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No Good Can Come From Hearing About 'Insect Armageddon'
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I know what will be the subject of my nightmares that are set to commence in approximately five hours: the "insect armageddon." According to a report released by the Germany Ministry for the Environment, the "insect armageddon" is being worsened by lawn care appliances like leaf blowers and our need to have leaf-free lawns.
Yet, the German ministry didn't advocate for a ban even though we're in the middle of — and I cannot stress this enough — an insect armageddon. Instead, the appliances should only used when the situation makes them "indispensable." Kill me like the insects.
A University of Cambridge zoology lecturer called leaf blowers and similar appliances "too tidy," which is the only time I laughed after getting the news of the armageddon. "I think that leaf blowers fall into the category of being 'too tidy' and this can be very bad for insects. Basically, I think we just need to be a little less tidy and a little more tolerant of 'weeds,'" Turner told The Independent. "I think insects, and therefore lots of other species, would benefit."
This report follows a report published last week by an ecologist in the United Kingdom that found that "bugs are dying out eight times faster than larger animals with 40 percent of the roughly one million known insect species facing extinction as a result," The Independent reported.
We're losing species at an alarming rate and the planet is dying. And yet, the idea of us losing insects is troubling me even more than typical news about the climate crisis does. Basically, this news registers about a 6 out of 10 for me on the climate crisis scale; I've larger adjusted to regularly reading news of our decaying planet. How does this news rate on your scale?
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Features & Investigations
Americans Are Staying as Far Away From Each Other as Possible
New research suggests the atomization of American culture is proceeding as expected.
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Are Americans "bowling alone" now more than ever?
In his 1995 essay, sociologist Robert Putnam warned of the increasing atomization of American society. The institutions of American social capital, he wrote, are on the decline: Attendance at public forums, religious groups, civic organizations, and even his eponymous bowling leagues have been steadily declining since the the heyday of the 1950s American suburban community. The social fabric of America is coming apart on the neighborhood level, wrote Putnam—and it's only going to get worse.
Unfortunately, it seems Putnam was on to something. In a report for urbanism think-tank City Observatory, economist Joe Cortright tracks the decline of American social capital over the past 40 years not simply in terms of membership to voluntary organizations, but also through the relationships Americans have with their geographical neighbors. Data used in the report from the General Social Survey doesn't paint a pretty picture: According to Cortright, the degree to which Americans trust one another is at a 40-year low.
(Chart: City Observatory)
It's not only trust, but actual relationships, too: Americans now are less likely than ever before to "socialize regularly" with their neighbors. This is the case even in large cities, where you might expect proximity to breed familiarity; the Washington Post notes that population density in major American cities dropped rapidly as primarily white, well-off citizens fled for the extra room (and distance) of the suburbs during the 1950s.
What's behind this trend? Cortright posits that social capital is on the decline largely because cities are failing to function as "interaction machines" that facilitate community solidarity. He argues that a growing preference for private spaces over the public commons has dramatically affected how Americans socialize. Nowadays, people prefer the quiet of their own homes or of private organizations than the local commons that are meant to be the centerpieces of communities. These growing divisions manifest themselves in stark ways—Cortright mentions the rise of charter schools, gated communities, and other "exclusive" communities like swimming pools—and more subtle ones, like broad economic segregation.
"Our city governments, schools, and communities are more fragmented and less inclusive than in days gone by," Cortright writes. "In many cases—in leisure, entertainment, and schooling—we've enabled people to secede from the commons and get a different level and quality of service."
The social fabric of America is coming apart on the neighborhood level—and it's only going to get worse.
But the overall trend, regardless of socioeconomic divisions, shows that Americans are opting out of public spaces for private ones. Just look at the American commute: 85 percent of commuters travel to work in private cars, up from 63 percent in 1960. During the same time period, the number of commuters taking public transportation fell from 12 to five percent. And it's not just upscale communities. More Americans live in "sprawling, single-family settings, rather than dense, multi-family neighborhoods where backyards can play a larger role substituting for public parks," Cortright notes. We to go private gyms, swim in private pools and health clubs. When we retreat behind screens, it's on our phones rather than around the family set. We've even stopped going to the library.
While Americans continue to retreat from each other, Cortright notes that many are finding new public—if not publicly funded—spaces to inhabit. Coffee shops, sporting events, and even farmers markets continue to offer shared interaction spaces for neighborhoods, even if the local bowling alley is no longer open for business.
There is, of course, one space where civic engagement is alive and well, which Cortright glosses over: the Internet. A 2010 Pew study on "The Social Side of the Internet" found that Internet users are far more likely to actively engage in voluntary groups or organizations than others non-Web users. According to the data, 80 percent of Internet users (including 82 percent of social networkers and 85 percent of Twitter users) participate in group civic organizations, compared with 56 percent of non-Internet users.
But can the Internet make up for the growing gulf between American neighbors? Cortright makes a qualitative distinction between online and person-to-person interaction, asserting that "even in an age of 'social' media, Americans have arguably become more disconnected from one another in many aspects of daily life." With Putnam's prediction of an atomized America looking more inevitable with each passing year, one can only hope that Cortright is wrong.
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Jared Keller is a contributing editor at Pacific Standard. A senior editor at Task & Purpose, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Village Voice.
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Three former directors of Canada's key national security agencies are urging the federal government to heed the warnings of U.S. intelligence services and cut Canadian ties with Huawei, the giant Chinese smartphone and telecom equipment maker.
Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale told The Globe and Mail in a statement on Friday that Huawei is being monitored and does not pose a risk to Canada's cybersecurity.
