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Main The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review William Christian and Community Doctrines
William Christian and Community Doctrines
Smart, Ninian
Aristotelian Predication, Augustine, and the Trinity
Rudebusch, George
Minding Our Own Business
Buckley, James J.
Ninian Smart
The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review, Volume 52, Number 2, April
1988, pp. 327-335 (Article)
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claims. And both these tasks, perhaps more especially the former,
are of urgent importance for the Christian theological community
J. GRIFFITHS
WII,LIAM CHRISTIAN AND COMMUNITY DOCTRINES
ILLIAM CHRISTIAN'S book Doctrines of Religious
Communities * is a vital contribution to the philosophy of
religion, for a number of reasons. First, it goes beyond the
individualism that secretly underlies much writing in the field,
where in effect the reader is invited to make judgments in isolation. Here he consciously addresses the problems raised by supposing realistically that we are dealing for the most part with more
or less recognizable traditions and subtraditions embodied in various communities. Second, the logic of doctrinal claims has not been
explored systematically before in relation to both their truth (or
rightness, where they incorporate practical tenets) and their authenticity, as genuine do.ctrines of a given community. Third, the
book raises some vital questions about the present shape of the
world. For instance, the way in which the analysis fits non-religious but analogous cases (e.g. Romanian Marxism) is important;
as also the question of how modern eclecticism fits into the picture.
Moreover, it leads us to reflect on what happens when a community cannot decide whether certain doctrines or claims are authentic.
One of the models Christian contemplates is represented as
T/R-A, namely "}'or any sentence (s), ifs is true or right, then
s is an authentic doctrine of the community": he offers this as a
logical possibility though it is quite doubtful if any community
holds it. He uses it to illuminate the alternative A-T/R. It is possible of course to make T/R-A more plausible by placing a restriction on the kind of truth or rightness involved, namely if it
"New Haven: Yale University Press, 1987.
were in the same class as community doctrines, as defining a worldview and mode of conduct. Most truths of science would not be
included, but some generalizations might he, e.g. statements
about the srale of the universe or the evolution of homo sapiens
which might be held to possess existential impact and a cosmological significance relevant to humanity's "place" in the universe.
Christian deals with such problems in treating what he describes as
alien secular claims, that is, claims which arise out of secular knowledge, and which may attract a positive evaJuation from the religious community. The evaluation itself would belong to the community's doctrines and it would (let us suppose) commend the
findings of science, for example as aiding a more discriminating
worship of the Creator.
But I think there is a discomfort in spiritual and intellectual
life which arises because we typically belong to more than one community. Let us look upon the most typical primary communities
as being four in number-the religious (or ideological) community, the nation, the world of science and practical knowledge, and
humanity as a whole.
the last is less developed in much
human consciousness, but it is at least flickeringly there in most
human beings. In modem times loyalties have been sectionalized
by the nation State, which is manifested in a mosaic across the
planet's surface embracing all human beings. Now it is often the
case, and was more so in the past, that nation and religion were
made artificially to coincide: to be an English citizen was to be an
Anglican: as now you are supposed to be a Marxist if you are a
Romanian. At the same time in most countries, through the agency
of the State, there is universal education in which to some degree
or other a person is inducted into the community of science and
practical knowledge. The different communities tend to be in conflict, and so the individual is easily tom.
Let me first, before tackling these issues, say a word about the
notions of religion and ideology. It appears to me obvious that in
many respects ideologies such as Marxism fulfil a function, or set
of functions, very similar to those fulfilled by religions. Moreover,
Marxisms are often in severe conflict with, and opposition to, religions, and those that contend play in the same league, as one might
say. Doctrines, myths, feelings, :rituals, institutions, art-wo:rks and
ethics are found in secular (i.e. non-religious) ideologies as in reli-
gions. So there are good reasons to extend our thinking to the
secular, and to have a generic word (and" worldviews" is the least
bad in English, which is badly off for good terminology in discussing existential belief-systems) which will cover both non-religious
and religious systems. So we could rewrite Christian's title and
call his book Doctrines of World,view-Affirming Communities. Incidentally, it would help if constitutionally citizens were protected
against discrimination on the basis of worldview and not just religion. It would have made McCarthyism impossible, perhaps.
To return to our problem of belonging to overlapping communities: one major modem tension concerns the affirmations of the
world of science and practical knowledge, which I shall call " the
world of knowledge" fo:r short. Such affirmations are often in conflict with received interpretations of religious texts and other authoritative sources. Christian discusses such possible conflicts under the head of doctrines and alien claims, and notes that a community typically would need an extended principle of consistency
in which what is true or right should be consistent with authentic
doctrines of the community-a principle which could lean in either
direction, for instance towards abandoning geocentric interpretaheliocentric theory.
tions of the Bible as well as towards
One way to preserve community authority would be to restrict the
scope of Christian teachings to what concerns salvation, so that the
whole world of knowledge would have an independent existence.
This could be done effectively from a denotative point of view. The
division vras delineated for instance by Bultmann and other existentialists, and in the East could be done through the two-level
theory of truth of the ~unyavada and Advaita (the higher truth is
ultimate, the lower level concerns the cosmos, etc.). But it is at
the level of method that the problems arise as between community
doctrines and truths of the world of knowledge. For the procedures
of the world of knowledge imply freedom to question prior theories
and values. To
such liberalism into religious communities
is possible, but it may greatly erode the authority of sources and
of the organizations. For instance, though I count myself an Episcoplian I do not believe many of the reasonings which I hear in
sermons: e.g. where appeal is made to St. Paul's writings-it is
natural, as a member of the larger community of the world of
knowledge, simply to question whether Paul is :right about this and
that. It is hardly worth my while trying to strain at a new interpretation of scripture, as my forefathers might have done who accepted the results both of the world of knowledge and of the scriptures. I might simply say that Paul was wrong on such and such a
point. In short I have been turned from a solid member of the community into a questioning one. The methods of the world of knowledge as understood in modern times have been turned loose upon
the source of community doctrines, and the result is almost inevitably to foster a new eclecticism.
This can lead to a new stance, which itself represents a profound
revolution. This stance is one of loyalty towards the religious community, but one in which the ultimate authority lies in my own
decision, and in my judgments, listening to the community, but
not accepting any teachings uncriticially. If I sacrifice my own
freedom, e.g. suppose that I became a monk and lived in a monastery under authority, this would be by my free decision. All this
extends the scope of individualism which already had been important in parts of the Protestant community. Such eclectic individualism in worldview shows itself more and more widely as the
world of knowledge pervades more deeply the human population.
But that world of knowledge does not come unmediated, because
it is delivered by ·educational institutions which are paid for and
controlled in some degree by the nation-State. And so there is
allied to knowledge a set of national values which stress good citizenship, national history, feelings of patriotism, the rituals of the
nation and so forth. Often there is woven into nationalism, itself a
powerful religion, a traditional Christian or Buddhist or other,
flavor-a" civil religion". And so there may turn out to be values
woven into the world of knowledge which though superficially
compatible with traditional communitarian religion may in fact
turn out to be at deep variance with it. Thus the identification of
Christian and American patriotic values achieved in the right wing
groups (such as the Moral Majority in the U.S.A.) may turn out
to be a mirage. Would Christ have approved? Does loving our
neighbor combine with nuclear warfare?
All this begins to raise the converse question to that analysed so
admirably in Christian's book. He looked at the relation of doctrines to communities, taking the communities hypothetically for
given. But sometimes we may have to define communities by doc-
trines (indeed this is one mechanism for the proliferation of subtraditions within Protestantism). But one could ask, for instance
and using Tillichian language, what is the community of ultimate
concern? What is my community of ultimate concern? This would
be a way of ordering communities, as distinguished from the ordering of doctrines.
We may begin by noting, in relation to this question, that though
the community of the world of knowledge is elitist, since the frontiers of knowledge are pushed back by a relative minority of highly
skilled and thoughtful people, it nevertheless is a universal community, in the sense that Japanese, American, South African, Russian and Icelandic (for instance) scientists join in its enterprises
equally and it is not a respecter of race or nationality or religion
or gender. At least in principle it is not, save in sofar as certain
groups may be denied access to the universal elite for political and
social reasons here and there. So in an important sense the world
of knowledge generates a community in principle identical with
It so happens that most major worldview-affinning communities
also see the demands of humanity at large, and though there may
be some sense of a chosen people (namely a community whose calling is especially to witness to a given worldview), there is recognition of the obligations of that community to humanity as a whole.
Moreover, religious communities are typically transnational in
character: they are, so to speak, transnational spiritual corporations-a fact which may attract persecution in a nationalistic age,
as examples such as that of the Roman Catholic Church in postliberation China testify. So although often the tradition of a National Church or Sangha may be very powerful, and in any case the
pressures on nationalist loyalty are so strong upon individuals,
there is perhaps at the present time a growing sense of humanity at
large as being the community of ultimate concern.
For the religious or ideological faithful it would seem that there
are two main candidates for the community of ultimate concern:
one's own community, either narrowly or widely defined, e.g. as the
Baptist Church or the Christian Church, etc., and humanity at
large.
It is for this reason not surprising that there have been recent
attempts at delineating a world theology or worldview (as in the
writings of John Hick and Wilfred Cantwell Smith, and Fritz Buri,
for example). The weakness of religious attempts at this is double:
first of all the doctrines of the traditional religious communities are
in opposition about the ultimate, and second there are important
non-religious worldviews to accommodate. Nevertheless, it might
be possible to frame a perspective for the world community which
would take seriously the pluralism of human responses and the
richness of differing civilizations now envisaged as contributing to
a single world educational system. Within that perspective different religious and other communities would have a merely provisional ultimacy.
Loyalty to the human community at large is of course highly
compatible with individualism, since the latter prizes each person
for her or his own sake, simply because she or he is a member of
the human race. This reinforcement of other factors which corrode
communities (such as consumerism, modern problem-solving education, etc.) makes more relevant too the significance of religious
reflection, searching, eclecticism and individual predilections as
sources of personal commitments. It suggests too that a greater
role may emerge for individual religious reflection as non-communitarian "theology". There are tendencies in this direction in the
American Academy of Religion, seeing the study of religion as a
kind of spiritual counterpart to philosophy: thinking through religious issues being a prime focus of the subject. In the light of
Christian's analysis of doctrines in relation to religious communities, what are we to make of such privatized "theology" ? What
becomes of authenticity?
Perhaps the question is already secretly posed when we conplate such a figure as Hans Kung. Since he is a Catholic, you can
call him a Catholic theologian-but his theologizing is not in the
main officially approved by the Catholic Church viewed as an organization, even if many Catholic lay people like reading his works
and entering into his critical spirit. His status is already ambiguous: teaching in another community, the University, but retaining
an audience among members of his Church. Moving further along
that path such an individual ends up as a free-ranging spirit who
reflects upon Christian or more generally religious claims, retains
a certain very personalized piety, and spend his time greatly in
writing and thinking about religious truth. At a less formal level,
there is the individual in ordinary life searching for and thinking
about a true religion which is authentic for his own feeling and
being,
How should we analyze the logic of such a person's situation?
Should we pick up the notion of authenticity but now in an existential sense?
In the case of communities which Christian is primarily thinking of there is a tradition of organization-a Sangha or Church-,
and scriptures or other authoritative, typically written, sources,
and a mode of interpreting the basis of the faith, It is hard to
know whether we should look on the searcher we are considering
as being so to speak a community of one, or whether he is embedded in the wider community of the world of knowledge, He
may be appealing to canons which emanate from that wider world.
Still, so in some degree do the traditional religious communities, I
suppose it is to what "rings true" in his own experience and life
that the searcher may appeal, when it comes to deciding what are
the doctrines and practices in which he has faith, But it may be
that essentially the individual searchers are not to be seen in the
same category at all as the cases Christian is thinking of: he indeed
remarks (pp, 84-85) that " There are , , , occasional tendencies in
philosophical treatments of religious communities to deal with their
bodies of doctrines as though they are detachable from their
sources, as though a community's body of doctrines amounts to a
philosophy of life, But a philosophy of life is for individuals, There
are indeed different schools of thought in religious philosophy, but
doctrines of religious communities have to be understood in a different way!' In talking of individuals we reach the limiting case.
Nevertheless there may be analogues of sources even for individuals,
In opening up the analysis of doctrines of communities Christian
poses vital questions and creates new ways of looking at the world:
not merely by delineating the various principles at work, including
what he calls the " guarding principle " linking doctrines tightly to
their sources, but also driving us to ask about the communities to
which doctrines are relevant, The analysis has strong relevance to
religious education and the exploration of worldviews, In a public
school environment there is a community but it is not identical,
except in rarer and rarer cases, with a religious
there is a sense perhaps of values, including pluralism, which may
arise from the agreement and historical experience of such a community.
In dealing with the" secular" world, a community, as envisaged
in Christian's analysis, may aim for comprehensiveness. I have
been arguing in the opposite direction-the effects of the communities of the world of knowledge and of humanity at large upon the
teachings of religious communities. But the opposite movement is
important too: where the community evolves a pattern of life
which touches on all occasions of life. Christian distinguishes between topic comprehensiveness and occasion comprehensiveness.
Typically there are limits on the former and not on the latter. That
is, while there may be no Christian physics, there is a Christian
attitude to doing physics. There is a Christian way of sweeping
a floor, but no Christian technique of sweeping.
But communities may waver on limiting their topic comprehensiveness, as if there is a separate, let us say, Islamic basis of epistemology or physics. There are those who argue for an indissoluble
link between values and methods which might tend to dissolve a
sharp distinction between topic- and occasion- comprehensiveness.
Thus a major issue throughout the colonial period and into the
postcolonial era was how to combine traditional values and modern
science and education. It was often considered that the latter implied a liberalism which was hard to blend with ancient authority.
In other words modern science brings in some values and attitudes
which seriously modify traditional ones. If this be so there is no
Islamic physics not because the very idea of Islamic or Christian
or Buddhist physics is absurd, but because all physics is in principle Popperite and linked to democratic values which are recognizably Western.
In this discussion I have explored some areas which lie at the
edge of or beyond Professor Christian's discussion-pushing forward the frontiers of his analysis. But though the question of
the overlap of communities is important, and though too the role
of the eclectic individual will increase, there is no doubt that the
major traditions and subtraditions will continue indefnitely into
the future. Thus, the relevance of this analytic approach will remain. Though there is not in this treatment anything beyond a
mention or two of hermeneutics, it is obvious that the approach is
profoundly important for the study of hermeneutics in religion.
Consequently, Christian's work will he needed reading for theologians in the various communities. At first sight, this philosophical
probing of the rules regarding authenticity and truth or rightness
of doctrines is technical and a little austere: yet it pushes the frontiers of the philosophy of religion (and of worldviews) in exciting
directions. Some of the outlying issues I have touched on in this
contribution. There are some other applications of Christian's ideas
which I might have looked at: notably ways in which his analysis
illuminates the process of dialogue (here the questions of authenticity and the problems of oppositions of doctrines are especially
vital).
N !NIAN SMART
University of OaUfornia at Santa Barbara, California
University of Lancaster, England,


