Two WSEAS Conferences (EUROPEAN COMPUTING CONFERENCE and F-and-B) have recently taken place in Paris, organized by the Technical University of Sofia, NAUN and the WSEAS.
The current emphasis on computing and computational methods is a consequence of the general awareness of the need to solve numerous technical problems resulting from our modern society. This has resulted in the need to assess the impact of computational methods, systems theory and numerical analysis computing. The 2 conferences addressed the topic of Computational Engineering in Systems Application in an integrated way, in accordance to the principles of stability, considering the practical and social of our new investments. The usual assumption is that it is difficult to solve a physical, technical problem using only closed forms. The conference addressed these problems of primary importance to our academic society, discussing and proposing more constructive and progressive approaches.
Professor Mastorakis, Professor Demiralp, Professor Tuba, Professor Martin, Professor Simian, all involved in WSEAS activities for more than seven years, gave short presentations regarding the role of the WSEAS, and in particular its objective of acting as a medium for transfer of knowledge amongst different partners, including academics and professionals. They stressed the future applications of many research ideas developed at the WSEAS, which are reflected in the growth of its Industrial Research Division. The work of WSEAS � Professor Mastorakis said � does not attempt to replace or compete with those of other institutions, but WSEAS sees itself as complimentary to many different organizations around the world. The conferences and publications program of the WSEAS provides an important mechanism to achieve this objective. Many new initiatives at the WSEAS reflect its commitment to advanced research dissemination. All WSEAS Publications, including Journals and books, are now offered in digital format, aiming to reach an even wider audience.
Professor Mastorakis also pointed out the importance of the Journals launched by WSEAS, particularly those in the field of Systems Theory, Mathematics and Computers. Outstanding papers, as well as new books are always valued by WSEAS.
On the other hand, our Keynote Speaker, Prof. Metin Demiralp, of Istanbul technical University, presented a Keynote Speech about High Dimensional Model Representation (HDMR) and Enhanced Multivariance Product Representation (EMPR) as Small Scale Multivariate Decomposition Methods. As Prof. Demiralp underlined, the method of finite elements is quite frequently used in the solution of boundary value problems modeled as either ordinary differential equations (ODEs) or partial differential equations (PDEs). It is based on basically weak derivative and Sobolev space concepts. According to Prof. Demiralp's speech, an appropriate bilinear form is constructed from the given equations and accompanying boundary conditions by using these concepts. Then the unknown function is approximately expressed in terms of appropriately defined spline functions over certain convenient subregions of the problem geometry. The linear combination constructed towards this goal contains certain undetermined constants which appear in an algebraic equation, that is linear for the linear ODEs or PDEs, together with linear boundary impositions like Dirichlet or Neumann conditions. The important issue in this approach is the construction of the spline basis set, which is realized in such a way that the resulting algebraic equations possess rather simple structure to be solved for the unknowns. Finite elements can be used for almost anything either derived from ODEs or PDEs, or directly from a function in certain ways although the most desired cases are the differential equations.
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The conference offered the delegates ample opportunity for interaction through a series of social functions and during dinner and coffee breaks. The conference dinner took place in the best traditional French restaurant, just walking distance from the Hotel, accompanied by excellent local red and white wines. The occasion was most enjoyable. Paris' culinary reputation has its base in the diverse origins of its inhabitants. In its beginnings, it owed much to the 19th-century organization of a railway system that had Paris as a centre, making the capital a focal point for immigration from France's many different regions and gastronomical cultures. This reputation continues through today in a cultural diversity that has since spread to a worldwide level thanks to Paris' continued reputation for culinary finesse and further immigration from increasingly distant climes.
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Claims of normalcy contrary to ground situation, Article 370 taken away from J&K forcibly 'Will Bring It Back': Omar Abdullah
Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday vowed to bring back Article 370 which he claimed was forcibly taken away from the valley region. Addressing a crowd, the National Conference leader said he along with others will fight to gain the trust of the people, and then together knock the door of justice for the lost identity of Jammu and Kashmir.
"Where are those facilities that the Indian government promised after the abrogation of article 370?" Omar Abdullah asked, underlining that the youth of Jammu and Kashmir were not receiving employment opportunities, and even the general quality of living was not up to the mark with no electricity, no water facility at home. "Even healthcare is not up to the mark as the hospitals are not equipped with proper medical facilities," he added.
" The people of Jammu and Kashmir have been cheated. We don't want to give false promises and dreams to our people to cling to," Omar Abdullah concluded. In a landmark step, the Government of India on August 5, 2019, abrogated Article 370, along with Article 35 A.
'Some were playing golf while others were shopping'
Article 370 had ensured that the laws passed by the Indian Parliament are not automatically applicable to the state of Jammu and Kashmir, because of which the law and order situation was deteriorating with each passing day. On the other hand, Article 35A ensured that no Indian (from outside of Jammu & Kashmir) or foreign entity can own property in the state. The Central government abrogating the Articles two years ago had said that they were driving a wedge between the people of Jammu and Kashmir and those in the rest of India.
To prevent any untoward incident post abrogation of the Articles, the Central government had put prominent leaders like NCP's Omar and Farooq Abdullah, PDP's Mehbooba Mufti, J&K People's conference's Sajjad Gani Lone among 2,000 others in house arrest.
Reminiscing the same, Omar Abdullah said, "When we were kept under house arrest, some people were playing golfing while others went shopping in Delhi."
Meanwhile, National Conference (NC) Vice President Omar Abdullah on Saturday said that GOI's claim that everything is normal in Jammu and Kashmir is contrary to what is happening on the ground.
Addressing a party Convention here at Baramulla Dak Bungalow, he busted the misinformation campaign on NC canvassing for polls. "Nowhere did I seek votes while I was on a tour of the Chenab region. Power is not our destiny. It is a means to achieve our goal. Our destination is beyond getting power. Time has proved that NC has gained strength whenever it was out of power," he said adding, "We are not averse to the idea of being in power, if our goal requires us to have it, we will with the active support of the masses. However, it has never been the fulcrum point of our politics. Whenever the trumpet of election is blown, we will then come again to you with an election manifesto."
According to a statement issued to the news agency—Kashmir News Observer (KNO), Party General Secretary Ali Mohammad Sagar, PP Nasir Aslam Wani, party functionaries Javed Dar, Dr. Sajjad Shafi, Gh Hassan Rahi, Mohammad Yaqoob Wani, Reyaz Bedar, Tanvir Sadiq, Ahsan Pardesi, Salman Ali Sagar, Neelofar Masood, Muneer Bhat, Sameer Bhat were present on the occasion.
He said the reason behind his outreach to the general public and workers is to congratulate them on their victory in the DDC elections. "It is you who have deflated the claims of certain quarters that post abrogation NC was poised to get wiped out. You took it upon yourself to ensure the victory of NC candidates during the elections. Most of the party leaders were caged. Most of us were facing incarceration in jails, and various others were in house detention. Yet, by dint of your deep-rooted faith in your party, you came out and defeated those forces who wanted us obliterated," he added.
Questioning the GoI claims on August 05 2019 decisions, Omar said that the ruling dispensation in New Delhi is proclaiming that everything is hunky-dory in Jammu and Kashmir, while the ground reality belies such flimsy claims.
"We were promised that Jammu and Kashmir were in for mega growth, employment, infrastructure build-up, and much more. I believed that the decisions must have given such projected developmental dividends to the people of Jammu at least. But the sullen looks of the people on the other side of Pir Panjal said it all. Not a single job has been given to our youth there, no power projects, roads, hospitals have come up. Hopes of our educated youngsters there have dashed like elsewhere in J-K. People are worried for the future of their kids," he said.
He stated that the incumbent ruling dispensation has liquidated the Vajpayee legacy. "It was Vajpayee who opened up the trade and bus service across LoC but today we are being told that it was being misused. The reasons put forth by the government imply that Vajpayee was wrong then. The same Vajpayee, whom they conferred with the highest civilian award of the country. If he wasn't wrong, then why is it that the biggest CBM's initiated by him were discontinued?" he added.
"Among other promises, we were told that August 2019 measures will end separatism and militancy. Did it? The prevailing security situation on the roads of Jammu and Kashmir disprove such claims as well, he added.
On land and job rights, Omar said, "If the people of Ladakh are allowed to have exclusive rights over their land, jobs, scholarships, why can't we in J-K enjoy the same privilege? Why is it that the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been at a much lower pedestal?"
On tourism arrivals in Kashmir, Omar said, "As if the tourists all over India were waiting for the articles to be removed. Tourists have been coming to Kashmir in far greater numbers before Aug 05, 2019."
Baramulla has been a bastion of our party, the foundations of our fortress in this historical district are solid and deep-rooted, he stated while exhorting functionaries. "We have to reach out to our workers who are waiting for us to reach out to them. The party leadership will ensure that our estranged workers, who are the heart and soul of our party, are back on the ground. It is for this reason we have entrusted the job to Dr. Sajad and Javed Dar, Dr. Sajad. Both are capable and dynamic," he added.
Meanwhile, The People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration (PAGD) — a coalition of six parties seeking the restoration of Jammu and Kashmir's special status — is intact and is doing its job, National Conference (NC) vice president Omar Abdullah said on Saturday.
The NC leader's assertion came amidst speculations that the alliance was breaking apart.
"The PAGD is still there. They met 10 days back. They are doing their job, but it is not like they will meet every day just to keep you happy. They are working at their own level," he told reporters in Baramulla when asked if the alliance was still united.
There have been speculations that the alliance which includes the NC, PDP, CPI, and the CPI(M) was breaking apart due to differences among its constituents.
Addressing a party workers' convention in the Jammu region recently, Abdullah had blamed the PDP for the abrogation of Article 370, which granted special status to the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.
At a public gathering at Chatroo in Inderwal, he said the BJP took advantage of "our weakness".
"Following the Assembly elections of 2014 in Jammu and Kashmir, I extended a hand of friendship to Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (PDP founder). I warned him against stitching an alliance with the BJP and told him it would prove to be extremely dangerous for the people of Kashmir," said Abdullah, a former chief minister.
After his remarks, PDP president Mehbooba Mufti had told his party leaders not to speak against any party which is a part of the PAGD so as not to destabilise the alliance.
Meanwhile, asked about a meeting of the Delimitation Commission scheduled for December 20 and whether the three NC MPs would participate in it, Abdullah said he had no knowledge of any such meeting.
"I did not know about this. I am hearing it for the first time from you. I will confirm whether it is like that and can only then talk to you about it," he told reporters.
Earlier, addressing his party workers in Baramulla, Abdullah said neither the gun fell silent nor the separatist ideology disappeared in Kashmir after the revocation of Article 370 as promised by the BJP.
"It was said that the basic reason of the gun in Kashmir is Article 370 and when it is revoked, the guns will go away. But, have the guns gone silent? It has been two years, four months and six days since it was revoked, but only yesterday two brave policemen lost their lives in Bandipora. If Article 370 was the basic reason for the gun, then why is there mourning in the homes of the two policemen," he said.
The NC vice president said encounters between security forces and militants were taking place every day in Kashmir and even in those places where "we had got rid of the gun".
"New youths are picking up the gun today. Were we not told that the separatist ideology is also because of (Article) 370 and that this ideology will go away when (Article) 370 is revoked. I do not see it (separatist ideology) has ended," he said.
The former chief minister said the revocation of the special status of the erstwhile state has in no way made the lives of the people better.
"Neither have our jobs come, or developmental activities taken place, or new power projects built, or health or education infrastructure made better, neither has the gun gone away or the separatist ideology ended. So…what was the aim of revoking Article 370?
"What was achieved by breaking the promises made to us and by cheating us? Why is there a step-motherly attitude with us? Why is the future of our children seen differently than those in Ladakh where there are land rights, job rights, or scholarships the same way as they were before (Article) 370 was revoked?" he said.
Criticising the Centre for stopping the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service and the cross-Line of Control (LoC) trade, the NC leader said the bus service was started by BJP leader and former prime minister A B Vajpayee and asked if he (Vajpayee) was wrong.
"Was Vajpayee wrong when he started the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad bus service and people were allowed across? If he was wrong, then I would say it is the right decision to stop the bus service. I want to hear it from the BJP people that the leader whom they conferred a Bharat Ratna was wrong. I want to hear from the BJP leaders that by starting the bus service, Vajpayee had put the country in danger," he said.
He said if Vajpayee was not wrong, then the decision to stop the bus service was wrong and then the BJP has "cheated" the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
"Then taking away this confidence-building measure was your mistake. Was the creation of infrastructure at Salamabad for cross-LoC trade wrong then? You say that some people used it for wrongdoings. Where don't people make mistakes? Is there no evasion in the GST or income tax? Will you then stop the whole tax system?
"Power theft is there sometimes, does that mean the power supply to be cut for everyone. If an apple is rotten, you do not throw away the whole carton, you throw away that apple only," he said.
Abdullah said if some people were misusing the trade, it does not mean that the whole trade is stopped.
"Your (Centre's) job was to take action after the investigation against those who were misusing the trade. But, unfortunately, you hammer everything and then present it to the world in a false manner," he said.
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Cary Leibowitz, Sad Rainbow, Happy Rainbow, 2007. Latex paint on two wood panels, 24 x 53 in. each. Collection of Amy Cappellazzo. Image courtesy of Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY. Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show. On view January 26–June 25, 2017 at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco.
With a preference for lowbrow aesthetics and threadbare materials, Leibowitz creates work with a bold, cartoon-like quality: pop colors are combined with a childish scrawl, proclaiming abundant displays of insecurity and exposing simplistic raw truths about contemporary society.
The exhibition, the first career survey and solo museum show of Leibowitz's work to date, will feature nearly 350 original artworks from 1987 to the present: paintings, fabric works, multiples, installations, documentation, photography, and ephemera.
In both his cheeky multiples (inexpensively mass-produced buttons, mugs, and more) and his irregular-format paintings, Leibowitz mixes his obsession with popular culture, fine art, and Jewishness with elements of therapy and self-loathing, interrogation and self-interrogation, institutional critique, social commentary, and stand-up comedy routine. His work manages to seamlessly blend comedy and neurosis in such a way that questions about appearance and identity become a running commentary on the self/other.
In addition to original works, the exhibition will also include many of the multiples created specifically for individual exhibitions that carry on his obsession with popular culture, identity, and fine art, including team pennant flags for "Homo State" that say, "Go Fags!"; a Marcia Tucker seat cushion; a Cindy Sheehan megaphone; and "J'Adore Gertrude Stein" buttons. One installation features a display of his editioned work, Gain! Wait! Now!, 2001, an aluminum garbage can that features an image of Leibowitz as a chubby adolescent at his bar mitzvah in 1976.
Cary Leibowitz: Museum Show is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum (The CJM) and is curated by CJM Associate Curator Anastasia James. The exhibition is accompanied by a 224-page fully-illustrated hardcover catalog with contributions by James and Leibowitz, as well as Rhonda Lieberman, Hilton Als, Simon Lince, Fran Drescher, David Bonetti, and Glen Helfand.
Cary Leibowitz (b. 1963, New York) also known as "Candyass," is an American artist whose work has shown in museums and institutions across the globe including The ICA Boston; The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; the Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Whitney Museum, New York; The Jewish Museum, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany; White Columns, New York; Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, Philadelphia, PA; Art Metropole, Toronto; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany; Cabinet Gallery, London; The Kitchen NY; Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Galerie Claudio Botello, Turin, Italy; List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Leibowitz's work has been included in the landmark exhibitions Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities at the Jewish Museum in New York; In a Different Light at the University Art Museum, University of California Berkeley; and Bad Girls, New Museum, New York. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, Artforum, The New York Times, Frieze Magazine, and Art in America, among others. Leibowitz is represented by INVISIBLE-EXPORTS.


