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Lecture: Japan and COVID-19, by David Murakami Wood
Queen's University, Contagion Culture Lecture Series Mindo, Face-Masks and Fax Machines: Japan and COVID-19 David Murakami Wood
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Family Medicine Professionals: Agents of the Turkish Patriarchal Surveillance State
12:30 – 2 pm
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The current Turkish Family Medicine Model (FMM) has a specific mandate to monitor pregnant women supposedly to improve maternal and infant health indicators. The pregnancy-monitoring mandate is regulated through official employment contracts with family physicians and midwives/nurses that assign performance-based incentives and... Read more about @title...
SSC Seminar Series: Jonathan Coutinho, Pauline Gaprielian and Susan Boehnke, Joint Seminar with Centre for Neuroscience Studies, Queen's University
Current Practices and Future Potential of Neurotechnologies' Role in Society
The rapid advancements in neuroscience and neurotechnologies have led to concerns regarding human privacy and security. Although primarily developed for specialized research and clinical purposes, neurotechnology is now widely available for personal and commercial usage. There is an increasing demand for biofeedback for... Read more about @title...
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The Faculty of Arts and Science at Queen's University invites applications for a Tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor with a specialization in Surveillance Studies with a preferred starting date of July 1, 2020. In the case of an exceptional candidate, a tenured appointment at the rank of Associate Professor would... Read more about @title...
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Rohit Revi
PhD Candidate, Cultural Studies, Queen's University, Canada
Supervised by: David Murakami Wood (Department of Sociology, Queen's University) and Angus McBlane (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India)
Rohit is a third year PhD Candidate in the Cultural Studies Graduate Program at Queen's. He is writing on the acculturation of paranoia in late stage capitalism - treating it as an emergent crisis of interpretation that relates in particular ways to the contemporary material conditions of economic/ecological crisis and technological hyper-connectivity. This work hopes to simultaneously combine literatures on the risk and network societies, and examine paranoia as a psychosocial ramification of this combination - departing from the traditionally pathologising lens used by clinical disciplines as well as disciplines such as cultural/social epidemiology.
His research interests are largely centred around philosophy of technology and cultural theory. He is also interested in projections of apocalypse in the history of Science Fiction.
17rr11@queensu.ca
Stéphanie McKnight (Stéfy)
Stéfy McKnight
Stéphanie McKnight (Stéfy) is white-settler artist-scholar based in Katarokwi/Kingston Ontario. Her creative practice and research focus in on policy, activism, governance, and surveillance trends in Canada and North America. Within her research, she explores creative research as methodology, and the ways that events and objects produce knowledge and activate their audience. Stéfy's creative work takes several forms, such as installation, performance, site-specific, online and technological curatorial projects, new media and experimental photography. Recent exhibitions include "…does it make a sound" at Gallery Stratford; "Park Life" at MalloryTown Landing and Thousand Islands for LandMarks 2017/Repères 2017, "Traces" at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, "ORGANIC SURVEILLANCE: Security & Myth in the Rural" at the Centre for Indigenous Research-Creation and "Hawk Eye View" at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning. She has exhibited solo or group work at Modern Fuel Artist Run-Centre, the Isabel Bader Centre for Performing Arts, the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning, OCAD University, the WKP Kennedy Gallery and White Water Gallery. In 2015, her work Coded, I Am was shortlisted for the Queen's University Research Photo Contest andQueen's University 175 Photo Contest. In 2018, her work Hunting for Prey received an honorable mention for the inaugural Surveillance and Society Art FundPrize.
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Life after Retiring in 2005
To keep one's mind active while getting old, I am told, is a good recipe for fending off Alzheimer's and keeping visits to the doctor's office at bay. What I did not pay enough attention to is the second prescription, namely to keep the body active as well. I compiled a list of publications to show what I have done since retiring in 2005.
2019 - Winter Visiting researcher in the Arab Research Center, Doha Qatar
2014-2016 Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
2012-2014; 2016 Guest Editor of Omran, a refereed social science journal that is published in Arabic by the Arab Research Center in Doha, Qatar (the theme of these issues is surveillance and privacy in the Arab World)
Refereed books:
Israel's Colonial Project in Palestine: Brutal Pursuit, Routledge, London 2016
Coedited with David Lyon and Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory and Power, Routledge, London, 2011.
Coedited with David Lyon, Emily Smith, Lynda Stalker, and Yolnade Chan Surveillance, The Globalization of Personal Data: International Comparisons, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2008
Coedited with Mark Salter, Global Surveillance and Policing: Borders, Security and Identity, Willan Publishing, London, 2005.
"Qatar's Humanitarian Aid to Palestine," Third World Quarterly, Fall 2017, Pp. 1-17.
"Strategies of Surveillance: The Israeli Gaze," Jerusalem Quarterly, No. 66, 2016, Pp. 12-38.
Pending journal publications
"Methodological Issues in the Development of Social Science in the Arab World", to be published in Omran, an Arabic social science journal, January 2020.
"Donald Trump's Punitive Politics and the Palestine Question: A Gaze into his Psychological Makeup and Business Ethics", to be published in The Journal of Holy LAND and Palestine Studies, Fall 2019.
"Settler Colonialism, Neoliberalism and Cyber Surveillance: The Case of Israel", in submission.
Netanyahu's Only Democracy in the Middle East, in preparation.
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I have a PhD in Sociology and MA in Psychology. My training and research are focused in the areas of Health (particularly the social justice, equity and health and illness) Aging and Gender. I am also interested in the human-animal bond and well-being. At a personal level, and in my primary research, I believe that we need to take a stand when we see the need for change. As a result, my research follows my interests and concerns, exploring dynamics of power, inequalities and social justice in understanding the impacts of illness, gender, education, ethnicity and socioeconomic level on various stages of the lifecourse.
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Yolande Chan
Professor Yolande Chan
E. Marie Shantz Professor of IT Management and Associate Dean of Research, PhD and MSc Programs, Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Canada
Yolande E. Chan is Associate Dean (Research & Ph.D.-M.Sc. Programs) and E. Marie Shantz Professor of Information Technology Management, Smith School of Business, Queen's University. A Rhodes Scholar, Dr. Chan's educational background is multifaceted. She holds a Ph.D. from Ivey Business School, Western University, an M.Phil. in Management Studies from Oxford University, and S.M. and S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to joining the Queen's faculty, Dr. Chan worked with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). A gifted educator, Dr. Chan has received the Commerce Teaching Excellence Award and the Commerce Professor Student Life Award -- awarded to the professor who has contributed most to the student life of the graduating class over their four-year term in the Bachelor of Commerce program. She supervises several postdocs and graduate students and is also a recipient of the award for Excellence in Graduate Supervision. Dr. Chan's research focuses on innovation, information strategy, digital strategy, digital capabilities, and business-IT alignment. Dr. Chan's work has been published in numerous academic journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and MIS Quarterly Executive. She serves on several journal editorial boards. Dr. Chan is entered in the Canadian Who's Who, the Who's Who of Canadian Women, and the Who's Who in Canadian Business Directories.
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Jennifer Whitaker
MA Candidate, Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Canada
Jennifer Whitaker entered the MA Sociology program in the fall of 2017 after completing her BA (Honours) the previous spring, also in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University. Under the supervision of Dr. Norma Möllers, her MA thesis focusses on the collection of information for workplace wellness programs and details current health care law and non-discrimination policy in the United States. Jennifer is particularly interested in the technological, ethical and political intersections of surveillance studies and continues to explore these topics in her research.
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Remember all those rumours about back-stabbing and office politics in the highest office of the land? All false. No truth to them whatsoever. None. By the way, did we mention the chief operations officer, Jessie Duarte, will be out the door before June? Totally unrelated, of course.
Funny, that. When the Sunday Times broke the story about Duarte's resignation at the end of February, including a copy of her apparent letter of resignation, the whole thing was denied. There are no divisions within the Presidency, we were told, no fights between her and Lakela Kaunda, who runs Zuma's private office and is reportedly the real power in the Presidency.
The report was alternately called a figment of the Sunday Times' imagination, or a poorly disguised attempt to sow dissent where none existed.
If it was the latter, it was a remarkably successful project. The Presidency is happy to say that Duarte was hugely important in stabilising an institution brought to its knees by infighting and jockeying for position as the Mbeki era drew to a close and Zuma's star rose. Now it won't say why she is leaving. But hey, at least we know it's not because of infighting. Because the Presidency said so.
Whether or not Duarte's ouster will end the squabbles, the Presidency remains staffed by a top management layer that is, at the kindest interpretation, grossly incompetent. And whether or not she is replaced by a more capable technocrat, it would take god-like powers to turn the institution around.


