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A new abortion case lands at the Supreme Court
The high court will decide the fate of the restrictive Mississippi law
The pro-life movement got a surge of hope yesterday when the Supreme Court agreed to review a controversial Mississippi abortion law that was intended to provide an opportunity for the Court's new conservative justices to strike down Roe v. Wade. Many on both sides assume that Donald Trump's appointees will tip the scale against the pro-choice plaintiff but the outcome is not so certain.
Current law is based on Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a 1992 ruling that held that there was a constitutional right to abortion before a fetus becomes viable. A majority of five justices upheld the Casey decision last year in June Medical Services v. Russo. In that ruling, the Court struck down a Louisiana law that required doctors that performed abortions to have hospital admitting privileges.
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But since June Medical was decided, the balance of the Court has shifted. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away later in 2020 and was replaced by Amy Coney Barrett, a staunch opponent of abortion. The hope is that the 5-4 balance that upheld Casey in 2020 is now a 5-4 majority in favor of striking down Casey and Roe.
The Mississippi case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, is focused on the state's Gestational Age Act, a 2018 law that bans abortions after the fifteenth week of pregnancy. The law contains exceptions for medical emergencies or severe fetal abnormalities but not for rape or incest. Jackson Women's Health Organization sued and won at the federal district court level and at the appeals court level. The state then appealed to the Supreme Court.
The real question is not whether the Mississippi law is constitutional under the rules laid out by Casey, but whether the Court's conservatives are willing to overturn fifty years of precedent. Even though most legal scholars would acknowledge, at least in private, that Roe v. Wade was bad law, it is nevertheless an entrenched precedent as well as a popular one.
In September 2020, an NBC News/Survey Monkey poll found that 66 percent opposed overturning Roe compared with only 29 percent who wanted the ruling struck down. This poll is in line with longstanding data trends that show that Americans don't want abortion outlawed but that they also don't want it to be unrestricted. Most Americans favor legal abortion with some restrictions.
The Court's new conservative majority may not be as firm as many think. Even though President Trump placed three new conservative justices on the Court, there are already signs of an ideological shift that may keep the Court in the center. Most notably, Chief Justice John Roberts seems to have become a swing justice on many cases.
But before you condemn Roberts as the squishy appointee of George W. Bush, consider that Donald Trump's appointees may not be on board with overturning Roe either. Amy Coney Barrett is a likely vote to blow up Roe, but Brett Kavanaugh is a weaker link.
When Kavanaugh went through his tough confirmation battle in 2018, I saw many of my friends on the right gloating that Kavanaugh would "do to the liberals what they did to him." In the first place, if you want a justice who would rule based on partisanship and emotion, you aren't a rule-of-law conservative. In the second place, that belief is an insult to Kavanaugh's character as a judge whose job is to be objective. In the third place, it has not proved to be accurate.
Next to Roberts, Kavanaugh is the most moderate justice on the Court per FiveThirtyEight. Kavanaugh has shied away from taking abortion cases over the past few years and left Senator Susan Collins (R-Maine) with the impression that he would not vote to overturn Roe.
But wait! There's more. President Trump's first appointee, Neal Gorsuch, is the third most moderate justice and is only slightly to the right of Kavanaugh. In his confirmation hearings, Gorsuch acknowledged that Roe was the "law of the land" and said, "I accept the law of the land." He also said that he "would have walked out the door" if asked by Trump to overturn Roe.
Of course, the flip side is that Kavanaugh and Gorsuch joined Justices Thomas and Alito in attempting to uphold the Louisiana law in June Medical. If that bloc holds, with the addition of Barrett it would form a majority.
My best guess at this point is that the Court's ruling will land somewhere in the middle. The Court can uphold the Mississippi law without totally striking down the concept of constitutional abortion. Abortion jurisprudence has been updated several times since Roe was decided in 1973 and it would not surprise me if the newly conservative Court enacted a new and more restrictive precedent but stopped short of overturning Roe.
There are several reasons for this. First, justices like Roberts and Kavanaugh are not people who like to blow things up and cause chaos. And chaos would reign if Roe were overturned.
Second, the justices know that the country does not want Roe overturned. Conservative justices tend to focus on the law and not public opinion, but they also know that overturning Roe would damage the credibility of the Court in the eyes of much of the country. This realization explains much of John Roberts's shift to the center.
Finally, I've long been skeptical that Donald Trump really wanted to overturn Roe. Trump was a pro-choice liberal Democrat until he decided to run for president as a Republican and, even though he is celebrated by the pro-life movement today, he made many missteps that suggest that he doesn't really understand the movement. For example, in a 2016 town hall candidate Trump said that women who had abortions should be punished, a position not widely held by pro-lifers.
If Donald Trump really wanted to overturn Roe, Amy Coney Barrett would have been his first appointment and his subsequent picks would have been in her mold rather than the mold of John Roberts. I'll qualify that by saying that Supreme Court appointments are like a box of chocolates. Presidents never know what they are going to get.
My purpose here is not to say that the Mississippi law will be struck down or upheld. My point is that it could go either way and that no one knows how Roberts, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch will vote. While there is a real possibility that Roe and Casey will be struck down, it is not a slam dunk.
In closing, I'll point out that, if the Court does strike down Roe and Casey, the result will not be a nationwide ban on abortion. The result would be to return the issue of abortion to the states, where it was when the Court decided Roe in 1973. At that point, abortion was already legal in 17 states and similar legislation had already been introduced in many more. If Roe is overturned, abortion is likely to remain legal in many, if not most states.
Although I'd like to see the Court overturn Roe, I'm skeptical that the Court will overturn a half-century-old precedent that is supported by the majority of the country. In my view, a better long-term tactic for fighting abortion is to win over the hearts and minds of Americans and persuade them that abortion kills living, viable human beings rather than pursuing top-down edicts from nine Supreme Court justices.
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May 18, 2021Liked by David Thornton
Republican men complained and screamed for a year about how wearing a mask was an assault on their freedom and choice, and now those same men are lining up to tell women that being forced to give birth isn't an assault on anything. I wonder what having abortion rights on the ballet every year will do in states like Texas, Georgia, and Florida?
Either way forced birthers should get this win. I refuse to call them pro-life since they have shown without a doubt not to care about life as 600,000 Americans died this last year and they complained about a mask.
They sold out their god and religion for this victory they should at least enjoy it while the world sends their faith to the ashbin of history.
SGman
The best course of action IMO is to reduce demand (as Dems try to do, though many don't recognize that) as limiting/eliminating supply (as GOP wishes) will just create a black market. The problem is that many of the policy changes needed to reduce demand run contrary to GOP positions regarding healthcare/welfare/contraception: those who prioritize abortion as more pressing an issue may need to change their plan of attack if they want to make lasting change.


Man, I have to chuckle. Just a little. Seems that MS has finally, finally let go of the latest Windows 10 upgrade through "normal channels." That release, of course, is named 1809. As I understand it, this decodes to September (the ninth month of) 2018. Look at what's on the MS Windows 10 Update History page, as of 1/16/2019. That's why I titled this post: Windows 10 1809 versus 1901.
Why Say Windows 10 1809 versus 1901, Anyway?
Note further, that MS is still restricting access to this latest 1809 version based on telemetry info. That means it's gently steering those away who might otherwise get it through Windows Update until they're a bit more sure that the upgrade will complete successfully. Why, oh why, one wonders did this attitude not prevail from the get-go?


Michael Paul finely ribbed trousers (pack of 2 pairs) – these are fully elasticated at the waist with no pockets zips or buttons, very comfortable and ideal for work and everyday use. These Michael Paul trousers are finely ribbed fabric and stretch at the waist for a comfortable fit. They come is UK sizes 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 26. THESE TROUSERS ALSO HAVE A COUPLE OF INCHES STRETCH WHEN YOU PUT THEM ON PLEASE NOTE ON EACH ORDER YOU WILL RECEIVE 2 PAIRS OF TROUSERS. This pack comes in 3 lengths, SHORT (for approx inside leg 28 inches), REGULAR (for approx inside leg 30 inches) and LONG (for approx inside leg 32 inches).
They come in 3 lengths: SHORT (to fit inside leg approx 28″), REGULAR (to fit inside leg approx 30″), and LONG (to fit inside leg approx 32″). This pack of 2 Michael Paul trousers are sold for £36 on the Premiumbuys website, so a bargain here whilst stocks last.


