The Expression: "Oh my ____!"
Discussion in 'The Pilgrims Progress' started by rmb, Apr 17, 2005.
The Expression: \"Oh my ____!\"
I hear the expression "Oh my ____!" (name of our Lord)all the time. Do you find it offensive. Do you find yourself using it. Also why are so many people drawn to it, to express utter suprise.
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain...this constitutes as vain usage and is VERY offensive!
It's a clear violation of the Third Commandment because it takes the Lord's name in vain. Most people I know, including many Christians, are not shy about using this expression. It's everywhere. Atheists who don't believe in God and Muslims who believe in a different God among others use this expression, and likewise, many will take the name of Christ in vain specifically. I don't know why this is so, except that we are all sinners and God's name is something we all naturally want to abuse. There are people who try to substitute "gosh" or other expressions for the one you cited, but all that does is create a "minced oath." There are all sorts of euphemisms for God, but they still take God's name in vain. I usually hear these expressions arising out of anger or alarm. It makes a huge difference what the motivation or context is for using the name of the Lord in a particular way. We ought all to remember the Lord's Prayer: "Hallowed be thy Name."
I think a more in-depth discussion could be started by asking...Is it ok to say "Oh my Gaaaa" or "Oh my Word" or "Cheese" or "Gee Wally."
These don't use God's Holy name explicitly, but one may argue that they are implicitly.
As I mentioned, they are minced oaths.
Is it bad that I had to look up minced? All I could think of was garlic!
Oh my ________? groans my skin. Usually whenever I hear it while watching television I get most uncomfortable and guilt ridden.
I guess this is God trying to get me to go to a next level of sanctification in giving up these silly television shows.
The phrase referenced in the title offends me and I hear Christians use it (and worse) all the time! Even when talking about God they're swearing.
Sometimes to my surprise, I hear myself doing it. (I don't own a TV, that ain't the problem for me.) I'd like to stop and to get accountablilty for it, but it seems awfully Wesleyan to bring it up. People will start using the legalism-word and the gnostic-word and on and on. I keep waiting for God to just get them to stop, and that's another whole There, I feel better!
It makes my skin crawl. I heard this one girl say it that I kind of liked and felt like throwing up.
If it does not offend us and drive us to defend God's glory then we have a flawed view of God. Worse yet, if we use the phrase, we expose our lack of reverence for Him.
How long has it been since you heard a sermon on the fear of God or on the holiness of God?
When you have a right view of Him, like Isaiah in the temple, then you cry with the prophet, "Woe is me, for I am undone. I am a man of unclean lips."
Heard one? Well does listening to last weeks tape of my sermon count? Then it would have been on Tuesday.
In my humble opinion the Fear of the Lord is the most overlooked theme of Scripture.
My wife helped my daughter and her husband move into their first house. While moving my daughter (who was raised in the church but has left since being out on her own) kept speaking the name and title of the Son of God as an oath. My wife had to ask her to stop. Very disappointing. I have been engaging her in conversation and exhorting her to return to church and remember who her Lord is, and thought she was remembering. But this was not encouraging.
Like others I find "Oh my ___" to be offensive for the reasons others have given. A rather interesting side note though, my daughter's school is Dispensational fundamentalists (closest Christian school around - not our first choice mind you). They have been told in 2nd grade that they cannot say "Oh my gosh" or "Oh my goodness" since these other words are replacements for "God" and thus are equally sinful.
I've looked up "gosh" in several dictionaries and I could not find anyone that defines "gosh" as a replacement word for "God".
Good for those Dispensationalists! Gosh & Golly are both minced oaths, so I've always been told.
1757, altered pronunciation of God. Probably from by gosse (mid-16c.).
What bothers me worse then anything is G--d---n.It makes me almost violently angry when somebody says it.
I would much rather hear dung in its common venacular or the F word way before hearing the Lords Name taken in vain.
Misuse of Christ´s name is also horrible; particularly when used for "artistic purposes" by some Christian creative writer types (anyone remember that Credenda Agenda gem from some years ago?).
My favorite and only expletive is still "sammina bastage!"
It sounds just awful and fullfills the need for catharsis but is completely without connotation or etymology.
I tore my thumbnail back while remodeling my bathroom this weekend and I used it passionately. Yes, it DID seem to help along with cold water, band-aids and some sympathy from my dear wife. SAMMINA BASTAGE!!!
PS - When I hear someone use the Lord's name in place of a swear word, I take that as a reminder to pray - for the potty mouthed person first and then for who or whatever the Lord gives me unction to pray for.
"Repay no one evil for evil, but give THOUGHT to DO what is honorable in the sight of all....Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good."
Thanks for the reference. To be honest I am surprised by that one.
"hey! Is there a prayer meeting in here?"


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Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ (turcă otomană: خواجه معمار سنان آغا; turcă modernă: Mimar Sinan) (cac. 1489/1490 – d. 17 iulie 1588) a fost un arhitect-șef otoman (turcă: "Mimar") și inginer civil al sultanilor Suleiman Magnificul, Selim al II-lea și Murad al III-lea.
El a fost responsabil pentru construirea a mai mult de trei sute de construcții mari și altele mai modeste, cum ar fi  școlile primare islamice (mektebs sibyan). Ucenicii lui vor proiecta mai târziu Moscheea Sultanului Ahmed în Istanbul și vor ajuta mai târziu la proiectarea Taj Mahal-ului în Imperiul Mogul.

