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GNRC Response to "Amoris Laetitia"
Posted on April 10, 2016 by Terence
A RESPONSE FROM THE GLOBAL NETWORK OF RAINBOW CATHOLICS TO POPE FRANCIS' APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION AMORIS LAETITIA (THE JOY OF LOVE)
The post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Francis with the title "Amoris Laetitia" opens up new perspectives for the pastoral work of the Catholic Church, drawing both from earlier teachings of the Church on family life and marriage, and also from a pragmatic and more 'grounded' appreciation of the real lived-experiences of family life. Nonetheless, we note that these perspectives are not yet applied with full consequence when it comes to persons of different gender and/or sexual orientation (LGBTQI persons).
Welcoming new pastoral approaches
We are supportive of the more positive stance taken by Francis to move away from an inflexible attachment to doctrine and towards a more humane approach to discipleship grounded in true charity, which 'is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous' (Art. 296). We welcome pastoral approaches that avoid judgements that do not take into account 'the complexity of various situations' (Art. 296) but rather aim to reach out to everyone to find their proper way of being in the Church (Art. 297). It is indeed positive that Francis reiterates a point he made in the Apostolic Exhortation Evangelii Gaudium (2013) that the Church has often acted as 'arbiters of grace rather than its facilitators' and affirms that rather than being a tollhouse, the Church is 'the house of the Father, where there is a place for everyone, with all their problems' (Art. 310).
We appreciate that the Pope empowers the local churches to find fitting interpretations of pastoral, moral and doctrinal issues (Art. 3). This will give more flexibility and freedom to the dioceses to make practical decisions, which is important when it comes to pastoral work with LGBTQI people and their families.
The document gives fresh guidance on pastoral discernment which emphasizes that pastors need to respect the conscience of the person, take the individual situation into consideration and follow the 'logic of pastoral mercy' (Art. 307). It rejects an understanding of "natural law" as 'an already established set of rules' which was a traditional tool in anti-homosexual argumentation. Instead, it reinterprets natural law as 'a source of objective inspiration for the deeply personal process of making decisions' (Art. 305). Indeed, 'those who manifest a homosexual orientation' should be assisted through 'respectful pastoral guidance' to be able 'to understand and fully carry out God's will in their lives' (Art. 305).
Francis reiterates the teachings of the Second Vatican Council on the need of 'a positive and prudent sex education', noting the challenges of sex education 'in an age when sexuality tends to be trivialised and impoverished' (Art. 280). Francis notes that 'the sexual urge can be directed through a process of growth in self-knowledge and self-control capable of nurturing valuable capacities for joy and for loving encounter' (Art. 280). The Pope also calls for a sex education that includes 'respect and appreciation for differences' and an appreciation of one's body that is necessary for one's encounter with others different from oneself (Art. 285). We hope that this statement can make a difference in the lives of many LGBTQI adolescents who often face insensitivity in their schools and whose difference is not always acknowledged and embraced healthily, often by members of the Church.
Families with LGBTI persons
When the Pope speaks explicitly about families that 'include persons who experience same-sex attraction' (Art. 250), he affirms the dignity of every human person regardless of sexual orientation. He asks for respect and avoidance of aggression and violence. Yet, Pope Francis' one statement discussing pastoral care to families with lesbian and gay members is included in a section entitled "Casting Light on Crises, Worries and Difficulties". Such a classification reveals an assumption that LGBTQI topics are simply problems to be surmounted, and it does not recognize the giftedness and grace that occur when a family accepts and loves its LGBTQI family members.
We welcome the document's acknowledgement of the need for respectful pastoral care. We know from our experience of working with LGBTQI Catholic persons, the most respectful and effective forms of pastoral care are the ones that are done in consultation with LGBTQI persons that respects their lived realities and honours their voices, aspirations as well as celebrates their gifts and dignity in the community of the faithful.
The problem of language
That the document uses 'homosexual orientation' (in some versions) to refer to persons who experience same-sex attraction is already worth noting, considering that in earlier pronouncements of the Church on this subject, it always used to use the derogatory expression 'homosexual tendencies'.
This does not mean that the Church has overcome the basic problems of language, for even reductive expressions as 'same-sex attractions' are still simplistic and unsatisfactory. The GNRC cannot ignore the continuing harm to spiritual and personal well-being caused by the use of untrue and inaccurate theological language such as 'intrinsically evil' and 'objectively disordered'. The GNRC welcomes the lack of such vocabulary in The Joy of Love because such categories foster prejudicial stances towards LGBTQI persons and communities, not least in contributing to higher-than-average rates of bullying, self-harm, and suicide among LGBTQI younger people..
Homosexual unions
We are disappointed that Francis reiterates the Church's long-held position that homosexual unions cannot be considered 'in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and family' (Art. 251, 52) and seems not to offer much scope for dialogue and theological exploration in these new 'signs of the times'. The lived experiences of several same-sex couples all over the world and who are part of the Catholic faithful should encourage the Church to discern these and other expressions of LGBTQI existence, rather than continue making categorical statements that close the door to dialogue.
It is worth considering that Francis is concerned about the great poverty of contemporary culture, which is evident in the loneliness of individuals, arising from the absence of God in a person's life and the fragility of relationships. He notes that the State has the responsibility to pass laws and create work to ensure that young people can realise their plan of forming a family (Art. 43). The Second Vatican Council also echoes this perspective when stating that 'such a love, bringing together the human and the divine, leads the partners to a free and mutual self-giving, experienced in tenderness and action, and permeating their entire lives' (Art. 125). Yet, this seems only to apply to heterosexual relationships, and nowhere in this Apostolic Exhortation is there a tacit acknowledgement that this may also be true to same-sex relationships. We hope that the Church will apply the same logic that it applies to other irregular unions to same-sex relationships as well and will 'not disregard the constructive elements in those situations which do not yet or no longer correspond to her teaching on marriage' (Art. 292).
Condemnations of violence against LGBTI people are not enough
We also note with concern that Francis reiterated positions repeated in the Synodal documents that deem unacceptable that international aid be tied with the introduction of laws that establish same-sex marriage (Art. 251), while not being vocal enough in its denunciation of legal violence in several countries in the world towards LGBTQI people who are criminalised for being who they are. The apostolic exhortation acknowledges that LGBTI persons experience aggression and violence, however it does not recommend any forms of remedy beyond avoidance.
In a global context where LGBTQI persons around the world continue to face various forms of aggression and violence that manifests in structural, physical, cultural, spiritual and psychological violence, this response is inadequate. Where criminalisation, extrajudicial abuse, capital punishment, torture, aversion therapy, moral vilification and the denial of human rights of LGBTQI persons is still prevalent, we urge the leaders of our church to urgently call upon the end of all forms of aggression and violence against LGBTQI persons and their families. We urge the Holy See to make an explicit statement condemning laws which criminalize LGBTQI persons. Such a statement would be entirely consistent with the principles that the pope has made in this document and which already existed in church teaching.
