How to be happy now whilst looking to the future.
Is your life passing you by? Are you so focused on your dreams that you are forgetting to enjoy every day to the fullest and be happy with where you are and what you have now?
If you are anything like most people that have a burning desire and vision to achieve something, you could be falling into the trap of being so focused on it that you neglect to enjoy each and every moment on your journey to attaining your goals.
I can liken it to the tourist who remarked that the country he was visiting had very nice scenery if only the mountains where not blocking the view. He did not see that the mountains were themselves part of the beautiful scenery.
So it goes that we often focus so much on our dreams and that ideal life we want to live next year or five years from now that we forget about today. Today is part of the process of getting there and today should be enjoyed as much as when 'that time' comes. After all, the pleasure of taking a journey is not in arriving at the final destination, but in enjoying everything along the way.
Have you ever had the impatient feeling that you are not getting to where you want to get quickly enough and therefore find yourself not fully appreciating the here and now? It's as though something is holding back your happiness until you get what you desire. The only problem in this scenario is that, in the mean time, you are unhappy and life is passing you by.
I have good news and bad news for you. The bad news is that that huge house you desire, the car that costs as much as the house, the huge flat screen television and all those wonderful things you are planning to get once you are successful will never make you happy. In fact, I know quite a few rich people that are more miserable than you could imagine. They have worked hard all their lives and have every material thing they could ever want, but there is still a lack and dissatisfaction within them that echoes with emptiness.
The good news is that, as Abraham Lincoln stated, "People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." You therefore have the power to decide to be happy no matter where you are in your life. Do not ever make the mistake of thinking you will be happy when you are achieve this and that in the future. If you are miserable now, you will be miserable when you get there unless you change your mindset.
Happiness is a state of mind that has little to do with material or social success. "Anyone who desires it, who wills it, and who learns and applies the right formula may become a happy person." That is the advice from the "father of positive thinking", Norman Vincent Peale.
There is simplicity in such a statement that makes most people fail to appreciate its significance and truth. We want some complicated formula to a lot of our problems when the answers are with us all the time. The answer to the riddle of how to be happy is simply that you make the decision to be happy. That is as plain and simple as I can make it.
Always remember that there will always be things that go wrong at times and things that upset you or try to frustrate you. But the secret is to decide that no matter what goes wrong and no matter how rough things get, you will not let it get you down. There is one thing that is always in your control. That is you. You decide how you react to any situation.
Norman Peale goes on to say that most people, as much as perhaps four out of five, manufacture their own unhappiness. They do so by thinking unhappy thoughts and having the wrong attitudes towards life. Resentment, ill-will, hate, fear and worry are identified as some of the ingredients of the unhappiness-producing process.
No amount of material wealth and success can help an individual that has unhappiness-producing habits to be happy. The result is always frustration and disappointment as the realization sinks into such an individual, after years of seeking happiness through material gain, that it cannot be achieved that way. Some have paid a heavy price in broken family relationships whilst pursuing this mirage. They have had the ability to be happy all along. They just didn't know it.
It is important to have a dream and to pursue it with everything you have, but you need to know why you are pursuing it. Being happy should not feature as a reason for pursuing that dream. It is not the answer to your happiness: you are.
The process of being happy is simply to replace the unhappiness-producing habits with happiness-producing habits. Changing your thinking and attitude is always the first step. You must drive off the thoughts that lead to discouragement, fear, depression, worry and hate and replace with positive thoughts. For instance, instead of dreading going to work everyday decide that you will enjoy your work today and imagine yourself actually doing so when you start the day. If you expect the best you often get the best.
You should learn to appreciate what you have and where you are at every stage of the journey to achieving your dreams. Remember that your life will not start when you achieve what you want to achieve, your life is right here and now. The present is all you have.


1876 HARPERS WEEKLY THOMAS NAST CARTOON – CUSTER-SIOUX WAR-LITTLE BIG HORN CONTENT – WONDERFUL PERIOD POLITICAL SATIRE: This is an original page from the August 5, 1876 edition of the famous periodical, HARPER'S WEEKLY which is a full 16" x 11" political cartoon by the famous period satirist Thomas Nash depicting the plight of the Indian War frontier soldier.
The subject matter specifically targets the U.S. Congress for not properly funding the US Army and how that lack of funding negatively affected the ability of the Army to deal with the Indians. The Indians are depicted picking over skeletons of the soldiers as they read a sign post advertising the Army's financial plight. Keep in mind this issue was published a month to the day after news of the disaster at the Little Big Horn was made public on July 4, 1876, and the impact on the consciousness of the public was purely intentional.
These Nast political cartoons are collector's items in their own right, but they also add a human interest touch to your collection of Indian War artifacts and put them in the context of the times and events.
The reverse carries the new of the day, including editorials addressing the "Indian Problem", the appointment of Rutherford B. Hayes' running mate in the upcoming presidential election and the Ku Klux Klan.


The other day I added a new feature to this blog which allows you to follow via e-mail. Every time I make a new blog post, like this one, you will receive a copy in your mailbox. Pretty handy if you do not have time to constantly check my blog for new updates!
It is very easy, To the right side of this page there is a little box to put in your e-mail address. It will send you an e-mail automatically which will ask you to follow a link to confirm and that's it! Pretty niffy.
I have been very busy at the studio trying to clean up and get a bunch of new work done for the Stutz Open House at the end of April so expect lots more posts!