I have been struggling to find the words to express the last few days events. I try to keep everyone updated on how Frank is doing, and it is often wrapped around the many different places we visit and things that we get to do.
After 3 hours of therapy on Wednesday, where we learned that Frank's cognitive skills continue to progress, we went back to North Memorial to complete another test that measures reaction speed time. Every test indicated that he is getting closer to being able to drive again, which was great news to both of us. One of Frank's biggest frustrations right now is not being able to drive; he wants to gain some freedom back from my clutches.
After therapy we met up with a good friend, and drove to the Chiefs of Police banquet, where Frank, along with one of his partners, were to receive an award for saving multiple people from a burning building last winter. It was an honor to be included in this ceremony, and to listen to the other stories of bravery and heroism, as each award recipient was described. Law enforcement officers are brave souls – it was moving to be in the room with so many people willing to put their lives in jeopardy without a though to their own safety. One officer, present in spirit and heart – Officer Shawn Schneider – received the Police Cross, after giving his life in the line of duty to save another.
This award was handed to his wife, in front of his peers, standing at attention with hearts heavy and hands brought together in salute. I was prepared for this award presentation, knowing it to be a hard moment for everyone. What I was not prepared for was the intense sadness I felt when I realized that his wife was sitting directly behind me that evening, and I had not known she was even present at the event. The moment I realized she was there, I began to tear up – tears that did not stop for several minutes. My heart hurts for her, another wife brought to this event to honor her hero, but a hero that cannot return to his family and children. A man who gave his life for his duty, his honor, to save another.
I talk to wives from all over the country that are part of this very small group of surviving spouses – not just those that had officers killed in the line of duty – but those living with spouses that were critically injured. This is a special group of people, living with a knowledge that we don't want to have, a heart that has been beaten and broken, and a life that has a new fragile aspect that cannot be repaired. We don't ask to be part of this group, but we are, and we now attempt to go on with life with this additional imprint on our soul.
Life has meaning, and brightness, and laughter – children still get hugs and kisses, vacation and soccer camp still occur, but there is a piece that can never be fixed. It is always there, But we go on, living life each day, trying to find the brightness. It is there, and we know it, we just need to try a little harder to find it each day.
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L'aérodrome de Doncourt-lès-Conflans  est un aérodrome civil, ouvert à la circulation aérienne publique (CAP), situé à  au nord de Doncourt-lès-Conflans en Meurthe-et-Moselle (région Lorraine, France).