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If I'd done better, I could have skipped college biology, but I just couldn't stay awake long enough to learn much. The moment she started to talk, I passed out.
The best day of that entire class was the day a pigeon flew into the room and she suggested we catch and dissect it. It was the only laugh of the course.
But I did get "nucleus." Late in my life, I spent a lot of time talking about and thinking about nuclear energy. I lived in Israel when Chernobyl melted down. The winds of the world blow that radiation everywhere, eventually. It was about two weeks after the meltdown that it arrived in Israel and presumably, the rest of the middle east. For weeks, we could not drink or eat anything that contained milk because the cattle were eating radiated grain and grass. And all my petunias turned black. When they grew back, they were all weirdly shaped and many had multiple flowers growing together.
We also had blood-red sunsets for months. I loved the sunsets, but I loved them more when I didn't think about why I was seeing them.
Recently, I read a piece — and I don't remember where I found it (Huffington?) — but it pointed out that the area around Chernobyl had restored itself very well and a lot sooner than expected. It turns out if there are no people to mess it up, the planet fixes itself. The animals were back, the trees were healthy. Flowers and all the creatures were doing fine.
A nuclear meltdown does less damage to the earth than people.
The more complex the system involved, the more disruption a "small" nuclear change can make. A seemingly small mutation can mess the whole thing up. Can be corrected, and generation time has something to do with that as well. Plants that have a generation or two every year can change/adapt quickly. Bacteria, reproducing more than once an hour, even more so–hence all that drug resistance. And then there's people, with a 20+ year generation time. Way slow, comparatively speaking.
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I was a science dunderhead.
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Vast Resources gets USD 2 M to invest in mining projects, including in Romania
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By Anca Bernovici	 On Oct 13, 2016
The British company Vast Resources has signed an agreement with the investment firm Bracknor Fund Limited, through which the company will receive USD 2 million that will be invested in the mining projects in Romania and Zimbabwe, a press release informs. Further USD 3 million will be available and which will be paid gradually, USD1 million at a time, in the following two years.
As regards Romania, Vast Resources plans a series of important investments for the two mines operated in Manaila, Suceava county and Baita Plai, Bihor county.
The agreement between the two companies was signed in October and one of its main conditions is for the money to be used exclusively in Vast Resources' mining activities, which in the case of the Romanian projects imply: the modernization of the production line for the zinc concentrate, which was recently opened in Manaila; continuing the drilling process in order to extend the lifetime of the mine in Manaila; evaluate and modernize the flotation line in the Baita Plai mine; reprocess the content of the tailing ponds form the Faneata area, Bihor county, in order to green the area.
The British company announced also that will start the mining activity at the Baita Plai mine, as soon as the company will receive the license.
"(…) Our aim is for the mines in Romania to have an beneficial and rapid evolution, which automatically translates into important financial benefits for the for Romania," said Andrew Prelea, President and Executive Director of Vast Romania.
At present, the main objectives Vast Resources has for Romania are the modernization and of the Manaila mine and starting the production activities from the mine in Bihor county. In this context, the investment agreement signed in October comes as an additional financial support for achieving the targeted plans.
Andrew PreleaB?i?a Plai mineBihor CountyBracknor Fund LimitedManaila minemining projects in RomaniaPresident and Executive Director of Vast RomaniaSuceava county
Anca Bernovici
I started my way in life with the intention to pursue a teaching career. But, after graduating from the Faculty of Letters – the University of Bucharest in 2004, my first job as a reporter at one of the leading newspapers in Romania changed my perspective. I have specialized in communication and communication campaigns, following the Master's courses at the Faculty of Journalism and Communication Studies (FJSC), attending a BBC Communications scholarship.
I've represented several important publications in Romania as business journalist, being accredited in the finance and banking field. In 2015, I had the opportunity to interview the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission Chief for Romania, Andrea Schaechter. As business journalist, I also had the opportunity to interview ministers for Economics and Commercial
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Q: How to combine two inputs into an array php I have a css table of multiple products with the same Quantity input name and Product ID input name. Every ID and Quantity are going to be different values
They look like this
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<input type="hidden" name="prod_id" value="<?php echo $product_id; ?>">

