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Assuming the Right to Intervene
If Mark Twain were living now instead of a century ago -- when he declared himself "an anti-imperialist" and proclaimed that "I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land" -- the famous writer's views would exist well outside the frame of today's mainstream news media.
In the current era, it's rare for much ink or air time to challenge the right of the U.S. government to directly intervene in other countries. Instead, the featured arguments are about whether -- or how -- it is wise to do so in a particular instance.
It's not just a matter of American boots on the ground and bombs from the sky. Much more common than the range of overt violence from U.S. military actions is the process of deepening poverty from economic intervention. Outside the media glare, Washington's routine policies involve pulling financial levers to penalize nations that have leaders who displease the world's only superpower.
In Haiti, abominable poverty worsened during the first years of the 21st century while Uncle Sam blocked desperately needed assistance.
A former leading zealot for economic shock therapy, Jeffrey Sachs, was insightful when he wrote in the March 1 edition of the Financial Times: "The crisis in Haiti is another case of brazen U.S. manipulation of a small, impoverished country with the truth unexplored by journalists." Among the unilluminated realities: For years, the Bush administration has prevented aid from getting to one of the poorest nations on the planet.
"The U.S. maintained its aid freeze, and the opposition (in Haiti) maintained a veto over international aid," wrote Sachs, now an economics professor at Columbia University. "Cut off from bilateral and multilateral financing, Haiti's economy went into a tailspin."
With very little U.S. press coverage of such economic matters -- and, likewise, scant attention to the collusion between the Bush administration and disreputable opponents of the Aristide regime – media acceptance of the current U.S. military intervention in Haiti was predictable.
Prominent editorial carping hardly makes up for spun-out news coverage. And in this case, the day after the coup that U.S. media typically refuse to call a coup, the New York Times ran a lead editorial about Haiti on March 1 that mostly let the Bush regime off the hook with a faint reproach.
The Bush administration, the Times editorialized, was "too willing to ignore democratic legitimacy in order to allow the removal of a leader it disliked and distrusted." The editorial faulted "Mr. Bush's hesitation" and went on to say "it is deplorable that President Bush stood by" while men such as two convicted murderers and an accused cocaine trafficker "took over much of Haiti." The editorial's last sentence muted the critical tone, referring merely to "mishandling of this crisis."
Even at its most vehement, the Times editorial accused the Bush administration of inaction ("ignore" ... "hesitation" ... "stood by" ... "mishandling"), as though the gist of the problem was a kind of inept passivity -- rather than calculated mendacity in the service of an interventionist agenda.
Meanwhile, also on March 1, the Times front page supplied an official story in the guise of journalism. Failing to attribute a key anecdotal flourish to any source -- while providing Washington's version of instantly historic events -- the newspaper of record reported that Aristide "meekly asked the American ambassador in Haiti through an aide whether his resignation would help the country."
In the next day's edition of the Times, the front-page story about Haiti included Aristide's contention that he'd been overthrown by the United States. The headline over that article: "Haitian Rebels Enter Capital; Aristide Bitter."
Underneath such news and commentary runs powerful deference to Washington policymakers, reinforcing interventionist prerogatives even when criticizing their implementation. A basic underlying assumption that pervades media coverage has been consistent -- the right to intervene. Not the wisdom of intervening, but the ultimate right to do so.
In Port-au-Prince, on March 3, a long-unemployed plumber named Raymond Beausejour made a profound comment to a New York Times reporter about the U.S. Marines patrolling the city: "The last time they came they didn't do much. This is not the kind of aid we need. They should help us build schools and clinics and to get jobs."
It's customary for news media to ignore Americans who unequivocally oppose U.S. military interventions in -- to use Twain's phrase -- "any other land." Journalists are inclined to dismiss such views as "isolationism." But the choice is not between iron-fist actions and economic blackmail on the one hand and self-absorbed indifference on the other. A truly humanitarian foreign policy, offering no-strings assistance like food and medicine on a massive scale, is an option that deserves to be part of the media discourse in the United States.
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What was the bloodiest day in US History?
A 3 day battle where the Confederates retreated and General Lee decided that he no longer wanted to invade the North. It left thousands dead.
What was Lincoln's 10% Plan?
It was to pardon all Confederates who swear allefiance. When 10% of the population of the state took the oath, a state would be readmitted to the Union.
What was the Emanipation Proclamation?
It was passed by Lincoln and allowed the Union troops to seize and free all slaves from the Confederates. It also gave a moral purpose to the war.
What was the 3 Part Plan?
It was a Union strategy in the War. It set up naval blockades, split the Confederacy by going down to Mississippi, and captured the Confederate Capital.
What is the significance of Appomattox?
It was where General Lee (Confederacy) surreded to General Grant (Union).
What did the Compromise of 1850 do?
-California applied for statehood and admitted as a free state.
-Southerners threatened to seceed from the Union.
The right that states could vote individualy whether or not to be a free or slave state. The people got to vote.
Who supported the Compromise of 1850 and who did not?
John C. Calhoun did not support it. Clay and Webster did.
What was the Dred Scott Decision? What was the outcome?
Dred Scott was a slave that was taken by his owner into a free state. He argued that made him free. In 1857 the court ruled against him and said that he was "property of his owner" and had to go back to the south. It declared the Missouri Compromise uncontitutional and ruled that slaves had no rights.
Kansas was allowed to vote over slavery in the state. People came from other states to vote for slavery, which caused battles between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups.
A pro-slavery group from Missouri.
Who ran for the 1858 Senate in Illinois? What did they debate over?
Lincoln, a Republican, and Douglas, a Democrat. They debated over slavery.
What did Wilmot Proviso propose?
That slavery would be banned from all territories won from Mexico.
What were the advantages of the Northern States?
What were the advantages of the Southern States?
What were the Southern States?
Texas, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana.
A general that led the South (Confederacy) in the war.
A general that led the North (Union) in the war.
A general that was fired by Lincoln for not following Lee.
Who was William 'Tecumseh' Sherman?
Led a march (known as Sherman's March) across the South, destroying everything in his path.
Who was Andrew Johnson? What did he do?
He was the President after Lincoln's death. He had diffrent beliefs about reconstruction then Lincoln did. He vetoed Acts that freed slaves. He was later impeached for firing a cabinet member.
She was a Conductor on the underground railroad.
She wrote Uncle Toms Cabin.
Who was Abraham Lincoln? What was his original intent? Who was he killed by?
He was President during the war. He was killed by John Wilkes Booth. His original intent in the war was to restore the Union.
What did suspending the Habeas Corpus do?
It allowed the government to seize anyone they thought was a traitor or spy, and not tell them why. Lincoln was the one to suspend it.
Who was Thomas Jackson? What was he known as? Why?
A Confederate General that became known as "Stonewall" after he held off the Union at Bull Run.
Who formed the Republican Party? Who was the founder? How many blacks joined after the war?
It was formed by opponents of slavery (abolitionists). The founder was Horace Greeley. After the war 90% of blacks joined.
Which party won the 1856 election? With who?
The Democratic Party won with James Buchanan.
Who were the Free Soilers?
A politicl Party that was composed of northerners that opposed slavery.
Why were the Free Soilers against slavery?
For economic reasons. They thought that slaves made it harder for white workers to get jobs and to get more pay.
A political party. The members were divided by the issue of slavery.
What did the American Party belive in? What were they later known as?
Later known as the Know-Nothing Party. They believed in nativism (keeping foreigners out).
Who started the Ku Klux Clan? What did congress do?
Nathan Bedford Forest. Congress passes the enforcement acts of 1870 and 1871 to help curb the violence of the group.
Where familys are given a small plot of land to work in exhange for some of the crops.
Northerners who came down South to make money after the war.
Southern Democrates that wanted to regain Southern culture.
What does secession mean? Who was the first to secede from the Union.
It means to leave. South Carolina were the first to secede.
What did the 13th Amendment do?
What did the 14th Amendment do?
It made it so you cannot deny anyone their rights due to race. It was intended to overrule the Dred Scott decision.