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Fundraiser held for Nicolet sophomore killed in car crash
PLEASANT PRAIRIE -- Friends, family and strangers came together in Pleasant Prairie on Saturday to raise money for the family of Halee Ludowise-Fischer. The 15-year-old was killed in a car accident in Glendale in November, along with her friend, Jenni Geren.
Lisa Anderson, Charlene Nikolai, and scores of others packed the popular Uncle Mike's Top Shelf Pub in Pleasant Prairie on Saturday, not for drinks, but to help friends in need. "We have a group of friends that have stuck together since high school, and we're here to always support each other," Nikolai said. "This is what friendship is. This is what community is about," Anderson said.
Anderson and Nikolai organized a fundraiser that included a raffle and auction, all in an effort to help out the Ludowise-Fischer family, as they try to cover the costs of the funeral for their 15-year-old daughter, Halee. On November 19th, Ludowise-Fischer and her friend, Geren, were killed after Ludowise-Fischer crashed a car into a pole while fleeing from police.
Despite the sadness that surrounded Saturday's event, Halee's aunt, Becky Ludowise hopes people were able to take something positive away from the accident, as well as the fundraiser. "Halee was an amazing girl, and this just puts people together to remember how amazing Halee was. This makes me feel good, because there's many people out there that are remembering Halee. Because of this, Halee's memory will continue to live on. I want people to remember that one person's action doesn't define their life," Ludowise said.
Halee's friends and family were celebrating something known as "The Dash," from a poem read at Halee's funeral. It's about the time between someone's birth and their death, called "The Dash," which they say they are living now.
If you'd like to donate and help Halee's family, PayPal donations can be sent to ang_ferris@yahoo.com. Donations can also be made at any Johnson Bank, under the Halee Ludowise-Fischer Benefit Fund, or by check, made payable to Halee Ludowise-Fischer Benefit Fund, and mailed to 7403 14th Ave. Kenosha, WI 53143. For more information, visit the fundraiser's Facebook page.
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EU Prophecy News: EU Parliament Insists on EU Military Union "without delay"
EU Parliament Insists on EU Military Union "without delay"
This post represents a recent development in end time prophecy as it relates to the EU. This article will make more sense if you check out the overview page as well.
Calls for more "global governance"
You can check out the much shorter press release here.
Why does this matter for prophecy?
As the revived Roman Empire, the European Union needs to have the military ability to wage war in the end times. It also needs to have the capability and authority to be an effective guarantor of Israel's military security during the Antichrist's 7 year treaty (Daniel 9:27 cf. Isaiah 28:15-19; Zechariah 11:17). Finally, the ten kings of the beast must have a common purpose, and finally give their "kingdom" to the beast. This must especially be in the domain of the military, since this handing over of sovereignty takes place in the context of the violent destruction of the end time city named "Babylon." Though the European Union has some ability to act militarily through consensus, the member nations as of yet have not fully handed over their sovereignty ("kingdom") to the EU in that regard.
The 2009 Treaty of Lisbon allows for a group of EU member countries to voluntarily and permanently deepen their cooperation on military matters (PESCO). This is kind of like how the Eurozone works, where only some countries are on the Euro, while others who aren't ready don't have to come along. The Treaty is vague about what PESCO would mean. However, it would have membership requirements, allowing anyone who meets said requirements (such as defense spending) to join.
The Parliament wants to use PESCO as the basis for a truly common defense for the EU. What is so unique about this Parliament resolution is it proposes that PESCO be an "institution" financed by the EU budget. So PESCO is not only just a group of countries cooperating together, but an organization with its own administrative costs as well. This is the most "explosive" aspect of the resolution, according to one parliamentarian in the debate. Another stated it has the potential to create another "bureaucratic monster." The resolution proposes putting EU battlegroups, Eurocorps, a military headquarters, all under the PESCO umbrella.
PESCO and the European Defence Agency (the latter of which already exists), would be "sui generis" institutions, financed by a section in the EU budget. This means that on an EU org chart, they would be off to the side, one-of-a-kind organizations, doing their own thing. This is much like the EU's foreign office (EEAS). Despite repeated reassurances in the resolution to the contrary, some fear that these two organizations would potentially lack oversight from Parliament.
The proposal calls for a new "European Integrated Force" that can be deployed to implement the EU's common policy on defense. Furthermore, it calls for existing military entities, such as the EU Battle groups, Eurocorps and future military headquarters, to be placed under PESCO. The beast needs power to wage war, and this is a step in that direction.
3) Calls for more "global governance."
This is not new, but it remains particularly ominous in light of the other proposals above. The European Parliament would like to improve global governance by reforming the UN Security Council, making it more decisive and less focused on only military aspects.
For those of us familiar with Herb Peters book, Recommendation 666, this resolution has fascinating implications. Recommendation 666 "recommended" that Javier Solana be given the ability to preside over the Political and Security Committee in an emergency. This recommendation eventually turned into council decision 2001/78/CFSP, which ratified those recommendations.
The implications of turning PESCO into an organization are profound. Javier Solana (among others) proposed in his 2015 Report and his 2016 research study that PESCO be the main instrument by which the EU forms a military union. Ever since he used this term, it has been widely used in discussions of EU military integration. The Parliament resolution, mentioned above, insists on the creation of a European Defence Union "without delay." A reading of the proposal shows the tremendous influence Javier Solana has had on the European Parliament in these respects, even as far as very specific proposals are concerned. As I argue elsewhere, Javier Solana is the best Antichrist candidate in the history of the entire world.
This is also a step towards the infamous 7-year covenant the Antichrist makes with Israel (and perhaps many others) guaranteeing their military security. The new "European Defence Fund" (666) will be established for the EU's next 7-year budget. Another European Parliament resolution backing Solana's plan calls for a European Defence Union to be established along the next 7 year period. One of the reasons these politicians cite the need for an EU military union is to "stabilize" the Mediterranean and act as a "security provider" in it's wider neighborhood.
Here, the ten kings unanimously transfer their sovereignty to the Antichrist on a voluntary basis, because they have a "common purpose." This is in context of Babylon's military destruction, so this transfer of sovereignty must at least include the domain of the military. This is what makes PESCO so fascinating. It would be a major transfer of sovereignty in the area of defense. Furthermore, with PESCO, military decisions are made unanimously. In addition, participation in PESCO is completely voluntary, with no nation forced to participate. Finally, the EU wants to use PESCO to form its "common policy" (read: "common purpose") in defense. PESCO is rife with prophetic implications.
PESCO has been an available option within the EU's existing treaty for quite some time, but has not been utilized yet. Recall, Solana began the push for a European Defence Union back in March 2015, suggesting that PESCO be the instrument by which it is accomplished. Since both Solana and PESCO appear to be so prophetically significant, this comes as no surprise that Solana would strongly endorse PESCO as the means for EU to have a common defense.
However, the European Parliament resolution has called for PESCO to not just be a mechanism, but an "institution" as well, like the EU's foreign office. This institution will kind of hover off in no-man's-land on an EU org chart, without much parliamentary oversight. Yet, if it is an organization, it does need oversight from someone, even if that someone is not the European Parliament.
If you've gotten this far in the blog post, I commend your endurance with all of the euro-jargon, which I have tried (perhaps in vain) to simplify to some degree. Nevertheless, the time has come to speculate on a future role for Solana, if he is indeed the Antichrist. That being the case, we have to burrow down into the institutional nitty-gritty of what the Parliament has proposed, what Solana has proposed, what other's propose, etc.
Since Solana is so significant, wouldn't it be nice if he provided us with an org chart on how he thinks EU defense structures ought to work? Thankfully, he already has. Below, you will see a screenshot of how Solana proposes the EU's common defense policy should be set up. This is from page 66 of the giant research paper he wrote for the European Parliament on the topic.
Notice how the legend states that both PESCO and the EU operational headquarters are "proposed new institutions." So here, Parliament is actually following Solana's recommendations when they propose that PESCO be not just a mechanism, but a one-of-a-kind "institution."
Also, note the hierarchical relationships on the org chart. The High Representative is over several institutions, but the PESCO member states organization is above the High Representative and the civilian/military headquarters. This arrangement would seem to confirm suspicions that some MEP's have, in that the PESCO might lack accountability.
A New Chair for Solana?
In his dealings with the EU, Solana is, for the most part, very defense-focused. His former job of High Representative has since been expanded under the Treaty of Lisbon. Even despite Solana's high energy level and frequent travels, the High Representative position seems very physically demanding for anyone in their mid-70's. One basically functions as the Foreign Minister of the EU (Secretary of State in U.S. terms), but without the title. Furthermore, it covers a great many areas, only one of which is defense. Some view the role as over-extended, proposing that the defense responsibilities be allocated elsewhere to ease the burden.
All this to say that the EU High Representative position is a very demanding job. It is possible Solana would re-take the role. However, I think it is much more likely that a Solana comeback would not be based on EU "musical chairs" but on creating an entirely new chair. This would likely come through leadership of PESCO. Nevertheless, it is clear that PESCO will need some kind of leadership since it is going to be an institution. What is less clear is what shape that leadership would take.
In Solana's 2015 pamphlet on European Defence Union, he proposes that the PESCO nations form a "Defence Group" much like there is a "Eurogroup" for the Eurozone countries. The whole report rotates around the theme that defense at the EU level should be structured in the same way the Eurozone is. It also proposes a co-chair person for the Defence Group, along with the EU High Representative.
The Eurogroup is an informal decision making body, containing the finance ministers of each Eurozone member state. While all 28 meet at the economic and financial affairs council, only the Eurozone ministers meet in the Eurogroup, where major decisions are made. The Eurogroup also has an elected President.
In the same way, Solana and European Parliament think that the EU High Representative should chair a Council of Defence ministers of all 28 states. This is similar to how all 28 sit on the economic and financial affairs council. Nevertheless, under the PESCO institution, only the participating members would meet. This would most likely take place through the EDA Steering Board, either via the High Representative as chair, or as Solana proposed, through a co-chair with the High Representative. In this way, PESCO would be similar to a "eurogroup for defence."
How this actually will play out (if at all), remains to be seen. However, it would not be surprising if PESCO chose a "Defence Group" President, just like the Eurogroup President is chosen. One major European Defence Union advocate has pressed for an EU Defence Commissioner, to ease the burden on the High Representative. Another MEP in the debate stated the need for a "European Defense Minister." Interestingly, some in the past have pushed for a "Eurozone Finance Minister" over the whole eurozone, who could veto member states budgets.
Imagine an EU with an European Defense Minister and a Eurozone Finance Minister. In this speculative scenario, we would have an eerie situation in which the EU has two pillars of power: one military and one monetary. This sounds a lot like Revelation 13, with the beast (who has the power to wage war) and the false prophet (who controls the money).
Next Saturday, EU leaders are coming together for the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. That treaty founded the European Economic Community, which eventually formed the basis of what the EU is today. The Treaty of Rome is of prophetic significance (see the overview page, year 1957). At the Rome Summit on March 25th, EU leaders are expected to make a declaration on the future of the European Union. EU Commission President Juncker has prepared a document with 5 choices that the EU can take for its future. Most of the influential countries favor option #3, which is a multi-speed Europe. This again is a European Union based on voluntary consensus, reminiscent of Revelation 17:17.
Defence cooperation is a topic that may be discussed at the Rome summit. In fact, the European Parliament resolution that this blog post is discussing was presented in anticipation of that summit. So it is possible they could come out with another prophetically significant declaration at the Rome Summit. Nevertheless, it's wise not to get one's hopes up too high about summits, since the Council struggles to form any meaningful consensus. Nevertheless, they are expected to revisit the issue of defense on June 9, 2017, in Prague.
I don't know what will happen Saturday, or the coming months for that matter. I am learning that God is not surprised by any twists or turns in the prophetic road. We do not have to "fix" anything for him. (as you all have wisely learned long before I have). The future is inevitable. What God has ordained (or not ordained) cannot be stopped. It is not a matter of "if" but "when.
Peace be to you all. Come Lord Jesus!
I would like to comment on how all of this relates to Recommendation 666, which features very prominently in the prophetic timeline on this website, and originally discovered by author Herbert L. Peters.
In Solana's big research paper for Parliament, he mentions EU defense history and the events surrounding Recommendation 666. He puts it quite explicitly, stating that "In other words, the EU took over the WEU functions." This is why Recommendation 666 is so important, in that the ten kings gave their "power and authority" to the EU beast, under Solana's leadership. This proposal was eventually implemented with Council Decision 2001/78/CFSP, a key portion of which European Parliament recently suggests be changed.
But how, exactly, did the 10 transfer their authority to Solana? A new committee was created, called the "Political and Security Committee" (PSC). The Western European Union had the ability to perform various military operations. Nevertheless, they transferred this function to the European Union, under the newly created PSC. The same 10 delegates that sat on the WEU Permanent Council sat on the newly founded PSC, in addition to the other member states. As High Representative, Solana was given the ability to chair the PSC in an emergency (while in non-emergencies, a deputy of his led the PSC).
The PSC is supposed to exert the "political control and strategic direction" of EU civilian or military operations. This seems to be the precise area that Parliament (and perhaps Solana) want to curtail its power. The EU Parliament wants to amend the document creating the PSC, and desires to interpret its functions more narrowly. When considering his two org charts, it seems Solana may agree with this move.
Notice how the PSC is mentioned in this org chart, but is not mentioned in the other. Although this org chart is more detailed than the proposed org chart (see above), it could be a hint that Solana too sees a diminished role for the PSC in the future. It would seem he would place the decision-making authority in the hands of the EU headquarters and PESCO.
All this to say that Recommendation 666 hasn't lost its significance in prophecy. Recommendation 666 and the decision setting up the PSC as a result, were the means by which the ten WEU nations handed over their authority to the EU beast (Rev. 17:12-13). The ten eventually dissolved into the EU. However, as of yet these ten have not given their "kingdom" to the beast (Rev 17:17), as still defense remains largely intergovernmental. This second half of the prophecy may relate to PESCO, while the first relates to the transfer of the WEU functions to the EU, which happened to take place through the PSC.
personally i think solana is highly regarded and has many who would do the grunt work for him if he got head position again. he could run things from his armchair he has so many of them. i agree with you about pesco. i think it will continue to morph until that top spot is established and i still think he is able to take a command. especially if empowered from below. we'll see.
thanks for the update to the blog with your insights as well as current happenings in this arena.
So sorry it has taken me so long to reply. You are right, if he were to delegate he could take the high representative seat once again, providing the EEAS is functional independent of his direct oversight. It is indeed closing in every day. Thanks for your kind words and prayers. Blessings to you Andre'. Thank you for watching and God bless you too!!
Thanks for watching with me!
Lord n savior Jesus Christ; Yeshua! btw if anyone is interested in the rev. 12 thing, Alan Horvath has great Hebrew word studies on the subject on you tube video and probably at his site as well....Shalom and thank you both,...tony in vt.
Thanks for you kind words Tony and for the video recommendation! May God give us wisdom into the times we are living in and the willpower to act on that wisdom. Thank you for watching!
and i know you continue to watch with us tony and i'm blessed to see your name here! just like the Lord Jesus has told us to do. i'm glad for this site too, because it stays with Scripture to do all comparisons from the Bible's standpoint. exactly what those who love His appearing are to do!
david's latest article is just more of the same. very good insights and information. let's keep praying for the Lord's Wisdom for him and for ourselves, as the prophecies continue to unfold. if ever has been a time to pray, it is now.
I appreciate your prayers and kind words! May God give us insight into the paths we take and what we follow in regards to prophecy. Praise to him!
Great to hear from you James! Welcome to the site! I have since posted more articles on further developments in this general area. However, which parts interested you most? Which parts would you like to hear more about?


