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Nationalism Doesn't Mean Isolationism: Why Bertrand Russell Got It Wrong
October 14, 2019 Pam Barker COMMENTARY, GOVERNMENT, Spotlight 0
Nationalism Doesn't Mean Isolationism: Why Bertrand Russell Is Wrong
For many years, the West has experienced an unfortunate drought of genuinely nationalist leaders.
Where the concept of national sovereignty had once been considered a sacred component of a political leader's mandate, decades of technocratic governance from above, monetarism and consumerism from below and asymmetric wars abroad has caused the word itself to be dragged through the mud of insanity.
Somehow, over the years since WWII, the word "nationalism" increasingly became associated with "authoritarianism", "fascism" and "isolationism". If one were to be respected in polite society, to be associated with "nationalism" was political death for any sophisticated statesman.
This tendency became a cartoonish joke when a poster-boy for neo-liberalism by the name of Justin Trudeau celebrated his election victory in 2015 by proclaiming that he was the leader of "the world's first post-national state". Of course, Justin was then responding to the "authoritarian nationalists" apparently disrupting the world order by "annexing" Crimea in the case of Putin's Russia (ER: Ehret is of course being ironic: Crimea was not annexed – local people were eager to vote en masse for remaining in Russia without any coercion from Russia) and imposing "unwanted" development onto poor countries as was the case with Xi Jinping's China. The U.S elections were just around the corner, and it was obvious that Hillary Clinton couldn't possibly lose.
Today's 2019 world looks very different from the Obama-stained one that Justin lived in when he uttered those ridiculous words.
Since 2015, Russia has succeeded in completely turning the tide of chaos in Syria, and the new Ukrainian government has even responded positively to reviving the "Steinmeier Formula" granting a special administrative status to East Ukraine. China has succeeded in overthowing the neocolonial agenda of the IMF and has brought an alternative development model with the Belt and Road that now has 130 countries officially on board. The Trans-Pacific Partnership scam, which was considered a done deal in 2015, has entirely collapsed, as has the momentum to build a military encirclement of China using the "nuclear threat of North Korea".
Trump's restoration of America's traditionally nationalist roots tied in to his commitment to defuse the multitude of America's foreign military enmeshments, as witnessed in his recent push to get out of "ridiculous endless wars" in Syria and Iraq, and constant appeals to "get along with Russia" have begun re-infusing the word "nationalism" with the dignity it lost long ago. Trump's September 24 UN General Assembly speech was a refreshing defense of nationalism, which boldly stated that "the future doesn't belong to globalists, the future belongs to patriots" and was a breath of fresh air for all sane onlookers.
Trump Must be Destroyed
Of course, sanity cannot be tolerated in the mind of an indoctrinated globalist.
The entire campaign to destroy Donald Trump going back to 2015 used every desperate lie imaginable in a vain effort to restore the dream of a post-nation state world order, which its adherents refuse to believe has collapsed entirely. This includes Hillary's attack on Trump for calling for peace in Syria on October 7, to the Liberal media establishment becoming pro-Bolton literally the moment the neo con hawk was fired for pushing a "Libya-model" on North Korea. Here the Washington Post led the pack exclaiming "John Bolton has finally spoken, and he put up a big warning sign about Trump and North Korea," then asked "whether he might be a key witness in the Democrats' impeachment inquiry over Ukraine."
The Coup Called Out
Not only has Trump gone on the offensive, calling this process the coup d'état which it is, but has also launched a vast investigation of the real perpetrators of Russia-Gate both within America and beyond, led by William Barr and teams of investigators who just returned from Italy after a 2nd meeting with Italian intelligence chiefs over the role of MI-6 connected Joseph Mifsud – a key operative behind Russia-Gate.
While some people have chosen to treat Trump as a paranoid conspiracy theorist, President Putin demonstrated his understanding of this coup by calling out the Deep State forces managing Ukraine who are attempting to destroy a potential Russia-USA alliance when he said:
"we see what is going on in the United States: [some forces] are using any pretext to attack President Trump. Now that is Ukraine and all the wranglings linked to it – I mean the relations with Ukraine and President Zelensky… that once again confirms we had nothing to do with US political games from the very beginning. They have just looked for pretexts to attack the elected President".
A leading voice of the impeachment camp since 2017, Congressman Al Green (D-TX) showcased where the real anti-democratic sentiments of the Deep State lie when he said on NBC "if we don't impeach this President, he will get re-elected".
Why do Globalists fear Nationalism?
Most of the liberal establishment zombies today who champion a post-nation state world order honestly don't have a clue where their convictions come from. They don't know why they equate nationalism with authoritarian tyranny. Of course, when one considers that ALL popular revisionist history books tend to assert that the Fascism of Mussolini and Hitler arose out of nationalism (not, in fact, Anglo-American financing), it shouldn't come as a surprise. Nationalism, we are told by such influential eugenics-loving globalist scholars as Lord Bertrand Russell (see featured meme), is pure selfish egotism, which if left unchecked, will only consume all of its resources until scarcity and overpopulation demand it rapaciously dominate and subdue its neighbours until the world succumbs to the will of a global tyrant. Russelites believe that nationalism is inherently incompatible with a peaceful world because humans are just as selfish and bigoted as… well, Bertrand Russell! In his Why Men Fight (1916), Russell said:
"If men had any strong sense of a community of nations, nationalism would serve to define the boundaries of the various nations. But because men only feel community within their own nation, nothing but force is able to make them respect the rights of other nations, even when they are asserting exactly similar rights on their own behalf."
A lifelong advocate of World Government, depopulation (and occasional advocate of unilateral nuclear war against Russia), Bertrand Russell always made the case that the primary tool to condition our society away from nationalism must be education and mass psychology. In his 1951 Impact of Science on Society, this father of modern liberalism said:
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically is mass psychology… Its importance has been enormously increased by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Of these the most influential is what is called "education"… The social psychologists of the future will have a number of classes of school children on whom they will try different methods of producing an unshakable conviction that snow is black. Various results will soon be arrived at. First, that the influence of home is obstructive. Second, that not much can be done unless indoctrination begins before the age of ten. Third, that verses set to music and repeatedly intoned are very effective. Fourth, that the opinion that snow is white must be held to show a morbid taste for eccentricity. But I anticipate. It is for future scientists to make these maxims precise and discover exactly how much it costs per head to make children believe that snow is black, and how much less it would cost to make them believe it is dark gray. Although this science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know how its convictions were generated. When the technique has been perfected, every government that has been in charge of education for a generation will be able to control its subjects securely without the need of armies or policemen."
In his Future of Science (1924), Russell drew out how a utopian World Government could arise out of the bipolarity of a schismed society:
"Before very long the technical conditions will exist from organizing the whole world as one producing and consuming unit. If when that time comes, two rival groups contend for mastery, the victor may be able to introduce that single worldwide organization that is needed to prevent the mutual extermination of civilized nations… There would be at first economic and political tyranny of the victors, a dread of renewed upheavals, and therefore a drastic suppression of liberty. But if the first half-dozen revolts were successfully repressed, the vanquished would give up hope, and accept the subordination assigned to them by the victor in the great world-trust… Life at first might be unpleasant, but it at least would be possible, which would be enough to recommend the system after a long period of warfare."
The decades following WWII saw the manufactured creation of a Cold War, nuclear terror, a multitude of assassinations and the sabotage of the US-Russia-China alliance, which FDR had envisioned as the foundation for an anti-colonial post-war community of nation states.
Russellites such as Tony Blair and Sir Henry Kissinger celebrated the advent of Russell's New World Order by cheering on the "Post-Westphalian era" as the Soviet Union collapsed, and despite a few voices of sanity in the West, truth became falsehood, nationalism became tyranny and snow became, for all intents and purposes – black.