Il est utilisé pour la pratique d'activités de loisirs et de tourisme (aviation légère, parachutisme, montgolfière et aéromodélisme).

Histoire
L'architecte Jacques Ogé est l'auteur de l'auberge de jeunesse-club d'aviation populaire en 1938. Il est associé notamment au constructeur nancéien Jean Prouvé qui dessine l'équipement et l'aménagement. En 1944, le bâtiment est détruit par les Alliés. Au début des années 1950, Le Corbusier, via son ami député de Briey Philippe Serre, est chargé du chantier. L'architecte suisse collabore avec Ogé et Prouvé pour dessiner un nouveau bâtiment formé de deux coques monobloc, selon un principe constructif développé alors par Jean Prouvé. La construction s'étend de 1953 à 1954. L'édifice a été dénaturé depuis. Il a été inscrit à l'inventaire supplémentaire au titre des monuments historiques, par arrêté du .

Installations
L'aérodrome dispose d'une piste en herbe orientée est-ouest (08/26), longue de  et large de 80.

L'aérodrome n'est pas contrôlé. Les communications s'effectuent en auto-information sur la fréquence de .
La fréquence est modifiée par notam du 30/11/2022. Nouvelle fréquence : .

S'y ajoutent :
 une aire de stationnement ;
 des hangars ;
 une station d'avitaillement en carburant (100LL) et en lubrifiant.

Activités
 Centre d'aviation du bassin de Briey
 Centre école de Moselle parachutisme

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Articles connexes
 Transports en Meurthe-et-Moselle
 Aéro-club
 Direction générale de l'Aviation civile
 Liste des aérodromes français
 Liste des monuments historiques de Meurthe-et-Moselle

Doncourt-les-Conflans
Doncourt-les-Conflans

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Q: How to use Berkshelf with Chef-solo? I am trying to get going with Berkshelf to manage cookbooks. Here are the steps
$ berks init  # and use a custom Vagrant box image
$ vim Berksfile  # and put cookbook 'git'
$ berks install
$ vagrant up

I would expect the last step to provision the VM with the git cookbook, however I get:

$ bin/vagrant up
/Users/pmu/.rbenv/versions/1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/hashie-2.0.0/lib/hashie/mash.rb:80: warning: redefining `object_id' may cause serious problems
[default] Importing base box 'Ubuntu-11.04'...
[default] Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
[default] Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
[default] Forwarding ports...
[default] -- 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
[Berkshelf] installing cookbooks...
[Berkshelf] Using git (2.3.0)
[Berkshelf] Using dmg (1.1.0)
[Berkshelf] Using build-essential (1.3.4)
[Berkshelf] Using yum (2.1.0)
[Berkshelf] Using windows (1.8.4)
[Berkshelf] Using chef_handler (1.1.4)
[Berkshelf] Using runit (1.0.6)
[default] Creating shared folders metadata...
[default] Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
[default] Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
[default] Booting VM...
[default] Waiting for VM to boot. This can take a few minutes.
[default] VM booted and ready for use!
[default] Configuring and enabling network interfaces...
[default] Setting host name...
[default] Mounting shared folders...
[default] -- v-root: /vagrant
[default] -- v-csc-1: /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-solo-1/cookbooks
[default] Running provisioner: Vagrant::Provisioners::ChefSolo...
[default] Generating chef JSON and uploading...
[default] Running chef-solo...
stdin: is not a tty
[2013-02-24T12:51:04+00:00] INFO: *** Chef 10.18.2 ***
[2013-02-24T12:51:05+00:00] INFO: Setting the run_list to ["recipe[berkshelf-test::default]"] from JSON
[2013-02-24T12:51:05+00:00] INFO: Run List is [recipe[berkshelf-test::default]]
[2013-02-24T12:51:05+00:00] INFO: Run List expands to [berkshelf-test::default]
[2013-02-24T12:51:05+00:00] INFO: Starting Chef Run for ubuntu-11.04
[2013-02-24T12:51:05+00:00] INFO: Running start handlers
[2013-02-24T12:51:05+00:00] INFO: Start handlers complete.
[2013-02-24T12:51:05+00:00] ERROR: Running exception handlers
[2013-02-24T12:51:05+00:00] ERROR: Exception handlers complete
[2013-02-24T12:51:05+00:00] FATAL: Stacktrace dumped to /tmp/vagrant-chef-1/chef-stacktrace.out
[2013-02-24T12:51:05+00:00] FATAL: Chef::Exceptions::CookbookNotFound: Cookbook berkshelf-test not found. If you're loading berkshelf-test from another cookbook, make sure you configure the dependency in your metadata
Chef never successfully completed! Any errors should be visible in the
output above. Please fix your recipes so that they properly complete.

The chef-solo part in the Vagrantfile:

  config.vm.provision :chef_solo do |chef|
    chef.json = {
      :mysql => {
        :server_root_password => 'rootpass',
        :server_debian_password => 'debpass',
        :server_repl_password => 'replpass'
      }
    }

    chef.run_list = [
      "recipe[berkshelf-test::default]"
    ]
  end

A: In this case, the problem is with the chef.run_list in your Vagrantfile - it instructs Chef to load the "default" recipe from the "berkshelf-test" cookbook.  If you're using the git cookbook for testing, you probably want "recipe[git::default]" instead.
You may also need to add require 'berkshelf/vagrant' to the top of your Vagrantfile.  See the "Vagrant With Berkshelf" section on the Berkshelf homepage for some more explanation.