Understanding Gender and 'Gender ideology'
We also note that Francis' framing of the discourse on the 'ideology of gender' is rooted in the understanding of gender as a biological constant and that the gender ideology purportedly reduces gender identity to 'the choice of the individual, one which can also change over time' (Art. 56). One appreciates the Church's concern for any relativistic reductionism of gender-related issues. However, we urge the Church not to trivialise the lived experiences of transgendered persons, for whom choosing a gender identity that is different from their biological sex is not a matter of choosing a different gender, but rather allowing them to be true to their 'truth', as they experience it in their innermost sense of being.
At the same time, we welcome Francis' acknowledgement that masculinity and femininity are not rigid categories and that the social constructions of gender should be rather fluid, thus not excluding individuals from professions, arts or leadership on the basis of one's gender (Art. 286).
The need for further discernment on LGBTI issues
Whilst the document promotes a dialogical approach for the pastoral work of the church, the document has also demonstrated a lack of scientific understanding of LGBTQI lives as well as the often harsh realities faced both within and outside of the church.
We invite Pope Francis together with fellow Synod Fathers to set-up a listening process that seeks for wide consultation with LGBTQI persons and their families as well as scholars, scientists and professionals in this area of health, psychology and other social sciences. We hope that such a process can inform the Church as it discerns its understanding of LGBTQI persons and in due course clarify and revise its vision, doctrine and language on these persons and God's plan for them.
We look with interest at Francis' gentle encouragement for dialogue within the family, rooted in the recognition that different persons within the family have different standpoints, concerns, abilities and insights. He continues to acknowledge that every person has his/her truth and deep concerns and he urges for sensitivity and empathy with the other by putting 'ourselves in their shoes and try to peer into their hearts, to perceive their deepest concerns and to take them as a point of departure for further dialogue' (Art. 138).
While we appreciate this understanding of dialogue, we also invite the Church to embrace this type of dialogue herself and adopt such attitudes towards the several LGBTQI persons within the Catholic Church who also want to share with the Church their own lived faith in their sexual and gender diversity. We urge Pope Francis to apply his own advice to families:
'to free ourselves from feeling that we all have to be alike. A certain astuteness is also needed to prevent the appearance of "static" that can interfere with the process of dialogue' (Art 139).
About Terence
Cradle Catholic, originally South African, now UK resident and British citizen. Activist for LGBT inclusion since 2004, originally with Soho Masses (London), later with Quest LGBT Catholics, Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality, and European Forum of LGBT Christian Groups. Launched "Queering the Church" blog/website 2009, other satellite sites since. Also a father of two now adult daughters, and four grandchildren, so passionate about the value of family, and legitimacy of queer/rainbow families.
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bernie says:
we'd like to be part of the global network
Thanks, Bernie.
Acceptance Sydney are already part of GNRC, with Tim Smyth on the steering committee. I'll pass on your message.
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Q: Why isn't my war file containing all of the contents? I have a web application. I have created a war file out of the "export" option from Eclipse. However, the war file only contains the META-INF and the WEB-INF folders. There are no .java or .class files at all.
I also tried another method using the Maven "clean install" goals. This one also gives me the exact problem as above. Where am I going wrong? Can someone help me out?
Thanks.

A: Please chcek if you have your code in default src path for maven (src\main\java)

A: If your project is an Eclipse project you need to make sure you created it as a 'Dynamic Web Project' so Eclipse attaches the right Facets so it knows how to build the .war.
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so Maven knows how to package your app.
If you run 'mvn package', assuming your pom.xml is configured correctly, you should get a .war file created in the target dir.
Sounds like something is not configured right - can you share more info about your source project structure and how it is configured?

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The drive started at 7 am start and one of the bigger driving days, but luckily the changing landscape and places to stop at lakes, a beach and plenty of waterfalls, it certainly didn't feel like a big drive.
Here is a map of the drive from Franz Josef to Queenstown, including our stops.
And a highlights video from the day!
Our first stop was Lake Matheson. It is a 4.4km circuit walk and although it was an overcast day, the reflections in the lake were absolutely perfect!!! What a great way to start the day.
Lake Matheson is surrounded by New Zealand's highest peaks, Aoraki (Mount Cook) and Mount Tasman.
The start of the walk is over the Clearwater River suspension bridge before continuing along the track through the native forest.
You are able to enjoy the snow-capped Mount Cook and capture the perfect photograph of the reflections in the dark water.
The walk is a 1.5-hour circuit. If you're looking at heading to the pontoon, expect around a 30 – 40-minute walk.
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This 23m waterfall is located just down the road from Thunder Creek Falls. Again, only a short walk from the carpark, it makes for a quick pitstop. It was very beautiful and absolutely worth the photo stop!
Then, for one our highlights from the entire trip… the Blue Pools! Pack your swimmers for this one if you're game! Fancy jumping off an 8m bridge into some pretty cold, gorgeous blue water?
Well, our guide, Mark, showed us how it was done and then Emily and I jumped in as well! It was such a fun experience. Never had we thought that it would be possible for the outside temps of 10 degrees would feel warm after being in the water!!!
Check out our short video of the jumps!
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There is a bit of time here in Wanaka to take a look around or grab a snack. I would highly recommend the bakery, especially if you love a good cream and jam doughnut!
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The final part of the journey was through the Crown Ranges. The drive itself is just picturesque and just breathtaking.
We arrived at our accommodation in Queenstown and then headed out for dinner.
Dinner at Flame – simply because as soon as we stepped out of our accommodation, we could smell the grill cooking… delicious! To read more about where to eat in Queenstown, click here.
And, if you're in Queenstown, you definitely must stop in at The Remarkables Sweet Shop and get yourself some fudge samples!
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Hey There. Great Post! Just wondering how long that drive took you with all the stops? I'm doing that next month but from QT to Franz. Thanks!
Hi Emily – you will have a fantastic time! The drive is absolutely beautiful. The drive with no stops is around 5 hours. I would add an extra 2 – 3 hours for stops along the way, especially if you like to take photos!


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Posts Tagged 'Flickr'
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Tags: Bebo, FaceBook, Flickr, Friends Reunited, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Myspace, Picasa, Pinterest, Reddit, Snapchat, Tumblr, Twitter
Not being a great user of social media personally, I find it mildly offensive when people bump into me in the street because they're too intent on reading their screens.
However when I was their age, I used to bump into people as I hurried down the street with my nose buried in a book — so where's the difference?