What is the Budding Entrepreneurs Programme?
It's another great opportunity to write you my fellow fegocoosians this new year even though it is coming a bit late. It is stating the obvious that the year 2014 was full of challenges. However, champions are made from challenges and difficulties. Congratulations! You are one of the Champions that made it to this New Year.
Talking of Champions, FEGOCOOSA made great strides corporately and on individual basis. Successful events, progress across the chapters globally. Our members won laurels, awards and many made marks in their chosen fields. New births, new families, new business, new horizons. The challenges sure brought out the best in all of us. Like tea bags, we brought out the best in the hot water of 2014.
The YBLN Budding Entrepreneurs Programme is a carefully designed 6-week residential entrepreneurship that trains young people in specific business skills, young individuals with viable business ideas or existing businesses from diverse socio-economic backgrounds will be selected.
Our aim is to create a platform to empower young business minded adults to start their own businesses or further develop or expand an existing business. With the development and success of these businesses, the hope is to have a domino effect of helping other unemployed youths by each business employing at least a minimum of five (5) before December 2017.


A brief outline of the Nuclear Insurance Pools, their history and development, fundamental principles and their raisons d'être.
The development of mankind's facility to utilise the power of the atom and the subsequent emergence of the civil nuclear energy programme in the 1950's presented insurers with two entirely new perils and two separate, but inter-related problems. The perils were those of failure to control the nuclear chain reaction with subsequent damage to the plant itself and of radioactive contamination, the effects of which could not be quantified nor the frequency of losses forecast, but which clearly carried a potentially devastating exposure to claims over a wide geographical area should a serious release of radioactive material occur.
The two resultant problems were how best to provide cover for the emerging nuclear industry in general (nuclear power stations, nuclear fuel enrichment and manufacture, nuclear waste treatment and disposal and also, in certain circumstances, radioisotopes) and, secondly, how to provide protection for the general public without exposing insurers' solvency margins to the potentially catastrophic losses that could arise from widespread radioactive contamination.
the need to amass a substantial cover capacity for the benefit of a limited number of policyholders (even in 2007, only a little more than 400 nuclear power reactors are in operation throughout the world).
In order to provide adequate insurance cover for the operators of the expanding nuclear energy industry, specific measures needed to be taken. By reason of their nature and size, large nuclear risks ( power stations and spent fuel reprocessing plant) have been, from the outset, beyond the resources of any one national market - let alone an individual insurer - to provide cover; clearly, traditional insurance mechanisms were not suited to covering such risks.
The insurance industries of the world have responded to these difficulties by the formation of market-wide national Pools and by the widespread adoption of exclusion clauses in their non-Pool portfolios as a mechanism to harness the greatest possible capacity commitment in support of the nuclear industry. There are now 26 such market Pools, yet even with these it is today still not possible to provide full insurance cover for all nuclear operators' exposure to risk.
Nuclear insurance Pools were established by the major insurance markets of the world during the mid to late 1950's in response to pressure from both Governments and the nuclear industry and have continued to develop in new markets since then.
The risk was unknown and potentially catastrophic and, therefore, would have discouraged most individual insurers from insuring it on their own.
The risks were few in number and neither allowed a sufficient spread to provide a balanced portfolio nor warranted the establishment of individual underwriting departments by each insurance entity wishing to operate in this sphere of business.
The catastrophe nature of the business would have rendered individual insurers vulnerable to unknown accumulations had the business been placed in a conventional manner using normal reinsurance and retrocession treaties.
However unlikely a nuclear catastrophe, should such an event occur, claims handling and settlement procedures would require the support of the whole national insurance market - or, indeed, international markets.
The exchange of common account reinsurance between national pools provides access to the worldwide insurance capacity to those national markets which wish to participate.
When insurers originally agreed to pool their resources to provide cover for the developing nuclear industry in the 1950's the provision of cover was little short of an article of faith.
The risks involved were largely unknown and accumulated risk experience was nil. However, some 50 years of operation have served to justify that expression of faith and, as a result of its excellent safety record, the nuclear industry enjoys as wide an insurance coverage as any other major industry at premium rates as good or better than for any other class of business. This reflects the confidence of insurers in the pooling system, the security of the reinsurance arrangements effected on an inter-Pool basis and the cost-effectiveness of the system: premiums paid by operators to the nuclear Pools are, in effect, virtually pure-premium, since only a very small percentage is utilised to defray operating and administrative expenses.
Channelling of all nuclear liability to the operator installation has emerged as a fundamental principle and has been mirrored in the national liability legislation of non-Convention countries by either legal or economic channelling. Rapid compensation and provision of maximum capacity demand the assurance that only one insurance policy must respond to all claims arising from a nuclear incident in order to avoid the costly and time-consuming investigation and possible litigation on the question of who is ultimately liable for damages.
From the start, Nuclear Pools have liaised very closely with Governments and with the agencies responsible for the Nuclear Liability Conventions - the IAEA in Vienna for the Vienna Convention and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency for the Paris and Brussels Supplementary Conventions. The recent amendments to these Conventions to incorporate far higher limits of indemnity into an expanded scope of cover makes this relationship as important today as when the Conventions were originally drafted and the demands for additional capacity equally acute.
Certain perils carry such a potential to cause devastation that they are not capable of coverage by the private insurance market since the 1930's. Some war risks have been held to be one such category, radioactive contamination is another.
Having taken legal advice in the late 1950's to the effect that the then current policy wording would - as a matter of course - include damage arising from radioactive contamination in the majority of classes, and cognisant that such contamination could result in total policy limits being paid under every contract in an affected area, insurers resolved to protect their solvency by the exclusion of radioactive contamination from those classes where the risk was considered uninsurable.
The Governments of the countries in Western Europe have provided, and are in some cases still providing compensation to the affected population in their territories for contamination arising from Chernobyl, and these amounts alone in total have exceeded by several times the capacity of the nuclear insurance industry, thus reinforcing the view that such compensation can be considered solely for the account of Governments and not for the private insurance industry.
Although by concentrating their coverage on the power-station operators, insurers were able to deploy the maximum possible capacity in support of the new industry and thereby assist government in its promotion of the peaceful use of nuclear power, the decision to exclude the risk of radioactive contamination from the generality of covers had little to do with the formation of the Pool - it was the potentially catastrophic exposure to Insurers' existing portfolios that necessitated the exclusion.
Even in those markets where nuclear Pools have not been established, insurers have found it prudent to exclude radioactive contamination, irrespective of whether or not nuclear power stations have been built in the countries concerned.
It must be understood that the exclusion Clauses usually relate only to ionising radiation or contamination by radioactivity from nuclear fuel or nuclear waste arising from the combustion of such fuel. The clauses do not necessarily apply to other sources of ionising radiation such as radioisotopes, X-ray equipment or particle accelerators which are normally freely insurable in the open market. These lesser sources of radioactivity are of comparatively minor significance and are frequently not classified as nuclear material under the relevant legislation (although this position varies throughout the world); the degree of damage that could be caused is considered to fall within insurers' likely exposure limits for other conventional perils.
The Chernobyl accident has demonstrated that the original fears of Insurers of a catastrophic exposure were well founded and that it is not possible for any domestic market to commit itself to the provision of cover for immeasurable and potentially unlimited compensation.
Pools are free to reinsure their business on a facultative basis mostly with other pools. Where such facultative reinsurance does occur, Nuclear Pools have developed "Standard Rules for the Exchange of Reinsurance between Pools" in order to establish clearly the guidelines for the commonly adopted and accepted practices for the exchange of business. Amendments to these standard rules are possible by bilateral agreement.
Reinsurance Cover Notes have been developed as the documentation for the individual risks which are ceded within the framework of the Standard Rules. Furthermore, there is an obligation for each Pool to produce a "Basis of Operations" document, according to a recommended format which includes the Pool's constitution, the list of its membership, the standard policy wordings of the business which they cede and other useful information such as explanation of terms used in their policy wordings of reinsurance cover notes. These documents are circulated to all Pools with whom business is transacted.
These instruments help to generate the confidence needed to deal with high exposure risks and are therefore to the ultimate benefit of the insured operators.
The risks presented by the civil use of nuclear power are categorised as low-frequency, high-cost events. On the one hand, they demand a deployment of capacity by the insurance market that is greater than in any other sphere of industrial activity, but on the other, the risks themselves are few in number and present an unbalanced portfolio with a scant statistical data basis. Worldwide, nuclear risks generate an overall amount of premium which is disproportionately small in comparison with their political, sociological and economic importance and the size of the risks assumed by insurers. By the formation of net-line Pools, the insurance industries of the world have succeeded in accumulating the maximum available capacity for this class of business. Thus, the Pooling System operates to the benefit of the nuclear industry and ultimately society as a whole.


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Q: How to list all the installed scripts in deno? I had installed some scripts in deno before.
How do I list all the installed scripts in deno ?
Is there any deno subcommand to do this ?

A: All downloaded scripts are stored in
$DENO_DIR/deps

$DENO_DIR varies depending on the OS

*

*On Linux/Redox:  $XDG_CACHE_HOME/deno  or  $HOME/.cache/deno

*On Windows:  %LOCALAPPDATA%/deno  (%LOCALAPPDATA% = FOLDERID_LocalAppData)

*On macOS:  $HOME/Library/Caches/deno  If something fails, it falls back to  $HOME/.deno

You can check the location doing:
deno info

Which will output:
DENO_DIR location: "/home/user/.cache/deno"
Remote modules cache: "/home/user/.cache/deno/deps"
TypeScript compiler cache: "/home/user/.cache/deno/gen"

The file is stored with a hashed name, so if you want to see the URL you'll need to access {file}.metadata.json and check url property.
You can use the following command to list all:
# Change /home/user/.cache/deno/deps with your location
find /home/user/.cache/deno/deps -name *.metadata.json | xargs jq ".url"

"https://deno.land/std@v0.51.0/path/_util.ts"
"https://deno.land/std/path/mod.ts"
"https://deno.land/std@v0.51.0/http/_io.ts"
"https://deno.land/std@v0.51.0/fmt/colors.ts"
"https://deno.land/std/fmt/colors.ts"
"https://deno.land/std@v0.51.0/http/server.ts"
"https://deno.land/std/async/mux_async_iterator.ts"
"https://deno.land/std/testing/diff.ts"

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Abby accepted that she can't measure up to her beautiful, magnetic sister Tess a long time ago, and knows exactly what she is: Second best. Invisible. Until the accident. Now Tess is in a coma, and Abby's life is on hold. It may have been hard living with Tess, but it's nothing compared to living without her. She's got a plan to bring Tess back though, involving the gorgeous and mysterious Eli, but then Abby learns something about Tess, something that was always there, but that she'd never seen. Abby is about to find out that truth isn't always what you think it is, and that life holds more than she ever thought it could... - Goodreads.com.
I'm in love. This book was fantastic. I have always been a fan of this author, and I have never read a book of hers that I did not absolutely love. But this book is special.
Aside from the awesome characterization that made the Abby, Claire and Eli so real, their struggles and inner thoughts so vivid, this book was just beautifully written. The words were poetry and everything fit together so well that it felt like no time at all before I was finishing the book and wishing there was more.
Abby's issues very well could have caused her to come across as whiny and self-pitying, but the way Elizabeth Scott handled this character kept her from becoming that. She had an inner strength despite her insecurities. Eli was a beautiful character, both inside and out. He was described as being a beautiful, gorgeous boy in the book, but as you got to know him, you realized that the surface was nothing compared to the inside. The way these two interacted was so touching.
I can't wait for this book to come out so that I can buy it and add it to my collection. This is one I have to own for myself and reread again and again. Five stars isn't enough. This book is beautiful.