Would you say that having the exposed aggregate like this is (a) poor workmanship but does not affect the integrity of the slab, or (b) defective materials that can/will affect the integrity of the slab, or (c) fill in your own (practical) response ??
This is brand new construction.
aggregate on the surface without any mortar covering or surrounding the aggregate particles. The honeycombing may extend deep into the concrete. It can be caused by a poorly graded concrete mix, by too large of a coarse aggregate, using unclean form boards, or by insufficient vibration at the time of placement. Honeycombing will result in further deterioration of the concrete due to freeze-thaw because moisture can easily work its way into the honeycombed areas. Severe honeycombing should be repaired to prevent further deterioration of the concrete surface. Most engineers recommend repair with an epoxy-resin patching material or "grout".
: Exposed aggregate noted on foundation wall. Recommend parging. Parging may not be absolutely essential but wall is more vulnerable to water penetration and consequent deterioration. Mason recommended for repair.
I like Aaron's comments also.
dave before you recommend the specialist( Mason) make sure you can determine the depth of this honey comb concrete. this is a monolithic slab and could effect structure above. may need to refer them to a foundation specailist or engineer. I know that sounds extreme but just throwing it out there.
Ironically, this was in Rock Hill where I see you are based.
What insight you don't provide in your message is what the significance would be for different depths (i.e., if only 1/16th inch then no biggie, but if 3/16th's then get the structural eval.). If you know, please share.
Dave I didn't put numbers because too many variables. Here's how I would look at. How far would you allow the bottom plate of a load bearing wall to extend past the edge of the slab before writing that up as needing structural evaluation. If the honey comb is surface only parging more than likely will be ok. If you are not comfortable about it error on the side of caution. Write it up. Refer it to a specailist! (ie licensed individual. contractor. engineer, or a foundation specailist.) This way you have met the standards and your covered.
I read a post a while back where an inspector was in hot water with a client due to the fact that he did not point out this defect and note the possiblilty of water entry into the basement, which did happen.
It's a slab, not a wall.
The honeycombing is likely just at the form interface and proves that the contractor didn't over wet the mix.
I've never seen anyone bother to vibrate the form boards on a slab.
Freeze thaw cycles aren't much of an issue in North Carolina and even if they were, a simple parget coating would fix the problem.
Parge isn't a word. Neither is parging.
There is no mortar in concrete. It's cement. What fills the void between coarse aggregates is called paste.
If you recommend an engineer look at that slab, you should be prepared to pay for his/her services.
Chad - You might get some disagreement about that, but not from me, because I found the much-more-interesting phrase "bughole-induced outgassing" while checking out "parging".
R1001.8 Smoke chamber. Smoke chamber walls shall be constructed of solid masonry units, hollow masonry units grouted solid, stone or concrete. Corbelling of masonry units shall not leave unit cores exposed to the inside of the smoke chamber. When a lining of firebrick at least 2 inches (51 mm) thick, or a lining of vitrified clay at least 5/8 inch (16 mm) thick, is provided, the total minimum thickness of front, back and side walls shall be 6 inches (152 mm) of solid masonry, including the lining. Firebrick shall conform to ASTM C 27 or C 1261 and shall be laid with medium duty refractory mortar conforming to ASTMC199. Where no lining is provided, the total minimum thickness of front, back and side walls shall be 8 inches (203 mm) of solid masonry. When the inside surface of the smoke chamber is formed by corbeled masonry, the inside surface shall be parged smooth.
R406.1 Concrete and masonry foundation dampproofing.
1807.2.2.1 Surface preparation of walls.
Prior to application of dampproofing materials on concrete walls, holes and recesses resulting from the removal of form ties shall be sealed with a bituminous material or other approved methods or materials. Unit masonry walls shall be parged on the exterior surface below ground level with not less than 0.375 inch (9.5 mm) of portland cement mortar. The parging shall be coved at the footing.
Parging of unit masonry walls is not required where a material is approved for direct application to the masonry.
And there is no cement driveway, it's concrete. Concrete and mortar have portland cement in them. The "paste" is cement and water, even the fines (like sand) are "aggregate". Concrete is "plastic" until it sets up (hydrates and cures), then concrete is no longer plastic.
Concrete does two things: 1) it gets hard; 2) it cracks.
Last edited by Jerry Peck; 11-09-2007 at 07:35 AM.
The fact that someone bastardized a pronunciation long enough for a word to make it to a dictionary does not prove it's a word.
According to Webster's, American Heritage and Oxford English Dictionary the term parge, which is indeed synonymous with parget, has been in accepted use since 1701. Running a bit behind the times there in NC?
So then paste does contain mortar and is not the term we are looking for is it?
Now that sounds like what we want to fill voids, right? that's why we use grout to parge foundation edge honeycombing.
I have referred engineers to so many jobs that I've lost count years ago, and have yet to pay a single fee. NC must be a very strange construction experience . .
... Concrete does two things: 1) it gets hard; 2) it cracks.
Bottom line ... that's it.
Chad. While your being piled on I will join in.
While you may not see many people vibrate the form boards most good concrete finishers will tap the outside of the forms with a hammer to stop this from occurring.
Here we use the word "Rat Hole" instead of honeycomb. I like it better.
By the way you are probably correct that the contractor did not over wet the mix. If you place concrete wet you probably would not get this.
is not long enough to make it "a word"?
In that case, you'd better throw out *ALL* code books, because I'm guessing there are *A LOT* of 'not-real-words' in them.
I'll concede parge to an extent. I have 17 different dictionaries. It appears in three. I must have only checked the other 14.
Aaron, cement is in mortar, mortar isn't in cement. Mortar is a mix of portland cement, hydrated lime and clean sharp sand. The cement to lime ratio determines the type of mortar.
I agree, tapping on the forms may have filled the voids. The reason they're at the form interface is there were no other irregular shaped objects to fill them: forms are flat, aggregate isn't. It's HIGHLY unlikely that the voids are elsewhere in the slab.
I'm not in NC, the poster of the question is in NC. I'm in Rochester, NY. We have freeze thaw cycles. Here, I'd suggest filling the voids to avoid an improbable, but possible issue.
In NC the issue is entirely cosmetic.
Last edited by Chad Fabry; 11-09-2007 at 03:19 PM.
[quote=Chad Fabry;23869 I'd suggest filling the voids to avoid an improbable, but possible issue.
Thats why women wear cosmetics.
I'll concede parge to an extent.
I can tell you are not really conceding parge at all.
I have 17 different dictionaries. It appears in three. I must have only checked the other 14.
How many have the following words in them?
But I must say I loved making you drag it out of me.
I only mentioned the three most authoritative dictionaries. We forget that Chad is from New York. There they have their own 14 other different dictionaries just to try understanding the rest of us. Unfortunately, they must have left a few of our words out of those, while adding a few we've never heard of. And, they're w-a-y ahead of us up there, Jerry. We don't even stand a chance . . .
While we are off topic: I'm a native Virginian and my family has been in Virginia since ca. 1656. We are being invaded from the North - Again! Not armies in blue, but people from "Up North" moving here to work. OK, there ARE a lot of fine regular folks among them. BUT its that 10% that have the audacity to poke fun or complain that WE talk funny, WE use funny words, phrases, and contractions; WE don't have all the great food, entertainment, and everything else like in, ________ *fill-in the blank*. Of course, they want to change everything to like it was back home. However, THEY ALL talk funny, THEY ALL have strange expressions. THEY eat weird concoctions. Just try to go up North and find a fine delicacy like freshly boiled fluffy grits (not those gosh awful instant kind) with a biiggg dab of country butter.
Well, Its been nice, but I've gotta go have me a looksee at a house down the hollar a piece. Ya'll have a good weekend you hear!
Now that was good! Do not get discouraged they will be talking like you soon enough.
We forget that Chad is from New York.
I'm from Nu Yark too, actually not all that fer from where Chad is (he is in Rochester and I was from 40 miles south of Buffalo - not like being from Nu Yark City).
However, I grew up (okay, maybe I never 'grew up' but I've 'spent most of my life') in Flawridah, so I tawlk funnier, being neither a Nu Yarker nor a Sautherner yet being both of them.
While I taint from Virginny, I've driven through there several times.
Thanks to all who provided the constructive information I was seeking all along.
Honeycombing can be recognized by exposed coarse aggregate on the surface without any mortar covering or surrounding the aggregate particles. The honeycombing may extend deep into the concrete. Honeycombing can be caused by a poorly graded concrete mix, by too large of a coarse aggregate, or by insufficient vibration at the time of placement. Honeycombing will result in further deterioration of the concrete due to freeze-thaw because moisture can easily work its way into the honeycombed areas. Severe honeycombing should be repaired to prevent further deterioration of the concrete surface.
It just doesn't matter if you copy a response verbatim. It can still be wrong. When you do copy a response, it would be polite to cite the source.
Honeycombing isn't a phenomenon. It's quite common and explainable.
OK. everyone got hung up on the parge part. I'll discuss that in a minute. The rest of my post is accurate. I should have used the term aggregates instead of "coarse aggregates" my bad..typo.
As far as parge goes: it is listed in several dictionaries. None of the dictionaries lists a definition. They all refer to "parget". All of the sources that do list the word list it as a transitive verb which means the term "parge coat" isn't correct, but "parge the wall" is OK.
Every dictionary lists parget and pargetted and parjetted. Everyone agrees that they are words and every dictionary shows a definition for those words. I think it's safe to say that they're the preferred terms. I do concede that parge is a word but almost everyone uses it incorrectly.
I'm blunt, I know that. I was in a hurry when I posted the first time and someone's feelings got hurt. I'm sorry for that but the thread was going into the realm of misinformation, and downright incorrect statements.
Instead of turning the discussion into an ad hominem attack, if you think I'm a jerk, say "Chad you're a jerk, here's why...... I don't mind being wrong. Well I mind it but I admit it when I am.
How's this: I'll use parge once in a while if everyone here refuses to say that there's mortar in concrete.
If Jerry had been watching the thread I would have just read it and moved on.
In my opinion, based on photos and description of the foundation style, there is absolutely no reason to call an engineer to review the situation. It isn't any more significant than sloppy [s]drywall[/s] gypsum wallboard finishing.
Last edited by Chad Fabry; 11-10-2007 at 04:59 PM.
I do concede that parge is a word but almost everyone uses it incorrectly.
The code uses "parging" a noun and "parged" as a verb (see my posts of code sections).
The only thing which has "mortar" (the type we are speaking of) in it is a masonry wall, and the "mortar" is between the masonry units.
Concrete has, as you've stated, "cement" in it. So does "mortar" (as in "portland cement mortar"). So does "stucco" (real stucco - portland cement stucco, also known as 'exterior plaster').
In my opinion, based on photos and description of the foundation style, there is absolutely no reason to call an engineer to review the situation.
I like ending discussions in agreement with others.
First, Dave stated "but does not affect the integrity of the slab" so we know it is a "slab".
If that were not known, it would either be a monolithic slab or a basement foundation wall as it was formed and poured (placed as some like to call it).
Thus, if there is no basement, no one in their right mind (or their left mind either) would 'form and pour' a stem wall then separately pour a floating slab inside it, leaving the only other option as being a 'monolithic slab on grade'.
This probably depends upon your climate. It is done all the time up here. The foundation walls are done in one pour and the slabs (usually for garage, basement, and family room) in another. Our footings need to be four feet below grade to protect against frost heave.
The house next to mine in Stephenville Tx. Some one did pour' a stem wall and inside floating slab. all the older homes in my area pier and beam except this one.
I am that inspector and it did happen. I observed honeycombing in the outside of the basement foundation wall. I was not able to see the inside of the foundation wall because the sellers had conveniently framed a wall, installed batt insulation and covered the wall with plastic (in an obvious attempt to hide the leaking honeycomb). Honeycombing is not unusual but that is the first one I have seen on an inspection that went all the way through the foundation wall.
The honeycombing at the start of this thread is in a slab, not a foundation wall. It is difficult to determine how far this honeycombing goes back into the slab. Just as I will no longer state that honeycombing in a foundation wall is typically cosmetic I would suggest that the report address the honeycombing recommend further review or monitoring.
Just so everyone is clear on what Bruce is saying... he is talking about a foundation WALL (as in a basement). Honeycombing is not anywhere near the problem with a slab foundation as it is with a structural wall for a basement.
Looks like I have to retract that, I've only seen CMU stem walls, not poured concrete ones.
Just so everyone is clear on what Bruce is saying... he is talking about a foundation WALL (as in a basement).
Not necessarily a "basement", could be a stem wall, as I found out.