The difference is that the boors who bump into me today are communicating with their own user-defined communities, which definitely does not include portly old gentlemen meandering down the street.
But as the great New Yorker cartoon by Peter Steiner pointed out, 'On the Internet, nobody knows you'e a dog.' So I don't know if these hurrying, bustling, busy people might be picture editors, photographers, or any other members of a community which could be interested in fotoLibra, in the wonderful variety of images we hold, and in the great opportunities for reaching picture buyers around the world.
Shortly after we started up fotoLibra we approached what we recognised as social media blithely and without fear. We set up this fotoLibra Pro Blog, we set up Facebook and LinkedIn identities, we fed them with content and … not a lot happened. So we asked around, and people told us "Oh, you should be on
and so on and so on and so on.
Keeping a visible profile on a dozen or or so social media sites (all American, of course) is hard maintenance for a small English-speaking (as opposed to American-speaking) business. In fact it's almost a full-time job.
But it's not impossible. So I started checking them out. The first one I looked at was Picasa.They closed it down today, Tuesday 15th March, after 13 years.
That would have been annoying, pumping thought and effort into something which has the cord yanked just as you get it up and running.
All these SocMed sites seem to follow the same pattern — smart young entrepreneurs start them up, they achieve quick success, a larger corporation buys them out, it doesn't have the same drive and vision as the founders, the division lurches from new initiative to desperate new initiative until the enterprise is quietly remaindered. Whatever happened to Bebo? Myspace? They still exist, albeit as husks of their former selves. Friends Reunited? It was closed down 18 days ago.
When Facebook went public, 18% of the listed value of the company would buy you Belgravia. At the time, I commented I'd rather have Belgravia. Now more teenagers are signing up to Snapchat than Facebook, and who knows what they'll be joining in 25 years time? Whereas Belgravia will still be there.
All this was partly prompted by coming across a New York photographer who started taking photos in 2008, now has 400,000 followers on Facebook and no, she doesn't post naked selfies. I am lost in envy and admiration. My NYC chums have never heard of her. fotoLibra rather fewer followers on Facebook. Our challenge is to multiply ours a thousandfold.
Whether the SocMeds are on the rise, or in graceful decline, the more people who are aware of what fotoLibra offers, the better it will be for contributors, picture buyers and of course us.
We're asking around again. Naturally, all advice will be gratefully received!
fotoLibra in the Telegraph
Tags: Bash Khan, Daily Telegraph, Flickr, fotoLibra, Getty Images, marketing photographs, photography, picture library, picture sales, selling pictures, stock agency
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We've always wanted to see fotoLibra featured in the Daily Telegraph, because we know that Telegraph readers would love the fotoLibra site.
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So imagine the hurt and despair I felt when Dan Smith forwarded me a link to a Telegraph story about how anybody could make money from their photographs. Exactly what I'd been banging on about for years. And here was our story — but instead of being about fotoLibra, it was about American giants Flickr and GettyImages. And they were offering a selective deal, nowhere near as good as fotoLibra's open offer.
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Not Happy, Nor New Year
Wednesday, 1 January 2003, 5:40 pm
Column: Firas Al-Atraqchi
By Firas Al-Atraqchi
By the time you, the reader, read this, the first few days of a devastating year will have begun. By the first month of 2003, five nuclear-powered aircraft carriers will have taken position in the Persian Gulf, supporting nearly 170,000 U.S. and U.K. troops stationed in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Qatar, Bahrain, and the U.A.E.
Target: Iraq.
The 2003 War on Iraq will prove a turning point in modern history and will plunge the world into a chasm of horrific conflict, racial hatred, and religious war.
Three spheres of terror will be created. The first sphere, the smallest of the three, will involve conflict between Arabs, or Muslims, and their respective governments. For too long, Arab governments have hidden their zealous corruption, class inequality, and non-representative constitutions behind the specter of conflict with Israel.
Now, however, the Arab masses are fed up with the word "Israel". Arab governments have waxed rhetorical about the ills of Israel in the heart of Arabia, but have done nothing as Israel bulldozes its way through Arab humility. Arab masses are realizing that it is not Israel that is the immediate threat, but their leaders.
Many see contemporary Arab leaders as the most organized obstacle to democracy in the region. There is no democracy in the Arab world, not because no one wants it or is incapable of establishing it, but because it is not in the interests of foreign powers that such a democracy exist in the region. Democracy leads to freedom of expression and innovation. It leads to free enterprise and competition. It leads to privatization and free markets. Democracy in the Arab world would mean that Arab industrialization would finally catch up with that of the rest of the world.
The bottom line is that democracy in the Arab world would transform the Arabs from dependent consumers to independent producers. With the vast oil wealth and an educated populace, a democratic Arabia would threaten the economic interests of the European Union and the U.S.
The Arabs are waking up to this harsh reality; that their leaders, unelected and despotic as they are, stand in the way of development and modernization. When these Arab leaders (from Syria and Saudia Arabia to Egypt and Libya) throw their hats in support of an invasion of Iraq, mass unrest will begin and come to a revolutionary boil, not now, but perhaps in the next few years. This is especially remarkable if innocent Iraqis suffer and destabilization grips Iraq for years to come.
While Arab masses call out for more political freedom, Islamic militancy will gain popularity and sweep through the region like a tidal wave. Two opposite forces; that of Islamic modernity and Islamic extremism will clash first in the social domain, followed by the political, and finally the military domain. Revolution, civil war, and economic despair will grip the entire Middle East.
The second sphere of terror will quickly follow the first and arrive concurrently with the third. This sphere will involve a move to wage war with Israel, which will drag the Middle East, and perhaps, other regions, into a nuclear holocaust. Islamic fervor will grip much of the Middle East in conjunction with a growing religious zealotry and intolerance by the far-right Christian Coalition in North America. The latter has recently made great strides in joining forces with Hindu militant groups in India, and the ultra-right regime led by Israel's Ariel Sharon, much to the trepidation of Muslims around the world.
The third sphere will be what every historian, politician, church clergy and peace activist has been warning against in the past decade: a barbaric religious war.
Several signs have emerged in the past few years indicating that war in the Middle East (which will quickly spread around the world) will be a religious one:
1) Since 1948, Arab countries were virtually emptied of their Jewry. Most would immigrate to Israel. Consequently, all differences between the Arabs and Israel will not be viewed on a political level but rather on a religious level. Muslim versus Jew. Conservative writers in North America will misleadingly claim that the Quran calls for war against Jews. 2) To strengthen the notion that the coming war is between Muslim and Jew, Arab countries will witness a withering of their Christian communities. World media will scrupulously ignore this. Palestinian Christians are leaving Palestine to any country that will have them and are almost instantly granted visas. Iraqi Christians, since 1991, have been given precedence in applications for refugee status to the U.S., U.K., New Zealand, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Austria, and Canada, among others. This writer witnessed Iraqi Christians being treated like royalty at the American Embassy in Cairo, while 'ordinary' Iraqi Muslims had to wait out a prolonged process. Egyptian Copts are also 'fleeing' Egypt claiming religious persecution. Within a decade, the Middle East will be emptied of Christians.
