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Social justice, tripartite cooperation are the keys to social progress ...
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Social justice, tripartite cooperation are the keys to social progress
Speaking in Norway, Director-General Guy Ryder has praised the strength of the ideas, convictions and values that the Nordic countries demonstrated, and their positive impact on the work of the ILO.
Statement | Oslo, Norway | 20 September 2019
Minister,
Representatives of the employers and the workers of Norway,
Director of the Nobel Peace Center,
Let me first begin by thanking you for inviting me to this very important event to mark the Centenary of the International Labour Organization. I thank the Norwegian ILO Committee and the United Nations Association of Norway for organizing this event. I want to say how particularly happy I am to be speaking here at the Nobel Peace Center, on the 50th birthday, as it were, of the ILO's receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize of which, as I am sure you will all be aware, we are extraordinarily proud.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, you give me an opportunity and you give me a challenge.
The opportunity of course is to thank the Government, the employers and the trade unions of your country for their remarkable contribution to the work of our Organization over the last 100 years. Norway has always been to the fore in its participation in the political life of the ILO, and in its support for our development cooperation work. But I always think that your greatest contribution has been here at home, putting into concrete practice the values of social justice and the methods of tripartite cooperation which are at the heart of what the ILO stands for. Moreover, and it is equally important, you have demonstrated that these are keys to economic success, to social progress, and to the overall good health of your society.
And I want to begin by underlining just how crucially important that example is.
Your great compatriot Henrik Ibsen once observed that what internationally are often called ideals have in national practice often become lies. On the other hand – and I have just come from a Centenary Conference in Ireland – the great President of that country, Eamon de Valera, once said that "all history is man's efforts to realize ideals".
Through your combined efforts over 100 years, on this occasion, you have proved the Irishman right, and the Norwegian wrong.
The challenge is to try to identify exactly how Norway - and your Nordic neighbours - have managed this historic contribution to the ILO and how it can be sustained in the future. And, I have to say, this is a little bit more complicated, and I want to start with an historic reference which, at first sight, looks a bit surprising and discouraging.
On his travels to this part of the world in 1927, the first ILO Director-General, Albert Thomas, noted that Nordic employers were generally more hostile to the demands of workers than were their colleagues in other countries. And yet, the practice of dialogue and collective bargaining already well established had generated a strong sentiment of mutual respect between them.
Now, as I have said, employer and worker organizations here had been negotiating for a very long time before the ILO came on the scene. So, while it was the ILO that set tripartism in motion in many countries, a distinctive form of tripartism already existed here, with its roots firmly in the strong bipartite relations of employers and workers.
So, it is the first thing I want to note about the distinctive nature of Nordic inputs to the ILO. Take the example of gender equality. It is an important example. In the early years, the ILO's approach was to adopt Conventions with special provisions for the protection of women workers. In 1923, Betzy Kjelberg, the Norwegian labour inspector who was the first ever woman delegate to an ILO Conference, told Albert Thomas, in very clear terms, that what the Nordics wanted was full equality of treatment, not special protections. It took many decades for that view to win out in the ILO – but eventually it did.
The second point is that just as social partnership was never a love affair between employers and workers in Norway, nor has it ever been so at the ILO. Albert Thomas noted that, maybe because of culture, geography or climate, Nordics were used to expressing their needs and interests in very clear language – without some of the elaborate protocols of the south. But once the basis of agreements were thrashed out they were solid and respected. As the recently published study on 100 years of social dialogue in Norway amply documents, strikes, lock-outs even bitter public exchanges have never been absent from Norwegian working life. But organizations and their leaders were and are able to switch from that tough negotiating stance to close cooperation. There is no contradiction.
This too is vital at the ILO – and when it happens, the ILO works well. What is at stake here is not a question of good will between the parties. It is a recognition that there are different, sometimes conflicting interests in the world of work but that there is advantage to all parties in resolving them through dialogue and through compromise. If we took the view that the worker-employer relationship was inevitably a zero-sum game then such dialogue would be a waste of time, and the ILO for example simply could not function. But that does not mean that the Norwegian model means that there is some inevitable identity of interests. That inevitable identity of interests was a fiction that was brought to the ILO by the Soviet bloc for a certain period of our history, a fiction which was in reality a device to undermine the basic rights of freedom of association and the independence of employer and worker organizations. This is behind us now, and a good thing too.
A third feature of the Norwegian experience that I want to underline is the application of social dialogue to issues which go beyond the immediate workplace concerns. Nordic trade unions and businesses have had close relations with political and parliamentary actors, and one result is that the issues addressed by them have generally extended significantly beyond their immediate workplace or enterprise. Over the years, many social reforms, many decisive pieces of economic, social and employment policy have, at their origins, been negotiated in the labour market. In Norway, this has been a part of nation-building since the 19th century and notably of resistance and reconstruction during and after the Second World War.
This has been very important in the ILO as well. International experience of the breadth of application of social dialogue differs very considerably between different countries. In some, we have seen controversy about the interaction and respective prerogatives of social actors on the one hand and of elected legislatures on the other. But also – and here I think particularly of the large number of developing countries who joined the ILO from the 1960s in the process of decolonization – where trade unions were often key to liberation struggles – there has been a different dynamic. Sometimes the proper representation of worker and employer interests was considered secondary to the imperatives of national development strategies and even made subordinate to it, or eliminated entirely. History has taught some of the unfortunate consequences of this tendency.
The last feature I want to mention is the open and internationalist perspective of Nordic social partnership. One can argue about its origins. Some would point to the importance of the maritime sector and tradition – international by definition. Others to the always obvious advantages of open trading conditions to your relatively small economies. But I was interested to learn as well that the Arctic copper mines of Sulitjelma, the second largest enterprise in Norway in the early 20th Century, were truly international workplaces and generated, as early as the 1880s, discussion of equal treatment of migrant workers. This is an interesting historical footnote.
In any case, what I see today, is that Nordic social dialogue accepts, as a fundament, that open global economic and trade relations – with the appropriate rules in place – are unambiguously positive. And at the same time, through your political commitments and through your development cooperation, you contribute very importantly to the multilateral architecture and the national conditions that can make these relations work well for everybody.
If I was feeling cautious, I would say that this openness is not found everywhere in the world today. If I was being a little bolder, I would say that your commitment to internationalism and multilateralism places our Nordic friends and supporters in a very significant minority in the world today. That is very worrying and I will come back to it in a moment.
What I have done here is to highlight some of the factors which I think have made our Nordic member States key and distinctive actors within our Organization for 100 years.
And they lead me to an old debate about the "Nordic Model". For many of your friends around the world, the Nordic Model is a bit like the Loch Ness Monster. We are not really sure whether its exists, and if so, what is really looks like.
In this context, it has been tremendously helpful and encouraging for the ILO that the Nordic Council of Ministers has commissioned the research programme "The Future of Work - Opportunities and Challenges for the Nordic Models" (and yes I noted the "s" on the end of Models!)
It is an encouraging study because it is inspired explicitly by the ILO Centenary Future of Work Initiative and it is helpful because it offers a rather clear presentation of what that study considers the key components of the Nordic models and there are three: firstly, prudent macro-economic governance; secondly, solidaristic wage-setting and local cooperation; and third, the inclusive welfare state with education and active labour market policies. And binding all of this together are, of course, the social partners and the dialogue and cooperation that takes place among them.
So it seems that the monster does exist. And the question then becomes - does it have a future? And can it live beyond the cold waters of the Nordic north?
The Nordic research programme – which FAFO is conducting admirably – is addressing these questions, and let me also do so, but from a slightly different perspective than does that research programme.
Going back to history, we know that the creation of the ILO was the result of a fundamental choice about the world of work. This was between the revolutionary path exemplified by the Bolshevik revolution, and the reformist path of the ILO. Today, that might seem an obvious choice, but it certainly wasn't at the time - it wasn't for example for the Norwegian trade union movement, because, to quote the title of a recent history of 1919 "The World [was] on Fire." There were revolutionary movements on all continents. And this choice between revolution or reform was not even definitively made at that time. It took until the 1930s for the Soviet Union to get over its ideological hostility to the ILO and to join our Organization.
And later, in the 1960's, the revolutionary impetus came back again. The French-Caribbean revolutionary philosopher, Franz Fanon, wrote "the Wretched of the Earth" describing the conditions of oppression and misery of millions in the developing world, and through that justifying the use of revolutionary violence for their emancipation.
These may look like historical anecdotes. But they send us messages about our current circumstances.
Because today – and I am speaking here about global not Nordic conditions – we see a radical challenge to some of the basic foundations of the reformist approach that the ILO embodies.
We all have our national stories to tell about the rise of populism and nationalism, the rejection of traditional political actors and institutions, the characterization of multilateralism as an unjustified and unwanted infringement of national sovereignty and the will of the people. We have all seen how international law – particularly in respect of human rights – is increasingly ignored and where violations take place with apparent impunity. We have seen how basic truths are brushed off as false, and how obvious falsehoods are peddled as facts.
The point I want to make is that all of these things, if not constituting a revolutionary option, can be very destructive to the reformist approach to social justice in society and at work. So that means that we need to focus on why this is happening and what we must do about it.
