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COURTNEY L. FLETCHER is an attorney in the estate planning practice group of Carnahan, Evans, Cantwell & Brown, P.C. She concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning and administration, probate, trusts and elder law, including Medicaid planning and special needs trusts. Ms. Fletcher earned her undergraduate degree, with honors, from William Jewell College; and her law degree from the University of Missouri at Kansas City, Missouri. She is a member of The Missouri Bar.
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Founded in 1865 by 22-year-old Georges Favre-Jacot, Zenith makes watches at the very pinnacle of quality and precision. As well as being the creator of the first integrated automatic chronograph movement, the El Primero, Zenith led the way in bringing together all watchmaking professions under the convenience of one roof. Read more
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Although it is now one of the most prestigious and internationally acclaimed watch brands in the world, Zenith was not officially given its current name until 1911, 46 years after its founding. The company had originally been set up in 1865, in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Le Locle, where it still makes watches today. It was founded by watchmaker Georges Favre-Jacot at the extraordinary age of just 22.
Despite his masterful horological skills (focused on precision pocket watches until the 20th century), Georges' most important contribution to watch history was the establishment of the Zenith manufacture, which was an entirely new concept. Previously, artisan watchmakers worked independently from their homes, but Georges brought them together in a single workshop for the first time, hugely facilitating the company's ability to increase efficiency and quality control.
Georges won numerous awards for his creations during his lifetime, including the gold medal at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1900, and he retired in 1911 after endowing the company to his descendants, along with the name Zenith. The story goes that after creating a particularly magnificent movement, Georges was struck by the poetic similarity between a well-functioning watch and the motion of the heavenly bodies: zenith worked as both an astronomical term and as an homage to the giddy heights of perfection to which watchmakers could aspire.
By 1925, the company employed 1,000 workers and was making a range of highly sought after timepieces, clocks and instruments, as well as watches. In 1948, it unveiled the Calibre 135, a universally praised chronometer with a small seconds function. But perhaps the most distinguished moment in the history of the brand came in early 1969, when it was one of three competing brands in the race to complete the first ever automatic chronograph movement. All three finished almost simultaneously, but despite ongoing debate about the true first, the manufacture dubbed its creation El Primero, and continues to maintain that it was the winner. (Interesting fact: El Primero is not in fact Spanish, as many people assume, but rather means first in Esperanto.)
Regardless of its relative position, El Primero was undeniably a brilliant invention, oscillating at an extraordinary 36,000 vibrations per hour (the others were only 28,000), and able to measure time to the nearest tenth of a second. Although the creation of El Primero also coincided with the start of the quartz crisis, during which Zenith was forced to shut down all operations on mechanical movements, it also proved to be the brand's saviour in the aftermath, when it was able to sell the extremely desirable movement to other brands in the 1980s and beyond. Amazingly, the vital plans, parts and tools to make El Primero had to be hidden by an employee at the height of the crisis to save them from destruction—imagine the company's gratitude when he returned them after the danger had passed!
Once back on its feet, the manufacture quickly re-found its dominant position in the luxury watch industry, and the brand joined the LVMH group in 2000. Zenith watches have been worn in the most diverse circumstances, from extreme conditions (Roald Amundsen wore one when he became the first man to reach the South Pole, as did Felix Baumgartner on his 2012 record- and sound-breaking skydive) to austere ones (Mahatma Gandhi kept his for his whole life, even after giving up most other worldly possessions). With its 150th anniversary in 2015, the innovation and technical prowess that has characterised the company's history shows no sign of slowing.
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How A Danish Speaker Startup Raised $3 million
Heather Farmbrough Contributor
The speakers had to be very loud, portable and needed a long battery life to keep the party going. Roskilde means drunk Danes, bad weather and extremely noisy surroundings.
SOUNDBOKS want their speakers at the heart of every big party
SOUNDBOKS
In 2014, Hjalte Emilio Wieth, Jesper Thomsen, Christoffer Nyvold and five of their former High School classmates got together to build three battery-powered speakers in a garage for the forthcoming Roskilde music festival.
Roskilde is Northern Europe's biggest – and Wieth's favourite - music festival, with crowds of up to 120,000, comparable in intensity perhaps only with Burning Man in Nevada. "People party for eight days straight and sleep at the campsite," says Wieth. So between the concerts, you have huge parties going on, where people bring their home-made stereos."
" The speakers had to be very loud, portable and needed a long battery life to keep the party going. Roskilde means drunk Danes, bad weather and extremely noisy surroundings. We also had to make the user interface very simple and get rid of any cables, so that anyone could use them with a Bluetooth connection. In short, we just solved our own problem! It was only later on that we realized that we had made the perfect speaker for any kind of occasion where you want to gather a crowd around loud music, without any technical limitations."
The first three speakers were sold to friends, then ten more. Then Thomsen and Nyvold put an ad on DBA, the Danish equivalent of craigslist. Over 200 emails, texts and phone calls came in from people wanting to buy the unbranded speakers.
"That's when we decided to go all out, and the name SOUNDBOKS was born", recalls Wieth, now Chief Brand Officer. "We set up a simple online shop and we began to think that this could go international."
The first few speakers had been financed by joint savings of $5000. But more capital was needed. So they approached the serial Danish entrepreneur Casper Blom who had come to address their Innovation class at High School. Blom's capital enabled them to order the materials to make 400 speakers.
"We had 3 months left until Roskilde Festival, and sales were exploding," Wieth recalls. "We ended up hiring 24 friends to work three shifts 24/7 in our garage in the suburbs. Somehow, we managed to deliver all the SOUNDBOKS to the 400 customers who were waiting for them, just a few days before the Festival kicked off. We had to announce that we were sold out 2 weeks before the festival."
Over those three months, sales reached $300.000 dollars. The problem was still how to keep up with demand. The big break came when the three co-founders were accepted on Y Combinator's accelerator programme in 2016, the youngest Europeans to have been accepted at the time. The $120,000 funding was useful, but it was the access to know-how and opportunities that made the greatest difference. They then raised a further $870,000 on Kickstarter and $2.5mn of capital from investors including Matthew Bellamy from Muse and Tue Mantoni, the former CEO of Bang & Olufsen. This enabled them to invest more in sound quality and design. The result was the 122-decibel SOUNDBOKS 2, which sells for $899 on www.soundboks.com.
There has been a lot of trial and error, admits Wieth, but there have been no compromises on design, sound quality or durability. You can drop a SOUNDBOKS speaker in water and it should still work, although Wieth admits he's not actually done that himself.
After three years, SOUNDBOKS is finally breaking even. "Everything we have learnt has been self-taught", continues Wieth. "We have been focused on hiring smarter people than ourselves – for instance, on sound design - and we listen to our investors and advisors. "
While a non-executive board of independent directors is being set up, the company's culture is non-hierarchical, relaxed, friendly and young. Decisions are made consensually and based on what Wieth describes as "intuition." The five friends who joined the co-founders after High School are still part of the company, where the average age is 26 years old.
Denmark is still SOUNDBOKS' biggest sales market, followed by Germany, the U.S., France, and Norway. If it is Denmark that has created the influences on the company, it is nevertheless the U.S. that promises the biggest market for portable speakers. After all, it can be summer all year round in some states with BBQs, tailgates, college parties, sports, camping and boating while Europe freezes in winter.
On the way to that party - SOUNDBOKS can go (almost) everywhere
A storage facility in North America has been opened, in addition to one in Lithuania and a marketing office in Los Angeles with eight people. The Copenhagen office, with thirty people, will remain the heart of the company.
As the company grows, it could be harder to keep it a small, friendly start up. Yes, acknowledges Wieth, with a maturity that belies his 22 years. But he adds, "We have spent time and energy creating the culture we want, because we intend to stick around. We don't intend selling out. We feel we are only just beginning."
"We're making something with our speakers that is an essential part of a whole lifestyle, going out with your friends and attracting new friends. You break all the social barriers with music. SOUNDBOKS fits into any lifestyle like this. The loudness, without any limitations like battery life, just makes the experience so different from anything else, and so free of worries."
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Game developer poll suggests longer hours and less productivity as the industry adapts to remote work
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Ahead of the upcoming online-only version of its big annual conference, GDC commissioned a survey of 2,500 game developers to determine how the industry is coping with the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. While gaming sales are up as many turn to the medium to cope with stay-at-home orders, the virus appears to be impacting devs in similar (if somewhat blunted) fashion to innumerable other industries.
For starters, 32% find themselves being less productive, in spite of working longer hours. That no doubt sounds familiar to anyone who has attempted to transition to a home office amid the pandemic. Some 70% of developers say they've moved to working from home — if that number seems relatively low, that's only because 27% of those surveyed say they were already working from home. That leaves some 3% in the office, I suppose.
One-quarter of respondents say their household income has declined, while a third say their business has declined over the last few months. A third also say they've had a project delayed. That could certainly complicate the upcoming schedules of the latest version of the Xbox and PlayStation, both due out at the end of the year.
The shift toward moving online found many companies scrambling to update their workflows, including a shift to different cloud services. Though, the nature of the industry means that many were already accustomed to having a distributed workforce prior to the pandemic. While two-thirds say their company has a plan to return to the office, only 12% feel safe returning to the office right now.
The majority of respondents added that they believe the pandemic will permanently change some aspect of their workplace, going forward. "We had to make some changes on our daily tasks to compensate not being at our office working physically together, but those have proven to increase our efficiency and productivity," one developer responded. "Lately we have even talked about embracing the home office configuration even after the pandemic."