Why Russell Failed
Today's nationalist revival is not merely a rejection of Russell's program for world government in favor of an alternative power alliance. That is far too simplistic.
This revival is happening essentially because Russell's entire view of nature and humanity are wrong. Unless one wishes to just kill everybody, then "world peace" and "world stasis" are totally incompatible concepts as devoid of moral reason and incapable of creative change as are the minds of Russell and his ideological heirs.
Fortunately, humanity doesn't appear to be the selfish scum which misanthropic geopoliticians presume, and the imagined post-nation state utopia lusted after by the likes of Russell are impossible goals because the WHOLE IS NOT THE SUM OF ITS PARTS. As the greatest minds such as Plato, Augustine, Dante, Cusa, and Leibniz all recognized in their own times, humanity is not a closed system of finite potential to be controlled by social engineering overseers. Evidence rather points to the more optimistic likelihood that we are ordained with creative reason and free will, which gives us access to an infinite array of new discoveries both on the earth and beyond – IF our political-economic systems encourage it.
Foreign Minister Lavrov echoed that view in his own way on October 3 when he said that the West "must stop playing zero-sum geopolitical games, stop dividing regions into spheres of influence and ultimately begin being guided by the generally recognized rules of interstate relations that are committed to paper in the United Nations Charter."
Calling for the nations of the world to join in the developments of the Belt and Road Initiative, Xi Jinping slapped Russell's ghost brilliantly saying:
"The Cold War mentality and zero-sum game are increasingly obsolete. Only by adhering to peaceful development and working together can we truly achieve win-win results."
Standing alongside Putin at the Valdai discussion forum, Philippine President Duterte stated this principle of a harmony of all nations, with the whole of which we are parts, when he said "The Philippine people need to be enriched by other cultures and intellectual traditions… in order to embrace our shared destiny".
So when President Trump says "the future does not belong to globalists, the future belongs to patriots", and when a global sociopathic system goes into hyper-drive to destroy that President, you should take it very seriously.
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Joanna Klein, Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Biology & Biochemistry
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Joanna Klein joined the Department of Biology & Biochemistry in 2003. Her training and primary interest is in bacterial genetics. After receiving her doctorate in genetics studying the Salmonella pathogenesis, she did three years of post-doctoral research at the University of Minnesota studying intron splicing in the gram-positive bacterium Lactococcus lactis. Her current research interest is antibiotic discovery in soil microbes through a partnership with the Tiny Earth network. She also supervises annual monitoring of the levels of E. coli bacteria in Lake Johanna.
A distinctive of her teaching philosophy is to incorporate original research projects into the course she teaches. Thus, students in her Microbiology and Genetics courses all receive valuable training and experience in scientific research. Additional scholarly interests include developing and evaluating effective teaching methods in biology education.
Her free time is spent mostly with her husband and three children who enjoy biking, swimming, and learning together.
Courses I Teach
DNA: The Language of Life
Microbes and Society
Bacterial Genetics
Academic Credentials
Ph.D., University of Iowa, Genetics
B.S., University of Iowa, Biology
Antibiotic Discovery
In recent years, there has been an alarming rise in bacterial infections that are resistant to treatment with current antibiotics and new drug discovery is simply not keeping pace. To address this crisis, the Tiny Earth course-based research program deploys students to screen for and identify microbes that naturally produce antibiotics. Students gain hands-on experience in the thinking and methodology of a scientist and a real research need is met. Students in my microbiology and genetics courses participate in various aspects of this research pipeline. After completing one of these courses, students may elect to continue their research by joining my lab and performing independent research for credit. Learn more about Tiny Earth! https://tinyearth.wisc.edu/
Monitoring E. coli levels in freshwater lakes
Recreational waters can become contaminated with fecal material, exposing users to a variety of pathogenic microorganisms. Therefore, it is imperative to continually monitor for possible contamination. To this end, Northwestern students monitor Lake Johanna, on which our campus is situated, for high E. coli levels during the summer.
Select Undergraduate Student Research Presentations
Students doing research on a variety of projects in my lab have presented posters and talks throughout the region. Below are just a sample of topics and venues.
Willett, M., Fitzpatrick, M. and Klein, J.R. Identification of Potential Antibiotic-Producing Soil Isolate in Minneapolis, MN. Poster presentation at Tiny Earth Symposium, Madison, WI, July 10, 2019
Jenkins, D., and Klein, J.R. Natural Product Extraction and Characterization of Antimicrobials from Pseudomonas. Oral presentation at Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 27, 2019, Century College.
Unsinn, N., Hanson, A., Miller, S., and Klein, J.R. Isolation and Identification of Antibiotic Producing Bacteria from Soil. Oral presentation at Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium, Macalester College. April 2017.
Grant, R. and Klein, J.R. Beach Safety: Monitoring Levels of E. coli in Recreational Water Areas. Poster presentation at Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium, Macalester College. April 2017.
Bardwell, A., Parkinson, A., and Klein, J.R. Analysis of Pseudogene Classification of Celly_1362 in Cellulophaga lytica. Abigail Bardwell, Amy Parkinson and Joanna Klein. Oral Presentation at Beta Beta Beta National Convention, Bethel University. June 2016.
Peterson, M. and Klein, J.R. Development of a Gene Deletion Strategy in Cellulophaga lytica. Poster presentation at Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Minnesota. April 2016.
Youngquist, K., Rouse, A. and Klein, J.R. Annotation and Cloning of a Hypothetical Cellulase Gene in Cellulophaga lytica. Poster presentation at Winchell Undergraduate Research Symposium, St. Paul, MN. April 2015.
Ryan Sivertson and J.R. Klein. Genetic Analysis of Intron Splicing in Lactococcus lactis. Minnesota Private Colleges Scholars at the Capitol. St. Paul, MN. February 2007.
The publications and presentations listed below represent some of my professional body of work
Cissy J. Ballen, Jessamina E. Blum, Sara Brownell, Sadie Hebert, James Hewlett, Joanna R. Klein, Erik A. McDonald, Denise L. Monti, Stephen C. Nold, Krista E. Slemmons, Paula A.G. Soneral, Sehoya Cotner. (2017) A call to develop course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs) for nonmajor courses. CBE Life Science Education. Vol. 16:mr2.
Klein, J.R. (2014) Two Laboratory Activities Using Conventional or Real-Time PCR to Simulate Pathogenic E. coli Detection, Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. Vol. 14, Issue 1.
Klein, J.R. and T. Gulsvig (2012) Using Bioinformatics to Develop and Test Hypotheses: E. coli Specific Virulence Determinants. Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education. Vol. 13, Issue 2.
Klein, J.R. (2011). Investigation of Escherichia coli in Freshwater Sources Using Membrane Filtration and Rep-PCR DNA Fingerprinting with Introductory Biology Students. Pages 104-116, in Tested Studies for Laboratory Teaching, Volume 32 (K. McMahon, Editor). Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE), 445 pages.
Klein, J.R. (2007). Career Exploration Finds a Place in the Classroom. Focus on Microbiology Education. Vol. 13, No. 3.
Klein, J.R., Y. Chen, D.A. Manias, J. Zhou, L. Zhou, C.L. Peebles, G.M. Dunny. (2004) A Conjugation-Based System for Genetic Analysis of Group II Intron Splicing in Lactococcus lactis. J. Bacteriol. 186:1991-1998.,
Select Oral Presentations
Klein, J.R., The Small World Initiative: harnessing the power of undergraduate researches to identify new antibiotics. UNWSP Scholarship Symposium, May 2018.
Klein, J.R., Light, J.D., and Grant, R. Water Quality of Lake Johanna: Environmental and Public Health Perspectives. UNWSP Scholarship Symposium. May 2017.
Klein, J.R. Preparing a Promotion Dossier Using eFolio, MN eLearning Summit. July 2014.
