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New harassment and violence prevention policy for federally-regulated employers
Federally-regulated employers will wish to take note of the Federal government's implementation of new Work Place Harassment and Violence Prevention Regulations. These are intended to replace the violence prevention section of the Canada Occupational Health and Safety Regulations.
The new regulations broaden the definition of harassment and violence to include "any action, conduct or comment, including of a sexual nature, that can reasonably be expected to cause offence, humiliation or other physical or psychological injury or illness to an employee." With this change, the government seeks to improve its previously fragmented scheme for addressing harassment, including sexual harassment, and sexual violence in the workplace.
Most of the changes involve mandatory training and the creation of policies to identify, handle and prevent occurrences of harassment and violence. Some of the requirements include:
Providing harassment and violence prevention training to everyone in the workplace;
Developing (jointly with a health and safety committee or representative) a prevention policy that outlines information on how the organization will address harassment and violence in their workplace;
Following a new resolution process, which requires that employers respond to every notification of harassment or violence, and engage in ongoing communication after the occurrence;
Providing guidance for how the employer should be informed of external dangers, such as family violence and stalking;
Providing information to employees of available support services;
Conducting workplace assessments at least every three years;
Providing harassment and violence training at least every three years, including on techniques for prevention, de-escalation and response to occurrences;
Restricting policy and workplace committees from participating in harassment or violence-related investigations; and
Being responsible for former employee complaints up to three months after an employee leaves.
The new regulations were spurred by a survey which identified the "widespread nature of harassment and violence in the workplace, including sexual harassment and sexual violence." In response, the Government of Canada introduced Bill C-65, An Act to amend the Canada Labour Code (harassment and violence). The law is expected to take effect in 2019.
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La particularité de cette chanson est qu'il s'agit de la seule de la discographie du groupe sur laquelle Matthew Bellamy ne joue ni de la guitare ni du piano. Il n'y a d'ailleurs pas de batterie non plus mais celle-ci est remplacée par une programmation électronique.
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Q: Data loss while transferring excel file as Spring response My use case is to have my application download a excel(.xls) from the server. The excel is supposed to have graphs in it.
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I also checked with setting the content type to 'OCTET-STREAM' but with no luck.
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How do I transfer an excel file without data loss?

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The Collider connects people in more ways than one. It is also home to a co-working facility available for businesses focused on climate solutions. Petersen says Asheville has been "a hub" for climate science and research, so it only makes sense that such an organization is based here — in "Climate City." The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has a National Center for Environmental Information downtown. In other words, Asheville is the intellectual capital of climate scientists, Petersen says.
Just as the scientific community is robust in Asheville, so is its artistic cohort. That's why the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, along with other local organizations, has invested in a software tool to better quantify arts-related data. Creative Vitality Suite (CV Suite) was developed by Westaf, an organization partially funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, whose goals are dedicated to the creative advancement and preservation of the arts. Partner organizations include the Asheville Area Arts Council, Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce/EDC, City of Asheville, Center for Craft, Creativity & Design, River Arts District Artists, and UNC Asheville.
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I think we have moved past that kind of quibble. The two basic guides aiming to be helpful about 'how common' are the McComas Taylor guide (still) and the COG list, to be found on the website. Both of those embody the idea of likelihood of finding the species in suitable habitat at the right time of year. The first gives the L Kookaburra as 'very common', the latter as 'common'.
Whether a Kookaburra is usual or unusual in backyard X or backyard Y is a separate issue. The answer to John's question is that Kookaburras are not becoming unusual in Canberra. However, one might be unusual in a particular backyard. There is no standard of 'important enough to report' for this chatline..
Yes. That supports my point. I expect we all have a reasonable perception of those 3 ideas. There isn't a good word and un just means not. Thus, at a stretch "uncommon" as in "not common" could also be very rare or super abundant. "Not seen often" is still vague.
Even those quotes are not overly helpful. I reckon in our context "common" should relate more to abundance, rather than just recording rate (how often something is found).
Good question and the issue is largely semantics. It is sad and strange that there is no English word that bridges the gap between "common" and "rare". We only have access to a hot potch of poorly defined adjectival additions like "un, moderately, rather," etc that vaguely fill in gaps.
As for kookaburras, they are very territorial and need suitable habitat and food (that may not be suburban), so the presence of sufficient suitable habitat is going to impact on where they are seen.
Are kookaburras becoming so unusual in Canberra that the sighting of them is important enough to report? The Report still calls them Common Breeding Resident. But also notes that there is a slow decline. Is the fact that I see and hear them almost every day from my place (Nicholls, backing onto Ginninderra Creek) deluding me into thinking they are still common? At what point do the editors list them as Uncommon Breeding Resident?
I heard a kookaburra at home (Kambah) last week. Also unusual, though not a first. They are regularly perched on the light poles on Tuggeranong Parkway adjacent to Mt Taylor.
I have seen kookaburras in Telopia Park, Barton on two occasions in the last week or two.
went into my front yard right now to find out what the commotion was about - and found a kookaburra sitting in my leafless ash tree, just metres from the front doot. The first one in my yard that I can ever remember. The local noisy miners, magpies and pied currawongs are not happy!


