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Dov & Elma Levy – Partners in Life and Work
If you are aspiring entrepreneur, growth-focused founder, family business owners, and government and technology professional, you will value the Levys' business and personal success stories, with guidance on how to manage a marriage and business simultaneously, creating boundaries with a home office, and showing mutual respect in the boardroom.
In this episode, host CMA's David Ciullo discusses with Elma and Dov Levy, authors of the book Partners in Life and Work, candid advice on the ups and downs of entrepreneurship, while interweaving the world of tech start-ups, the American immigrant experience, and the realities of running a business with your life partner.
Elma Levy is an entrepreneur, investor, leadership coach, and public speaker. Ms. Levy is co-founder and principal (with her husband Dov) of The Eldov Group, LLC, a boutique investment and startup advisory in the Washington, D.C. area. As an advisor to entrepreneurs, Ms. Levy provides advice on corporate governance, financial management, and tactical planning.
In 2000, Ms. Levy became the co-founder of Dovel Technologies, a company that builds and supports I.T. systems for the federal government. Over the next 18 years, she served as chief executive officer, and later as chair of the board, overseeing corporate governance and managing the company's infrastructure development and growth through its 2019 acquisition.
Ms. Levy is a credentialed leadership, wellness and life skills coach, and founder of Coach To Strength LLC in Bethesda, Maryland. Ms. Levy completed George Mason University's Leadership Coaching for Organizational Wellness program, Harvard Extension's Leadership Coaching Strategies program through its Division of Continuing Education, and the Life Skills Coaching program through the Life Coach Institute.
Ms. Levy is actively involved in Washington, D.C., and Maryland community business, academic, and non-profit organizations. She is a member of the national advisory council for George Washington University's School of Engineering (GW SEAS), and the advisory committee for the GWU SEAS Center for Women in Engineering.
She is a business mentor and professional development workshop presenter for the D.C. chapter of SCORE, and Chair of the Board of directors for Montgomery Hospice in Maryland. Before becoming an entrepreneur and business owner, Ms. Levy was a family nurse practitioner. She practiced healthcare and case management in the U.S., Israel, and the Netherlands.
Ms. Levy earned a BSN at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, and MSN and FNP certification at Marymount University in Arlington, Virginia. Ms. Levy and her husband Dov have two children, Mark and Karyn, and in 2020 they became first-time grandparents to Karyn's daughter, Isabelle Marie. Born in the Netherlands, Ms. Levy relocated to Washington, D.C., in 1982 and is a U.S. citizen. Ms. Levy and her husband reside in Bethesda with their golden retriever named Rosie.
Dov Levy is an entrepreneur, investor, and leading expert in large-scale, mission-critical I.T. solutions. Mr. Levy is the co-founder of Dovel Technologies, a government I.T. contracting company, and currently serves as its chief technologist.
With his wife and co-founder, Elma Levy, Mr. Levy, who sold the company to PE in 2019, has been the technical catalyst for Dovel Technologies' growth and innovation. He is a dynamic leader at the forefront of technological innovations.
Over the past three decades, Mr. Levy has served in technology leadership positions for the U.S. government's most significant mission-critical projects, such as the EDGAR system for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Defense Travel System (DTS) for the Department of Defense (DoD). Mr. Levy is co-founder and principal (with his wife Elma) of The Eldov Group, LLC, a boutique investment and startup advisory in the Washington, D.C., area.
Also, Mr. Levy is a senior advisor for GrantSolutions.gov, managing a large-scale implementation of cloud computing, event sourcing, machine learning, blockchain, and artificial intelligence. In 2018, the George Washington University's School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) inducted the Levys into the G.W. Engineering Hall of Fame for their sustained contributions as entrepreneurs, government consultants, and technology innovators.
Born in Israel, Mr. Levy is a U.S. citizen. Mr. Levy earned a bachelor's degree in geodetic science from Tel Aviv University and relocated to Washington, D.C., to complete a master's degree in computer science from George Washington

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More than half the fires reported at California waste facilities are thought to be caused by batteries. So, a public education campaign called "Avoid the Spark" has been launched.
SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (KGO) -- More than half the fires reported at California waste facilities are thought to be caused by batteries. So a public education campaign called "Avoid the Spark" has been launched.
If you are like many here in the Bay Area, you have a plastic bag filled with batteries either under the kitchen sink or in the garage. It is a place to store batteries until they are recycled. That is fine for most batteries but not lithium batteries. Those are the batteries most often used to power your cellphones, cameras, computers and many toys.
Corte Madera resident Sumi Caga was making a recycling run to the Marin Household Hazardous Waste Facility in San Rafael last week.
She was dropping off all sorts of e-waste including batteries. "I put them in the bag and I collect them, then when I come to this facility, I drop it off," she said.
She knows recycling batteries is good for the environment but did not know off-loading lithium batteries is part of a good fire safety plan, too.
"I just knew that once I am no longer using them, I do not want them around anymore."
Lithium batteries have been blamed for fires in hover boards, vape pens and smartphones, and now they are being singled out for concern at recycling centers.
In San Rafael, they separate batteries by their chemistry -- alkaline, nickel cadmium and lithium are among the most common.
"The ones that we are more concerned are the lithium ion," said Kathy Wall, Household Hazardous Waste Program Coordinator at Marin Sanitary Service. "Because they are rechargeable, so it is really difficult to identity when they have run all the energy that they have in them."
That is where the problems begin.
"Even a perfectly fine laptop battery that is no longer useful can be potentially dangerous if not handled correctly at the end of life." says Carl Smith, CEO and president of the not-for-profit, Call2Recycle, the country's largest battery recycling program.
He says if a lithium battery comes into contact with metal in just the right way, sparks can fly.
"They look like fire crackers going off," Smith said.
So when storing lithium batteries before recycling, keep them out of direct sunlight and away from metal.
At the Marin Household Hazardous Waste Facility, the battery holding barrels are lined with plastic.
"Fortunately here we have not had any fires," says David Catalinotto, environmental management coordinator for the San Rafael Fire Department. "That doesn't just happen by accident."
Smith says safety won't accidentally happen at your home either.
"You need to make sure the terminals are taped and protected," he says, "so they don't rub against more metal and create a spark and an explosion."
To protect yourself, tape over their positive terminals of lithium batteries with electrical, duct or clear packing tape.
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Waterloo Warriors defeated in 2014 Go Green in the City
June 27, 2014 By Anthony Capkun
June 27, 2014 – Schneider Electric recently hosted 24 finalists in Paris, France, for the conclusion of its global business case challenge Go Green in the City and, sadly, the only team from Canada to make the finals—the University of Waterloo's Reid Miller and Yuheng Jiang (the "Waterloo Warriors")—went home empty-handed… somewhat.
The winners of this year's challenge are from Hong Kong. The laureates Jin Deng Keith Chan and Man Ki Lee from the University of Hong Kong won the challenge for their idea that helps people efficiently monitor, manage and use their energy consumption through a mobile application.
The 12 finalist teams, including the Waterloo Warriors, presented their ideas for efficient energy management in smart cities to a jury composed of Schneider Electric senior management. (The only other qualifying Canadian team—team Western University, comprising Gareth Everard and Kamila Mukherjee—did not make the finals.)
"From the success of the fourth edition of Go Green in the City, we can see the increased interest of students around the world in energy issues," said Karen Ferguson, executive vice-president of global human resources at Schneider Electric. "Attracting further talents in a very competitive market is a real challenge for Schneider Electric, and this competition allows us to connect with students who share our passion for creating a more sustainable future."
During the four-day event, finalists visited the company's facilities, networked with employees and attended career-building workshops. They also had the opportunity to tour an energy-efficient solar village under construction for the Solar Decathlon, a student competition in Versailles (France).
The winning team won a world VIP-style trip with Schneider Electric, visiting facilities and networking with employees and senior management. They were also offered a professional opportunity with Schneider Electric.
The Go Green in the City competition has received a total of over 14,000 participants in the last four years, and expanded its scope from eight countries in 2011 to 159 countries in 2014.
Two Canadian teams in Schneider's Go Green in the City 2014 semi-finals
Canadian team among Schneider Electric's Go Green in the City 2016 finalists
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Welcome to our 'Son Day for Sunday' message.
As always we are on a very special journey with Jesus.
From where do you come and where are you going?
Following along a pea stone path, we come upon a bend in the road; making a decision to turn left or right awaits us. Yet, off in the distance is the sound of a small, familiar voice; calling us, beckoning us to come closer.
We turn in the direction of the voice, discovering all is not lost, even if we are; in the moment.