Frightening, isn't it? Perhaps, it is all fiction, the raving and ranting of a writer who fears the worst if Iraq is invaded. To be earnest, I pray that this is only a figment of my fearful imagination. I pray, too, that Junior's war plans are halted by a massive mobilization of the world community and that Christian, Jew, and Muslim (let's not forget Hindu, Buddhist, and others) realize their common heritage and humanity and learn to tolerate one another.
On the other hand, the world is in danger. Too many boundaries of international law have been breached and calls for improved human rights have become an irritant to the national security policies of world powers. From Chechnya to Afghanistan, Indonesia to Iraq, the U.S. to Brazil, human rights are ignored and trampled on. International terrorists display an equal disregard for the value of human life and lash out at whoever is at the wrong place at the wrong time.
I suspect 2002 will be the last year of relative peace.
I am reminded of Mark Twain's words: "Fame is a vapour, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion".
I will not be celebrating the New Year.
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Client: Peveril Securities Limited / Standard Life Investments
St Andrew Square had been for many years the recognised home of the Scottish Provident Insurance Company (SPI). The project involved the demolition of all of buildings on the site with the exception of a small, listed 1960's block (which was also originally designed by Blyth & Blyth) which is considered to be amongst the finest examples of architecture from that period.
The new scheme provides 112,000sqft of Cat A office space on 2nd – 6th floor arranged around a full height central atrium with entrance at ground floor; 8 restaurant / retail unit shells at lower ground, ground and first floor, all successfully let for fitting out by tenants; and 5 residential apartments with basement parking.
A reinforced concrete basement was constructed providing parking, plant and storage facilities at this level. The superstructure comprises cellular steel beams and insitu concrete floor slabs. Lateral stability is provided by braced steel cores at discrete locations throughout the building.
Located within the World Heritage Site of Edinburgh's New Town, this project involved the redevelopment of two buildings – one Grade A and one Grade B Listed – on the south side of St. Andrews Square.
The scheme involved close liaison with Edinburgh City Council and Historic Scotland to agree the conversion and reuse of the buildings and selective demolition of several others.
The entire site's phased development over many years meant that internal areas were unsuitable for modern commercial clients but a historical 'A' Listed facade had to be retained and the 'B' Listed building (Number 6-7, St. Andrew Square) also needed conserving. Both were saved and remainder of the site demolished. The site is constrained with adopted roads on three sides and existing buildings forming the fourth boundary. The design has therefore been developed with the logistical challenges of working in such a constrained location at the forefront of our solutions.
This highly complex project in a sensitive and hugely historic area of Scotland's capital was completed in 104 weeks.
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As I waited for my routine checkup recently, I read a report on the critical shortage of primary care physicians in California – ironic reading material for my primary care physician's waiting room.
The report, titled "Horizon 2030: Meeting California's Primary Care Workforce Needs," was recently released by the California Primary Care Association. It concludes that California will need an estimated 8,243 additional primary care physicians by 2030, or an increase of 32 percent of its current workforce.
The authors identify key barriers that undermine primary care recruitment, such as the growing cost of health training and associated student debt combined with concerns about primary care compensation. It also suggests strategies on how to overcome these barriers.
Curious about the actual state of affairs, I spoke with Laurence Baker, PhD, professor of health research and policy, about the Horizon 2030 report and California's primary care shortage.
Why are primary care physicians so important? What happens if we don't have enough?
We know primary care has a lot to offer. Research shows that primary care physicians often manage patients in ways that are both less expensive and higher quality — particularly for patients with complex chronic conditions where primary care physicians can often be more responsive to the complexities of individual patients.
Having enough primary care physicians is key to getting our health-care system where it needs to be. If we end up without enough, it'll be harder to achieve our goals of lowering cost and improving quality. Unfortunately, it's becoming clear that we aren't sufficiently staffed up for primary care, especially as health-care reforms like the Affordable Care Act result in more people with access to preventative care and basic health coverage.
How can we significantly increase the number of primary care professionals in California?
I think we'll need multi-dimensional approaches that involve governmental policies, actions by private insurance companies, adaptations in medical education and probably more. Over time a shortage in primary care needs to be partly remedied by new physicians training in primary care. So policy can play a role to do things to help make primary care attractive, like ensuring good pay for primary care physicians, since we've often had skewed payment methodologies that favor specialties. Expanding training capacity in medical schools could also help.
But we also need actions that can help sooner than that, so other things will be needed. We should be expanding nurse practitioner or physician assistant programs, exploring whether incentives like targeted primary care loan forgiveness programs can help, and looking at ways to get people already in medicine to expand their primary care work.
How accurate are these types of estimates on a future workforce?
I think estimating the future workforce is a difficult thing to do with a lot of precision. Any time you make these kinds of estimates, you have the difficult job of guessing what medicine will look like tomorrow, and medicine is always evolving. In this case, though, while I think one can always question the exact numbers, the overall situation in which we find ourselves is pretty clear. The bottom line is that we haven't invested enough in primary care.


Got a bit of work done on this crazy nighttime plane ride I was on. Added the last of the originally planned new features in. Essentially where I am right now is the basics of all the objects are in. There's a lot of work to be done refining them and tweaking their behavior and some will probably get completely revamped in the future (balls come to mind, I'd like to add boxes too and that would require an overhaul because the balls were pretty much hacked in there at first). I also swapped out the flathead placeholder with a new one (the character from the original). It's still a placeholder though, all the art is getting revamped from scratch, and most likely in a new style. Jon is able to start work in a week or 2, so we might start seeing some more interesting, less tech-y screenshots by then.
We keep coming up with potential new ideas for the game. As a partnership we can do that, whereas a large company working on something like this would still be in the "planning" phase of development. Another plus for small teams! There's so many good ideas that could work with this game, in fact for a lot of them we're simply borrowing from common platformer elements and adding the lighting mechanic to them. It makes them feel new again really, and hopefully it all works logically. I don't know if you've played one of my games from last year, Blockslide 2, but that is probably my biggest released game to date (biggest, not best). Course, that was the problem in it. It was TOO big, and most didn't draw on common elements of similar puzzles. Instead, I opted to creating new rules for many of the 25 or so block types, and how they interacted with the other blocks. That's hundreds of interactions, and many of those had completely arbitrary rules (ice slid on grass but not on ice was probably one of the worst). 25 levels in the tutorial wasn't even enough to cover everything, and most people thought it was the whole game.