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Iran Unrest: Protests and Provocations, by Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
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Electronic communications and foreign media act as today's Trojan Horse. Sculpture from American Film "Troy."
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) Newsletter Volume 38 Number 1 Winter 2020
November 24, 2019, Iran: When protests in Hong Kong, Iraq, and Lebanon erupted, I was fully anticipating protests in Iran to follow. In 2018 alone, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) had spent millions of dollars in these countries (and elsewhere) to promote America's agenda. However, I did not expect unrest in Iran to take place while I was visiting the country. In retrospect, I am glad that I was here to be witness to these latest events.
On Thursday, November 21st, friends took me to an Iranian restaurant in the heart of the city. During our lunch, they talked about there being a price hike in gasoline. After lunch, we walked around the charming downtown area of Tehran, visited shops, and, exhausted, climbed into a cab. We asked the cab driver if he had heard anything about prices going up. He told us that this was just a rumor. Only rumor it was not. A few short hours later, at midnight, the price hike went into effect. The next day was Friday, a holiday in Iran. The increase in the price of gasoline took Iranians by surprise. Regrettably, the government of President Rouhani had not explained the rationale behind the price increase prior to the increase itself. In several parts of Iran, protests erupted—perhaps justified, and they were peaceful. One could argue they were disruptive in that cars blocked roads, making it difficult for others, causing traffic jams, but there was no vandalism on the first day —not to my knowledge.
But calm soon gave way to violence. A friend who lives in the suburbs of Tehran, in Karaj, told me that on a single street in that sleepy suburb, protestors had set four banks on fire. Elsewhere, police stations were attacked, and banks and gas stations set on fire. Businesses were set on fire and destroyed. People were sending text messages to each other giving locations of alleged protests in the hopes of gathering people in one spot or another.
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This did not surprise me. I was certain that a "swarming" tactic was being implemented. It was first developed by the U.S. strategic think tank, RAND, as a military and tactical tool. RAND's publication "Swarming & the Future of Conflict" states:
"In Athena's Camp,[1] we speculated that swarming is already emerging as an appropriate doctrine for networked forces to wage information-age conflict. This nascent doctrine derives from the fact that robust connectivity allows for the creation of a multitude of small units of maneuver, networked in such a fashion that, although they might be widely distributed, they can still come together, at will and repeatedly, to deal resounding blows to their adversaries. This study builds on these earlier findings by inquiring at length into why and how swarming might be emerging as a preferred mode of conflict for small, dispersed, internetted units. In our view, swarming will likely be the future of conflict."
Social conflict also features pack-like organizations, as exemplified by modern-day 'soccer hooligans.' They generally operate in a loosely dispersed fashion, then swarm against targets of opportunity who are 'cut out' from a larger group of people. The use of modern information technologies—from the Internet to cell phones—has facilitated plans and operations by such gangs. [2]
Swarming depends on robust information flow and is a necessary condition for the success of this tactic. In other words, by controlling communication and sending texts to "protesters," random groups are mobilized together in one or various spots. Chaos ensues, which naturally draws reaction. One is never aware of the origin of the messages. Interestingly, in one of her talks, Suzanne Maloney seemed to know the exact number of cell phones in use in Iran.[3] (Maloney is the deputy director of foreign relations and senior fellow at the Brookings Center for Middle East Policy, where her research focuses on Iran and Persian Gulf energy.) These text messages in Iran increased in number, as did the vandalism and the reaction to the destructive behavior. This was not the first time that this tactic had been used in Iran. But it was the first time that Iran's adversaries were surprised, shocked even, to see that Iran was capable of shutting down the Internet so quickly in order to put a stop to the spread of violence and restore calm.
I drove around in Tehran from end to end, either with friends or in a cab, and took note of the streets. I watched both Iranian TV news and foreign media such as BBC Persian, Voice of America (VOA), Radio Farda (the U.S.-funded Iranian branch of VOA broadcasting from Prague), and Saudi-funded Iran International broadcast into Iran through satellite (at times jammed), all encouraging people to get out on the streets and protest.
Iran was covered under a blanket of snow. With freezing temperatures, I was amused to see BBC Persian show pictures of "demonstrators" in T-shirts. I was angry to see Reza Pahlavi, the deposed shah of Iran appear on Iran International encouraging people to get out onto the streets. I felt insulted on behalf of every Iranian when U. S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo retweeted an old tweet and then tweeted again that he "was with the Iranian people" – not with them so they could eat, or receive medicinal goods, or with them to address their desire for peace and security, but with the idea that they could endure all kinds of hardship and be subjected to American terrorism (sanctions) and go out on the streets to protest in order to promote America's agenda.
The hostile foreign media even showed pictures of a "protestor" handing out flowers to security personnel – a symbol first used against the Pentagon in 1967 by a woman protesting the Vietnam War (and later in the 2014 US-backed coup in Ukraine). Except that I could not tell if the picture I saw streaming through the foreign media's satellite television was in Iran or not. The viewer was told it was. The symbol was powerful, but I doubt very much that it was an indigenous one.
With the Internet disconnected, foreign media propaganda then had its viewers believe people were calling from inside Iran; eyewitnesses were reporting events. They heard a voice telling BBC, or Iran International, what was going on ¾ just a voice which would no doubt then be picked up as eyewitness testimony and shared in all media outlets. The ease with which individuals in various target countries always manage to get directly through to television stations has always fascinated me. No automated answer ¾ just straight to the newsroom.
In all this, I can't help but ask why it was that none of the banks and gas stations set on fire, buildings burnt, and businesses ruined were located in the pro-West parts of Tehran. There life continued without a hitch – homes were safe, businesses were safe. After all, the main reason for the gasoline price increase was to help the less affluent and the poor. Perhaps, as Daniel McAdams of the Ron Paul Institute said of the CIA's role behind the uprisings: Michael D'Andrea, aka "Ayatollah Mike," who runs the CIA's Iran operations, wanted these pro-Western entities to be safe.
The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a public-private agency funded by funded by the U.S. government but without Congressional oversight.
Regardless of the reason, CIA/NED spent millions and failed in Iran—again.
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich is an independent researcher and writer with a focus on U.S. foreign policy. Her writings are published nationally and internationally, and she is a guest political commentator on radio and television.
[1] The reference to Athena is because "…where warfare is about information, the superior deity is Athena—the Greek goddess of wisdom who sprang fully armed from Zeus's head…Athena sided with the Greeks in the Trojan War, where she bested Ares on the battlefield and conceived the idea of the wooden 'gift horse' secretly loaded with Greek soldiers." John Arquilla and David Ronfeldt. "Information, Power, and Grand Strategy: In Athena's Camp." Rand Corporation. tinyurl.com/wvyqdye
[2] RAND cited: Sullivan, John, "Third Generation Street Gangs: Turf, Cartels, and Net Warriors," Transnational Organized Crime, Vol. 3, No. 3, Autumn 1997, pp. 95–108. tinyurl.com/rzlfef8
[3] "U.S. Policy toward Iran." Discussion sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. April 29, 2019. C-SPAN.org
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So last night after battling through flooded roads and torrential downpours, we arrived safely at Jedburgh Jail.
Cam started the night off with the lone vigil in the men's wing as voted for by you lovely fans.
Claire and David took the guests to the women's Wing.
Cam started the lone vigil sat downstairs in the men's wing on a chair, in the middle of the corridor. A call out was done, a few shuffling noises and taps could be heard. She then proceeded up the stairs to the worst part of the men's wing.
Once upstairs, cam setup the Sb7 spirit box and placed the rempod halfway down the corridor.
Cam done a call out and again a few noises were heard. Nothing came through on the Sb7 but the rempod did go off twice.
Checkout the video of the live feed on our page.
Whilst Cam was completing her lone vigil, David and Claire began the night with guests taking part in the white light protection and opening their senses as they went to the women's wing. We completed our white light protection and settled into some calling out. Quickly guests started to report a child holding their hand. Over the course of the night this happened to 3 women, one lady picked up on the name Nicolas.
Shadows were seen moving around the cells and guests reported feeling cold drafts around their legs, as though a child was moving between us.
We had people feeling nauseous so decided to split the group with some people going downstairs. Again a child was picked up, this time a female child who had difficulty in walking.
The child was able to manipulate the environmental temperature around the woman's hand as evidenced by the temperature gun going to requested temperatures.
The men's wing brought about feelings of general uneasiness, but no equipment was affected (unlike Cams experience of the rempod!), we held a ouija board session in a cell and made contact with an energy who took a dislike to David. But again the spirit was unable to affect any equipment.
Some of the group stayed behind on the ouija with Claire, we made contact with a man who gave full name and year of birth (1416) he told us he was 23 when he died. He was fearful of what awaited him should he cross over, he wanted help. Claire made a white light for him and he saw his father figure, we asked him to move the planchett to goodbye when he crossed over and as soon as we said that the planchett moved to goodbye. It was a lovely experience in the men's wing (there's a first).
As we settled to bed several others kept on ghost stalking, they reported that they had fantastic experiences in the women's wing. Again in the dead of the night guests reported to hearing bangs and crashes as they tried to sleep, is it the echos of the past still playing or spirits attempting to gain someone's attention. I think next sleepover needs someone to stay all night up there!!!
Thank you to all who attended for such great energy throughout a cold night. We look forward to seeing you all again soon.
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Juhász Sándor (horvátul Šandor Juhas, Pélmonostor, 1954. július 12.) horvátországi magyar pedagógus, politikus. 2002-től a Magyar Egyesületek Szövetsége elnöke, 2014 és 2016 között a horvát parlament, a Szábor horvátországi magyar nemzetiségi képviselője.