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Understanding the impacts of widespread forest die-offs across France, Germany, and China
by Lucas Sire, Paul Schmidt Yañez, Rodolphe Rougerie, Christophe Bouget, Laurent Larrieu, Douglas W. Yu, Michael T. Monaghan, Jörg Müller, Elisabeth A. Herniou and Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde | Oct 28, 2019 | Research
Metabarcoding increases the taxonomic resolution and geographic scale at which researchers can assess the impacts of climate change on insect communities in forests
Entomologists studying tree dieback of Picea abies in Bavarian National Park.
PHOTO CREDIT: Heiner M. Elsner
Forests throughout the world are suffering from an increase in the frequency and severity of droughts as well as pathogen and insect infestations. These climate-exacerbated factors are leading to tree diebacks—the progressive death of tree branches—and subsequent large-scale forest die-offs, the effects of which are not well understood. Preliminary results from our study indicate that while the number of insect species along forest die-off gradients might not be affected, their composition is changing.
CLIMTREE is an international project funded by the Belmont Forum that assesses the impact of climate-induced forest die-off on invertebrate biodiversity in highland forests in France, Germany, and China. This project aims to better understand how tree mortality and associated changes in forest composition affect biodiversity and ecosystem functions.
Silver fir (Abies alba) dieback in the French eastern Pyrenees
PHOTO CREDIT: Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
Our study measures changes in the insect communities along dieback and salvage-logging gradients of silver fir (Abies alba) forests in the French eastern and central Pyrenees, Norway, spruce (Picea abies) forests in the Bavarian Forest National Park, Germany, and Yunnan pine (Pinus yunnanensis) forests in Yunnan province, China. We examined patterns of variation in the species diversity of flying insects collected by Malaise traps. As these passive traps can collect a large number of specimens, we analyzed samples in bulk using DNA metabarcoding. This approach uses DNA barcode reference libraries to identify species from a mixed sample using high-throughput technologies that effectively provide large amounts of DNA sequence data.
Members of CLIMTREE assessing the level of decline of silver fir stands in Pays de Sault (French eastern Pyrenees)
We also examined saproxylic beetles, a key functional group used as bioindicators in forest assessments of dead-wood availability. We collected these beetles using flight interception traps, and we also sampled specimens from natural history collections to build a DNA barcode reference library for the French saproxylic beetle fauna as a resource for future investigations.
The preliminary results from the 56 Malaise traps deployed in the French eastern and central Pyrenees have revealed more than 3,500 OTUs (Operational Taxonomic Units, a proxy for species) belonging to 18 insect orders, with considerable change in the compositions of the species detected along the dieback gradient as well as across a 4-month period. However, results to date do not suggest significant declines in species richness over the dieback gradient.
Rosalia alpina (Cerambycidae) is one of the 2,663 species of saproxylic beetles known to occur in France
Polytrap flight interception trap
PHOTO CREDIT: Carl Moliard
Of the 55,571 saproxylic beetles collected by the flight interception traps, about 70% were morphologically identified to one of 284 species. Similar to the flying insects collected by Malaise traps, the diversity of beetles along dieback gradients did not decline. We are now trying to use a non-destructive metabarcoding approach that involves processing the collection media to determine whether we can uncover a comparable number of species with a morphology-based sorting approach. If results are similar, we will have a strong case for using this technique as a time-efficient alternative for biomonitoring moving forward.
Overall, there is an urgent need to obtain detailed baseline data on insect communities to quantify the impacts of climate change. By taking advantage of DNA metabarcoding approaches, our study is assessing biodiversity patterns at scales previously impossible and providing the data essential for evaluating future changes in insect communities. Our workflows are simple to use and provide an affordable, reliable, and repeatable method of assessing insect diversity in forests at a large geographical scale.
Lucas Sire
Institut de Recherche sur la Biologie de l'Insecte, Tours, France
Paul Schmidt Yañez
Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Berlin, Germany
Rodolphe Rougerie
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
Christophe Bouget
IRSTEA, Nogent-sur-Vernisson, France
Laurent Larrieu
Dynafor INRA & CRPF Occitanie, Toulouse, France
Douglas W. Yu
Kunming Institute of Zoology, Kunming, China
Michael T. Monaghan
Institut Für Biologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Bavarian Forest National Park, Grafenau, Germany
Elisabeth A. Herniou
Carlos Lopez-Vaamonde
INRA, Orléans, France
https://doi.org/10.21083/ibol.v9i1.5726
BIOSCANBrazilConservationDieteDNAEnvironmental ManagementHymenopteraInsectaInvertebratesMammaliaMetabarcodingMonitoringNext-generation sequencingNorwayPakistanParasitesPestsPlantaeReference LibrarySpecies Diversity
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THE DEEP CONNECTION BETWEEN SOIL MICROBES AND TREES: DNA METABARCODING AND REFORESTATION
by Katie M. McGee and Mehrdad Hajibabaei | May 23, 2019
SCAT RAIDERS UNRAVEL ANIMAL-PLANT INTERACTIONS IN LEBANON USING DNA BARCODING TOOLS
by Carole Saliba, Liliane Boukhdoud, Magda Bou Dagher Kharrat | Apr 7, 2019
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by Nazeer Ahmed| Apr 7, 2019
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Insects don't talk, but new DNA-based technologies are helping to tell their stories
by Christina Lynggaard, Martin Nielsen, Luisa Santos-Bay, Markus Gastauer, Guilherme Oliveira and Kristine Bohmann | Oct 17, 2019 | Research
Researchers unlock clues about vertebrate diversity by examining arthropod samples
Malaise trap deployed in Carajás National Forest in Brazil. PHOTO CREDIT: Christina Lynggaard
The study of arthropod diversity often uses primers solely targeting arthropod DNA, ignoring those originating from non-arthropod sources. Yet, some arthropods (e.g. sand flies, blowflies, mosquitoes) feed on vertebrates and vertebrate remains. By specifically targeting these vertebrate-feeding arthropods, invertebrate derived DNA (iDNA) can be used to understand vertebrate diversity as well. Our study has found that by using samples collected for arthropod diversity research, we can tap into a rich information source of vertebrate diversity.
Arthropods are highly abundant and provide vital ecosystem services such as pollination, decomposition of organic matter, and they serve as a food source for other animals. Because of this, hundreds to thousands of arthropod samples are collected globally every year for monitoring programs, conservation efforts, and ecosystem assessments.
However, identifying arthropod species based on physical characteristics is difficult, requiring specific expertise and a significant amount of time. Due to this, molecular analyses, such as DNA metabarcoding, are being used to identify the arthropods present in bulk samples, speeding-up the otherwise time-demanding identification process by screening the contents of hundreds of samples simultaneously.
Bulk arthropod sample
PHOTO CREDIT: Christina Lynggaard
In this study, bulk arthropod samples were collected using pitfall and Malaise traps deployed at the Carajás National Forest in Brazil and in the Udzungwa Mountains in Tanzania. Our aim was to study the arthropod diversity in these areas by using metabarcoding primers targeting arthropod DNA. Nevertheless, we conducted an additional analysis targeting vertebrate DNA remains in the bulk samples by using metabarcoding vertebrate primers.
We were able to detect vertebrate DNA in 19 per cent of our 265 analyzed samples, identifying more than 30 vertebrate taxa including mammals, amphibians and birds. For example, we found South American tapir (Tapirus terrestris), chirinda screeching frog (Arthroleptis xenodactyloides), velvety free-tailed bat (Molossus molossus), Zanzibar bushbaby (Paragalago zanzibaricus) and honeyguide greenbul (Baeopogon indicator). The presence of some species was further confirmed through visual observations during the sample collections.
Some cases represent the first time those vertebrate species have been detected in the area. This could indicate that we are detecting vertebrates that live in different areas to where the arthropods were collected or that with this method it is possible to detect local animals that are difficult to observe.
Tapir footprint found in one of the Brazilian study sites during bulk arthropod sample collection confirmed the presence of some of the detected vertebrate taxa PHOTO CREDIT: Christina Lynggaard
Bushbaby (Paragalago zanzibaricus) found in the Udzungwa Mountains in the Tanzanian study site during bulk arthropod sample collection confirmed the presence of some of the detected vertebrate taxa
PHOTO CREDIT: mnielsenphotography
The sensitivity of new DNA-based technologies is changing the way we explore and understand the relationships between species. Approaches like DNA metabarcoding can not only tell us about the different types of insects in our environment, but also what they eat and where they have been. Our study is the first to not target a specific invertebrate group to detect vertebrate DNA but instead to use bulk arthropod samples. We encourage others to consider bulk samples during environmental monitoring not only as a source for arthropod diversity information, but one for vertebrate diversity as well.
This study is published in the eDNA Journal.
Christina Lynggaard
The GLOBE Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Martin Nielsen
Luisa Santos-Bay
NTNU University Museum, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
Markus Gastauer
Instituto Tecnológico Vale, Belém, Pará, Brazil
Guilherme Oliveira
Kristine Bohmann
University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK
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HOW A TROPICAL COUNTRY CAN DNA BARCODE ITSELF
by Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs | Oct 2, 2019
BIOSCAN: ILLUMINATING BIODIVERSITY AND SUPPORTING SUSTAINABILITY
by Donald Hobern | Oct 2, 2019
DNA BARCODING AND GENOMICS IN THE MEGADIVERSE AMAZON ALTITUDE FIELDS
by Guilherme Oliveira, Gisele Nunes, Rafael Valadares, Ronnie Alves and Santelmo Vasconcelos | Apr 7, 2019
by Katie McGee and Mehrdad Hajibabaei | May 23, 2019 | Research
Forest restoration can be better facilitated by considering the diversity and biomass of soil microbiomes
Aerial view of Laguna del Lagarto Lodge and primary forest, Costa Rica.
PHOTO CREDIT: Fritz Fucik
Tropical deforestation has contributed to the atmospheric rise in greenhouse gas levels, negative impacts on nutrient cycles, and declines in biodiversity. While forest restoration schemes are being implemented, the success of such efforts needs to be better evaluated. Our study demonstrates that soil microbial communities can guide the selection of key tree species important for local forest restoration processes and, ultimately, the global recovery of tropical forests.
2-year old logging road amongst Costa Rican primary forest with no vegetation re-growth due to severe soil degradation and compaction.
PHOTO CREDIT: Katie M. McGee
Tropical forests only comprise 7–10% of the Earth's land surface but contain 20% of the planet's carbon within the first three metres of soil. They also exchange more carbon dioxide (CO2) with the atmosphere than any other terrestrial ecosystem. Such characteristics make tropical areas critical for terrestrial primary productivity and global nutrient cycling. Yet, these important ecosystems are continually under threat from human-driven land-use practices.