That's not to say the game wasn't good. By all means if you managed to learn the rules of it, the 150 puzzles in it plus the editor and the (about 800 by now) fan network puzzles were challenging and entertaining to solve, and well made. The barrier of entry though is just through the roof, and as a result, nobody enjoyed it but me and a couple of other people who cared enough to learn the rules.
One of the main goals of the design of the original Closure was to keep the new mechanics to a minimum. We had the lighting, and the pedestal behavior really. Keys were derivative of most platformers, and I'm not sure where No Drop Zones came from, but their behavior is extremely self explanatory. We had other ideas for it, but the limits of flash kept us in check for most of development. Now we have what feels like unlimited power to work with (even with no real graphical optimizations, I can still push 60 FPS on 1980x1080 resolution fullscreen) we have to keep ourselves in check with how much new stuff to add.
So how much stuff do we add in that's completely new? Really, nothing much. We have the lighting and the pedestal behavior inherited from before. Most of the new features we're adding are basically derived from traditional platformers, specifically the ones that can be made interesting through lighting. I want to avoid Blockslide syndrome as much as possible. The less we have to teach people, the more we can focus on actually designing good puzzles and telling interesting stories.
One of the things we've been struggling over in the design is what to do with No Drop Zones. In the original, they were a side effect of the engine. I had to decide what to do if you drop an inverse orb or key inside unlit ground, considering they weren't effected by light due to a need to have them shrouded in darkness, unlit ground still counted as ground. We basically decided to just not let you do that. A simple extrapolation from that concept, what if I make ground that never gets lit up? We get an area where you can't drop orbs. In the first game, that was how it was implemented. There's a spot where we discovered later you could drop an orb on top of one of the zones and it would sit there. That's not how it's implemented in the new one. Anyway the need for them is great, as a lot of puzzles work best with no drop zones, but we need to figure out what to make them. "No Drop Zone" is very much an outcast of the design of the original game. It's a very technical and boring thing compared to everything else in the game. It's sorta like calling the lava in mario "No Walk Zones", or spinies "No Touch Boxes", which is technically what they are. Problem is, nothing we've come up with as a potential solution to this is logical. Rainy areas was one idea but that makes no sense.
So that's the current status of the game. It's still early and there's a lot to be done both graphically and mechanically, but it's already more than the flash version was. New video soon, I just have to make a few more test levels and record them.
and everything else is absorbed by the ground mist(if dropped).
On the other hand, you have glue/handcuffs/glove/body magnet? Something that indicates that the orb is stuck to you.


Rebecca Hatcher Travis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation whose roots are deep in Indian Territory, Oklahoma, and Texas. Her poetry manuscript, Picked Apart the Bones, won the First Book Award from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas in 2006 and was published in 2008 by Chickasaw Press. Her work has also appeared in literary journals, anthologies, online, and recently in Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits, a collection of pieces by and photographs of Native poets and writers, published in 2017 by University of New Mexico Press. Travis is a member of the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. She lives in the foothills of the Arbuckle Mountains in southern Oklahoma, near the land her ancestors settled in early Indian Territory days. She continues to write and give readings at several venues near her home.


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So let me get this straight, this guy wanted to build a heavy, elevated magnetic levitation system on pylons above the most active earthquake fault in the world?
Any idea who was going to pay for it? Or ride on it? Wouldn't this compete with the equally ridiculous "Browndoggle"?
Taxin Troy Edgar is currently pushing a massive Tax Increase in Los Alamitos and thought no one would notice. This guy is not only a Tax and Spend Liberal, he is not very smart.
It appears OC Insider seems to be having a bit of an identity crisis. Attacking both Troy Edgar and Travis Allen in the same week is interesting. I wonder if readers have caught on to what is really going on.
How about with a clarification. There were two parts of the lawsuit by the Citizens against the City of Los Alamitos and Poe, Stephens and Edgar.
The first was the actual lawsuit on the trash, which the Citizens won. The City Council did NOT follow their own law and the Judge ordered them to do so. The Majority of Edgar, Poe and Stephens then removed the portions of the Municipal Code that they violated and gave the exact same contract back to the bidder that was in excess of $600K/yr more than "the lowest responsible bidder" as the law defined the required winner, before they changed it (after the fact).
The CDS contract have the City about $120K more per year, but they collected $600K more per year from businesses in Los Al. So, one way of looking at it was a 100% tax on business in which less than 20% of the tax went to the City and the balance of it was kept by the tax collector.
The second was a 1090 claim against the individual members (Edgar, Poe and Stephens).. This is a claim that there was a quid-pro-quo in which their votes were paid for. The Court ruled that the Citizens didn't have the right to file that and it was enforced by a anti-SLAPP motion.
Troy's claim is that he took his THOUSANDS of trash dollars at least three years before the trash contract was up to bid, and therefor he was not paid off for his vote, since the law says "1 year". That would make sense if no one knew that the Solid Waste Franchise agreement was coming up in year three of Edgar's term. But CDS knew that the Trash Contract was coming up in the third year of the term, and that there would only be two seats available in the election prior to the trash contract being negotiated and that they needed at least three votes.
Therefore it is reasonable to expect that any attempt to stack the council would have required that CDS purchase a minimum of one council member from the election PRIOR to the election just before the contract was to be negotiated (assuming that they could buy the two incoming council seats in the election just prior to the contract negotiation [Poe and Stephens]). That council member was Troy Edgar who was funded in his first run by the trash hauler.
So, was Troy for sale? It seems that way. And his claim that the TUT couldn't win on the fact that the City of Los Alamitos needed to (1) correct the current law and (2) ensure tax fairness, and that the only way to win was to buy the voters off with a 1% decrease in the tax rate certainly indicates that the "buy them off for their vote" is a deeply ingrained part of his character.
Rather than explain that we had to re-write the code to extend the tax fairly and ensure that the tax was paid equally on all telecommunications, Troy feels that the only way to "sell" the idea of doing the right thing is to buy off the peoples vote with a 1% reduction, and a campaign of fear (loss of police and city services if they don't agree). The carrot and the stick of dishonesty rather than an honest and straightforward explanation of the way telecommunications has changed since the 6% was established and how those changes have hurt the city in the last dozen years, and how basic fairness should dictate that we all pay the same 6% for out telecommunications without concern for the transport mechanism. This is not an issue of Taxin Troy, but just straight out lying BS and attempts to purchase the votes with a fictional fear threat and a 1% carrot that may actually cost the City of Los Alamitos tax revenue, and thus would actually make the fictional fear threat a reality.