Over the years, Instagram has grown as a major platform of social media used for brand promotion. It provides an opportunity for the brands to expand their content so as to increase their online reach. However, there are many misconceptions about the usage of Instagram for businesses. Below are mentioned some of the common misconceptions among the people.
There is a common belief that only big brands with a significant marketing budget should opt for Instagram. However, it is not true. There are many start-ups and smaller names in the market which are using Instagram despite lower budget and are doing reasonably well in their domain. Not only businesses, even self-employed individuals and vendors are also using Instagram to increase their sales and stay ahead in the competition. The Instagrammers try to analyze the competitor's marketing strategies so that they can incorporate it into their business. So Instagram is the best platform which all the brands can use as a part of marketing strategy.
People understand that Instagram works well if your brand is selling visually appealing products. They believe that being a service provider you cannot use Instagram for promotion. However, service providers can use it in a more creative way to gain their business dimension.
The brand's goal is to generate appealing and entertaining images which they can share with the audience for better results. But the question is what these companies can show on Instagram if they can't show their products. Such companies can use pictures of the employees to rank well on social media.
This way you can instill faith in the future customers. Another way is to share the photographs of the customer's goodwill which show that their employees are considerate towards society. Show the celebrations happening in the office premises.
The usual misconception is that the results of social media campaign results cannot be measured. Nowadays, it has become a standard to monitor and track social media activity on various platforms. People think that there is no insight tool for Instagram which can use track their social media activity and they need to do it manually.
The reality is certain analytical tools are present which helps you to evaluate the social media activity. In order to assess the brand's performance, the Instagrammer should track the account to analyze the brand's performance. The various web tools aid in monitoring the presence of the brand over social media platforms.
Even top-notch brands think that Instagram can only be used for posting photographs. There are many other ways to use Instagram for your brand to enhance customer engagement. However, one of the drawbacks in comparison to other social media platform is you cannot use content to attract the customers.
However, the advantage of using Instagram is that it offers a two-way mode enabling the brand to utilize user-generated content with the help of photo competitions and specially designed campaigns. Ensure you design hashtags specific to the brand for the contest so that the number of customers participates in the competition. The brands should design a compelling strategy to promote your hashtags and relevant campaigns. It also gives an opportunity to the brands to share good content allowing the brand to use it again.
Many people believed that according to the new terms of Instagram they can sell photos to the third party. Later, Instagram reworked on their terms making it clear that Instagram is not a platform to sell your photographs.
These are some of the biggest misconceptions about using Instagram for their business. Social media provides one of the biggest platforms to start doing impressive things enhancing their business verticals.
Good point on content Vishwajeet. I post oodles of videos on IG; fun tool for boosting engagement.
Hi Vishawajeet! I've seen you around, great to finally talk to you.
My baby product company has utilized Instagram heavily, moreso for brand awareness than for direct sales. I especially like your tip on user generated content because I can attest to its power.
We've gotten a lot of pictures to reshare on our own page just from asking people to tag us in their photos. Some of these photos have been so great that we're now even utilizing them on our sales pages!
Great stuff man. Thanks for sharing this!
Since I created my Instagram account, I haven't done much of marketing.
Though, probably because I don't want to spread myself too wide that I might get little from my overall content marketing resources.
Before reading your article, I also have that believe that Instagram marketing might be exclusive effective for big brands with a big marketing budget.
Now I know that even small businesses/individuals can compete on the platform with other big brands outhere.
Instagram is so popular now, but I've used it very lightly.
I've shared many of these misconceptions, especially that only visual products work.
And it's such a chore sometimes to come up with something visual to represent my content.
But I'm seeing that video is becoming a bigger part of Instagram, too, so I might try that out as well.


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Kim Rhode Continues Legendary Shooting Sports Career with Winchester Ammunition
Posted on Tuesday, 15 March, 2022 by twobirdsflyingpub
Kim Rhode, the most iconic Olympic shooting sport athlete ever is continuing her career with Winchester Ammunition.
EAST ALTON, IL (March 14, 2022) — Kim Rhode, the most iconic Olympic shooting sport athlete ever is continuing her career with Winchester Ammunition, The American Legend. Rhode will continue to take on the world's best competition, shooting the famous Winchester AA® shotshells.
Kim has been shooting Winchester ammunition products in training and competition for more than 30 years.
"Kim Rhode has established a legacy in competitive shooting that is unmatched. She is a fierce competitor but also one of the most genuine ambassadors of the shooting sports," said Matt Campbell, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Winchester Ammunition. "Kim and Winchester will continue to work together at the highest levels of competition, but also in driving more people to participate in the shooting sports."
Rhode continues her pursuit of the highest achievements in the shooting sports as she chases her goals of representing the United States in the 2024 Olympics in Paris and in her home state of California at the Los Angeles games in 2028.
"Winchester has been with me since the very beginning of my career and their support has been remarkable," said Rhode. "I've always tried to do my very best in representing the shooting sports as an inviting activity, for people of all ages and skill levels. I love talking to people who want to get started in shooting just as much as I love to compete."
About Kim Rhode
Kim Rhode's journey with Winchester began when she was 10 years old. Winchester employee Sandy Wood met her at a shooting event in California and the rest is history.
Over the next 33 years, Rhode blazed a path through the shooting sports that is unequaled. Her six Olympic medals, including three gold medals while competing in the multiple disciplines of Double trap, bunker trap and international skeet make her the most decorated shooting sports athlete of all time.
At age 13, Kim won her first world championship in American skeet. In International Shooting Sports Federation (ISSF) competition, Kim has 29 gold medals along with gold medals in five Pan American Games.
About Winchester Ammunition
Winchester is the largest small caliber ammunition enterprise in the world and the leader in delivering innovative ammunition products to hunters, sport shooters, law enforcement and the U.S. Warfighter. The 156-year-old Winchester brand is built on integrity, hard work and a deep focus on its loyal customers. Learn more about Winchester by visiting Winchester.com or connecting with us on Facebook at Facebook.com/WinchesterOfficial.
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Q: Cisco IOS: How is it possible to break with default config register of 0x2102 The default config register of an IOS device is 0x2102. The table here clearly states that 0x0100 signifies "Ignore Break," and that the default config register employs these options:
Ignores break
Boots into ROM if initial boot fails
9600 console baud rate default value for most platforms

In practice, and per Cisco's documentation, you are able to break the startup of a device with the default config register (mainly for bypassing/resetting passwords), so what gives?

A: Break can always be sent during the first 60 seconds of the bootstrap process, regardless of the configuration setting.

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Congress on Thursday granted a four-month reprieve to the millions of consumers who risk losing access to television signals during the nation's switch from over-the-air television to digital.
Although broadcasters say they were ready for the Feb. 17 transition, requiring them to keep broadcasting in analog until June 12 gives more time for consumers to prepare their TV sets. It also lets the federal government revamp its converter-box subsidy program, which had run out of money, and issue coupons to the millions of people on a waiting list.
The House approved the bill, 264 to 158, a week after the Senate did the same. President Obama has promised to sign the legislation.
Consumer advocates say as many as 10 million viewers currently get their programming solely from over-the-air broadcasts and are unprepared for the digital transition. They need either a digital TV, a cable or satellite box or a digital-to-analog converter.
"Consumers are confused about where to buy their converter box, about which box to buy, how to hook up their box, what to do if they lose a channel they once got, and whether they need a new antenna," said Joel Kelsey, a policy analyst with Consumers Union. "Changing the date allows them more time to grapple with those questions."
Advocates who argued against a delay, including the Consumer Electronics Assn., said the new date could make the transition even more perplexing for some viewers.
TV stations will be allowed to seek a federal waiver to turn off their analog signals before the new deadline. So instead of nearly all broadcasters making the switch Feb. 17, stations now may do so at different times over the next four months.
It's unclear how many stations will seek early conversion.
"It's pretty wide open now," said Stan Statham, president of the California Broadcasters Assn., which represents 144 TV stations in the state.
Several broadcasters have already stated their intention to make the switch Feb. 17, regardless of whether Congress moves the date. Among them is Sinclair Broadcasting Group Inc., which owns 39 TV stations across the country.
Broadcasters saying they will wait until June include News Corp., which owns 27 Fox stations in 18 markets, including Los Angeles and Chicago.
That could create a patchwork quilt of signals in some markets, with certain stations broadcast only in digital and others in both analog and digital. Some older converter boxes don't have the ability to handle both types of signals, so some viewers may have to unplug the device to watch one channel broadcast in analog, then plug it back in to watch another in digital.
"This date change will inject uncertainty into the market," said Gary Shapiro, president of the Consumer Electronics Assn.
The vast majority of converter boxes manufactured in recent months have the ability to handle analog signals, but consumers should check before buying, Kelsey said.
The National Assn. of Broadcasters formally backed the postponement, but some stations are unhappy about the cost of maintaining an analog signal for four extra months.
Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.) said the delay would cost broadcasters in his state $500,000 to $1 million in electricity costs to continue running analog transmitters along with the existing digital transmitters. He also said viewers could be confused, noting that advertisements are touting the Feb. 17 date.
"They're still being told this is what they should do," he said. "This is why people don't trust the government."
The law that set the Feb. 17 deadline allowed stations to petition the Federal Communications Commission to make the switch early. Some already have -- 143 of the nation's roughly 1,800 stations have gone all digital, and 60 more plan to do it before Feb. 17, according to the FCC.
But supporters said the delay was necessary, particularly to provide more money for the government's subsidy program for consumers who buy converter boxes. The Commerce Department, which administers a $1.5-billion program to send coupons worth $40 toward the purchase of a converter, ran out of money Jan. 4. About 3.2 million coupon requests are on the waiting list, Consumers Union said.
The economic stimulus package moving through Congress has $650 million to help replenish the converter box program and increase public outreach efforts.
"The legislation passed by Congress provides more time for Americans to prepare for the DTV transition and will allow more time for the government to fix the coupon program," said David Rehr, president of the National Assn. of Broadcasters.
"America's broadcasters, which have spent the past decade preparing for this historic transition, are ready to make a successful switch."