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Song of the Day: "Sedosa" by Mestís
Posted on 09/29/2020 by Parklifer	in Local Spotlight, Preview and tagged Animals as Leaders, DC, Javier Reyes, Mestís, progressive metal, Song of the Day.
Mestis (Photo courtesy Cosa Nostra PR)
En Vivo, the brand new live album from world renowned guitarist Javier Reyes (Animals As Leaders), is out now via Sumerian Records. For this project, Javier takes the name Mestís, and he shares a live performance from the album in the form of "Sedosa."
Consisting of live tracks from former albums "Polysemy" and "Eikasia", En Vivo is a glorious demonstration of Reyes' vast musical diversity and showcases the intriguing variety of instrumentation recorded live on tour.
Hear Javier Reyes perform "Sedosa" live in Philadelphia on YouTube:
The live album follows a debut full-length by Mestís. The full-length album, Polysemy, is a 10 track offering showcasing Javier's vast musical diversity and features an intriguing variety of instrumentation and assistance by highly acclaimed musicians (Matt Garstka also of Animals As Leaders, Joe Lester of Intronaut, and Mario Camarena and Erick Hansel of CHON) The album was released last year through Sumerian Records.
Of Polysemy, Javier said, "I've always wanted to create a style of music that focused on being emotionally exploitive and technically sound, yet simple enough for the average music listener to appreciate. Another influence was using the eight string guitar in a form that is unconventional to the 'trends' or independent of characteristics that are found in music styles/genres that have popularized it. Another and important reason was to create a true form of my own independent voice as an artist. To create music that expressed my personality, upbringing, emotions and musical taste."
Visit Mestís' website for more music.
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strace
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`-o` param saves strace output to the file specified

    strace -o output.txt ls

`-t` prints timestamp

    strace -t -e open ls /home

`-r` prints relative time from start

    strace -r ls

`-p` attaches to a PID

    strace -p <PID>

`-e` specifies syscall(s)

    strace -e open,close ls

`-s` tells how many bytes one line may contain at most

    strace -s 1024 ls

`-c` see what time is spend and where (combine with `-S` for sorting)

`-P` track a process when interacting with a path

Specific traces
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`-e trace=ipc` track communication between processes (IPC)

`-e trace=memory` track memory syscalls

`-e trace=network` track memory syscalls

`-e trace=process` track process calls (like fork, exec)

`-e trace=signal` track process signal handling (like HUP, exit)

`-e trace=file` track file related syscalls

##### Monitoring file activity

    strace -e trace=file -p 1234

or

    strace -e trace=desc -p 1234

If you want to track specific paths, use 1 or more times the -P parameter, following by the path.

    sudo strace -P /etc/cups -p 2261

##### Monitoring the network

    trace -e trace=network

##### Monitoring memory calls

    strace -e trace=memory

Handy one-liners
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##### Slow the target command and print details for each syscall:

    strace command

##### Slow the target PID and print details for each syscall:

    strace -p PID

##### Slow the target PID and any newly created child process, printing syscall details:

    strace -fp PID

##### Slow the target PID and record syscalls, printing a summary:

    strace -cp PID

##### Slow the target PID and trace open() syscalls only:

    strace -eopen -p PID

##### Slow the target PID and trace open() and stat() syscalls only:

    strace -eopen,stat -p PID

##### Slow the target PID and trace connect() and accept() syscalls only:

    strace -econnect,accept -p PID

##### Slow the target command and see what other programs it launches (slow them too!):

    strace -qfeexecve command

##### Slow the target PID and print time-since-epoch with (distorted) microsecond resolution:

    strace -ttt -p PID

##### Slow the target PID and print syscall durations with (distorted) microsecond resolution:

    strace -T -p PID

Common tasks
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##### Find out which config files a program reads on startup

    strace php 2>&1 | grep php.ini
    strace -e open php 2>&1 | grep php.ini

##### Why does this program not open my file?

    strace -e open,access 2>&1 | grep your-filename

Look for an open() or access() syscall that fails

##### What is that process doing RIGHT NOW?

    strace -p <pid>

##### What is taking time?

    strace -c -p 11084

Sample output could be as follows:

    Process 11084 attached - interrupt to quit
    Process 11084 detached
    % time     seconds  usecs/call     calls    errors syscall
    ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
    94.59    0.001014          48        21           select
    2.89    0.000031           1        21           getppid
    2.52    0.000027           1        21           time
    ------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ----------------
    100.00    0.001072                    63           total

exit with Ctrl+C

##### Why the **** can't I connect to that server?

    strace -e poll,select,connect,recvfrom,sendto nc www.drom.ru 80

Syscalls
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| syscall | what it does                                         |
|---------|------------------------------------------------------|
| read    | read bytes from a file descriptor (file, socket)     |
| write   | write bytes from a file descriptor (file, socket)    |
| open    | open a file (returns a file descriptor)              |
| close   | close a file descriptor                              |
| fork    | create a new process (current process is forked)     |
| exec    | execute a new program                                |
| connect | connect to a network host                            |
| accept  | accept a network connection                          |
| stat    | read file statistics                                 |
| ioctl   | set I/O properties, or other miscellaneous functions |
| mmap    | map a file to the process memory address space       |
| brk     | extend the heap pointer                              |

Each call has a `man` page

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South Korean pop sensation Psy's global hit Gangnam Style has smashed a world record to become the most popular video in YouTube.com history.
The song has taken the world's music charts by storm over the past few months, with its video having been shared and liked by millions, in the process earning PSY a Guinness World Records title for "most viewed video online".
"We're pleased to present his official certificate to such a global phenomenon," said Guinness World Records Editor-in-Chief Craig Glenday, who presented the certificate at the radio studio. "Gangnam Style is an infectious, joyous song that has brought a smile to the faces of a tenth of the world's population, and the result is that it's the most liked video of any kind in the history of YouTube!"
Receiving the award, Psy says, "I'm honoured. This is the first certificate I've ever had... I didn't get one at school."