Fiul unui zidar, el a primit o educație tehnică și a devenit un inginer militar. El a urcat rapid pe ierarhia militară devenind ofițer, și în cele din urmă  comandant de ieniceri , cu titlul onorific de ağa.
El și-a rafinat arhitectura și competențele inginerești în timpul campaniilor cu ieniceri, devenind expert la construirea de fortificații de toate tipurile, precum și în proiecte militare de infrastructură, cum ar fi drumuri, poduri si apeducte.
La vârsta de aproximativ cincizeci de ani, el a fost numit în funcția de arhitect șef al sultanului, aplicând competențele sale tehnice dobândite în domeniul militar în "crearea clădirilor religioase" și tot felul de construcții civile. Mimar Sinan a rămas în post aproape cincizeci de ani. El este recunoscut ca cel mai mare arhitect din Orient și a fost comparat cu renumitul Michelangelo, cel mai mare arhitect din Occident, cu care a fost și contemporan.

Cele mai mari lucrări ale sale au fost Moscheea Suleymaniye și Moscheea Șehzade din Istanbul, Moscheea Selimiye din Edirne și lucrările de restaurare de la Cupola Stâncii din Ierusalim și de la marile moschei din Mecca și Medina.

Opere

 94 moschei (camii),
 52 moschei mici (mescit),
 55 școli de teologie islamică (medrese),
 41 băi (hamam),
 36 palate (saray),
 22 mausolee (türbe),
 20 caravanserai (kervansaray; han),
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 7 școli pentru recitarea Coranului (darülkurra),
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 3 spitale (darüșșifa)

Lucrări celebre ale lui  Mimar Sinan

Legături externe

 Mimar Sinan fondator al acestei Fundații - cu fotografia testamentului său și dovada numelui său original
 Fotografii ale orașului Edirne cu multe fotografii ale moscheii Selimiye
 Hartă și scurt ghid ale lucrărilor lui Sinan în Istanbul
 Fotografii ale unor moschei ale lui  Sinan în Istanbul
 Harta unor moschei ale lui Sinan în Istanbul
 Constructorul principal al moscheilor otomane în secolul al 16-lea
 Respect lui Sinan (pagină web de tribut)
 Mimar Sinan Pod în Büyükçekmece
 Arhitectul otoman care a unit estul cu vestul
 Viața și lucrările lui Mimar Sinan