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Christ's Way of Dealing With Sin
Preached November 9, 1851
"And immediately, when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts ? Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk? But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins (he saith to the sick of the palsy), I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house." - Mark 2:8-11
his anecdote is doubtless a familiar one to us all.
The Son of God was teaching in a house full of listeners, round which crowds were pressing. The friends of a poor palsied man desired His aid. It was scarcely possible for one person to edge his way through the press, where all longed to hear, and none of the crowd were likely to give place; but, for the cumbrous apparatus of a pallet borne by four, it was impossible. Therefore they ascended by the outside staircase, which, in Oriental countries leads to the flat roof, which they broke up, and let their friend down fix the midst, before Jesus. No doubt this must have struck every one. But the impression produced on the spectators would probably have been very different from that produced on Christ. They that saw the bed descending from the roof over the heads of all, and who had before seen the fruitless efforts that had been made to get in, and now remembered that he who had been farthest from Christ was unexpectedly in a few minutes nearest to Him, could not have with-held that applause which follows a successful piece of dexterity. They would have admired the perseverance, or the ingenuity, or the inventiveness.
On none of these qualities did Christ fix as an explanation of the fact. He went deeper. He traced it to the deepest source of power that exists in the mind of man. "When Jesus saw their faith." For as love is deepest in the being of God, so faith is the mightiest principle in the soul of man. Let us distinguish their several essences. Love is the essence of the Deity-that which makes it Deity. Faith is the essence of humanity, which constitutes it what it is. And, as here, it is the warring principle of this world which wins in life's battle. No wonder that it is written in Scripture-"This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith." No wonder it is said, "All things are possible to him that believeth." It is that which wrestles with difficulty, removes mountains, tramples upon impossibilities. It is this spirit which in the common affairs of life, known as a "sanguine temperament," never says "impossible" and never believes in failure, leads the men of the world to their most signal successes, making them believe a thing possible because they hope it; and giving substantial reality to that which before was a shadow and a dream.
It was this "substance of things hoped for" that gave America to Columbus, when billows, miles deep, rose between him and the land, and the men he commanded well nigh rose in rebellion against the obstinacy which believed in "things not yet seen." It was this that crowned the Mohammedan arms for seven centuries with victory: so long as they believed themselves the champions of the One God with a mission from Him, they were invincible. And it is this which so often obtains for some new system of medicine the honor of a cure, when the real cause of cure is only the patient's trust in the remedies.
So it is in religion. For faith is not something heard of in theology alone, created by Christianity, but it is one of the commonest principles of life. He that believes a blessing is to be got, that "God is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him," will venture much, and will likewise win much. For, as with this palsied man, faith is inventive, ever fertile in expedients-like our own English character, never knowing when it has been foiled; and then nearest victory at the very moment when the last chance has seemed to fail. We divide our subject into
I. The malady presented to Christ.
II. His treatment of it.
I. The malady, apparently, was nothing more than palsy. But not as such did Jesus treat it. The by-standers might have been surprised at the first accost of Jesus to the paralytic man. It was not, "Take up thy bed and walk;" but but "Thy sins be forgiven thee." As with their faith, so it was here. He went deeper than perseverance or ingenuity. He goes deeper than the outward evil ; down to the evil, the root of all evil, properly the only evil-sin. He read in that sufferer's heart a deeper wish than appeared in the outward act, the consequences of a burden worse than palsy, the longing for a rest more profound than release from pain-the desire to be healed of guilt. It was in reply to this tacit application that the words "Thy sins be forgiven thee" were spoken.
Now, sin has a twofold set of consequences. 1. The natural consequences. 2. The moral consequences.
1. By the natural, we mean those results which come inevitably in the train of wrong-doing, by what we call the laws of nature visiting themselves on the outward condition of a sinner, by which sin and suffering are linked together. As for example, when an intemperate man ruins his health, or an extravagant man leaves himself broken in fortune; or when tyrannical laws bring an uprising of a people against a tyrant: these are respectively the natural penalties of wrong- doing.
Here, apparently, palsy had been the natural result of sin for otherwise the address of Christ was out of place and meaningless. And what we are concerned to remark is, that these natural consequences of sin are often invisible as well as inevitable. Probably not one of the four friends who bore him suspected such a connection. Possibly not even his physician. But there were two at least to whom the connection was certain-the conscience of the palsied man himself, whose awakened memory traced back the trembling of those limbs to the acts of a youth long past; and to the all-seeing eye of Him to who in past, present, and future are but one.
And such experience, brethren, is true, doubtless, much oftener than we imagine. The irritable temperament, the lost memory which men bewail, the over-sensitive brain, as if causeless-who can tell how they stand connected with sins done long ago? For nothing here stands alone and causeless. Every man, with his strength and his weaknesses, stunted in body or dwarfed in heart, palsied in nerve or deadened in sensibility, is the exact result and aggregate of all the past-all that has been done by himself, and all that has been done by his ancestors, remote or near. The Saviour saw in this palsied man the miserable wreck of an ill-spent life.
2. Now quite distinct from these are the moral consequences of guilt: by which I mean those which tell upon the character and inward being of the man who sins. In one sense, no doubt, it is a natural result, inasmuch as it is by a law, regular and unalterable, a man becomes by sin deteriorated in character, or miserable. Now these are twofold, negative and positive-the loss of some blessing, or the accruing of some evil to the heart. Loss-as when by sinning we lose the capacity for all higher enjoyments; for none can sin without blunting his sensibilities. He has lost the zest of a pure life, the freshness and the flood of happiness which come to every soul when it is delicate, and pure, and natural. This is no light loss. If any one here congratulates himself that sin has brought to him no positive misery, my brother, I pray you to remember that God's worst curse was pronounced upon the serpent tempter. Apparently it was far less than that pronounced on the woman, but really it was far more terrible. Not pain, not shame- no, these are remedial, and may bring penitence at last-but to sink the angel in the animal, the spirit in the flesh; to be a reptile, and to eat the dust of degradation as if it were natural food. Eternity has no damnation deeper than that.
Then, again, a positive result-the dark and dreadful loneliness that comes from doing wrong-a conscious unrest which plunges into business, or pleasure, or society, not for the love of these things, but to hide itself from itself as Adam did in the trees of the garden, because it dare not hear the voice of God, nor believe in His Presence. Do we not know something of a self-reproach and self-contempt, which, alternating at times with pride, almost tear the soul asunder? And such was the state of this man. His pains were but the counterpart and reflection of a deeper sorrow. Pain had laid him on a bed, and said to him, "Lie there face to face with God-and think!" We pass on now to consider-
II. Christ's treatment of that malady.
By the declaration of God's forgiveness. Brethren, if the Gospel of our Master mean any thing it means this-the blotting out of sin: "To declare His righteousness in the remission of sins that are past." It is the declaration of the highest name of God-love. Let us understand what forgiveness is. The forgiveness of God acts upon the moral consequences of sin directly and immediately; on the natural, mediately and indirectly.
Upon the moral consequences directly. Remorse passes into penitence and love. There is no more loneliness, for God has taken up His abode there. No more self-contempt, for he whom God has forgiven learns to forgive himself. There is no more unrest, for "being justified by faith, we have peace with God." Then the fountains of the great deep are broken up, and unwonted happy tears can come- as with the woman in the Gospels. I pray you to observe that this comes directly, with no interval-"Being justified by faith." For God's love is not an offer but a gift; not clogged with conditions, but free as the air we breathe.
Upon the natural consequences, not directly, but indirectly and mediately. The forgiveness of Christ did not remove the palsy; that was the result of a separate, distinct act of Christ. It is quite conceivable that it might never have been removed at all-that he might have been forgiven, and the palsy suffered to remain. God might have dealt with him as He did in David's case: on his repentance there came to him the declaration of God's pardon, his person was accepted, the moral consequences were removed, but the natural consequences remained. "The Lord hath put away thy sin, nevertheless the child which is born to thee shall die."
Consider, too, that without a miracle they must have remained in this man's case. It is so in everyday life. If the intemperate man repents he will receive forgiveness, but will that penitence give him back the steady hand of youth? Or if the suicide between the moment of draining the poisoned cup and that of death repent of his deed, will that arrest the operation of the poison? A strong constitution or the physician may possibly save life; but penitence has nothing to do with it. Say that the natural penal consequence of crime is the scaffold: Did the pardon given to the dying thief unnail his hands? Did Christ's forgiveness interfere with the natural consequences of his guilt?
And thus, we are brought to a very solemn and awful consideration, awful because of its truth and simplicity. The consequences of past deeds remain. They have become part of the chain of the universe-effects which now are causes, and will work and interweave themselves with the history of the world forever. You can not undo your acts. If you have depraved another's will, and injured another's soul, it may be in the grace of God that hereafter you will be personally accepted and the consequences of your guilt inwardly done away, but your penitence can not undo the evil you have done, and God's worst punishment may be that you may have to gaze half frantic on the ruin you have caused, on the evil you have done, which you might have left undone, but which being done is now beyond your power forever. This is the eternity of human acts. The forgiveness of God-the blood of Christ itself-does not undo the past.
And yet even here the grace of God's forgiveness is not in vain. It can not undo the natural consequences of sin, but it may by His mercy transform them into blessings. For example, suppose this man's palsy to have been left still with him, himself accepted, his soul at peace. Well, he is thencefore a crippled man. But crippling, pain-are these necessarily evils? Do we not say continually that sorrow and pain are God's loving discipline given to His legitimate children, to be exempt from which were no blessing, proving them to be "bastards and not sons?" And why should not that palsy be such to him, though it was the result of his own fault? Once, when it seemed in the light of the guilty conscience only the foretaste of coming doom-the outward a type of the inward, every pang sending him farther from God, it was a curse. Now, when penitence and love had come, and that palsy was received with patience, meekness, why may it not be a blessing? What makes the outward events of life blessings or the reverse? Is it not all from ourselves? Did not dissolution become quite another thing by the Fall-changed into death; assuming thereby an entirely altered character: no longer felt as a natural blessed herald, becoming the messenger of God, summoning to higher life, but now obtaining that strange name-the "king of terrors?" And in Christ, death becomes our minister again: "Ours," as St. Paul says, "with all other things." The cross of Christ has restored to death something more blessed than its original peacefulness. A sleep now: not death at all. And will not a changed heart change all things around us, and make the worst consequence of our own misdoing minister to our eternal welfare? So that God's forgiveness, assured to us in the cross of Christ, is a complete remedy for sin, acting on its natural consequences by transformation indirectly; on its moral results directly, by removing them.
Lastly, let us learn from this the true aim and meaning of miracles. Let us attend to the account our Master gives us of the reason why He performed this miracle. Read verses 9,10. To say,"Thy sins be forgiven thee," was easy, for no visible result could test the saying. To say, "Take up thy bed and walk," was not apparently so easy, for failure would cover with confusion. He said the last, leaving the inference-If I can do the most difficult, then of course, I can do the easier. Here we have the true character of a miracle: it is the outward manifestation of the power of God, in order that we may believe in the power of God in things that are invisible.
Now contrast this with the popular view. Miracles are commonly reckoned as proofs of Christ's mission, accrediting His other truths, and making them, which would be otherwise incredible, evidently from God. I hesitate not to say that nowhere in the New Testament are they spoken of in this way. When the Pharisees asked for evidences and signs, His reply was, "There shall no sign be given you." So said St. Paul in his Epistle to the Corinthians-not signs, but "Christ crucified." He had no conception of our modern notion of miracles-things chiefly valuable because they can be collected into a portable volume of evidences to prove that God is love: that we should love one another: that He is the Father of all men. These need no proofs, they are like the sun shining by his own light.
Christ's glorious miracles were not to prove these, but that through the seen the unseen might be known; to show, as it were by specimens, the living Power which works in ordinary as well as extraordinary cases. For instance here, to show that the One who is seen to say with power, "Take up thy bed and walk," arresting the natural consequences of sin, is actually, though unseen, arresting its moral consequences. Or again, that He who bade the waves "Be still" in Galilee, is holding now, at this moment, the winds in the hollow of His hand. That He who healed the sick and raised the dead, holds now and ever in His hand the issues of life and death. For the marvellous is to show the source of the common. Miracles were no concession to that infidel spirit which taints our modern Christianity, and which can not believe in God's presence, except it can see Him in the supernatural. Rather, they were to make us feel that all is marvellous, all wonderful, all pervaded with a Divine presence, and that the simplest occurrences of life are miracles.
In conclusion. Let me address those who, like this sufferer, are in any degree conscious either of the natural or moral results of sin, working in them. It is apparently a proud and a vain thing for a minister of Christ, himself tainted with sin, feeling himself, perhaps more than any one else can feel, the misery of a palsied heart, for such a one to give advice to his brother-men; but it must be done, for he is but the mouthpiece of truths greater than himself, truths which are facts, whether he can feel them all or not.
Therefore, if there be one among us who in the central depths of his soul is conscious of a Voice pronouncing the past accursed, the present awful, and the future terrible-I say to him, Lose no time in disputing, as these Scribes did, some Church question, "whether the Son of Man hath power on earth to forgive sins;" nor whether ecclesiastical etiquette permits you to approach God in this way or in that way-a question as impertinent as it would have been for the palsied man to debate whether social propriety permitted him to approach the Saviour as he did, instead of through the door.
My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your soul and God succeed in keeping you away, all is lost. Right into the Presence you must force your way, with no concealment, baring the soul with all its ailments before Him, asking, not the arrest of the consequences of sin, but the "cleansing of the conscience from dead works to serve the living God;" so that if you must suffer you shall suffer as a forgiven man.
This is the time! Wait not for another opportunity nor for different means. For the saying of our Lord is ever fulfilled, "The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force."