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Over 15,000 rescission signatures have been submitted to the City Clerk in Moreno Valley by residents requesting that their names be removed from a referendum petition launched with the goal of overturning three city-adopted initiatives in support of the World Logistics Center.
Residents who petitioned the City Clerk request that their names be withdrawn from the referendum against the Moreno Valley City Council's approval of The World Logistics Center land use and zoning initiatives, approved on November 24, 2015.
"We feel that the out-of-town proponents of the referendum have deceived our residents. First, as it turns out, all the referendum proponents are out-of-town special interests hiding behind a handful of local NIMBYs looking to sue the city for profit and gain or to advance their own interests to the detriment of Moreno Valley taxpayers. Not a single dollar spent on the referendum came from Moreno Valley residents. Most troubling is that they mislead residents to believe that the referendum will place the World Logistics Center itself on the ballot for approval by the voter - that is a complete falsehood. The referendum was specifically designed by out-of-town special interests to enable them to sue the city for their own gain, costing residents millions of dollars and thousands of jobs. I ask you. What city in their right mind would ever ask their residents to sign a petition to allow outside special interests to sue them? They must think we are fools," said Robert Harris, a member of the Moreno Valley Job Coalition.
"Moreno Valley residents continue to make it clear that they want the city to move forward with the World Logistics Center (WLC) project as quickly as possible, creating jobs, hope and opportunity for thousands of residents. As we have seen time and again, residents overwhelmingly support the World Logistics Center. Sadly, out-of-town special interests want to use the courts to force the residents and the city to conform to their own interests and agendas. By raising unsubstantiated environmental claims, they seek to delay the creation of 22,000 permanent jobs and 13,000 brand-new construction jobs in Moreno Valley. Unfortunately, CEQA allows anyone to make unsubstantiated environmental claims and use the courts, at hardy no cost to them, even if they lose, to delay or stop much needed and beneficial projects in California communities. We are hoping that we can all move forward with the business of creating jobs and opportunities for Moreno Valley and the region," said Iddo Benzeevi, President & Chief Executive Officer of Highland Fairview.
A voter who has signed an initiative, referendum, or recall petition pursuant to the Constitution or laws of this state shall have his or her signature withdrawn from the petition upon filing a written request therefor with the appropriate county elections official or city elections official prior to the day the petition is filed.
The WLC will create 13,000 brand new construction jobs and 22,000 permanent jobs at all skill levels from entry to high-level management. WLC means many Moreno Valley residents can leave their long commutes behind and take new jobs right here at home. That means more family time, less money spent on gasoline and car maintenance, less tedious driving, traffic jams and automobile emissions. As an important and related benefit, the WLC will generate $27 million a year in new local tax revenues which will pay for high quality, vital city services, especially police, fire, library, and parks.
The City Council initially approved the project and its related environmental documents. Subsequently, opponents of the WLC tried but failed to qualify a referendum to overturn the City Council's initial approval. Supporters, in turn, obtained over 48,000 signatures to qualify measures to affirm and support the City Council decision to approve the WLC project.
An extensive Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that runs more than 10,000 pages and took over three years to complete was created for the project and circulated publically. The EIR analyzes in great detail every applicable environment impact related to the construction and operation of the WLC and concludes unequivocally that this project is an environmental winner for our community. In fact, the WLC's 2,600-acre footprint will be one of the most sustainable developments of its kind, anywhere. WLC will employ the latest innovations in environmental design, water conservation, diesel and other goods movement related technologies that exceed current regulatory standards. Moreover, the project will comply with all the requirements of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and all other applicable State and Federal regulations.
Highland Fairview is a privately held real estate development company specializing in large scale Industrial, Commercial, and Residential developments. The company is currently engaged in the development of world-class projects encompassing over 41 million square feet of buildings and facilities. In the Inland Empire region of Southern California, the Company is known for their 1.8 million square foot building which serves Skechers North American Operations Headquarters. This facility has been honored as the largest LEED Gold Certified building of its kind in the nation to ever have been awarded this distinction by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).