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NEW team project website: Cosmic Spring JWST
We are all made of star stuff. But the first stars were only made of hydrogen and helium. How long did it take stars to make all the heavier elements we're made of? When was there enough of that stuff to begin forming planets and life?
Hubble has revealed an individual star in the early universe, 93% of the way back to the Big Bang. The z=6 lensed star Earendel was discovered by Brian Welch (Nature paper, APOD).
Webb will look at this star and other galaxies in the early universe to tell us where we came from and how we got here.
Webb will also study the most distant galaxies yet known, including MACS0647-JD below at z=11, observed 97% of the way back to the Big Bang when the universe was just 400 million years old. And with greater infrared capabilities, Webb will discover even more highly redshifted galaxies, among the first to form in the early universe.
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I thought I would follow up articles in the last two editions of the Journal of the Heritage Society relating to the Hospital by mentioning some of the personalities associated with medical and associated services in the town since its formation, and to include mention of the dental services, pharmacies and St. John Ambulance. I am very conscious that this not be a particularly scholarly contribution but it intended to record information that is not collated anywhere else, and may possibly be of interest in years to come. There is very little in the way of hard and recorded fact prior to the inception of the National Health Service and a great deal of the minimal information relating to those times, is largely from personal recollection.
The title of the previous contributions included the word "Cottage". This was entirely appropriate until the second half of the twentieth century. As you will have read, the hospital, in line with many others of the time, started in a cottage with one or two people nursing a very few patients. In recent years however, the standard of care, the diagnostic capabilities and available treatments take medical care practised in even small hospitals well into the technological age and immeasurably beyond the kind of care associated with the earlier times. It is now recognised that the earlier title should be dropped.
There is no record of any change to the layout of the hospital until the 1960s when two small day rooms were added to the southern aspects of the main wards. At the time of the queen's Jubilee celebrations in 1977, the staff sitting room was altered to become a much larger day room for patients with an adjoining dining room.
The nearby physiotherapy building was constructed in 1954, with a substantial contribution from the community it served. This was enlarged to provide a waiting area in 1968 when Mr Reg Eveleigh was chairman of the League of Friends and Dr. Ward Appeal chairman. In 1986 a completely new and extensive unit was built, offering much improved facilities again with considerable voluntary support.
The work of the hospital changed over the years. In the beginning it was mainly nursing care and the medical staff would undertake some surgery, many, the lancing of abscesses. In 1922 a report said that 97 patients were treated of whom 28 were accident cases. Fifty four operations were performed and there were 166 out-patients. The hospital was "intended for the benefit of poor persons suffering from accidents or non-infectious disease, who cannot be efficiently attended to in the own homes." Hospital rules added "Cases of mental disorder, consumption or chronic disease cannot be received, nor any child under the age of four, except in case of accident." Visitors were allowed on only three days a week and patients fit enough were expected to assist in household work at the hospital.
In 1956 the five children beds were re-located to Axminster and Lyme Regis and the ward was used as an additional women's ward. From the start of the National Health Service in 1948, surgery was performed by Mr Gairdner, Consultant General surgeon at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital once a month, and Mr. Derek Jefferies with Dr John Powell as anaesthetist would undertake gynaecological procedures. General surgery stopped in 1962 and the other surgery about 1970. In the following years the operating theatre was adapted to become the casualty room, the anaesthetic room became the office and the former office provided a much needed 1 or 2 bedded room for terminally ill patients.
The medical officers to the hospital were always the general practitioners working in the town and this continues to be the case. Patients however could be admitted from anywhere.
Matrons to the hospital were well known personalities in the town. From 1914 to 1922 Miss Barter was in charge before leaving for another post but died shortly after from a cancer. In 1938 Miss St. Clair Mayne arrived and stayed for 16 years until her retirement. She was replaced by Miss Mary Keegan, staying until 1975. Following Miss Keegan's retirement there was a succession of senior nurses in charge but without the title 'Matron', a term that was by that time considered to be inappropriate.
From Miss Elliott's time until 1948, the financing of the hospital depended on endowments and subscriptions. In 1922 anyone who subscribed 10 shillings (50p) a year was entitled to be admitted. When an in-patient a charge of 25p a week was levied. Administration of the hospital was undertaken by a local committee until the NHS began at which time a House Committee, responsible to the Devon Health Committee was in charge. By 1960 the House Committee had been abandoned. Those who had given much time included Capt. Cusack of Cornhill House, Capt. Weller from Wiggaton, Mr Ivor Tucker, farmer, dairyman, and one time Ottery St. Mary Town Council chairman, and Mr John Whitham, senior partner in the solicitor's firm of Mossop and Whitham. Mr W.D. McClymont was chairman of the Comforts Fund (the predecessor of the League of Friends). Subsequent control was exercised from Honiton or Exeter with first of all Miss Helier as secretary followed by Mr Haw, and then Mr Anderson with his assistant Mr George Brown. Overall responsibility moved from the Devon Health Authority, to Exeter Health Authority, to the Exeter Community Trust, to the East Devon Primary Care Trust in 2000.
At the start of the twentieth century Drs Johnson and Pontin were the general practitioners in the town working independently. Dr Johnson lived in Raleigh House in Mill Street, selling his practice and house to Dr Frank Sidebotham in 1922. the following year Dr Pontin sold his practice and his house, Ridegeway House, to Frank Sidebotham's brother-in-law Ralph Traill. It was considered necessary to have a third doctor and Dr Esmond "Teddy" Micklem was invited to join the group practice. All three had been students together at Guys Hospital and later were torpedoed in the same troopship on the way to Mesopotamia.
Dr Jimmy Sidebotham joined the practice in 1949 and then Dr Neill Micklem when Frank Sidebotham died in 1954. At that time the vast majority of general practitioners worked alone but through the friendship and relationships the Ottery St Mary practice functioned as a group for organisational purposes though each doctor had a consulting room at their own house and each dispensed. From 1926 until 1935, Dr Sidebotham conducted a surgery from part of a railway carriage parked between the river bridge and the station, in the grounds of the gas works. From then and until the new surgery was completed, patients were seen at the house of Mrs Selley between Raleigh House and the factory. In 1955 they achieved a very remarkable development by building a group surgery in the corner of Ralph Traill's garden identified as 74 Sandhill Street. It was even more remarkable by virtue of having a section devoted to dental surgery, something almost unheard of at the time.