On Saturday London was fortunate enough to receive a visit from Bristol based Street Artist Andy Council, who certainly left an impressive work in his wake. Andy Council who works in the realm of illustration and Graffiti sets to create his own brand of bizarre creations comprising creatures which are a hybrid of animals and urban structures, which is exactly what he has done in Bethnal Green this weekend. The work depicts a dragon constructed from an intricate collection of tower blocks, trains and rail arches, setting to blur the distinctions between that which is natural, man-made and fantasy. We have to say we are very much impressed by this work and sincerely hope it isn't to long before we have to wait to be treated to more work from this artist London way. This work can be found in Clare Street, Bethnal Green, and was put up with support from Hidden Streets Of London.
Works by Andy Council & Alice Pasquini, with additional little pieces from Himbad and The Real Dill.
Andy Council is a particular favourite of mine, many of his works in Bristol are outstanding and always distinctive.
This one works really well – the colours are great! The metaphor of a living, breathing city is really quite brilliant!


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Monstrous separately, Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal could have caused carnage under the same jersey. However, an analyst claims that they would not form the best all-time duo… In his eyes, this distinction goes to two current players!
Hard to be more famous in the NBA of the 90s than Michael Jordan and Shaquille O'Neal. While the former has won six rings during that decade, the latter has quickly established himself as one of the most dominant players in history, especially physically. Better not to cross them too often during a match …
No wonder some people dream of a potential association of the two Hall of Famers. While they would certainly have done a lot of damage, Shannon Sharpe believes that we can do better as a duo. During the show Undisputed, the analyst for Fox sports revealed his favorites, and he quotes current players:
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Jordan has never had a player who could challenge him for greatness. Scottie Pippen was perfectly happy to play Robin, to be the second best player, and that is what he was. No one else has ever reached this level. And we saw Shaq, once Kobe started challenging him for greatness on this team, we saw the friction that created. I believe in this scenario Shaq should have been somewhere first and Jordan should have joined him.
For me give me James and Kevin Durant. Because these two guys can play with anyone else, and it doesn't matter. I saw KD play with 3 different systems with different types of players and it didn't matter. I've seen LeBron make it work with everyone he's been around. They play with each other, and it doesn't matter.
Between the astounding scoring qualities of the Slim Reaper and the insoluble all-around side of the Laker, we would indeed have a totally unstoppable tandem on the floors. Fortunately for the competition, this is not about to happen, each having their superteam in Brooklyn and Los Angeles respectively. And since the King is 37 years old, we doubt that a meeting will ever take place …
KD and LeBron better than Shaq and Jordan? It is debatable, each camp having valid arguments. What is certain is that we would have paid dearly to witness such an opposition!
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Not quite. I would like to explain that the permanent atom is the pattern of the Higher Self, it's the pattern of the soul within the heart chakra. It is a little replica of the human soul.
And, I was asking some of my good co-workers before about the molecule. I would say that what is more related to this molecule are the seeds of memory stored in the spinal cord in man, bringing the karmic patterns from many lifetimes into manifestation in the present lifetime.
Also, the etheric body shows, of course, your past incarnations, and the present, because the condition of the etheric body happens to be what has happened to you in other lives, what actions you have performed, thoughts you have thought, feelings you have felt. The etheric body tells a lot of man, at least the karma of the personality.
I know that some American organisations speak about the electronic body. The electronic body is similar to the causal body. The causal body, as I have explained earlier, is that body which is enveloping the soul, and therefore, the causal body shows the karma, it shows everything that soul has undergone, for all lifetimes that soul has had. The electronic body is therefore the causal body, relating to the soul.
It is the same as the electronic pattern for a human being, it is just more beautiful in a great being than in a human being of lesser qualities and characteristics.
A cosmic being has a simply beautiful and splendid causal body, if not Higher Self, all depends where they are on the stage of initiation. And the great beings, the cosmic beings, are thousand times, if not million times, more radiant and beautiful than the electronic being or pattern for a human being who has not reached that stage of initiation and development.
It is into the causal body that we look when we are soul clairvoyant, to see everything of growth, of karma, of past patterns, present and future patterns in a human being.
Now, many people think the astral body is the causal body. That is why the clairvoyants on Earth are making many mistakes concerning human beings and their growth, and their past, present and future, for they are reading in the wrong body.
If you want to know, you have to look in the causal body. But you can't look into the causal body if you haven't got a certain contact with your own causal body. You have to be of a higher vibration in your inner bodies to reach another soul's causal body. So many people who are astral clairvoyants cannot reach another human being's causal body, for their energies are too low for that. They cannot contact their own causal body, can therefore not contact others' either.
It is very difficult to look into the causal body. Even if you are a soul clairvoyant, some days you succeed better than others, because not every day we have the same powers and abilities.
It all depends how harmonious we are. It all depends on rhythms, astrological rhythms, rhythms of the moon, and if you are a woman who is a clairvoyant, it has also something to do with period. Around the period you have more powers and abilities and clairvoyant talents than before or after. So, ladies especially will notice that they can more easily look and see and hear before period and at the time of the period.
With men, it could be also around full moon – for some people, new moon – that they have more powers than at other times. We must understand that we are human beings, we are susceptible to astrological rays and energies, our own astrological rays and energy, and we do not always see as clearly, as elevated as on other days.
Q. There is another question here, 'could you please talk on your training by space beings?', which I promised to talk about today because last time I came to this subject – very interesting subject – [I said I would], and I will explain a little bit about it today.
See, space beings are not extra-terrestrials in the sense of the word, meaning that the ones calling themselves extra-terrestrials whom you may read about have nothing to do with the space beings who cooperate with the Hierarchy. Space beings that I have mentioned are very elevated beings from certain planets, and they belong to the Hierarchy of that planet. And these space beings are cooperating fully with the Hierarchy, training the disciples and initiates of the Hierarchy on Earth, especially also training their own people that they have sent to Earth recently.
Now, extra-terrestrials come into a category of not so elevated, not always so elevated beings from other planets, meaning that they are not part of their planet's Hierarchy, they may not be of a very spiritual nature. These extra-terrestrials are often making research on Earth, picking up people into their spacecrafts, conducting research, and letting them go, and these people sometimes remember, sometimes don't. These extra-terrestrials are not as elevated as the space beings I'm about to mention now.
We have on this Earth a Hierarchy, an inner government of Earth, and we also have an Interplanetary Council, there's another question about the Interplanetary Council. It's not a human council. It is a council existing among certain of the sacred planets. And in that council we have space beings, we can call them that, they are in reality enormous Masters of Wisdom belonging to the Hierarchy of certain sacred planets.
In that Interplanetary Council they talk about the destiny and the future of the entire universe, just not Earth alone. But it was from that council, 18 million years ago, that the Lord Sanat Kumara, who had a leading function in that council, invoked and called upon a number of highly elevated souls from different places of the universe, for Them to accompany Him to Earth when He came here, incarnating here in His etheric body.
The space beings that I'm about to relate to you are beautiful beings. Now, how did it all start? It started when I was given, the summer of 1977, the Cosmic Service, half of the Cosmic Service, the other half was given to another, a group dual of mine. And that summer I was contacted, not only by the Hierarchy, but by Jupiter beings, Plutonian especially, very few from Venus at that time – it was mostly Jupiter and Pluto.
Now, what are these beings doing? They live in spacecrafts that are not physical, they are more of an etheric nature. You can only see them if you have etheric or astral vision. And they are stationed there because they keep an eye on the evolution of Earth, and help the Hierarchy to instil peaceful thoughts into the minds of men.
They also help the Hierarchy with the spiritual development of the Hierarchy's disciples and initiates. What they do, they bring the disciple, in the disciple's astral or mental body, into these spacecraft, which are energy stations. And in the spacecraft they have rooms in which they do certain work in the brain, in the cells of the brain, and in certain chakras, mainly the crown chakra of the brain, in these people.
Now, many people dream about this at night when they sleep, because in their astral body they are transported to a spacecraft and are worked over there. But what they remember is that they are receiving a helmet on the head, just like you get at the hairdressers, and enormous pressure is developed within the helmet, in the brain. They know exactly what dosage to give to you before you break down. They give you the ultimate dosage, otherwise nothing happens. And they take you up in periods, because in the other periods in between you have to rest.
The first thing that happened was that when I was meditating, I was brought in my mental body to a Jupiter spacecraft, and there, I was sitting in a chair, just like at the hairdresser, and this helmet was being moved down over my head, and excruciating pain was the result. But it had to be that way, and I knew it. There was no way of avoiding this process, for without it, I would never have been able to channel the beings that I was able to channel.
You see, in my last incarnation, I was, you can call it a medium, a spiritual teacher and a medium, where the teacher took over my entire body, my astral body stepped out somewhat. But in this incarnation, I have to work consciously, meaning staying in the body with the being that came into me. To be able to do that, my brain cells, my waves of brain, you can call it what you like, I'm not a biologist or anything like that, had to be speeded up so that I could take being, staying in my body with the being that I would be channelling at the services.