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PLI scheme for mobile phone manufacturing will create greater value addition, reduce import dependence: ICRA
PLI scheme has an outlay of Rs. 38,601 crore with the focus of scaling up mobile manufacturing combined with greater domestic value addition through catalysing manufacturing of electronic components such as active semiconductor components, passive components, PCB assemblies etc.
The scheme is expected to bring fresh investments from Global and domestic mobile manufacturers resulting in healthy growth in mobile phone production at a CAGR of 15-20% between FY2022-FY2026 with potential to boost India's exports.
The Government of India introduced Production Linked Incentive (PLI) for Large Scale Electronics Manufacturing in April 2020 primarily targeting mobile phones and specified electronic components as product categories with a cumulative outlay of Rs. 38,601 crore. The scheme intends to offer incentives of 4-6% on incremental sales over a period of 5 years provided that the shortlisted players meet set thresholds of incremental revenues and investments subsequent to base year. Under the mobile phone segment, the scheme targets two categories of mobile phone manufacturers – Category 1 of 5 Global OEM players with gross manufacturing revenue (GMR) > Rs. 10,000 crore and category 2 of 5 domestic companies with GMR > Rs. 100 crore. Under electronics components segment, 10 players with GMR > Rs. 50 crore are proposed to be selected. In the first round, 16 players have been approved – 5 players each under Category-1 and Category -2 of Mobile phones and 6 players under components segment.
With the success of first round, GoI introduced the second round of Production Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme in March 2021 focused only on electronic components such as active semiconductor components, passive components, PCB assemblies etc. The eligibility to apply for incentives under the second-round scheme is contingent on relaxed threshold criteria and incentives of 3-5% of incremental sales. The tenor of scheme would be four years, compared to five years for the players shortlisted in the first round. The second round has expanded the window for up to 30 eligible companies. For the second round of PLI, the eligible companies can choose any 4 years between FY2021 and FY2026 for incentives on incremental sales. As per ICRA's analysis, a healthy participation in the second round would help improve India's electronics component ecosystem reducing import dependence and improving value addition.
Commenting further, Sheetal Sharad, Vice-President and Sector Head, ICRA says, "The scheme is expected to push the mobile phone manufacturing at a healthy growth trajectory of 15-20% CAGR to reach a value of Rs. 5-5.5 lakh crore by FY2026. As per estimates, PLI scheme will enable domestic sourcing or localization to improve from current 15-20% to 35-40% in case of mobile phones aided by economies of scale supporting local manufacturing of certain components starting with chargers, batteries, cameras, displays, PCB design and assembly. Given the expected investments in the manufacturing infrastructure, the scheme is also expected to generate considerable employment generation."
There were concerns of some key players towards ability in meeting qualification criteria of incremental sales in FY2021 due to pandemic related disruptions, travel restrictions and acute global chip shortage. Subsequently, GoI extended the tenor of PLI scheme till FY2026 and the shortlisted players are now allowed to choose any 5 consecutive years between FY2021 and FY2026 to achieve threshold targets for incremental sales though base year remains FY2020. Investments made in FY2021 will continue to be counted as eligible investments.
As things stand currently, India has emerged as the second largest manufacturer of mobile handsets in the world in terms of volumes after China, growing at a CAGR of 50% during FY2015-21 on a low base. Although, the country witnessed considerable growth in production, the amount of value addition remained low as almost 80-90% of the components continue to be manufactured outside due to weak component manufacturing ecosystem. Key challenges faced by manufacturers in India include lack of R&D infrastructure, high capital and logistics costs, muted private sector interest and weak backward linkages.
Moreover, the impact of Covid-19 pandemic waves was felt across geographies which disrupted mobile phone supply chain which is highly reliant on few geographies such as China, Vietnam, Taiwan etc. This prompted OEMs to improve geographical diversification of their manufacturing operations. India, with its ample manpower and under-penetrated market, would attract these OEMs to shift their manufacturing, thus, increasing country's contribution to the global mobile phone production.
In terms of impact of the PLI scheme, a slew of investments has been announced by multiple entities.
Adds, Ms Sharad, "The incremental sales and investments based incentives would enable the domestic and global players to ramp up their production. However, Covid-19 pandemic induced supply chain disruptions, impact on demand and availability of skilled manpower might create hurdles to meet production and export targets. The new Covid-19 waves in China and Russia-Ukraine conflict is expected to exacerbate the component shortage in the near term. Apart from supply chain challenges, higher customs duty on imported components could impact the cost competitiveness of mobile phone manufacturers from exports perspective. From demand perspective, 5G rollout in 2022 and easy financing would create replacement demand for the mobile phones. Further, the Government through its electronics manufacturing focused skill development programmes, and capital support policies would support capacity building in the medium term."
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La fascination grandissante de Nicolas Bernier pour la science, la lumière, et les fondements de la création sonore, l'a mené à se pencher sur les quantuma – la plus petite de toutes les unités de mesure d'énergie. frequencies (light quanta) explore la portée des relations conceptuelles entre les principes de base de la physique quantique et l'art audiovisuel: particules, probabilités, dualité onde/corpuscule, discontinuité… La composition, métaphoriquement structurée autour de ces principes, articule cent fragments sonores et lumineux en une efflorescence spatiotemporelle aléatoire, s'étendant, se défaisant sans fin devant nous.
EN > frequencies (light quanta) is the latest audiovisual installation by Montreal sound artist Nicolas Bernier. Putting forward is ever growing fascination towards science, light, and basic sound generation process, the artist is here pursuing his research by focusing on the quantum — the smallest measurable value of energy. The whole project is based on the possible conceptual relationships between basic quantum physics principles applied to the audiovisual creative process: particles, probabilities,wave/particle duality and discontinuity. Structured around these notions, the audiovisual composition stems from 100 sound and lights fragments that are developing themselves aleatorically, generating an ever expending but yet disruptive form in time and space. As photons (or light quanta) are emitted by electrons, one can think of the installation's electrical sounds signal as being the trigger of the light signals. The sound composition itself relies fundamentally on the use of microsounds and "clicks" which is the shortest audible sound that human can ear. The click is also the sound emitted by the photomultiplier, a tool used to detect photons, according to the description given by physicist Richard Feynman in his book The Strange Theory of Light and Matter. The architectural structure of frequencies (light quanta) is a poetic reading of those machines and electronic circuits that are bringing a betterunderstanding and visualization of the infinitesimal world. On this structure is 100 acrylic sheet on a black monolith. Each acrylics is engraved with graphics forms mades of lines and dots which are then form a moving animation when the acrylics are lighted up. This physical apparatus allows a singular multidimensional visualization of the sound enabling the creation of audiovisual patterns.
100 fragments sonores et lumineux déclenchés aléatoirement au sein d'une structure composée de 100 panneaux d'acrylique transparents découpés au laser.