And if we take the trouble to do just that and sometimes this is not easy, my view is that we cannot deny that these circumstances are being generated not only because of the disorientation of large numbers of people in the world in the face of transformative changes in their communities, their societies, their lives and their work; not only by their resentment which is real at growing inequalities; but it comes also from a frank failure of established policy settings and policy-makers and institutions to offer credible responses to the pressing concern that is leading many people to seek alternative solutions. And this is a challenge to everybody.
This leads me back to three features which seem to me are fundamental to the past and continued success of the ILO reformist agenda, by those I include the Nordic models.
The first factor is that they depend for their success and their acceptance on a significant degree of consensus about what is desirable in our societies. They are values based. In the case of the ILO, we summarize those values in two words: social justice.
The second feature is that the legitimacy of this approach depends upon its capacity to deliver the results that people want; decent jobs, security, rising living standards, a sustainable environment. My own view is that people will eventually support and approve of a model not because of its ideological attraction but because it delivers what they want in life. And who can blame them for that?
And the third point that I want to make is that, at its heart, the reformist agenda is really a social contract. A contract, unwritten maybe, but still real, between State and citizen, between social partners, about what common goals are, and what each party is expected to do to meet them. I think that the Nordic models bring this contract out in a very clear way. And I have learned from many Norwegian friends that there is one vital ingredient to it, and that is trust. The confidence that everybody involved will stick to the terms of the contract, and that an effort made by one party today will be reciprocated by the other tomorrow.
And this takes us to the heart of the dilemma that we find so widespread today. Many people, who have probably never used the term, or even heard of it, are acting on the assumption that the social contract that previously operated has been broken. They have lost confidence, they have lost trust in the commitment or the capacities of the parties or even their honesty. Unfortunately, there are no laws to enforce trust. There are no regulations to promote confidence. These are intangibles built up over long periods of experience and practice and, once lost, it can be difficult to get them back.
I am conscious that, from a Nordic perspective, all of this might seem a bit exaggerated, even a bit melodramatic. Because really things haven't got to that point here, have they? I recall that when many of us met in Reykjavik in April 2019, and you were there Minister, for the excellent Nordic ILO Centenary Conference, President Jóhannesson of Iceland spoke of the resentment of Icelanders at the "experts from the South" coming up to tell them what they had to do to overcome the difficulties of recent years. I wouldn't like to be one of those.
So let me just give some pointers to the future directions we must take. These pointers are provided by the report, presented in January, of the ILO's Global Commission on the Future of the Work, which was co-chaired by the Prime Minister of Sweden with the past CEO of the NHO among its distinguished members, and the subsequent Declaration for the Future of the Work which, as the Minister has indicated, was adopted by the ILO Centenary Conference last June.
The ILO Global Commission, in the concluding part of its report, called for a reinvigoration of that historic, global social contract which was at the heart of the creation of the ILO, and has remained there ever since: the global social contract for social justice. The Commission identified the existence of strong and representative organizations of workers and employers and their interaction with governments in the variable geometry of bipartite and tripartite cooperation as a public good; that is to say something of benefit to society as a whole beyond the sectoral interests directly involved in it, something we all have an interest in promoting.
After that, our Conference Centenary Declaration adopted what it calls a Human-centered Agenda for the Future of Work which will provide the compass for the ILO's activities in the years ahead.
You will not, I think, be surprised that the negotiation of this Declaration by some 187 member States with tripartite representation involved, was quite a complicated business. And I do think – and Minister I am very heartened by you have said – that we have produced a remarkably positive outcome, and if you have not done so already, please do try to take a look at it, it is a short document.
In essence, the human-centred approach contained in the Declaration has three sets of investments at its heart.
Firstly, investments in people's capabilities, in their skills through life-long learning, in their social protection; in gender equality; in helping them to navigate the multiple transitions of the future of work;
Secondly, in the institutions of work, in the mechanisms and regulations that govern labour markets so that, whatever their employment or contractual status, all working people have the protections required for decent work and the protection of their rights.
And thirdly, investments in decent and sustainable work – the jobs of the future – notably in the green economy, in the care economy, in infrastructure building, and in the rural economy which is so central to the lives of so many of the ILO's member States.
The Declaration also commits the ILO strongly to integrate the environmental dimension alongside the established social and economic dimensions of everything that it does, and on this day of global climate action, on the eve of the UN Climate Summit in New York, and knowing Norway's historic commitment and circumstances, I want to assure everybody here that we will continue to work very hard at that environmental dimension of the future of work.
There is one further part of the Declaration which I would also like to emphasize to you, and that is that multilateralism and coherence in the multilateral system is fundamental to the future of the ILO and the future of our world of work. I think of it this way: the ILO is located at that place where multilateralism intersects with tripartism. Both of these axes are facing challenges right now, so the ILO's location is one of some turbulence but I believe of great opportunity as well. And I want to put it to this Norwegian audience which, I think, will be receptive to my message. We all need to make multilateralism work better, we need to help it overcome the tensions it has to confront and that imperative gives extra force to the ILO's commitment to the process of reform in the United Nations.
But at the same time we equally have to work hard – much harder than we have up until now – at promoting greater coherence across the different organizations of the international system. That applies with particular force to those organizations which have primary responsibility for finance, for trade and for social and labour policies, that means the Bretton Woods Institutions – the IMF and the World Bank–, the WTO, and of course the ILO.
The fact of the matter is that the constitutional mandates of each of these organizations are complementary and inter-related, but the way we work doesn't reflect that.
I am aware that this issue of coherence and cooperation is not new. Indeed, I well recall coming to Oslo in 2010 to attend a Conference on "The Challenges of Growth, Employment and Social Cohesion", convened by the Government of Norway, which brought together my predecessor as Director-General of the ILO and the then Managing Director of the IMF in a really promising initiative. Unfortunately, it didn't bear all the fruits that it could have done. My reflection today is that maybe we should try it again.
In conclusion, I want to underline that the agenda that the ILO has set for itself seems to me to resonate very well with the issues which the Nordic Future of Work Project has identified for its continuing attention: the impact of digitalization and robotization; new atypical forms of work; the role of new labour market agents including platform work; occupational safety and health which the ILO is mandated to consider defining as a fundamental right; the possible reform of labour law and regulations.
This convergence of ideas, convictions and values, is why I am absolutely convinced that the Nordic countries will remain the key actors that they have always been in the ILO – that 100 years of solidarity past will open the way to more years of solidarity in the future and I want to assure you that the ILO will do everything that it should do and can do to deserve your commitment and support.
But there is a much deeper reason than this - and it is because Norway, and its fellow Nordic members, have a very deep commitment to the values of the ILO and a proven record of making tripartism work to fulfil these values. Everything starts with that.
When Prime Minister Solberg addressed the opening day of the Centenary Conference in June in Geneva, she recalled that Norway, 100 years ago, "pledged to work together with others to promote economic and social advancement to achieve social justice". That pledge has been honoured and I want to thank all of our Norwegian partners for that.
And the Prime Minister concluded that "it is no time to rest on our laurels"… "It is our responsibility to decide the direction we take from here. The future depends on the choices we make now."
I agree. So let's make these choices together. I thank you one again.
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Apple to add kickboxing, Beyonce to Fitness+
"Whether people want to boost their cardio with the newest workout type, Kickboxing, move to Beyonce's latest hits, or wind down before bed with a meditation, there really is something for everyone to take care of their body and mind in the new year," Jay Blahnik, Apple's vice president of Fitness Technologies, said in a statement.
With Kickboxing workouts, users will be able to build full-body fitness, which is a great way to build strength, stamina, coordination, and balance, according to the company.
Moreover, Meditation on Fitness+ is designed to help users release tension and anxiety.
The programme will consist of four 20-minute meditations that will conclude with five minutes of relaxing music.
Within Beyonce Artist Spotlight, seven new workouts will feature the singer's music which will be available across Cycling, Dance, HIIT, Pilates, Strength, Treadmill, and Yoga.
The energy and themes in each workout are inspired by the album's notion of rediscovering what makes individuals unique and powerful to help uplift users in the new year, said the company.
Fitness+ will also roll out two additional Artist Spotlight offerings -- the Foo Fighters on January 16, and Bad Bunny on January 23.
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What actually builds in the Residential, Commercial, Industrial, Airport and Seaport zones is up to the Sims. You are merely placing restrictions on types of buildings, kinds of business, and zone densities. But remember, zoning an area Dense Residential doesn't necessarily mean that high-rise apartment buildings will immediately appear. You will not see zones develop to their peak capacity until you have created conditions that spur demand for those zones. Keep your eye on your RCI Demand Indicator to let you know if your zoning is in line with the needs of your Sims.
> Light: Zoning for primarily single family homes.
> Medium: Mostly smaller apartment buildings.
> Dense: This density includes large apartment buildings and high-rises.
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> Medium: This zone includes medium size office buildings and stores.
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> Medium: This zone includes office parks, factories, and warehouses.
> Dense: Mega-industry. Large factories, incinerators, or perhaps gleaming high-tech industry complexes, among other things.
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As ye shall zone, so shall ye De-Zone. The De-Zone tool removes any pre-existing zoning ordinances you have passed. In order to De-Zone an area, though, you better not be telling the Sims in those nice residential neighborhoods that you're planning on building a hazardous waste burning plant in their midst. You cannot De-Zone an area where there are existing buildings, so you may have to demolish the area first.
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Q: Why use series solution rather than variation of parameters? When should we use series solution to solve a general 2nd order ODE rather than the variation of parameters?
Could both methods be used to solve any 2nd order ODE or are there restrictions on when you can use each method?