In order to step up a frequency in the body, in the brain cells, I had to be given quite a number of sessions up there. It was painful, very painful each time. For two and a half months, I had headache every day – you can ask my mother when it started. I had to lie down in my bed, completely straight with the head – I couldn't move at times – while they did the work, I couldn't move at all – excruciating pains, it's like getting knives into every part of your brain, without anesthetic. And I did it – I could manage, because they don't give you more than you can take, really. You have a pain limit, they all know what pain limit you've got, and they give you to the limits.
And that was the start of my work for the Hierarchy in this lifetime. During that summer, I was contacted by this great being from Jupiter. Not only were they doing work in me, but they also came to me when I was in bed. And I was lying in bed, in the summer house where it all started that summer, and I could feel the bed rocking under me, and the floor rocking, because the vibrations were speeded up.
They send small spacecrafts to people from the mothership, where they do work when they place the little spacecraft on top of the house. The whole house is rocking in the ethers. They send down rays, and that is another part of the job, where they speed up the etheric body, and the astral and the mental, so they come to vibrate quicker.
What they also did was they asked me to go out – we had a summer cottage, my father's summer cottage there – there was a little hill, where no one was allowed to build, and we had to sit there and they came out of small spacecrafts and walked towards me. I was sitting there with some co-workers, and sometimes they could see them but I always saw them, and they did work on us in open air. See, when they do work in open air, you can't feel much. It is when you are taken out in your mental body, that is horrendous, and when you are lying in bed, that's even more horrendous in another way. But it was the start of it.
Then I was contacted by Plutonians, because Plutonians do other work. You see, you have to understand what energy they radiate. Jupiter: expansion of mind, enlightenment, illumination. They were expanding my cells and giving light to the brain cells. The Plutonians gave me another energy – the start of the neutralisation of personality. Pluto is death of personality. They give you an energy with which you can come to conquer your personality.
I was also contacted by Venutians, and Venutians are very beautiful, because they are tall – they look like humans. They are tall, blonde hair and very often wear a ribbon on their foreheads with a shining metal of some kind – always looking alike.
The ones that never show face are the Martians, because they are not very pretty to look at. So whenever I was contacted by Martians, they had no face. They had, they appeared, they manifested in a figure, a body, but they had no face. So, I knew who I was dealing with – the faceless ones were the Martians. And the Plutonians, had one thing, all of them had one thing in common: the eyes were like mirrors, they have no pupils. And when you look into them, it's just like looking into a mirror.
And they have, usually, an energy around them where you might think, if you were not an expert in energy, that you were dealing with the wrong forces, the negative forces, because they have black around them. But this is how I can discriminate, you see, I can discriminate between Plutonian darkness and the darkness of the Lord of Darkness. It is two different kinds of energies. The Lord of Darkness has horrendous energies, frightening energies, black, filthy, not very pleasant to be near, while the Plutonians have a totally neutral energy, impersonal, totally impersonal, and they are beautiful beings, beautiful.
That summer, and for the rest of the year, was the summer I started the Cosmic Service in Copenhagen. For the rest of the year, a lot of work was done by the space people. But they, they left us, because the danger point on Earth was neutralised, and they have recently returned, but other beings. Here in, two years ago, a little bit more than two years, three years ago, I was contacted by beings from Vega, and I had never been in contact with them before. Beautiful beings, total love, much higher vibration than Venus. Enormous heart chakras, they have very enormous, radiating heart chakras, and they can only contact you if your heart chakra starts to shine. And they then do work in your heart chakra.
But I have felt the space people quite a lot for the last year, and they are actually coming to us at services and doing work – they have started again, because we have another danger point in the history of the Earth now, we have a danger point, and then they come and help. And sometimes they manifest so the people can see them, formations of spacecrafts here and there.
But I'm not in contact with space beings who are not good, who are actually working negatively. Many people are, and they believe them to be good, and they are in fact bad. And they have a bad effect in people. They give them a lot of wrong messages, a lot of negative mumbo jumbo talk, and people who cannot discriminate think they are in contact with highly elevated beings, and they listen to every word they say, they perform every deed they mention, without discrimination, and that you must never do.
Because even if I'm fairly good at discriminating beings and energies, I always ask, if I am a little bit uncertain, if they are working for Christ. Many people forget to ask these beings whom they are in contact with, if they work for Christ, and that is a major mistake, because negative beings are appearing like extra-terrestrials and space beings and the Hierarchy and great guides and angels, but they can in fact not radiate love at all, because they haven't got love in them. The beings I'm in contact with have much love in them, they shine – not with the artificial light of the astral levels, but with the pure light of soul – it's another frequency.
But how can I explain this to people when they can't see it? It's difficult for me to explain to you that there are two different frequencies of light around people: there is the astral light and the soul light. This we are explaining in the summer school at Glenormiston this year, we're going to explain the difference between the lights. I can briefly say that these beings I'm relating to have soul light, enormous compassion and loving eyes.
And they have taken me up to many meetings, and sometimes they have made me fall asleep, because I obviously couldn't manage to take all this consciously. But I have been in spacecraft where the Lord Jesus, as the Venusian Master – He has another appearance that He's using – as the Venusian Master initiates people up there. I have been to many ceremonies conducted in spacecrafts, as well as ceremonies conducted in Shamballa, and on the inner levels and in temples – completely different energies, totally different.
You can ask me now, why do they need the spacecraft? They don't. But they use them – they are energy fields, and they live there and work within them. And these energy fields are of another vibration than the energies you find on the inner levels of Earth.
They have rooms in these spacecraft where you are being placed on a bench, a bench-like contraption, with a glass bowl – it looks like a glass bowl – that they put on top of you. And in that glass bowl, they cleanse and purify you totally. And you can lie there for hours, or just five minutes, ten minutes – it's very wonderful. I like the glass bowl better than the helmet.
It's an interesting thing that on Earth, we have very great, elevated space beings incarnating, and we have lesser space people, and some of these space beings incarnating on Earth have various incarnations here, various missions. And I was told, back in Denmark, that Uri Geller was a typical space being in incarnation. He was helped by the space people, he had these energies to use. He was not working for the Hierarchy.
You can work for space beings who are of a certain level, but have nothing to do with the Hierarchical work on Earth. People do not quite understand that we have a Hierarchy who deal with man's spiritual evolution and growth. We then have so-called other brotherhoods who are not as elevated as the Hierarchy, and we have beings who are allowed in, to work on the inner levels of Earth, but are bypassing the laws of the Hierarchy to a certain extent. They are allowed to train their own people.
The Hierarchy is just observing, unless the people they are training, well, accumulate so much bad karma that They have to step in. Many, many, many people are thus being trained by different, so-called institutions on Earth, and within Shan the Rising Light† we deal primarily with the Hierarchy, the inner government of Earth, and then with the space beings that are connected to the Hierarchy, enormous, enormous beings.
But I'm not the only one who is contacted. Many people are, millions, millions upon millions of higher developed souls on Earth are contacted. But perhaps they do not remember as much as I do, for the etheric body, when the etheric body is of a certain vibration, you remember more and more of what happens to you when you are out of the body.
It is an interesting training, and I've done it to people, in lying-in meditations, at services, I have connected them a lot, three years ago, to the space people, to spacecraft, took them with me, and they felt the energy, exactly the way I felt: pressure in the brain, and a certain energy in the room, like you are sitting in a pressure pot. And just before the lid explodes, they stop.
I was even subjected to their help, the first summer, enormous contact with them, when I was driving from our summer cottage to Copenhagen, a forty minute drive, they very often followed us from behind, and sent energy into the car. And you could feel it immediately, because the whole car became a pressure cooker, the pressure was of a certain nature. And as it disappeared, immediately the pressure went down.
There is a lot of work that you have no idea happens to you at the services, in your meditations and so forth. I know that some people have contact with these space people, but I often wonder, when I hear about their experiences, who they are in actual fact in contact with. Because the space people will never frighten you. They will work in you, and they will let themselves be known to you if you can handle it. But as a matter of fact, they're working in many, many people to help them to come to certain realisations and understandings on this Earth.
The third initiation is the first major initiation of the Hierarchy. It involves a permanent link with the Higher Self and a link to the Spirit self, the Monad.
It is very difficult to obtain the third initiation in the flesh, for before you have obtained it, you have had numerous lives of pain and suffering, to learn many experiences on Earth. The first initiation is the birth of Christ within the heart – it is also called the Bethelem initiation, the House of Bread. The Lord DK calls the first initiation the House of Bread, the Bethelem is the House of Bread.
Why bread, in occult meaning is life, it means that a human being becomes an alive human being for the first time in all existence in human form. Because a human being is not considered totally alive by the Hierarchy unless the heart chakra is stimulated, and at the first initiation the heart chakra is stimulated to a certain degree, and the permanent atom is shining within the heart. One can see the link to the soul within that heart.