A: I was getting this error and the root cause was an issue with how the plugin deals with shared folders. The answer in this issue fixed it: Vagrant + Chef: Error in provision "Shared folders that Chef requires are missing on the virtual machine."
rm .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox/synced_folders
vagrant reload --provision

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why did prince divorce mayte garcia
What happened to Mayte Garcia?
Personal life. Garcia lives in Las Vegas with her daughter Gia, whom she adopted in 2013. Mayte has multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease that affects the central nervous system. The symptoms began in 2010 and included optic neuritis, resulting in temporary partial vision loss.
Is Mayte Garcia married?
Принсв браке с 1996 г. до 2000 г.
Does Mayte Garcia have a child?
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Does Mayte Garcia have MS?
Garcia wants the world to know she has multiple sclerosis—and that she's handling it with strength. … Garcia's strength and resilience in the face of those tragedies would serve her well a decade later when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS), something only her closest friends and family members knew about.
What happened to Prince and Mayte son?
Prince's ex Mayte Garcia shares devastating details of her divorce from Prince in her new book ' ' The split came after the couple lost their first son six days after his birth and Garcia suffered a miscarriage with their second child three months into her pregnancy.
How much is Mayte Garcia worth?
Mayte Garcia net worth: Mayte Garcia is an American model and dancer who has a net worth of $2.5 million dollars. She was born in Fort Rucker, Alabama, on November 12, 1973 and grew up traveling all over the world with her family, as her father was in the military.
Who was prince married to when he died?
In April 2016, at the age of 57, Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose at his Paisley Park home and recording studio in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
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Who got Prince estate?
The heirs: Dozens of would-be claimants appeared after Prince died but the official heirs have been narrowed to six: Tyka Nelson, his full sister, and his half-siblings, Norrine Nelson, Sharon Nelson, John Nelson, Alfred Jackson and Omarr Baker.
Does Prince have a son?
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Farmer from Konya Exports Pumpkin for Halloween
Korkut Yetgin, a farmer who grows 1,500 tons of ornamental pumpkin on his 500-decare field in the Central Anatolian province of Konya, receives high demand from the Netherlands and Russia as Halloween approaches.
"Of the 1,500 tons of pumpkin we produce annually, we sell 80 percent to the domestic market. We aim to increase the foreign market's rate to 50-60 percent," Yetgin said, adding that they started exporting with the Netherlands.
After his father Ali Yetgin started the business in Konya Plain with tulip bulbs he brought from the Netherlands 16 years ago, Korkut Yetgin, taking over the business in 2016, found the way out by growing the ornamental pumpkins "he saw in festivals abroad" when the demand for tulips decreased.
First planting pumpkins on an area of 50 decares in Çumra district, Yetgin said he gave the pumpkins produced in the first year to large supermarkets across Türkiye.
Increasing the production to 500 decares when the demand for pumpkins increased, the company's target for the next year is to produce on 1,000 decares.
Expressing that they irrigate the pumpkins by drip method and plant them by seedling, Yetgin said, "We employ 160 people in our company during the harvest period."
There are hundreds of varieties of pumpkin, Yetgin explained. "We started with 20 varieties, now we have increased to 70-80. We produce according to demand. Pumpkins are sold by the kilo, mini pumpkins are sold by the piece. They can both be eaten and used as an ornament."
Thanks to its economical price, it is a valuable product that can be consumed by people from all walks of life, according to Yetkin.
"It is made into desserts, pastries, jams, and used in meat dishes," he added.


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The 6 safest dividend stocks in the FTSE 100 – would I buy?
G A Chester | Wednesday, 18th September, 2019 | More on: IAG
Several FTSE 100 companies, including Vodafone and Marks & Spencer, have cut their dividends this year. And analysts reckon there could be more cutters in the pipeline.
Dividend cover — how many times a company's payout is covered by its earnings — is a measure of dividend safety. Cover of two times or more is generally considered robust.
I've hunted through the FTSE 100 for firms with super-strong cover, and found six with cover of over three times. On this measure, they're the Footsie's safest dividend stocks. Let's take a look at them.
Recent share price (p)
Yield (%)
JD Sports Fashion
NMC Health
Halma
International Consolidated Airlines (LSE: IAG)
As you can see, there's quite a mix in terms of price-to-earnings (P/E) valuations and dividend yields.
Low yielders
Athleisure retailer JD Sports has the lowest yield at 0.3% and extraordinary dividend cover of 17.7 times. This is because management is using the vast majority of earnings to pursue exciting international expansion in the US, Europe and Asia.
Clearly, this is not a stock for investors seeking an immediate high income. However, I'd happily buy it today for its huge growth opportunity, sector-leading cash generation, and future income potential.
Growth is also currently the primary attraction of fellow sub-1% yielders NMC and Halma. The former is a private healthcare group based in the United Arab Emirates. I took an in-depth look at the stock last month, and continue to rate it a 'buy' today. Meanwhile, health and safety products specialist Halma is another company I like, and have tipped in the past. However, I think its current P/E is a little too rich, so I see this one as a 'hold'.
Surfin' USA
Equipment rental group Ashtead has ridden the US wave of Trumpian tax cuts and infrastructure spending by expanding aggressively in North America. It's made dozens of acquisitions and added hundreds of stores.
I'm generally a bit wary of companies that go on massive acquisition sprees, particularly during boom times. The US economy is now in its longest period of expansion on record, and there are indicators it may be coming to an end. With Ashtead's business being highly geared to the economic cycle, I'm inclined to avoid it at this stage.
High-yield bargain?
Finally, international investment group 3i and British Airways owner International Consolidated Airlines (IAG) both trade on sub-10 P/Es and offer dividend yields of 3.2% and 6.3% respectively. As far as 3i is concerned, I agree with my colleague Vishesh Raisinghani's positive analysis of the company. Which leaves the question of whether I think IAG is a bona fide high-yield bargain.
IAG's shares have lost over a third of their value since this time last year. However, it's a sector-wide phenomenon, with other carriers having been similarly shunned by the market.
This cyclical industry is in a phase of overcapacity, and companies' margins are past their cyclical peak. The market appears to be pricing-in harder times ahead and a round of survival of the fittest.
Personally, I think IAG has decent strategic and financial strength, and that the current valuation offers a reasonable margin of safety. In a really extreme downturn, the dividend may not be as secure as the high level of cover suggests, but the risk/reward balance makes the stock a 'buy' in my book.
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Q: OpenCL floor function doesn't return correct number I am trying to convert a CUDA code snippet in OpenCL.
CUDA code:
# Variable point is CUDA float4.
# X_MIN_RANGE, Y_MIN_RANGE, PILLAR_SIZE and GRID_X_SIZE are all defined as
# constants in a header file.

int idx = floorf((point.x - X_MIN_RANGE)/PILLAR_SIZE);
int idy = floorf((point.y - Y_MIN_RANGE)/PILLAR_SIZE);
unsigned int index = idy * GRID_X_SIZE + idx;

OpenCL code:
# Variable point_coord is OpenCL float4.
# X_MIN_RANGE, Y_MIN_RANGE, PILLAR_SIZE and GRID_X_SIZE are defined as constants using #define.