Életpályája

Iskolai tanulmányait szülővárosában végezte, majd az újvidéki Természettudományi Egyetemen kezdte meg egyetemi tanulmányait, ahol 1979-ben végzett földrajz szakon. Diplomázását követően az eszéki községi hivatalban kezdett el dolgozni, belső elhárítási feladatokat látott el, majd 1988-ban az Eszéki Népfőiskola munkatársa lett. 1996-ban a Pélmonostori Gazdasági Szakközépiskola földrajztanára lett. Tanári munkája mellett Pélmonostor sportéletében is aktív volt: versenyszerűen kosárlabdázott, később a csapat edzője lett. Ezenkívül 1997-ben a Pélmonostori Magyar Kultúregyesület alapítója volt, az egyesület 1999-ben elnökévé választotta.

A helyi politikai közéletben a délszláv háborút követően lett aktív, amikor előbb a pélmonostori városi elöljáróságon volt magyar képviselő, majd a városi tanács tagja lett. Ezenkívül 2003 és 2014 között az Észak-Baranya Megyei Kisebbségi Önkormányzat képviselője is volt. 2002-ben a Magyar Egyesületek Szövetsége (MESZ) elnökévé választották, amelynek jelöltjeként a 2011-es horvátországi parlamenti választáson Sója Dénes helyettes képviselőjévé választották. 2014-ben, Sója lemondása után, a horvátországi magyarok parlamenti képviselője lett. Hivatali esküjét április 4-én tette le. A 2015-ös választáson szoros eredménnyel megválasztották képviselővé (Juhász 50,23%-os eredményt ért el, míg ellenfele, Jankovics Róbert 49,77%-ot). A választás után megalakult Száborban a nemzetiségi képviselők frakciójának vezetőjévé választották. A 2016-os parlamenti választásokon szoros versenyben alulmaradt Jankoviccsal szemben.

2014 és 2016 között a horvát parlamentben a nemzetiségi képviselők, illetve a független képviselők frakciójában ült, az emberi jogi és nemzetiségi, valamint a helyi és regionális önkormányzati bizottságok tagja volt. A MESZ elnökeként tagja a Magyar Állandó Értekezletnek, illetve a Kárpát-medencei Magyar Képviselők Fórumának.

2017-ben az általa vezetett MESZ ellen végrehajtást kezdeményezett a horvát számvevőszék, mivel több mint 1 millió kunával nem tudtak elszámolni. Juhász ekkor lemondott tisztségéről, a végrehajtási folyamat még nem zárult le. Az eset során felmerült a korrupció és a vesztegetés gyanúja is.

Jegyzetek

Források

Életrajz a MESZ honlapján
Adatlap a Szábor oldalán
A 2015-ös választás eredménye

Magyar pedagógusok
Horvátországi politikusok
1954-ben született személyek
Élő személyek
Horvátországi magyarok