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Corporations and rivers now have rights. Animals are next.
There is slow movement toward expanding rights for animals. This doesn't mean they will be able to drive or vote.
PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk likens the pursuit of animal rights to earlier quests for civil rights and women's rightsRead moreCourtesy of Ingrid Newkirk
by Stu Bykofsky | Columnist
In a stunning move, India last month granted "living person" status to the Ganges and Yamuna rivers, making polluting the rivers akin to assaulting a human. A week earlier, New Zealand made the Whanganui River a "living entity" with legal rights.
Sound crazy? Maybe less so when you remember that in the Citizens United and Hobby Lobby cases, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled companies are like people and have certain rights.
If rivers and businesses have rights, why not animals, ask animal advocates excited by the river rulings.
"Legal personhood is not determined by biology, but by public policy," argues Steven Wise, founder of the Nonhuman Rights Project. For decades he has been a lawyer for what he calls "nonhuman clients."
Existing animal welfare statutes, he says, "don't provide recourse against the inherent cruelty of depriving self-aware, autonomous beings of their freedom, the company of others of their kind and their natural habitats." His goal is to pry open the law.
One success last year was the Oregon Supreme Court, contrary to the usual legal view, ruling that dogs are more than "property." Nonjudicial successes included getting elephants out of the Ringling Bros. circus and killer whales out of Sea World, reflecting Americans' changing attitudes toward captive animals.
Achieving "rights" for animals is poised to be the next great social revolution, but no one is suggesting that animals get the right to vote or to drive. The "rights" would be limited, like those enjoyed by children.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is considered extremist by some, yet founder Ingrid Newkirk's definition of "rights" is moderate: "The decent, commonsense idea that if a living being can suffer, whether child or Chihuahua, man or mouse, it is wrong to impose that suffering on them needlessly," she tells me.
Some animals do enjoy limited "rights," says Wayne Pacelle, CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, "including not to be tortured or harmed in a malicious way. Others have the 'right' not to be confined in small cages and crates." Achieving those protections was painful and slow.
If "rights" were conferred, it would raise ethical considerations. Could we raise animals as food?
Yes, we could, says Tara Zuardo, a lawyer for the Animal Welfare Institute. "There are countries like Germany that have animals written into the constitution, but they still raise animals for food," using humane methods. "We predict that courts will increasingly issue decisions declaring that animals are not merely property and deserve certain legal rights," she says.
A 1992 amendment to the Swiss Constitution recognized animals as "beings" instead of "things," and in 2008 a committee of the Spanish Parliament conferred legal rights on great apes.
If a river has rights, how can they be denied to animals, which are sentient, and capable of feeling emotions such as joy, fear, loneliness?
"There is a trend toward recognizing that humans aren't the be-all and end-all for those who deserve protection," says Matthew Liebman, director of litigation for the Animal Legal Defense Fund. He cites cases around the world, from Spain to Argentina — where great apes have been accorded special protections and some formal "rights."
For decades, the Nonhuman Rights Project has been going to court to secure rights for chimpanzees, but it hasn't yet achieved a breakthrough.
It came close when it sued to have set free Leo and Hercules, two chimpanzees being held for research at Stony Brook University. The case stalled in 2015 when Stony Brook returned the chimps to the University of Louisiana, out of the court's jurisdiction. PETA is in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that a chimp named Naruto holds the rights to pictures he took of himself using a camera set up and left in a forest.
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Humans and chimpanzees share about 98 percent of the same DNA, and some humans have been freaked out ever since Charles Darwin wrote that humans are descended from apes.
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U.S-Russian Relations: Back to Square One - Part II
After Donald Trump took power a 'reset' of U.S.-Russian relations wasn't even attempted. Why was a 'grand bargain', being so far beyond reality, expected at all? After analysing the opposing positions in the Middle East and Far East in his first article, Hannes Adomeit now considers the military competition, economic relations and Ukrainian crisis. As long as Putin persists in his policy of confrontation with the West, improvement of the U.S.-Russian relations is not going to happen, he concludes.
by Hannes Adomeit
Prior to Trump's election, either explicitly or implicitly, the Kremlin had presented Washington with a long list of demands.
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This included de facto recognition of the post-Soviet space as Russia's sphere of influence; abandonment of all efforts at 'regime change' and the staging of 'colour revolutions' in this geopolitical space or elsewhere; a legally binding commitment to stop any further NATO eastward expansion; construction of a European security system that would take into consideration Russian interests (as defined by Moscow); withdrawal of all U.S. troops and associated infrastructure deployed in NATO countries since August 2000; cancelation of plans to station components of the U.S. American missile defense system in Europe; any U.S. nuclear weapons modernization not to detract from the existing strategic parity with Russia; concerning regional policies, in Europe, full implementation of the Minsk II protocol for the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, repeal of all sanctions against Russian persons and institutions taken in response to the Ukrainian conflict, and compensation for all the losses suffered by Russia as a result of the sanctions as well as by the resulting counter-sanctions.
In exchange what would be in it for Trump?
Military competition
Trump wants 'to make America great again'. The problem with this slogan is that he, like Putin, defines greatness first and foremost in military, 'hard power' terms. No matter how vague and contradictory many of his statements of presidential candidate may have been, throughout the campaign and thereafter he has consistently claimed that whereas the 'Russians and Chinese have rapidly expanded their military capability', the Obama administration had allowed U.S. military power to deteriorate and that this was one of the reasons why U.S. influence abroad had decreased.
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To remedy that state of affairs, as the Trump-approved platform of the Republican Party for the 2016 elections stated, the country should 'rebuild the U.S. military into the strongest on earth, with vast superiority over any other nation or group of nations in the world'. Trump himself later demanded: 'Our military dominance must be unquestioned'.
As for the relationship with Moscow, Trump has claimed that an improvement was feasible but only 'from a position of strength', a point of view that U.S. defence minister James Mattis shared upon his visit to NATO in mid-February in Brussels but that prompted his Russian counterpart, Sergei Shoigu, to ask for an explanation to be provided at the conference of U.S. and Russian chiefs of staff the following day in Baku.
Evidence of the Trump administration's determination to build up America's military power can be found in its fiscal 2018 budget request to Congress. Military expenditure is to be raised by U.S. $ 54 billion – 'one of the largest increases in national defense spending in American history', according to the president. The hike would bring the total military outlays to U.S. $ 639 billion in the coming year.
The plans and projects to be financed by such huge increases have a bearing also on the military relationship with Russia: U.S. $ 14.3 billion are to be used for the maintenance and modernization of the U.S. strategic nuclear forces. That sum reflects the priority given to nuclear power: whereas the defense budget overall is to grow by 8 percent compared to the previous year, spending for nuclear is projected to increase by 11 percent.
A second major impact on U.S.-Russian military relations is likely to originate from implementation of the Pentagon's Prompt Global Strike strategy. Its core idea is to develop a system that can deliver precision-guided airstrikes with conventional weapons anywhere in the world within one hour, in a similar manner to strikes with nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles. The projects associated with the concept encompass numerous established and emerging technologies, including conventional ground-, air- and submarine-launched hypersonic missiles.