#define X_MIN_RANGE 0.0
#define Y_MIN_RANGE -39.68
#define PILLAR_SIZE 0.16
#define GRID_X_SIZE 432

/*... Some code here...*/

int idx = floor((point.x - X_MIN_RANGE) / PILLAR_SIZE);
int idy = floor((point.y - Y_MIN_RANGE) / PILLAR_SIZE);
unsigned int index = idy * GRID_X_SIZE + idx;

I have some issues with the results of floor. For instance, for a point of coordinates {12.48, -10.629, -0.223, 0.4}, X_MIN_RANGE = 0.0, Y_MIN_RANGE = -39.68, PILLAR_SIZE = 0.16 and GRID_X_SIZE = 432 I'm expecting to see:
idx = floor((12.48 - 0.0) / 0.16) = floor(78.0) = 78
idy = floor((-10.69 + 39.68) / 0.16) = floor(181.1875) = 181
index = 181 * 432 + 78 = 78270
For the CUDA code, I am getting the correct result, however for the OpenCL code I am getting  78269 for the same coordinates as the floor operation for idx returns 77 instead of 77. I had a look for similar examples and it always happens when the decimal part of the argument in floor is 0, so I assume that the result falls on the wrong side of the integer.
As this part of the code needs to be quite accurate, do you know how can I make sure floor rounds integers correctly? I have alredy tried to rearrange the operations and to use double instead of float, but that didn't help.

A: (point.x - X_MIN_RANGE)/PILLAR_SIZE is calculated as double, because all defines are double. So the result is a double.
If you then use floorf (the f at the end stands for float), it will be casted to a float before the function call. If you use floor, it stays a double.
The float value is indeed 78.00000 exact, so floorf returns 78.
The double is 77.99999713897705078125 and then floor returns 77.
You can fix that by either using float for the calculation or cast the result before the function call. You could also add a very small number, like 0.0001 before the floor to remove floating point inexactness.


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import com.burgstaller.okhttp.digest.CachingAuthenticator;

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import java.util.Locale;
import java.util.Map;

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import okhttp3.Request;
import okhttp3.Response;
import okhttp3.Route;

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UBS reveals global stocks that will win — or lose — when China reopens
Chinese stocks rose this week after the nation's health authorities reported an uptick in Covid-19 vaccination rates , which are regarded as crucial to reopening the country. A change in China's strict zero-Covid policy would reverberate across the world, particularly affecting large global companies with significant links to the world's second-largest economy. However, there remains uncertainty over when Beijing might ease its policy. But when they do, Swiss bank UBS has identified stocks in the MSCI Europe index that will do better than others "in an environment where China's growth rebounds." The investment bank screened for companies in Europe that meet the following criteria: A high percentage of sales exposure to China. Sensitive to changes in the China Purchasing Managers' import index. Displayed strong performance during growth periods of the PMI. The stocks in the table below have been ranked using UBS' composite score, which brings together the above factors. London-listed engineering groups IMI and Weir Group and Asia-focused bank Standard Chartered were among the top 15 stocks with high exposure to China, according to UBS. The list also includes European luxury brands Richemont and Kering , as they depend on demand from a growing affluent population in China. According to UBS, shares of chemicals and specialty materials companies BASF , Solvay , Arkema and Sika are also exposed. Those companies supply raw materials used in the manufacturing of goods in China. Other companies that also met the criteria include steelmakers Voestalpine , SSAB and ArcelorMittal , the owner of Tefal cookware brand Groupe SEB , and Swiss duty-free shops group Dufry . Least China-sensitive stocks Conversely, UBS also identified the least China-sensitive stocks for investors who want to hedge their portfolios or avoid the impact of an economic slowdown in China if Covid restrictions aren't relaxed in the near future. The table below shows five stocks, including Belgium electric utility company Elia Group , British water supplier United Utilities , French media giant Vivendi and European supermarket and retailers Colruyt and Ahold Delhaize .
Eleven Stocks Turned $10,000 To $261,421 In 11 Months
It's been a bad year for tech. But top investor Paul Meeks is betting on these bright spots


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Yurtsever is a village in the Ardeşen District, Rize Province, in Black Sea Region of Turkey. Its population is 147 (2021).

History
According to list of villages in Laz language book (2009), name of the village is Zenimoshi, which means "open field" in Laz language. Most villagers are ethnically Hemshin.

Geography
The village is located  away from Ardeşen.

References

Villages in Ardeşen District


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Reception : The talk will be followed by drinks and snacks. All members of QML (faculty, students, staff) are invited.


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import isArray from '../util/isArray'
import uuid from '../util/uuid'

// A collection of methods to update annotations
// --------
//
// As we treat annotations as overlay of plain text we need to keep them up-to-date during editing.

export default {
  insertedText,
  deletedText,
  transferAnnotations,
  expandAnnotation,
  fuseAnnotation,
  truncateAnnotation
}

function insertedText (doc, coordinate, length) {
  if (!length) return
  var index = doc.getIndex('annotations')
  var annotations = index.get(coordinate.path)
  for (let i = 0; i < annotations.length; i++) {
    const anno = annotations[i]
    var pos = coordinate.offset
    var start = anno.start.offset
    var end = anno.end.offset
    var newStart = start
    var newEnd = end
    if ((pos < start) ||
         (pos === start)) {
      newStart += length
    }
    // inline nodes do not expand automatically
    if ((pos < end) ||
         (pos === end && !anno.isInlineNode())) {
      newEnd += length
    }
    // TODO: Use coordintate ops!
    if (newStart !== start) {
      doc.set([anno.id, 'start', 'offset'], newStart)
    }
    if (newEnd !== end) {
      doc.set([anno.id, 'end', 'offset'], newEnd)
    }
  }

  // TODO: fix support for container annotations
  // // same for container annotation anchors
  // index = doc.getIndex('container-annotation-anchors');
  // var anchors = index.get(coordinate.path);
  // forEach(anchors, function(anchor) {
  //   var pos = coordinate.offset;
  //   var start = anchor.offset;
  //   var changed = false;
  //   if ( (pos < start) ||
  //        (pos === start && !coordinate.after) ) {
  //     start += length;
  //     changed = true;
  //   }
  //   if (changed) {
  //     let coor = (anchor.isStart?'start':'end');
  //     // TODO: Use coordintate ops!
  //     doc.set([anchor.id, coor, 'offset'], start);
  //   }
  // });
}

function deletedText (doc, path, startOffset, endOffset) {
  if (startOffset === endOffset) return
  var index = doc.getIndex('annotations')
  var annotations = index.get(path)
  var length = endOffset - startOffset
  for (let i = 0; i < annotations.length; i++) {
    const anno = annotations[i]
    var pos1 = startOffset
    var pos2 = endOffset
    var start = anno.start.offset
    var end = anno.end.offset
    var newStart = start
    var newEnd = end
    if (pos2 <= start) {
      newStart -= length
      newEnd -= length
      doc.set([anno.id, 'start', 'offset'], newStart)
      doc.set([anno.id, 'end', 'offset'], newEnd)
    } else {
      if (pos1 <= start) {
        newStart = start - Math.min(pos2 - pos1, start - pos1)
      }
      if (pos1 <= end) {
        newEnd = end - Math.min(pos2 - pos1, end - pos1)
      }
      // delete the annotation if it has collapsed by this delete
      if (start !== end && newStart === newEnd) {
        doc.delete(anno.id)
      } else {
        // TODO: Use coordintate ops!
        if (start !== newStart) {
          doc.set([anno.id, 'start', 'offset'], newStart)
        }
        if (end !== newEnd) {
          doc.set([anno.id, 'end', 'offset'], newEnd)
        }
      }
    }
  }
  // TODO: fix support for container annotations
  // // same for container annotation anchors
  // index = doc.getIndex('container-annotation-anchors');
  // var anchors = index.get(path);
  // var containerAnnoIds = [];
  // forEach(anchors, function(anchor) {
  //   containerAnnoIds.push(anchor.id);
  //   var pos1 = startOffset;
  //   var pos2 = endOffset;
  //   var start = anchor.offset;
  //   var changed = false;
  //   if (pos2 <= start) {
  //     start -= length;
  //     changed = true;
  //   } else {
  //     if (pos1 <= start) {
  //       var newStart = start - Math.min(pos2-pos1, start-pos1);
  //       if (start !== newStart) {
  //         start = newStart;
  //         changed = true;
  //       }
  //     }
  //   }
  //   if (changed) {
  //     // TODO: Use coordintate ops!
  //     let coor = (anchor.isStart?'start':'end');
  //     doc.set([anchor.id, coor, 'offset'], start);
  //   }
  // });
  // // check all anchors after that if they have collapsed and remove the annotation in that case
  // forEach(uniq(containerAnnoIds), function(id) {
  //   var anno = doc.get(id);
  //   var annoSel = anno.getSelection();
  //   if(annoSel.isCollapsed()) {
  //     // console.log("...deleting container annotation because it has collapsed" + id);
  //     doc.delete(id);
  //   }
  // });
}