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Starting from 1 January, we took on the Presidency of the Council of the European Union. We have been a member of the Union for 11 years, but for 13 centuries Bulgaria has been the southeastern gate of the continent. This is a historic experience that has cost us dearly. We on the Balkans know that tragedies stem from division. Europe is too big to be monolithic and yet too small to be divided. This is why the motto of our Presidency is United We Stand Strong.
Bulgaria has a model, proven over time, of good cohabitation of numerous religions. We are the motherland of Cyrillic, which is a bridge to the East. Bulgaria, today catching up the developed states in the Union, once saved its Jews from the darkest years on the continent. This makes me believe that we have contributed greatly and that we can contribute greatly to our European family.
We are taking on the Presidency at a difficult time for the Union. Global insecurity makes European defence imperative. Migration and terrorism require an active dialogue with the Union's big neighbours. Competitiveness should not be achieved by cutting social rights, but by thoughtful investment in education and sophisticated technology. I am certain of one thing – when problems concern us all, the key is in realism and shared efforts. In order for Europe to continue to exist, we need understandable discourse, simplified procedures, a new confidence and the overcoming of egoism.
I believe that, in the coming six months all of you, our guests from Europe, will feel at home among the Roman ruins and Orthodox churches in Bulgaria. Especially in Sofia where an Orthodox church, a Catholic cathedral, a Mosque and a Synagogue coexist just a couple of hundred meters away from one-another. This is a historic asset, which will remind us all that Europe is not only an economic space, but a territory of freedom, deeply rooted in history, culture and humanity, on which we should not turn our backs.


In 1998, Pritzker Prize-winning Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza Vieira completed the University of Alicante Rectory Building in Alicante, Spain. Twenty years later, ArcDog captures the building in their latest film. The Rectory Building fights the harsh Spanish heat with its fortress-like form. Two carefully proportioned courtyards become the focus of this design and, consequently, of the film.