No new 'Reykjavik' in sight
Third, it is not only the build-up of such offensive strategic capabilities that impinges on U.S.-Russian military relations but also America's defensive potential and projects. In the face of Moscow's unmitigated opposition, Washington continues with the construction of ballistic missile defence systems both to protect the United States and its allies in Europe and Asia.
Gorbachev and Reagan in 1986 during their sensational talks in Reykjavik. Photo: Reagan library
Fourth, one of the major achievements in lessening the nuclear arms competition and contributions to the Cold War military confrontation, the 1987 Washington (INF) agreement for the destruction of all medium- and shorter-range nuclear missiles, has been put in jeopardy. The culprit is Russia who has ignored all U.S. representations about the testing of long-range ground-launched cruise missiles in violation of the agreement and, according to U.S. government officials, has now deployed two battalions of the prohibited cruise missile. One is said to be still located at Russia's missile test site at Kapustin Yar in southern Russia near Volgograd. The other was shifted in December from that test site to an operational base elsewhere in the country.
Overall, any 'new Reykjavik', the repetition of a meeting between Trump and Putin along the lines of the meeting between presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan to use nuclear arms control talks as a device for a comprehensive reconstruction of the political relationship, is not in sight. What is more likely is that the nuclear arms competition and the controversies surrounding it will continue or even increase in intensity.
Economic potential
Much of the exuberant triumphalism in the Russian 'Great Power' and national-patriotic camp about the election of Trump as U.S. president concerned the impressions he conveyed as a candidate about the attitudes and policies he would adopt towards Europe.
With Trump in power Moscow hoped that the business of America is business
To large sections of the Russian foreign policy and security establishment it seemed that Trump as president would put into practice his rejection of 'nation building' and 'regime change'; stop funding programs for the building of liberal, democratic, and law-based political systems and civil society in Russia and in what Moscow claimed to be its sphere of influence in East-Central Europe; lay to rest the idea of Ukrainian membership in NATO; extricate the Western military alliance from any engagement in the solution of the conflict in eastern Ukraine; be open to the recognition of the Crimea as a constituent part of the Russian Federation; and, with or without any agreement on the status of the breakaway parts of Ukraine's Lugansk and Donetsk provinces, lift the sanctions imposed on Russia.
Given Trump's insistence of America and American economic interests first as well as president Coolidge's adage that 'the business of America is business', Russian officials and pundits thought that the presumed primacy of politics over economics in Washington would be reversed. The nomination of former Exxon-Mobil chief Tillerson to the position of foreign minister seemed to confirm such ideas.
Lifting the sanctions
Furthermore, a case could be made that U.S.-Russian economic relations were far below their potential and could perhaps substantially be increased. In fact, cumulative Russian foreign direct investment in 2014 stood at a trifling U.S. $ 5.3 billion (Germany by comparison U.S. $ 224.1 billion). The value of U.S. exports to Russia in 2016 was only $ 5.8 billion (compared with U.S. $ 266.8 billion in exports to Canada and $ 231 billion to Mexico).
For Trump, what matters are the creation of jobs in America and the promotion of exports, but on both accounts the promise of substantial benefits to the U.S. economy as a result of an end to sanctions is fanciful given the Russia's economic downturn even before their imposition. Of course, what remains is the possibility that Trump's personal and family business interests may profit from the lifting of sanctions and that this may have been one of the reasons for the nice words Trump the presidential candidate found for Putin, but given the evident risk of conflicts of interest and the utterly poisoned atmosphere as a result of the 'well-established' Russian interference in the election, even that option would seem to be foreclosed.
The first clear indications to the effect that the Kremlin's hopes about a possible end to U.S. sanctions were erroneous came with Tillerson's confirmation hearings on 11 January. Not only did he fail to take issue with the sanctions regime but he called the annexation of the Crimea 'illegal'. In order to stop further Russian advances, he said, 'I would have recommended that Ukraine take all of the military assets that it had available, put them on the eastern border ... [and] announce that the U.S. was going to provide them intelligence'. Russia, he thought, would have understood the more robust American response.
Tillerson and Haley walking to a UN-meeting. Photo: U.S.State Department
At the time of the Tillerson hearings, it was still unclear what the president elect really thought and what position he would adopt once in office. The fog lifted on 2 February when Nikki Haley, the U.S. government's representative, said at the United Nations that eastern Ukraine was 'not the only part of the country suffering because of Russia's aggressive actions'. The United States continued 'to condemn and call for an immediate end to the Russian occupation of Crimea' and warned that 'Our Crimea related sanctions will remain in place until Russia returns control of the peninsula to Ukraine.'
Finally, at the 12 April joint press conference together with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, after a two-hour meeting with Putin, Tillerson stated that 'no change in the status of sanctions that have been in place with Russia as a result of certain actions taken in Ukraine' had been discussed. He even thought that the 'well-established [Russian] interference with the election' was 'serious enough to attract additional sanctions'.
From the Russian perspective, the answers to the two perennial questions of 'Who is to blame?' and 'What is to be done' are self-evident. From Moscow's viewpoint, the blame for the 'completely ruined relations' without any shadow of doubt lies with American politicians, with the 'anti-Russian Washington establishment'. Prime minister Medvedev confirmed this unbending position after the U.S. strike against a Syrian air force base. 'This military action', he concluded, 'is a clear indication of the U.S. President's extreme dependency on the opinion of the Washington establishment, the one that the new president strongly criticised in his inauguration speech.'
From this logically follows the answer to the second question: the United States had thoroughly to revise its policies and depart from its confrontationist stance towards Russia. This is a point that Putin had attempted to impress on the Obama administration. What needed to be done, he wrote in an article for the New York Times, was that 'we' (meaning, however, the United States since Russia was blameless) 'return to the path of civilized diplomatic and political solutions'.
Russian domestic policy is the decisive factor
Contrary to what the Kremlin narrative suggests, however, the slide towards the abyss in U.S.-Russian relations in the eight years of Obama's presidential tenure is not primarily to be explained by developments in Washington's foreign policy, including towards Moscow. Russian domestic politics, it stands to reason, has been the decisive factor.
This concerns Putin's deliberate shift away from the earlier declared commitment to socio-economic modernization and cooperation with the United States and Europe to national-patriotic mobilization and confrontation with the West. The large-scale popular demonstrations after the December 2011 parliamentary and March 2012 presidential elections had convinced the ruling elite that Medvedev's modernization drive undermined its very power basis. Moscow's annexation of the Crimea and its military intervention in eastern Ukraine are to a large extent the consequences of that fateful reorientation from cooperation with the West to 'Eurasian' integration.
What logically follows from this is that any substantial and lasting improvement of U.S.-Russian is predicated on an abandonment of the chosen course. The policy consequences of that conclusion are equally obvious. In order to make change more likely, the United States or more generally the West must stand firm and demonstrate that continuation of the national-patriotic approach leads nowhere – or, more precisely, to the perpetuation of Russia's internal stagnation and international isolation.
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Porsche Flat Four Coming In 2016: Report