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"The school is your second home and teachers are your second parents."
Over a span of twelve years, I've attended three schools. Though there are both pleasant and not-so-pleasant memories, one thing has struck me now, almost four months after I've finished with school permanently. Students are like lumps of clay, right from the time they come in to the time they leave. No matter how much resistance they put up to the events at school, one cannot deny that school has had some effect on you, be it big or small.
I have never "hated" school, so to speak. On the contrary, once I was old enough to realize that I had only a few years left at this institution, I began to love it. Almost ironical that when I was a kid, I waited with so much longing to grow older. It was my sole focus to be big, to be done with school and free to perhaps go to college or get a job. All I could think of was growing up and being able to say proudly, "I'm done with school".
Somewhere around the ninth grade, it struck me that I would have only four more years left. That once those four years were up, I wouldn't be with my classmates anymore. We'd all be "grown up" and in different parts of the world, pursuing different career paths. It was then that I began to fully love being at school. It was then that I wished it were not four years, but perhaps eight, so that I could have more time to enjoy before being thrust head-first into a world with responsibility and difficult choices, into an adult domain.
Those four years passed by faster than I could imagine. Sure, I grumbled and groaned my way through them, with special reference to the CBSE syllabus and how much workload the students had. And there were a few times when I hoped college would be a piece of cake, unlike school. Only in my last year of school did I realize that there were so many things I wouldn't be doing again with my classmates – no more PT periods, no more jokes and no more getting into trouble together, no more making fun of the teachers (and, oddly, admitting how much we missed them when they were gone), no more outings, no more grumbles about how abominable the hours were, or how complicated the syllabus was. Most importantly, no more exams.
And here I am today, in between school and college. This break of five months has made me realize how much I miss school. An odd form of nostalgia, which, I am told, will disappear once college begins. Yet, there is much which about school which I will look back on with a fond smile, and I'll wish I was there.
I'll wish I was in that carefree cocoon where the only thing to worry about was getting my homework done on time. I'll wish I could sit through one more class taught by a favorite teacher – mind you, the same teacher I railed and ranted against on several occasions, especially when my weekends were occupied by the homework given. I'll wish I could be a student and say that I belonged, that I was part of the extended school family.
True, you never realize the value of what you've got until you lose it.
I didn't want to go to school; I feared I'd lose my originality.
There's more to school, we'd all agree, than just education. We build lasting friendships and are taught many a valuable lesson on diversity. Somewhere along the line, in the midst of all those classes, extra classes, sports, activities, bunking, taunting, outings, and everything else that we do in school, our character is shaped too.
School is indeed the mouse race that prepares you for the rat race.