Deforestation activities across the tropics contribute to the increase of atmospheric CO2 at levels comparable to fossil fuels1. If tropical deforestation were a country, it would be the third largest contributor of CO2 emissions (behind China and the United States), producing more than the European Union2. One of the main contributing factors, often ignored, is the large release of CO2 from the soil when forests are clear-cut; this occurs due to alterations in the respiration maintenance processes of soil microbes that result in a rapid release of the massive stock of soil carbon that has accumulated over time. Moreover, the soil in areas facing extraction-based land-use strategies have been so degraded that the capacity to recover and sustain biological productivity, and to capture and store carbon is significantly reduced.
Source Graph: Seymour and Busch (2016), Source Data: Busch and Engelmann (2015)
To remediate these consequences, restoration attempts have been implemented throughout the tropics. However, the success of these efforts is largely explored by studying charismatic organisms, such as birds, or by assessing plant biomass, with substantially less focus on soil dynamics. As soil microbes are key components in biogeochemical and nutrient cycling processes, it is thought that certain tree species and their affiliated soil microorganisms may help to serve as a principal pathway to ameliorate degraded soils. Many tropical trees can convert or 'fix' atmospheric nitrogen (N2) into ammonium through specialized root microbial symbionts. This conversion is critical to the growth and development of plants and soil microbes, yet the influence that N-fixing trees can have on the soil organisms in their immediate vicinity is still unclear.
The use of DNA-based identification techniques has significantly advanced research on soil microbial communities. Since the 1980s, popular methods have involved Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism techniques and Sanger sequencing. However, all of these methods are time consuming, costly, and involve laborious processes. The more recent development of DNA metabarcoding has allowed us to rapidly and comprehensively characterize soil biotic communities.
DNA metabarcoding is a method that combines traditional marker gene surveys – targeting particular organisms using standardized PCR primers for specific gene regions – with next-generation sequencing. By comparing obtained DNA sequences to a standard reference library of known organisms, taxa present in an environmental sample such as soil can be identified with high confidence. This allows us to address ecological questions linked to environmental impact and biomonitoring in a more efficient manner.
Pentaclethra macroloba and its soil microbiome shown to effectively support forest restoration in northern Costa Rica.
Using DNA metabarcoding, our study investigated individual plant effects of the soil collected around two types of trees, Pentaclethra macroloba (Gavilán; nitrogen-fixing) and Dipteryx panamensis (Almendro; non-nitrogen-fixing), in Costa Rica's northern region. We wanted to examine differences in the soil bacterial and fungal community composition.
We found that each plant species contained a unique soil microbial community, and that the nitrogen-fixing tree, Pentaclethra, supported soil microbes and microbial biomass at levels similar to those measured in primary forests. This indicates their importance for the recovery of soils to a pre-disturbed state. In comparison to the non-N-fixer Dipteryx, Pentaclethra stimulates a soil microbial community that is more efficient in storing soil carbon into biomass, as opposed to carbon loss via aforementioned respiration maintenance processes. These effects appeared to be associated with the amount of soil ammonium that the Pentaclethra-soil is able to provide to the surrounding soil.
Our results indicate the importance of this N-fixing tree in building back up carbon storage as biomass in the soil as well as promoting plant and soil microbial growth. As such, we suggest the use of Pentaclethra and its associated soil microbiome as an important ecosystem restoration tool in facilitating early regeneration of secondary forests.
Our method of using soil microbes, characterized by DNA metabarcoding, is a novel approach that can be applied globally to guide regeneration efforts that most effectively improve the quality and fertility of degraded soils as well as inform restoration ecology and the policy surrounding it.
1. Seymour F and Busch J (2016) Why forests? Why now? The science, economics, and politics of tropical forests and climate change. Center for Global Development. Washington, DC, USA. ISBN: 978-1-933286-85-3
2. Busch J and Engelmann J (2015) The Future of Forests: Emissions from Deforestation With and Without Carbon Pricing Policies, 2015– 2050. CGD Working Paper 411. Center for Global Development. Washington, DC, USA.
Katie M. McGee
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, Guelph, ON, Canada
Mehrdad Hajibabaei
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Agents group joins the battle vs DOJ
by Dennis Johnson
The Association of Authors Representatives has joined the Authors Guild, the American Booksellers Association, and a wide assortment of others in speaking out in opposition to the lawsuit by the Department of Justice against five of the Big Six publishers and Apple.
According to a report from Publishers Weekly, the group was inspired by an open letter written to the DOJ by member Simon Lipskar of the Writers House agency, "listing, in great detail, the ways in which the department's suit against publishers was misguided and ill-informed," and constituted a "bizarre misunderstanding."
Now, according to the PW report, AAR president Gail Hochman says she has sent an official letter (pdf) to the DOJ "outlining the position of the AAR Board on the settlement, and urging members (and their clients) to write their own feelings about the settlement to the Department."
In the letter, Hochman urges the DOJ to rethink its case, saying the action of the publishers was necessary because Amazon's "artificially low pricing unfairly threatened the world of publishing and bookselling and would ultimately have a devastating effect on the choices available to book consumers." She says when Apple proposed the agency model, "our members breathed a sigh of relief," because it would "create a fair playing field" for others to "join the ebook marketplace."
What's more, Hochman sent a copy of her letter to AAR members, urging them to send their own version on to the DOJ themselves. "We believe the more letters from publishing professionals that are received, the better the chance of affecting the judge's final decision," she explains.
While the growing opposition to the DOJ on this case is impressive and full of great minds, this development seemed to elicit great cheer in New York today. After all, if anybody can negotiate a better deal out of the government, it's Gail Hochman.
Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House. Follow him on Twitter at @mobylives
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Los Angeles Clippers sign Nate Robinson to 10-day contract
The Los Angeles Clippers signed guard Nate Robinson to a 10-day contract, the team announced Saturday.
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Robinson has been a free agent since the Boston Celtics bought out his contract on Jan. 14 after he was traded from the Denver Nuggets. Robinson was only playing an average of 14.1 minutes with the Nuggets. He was averaging 5.8 points, 2.3 assists and 1.2 rebounds per game.
Robinson announced the deal on Instagram on Saturday with a photo of himself in his new No. 8 Clippers jersey.
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Robinson will be available to play on Sunday when the Clippers visit the Golden State Warriors.
The guard was drafted by the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the 2005 NBA draft.
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Cuomo Vs. Loglisci: Who's The Chooch?
Politicians in New York including Governor Andrew Cuomo last night condemned President Donald Trump's hate-filled speech from the Oval Office demonizing immigrants in his desperate bid to get money for his lunatic wall.
Meanwhile Trump's government shutdown has now moved past three weeks.
"Americans know truth when they hear it. And they also know self-serving, aggrandizing false political rhetoric," Cuomo said. "Mr. President, re-open our government now. A wall is not a response to a humanitarian crisis nor is it a solution to keeping our country safe. If the President is serious about border security, he will join with the Democrats to support smart, high-tech security instead of wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on his absurd wall."
Governor Cuomo added, "In New York, we know that a wall does not represent who we are as Americans - we are a nation of open arms and we know our diversity is our greatest strength. Earlier today, I met with members of the New York Congressional delegation who are determined to stand up for our New York principles and get government back to work. In these challenging times, we will fight for New York's interests and New York's values."
Jumaane D. Williams, a member of the New York City Council and a candidate for Public Advocate said, "Every day, Trump further diminishes the office of the Presidency, and this stunt was just another extension of that damage, using the Oval Office to gain a wider audience for his lies and fear-mongering. Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis to cover for his ineptitude, and scapegoating vulnerable populations to advance his nationalist agenda."
Williams added: "As hundreds of thousands of federal workers lose out on the paychecks they and their families depend on, as important services are denied the American people because of the shutdown, he continues to deflect, to lie, and to stoke hatred and fear with a 'crisis' of his own making. Real crises are the over half a million homeless individuals in our country, the tens of millions without health insurance, the 30,000 people killed each year in the gun violence epidemic. On a local level, we will continue to work on solutions to these issues. If Trump could turn his attention from an asinine wall, maybe our federal government could do the same. This address was nothing more than political hackery by a man who is himself a national crisis."
Michael Blake, also a candidate for Public Advocate said: "Tonight's address from the White House was nothing more than a continuation of the racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric we've heard from President Trump for years. The lack of moral leadership in our country's highest office mandates that the American people take it upon themselves to reflect on the true spirit of our nation and reject hate in all its forms."
"America is stronger because of her diversity, full stop. New York City is the home of the Statue of Liberty, and we will always hold her words true. To our immigrant brothers and sisters, whether you joined our American family 100 years ago or 1 hour ago, we say 'Welcome,'" Blake said. "The American people place this government shutdown squarely on the shoulders of the President. We demand that he end his childish tantrum and stop holding the livelihood of 800,000 government employees hostage."
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Today's tabloids, August 20, 2011.
Does the buck stop with Andrew Cuomo and Chris Christie or doesn't it?
By TOM MCGEVERAN
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner?
The New York Post: Do you know about the "elite quarterback" thing?
It's a theme for a late-summer sports argument. It's not one people care about enough that their arguing might drown out the chriping and buzzing of the cicadas or occasional passing dragonfly at a backyard barbecue; it's just something to make headlines out of for a while while the Yankees and Mets are being predictable midseasonaires.
After Giants quarterback Eli Manning told ESPN he thought he was in the top five to 10 quarterbacks in the National Football League earlier this week, people went slightly wild. The tabloids ran somewhat alarmed headlines and medium-length articles about his qualified, not particularly outrageous brag, which seemed out of character for him.