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Could both methods be used to solve any 2nd order ODE

There are no methods that can be used to solve any 2nd order ODE. Even if we restrict ourselves only to linear ODE (as you do without saying it). If you write down a random second-order linear ODE: say,
$$y''+e^{x}y'+\cos(x^2)\,y=\sin x$$
... don't expect much from any textbook method. The ODEs you see in your textbook are specially designed to be solvable by its methods, which may create the impression that these methods always work. (Of course, for linear equations with constant coefficients they do work.)
Back to the main question:

When should we use series solution to solve a general 2nd order ODE rather than the variation of parameters?

To use the variation of parameters, you have to know  the solutions of homogeneous equation. What if you don't, like for the equation above?
The series method has the drawback that it only gives the solution as a series. But sometimes a series may be  what you want, when you don't expect any closed-form solution anyway. When the coefficients of the ODE and its free term can be expanded into power series, you can usually find at least a few terms of the power series of $y$ just by solving a system of linear equations (there are issues at singular points, as with the Bessel equation). This may give a reasonable approximation to $y$ in the vicinity of the point of expansion. But don't expect to find a formula for coefficients of the entire series -- such things only happen in textbooks.

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Although she practices insurance defense law full-time, Ashley is equally dedicated to empowering and uplifting the lives of girls and young women in her community. She works tirelessly to challenge the media's longstanding perceptions of beauty and recently founded "Worthy of the Crown Pageant Coaching" --- a full-service pageant consulting business where she works to instill the importance of self-awareness and reflection and encourages clients to embrace all aspects of beauty. Ashley also serves as a consultant for "Beauty Counter" – a company committed to putting truth back into beauty by uprooting the industry in the U.S. and advocating to get safer products into the hands of everyone. Ashley has developed "Beauty the Wright Way" – a brand that seeks to focus these efforts while encouraging young women to acknowledge their beauty, recognize their power, and effect change.
Ashley earned her Juris Doctorate in 2015 from the University of Georgia School of Law and her B.S. in Psychology, cum laude, from the University of Florida in 2012. As an attorney and entrepreneur, Ashley is dedicated to both her career and her daily pursuit to positively enrich the lives of those in her community. During her spare time, she volunteers with LANES, Inc. – a not for profit organization dedicated to [l]oving, [a]ssisting, [n]urturing, [e]ducating, and [s]upporting teenage girls. She is a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. She also serves as a member of the Florida Bar, the Orange County Bar Association, the Central Florida Urban League of Young Professionals and the Paul C. Perkins Bar Association.