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「大草原の小さな家」のスター、カレン・グラッスルが飲酒に率直になります, マイケル・ランドンと和解する
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The actress recently wrote a 伝記 タイトル "明るい光, プレーリーダスト: 人生についての考察, 損失, リトルハウスの馬からの愛。" where she detailed her upbringing and struggles with alcoholism as well as the alleged troubled relationship she had on set with her former co-star and boss Michael Landon. He played her on-screen husband, Charles Ingalls.
Former co-stars didn't immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment regarding the allegations made in Grassle's book about Landon.
Despite their ups and downs, Grassle insisted she made peace with the actor before he passed away in 1991 年齢で 54 from pancreatic cancer.
'LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE' STAR CHARLOTTE STEWART RECALLS DAYS WITH JIM MORRISON, ELVIS AND BILL MURRAY
Karen Grassle has written a book titled "明るい光, プレーリーダスト: 人生についての考察, 損失, リトルハウスの馬からの愛。" (Courtesy of Karen Grassle)
Grassle, 79, spoke to Fox News about writing her book now, and what it was like bringing the beloved series to life, as well as the moment she realized it was time to get sober.
フォックス・ニュース: What inspired you to write this memoir now?
Karen Grassle: This book has taken years and years. I started after I moved here to the Bay Area. I was semiretired and I didn't have as many friends as I did in Los Angeles. All of these memories began to surface. So I started writing them down. I thought that maybe one day, my son would be interested to read them.
And I just kept writing. And the truth is, I had to let my guard down. I'm quite a private person. So I had to be willing to share a lot of my vulnerabilities about my family, my alcoholism, the trials that I went through doing "Little House." A lot of things that I've never really discussed publicly. But it felt freeing. And I'm glad that I did it.
Karen Grassle (左) with her mom backstage during a theatrical performance. (Courtesy of Karen Grassle)
フォックス・ニュース: It's been said that you got the role of Caroline Ingalls at a very crucial point in your life. Is that true?
Grassle: Very. I was so broke and so discouraged about my career. 私が考えていた, "I better go back to school and learn to do something else." And I couldn't figure out how in the world I was going to pay to go back to school. I had friends in Los Angeles who were doing television. I saw what they were getting paid. So I thought, "I'll try to get some TV work." I thought it could help me pay my way to go back to school. So my agency started sending me on auditions. And I think it was two or three months later when I got the call about this new series called "Little House on the Prairie."
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フォックス・ニュース: But you initially weren't a fan of your character?
Grassle: Oh sure. When I first read the script, 私は思った, "ああ, she's kind of a downer. She's prudish." I hadn't read the books, so I had a lot of catching up to do. And there wasn't the same kind of research about the Ingalls that we have today. So I got the work. But as I started doing the role and interacting with the children, I gained a new perspective for my character. She's a woman who's so brave and loyal heading into the wilderness with her little girls. She wanted to create a better life for them. I began to experience the nobility of the character and what she truly represented.
フォックス・ニュース: Michael Landon, 今日まで, is still viewed as a beloved father figure.
Grassle: And he earned that image. He was one of the favorites on television and had one of the longest careers. He created this show and we're still talking about it today, ほぼ 50 数年後. He deserves a tremendous amount of credit for that.
Karen Grassle said she initially wasn't impressed by the role of Ma. (Courtesy of Karen Grassle)
フォックス・ニュース: But you also witnessed a completely different side to him.
Grassle: We all worked really hard. I didn't think it was all that tough because we were all worker bees. There was nobody on that set who was slacking around. Where it really got tough for me was when it was time for the second season. If you were on a hit series, it was common to renegotiate your contract based on its popularity. Michael did not want to give me a raise. He began to diminish my part, my value.
I was a professional. I had just done a year of Shakespeare in England. I had been on Broadway. I really liked the children and I built a good relationship with them. You don't get that with everybody. So I felt that I had some value. And I stuck to my guns. This went on for months and months. I think it went on over a year where I didn't say, "I'm sick and I can't come in to work." I made the decision that I would show up to work and do my job every day. But it was tough because people knew he was annoyed with me. And he showed it in many ways. So I had to go through that. But I also didn't want to give up on myself. I worked hard to become the actress I was.
フォックス・ニュース: Why do you think Michael Landon was so hesitant to give you a raise?
Grassle: 知りません. And to my dying day, I will never really understand why he dug his heels and refused as he did. After a year and a half or so, I did get an excellent contract that was appropriate for the time. It meant a lot to me, but I paid a heavy price for it. I just wanted a fair wage.
Karen Grassle alleged that Michael Landon didn't want to give her a raise despite the show's success. (Courtesy of Karen Grassle)
フォックス・ニュース: How did that impact your relationship with him on set?
Grassle: It was so hard to go to work and know he was annoyed with you. You could cut the tension with a knife. And you felt he was probably saying things about you behind your back. He had a sense of humor and if he wanted to make fun of you, 男の子, you were skewered. He was very clever. I didn't know what was going to happen. But I kept going to work.
フォックス・ニュース: You worked on stages and sets before the #MeToo era. What was your experience like with sexism in the workplace?
Grassle: I was very lucky in a way because by the time I got to New York, I had already trained in England. I was already a professional. A lot of young women arrived in New York or Los Angeles with very little experience. They became very, very vulnerable. But I did not have a problem with anyone ever assaulting me or anything like that. If somebody made an inappropriate pass, I learned long before how to pretend that I didn't notice that they were doing it or to laugh it off.
What happened at the "Little House" set was… Mike decided to humiliate me while we were doing the scenes in the bed. This was so awful for me. This was so unbearable and I just tried to get through it. ええと, he made these terrible jokes about the female anatomy, made a woman's body parts sound so disgusting. I just sat there with all these men standing around laughing at his jokes and I couldn't do anything. We didn't even have a word for sexual harassment.
'KUNG FU' STAR RADAMES PERA EXPLAINS WHY THE SERIES ENDED, WHAT 'LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE' WAS LIKE
Karen Grassle was candid about her battle with alcoholism. (Courtesy of Karen Grassle)
フォックス・ニュース: You were also very candid about your struggles with alcoholism. When did you first realize that you needed to get help?
Grassle: I resisted help for a long time. I tried to keep everything under control for a long time. I did not realize the extent to which my alcohol problem was playing a negative part in my life, but this is very common… The one thing [alcoholics] don't want to do is not drink. We think of many rationalizations for why things are going bad in our lives. But we don't want to look at the key item. That seems to be how the disease works.
My friend Toni, who I've known since we were 7 年, confronted me and told me I needed help. There was no way for me to wriggle out of it. She knew me… I couldn't fight the truth of what she was saying. After our conversation, it just took one more bad night where I fought with a friend – a very dear friend of mine.
Karen Grassle said her friend Toni helped her realize that she needed to get clean. (Courtesy of Karen Grassle)
I went home sobbing full of self-pity. I felt everything in my life was wrong and everyone was turning against me. 翌朝, I woke up and said, "I must never take another drink, no matter what happens." I did think that my life would fall apart. I thought I might lose my job. I definitely might lose my boyfriend. I thought I was never going to go to a nice restaurant again. How can you go to a nice restaurant and not drink? How can you go get Mexican food and not have a beer? I thought my life was over. But it was such a blessing.
フォックス・ニュース: It seems like you were a high-functioning alcoholic.
Grassle: そうそう. I'm glad you brought that up. My dad was the same too. He went to work every day. He worked hard. He paid his bills. And alcoholism killed him.
'LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE' STAR ALISON ARNGRIM SHARES MEMORIES OF CO-STARS STEVE TRACY, MICHAEL LANDON
私のために, I got up every day with a terrible hangover. I went to work, I pulled myself together, I worked hard and I concentrated all day long. And when they said, "That's a wrap," I either took a drink from the prop table or had one when I got home and started again. I thought I was under control because I was working. I hadn't lost my job. It gave me even more rationale for continuing the way I was.
Karen Grassle said she got sober in 1977. (Courtesy of Karen Grassle)
フォックス・ニュース: When did you get sober?
Grassle: そうだった 1977 六月に. It's so meaningful because everything changes from that day. I looked at life in an entirely new way. I was able to truly discover who I was and what I wanted in life. And boy, it was a lot of work. And it was all worth it.
フォックス・ニュース: Do you remember the last time you spoke to Michael Landon?
Grassle: そうそう, 結構. I wrote him a letter just to say hello and catch him up with what was going on in my life. He wrote me back the nicest note. I remember he said, "Give me a call so we can discuss the old times before we forget them."
So I did give him a call. He told me about his family. We had a nice chat about some of the people we worked with. But we mended fences. And I just felt there was a lot of forgiveness from both sides. We were remembering the better parts of our relationship. And I was so grateful for that because it was a very short time after that Mike was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.
'LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE' ACTRESS WENDI LOU LEE SAYS SHE RELIED ON GOD TO HELP HER FACE BRAIN TUMOR
Karen Grassle said she made peace with Michael Landon before his death. (Courtesy of Karen Grassle)
フォックス・ニュース: It's good to hear that the both of you made peace before he passed away.
Grassle: ええと, we established a very nice working relationship in the first year. And after the contract got settled, we had a lot of good days, あまりにも. Lots of laughs. Lots of scenes where we played together and enjoyed each other's talents… He was perhaps more human. He was very complicated and came from a difficult childhood. So I think for a person who comes to the table with a lot of issues and somehow be able to turn that into a creation that serves other people deserves a lot of credit.
フォックス・ニュース: Today you're recognized as one of TV's most beloved moms. How do you feel about that title?
Grassle: I feel honored. I based the character mostly on my mother. And I didn't realize until later how much people truly love this character. I initially didn't understand the depths of people's affections for her. But people still reach out to me and express how much they love her. It's been very gratifying. And I'm awfully lucky.
candid, 取得, Grassle, 家, カレン, 降下する, リトル, マイケル, peace, Prairie', sobriety, 星
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CNNのワンダーセオリーサイエンスニュースレターにサインアップする. 魅力的な発見に関するニュースで宇宙を探索, 科学的進歩など. これまで知られていなかったタイプのタランチュラがタイで発見されました。.