Yesterday, Jets coach Rex Ryan, who usually rises to this sort of occasion with the relish of a professional-wrestling heel, declined to challenge Manning's self-assessment, only saying in response that his own Mark Sanchez is also maybe an elite quarterback, though not as elite as Eli's older brother Peyton Manning or Tom Brady.
Presumably the debate will continue to simmer, gently, through the end of the summer. The Post definitely does not undersell, giving roughly half of its front page to the story, with big type reading "Eli vs. Sanchez," and a dek that reads "War of the quarterbacks."
"As Conan the Barbarian, Jason Momoa proves less than jab-solutely fabulous," reads the caption to the main huge photo on page 51 of the Post. Huge type in Copperplate (what, no Trajan?) reads "BLADE OF GORY," and he's lunging at your eye with his sword, the grime and dirt outlining the chiseled contours of his enormous sculpted barbarian physique. Kyle Smith gives the move two-and-a-half stars out of four. So it's OK! Why am I talking about the inside? Because Conan's also on the cover.
It says "Conan," in yellow underlined type that tilts upward to the right. And it says "Movie review: Page 51."
"OUCH!" reads the last headline on the page. This is the big, big black type with no art, which means it's the "news" lead on the page. "New PA tolls to hit a staggering $15." This is real news, even if it was a press release yesterday. People will care! It's a lot of money. "New PA tolls will drive commuters to the poorhouse," reads some lede text. "The agency last night reached agreement with Govs. Cuomo and Chris Christie on a package of huge hikes over the next four years."
Daily News: In fact the toll hikes on bridges and tunnels run by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is big news for the News, too. Only it's a different story. "GOVS: SLASH TOLL HIKE" reads the huge knockout-white text on a black field.
This seems to suggest that what happened yesterday was that the governors called out the Port Authority and demanded on behalf of all us little people that they bring down their outrageous hike plans. In fact what happened yesterday was that the two governors made up a hike themselves which is maybe marginally less outrageous than an earlier proposal from the P.A., along with a self-protective measure of high dudgeon about the way the Port Authority is run.
Let's not forget that the governors were reportedly aware of that earlier proposal, and that public fury over the size of the hikes, and the fact that the P.A. said they were caused by overruns at Ground Zero, pressured them to try again.
In Andrew Cuomo's case, the goal now is to steer as much outrage as possible toward the generally well-respected P.A. chief Christopher Ward, an independent operator who annoys the governor and whom Cuomo plans to be rid of soon anyway. In Chris Christie's case, it is to blame the P.A. in such a way that he appears to fighting for the put-upon citizens of New Jersey whose tax dollars have been put at the disposal of profligate, overbearing New Yorkers like, well, Chris Ward.
Both governors need to appear very angry and put-upon, which is not a stretch for either of them. But the people who write tabloid headlines are not obliged to aid them in their theatrics.
"PLUS: Outrage as all PA members skip public hearings" reads a red box inside. Again, the Port Authority is a villain being reined in by our leaders. I won't even try to figure out the dek. "Tell board to cut massive $6 increase way back." Inside, I can't figure out where a $6 dollar increase comes into the picture, unless they are calculating what the fare might be four-fifths of the way through the life of the plan? I don't know. (The Post dek says new tolls will hit "$15," because they have chosen the big number, active after 2014, I think.)
Also, Kim Kardashian's getting married. The News takes you "inside" the wedding, which hasn't happened yet.
Observations: The News cover panders and is also boring. It's a lose-lose!
Winner: The New York Post.
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CAEP FEI | Tuckamore Innovation
In Featured Education Innovations (FEI) by Adam Dubrowski November 11, 2016 Leave a Comment
Miriam, the simulation lab nurse, has seen all sorts of healthcare teams rotate through the sim lab to practice patient cases. Often, the participants are all from a single discipline. Often, the patient cases are similar. This has always struck Miriam as strange, as from her experience working in the Emergency Department knows that real cases involve multidisciplinary teams and that there is so much in common between the various disciplines.
Simulation technologies are used by most medical specialties and many other allied health teams. Why not have a research team that reflects cross-disciplinary training? This Feature Educational Innovation (FEI) was originally posted by the CAEP EWG FEI Team on March 20, 2015 and answers the question: "How can we better collaborate with other specialties who share educational technologies?" A PDF version is available here. A CAEP cast is available here.
TUCK-a-more: a Newfoundland term for tangled stands of spruce and balsam fir. "Most of the growth occurs on the lee sides, the windward branches having been nipped by the wind, salt air, and cold. Tuckamore forests are tight places, very difficult to penetrate." One tree cannot survive alone, but together the stand is indestructible. (Charles Frazier)
Description of the Innovation
The Tuckamore Simulation Research Collaborative (TSRC) uses the same principles as spruce and balsam trees, to thrive together as a tuckamore in our harsh meteorological climate. Born in the discipline of Emergency Medicine (EM), the Collaborative was developed to support research activities united by the use of simulation as an educational tool within Memorial University, across many disciplines, faculties and geographical locations. This includes Faculty of Medicine, Schools of Human Kinetics and Recreation, Nursing and Pharmacy, Centre for Cold Ocean Research in Engineering (C-CORE) and the Marine Institute.
We value community, collegiality, mutual support and respect, and sharing goals for success. By providing individuals or programs interested in simulation research a community with common interests, and nurturing naturally occurring synergies, we hope to achieve growth and excellence in research and practice. Celebrating the unique perspective of PhD/MD collaboration in health professions education scholarship, we work in "Pasteur's Quadrant", where research and its practical application intersect, with the expectation that the knowledge thus acquired will eventually help society. As it relates to Memorial's division of EM, the TSRC provides a strong collaborative support system for innovation. Our EM ultrasound researchers are currently studying best practices for introducing ultrasound in undergraduate, post-graduate and CME settings. Our biomedical engineers are researching distance technologies for ultrasound image production and interpretation, with practical application in our distributed learning environment, including Labrador, Nunavut, Haiti and the Newfoundland offshore. Our pediatric colleagues are examining the utility of video simulation debriefing. Communication strategies between rural and urban physicians are under analysis, as is cognitive load, for which EM is arguably the poster-child.
The work of TSRC occurs in our new Human Experiential Learning, Performance and Safety (HELPS) lab, where students from many disciplines work side-by-side in a space uniquely designed to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration. This environment stimulates and facilitates the flow of ideas among kinesiologists, human factor engineers, nurses and physicians.
The TSRC has adopted a meta-leadership style. This is an overarching framework for strategically linking the efforts of different units to "provide guidance, direction, and momentum across organizational lines that develop into a shared course of action and commonality of purpose among people that are doing what may appear to be very different work." (Marcus et al., 2006).
One year in, our success stories include seven ongoing projects, six peer-reviewed publications, many presentations at local, national and international conferences, and several research awards.
One of the key activities designed to build capacity amongst our partners is research skills workshops. In our inaugural year we held bi-monthly workshops, followed by continued mentorship over a year-long project for each participant. February 2015 marks the end of the first iteration of these workshops. In addition to the typical teaching evaluations we have conducted a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis with workshop participants (see Table 1).
Table 1: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis of Tuckamore Simulation Research Collaborative Workshops.
Table 1 provides a summary of the SWOT analysis. In general, the format proved challenging for our clinical participants' erratic schedules. One participant commented "Gaps between workshops allows for informational decay over time". Additionally, a major perceived program threat was overreliance on the lecturer, as evidenced by this comment "If the leader becomes overcommitted or is unavailable."
In response to the SWOT, we will offer a three day "bootcamp" instead of a distributed format. This will be followed by milestone-based curriculum, which will be supported by a number of existing and new faculty, some of whom will be drawn from the current workshop participants. An initial face-to-face immersion will be the foundation supporting our work, which will be completed using distance technologies. This fellowship will soon be offered to physicians and partners, as well as to residents and trainees in a condensed version. Details can be found at this link.
We hope that this modified format will let us build internal capacity, and in turn will facilitate growth in all other dimensions of the Tuckamore Collaborative.
Other than simulation, can you think of other shared educational technologies that would be well served by collaborating across specialties? Could point-of-care ultrasound benefit?
More About the CAEP FEI
This post was originally authored for the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP) Feature Educational Innovations project sponsored by the CAEP Academic Section's Education Working Group and edited by Drs. Teresa Chan and Julien Poitras. CAEP members receive FEI each month in the CAEP Communiqué. CanadiEM will be reposting some of these summaries, along with a case/contextualizing concept to highlight some recent medical education literature that is relevant to our nation's teachers.
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Adam Dubrowski is Associate Professor in Emergency Medicine at Memorial University. His primary areas of expertise are simulation and virtual learning environments.
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Daniel Ting is an Emergency Physician and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, based in Vancouver. He is the Editor-in-Chief of CanadiEM and a Decision Editor at the Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. He completed the CanadiEM Digital Scholarship Fellowship in 2017-18. No conflicts of interest (COI).
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Michael Parsons is the Assistant Program Director at Memorial University for the CCFP(EM) Program. His research interests include PoCUS, simulation and procedural skills training.
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Peter Rogers
Peter Rogers is the Program Director for the CCFP(EM) Program at Memorial University. Medical education, simulation and ultrasound are among his specialties.
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Q: Can I parse an indentation-based language using Instaparse, or any other clojure libraries? Can Instaparse or another Clojure library be used to parse an indentation-based language? I've seen examples of using Instaparse to parse grammars expressed in EBNF/ABNF.  Is there a good way to use it to parse an indentation-aware language like Python?