A meeting was held this morning, comprising of the committees and candidates of PUP, Independent Candidates and the VIP who contested the general elections for Belize Rural South and the Municipal elections in San Pedro.
Concerns over blatant irregularities on election day were identified and discussed. In particular, the VIP reported that in two polling stations, their polling agents reported that ballot books did not follow in number sequence, beginning and ending numbers in some station were not reported and ballots folded in pairs were retrieved from the boxes in the counting room. The PUP and Independents reported similar findings in other polling stations and also noted others irregularities.
It was agreed that a tri-partite committee would review all information submitted by the polling agents on elections day. The committees agreed to begin the process this afternoon and work through the weekend to complete a thorough investigation. A detailed report including of irregularities and recommendations will be presented in a joint press conference scheduled for next week.


Dribble Academy marked the return of their iconic "Midnight Tournament" with its second edition being held at Gejha, Noida. 68 players from the academy participated who were divided in 6 teams under 2 categories(juniors and seniors).
The festival which is being held at Inox multiplex in the city, even had his Marathi film Ti and Itar, which released in 2017 screened. The veteran director even released a book titled 'Cinema Sanskruti' written by Sudhir Nandgaonkar on the occasion.


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Dorothy Moon
Chairwoman of the Idaho Republican Party
DOROTHY MOON ANNOUNCES FOR IDAHO REPUBLICAN PARTY CHAIR
Moon will unite the Idaho Republican Party, modernize its infrastructure, and establish a national fundraising base, in service of the working men, women, and families who must always have a place in the Idaho Republican Party.
Boise, ID – Proven conservative leader and Idaho State Legislator Dorothy Moon is announcing today that she will run to be the next chair of the Idaho Republican Party.
"President Trump brought a lot of new voters to the Republican party in 2016 and 2020, but these are not 'party-line voters.' These are voters who will stay only so long as we remain true to our principles — and we must. I am committed to the conservative values that have made Idaho, and our Republic, great: protecting life; safeguarding our children; expanding our Second Amendment liberties; sensibly managing our natural resources; and defending religious liberty."
"I will also work to keep the radical Left's dangerous ideas and bad policies from taking root in Idaho — especially those that contradict the principles of the Republican party, like Common Core education and non-citizen voting."
"Despite what you've been told, the Idaho Republican Party's fundraising has stagnated. The large fundraising numbers posted in the last two years come almost entirely from the generosity of the Trump Victory Fund, money that did not come from the efforts of our party but from a nationwide presidential campaign and money that cannot create a sustainable bankroll for a party facing a dog fight with a Democrat party that is strengthening its hold in the American West. I will build a first-rate fundraising apparatus for our party that draws upon resources from around the country."
"There is no doubt that the Democrat party has planted its flag in our State. But that isn't because of the good work the Idaho Republican Party is doing; it is because Democrats see Idaho as vulnerable to a far-left takeover, as Democrats have already done in Nevada, Colorado, and Arizona. The lesson from Republican defeats in those states is that complacency and tired, 'good 'ole boy ideas' are no match for Democrats' out-of-state funding and 'community organizing.' We will beat the Democrats when we harness the talent and enthusiasm of our party's hard-working men and women, rather than threatening them with ruinous litigation and strong-arm tactics."
"The Idaho Republican Party leadership is currently working from a tired and outdated playbook for fundraising, organization, and outreach. Their message has failed to resonate with young families and hardworking Idahoans looking for relief from grocery taxes and high prices at the pump. The Democrats and their third-party organizations are funded by billionaires like Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, and George Soros. And our party leadership has done nothing in the face of rampant—and well-organized—Democrat cross-over voting in our Republican primaries. This complacency in the face of crisis will not beat the deep pockets and dirty tricks of the radical left."
Moon lives up the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River, east of Stanley. She and her husband, Darr, who is a professional engineer, land-surveyor and geologist, are the proud parents of two hard-working, adult sons.
"I grew up in a Christian home with six siblings. My father worked two jobs to provide for our family. I developed a strong work ethic knowing I needed a good education. I earned a Bachelor of Science in Secondary Education in Comprehensive Science and a Master of Science in Resource Planning, both from Missouri State University. I met my husband Darr with deep Idaho roots and moved to Idaho in 1994."
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Speaking at the Mondato Summit Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa - Peter Brunt, VP of partnerships at iROKO said in markets like Nigeria the handling of payments for online content is 'difficult'.
According to Brunt users can pay with debit cards, credit cards and PayPal and for Nigerian users they have bank transfers into iROKOs account.
Brunt explained that they have lots of people coming to their site, people registering to their site, but far too small a proportion of people are subscribing.
He noted that the reason could be that users don't want to pay, but the biggest reason is the lack of trust to use a credit or debit card online.
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Jumia is a popular platform and it allows people to pay cash on delivery so we'll see, Brunt noted.
Launched in 2012 Jumia has become the largest African online retailer, and enables customers to shop online for the widest selection of items and have them shipped directly to the home or office.
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Das Sutherland-Modell beschreibt die Temperaturabhängigkeit der Viskosität von Gasen. Es wurde 1893 von dem australischen Physiker William Sutherland vorgeschlagen. Das Modell basiert auf der kinetischen Gastheorie, wobei zur Beschreibung der intermolekularen Wechselwirkungen ein stark idealisiertes Wechselwirkungspotential verwendet wird. Trotz der verwendeten groben Näherungen insbesondere bei dem verwendeten Wechselwirkungspotential reproduziert das Modell die experimentell ermittelten Viskositäten vieler Gase über einen großen Temperaturbereich mit einem systematischen Fehler von unter 10 %.

Problemstellung und Modellbeschreibung

Die Viskosität realer Gase wird durch das einfachste kinetische Modell von Gasen, das Modell des idealen Gases, nur ungenau reproduziert. Insbesondere ist die beobachtete Temperaturabhängigkeit systematisch stärker als die von diesem Modell vorhergesagte Proportionalität zur Wurzel der Temperatur. Die Ursache für diese systematische Abweichung ist die Vernachlässigung der langreichweitigen anziehenden Van-der-Waals-Kräfte, die zwischen allen Atomen und Molekülen wirken.

Das Sutherland-Modell beschreibt die repulsiven intermolekularen Kräfte bei kleinen Abständen durch ein Modell harter Kugeln, berücksichtigt aber außerhalb der harten Kugel auch die oben beschriebenen anziehenden Kräfte in Form eines einfachen kugelsymmetrischen Potentials

(r: intermolekularer Abstand; n: ganze Zahl, meistens n=6). Dies bewirkt, dass im Sutherland-Modell der Streuquerschnitt beim Stoß zwischen zwei Molekülen von ihrer relativen Geschwindigkeit abhängt: Je geringer die Relativgeschwindigkeit ist, desto größer wird der Streuquerschnitt. Die Ursache hierfür ist, dass sich die Moleküle bei geringer Relativgeschwindigkeit länger in geringem Abstand zueinander aufhalten und damit stärker der Wirkung ihres Wechselwirkungspotentials ausgesetzt sind. Der so verursachte größere Streuquerschnitt bewirkt wiederum eine Abnahme der mittleren freien Weglänge der Moleküle und damit eine Zunahme der Viskosität des Gases.