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女優イヴェット・ミミュー, 「タイムマシン」のスター,' で死んだ 80
ミミューは、ロッド・テイラーの反対側で主演したことで最もよく覚えられている多作の女優でした 1960 ジョージパル監督のH.Gの映画版. ウェルズ小説 "タイムマシン" MGMで, 彼女はすぐに長期的に置かれました。.
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What Is Death And Who Can Defeat It?
In Scripture we find two meanings to death, and the first one is the absence of life of the physical body, a body that has been defeated by mortality that is entered into a phase of corruption to return to dust (physical death).
The second meaning of death is that of spiritual death or state of being separated from the Spirit of God, being disconected so that the person can not discern the things of God of which he is totally unawares as a natural man (1 Cor 2:14). We are born disengaged from the Spirit of God (the first death) so that we do not seek after God (Rom 3:11), being under the sin of Adam from whom we all descend as sinful by nature. This is not of any inherited "original sin" a topic that we have before covered in an article and have argued that the Jews in Moses and the Prophets never taught such a thing that contradicts Scripture in the first place (Ez. 18:20). And it serves only to grant power over the laity to a class of priests/religious, said to have such power to wash sin away by virtue of their human ordination via a ritual/ceremony, and nothing is further from the truth.
Frequently the person who is yet unsaved is said to be walking on the wide road following the ways of the world, and depicted as going with the crowd and falling into the fires of hell, but the image does not intend to say that as he travels on that road and as he hears the (universal) call of God, that if he is willing, he too can come to be saved. Salvation will not be denied to anyone willing to enter into a love relationship with the God of creation.
There are no other ways to describe death other than physical death and spiritual death. And in order to write about death one needs to study what is life and to do that one needs to know what we are in essence as humans, for we are not just flesh and blood but soul and spirit. In that we are more that just made of dust in our physical being which our body is but a tabernacle for our soul/spirit, we make references as to the body and to the spiritual part. This the Bible does, and most specifically in the New Testament where the word 'spirit' is frequently used for our spiritual part. The Spirit instructs us, as written by the author of Hebrews, of the indisolubility of the soul-spirit, for nothing can separate the soul form its spirit, but the word of God, " For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" (Hebrew 4:12). It is the spirit that vivifies the soul, but the natural man or he that is still separated from God (1Cor 1:14), by his spirit can not know the things freely given to us by God (1 Cor 1:12). The natural man is the man that can only discern life and the world by the senses, but the spiritual man is one that is now born from above and in communion with God, able to receive that which God communicates. For at the hearing of the gospel which is the message and the power of God unto salvation, if his heart is willing (whosoever will come), the natural man too can respond, and the Father will grant him the repentance that he needs to turn from the world ( Acts 11:18 Rom 2:4 2Tim 2:25) and the faith he needs to trust in the Saviour (John 6:29, Phil 1:29, Rom 12:3).
It is Jesus Christ's will to make him a Christian (John 1:12,13) for he will not lose any that are given him by the Father John 6:39) and is given to him to pass from death to life (John 5:24, 1 John 3:14). This means that he has passed from being spiritually dead (separated or unawared of the things of God) to being alive or born again (the first resurrection is a spiritual resurrection). And notice that the soul/spirit are so tightly woven together that it rests only on the sword of the Spirit, the word of God, to separate one from the other. How come some teach that the spirit goes to heaven while the soul remains on the earth, in the grave, in soul sleep? Did Jesus Christ teach soul sleep when he taught us the account of Lazarus and the Rich Man in Luke 16, who after death both went to separate holding places in Hell, Abraham's Boosom for Lazarus and hell proper for the Rich Man? Were their souls sleep? And how can physical death separate the soul from the spirit of a man when the Scriptures say that only the word of God can do this? Soul sleep is an unbiblical teaching.
A picture that I saw is so beautiful that I thought I would download and show it as a similitude of the new birth (born again or born spiritually of the Holy Spirit). [Credit to the artist who took the picture of such magnificent scenery.] This 'new life' of the spirit of man is what the Bible refers to as the basis for the first resurrection (a spiritual resurrection) for those who have been spiritually resurrected are the participants of the the bodily resurrection in glory (Rev 20:5,6), a resurrection unto life (John 5:29). In contrast those who are not willing to come to have a love relationship with God remain spiritually dead, that is remain spiritually separated or unconnected to God. These are the ones that Jesus Christ described as coming to a resurrection unto damnation (John 5:29): 'that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.' (Acts 24:15). The unjust are the ones without the spiritual birth, and of these it is written that they will appear after the millennium is over, before the great white throne judgment and is said of them, "And I saw the dead, small and great......."meaning that at their bodily resurretion they are called the dead, for they are spiritually dead and will suffer the second death. So the first death is the first separation from God, inherited from Adam and Eve, and does not refer to the death of the body. And while all the just of the first 6 millennia will resurrect with a body of glory to enter the Millennial Kingdom, none of the unjust will resurrect till this period of 1000 years is over. The saints of the Millennium will not die but will be changed to a glorious body at the end of the 1000 years.
The unjust will not live again bodily until they are raised to enter into the Great White Throne Judgment (Rev 20:5) and stand before God (all humans will bodily resurrect, John 5:28). These are called the dead (Rev 20:12-14) for they remain spiritually dead or unconnected to God by the Spirit and can not receive the light of life. Their inglorious bodies will be given up by the sea, by death and hell and they will be judged according to the books, their names being absent (erased) from the Book of life of the Lamb for they never trusted God and the Lamb. And when judged by the books of deeds, again these will be found wanting (lacking, falling short) for by the works of the law no flesh will be justified in his sight (Rom 3:20). These will suffer their second death or eternal separation from God, out of a relationship once again, to be thrown into the lake of fire, together with death and hell. None will enter the 8th day of God, the new beginning in the eternal state, nor will there be any more need for hell and death given that only the just in righteousness will be there.
Let us read it "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die" (Gen 2:17). This intriguing verse has caused much confusion as many have asked why did God not take the life of Adam and Eve after that they sinned according to the requirement of the prohibition extended? But dear reader or dear brother/sister in Christ, he did! Note that this verse speaks of death, the subject matter we are speaking about and a much sought out question in internet searches, with nearly 1.3 billion visitors in general. God did act as he said he would. But one may ask, did Adam not live about 930 years after the transgression? Yes, he did live that long and others lived longer as Mathuselah who lived 969 years. What gives or whom shall we call? We shall call on Peter, in his second epistle and chapter 3, where he writes the inspired words of the Holy Spirit that add the information needed. Peter wrote: But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day (2 Pet 3:8, Hosea 6:2).
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: (Eccl 8:8). Solomon makes this verse of Scripture very clear, that no man can keep his spiritual part from leaving his body on the day of his death, and that is the biblical definition of physical death, when the spirit of the man leaves his body. Our Lord Jesus Christ was not killed but he released his spirit once the salvation sacrifice was done, when he said, "it is done" and commended his spirit (spiritual part) to the Father. His body (Hebrews 10:5) did not see corruption nor would have for he was not of the seed of Adam but of the seed of the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:35) but our bodies do see corruption and return to dust as is written: ...till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return (Gen 3:19). For the body of man is no better than the bodies of the beasts as we are taught: 18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. 19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. 20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. 21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? (Eccl 3:18-21) These verses are packed with much substance, but there is still more in Ecclesiastes.
Note that it says that our bodies are not better that the bodies of animals/beasts, in that they are earthy, of dust and at death corruption sets in so that eventually it will all be dust. And it says that the spirits of these beasts also goes downward for it is earthly, but the spiritual part of man goes upward back to where it came from. This may shock the sensibilities of the environmentalist movement that believe that we are no better in any way than the lower animals (of the earth). How is that that we go upward in our spirit part, one may ask? Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it (Eccl 12:7). The soul/spirit of man comes from God, not the earth, and at death returns to God who gave it. So our spiritual part (soul-spirit) has a divine origin (not a divine nature!) given that as God says we were created in his image (same character) and likeness (same appearance). A big and, have all one breath, which means that we each live but one physical life, not many, not hundreds, as if we were recyclables stuffed into earthy bodies of men and beasts! Forget re-incarnations, previous lives and works till we save ourselves in perfecting our own lives, in never ending processes, eternally! When this life is over, no one has the power to create or build or produce another life for himself for "as it is appointed unto men once to die but after this, the judgment" (Hebrew 9:27). It says one life, one life human that is, and no more chances, for the days of a man are numbered in the book of life even from before the first comes to pass (Ps 139:16). Eternal immortal life is for God to give and not for man or any other creatures to promise in deception, like Satan does. The Bible has a knack for making liars out of people so no wonder these hate the Book who opposes their nonsense and exposes their agenda.
And read again the quoted verse Ecclesiastes 8:8, which is very telling: man has no power in the day of death and neither is he able to retain his spirit (soul/spirit). How is it that some believe that at death they will be able some day to keep their spiritual part, call it the inward man, in another tabernacle: another body created synthetically or even placed in some sort of a computer or even generate a new body to indwell by direct genetic manufacturing. Many have dreamed of being the captains of their ships but die nevertheless the same as the rest, some in dejection and total desperation for they did not find in the end a way of repentance (turning around). How do these plan to make an earthy body an immortal one given the curse in the garden?