Klein, J.R. Building on experience; microbial genome annotation as a course based-undergraduate research experience. American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE) Microbrew Session, Boston, MA. May 2014.
Klein, J.R. Fueling the Future: Genetics Research on the Marine Bacterium Cellulophaga lytica. UNWSP Scholarship Symposium. May 2014.
Klein, J.R. Leading an Elementary School Science Club: A Service Learning Project for Microbiology Students. American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators. Baltimore, MD. May 2011.
Klein, J.R. Investigation of Escherichia coli in freshwater sources using membrane filtration and Rep-PCR DNA fingerprinting with Introductory Biology Students. Major Workshop at Annual meeting of the Association of Biology Laboratory Educators. Halifax, Nova Scotia. June 2010.
Klein, J.R. Lake Johanna E. coli Monitoring Program, NWC Scholarship Symposium. May 2007.
Klein, J.R. Genetic Analysis of intron splicing in Lactococcus lactis. NWC Scholarship Symposium. May 2006.
Select Poster Presentations
Klein, J.R. A Teaching Strategy to Address Origins in a Microbiology Course for Non-majors at a Christian University. Poster Presentations at American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting, Wenham, MA. July 2018.
Klein, J.R. A Teaching Strategy to Relate Christian Faith and Scientific Explanations of Origins: Its Impact and Effectiveness. Poster Presentations at: American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators (ASMCUE), Denver, CO and American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting, Golden, CO. July 2017.
Klein, J.R. Genome Annotation in an Undergraduate Genetics Course. Poster presentation and panelist at CUREnet meeting. Cold Spring Harbor Lab, NY. March 2014.
Klein, J.R. Is it E. coli O157:H7? Using Bioinformatics to Develop and Test Hypotheses. American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators. Baltimore, MD. May 2011.
Karlen, E.K., Kieke, M.C., Klein, J.R. The Science Research Institute: Partnering High School and College Students in Research and Service. National Association of Biology Teachers, Professional Development Conference. Minneapolis, MN. November 2010.
Klein, J.R. Integrating Faculty Research in the Genetics Curriculum; Genetic Analysis of Intron Splicing in Lactococcus lactis. American Society for Microbiology Conference for Undergraduate Educators. Buffalo, NY. May 2007.
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Athletics / Baseball
Baseball Drops Two To #2 Webster University
by Westminster College · April 23, 2014
The Westminster baseball team dropped two games to the #2 ranked Webster University, 6-0 and 3-2. The Westminster Blue Jays are now 17-11 overall and 11-9 in conference play, knocking them into fifth place in the St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SLIAC).
The Webster Gorloks started game one with a three-run homerun in the bottom of the first. They scored another run in the first and two more in the third.
The Blue Jays were unable to score, ending the game with a 6-0 shut out.
Sophomore Will Miller (3-3) was credited with the loss after pitching one inning. Freshman Tyler Picha went 2-3 from the plate.
The Gorloks scored first in game two, scoring on a RBI single in the second inning.
The Blue Jays tied the game with a RBI single by sophomore Deion Hughes, scoring junior Cameron Backes.
The game stayed tied until the bottom of the eighth when the Gorloks put up two runs, giving them a 3-1 lead.
In the top of the ninth, sophomore Ryan Loethen hit a RBI ground out to shortstop to score De. Hughes. The Blue Jays were held from scoring again, ending the game with a 3-2 loss.
Freshman Miller Bowles (0-1) was credited with the loss after pitching three innings and striking out three. Sophomore Ryan Strohm pitched the first five innings, allowing one run and striking out three. De. Hughes went 2-3 from the plate with one RBI.
The Blue Jays host Iowa Wesleyan for the three-game conference series on the weekend of April 26. A doubleheader will be played on Saturday, April 26 starting at 1:00 p.m. They will close out the series on Sunday, April 27 with a nine-inning game at 1:00 p.m. The Blue Jays will also be celebrating Alumni Weekend.
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LA JOLLA–Four Salk Institute faculty members have been promoted after the latest round of faculty reviews determined they are scientific leaders who have made original, innovative and notable contributions to biological research.
Satchidananda Panda has been promoted to the rank of full professor and Sreekanth Chalasani, Björn Lillemeier and Ye Zheng were promoted to associate professors. The promotions were based on recommendations by Salk faculty and nonresident fellows, and approved by President Elizabeth Blackburn and the Institute's Board of Trustees on April 14.
Satchidananda Panda, who conducts his research in the Regulatory Biology Laboratory, explores the genes, molecules and cells that keep the whole body on the same circadian clock. A section of the hypothalamus, called the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), lies at the center of the body's master clock and gets input directly from light sensors in the eyes, keeping the rest of the body on schedule. Panda discovered how these light sensors work, as well as how cellular timekeepers in other parts of the body function. He also uncovered a novel blue light sensor in the retina that measures ambient light level and sets the time to go to sleep and wake up every day.
Sreekanth Chalasani, who conducts his research in the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, uses an organism with a much simpler nervous system than humans to answer questions about neuroscience: the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. Chalasani studies how the roundworm's nervous system gives rise to such behaviors as fear and aggression. He is exploring what these tiny creatures can tell us about human aggression and fears, emotions and behaviors often necessary for our survival, but which are also sources of great suffering. The worm's simple nervous system makes it useful for studying human diseases—and testing drugs—in a well-understood model.
Björn Lillemeier conducts his research in the Nomis Foundation Laboratories for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis. He has adapted cutting-edge microscopy techniques for imaging proteins embedded in the outer membranes of cells. His super-resolution imaging approaches have allowed him to see the exact placement of these proteins in the membranes of immune cells, specifically T cells. These observations of the spatial arrangements of proteins in immune cells, and how they change during an immune response, are the most detailed descriptions yet. Lillemeier's findings could lead to a better understanding of how protein arrangements are misregulated during immune system disorders and how scientists might be able to control their physiological functions.
Ye Zheng also conducts his research in the Nomis Foundation Laboratories for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis. His focus is in on a specialized set of immune cells called regulatory T (Treg) cells to learn to strengthen or correct the immune system. Tregs control the immune response, telling the more aggressive immune system cells when to stop their frenzied attack. Abnormal Treg function has been linked to multiple autoimmune diseases and tumors. In particular, a key molecular component of these cells, a protein called Foxp3, is often responsible for deficient Tregs.


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import java.util.stream.IntStream;

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comfortable in the mouth and will conform to the bite. If you have a certain cosmetic look in mind for your crown, discuss it with our dentist at your initial visit. When the procedure is complete, your teeth will not only be stronger, but they may be more attractive.
Crowns should last approximately 5-8 years. However, with good oral hygiene and supervision most crowns will last for a much longer period of time. Some damaging habits like grinding your teeth, chewing ice, or fingernail biting may cause this period of time to decrease significantly. avoid chewing hard food. You also want to avoid teeth grinding. Besides visiting your dentist and brushing twice a day, cleaning between your teeth is vital with crowns.
Regularly scheduled examinations and hygiene appointments must be adhered to, or the same bacterial assault which causes decay and makes dental care necessary may cause the restorations to fail.
A bridge is a dental appliance that replaces one or more natural missing teeth,thereby "bridging" the space between two teeth .Bridges are cemented into place on the "abutment" teeth--the surrounding teeth on either side of the space or span. Unlike removable partial dentures,bridges cannot be taken out of the mouth by the patient.
Benefits - They fill the space in the mouth left by missing tooth They not only correct an altered bite, improve the chewing ability and speech, but they also safeguard the appearance by preventing the collapse of facial features that can cause premature wrinkles and age lines.
If the space between the tooth are left unfilled, this space can cause the surrounding teeth to drift out of position and can cause teeth and gums to become more susceptible to tooth decay and gum disease that can cause further tooth loss.