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Adele's NYC Visit Has Been Full of (Pleasant) Surprises and Other Notes from the Week
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We're pleased to bring you "While You Were Out"—the Verily editors' quick takes on the happenings of this week.
Emmys Came and Went
If you missed the Emmys, basically HBO in general and Game of Thrones specifically dominated the evening of TV honors. Given the issues I have with GOT as a show, I don't know what that's saying about the state of entertainment here. I get that it's compelling; I just don't see how it deserves to win top prizes in art. How The Americans won nearly no honors is impossible to understand. But I digress. In memorable moments from female favorites, Kate McKinnon of Saturday Night Live won supporting actress in a comedy series, Maggie Smith of Downton Abbey won supporting actress in a drama series, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus won for her fourth Emmy for her role on Veep. Louis-Dreyfus delivered an uncharacteristically emotional acceptance speech; her father passed away the week prior, which she referenced in her remarks: "I'm so glad he liked Veep," she said, "because his opinion was the one that really mattered." Talk about touching. In another heartfelt moment, Minnie Driver sent some love to parents of special-needs children, a topic she's grown to care about given her role in the ABC comedy Speechless, which premiered this week. —Mary Rose Somarriba
New York City Explosion
This past weekend New York and New Jersey were rocked by multiple bombs believed to have been made and planted by 28-year-old Ahmad Khan Rahami, a resident of Elizabeth, NJ. Two bombs, one that detonated and one that did not, caused panic in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood Saturday night. This followed a different explosion positioned at the end of a charity race in Seaside Park, NJ, on Saturday morning. The incident in New Jersey caused no injuries, but in Manhattan at least twenty-nine people suffered injuries from the bomb that exploded in a dumpster. Then late Sunday night and into early Monday morning police robots accidentally detonated pipe bombs found near the Elizabeth, NJ, train station. Monday morning around 8 a.m. a call to NYPD reporting an unattended suitcase near a Times Square McDonald's caused yet another alarming scene, this time in one of the city's most populated areas. The suitcase was empty. On Monday the suspect was arrested after a police struggle in Linden, NJ.
As more information comes out about the suspect in custody, the public has learned that he was on FBI watch lists and that his father, Mohammad Rahimi, says he alerted authorities to watch out for his son in 2014. Speaking to the New York Times, Mohammad said, "The way he speaks, his videos, when I see these things that he listens to, for example, Al Qaeda, Taliban, he watches their videos, their poetry." Authorities are trying to determine if any direct connection links the suspect to a specific terror organization.
Meanwhile, New Yorkers have been on high alert. According to the Times, the early part of the week saw nearly 20 times the normal rate of "suspicious package" reports dialed into the NYPD, and there's definitely an air of caution among the bustling city streets. Just one week removed from the anniversary of 9/11, the New York disposition of late is cautious yet unwavering. —Megan Madden
Queen of Katwe Opens in Theaters
Queen of Katwe, which opens today in theaters, is not your typical underdog sports story. Based on the book by Tim Crothers, the film tells the true story of Phiona Mutesi, who became the national champion of chess in Uganda at age 15. She discovered the game six years before when she stumbled upon an opportunity for a meal—if she participated in a chess program. Phiona had never seen the game before (there isn't even a word for "chess" in her language), but she fell in love. She went on to represent Africa in the World Chess Olympiad in 2010. Crothers says Phiona's success is so extraordinary because, "To be African is to be an underdog in the world, to be Ugandan is to be an underdog in Africa, to be from Katwe is to be an underdog in Uganda, and to be a girl is to be an underdog in Katwe." Phiona Mutesi said she planned to continue her education, with dreams of becoming a doctor and a chess grandmaster. This is one film you might want to watch opening weekend. —Madeline Fry
Angelina Jolie Files for Divorce from Brad Pitt
This week, we learned of the split of one of the world's most famous couples—Brangelina, that is, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Jolie filed for divorce on September 19, citing irreconcilable differences that have included reports of parenting differences. Celebrity news site TMZ reported on Thursday that Pitt is being investigated by Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services after an incident on the family's private jet.
Pitt and Jolie had officially been in a relationship since 2005 and married since 2014. It's always sad to hear of any couple splitting, especially when there are children involved. Verily relationships editor Monica Gabriel Marshall wrote this week that the sad news for this couple can serve as a healthy reminder for the rest of us on how to avoid pitfalls in marriage—including talking out differences in values and parenting before marriage. It may not make one's marriage impervious to the strains of the world, but it certainly helps strengthen a bond to communicate clearly upfront. —MRS
Fashion Week Brings Some Exciting Changes . . .
After several seasons of minimalistic styles coming down the runway, NYFW S/S 2017 has heralded a new chapter in fashion. We hope we can finally say goodbye to the Kardashian-esque monochrome outfits as designers unveiled collections that reflect the true spirit of feminine creativity. Bright colors, bold prints, feminine fits, and innovative layering as seen on our favorite street style queens are now influencing the looks on the runway in an extravaganza of stripes, oversized statement earrings, shimmery florals, and architectural silhouettes. The creative genius of the woman is finally being represented again on both the runway and the streets, and we couldn't be more inspired. —Lilly Bozzone
. . . and Some Face Palms
Yesterday the globally renowned model Gigi Hadid was leaving a Max Mara show at Milan Fashion Week when a random man rushed up and grabbed her around the waist and lifted her up in the street. She elbowed him in the face and forced him to put her down. Just a crazy moment in the life of a celebrity, right? Except that the headlines in the British tabloid media that followed the incident are just so extraordinarily awful that it has to be noted: for instance, The Sun wrote "NOT MODEL BEHAVIOUR: Gigi Hadid aggressively lashes out and ELBOWS fan in the FACE after he tries to pick her up." And The Daily Mail saw it fit to comment: "Furious supermodel Gigi Hadid lashes out at fan and has to be held back by security after prankster lifts her up as she leaves Milan fashion show." Um, what?—Sophie Caldecott
Adele Ushers In a Few Surprises for New York City
Continuing on her 25 tour, powerhouse vocalist Adele stopped off in the Big Apple this week for six—yep, six—sold-out performances at the landmark Madison Square Garden. The shows (which continue through September 26) were marked by several surprises thus far. For one, lots of witty banter from the self-described sufferer of stage fright. Adele is said to have been very into storytelling in between her songs, riffing about anything from Hamilton to flatulence. What else would you expect from the ever-authentic Adele? The Grammy-winner also dedicated her Tuesday performance to Brad and Angelina upon news of their split. If anyone can lyrically accompany news of a breakup it's Adele—that's for sure. We only wish we could have been part of that "group breakup therapy session" as it's been called. If you want to see more refreshingly real updates about Adele's tour, we can highly recommend her Instagram feed, where she recently made headlines by going makeup-free in a video post. —MM
Women's Issues Take Hold of the Spotlight This Week
The annual UN meeting this past week included some important moments where female celebrities used their names to help further causes for women. UN Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson continued her support of the HeForShe campaign for gender equality, announcing a recent report, and speaking out particularly on college sexual assault. "When one person's safety is violated, everyone feels their own safety is violated," she said.
Also making headlines this week is Amal Clooney, who is actively representing newly honored UN Goodwill Ambassador Nadia Murad, a 23-year-old Iraqi victim of ISIS brutality who is fighting to help other captives be freed. Murad delivered remarks at the UN asking world leaders, "if beheadings and child rape doesn't move you to act, when will you?" Murad and Clooney also sat down with NBC for an interview explaining their plan to combat ISIS by bringing it to court for crimes against humanity. The courage of these two ladies is nothing short of inspiring. —MRS
Italy's Fertility Day Furor
The Italian government's attempt to raise awareness about infertility and promote reproductive health has backfired, with protesters accusing officials of sexism and racism. The "Fertility Day" campaign advertising featured a picture of a woman holding an hourglass with the slogan "Beauty knows no age. Fertility does," as well as another image of a white family with the text "Good habits to promote" next to another image of a black man drinking and a black woman apparently smoking marijuana with the text "Bad company to leave behind." Protesters have been holding signs saying they're "expecting" jobs and economic stability, not babies. Not only does the campaign lack tact, history has shown us that government incentives to boost birth rates generally fail. Italy has the European Union's lowest birthrate, and data from the Italian Ministry of Health reports that one out of five couples experience difficulty conceiving naturally. Further evidence that you can't apply a quick-fix solution to a problem that is going to require some deep cultural changes to solve. —SC
Have We Been Underestimating Internet Addiction?
New research suggests that young people who spend "excessive" amounts of time on the Internet suffer from a variety of mental health-related issues, including anxiety, short attention spans, ADHD, and impulsiveness. The study was conducted at McMaster University in Canada, and included 254 college students as subjects. Of the 254, 33 were found to be suffering from "Internet addiction" as defined by an 1998 "Internet Addiction Test." However, according to a new test that the researchers developed themselves (taking smartphones and other more recent technological developments into consideration), 42.1 percent of the students surveyed had mental health issues resulting from Internet use. The study could have some interesting applications for our mental health providers as well as for our culture at large. —SC
Good News of the Week
A 29-year-old resident of Woodbridge, Virginia, has fed more than five thousand people in need to date on a shoestring budget by couponing her heart out. NJ.com reported that she aims to feed thirty thousand people by her thirtieth birthday in September 2017. Laura Puryear told ABC News that she spends between five to ten hours looking for coupon each week. She founded the organization For the Love of Others in memory of her grandmother, who passed away in 2012, and this project is just the latest in a string of outreach programs designed to help communities in need. What a beautiful goal to work toward before your thirtieth. Consider us inspired! —SC
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Washington's Hypocrisy over the Fall of Aleppo
By Bill Van Auken
Region: Middle East & North Africa
Theme: Media Disinformation, Terrorism, US NATO War Agenda
In-depth Report: SYRIA
With the report late Wednesday that a deal to evacuate the last of the Western-backed Islamist "rebels" from eastern Aleppo was back on track, following an earlier renewal of clashes, the scale of the debacle suffered by Washington in its five-year war for regime-change in Syria is emerging ever more clearly.
The increasingly hysterical denunciations of the Syrian government and its allies, principally Russia and Iran, for alleged atrocities in the retaking of Aleppo is a measure of the disillusionment and bitterness within the ruling circles of the major imperialist powers, particularly the US, over this strategic reversal in the drive to overthrow the government of President Bashar al-Assad. The frenzied tenor of the public anti-Russian propaganda is matched by the intensity of the behind-the-scenes internal recriminations.
With the fall of eastern Aleppo, the US-backed "rebels," a collection of militias dominated by Al Qaeda-linked Islamists, have lost control of their last major urban center, effectively precluding the successful utilization of these proxy forces for the overthrow of the government in Damascus.
Now, with this protracted and bloody operation having failed, US officials and the corporate media are issuing a flood of invectives against Syria and its backers. At a press conference Wednesday, State Department spokesman John Kirby accused Syria and Russia of "war crimes," "atrocities," "deprivations" and "depravities."
Kirby called special attention to the speech delivered the day before to the United Nations Security Council by US Ambassador Samantha Power, Washington's self-righteous standard-bearer of "human rights" imperialism and undisputed champion of moral hypocrisy.
"The Assad regime and Russia appear dead set on seizing every last square inch of Aleppo by force, no matter how many innocent bodies pile up in their wake," she declared. "Aleppo will join the ranks of those events in world history that define modern evil, that stain our conscience decades later. Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica, and, now, Aleppo."
Directing herself to Syria, Russia and Iran, she demanded: "Is there literally nothing that can shame you? … Is there nothing you will not lie about or justify?"
When it comes to shamelessness, lies and justifications, Ms. Power has no equal. As she delivered her blistering denunciation of Damascus and Moscow for attempting to take "every last square inch of Aleppo by force," the US military, in alliance with the Iraqi army and various militias, was preparing to do the exact same thing in the ISIS-held Iraqi city of Mosul, little more than three hundred miles to the east. US air strikes in Iraq and Syria have killed and maimed thousands, and the assault on Mosul, with a far larger population than eastern Aleppo, is expected to kill thousands more, while displacing up to one million civilians.
Even as Power made her speech to the Security Council, Washington continued to provide the weapons and logistical and intelligence support enabling its key Arab ally, the Saudi monarchy, to wage a pitiless war against the people of Yemen, the poorest nation of the Middle East. She has issued no words of condemnation as US bombs and missiles killed well over 11,000 civilians in the space of just twenty months, and while, as the aid agency Oxfam put it recently, the entire country is being "slowly starved to death" by a US-backed blockade.
Not surprisingly, in her list of "events in world history that define modern evil," Power omitted Gaza, Fallujah and the countless towns and cities from Iraq and Libya to Vietnam and Cambodia where US wars of aggression have claimed the lives of millions.
The World Socialist Web Site recognizes the immense suffering of the people of Aleppo, the brutality of the methods employed by the Assad government and its Russian ally, and the horror to which many thousands have been subjected. But what is the ultimate source of this catastrophe?
Ms. Power may speak at the UN as if she inhabits some moral Mount Olympus from which she watches with outrage the violent events in Syria, but the truth is that Washington's hands are dripping in blood. The drama that has unfolded in Aleppo is ultimately the product of a massive regime-change operation mounted by US imperialism, with the CIA alone spending some $1 billion a year to arm, supply, train and even pay the salaries of anti-government Islamist militias. This has been accompanied by crippling sanctions aimed at crashing what remains of Syria's economy, combined with US air strikes.
Hypocritically, US officials, the corporate media and pseudo-left groups like the International Socialist Organization have portrayed this imperialist operation, mounted to further US hegemony over the entire Middle East, as some kind of Syrian democratic "revolution."
A typical response to the latest events in Aleppo was that of the Washington Post, which characterized the victory of Syrian government forces as "the final death of a dream of a more democratic Syria…"
The reality underlying this "dream" was the rule over eastern Aleppo by a collection of Islamist militias that combined vicious sectarianism with gangsterism. Before it was pummeled into rubble by air strikes, the city was looted by these militias, which stripped factories of their machinery and supplies, transporting them across the border to Turkey to sell for a profit.
Amnesty International, in its most recent report, describes this "democratic dream" in the following terms: "civilians live in constant fear of being abducted if they criticize the conduct of armed groups in power or fail to abide by the strict rules that some have imposed."
It adds, "In Aleppo and Idlib today, armed groups have free rein to commit war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law with impunity." The report documents summary executions and torture, while the "rebels" themselves have recorded and boasted of their crimes, including the beheading of children.
If the Syrian government has enjoyed military success in Aleppo and elsewhere in the country, it is due not just to Russian firepower. After over five years of the US waging war for regime-change using these Al Qaeda-linked militias as its proxies, many Syrians see the Assad government, despite its repression and corruption, as a lesser evil.
The hysteria within the media and the US political establishment over the fall of eastern Aleppo is driven to no small degree by the bitter internecine struggles over US policy toward Russia in the run-up to the inauguration of Donald Trump.
In the course of the election campaign, Trump suggested that the US could ally itself with Russia in combating "terrorism" in Syria and questioned Washington's policy of arming Syrian "rebels." Powerful sections of the US military and intelligence apparatus are deeply opposed to any letup in the military drive against Russia.
Anyone believing that Trump's incoherent statements will translate into a new era of peace in the Middle East is in for a rude surprise. The Republican president-elect has advanced a policy of economic nationalism that leads inevitably to war, and has demanded a massive buildup of the US military to prepare for it.
Moreover, Trump has surrounded himself with recently retired generals bent on confrontation. Two four-star Marine generals have been named as defense and homeland security secretaries. A third Marine four-star, Gen. John Allen, recently gave voice to the thinking among these layers. At the end of October, Allen co-authored an op ed for the Washington Post in which he wrote that the solution to Syria was to "escalate the conflict." He called on the US to "gather a 'coalition of the willing' to credibly threaten military action against Assad's military infrastructure."
Recognizing that US attacks on the Syrian military could kill Russian troops, Allen counseled that this should not cause Washington to "miss the opportunity to hit offending Syrian elements."
Such raving militarism is a warning that a Trump presidency will entail a further escalation in capitalism's drive toward world war.
Copyright © Bill Van Auken, Global Research, 2016
Articles by: Bill Van Auken