Sutherlands Formel

Die Viskosität von Gasen wird beim Sutherland-Modell durch folgende Formel beschrieben:

mit:
 = Dynamische Viskosität in (Pa·s) bei der Temperatur
 = Referenz-Viskosität in (Pa·s) bei der Referenz-Temperatur
   = Temperatur [K]
 = Referenztemperatur [K]
 = Sutherlands Konstante [K]

Sutherland-Konstanten und Referenztemperaturen für einige Gase:

Literatur
 J. Hirschfelder, C. F. Curtiss, R. B. Bird: Molecular Theory of Gases and Liquids. Wiley, New York, 1954, ISBN 0-471-40065-3
 Karl Jousten: Wutz Handbuch Vakuumtechnik: Theorie und Praxis, Vieweg+Teubner, ISBN 3-8348-0133-X / ISBN 978-3-8348-0133-3; S. 40 (als Google-Buch)

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This is a sensible furrow for Tamara Rojo to plough when presenting 20th-century choreography in the English ballet market: the two Royal companies (London and Birmingham) have the Ashton/MacMillan British heritage repertoire more or less stitched up between them, and American greats like Balanchine and Robbins are – for both practical and stylistic reasons – probably still out of the company's reach in its current form. But by offering this European repertoire, Rojo opens herself up to the risk that her company might not perform it as well as their iconic originators on the Continent did (a particular danger in the case of Forsythe and Bausch), and to the potential hostility of London audiences, who have not always taken well to European choreographers like van Manen and Kylián.
Last night's performance showed that both these issues are live ones, though ameliorated – as usual with ENB – by the charm and enthusiasm of the dancers. Forsythe's In the Middle is a fiendish piece, and Rojo didn't take the easy route by choosing to cast six out of the nine dancers in role debuts. The result was a performance lacking in both attack, and in that air of effortless superiority that characterised the original cast of Paris Opéra "wunderkinder". James Streeter in particular, much though I have admired his solid work in other contexts over the years, seemed an odd choice for the central male role: he is a perennial nice guy type and Forsythian sharpness appeared to be just out of his reach. If Rojo was aiming to show that home-grown dancers could do Forsythe as well as the flash principals who fronted last time (Alina Cojocaru and Alejandro Virelles), she failed: Streeter and Lauretta Summerscales made a valiant effort, but most of the fizz and excitement came from the other side of the Atlantic: from Canadians Cesar Corrales and Crystal Costa, Mexican Isaac Hernández (pictured above right) and Americans Tiffany Hedman and Precious Adams, with long-limbed Adams in particular doing a nice line in nonchalant attitude. Adams also stood out in Rite of Spring for her lithe power and commitment to the steps: she is a corps member clearly ready to start moving up the ranks.
Hans van Manen is an acquired taste for British critics, apparently. I have not acquired it. Adagio Hammerklavier is supposed to be an elegant, restrained, subtle investigation of the all but invisible moments of silent communication established couples enjoy – represented by six dancers and set to the slow movement of Beethoven's piano sonata no. 29. It reads to me, however, as both melodramatic and emotionless, a combination that might sounds paradoxical until you recall that you have observed stiff-necked, dead-eyed people go through the motions of lovers' tiffs and reconciliations clad in frankly ill-advised quantities of white chiffon and diamanté before – in the pages of OK! magazine. I am sure the six dancers did their best (pictured above life: Fernanda Oliveira and James Forbat). I am sure pianist Olga Khozianinova did her best too, though thanks to the theatre's infuriating miking, I was somewhat surprised to realise at the curtain call that the piece had been played live.
No such infuriation for Rite of Spring, thank goodness, which was played as it should be by the English National Ballet Philharmonic under Gavin Sutherland's baton. Bausch's 1975 piece is one of the all-time great Rites, made so by its supremely confident matching of movement to music: one can't help feeling that Bausch captured the essence of the now-lost Nijinsky original, which so challenged Diaghilev's dancers with its stomping and shuffling choreography. From the opening peaceful scenes of women moving as drowsily as the bassoon playing in the pit to the violent haka-like sequences that accompany the iconic bass drum and the terrifying chest-beating of the Chosen One as the brass crescendo in the final sacrificial dance, it's a mesmeric, utterly convincing merger of dance and sound. If the English National Ballet dancers looked occasionally a touch too balletic, and generally rather less dangerous than Bausch's own company, that detracted only slightly from the power of the performance; and their absolute commitment to what they were doing was not in doubt. Tiny Francesca Velicu was heartrending as the Chosen One, and visibly overcome by the intensity of her own performance.
It is an enormous privilege for the company to have Bausch's Rite in their repertoire, and an equally enormous pleasure for English audiences to be able to see it (one they expressed vocally last night at the curtain call). I feel similarly about Forsythe's In the Middle, whose revival I applaud, though I look forward to seeing the company's account of it get stronger. Adagio Hammerklavier felt like mere sandwich paste between these two greats; if it makes no reappearance, I will not mourn it.
English National Ballet perform Rite of Spring, In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, and Adagio Hammerklavier at Sadler's Wells until 1 April.


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I'm thinking that you and I are in the same town-- as this has been a conversation lately on our playgroup's listserv. We are totally with you on the storytime... here's hoping it will get better!
You better watch out they just might ask you to volunteer reading to children at the library.
You could start your own group and have story time at the Library.


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Q: Adding additional field options to Joomla 3.3 backend to view in category list front end Joomla 3.3 and Gantry v4.1.26
Attached below (dropbox link) is an image that I mocked up in photoshop, I would like to add a toggle option to view a table column in the category list view that contains a link to a PDF (of my choice) from the root images folder.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/rtv0p4cq200rbs0/PDF-sidebar-concept.jpg?dl=0
I was following this tut:
https://ranawd.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/adding-custom-columnsfields-to-joomla-article/
which has lead me into many right directions but it is outdated and meant for Joomla 1.5. If there was something similar to this but updated for Joomla 3.3.
Many thanks in advance!
*UPDATE** - March 30/2015
I was able to add an extra row by adding the following in root/components/com_content/views/category/templ/default_articles.php :
<in the thread tags>
<?php if ($this->params->get('list_show_pdf')) : ?>

  <?php echo JHtml::_('grid.sort', 'JGLOBAL_PDF', 'a.pdf', $listDirn, $listOrder); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

<in the tbody tag>
<?php if ($this->params->get('list_show_pdf', 1)) : ?>

   <?php echo JText::sprintf('JGLOBAL_PDF_LINK', $article->hits); ?>

<?php endif; ?>

All these are pretty much duplicates of the hit's function, i've also edited the language file to achieve 'JGLOBAL_PDF_LINK' and the default.xml file found in root/components/com_content/views/category/templ/default.xml adding:
<field name="list_show_pdf" type="list"
    description="JGLOBAL_ADD_PDF_DESC"
    label="JGLOBAL_ADD_PDF"
 >
    <option value="">JGLOBAL_USE_GLOBAL</option>
    <option value="0">JHIDE</option>
    <option value="1">JSHOW</option>
</field>