For a traditional fixed bridge, the first appointment consists of the dentist reducing the adjacent abutment teeth that will act as anchors. Impressions are made, from which a metal framework, including the pontic, is created. By the second appointment, the final bridge is fitted over the teeth. The total treatment time is usually around one week, depending on the type of bridge. However, because it is often difficult to match the natural shade of your teeth, the treatment time may be longer.
Suggestions and precautions - To provide optimum longevity for your restorations and to prevent future decay and supporting-tissue breakdown. Brush after eating and before bedtime around the bridge with a soft toothbrush, floss at least once to twice a day. On a bridge you must clean "under" as well as around the bridge. If you do not control the buildup of food debris and plaque your teeth and gums can become infected. Fluoride rinse is to be used before bed. Swish the fluoride rinse vigorously in your mouth for at least one minute.
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BOOK REVIEW: 'The Duchess Deal' by Tessa Dare—4 Stars
August 22, 2017 By Team WSN Leave a Comment
Tessa Dare kicks off her new historical romance series, Girl Meets Duke with the witty and romantic The Duchess Deal!
The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare
Funmbi's rating: 4 of 5 stars
[For Mature Audiences; Some Spoilers]
We adore Tessa Dare and her beautiful romance novels. It's no shock that we practically tripped over ourselves to get our hands on the first novel in her new series. *sigh* The Duchess Deal is signature Tessa Dare romantic comedy. We laugh and swoon as we watch two seemingly opposed characters come together, heal past hurts, and fall in love.
A few years ago, Lord George Pembrooke, Duke of Ashbury returns from war (Battle of Waterloo) severely injured. In fact, the injury leaves one side of his body totally scarred and disfigured. Ash heals, but unfortunately, it isn't enough to keep his fiancee. Miss Annabelle Worthing is so disgusted, that she jilts Ash, despite his title and wealth. Ash is angry, resentful, but seems to believe that any woman would run away from him. Yet, he needs a wife purely for the purpose of bearing him an heir. There are a lot of people who rely on Ash, and he refuses to let the title go to distant cousins who will run his estates into the ground. Just as Ash is formulating a letter to his attorney, Miss Emma Gladstone shows up on his doorstep, wearing a wedding gown. WHAT???
Emma is the seamstress who was sewing Annabelle's wedding gown and even though the wedding has been called off, Emma really needs to be paid. Ash is intrigued by Emma:
She was a great improvement on the gown.
Complexion: cream.
Lips: rose petals.
Lashes: sable.
Backbone: steel…
He regarded Emma Gladstone from a fresh angle, thinking of that list of requirements in his interrupted letter. She was young and healthy. She was educated. She came from gentry, and she was willing to disrobe in front of him. Most importantly, she was desperate. She'd do. In fact, she'd do very well indeed.
So, he comes up with a bargain–Ash will make Emma his duchess, and provide all the amenities that come along with the title. In exchange, she will give him her nights for the purpose of getting her pregnant. There will be no romance, no kisses, and once Emma is pregnant, she will move to the country to raise their child.
Emma is shocked by the proposal. First, she thinks Ash is making a joke at her expense, then she thinks he's just looking for a mistress. But, Emma is also a realist in some senses. She knows her opportunities as a seamstress are limited and she would be insane to turn her back on becoming a Duchess. Emma makes some demands of her own, including dinner together every night and the right to call Ash some pretty ludicrous pet-names.
Over time, Ash and Emma get to know each other and even admire one another. Of course, this is helped along by their insane chemistry in the bedroom. Despite Ash's initial desire to keep things clinical, from the first encounter, he's overwhelmed with Emma's passion. But understandably, there are still issues of trust: Ash wonders, if opens himself up to Emma completely, would she eventually be disgusted and leave him? And Emma can't help but think that all Ash wants is a broodmare, not her for herself.
Emma, Ash, and their relationship are my favorite parts of The Duchess Deal. I love how straightforward Emma is, open and honest about herself and her expectations. She knows to rely on her own strength and abilities, but this doesn't mean that Emma is cynical. Despite being mistreated by her father and other men in her life, she believes in love and lust and isn't afraid to act upon her sexual desires. Similarly, Emma doesn't judge, and to the best of her ability, she will help others. Ash and her friends certainly benefit from this.
And Ash, darling Ash. Even though he's (understandably) angry and standoffish, Ash is also hilariously witty, which leads to some great tete-a-tete between him and Emma. Ash also has protective instincts that drive him to help others. Interestingly, this leads to a situation where Ash takes on a Batman-esque vigilante persona, as the Monster of Mayfair.
These two are really great together on so many levels. Emma and Ash force each other to take care of themselves and expand their horizons. This certainly applies to sexy times too:
"I . . ." She closed her eyes. "I want your cock."
He grunted with approval. "Then you shall have it. All of it."
He lifted her by the hips and slid into her, filling her with one blissful inch after another. She gripped the bedpost, pushing back against him until her thighs met his. He began to move in a slow, steady rhythm.
"Do you feel that?" His thrusts gained pace. "That's what you do to me. How hard you make me. I've been wanting this. Every time you've teased me, defied me, given me that arch little smile, I've wanted to bend you over and teach you a lesson."
She clutched the bedpost for balance as he drove into her, making her breasts sway with each thrust.
"I lived in the grip of laudanum. I know what it is to crave. To tremble with wanting, be ruled by need. It nearly destroyed me. This is worse. There's no respite. As soon as I leave your bed, I'm counting the hours until the next night."
He pulled her hips higher, forcing her to balance on her toes.
"Sometimes," he panted, "even in the middle of the day, I have to lock the library door and stroke my own cock, spending into a handkerchief like a randy youth. And it's still not enough. It's never enough."
…She felt his forehead rest against her shoulder, feverish and damp with sweat. He put one hand over hers on the bedpost, bracing his weight, and then reached with the other to touch her between her thighs. Circling his fingertips just where she needed it, just where he knew it would break her apart. All the while, he took her in forceful thrusts. It was animal and uncivilized and she was wild with arousal. Her body quivered as he drove her toward the most devastating orgasm of her life.
She couldn't hide from it, couldn't hold back. When the pleasure caught her, she came in racking, tearless sobs. She forgot where she was, who she was. But he hadn't kept his promise to tup her senseless. Not quite. Her awareness of him only heightened. She sensed the heat of his body, heard the harsh rasps of his breath, breathed the earthy musk of his skin, felt the iron length of his cock at the center of her.
"God," he choked out. "God. Emma."
A thrill shot through her as he called her name. Even in the mindless fury of joining, he hadn't forgotten her, either.
It's so wonderful to see a female character of this time embrace her sexual agency. Plus, Emma is sexually adventurous in a way that helps Ash to regain his confidence.
The Duchess Deal has great secondary characters. Emma's new friends are fun, and it looks like Lady Penelope Campion (animal rights activist), mad scientist/baked Nicola Teague, and clock enthusiast/engineer Alexandra Mountbatten will make up the rest of Tessa Dare's Girl Meets Duke Series. Trevor, Robin to Ash's Batman, is a really sweet and intelligent boy. And Ash's staff, led by Mr. Khan, are kind in their desire to see their Lord and Lady happy and in love, even if that means taking some unconventional (and hilarious) means.
If I am to offer critique, I'd say that there are several interesting secondary storylines that are opened up, but never really explored or resolved in a way fulfilling way. It's tough because, since this is the first book in a series, there's a lot of world-building to accomplish, especially to set up the rest of the books. But at the same time, the drama that the characters do experience feels overly contrived, while the storylines that have the most potential to make things interesting just fall by the wayside.
For example, the "resolution" between Emma and her father is barely that. Similarly, after the effort Annabelle Worthing expends to make Ash and Emma's lives difficult, it seems disingenuous that the three of them would sweep all the animosity and resentment under the rug as quickly as they do. Are we just to believe that Annabelle has been redeemed now?