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Chamber to hold career expo Wednesday
More than 50 companies looking for employees at event
Job fair, career expo
Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce event
When: 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Georgia Mountains Center, 301 Main St., Gainesville
How much: Free
More info: Online
Update the resume and get to the Georgia Mountains Center this week — area companies are hiring.
On Wednesday, the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce will host a job fair and career expo with more than 50 companies looking to fill jobs.
Employers, including companies like Kubota, McDonald's and Lowe's, will be speaking with visitors and taking applications.
"Each of these companies may be looking for something different," said Kit Dunlap, president of the chamber.
"So there will be plenty of opportunities."
Attendees should bring an up-to-date resume and do some preliminary research on the companies they're interested in talking with.
Local colleges, including Brenau University, Gainesville State College and Lanier Technical College, also will be present to provide information on their programs and possible careers.
"I'm just thrilled and excited," said Dunlap, adding the fair is not just for the unemployed, but also for those looking to change jobs.
The free expo runs from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The chamber held a career expo last June and more than 2,000 job seekers attended. Officials expect even more this year.
"I think with this many companies and with the job market like it is, I think it will draw a lot of people," Dunlap said.
Throughout the day, there will be 15-minute seminars on how to get the most out of a job fair.
The chamber also will have an information booth, with application stations throughout the venue.
Dunlap has one piece of advice for attendees.
"Just be prepared and put your best foot forward," she said.
For a list of companies and more information, visit the chamber's website.