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It's no secret that Porsche is working on a four-cylinder boxer engine; it's already admitted it's under development. The questions that haven't been answered yet are, when is it coming, and which vehicles will use it?
In December we reported that a new four-cylinder boxer engine could make its debut in a Porscheas soon as the 2013 Frankfurt Auto Show. Now it seems that we won't see the flat four from Porsche for another three years.
A Zuffenhausen-based Porsche official told Autocar that the new powerplant is still early in its development, and it's not due before 2016. It is expected to make its debut in the refreshed 2016 Boxster and Cayman sports cars.
The new engine is said to share its design with the boxer six in the current Boxster, Cayman, and 911. It will feature direct-injection technology, and likely, start-stop functionality. We expect it will displace 2.5 liters and will be offered both in naturally aspirated and turbocharged forms, with the latter producing close to 350 horsepower.
It's not the only four-cylinder coming to Porsche, however. The upcoming 2014 Porsche Macan compact crossover actually will be the first new Porsche to receive a four-cylinder engine. That engine will be a Volkswagen AG 2.0-liter in-line four-cylinder, and will be developed by the VW Group in gasoline and diesel forms.
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Outlining Progress in Sustainability
Making better, smoke-free alternatives available to cigarette smokers, tackling child labor in our supply chain, and addressing climate change and its consequences. These are some of the topics covered in PMI's annual Sustainability Report.
PMI's 2018 Sustainability Report offers an insight into its working practices. From increased access to smoke-free products, to improving labor practices in the electronics supply chain, to better water stewardship, the fourth Sustainability Report details the company's sustainability strategy, which covers its products, operations and value chain, and is an integral part of PMI's mission to unsmoke the world. It has four pillars:
Transforming our business
Driving operational excellence
Managing our social impact
The report publication is part of the company's commitment to transparency. As PMI moves from cigarettes to smoke-free alternatives, its journey is also about transitioning to becoming a global sustainability leader.
André Calantzopoulos, CEO of PMI, says it is not enough to focus on product alone "Our sustainability ambition extends to the way we operate, manage our social impact, and reduce our environmental footprint. Society's expectations of businesses are changing, and we must play our part in addressing global challenges" he writes in the report's introduction. *
Our sustainability ambition extends to the way we operate, manage our social impact, and reduce our environmental footprint.
André Calantzopoulos, Chief Executive Officer, Philip Morris International*
The report details how the company is re-allocating funds away from its traditional cigarettes business, and towards the manufacturing and commercialization of smoke-free products. Its leading-edge innovations and its rigorous research and development work, which aligns with international standards, have allowed it to develop a portfolio of smoke-free products that are not risk-free, but represent a less harmful alternative to cigarettes.
The company aims to provide all smokers who will not quit with access to smoke-free alternatives. Our aspiration is that, by 2025, at least 40 million adults who would otherwise have continued to smoke cigarettes will have switched to our smoke-free products. Per end of 2018, in only four years, an estimated 6.6 million adult consumers have stopped smoking and switched to PMI's heated tobacco product, IQOS. The number of markets where net revenues from smoke-free products exceeded 10 percent of total net revenues increased to 19 from five the year before, and in three markets, smoke-free products have become the biggest part of PMI's business.
A fundamental pillar of PMI's success is driving operational excellence and this is reflected in the efforts the company puts into ensuring it has a strong ethics and compliance culture. It has programs on responsible marketing, tackling the illicit tobacco trade, developing responsible supply chain practices and managing human rights impacts.
It strives to maintain a strong ethics and compliance culture through a combination of:
Principles & Practices which provide specific guidance on key topics;
Training and communications which build understanding and commitment;
a diligent and fair investigation process for suspected misconduct combined with proportionate disciplinary action
Our drive for operational excellence is also reflected in how we work with our suppliers, and what we commit to. We have different policy instruments that set out how we want to achieve our aim, which includes:
Our Commitment to Human Rights;
Our Guidebook for Success;
Our Responsible Sourcing Principles; and
Our Agricultural Labor Practices Code.
The report details PMI's efforts to manage social impact in its supply chain and its operations. In 2018, it continued to invest in improving and expanding the farm-to-farm Agricultural Labor Practices Code (ALP) monitoring by updating and implementing its Prompt Action (PA) Guidelines as a standardized process. The geographic coverage of its monitoring has expanded from 77 percent in 2017 to 88 percent in 2018. A total of 18,543 prompt actions were recorded in 2018 by field technicians, 74 percent of which were related to an unsafe work environment and 25 percent to child labor.
In the coming years, its action plan will involve more effective due diligence before contracting suppliers, and stronger consequence management in case of persistent ALP Code violations. Projects will be run with farmers and suppliers to improve crop yields and quality, as well as farm management, aiming to help them achieve at least a living income. Systematic sharing of best practice solutions between field technicians will become standard practice and wider collaboration with other companies to explore solutions to complex social problems, such as child labor, for the benefit of the entire industry, farmers' families and farming communities will be explored.
The report celebrates PMI's achievements in creating a diverse and inclusive work environment, as well as its approach to equality in the workplace. This year, the company became the first multinational to be EQUAL-SALARY certified, proving the company pays men and women the same for work of equal value.
"Given that women make up half the world's talent pool and influence 60–70% of consumer spend, improving gender balance at PMI is our first inclusion and diversity priority" the report notes.
Women currently make up 42.1 percent of staff at PMI, with 35.2 percent at a managerial level. "Work remains to be done, however," the report notes. "A priority for 2019 is to increase the representation of women in senior leadership, among whom 15.2 percent were women in 2018. PMI will do this through targeted recruitment of top talent and personalized career development plans. Additionally, we will further embed flexible working practices and support employees to thrive at work and at home."
The focus on working practices both within the company and across its supply chains is part of PMI's promise to deliver on its vision of a smoke-free future. The company has set a course for big change as it seeks to demonstrate that commitment.
The report details PMI's efforts to reduce its environmental footprint within its operations and beyond, through its entire supply chain.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions, with PMI making it onto CDP's coveted Climate A-List for the fifth year in a row, the only tobacco company to be listed. Across PMI's supply chain, absolute CO2e emissions have decreased 34 percent (baseline 2010) with the goal of a 40 percent reduction by 2030.
Stepping up water stewardship efforts, with PMI becoming the first company in Latin America to have a factory certified by the Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) for its operation in Brazil.
Avoiding deforestation, for instance by supporting live barns in the tobacco curing process and working with suppliers and farmers who planted 26 million trees in 2018.
Playing its part in the circular economy, establishing a centralized initiative to recycle its used electronic smoke-free product devices to the highest industry standards.
We have been working for many years on making our business more sustainable, often focused on the specific challenges that we faced in parts of our business.
Huub Savelkouls, Chief Sustainability Officer, Philip Morris International **
Overall, the Sustainability Report showcases the positive trends in the company's continued efforts to switch adult smokers to better smoke-free alternatives, reduce its carbon footprint and to become an exemplary employer.
"We have been working for many years on making our business more sustainable, often focused on the specific challenges that we faced in parts of our business, such as our agricultural supply chain" writes PMI's Chief Sustainability Officer Huub Savelkouls. **