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Israel Training Troops to Act as 'Army of Ambassadors' After Release - Report
Founders of the program claim the courses are non-political, but seek to form a positive image of Israel abroad.
Social Democrats, Finns Tie Victory in Finland General Election - Final Tally
HELSINKI (Sputnik) - The Social Democrats (SDP) secured 40 seats in Finland's 200-member parliament, while the eurosceptic Finns Party won 39 seats, according to the final results released on Monday.
Seattle Mayor to Trump: Unlike You, We Are 'Not Afraid of Immigrants'
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan responded in writing to US President Donald Trump's Friday tweet that threatened to place undocumented migrants in US sanctuary cities by noting that Seattle is - unlike the nation's current commander in chief - "not afraid of immigrants and refugees."
Know Your Enemy: US Health Insurers Lead Fight Against Universal Healthcare
An anonymous employee at the insurance giant UnitedHealthcare leaked a video to the Washington Post of the company's chief boasting about how the for-profit company is doing all it can to undermine political and cultural support for the movement to Medicare for All in the US.
Good One: Sarah Sanders Says Lawmakers Too Dumb to Understand Trump Tax Returns
The top White House spokesperson took an unusual stance in defense of her boss on Sunday by suggesting that DC officials are not intelligent enough to understand the president's tax returns.
Miss France 2019 REVEALS Her Eating Habits in BOMBSHELL Remark
Miss France Vaimalama Chaves gave quite an unexpected reply to a question about her favourite farm animal during a television show on France 2, and vegans will not be in the least impressed.
Photo of Moreno With Lobster May Have Triggered Assange Expulsion – Reports
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after hiding there for almost seven years from British authorities, fearing that his arrest could be followed by extradition to the US.
What We Know About Mysterious Crash of F-35A off Japan
Despite finding some of the parts of the crashed jet, Japanese investigators are still having trouble determining the cause of the accident, as the jet's black box has still not been located.
Egypt Parliament's Committee Approved President's Term Extension - Reports
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India Called 'Nuke-Armed' Pak's Bluff With Balakot Airstrikes, Will Keep Targeting Terrorists – Modi
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London Man Who Rammed Cars Near Ukrainian Embassy to Get Mental Health Help – Police
LONDON (Sputnik) - A man who drove his car into vehicles parked outside the Ukrainian Embassy in London will receive mental health treatment, the Metropolitan Police said Sunday.
Blast in East Afghanistan Kills 7 Children – Reports
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Philippines 'Never Shelved' Anti-China UN Ruling on S China Sea
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Haftar's Army Blames Tripoli Forces for Attacking Civilian Targets – Spokesman
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Ecuador's Ombudswoman Condemns Suspending Assange's Ecuadorean Citizenship
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Q: transition and target in css I'm working on creating a page with some CSS-animations (due to some of my customers dont want JavaScript heavy site). So I have one element I want to animate, but in 3 different ways based on which button is clicked:
Example:
One animation
Second animation
Third animation

The way I select the element is with :target. But how can I animate the same element in three different ways using :target?
This is the CSS I have by now for testing purposes:
#element{
height: 10px;
width: 10px;
border-radius: 0px;
background-color: red;
position: absolute;
left: 440px;
top: 300px;
-webkit-transition-property: height, width, background-color,;
-webkit-transition-duration: 5s;
-webkit-transition-timing-function:ease-out;
}

#element:target{
height: 300px;
width: 500px;
border-radius: 0px;
background-color: blue;
position: absolute;
left: 200px;
top: 200px;
}

So I basically want to have 3 different :target styles on the same element. Is this possible?