A: typically to do indentation-based parsing you need three things:

*

*extend the tokenizer to make a token from the leading spaces on each line

*process the stream of tokens, for each line comparing the leading spaces against the
current context and indicating whether there's a increase or decrease (so you change
having a token at the start of every line to having a token when the indentation level
changes)

*writing a "normal" parser that is aware of the tokens that indicate a change in indent
level.
depending on the language you might need to feedback some information from the third part to the second part.
i don't know anything about instaparse (the only reason i am answering is that people who ask "what have you tried so far?" on questions like this really piss me off) so you'd need to look at whether there is some way to place the second stage between the tokenizer and the parser (i scanned the docs and it doesn't seem to have anything that does the second part for you, but you could write that yourself).  but it should be able to do the first and third parts ok.

A: Apparently, you're not the first person to have this issue with Instaparse.
With most parser generators, you would solve this problem with a custom lexer, using some variation on the scheme proposed by @andrewcooke. However, Instaparse was designed to avoid the need for a lexer and consequently does not provide an interface which uses one.
This lack was specifically raised in issue 9, superseded by issue 10; in the latter, the Instaparse author suggests a workaround:

In the meantime, there's a workaround you could potentially employ. You could map tokens like INDENT and DEDENT to unused characters and then rebuild it as a string, then run instaparse on that. I believe ASCII characters 0-8 and 11-31 are unused and could serve as tokens.

That's certainly a possibility, although it's an aesthetic judgement as to whether that's "doing something very hacky." Still, you could write such a hack in the hopes that it can be removed once issue 10 is resolved. You might want to join in the discussion of that issue.

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The opening ceremony of Intangible Culture Heritage Exhibition.
Prior to the 5th Intangible Culture Heritage Day on June 12, a themed intangible culture heritage exhibition was unveiled in Beijing Exhibition Hall on June 9 offering masters of Tibetan Thangka and Regong art to reveal their unique skills and marvelous masterpieces.
Covering an area of 3,600 sq.m, the exhibition was divided into 9 categories such as List of Intangible Culture Heritages, Embroidery, Jade Carving, etc. Visitors can enjoy 318 masterpieces of 100 artists from 23 provinces, regions and cities.
In 2006, Tibetan Thangka and Regong art were listed onto the first batch intangible culture heritages at the national level. And in 2009, Regong art was put on the list of World Intangible Culture Heritage by UNESCO.
As typical examples of Tibetan intangible culture heritages, Tibetan Thangka and Regong art were showcased to reveal their unique charm to visitors in order to the inherit and develop the traditional Tibetan culture.