To achieve referencing "list_show_pdf".
We also have to add a toggle to the backend in article options, go to root/administrator/components/com_content/config.xml and add:
<field name="list_show_pdf"
    type="radio"
    class="btn-group btn-group-yesno"
    default="0"
    label="JGLOBAL_ADD_PDF"
    description="JGLOBAL_ADD_PDF_DESC">
        <option value="1">JSHOW</option>
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1 year ago WJLP Me-TV is available on Verizon FiOS channel 3/503HD, Optimum channel 33, Dish Network 3, DirecTV 33, RCN channel 33, Comcast Channel 8/808HD, Spectrum 33 and over-the-air on 33.10
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WJLP Takes Home Three New York Emmy Awards
21 Mar, 2016 WJLP News
New York, NY – PMCM TV's WJLP won three Emmy® awards at the 59th Annual New York Emmy® awards which took place at the Marriot® Marquis Broadway Ballroom on March 19th, 2016. WJLP licensed to Middletown, NJ blankets the entire New York Market with its signal emanating from the top of 4 Time Square in Manhattan. Lee Leddy, PMCM Group VP, says "The Emmys® awarded last Saturday evening show the commitment the station and its staff have made to fulfilling the goal of local service to the state with the twin goals of insightful public affairs programming and local news."
The Emmy® awards ceremony honored WJLP's Another Thing with Larry Mendte. Larry was recognized with wins for On-Camera Talent: Reporter – Specialty Assignment for his series of commentaries about the media entitled "Mendte on the Media". Larry also won On-Camera Talent: Commentator/Editorialist for his weekly commentaries that air on Another Thing with Larry Mendte. Larry's third win of the night was for Writer: Commentary/Editorial about the Charleston church shooting and what lessons can be learned from the tragedy.
WJLP, despite being on the air for only 18 months, is no stranger to recognition, as the station has already won two prestigious Best of the Best Awards for news and public affairs from the New Jersey Broadcasters Association in 2015.
Another Thing with Larry Mendte is produced by parent company PMCM TV who also owns and operates KJWP DTV in Wilmington, DE. KJWP serves the entire Philadelphia market and enjoyed its first Mid-Atlantic Emmy® for its public affairs programming last year. KJWP has also won several awards from the Delaware Press Association for its news and public affairs programming.
"These awards are a reflection of the great team I have to work with here at PMCM TV," explained Larry Mendte, "All of these awards speak volumes of the hard work and dedication our small staff puts into these shows every week."
Robert E. Mc Allan, PMCM TV CEO says, "We are extraordinarily proud of the work our staff has done in producingAnother Thing and our other local shows, Jersey Matters and The Delaware Way." He especially singled out Larry Mendte for the expertise and air of professionalism he has brought to our air and our entire production team.
PMCM TV also has an agreement with Gannett Company who supplied content and video components from several newspapers in the Northeast including The Asbury Park Press and The News Journal in Delaware for daily "Newbreaks" that air hourly in the daytime.
Another Thing with Larry Mendte features interviews with regional politicians, activists, reporters and business leaders. Larry, along with his guests, review, analyze and discuss 'news of the week' both regionally and across the country. Each episode ends with one of Larry's renowned, no holds barred, award winning commentaries. His commentaries cover a variety of subjects including current events, politics and social matters. Another Thing with Larry Mendte airs every Saturday at 5:30 PM and re-airs on Sundays at 9:30 AM in the New York market on WJLP Me-TV and in the Philadelphia market on KJWP Me-TV.
PMCM TV, LLC is based in Wall Township, NJ and owns WJLP-DT in Middletown, New Jersey and KJWP-DT in Wilmington, Delaware. Both WJLP and KJWP are affiliates of Memorable Entertainment Television. PMCM TV's broadcasting roots date back to 1947, when it became the first broadcaster to put a FM station on the air in New Jersey. PMCM TV, along with its affiliated companies, have owned and operated multiple TV and radio stations in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
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Dating back to the 1930s, the University of New England was the first Australian university to be established outside a capital city. It offers trimester years with students able to begin in any trimester. The School of Business, Economics and Public Policy MBA received the highest rating from the 2011 Good Universities Guide in the 'getting a job' category, and a good rating for graduate salaries.


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What is a Time Management Matrix?
The aim is to re-evaluate tasks that need to be done and free up time to focus on priorities.
To use the Time Management Matrix, download the table below and then write each of your tasks in an area of the grid depending on how you would classify their urgency and importance.
Write down all of your daily or weekly tasks and then have a go at placing them in the grid according to the 4 categories. This will help you re-order tasks and delegate tasks to others in order to improve your time management skills.
Important and Urgent Tasks (Quadrant 1) – these are the tasks you cannot avoid and must get done, often at the last minute and to a tight deadline because you have put them to one side due to poor time management. These tasks have suddenly become 'urgent' and now cannot be completed at leisure. The aim is to try and avoid tasks from being in this box on the grid. Such tasks include crises, due deadlines on a project and health emergencies.
Important but Not Urgent Tasks (Quadrant 2) – these tasks are the ones that will help you to achieve your aims and ensure important work gets done. They are not urgent because you have enough allocated time to get them completed, but they are essential to the success of the personal or professional goal. You should aim to invest the majority of your time on this quadrant. Such tasks include planning, prevention and relationship building.
Not Important but Urgent Tasks (Quadrant 3) – these tasks are ones that will prevent you from achieving your aims. They are often done at the last minute and take up a great deal of time, but are of no significance to your goal. These tasks are ones you can delegate to other people so you can concentrate fully on your important tasks. Such tasks include an incoming phone call, emails and interruptions.
Not Important and Not Urgent Tasks (Quadrant 4) – these tasks should be avoided where possible, as they are the tasks that simply waste time. Try to have no tasks in this grid of your Time Management Matrix and, if you do, try to work out how you can eliminate them. However, they do offer a work-life balance and downtime, but should be put at the bottom of the priority list. These tasks include daydreaming, watching TV and trivial busy work.
Why Implement a Time Management Matrix?
The matrix helps you use your time effectively and efficiently. It will help you to avoid spending too much time doing unnecessary or unimportant tasks. The strength of the matrix is that it helps you prioritise your tasks and activities in a very clear way. This allows you to decide which are most important and which are urgent. However, most people stay stuck in quadrant 1. In order to realise your goals, you must focus on quadrant 2.
To boost productivity, you should live your life in the upper half of the quadrant, dedicating most of your time to quadrant 2 but completing tasks in quadrant 1 to get by. You should only use quadrant 4 as part of your downtime. One approach of using the Time Management Matrix is not necessarily better than another: some people complete the quadrant 1 tasks first before quadrant 2, whilst others do the opposite.
Implementing the matrix will make you more aware of your daily tasks and how you can get past them to achieve your goals. They're easy to start; all you require is a pen and some paper. Once it is written down, you will begin to realise that you may be spending a lot of time in quadrant 4. These mindless tasks – such as daydreaming, net surfing and chatting – serve no purpose towards your professional development.
Once you have implemented the Time Management Matrix, you should make sure you review your goals regularly and re-prioritise tasks appropriately, whilst adding in any other activities you are completing that weren't on the list before.
If you find yourself completing more and more mindless unhelpful tasks that belong in quadrant 4, review your matrix regularly. It will help you stay on top of your time management and make the most of your working time.