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Home Politics Student Senate discusses the campaigning process for future
Student Senate discusses the campaigning process for future
By Rob Casavant
File photo by Hayley Harding
If all the resolutions posed at Wednesday's Ohio University Student Senate meeting pass, elections will look very different this spring.
Much of the time was spent discussing resolutions proposed by the elections committee that would impact the electoral process for Student Senate.
Led by Lead Parliamentarian Landen Lama, the elections committee set out to find solutions regarding three main issues in the electoral process. The issues at hand were the campaigning period, financial restrictions and the structure in which candidates run for senate.
The elections committee collected research from ten universities when preparing their own legislation, including the University of Connecticut and the University of Oregon. Looking at other schools' student government electoral processes gave the committee an opportunity to see what was working around the country and to develop a baseline for Ohio University's structure.
Beginning with campaign structure, Lama and other members of the committee wanted to create equality between those running independently and those running as a part of a ticket.
One resolution stated that for executive members, Student Appropriations Commission at-large senators and current at-large senators would run under a ticket, while college and residential senators would run as independent candidates.
The proposed ticket model would consist of 17 individuals, including a president, vice president, treasurer, SAC senators and other at-larges consisting of council members and senators. This would be a departure from the current ticket size, which is 34 candidates.
Decreasing the size of political tickets, according to committee member Jacob Haskins, would make running as an independent more viable and would "make everything more democratic."
Moving forward, the committee also proposed a more structured timeline of elections for the future, including a distinction between passive campaigning and active campaigning. In the past, all campaigning has fallen under the active category.
Under new passive campaigning policies, compared to a soft opening for a business, candidates will be allowed to set up social media accounts and amass a following. They will also be allowed to involve themselves as candidates in discussion with various social organizations to plan for meetings.
This proposal also includes the addition of a transition period for elected officials, occurring between April 4 and 20.
The next area of the election process the committee set out to improve was the opportunity for candidate accountability. All members of the committee felt that there was a need for an increased voice from those running and proposed Resolution 1516-64, which would create debates for candidates.
Executive tickets will have no less than two debates, and independent candidates will have no less than one debate. Having debates will reveal candidates qualified to be in office and expose those who were hoping to be a shoo-in riding on the "coattails of executives," Lama said.
"Speaking as an independent, I would have loved to have this kind of debate when I was running," committee member Andrew Price said. "It would've helped me to get my name out there."
The elections committee also created several proposals to change campaign funding.
Resolution 1516-61 suggested an increase in the finance cap for campaigns. Previously capped at roughly $500, the Committee proposed that those running under a ticket be able to accumulate up to $2,600 while independents would be capped at $900.
A separate proposal would limit individual donors to a maximum of $150, and student organizations to a maximum of $400.
Resolution 1516-63 suggested there be no cap on the number of donors a candidate may have so long as they do not pass their financial cap. Furthermore, in-kind donations (both goods and services) would be separate from the financial cap and would be restrained to an estimation of roughly $100
Senators moved to table most resolutions because they felt too much information had been thrown at them.
The only Resolution discussed by the elections committee that was voted on was Resolution 1516-64, which focused on creating debates, which passed unanimously.
The night ended with a note from Gabby Bacha, president of the Student Senate, who stressed the importance of communication when planning the agenda of future meetings, as many senate members were overwhelmed by how extensive the Election's Committee's discussion was.
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Books March 29, 2009
Jewish Dogs
Kenneth Stow, Jewish Dogs, Stanford University Press, 2006
Kenneth Stow
Kenneth Stow is Emeritus Professor of Jewish History at the University of Haifa, Israel, and one of the leading experts on the history of Roman Jewry.
Jewish Dogs is not a study of "anti-Semitism" or "anti-Judaism." Instead, this book argues that to anchor claims of supersession, Catholics have viewed Jews as metaphoric—and sometimes not so metaphoric—dogs. The dog has for millennia been the focus of impurity, and Catholicism fosters doctrines of physical purity that go hand in hand with those of ritual purity. The purity is that of the "one loaf" spoken of by Paul in Corinthians that is, at once, the Eucharist and the collective Christian Corpus, the body of the faithful. Paul views this "loaf" as physically corruptible, and as John Chrysostom said at the close of the fourth century, the greatest threat to the loaf's purity are the Jews. They are the dogs who wish to steal the bread that belongs exclusively to the children. Eventually, Jews were said to attack the "loaf" through ritual murder and attempts to defile the Host itself; the victim of ritual murder is identified with the Host, as is common in Catholic martyrdom. Pope Pius IX still spoke of Jewish dogs barking throughout the streets of Rome in 1871. Other Catholic clergy were dismayed. This book is thus as much a study of Catholic doctrinal history as it is a study of Jews.
Jewish Life in Early Modern Rome
Conversation with Lia Levi
Hymns & Qualms: An Interview with Peter Cole
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Like many other countries, extremely vulnerable to climate change is Indonesia too and it has a direct impact on the livelihood of the people living in the rural parts of the country. With both the dry and the rainy season lasting longer than the expected, resulting in the rise of the risk of drought and flood, both severely affecting the major agricultural activities and ultimately the food supply of the country, it has been a serious necessity for Indonesia to implement the best available technology and fight the nightmare that climate change has started leaving upon the Indonesian people.
The EASI-PAY program at aQysta is one of such attempt where we try to help farmers fight the toll of climate change and reduce its direct effect on the food supply. EASI-PAY holds the concept that farmers can buy the Barsha Pump (a pump that doesn't require any fuel or electricity to be operated) now, use it for irrigating their crops, and pay for it only after a "Good Harvest" is met.
This is our attempt to continue dry-season farming and reduce crop failure in Indonesia where drought is very much likely and mouths to feed are rising like ever.
In 2015, the population of Lai Pandak Village, East Sumba, NTT, went through extreme hunger. Due to the unpredictable climate volatility - a long dry season and a short rainy season, supply of corn which is their regular food, was exhausted. To keep their stomach full, villagers of Laipandak started gathering sweet potatoes from the forest for consumption. But these sweet potatoes were not normal sweet potatoes. They were poisonous. When eaten, these sweet potatoes can cause straight death. Therefore, Lai Pandak villagers had to process the potatoes through a long and careful process. But that was not easy either. Holding it for too long would cause skin irritation and rashes. But, left with no choice than to starve, despite knowing how poisonous they are, Lai Pandak villagers ate those potatoes risking their life just for the sake of the survival.
Now the condition in Lai Pandak has changed. Thanks to MAX FM Radio, our partner organization in Indonesia, who introduced the Barsha Pump to the Laipandak residents, through aQysta's EASI-PAY program. Lai Pandak villagers can now grow vegetables even in the dry season without depending on rainfall and worrying about which crops to plant when. With the Barsha Pump, water from the river is flowed into their farm easily and on zero operating cost and without emitting any harmful gases. And through the training from the Max FM Radio team, Lai Pandak residents are now learning how to grow vegetables organically too.
Not only are they free from hunger and malnutrition, the Lai Pandak farmers group, which initially had no income and were forced to eat life-taking not-so-sweet potatoes during the dry season, can now not only consume but also sell the remaining, and profit up to 40 million rupiahs per harvest.


The old expression that "nothing is certain except death and taxes" will take on a new meaning on Jan 1, 2011.
As you may know, the rules governing Federal Death taxes were changed back in 2001, and the current laws will expire at the end of this year. This year there is no Federal Estate Tax, so no matter how large an estate, people who die in 2010 will have no Federal Death taxes. However, effective Jan 1, 2011 the old rules come back, and any estate over $1 Million will be subject to Estate taxes, which can be as much as 55-60%. Most estate planning practitioners expected Congress to change the tax rules prior to Dec 31, 2009, but in their dedication to pass health care reform, they didn't get around to addressing the Estate tax.
How will this affect you? If you die with as- sets over $1 Million, your estate may owe taxes. That may seem like a large estate, but consider the value of your home, your life insurance, your re- tirement plan balance, and it is easy to exceed $1 Million. The tax rates start at 18%, and quickly escalate. So if your taxable estate is over $2 Mil- lion, you will already be at the rate of 45%.
Under the rules in effect since 2001, many peo- ple have grown complacent regarding their estate plan. After all, in 2009, the amount you could pass tax free was $3.5 M. Now however, the pic- ture has changed dramatically.
What this means is that virtually everyone should review their estate plan, because there are several specific strategies that can be utilized to reduce or even eliminate the Federal Estate tax.
1. The first step is to determine the size of your estate, which includes: your home, other real es- tate, jewelry, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, bank accounts, insurance, retirement plans, business interest, or any property over which you have a general power of appointment. Note how they are owned. Take a similar inventory of your debts and liabilities.
2. Determine your goals regarding your estate. For example, do you want any of your assets to go to charity?
3. Consider the tax ramifications of your plan.
4. Develop an organized plan for the payment of taxes and expenses. Without this plan, the most valuable assets you own may have to be sold to meet the tax bill.
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Q: How do I add a ggplot map object under another ggplot map object? I want to add a background map (stored as a ggplot object) to another ggplot map because some states have NA's that I removed, so they are left out of the map. I used patchwork to try to combine, but it only puts them side by side. I want the back_map to go "under" p.
library(ggplot2)
library(tidyverse)
library(mapdata)
library(patchwork)
library(dplyr)