// used when breaking a node to transfer annotations to the new property
function transferAnnotations (doc, path, offset, newPath, newOffset) {
  var index = doc.getIndex('annotations')
  var annotations = index.get(path, offset)
  for (let i = 0; i < annotations.length; i++) {
    const a = annotations[i]
    var isInside = (offset > a.start.offset && offset < a.end.offset)
    var start = a.start.offset
    var end = a.end.offset
    // 1. if the cursor is inside an annotation it gets either split or truncated
    if (isInside) {
      // create a new annotation if the annotation is splittable
      if (a.canSplit()) {
        const newAnno = a.toJSON()
        newAnno.id = uuid(a.type + '_')
        newAnno.start.path = newPath
        newAnno.start.offset = newOffset
        newAnno.end.path = newPath
        newAnno.end.offset = newOffset + a.end.offset - offset
        doc.create(newAnno)
      }
      // in either cases truncate the first part
      const newStartOffset = a.start.offset
      const newEndOffset = offset
      // if after truncate the anno is empty, delete it
      if (newEndOffset === newStartOffset) {
        doc.delete(a.id)
      // ... otherwise update the range
      } else {
        // TODO: Use coordintate ops!
        if (newStartOffset !== start) {
          doc.set([a.id, 'start', 'offset'], newStartOffset)
        }
        if (newEndOffset !== end) {
          doc.set([a.id, 'end', 'offset'], newEndOffset)
        }
      }
    // 2. if the cursor is before an annotation then simply transfer the annotation to the new node
    } else if (a.start.offset >= offset) {
      // TODO: Use coordintate ops!
      // Note: we are preserving the annotation so that anything which is connected to the annotation
      // remains valid.
      doc.set([a.id, 'start', 'path'], newPath)
      doc.set([a.id, 'start', 'offset'], newOffset + a.start.offset - offset)
      doc.set([a.id, 'end', 'path'], newPath)
      doc.set([a.id, 'end', 'offset'], newOffset + a.end.offset - offset)
    }
  }

  // TODO: fix support for container annotations
  // // same for container annotation anchors
  // index = doc.getIndex('container-annotation-anchors');
  // var anchors = index.get(path);
  // var containerAnnoIds = [];
  // forEach(anchors, function(anchor) {
  //   containerAnnoIds.push(anchor.id);
  //   var start = anchor.offset;
  //   if (offset <= start) {
  //     // TODO: Use coordintate ops!
  //     let coor = anchor.isStart?'start':'end'
  //     doc.set([anchor.id, coor, 'path'], newPath);
  //     doc.set([anchor.id, coor, 'offset'], newOffset + anchor.offset - offset);
  //   }
  // });
  // // check all anchors after that if they have collapsed and remove the annotation in that case
  // forEach(uniq(containerAnnoIds), function(id) {
  //   var anno = doc.get(id);
  //   var annoSel = anno.getSelection();
  //   if(annoSel.isCollapsed()) {
  //     // console.log("...deleting container annotation because it has collapsed" + id);
  //     doc.delete(id);
  //   }
  // });
}

/*
 @param {model/Document} tx
 @param {model/PropertyAnnotation} args.anno annotation which should be expanded
 @param {model/Selection}  args.selection selection to which to expand
*/
function truncateAnnotation (tx, anno, sel) {
  if (!sel || !sel._isSelection) throw new Error('Argument "selection" is required.')
  if (!anno || !anno.isAnnotation()) throw new Error('Argument "anno" is required and must be an annotation.')
  const annoSel = anno.getSelection()
  const newAnnoSel = annoSel.truncateWith(sel)
  anno._updateRange(tx, newAnnoSel)
  return anno
}

/*
 @param {model/Document} tx
 @param {model/PropertyAnnotation} args.anno annotation which should be expanded
 @param {model/Selection}  args.selection selection to which to expand
*/
function expandAnnotation (tx, anno, sel) {
  if (!sel || !sel._isSelection) throw new Error('Argument "selection" is required.')
  if (!anno || !anno.isAnnotation()) throw new Error('Argument "anno" is required and must be an annotation.')
  const annoSel = anno.getSelection()
  const newAnnoSel = annoSel.expand(sel)
  anno._updateRange(tx, newAnnoSel)
  return anno
}

/*
 @param {model/Document} tx
 @param {model/PropertyAnnotation[]} args.annos annotations which should be fused
*/
function fuseAnnotation (tx, annos) {
  if (!isArray(annos) || annos.length < 2) {
    throw new Error('fuseAnnotation(): at least two annotations are necessary.')
  }
  let sel, annoType
  annos.forEach(function (anno, idx) {
    if (idx === 0) {
      sel = anno.getSelection()
      annoType = anno.type
    } else {
      if (anno.type !== annoType) {
        throw new Error('fuseAnnotation(): all annotations must be of the same type.')
      }
      sel = sel.expand(anno.getSelection())
    }
  })
  // expand the first and delete the others
  for (var i = 1; i < annos.length; i++) {
    tx.delete(annos[i].id)
  }
  expandAnnotation(tx, annos[0], sel)
  tx.setSelection(sel)
}


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The 1960 South Australian National Football League season was the 81st season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.

North Adelaide won the 1960 Grand Final, defeating Norwood by 5 points.

Ladder

Finals Series

Grand Final

References

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South Australian National Football League seasons


How we respond to questions about God, faith and the Church depends on our goals.
Do we want people to know Jesus or to know about Jesus? If knowing about Jesus is our goal, then we should just give people the answers to their questions.
But if our goal is for people to know Jesus, experience his love and enter into relationship with him, we must listen to them and guide them as they encounter Jesus, discover answers and grow in relationship with Christ. Instead of giving people the answers to their questions, great evangelists use genuine listening to guide people to the answers.
When she and her husband demonstrated a personal example in which they used these skills, they made it look so easy. Then we broke up into pairs and she invited us to practice. All the participants found it to be much harder than it looked, and we realized that as "church leaders" we were quick to give solutions and slow to really listen.
Our tendency can be to assume that we understand and offer an unsolicited solution to the problem. They would not have asked us if they didn't want our advice, right? But most of the time, people simply want us to listen as they come to a solution on their own.
To become great evangelizers, we have to begin by becoming great listeners. Next week, we will explore how Jesus demonstrated this crucial piece of the evangelization puzzle during his own life on Earth.