"Now we want to take a truly holistic and proactive perspective on sustainability, across all aspects of our business. Instituting the CSO position is a sign of PMI's commitment to take our company's sustainability to the next level."
*André Calantzopouplos was speaking in his role as CEO at the time. On May 5, 2021, Jacek Olczak succeeded Mr. Calantzopoulos as CEO, and Mr. Calantzopoulos became Executive Chairman of the Board.
** Jennifer Motles succeeded Huub Savelkouls as Chief Sustainability Officer on November 1, 2020, following Mr. Savelkouls' retirement from PMI.
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Towards a facilitative social security regime – EPFO's circular on verification of contractor's compliance
In an important and perhaps a much-needed move, the Employees' Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO) has launched an electronic facility for principal employers (i.e., establishments engaging contract labour through contractors / manpower service providers) whereby they may be able to verify compliance by their contractors with the Employees' Provident Funds and Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 (EPF Act) vis-à-vis the contract labour. By way of its circular dated 1 February 2021, the EPFO has directed the regional officials to take cognizance of the facility and conduct webinars with major establishments engaging contract labour to ensure adequate dissemination of information about the facility.
Towards a facilitative regime
Pursuant to the launch, a principal employer can, at EPFO's Unified Portal, add the details of its contractors as well as the Universal Account Number of each of the contract workers deployed at the principal employer's establishment. Thereafter, the principal employer can, after logging in to the said portal, view the remittances made by the contractors on behalf of each of the covered contract workers. The principal employer can also verify the quantum of wages of the contract workers from which the contractor has deducted employees' provident fund contributions and assess whether this is in consonance with the amount paid by the principal employer to the contractor to enable the latter to comply with the EPF Act.
The principal employer can utilise the above-mentioned facility by furnishing certain details / documents such as the duration of the contract entered with the contractor, the work order issued for the relevant assignment, and the details of the contract workers engaged through the contractor every month. Once the contractor is added, the Compliance Dashboard available on the Unified Portal will become available for the principal employer to check the payment status in respect of the contract workers.
The facility also provides a mechanism whereby any disagreement between a contractor and the principal employer as regards the former's addition to the latter's account can be addressed. In case an entity has disputed its addition as a contractor, the status of contractor in the principal employer's account will be displayed as 'disputed', and the remarks made by the contractor will also be shown therein. The principal employer can then edit or delete the entity's details, or it can re-confirm the same. In case of reconfirmation, the status of the contractor will be changed to 'active' or 'reconfirmed', and no further dispute can be raised by the contractor.
The EPF Act is one of the most important constituent of the employment law regime in the country. It governs the remittance of a sacrosanct social security component relevant to the large organised and unorganised workforce in India. The enforcement framework is, therefore, robust when compared to other labour laws in India.
As far as contract labour is concerned, the principal employers may, under the EPF Act, be held liable in the event the contractor fails to deposit contributions or make timely remittances vis-à-vis their workers towards employees' provident fund. There are, however, judicial precedents to the effect that if the contractor has obtained its own employer code from the EPFO, the authorities should not go after the principal employer. That said, we have seen situations wherein principal employers have received notices from the competent authority in case of non-compliances on the part of the contractors engaged by them. There are several cases where the principal employers do not receive adequate information and documentation as proof from the contractors to confirm contractors' compliance with the EPF Act, in which case the principal employers run a greater risk of potential scrutiny or questions by the enforcement authorities.
With the implementation of electronic facility mentioned above, principal employers may exercise the requisite due diligence to ensure that the risk of unwarranted litigation / liability emanating from contractors' default may be mitigated. Similar to the labour codes that may come into effect within the next few months, this initiative indicates EPFO's intent to facilitate compliance instead of prosecution.
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First Lady Jill Biden talks gun control at Democratic fundraiser as she kicks off three-day trip in Massachusetts
Published: Jul. 14, 2022, 6:57 p.m.
First lady Jill Biden, center, speaks with Director of Clinical Traumatic Brain Injury and Brain Health Services Alexis Iaccarino, right, during a visit to Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital program designed to help veterans and families with PTSD and traumatic brain injuries, or TBI, in Boston, Thursday, July 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)AP
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First Lady Jill Biden asked for political courage in the United States and called for a ban on assault weapons while speaking at a Thursday afternoon fundraiser in Andover, the final stop of her first day in Massachusetts.
Biden kicked off a three-day stint in the Bay State with a visit to Home Base, a Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital program focused on providing direct clinical care with veterans, service members, military families, and relatives of fallen service members. After the tour, she made her way north to the home of Ashraf and Shamim Dahod in Andover for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser.
Speaking at the multi-story house located at the end of a well-groomed cul-de-sac, Biden said people often discourage others from going into politics, saying when President Joe Biden first started in politics, it was a revered career choice. She harked back to the passage of the 1993 assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004.
"Then it wasn't renewed, so [President Joe Biden] stood up, he saw how why in the world would anyone need a machine gun, AR15? Why? We've seen what it's done. And that took, I thought, political courage," Jill Biden said at the fundraiser. "Once again, he's trying, and I know it's just a little bit, this gun bill … that has been passed, but it's progress. Not probably as much as we all would want. I mean, we have to have an assault weapons ban, but we've got to, you know, keep moving forward. We can't give up."
Congress passed legislation at the end of last month that incrementally toughens requirements for young people buying guns, denies firearms to more domestic abusers, and helps local authorities temporarily take weapons from people judged to be dangerous.
It comes after a series of horrific mass shootings in the United States, including the killings of 19 school children and two adults, 10 Black people at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, and a Fourth of July shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, that left seven people dead.
Local leaders in Massachusetts have pledged to review gun laws in the state in the wake of the violence.
Jill Biden said politicians and residents need to continue to fight for what they believe in.
"That's what we have to continue to do," she said. "Especially now, in these times that are so hard with what we've been dealing with, with mental illness and gun violence and the environment and just so many things."
Biden continues her trip in Massachusetts Friday morning when she is expected to offer remarks at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Boston. The union represents over 1.7 million educators across the United States, and Jill Biden, an educator herself, could address the topic tomorrow.
At the Thursday fundraiser, Ashraf Dahod, who runs the software company Altiostar, emphasized Jill Biden's education experience when introducing her to attendees, saying his community, the Dawoodi Bhora sect of Shia Islam, came to the United States seeking better educational opportunities.
"We all came here highly educated to work here, or we came here to get advanced education," he said. "So the bridge for us has been education, and therefore it is a really unique honor, where we have a guest of honor, Dr. Jill Biden, who is an ardent educator."
Materials from the Associated Press were used in this report.