MainStates <- map_data("state")
State_Name <- c("alabama","arkansas","arizona","california","colorado")
Sales <- c(100,200,250,275,310)
df2 <- data.frame(State_Name,Sales)
MergedStates <- inner_join(MainStates, df2, by = c("region" = "State_Name"))
back_map <- ggplot() + geom_polygon(data=MainStates, aes(x=long, y=lat, group=group),
                       color="black", fill="white")

p <- ggplot() + geom_polygon(data = MergedStates,
                             aes(x=long, y=lat, group=group),
                             fill = ifelse(MergedStates$Sales <=
                                      mean(MergedStates$Sales),"red","green"), size = 0.2)
                                      + back_map
p

A: Don't need to make a separate back_map object. Background map goes first in the code like such:
    p <- ggplot() + geom_polygon(data = MainStates, aes(x=long, y=lat,
    group=group),
           color = "black", fill = "white") +
      geom_polygon(data = MergedStates,
           aes(x=long, y=lat, group=group),
           fill = ifelse(MergedStates$sngIYA <=
    mean(MergedStates$sngIYA),"red","green"),
           color = "black", size = 0.2)


PORTSMOUTH, England — Retired athletes may be especially likely to ask, "Who am I without the work that defines me?" A new study shows how retirement can be a double-edged sword for many, giving them freedom to use time in new ways, but simultaneously creating a void and even a loss of identity.
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth sought to explain why retired athletes find the social and psychological adjustments to life after sport especially painful, along with what kind of support they need for a smooth transition.
A new study shows how some retired athletes struggle to find new identities after ending their careers, while others use their competitive drive to carry them into their next phase of life.
Researchers interviewed eight former female gymnasts in their early- to mid-twenties who had competed at the elite level. They found that their retirement followed one of three courses: Entangled, Going Forward or Making Sense.
Those in the "Entangled" group identified themselves entirely by their athletic self and their competitive values. They found adapting to life without sports to be difficult and fraught with low confidence, low self-esteem and a loss of drive toward any new goals or experiences.
Those in the "Going Forward" group took their competitive drive and found new identities and ways to express it. They were able to carry what they learned from sports into the next phase of life.
The "Making Sense" group fell between the two, not quite confident enough to take a step toward the future but not willing to stay stuck in the past. They seemed to need additional time and experiences to decide which group they would eventually join.
Researchers say their study indicates the need to address the long-term social and psychological needs of athletes from the time they start training at a young age. Other studies have found that the inability of some retired athletes to adjust to life after sports can lead to depression, eating disorders and even substance abuse.
"This study showed that, unfortunately, when athletes retire many struggle to identify with anything other than their sport, which for many, has been the principal focus of their life for many years," Wagstaff explained. He points out the need for sports organizations to help their athletes develop other interests and strengths–to have lives apart from the athletic world.
The research was published in the journal Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health.


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Section 1216: project at the Utrecht School of the Arts, extensive report can be found here.
Drive Research report (a racing game for the blind).
Demor: augmented reality shooter for the blind.
Audio Menus: menu interaction without sound and auditory domain specific information.
…more to be added in the near future.


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Conserving traditional Bhutanese architecture
At the deliberation on the survey on traditional rammed earth buildings yesterday in Thimphu, three traditional houses from western region of Bhutan were proposed for preservation.
These buildings are in Kabisa in Thimphu, Changjokha in Punakha, and in Talung Toed in Haa.
The survey began in 2012 and is ongoing. The project is scheduled to be completed in 2019.
The project began following the September 2012 earthquake, which damaged most of the traditional buildings in the country.
Head of Division for Conservation of Heritage Sites (DCHS), Nagtsho Dorji, said that among the main objectives of the project were to study the structural characteristics of traditional buildings, methods to improve disaster resilience, and to study feasible and appropriate manner to preserve their heritage value.
She added that activities in the project concentrated on architectural study, which looked at typology of the traditional houses, chronological and regional features, construction methods and practice of traditional buildings, and to understand the views of Bhutanese on conservation of the traditional buildings.
"After the earthquake in 2012, everyone wanted to reconstruct the buildings in a very modern design, which would have sufficed to the immediate requirement but in the long run would have actually affected the cultural heritage of Bhutan," Nagtsho Dorji said.
The survey also measured and analysed vibration characteristics of the traditional buildings. More than 100 buildings in Haa, Punakha, Thimphu, Paro, and Chukha were surveyed.
Along with officials from Department of Culture (DoC), experts and representatives from Japan, house owners of the proposed buildings for preservation attended the workshop.
Financial constraint for renovation and sustenance viability were among the concerns raised at the workshop.
Nagtsho Dorji said that the works and human settlement ministry had taken the concept of providing incentive in certain areas. She added that waiving off underdevelopment tax and timber subsidy were an option. "We want to look into providing financial support without interest. We also hope that the government will provide money, which will happen once we have legislative documents."
Experts from Japan said that the scientific evidence from the survey on the importance of the traditional buildings and initiatives from the locals in conservation of the buildings would help gain financial support from government and donors for sustenance.
DCHS's senior architect, Yeshi Samdrup, shared the benefit of enactment of the culture heritage bill.
He said that the bill's registration and designation of the culture heritage aspect would foster people's sense of ownership and help achieve good balance between culture heritage and other values, including economic development. "For the buildings to be recognised as a culture heritage, distinctive typology, specificity of style, historical value, aesthetic and artistic value, and social value are required of the vernacular houses."
The bill, which was drafted in 2016, will be forwarded for enactment in the next Parliament.
Head of the conservation planning research section of Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Japan, Masahiko Tomoda, said that the most common typology of Bhutanese traditional houses are on the verge of disappearing.
He added that a legal framework for the protection of the traditional houses, which is important, is encouraged. "The old buildings are important as a testimony of the past. It is not only important to preserve these houses, but also to encourage the people to make similar houses in the future. So, we are looking forward to the outcomes from the survey's structural strength of the buildings."
Phurpa Lhamo


