread of fake content and misinformation online.
"From the documents we received from Six4Three, it is evident that Facebook intentionally and knowingly violated both data privacy and anti-competition laws," the report reads.
It adds:
"Companies like Facebook should not be allowed to behave like 'digital gangsters' in the online world, considering themselves to be ahead of and beyond the law."
The report says the documents showed that the social media giant was willing to override users' privacy settings to transfer data to app developers and "starve" some developers of data. It recommends that the U.K. create stricter regulations for social media sites.
"We need a radical shift in the balance of power between the platforms and the people," Damon Collins, the chairman of the committee, said in a statement. "The age of inadequate self regulation must come to an end. The rights of the citizen need to be established in statute, by requiring the tech companies to adhere to a code of conduct written into law by Parliament, and overseen by an independent regulator."
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