My question is how do I push both values in to an array/string that looks like this
 $product_ids = '150:2,152:4';

Product id first then Quantity number after the :

A: As @UlyssesMarx stated in the comments, you should modify the structure of your HTML input fields to support multiple quantity inputs.
<input type="number" name="quantity[<?php echo $product_id; ?>]" value="0">

In this case, you would not need the hidden input field for your product id, as it would be in stored in the name for the quantity field.
On the backend, you can parse this data via PHP.
$quantities = $_POST['quantity']; //make sure to sanitize and validate!

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If you still wanted the data in the string you specified, one approach would be:
$quantities = $_POST['quantity']; //make sure to sanitize and validate!
$data = []; //empty array to hold restructured data

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//now combine the array
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Home parish applauds Lucy for "standing up for her faith"
Posted on January 8, 2013 by Lucy Torres-Gomez
ORMOC CITY – Garbed in a simple but classy high-collared dress with big red rose prints, Congresswoman Lucy Torres-Gomez of the 4th district of Leyte, together with husband Richard Gomez, were loudly applauded during the Mass on Christmas Eve at the St. Peter and Paul Church here.
Parish Priest Fr. Gilbert Urbina said that no less than Palo Archbishop John Du gave him instructions to publicly acknowledge on the pulpit Lucy's "standing up to the faith" in consistently voting "no" to the controversial Reproductive Health Bill from its 2nd reading to the 3rd reading. Fr. Urbina made the announcement twice, the first before saying his sermon and the second, before the mass ended.
It was also learned that the same announcements were being made in all the churches of Ormoc City and the 4th district of Leyte.
Ormoc Mayor Eric Codilla, who is challenging Lucy for Congress come May 2013, was also in the same mass, just across the pew where Richard and Rep. Lucy Gomez were seated with their families.
The mayor was observed to have also softly clapped his hands, but his known attack dogs in their Facebook accounts immediately criticized Lucy's "No" vote as "disloyalty" to Pres. Benigno Aquino III and the Liberal Party.
The President certified the bill as "urgent" and usually, when a bill is tagged as such, party mates are expected to toe the line.
However, Cong. Lucy Torres-Gomez stood her ground, and did not flip-flop even if around 20 others party mates voted yes. The Church considered Lucy's consistent "no" vote as an "act of courage", including all the other solons who defied the President.
The posts, however, were deleted after it was noted that the propaganda even offended Codilla supporters who were anti-RH and "saradong Katoliko".
An insider said Lucy's opposition realized they have again put their foot in their mouth on the issue, in their eagerness to please their paymaster.
It has been noted that Codilla's attack dogs paid to "bite" Lucy and known supporters at every turn have been fumbling recently, to the point of defending known drug personalities in the city and why they've remained "untouchables".
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Nowadays, tourism, as a new-fledgling industry, has a lot of economic, social, and cultural effects. In this regard, residential areas, as important centers for economy, culture, service, etc. are of great importance for tourism-related activities. In order to achieve the objectives for sustainable development in tourism, considering its social, cultural, economic, environmental, and natural dimensions, a multilateral systemic analysis seems indispensable. The city of Maraqeh, due to natural, historical, and cultural potentialities, enjoys a high capacity and, through proper planning and identifying advantages and detecting its tourism limitations, attaining a sustainable development is not far to reach. The current article aims at planning strategies for the development of tourism industry in Maraqeh to attain sustainable development. The research method was analytic-descriptive and the data were collected through library sources, document, and field studies. To analyze data based on theoretical principles and field research, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats have been determined and strategies have been offered. The results show that the city of Maraqeh enjoys high potentials in tourism both history- and culture-wise and through strategies to develop tourism which requires a comprehensive planning to redefine SWOT, the development of tourism industry in this city is to come.