It's late and I'm tired so please forgive the bluntness of this post. I think that the info you are highlighting is absolutely valid, but IMO it is already written up and available. The problem seems to be that either you haven't come across it (Goddam wiki search engine), or I've written it so badly you didn't recognise it! I hope it's just the first problem :-) which we can, I think, solve by simply using #REDIRECTs to force the search engine to the most relevant article. If it is the second reason, suggestions for rewording are very warmly welcomed.
1. For the difference between a Texture and a Material in Source, see Material System. That's where the intro is and most tutorials are listed, and that's why I suggested #REDIRECTing "texture" to it. If someone types "texture" into the search box, Material System is probably where they should start.
2. For info about Valve's Texture Format see VTF. I've polished up the section which describes how VTFs fit into the Material System, and moved it to the top of the page where it's more likely to be seen ;-) I was considering turning the list of VTF Utilities into a template, so it could easily be included in tutorials etc ... but that's the definitive list for VTF tools at the moment.
4. An alternative would be to keep "Texture" as a minimalist glossary page, and simply provide See Also links to VTF, Material System, Texture map, etc? I'm keen to avoid duplication of information on too many different pages because of the Chinese Whispers effect as those pages get "polished" ;-).
Hmmm. I see what you're saying about the "Chinese Whispers" effect. Duplicating a page and introducing inconsistencies between the articles is definitely a bad thing. I'm not particularly attached to the idea of the page, and I think a general redirection with a short message is a good idea. (Curses for spending time on it!) So one of us can go ahead and fix that up (meaning: I will if you don't get to it first, I'm just on my way to work). You're right on the money on that one.
I think the reason why I expanded the textures page in the first place is because when I'm working on a game or mod, I'm thinking in terms of textures, not materials, which is a Source-specific system, and it's the first thing I look for when I want to figure something out in that area. Dumping someone with a question about textures into a page called materials is disorienting because it's going up one level from where I'm expecting to be: I want to find out information about creating a texture, just the raw physical image, at the lowest level; I'm not worried about its material properties (at the logical level) yet--I'll get to that in a minute. The material system is a hybrid system that depends on scripts and image files, so it seems a logical step past where I want to be just now. But that's just the way I think. (And probably others, too.) The texture page, as it stands, is about as much as I wanted to see in there, but other people will definitely expand it if it stays like that.
The other reason, of course, is that for a newbie, who doesn't know anything about anything, it's important to provide information about these 'first steps' without confusing the issue. For some kid who has never done any modding before, I think it's important to provide a minimalist education in universal game terminology (eg. textures) without binding it to the proprietary implementation (eg. materials). I'll reread the sections on materials and whatnot and see if I can't figure out a neat little solution. These pages are good--the information is clear and concise--and I don't want to mess with that, I just think it's missing a certain something. Maybe it only needs a sentence or two of clarification and a link in the external links section to a good Wikipedia article.
This page was last modified on 28 April 2008, at 14:40.


As part of government's efforts towards ending the menace of open defecation in the country, plans are underway to extend the affordable toilet facility project to various parts of the country.
This follows the success rate of a piloted Greater Accra Metropolitan Assembly GAMA sanitation project, which has provided over thirteen thousand highly subsidized toilets to residents in the capital.
Ghana has earlier being ranked as the second country in Africa with the highest record cases of open defecation.
Speaking in an interview with Citinews monitored by Prime News Ghana, the GAMA sanitation project coordinator Ing. George Asiedu said he was hopeful that the implementation of the project in other regions will help address the challenge.
According to the GAMA sanitation project coordinator, ''Originally we were looking at GAMA which is Greater Accra because that was the area which was really the focus due to the influx of population of the immigrants and a lot of people who do not even have room to live in and those people open defecation the problem was compounded in Accra. Using Accra as a pilot the exercise will scale up to other regions''.
He also added that, "So far I think all indications show that the project is very successful and so we intend to scale up the project to cover other major cities including Kumasi, Tamale and Sekondi Takoradi''.


Basically, it is just telling you that there is an error in the folder - it doesn't give much of a clue as to what the error is, but since its junkmail, its not important.
You should empty the junkmail (2) folder - something in it is causing the sync error. Actually, you probably should delete it too (and a (1) folder, if it exists), then empty deleted items (or delete it from web access) - the (2) indicates its a duplicate folder.


A colonoscopy refers to an endoscopic examination of the colon and the distal part of the small bowel with a small camera on a flexible tube. Colonoscopes are not contraindicated by the MP, and may be warranted for high risk patients. May provide reassurance when fearful of malignancy, but can expose patient to greater infection due to difficulties in sterilizing equipment.
Results usually do not change course of treatment. It is okay to continue MP medications but one may want to adjust them to reduce immunopathology.
See also the article on surgery for further guidance.
I had a colonoscopy done about 19 months ago and the gastro who did it was very pro the MP and encouraged me to give it a try. However, he did not want me on the Benicar until afterwards, as he felt my BP was already very low and that lowering it further would not bode well with the sedative used. I was advised not to take any meds during the cleaning out period and on the day of the test, had nothing to eat or drink until afterwards, so being off the MP at that point was probably a good idea. Due to having no spleen, I was given an intravenous shot of an antibiotic, although I doubted I really needed it- just a precaution, I guess.
Speak to your gastroenterologist and he/she will advise you about what is best. BTW, I had been on pulsed mino for a few months before my test, and to my doctor's surprise, I showed absolutely no inflammation in my colon or esophagus and had no polyps anywhere. It was a totally 'clean' test, which as amazing, as I had had one a few years before which showed considerable inflammation due to my IBS. I am therefore sure that the MP should clear things up, but having a colonoscopy at age 50 is an excellent idea and I would certainly not postpone it.
This is another one of those tests that some do and some do not. My personal take on it is that the test is designed to look for signs of inflammatory disease processes, specifically some that stray into the cancer zone. My personal feeling is that everything that the test might find would lead me to believe I am already working the problem with the MP, so I wonder what is the point of the test if the treatment of choice is already underway?
I am glad that this subject has been raised for discussion because I am due to have another colonoscopy next year.
My specialist explained to me that colon cancer is the most preventable cancer there is. It is usually caused by polyps becoming cancerous and polyps are easy to detect AND remove during colonoscopies. His view is that we inherit the tendencies to produce polyps and that once we know that we do produce them we should have routine colonoscopies every 3 to 5 years.
During autopsy it was discovered that my father had a tumor in the colon which apparently puts me into the at risk group. Then during my first colonoscopy several polyps were removed so I was told the risk of my body producing further polyps was high.
Question is…where do polyps come from? Are they also created by the Th1 diseaseAny of the chronic inflammatory diseases caused by bacterial pathogens./CWD bacteria ? If so then I guess we don't need further colonoscopies!
My feeling is that after 50 years of age a colonoscopy is a reasonable thing to have done, since it is not that hard to have polyps removed and examined if they have developed. They usually only give morphine or demerol with versed for the procedure. (don't use nitrous oxide with MCS) The bowel prep was harder on me than the actual procedure. You should be able to continue all the MP meds, but will need someone to drive or take you home.
If you have light issues, the doctors will work with you. When I had mine done, I never saw anyone. I kept my glasses on and my hat over my face the whole time. I had 3 done in a 12 month period BEFORE the MP. My last one was when I started with rectal bleeding back in the first 3 months of the protocol.
I was awake for 3 of the 4, but the last time being so ill from 1st starting the MP, I wanted to be put out. (I wanted to be awake for the others). When it was over, the doctor made sure I was covered from any light. I brought a dark towel with me to keep my head and face covered. This helped with the car ride too. I was extremely light sensitive back then, (not as much now). This also helped me with the MCS issues.
The BEST way when having a colon. is to eat light the day or two before the prep. REMEMBER, the more that goes IN, has to come OUT! This is what makes the Prep so uncomfortable. REMEMBER to tell the doc NO EPI, just in case.


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Novakane est le deuxième album studio du groupe Outlawz, sorti le .

L'album s'est classé  au Top Independent Albums,  au Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums et  au Billboard 200.