And the second initiation, the Baptism of Jordan, is the link to the whole nature, the Holy Spirit, even more linked to the Higher Self.
And the third initiation, which is very difficult to obtain in the flesh, but people are obtaining it now more than before, even though not in great numbers, very, very small group of people, group of souls, and that is the initiation of the transfiguration.
We can call the first initiation transmutation, not perfected transmutation, but a somewhat transmuting of the inner self, of the darkness into light. Soul contact established – sporadically, but still.
The second initiation could be called the transformation. A human being with a second initiation is quite transformed in comparison to other human beings.
The third is the transfiguration, where the whole human man or woman is in contact now with soul – there is a lot of soul light around that human being – and that human being is seemingly to other people, if they can see it, very much more enlightened and happy, joyful, knowledgeable and so on, than other human beings. One becomes then a member, a greater member of the Hierarchy, and one becomes a stronger link for the Hierarchy on Earth. We will see people taking the third initiation in the Aquarian Age. We have only a little number of them, 400 or so on Earth, but we shall see the number growing on this planet in the New Age.
Q. Then I have another question here, 'What is the role of Christ in the new world religion or in the New Age?' relating to this initiation here. And this I would like to explain a little bit about, because that interests me immensely.
It is this that the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, the Bodhisattva, entered into the Lord Jesus and utilised His body for three years, it was actually more, but the mission, the great mission, was over a period of three years.
Now the whole Piscean Age, in that age, we say that Christ spread the Light, Christ was called the spreading of the Light, the spreading Light on Earth. In the Aquarian Age, which we have entered now, He is called the radiating Light.
And we have differences, because the Lord Maitreya will appear on Earth as what He really is: the Spiritual Head of the Hierarchy. He will not appear only through a vehicle, which had been prepared for him like the Lord Jesus. He will appear, either Himself in manifestation, in an inner manifestation, with the inner body, the mental body or the soul, or He will appear within disciples, but it will be much more of Himself appearing. It will be so that one knows it is the Lord Maitreya speaking – it is no longer the person standing there, but the Lord Maitreya in that person.
The Christ has a much more all-around universal role in the new world religion. And because of His presence on this Earth, to a much greater extent than before, people will be initiated – they can't help being initiated, because His Light will manifest much more light in people, and the light demands initiation.
By that I mean, the more light in a human being, the more this human being will be ready for initiation, and with initiation, not only link to his own Christ self but also to that of the World Teacher, the Christ, on the inner levels.
The Church of the Sacred Heart of Maitreya, now working in Melbourne, will be a church which will lead people through to the first initiation and the second. It is a role that some, very few, churches will have, or certain temples, certain ceremonial temples on Earth, namely that of leading the aspirants into initiations one and two. It has never happened exoterically before, it has only happened on the inner levels. This is the whole change in the New Age. People will be initiated here and now, and as groups.
We have to understand that where the Hierarchy mainly worked with individuals, They now work with groups. They're not so interested in individuals any longer. They are interested in group work, group initiation, group healing and so forth. And that is why we have founded Shan the Rising Light.
We're nine Founders, all of different degrees, who are a group in this incarnation. We are no longer one person who has founded something, or two persons, two people don't found a group, we are nine people, a perfect number for a group, and we work as a group bringing people to the portals of initiation.
This is why I manifest all these groups in the church. I am putting the servers into groups, for it is as groups that they will develop and be brought to the portals of initiation by the Hierarchy.
Now, that doesn't mean that the groups love each other personally – they may hate each other dreadfully, and they often do. But that is exactly why they have been put together: namely, to work out all these programs of the past. They are meant to come to love each other and all hatred disappear, and the Hierarchy is very patient. And They will wait because there is nothing else They wait for on Earth than that: of people loving each other as groups, will bypass each other's negative sides and qualities and just work for the good cause as a group of people.
So if you understand me right, the Lord Maitreya has always appeared on Earth through other disciples, either through Krishna, that was one disciple, through Jesus, through Saint Patrick, through all these people, disciples that He had worked through. But now, He's appearing as Himself, the Lord Maitreya – that's the difference.
And thereby, He has established the way of the heart on Earth. Because the way that Jesus established was the way of purified feeling, it was not the way of the heart. Now we are walking the way of the heart into perfected life. With the help of the Lord Maitreya, we can accomplish that. But we never had that way of the heart on Earth earlier.
Well, many people believe that selling your soul, well, that's something in books and films and it's a lot of fun – but it is in fact very true. We can do it consciously, and we can even sign a contract that we will give our soul to the devil if we can get what he promises us the most: fame, riches and power.
Now, many people are unconsciously working for the Lord of Darkness without knowing it, but some are consciously doing it. And now we are talking about the ones that consciously do it. They are the ones that consciously promise the Lord of Darkness themselves, so that he has a wonderful instrument on Earth. They want something in return of course, namely, fame, riches and so on.
He might even ask for a contract, and that contract cannot be neutralised because the person wants it to be neutralised. It can take hundreds of lives before that person is free of that contract or that work, the promise to work for the Lord of Darkness.
And what you are not aware of is that the only way to neutralise the contract is by attracting your soul light to you by doing good work. Not in one life – that's no good. Hundreds of lives of good deeds, saintly living, sacrificing your life for a worthy cause will neutralise the contract. You can't neutralise it in one incarnation of good living, of righteous living – absolutely not. It will take much more.
For you must remember that when you have spent your lives working for the Lord of Darkness the way you've done, you cannot just decide over one night that you want to work for the Lord of Good, the Lord of Life, and that's it. No, no, then retribution comes, the karmic down payments start. They can be speeded up or slowed down – in the end, you have a sort of clean sheet, the Hierarchy takes you into service. But, always know one thing: before you enter the service of the Hierarchy, always know you've worked famously and well for the Lord of Darkness, and this is a fact for nearly all souls on this Earth.
Yes, yes, that's an interesting topic. You can actually make a contract also with the Masters of Wisdom, especially to the Count of St Germain, promising to be a good boy or a good girl and so and so, you can write a contract saying, well, the money I get I will use for this purpose and that purpose and you know, how you're going to live your life.
But you'd better keep it, because if you don't: karma – you'll get more karma than if you hadn't of course. But it is something that is done occasionally, that you write a letter to the Master, you promise the Master to work for the Master, and you will donate so and so much time, so and so much money for the good cause, you will do this, you will do that, and then you sign the name. And you burn it, you burn the letter, and the Master has received it, even while you are writing it. Better keep the promises, that's my suggestion.
It means that you are under training by the Master who lives in or governs that retreat. It has always been this way, that only disciples could be admitted into the retreats of the Seven Rays. But because of Earth's evolution and human progress, They're taking aspirants now – not aspirins, not the ones you swallow for headache, but aspirants, neophytes, acolytes, there are many names.
And in these retreats, see, you either live there physically, you are brought there and you live there physically, or you are brought there in the night when you sleep, your astral and mental body go there to be trained. Or, you can be there for training for a number of years in your mental body, but you are not aware that it's missing from your bodies of personality.
Well, the way you can notice it's missing is that your brain has gone, the brain has been substituted with a kilo of hay or something like that, and you suddenly feel all blank, where you had a wonderful intellectual mind before, you can't even spell your own name correctly – it happens, it happens. Very, very peculiar periods of emptiness, and suddenly it's back with you, and you again have your intellect and everything of good memory.
But then, it's often the case not of something that has happened to you, disease or anything like that. You have been, your lower mental body has been in a retreat for a period of two months, three years, seven years, 12 years, and I'm experiencing that myself.
I can go through a period totally brainless – don't remember a thing, and other periods where everything is working wonderfully well. It's simply happening, more and more, in people today. It is not a sign of your losing out in vitamins or whatever you may think, a stroke is near – it is simply that you are taken out.
Now, what are you learning in those retreats, what are you learning there? You are learning to control that energy, meaning those characteristics, those talents that the energy teaches you, and it's very strict disciplinary training on top of it of course.
And the Master has His co-workers there. And of course, Luxor is governed by the Lord Serapis Bey, so He has a lot of devas there as well.
These retreats will become physical on Earth. They have been mainly etheric, but around these places there are also physically built retreats which you cannot enter unless called for. Well, you cannot be welcomed into retreat unless you are invited.
Now, these retreats are slowly manifesting on Earth's physical level. In the next couple of hundred years, you will see this energy of the Master developing, in certain spots of the Earth you will have physical retreats.
And what were we told six months ago, it's almost six months ago soon, that Melbourne was becoming another Luxor. It was becoming a very powerful retreat of the same kind as Luxor, and that is – a certain part of Melbourne of course – and that is happening all over the planet. They are sort of branching out, slowly but surely. You can receive the same training, energy wise, as in the retreats and sooner or later may be called in physically to visit the retreats.