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Latinpress.es 10/15/2019. According to a study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), exports from Latin America and the Caribbean to Korea could increase around 10 billion dollars, or 43%, if a set is implemented of reforms to reduce commercial costs and bilateral cooperation is promoted. The report, A boost to…
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This bank creates alliance to fight regional fraud and face the digital era
Published by Florencia Santucho on September 24, 2019
The impact of new technologies in the financial and banking industry has been evident, both for those who work in it, and for users, who experience the changes promoted by these companies. But in addition to the adoption and adaptation to new tools, this sector has had to face the…
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Bitcoiners tell their worst experiences with traditional banks
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Important characters of the cryptoecosystem commented the social network Twitter their negative experiences with traditional banking. The initiative began when Morgan Creek Digital CEO Anthony Pompliano posted a tweet asking his readers what was the worst experience they had with a bank. Pompliano, popularly known as Pomp, was followed by…
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Technology marks the evolution of the customer experience
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Work legally and ethically
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Which two Acts set legislative guidelines about how information should be collected, disclosed, used and stored and what do these Acts cover?
List two types of laws that relate to the role of a community services worker and provide an example of each.
Provide one consequence of breaching a child protection Act.
Provide two Acts which organisations within Australia must comply with to prevent discrimination and foster equality of opportunity.
Provide a definition of dignity of risk.
What are two consequences of breaching your duty of care?
Identify two rights from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights that are directly relevant to community services work and provide an example how each can be demonstrated in your workplace.
Provide one example of legislation that supports the relationship between human needs and human rights.
Describe how instruments such as declarations of rights and legislation governing service provision and setting service standards are used to guide the provision of services.
Describe what you should do if you are asked to carry out a task that is not within the scope and boundaries of your job role. What are the consequences of carrying out a task outside your work role, for which you are not qualified or competent?
Provide two types of legal issues that may arise when you are providing services to a person.
What is one appropriate way to respond to a legal issue when providing services to a person?
Describe one consequence of breaching a practitioner/individual boundary.
Provide two types of ethical issues that may arise when providing services to a person.
List two consequences of breaching workplace code of conduct.
Explain how codes of practice can provide guidance for community service workers.
List one difference between legal frameworks and ethical frameworks.
Describe one similarity between legal and ethical frameworks.
Describe how legal and ethical frameworks interrelate.
List two questions that you could ask yourself that would help you to interpret your ethical responsibilities.
When a work practice needs to be improved, what resources may indicate that additional professional training is required?
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Case study (questions 1–4)
Joe works in a community centre where Susannah attends English language classes. She has three children who attend a play group at the centre. Joe has noticed that Susannah has bruises on her face and arms and that two of the children have bruises on the backs of their legs.
Joe is concerned about Susannah and her children. He is finding it hard to sleep at night and is staying back at the community centre after his shift finishes so that he can spend a few minutes talking to Susannah. He has offered to drive her home and to pick her and the children up in the morning. Joe has also approached a police officer who is a friend of his and told him about his concerns. He has given the police officer Susannah's address and asked him to drive past her house and check on her welfare.
List where Joe can find information about his legal responsibilities in relation to child protection and to domestic and family violence (DFV), and describe the specific information he needs in order to manage this situation.
Describe the specific information Joe should check to identify the scope of his legal responsibilities.
Describe three ways that Joe has breached his work role boundaries as well as the legal and ethical requirements of his role.
How should Joe address his concerns while working within the boundaries of his professional role, legal requirements and his organisation's policies and procedures?
Susannah's husband Andrew has found out that Joe has been offering lifts to Susannah and the children. He has made a formal complaint to Joe's supervisor, Betsy. He has threatened to stop his wife and children attending the centre if Joe continues to work with Susannah and has requested a female worker to support his family.
Susannah has requested a female support worker, saying she would feel more comfortable and says her husband will allow her to continue attending the centre if she has a female support worker.
Jenny is appointed as Susannah's support worker. Susannah asks for some information about domestic family violence (DFV) services in the local area. She has also asked if she can come to Jenny's house if she feels unsafe in her own home at any time. Jenny has explained that she cannot offer Susannah accommodation in her house, but she can refer her to a women's refuge service if Susannah needs this. Jenny feels very strongly about DFV issues and when she was younger she was in a violent relationship herself.
Describe how Betsy should respond to the complaint.
Describe two ways Jenny can ensure she obtains legal, valid informed consent from Susannah.
What is Jenny's responsibility regarding mandatory reporting requirements?
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For indicators 1.5, 3.4, 4.1 and 6.3, explain how Jenny has or can ensure she is upholding the practice guidelines in relation to the services.
What rights does Susannah have in this situation?
Case study (question 10–12)
Mary is a resident in a refuge for women and children. Her husband has threatened her life and the life of her son and she has been granted a violence restraining order. Her 10-year-old son, Frederick, is very angry about being separated from his father.
Frederick approaches Beryl, a new part time refuge worker. He confides in her how much he misses his father and how desperately he wants to see him, or even just talk to him. He persuades Beryl to let him use the phone in the office to contact his father. Beryl agrees as long as she remains in the office with him. Frederick blurts out the address of the refuge before Beryl can stop him. She realises she will be in trouble from her supervisor, so she doesn't say anything to her.
Later that night Frederick's father arrives at the refuge and attempts to break in. When he is questioned by the police, he tells them that Beryl let Frederick call him and tell him the address. Beryl faces a severe reprimand from her supervisor.
Describe one way that Beryl breached organisational procedures after the incident occurred.
When Frederick approached Beryl to ask to use the phone, what was the potential breach that Beryl should have identified?
Because Beryl did not identify the potential breach, what actual breaches occurred?
Case study (questions 13–18)
Alice works in a women's refuge. She has strong religious beliefs and is a supporter of the right to life movement. Imogen has been living at the refuge and is 10 weeks pregnant. She has decided that she wants a termination.
Alice has been asked by her manager to accompany Imogen to an appointment at a women's health centre to discuss her options. The refuge has a policy that supports self-determination and empowerment, and uses person-centred approaches to service provision.
Alice's job role description requires her to provide emotional and practical support and to encourage people to make decisions and take control of their own lives. Alice plans to take Imogen to a pregnancy counselling service which is run by an anti-abortion organisation before taking her to the women's health centre.
Imogen has told Jasmine, one of the other refuge support workers, that Alice is going to take her to the anti-abortion pregnancy counselling service. She says that she is worried they will persuade her to change her mind about having a termination. She also says Alice has been leaving anti-abortion literature in her room and has also asked her to attend a religious service with her. Alice has also suggested referring Imogen for counselling. As there is a long waiting list for subsidised counselling services, Alice has offered to refer Imogen to her cousin, who is in private practice as a psychologist.
As a support worker, list two sources of information Alice should use to ensure she upholds her ethical responsibilities to Imogen in her work role.
Describe two professional ethical responsibilities Alice must uphold within the scope of her role.
Identify two sources of information about legal and ethical policy frameworks Alice could refer to.
In working with Imogen, describe one way Alice can ensure non-judgmental service provision in spite of her conflicting personal values and attitudes.
Provide one action that indicates that Alice is behaving unethically and one way that Jasmine could respond to Alice's unethical conduct.
Describe the conflict of interest in this situation and provide one way that Alice should manage it.
John works in a residential group home for adults with physical disability. The routine includes a weekly group outing for the residents. All residents must attend, as staffing levels do not provide for staff to remain at the group home to supervise residents who do not participate in the group outing.
Not all residents get their first choice of outing and John tries to make this a bit fairer by allowing residents to take it in turns to choose the outing each week, but residents are not happy with this.
John has discovered that the low levels of staffing in the group home have come about because the manager agreed to share his allocation of staff with another group home which is supervised by his fiancée.
John is aware that this is an ethical issue which impacts on service and practice standards.
What are two indicators John can use to identify work practices that need to be improved?
Describe how John should go about developing a new policy regarding the activities.
List two processes John could use to engage the residents in the review of the current activity process.
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Verdict: 3.75 / 5This is a promising start to another section of the Dark Night: Metal series.
The Immortal Men continues on with DC's recent Dark Nights: Metal series, introducing a whole new cast of characters for us to explore. The premise is interesting; a clan of immortal warriors sworn to protect the world from countless threats across endless time. The Immortal Men, as they are known, seem to have a sworn duty to protect. Set up by the Immortal Man himself, a longstanding DC hero, they appear to be at the end of their regime of heroism, but one boy may be able to save them and the world.
We first meet with Caden Park, an unassuming kid who believes he has powers. His visions are a unique look at The Campus, a former home and school to the Immortals that dwelled there. His motivations are interesting although not entirely fleshed out. He has become carried away with the heroics of other powered people in his world and wants to make a difference with his perceived abilities. How he thinks he can go about this is not clear. With the power to see into people's lives or perhaps minds, it'll be intriguing to see how this kid can go about saving the Immortals.
The Immortal Men are being chased down and wiped out by a trio of foes. The Immortal Man's sister, a Hela rip-off known as the Immortal Woman, seems hell-bent on taking over Earth and ruling it as a goddess. She believes the Immortals are made for better things and should not be using their time and powers to protect an inferior people… well that's what I got anyway, from the obligatory evil monologue. It's still all sounding a bit Thor: Ragnarok, but she has her own sidekick that appears to support her on her mission. Not only does she have a legion of faceless monsters known as the Bloodless, but she also has on her side, The Hunt, a man who can hunt really, really well. Backing them up for emotional support, in a twist I genuinely did not see coming, is the Batman Who Laughs. He too believes the Immortals are destined for something better and clearly has a plan to twist this situation to his own advantage. A character that is already becoming quite popular, I believe this cameo will be a great surprise for many fans; Robin pets and all.
With both the remaining Immortal Men and the Immortal Woman racing to Caden Park, we're immediately faced with a showdown of our two sides. I did not know what to expect going into this issue, as The Immortal Men launches a lot of new lore, characters and locations. However, I think it did a phenomenal job of setting up the situation and the current world we are in and I'm interested to see some of the unexpected directions this story is clearly going to take. I believe the stakes are very real and, with a lot of lesser known characters, their fates are very much up in the air. All I know is that I'm going to continue reading on. Although the villains are one dimensional for the time being, I believe now that some of the explanatory content is out of the way, we can explore their motivations further. The tone itself is great also. From the start I felt there was an impending air of doom, hanging over our protagonists.
The art is phenomenal and I really enjoy the creative team behind this book. The character designs are a little off in some cases (there seems to be a Valkyrie in the mix too) but, overall, this is a promising start to another section of the Dark Night: Metal series. Now that we're past the exposition in The Immortal Men #1, it seems things are about to kick it up a notch.