Jesus promised to give us a body of glory like his, but there is no clue as to how to invent immortality for eternal life. And the Bible has prophecies that have come to pass and others yet to pass but in every ocassion without error, the prophecies were fulfilled as predicted, with 100% accuracy. No one has power at death to keep his spirit so that when death comes, his spiritual part will return to God for judgment, (Hebrews 9:27) no matter what anyone thinks he/she will do. Not even the wiz gamblers will bet against insurmountable odds. And we are not finished with Solomon for by him it is written about riches: As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand (Eccl 5:15). Man comes into the world naked, empty handed and he likewise will leave empty handed, not even hand luggage will be allowed on the return flight. So Solomon who calls himself in this epistle the Preacher (Eccl 1:1) says that all is vanity, emptiness, weariness of spirit, when all has an inevitable end and incurably evil man must live in an insane and unjust world that flocks to anarchy without God, and comes to the conclusion of the matter: fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man! This is the reason for life: first to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness, (Matt 6:33), that is to first seek to answer his call and you will have life, eternal life and will not have to worry about death. Revised 12/6/2014; refurbished 1/21/2015.
Reports of near death experiences are flurishing in these last days that Jesus warned us were going to be marked by deception, 'take heed that no man deceive you' (Matt 24:4). Effort is being consumed in organizing, promoting, expanding and publicising these individual reports into a body of knowledge that insists that personal experiences of dying are valid, consistent and must represent reality and thus worthy of being believed. Many Christians have taken the time to review these reports and have noted that not only these contradict Scripture in one and many places, and that these all have a near identical and non-biblical spine to the pages of their narratives. Most if not all the cases involve people that in one way or another, to one degree or another, have indulged into the investigation of matters of the occult or matters of spirit beings, or their parents have. God sternly warns not to seek knowledge or power by delving with demonic entities, for not only these will affect the person but will pass it on generationally to the 3rd or 4th generation (Ex 20:5).
Yet this is promoted continuously on television under the guise of detecting poltergaist (unclean spirits that have taken over a house or property) as being the spirits of dead people. The Scripture in the account of King Saul and Samuel summoned from the dead by the witch of Endor makes it clear that the spirits of the dead humans were confined in their place and are not roaming around. Or the television speak of 'psychics', the cleaned and revised term used for mediums or spiritists of the past, of those in contact with the world of the demons. Demons are the unclean spirits of the progeny that resulted from the mating of the sons of God (angels that left their first state, their first habitation of Jude 9 to mate with the daughters of men), the product of rebellion against God's pattern to pro-create after its kind. These progeny (the Nephillim) died at the Deluge in which only Noah and his family survived in the ark, whose spirits are earthly and do not return to God who did not authorize them, and roam around the earth though most of the most wicked are in the bottomless pit (Rev 9). Demons lie, deceive, oppress, influence, control and cause the deaths of people, they have been around for centuries, communicate constantly and know the lies to tell mixed in with sufficient truth to be believable by most, especially by those not grounded on the truths of the bible.
The accounts of near death are uncannily similar in their description of the death experience which may have been as a consequence of an accident or organ failure (heart attack) or something else. These report floating or hovering over their bodies while they hear the voices and see the actions of those working on their dying bodies from which they are now detached. Many report going via a dark tunnel that proceeds to very bright lights and at which they arrive and find waiting family, friends and acquaintances that had died before them and are very happy to see them. The dying ones are assured that death is not final but the beginning of a new and greater life and is not about judgment nor retribution nor justice, but a placid advance to a superior state of being. Figures like Jesus are there to review their flashing life reel before their eyes, including their errors and mistakes but no condemnation is expressed. The location is so pleasant and the enviroment and the joy of knowing that death is not the end of all things nor the door to judgment that when they are called back to their bodies they have a desire not to return but to stay. After their return and recovery these find it necessary to tell others and proclaim the non-death of death. At every step these are denials of the truths of Scripture, over and over again.
Upon investigating the pre-death lives of these groups, evidences surface of a history of having been interested in the occult, participated actively or passively in seances, engaged in spirit contacts of the dead via psychics, played with ouiga boards seeking spirit answers or palm reading or tarot card readings. These and many more, too long to count, is the list of the activities that God sternly warns to avoid for these lead to demonization and idolatrous practices, for by these the door locked to the spirits is unlatched so that on opening is provided and through which one is allowing or authorizing these spirits to come in. Yoga as practiced in hinduism, looking to empty oneselve to find the god within, summoning the uncoiling of the kundalini serpent power at the base of the spine to rise to open up the third eye in the mind that gives the practioner awareness of his godhood, of being an emanation of great Bramman of which all exists, for all is one and one is all. For now it is enough to give an idea that these near death experiences have a common demonic underguirding that plants deceitful ideas of the death experience and of the other side of the ledger of death so that people lose their fear of dying in their sins and minimize their need to believe in the Saviour.
Many of the top listed articles or website pages are either written by buddhists that explain their concept of death based on their religious metanarrative, or come from those who believe in soul sleep as the truth about death or even the death of the soul. When the foundation is faulty the rest of the conclusion is too. Take for example the proponents of the death of the soul in the exegesis of Ez 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die. All souls sin, for we are children of Adam so that this would mean that every human soul at death dies too, 100%. What this verse says is that repeated in Rom 6:23a 'the wages of sin is death' or the consequence that sin brings is death. Next, where this article fails again in is the mistaken understanding of the use of the word soul in the Old Testament, which was used to indicate a living person. [Abram said to his half-sister and wife Sarah, ' Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee (Gen 12:13) and he is talking about staying alive]. So if in a battle 300 die it is said that 300 souls were killed. It does not imply the death of the souls of individuals (Josh 10:30), but physical death. In the New Testament the word 'spirit' is used more often to denote the spiritual part of man, (the soul/spirit) the part that is not physical.
We are going to do a bible word search ( I will do it for you) to look at the most salient points in the Bible to establish the meanings God intends for us to have so that we can have clarity of thinking and not only avoid the pitfalls some have gotten into and then promote, but to get is right so that Scripture can be absorbed smoothly. We will do several and start now with SOUL.
12 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. [music to the ear; he did it all. Note that here the word soul is used for his life, his body, as is typically used in the Old Testament].
Conclusions on the use of the word Soul in the Bible: of the 498 verses reviewed, the great majority referred to soul as a life, a living person, one physically alive, and not to the spiritual element of the person. From the beginning we have thus learned that the spiritual part of man comes from God and that redemption comes by blood of an innocent life (Jesus the Messiah, who redeems our souls). God too has a soul and we can grieve his soul but we ought to love him with our all, including our soul. The marriage vows includes the souls of the couple. Death occurs when the soul leaves the physical body. God creates all souls, has all authority over each and determines when the soul is called back to God for all souls belong to him. The soul of the Redeemer did not stay in hell after his resurrection nor his body saw corruption. But every man will see death, taste it firsthand or at the rapture be changed in the twinkling of an eye. The soul of man forms an indisoluble unit with the spirit of man (Heb 4:12) and on many occasions the word soul or the word spirit are used in the sense of the spiritual part of man. When God recalls the spiritual part both soul/spirit return to him (Eccl 12:7). Man is not to offer the soul of his firstborn for his sins but God did, to save all souls from our sins (he gave his firstborn Son, first as in importance, preeminence and position, not a created being).
This endeavor has been one of the most rewarding for me to do for in reading 523 entry verses using BibleGateway as the search engine in the KJV, I realized several things of great importance. The first one is how often the Holy Spirit is mentioned in the Old Testament, in several dozen verses such that the Godhead or Trinity doctrine has an anchor so strong that it would be undeniable to those who read about it. Having said that it is not surprising that Judaism denies such a doctrine for it is based on the Talmud, the writings of the Rabbis about the OT as they understand it so that it is a book of human tradition and not the word of God. Jesus Christ chastised the Pharisees for making their traditions more important than Scripture such that in essence they nullified the commandments of God. The word spirit(s) is often used to denote malevolent spirit entities, demons that cause many infirmities and influence/control a human given over to their manipulations. Spirit is also used of the inner quality or animating disposition of a person (spirit of sorrow), but most often it is uses to speak of the spiritual part of man, their soul/spirit elements, but using the words spirit or soul alone to describe that which is not material. Hebrew 4:12 again is a very forceful verse that leaves no doubt of the tight unit that these two, soul and spirit form, a unit divisible only by the quick and powerful word of God, which is not physical in substance. And we saw in the segment before the example of Elijah's prayer over a dead child, how he asked God to return his spirit (spiritual part) to him to raise him from the dead. So death by biblical definition is the separation of the physical body from the soul/spirit of the person, that 'goeth upward' (Eccl 3:21) to 'return unto God' (Eccl 12:7). Now let us look at what the Bible says in a more moderate number of verses, about "spirit".
A subpage of this page will be used to address the meaning of darkness, shadow, the shadow of darkness, light and other such words that when once defined as the bible uses them then whole topics can be placed in understandable perspectives.