Also, for the amount of time we spend with the storyline of Emma and her friend Davina Palmer in turmoil, the resolution is rushed at the end, and we don't get to see an actual conclusion.
Historical romance fans, you know Tessa Dare is one of our queens, so of course her latest novel, The Duchess Deal, is MUSTREAD. The novel is out TODAY, so wish Tessa Dare a Happy Book Birthday on Twitter, then add this to your TBR list and grab your copy today!
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When girl meets Duke, their marriage breaks all the rules…
Since his return from war, the Duke of Ashbury's to-do list has been short and anything but sweet: brooding, glowering, menacing London ne'er-do-wells by night. Now there's a new item on the list. He needs an heir—which means he needs a wife. When Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress, appears in his library wearing a wedding gown, he decides on the spot that she'll do.
His terms are simple:
– They will be husband and wife by night only.
– No lights, no kissing.
– No questions about his battle scars.
– Last, and most importantly… Once she's pregnant with his heir, they need never share a bed again.
But Emma is no pushover. She has a few rules of her own:
– They will have dinner together every evening.
– With conversation.
– And unlimited teasing.
– Last, and most importantly… Once she's seen the man beneath the scars, he can't stop her from falling in love…
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Many thanks to the publisher for an advanced review copy.
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【満員御礼】酒蔵開放2019 初企画 初心者向け 酒蔵開放を楽しもう ランチ付き英語ツアー SAKE Brewery TOUR in English 2019 at Sawada Sake Brewery!
Hey Everyone, interested in Japanese Sake? Take a tasting tour of Sawada Sake Brewery in Tokoname in English! You will taste and experience all the things about sake at this generations old, traditional sake brewery. The Brewery is going to be open to public on Feb. 23rd (9:30-15:00) and 24th (10:00-15:00). A Tour with an English Guide is provided only on 24th. We accept reservation only up to 10 people. Looking forward to seeing you!!!
Tasting various new-born and aged Sake.
Tour our old traditional sake brewery.
Get Tokoname cup and bowl as souvenirs.
To get more information, please go to our website.
Even without reservation, you can enter the brewery with 500 yen entrance fee.
Here's the URL of the Japanese event page.
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Business, Entrepreneurship, Leadership
by Influencive March 21, 201811:27 am March 21, 2018
From the Streets, Nipsey Blazed His Trail to Success
Some people are simply destined to become something big, and the larger the obstacle the larger the destiny. It is that struggle that molds these visionaries into the people they need to become in order to serve the world with their natural gift. Nipsey Hussle is one of those people, and he proves every day that success comes from within. From spending his days in survival mode growing up in the of Crenshaw in the 90's when it was coined the "city of gangbanging" to now having an empire of entrepreneurial success. His accomplishments not only tell his story but inspire up-and-coming entrepreneurs and artists with their own journey. Hussle proves that being true and pure to yourself pays off.
The recent release of Nips's debut album Victory Lap has shed new light on this entrepreneur's journey. Using this opportunity, Hussle wants to spread his message and the lessons he has learned along the way to others that may need motivation to get started or continue on their own path.
Commit To Your Path
Everyone has their own talent and gifts. They are born with them – no matter the circumstances they are born into. It isn't always easy, but making a commitment to those gifts is what will pull you through the rough times. It has to be a real commitment, one that cannot be shaken no matter the circumstances.
Nipsey grew up as part of a local gang, and much of his youth revolved around drugs. But Hussle was born to be an artist, and his life wouldn't begin to change until he committed to music. When Hussle was only 17 years old, his focus turned to his gift. Even when he lost the credibility, money and attention that came with having a high status in his gang, he never faulted. "Whatever goes on, I stay committed to it. The ups and downs, the financial struggle – it doesn't matter. I'm committed to music now." Nipsey explains. "Everything else faded."
The seeds that were sown with that commitment are paying dividends to him now as his new album puts him into the ranks of many of those who inspired him – Jay Z, Dr. Dre, Diddy and more. There were many opportunities for Hussle to fall off track or give up. Hardships were no stranger to him. After getting clean and pursuing music, his studio was raided by the police. Because he was on probation and caught with a gun, all of his equipment was confiscated. A long slue of court battles ensued and Nipsey was forced to return to his hustle to pay lawyers and fight the court.
But he never gave up, and today he wants to spread that message to the youth of America. The work he had put into his vision and his work eventually came back to him a year later when a producer reached out to him based on previous work and offered him the biggest check he had ever seen. "If you stay committed, it will work out for you. Stay committed. Never give up. Stay pure."
Forge Your Own Way
While there are some rules that must always be followed, when it comes to your dreams and vision, forge your own path. There will always be those who disagree with you or dislike you. People will talk no matter what you do, so you might as well stay pure to yourself. When you stay true to yourself no matter what the naysayers do, your tribe of true fans will find you.
Nipsey Hussle believed in a different business model the majority of the hip hop industry, and he was unwilling to bend his beliefs. In 2013, he did the unthinkable. Nipsey priced his Crenshaw mixtape for $100 in his Proud2Pay campaign – an item that is typically given away as free promotional content. He surprised the entire industry when Jay Z purchased 100 copies and the rest sold out. He forged his own path and the results spoke for themselves.
Be True to Your Brand
Once entrepreneurs go mainstream, there is an immense pressure to conform to the industry standard. Don't. Instead, maintain your brand for what it is at the core. Your brand represents who you are as a person and what you stand behind. It can only come from you, and ultimately you will be more successful when it stays that way.
Nipsey has shared how he had a dream contract with a production company early in his career. When it fell through, after changes to the executive team were made, he was devastated at first. But it ended up being a blessing in disguise. His brand had started to morph into something he didn't represent. "I remember my website had these two smoking guns on it. That wasn't me. That isn't who I was trying to be." After parting ways, Nipsey was able to focus back on his brand and that became his model going forward.
"Tell your own story in your own image. No third party, no outside looking in. Fans can feel when you aren't real. And if they love you, they need to love who you truly are."
Hussle backs it up. In his debut album released this year, he strategically partnered his own record label 'All Money In' with Atlantic records so that he could leverage the release and distribution but still maintain control over his brand.
No one succeeds alone. We all need help. If you get in a place where you can pay it forward, do it. Give back. Teach and share your gifts. Provide to those who may be struggling. Not only do you help others and your community, paying it forward keeps you grounded.
Hussle is involved in several projects that do just that. Vector90 is an organization that helps the inner city budding entrepreneurs connect with each other in both a coworking space as well as an incubator environment. Vector90 partners with TooBigToFail, a STEM center that encourages design thinking in local youth and a pipeline to the growing tech needs of Silicon Valley.
No one has to do it alone. We all lean on someone from time to time, and when we can, we should be there when others need to lean on us.
Nipsey Hussle is more than a rapper. He is more than an entrepreneur. He is a visionary who has paved his own way by overcoming struggle to a place where he can tell his story to encourage and help others pave their ways to success. His story and message has compelled some of the most loyal fans and followers in his industry. No matter where you came from or where you currently are, you can make a difference. You can succeed. And Hussle is proof of that.