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AFLC in the News
ACLU's Anti-Christian Agenda Exposed in AFLC's Reply Brief Filed in Defense of Christian Police Officer
By AFLC on May 02, 2013 in Blog
Today, the American Freedom Law Center (AFLC) filed its reply brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in defense of Captain Paul Fields, a Christian police officer in Oklahoma who was summarily punished by the City of Tulsa Police Department for refusing to attend and refusing to assign officers under his command who shared his religious beliefs to attend a mandated Islamic proselytizing event held at a local mosque. The event included mosque tours, watching the weekly prayer service, and receiving presentations on Islamic beliefs.
In its brief, AFLC exposes the hypocrisy of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which filed a "friend of the court" brief in the Tenth Circuit in support of the police department's persecution of Captain Fields. Indeed, while dismissive of Captain Paul Fields' Christian beliefs and constitutional rights in this case, the ACLU had previously filed a brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit supporting the religious freedom of Muslim police officers who challenged a police order that simply required them to maintain the same grooming standards as their fellow officers.
In the Third Circuit case, the ACLU argued that the police order conflicted with the religious beliefs of Muslims and was therefore unconstitutional, even though the police department believed that the order was necessary to preserve discipline, morale, esprit de corps, and a uniform appearance to provide the public with a better sense of security and trust in its public servants.
Consequently, in the Muslim case, the ACLU tacitly admitted that there are police orders allegedly intended to promote "public trust" that violate the free exercise rights of officers. As such, and contrary to the ACLU's position taken in the case of Captain Fields, an order forcing an officer to attend a proselytizing event (not a call for service or other legitimate police event) at a place of worship contrary to the officer's religious beliefs is such an unconstitutional order.
There is no doubt that the reason for the ACLU's flip-flop is solely because Captain Fields is a Christian.
Aside from debunking the ACLU's specious arguments, AFLC also refuted the arguments presented by the City in its opposition to this appeal.
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Statescoop Radio
How consolidated IT aided states' pandemic responses
Before Minnesota began consolidating its IT functions nine years ago, a web of overlapping and incompatible systems made collaboration between agencies a challenge, statewide Chief Information Officer Tarek Tomes said on the latest episode of StateScoop's Priorities podcast.
While it was a common problem for state governments about a decade ago, both Tomes and Tennessee CIO Stephanie Dedmon said that the COVID-19 pandemic has shown that recent consolidation efforts paid off in making it easier to react quickly to various agencies' needs.
"I think everyone's eyes have really, really been opened, even those that sometimes maybe were a little bit apprehensive or skeptical as it relates to how fast you can actually glean value from a technology opportunity," Tomes said of how agencies like his, Minnesota Information Technology Services, have responded to the health crisis. "I think that door is really, really wide open because there's never been a greater spotlight on technologists' need to deliver and the capabilities and abilities that people can expect."
Tomes cited his department's ability to work with other agencies and to quickly launch solutions, like chatbots, to support Minnesota's public-health and unemployment services.
On top of the pandemic, Minnesota was hit with a distributed-denial-of-service attack amid civil rights protests following the May 25 police killing of George Floyd. The state managed the attack with minimal disruption to state services, and the state's IT structure was helpful in that scenario, too, Tomes said.
"I certainly think our organizational alignment and our organizational structure put us in a much better position from a cybersecurity perspective," Tomes said. "Our ability to have cloud-based denial-of-service support that really protected a large range of resources really came to bear, because in those instances it's a general disruption of government that's sought after … and to have those defenses and an ability to communicate more broadly, even with other forms of local government, gave us an opportunity to try to be in the best position possible and to share as much information as we can."
Though state IT agencies may have proved their value during the pandemic, many CIOs are now preparing to scale back upgrades or any planned consolidation efforts as states forecast budget shortfalls.
Dedmon, the Tennessee CIO, said some of her state's work on developing a hybrid cloud environment and enterprise data analytics were slowed by the pandemic, while other projects could be further delayed by financial roadblocks ahead.
"But we're trying to hold fast to cloud and enterprise data analytics and are hoping that in next year's budget there will be some relief," she said. "There's some indication our revenues in the State of Tennessee are recovering and are better than we feared."
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ICMR to Set up Laboratories to Combat Bird Flu
by Medindia Content Team on February 27, 2006 at 12:35 PM Bird Flu News
The Director General of The Indian Council of Medical Research has announced the installation of three US-funded bio-safety level laboratories by ICMR in Chennai , New Delhi, Kolkata and Pune to efficiently combat any avian flu outbreak
An international consultancy firm will be in charge of setting up the centers at costs beginning from Rs 15 crores to Rs 20 crores, with an action plan to make them operational in the current financial year. A centre of this type has already been operational in Bhopal.
The Pune centre is slated to be the largest of the four centers
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With our art exhibits we try to line up a diverse schedule in a variety of genre to reflect the broad and diverse interests of the OSU and greater Corvallis community. The art featured represents an artist's work, vision, ideas, and opinions. Some exhibits are educational, some display quality craftsmanship or artistic ability while others may depict artistic expressions that we hope enrich and deepen the appreciation and understanding of visual arts and the human condition.
The MU Concourse Gallery, located on the Mezzanine floor of the MU, is open during the building's hours.
This exhibit was originally displayed in the Broadway Gallery at Portland State University. The works were created with a Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission, and were expertly printed, alongside the artist, by the Portland State University College of Art Director of Digital Facilities, Burke Jam, and their Digital Lab Technician, Tom Yang.
Many thanks to PSU Professor Emeritus Scott Burns and PSU Professor Emerita of Modern Art History Art Sue Taylor for generously allowing the reprinting of their documentation and to the artist, Patrick Collier, for entrusting us with his work in order to bring it to the Oregon State University community.