In 1963 Dr Ward joined the practice on the retirement of Neil Micklem. His thoughts on the way ahead coincided with those of Dr Parkyn, Deputy Medical Oficer for Devon and the Dr Joe Lyons, the chief Medical Officer for Devon, and Devon's first Health Centre was established; there was only a handful of such centres in the whole country and mainly in urban areas. In 1964 the dental surgeons wanted to give up their Ottery practice and sell their part of the Sandhill Street premises. This part of the building was bought by the County Council who extended the building for their nurses and midwife, to be followed by chiropodists and mental welfare officers and also added a much needed waiting room for the doctors. This standard of care is now common across the country. In 1970 the practice became associated with the Instituter of Biometry and Community Medicine in Exeter to develop a computerised system for medical notes in general practice. The medical interests locally were led by Dr Bradshaw-Smith. The system proved an outstanding success and was the world leader for many years before becoming a standard way of recording information.
By 1982 five doctors were in the partnership and the Sandhill Street surgery was far too small for the increasing work to be done. The local population hadincreased from 6,500 in 1963 to 10,000. A site was found on the Land of Canaan where the doctors financed and built new premises from which time three extensions have been made to cope with continue numbers of patients, more technical medical diagnostics and treatments, and greater administrative demands. Today nine doctors practice together for a population of 15,000.
The training of dentists before 1921 was largely undertaken in the dental surgery by an experienced colleague teaching a new member of the profession. Subsequently, the modern system of a full time course in a Dental Hospital leading to a diploma and later a degree became the norm.
Locally there was a dental practice at 10 Broad Street, Ottery St Mary, in the mid 1920's owned by Mr Bernice Martyr. He saw both private and panel patients there until June 1928 when he sold the practice. His successor, Mr Wilfred John Selley used the Broad Street base as a branch surgery to his Exeter practice. In those days, dental hygiene was generally very poor, fluoridation was unheard of so that even young adults occasionally had all their teeth extracted and full dentures fitter. Sometimes these procedures wwere carried out in the kitchens of farms.
In the early1950's his son Wilfred G Selley and Hywell Griffiths joined the practice, each partner travelling to Ottery one day each week. In 1955 they joined the doctors in building a new surgery in Sandhill Street, but with the increasing demands in Exeter, they withdrew from Ottery St Mary in 1963. There then followed a short period when no dentist practised in the town and patients had to travel to Sidmouth or Exeter.
The situation improved in 1966 when Ray Stevens moved from Wembley in order to reduce his working house. However he soon found that he was busier than in his London practice and he appointed Mike Sims as his partner practising from new premises in Yonder Street. This building had been built by a local builder, Alan Gosling, whose son Peter, a dental technician, opened a dental laboratory on the first floor.
In 1973 a third dentist, Neil Bray was appointed followed by John Pilsworth in 1978 on Ray Steven's retirement. Simon Russell has succeeded John Pilsworth and John Makin has taken over from Mike Sims.


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Azerbaijan \
The ancient world knew of a mysterious place where flames would suddenly burst through the surface of the earth. This place was the Apsheron Peninsula on the Caspian coast—the peninsula on which now stands Baku. The source of the flames was oil that welled below the ground. The Persian name for the country was Azerbaijan, which means "land of fire."
Inhabited for at least 10,000 years
The first organized state in the area, the principality of Zamoa, appeared in the 9th century BC, only to be conquered soon thereafter by the Assyrians. The decline of Assyria led to the inclusion of southern Azerbaijan into the Median Empire, and northern Azerbaijan became part ofCaucasian Albania (not to be confused with modern-day Albania) which by 600 BC ruled most of the southern Caucasus. Most Caucasian Albanians were absorbed by Armenia in the first half of the 18th century. Those who were not absorbed by Armenia today live in villages in northern Azerbaijan and are known as the Udi people.
Late 4th century BC to 3rd century
In the late 4th century BC, a Hellenic kingdom called Atropatenawas set up in Azerbaijan by one of the commanders of Alexander the Great. From the 3rd century BC to the 2nd century AD, except for an interval of Armenian supremacy in the 1st century BC, Azerbaijan was a battleground between the empires of Rome and Parthia. In the 3rd century, Parthia broke up. Persia then became the nearest great power, and the Albanians its vassals. The Persian Shah appointed local nobles as governors over parts of Albania—an arrangement that gave rise to autonomous local khanates.
Persia and Byzantium
In the centuries that followed, Persia and Byzantium waged a struggle for control over the region. This struggle had a religious dimension. The Persian state religion, Zoroastrianism, was based on the teachings of the prophet Zarathustra. Christianity reached Albania from Byzantium in the 3rd century, but had to compete for influence with Zoroastrianism.
Arab invasions
A third religion, Islam, came with the Arab invasions of the 7th and 8th centuries. The Albanian khans eventually accepted Arab rule, and some of them adopted Islam. When the Arab caliphate broke up in the 9th century, Albania was dominated by the two rival khanates of Shirvan and Arran.
Fifth century onward
From the fifth century onward, Turkic tribes had begun to settle in northern Albania. In 1025, one of these tribes, the Oghuz, took control of the whole country. In the second half of the 12th century, under the rule of a descendant of the Oghuz, Shams al-Din, Azerbaijan reached the height of its power.
This was also the period of classical Azerbaijani literature, science, and philosophy. Although an Azerbaijani literary language would eventually arise from the Oghuz vernacular, the Persian remained the language of culture and Arabic the language of religion and science. Nizami Ganjavi, who is considered the first great Azerbaijani poet, wrote his epics in Persian. Only in the 16th century would the other great classical Ottoman poet, writer, and thinker Muhammad bin Suleyman, better known by his pen name Füzuli, write in Azerbaijani as well as Persian and Arabic.
The Persian Empire
In the early 13th century, Azerbaijan came under attack from Georgia ruled at that time by Queen Tamar. Then the Mongol invaders swept through the region, leaving chaos and devastation in their wake in both Azerbaijan and Georgia. Internecine conflict among the local khanates ended only with there-emergence of a strong Persia in the 15th century. The Persian Empire was, in fact, rebuilt by Ismail I with the assistance of extremist Shiite militant groups, who established in 1502, the new capital in Tabriz. Ismail I expanded his territory during the next decade to include the Southern Caucasus, Persian Azerbaijan and most of Iraq. He created a feudal theocracy and made Shia Islam the official religion, a move that would separate Azerbaijan from the Sunni Ottoman Turks.
Ottoman-Persian war
An Ottoman-Persian war then ensued for 40 years. The Ottomans conquered Azerbaijan in the late 16th century, but were routed by Persia in 1605—the first time that they had been defeated anywhere. Azerbaijan was reincorporated into Persia.
Despite their roles as part of the Persian Empire's ruling class, the Azerbaijani lords were not content being in a subordinate position. Toward the end of the 17th century they rebelled against and overthrew their Persian rulers, but failed to unite the khanates into a single Azerbaijanistate.