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Reviews and comments on a private dhoni cruise in Maldives.
Hello Max, sorry for the delayed email... we only arrived back in Australia late on Wednesday evening and had to go straight back to work the next day. However, I wanted to thank you and your team sooo much for making our honeymoon so special and amazing as it was. The crew on Stella 2 was fantastic!!! They were sooo amazing, comforting and making it all happen. Wonderful food, great snorkel expeditions, sandbank visits, beautifully arranged bed decorations etc etc. Really, we wouldn't have wanted to miss this experience. Please pass on our thanks and gratitude to all of them, they were wonderful!!! We are so thrilled that we have found you and Yacht Maldives and will certainly tell our friends about it, as I think it is the best way to cruise around the Maldives and get to see the beauty of the islands. We will also certainly come back one day, maybe together with some friends. So we shall be in touch. Until then, thanks so much for everything! The correspondence with you was so easy and professional. Always connected and we always felt very looked after! So thank YOU!!! With best wishes from Sydney. Claudia & Nick.
Hello Max, I wanted to express our sincere appreciation for a wonderful experience aboard Stella 1. We cannot say enough about the wonderful crew. Bill really enjoyed diving with Nasru, as he was so knowledgable and helpful with diving tips and guidance. Kuday is nothing short of amazing as he runs around like crazy, multi-tasking, all the while with a gentle smile and asking what more he could do for us. Dhodtey very confidently took us through some very rough seas and kept us safe. Saranga made us beautiful meals but fell sick the last day. I hope he is feeling better. Credit to Nasru, and his amazing chicken curry, we did not starve! We enjoyed ourselves so much we would like to come back next year. We will definitely spread the word about the wonderful time we had aboard Stella 1. Thank you so much to you and your wonderful crew! Regards. Bill and Lori.
I would like to let you know that we had a fantastic time at Dhoni Stella 1 from 28Jun-02Jul. The crew lead by Nasru, the Captain, Kumar, and Ahmmadey were fantastic for our stay. My husband who is not a strong swimmer was assisted by Nasru all the time, he was finally able to relax and enjoy the snorkelling. I am very grateful for Nasru's help. And may I say that Kumar is the best chef. We enjoyed all his cookings. My girls think he is the best. The Captain and Ahmmadey were so good with my girls especially my youngest who had her birthday on board Dhoni Stella. They played chess with her, helped her with first time fishing (she caught 2 big fish in an hour), and she also helped with octopus hunting. They made her feel very special. Once again, thank you very much to the crew. Wendy.
Dear Max, I wanted to email to thank you for a fabulous trip on Dhoni Stella. You have a wonderful crew all of whom were so professional and contributed to making our trip so enjoyable. Nasru's organisation was perfect and he and Ammaday ensured that we had plenty of snorkelling opportunities and had calm, scenic anchorages (and some great fish for dinner). Kumar produced a cornucopia of food every day from the tiny galley and his donuts were a real crowd pleaser. Malla was a most attentive steward and we appreciated his attention to detail and his care for our comfort. So thank you once again for a most memorable trip which far exceeded our expectations. I can only hope that we may be fortunate enough to return for a longer trip next time. With regards and thanks, Susan.
Dear Max, so we are back in Denmark again and looking back at a fantastic trip to the Maldives. We truly valued the entire experience. Great food, great staff, great weather, great snorkeling, great route planning…. basically everything. We also did a bit of fishing here and there with varied succes but always with great enthusiasm. We saw sharks, turtles in abundance, mantas, and thousands of fish. We saw beautiful islands. We have always found it difficult to come back to the Maldives because we had a great experience at Soneva Sushi five years ago. Therefore it was so great to come back to the Maldives in a truly different manner and get a truly different travel experience. All the best wishes to you and the staff on board the Dhoni Stella 2. Steen, Hanne and children.
Dear Max, greetings from paradise "on Stella 2" just a little note to say best holiday EVER !!!! THANkyou. Nasru has been amazing from the minute we meet, accomodating and so knowledgeable re best surf spots, diving spots and private sand bars, and photographer. Malla is the best, so beautiful to have the company of, a quiet achiever who has spoilt us rotten, attention to detail is without fault, the boat is kept so clean, our rooms/beds immaculate, the dinning room service first class quality. Have loved snorkelling with him as well. Kumar, what can we say 5 star restaurant every day... so generous and freshens delish! We all look forward to meal times! Captain Hassan tops off your fantastic crew, we have felt so happy, safe, spoilt and totally indulged in all your Stella 2 has to offer, THANkyou Max, highly recommended. Jaynie, Steve, Phil and Deb.
We are now well back in Denmark (- 2 °C and light snow), after a great and inspiring week onboard Stella 1. Hereby some feedback as promised. It was a week filled with joy, new experiences, great company - and it certainly lived up to our expectations. We would especially like to say thanks to your hard-working and very competent crew, so please also convey our message to them. Malla, as our main point of contact, managed to make us feel comfortable at all times - but besides from this, he was also a great source of information about the Maldives. We are by nature very curious, and Malla was always ready to explain about daily life in the Maldives. We really appreciate his way with guests and his great sense of humor. We had expected that we would have to do most of the snorkeling activities on our own, and were therefore very pleased to learn that Nasru was onboard and ready to go snorkeling with us on a regular basis. He took us to snorkeling places, which we would never have found on our own, and was always happy to share his vast experience and knowledge. Great to learn about snorkeling in the Maldives from someone that experienced! In the passengers form, we asked for local dishes and fish/seafood. And we got it! Kumar did a great job in preparing delicious and nice-looking dishes, despite the limited space and the heat in Stella's galley. Everything presented in a nice and appealing way. And our favorites were of course the days when fresh-caught fish were available. On top of all this, a very kind, caring and trust-worthy captain, Dhotte, who managed to calm down a sometimes rather concerned Lone - when the waves got a little too big. And who let Christian take care of the rudder at more calm times. So: A great team, with whom it was a pleasure to share Stella 1 for a week.
Dear Max, hope you are well. I owe you a big thanks for a great holiday with Stella and my family. Even though weather was literally not great, did not see the whale shark and so on – we were so well taken care off by the crew, enjoyed the few hours of sun shine, had some great dives, visited some wonderful islands and enjoyed Stella. I am sure over time that one or two friends of mine will mail you – let me know if you need recommendations. I hope we will have the opportunity to return. Please send our regards to the full team. Malte.
Hi Max, I just wanted to say again how much we all enjoyed our cruise on the Stella 2. What a beautifully fitted out boat she is and we certainly all made the most of the loungers on the top deck. The cabins were so spacious too and the bathrooms modern and very functional. The crew could not be faulted in any way - always helpful, friendly and cheerful. The meals were some of the best we had on our whole trip especially the fish fresh from the ocean. They were very attentive to our likes and dislikes - Kumar would loved to have used some salt but my sister is not able to have food with salt. We had an amusing time when he said he would normally use lots of rosemary but we had said we did not like it. The herb rosemary had been confused with my sister Rosemary! Kudar learnt how everyone liked their tea and coffees without having to be told again, and that we liked drinks at sunset - very on the ball! I really enjoyed my dive and Nasru was very reassuring for a rather inexperienced diver like me. I've left it rather late in my life to qualify! With best wishes, Veronica and family.