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"With the mouth one makes public declaration for salvation."—Rom. 10:10, NW.
1. Apply to the Bible Jesus' formula for longevity.
"THE word of God is alive." (Heb. 4:12, NW) Those who conform to it follow a way that destines them for life if it is continued in in faithfulness to the termination of their earthly Christian careers. Jesus stated this basic formula for longevity: "This means everlasting life, their taking in knowledge of you, the only true God, and of the one whom you sent forth, Jesus Christ." (John 17:3, NW) Jesus spoke very forceful truths concerning the receiving of life through him, identifying himself as the bread from heaven, saying: "He that feeds on this bread will live forever." (John 6:58, NW) Not receiving these words into good and honest hearts, not getting the sense of them, "many of his disciples, when they heard this, said: 'This speech is shocking; who can listen to it?'" Jesus did not back down, but stated something even more impressive, saying, "Does this stumble you? What, therefore, if you behold the Son of man ascending to where he was before? It is the spirit that is life-giving; the flesh is of no use at all. The sayings that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. But there are some of you that do not believe." (John 6:60-64, NW) Many of the disciples turned from him then, leaving him, and Jesus asked his twelve close associates if they wanted to go also. Simon Peter made the proper reply, showing that he had received Jesus' words into a good and honest heart and that he had really gotten their sense: "Master, Whom shall we go away to? You have sayings of everlasting life."—John 6:68, NW.
2. Cite operations of God's word toward the bringing of life to its adherents.
2 As certainly as the word of God enabled Christians to be brought forth as God's sons, just so certain is it that adherence thereto enables them to receive life as a gift through Christ Jesus from God, in whom they have abiding faith and whom they serve. "Because he willed it, he brought us forth by the word of truth, for us to be a certain firstfruits of his creatures." (Jas. 1:18, NW) "We are not the kind that shrink back to destruction, but the kind that have faith to the preserving alive of the soul." (Heb. 10:39, NW) Did not Jehovah's word preserve alive his servants through the Flood and Israel from Egypt, establishing prophetic shadows?—1 Pet. 3:20, 21; 1 Cor. 10:11, NW.
3. What living hope of life is in the living Word?
3 The present lives of all men are uncertain, and the present lives of Christians are subject to uncertainties too. As servants of God our daily existence is joyful, filled with happiness and with appreciation to Jehovah for his undeserved kindness. We must observe that the lasting life for all Christians is in the future and the lasting life for the majority is upon this earth after Armageddon. In the meantime we have hopes of being carried through Armageddon, and if that is not our lot, nevertheless, through our faithfulness and Jehovah's loving power, we have hopes of participating in the resurrection from the dead. These hopes are certain. They are born in our hearts and minds through the living Word of God and are real to us because we believe and rely upon Jehovah.
4. How is the book of life declared to be a book of health?
4 His book is a book of life in that it sets out the course that leads to life. It is a book of spiritual health. We are not in doubt concerning this. We are fully aware of the one in whom we believe and trust—the one whose words we have accepted and who has our unqualified confidence. We say: "For I know the one whom I have believed, and I am confident he is able to guard what I have laid up in trust with him until that day. Keep holding the pattern of healthful words which you heard from me with the faith and love that are in connection with Christ Jesus. This beautiful trust guard through the holy spirit which is dwelling in us." (2 Tim. 1:12-14, NW) Healthful words? Paul was positive in his assurance to young Timothy that such was the case, even saying in his first epistle to his companion in service, "If any man teaches other doctrine and does not assent to healthful words, those of our Lord Jesus Christ, nor to the teaching that accords with godly devotion, he is puffed up with pride, not understanding anything, but being mentally diseased over questionings and debates about words."—1 Tim. 6:3, 4, NW.
5. Name one of the most remarkable manifestations of the power of God's Word, and state if it is present or future.
5 There is something else that God's Word brings to us that is not merely future. It too is an essential part of our lives, and cannot be dispensed with. It constitutes a proof of our acceptance of God's Word. Recall what Jesus said about those who receive the word in good hearts, get the sense of it and bring forth fruit in abundance. The bringing forth of fruit is an evidence of the living Word's acting on our hearts and minds and exerting its power in our lives. It is something that can be seen by both God and man. It is our service. In fact, the faithful service of Jehovah's witnesses is one of the most remarkable manifestations of the power of God's Word, as well as an evidence of his protecting active force operating in their behalf and through them. Obviously, it is more than just a matter of intentions when God's service is involved. In addition to intending to serve God, Christians do it.
6. In what capacity does our ministry serve in Christian warfare?
6 A large share of our part in our Christian warfare is the preaching of the truth to others as ministers of the good news of God's kingdom. "For the weapons of our warfare are not fleshly, but powerful by God for overturning strongly entrenched things. For we are overturning reasonings and every lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God, and we are bringing every thought into captivity to make it obedient to the Christ." (2 Cor. 10:4, 5, NW) We previously observed Jesus' words, "A good man brings forth good out of the good treasure of his heart, . . . for out of the heart's abundance his mouth speaks." (Luke 6:45, NW) Jesus continued, saying: "Why, then, do you call me 'Master! Master!' but do not do the things I say?"—Luke 6:46, NW.
7. What is here shown to be insufficient, and why?
7 It is not enough that we hear the words of Jehovah God and Christ Jesus and hear only. It is not sufficient that we merely come to a personal understanding of doctrinal truths. We may learn facts regarding the so-called trinity and that Jehovah alone is God. We may understand the truth that there is no hell-fire torment, and rejoice in the Scriptural teaching that the soul is mortal and that the hope of the dead is through the resurrection. We may know that the established, proved facts of all science corroborate the fundamental truth of the creatorship of Jehovah and also corroborate the Bible account of creation and man's history upon the earth. We may be thrilled at the findings of archaeology confirming the words of God's prophets. But that is not enough. If we stop there we use the truth to serve ourselves alone.
8. We are Jehovah's witnesses if we do what?
8 If we obey the commandments of God and Christ Jesus, follow the example of Christ Jesus, the apostles and the early Christian congregation, we will tell others concerning the things from God's Word that have so enriched our lives. We will make the activities of the New World society our activities all we possibly can. We will bear fruit; we will speak out of the abundance of a heart filled to overflowing with the truths of God's Word and the love that his Word instills in us for the great Speaker and Author of the Bible. If we do this, with the approval of God as his Word discerns between our soul and spirit, we are Jehovah's witnesses. If we do not serve God, worshiping him in spirit and in truth, we are not Jehovah's witnesses.
9. State a folly to be avoided, showing the Scriptural viewpoint.
9 Why do we serve God? Because we love him, and the power of Jehovah's Word is manifested through us thereby. It is folly for anyone to deceive himself with the idea that 'the Kingdom is now thirty-nine years old, I have served God long enough, the complete end may be another thirty-nine years away, and so I should settle back now, take things easy, and prepare comforts and luxuries for myself.' Jesus, as long ago as when he was here on the earth, long before the Kingdom was born, said, "Everyone that comes to me and hears my words and does them, I will show you whom he is like: He is like a man building a house, who dug and went down deep and laid a foundation upon the rock-mass. Consequently, when a flood arose, the river dashed against that house, but was not strong enough to shake it, because of its being well built." (Luke 6:47, 48, NW) As long ago as the apostle Paul's day service was the worthy pursuit for Christians; and the more so now: "Do this, too, because you know the season, that it is already the hour for you to awake from sleep, for now our salvation is nearer than at the time when we became believers. The night is well along; the day has drawn near. Let us therefore put off the works belonging to darkness and let us put on the weapons of the light. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not be planning ahead for the desires of the flesh."—Rom. 13:11, 12, 14, NW.
10. The discharge of what obligation shows the service power of the truth?
10 All the desires of our selfish natures and the appeal of all the propaganda of the old world are for us to refrain from putting on the Lord Jesus Christ, or, having him on, to put him off, and, instead, to lay plans ahead for fulfillment of personal wishes, disregarding the interest and needs of God's people, his organization and his work. We owe a debt of love to our brothers. We owe to them to chart a course of personal action that will be helpful spiritually to our associates of the New World society. We owe to our fellow man, and to our God primarily, our service of ministry of praise to Jehovah in behalf of all lovers of righteousness. Repeatedly in the Scriptures we find such expressions as the 'word of the Lord came' to God's servants and they responded, preached and prophesied and otherwise ministered in obedience to the word they heard. Concerning the opening of the mouth in Christian liberty in ministering the apostle wrote to the Ephesians: "Finally, go on acquiring power in the Lord and in the mightiness of his strength. Put on the complete suit of armor from God that you may be able to stand firm against the machinations of the Devil; because we have a fight, . . . keep awake with all constancy and with supplication in behalf of all the holy ones, also for me, that ability to speak may be given me with the opening of my mouth, with all freeness of speech to make known the sacred secret of the good news, for which I am acting as an ambassador in chains, that I may speak in connection with it with boldness as I ought to speak." (Eph. 6:10-20, NW) How else can such service power come except from the truth of God's Word?
11. Prove that in the light of God's word our ministry cannot be ignored.
11 No, the Word of God cannot be separated from our ministry. Ancient Israel stood as a people for Jehovah's name, and their service of praise to him was a witness to his Godship. However, something far more grand is the lot of Jehovah's worshipers in this day of his kingdom. In fact, that has been true since the beginning of the Christian congregation; but in the day of the birth of the Kingdom the statement to the Romans has added weight, wherein we read: "For Moses writes that the man that has done the righteousness of the Law will live by it. But the righteousness resulting from faith speaks in this manner: 'Do not say in your heart, "Who will ascend into heaven?" that is, to bring Christ down; or, "Who will descend into the abyss?" that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.' But what does [Christian faith now say? It says:] 'The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart'; that is, the 'word' of faith which we are preaching. For if you publicly declare that 'word in your mouth', that Jesus is Lord, and exercise faith in your heart that God raised him up from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one exercises faith for righteousness, but with the mouth one makes public declaration for salvation."—Rom. 10:5-10, NW.
12. Who counsel to turn to God's Word?
12 Turning to the worship of Jehovah means turning to his Word; turning to his Word means worshiping him. Jehovah's witnesses admonish one another to turn to God's Word always. They counsel the people in general to turn to the Bible, inform themselves concerning its true contents and conform to its righteous teachings. The apostle Peter did the same thing, urging his associates to pay attention to the Bible, including its prophecies, stating: "Consequently, we have the prophetic word made more firm, and you are doing well in paying attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until day dawns and a daystar rises, in your hearts. For you know this first, that no prophecy of Scripture springs from any private release. For prophecy was at no time brought by man's will, but men spoke from God as they were borne along by holy spirit." (2 Pet. 1:19-21, NW) Jehovah God himself backs up that principle of accepting the Word, stating prophetically through Deuteronomy 18:19: "And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him." (AS) The words of God spoken through this Greater Moses, Christ Jesus, are available to us, and we should accept them, as stated: "Also accept the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the spirit, that is, God's word."—Eph. 6:17, NW.
13. (a) How does the Bible fit the requirements for being practical and practicable? (b) When men deny the workableness of the Bible what are they demonstrating?
13 If God's Word is practicable it may be practiced or performed. It is capable of being put into practice. It is feasible and can be used. Its requirements for Jehovah's service upon earth are capable of being accomplished. It is not impracticable. If this living Word of God is practical it can actually be turned to account and is not merely theoretical, nor merely an impractical idea that sounds nice. It is utilitarian. If it is practical it is valuable in practice and is available, and those who utilize it are actually working with it, being given to action and not merely indulging in speculation. Such result must of necessity follow, in consideration of the facts already observed concerning God's living Word and its power in the lives of Jehovah's people. The shoddy contention of self-centered men that God's Word is neither practical nor practicable falls flat in the light of the internal and external evidence pertaining to the Bible. When men say, "It won't work," in referring to the Word of God, they identify themselves as men who have never tried it and never put it to practice, and they are not following its commandments and precepts. When men say, "It is only visionary with its principles of uprightness and its hope for a righteous new world," they are identifying themselves as men without vision, and persons remaining without vision of those things pertaining to the Creator and his purposes respecting man are going to die. "Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he." (Prov. 29:18) This is true because those without vision through God's law "cast off restraint" (AS), the restraining guidance of the counsel of God's Word.
14. What is the practical course to take?
14 Is it not practical to stay awake in a time of crisis and keep our senses? Is it not practical to have our hearts and heads protected by faith and love and hope of lasting life? Of course it is. "So, then, let us not sleep on as the rest do, but let us stay awake and keep our senses. For those who sleep are accustomed to sleep at night, and those who get drunk are usually drunk at night. But as for us who belong to the day, let us keep our senses and have on the breastplate of faith and love and as a helmet the hope of salvation; because God assigned us, not to wrath, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Thess. 5:6-9, NW) The passing of time since the recording of God's Word until the day of decision in which we are privileged to live underscores the foregoing injunction from the fifth chapter of First Thessalonians and supports, in fullness of current application, the words of the same Bible writer in Romans 13:12 (NW), also previously referred to. "The night is well along; the day has drawn near. Let us therefore put off the works belonging to darkness and let us put on the weapons of the light. As in the daytime let us walk in good behavior."—Rom. 13:12, 13, NW.
15. (a) As to judgment, what shows good judgment on our part? (b) How reliable is man?
15 Alive, exerting power, and sharper than any two-edged sword, with practicability to uncover men's hearts, God's Word states: "And there is not a creation that is not manifest to his sight, but all things are naked and openly exposed to the eyes of him with whom we have an accounting." (Heb. 4:13, NW) Is it not the part of good judgment to endeavor to have the approval of the great God before whom the accounting is to be made? How else can we possibly win his approval except through the taking of the course outlined in his righteous Word? There is no other way under the sun. Would it be wise to rely on grass that grows in the meadow, to worship flowers that bloom in the fields? "All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever." (Isa. 40:6-8, AS) There is nothing practical in following men who are going contrary to God's Word and who are as important and reliable as weeds.
16. Upon what does Peter insist?
16 The apostle Peter emphasized this point and in doing so quoted from the 40th chapter of Isaiah, saying: "Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth with unhypocritical brotherly love as the result, love one another intensely from the heart. For you have been given a new birth, not by corruptible, but by incorruptible reproductive seed, through the word of the living and enduring God. For 'all flesh is as vegetation, and all its glory is as a flower of the vegetation; the vegetation becomes withered, and the flower falls off, but the word spoken by Jehovah endures forever'. Well, this is the 'word spoken', this which has been declared to you as good news." (1 Pet. 1:22-25, NW) When the counsel of God's Word is disregarded by men, the men who go contrary to it get into trouble; so avoid difficulties brought about by untheocratic conduct. As Peter insists, Jehovah's Word endures, and it is blameless in regard to the difficult conditions that have come about because of disobedience to that Word.
17. Show the solidness of the New World society.
17 The old world, rotten to its heart, is doomed to destruction and will go down even while harping that the Bible won't work and its contents are outdated and useless. The New World society, however, is founded solidly on the unchanged and unchanging word of a God who is consistent, almighty and completely righteous. Its members recognize the most important thing, a true appreciation of their God and their relationship to him. They glory in this relationship as prospective members of God's great family. The Word of God is to us inexhaustible, its study always rewarding, adherence to it always beneficial. We thank God for everything in our lives that serves to keep our attention on his Word and increase our love for it and our appreciation of it. In it are found the organization instructions on which the New World society operates. Correct, truthful doctrine, righteous laws, highest and noblest principles, authority to preach, all are contained in the living Word, pointing to and applying in this great day of judgment and of division. Above all, his living Word identifies and exalts the true God, Jehovah, the Source of light. Truly as his spokesman Christ Jesus said: "The sayings that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life."—John 6:63, NW.
The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul: the testimony of Jehovah is sure, making wise the simple. The precepts of Jehovah are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Jehovah is clean, enduring for ever: the ordinances of Jehovah are true, and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb. Moreover by them is thy servant warned: in keeping them there is great reward.—Ps. 19:7-11, AS.