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Multivariable association of 6-month physical measures with 12-month patient-centred outcomes
6-month physical measures
Alive between 6 and 12 months
†OR (95% CI)
No hospitalisation between 6 and 12 months‡
OR (95% CI)
Alive at home at 12 months§
SF-36 PCS 12 months
β (95% CI)
EQ-5D utility 12 months
N=134
Body structure and function
FEV1, each 10% predicted¶ 2.47 (0.90 to 6.81) 0.50 (0.23 to 1.08) 0.76 (0.54 to 1.05) 1.26 (0.97 to 1.63) 2.25 (1.10 to 4.59)* 0.63 (0.41 to 0.97)* 0.39 (−0.71 to 1.49) 0.60 (−0.49 to 1.70) −0.69 (−2.81 to 1.42) 0.17 (−1.90 to 2.24)
% muscle area, each 10% 0.64 (0.11 to 3.85) 1.25 (0.75 to 2.09) 0.77 (0.50 to 1.20) 0.92 (0.69 to 1.22) 0.41 (0.12 to 1.42) 1.07 (0.77 to 1.48) 1.56 (−0.01 to 3.14) −0.99 (−2.14 to 0.15) 2.36 (−0.67 to 5.39) −1.84 (−4.01 to 0.33)
MIP, each 10% predicted 1.21 (0.58 to 2.51) 1.35 (0.92 to 1.98) 1.01 (0.85 to 1.20) 0.93 (0.79 to 1.09) 0.85 (0.57 to 1.29) 1.19 (0.95 to 1.49) −0.14 (−0.75 to 0.47) 0.35 (−0.34 to 1.04) −0.52 (−1.69 to 0.66) 0.75 (−0.56 to 2.05)
MMT, each 10% max MRC score 0.56 (0.11 to 2.89) 0.48 (0.06 to 3.56) 0.96 (0.44 to 2.10) 1.06 (0.51 to 2.24) 1.01 (0.29 to 3.50) 1.54 (0.61 to 3.87) 2.25 (−0.19 to 4.70) 2.25 (−0.87 to 5.36) −1.41 (−6.07 to 3.25) 9.03 (3.13 to 14.93)**
Grip strength, each 10% predicted 0.96 (0.51 to 1.83) 0.93 (0.61 to 1.43) 1.36 (0.98 to 1.88) 0.93 (0.76 to 1.15) 1.04 (0.65 to 1.68) 0.94 (0.70 to 1.26) −0.96 (−1.88 to −0.03) −0.79 (−1.63 to 0.05) −2.05 (−3.84 to −0.27) −0.97 (−2.56 to 0.62)
6 min walk, each 10% predicted 0.56 (0.22 to 1.46) 1.31 (0.71 to 2.39) 1.36 (0.98 to 1.87) 1.11 (0.81 to 1.51) 0.69 (0.35 to 1.36) 1.21 (0.85 to 1.71) 1.73 (0.64 to 2.83)** 1.13 (−0.06 to 2.33) 2.31 (0.20 to 4.42)* 0.51 (−1.73 to 2.75)
4 m gait speed (per 0.11 m/s)‡‡ – 0.78 (0.54 to 1.13) – 1.22 (0.94 to 1.58) – 0.81 (0.64 to 1.03) – 0.70 (−0.12 to 1.52) – 0.79 (−0.77 to 2.35)
No. ADL dependencies (ICAP only) 0.62 (0.15 to 2.54) – 0.89 (0.50 to 1.57) – 0.83 (0.25 to 2.74) – 1.05 (−1.35 to 3.44) – 0.65 (−3.96 to 5.25) –
No. IADL dependencies (ICAP only) 0.41 (0.19 to 0.91)* – 1.50 (1.02 to 2.20)* – 0.54 (0.31 to 0.96)* – −1.32 (−2.40 to −0.24)* – −2.89 (−4.96 to −0.81)** –
FPI––total, per 0.20 unit (ALTOS only)§§ – 1.05 (0.71 to 1.55) – 1.04 (0.86 to 1.25) – 1.17 (0.90 to 1.53) – 1.51 (0.72 to 2.29)** – 2.00 (0.52 to 3.49)**
Model fit; variance explained†† AUC=0.95 AUC=0.83 AUC=0.74 AUC=0.71 AUC=0.91 AUC=0.78 R2=0.27 R2=0.34 R2=0.15 R2=0.23
* p≤0.05; ** p≤0.01; '–', measure not available in dataset.
†Alive between 6 and 12 months (yes=1, 0=no; ICAP––1, n=95, 96%; 0, n=4, 4%; ALTOS––1, n=129, 96%; 0, n=5, 4%).
‡No hospitalisation between 6 and 12 months (yes=1, 0=no; ICAP––1, n=59, 73%; 0, n=22, 27%; ALTOS––1, n=98, 78%; 0, n=27, 22%).
§Alive at home outcome for 12 months (yes=1, 0=no; ICAP––1, n=88, 94%, 0, n=6, 6%; ALTOS––1, n=120, 90%; 0, n=13, 10%).
¶FEV1 at 6 months for ICAP has missing values imputed using 3-month values; No imputation of FEV1 values was performed for ALTOS.
††Model discrimination is based on area under the receiver operating characteristic for survival, hospitalization, alive at home status and R2 for SF-36 PCS and EQ-5D utility.
‡‡0.11 m/s is an estimated MCID for the 4 m gait speed test based on prior study among patients with COPD.31
§§0.20 is an estimated MCID for the FPI. There was no evidence of multicollinearity (variance inflation factor ≤1.59 for independent variables estimated within each models).
ADL, activities of daily living; ALTOS, ARDSNet Long-Term Outcome Study; AUC, area under the curve; EQ-5D, Euro-QOL; FPI, Functional Performance Inventory; IADL, instrumental activities of daily living; ICAP, Improving Care of Acute Lung Injury Patients; MCID, minimal clinically important difference; MIP, maximal inspiratory pressure; MMT, manual muscle testing; MRC, Medical Research Council; QOL, Quality of Life; SF-36 PCS, Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form 36 physical component score.


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Q: How can i rename my package? IntelliJ I try to upload my App into the Play Store, but Google does not allow Apps which contain packages with names like: "example.xxxxx".
My problem is that my package is called "com.example.MainActivity" and I already tried to rename it, but all I can do with IntelliJ is renaming the part "MainActivity". "example" remains the same. After trying to change example by going into the manifest and refactoring it with a different name, IntelliJ just created a new package with the new name, but the old package, which is in use, still has got the same name.
Could anybody help me with this problem and tell me how to change the package name correctly?
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The Manifest and R files did not get copied, after renaming example. Could anybody help me how to include them?
Edit2: I solved the problem with both files by just changing the package name inside the AndroidManifest.xml file.

A: EDIT: First uncheck Compact Empty Middle Packages, then Right Click on the package in the package explorer to the left (normally) and choose Refactor > Rename. Done. Be careful to check that in the manifest it is well renamed, sometimes it doesn't refactor there.
Uncheck Compact Empty Middle Packages

Should look like those packages

Rename package

The warning will still appear, but you should be able to rename the package.

A: Less hassle version of this action is simply to open some class and get to the package and click Shift+F6 or select appropriate position from context menu:

A: If you want to rename empty middle package you should first expand package tree.
Here is nice (though a bit outdated) example how to do that.
Then you'll be able to rename desired package with refactor->rename.

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The Facts About Workplace Violence
Statistics, Predictors, and How to Keep Employees Safe
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A very real, clear and present danger lurks just beyond the consciousness of people who work together eight to 10 hours a day, five to seven days a week. It is the potential for workplace violence to occur.
Increasingly, the Human Resources function is both the target of these threats of workplace violence and the organization's first line of defense for the prevention of workplace violence.
What causes workplace violence? Are violent actions more likely to occur at work? What actions or changes tell an organization that an individual has the potential to commit a violent act at work? Read on to find the answers to these questions and prioritize the health and safety of your employees.
Statistics and Facts About Workplace Violence
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI):
"Workplace violence—including assaults and suicides—accounted for 15 percent of all work-related fatal occupational injuries in 2015 (see Slide 3 of the 2015 CFOI Chart Package) according to data. In their article "Work-Related Homicides: The Facts," Eric Sygnatur and Guy Toscano note that "Contrary to popular belief, the majority of these incidents are not crimes of passion committed by disgruntled coworkers and spouses, but rather result from robberies."