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"Persia is soon to be an ex-nation," he says.
Iran is in a demographic decline, but, he adds, getting rid of Iran's theocratic regime might help the country turn itself around in time.
Otherwise, in 30 years, the country will "collapse because a third of their people will be over the age of 60."
Goldman says: When Iran does "things that look nuts to us, remember: they're staring into an abyss" and "facing an existential crisis."
He points out that Iran's birthrate is as low as Nazi Germany's, and that that's no coincidence.
Both countries were and are explicitly anti-Semitic and supremacist, and panic-stricken about their future and place in the world power structure.
In Iran's case, the existence of a flourishing Israel makes a mockery of their sense of Muslim superiority, and they can't cope with the shame of this cognitive dissonance.
Yet Iran's Muslim identity has no genuine foundation, says Goldman, who quips that after Iran's theocracy collapses, "We'll find out that there were no more Muslims in Iran than their were communists in Russia in 1989."
Iran will become extinct in a very short time. The production of Nuclear Weapons will ensure this. The Big Bang theory, al la Israel. It will look good on them.
Goldman cites that Iran's birth rate is on par with Western Europe, and it is, along with North America and much of the developed world. Is that also not a coincidence? Are developed nations also "soon to be ex-nations"? Or could it be that the quality of life is precipitating a decline in birth rate just as it did in the developed world? Bahrain, Qatar, Tunisia, Lebanon, and other Middle Eastern countries have also been experiencing a similar decline over a similar time frame. Can the same link Goldman makes be made in those countries too?