Liste des titres

Notes et références

Album des Outlawz
Album musical sorti en 2001
Album produit par Mike Dean
Album publié par Koch Records

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Jewish Survival in a Gentile World
by David P. Goldman June 2009
There are only two possible strategies for Jewish survival in a gentile world. One is to be tolerated. The other is to be indispensable. The first strategy hopes that if every minority is tolerated, then perhaps even the Jews, the minority with the longest history of persecution, might also be tolerated. The second hopes that the gentiles will in some way acknowledge Israel's election and thus safeguard Israel because Jewish holiness is indispensable.
Neither strategy is without flaw. The case for tolerance is growing harder to make to the Islamic world in the midst of its own retrenchment against the threat of modernity. The four-millennium miracle of Jewish survival, moreover, fails to impress the nations of Europe, who themselves cannot expect to survive long if their demographic decline continues. For the fading nations of the industrial world, the State of Israel is an inconvenience, at best. Meanwhile, the matter of the Jewish people's election resonates only among Americans—and, among those Americans, to a dwindling number of Jews. Never, perhaps, in Jewish history has such a high proportion of Jews asked nothing more than to cast off the burden of election and to dissolve into an ethnic soup.
Over the past sixty years, the Jewish plea for toleration has been made in the context of the Holocaust, a horrifying example of the consequences of intolerance. For the generation that lived through the Second World War, the horror of the Holocaust and pity for Jewish victims won support for Jewish survival. But a gauge of the American Jewish mood these days can be found in the 2009 film Defiance, in which the spiritual leader of a partisan band in wartime Belarus intones: "We have no more prayers, no more tears. We have run out of blood. Choose another people . . . . Grant us but one more blessing: Take back the gift of our holiness."
I doubt the partisans thought this way. (Two of my father's cousins survived the war as partisans in Belarus and afterward raised large and observant families in Israel.) Jewish scriptwriters in Hollywood, however, do think this way, along with a majority of American Jews. We have found it expedient to teach the Holocaust rather than holiness to our young people—and too many of them have concluded that Jewish election, if it is not a megalomaniacal conceit in an egalitarian age, must be a dangerous and undesirable thing. Election makes us uncomfortable; Conservative as well as Reform Jewish prayer books relativize the issue. We have turned away from holiness, but it has not profited us, for American Jewish youth think far less than their elders about the State of Israel and Jewish survival.
The numbers are clear. As Kenneth Wald of the University of Florida reported in a 2005 study, "Older members of the community, particularly those who were politically conscious in the late 1960s and 1970s, can remember a time when Israel's continued existence was uncertain. For younger members of the community, by contrast, Israel's existence can be taken for granted." Similar results were obtained by other researchers, including the centrist Steven M. Cohen and the Republican pollster Frank Luntz. The Jewish lobby organization J Street stands so far to the left that it has elicited a sharp rebuke from the Reform movement, but the results of its March 2009 poll should not be ignored. J Street claimed that the appointment of the nationalist Avigdor Lieberman to a senior position in Israel's cabinet "would weaken their personal connection to Israel because Lieberman's positions go against their core values. This rises to 40 percent among Jewish adults under thirty years of age, and raises concerns about the relationship that younger generations in the United States will have with Israel."
A group like J Street, of course, uses this data to demand ever greater tolerance—even for the likes of Hamas, who wants to kill them. Here's the curious thing, however: J Street may have done the Jewish people a service by exposing just how absurd the strategy of toleration can be. And this, at the same time that the other possible strategy of Jewish survival—the strategy premised on the election of Israel—has become more credible than at any time in the past two thousand years.
It is no exaggeration to say that observant Jews and orthodox Christians have more in common with each other than either has in common with liberal or secular Jews on the one hand and liberal Christians on the other. Indeed, Jews who affirm the election of Israel should consider it all the more providential that Benedict XVI comes now as a witness to Jewish holiness. He told delegates of the Israeli rabbinate on March 12, "The Jewish people, who were chosen as the elected people, communicate to the whole human family knowledge of and fidelity to the one, unique, and true God."
The pope stands alongside observant Jews on one side of a great divide within the Jewish people. It is just as remarkable that observant Jews have become allies of the pope against his own detractors in the Catholic Church. The pope's letter to Catholic bishops on the mishandling of the Lefebvrist-bishops affair (published the same day as that meeting with the Israeli clergy) declares: "I was saddened by the fact that even Catholics who, after all, might have had a better knowledge of the situation, thought they had to attack me with open hostility. Precisely for this reason I thank all the more our Jewish friends, who quickly helped to clear up the misunderstanding and to restore the atmosphere of friendship and trust which—as in the days of Pope John Paul II—has also existed throughout my pontificate and, thank God, continues to exist."
In the aftermath of the Lefebvrist scandal, perhaps it is no longer adequate to speak of Catholic—Jewish relations. Instead, there are two kinds of Catholic—Jewish relations: an explicit alliance between the pope and Jews who affirm the election of Israel and a de facto alliance between the left of the Catholic Church and liberal or secular Jews.
Observant Jews whose suspicion of the Church has been honed by centuries of ill experience have trouble absorbing the odd circumstance that Providence has placed them in the same foxhole as Benedict XVI. But the crisis in Catholic—Jewish relations over the lifting of the Lefebvrist bishops' excommunication has led to a moment of clarity. After the pope's response, there can be no doubt that we have in Benedict a theologian with a deep understanding of Jews' relation to God. We have also learned that the pope's opponents inside the Church are our opponents. As a simple matter of fact, the pope's opponents now aggregate on the left; the atrophied right wing of the Church, held up as a horror story to frighten the Jews, has little remaining influence—with the result that Catholics who oppose the pope on the ordination of women, the Church's claim to unique truth, and the preservation of Europe's Christian character are the Catholics who also overwhelmingly embrace the Palestinian Arab cause.
This moment of clarity offers an opportunity to reconsider our communal demands on Christians. Perhaps we have underestimated both our friends and our antagonists in the Christian world. Perhaps we should ask whether our past negotiating positions toward Christians, and to the Catholic Church in particular, are well- or ill-considered.
Think, for example, of the fact that the main request that the Israeli rabbis made to the pope at the March 12 meeting in Rome was that Catholic schools include the Holocaust in their educational curriculum. In itself this is doubtless a good proposal, but the emphasis betrays a thought process that deserves closer scrutiny.
Sadly, a good case can be made that toleration will soon lose even more of its effectiveness as a survival strategy. Why should gentile nations go out of their way to help Jews survive when they have neither the desire nor the capacity to survive themselves? We stand on the cusp of a great extinction of the nations without precedent since late antiquity. Of the 6,000 languages now spoken, half will disappear over the next century, according to consensus estimates. Most of these are indigenous tongues spoken by small populations, but the demographic decline of several of the industrial nations, including several of the world's largest, portends the eventual extinction of Ukrainian and perhaps even Russian and German over the next century or two. Japan's population will fall by almost 30 percent by mid-century, and half of those who remain will be at retirement age.
In our insularity and self-absorption, we often forget that other nations do not always want the same things that we want. Jews tend to love life and hate death. This is a matter of observed fact: The State of Israel has the highest fertility rate and the lowest suicide rate among all the industrialized nations. But we should not assume that all nations love life and hate death, for the data indicate that many of the industrialized nations do not care to survive. Why should they care if we, who have survived for more than four millennia, survive for another few centuries? They will not be there to find out whether we have succeeded or not.
If tolerance has reached its best-used-by date as a survival strategy, the other strategy demands that Jews find someone who considers their survival indispensable. Christians have taken an existential interest in our return to Zion from the earliest days of the Zionist movement, and the State of Israel never would have come to be without their support. Absent Lord Balfour's religious convictions, the 1917 declaration of British support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine never would have emerged. And without President Harry S. Truman's Christian Zionism, America never would have backed the founding of the State of Israel in 1947, which Truman did over the vehement objection of his cabinet members (including Secretary of State George Marshall, who threatened to resign and campaign for Truman's opponent).
Today, evangelical Christians form the strongest base of support for the State of Israel in America, stronger in some respects than the support of the left-leaning American Jewish community. Jews often misread Christian motivation for supporting Jewish survival. When Christian theology declares that the New Testament fulfills the Old, they mean in effect that the history of Israel is a map to the inner life of every Christian. And this history is not simply a record interred in a book. The history of the Jewish people is manifest in the life of the Jewish people, for we are our history: Every one of us stood with Moses to receive the Torah at Mount Sinai, and all who clung to YHWH are alive today, as we pray before reading the Torah in public. We, the living people of Israel, are a flesh-and-blood map to the salvation of every Christian.