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Sexual Harassment, Discrimination Investigations Are Required by Law
What are the obligations when an employee steps forward with a sexual harassment complaint? In this episode of The Workplace, investigations expert Lisa Buehler joins CalChamber Executive Vice President and General Counsel Erika Frank to talk about emerging issues and best practices when conducting a workplace sexual harassment investigation.
Investigation Basics
Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (DFEH), employers are obligated to conduct an internal investigation whenever they receive a complaint of sexual harassment or discrimination, Buehler explains.
"Employers have to investigate, find out what happened, reach conclusions and take remedial actions if necessary on those complaints," she says.
But while employers are obligated to investigate harassment and discrimination claims, it's also a good idea to investigate all complaints, including "Bob was mean to me."
"Many of those claims can later turn into harassment or discrimination complaints, and the employer wouldn't know until long after the fact," Buehler says. "…Investigations are good ways to resolve conflicts in the workplace when it's outside of the control of the manager or the supervisor."
Moreover, an employer doesn't need to conduct the "Cadillac" of investigations if the "Chevy" is good enough, Buehler says. Employers should gauge their response to the level and nature of the complaint and against whom the allegations are made. For example, a sexual assault claim against a company executive is going to be a bigger deal than a complaint about coworkers not getting along, she explains.
It's best that employers conduct investigations internally whenever they can, Buehler recommends. If for any reason an employer has to bring in an external party to conduct the investigation, it's a good idea to bring in a neutral party and not the company's regular counsel, Buehler adds.
It's very important to make factual findings on what happened, Buehler stresses, even in scenarios where it's a "He said, she said," situation.
"You can always make findings; you just have to look at the evidence and weigh it appropriately," she says.
Confidentiality can be a big issue during investigations, and everyone from witnesses to the complainant often are concerned about maintaining confidentiality. And while the investigation process should be as confidential as it can be, it's also important to be transparent, Buehler explains.
"It's not fair to the complainant or the respondent to do it in an anonymous manner or to do it in a way that's so confidential that people are not given a full and fair opportunity to respond to the complaints," she says.
Old Complaints
Frank mentions that one of the things she noticed when the #MeToo movement started was that a number of the misconduct claims were old. Buehler acknowledges that old complaints are challenging for employers and to investigators, especially since documentation has sometimes already been purged or employees have left the company. Nevertheless, there is no technical statute of limitations on complaints, and employers are still obligated to respond and take remedial action, she stresses.
Still, it can be beneficial to conduct investigations on stale complaints because employers can uncover ongoing behavior, behavior that has never been addressed or a tolerance of relaxed behavior in some departments, Buehler adds.
Off-Duty Conduct
It's becoming harder and harder to define what "off duty" is, Buehler tells Frank. In corporate settings, workers can eat, sleep and play, all in the same building, she comments.
For nonmanagerial employees, employers cannot really address conduct that happens off duty unless it spills over into the workplace, Buehler explains. Managers, however, are in a managerial capacity 24 hours a day. So if a manager goes to a bar and misbehaves, an employer can address that behavior as the manager is not off duty and is representing the company 24 hours a day, she says.
In closing the podcast, Buehler outlines some of the best practices employers should keep in mind when conducting a workplace investigation:
Always try to make factual findings in your investigation and insist that outside investigators do so. Don't walk away from an investigation saying, "I don't know what happened."
Do your investigations promptly. It's harder to conduct an investigation when people's memories have failed.
Be fair and be thorough.
Don't get bogged down by the idea that you have to know everything that happened. It's not a criminal standard and "we are not mind readers," Buehler says. Not knowing everything that happened doesn't mean you can't reach a good conclusion, she emphasizes.
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John D'Addario Jr, co-founder and president of the D'Addario Foundation, has dedicated his life to supporting music education, and has held a leadership role in the industry for over 50 years. He represents the eighth generation of musical craftsmen, and the third in the US. He has overseen the foundation as its mission broadened to inspire and advance music appreciation in under-served communities by supporting educational programs. John helped develop the guitar program at Midori and Friends in New York City that now serves over 1,000 inner-city children and is a member of the board of directors at the Phoenix-based Musical Instrument Museum.
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Sustainable Investing: Water is plentiful, but ways to invest are scarce — here's how to make money
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Thanks to climate change, the next forefront for environmental, social and governance investing could be water.
It won't be easy. Water is a fragmented market and is highly regulated by municipalities, agricultural and environmental interests. In the U.S., land rights and water rights go together, unlike in other countries such as Australia, where investors can buy those separately.
There are few simple ways to invest. Until two years ago, there was no futures market for water, unlike other commodities such as corn, crude oil or gold. And the contract barely trades.
There's also been little investment incentive. In North America, the cost to extract, clean and deliver water has been quite low for so long, says Matt Howard, vice president of water stewardship for The Water Council, a nonprofit organization that helps companies address water challenges.
"All we're paying for is the embedded cost of the energy that it takes to extract it, move it around and clean it. So you kind of had this almost unrealistic expectation that water is relatively inexpensive, it's everywhere when we need it," he says.
Yet water may finally be getting the attention it deserves. Beyond climate change – and accompanying droughts in some areas and floods in others — there's heightened awareness of water quality; Flint, Michigan's lead-contaminated drinking water is a prime example. Crumbling U.S. water infrastructure may see long-term investing following the passage of last year's infrastructure act, with $55 billion of the $1.2 trillion earmarked to improving water supply.
As a result, says Matthew Diserio, president of Water Asset Management, a water-investing firm, decades of underinvestment in water-related infrastructure may be coming to an end. For ESG investors, improving water quality benefits communities, industry, agriculture and the environment – plus improving water quality is easy to measure.
"Water as an industry, really leapfrogs a lot of the ambiguity around quote, ESG investing because of the very clear, positive metrics that are identifiable around the water," he says.
Tuesday is World Water Day, a U.N. observation to highlight the importance of fresh water and 2022 is also the 50th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, the U.S. federal law governing water pollution.
Read: What the U.N. climate talks got right and wrong, according to a fund manager and a climate-risk researcher
How to tap water investments
Buying publicly traded companies is the easiest way to own water. Water companies generally fall into two market sectors: utilities, such as American Water Works
AWK,
or industrials, such as water technology company Xylem
XYL,
Utilities provide drinking water and wastewater treatment. Most are regional, such as York Water Co.
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+0.14%,
which services cities in Pennsylvania, and California Water Service
CWT,
which operates in California, Washington and New Mexico. American Water Works is the largest publicly traded utility, operating in 46 states.
Industrial companies build pipes, pumps, irrigation equipment, sensors and other technology. Xylem and Evoqua Water Technologies
AQUA,
offers water infrastructure and wastewater treatment products, while Advanced Drainage Systems
makes water infrastructure products.
However, there are only a handful of publicly traded companies that are directly in the business of water, says Bobby Blue, a research analyst for Morningstar, who wrote a column looking at water investing. That hasn't stopped fund managers from flooding the market with more than 60 exchange-traded funds or mutual funds.
Funds have a lot of holdings overlap. In the two biggest U.S.-focused ETFs brimming more than $1 billion in asset under management, First Trust Water
FIW,
and Invesco Water Resources
PHO,
eight of the 10 largest holdings are identical.
Some holdings are questionable as water plays, Blue says. Many water funds own life-sciences conglomerate Danaher
DHR,
which includes a water-related business unit, but it only makes up about 10% of the firm's revenues. Another popular name is Roper Technologies
ROP,
which makes smart-water meters for utilities, but less than half of its revenues come from its water business.
Read: Can I beat the stock market with ESG investing? How to find the right fund for you
Although water ETFs aren't pure plays, Gavin Maguire, analyst at Briefing.com, says they can still offer individuals a different way to get industrials exposure, and have offered solid long-term performance. The First Trust Water ETF gained an annualized 15.7% over five years and 14.3% over 10 years, while the Invesco Water Resources ETF is up an annualized 15.5% over five years and annualized 11.3% over 10 years, beating the Industrial Select Sector S&P Fund's XLI 10.7% five-year annualized return and its 12.3% 10-year annualized return.
Investors wanting pure-play water companies should stick to individual stocks and dig through 10-Ks to look at where the firms get their revenues, Blue says. Maguire agrees, pointing out another popular water fund holding, Essential Utilities
WTRG,
owns a natural-gas utility. Irrigation-system companies such as Lindsay
LNN,
and Valmont Industries
VMI,
also manufacture other equipment unrelated to water.
How liquid is water investing's future?
Ginger Rothrock, senior director at HG Ventures, the corporate venture arm of The Heritage Group, says a number of small start-up companies are starting to address the problem of treating industrial wastewater, especially as the cost of water is likely to increase. There also could be greater monitoring of industrial water use as larger companies' sustainability mandates demanding more transparency in their supply chain. Another part is interest in a circular economy, where resources are reused instead of disposed, she adds.
She notes a number of the small companies that have gone public have been gobbled up by bigger firms, such as DuPont
DD,
buying desalination company Desalitech in 2019 and Evoqua buying Aquapure, a Cincinnati-area water services and equipment company, in 2020.
ESG investors, instead of buying water-related plays, may put their focus on corporations' water targets, just as they have done with carbon. But Water Council's Howard cautions investors to look skeptically at companies' water goals and targets under the guise of sustainability because most companies haven't grappled with their water use. Unlike carbon where the impact a ton of carbon has a single metric, water isn't fungible, since water supplies and demand on aquifers and water systems vary greatly.
Read: Today's widely adopted ESG ratings and net-zero pledges are mostly worthless, two pioneers of sustainable investing say
The Water Council is working with firms to define good water stewardship, and recently launched a program called WAVE, an enterprise approach for firms to help them understand water uses and impacts.
"There's maybe 10 to 15 corporations globally that I think truly understand water stewardship and truly have a handle on it in terms of how they operate and the goals and the targets and commitments they've set for themselves," he says. Two of the best on this topic in his view are water-treatment firm Ecolab
ECL,
and food giant General Mills
GIS,
Debbie Carlson is a MarketWatch columnist. Follow her on Twitter @DebbieCarlson1.
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The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon is a collection of 34 essays and short stories written by Washington Irving. It was published serially throughout 1819 and 1820. The collection includes two of Irving's best-known stories, attributed to the fictional Dutch historian Diedrich Knickerbocker, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story originally published in 1820 as part of a series of sketches under the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow tells the story of Ichabod Crane — a superstitious school teacher — and how he is driven from the small town of Sleepy Hollow by a headless, horse-riding specter. The mythic horseman in Irving's Legend was rumored to be the ghost of a Revolutionary War soldier, tragically decapitated by a flying cannonball.
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist. Written while Irving was living in Birmingham, England, it was part of a collection entitled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.
"Old Christmas", published in 1886, is a collection of five Christmas "sketches" by Washington Irving from his famous Sketch Book. It describes Irving's experiences at the English country estate of Mr. Bracebridge during the "coaching days" of the early 19th century, focusing on the sights, sounds, smells and traditions of "Old" Christmas.
Washington Irving (1783 - 1859) was an American author, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. His historical works include biographies of George Washington, Oliver Goldsmith and Muhammad, and several histories of 15th-century Spain dealing with subjects such as Christopher Columbus, the Moors, and the Alhambra.