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Anti-Oedipus and Orgone
Posted on August 10, 2013 by edmundberger
In Anti-Oedipus, Deleuze and Guattari acknowledge that both the post-Freudian psychologist Wilhelm Reich and the Frankfurt School theorist Herbert Marcuse acted as forerunners of their own particular brand of libidinal politics. Reich, in a series of books including The Mass Psychology of Fascism, The Sexual Revolution, and The Function of the Orgasm looked to the relationship between sexuality and family dynamics as the root cause of oppressive and anti-democratic politics; many of his writings, emerging in the shadow of the Nazism that had overtaken his native land of Germany, emerged as a reflection, in many ways, of the "Authoritarian Personality" discussed by Adorno and the other thinkers of the Frankfurt School. Marcuse, likewise, had attempted a synthesis of Freud and Marx in his Eros and Civilization and had also, in his own way, had helped pave way for the sexual revolution on the horizon of the 1960s.
Marcuse both drew on Reich's work and criticized it: in his later years, Reich had progressively shed the scientism of psychology for a mystically-inclined and vitalism understanding of the world based upon what he called "orgone," a kind of bio-cosmic energy. This orgone, for him, was the source of libidinal energy, drained from the individual by the powers of civilization's apparatuses social repression. Marcuse refrains from addressing the orgone theory at length – after, inclinations towards the mystical are, according to Adorno, one the distinctive trademarks of the authoritarian personality.
Deleuze and Guattari, by contrast, are a little more sympathetic to Reich's work than Marcuse, and in fact, they hold the former's work in higher esteem: "Reich was the first to raise the problem of the relationship between desire and the social field (and went further than Marcuse, who treats the problem lightly)." (Anti-Oedipus, pg. 118) Furthermore, they seem, in some ways, a little sympathetic (through still critical) to the orgone hypothesis:
…would we do better to review Reich's final attempt, involving a "biogenesis" that not without justification is qualified as a schizoparanoic mode of reasoning? It will be remembered that Reich concluded in favor of an intra-atomic cosmic energy – the orgone – generative of an electrical flux and carrying submicroscopic particles, the bions. This energy is produced differences in potential or intensities distributed on the body considered from the molecular viewpoint, and was associated with a mechanics of fluids in this same body considered from a molar viewpoint… If the details of Reich's final theory are taken into consideration, we admit that its simultaneously schizophrenic and paranoiac nature is no obstacle where we are concerned – on the contrary. We admit that any comparison of sexuality with cosmic phenomena such a "electrical storms," "the blue color of the sky and the blue-gray of atmospheric gaze," the blue of the orgone, "St. Elmo's fire, and the bluish formations [of] sunspot activity," fluids and flows, matter and particles, in the end appear to us more adequate than the reduction of sexuality to the pitiful like familialist secret. (Anti-Oedipus, pgs. 291-292)
What are we to make of this? Does Reich's theory, perhaps in more of an aesthetic or poetic sense, point towards Deleuze and Guattari own conception of desire as a life force rendered fluid and flowing? Culturally significant, Reich's "orgone therapy" was practiced by many of the artists deployed in Anti-Oedipus as schizoid circulators of flows: Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and other members of the Beat generation. It was thus, in a way, an entity that assisted in this micropolitical exodus from the confines of the Disciplinary Society. Would it be outlandish to view these followers of Reich as acting out the Autonomist thesis that "false information may produce real events"?
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13 Responses to Anti-Oedipus and Orgone
dmfant says:
perhaps, but doesn't one have to have (be had by?) a kind of faith-commitment to be moved by placebo effect/affects?
edmundberger says:
Great question, and one that could be posed directly at a large bulk of affect theory! At the same time, it seems to me that we would have to place orgone-placebos into a proper context… certainly for Reich, and for many of his devout followers, there is a certain placebo effect taking place. But let us take the Beats – Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, etc. – who dabbled in orgone therapy, with its strange boxes and whatnot. Although they discuss it, I can't recall any of readings other than some passages discussing Burroughs where anybody attributed a real scientific and physiological result from the box. Though this is entirely in a realm of speculation, I wonder just how much was a utilization of orgone therapy for the implications embedded within it: an orgiastic action specifically designed to counteract the dominant culture and political circumstances at the time (this takes on a heightened dimension when one takes into account the US government's reaction to Reich) . Marcuse (rightfully) was dismissive of orgone as a scientific hypothesis, yet at the same time he called for mass outbreaks of surrealism. Is there anything more 'surreal' than orgone therapy, or the entire Reich saga itself? This isn't to say that Reich or orgone is a determinant feature, but it certainly wasn't a small and simple role that it played in the ferment of the 1960s counterculture(s) and its quests for 'authentic' experience.
I think I get the general gist of the genealogical gesture (agentswarm has made similar points about religious/superstitious authors/sources) but in terms of moving ahead for those of us who aren't taken by the spirit (if you will), who like Wallace Stevens are left with such fictions as fictions, is there something to be re-covered here other than a kind of political (diplomatic as Latour might have it) lesson to (as Jane Bennett says of animism) make a strategic use of (alliance with?) such possession-states in others as they serve common ends?
What if such quests for "authenticity" are almost always tied into a conservative/commanding desire for Author-ity, for a theo-logical drive for Certainty, Necessity, and metaphysical (arche-typal) Presence, aren't we working for something more reflexive, more experimental, proto-typical than that, to avoid the tyranny (fetishizing) of the means and the mean?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Vaihinger
" is there something to be re-covered here other than a kind of political (diplomatic as Latour might have it) lesson to (as Jane Bennett says of animism) make a strategic use of (alliance with?) such possession-states in others as they serve common ends?"
When it comes to political change today, be in major political change through institutions or an anti- or micropolitical change, I don't think that pseudosciences like orgone would really have any relevance. I do think that the way we approach the questions of sexuality through identity politics could use a little 'shaking up,' if you will – a little anarchic energy. But orgone, alongside various forms of mysticism, surrealism, exodus, was something irrational against a system that was 'rationalizing' to an authoritarian extent (authoritarian personality, culture industry, etc.) Irrationality could certainly teach us a lot today. especially if we can use it to break up certain cultural or social homeostases; the problem is that irrationality, as you point out here, can act as a sort of despotic signifer and evoke feelings of fetishism (in Reich's case, it was a literal fetishization of the orgasm, and he took it to an extent that reproduced the male-centric view of sexuality). The other key problem is that so much of irrationality today is simply banal – media saturation, the everyday reality of irrational economics and politics, generalized apathy, the proliferation of counterculture signs as economic action, the glorification of pseudoscience, have neutered a great deal of counter-expression. We should mine past counter-cultures for that spirit of experimentation, but things like orgone are most interesting (to me, at least) in a historical or genealogical instance.
gotcha thanks, was just tying this into:
http://andreling.wordpress.com/2013/08/10/gestes-speculatifs-day-5-serge-gutwirth-and-donna-harraway/#comment-1405
around 15min Pickering on his gestalt-switch in the marginalization of certain politics of ontology:
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Brian Holmes says:
Totally interesting, the New Ontology workshops! I'm gonna listen to those….
This is a vast subject. Both the UK and the USA are pretty remarkable as societies for having only objectivist ontologies. For UK/USA, a thing's a thing, life's about getting to know the immutable properties of things. Whereas in my experience, most other places recognize something important about the human condition, which is more than just self-reflexivity. It's self-mutability. Proust was very good at this, for instance. Life, and even sexuality, is about getting to know how you can become other than youself through art. In UK/USA we tend to go only as far as Hamlet: "Nothing's either bad or good, but thinking makes it so." Aha, what's this, a property that's of but not in the object! Curiouser and curiouser! But just take one step further, think yourself into new values, find some new good things and your whole life changes….
Vico rather famously distinguished between things in general and things made by humans, the latter being of a very special class when it comes to explaining what they are because the explainer is always in some sense both a part and a product of what is supposedly being explained. If I were into philosophy maybe I would go on from here to talk about Kant's distinction between the phenonemon and the noumenon, and voila, we would be getting into the ontology of mind and pretty soon, if we're lucky, here come Hegel and friends with even more challenging ideas. But actually, I'm much more immediately interested in what happens when poetic objects filled with this self-altering potential start circulating around and being considered "good" – or funny, or seductive, or fascinating, or explosive – by people who use them to get on each other's wavelengths. It's a little more Sorel, if you know what I mean. OK, this does involve messing a bit with the boundaries of what is considered "the individual" (another sacrosanct Anglo-Saxon reification) but hey, every form of fire can be dangerous, yet we all use some every day. What if you sent around political stories, which are basically about class and hierarchy, and self and group and sexuality, and maybe also about the ways people use signs in modern societies? And what if these stories were full of characters that seemed just made to slipped on and off your own skin, like a mask or a suit of overalls?
There was one long season of my life when this what if game became something one could play with dozens and hundreds and thousands of people, and it was both fascinating and seductive and very deliberately political, because it aimed at changing some specific things that were considered bad and good in society. Like the regulatory systems of global economics, for instance. The game was called "mythopoetics," the playing field stretched basically from Bologna to London with extensions into France, Spain, Germany, Scandanavia and Slovenia, and in the best of cases the play itself took the form of something that was not a traditional demostration, or really a riot, although an outbreak of mass surrealism still does come close to catching it. Of course I am describing little currents or eddies within the counter-globalization movement or "movement of movements," which had many faces and can't be explained by just one story. Still, I want to introduce you to a few players from those days, by quoting from a long and otherwise boring text I wrote many moons ago:
"Consider the AAA, founded in 1995 with a five-year mission: establishing a planetary network to end the monopoly of corporations, governments and the military over travel in space. The Association of Autonomous Astronauts is a kind of multiple name, a freely invented identity. Forget about the moon: "Reclaim the Stars" they said on June 18th, 1999, during the Carnival against Capital. The idea was to create not an art group, but a social movement – a collective phantom acting on a global scale. "Unlike a multiple name that is restricted to art practices, a collective phantom operates within the wider context of popular culture, and is used as a tool for class war," says an astronaut of the South London AAA, in a text called "Resisting Zombie Culture."
"One aspect of the project was infrastructural mapping, identifying the satellite hardware that links up the world communications network. But another was what Konrad Becker calls "e-scape": "Cracking the doors of the future means mastering multidimensional maps to open new exits and ports in hyperspace; it requires passports allowing voyages beyond normative global reality toward parallel cultures and invisible nations; supply depots for nomads on the roads taken by the revolutionary practice of aimless flight." Ricardo Balli gives a further idea of what the galactic phantom might do: "We are not interested in going into space to be a vanguard of the coming revolution: the AAA means to institute a science fiction of the present that can above all be an instrument of conflictuality and radical antagonism."
"The ideas sound fantastic, but the stakes are real: imagining a political subject within the virtual class, and therefore, within the economy of cultural production and intellectual property that had paralyzed the poetics of resistance. Consider Luther Blissett, an obscure Jamaican football player traded from Britain to Italy, who fell short of stardom but became a proliferating signature, the "author" of a book called Mind Invaders: Come fottere i media. There, between tales of Ray Johnson and mail art, Blissett takes time out for some political-aesthetic theory: "I could just say the multiple name is a shield against the established power's attempt to identify and individualize the enemy, a weapon in the hands of what Marx ironically called 'the worst half' of society. In Spartacus by Stanley Kubrick, all the slaves defeated and captured by Crassus declare themselves to be Spartacus, like all the Zapatistas are Marcos and I am all we Luther Blissetts. But I won't just say that, because the collective name has a fundamental valence too, insofar as it aims to construct an open myth, elastic and redefinable in a network…."
"The "open myth" of Luther Blissett is a game with personal identity, like the three-sided football played by the AAA: a way to change the social rules, so a group can start moving simultaneously in several directions. This "fundamental valence" lies at the prehistory of the counterglobalization movement. Just think of the way names like Ya Basta, Reclaim the Streets, or Kein Mensch ist Illegal have spread across the world's social networks. One can see these names, not as categories or identifiers, but as catalysts, departure points, like the white overalls (tute bianche) worn initially in north-eastern Italy: "The Tute Bianche are not a movement, they are an instrument conceived within a larger movement (the Social Centers) and placed at the disposal of a still larger movement (the global movement)," writes Wu Ming 1 in the French journal Multitudes (#7). This "instrument" was invented in 1994, when the Northern League mayor of Milan, Formentini, ordered the eviction of a squatted center and declared, "From now on, squatters will be nothing more than ghosts wandering about in the city!" But then the white ghosts showed up in droves at the next demonstration. And a new possibility for collective action emerged: "Everyone is free to wear a tuta biancha, as long as they respect the 'style,' even if they transform its modes of expression: pragmatic refusal of the violence/non-violence dichotomy; reference to zapatismo; break with the twentieth-century experience; embrace of the symbolic terrain of confrontation."
"Yet a strange thing happened, explains Wu Ming in another text: "Some rhetorically opposed the white overall and the blue overall, and the former was used as a metaphor for post-Fordist labor – flexible, 'precarious,' temporary workers whom the bosses prevent from enjoying their rights and being represented by the unions." Between politics, class uncertainty and sheer word play, the Tute Bianche got into full swing. The technique of "protected direct action" – allowing ludicrously padded protestors to face blows from the police – was a way to invade, not just the media screens, but above all the minds of hundreds of thousands of other people. They converged in Genoa in July 2001, to open a real political debate in a country stifled by a neofascist consensus."
WHEW, what a long comment… and it goes on and on like that. For a little more on the subject some other day, check out the text itself (http://www.republicart.net/disc/artsabotage/holmes01_en.htm) and some stuff on this page, especially the sidebar: http://autonomousuniversity.org/content/eternal-network
best, Brian
hey BH, good to hear from you on this (and other matters), I'm all for the out-breaks of the carnivalesque and certainly humor is a welcome reworkinof all too often rigid (when not outright puritanical) shows of resistance but the powers that be are well geared for running long and wide and so I think we also need counter-moments that can endure, the age old question being how to keep focused and reflexive at the same time and avoid the tyranny of the means, keep the juices flowing if you will.
I'm with you. Social movements are complex, they only "work" because they are diverse and internally contradictory in some ways. What I described above was one aspect of a very extended "movement of movements" that included much analysis and strategy, that lasted in an intense ways for five or six years, and that reached back in deeper pasts, while also living on to influence and help shape the most recent cycle of struggles. After participating in that one I began to think about the many dimensions of social-movement struggles and I came up with the notion of "eventwork," encompassing aspects related to art, to territorial experience, to organizational and communication form, and to theory. All of these are quite different, they have their own people, places and temporalities, but the reason that we have social movements is that people show a willingness to open their particular kind of work up to others. It could be that one of the ways to endure, in a context so deeply marked by the kinds of instrumentalization that Edmund has been talking about in some recent posts, is to become more familiar with the diversity and complexity of contemporary social movements and more able to see the continuities beneath the ups and downs, the outbreaks and the retreats. So, yes, counter-moments that can endure, that seems to me like the most vital thing.
very good, tho being open/co-operating so often seems to get snagged/snarled in how to deal with expertise (some people are just more capable/knowing at specific tasks than others) and how to come to terms with emerging complexities, the inevitable tensions between desires/interests, and the whole snake-pit of our all-too-human cognitive-biases.
We are trying to work some of these issues/possibilities through @ syntheticzero.net
so please feel free to drop in and lend a hand or poke a weak-point as would be helpful.
this starts with Bifo, than Manning&Massumi @about 3 1/2 hrs in:
http://new.livestream.com/tedx/tedxcalarts
S.C. Hickman says:
In my mind I begin to see Lacan's notion of jouissance in the light of orgone, too.
Since for Lacan jouissance is the sense of a senseless libidinal surplus, experienced as lack, which is inerasable from the symbolic field: as such it retains a substantial status – elusive, and ultimately an unconscious substance, which – for Lacan at least, is secreted by the signifier the moment it comes into play, and henceforth it both drives and disturbs all human activity. ( Zizek's take) For Zizek what is captured in capitalism is exactly this the surplus value as surplus-jouissance, this elusive pleasure-pain that keeps us enslaved to the processes of capitalism: the work-consumer cycles which bleed from us our surplus-jouissance leaving us apathetic and devitalized; joyless. Ergo – Marx's notion of dead labour… Zombie capitalism, etc.