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The inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton! In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. According to historian Joseph Ellis, Alexander Hamilton is "a robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all."Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. "To repudiate his legacy," Chernow writes, "is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world." Chernow here recounts Hamilton's turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington's aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America's birth as the triumph of Jefferson's democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we've encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton's famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.Chernow's biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America's birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.
Category: History
Building on biographies by Richard Brookhiser and Willard Sterne Randall, Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton provides what may be the most comprehensive modern examination of the often overlooked Founding Father. From the start, Chernow argues that Hamilton's premature death at age 49 left his record to be reinterpreted and even re-written by his more long-lived enemies, among them: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Monroe. Hamilton's achievements as first Secretary of the Treasury, co-author of The Federalist Papers, and member of the Constitutional Convention were clouded after his death by strident claims that he was an arrogant, self-serving monarchist. Chernow delves into the almost 22,000 pages of letters, manuscripts, and articles that make up Hamilton's legacy to reveal a man with a sophisticated intellect, a romantic spirit, and a late-blooming religiosity.
One fault of the book, is that Chernow is so convinced of Hamilton's excellence that his narrative sometimes becomes hagiographic. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Chernow's account of the infamous duel between Hamilton and Aaron Burr in 1804. He describes Hamilton's final hours as pious, while Burr, Jefferson, and Adams achieve an almost cartoonish villainy at the news of Hamilton's passing.
A defender of the union against New England secession and an opponent of slavery, Hamilton has a special appeal to modern sensibilities. Chernow argues that in contrast to Jefferson and Washington's now outmoded agrarian idealism, Hamilton was "the prophet of the capitalist revolution" and the true forebear of modern America. In his Prologue, he writes: "In all probability, Alexander Hamilton is the foremost figure in American history who never attained the presidency, yet he probably had a much deeper and more lasting impact than many who did." With Alexander Hamilton, this impact can now be more widely appreciated. –Patrick O'Kelley
From Publishers Weekly
After hulking works on J.P. Morgan, the Warburgs and John D. Rockefeller, what other grandee of American finance was left for Chernow's overflowing pen than the one who puts the others in the shade? Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804) created public finance in the United States. In fact, it's arguable that without Hamilton's political and financial strategic brilliance, the United States might not have survived beyond its early years. Chernow's achievement is to give us a biography commensurate with Hamilton's character, as well as the full, complex context of his unflaggingly active life. Possessing the most powerful (though not the most profound) intelligence of his gifted contemporaries, Hamilton rose from Caribbean bastardy through military service in Washington's circle to historic importance at an early age and then, in a new era of partisan politics, gradually lost his political bearings. Chernow makes fresh contributions to Hamiltoniana: no one has discovered so much about Hamilton's illegitimate origins and harrowed youth; few have been so taken by Hamilton's long-suffering, loving wife, Eliza. Yet it's hard not to cringe at some of Hamilton's hotheaded words and behavior, especially sacrificing the well-being of his family on the altar of misplaced honor. This is a fine work that captures Hamilton's life with judiciousness and verve. Illus.
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In order to score well in exam, students are required to prepare accordingly. SBI Clerk Preliminary examination is to be conducted on 23rd, 24th, and 30th of June 2018 whereas the mains examination has been scheduled on 5th of August. Here, we are outlining an overview of the proper preparation strategy of every subject that every students are advised to follow in order to crack the exam.
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Read as many articles and books as you can to build up a strong vocabulary.
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Jekxyl is a static website generator written with the XYL language.