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Femtocells widely deployed in a macrocell form hierarchical cell networks, which can improve indoor coverage and network capacity, and have been regarded as one of the most promising approaches. However owing to the absence of coordination between the macro and femtocells, and among femtocells, decentralized spectrum allocation between macro and femtocell users become technically challenging. In this paper, a dynamic spectrum allocation scheme based on Stackelberg game is proposed, in which macrocell base stations as leaders and femtocell base stations as followers are players, and the same spectrum is the resource that players will choose assigning to users for minimizing the affected interference among each other. The Stackelberg equilibrium is defined and proved to be existed, which is also the optimal spectrum allocation manner. Simulations were conducted to study the impact of femtocells on the macrocells regarding throughput, outage probability and spectrum efficiency. And the comparison results show that the proposed scheme might be a solution for efficiently allocating the spectrum in hierarchical cell networks, as the improvement in terms of throughput, outage probability and spectrum efficiency had been achieved.
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How Do You Feel About Flat Chested Girls Hentai
How Do You Feel About Flat Chested Girls Hentai Amongst the many types of anime, hentai is the most popular sub-genre. It is a kind of adult anime that features both male and female characters.
'Hentai ' is an abbreviation for hentai seiyoku (Japanese for "sexual perversion "), and it is a term utilized for manga, anime, computer game, and other forms of popular home entertainment. It can describe numerous kinds of adult works, but usually it 's specified as being uncensored and sexually explicit.
During the Edo Period (1603-1868), shoguns suppressed the production of shunga, Japanese erotic art. Till the late 19th century, shunga had actually been mainly confined to a couple of books and journals. These were later on enhanced by pornographic photos and the creation of comics.
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Prior to then, the most popular hentai anime was produced by Japanese cartoonists. Amongst them was The Dream of the Fisherman 's Wife, a story about a female who is stimulated by two octopuses. How Do You Feel About Flat Chested Girls Hentai
Another important figure was Toshio Maeda, who was called the "god of tentacle hentai. " His work featured beasts that had various genitalia. He looked for to get past censorship laws associating with sexual intercourse.
The history of hentai is long and varied. While the term came from Japan, the Western World experienced a sexual revolution. The increase of modern-day values made sex outside of standard marital relationship and sexual relationships appropriate.
The term 'hentai ' is frequently described as 'perverted ', 'creepy ', and 'irregular '. In truth, hentai works have more practical styles than their cartoon-cute variations. They likewise portray characters more reasonably than those in Tezuka 's manga.
Today, hentai has a large audience. Adult styles have belonged of manga considering that the 1940s. Throughout the '50s and '60s, stories of male homosexuality and cross-dressing were the most common fixations in publications.
The hentai market started to explode after the war. In 1928, Gurotesuku was founded, and it focused on pseudo-academic sexual material. Other publications of this duration included Fuuzoku Kagaku, Kitan Kurabu, Ningen Tankyuu, and Ura Mado.
Throughout the 1970s, Hentaigaku Nyuumon was released by Akiyama Masami. The book was filled with recommendations pages penned by supposed sexual specialists.
In spite of the visual differences in between hentai and human porn, there are still questions about how these two types of sexually exciting media influence people. This is particularly true in the case of hentai. How Do You Feel About Flat Chested Girls Hentai
To explore this question, a research study was carried out. Participants were asked to fill out a series of scales. These consisted of beauty ratings, measures of attachment, and desire for a romantic relationship. The results indicated that hentai consumers ranked anime characters more attractive than non-porn customers, but not differently than other kinds of porn customers. How Do You Feel About Flat Chested Girls Hentai
Aside from the sex-related measures, the most substantial findings were that male hentai customers were more inspired by facilitating sexual pleasure than human porn consumers. Specifically, male hentai customers were more likely to be thinking about avoiding unfavorable emotions, helping with sexual enjoyment, and pleasing sexual interest. Furthermore, hentai consumers were more likely than other kinds of pornography customers to want a real-world romantic relationship.
The study likewise discovered that male hentai consumers scored higher on procedures of beauty, desire for a romantic relationship, and accessory stress and anxiety than male human porn consumers. This is especially real when comparing the two kinds of porn taken in via home computer.
Nevertheless, a couple of other findings were also notable. For instance, hentai customers tended to score considerably greater on the Spearman 's rho matrix for procedures of attraction. While hentai usage did not change ball game on these measures for other kinds of porn customers, it does appear to affect the scores on the rho matrix for hentai consumers.
In addition, hentai consumers ranked human images more attractive than hentai consumers rated anime images, however only if the image 's background was standardized. A future research study ought to take a look at the impact of the color scheme of the image on its appearance ratings. Future research studies should include more standardized background colors and pose-related variables, and a broader range of images.
Overall, this research study is the first to investigate how hentai and human pornography are perceived differently, and to what degree. Whether or not these differences are the outcome of an authentic misunderstanding or just an outcome of the kind of porn saw, a more extensive evaluation of the resemblances and distinctions is essential.
Whether you consume hentai, you might have noticed that lots of anime characters have a strong appeal to fans. These characters might even have a higher impact on hentai consumption than other types of pornographic media characters.
In a recent study, researchers examined how hentai consumers and other kinds of porn consumers view anime characters. The findings of the study suggested that hentai fans are more likely to discover an anime character attractive than a similar picture of a genuine individual. It likewise revealed that hentai customers are most likely to wish to get involved in a romantic relationship with a character from an anime than a comparable human being. This may be a function of a higher desire for the sexually suggestive images of anime characters compared to a genuine human.
The researchers carried out a survey with 208 individuals, with a typical age of 21. These individuals finished an online study, and a demographic questionnaire. The survey consisted of concerns about anime categories, soundtracks, quality of material, and other anime-related subjects. The outcomes were analyzed using SPSS version 25. How Do You Feel About Flat Chested Girls Hentai
The research study discovered that hentai fans had a greater rating on an image ranking job, which determined the quality of the photo and its functions. Nevertheless, the image was not standardized, and the background colors were not controlled for. This means that the exact same background color may have had a more significant effect on one individual 's ranking than another.
The study likewise discovered that hentai consumers are more likely to want to have a romantic relationship with a character from anime than a similar human. In addition, male hentai consumers were most likely to have a favorable response to the image, in addition to an interest in sexual satisfaction.
The outcomes of this research study indicate that the image score task is a smart way to determine a hentai consumer 's desire to have a romantic relationship with an anime character. The research study was not able to determine if these factors are affected by the type of porn they consume. This recommends that future research studies need to compare hentai and other types of porn.
During the 1980s, a Japanese sub-genre of manga was born. It was a sort of slang describing stories about girls and their sexual encounters. It later ended up being connected with pedophilia in Japan.
This sub-genre has progressed from its beginnings to incorporate all sorts of categories. Lolicon is a popular anime style in which girls are depicted in sexual situations. It has surpassed controversy and has become a part of traditional culture.
Many individuals have different opinions about lolicon, nevertheless, it is essential to understand what it is. It is not the like kid porn, which is considered obscene in some nations.
Lolicon is an animation design of Japanese manga. This kind of pornography consists of easy drawing designs and incomplete messages. The characters are not genuine children, but instead represent a hyper-passive state of mind. The stories are created to line up with the value of pleasure principle. Due to the fact that of its overbearing force, it is considered a villain.
Some argue that child porn should be criminally prosecuted, but others think it should be constitutionally safeguarded. A new law, the PROTECT Act of 2003, has produced a more particular definition of kid pornography. It prohibits the distribution of child pornography, in addition to the collection and transmission of virtual child pornography online. It also forbids the transportation of kid porn throughout state lines.
This is a controversial issue, however it is not necessarily something that United States police appreciates. In fact, it appears that a number of market associations involved in anime and manga have protested the brand-new kid porn law.
The Japanese media has seized upon the presence of anime in the bed room of Tsutomu Miyazaki, who was accused of eliminating four grade school ladies in 1989. In action, the press branded him an "otaku murderer ". In addition to the death penalty, a Japanese court ruled that the creators of the anime were guilty of the criminal activity of murder. In a 2005 follow-up exhibition, Mr. Murakami added to the show.
Although the lolicon has actually been banned in some U.S. states, the phenomenon continues to grow. It is becoming a major part of the pop culture of Japan. The popularity of detailed home entertainment amongst young Japanese has sustained the introduction of the lolicon. How Do You Feel About Flat Chested Girls Hentai
Another essential figure was Toshio Maeda, who was called the "god of tentacle hentai. The term 'hentai ' is typically referred to as 'perverted ', 'weird ', and 'irregular '. The results showed that hentai consumers ranked anime characters more attractive than non-porn consumers, but not in a different way than other types of pornography consumers.
Aside from the sex-related measures, the most significant findings were that male hentai customers were more motivated by facilitating sexual satisfaction than human pornography customers. While hentai intake did not alter the rating on these measures for other types of porn customers, it does appear to affect the ratings on the rho matrix for hentai consumers.