This gallery shows my yoke, the control column, and the improved rudder mechanism.
In this first picture the only yoke itself is shown. It is the same yoke as seen in other galleries but now with papermarche (small pieces of paper from newspapers soaked in the stuff that holds wallpaper on the wall).
from the side you can see the wiring of the trim-rockers, PTT and the AP disconntect button inside the metal frame that I bent and soldered from a strip of car sheet-metal.
the back side. on the very right side of the picture you can see the PTT button.
again the front. I used the plastic tube where photography film-rolls are usually stored in and it cut-down. This is what you see in the center of the yoke where the axis comes through. It helps to keep that area free from papermarche and will later hide the threaded rod and the nuts.
trim rocker switches and PTT button.
Overall shot of the control column/rudder board with the yoke mounted.
rudder pedal mechanism. Improved from version in previous gallery.
the improved version uses a real square tube aluminum profile.
how the rudder is linked to a pot.
the small gear sits on the pot, the big one is the axis of the rudder crossbar.
closer, with the pot and the wires visible.
from the top with the big gear visible under the crossbar.
looking into the hole: two screws, one for the axis, the other for holding the gear so it will move with the crossbar.
there is some angular movement which the rubber band works wonderfully with. this is still with full throw right.
full throw left with the crossbar and the links going to the rudder arms visible in closeup.


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from nose.tools import eq_
from unittest import TestCase
from allmychanges.models import Changelog
from allmychanges.digest import (
    get_digest_for,
    mark_digest_sent_for)
from django.utils import timezone
from allmychanges.tests.utils import create_user
from hamcrest import (
    assert_that,
    has_entries,
    has_length,
    contains)

class DigestTests(TestCase):
    def setUp(self):
        self.changelog = Changelog.objects.create(
            namespace='python', name='pip', source='test')
        self.user = create_user('art')
        self.user.track(self.changelog)

        now = timezone.now()

        # we already know about one version
        for idx in range(1, 11):
            version = self.changelog.versions.create(
                number='0.{}.0'.format(idx),
                discovered_at=now)
            self.user.add_feed_item(version)

    def test_if_we_didn_have_a_mark_show_all(self):
        digest = get_digest_for(self.user)

        assert_that(digest,
                    contains(
                        has_entries(
                            name='pip',
                            versions=has_length(10))))

    def test_when_mark_is_saved_digest_returns_empty_list(self):
        mark_digest_sent_for(self.user)
        digest = get_digest_for(self.user)
        eq_(0, len(digest))


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VP Guy Rosen said the social networking site had restored all the incorrectly deleted posts after users complained that links to stories were blocked
An illustration of mobile users next to a screen projection of the Facebook logo, March 28, 2018.Credit: Dado Ruvic / Reuters
Facebook said a bug in its anti-spam system temporarily blocked the publication of links to news stories about the coronavirus. Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of integrity, said on Twitter Tuesday that the company was working on a fix for the problem.
Users complained that links to news stories about school closings and other information related to the virus outbreak were blocked by the company's automated system.
Later on Tuesday, Rosen tweeted that Facebook had restored all the incorrectly deleted posts, which also covered topics beyond the coronavirus.
Rosen said the problems were unrelated to any changes in Facebook's content-moderator workforce. The company reportedly sent its human moderators home this week because of the coronavirus outbreak.
A representative for Facebook did not immediately respond to questions on the status of Facebook's content moderators, many of whom do not work directly for the company and are not always able to work from home.