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Generics is one of the hottest features of the upcoming JDK 1.5 release. This article describes the new generics feature by investigating the example pre-release implementation provided by Sun. You'll use the generics feature to create an extensible multimedia application, and show how generics make the code simpler.
enerics is one of the hottest features of Sun Microsystems's upcoming JDK 1.5 (Tiger) release. Programmers and researchers have been clamoring for a feature like this for years, and an impatient few have even implemented their own prototypes already. Generics enables the creation of parameterized classes and methods, allowing Java developers to create custom variations of their code for different types.
Unlike JDK 1.4, Tiger isn't just a set of new standard libraries—it features actual changes to the language itself. Generics is the most profound of these changes. Long a part of advanced academic languages, this new feature is a welcome addition to Java.
This article introduces the new generics feature by examining Sun's example pre-release implementation. It demonstrates how to use generics in a sample program, an extensible networked multimedia framework (NMF). Finally, it goes over using generics in the Collections classes.
This is a fragment from the source code for NMF. The first thing you should notice is the "<Thing>" following the class name. This is a type parameter, which says you can create variations of the Mailbox class by providing different types to take the place of Thing. This means that Mailbox is a parametric class, a class that takes one or more parameters.
Now Mailbox<String> clearly is the full name for a Java type. It means "the Mailbox class, with Thing replaced by String." You could also use Mailbox<URL>, which would be "the Mailbox class, with Thing replaced by URL."
In NMF, a Mailbox is an object that lets you send and receive messages of different types. A Mailbox<URL>, for example, lets you send and receive URLs, while a Mailbox<String> lets you send and receive Strings.
The nice thing about this is that you don't have to create two different classes to send and receive two different kinds of messages. Instead, you can create a single class, parameterized by the type variable Thing. You simply program this class to send and receive Things. Instantiating the Mailbox class with various types replaces the Thing type variable with actual types such as String and URL.