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Virgin Atlantic B747-400 (G0VXLG) flight VS66 from Montego Bay Jamaica suffers bird attack. Pilot re-routes to Jamaica in emergency landing with 470 London-headed passengers, after Orlando Airport rejects landing request. Pilot defuels plane from 23,000 ft to enable emergency landing back to Jamaica.
By Lillian Nalumansi on June 14, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
Frantic passengers aboard a Virgin Atlantic VS66 flight from Jamaica's Montego Bay to London's Gatwick Airport were left no choice but to trust their life with the pilot, forced to make an emergency landing after a bird struck and stuck into it's engine.
In reassuring message (attached audio and video clip), the pilot announced to terrified passengers his resort to defuelling the plane mid-air to enable emergency landing back to Jamaica and not Orlando International Airport where visa restrictions was cited as grounds of refusal to land.
The plane's flight map at time of bird-attack incident.
The pilot de-fuelled the plane for about 45 minutes to lighten its weight to enable landing back at smaller capacity Sangster International Airport @ Montego Bay Jamaica than Orlando International Airport would have managed. It was rough landing back (attached clip) at Montego Bay with terrified passengers, later relieved for the ordeal to not have ended in disaster.
A Ugandan passenger aboard the plane shared audio of her experience and video of other passenger aghast at America's rejection for plane to land at Orlando which had the space and technical capacity to resolve the technical problem.
Thankfully plane and all aboard landed intact and passengers spent night in Montego and have today arrived safely in the UK.
The Ugandan aboard the plane shared her photos at Montego Bay's gates as she prepared for journey back to London, before disaster struck about an hour midair, into the 9 hour journey.
By Lillian Nalumansi on May 6, 2020 • ( Leave a comment )
When two French scientists used their appearance on a French television channel-La Chaine Info- (LCI is a free-to-air channel) to suggest that testing for a coronavirus vaccine should take place in Africa "where there are no masks, treatment and no intensive" care, I cringed. We might as well have been listening to Western Scientists of the 17th century.
Except we were not. The lofty French scientists made their haughty remarks on their April 1st 2020 (it was not an April Fool's Day appearance for you intending to write off their remarks) television appearance, repeating a Western Scientists precedent of targeting African bodies for the riskiest scientific experimentations that gain them legacies at the expense of their research subjects.
The French Scientists Dr. Jean Paul and Professor Camille Locht had the temerity to suggest vaccine studies on Africans without the presence in the two-man discussion, of any senior African Health professionals. In fashion similar to the infamous 1884 Berlin Conference at which some White men parcelled out territories of Africa for themselves in total absence of any African leaders, the French Scientists paraded our bodies as lab rats for Western Scientists experimentation in our absentia.
"It may be provocative. Should we not do this study in Africa where there are no masks, no treatment or intensive care, a little bit like it's been done for certain AIDS studies, where among prostitutes, we try things, because we know that they are highly exposed and don't protect themselves?" wondered Jean-Paul Mira the head of Intensive Medicine and Intensive Care at Paris' Cochin Hospital, in the TV debate.
The backup supportive response of tv-appearance-colleague Professor Camille the Research Director at France's National Health Institute-(abbreviated as INSERM)- was not surprising when you have read as I have, about the general solidarity among many Western Scientists.
"You are right. And by the way, we are thinking of in parallel about a study in Africa using this same approach." Locht replied.
Prof Locht and Dr. Jean in their LCI TV appearance (Internet Image)
More than being disconcerted by the contemptuous manner in which the Scientists freely paraded Africans as the non-consensual lab rats for the West's vaccination exercises-remaining silent on the underlying self-interests that have historically driven such initiatives- I thought of the numerous articles of projected Western concern that I have read in the West's media since the pandemic's outbreak in Europe-over Africans so far largely unaffected. They reek of the West's infantalized view of Africans that predates their first interaction with us.
Prof Locht's screenshot during the LCI TV (Internet Image)
In their trumpeted concern about the health of Africans in the COVID19 pandemic, Western Scientists and their cohorts in the Western media retain grave-like silence on the devastating consequences such forced and disguised exercises have had on Africans-of which scores of deaths and debilitated quality of lives are some of the real leftover consequences.
The Eto people of Cameroon remember too well the scores of deaths, diseases and humiliation they suffered under colonial-France's forceful medical campaigns of sleeping sickness, malaria, syphilis, yellow fever, leprosy, yaws and conducted between 1921-1956.
In recalling the devastating effects of the forcefully administered sleeping sickness injections that Cameroonians endured from France's overzealous colonial medical teams, the Eto people composed a song (see below) that is their recorded reminder of the disturbing phenomenon.
The injection against sleeping sickness was too painful
They gave me an injection in the head
They gave me an injection in the neck
They gave me an injection in the back….
They ask me to go draw water from the well
If I drag my feet
The policemen hit me on the head
The book-"The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa"-by Guillaume Lachenal an Associate Professor at the University Paris Diderot and who studies the history of anthropology and medicine in Africa- best captures the devastating consequences from this largely disastrous sleeping sickness mass exercise of the 1950's-1960's.
Between 1921-1956, France's colonial governments embarked on extensive medical campaigns in Cameroon and the former French Equatorial Africa (today's Chad, Gabon, the Republic of Congo- which is not to be confused with the Democratic Republic of Congo) in bid to eradicate tropical diseases that were wiping out Europeans who in hijacking African territories, needed a medical solution to keep themselves alive while out there. Whatever diseases they regarded as "the white man's grave", Africans were to be the lab rats on first test whatever solutions Western Scientists had devised, before they would then be used on Europeans.
In attempt to treat the fatal parasitic sleeping sickness disease which was spread by the bite of a tsetse fly, roving medical teams penetrated deep into Cameroon's villages giving mandatory injections of medications such as Lomidine and Atoxyl which were the first available fronted treatments.
"After the Second World War, French colonial health services armed with a newly discovered drug, made the eradication of sleeping sickness their priority. A single injection of Lomidine (known as Pentamidine in the United States) promised to protect against infection for six months or longer," reads an English translated overview of Lachenal's- The Lomidine File-by Noemi Tousignant.
"But the drug proved to be inefficient and dangerous. Contaminated injections caused bacterial infections that progressed to gangrene, killing dozens of people. Shockingly, the French physicians who administered the shots seemed to know the drug's risks: while they obtained signed consent before giving Lomidine to French citizens, they administered it to Africans without their consent-sometimes by force," continues Noemi in her overview of the book.
"Lomidine injections also led to disaster: hundreds of cases of gas gangrene and scores of deaths particularly in French Equatorial Africa. Lachenal's core argument is thorough and damning, demonstrating what is widely intuitive but left unsaid: that colonial medicine was grounded not in holistic expertise or the best science of the day but in mediocrity, stubbornness, hasty compromise and ultimately a collective amnesia in self-evaluation," reads another overview of The Lomidine Files by Mari K Webel an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
It was disturbing but not surprising to listen to the French Scientists justify the vaccine trial exercise in Africa to "lack of face masks, treatment and no intensive care". A well conducted online research would have brought them up to speed with the existence of masks and public treating hospitals in Africa-the challenges of public health notwithstanding.
"Over the course of several decades, millions of individuals in colonial French West Africa were subjected to medical examinations and forced to receive injections of medications with dubious efficacy and with serious side effects including blindness, gangrene and death," reads an extract from the publication 'The Legacy of Colonial Medicine in Central Africa' by Harvard Scholars Sara Lowes and Eduardo Montero.
If you imagine that the scramble of African bodies by Western Scientists is a by-gone colonial precedent, I should point out to you the book 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present'. The author Harriet. A. Washington an esteemed American Medical Ethics scholar documents the entrenched history of medical abuse Black Americans have endured at the hands of immoral White American Scientists from as far back as the slavery days-to current times.
Africans and Blacks in the developed world have been victims of dangerous medical experimentations that have caused death, disfigurement, limb loss, crippling, chronic illness, intractable pain, stolen fertility and undignified display to their faceless victims (while the Scientists are venerated) .