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Remaking the Association Workplace
New Ways to Work
A Workplace Focused on Results
July 18, 2022 By Lisa Boylan
The visionary CEO of the Women in Trucking Association rejects the notion that her employees need to be managed. Instead, they need clear expectations about results and the flexibility and freedom to achieve them in their own way.
Ellen Voie's shorthand summary of her management strategy at the Women in Trucking Association sounds both simple and radical.
"We don't have vacations, we don't have holidays, we don't have set hours," said Voie, WIT's CEO. "We just pay people to get their work done."
Far from being a provocative or idealistic statement of what a workplace could be like, Voie's results-only philosophy is reality for the six employees of WIT, a 6,500-member organization committed to gender diversity and inclusion for women working in nontraditional careers in transportation.
Voie founded WIT 15 years ago with only one other employee, a director of member services, on the payroll. "We just did our jobs," Voie said. And when they started adding more staff members, they didn't start drafting complicated management policies.
A Hands-Off Approach
WIT's unconventional culture is a byproduct of Voie's preference for hands-off management. "I'm an entrepreneur, founder of the association, and more of the visionary," she said. "I like telling people, 'This is your job, get it done. And when it's done, report back.'" She reasons that if you're already trusting people to work for you, you're setting expectations, and "you should be able to trust them to manage their time."
"I like telling people, 'This is your job, get it done. And when it's done, report back.'" —Ellen Voie, Women in Trucking Association
Everyone on staff works remotely—always has—and employees set their own schedules. "We accommodate families very well. It's the best place for a woman to work," Voie said. A case in point is WIT Vice President Lana Nichols, who has worked for the group for nine years and recently had her fourth child. WIT is the first organization Nichols has worked for with this kind of flexible, results-driven culture.
"I would never go back to a corporate world where you have to clock in," said Nichols, whose children range in age from one to nine years old. "There is so much more freedom and flexibility in this type of culture."
Voie says the advantages are manifold for the organization too. Employee productivity is higher because staff can be more efficient with their time. And job-related stress is much lower. "The flexibility allows me to work from anywhere," Nichols said. "If I'm visiting family in another state, I can still get connected and make sure projects are running smoothly."
Motivation Matters
Voie acknowledges that not everyone is well-suited for a workplace that relies so heavily on self-direction and independence. In hiring, she seeks out candidates who exhibit traits like self-motivation and a proven ability to manage their time effectively, at work and in the other aspects of their lives.
A recent WIT hire not only works full time, but also juggles homeschooling her children and taking them to various sports practices. "We knew that her time management skills had to be excellent," Voie said. She also looks for people who are volunteering in the community and involved in other altruistic endeavors. "It shows they have an internal desire to succeed," she said.
WIT also uses the CliftonStrengths assessment to help employees and board members discover their own natural talents and how to turn those talents into strengths they can bring to the organization.
The three assessment traits that Nichols said identify her as self-motivated are achiever, maximizer, and responsibility. "I'm goal-oriented and I take ownership over the projects and programs I am involved in because I have that responsibility to my team," she said. "It's my motivation to excel. I don't want to let other people down."
Mindful Flexibility
WIT's time-off policy is informal. When an employee wants to take time off, they are expected to be mindful of any upcoming WIT conferences and important projects and to schedule their time accordingly. Essential work may need to be done in advance, and it's never acceptable to drop a ball that will affect someone else, Voie said.
"There is no 50-50 work and life balance," Nichols said. "Sometimes there are bigger things going on in your personal life, or there are bigger things going on in your professional life. Having that flexibility to give each the attention that it needs without being confined to a 9-to-5 schedule is less stressful and you're able to accomplish what you need both professionally and personally."
WIT's flexible approach might be daunting for a lot of groups that are used to a more traditional office cadence, but its emphasis on trust and accountability has never failed, Voie said.
"If people trusted people to do their jobs and get their work done, they wouldn't be let down," she said. "We treat each other like adults."
Better Use of Time
A results-only workplace focuses on what employees produce rather than on time spent at their desks. And if they're not required to be at their desks, that means they're not wasting precious hours getting to and from the office. That regained time can be put to better use, says Women in Trucking Vice President Lana Nichols.
"You lose a lot of time commuting and being in your car," Nichols said. "You're not being efficient, you're not present for your children, and you're not really doing anything that is useful for your organization."
The extra time allows employees to set up their day in a way that is more efficient personally and professionally. "I would highly recommend it," she said. "Job satisfaction goes way up when you are in control of your time and can manage that time."
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associationsnow.com.
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giovanni francesco susini (1585– c. 1653)
Florence, 1st half 17th century
The Farnese Bull
After the Antique
Bronze, dark olive patina with traces of translucent lacquer
46.5 cm (18¼ in.) high
38 cm (15 in.) wide
38 cm (15 in.) deep
Private collection, United Kingdom
Roman, 2nd–3rd century ad, The
Farnese Bull, marble, 370 cm high
Naples, Museo Archeologico Nazionale
Born in Florence towards the end of the sixteenth century, Giovanni Francesco, or
Gianfrancesco, Susini learned the art of bronze casting from his uncle Antonio,
one of the most talented disciples of the undisputed master bronzier of the period,
the great Giambologna (1529–1608). Indeed, the biographer Filippo Baldinucci
(1624–1697) writes in his Notizie on Antonio Susini (ed. Ranalli, 1846, IV, p. 110) that
the sculptor was greatly esteemed by Giambologna, who sent him to Rome to
make copies of the finest statues in that city. Among these was the monumental
marble group referred to as the Farnese Bull, which had been excavated in 1545
in the Baths of Caracalla and had entered the prestigious Farnese collection the
following year, to be restored by Gian Battista Bianchi in 1579 (fig. 1). Antonio
Susini made several bronze statuettes of this ancient marble, though interestingly
Baldinucci describes the model at some length as being one of the works of his
nephew Gianfrancesco, whom the writer knew personally (ed. Ranalli, 1846,
IV, p. 118).
This spectacular bronze group is expertly cast (in several components invisibly
joined together) and chased. The nude parts of the human bodies and the hides
of the little animals are well polished, while the whole surface of the mound
on which the action takes place is treated with a matt punch in neat lines that
carefully follow and emphasize its contours, while one or two areas are left
smooth, by way of contrast.
The group is a massive, hollow cast that conforms inside to the shape of the
mound. To this some figures were attached by shaping the ends of their casting
sprues into tangs, which were then hammered through holes in the mound, for
example beneath the rear legs of the dog, visible from below; or by tapping on a
screw thread, to which a nut may be applied, once it has passed down through a
hole bored in the mound – as, for example, in the complete figure of the attendant
at the rear right corner.
Beneath the collapsed body of Dirce awaiting her punishment, thick iron-wire
armatures project down around some refractory material from the core. Some
rectangular insertions of metal (for example, when seen from below, one more or
less in the centre and others in lower left and upper right corners) are not fixings