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Home Center Well Anti-abortion 'personhood' measures shrink the rights of women
Anti-abortion 'personhood' measures shrink the rights of women
Joseph Boven
Eight months pregnant, confused and suffering psychological disorders, Jessica Clyburn jumped from a fifth story window in South Carolina. According to the media, she had attempted unsuccessfully to commit suicide. According to the local district attorney's office, she committed murder.
Pregnant personhood (mahalie; cc Flickr)
"Clyburn survived but suffered a stillbirth as a result of the fall. She was arrested on homicide charges and is still being held without bail," attorney Lynn M. Paltrow, founder and executive director of National Advocates for Pregnant Women told The Colorado Independent.
If the Colorado Personhood Initiative were to pass next year, Paltrow said the state will see a host of new criminal offenders like Clyburn and a growing docket of personhood crimes. Coloradans should brace themselves, she said, for "Carolinafication."
Sponsored by pro-life activist organization Personhood USA as part of a national campaign, ballot initiative 25 would amend the state constitution in more than 20,000 places, granting even the cells of a fertilized egg full legal rights while working to effectively limit the rights of pregnant women. Legal experts say the law would lead to outlandish and oppressive applications.
"Constitutional jurisprudence is all about weighing interests," former Planned Parenthood attorney Kevin C. Paul of Heizer Paul LLP told The Colorado Independent. "If you're creating a new interest, one that hadn't existed previously, then that interest is going to have to be weighed against [those of] anybody else. And if you take the position that an unborn fetus is to be legally treated just the same as a woman, then those two interests clash."
Should the personhood initiative pass, he said, it's clear women could be held by the state to ensure the safety of a fetus.
Mark Silverstein, legal director in Colorado of the American Civil Liberties Union, said the law would apply to women unaware they're pregnant.
"Let's say a woman is sexually active and she has a drink. If a drink is determined to harm a potential human life, well wouldn't it be considered reckless endangerment to have that drink — or to engage in some other type of activity that would pose a risk to a fetus?"
Erik Maulbetsch, also with the ACLU in Colorado, wrote in an email that although the way fetal abuse and women's rights issues interact are certainly a concern, in his eyes, the immediate threat of "outlawing hormonal birth control, in vitro fertilization and stem cell research, are the most dangerous and intrusive aspects of the proposal."
Silverstein said the ACLU would actively campaign against Initiative 25, the "son of 48," referring to the failed Initiative 48, last year's version of the Colorado Personhood initiative.
Deal with ramifications later
The legal questions surrounding the initiative at this point are not a priority to Personhood USA, which lawyers like Paul see as a problem.
"It's just a bad idea to try to amend the basis of all other law when the answer to the question 'What will happen when I do this?' is simply 'I really don't know.' It is very hard to predict the difficult and even absurd results.
"The term 'person' has been legally defined," he added, "but 'the beginning of biological development' has no definition yet." Paul said the change in language would affect "our fundamental due process rights, the provision to inalienable rights, access to our courts and a right to justice."
Presented with some of the hypothetical legal and rights issues related to the initiative, Keith Mason, co-founder of Personhood USA and one of the proponents of Initiative 25, said he didn't want to speculate on the particulars of the bill.
That wasn't good enough for Abe Saur, associate editor at lefty grab-bag politics and criticism site The Awl. He asked Mason whether clinically obese pregnant woman, who have a 30-percent higher risk than non-obese women of giving birth to children with heart disease, could be convicted of abuse or murder.
Will we be criminalizing the pregnant obese? Saur asked.
"I can't answer that because it's a hypothetical," said Mason. "It's like asking what would happen if a Martian came down and impregnated a woman on Earth. Let's talk about real issues."
Mason said he would "worry about the [legal] details later," after the bill had passed.
Losing one's personhood
"We know, based on hundreds of cases across the country, some of them in Colorado, that if, as a matter of law fetuses are described as separate persons, essentially pregnant women lose their Personhood," Paltrow said.
The ACLU's Silverstein said that although it would take numerous court cases to determine specifically how personhood would affect Colorado law, the effect of providing an unborn child personhood rights would unquestionably restrict the civil rights of women.
But Personhood Colorado director and the initiative proponent Gualberto Garcia Jones said the law is designed not to infringe rights but to extend them. Initiative 25 is slightly updated to be more inclusive than last year's Initiative 48. We've changed "the initial marker for the beginning of life from fertilization to the beginning of the biological development of a human being," he said.
"It's intended to account for human beings who may be created through asexual reproduction in laboratories and used as raw material for research, organs, or stem cells. Fertilization would not have properly applied to asexually reproduced humans, but even asexually reproduced human beings have a definite biological beginning."
It's not that simple, said Silverstein. Presently, Colorado Code defines homicide, for example, as "the killing of a person by another." The code also says that a person is someone who has been born and is alive at the time of the homicidal act. "If personhood applies to the criminal code, then you have homicide involving persons who have not even been born — to persons who might be a single cell," Silverstein said.
Paltrow said that all it would take is one child welfare worker, one doctor, one individual to decide that a woman is endangering the life of her unborn child and she could be arrested and taken away.
"Colorado like every state has a civil commitment law. Civil commitment is a process established under mental health laws to confine individuals believed to pose a danger to themselves or others. If the [personhood] measure succeeds and the unborn are defined as having full constitutional rights, the state could commit a pregnant woman from the moment of fertilization if she is perceived to pose a danger to the fertilized egg."
Carolinafication
The South Carolina Courts in 1997 ruled that fetuses that can survive outside the womb are persons under child abuse rules. As a result, 90 women have been arrested there, including Clyburn.
Another is South Carolinan, Regina McKnight, who smoked crack cocaine in 1999 while she was pregnant. Her unborn baby died in the eighth month. Twenty-four-year-old McKnight, who had three other young children at the time and was pregnant again, was convicted of murder and sentenced to a 12-year prison term.
"Once a personhood measure passed there would be no limit" to the controls the state could place on a suspect pregnant woman, said Paltrow. "Civil commitment laws could be used to keep a woman from, say, working in certain jobs, taking a wide range of medications, or even leaving town so she could have a vaginal birth after a c-section," which can be seen as endangering the fetus.
These cases aren't theoretical.
Paltrow described the experience of Angela Carter, who was undergoing treatment for severe cancer. Carter was forced by doctors concerned with the health of the fetus to have a cesarean section. Both Carter and the fetus died. The C-section was listed as one of the causes for the mother's death . Although the courts found that the hospital acted outside of its legal rights at the time, Paltrow said the personhood amendment would make such actions common place.
"Once you have defined a fetus as a separate person from the mother, the state has the power to literally take custody of a pregnant woman from the moment she conceives."
Jonathan Van Blerkom, a University of Colorado at Boulder professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology, agreed that zygotes in fertility clinics would be protected. He said not only researchers involved in embryonic stem cell research but also individuals looking to participate in in-vitro fertilization programs would be affected.
"We are talking about embryos in the one cell stage … What happens when a liquid nitrogen tank, which keeps embryos frozen in storage, is damaged? It happened during an earthquake in California. Concrete fell on a tank and all of the embryos were destroyed. Is there criminal liability there?"
Like others, Silverstein sees the personhood drive as misguided and a sweeping end run around the legal right to abortion. The proposed initiative simply has not been thought through, he said.
"If a woman has a beer while she is pregnant is she furnishing alcohol to a minor?"
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The grand universe is the presently organized and inhabited material creation; and it consists of the central universe of Havona, in eternity, and the seven evolving superuniverses, in time – all revolving about the Paradise-Havona system. The seven superuniverses are unfinished and therefore new nebulae are constantly being organized. When finished, each superuniverse will contain 100,000 local universes, containing about 10,000,000 inhabited planets each.
It is 400,000 light years between the Great Unique Belt and our 2nd Space Level Path; and our seventh superuniverse, Orvonton, is presently located in the southeast between superuniverse one and six. Having a diameter of approximately 500,000 light years, containing more than ten trillion suns, practically all of the starry realms visible to our naked eye belong to Orvonton. Forming a watchlike, elongated-circular grouping, this great aggregation of suns, dark islands of space, double stars, globular clusters, star clouds, spiral and other nebulae – together with the myriads of individual planets – is about one seventh of the inhabited evolutionary universes; and its vast Milky Way starry system represents its central nucleus. Gazing through the main body of this realm of maximum density, when the angle of observation is propitious, you are looking toward Paradise.
Our local universe, Nebadon, is located near the edge of Orvonton, and has not long since (as we reckon time) turned the southeastern bend of the Orvonton space level path. And well out towards the borderland of Nebadon is our planet Urantia, which belongs to our local system, Satania, and is a member of our solar system, Momantia.
Today, Momantia is a few billion years past the swing around the southern curvature of the 2nd Space Level Path so that we are just now advancing beyond the southeastern bend and are moving swiftly through the long and comparatively straightaway northern path. And for untold ages Orvonton will pursue this almost direct northernly course.
And consider, whereas one (1) light year is equal to 6 trillion of our standard planetary miles, it is some two hundred (200) thousand light years from Jerusem, the capital of our local system Satania, to the physical center of our 7th superuniverse, Orvonton; and a trifle less than two hundred and fifty (250) thousand light years from the center of Orvonton to its outermost system of inhabited worlds. Truly, we are not alone!
Imagining the north end of Paradise in eternity, and the counter-clockwise direction of our immense 2nd Space Level Path in time, Superuniverse Two is in the north, preparing for our path's westward swing; while Superuniverse Three, having already turned into the curve leading to the southernly plunge, now maintains the curve's northernmost segment. Whereas the advanced regions of Superuniverse Four are now approaching opposition to Paradise, and is on our path's comparatively straightaway flight, Superuniverse Five has almost left its position opposite Paradise, while continuing on the direct southernly course just proceeding the path's eastward swing. Superuniverse Six now occupies most of the southern curve, the segment from which our 7th Superuniverse, Orvonton, has nearly passed. And Orvonton, having not long turned the path's southeastern bend, swings between Superuniverse Six and One. Thereby, completing our great elliptic 2nd Space Level Path of the seven superuniverses in time.
But the grand universe is not only a material creation of physical grandeur, spirit sublimity, and intellectual magnitude, it is also a magnificent and responsive living organism. There is actual life pulsating throughout the mechanism of the vast creation of the vibrant cosmos. This material and living organism is penetrated by intelligence circuits, even as the human body is traversed by a network of neural sensation paths. This physical universe is permeated by energy lanes which effectively activate material creation, even as the human body is nourished and energized by the circulatory distribution of the assimilable energy products of nourishment. The vast universe is not without those co-ordinating centers of magnificent overcontrol which might be compared to the delicate chemical-control system of the human mechanism.
Man's urge for Paradise perfection, his striving for God-attainment, creates a genuine divinity tension in the living cosmos which can only be resolved by the evolution of an immortal soul; this is what happens in the experience of a single mortal creature. But when all creatures and all Creators in the grand universe likewise strive for God-attainment and divine perfection, there is built up a profound cosmic tension which can only find resolution in the sublime synthesis of almighty power with the spirit person of the evolving God of all experiencing creatures, the Supreme Being.