A: You can do it by using css adjacent(+) selector like this:
HTML:
One animation
Second animation
Third animation

CSS:
#element{
    height: 300px;
    width: 300px;
    border-radius: 0px;
    background-color: red;
    position: absolute;
    left: 300px;
    top: 50px;
    -webkit-transition-property: height, width, background-color,;
    -webkit-transition-duration: .2s;
    -webkit-transition-timing-function:ease-out;
}

#first:target + #second + #third + #element {
    background: yellow;
}

#second:target + #third + #element{
    background: green;
}

#third:target + #element{
    background: purple;
}

.force-repaint { -webkit-animation: bugfix infinite 1s; }
@-webkit-keyframes bugfix { from { fill: 0; } to { fill: 0; } }

Working DEMO

A:
So I basically want to have 3 different :target styles on the same element. Is this possible?

Nope, that's not possible – not directly.

But how can I animate the same element in three different ways using :target?

By using three different targets.
You could put the actual element you want to apply the transition on into a number of nested container elements, like so:

      <element>

and then have your three links pointing to one of those target ids each, and use the descendant combinator in CSS to apply the transition you want for each case,
#target1 element { … }
#target2 element { … }
#target3 element { … }

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In whatever position or posture you are sleeping, it matters when you will suffer from the major spine problem, and has to go to meet the spine surgeon in Ahmedabad. You should take care of that because the spine is the most important part of the nerve system among all the body parts.
You should maintain the correct alignment of your spine, and for that, the sleeping position is a vital issue. One Tip, Always move your body together m and keep the core tight and pulled inward to maintain the spine health as it is. It is very helpful to bring your knees to your chest around the body.
You may know or don't that the GOOD POSTURE is important, but it is not for only sitting and standing. The ligament and muscles in your back relax and heal you while you are sleeping. for that, you have to notice the gaps between your muscles and spine, and if you find the correct position you can reduce the stress of your while you are sleeping.
This is more interesting than the back pain you may suffer is not caused by serious disease such as cancer, but it can be caused by the spine problem. So whether you have to go to the spine Surgeon in Gujarat or change the lifestyle habits like awkward sleeping, positioning and others.
Here are some best sleeping positions you can try if you have pain in your lower back.
When you are sleeping, it is more beneficial to keep your neck and back in the most neutral position possible. This is the best way to sleep. This position will help you to spine aligned throughout the night and relieve any pressure.
There are many people complaining, they may feel uncomfortable while sleeping on the back but for that, you can use the supportive pillows.
As we see, sleeping on the back may be the most beneficial to your spine health, despite that some find this position aggravate your spinal disease.
If you have some disorders such as snore, sleep apnoea and other the side sleeping definitely help you, and you don't face any spine problem as well. This is the recommended position when you are ill, and supportive pillow benefits you more.
You can switch the sides as well. And the pillow will keep your pelvis, hips and spine in better alignment.
This position is also helpful if anyone is suffering from the HERNIATED DISC.
Lie on back and turn gentle at favourable side.
Place your knees near to chest and bend the torso.
Change sides while you are sleeping.
It can help you to get relief in the nerve pain, weakness and more.
The sleeping style is a personal preference, and each posture can affect you in a different way. But learning about the sleep positions is good and beneficial for you to avoid to go at the spine surgeon in Ahmedabad.


Group by group we are looking at the kits of this year's World Cup nations. We let you know what we think, and whether you agree or not is up to you, but you can let us know by commenting below.
It seems that the "creatives" at Nike didn't bother spending too much time on the Aussies. Looking like a default kit you can purchase for your local school team, this attempt has basically no interesting detail or much thought behind it at all. It's classy, sure, and Eric Cantona would be very happy with the addition of the collar, but while simplicity is great at times, these shirts are quite boring.
Great job by Puma to create a template that could fit Chile, Czech Rep., and even Serbia if they wanted to get away from their contract with Nike. We realize that most of the football kits now days are templated, but there is no reason why Puma cannot use a bit of imagination like they do with the shirts of the African nations.
Maybe it's the orange color, maybe it's the medieval style crest, but unlike the Australian shirts, simplicity works well for the Dutch. That, together with the dark blue away shirts, a style that resembles the Dutch away kits from the 1934 World cup, and then again in the late 90's, this combo is a very nice tribute to the Oranje of years past.
It sure seems that Adidas has thrown traditions out the window today, but while it works for a team like Mexico, where a great concept was driving the design, it just doesn't work for the defending world champions Spain. The home shirt makes sense, with the gold trim very appropriate for a champion, but the fact that the shorts and socks will be red as well goes against Spain's tradition of wearing blue bottoms. The away kit, while definitely unique, will make La Furia Roja look like a team of referees has entered the field to play a match.


Nursing theory grounds the practice of nursing, as much as hermeneutics does in the way of understanding being (ontology). Nursing theory must be fundamental to each individual nurse as the Dasein is to Being. Only through this one-ness will the nurse be able to leap towards the ontico-ontological priority of of its Dasein to be itself or not itself. Hence, a nurse not grounded in nursing theory will simply exist in an ontic world. The 'fallen' nurse unable to fully realise possibilities.
Thank you, Mr Pendon, for your insightful analysis of the ontic-ontological tension of everyday life.