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AARON PRITCHETT with Special Guest CORY MARQUARDT and introducing KING & CASH
Gabby's Country Cabaret
20297 Fraser Hwy.
Cory Marquardt,King & Cash
Aaron Pritchett Links
Outlaws And Outsiders Tour
AARON PRITCHETT
CORY MARQUARDT
KING & CASH
Monday, January 19 at Gabby's Country Cabaret in Langley.
Tickets are $45.00 (plus Service Charges)
Charge by phone at 1-888-222-6608 or online at www.ticketweb.ca.
TICKETS ON SALE NOVEMBER 7TH!
Rock.It Boy Entertainment and New Country JRFM 93.7 presents Outlaws And Outsiders Tour featuring AARON PRITCHETT with Special Guest CORY MARQUARDT and introducing KING & CASH Monday, January 19 at Gabby's Country Cabaret, 20297 Fraser Highway, Langley. Tickets are $45.00 (plus Service Charges). Charge by phone at 1-888-222-6608 or online at www.ticketweb.ca.
AARON PRITCHETT is a true superstar. Having grown up in small-town BC, he is a Canadian born and bred. His earliest musical influences came from 80's rock, but the down-home feel of rural life is the story told by country music; the story still told by Aaron today. His parade of hits includes "Hold My Beer", "Lets Get Rowdy", "Hell Bent for Buffalo", "My Way", "Big Wheel" and "Done You Wrong". With his most recent single, "Suntan City", climbing the charts, it is abundantly clear Pritchett's music continues to resonate with the fans.
After spending over a decade at the forefront of the Canadian country music scene, Aaron is just as driven, and still just as excited for the future. As one of the hardest working and most sought after artists in the business, AARON PRITCHETT continues to wow his audiences all across the country. His fans describe him as humble, thoughtful and one of the nicest guys around and Aaron thanks them all personally via social media for their support. Little wonder he has a significant following of dedicated fans!
Pritchett has garnered serious attention from the industry as well, with numerous accolades and awards including CCMA Awards for Independent Male Artist of the Year (2004), Independent Song of the Year – "New Frontier" (2004) and SOCAN Songwriter of the Year – "Hold My Beer" (2007). His unwavering dedication to his fans is guaranteed to make this a concert you will never forget!
For more information about AARON PRITCHETT visit www.aaron-pritchett.com.
CORY MARQUARDT is another member of the new age of Country music. With one of the most dynamic and interesting new sounds on the Country Music scene, Marquardt delivers a voice with the requisite twang and an edge all his own. Paired with a songwriting talent as big as he is and the swagger of a seasoned pro you'll agree he was destined to be a country music star! A flurry of new fans are sure to embrace the soulful "Teach Me" and the heavy anthem "I Need A Beer".
The fresh enthusiasm of CORY MARQUARDT has already garnered serious notice earning him a pair of performances during Canadian Country Music Week in Edmonton this past September. Big things are in store for this up-and-comer; get on the train and enjoy the ride!
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KING & CASH is the new outfit fronted by Jordan Pritchett. This hot combo is bringing the sound styling of Florida Georgia Line with a definite Canadian twist that makes our homebred artists stand above the crowd. They are guaranteed to be a perfect part of this rockin' night of Outlaws and Outsiders!
Rock.It Boy Entertainment and New Country JRFM 93.7 present the Outlaws And Outsiders Tour featuring AARON PRITCHETT with Special Guest CORY MARQUARDT and introducing KING & CASH Monday, January 19 at Gabby's Country Cabaret, 20297 Fraser Highway, Langley. Tickets are $45.00 (plus Service Charges). Charge by phone at 1-888-222-6608 or online at www.ticketweb.ca. Doors 7:00 pm. Show 8:00 pm.
421 Cawston Avenue - Kelowna, BC
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Cold justice unmingled with mercy is not truly just. Likewise, a weak mercy without justice to give it strength, is not truly merciful. It is in blending the two together that perfect justice is achieved. The perfect blending of divine Love and Justice is demonstrated even in the punishment of the wicked. Yahuwah is a lover of freedom. He guarantees freedom of choice to all His created beings. Those who continue to side with the Great Rebel, Satan, will not be forcibly taken to Heaven against their will. Instead, they will receive their reward with Satan in the Lake of Fire. There is much misunderstanding about the punishment of the wicked in the Lake of Fire. Most people assume that the Lake of Fire spoken of in Scripture is a symbol for an eternally burning hell.
The reference to "the smoke of their torment" ascending up "forever and ever" has led many to believe that the divine punishment for sin is to consign the soul to burn in hell forever and ever. However, this interpretation of the text is not consistent with the rest of the Bible. Scripture must always be its own interpreter. Only then can a true and consistent understanding of "hell" be found.
Few lies of Satan have done more damage or led to the loss of more souls than the lie that Yahuwah punishes sinners in an eternally burning hell. It is not just that the sins committed in a single lifetime should be punished with eternal and unending torment. Even human justice is appalled at such injustice. This doctrine is a reflection of Satan's character; not Yahuwah's. Multitudes have been led to reject the loving, merciful Creator when taught that divine justice makes such a demand.
Scripture teaches that the wages of sin is death, not eternal life in torment.
Eternal life is a gift given only to the redeemed – those who, through repentance and forgiveness, have brought their lives into conformity to the divine law. All who persist in rebelling against the divine government receive sentence of eternal death. The ultimate punishment is death from which there is no resurrection. Even in human courts, death is viewed as the worst form of punishment fitting only the greatest crimes. "The smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever" is a reference to the fact that the lost are dead, not burning. A very hotly burning fire does not smoke. Only a fire that is about to go out, or that has already gone out, produces smoke.
When the millennium in heaven is over, Yahuwah will move the New Jerusalem, the seat of the divine government, down to earth.
The New Jerusalem is to be the eternal home of the redeemed. At that time, after the holy city has been brought to earth, the wicked dead will be raised back to life to receive their punishment on the earth. During the millennium in heaven, Satan and his evil angels have been bound to this earth. After the power of Yahuwah raises the wicked, Satan goes forth to again tempt and deceive those who have rejected salvation.
During the millennium, all Satan has been able to do is to look with fear and foreboding to his ultimate destruction in the Lake of Fire. Once the wicked have been raised back to life, however, his hopes revive. He again deceives the nations of the earth, repeating to them his age-old lies. Satan presents himself to them as the rightful owner of the earth and the beautiful city, glistening in all its splendor before their very eyes. The vast, unnumbered multitudes of the wicked believe his lies and unite with him in one great, final battle. According to Scripture, the wicked, led on by Satan and his hosts of evil angels, surround the holy city and prepare to battle against it.
This last act of rebellion is cut short when Yahuwah sends fire down from heaven. It does not spring up from hell, as many imagine. Rather, like the fire and brimstone that rained down on Sodom and Gomorrah of old, fire rains down out of heaven upon Satan and his followers and they are consumed.
To our merciful and loving Creator, punishment is a strange work. It is contrary to His very character. However, He will not force anyone to be saved against his will. All who persist in aligning themselves with the great rebel, Satan, will meet their destruction in the Lake of Fire with the leader they have chosen.
"For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith . . . [Yahuwah] of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Ashes are what are left after a fire has gone out. Satan, his evil angels, and all who have chosen to follow his leadership will be at last consumed in the Lake of Fire. No eternally burning hell will keep before the righteous the fearful consequences of sin.
After sin and sinners are destroyed, the long-held dream of the Father and the Son is realized with the recreation of the earth.
"For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
"And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying . . .
The earth, cleansed by the Lake of Fire, recreated by the loving hand of Infinite Love, will be the eternal home of the saved and the seat of government in the Kingdom of Love.
"And the years of eternity, as they roll, will bring richer and still more glorious revelations of . . . [Yahuwah] and of . . . [Yahushua]. As knowledge is progressive, so will love, reverence, and happiness increase. The more men learn of . . . [Yahuwah], the greater will be their admiration of His character. As . . . [Yahushua] opens before them the riches of redemption and the amazing achievements in the great controversy with Satan, the hearts of the ransomed thrill with more fervent devotion, and with more rapturous joy they sweep the harps of gold; and ten thousand times ten thousand and thousands of thousands of voices unite to swell the mighty chorus of praise. . . .