Now we are back home for 2 weeks already and the beautiful Maldives seem to be so far away again…We wanted to thank you for the great trip on Dhoni Stella, we enjoyed it very much (despite the big waves the first day…..). The boat is beautiful and the crew was amazing and professional. We were so happy to see turtels and even a nice big sting ray when snorkeling. We also loved the delicious currys and dishes the cook was preparing in that small kitchen. I tried to cook the coconut curry at home, but without the Maledivan recipe it was just not the same… Thanks again for the smooth organisation - we will definitely recommend your Yachts to our friends.. Kind regards from Switzerland. Rita.
Max, what an amazing trip - great diving, incredible food and so relaxing. It's great that from each of us from 10 years old to 50 felt it was our best ever holiday. And the small changes to the layout really add to the experience. We're already discussing possible timings for future trips. Many thanks for all your organisation, and special thanks to each member of the crew (Stella Dhoni Family) that made the trip so special. Neil, Sacha, Misha and Luka.
Max, we had a fabulous time aboard Stella. Thanks for giving us extra time on the last day so we could squeeze in an early morning channel dive. Despite the variable weather, we were able to do one dive a day, a night snorkel among nurse sharks, had all the time we wanted on a lovely sandbank and three good nights' sleeps. Hats off to your dedicated, very professional and fun loving crew who are so skillful in assessing the weather, high winds, currents, dive conditions and our capabilities to make this a super fun and safe journey. Stella is a beauty! The cabins are spacious, comfortable and the en-suites impeccably cleaned. A tissue box in the bedroom would have been appreciated. Fay commented about the lack of storage in the dining room, but I rather like the simple esthetics of the dining area with no clutter. Three nights gave us a sweet sampling but really too short. We want to come back for 10-14 days! Now I know why you have so many repeaters. Thanks and have a great year ahead! Cheers, Renee.
Dear Nasru, Kuday, Kumar, and Dottey, SHUK RIYA! We want to thank you for the outstanding cruise on board the Dhoni Stella. The combination of diving, snorkelling, fishing, and visiting islands along the way made every day unique and fun. The beauty of the Maldives, the adventures fishing & diving, and great food will be fondly remembered for a long time after we return home. Many many thanks for the fishing trips and for expertly preparing the catch for us to eat! We loved seeing the whale shark, a once in a lifetime experience! All the best to each of you. Sincerely, John & Kathy.
We have been sailing for 1 week on the Dhoni Stella 1 and we found ourselves extremely well:the crew of 4 people was very cordial and always ready to meet our needs.Boat and rooms were spotless, the food was great (even the pasta cooked "al dente"), the route proposed by Max was perfect because we had the chance to spot: dolphins, mantas and the whale shark. The days passed quickly and peacefully. A standard day consisted of: breakfast, 1 hour navigation, snorkeling stop that lasted as long as we wanted, lunch, siesta, another hour's sailing and snorkeling.In the evening we went fishing and then we had dinner and eventually in bed when we were tired!A heartfelt thanks to all the crew: Dhottey (Captain), Kuday (Waiter), Nasru (Guide) and Kumar (Chef) for their kindness and professionalism, however without the perfect organization of Max we would not have gone anywhere.
Just like to give you some feedback about our trip last week. Had a really great time despite the weather. You have an excellent boat and even better crew. Felt really safe with the captains judgements, and he always had us safely anchored despite the violent storms at times. Food was outstanding, chef did a great job of making sure we ate too much. Nyas and Shaneef were also great guys, and enthusiastic fishermen! We didn't get the chance to fish as much as we'd liked, partly because there was quite a bit of surf, and partly cos of the storms every afternoon. Thanks again for all the help with the last minute arrangements, as well as the surf forecasts. We'll definitely be back next year!! Hopefully more around March/April/May, when we can get sunnier weather and less wind!! Kerry.
Le spiagge e il mare sono senz'altro incantevoli, ma di questo viaggio porteremo a casa il piacevolissimo ricordo di una straordinaria accoglienza da parte di tutto l'equipaggio del Dhoni Stella. Difficile indicare qualcuno in particolare: il capitano Hameedh, che con discrezione ha scelto per noi tranquilli ancoraggi per la notte e splendide e dorate isole deserte per il giorno; il cuoco Ali, che ogni giorno ci ha piacevolmente sorpresi con piatti sempre diversi costringendoci spesso a 'bissare'; il marinaio Shareef, che con pazienza e cortesia ci ha accompagnato nelle nostre uscite di snorkeling; infine, ma non ultimo, lo steward Nasru, che con cordialità e disponibilità ci ha coccolato per tutta la settimana. Un ricordo e una menzione anche per l'armatore, Max, che ha pensato e realizzato una barca comoda ed accogliente, nonchè scelto e diretto un team veramente affiatato che trasmette all'ospite in ogni momento un senso di sicurezza e di comfort. Alla prossima! Ersilia, Giorgio, Edoarda e Ausano.
Se con un'immagine dovessimo sintetizzare il piacere e la meraviglia provata durante tutto il nostro soggiorno sul Dhoni Stella, descriveremmo questo: il buio assoluto di un'immersione notturna, le nostre mani in movimento... milioni di stelline danzanti che corrono in superficie ed ecco che in alto nel cielo le ritroviamo tutte come un prezioso ricamo in un manto di velluto di seta nero. Tutto questo per noi e' meraviglioso e magico come meraviglioso e magico e' stare su questa barca con il suo splendido equipaggio. L'accoglienza sempre puntuale, calda e allegra di Nyaz, le golosita' del cuoco Kumara, la prudenza ed esperienza del capitano Hameedh, la meticolosita' e calma di Shaneef, la quiete e la professionalita' del divemaster Jaalal, e quanto a Max... semplicemente sempre speciale. Grazie a tutti per tutto. Non e'la nostra prima volta a bordo di Dhoni Stella 2, ma ogni attimo e' magico e speciale, sempre nuovo e rinnovato. Questa e' la nostra casa e famiglia maldiviana. Partendo, forse non piangeremo, perche' siamo sicuri di tornare certamente e vi porteremo sempre nelle parti piu' preziose del nostro cuore. Andrea e Antonella.
Hi Max, Sue and I are now back in England reflecting on the fantastic time we had in the Maldives on board Dhoni Stella II and thought we would drop you a short note to express our appreciation. We had an absolutely wonderful time. We would like you to thank all of the crew on our behalf; they were truly great. Nothing was too much trouble, they were very accommodating and friendly. The diving instructor, Rafil, is a very special person and we immediately bonded with him, given his personality and the fact that he had spent a couple of years living in the North West of England close to Pete and Helen's home and to where I originate from too. Once again thank you very much for an amazing and unforgettable trip. Phil & Sue.
My wife Tania and I recently had the pleasure of a cruise aboard the Dhoni Stella 2. I thought we should write with some feedback about the experience. Our time aboard was fantastic, the vessel, amenity, food and crew were all above expectation. Max's ability to cater for us at short notice and arrange the vessel and diving instructor was much appreciated. The crew were fantastic, great characters, excellent at their roles and genuinely nice people. Food was excellent, possibly too abundant if I was to consult my waistline. Areef catered to all our needs and provided great variety. Ahmed provided great service in every aspect, not only as a porter but skippering the tender vessel, dive prep and setting anchor, his attention to detail was impressive. Barry (Hameed) was a competent captain that knows his job well and we felt at ease with his skippering. The dive component really exceeded our expectations. Rafil was great, full of information and knowledge that made the most of all the diving and snorkeling experiences. His tuition was informative and his planning and execution of the dives ensured we saw as much as possible in the short time. Our visit to a local island and Male with Rafil were really enjoyable and informative. Overall we could not have asked for a nicer experience, not being bound to an island and having access to multiple destinations while in complete comfort really made our holiday far beyond what a resort stay would have been. The crew were fantastic and one of the main reasons we enjoyed our time, the service was excellent but not intrusive. The booking process and correspondence from Max was punctual and accurate. As I stated above the boat and amenity was excellent. Congratulations to you for running a really good operation.