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Manufacturing Power 50 M-Z
Nolan Lewin
Lewin ran Rutgers Food Innovation Center's Piscataway campus for less than a year before taking the helm of the organization, which included its main south campus in Bridgeton, as acting executive director in 2018, and ultimately as executive director in May 2021. He joined RFIC from a career in manufacturing that included managing plants for Hanover Foods, Stay Fresh Foods and LiDestri Food and Drink. RFIC has been home to development and scaleup of several now-national brands, including early plant based champion Impossible Foods and gluten-free brand Schar Foods. In spring 2021, RFIC client Chef Jared Cannon, maker of pre-packaged salads Simply Good Jars, appeared on Shark Tank and struck a $500,000, 10% equity deal with billionaire Mark Cuban and the Queen of QVC Lori Greiner.
Jim Lewis
Lewis is the founding CEO of eMachineShop based in Mahwah, which allows businesses and customers to design, price and order custom mechanical parts. The business was founded by Lewis to offer low-cost fabrication of custom parts on the web – a key service in demand during both the socially distanced days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to work-from-home. eMachineShop uses web, software and machining technologies and can support customers through computer-aided design software. With its capabilities, the company can go from initial design to placing an order within 15 minutes, according to Lewis.
Thomas Loewald
Loewald became CEO of East Rutherford-based Cambrex in September 2020, having spent 15 years in senior executive roles at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Cambrex, which describes itself as "the leading small molecule company," provides substances and analytic services across the entire lifecycle of a drug. "Cambrex has a phenomenal reputation for providing unmatched expertise, innovation and customer service across the entire drug lifecycle," he said last June when announcing his new role as CEO. Earlier in his career he held leadership positions at Tyco International and General Electric. Loewald currently serves on the board of directors of Harvard BioScience, a global developer, manufacturer and marketer in life science research.
Julia Lopez
Reed Smith life sciences health industry group partner Julia Lopez is often called upon by pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to represent them in mass tort litigation involving contraceptives, vaginal mesh and more. She's worked on single plaintiff matters, coordinated cases, and multidistrict litigation in both federal and state courts; and she's counseled clients in breach of contract matters, business torts, other complex business disputes, and in government pharmaceutical pricing investigations. She's a past president of the Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey and is currently national finance director at the Hispanic National Bar Association, which represents 65,000 Hispanic attorneys nationwide.
Lyons is an associate professor at Rutgers Business School, where he focuses on supply chain management, and heads their Public Private Community Partnership Program. His research has focused on how to integrate the different aspects of the supply chain – including raw material extraction, logistics, manufacturing and design – into economic development, financial forecasting and environmental and social justice efforts at the local, nationwide and international levels. With shortages of raw materials and other products hindering economies everywhere, a major push has been to source locally and domestically. Lyons has been involved with the "Buy Newark" initiative, under which businesses in the state's largest city purchase directly from Newark businesses. Newark Mayor Ras Baraka's office said there's been considerable buy-in from partners such as Rutgers-Newark, United Airlines, Verizon, Panasonic, and Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey. "We can make the local competitive," Lyons said in a February interview, as long as local officials do their work to promote the goods and products made in the communities they lead.
Brian C. Neuwirth
Neuwirth has been the president of UNEX Manufacturing Inc. in Lakewood since January 2019, having worked his way up from the sales team when he joined the company in 2004. UNEX deals with material handling and carton flow for distribution centers and warehouses, and boasts a client list of retailers, big box stores, wine and spirits and food and beverage distributors and the automotive, heavy equipment and industrial distribution sectors. During his tenure, Neuwirth has built a reputation as an expert in order fulfillment and the order picking process, line side storage solutions, the application of lean manufacturing principles, carton flow, SKU analysis and ergonomics in order picking and assembly.
Simon Nynens
Nynens was tapped as head of the New Jersey Innovation Institute in 2019, after more than a year as vice president and chief commercial officer of the New Jersey Institute of Technology, where the NJII is based. NJII was founded in 2014 to offer an incubation space to grow startups around the New York City metro area in biopharma, data and advanced technology, defense and homeland security, health care deliver, and human capital. Before coming on board at NJII, Nynens spent 12 years as CEO of Wayside Technology Group, increasing revenues from $180 million to $450 million. A 2011 recipient of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award in the technology services category, he's no stranger to the realms of innovation, science and tech.
Suuchi Ramesh
Ramesh is the founder of Suuchi Inc., a next-generation supply chain platform provider for fashion brands and retailers. In the span of a year, the company's revenue jumped 598% — from $6.3 million in 2019, to $44 million in 2020. At the onset of the pandemic, the Carlstadt-based company shifted some of its operations to manufacture masks and other protective gear for health care professionals. Ramesh said the company was "re-purposing as much of our available capacity as possible for mass production of materials that are desperately needed." Ramesh told NJBIZ that she believes her company has a responsibility to assist health care workers during the crisis. "As the world continues to navigate these dark times, we want to be the light that helps medical professionals be able to keep our communities safe and healthy without having to sacrifice their own well-being and safety."
Michael Rosenberg
Rosenberg came up with PIM Brands Inc. (nee Promotion in Motion) in his college dorm room four decades ago. Now, its most popular product, Welch's Fruit Snacks, travels from its production facility in Somerset to millions of mouths a day. The company reports consumer consumption at 100 packages per second worldwide. Combined with its factory in Spain, PIM Brands capacity is about 250 million pounds of product per year. In 2021 Rosenberg moved the company's headquarters from Allendale to Park Ridge into the former home of Hertz Corp. The site, which includes research and development, tasting and sensory labs, a pilot manufacturing lab, and graphics studios was renovated and expanded over the last year. At the same time, the company added a new 309,000-square-foot distribution center on Randolph Road in Somerset, increasing PIM's Somerset footprint to nearly 1 million square feet.
Donna Schaffner
To avoid unwanted contamination in food across the nation, whether by an allergen or a bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration mandates specific preventive measures under the Food Safety Modernization Act, which was enacted in 2011. Most every food and beverage company in the country needs someone on site trained in aspects of food safety under the FSMA, and Schaffner and her team at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center train hundreds of companies every year. Food manufacturers are familiar with FSMA—and whether they know it or not, that makes them familiar with Schaffner. "You can't inspect safety into something," Schaffner told NJBIZ. "[With FSMA], the onus is on the food processor to make the food safely. If they're not, [the FDA] can shut them down. They can take away their registration to stop them from producing food, they can make them recall food if they feel like it was made unsafely, they can fine them and, in some cases, people can go to jail."
Jim Schnepper
Schnepper was at GAF for 25 years when he was named CEO in July. He spent years face-to-face working sales for the company, giving him a keen ground-up understanding of GAF's customers and their needs. During his tenure at the top, GAF has already acquired FT Synthetics, a premium synthetic underlayment manufacturer, and it opened a manufacturing plant in New Columbia, Pa. in November. Before taking the CEO role, Schnepper held positions of increasing responsibility over time and has held executive roles for the last decade.
Kris Singh
Singh is the head of Holtec International, a major employer in South Jersey and recipient of one of the state's largest economic subsidies. The company produces equipment for nuclear power producers and is credited as the nation's largest exporter of nuclear equipment. The company operates from six overseas offices and in 18 nations across five continents. More locally, Singh is a major player in the Camden and South Jersey economies, including his role on the Cooper Health board of trustees. Holtec built the $300 million Krishna P. Singh Technology Campus on 50 riverfront acres in Camden, which the company and local officials contend helped to usher in an economic renaissance to one of the nation's poorest cities. According to Holtec, the site "consists of two large manufacturing plants, a seven story corporate engineering center, a system test facility (without nuclear fuel), and support installations like a training center, non-destructive testing laboratory, and corporate apartments."
Smith has been CEO of Ortho Clinical Diagnostics since September 2019, and spent much of his tenure at a variety of health care, medical device and surgical product companies. Ortho, which is based in Raritan with another office in Colorado, produces diagnostics tests for clinical laboratories in hospitals, blood banks, and other health care facilities across 125 countries and territories. The company's goal is to develop more automated and complex testing technology for labs, to produce better, more accurate and quicker results for patients. In April, Ortho was awarded a $53.7 million contract for the mass production of a new COVID-19 antibody test. By next spring, it's slated to produce 6.7 million tests a month, a task that will require it to enlist the aid of the U.S. Department of Defense and the federal Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority.
Michael Stivala