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Bustling and festive. Those are not two words you expect to use when describing a winery in Lincoln Heights, at 11 a.m. on a Wednesday morning. But that is exactly the scene I found at the sprawling San Antonio Winery on Lamar Street. Groups of senior citizens crowded into the tasting room and store, while a line of downtown office workers formed at the cafeteria-style Maddalena Restaurant. A tour group followed closely as I was shown the facility, where bottles of wine were being filled and labeled. In the warehouse, giant steel fermentation tanks towered above. Employees smiled as we walked past. I sat down with the winery's President, Santo Riboli, a charismatic and energetic man, to ask him how his family had managed to flourish in Los Angeles for almost 100 years. But before we were seated, he picked some microscopic debris off the floor, made sure I had the perfect table in the restaurant for lunch, and rearranged a wine display on a counter. I already had part of my answer.
San Antonio Winery started out as a small store front in an abandoned boxcar on Lamar Street, in what was then Little Italy. It was founded by four brothers, who had emigrated from Lombardy, Italy, in 1912. One of the Cambianica brothers, Santo, deeply religious and astute, quickly emerged as the head of the winery. Named after the patron saint of finding things or lost people, the winery joined a crowded field of winemakers in Southern California. Wine had been made in Southern California since the Mission era. By the mid-1800s, there were already 43 wineries in the area. "When we started in 1917, there were 100 wineries, mainly in the city," Santo Riboli said. Grapes were grown in places like Sylmar, La Crescenta, Burbank, Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Alta Loma, and Chino, and then brought to Los Angeles to be fermented or sold.
With the advent of Prohibition in 1920, most of these wineries quickly folded. But San Antonio diversified. They obtained contracts and permits to make altar wines for the Catholic Church, which they still do. "The difference in communion wines is that they are mostly made with specific grapes and most of them are very, very sweet, very luscious," Riboli explained. "And generally they have brandy added, which comes from the old days." They also made wine for local families who had permits to juice. The unsurprisingly popular alcoholic "health elixirs," which could be bought at a pharmacy with a doctor's prescription, were also a lucrative business. According to Riboli, these elixirs were usually wine-based, with ingredients like vermouth, brandy, herbs and iron added to make them seem healthful. By the time Prohibition was repealed in 1933, San Antonio had gone from producing 2,000 cases of wine a year to 25,000.
By the 1930s, all of the Cambianica brothers except Santo had returned to Italy. He proved to be a smart businessman, finding new vineyards in the San Gabriel Mountains after Prohibition ended, and catering to the large immigrant population. But the bachelor Santo needed an heir, so in 1937, his nephew Stefano Riboli came over from Italy to work for his uncle. In 1945, Stefano married Maddalena Satragni, whose farming family was originally from Piedmont, Italy. Stefano was impressed with Maddalena for many reasons, but he was mostly in awe of the way she handled a tractor.
Maddalena immediately joined the business. "They worked together from the week they got married," Riboli said of his parents. "So it was my great uncle, mother and father. And my great uncle didn't trust her. He didn't trust women." Riboli laughed. "He was a very religious guy. I mean his whole life was religion, work, and he really loved my dad...over there, [in Italy] things were very strict and regimented. Over here, it was the Wild West! When she got pregnant with me, that settled it. [He said] 'Ok, I trust her!' Plus she was a great worker."
That work ethic was instilled in Santo Riboli and his siblings from a very early age. "They would bring us in when we were like a year and a half, two years old, and we would just kind of run around," Riboli said. "But I think invariably we would pick up a duster, right? And you dust. Or you pick up a broom and you sweep because you see others doing that. And from there you go on. And we're very clean, you probably noticed that -- and I think that came from the old days. My father and great uncle were very particular.
Everything had to be just so." At five, Riboli graduated to a more official position. "If you go down Lamar and keep going, it was the railroads, and the railroads used to employee 20,000 immigrants, and they would come off work, off their shifts. And they would stop right here," Riboli explained. "It's why we had the winery right here. And we'd have these counters with glass on the top. And in these glass counters we'd have cigarettes, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco, gum, and Chiclets. And that was my job. I'd keep everything in order and a customer would come in. 'I'd say here you are,' and then they'd pay at the register."
Uncle Santo went back to Italy, where he died in 1958. Shortly thereafter, Stefano and Maddalena would usher the winery though its biggest transformation. Until the late '50s, they catered mostly to the large immigrant population in Los Angeles. "The 'American' public -- they were not a wine drinking public," Riboli said. "Then you had the immigrant group -- lots of your Europeans, Hispanics, the Czechs, the Germans, the Italians, French and Hungarian -- and they drank wine. And they wanted wine in gallons. You know good wine, but only a $1.50 gallon. But we still made money then! There were very few taxes then. Taxes were a nickel a gallon. Federal taxes! Today they are $1.70 a gallon."
The wine market would soon open up. Americans began traveling more, and popular chefs like Julia Child brought the idea of good wine to the larger American public. "Varietal was suddenly a new word," Riboli explained, "cabernet, chardonnay, things like that. So that's when we started to make changes. So we had traditional wines -- like altar wines, volume wines, high alcohol wines like port, sherry -- which was a huge business then. And we started transitioning into varietal wines in the '60s."
The family continues to take chances. As wine production shifted to Northern California, they bought valuable vineyards in San Luis Obispo and Monterey counties, where their grapes are still grown. They began bottling private labels for restaurants and chains like Trader Joes. Today, when the "whole world is a brand," San Antonio has many -- including Windstream, San Simeon and Maddalena. Riboli believes it is a great advantage to have been in the business as long as they have. "If you look at a winery today," he said, "nobody is going to build a winery and go through the expense of what it takes to build a new facility, with technology and everything needed, to make wines at $6.95 a bottle. They're not going to do that. We do it because it's what we've done."
The family is proud of its almost century-long track record. "I think in the world of wine in California there are about 1,300 bonded wineries," Riboli stated. "And of those there only about 28 of us left that have been owned and operated by a family for more than 50 years." He continued, "The trend is definitely large companies buying brands that have been established."
And how has his family avoided this fate, which has swallowed up so many other wineries? "I think taking opportunities. Like for example -- the restaurant helped. We were the first winery in California to include a restaurant in a winery. We were the first one, 35 years ago. So today, if you can do it, you should do it. I think that has helped. The diversity of our wine group has helped. Taking up the opportunity to come out with different varietal wines really helped over time. Because if we didn't do that we wouldn't be here, quite honestly. I think the opportunities of buying land when we did, the lands, the vineyards -- that has helped."
San Antonio Winery continues to expand. They recently broke ground on a new artisan winery in Paso Robles. Stefano and Maddalena, now both in their 90s, still frequently come into work. Four generations of the Riboli family have now worked hard to help San Antonio Winery flourish. And there is little doubt that one day, the fifth will as well. Before we parted, Riboli told me a charming story about his granddaughter Sophia. A "little Stevie Nicks," she recently picked up a broom in front of her grandfather. "What are you doing Sophia?" he asked. "Oh, just keeping things clean, Nonno," she replied.


When the Department for Work and Pensions announced plans to close 8 of Glasgow's 16 jobcentres, activists from the PCS DWP Glasgow branch took their campaign out to the community, built support among politicians and talked to the media.
"We received very short notice that PCS reps would need to be on site at the 8 jobcentres proposed for closure. As 7 out of the 8 were in my branch, I needed assistance from group executive committee members, regional committee officers, branch officers and a full-time officer of the union to be at every site to support members at the time of the announcement.
They could see there were so many flaws in the plans - for example, the DWP had determined the closures by using Google Maps, basing travel times to the remaining jobcentres on things like bus routes that no longer exist.
We met Glasgow MSPs and MPs (including Chris Stephens, chair of PCS's parliamentary group) and gave them questions to ask of the ministers. They've been a great help to us in this campaign.
We've been leafleting in communities and have organised public meetings, joining up with other groups like housing associations, Citizen's Advice, Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC), the local trades council and other unions such as Unison and Unite. On this issue we've even united the Church of Scotland and the Catholic Church.
Staff have been coming along, and we've noticed that people who are not usually active in community organisations have been getting involved.
A few people have given our members a hard time because they see them as the people implementing sanctions on claimants, but overall there's been a good show of unity. We have built up tremendous links in the city to save these jobcentres.
Glasgow's Evening Times newspaper has been running a campaign against the closures and in December there was a front page story in the Daily Record.
The government is consulting on the closure of 3 of the 8 jobcentres, and we responded to that with a 12-page document that puts up our arguments against the DWP's rationale for these cuts. In a nutshell, the cuts are a short-term cost cutting measure that will impact our members and will have profound effects for the communities of Glasgow.
How many Glasgow job centres will we close? Let's Google it.


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Integrating psychosocial and WASH school interventions to build disaster resilience
posted on 2021-09-07, 15:04 authored by Emily-Marie Pacheco, Iwona Bisaga, Rina Suryani Oktari, Priti Parikh, Helene Joffe
This paper reviews the key disaster risk management (DRM) frameworks used for protecting children's wellbeing in disaster settings and identifies a lack of consideration for (1) psychosocial and (2) water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) needs. It also demonstrates that these two domains are meaningfully linked, as access to adequate WASH provision may protect psychosocial wellbeing and promote community resilience. As support in both domains is vitally important to children's wellbeing, these gaps warrant immediate attention. Schools are uniquely situated to support these needs as part of disaster risk management and resilience building. Therefore, we consider the ASEAN Common Framework for Comprehensive School Safety (ACFCSS), which is an adaptation of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSS) implemented in schools across the ASEAN region. While the CSS explicitly considers WASH, it only briefly considers psychosocial support; the ACFCCS lacks consideration of both domains. We argue revisions of the ACFCSS should prioritise the inclusion of psychosocial and WASH support and consider the role of schools beyond their capacity as educational institutions. We present an adaptation of ACFCSS with an additional framework pillar to guide this revision. Overall, we advocate for an integrated approach to DRM in schools based on an evidence-based, interdisciplinary perspective. We provide a series of evidence-based recommendations for DRM frameworks to consider, especially for those that intend to safeguard the wellbeing of children.
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)/Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) for Equitable Resilience [180080]
Geography and Environment
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Elsevier under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102520
Dr Iwona Bisaga. Deposit date: 3 September 2021
Read the paper on the publisher website
Disaster risk reductionPsychosocialWellbeingWASHResilienceChildren


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