Scientific fraud and abuse have often been travelling partners when it comes to research into African American health, states Harriet.
White Scientists in the slavery days viewed Blacks as "vectors of infectious disease" a descriptor they fronted as factual and used to justify exclusive experiments on Black bodies-of which the obsession with Black bodies is another well documented topic by different scholars.
In her book, Harriet cites many incidents of Black victims of such experimentations-the poor and illiterate being the most targeted-and who reaped consequences such as being injected with vaccines with unacceptably high lethality, being subjected to surreptitious surgical and medical procedures, excluded from lifesaving treatments or their bodies secretly farmed for sera or tissues that are used to perfect technologies for infectious diseases.
Like the French Scientists did, their American counterparts always exaggerate the benefits of their intended treatments and underplay the risks to the patients both during and after experimentation.
From as far back as the 18th century, Black Americans have been targeted by Western Scientists who hanker after the Black bodies that they have used to perfect cutting-edge medical technology which once successful and launched on the market, is out of reach to the very people that were used to birth it.
HIGHLIGHTED DOCUMENTED DUBIOUS MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS IN THE BOOK-"MEDICAL APARTHEID: THE DARK HISTORY OF MEDICAL EXPERIMENTATION ON BLACK AMERICANS FROM COLONIAL TO PRESENT TIMES".
Between 1932-1972, 600 hundred Black American men were recruited into a dubious syphilis treatment by the US Public Health Services (1932) Those recruited with syphilis numbered 399 while those without were 201.
Recruits for the "Study of Syphilis in the Untreated Negro Male" (popularly called the Tuskegee Syphilis Study) as it was titled, were promised free medical care by PHS Scientists who were among the White Scientists that parroted the belief-disguised-as-fact that "venereal diseases manifested differently in Blacks than in Whites".
Rather than offer treatment to the infected recruits, the PHS Scientists deliberately withheld treatment without their recruits' knowledge.
As directed by the PHS Scientists, researchers were given placebos such as aspirin and other ineffectual doses of arsenic, mercury salve and mineral supplements to disperse as treatment to their trusting subjects. Meantime, the researchers monitored the progression of the disease in the recruits, for their own scientific gain.
The recruits soon started dying, some became blind while others became insane as researchers continued withholding treatment from them without their knowledge.
The plight of the recruits would become known in 1960 when a PHS venereal disease investigator Peter Buxton learnt about the Tuskegee Study and the unethical manner it was being conducted.
When confronted, rather than stop the study the PHS officials insisted on still carrying on with it without informing the recruits of its non-therapeutic outcomes. They continued monitoring the recruited men, until all had died.
At time of death, the men had respectively infected 40 of their wives with syphilis and had born to them, 19 babies with syphilitic birth defects. The Tuskegee Study is listed among America's most scandalous and dehumanising public health studies.
Harriet notes that the disproportionate use of black bodies to perfect cutting-edge medical technologists by Western Scientists is not novel. Even Western medieval lore entertained the belief that Black bodies were suitable for use in experimental treatments.
A medieval engraving by 15th century artist Girolamo da Cremona entitled 'Saints Cosmas and Damian Transplanting a Leg" shows the transplanting of a black leg onto a white body. The moral in the story is the miraculous life regained by Saint Cosmas after his amputated leg was replaced by a black grafted one.
In fronting Africans as lab rats for the benefit of Western Science, Western Scientists might actually consider that it in the early days of their Science, it was considered prestigious for Scientists to volunteer themselves for experimentation.
Quoting Lawrence Altman's book "Who Goes First? The Story of Self Experimentation', Harriet Washington exposes us to Western Physicians long and adhered to tradition of following animal studies with limited self-experimentation.
"This tradition may not always have been prudent, but by testing substances or procedures on themselves before experimenting with appreciable numbers of human subjects, doctors symbolically conveyed their belief that the measures were not inordinately harmful and also signalled a researcher's willingness to share the risks and glory of discovery".
If I may be "provocative too" as was Dr. Jean. Could the Western Scientists largely form the experimental subjects for the very exercise they are coveting Africans?
By Lillian Nalumansi on November 7, 2019 • ( Leave a comment )
On March 23rd 1909, America's 26th President Theodore Roosevelt (commonly abbreviated as TR) and his then 19 year old son Kermit Roosevelt (KR) departed from New York for Kenya for a year long Africa safari trip.
The trip not that long after the end of his Presidency (reign from 14th September 1901-4th March 1909), Theodore and son sailed off for their African big wild game hunt that covered Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Khartoum in Sudan.
Theodore Roosevelt (left) and his team with one of the leopards they killed (a Facebook photo)
In the book Black Poachers and White Hunters,Theodore and son Kermit are noted to have killed 512 animals. The total number of wild animals though killed for the entire duration of the trip was 44,900 species. Theodore had left America with an entourage of male American Scientists all sponsored for trip by the America's Smithsonian Institute.
In his book, "African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter, Theodore stated the purpose of his trip as being to collect big game species and others, for the National Museum in Washington.
"On March 23rd 1909, I sailed thither from New York in charge of a scientific expedition sent out by the Smithsonian Institute to collect birds, mammals, reptiles and plants but especially specimens of big game for the National Museum at Washington.
By time of departing Africa, they left with the largest collection of dead mammals that has ever been brought out of Africa by a single party.
Added to the 512 dead mammals Theodore and son shot, the scientific personnel shot 5,103 mammals, 4453 birds, 2,322 reptiles and a large number of amphibians (information contained in Paul Russell Cutright's Book The Making of a Conservationist).
In his book, Theodore hailed in America and the West as the "great hunter and natural conservationist", tallied their (father and son) list of massacred animals and which can be found at link ↓ to his book
https://archive.org/details/africangametrail00rooseve/page/458
His book also contains many photographs of him and son posing by the animals they killed…. as seen below.
After 8 months in Kenya, Theodore and entourage proceeded by steamer to Uganda. They landed in Entebbe which was then the seat of the English Governor of Uganda. And so continued with the massacre of wildanimals as they did in Sudan and Congo.
The elands Kermit killed (photo from his father's book).
The Theodores with giant eland horns in Sudan
Some Western apologists have attempted to write off this heinous crime sticking to labelling Theodore as a "brave hunter" "naturalist" and a former President that "promoted Scientific interest in African wildlife".
History might be re-written but the interpretation cannot be dictated. The next time you are thinking of Africa's declined wild animal population, think of the contribution by such heinous acts as Theodore's and the West's Scientific community whose contribution the West's media stuck to scapegoating Africans as poachers…never exposes.
Additional reading of Roosevelt's Africa Safari Trip as reported about by Uganda's Daily-The Monitor.
https://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/PeoplePower/-Uganda–wild-game-Theodore-Roosevelt-US-president/689844-2616282-kw8abj/index.html
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The Verendrye (Var-en-dree) Museum was established in 1968, when the Old Stanley County Historical Society and many other historically-minded individuals worked together to bring to life their vision of a place where Fort Pierre's colorful past could be preserved and commemorated. The museum is named for French brothers Louis and Chevalier Verendrye, who explored the upper reaches of the Missouri River and in 1743 buried a lead plate on top of a nearby hill, claiming the entire Missouri River basin for France. Today the Verendrye Monument graces this same hill and is a National Historic Landmark. The lead plate is housed across the river in the South Dakota State Historical Society Museum. This is one of South Dakota's most important historic treasures.
The Verendrye Museum resides in the heart of downtown Fort Pierre, mere blocks from the Verendrye Monument and one block from another national historic site: the spot at the confluence of the Missouri and Bad Rivers where Lewis and Clark had their historic first encounter with the Sioux. Surrounded by this rich history, the Verendrye Museum is housed in a 1930s-vintage building that used to serve as a community hall and was home to many a Saturday night dance in downtown Fort Pierre. It was the home of the American Legion for many years. The building that houses the museum was put on the National Register of Historic Places in July 2017.
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The Verendrye Museum is open Monday through Saturday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM and Sunday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day. There are also a number of displays at the Log Cabin Visitor Center and the Sansarc Country School Museum, which is open all year long and located at the corner of Main Street and Highway 83.