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Poll Backs Required Teacher Graduation from Accredited Ed. School
By Karen Diegmueller
WASHINGTON--The general public overwhelmingly supports the concept that teachers be graduates of nationally accredited professional programs, findings from a national poll released last week by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education indicate.
The accrediting body, whose mission is to establish a nationwide quality-control system for teacher education, will use the results of the survey to help persuade state policymakers to require graduation from an accredited institution as a prerequisite for teacher licensure.
Currently, only 521 of the 1,279 teacher-training institutions nationwide are part of the NCATE system. (See Education Week, March 24, 1993.)
At the body's first-ever press conference, Arthur E. Wise, the president of NCATE, said he hoped the survey results would make the public more sensitive to and sophisticated about the issue of teacher preparation and its link to the quality of education for the nation's schoolchildren.
"We also would hope policymakers will pay attention to these findings and take appropriate action,'' he said.
According to the poll, 82 percent of the respondents endorsed the idea of requiring teachers to graduate from nationally accredited professional schools, as doctors must do; 68 percent said they believed that student performance would improve if teachers were required to meet higher professional-training standards.
Based on the survey results, those questioned clearly believed that the nation's schools need improvement. Eighty percent said public education is not providing students with the skills and knowledge society needs.
The poll also indicated that teachers who are trained in professional schools should be compensated accordingly. Eighty-three percent of the respondents said they favored higher salaries for such teachers.
But the question of whether the respondents would be willing to pay higher taxes to support such a policy decision was left unasked.
Nearly three-fourths of those surveyed said they would favor policies requiring local districts to hire teachers trained "according to national professional-accreditation standards.''
Public Wants Change
Mr. Wise characterized the poll results as "startling.''
While acknowledging that people will naturally select quality over inferiority when given a choice, Mr. Wise said it was the strength of the responses that he found surprising.
"The public is saying it wants change from what is today,'' Mr. Wise said. "Typically, people might expect people to want to cling to the past, to the status quo.''
Results of the poll were endorsed by the National Education Goals Panel as well as several leaders within the education community.
"New standards for students will be meaningless without a teaching force that is prepared to help students meet more challenging standards,'' said Wilmer S. Cody, the executive director of the goals panel.
The telephone survey of 1,003 randomly selected Americans was conducted on Jan. 30 by the Washington-based firm of Penn & Schoen.