## Installation

With [Composer](http://getcomposer.org/), you need to require
[`jekxyl/jekxyl`](https://packagist.org/packages/jekxyl/jekxyl):

```sh
$ composer global require jekxyl/jekxyl
```

This command will install —by default— Jekxyl in your home. Once the
`bin/jekxyl` script in the `PATH`, we will be able to run:

```sh
$ jekxyl
```

### Basic usage

First of all, to ease the start of the Web application, one will use the `jekxyl
new` command, which expects a directory name to be provided:

```sh
$ jekxyl new MyProject
```

Now we are going to see how to compile these files into a static Web
application, with the help of the `jekxyl compile` command, which expects a
source and a destination (respectively the `Source` and the `Dist` directories in
this particular example):

```sh
$ jekxyl compile --source MyProject/Source --destination MyProject/Destination
```

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links are absolute, to watch the Web application with all the comfort, one might
use the `jekxyl serve` command to start an HTTP server. This command expects at
least a root (default is `.`):

```sh
$ jekxyl serve --root MyProject/Dist/
Server is listening MyProject/Dist on 127.0.0.1:8888
```

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Once you get your book, I would love to see you post a selfie with my book--I wanna see YOUR face. It would be so much fun to see the wonderful collage of beautiful readers holding my book. Post it on Instagram or FB and tag me, k? Instagram: @elizabethesther Twitter: @elizabethesther with hashtag #GirlatTheEndofTheWorld FB: post it to my FB wall "Elizabeth Esther's Blog Friends"
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