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import logging
import random
import uuid

from dcos_test_utils.dcos_api import DcosApiSession

__maintainer__ = 'branden'
__contact__ = 'dcos-cluster-ops@mesosphere.io'

def test_checks_cli(dcos_api_session: DcosApiSession) -> None:
    base_cmd = [
        '/opt/mesosphere/bin/dcos-shell',
        'dcos-check-runner',
        'check',
    ]
    test_uuid = uuid.uuid4().hex

    # Poststart node checks should pass.
    dcos_api_session.metronome_one_off({
        'id': 'test-checks-node-poststart-' + test_uuid,
        'run': {
            'cpus': .1,
            'mem': 128,
            'disk': 0,
            'cmd': ' '.join(base_cmd + ['node-poststart']),
        },
    })

    # Cluster checks should pass.
    dcos_api_session.metronome_one_off({
        'id': 'test-checks-cluster-' + test_uuid,
        'run': {
            'cpus': .1,
            'mem': 128,
            'disk': 0,
            'cmd': ' '.join(base_cmd + ['cluster']),
        },
    })

    # Check runner should only use the PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH from check config.
    dcos_api_session.metronome_one_off({
        'id': 'test-checks-env-' + test_uuid,
        'run': {
            'cpus': .1,
            'mem': 128,
            'disk': 0,
            'cmd': ' '.join([
                'env',
                'PATH=badvalue',
                'LD_LIBRARY_PATH=badvalue',
                '/opt/mesosphere/bin/dcos-check-runner',
                'check',
                'node-poststart',
            ]),
        },
    })

def test_checks_api(dcos_api_session: DcosApiSession) -> None:
    """
    Test the checks API at /system/checks/
    This will test that all checks run on all agents return a normal status. A
    failure in this test may be an indicator that some unrelated component
    failed and dcos-checks functioned properly.
    """
    checks_uri = '/system/checks/v1/'
    # Test that we can list and run node and cluster checks on a master, agent, and public agent.
    check_nodes = []
    for nodes in [dcos_api_session.masters, dcos_api_session.slaves, dcos_api_session.public_slaves]:
        if nodes:
            check_nodes.append(random.choice(nodes))
    logging.info('Testing %s on these nodes: %s', checks_uri, ', '.join(check_nodes))

    for node in check_nodes:
        for check_type in ['node', 'cluster']:
            uri = '{}{}/'.format(checks_uri, check_type)
            logging.info('Testing %s on %s', uri, node)

            # List checks
            r = dcos_api_session.get(uri, node=node)
            assert r.status_code == 200
            checks = r.json()
            assert isinstance(checks, dict)

            # Run checks
            r = dcos_api_session.post(uri, node=node)
            assert r.status_code == 200
            results = r.json()
            assert isinstance(results, dict)

            # check that the returned statuses of each check is 0
            expected_status = {c: 0 for c in checks.keys()}
            response_status = {c: v['status'] for c, v in results['checks'].items()}

            # print out the response for debugging
            logging.info('Response: {}'.format(results))
            assert expected_status == response_status

            # check that overall status is also 0
            assert results['status'] == 0


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Analysis: Corporate & Business Tax Cuts Putting WV in a Hole
Dan Heyman, Public News Service-WV
(03/03/14) CHARLESTON, W.Va. - State lawmakers are struggling to close a big budget hole, but a close look shows the legislature dug that pit with business tax cuts over the last eight years. Sean O'Leary with the West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy pointed out that state spending has been basically flat for some time, but the tax cuts made since 2006 are part of what is causing a budget gap of more than $200 million next year.
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Because of tough winter, counties max out makeup days
February-28-2014
By Lacie Pierson
The Herald-Dispatch
HUNTINGTON -- The number of makeup days built in to the school calendars in Cabell and Wayne counties officially have been maxed out as of this week.
This year's winter has translated into missed instructional days that have reached double digits in each county, and with a snow day for both counties Wednesday, there officially were no more days in either school's calendar that school officials legally could utilize to make up for the...
Why teachers deserve better
By Hoppy Kercheval in Hoppy's Commentary | February 28, 2014 at 12:17AM
West Virginia's public school teachers are going to end up with a pay raise out of this legislative session. It will be a modest one, either two percent or $837 across the board.
WVEA President Dale Lee has been pushing for the dollar amount as opposed to the percentage because it would have more impact on starting salaries which, according to figures from the National Education Association, are $32,500...
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The Inter-Mountain
CHARLESTON - A bill making its way through the state Legislature might make some students and teachers want to celebrate - with something sweet and delicious like a cupcake.
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Delegate Denise Campbell, D-Randolph, introduced House Bill 4307 this term,...
Teacher of the Year speaks to aspiring educators at Wesleyan
By Lauren Talotta, General Assignment Reporter
WBOY
West Virginia's Teacher of the Year 2014 spoke to some aspiring educators at West Virginia Wesleyan College on Wednesday night.
Erin Sponaugle, a fifth-grade teacher in Berkeley County, spoke to students about overcoming anxiety and switching majors in college to earn her degree in elementary education.
Sponaugle said she sees this year as an opportunity to become the voice of the profession.
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The week was feverish with phone calls and e-mails dispersed across various social media outlets. I had a Saturday off from the restaurant and guide trips, it was also the first week in November and the forecast looked 'fishy'. Wind gusts 20-30 mph, chance of rain greater than 80%, high in the mid 40's, time to hit some water. Personal messages and voice mails we returned with mostly 'we regret, would love to but …' Previous engagements held many back from joining me on my freshwater quest. Then, late Friday afternoon I received a text message from Thomas Menas, on his winter sabbatical from Minturn Anglers in Vail, CO he had a free day on Saturday and would love to hit some water with me.
Where shall we go? Browns are aggressively stocking up on their post spawn feast and debauchery on many of our rivers. A twenty minute scouting trip to the Boyne River has revealed a few steelies and voracious eager little browns hiding in the woody debris. The Lower Jordan would prove worthy, so would many sections of the Upper Manistee or the Au Sable River. The thought of floating the fast water of the Sturgeon River for the emerald bullets that have infiltrated its cold and oxygen rich frigid waters has a certain appeal. Or a quick trip over the bridge to the fabled Two Hearted River, or nearby Carp River. Then Thom throws another option in the mix that I had never even considered.
"How about we float some secret waterway for Musky?" debated my fishing buddy. I have yet to be infected with the toothy GLMV (Great Lakes Muskellunge Virus), but would happily comply.
Then a few other options slowly crept into the back of my mind and it became apparent to me, once again, we are blessed. There is such a bounty of great water in this little corner of the Mitten, and I haven't even tapped some of the better resources simply because they are either designated trout rivers and closed for the season or are crowded with a multitude spawn baggers and spider wire anglers hoping for one last desperate salmon carcass to double their Ugly Stick before they head off in to the woods in search of a wayward Bambi.
We suited up in our Waderwick stirrup Robin Hood Tights and Simms Rubber pants and met early Saturday afternoon at a nearby boat launch to make a plan from there. Zach has just returned from his half-day guide trip and might be interested in joining our blustery rendezvous with 'River Q'.
Recent stocking reports from the Department of Natural Resources gives me an inclination to check out a little lake we have all driven by a hundred or more times and often considered but haven't visited since High School Church Camp where I sang songs at nightly campfires.
The access is simple and vacant, void of other trucks and trailers. The clarity of the water makes reading the drop offs and vegetation simple and and almost ethereal. For a moment, we joke about being in some lake in the middle of the Canadian Shield, miles from civilization, while we can hear a logging truck round the bend and begin to work his air brakes.
We never had time to dig in the Yeti for snacks and sodas, we were too busy keeping our course and working streamers deep and fast. All we wanted was to find fish, get a chase and chalk it up a 'Good Day.' Then Zach got a slam on his streamer, on for a second and shortly off. Perhaps a toothy villain was toying with us, or one of the smaller stocked trout I had read about. Then Thom got a smash, more like he was broadsided by a bus. His rod had a healthy bend in it and we saw the flash of a decent fish. The Mackinaw made a dash for deeper water, crossing the bow of the Adipose and lunging for a darker zone. A brief moment later, and deft net job, we had our first backyard stillwater streamer laker in the bag and measured up to O'Keefe status on the Idylwilde tape measure. Well worth our time and trouble, getting soaked and blown around, to find such a gem in a matter of minutes from our homes. We pass the time exchange guide trip stories.
Thom's tales are always larger than life itself, like he guides for Paul Bunyan Outfitters. Whether being chased down a by bull moose in the high mountain lakes of Colorado or being stalked by a mountain lion, or nearly zapped by an electrical storm at 8,000 feet, it kinda makes my pathetic fear of coyotes in the distant fairly obsolete. Then Zach gets his, a nice Splake with colors a touch more iridescent than his non-genetic hybrid cousin the Laker. At the end of the afternoon, we were soaked, but tapped into a great little fishery that was exciting and refreshing. We had a great day on the water, catching up and catching a few fish. Although the footage I caught on my GoPro was lost when I failed to eject before unplugging the USB cord, I have a pretty good idea where we can go to do it all again, and we won't have to drive a few hundred miles to enjoy the treasures we have right in our own back yard. Tight Lines!
Hooking up with a longtime buddy or child is what our sport is all about. The cold, rain, bugs, high water, cloudy water, wind, high temperatures are what make fly fishing memorable. I look back at every second of being on the water as a gift. I can close my eyes and still see my daughter's grin when she caught her first fish on a cold windy May morning. Thanks for the post, my fingers are cold just looking at Thom's picture!