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Pedro José de Arteta y Calisto (Quito, 1797 - Ibidem, 5 de mayo de 1873), fue un político y jurisconsulto ecuatoriano, vicepresidente del país entre 1867 y 1869, sirvió brevemente como encargado del Poder Ejecutivo del Ecuador desde el 6 de noviembre de 1867 hasta el 20 de enero de 1868. Entre el 1 de enero y 31 de diciembre de 1825 fue Presidente del Consejo Municipal de Quito.

Biografía
Fue hermano de Nicolás Joaquín de Arteta y Calisto, primer arzobispo de Quito (el primer obispo fue Ignacio de Chiriboga y Luna).

Presidente del Consejo Municipal de Quito
Durante su periodo como presidente del Consejo Municipal de Quito, en 1825, ordenó que se empedraran las calles principales y se adecentaran uniformemente las fachadas de las casas con pintura color ocre para recibir a Simón Bolívar; se continuó con los arreglos en el parque La Alameda, repararon los puentes de ingreso a la ciudad, se adquirieron y colocaron faroles para iluminar en las noches, e iniciaron los trámites para colocar la pirámide conmemorativa donde había tenido lugar la Batalla de Pichincha.

Encargado del Poder Ejecutivo del Ecuador (1867-1868)
Fue elegido vicepresidente de Jerónimo Carrión en 1867, y se encargó del poder ejecutivo cuando Jerónimo Carrión renunció al cargo el 6 de noviembre de 1867.

En ese cargo realizó la convocatoria de nuevas elecciones presidenciales para concluir el periodo constitucional de Jerónimo Carrión que debía terminar en 1869.

Continuó en el cargo de vicepresidente del nuevo presidente elegido Javier Espinosa y Espinosa hasta el golpe de Estado de Gabriel García Moreno efectuado el 16 de enero de 1869.

Distinción
En su honor se ha nombrado una calle residencial de sentido norte-sur, que atraviesa la urbanización 23 de Junio, en la parroquia de Cotocollao en el extremo noroccidental de la ciudad de Quito.

Véase también
 Presidentes del Poder Legislativo del Ecuador

Referencias

 Oña Villareal, Humberto: Servidato S.A. – Explored - Dr. Pedro José de Arteta

Enlaces externos
  El fénix de la libertad, volumen 4

Presidentes de Ecuador
Presidentes de Ecuador nacidos en Quito
Vicepresidentes de Ecuador
Alcaldes de Quito
Asambleístas y diputados de Ecuador
Presidentes del Congreso Nacional de Ecuador
Presidentes de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de Ecuador
Conservadores de Ecuador
Fallecidos por infarto agudo de miocardio
Fallecidos en Quito

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