Mark your calendar for the High's upcoming Homeschool Days! Each one will focus on a specific curriculum concurring with artworks on view. For more information, visit our Homeschool Days program page.
For this homeschool day the focus will center around STEAM. Explore the High's permanent collection. Learn how artists are creative problem solvers and thinkers. View how they integrate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics into their art. Take part in docent-led tours, scavenger hunts, and hands-on artmaking. Separate workshops offered.
Docent tours will meet in the Taylor Lobby outside the Museum Shop.
Art-making workshops from 12 noon to 2:30 p.m. in the Greene Family Education Center. Use an assortment of materials to create your own art. Complete a scavenger hunt and turn it in at the Homeschool Day table before 2:30 p.m. to collect your prize.
Please note: Regular museum admission tickets cannot be used to enter the exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors. For ticketing information for Infinity Mirrors, please visit the Infinity Mirrors FAQ page.


In 2013, a study, of various age groups showed that children (born between 1980-1984) paid off their credit debt at a much lower rate (24 percentage points) than their parents and grandparents.
Moreover, during the same stage of life, children owed about $8,156 more debt than their grandparents.
Why is the younger generation accumulating debt?
According to Lucia Dunn, co-author of the study and professor of economics at Ohio State University, it is easier to get credit today. The millennial generation is also incurring more credit card debt than previous generations. However, they are not repaying it, and therefore, they may need to pay back the dues for the rest of their lives.
Parents don't want their children to suffer as they did, neither physically or financially. Parents are repaying car loans and their children's insurance policy premiums. As a result, the children are not able to manage their finances properly and also don't learn to live within their means.
Moreover, when parents are taking out loans to fund their children's studies, the younger ones often interpret that loans are acceptable. They rarely understand how one has to manage money to repay loans.
The cost of lifestyle has increased in comparison to the previous generations. However, each generation has its own challenges. We need to learn the appropriate strategies. Along with learning financial literacy, we must also practice self-discipline.
As a solution to the above-mentioned points, millennials & their children should learn to manage debts, especially credit card debts, properly. They also need to learn how to live within their means. When parents are taking out loans to fund their children's education, they should involve the kids in the conversation before taking out student loans.
If the children learn how to manage money properly, it will automatically improve the debt behavior of the young generation.
Here are some tips for the children of millennials to manage debt and finances properly.
A majority of students believe money management classes will have a good impact their generation. The schools should offer financial education for the students. They have also stated that money management is more important a subject as compared to science, mathematics and social sciences.
However, if your school is not offering such a course, there are many crash courses on money management. Millennials can enroll in such a crash course and learn the correct money management techniques. They can also enroll their children when the time comes. It will systematically change the debt behavior of younger generation in a positive way.
To manage credit better, first of all, you need to have a clear knowledge about your credit situation. To do so, check your credit reports and scores at least once a year. This brings to light any fraudulent activities in any of your accounts. It also helps you find inaccurate items in your reports which need to be disputed and corrected.
Millennials are racking up more debt due to bad credit decisions, as a result they fall into the vicious cycle of debt.
If they learn to manage it properly, they will be able to take out mortgage loans at favorable rates; in short, they won't experience debt problems and will be able to enjoy a good lifestyle.
Millennials should also feel free to talk about their debt problems. The ultimate mission is to lead a debt free life. So, you can seek professional help if you're not able to manage your finances on your own, or if you're experiencing debt problems.
Another important thing - You should treat yourselves occasionally to motivate yourselves to be on the right track. Always practicing frugal livingand cutting down on expenditure may leave you frustrated; but, if you're able to motivate yourselves, you'll be able to achieve financial success in the long run.


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