Q: What is joy and why is it important for emotional health?
A: Often when mental health issues are discussed, the painful issues of emotions are addressed such as anxiety, depression, trauma recovery, and the like. Addressing these prevalent issues is important, yet there is another side to mental health that needs equal attention: understanding and fostering joy in our lives.
This column column explores the foundation of joy and provides a springboard for the practice of joy.
For Christians, the concept of joy gets confusing. We are told joy is not an emotion, like happiness. While it is true that happiness comes and goes and joy can exist even when our circumstances change, there is no getting around that joy is an experiential reality. This means it is a state of being that involves our mind, will, emotions, and the deep inner place in all of us where the Holy Spirit resides and speaks God-reality to us.
We are told in the Scriptures that joy is a fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5) and are encouraged in 1 Thess. 5:16 to "be joyful always." Jesus embodied joy and was anointed with the oil of joy as referenced in Psalm 45 and Hebrews 1. Joy is important.
Joy is a stabilizer. It serves like an anchor, holding us in the reality that good still exists during bad. And that the purposes of God in Christ are present realities, even as we await the ultimate setting right when Christ fully "fills everything in every way" (Eph. 1:23). Joy is often a "both-and" experience rather than an "either-or" experience.
Did you notice that the word "joy" is smack dab in the middle of the word "enjoyment?" Enjoying the good things in life connects us to something vital. Not all is bad with the world we live in and the people in it! A good cup of coffee in the morning, rich conversations with friends, and watching a sunset are all small tastes of God's gifts to us. They connect us to the goodness He originally created, is maintaining, and will ultimately restore. Pure enjoyment is important to embrace.
It is difficult for people to embrace joyful experiences. Research shows that 85 percent of humans cannot embrace the good without waiting for the other shoe to drop. That is a remarkable and telling statistic! In a later column, we will discuss hindrances to joy, but one of the most powerful hindrances is the inability to receive the good in the moment. The "moment" is connected to a larger picture and if we don't receive the good in the moment, it can be more difficult to connect to the larger picture when we need it.
Since joy is a fruit of the Spirit, embodied by Jesus and encouraged as an ongoing practice, we know it is important. As important as joy is in fortifying our internal lives, it is equally vital for spreading the fragrance of joy in our communities. The joy we carry reminds others that God has not abandoned the people and world He created. We may not use those words, but the essence of joy communicates that.
Joy is a contagious experience. We want to be around people who are carriers of joy. They calm our souls, and they encourage and strengthen us. Can we be carriers of joy? This does not mean that we put on a happy face and are dishonest about difficult things we may be wrestling with. On the contrary, as Christ did, we model the "both-and" experience. It is a powerful witness and one of the most important elements of being human we can assist others with.
Joy is important for our personal mental health, because we are designed for joy, along with creation because it, too, was designed for joy. Although so many things are wrong with creation, joy is the signpost that God's goodness has never ceased being an active presence, and is available to us here and now, even as we wait for ultimate future hope. The Holy Spirit is compassionately and powerfully able to increase our joy, regardless of personality and life circumstances. Let us ask Him to grow joy in greater measure in our lives!