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Jesus accepted women. Why can't Anglicans?
September 23, 2004 — 10.00am
The Gospel demands women's full equality in the world and in the church, writes Muriel Porter.
In the final week of the federal election campaign, Australia's Anglican Church leaders will be preoccupied with their own political issues. One of them - yet again - will be the place of women in the church. When the national general synod meets in Fremantle from October 2, the possibility of women bishops will once more be on the agenda.
It is now 12 years since women were first ordained as priests in this country, and there are now more than 500 Anglican women clergy across Australia. Yet significant opposition is being marshalled once again to women's full leadership in the church, based on the extraordinary claim that while women are equal to men in the eyes of God, they are "different" in the roles that God intends them to occupy.
"Equal but different", a Sydney-based organisation - Sydney diocese does not permit women priests - is waging a national campaign to try to prevent the general synod voting in favour of women bishops. Its principal weapon is a petition it is circulating, to be signed by women churchgoers only, which describes women bishops as an "unbiblical and divisive move".
On the basis of a few isolated biblical texts, Sydney theologians claim that women are eternally subordinate to men in the church and in the home: they should not exercise leadership in the church as priests, let alone as bishops, and at home they should be submissive to their husbands.
The truly hardline conservatives among them also argue that women should not preach or even proclaim the Scriptures in mixed congregations of men and women.
A startling new theological argument has been produced to bolster these claims. Women must be subordinate to men because Christ, as Son of God, is eternally subordinate to God the Father, the Sydney theologians argue. This is too complex an issue to unravel in a newspaper column, but it should be noted that it comes perilously close to an ancient heresy called Arianism, a heresy that most theologians thought had been safely scotched back in the fourth century.
That alarming development aside, the central claim of women's subordination is entirely in keeping with the teaching of all major theologians up to the end of the 19th century. They at least were consistent, however. They did not limit women's subordination to church and home. They insisted women were subordinate in all walks of life, because they claimed the Bible taught that women were an inferior, secondary creation, more prone to sin and deception than men.
The traditional view was that it was Eve's fault that Adam and Eve were ejected from the Garden of Eden. So women were allowed no role in public life, unable to undertake higher education, enter the professions, vote, or have any legal status.
Why, we might ask, don't the present opponents of women in the church also require that women give up attending university, standing for parliament, or voting in elections - all activities universally forbidden to women down the centuries on the grounds it was contrary to Scripture? Perhaps because that would make them look just a bit silly in the 21st century?
Similar arguments were made during the debate about women priests but thankfully, in the end, did not prevail. But the context has changed markedly over the past 12 years. The Anglican Communion is now at crisis point over the issue of same-sex unions and openly gay clergy. Those who are insisting that gay people must remain lifelong celibates if they are to be acceptable in the church, claim that they are merely being faithful to Scripture. The crisis is about the authority of the Bible, the conservative forces argue, implying that they and they alone are obedient to Scripture. Those of us who interpret Scripture differently are labelled disobedient.
So opposition to women bishops based on supposed faithfulness to Scripture - the corollary being that those of us supporting women bishops are deliberately flouting God's law - might have a dangerous appeal to some synod members this time, concerned as they are about the unity of the church.
Yes, this is a struggle over Scripture. But it is not a struggle over the authority of the Bible, but rather over biblical interpretation. I reject the claim that because I interpret the Bible differently, I am rejecting the authority of Scripture.
On the contrary, I believe that women's full equality in the world and the church is demanded by the Gospel. While some verses might enjoin women to keep silent and to be submissive, I believe the overall trajectory of the Bible is that men and women are fully equal in all spheres of life, both being created in the image of God.
Jesus' own radical acceptance of women as equals, his inclusion of them among his disciples, and his first resurrection appearance to women, leave me utterly convinced that women must be admitted to full leadership in the church.
I hope and pray the majority of general synod members will agree with me in October.


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