As the CEO of Whippany-based Suburban Propane, Stivala runs a company with a large footprint supplying gas to a variety of residential and business customers — in industries ranging from agriculture to hospitality to construction — around the country. And under his leadership, Suburban Propane has made green energy a centerpiece of its corporate strategy. In addition the company plays a prominent, positive role in the communities it serves. The company recently signed a partnership agreement with the United States Army's Partnership for Youth Success Program to match service members with employment opportunities. In November, Suburban joined with Operation Tiny Home and Cornerstone Design Build to give a combat-wounded veteran the chance to purchase a custom-built small-footprint house. Not surprisingly, perhaps, Suburban Propane is a Corporate Citizen of the Year finalist in the NJBIZ Business of the Year awards.
Rita Tabatchnick
Tabatchnick has been president of Tabatchnick Fine Foods, a 115-year-old food manufacturer in Somerset, since 2014. She took over the company after her husband Ben, a fourth-generation soup maker, passed away and since then has overseen all aspects of sales, manufacturing, new product development, quality assurance and hiring. Tabatchnick soups are easy to find in both the refrigerated and the frozen aisles at most grocery stores, but the business is diversified: it's also served in school lunches, and the company donates a portion of its production to soup kitchens and to humanitarian initiatives through USAID and UNICEF.
Marco Taglietti
Having brought 35 different products to market in the U.S. and internationally over the course of his career, Dr. Marco Taglietti leads Jersey City-based Scynexis Inc. as president and CEO. He's held the former post since September 2015, the latter since April 2015, and has been a member of the board since November 2014. In June, the FDA approved the company's Brexafemme–the first and only oral non-azole treatment for vaginal yeast infections. Not only that, it's the first new antifungal class approved by the FDA in more than 20 years, and the first new treatment for vaginal yeast infections in 25 years. In September, the tablets became available nationwide. Then in November, Scynexis announced the successful completion of a Phase 1 trial evaluating the intravenous formulation of ibrexafungerp. The formulation would provide flexibility to switch between oral and IV applications of the antifungal treatment across clinical settings. Finishing out the year, in December a Phase 3 study was started to evaluate Scynexis' oral ibrexafungerp as a step-down treatment for patients with invasive candidiasis. Approximately 35,000 cases of IC come up per year that are caused by Candida species and are resistant to azole drugs; Scynexis could provide a much-needed oral alternative.
Michael Tardugno
With 40 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, Tardugno's career has been devoted to health care. In 2011 the president and CEO of Celsion Corp. relocated the biopharmaceutical company to Lawrenceville from Maryland, looking to develop and commercialize life-saving chemotherapy and immunotherapy agents where he could recruit the best talent. He's been instrumental in developing the company's pipeline, which represents a comprehensive, integrated portfolio of targeted therapeutic agents in the areas of chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and RNA-based therapy, largely focused on first-line treatment in combination with the standard of care. This year, Celsion filed a provisional U.S. patent application for its PLACCINE DNA vaccine technology platform. The novel DNA-based, investigational vaccines prevent or treat infections from a range of agents, including coronaviruses. It also amended an existing agreement with Hainan Poly Pharm Co. Ltd. to include development work for Celsion's investigational DNA-based COVID-19 vaccine. A registered direct offering of more than 11 million shares of Celsion common stock resulted in net proceeds of $13.9 million. A participant in the New Jersey Technology Business Tax Certification Transfer Program, the company has raised more than $14 million in non-dilutive capital from selling its unused New Jersey net operating losses. In May, it received $1.85 million in net cash proceeds from NOL sales covering tax years 2018 and 2019. Then in November, Celsion was approved by the NJEDA to sell $1.5 million of its NOLs for the 2020 tax year, a move the company said would extend its operating runway by three years. At the end of Q3, Celsion reported $60.6 million in cash, investment securities, restricted cash and accrued interest receivable.
Robert Tillis
When Robert Tillis appeared on the Power 50 Manufacturing list last year, Imperial Dade, which he leads as CEO with his brother and the company's president Jason Tillis, had just finalized its 29th acquisition under the pair. As of Dec. 7, that number stands at 44; the latest deal expanding the company's presence in the Southeast. Ranking at No. 9 in the NJBIZ 50 Fastest Growing Companies in New Jersey Awards in 2020, Imperial Dade – which employs 850 people in the Garden State – saw a nearly 12% jump in revenue from 2019 to 2020. In June, the Jersey City-based company broke ground on a new logistics hub set to occupy 220,000 square feet in Baldwin County, Ala. In October, it received Member of the Year award – the highest honor – from Network Distribution. The recognition acknowledges distributors for their performance and support. The company was at the forefront of the national response to COVID-19. A leading distributor of janitorial and cleaning supplies and equipment in the U.S., Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, its customers include hospitals, school districts and nursing homes. In addition to its cleaning and janitorial supplies, the company worked to supply gloves and masks and hospital supplies.
Bob Unanue and Peter Unanue
The Unanue brothers continue their family's legacy in leading Goya, the largest Hispanic-owned business in the United States, which was started by grandfather Prudencio Unanue Ortiz in 1936. Goya is more than just a bean company—it sells a variety of packaged consumables and operates its own distribution network, cutting out the middle man between where they make the product and where they sell it. The company also makes all its own cans and bottles, Bob Unanue told Fox Business News in November. The company's sales skyrocketed during the pandemic as folks traded in their trips to restaurants for trips to the grocery store. This year, the company raised prices as much as 10% for some products, which Unanue told Fox Business he had "no choice" but to do due to supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and inflation.
Anton Vincent
Vincent's a snacking vet. He's been president of Mars Wrigley North America in Hackettstown since May 2019, leading the company that brings M&Ms, Snickers, and Skittles to cure snack attacks worldwide. He joined Mars Wrigley from Greencore Global plc, a global manufacturer of convenience foods, where as CEO he ran 13 plant locations across the nation. He spent much of his career in various leadership positions at General Mills including as president of the baking division, president of the frozen frontier division and finally as president of the U.S. snacks division, a $3 billion business. Under Vincent, Mars Wrigley has invested in innovation, with new product launches—aerated gummies Starburst Airs and sweet-salty treat Salted Caramel—as recently as September.
Hugh Welsh
Welsh is the president and general counsel of DSM North America, a life sciences and material sciences company that trades on the Amsterdam stock exchange. DSM has 21,000 employees worldwide and $12 billion in annual sales, and is arguably one of the largest vitamin manufacturers in the world. Research shows that vitamin D bolsters immunity, obviously an important characteristic amid the COVID-19 outbreak. One study suggested that vitamin D deficiency can triple the mortality of the disease. That fact is just one of many brought to light in an op-ed column Welsh wrote for NJBIZ. In an a January interview, he shared his outlook. "I think we will spring back very, very quickly — I mean I could see six to eight months," Welsh said. "This is, I think, more optimistic than many, but I can see six to 8% GDP in the second half of the year, simply because there's so much pent up demand. Think of all the discretionary spending that's been deferred by consumers and we're a consumer based economy. That will spring forward when restaurants and bars begin to reopen and folks can travel again."
Melanie Willoughby
As executive director of the New Jersey Business Action Center, Willoughby oversees a state office tasked with helping businesses navigate through the bureaucratic red tape of governmental regulation and permits. A typical effort came in March, when the organization launched a webinar series covering topics ranging from available financial and technical resources, tips for obtaining personal protective equipment, understanding safety protocols, mandated employee benefits and setting up ecommerce businesses. The live webinars also described international opportunities through the New Jersey State Trade Expansion Program, which provides financial awards to eligible small businesses to increase export capacity, and financial resources and tips for growing a business. "As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, we are excited to provide information directly to small businesses that they can use to spur their economic recovery," Willoughby said at the time.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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Breakfast on the boat,In the morning sail to Labuan Bajo. Drive overland to Ruteng – a small town with cooler temperature, the capital city of Manggarai Regency where major Mangarainese tribe dwelt. On the way you can enjoy the beautiful panorama of rice fields with lush and dry hills as the back ground. After that drive to Liang Bua, see the Homo Florensis fosil. Late afternoon Check Hotel in Ruteng and dinner will serve at Local Restaurant. (B,L,D).
Breakfast at the hotel. Explore traditional village of Bajawa tribes and attend their traditional dance and music at Boloji village. Visit Bena, a megalithic village where people still preserve their ancestral spirits beliefs and way of life, reflected in their "Ngadhu" and "Bhaga". Ngadu and Bhaga are conical thatched roof huts symbolizing their Male and Female ancestral spirits. Continue the tour, you will stop on the slope of Inerie active volcano for taking pictures. Drive to North for two hours to Riung with stop at Soa - a natural hot spring water for taking a soak. A picnic lunch or lunch box is provided. Continue to Riung and check in at hotel. (B,L,D).
Breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, board a local boat to explore the marine garden of nearby islands. Lunch box or picnic lunch is provided. In the afternoon drive to Moni Village.


A rolled over vehicle partially blocked a road near Haywards Heath this morning (Tuesday February 12).
East Mascalls Road was partially blocked both ways at Snowflakes Lane.
The incident happened near walstead Chapel.
The area has now been cleared.