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Nuclear weapons won't necessarily make Iran more aggressive
Historical record is mixed on whether new nuclear nations become more aggressive or not, with nuclear weapons in some cases making aggressive nations less bellicose.
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Numerous historical examples of new nuclear-armed states choosing to act rationally
Given the success of "don't attack," those promoting strikes against Iran must establish why the Mullahs would act differently. Consider: not even Soviet Russia and Mao's China, two of the most odious and belligerent regimes in history, used nuclear weapons. And after World War II, neither did the defender of the West, the United States, which engaged in more atomic diplomacy than any other nuclear power. Both India and Pakistan, despite their deep animosity and the blood of multiple conventional wars, practiced nuclear abstention. And then Israel, a country that risked defeat in the 1973 war, eschewed nuclear use. History demonstrates that Cold War and regional nuclear deterrence, self-deterrence, conventional military capabilities, and diplomacy kept the world safe from nuclear war. Why wouldn't this pattern apply to Iran?
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Ramberg, Bennett. "Position: The Military Option: (The Iranian Quagmire: How to Move Forward) ." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Vol. 66, No. 6 (November / December 2010): 121-129. [ More (5 quotes) ]
History shows nuclear-armed countries no more likely to behave aggressively
A close look at the history of the nuclear age shows that countries with nuclear weapons are neither more likely to make coercive threats nor more likely to succeed in blackmailing their adversaries. Nuclear powers such as the United States and the Soviet Union certainly made numerous threats after they acquired nuclear weapons. But so did Libya, Serbia, Turkey, Iraq, Venezuela, and dozens of other countries that did not possess the bomb. Nuclear weapons are not a prerequisite for engaging in military blackmail. Further, there is scant evidence that possessing the bomb makes coercive threats more successful when they are made. Nuclear weapons did not help the United States compel North Korea to release the USS Pueblo and its crew in 1968. Israeli coercive threats backed by the implicit threat of nuclear war failed against Syria prior to the 1982 Lebanon War, just as British threats against Argentina in 1982 were unable to compel the return of the Falkland Islands, despite Britain's possession of nuclear weapons.
Fuhrmann, Matthew. "Would a nuclear-armed Iran really be so dangerous? ." Christian Science Monitor. (January 12, 2011) [ More ]
Historically, possession of nuclear weapons hasn't improved efficacy of making threats
Would a nuclear-armed Iran have more success blackmailing its neighbors? The historical record suggests not. For example, during the 20th century, Britain made successful threats against Germany, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Turkey, and others before acquiring nuclear weapons in 1952. Since acquiring the bomb, however, it has made only one successful threat, as part of a NATO coalition against the Bosnian Serbs in 1994. Many hardliners say Iran's ideological fervor makes it unique. US officials voiced similar concerns about Mao's China in the early 1960s. But nuclear weapons did not embolden China. Iran today is certainly different from China in the 1960s, but policymakers would do well to remember that apocalyptic fears about nuclear proliferation are not new.
India / Pakistan nuclear history is not applicable for predicting whether Iran will behave more aggressively
The Pakistani-Indian conflict may be such a situation. Pakistan's nuclear arsenal may have enabled it to engage in riskier behavior in Kashmir than it otherwise would attempt, because nuclear weapons help to deter Pakistan's ultimate nightmare: an assault by the militarily superior India, which could slice Pakistan in two and perhaps destroy it completely. But if you try to apply that logic to Iran, no one is playing the role of India. Iran has its own tensions and rivalries with its neighbors— including Iraq, Saudi Arabia, other states on the Persian Gulf, and Pakistan. But none of these pose the kind of existential threat that Pakistan sees coming from India. Moreover, none of the current disputes between Iran and its neighbors (such as the one over ownership of some small islands also claimed by the United Arab Emirates) come close to possessing the nation-defining significance that the Kashmir conflict poses for both Pakistan and India.
Pillar, Paul. "We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran ." Washington Monthly. (March / April 2012) [ More (12 quotes) ]
Historical record shows that nuclear acquisition makes states less aggressive
Nevertheless, even some observers and policymakers who accept that the Iranian regime is rational still worry that a nuclear weapon would embolden it, providing Tehran with a shield that would al low it to act more aggressively and increase its support for terrorism. Some analysts even fear that Iran would directly provide terrorists with nuclear arms. The problem with these concerns is that they contradict the record of every other nuclear weapons state going back to 1945. History shows that when countries acquire the bomb, they feel increasingly vulnerable and become acutely aware that their nuclear weapons make them a potential target in the eyes of major powers. This awareness discourages nuclear states from bold and aggressive action. Maoist China, for example, became much less bellicose after acquiring nuclear weapons in 1964, and India and Pakistan have both become more cautious since going nuclear. There is little reason to believe Iran would break this mold.
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Waltz, Kenneth. "Why Iran Should Get the Bomb ." Foreign Affairs. Vol. 91, No. 4 (July / August 2012): 2-5. [ More (7 quotes) ]
Nuclear weapons had a demonstrably stabilizing effect on the former "rogue" state of China
In 1964, when the PRC tested its arst nuclear device, China was perhaps the most "rogue" state in modern history. Mao Zedong's domestic policies caused the death of tens of millions of China's citizens. Moreover, he had pursued an aggressive foreign policy before the atomic test. Examples include attacking India, aghting the United States directly in Korea and by proxy in Vietnam (where it armed a nonstate actor, the Vietcong), and threatening war over Tai- wan. Mao made a series of highly irresponsible statements about the PRC surviving and even thriving in a nuclear war. No country in the post–World War II period—not Iraq, Iran, or even North Korea—has given U.S. policymak- ers more reason to fear its nuclearization than China.34
Within five years of the PRC's nuclear test, however, the United States and China initiated a covert dialogue. In less than a decade, they began an anti- Soviet alliance that put great pressure on Russia and helped to bring the Cold War to an end. Nuclear weapons did not make China more hostile. If anything, its foreign policies became less aggressive and more mature over time. Today China has one of the most restrained and most responsible nuclear force postures and deployment policies of any nuclear power; it maintains a mini- mal deterrent under tight command and control while eschewing a arst-use doctrine.35
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Gavin, Francis J. "Same As It Ever Was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War." International Security. Vol. 34, No. 3 (Winter 2009/10): 7-37. [ More (6 quotes) ]
Nuclear weapons more likely to be a stabilizing influence on Iran
That Iran—surrounded by rivals with nuclear ambitions and singled out by the United States, the largest military power in the world—has an interest in nuclear weapons is not surprising. Even assessments that view Iranian behavior as a challenge to U.S. interests in the Middle East do not consider the regime as threatening as the PRC was during the 1960s. As Shahram Chubin writes, "It is not overtly confrontational or given to wild swings in behavior or to delusional goals; it has not denounced arms control treaties to which it formally adheres; and there is evidence of pluralism and some debate within the country."36 Nuclear weapons could make Iran more aggressive. Or, as with China, they could provide international legitimacy and security, making Iran less aggressive than it has been. As one recent analysis put it, "If anything, Iran might and that possession of a nuclear weapon actually diminishes its op- tions in the Middle East and forces it to act with greater restraint."37 A deeper understanding of nuclear history and the underlying geopolitical circum- stances Iran faces makes the prospect that it would take actions (such as supplying Hamas or Hezbollah with nuclear weapons) that could invite its own destruction highly unlikely.38
Nuclear Iran unlikely to be able to threaten other countries with its conventional forces with impunity
In the first case, Iran's conventional military capabilities are limited. Iran's military was weakened in the 1980s and has not greatly improved since. Huge investments are needed, though none seem forthcoming. And because a nuclear Iran is likely to have triggered a more robust, multilateral sanctions regime on its way to successful proliferation, it is conceivable that even if it had the economic means to rebuild and rearm it would have trouble doing so. Nuclear Iran, as a result, is unlikely to be able to effectively mount a conventional military campaign against any regional state, except perhaps the smallest Gulf sheikdoms. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and maybe even Kuwait are likely to be able to fend off a conventional Iranian invasion with some timely assistance from the U.S. And weaker Arab states, with a promise of rapid deployment of U.S. reinforcements, might be able to sufficiently forestall a conventional Iranian engagement and deny Tehran its immediate objects. Furthermore, the United States is likely to retain a presence in the Gulf, both on land and at sea, for the foreseeable future. As Posen explains, "even if Iran's leaders somehow feel safe at home, the forces they dispatch abroad would surely be destroyed."69 Evidently, allaying the threat of an emboldened nuclear Iran can be accomplished by relying on the threat of superior conventional force. A resurgent Iran sans the conventional tools of war is not a great threat. Security guarantees coupled with the tactful placement of U.S. military personnel in likely hotspots will send a signal that, first, nuclear Iran cannot easily acquire what it wants by conventional force, and second, even if it tries, it risks killing Americans in the process and triggering greater U.S. engagement. American soldiers have already been used as tripwires to dissuade Soviet aggression. The same principle can be applied to nuclear Iran.70 The upshot is that even under a nuclear shield, Iran faces few good options for launching a conventional attack, is likely to be denied its goals if it tries, and risks having to bear substantial costs.
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Wilner, Alex S. "Apocalypse Soon? Deterring Nuclear Iran and its Terrorist Proxies ." Comparative Strategy. Vol. 31, No. 1 (2012): 18-40. [ More (14 quotes) ]
Multiple examples of the moderating effects of nuclear weapons on new nuclear states
One might argue these findings are not applicable to Iran, due to that country's unique culture and religion and its distinct geopolitical and economic motives to develop nuclear weapons. However, the fact is that almost all states that have developed nuclear weapons have stumbled into a crisis out of inexperience and then authorized more moderate nuclear strategies and foreign policies after a few years' experience. This "experience effect" in the cases of the United States (in Korea), the Soviet Union (in Hungary), the United Kingdom (in Egypt) and France (in Algeria), cases in the late 1940s and early 1950s, are likely attributable to the early Cold War as well as nuclear weapons. It is not clear that fear played a role here, because the uncertainty associated with the early Cold War drove the conflict propensity of the new nuclear powers. However, all inexperienced nuclear powers since the late 1950s have found themselves in conflicts and wars either trying to revise a status quo (Soviet Union and Pakistan) or preventing and/or coercing a revisionist nuclear power from doing so (India). In China's case, nuclear weapons seem to have emboldened the Chinese to respond more forcefully to aggressive Soviet patrolling of disputed territory. In some cases whether the new nuclear power is revising or defending the status quo is unclear, because many other factors are also changing in a particular region, for example Israel and South Africa. Nevertheless, the fact that countries as different as the Soviet Union in the early 1960s, China in the late 1960s, and Pakistan in the early 2000s exhibited strikingly similar variation in their fundamental choices of coercive or moderate nuclear strategies shows that the great nuclear learning phenomenon knows no cultural or geographic bounds even though these countries exhibit important dif- ferences. The effect of experience with nuclear weapons on the central elements of their nuclear strategies over time is striking.
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Cohen, Michael D. "Fear and Learning in Tehran: What Recent Psychological Research Reveals about Nuclear Crises ." Strategic Studies Quarterly. Vol. 9, No. 1 (Spring 2015): 119-138. [ More (6 quotes) ]
Empirically, nations that acquire nuclear weapons begin to act with caution and moderation
WALTZ: Second, it doesn't matter who has nuclear weapons. Conversely, the spread of conventional weapons makes a great deal of difference. For instance, if a Hitlertype begins to establish conventional superiority, it becomes very difficult to contain and deter him. But, with nuclear weapons, it's been proven without exception that whoever gets nuclear weapons behaves with caution and moderation. Every country-whether they are countries we trust and think of as being highly responsible, like Britain, or countries that we distrust greatly, and for very good reasons, like China during the Cultural Revolution-behaves with such caution.It is now fashionable for political scientists to test hypotheses. Well, I have one: If a country has nuclear weapons, it will not be attacked militarily in ways that threaten its manifestly vital interests. That is 100 percent true, without exception, over a period of more than fifty years. Pretty impressive.
Betts, Richard K, Scott D. Sagan, Kenneth Waltz. "A Nuclear Iran: Promoting Stability or Courting Disaster? ." Journal of International Affairs. Vol. 60, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2007): 135-150. [ More (9 quotes) ]
"Okay, so what if Iran does get nuclear weapons?" — Mark S. Bell — Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs — August 20, 2015
The author reviews his recent study using historical examples to predict how states will act once they have acquired nuclear weapons, finding "history suggests that if Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons, it would be less universally emboldened than the pessimists fear, but nor would it find nuclear weapons to be useless."
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