"In 2015, there were 16,380 non-fatal cases of intentional injury by person(s) which required days away from work in private industry; however, this accounted for just 2 percent of all non-fatal injuries and illnesses in private industry (see Table R31.)"
"There were approximately 2.9 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses reported by private industry employers in 2015, which occurred at a rate of 3.0 cases per 100 equivalent full-time workers. The 2015 rate continues a pattern of declines that, apart from 2012, occurred annually for the last 13 years. Private industry employers reported nearly 48,000 fewer nonfatal injury and illness cases in 2015 compared to a year earlier."
What the National Crime Victimization Survey Says
According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), 2 million assaults and threats of violence against Americans in the workplace occur annually. The most common type of workplace violence was assault, with an average of 1.5 million workplace assaults occurring a year.
Workplace violence occurred as follows: 396,000 aggravated assaults, 51,000 rapes and sexual assaults, 84,000 robberies, and 1,000 homicides were reported. These figures likely fall short of the actual number of acts of workplace violence that, in fact, occurred at work as not all acts of workplace violence are reported.
To make statistics about workplace violence accurate is difficult because not all employees report violence in the workplace to their employers much less to governmental agencies that track workplace violence statistics.
The Most Prevalent Types of Workplace Violence
The news media tends to sensationalize acts of workplace violence that involve coworkers, specifically cases that involve an active shooter. In sensationalizing incidents of workplace violence, they remove the emphasis from the most important targets for workplace safety programs.
The incidents of workplace violence that occur are much more common in certain industries and in specific occupations. In fact, the most common motive for job-related homicides is robbery, accounting for 85 percent of workplace violence deaths. People who are employed to sell products or act in safety matters in public-facing activities are more prone to experience workplace violence.
Occupations at Greatest Risk of Workplace Violence
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) provides information that illustrates that anyone can become the victim of a workplace assault, but the risks are greater for workplace violence in certain industries and occupations. For example, the taxicab industry has the highest risk for workplace violence, nearly 60 times the national average for potential workplace violence.
Other occupations at greatest risk include police, detectives, sheriffs, gas station workers, and security guards. In the NCVS study, described earlier, retail sales workers were the most numerous victims, with 330,000 attacked each year.
They were followed by police, with 234,200 officers victimized. Disputes among coworkers and with customers and clients accounted for about one-tenth of the total incidences of workplace violence annually.
More fatal work injuries resulted from transportation incidents than from any other event in 2014. Roadway incidents alone accounted for nearly one out of every four fatal work injuries.
Thus, while violence can happen between coworkers, no responsible safety process in the workplace can ignore the fact that violence is more likely to come from outside the immediate workplace.
Nor can it ignore the fact that, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, "Robbers were the most common type of work-related homicide assailant for men and the second most common for women. The most frequent type of assailant in work-related homicides involving women was a relative or domestic partner."
Recognizing the Potential for Workplace Violence
Larry Porte, a former Secret Service agent and the former manager of the Threat Response and Asset Protection Division of Kerby Bailey and Associates, says that workplace violence is a process that does not occur in a vacuum, but rather is the product of an interaction among three factors:
The individual who takes violent action
The stimulus or triggering conditions that lead the person to see violence as a "way out"
A setting that facilitates or permits the violence; a setting in which there is a lack of intervention
Porte says that perpetrators of workplace violence usually have one of these motives:
Achieve notoriety or fame
Bring the world's attention to a personal problem
Avenge a perceived wrong
End his personal pain (to be killed)
He believes that workplace attacks "are the products of understandable and often discernible processes of thinking and behavior."
In a paper that enumerates eight cases of workplace violence that occurred in 2017, Bryan Strawser of Bryghtpath says, "As we work together to fight against workplace violence, the biggest challenge is that no two incidents are exactly the same. They can range from disgruntled employees to robbery attempts to somebody just deciding that they've had enough.
"Since these incidents are nearly impossible to predict, it's important to develop strong workplace violence training and policies so your employees know how to spot early warning signs and react appropriately when a situation arises."
Warning Signs That an Employee May Become Violent
Dr. Lynne McClure, a nationally recognized expert in managing high-risk employee behaviors before they escalate to workplace violence, defines these discernible processes in a most understandable manner. She says that there are eight categories of warning signs that signal the potential for workplace violence to occur.
Supervisors, managers, co-workers, and Human Resources professionals need to know these signals of potential workplace violence. They are easy to miss when you are observing colleagues and they are not always predictive of violent actions.
Following an incidence of violent behavior in the workplace, however, coworkers often realize that they saw signs and changes in a coworker's behavior prior to the event and didn't take action. In fact, training in recognizing signs of potential workplace violence in coworker behavior is one of the key opportunities organizations have for the prevention of workplace violence.
8 Behaviors That May Predict Acts of Workplace Violence
In her book, "Risky Business: Managing Employee Violence in the Workplace," McClure describes eight categories of high-risk behaviors that indicate the need for management intervention. She says these high-risk behaviors are everyday behaviors that occur in certain patterns—they occur long before threats or actual workplace violence.
The eight categories of workplace violence McClure identifies are the following:
Actor behaviors: The employee acts out his or her anger with such actions as yelling, shouting, slamming doors, throwing objects, and so on.
Fragmentor behaviors: The employee takes no responsibility for his actions and sees no connection between what he does and the consequences or results of his actions. As an example, he blames others for his mistakes.
Me-first behaviors: The employee does what she wants, regardless of the negative effects on others. As an example, the employee takes a break during a last-minute rush to get the products to a customer, while all of the other employees are working hard.
Mixed-messenger behaviors: The employee talks positively but behaves negatively. As an example, the employee acts in a passive-aggressive manner saying that he is a team player but then refuses to share information with colleagues.
Wooden-stick behaviors: The employee is rigid, inflexible, and controlling. She won't try new technology, wants to be in charge, or purposefully withholds information.
Escape-artist behaviors: The employee deals with stress by lying and/or taking part in addictive behaviors such as drugs or gambling.
Shocker behaviors: The employee suddenly acts in ways that are out of character and/or inherently extreme. For instance, a usually reliable individual fails to show up or call in sick for work. A person exhibits a new attendance pattern.
Stranger behaviors: The employee is remote, has poor social skills, becomes fixated on an idea and/or an individual.
According to McClure, "When the manager, supervisor or HR person sees these behavior patterns, she must document, talk to the employee, discuss the behaviors in terms of their negative effect on work, and require training, counseling, or both. Employers may also see the need for disciplinary action."
"The manager, supervisor or HR person must then continue to monitor the employee's behavior. The goal is to either to get the employee to change his behavior, via skills acquisition and/or dealing with problems, or leave the workplace by choice or company decision."
More Factors and Predictors to Watch
Haig Neville, in " Dealing With Workplace Violence," highlights several additional issues. "A New York Times" study of 100 rampage murders … found that most of the killers 'spiraled down a long, slow slide, mentally and emotionally.' According to the study, most killers gave multiple signs that they were in trouble."
With this in mind, employers should be alert to some of the predictors of violent behavior. These include "employees who use intimidation, talk about weaponry, exhibit paranoid or antisocial behavior, feel that they're not being heard by the company, express extreme desperation, have a history of violence, are loners who don't fit in with the group."
In an interview with Eric Snyder, past president and CEO of TCM, Inc., McClure said that at least three of these warnings were missed prior to the murder of seven employees at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts on December 26, 2000. (The act that inspired the multiple murders, including the murder of two HR staff members, was the requirement of the IRS that the company garnishee the wages of the perpetrator, Michael McDermott.)
McClure says that it was later learned that the employee was under psychiatric care and taking medication. The week prior to the murders, "McDermott had an angry outburst at work, which was both extreme and out of character for him." Finally, McDermott exhibited shocker behavior; he "appears to have been remote, and he became fixated on the IRS and the company's role in protecting him from the IRS."