The Christian dies to this world in order to be reborn by water and the Holy Spirit into Israel. Christians believe that their adoption into Israel is made possible by the self-sacrifice of God through the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. In Christian theology, Jesus' sacrifice on the Cross is a new Passover, in which Jesus is the Lamb, while his Resurrection is a new Exodus from Egypt in which all humanity may join, and the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles at Pentecost is a new giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.
For Christians, it is not merely that God's earthly incarnation was as a Jew, Jesus of Nazareth, or that God's promise to the Jews stands surety for what Christians believe to be his promise to them. The Christian's rebirth to citizenship in Israel demands an inner transformation. When Christians say that Jesus fulfills the Torah and that his life recapitulates the defining miracles in the history of Israel, they mean that each Christian's participation in Jesus' sacrifice is the reliving of the history of Israel. The continued presence of Jews on this earth in God's service is indispensable to Christian salvation, because it is the life of the family of Abraham that Christians must relive.
For that reason Abraham Joshua Heschel averred without a hint of exaggeration that the wise old men who lead the Catholic Church know that Israel is so holy that our disappearance would endanger the existence of the Church. It is the Jew who converts the inner pagan inside each Christian, wrote Franz Rosenzweig, by which he meant that, absent the living people of Israel, the Israel of the Spirit into which Christians hope to be adopted too easily becomes an abstraction.
"Whoever loves his life loses it, and whoever hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life," Jesus declares. Self-sacrifice is the price of eternal life. Abraham's willingness to sacrifice Isaac, and therefore himself, was the foundation of God's covenant with Abraham and his descendants. God's love removes us from the altar; a ram substitutes for Isaac so that Abraham may live, and, in Christian doctrine, Jesus of Nazareth sacrifices himself for all of mankind so that mankind may live and be free from sin and death. To be a Jew is to continue the life of Abraham; to be a Christian is to be reborn in the spirit into the life of Abraham.
As Henri de Lubac puts it: "To St. Paul the Church is the people of the new covenant. Israel according to the Spirit takes the place of Israel according to the flesh; but it is not a collection of many individuals, it is still a nation albeit recruited now from the ends of the earth, 'the tribe of Christians,' says Eusebius, for instance, 'the race of those who honor God.'" In other words, Christianity invites gentiles to worship the God of Israel—not the gentile peoples as peoples but those among the gentiles who are reborn of the Spirit into the "tribe of Christians," the people of the new covenant.
The historical life of Israel is the inner life of the Christian. That great difference and great identity separate and unite the two revealed religions. And it means that Jews have a claim on the inner life of Christians and should be unashamed to exercise that claim—provided that we keep up our side of the bargain.
In practice, to be sure, Christianity in the past has been far too tolerant of pagan remnants lurking in the hearts of Christians—just as the biblical Hebrews were more tolerant of the tribe of Amalek than God demanded. In both cases, excessive tolerance had catastrophic results. Neopaganism laid its cuckoo's eggs in Christianity and hatched them in the form of the national movements that would fight for dominance in Europe and leave the formerly Christian continent a secularized hulk. It is petulant for Jews to blame Pius XII for failing to save more of them when he could not even save Polish priests from the Nazis. Whether or not the wartime pope did as much as he could, the Vatican was in no position to change the outcome of the war.
But it is entirely fair for Jews to remonstrate with Christians for having failed to suppress pagan elements that foster anti-Semitism. If we were chosen only for ourselves, and our peculiar rites and habits had no other significance than an esoteric knowledge and behavior restricted to our own people, we could abandon them without consequence, for they would have no value beyond our own folkways (as a pernicious Jewish current insists). But the rest of the world will never let us squirm out of election. "Salvation is of the Jews," that is, the rest of the world first learned of salvation—eternal life—from God's promise to us. The desire of the nations for the eternal life first promised to the Jews is unquenchable, which is why it will never let us forget election.
The gentiles recall the election of Israel in a benign way when Christians look to the living people Israel as a map of their own path to salvation. In a malignant way, it occurs when other nations, coveting election, seek to arrogate election unto themselves. This is most obvious in Islam, which insists that the Jews, like all other peoples, received the true revelation from Allah but intentionally perverted it. The Muslims claim to be in possession of the corrected, purified, and final revelation, of which the Torah is a fraudulent version. As long as Jews walk the earth, Muslims never can be quite comfortable in their proprietorship of the final revelation, and a Jewish commonwealth with its capital in Jerusalem constitutes a perpetual affront against the authority of Islam as the final revelation.
So what should Jews ask of Christians? Before the Lefebvrist affair, Jewish concerns seemed focused on the Pro Judaeis prayer in the updated Latin Easter Liturgy. Italy's rabbinate had withdrawn from an annual conference on Catholic—Jewish relations in protest. The revised Latin liturgy prays that "God our Lord should illuminate [the Jews'] hearts, so that they will recognize Jesus Christ, the savior of all men." Although the cardinal responsible for Catholic—Jewish relations, Walter Kasper, averred that the prayer expresses an eschatological hope rather than a conversion campaign, forced conversions over the centuries are burned into Jewish memory.
Writing in the Jesuits' Italian-language monthly Popoli, the chief rabbi of Venice, Elia Enrico Richetti, declared:
This has been the more-or-less official response:?.?.?.?the Jews have nothing to fear, the hope expressed in the prayer Pro Judaeis is "purely eschatological," a hope for the End Times, and not an invitation to active proselytism (which already was forbidden by Paul VI). This response has not satisfied the Italian Rabbinate. If I insist, even in a purely eschatological tone, that my neighbor would have to become like me to be worthy of salvation, I am not respecting his identity. It is not a matter, therefore, of hypersensitivity; it is a matter of the most banal sense of respect owed to the other person as a creature of God.
With all due respect to Rabbi Richetti, the implications of Pro Judaeis are precisely the opposite of what he seems to believe. Catholic theology presumes the unity of God's people. For the Catholic Church to acknowledge that the Jewish people remain God's people is one of the most problematic conclusions that Catholic theology has reached in many centuries, for it suggests a schism within Israel between the Israel of the flesh and Israel of the Spirit.
Continued divine favor to the Jewish people despite our refusal to accept Jesus of Nazareth as the messiah requires the painful acknowledgment of a mystery on the part of Christians. The schism within Israel will be healed only when God's purposes are revealed in the End Times. Catholic theology thus requires that Catholics pray for a healing of this split within Israel as an eschatological hope, precisely as Cardinal Kasper indicated.
Jews have a similar eschatological hope. In the aleinu prayer, Jews petition God three times daily for a day to come on which all humankind will call God by his unique name. For Catholics to pray in this fashion for God to heal the split within Israel is to acknowledge that the physical, actual Jewish people is in fact the Israel of the Bible. We should ask Catholics to recite Pro Judaeis not only on Easter but three times a day, just as we recite aleinu, and ask why the explicit affirmation of continuing Jewish election is to be found in the liturgy but not in The Catechism of the Catholic Church, the authoritative statement of Catholic doctrine.
As the Israeli rabbis acknowledged at their March 12 meeting with the pope, the Jewish people cannot ask for a better friend than Benedict XVI, who in turn asks for our friendship in his own trials within the Church. Richard John Neuhaus observed in his posthumous book American Babylon that the Catechism is less emphatic than the documents of Vatican II, let alone the declarations of John Paul II and Benedict XVI, in its discussion of the Jewish people. "While the catechism is of course an authoritative presentation of Catholic teaching," Neuhaus writes, "one misses in its discussion Nostra Aetate's sense of the present-tense relation of the Church to the Jewish people from which the Church learns and draws sustenance. Nor, in this connection, does the Catechism's treatment of eschatological expectation suggest a promised understanding of resolution of differences beyond that which the Church already knows and embodies."
As the preponderance of the Christian population shifts to the Global South and China (which now has 130 million self-identified Christians), Christian theology will be put to new trials. In most of Europe, Christianity survives at the margin of society. Even where the Church represents the mainstream"for example, in Poland"the future is bleak. Poland's population will fall by nearly a third between now and mid-century, and its median age will jump from thirty-six to nearly sixty. Christians in the Global South will have to come to grips with the syncretic compromise with paganism that ultimately undermined Christianity in Europe. How will the new Christians of Africa or China identify with Israel? A great deal hangs on the clarity of Catholic doctrine, and the Jewish people have a long-term interest in the benevolent theology of Benedict XVI.
The risk is that a future pope might declare the teaching of John Paul II and Benedict XVI on the election of Israel invalid, embracing instead the supersessionism of the Catholic left. The Church, to be sure, will mold the magisterium at its own pace, and no other religious group will dictate how and when that may occur"if it ever occurs.
Nonetheless, Jews have a definitive interest in seeing Benedict XVI's interpretation of the election of Israel written in stone for the ages. We should welcome the opportunity to befriend this pope, all the more so when he is facing down the enemies of Israel within the Church. We should seek opportunities to make common cause with Catholics on the issues that unite us, above all the holiness of life, which is what God first called us to his service to defend. And we should cajole our Catholic friends to enshrine the philo-Semitism of John Paul II and Benedict XVI in the magisterium of the Church so that this moment of clarity becomes a monument for our common journey.
David P. Goldman is associate editor of First Things.
Articles by David P. Goldman


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