In 1722 Czar Peter the Great invaded northern Azerbaijan, but a few years later was repelled by Persian troops. In 1747 the Azerbaijani lords again rebelled against Persia, and then began to fight against one another.
The khanates of Northern Azerbaijan fell to Russia between 1804 and 1806. Baku resisted and was reduced to ruins. By the 1828 Treaty of Turkmanchai, the border between Russia and Persia was set along the River Aras, where it stayed until the end of the Soviet period. Persia renounced all claims over the Erivan khanate (most of present-day central Armenia), the Nakhchivan khanate (most of the present-day Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan), the Talysh khanate, the Ordubad and Mughan regions (now also part of Azerbaijan), in addition to all lands annexed by Russia in the 1813 Gulistan Treaty, which included Dagestan, Georgia, Karabakh, Ganja, Sheki, Shirvan, Quba, Derbent, and Baku khanates.
The Czarist government initially governed Azerbaijan through the existing khanates, but later switched to direct rule. Toward the end of the 19th century, Russification intensified with an influx of Russian settlers, mainly in connection with the oil boom that took off in the Baku area. Despite the fact Baku was connected to the Russian railway network, a great majority of Azerbaijanis neither benefited from increased trade nor from oil wealth; remained peasants and unskilled laborers.
Azerbaijani culture under the Czars
The two main Azerbaijani mid-19th-century cultural figures were the poet and historian Abbasgulu Bakikhanov and the novelist and playwright Mirza Akhundov.
Later in the century, some Azerbaijani newspapers and political organizations made their appearance. Political organizations were mainly nationalist in orientation and secret in organization — in particular,Hummet [Endeavor] and Musavat[Equality]. The communist movement became active in Azerbaijan in the first years of the 20th century, but its supporters were mostly ethnic Russians and Armenians.
Independent Azerbaijani Democratic Republic
The Russian Revolution of 1917 led in Azerbaijan, and especially Baku, toa confused mix of political and ethnic conflicts. The collapse of the Transcaucasian Federation led in May 1918 to the proclamation of an independent Azerbaijani Democratic Republic, led by the Musavat party. The republic lasted less than two years before falling to the Red Army. Armed resistance to Soviet rule continued until 1924.
Incorporation into the USSR
Azerbaijan was incorporated into the USSR in 1922 as part of theTranscaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. When this entity was eliminated in 1936, Azerbaijan became a union republic, the Azerbaijan SSR.


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module Azure::Network::Mgmt::V2017_10_01
  module Models
    #
    # Defines values for SecurityRuleAccess
    #
    module SecurityRuleAccess
      Allow = "Allow"
      Deny = "Deny"
    end
  end
end

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NAP Global Network
The National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network supports developing countries to advance their NAP processes to help accelerate climate change adaptation efforts around the world.
Start date: December 2014
(Ongoing)
NAP Global Network Website
The Network was established in 2014 at the 20th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 20) in Lima, Peru, initiated by adaptation practitioners from 11 developing and developed countries. Today, the NAP Global Network connects over 1,400 participants from more than 150 countries working on national adaptation planning and action, and has delivered direct support to more than 40 countries. Financial support for the Network has been provided by Austria, Canada, Germany, and the United States. IISD hosts the Network's Secretariat.
Our vision is a world where communities and countries—particularly the poorest and most vulnerable—are able to articulate, work toward, and realize their development aspirations in a changing climate. This is possible by having robust adaptation planning processes that are:
Aligned with development priorities and plans.
Effective in channelling resources to the people, places and systems that need them most.
Our mission is to harness the collective knowledge and resources of governments, practitioners, donors, and civil society to build capacities and accelerate the formulation and implementation of NAP processes.
Anne Hammill
Senior Director, Resilience
Christian Ledwell
Knowledge Manager, NAP Global Network
Jo-Ellen Parry
Director, Adaptation (Canada)
Anika Terton
Catherine Senecal
Angie Dazé
Lead, Gender Equality and Social Inclusion
Julie Dekens
Patrick Guerdat
Policy Advisor and Country Support Hub Coordinator
Alec Crawford
Director, Nature for Resilience
Cesar Henrique Arrais
David Hoffmann
Coordinator, NAP Global Network
Cameron Hunter
Ezra Campbell
Gloria Sengutuvan
Project and Country Support Hub Manager
Catherine Burge
IISD Welcomes New Deal on Global Biodiversity Framework
IISD congratulates the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) for adopting the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, which will guide work within and outside the UN system on tackling biodiversity loss and help lay the groundwork towards the CBD's vision of living in harmony with nature by 2050.
Shifting the narrative on adaptation at COP27
At the "Adaptation COP" in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the Adaptation Without Borders partnership led by SEI, ODI and IDDRI advanced the narrative that climate risk is a shared reality and adaptation must become a collective responsibility.
Learning From Gender-Responsive National Adaptation Plan Processes: Insights from countries to inform the review of the UNFCCC Gender Action Plan
Based on the priority actions of 10 African and Caribbean countries for integrating gender equality in their National Adaptation Plan (NAP) processes, we identified recommendations for effectively advancing the Gender Action Plan (GAP) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
What Does an Inclusive Global Stocktake Look Like for Civil Society?
The inaugural Global Stocktake will conclude at COP 28 in 2023. With the process well underway, the current and upcoming phases of the Global Stocktake must be open and inclusive in order to succeed.
Putting Equity at the Heart of the Global Stocktake
Capturing the world's collective progress towards achieving the Paris Agreement goals requires a look at who is being left behind and what we could do to create an equitable, climate-resilient future for all.
How to Raise the GlaSS on the Global Goal on Adaptation at COP 27: Four foundations to build upon
Over the past year, the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) has gained attention from country policy-makers, practitioners, and academics trying to solve this puzzle: What relevant and appropriate global goals on adaptation should the Paris Agreement incorporate?
What Is Next for South–South Peer Learning on Adaptation? Reflecting on peer learning in post-pandemic times
The role of peer learning in supporting countries with their responses to the urgent and complex challenges of climate change is increasingly understood. What did the shift to virtual learning during the COVID-19 pandemic teach us?
Envisioning Resilience: Bringing underrepresented women's voices into planning for climate change adaptation
Meaningful participation by women who are on the front lines of climate change is essential for gender-responsive, locally led adaptation. However, in many contexts, women remain underrepresented in decision making, from local to national levels.
Institutional Context Analysis for the National Adaptation Planning Process
Recent experiences from many developing countries show that climate adaptation planning is a complex process that requires improved coordination among in-country actors and development partners engaged in all sectors of the economy.
A Great Year for National Adaptation Planning and the Network to Watch in 2022
A new sense of urgency for climate action is being felt all around the world, and governments are now accelerating national efforts to put adaptation at the heart of decision making.
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