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Home Supply Management News & Reports News & Publications Inside Supply Management Magazine Blog 2021 2021-05 ISM World 2021: Empowering Women in Supply Management
ISM World 2021: Empowering Women in Supply Management
By Sue Doerfler
Women in supply management commonly face four challenges, leadership coach Shami Anand has found: (1) navigating a male-dominated field, (2) a changing perception of the function, (3) building a strong talent pipeline and (4) reclaiming time for self.
The themes emerged during interviews with women supply management leaders that Anand (pictured above), founder of Power Your Impact, LLC., a company designed to help women elevate their leadership impact in supply management, conducted. During "The Voice of Women in Supply Management," a live seminar presented Thursday during the ISM World 2021 Annual Conference, Anand led a panel of six women in diverse supply management roles who discussed how their careers and lives have been impacted by the four themes. She also shared comments from the women she interviewed.
Navigating a Male-Dominated Field
Common issues: unconscious bias internally and externally, and the perception that women aren't tough negotiators.
Mercedes Romero, chief procurement officer at Primo Water Corporation, recalled her first big negotiation with a supplier, in which she was the lead. She was the only woman in the negotiation group. Assuming she was an assistant, the supplier told her to sit in the back. "He said, 'You can take notes better there,' " Romero recalled. So, she sat in the back. "When the meeting started, he asked where Mr. Romero was. And I said, 'I am here.' The power of that negotiation totally shifted to my side."
Romero's advice: Take that power with you.
Charlotte de Brabandt, ISM Thought Leadership Council Ambassador, recalled being part of a supply management program with a production component. The other 10 participants — all men — had completed the component, but she had yet to begin it. Wanting the experience before the program ended, she asked the manager about it. He was surprised she was interested in doing it because it required hard labor.
De Brabandt's advice: You don't get if you don't ask.
I. Javette Hines, director, supply chain supplier senior group manager and head of supply chain development, inclusion and sustainability at Citi, said during a management change, the new manager may not know what you're capable of or what the supply management function is.
Hines' advice: Constantly navigate the workplace so that you're not just part of the supply management organization, you're aligned with people across the corporation. Additionally, consider asking for coaching to determine your strengths and of improvement.
Changing the Perception of the Function
Common issues: Supply management is considered a support function, others don't understand that the function goes beyond cost-cutting, and it's exhausting having to build credibility through repeated wins.
Jane Krueger, executive director — supply chain at Collins Aerospace Interiors, said that when she moved from another area to supply management, she was shocked at the breadth of knowledge the function is responsible for.
Krueger's advice: Don't want to be asked to sit at the table. Go grab it. And go prepared.
Building a Strong Talent Pipeline
Common issues: Procurement isn't perceived as a destination function; people need to understand how what the function does is important.
Emerging professional Julia Mionis, small stampings buyer at General Motors, recommends that women looking to enter the supply management profession should ask such questions as: What are the opportunities for new individuals at the company? What is the level of satisfaction among those in the function?
Mionis' advice: Seek out a company's mission or vision statement to ensure that diversity is part of it.
Jeanne Rineer, C.P.M., senior group manager, soft goods supply chain and procurement at Apple Inc., mentioned that companies should recruit from diverse sources and diverse backgrounds, such as non-procurement functions. Recruiting panels should reflect the workforce, she said, and not be tokenism.
Rineer's advice: "One of the things that has kept me reasonably sane during the (COVID-19) pandemic is having constant contact with who I consider my personal board of directors, whether they be mentors, peers or people that I mentor, people who I go to for advice and vent and share success stories."
Reclaiming Time for Self
Common issues: Women carry a larger load both at home and in the office, feel intense pressure to deliver, and often don't take time to pause and reflect.
De Brabandt said that when she began her career, she considered work/life balance to be more work/life integration, "supporting your work and life, and meeting the schedule for both needs. This, in a way. creates a lot more synergies at work and in your private life," she said.
De Brabandt's advice: Because everyone has different goals, it's important to be self-aware.
Anand and ISM will host and facilitate the Women's Supply Management Community Workshop, a three-hour event on June 10 at 1 p.m. ET. Click here for more information and to register.
Sue Doerfler
As Senior Writer for Inside Supply Management® magazine, I cover topics, trends and issues relating to supply chain management.
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