The Costs and Impact of Workplace Violence
The Workplace Violence Research Institute estimated costs of workplace violence to U.S. businesses at $36 billion per year. Neville says, "Costs include medical and psychiatric care, lost business and productivity, repairs and clean up, higher insurance rates, increased security costs, and worst of all, the loss of valued employees.
In addition, business owners are increasingly being held liable for not making their premises safe for employees and customers. Potential areas of workplace violence-related litigation that should concern employers include civil actions for negligent hiring, workers compensation claims, third-party claims for damages, invasion of privacy actions, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) violation charges.
Key Steps to Prevent Workplace Violence
Workplace violence can happen anywhere. Workplace violence can happen to you or someone you love. If you are knowledgeable and watchful about workplace violence and its signs in employees, however, you can anticipate and take actions that may prevent its occurrence. Here are some key steps:
Start by adopting a zero-tolerance policy toward any act of workplace violence.
Know your employees; know when employee behavior is out of the ordinary.
Train supervisors, managers, and other workers that reporting unusual employee behavior to Human Resources is expected and a positive, responsible action.
Make sure that your HR staff takes action on any report of unusual employee behavior.
In your employee handbook, establish workplace policies and procedures that ban all violent behavior and assign stiff penalties to any employee who violates the policy.
If an employee violates the policy, act swiftly to remove the person from your workplace via suspension and most frequently, employment termination.
Let any terminated employee know that if they are seen in your workplace at any time in the future, you will call the police and charge them with trespassing.
Secure your work premises. Make certain that only employees and designated suppliers can enter your workplace with a key or pass card.
Create an emergency action plan so that in the instance of workplace violence, every employee has an exit strategy.
Conduct mock training exercises with your local law enforcement officials.
Stop the spiral that can result in violence; give the potentially violent person somewhere to turn for help such as an Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Remember, workplace violence can happen to you or someone you love; there are resources available to help learn how to deal with workplace tragedy.
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Things Are Not Always What They Seem.
Things are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of a few perceives what has been carefully hidden. So wrote Phaedrus a couple of millennia ago.
I don't believe that Phaedrus ever journeyed from a sunny first century Rome to a less-than-sunny twentieth century Norfolk but if he had perhaps he'd have been inspired to write those lines by catching a glimpse of the Lacon Arms in Bradwell. I regularly used to pedal past it on my way to and from schoolmates' houses and didn't really spot its secret until many years later. Quite what that indicates about my intelligence I'm not sure.
A classic 1930s Art Deco pub. Or is it? © Tony Green
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston (Bradwell has now essentially joined up with the latter) had some lovely Art Deco pubs. Lacon's Brewery added a number to their estate, designed by A.W. Ecclestone, such as the Links, the Clipper Schooner and the iconic Iron Duke which all featured in this earlier post.
Lacon's iconic Iron Duke.
To go some way towards meeting the housing needs of the late 1940s, 711 Arcon bungalows were assembled producing the UK's largest prefab estate on land on the border between Gorleston and Bradwell, which the local authority had acquired from Oxford's Magdalen College.
The Shrublands prefab estate in 1948 with a former gunnery position at its centre.
Prefabs on the Shrublands estate.
The Shrublands estate provided numerous, much-needed, homes to replace those which had been lost to bomb damage and to the slum clearance in Great Yarmouth of the immediate post-war years. They were government-owned but maintained and managed by the local authority with the rent being 12s 6d (62.5p) per week. My parents spent the first few years of their married life together living in one in Pine Green. (However, the first part of their married life wasn't spent together: Burma and England were somewhat distant from each other. In fact they still are.) But the estate was in need of something other than just houses. It needed a pub. Now, if we take a look at the whole of Tony Green's photograph, rather than just a cropped-out section, we can perceive how we were deceived.
The Lacon Arms, by then known as The Arches, in 2016.
Throw up a couple of prefabs, bung on an Art Deco-style frontage and... Voilà! Lacon's had an instant boozer with a public bar on one side and a lounge bar on the other. The new Lacon Arms was not quite the classic 1930s architectural beauty that it might have appeared to have been.
Remove the later additions, entablature and cornices – or whatever the proper terms are – which provided the niches which used to house plaques of the Lacon's falcon, strip away the paint, and we have a utilitarian structure that suited the period of austerity that folks had been living though at the time, even though only a few months later Harold Macmillan spouted, "Indeed, let us be frank about it: most of our people have never had it so good." Somehow I doubt that the future Earl of Stockton would've have been supping his favourite tipple in an asbestos shed.
The Lacon Arms as it appeared when it opened in February 1957.
The public bar was less luxuriously furnished...
...than the lounge bar on the other side. But you'd be pushed to notice.
The prefabs were built with an original life-expectancy of ten years but demolition didn't start until around 1967 and I remember a school friend living in one after that. Rather unusually, the permanent housing which was constructed to replace them retained the same road layout and street names. The Lacon Arms managed to survive for quite a bit longer than its smaller prefabricated neighbours. Renamed The Arches in 1985 it continued serving until 2017. It was demolished and the site developed the following year.
The site of the former Lacon Arms in July 2019. © Google 2020
Thanks to Tony Green for the use of his photograph and to Caroline Jones for the black and white images of the pubs.
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Our town is the only LA County community with an all-female council
At the Paramount City Council meeting on April 7, the winners of the March 2020 municipal election were given the Oath of Office to assume their seats. Incumbent Brenda Olmos and newly elected Isabel Aguayo and Vilma Cuellar Stallings will each serve a four-year term.
With the election of Aguayo and Cuellar Stallings, who join Peggy Lemons, Brenda Olmos, and Councilmember Laurie Guillen, Paramount becomes the only city in Los Angeles County with an all-female City Council.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the public could not attend the meeting in person, and except for City staff who were in the Council Chambers, Councilmembers all participated by teleconference.
Born and raised in Paramount, Olmos was a member of the city's Public Safety Commission for 14 years, a board member for Paramount Girls Softball and Paramount Junior Pirates Football, past president of Paramount Pathways Hospice, and president of the Paramount Chamber of Commerce. She is currently a member of the Paramount Rotary Club, founded the "Healthy Paramount" initiative, is chair of the Paramount Heritage Parade Committee, and was given the local Elks Club's Distinguished Citizen Award in 2018. Professionally, she is the director of Network and Business Development for AppleCare Medical Management. Olmos has been on the council for nine months, having been appointed in July 2019 to fill the vacated term of longtime Councilmember Diane J. Martinez, who retired.
A lifelong Paramount resident, Aguayo is a member of Paramount/Tepic Sister Cities and the Paramount Heritage Parade Committee and is director of Outreach in California for Share Hope USA, which has helped more than 9,000 homeless individuals in L.A. and Orange counties and collected more than 40,000 Play-Doh containers for Children's Hospital L.A. Her family owns and operates a ceramics business in the City.
Cuellar Stallings grew up in Paramount and attended Paramount schools. She has served a combined seven years on the City's Public Safety and Parks & Recreation commissions. She has spent her career with the Paramount Unified School District and is a member of Paramount/Tepic Sister Cities and the Paramount Heritage Parade Committee.
Also at the April 7 meeting, the City Council voted for Peggy Lemons to become mayor and Olmos as Vice Mayor. They will serve a one-year term in their respective roles. Lemons succeeds Tom Hansen, who retired after 13 years on the City Council. Olmos replaces Daryl Hofmeyer, who also retired from the City Council after serving for 17 years.
"These are obviously extraordinary times, and the City wants to thank all of our residents who have been staying 'Safer at Home' and following social distancing and other guidelines to help stop the spread of COVID-19," said Mayor Lemons. "Our employees continue to provide the community with essential services. Our new and existing councilmembers are up to the challenges that we face. We stand ready to represent everyone in town as we get to the other side of this."
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