But Mr. Elcock, a former CSIS director, deputy minister of National Defence, and Security and Intelligence Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council, said he shares U.S. concerns about Huawei, which was founded by a former engineer in the People's Liberation Army and has been accused of acting as an arm of Beijing.
"I have a pretty good idea of how signal-intelligence agencies work and the rules under which they work and their various operations and … I would not want to see Huawei equipment being incorporated into a 5G network in Canada," Mr. Elcock told The Globe. Signals intelligence is the monitoring and interception of predominantly foreign communications by national security agencies.
Canada has been wary of Huawei's operations for years, but the company's presence here has been growing, and security experts say Ottawa has not been as aggressive as other Western countries, such as Britain, in testing Huawei's equipment for security vulnerabilities.
Bell Canada is conducting trial runs in rural communities to test the next generation of 5G technology. Last March, Huawei and the Ontario government announced they would focus on 5G technology at the Chinese company's Canada Research Centre in Kanata, Ont. In December, Huawei included Carleton University in its 5G research.
Mr. Adams, the former head of the Communications Security Establishment (CSE), said Huawei has long been a concern to Canadian and U.S. spy services. CSE is Canada's secretive signals intelligence agency.
U.S. security officials say Huawei products and the new 5G technology provide China with the capacity to conduct remote spying and maliciously modify or steal information or even shut down systems.
Fifth-generation, or 5G, mobile internet technology, which is not expected to be fully rolled out until 2020, promises to bring massively increased data speed and introduce wireless virtual and even remote surgery. It would make it possible to download a feature-like movie in a matter of seconds and is expected to lead to driverless smart cars and smart homes.
Mr. Fadden, who was also a CSIS director and national security adviser to prime ministers Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau, agreed that Huawei should not be a trusted partner in Canada's telecommunications networks.
"I think Huawei is operating in an area of strategic interest to both Canada and China and I think it is a strategic interest area where you do not want to make available to a large Chinese company, with ties to the Chinese government, access to Canadian infrastructure," Mr. Fadden said in an interview.
Mr. Goodale declined an interview request but his office provided a statement to The Globe, saying Ottawa is not ignoring Washington's cybersecurity warnings about Huawei.
Huawei Canada vice-president Scott Bradley said the world's largest telecommunications manufacturer does not pose a threat to cybersecurity in Canada or the United States. The company has been operating in Canada since 2008 without any problems, he said.
"All of Huawei Canada's business and research operations are conducted in a manner that reflects the objectives of the government and operators on a number of measurements, including national security," he said in a statement.
Mr. Bradley said Canada is a world leader in 5G and that Huawei's investment in this technological research supports 700 jobs and contributes to a "thriving, competitive telecommunications ecosystem" in the country.
5G technology promises to offer consumers faster streaming content, but would also require a multitude of small cellphone base stations. This required expansion of infrastructure will mean lots of demand for telecom equipment from companies such as Sweden's Ericsson, Finland's Nokia or China's Huawei.
Mr. Adams said Ottawa hasn't been nearly as aggressive with Huawei as the United States because it had wanted to encourage competition against the three main telecoms. Huawei has had a competitive advantage, largely because it has allegedly stolen Western technology and has not had to price in R&D, he said.
Huawei sells its smartphones in Canada – devices Mr. Elcock said he would never use – but it is not known whether its core switching equipment infrastructure is being used by Canadian telecoms firms.
The Chinese telecom behemoth, which operates in 170 countries, is running parts of Britain's broadband and mobile infrastructure, but the British government says it has mitigated the threat by checking over Huawei equipment at a cyberevaluation centre for possible back doors, faults and bugs that could be exploited for espionage purposes. The Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre was created as a compromise between security misgivings and the private sector's desire for cheap technology.
A Canadian industry source told The Globe that the CSE conducts similar tests of Huawei equipment, which the intelligence agency confirmed including verification of handsets for use in the Canadian market.
Security and intelligence expert Wesley Wark, who teaches at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, said CSE does not have the same capabilities as the British Huawei evaluation centre.
He argued that the federal and provincial governments should not buy any Huawei products, especially its 5G network.
"Any embedding of Huawei products in digital and information-critical infrastructure, especially at the federal government level, should be a no-go area," he said.
Huawei, founded by former Red Army officer Ren Zhenfei, has no public list of shareholders, but says it is privately owned and independent from the Chinese state.


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Thank you, Sen. President Karen Fann
For the month of March and Women's History Month, we are pleased to announce Arizona Senate President Karen Fann as the ALEC-FreedomWorks State Legislator of the Month. This award is given to those state legislators fighting the good fight for individual liberty and free enterprise in the states. The national stage cares deeply about local state stories where state legislators pass the solutions that everyday Americans deserve.
Sen. Fann is the second female Senate President in the History of Arizona. She has been a champion of legislation that promotes school choice, workforce development and a fiscally responsible state budget. And in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, she has consistently shared information and resources with her constituents, as well as worked on bipartisan legislation for unemployment compensation and budget reconciliations.
Thank you, Senate President Fann, for protecting individual liberty and free enterprise in the states. Congratulations on being the newest State Legislator of the Month.
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Some Orthodox rabbis in Israel approve use of video conference for seder
By	Marcy Oster	 March 25, 2020 7:27 am
A Jewish man reads the Passover Haggadah during a seder in Ontario, Canada, April 19, 2019. (Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some Orthodox rabbis in Israel have approved the use of a video conference program such as Zoom to bring families together for a Passover seder.
The letter in Hebrew issued on Wednesday was signed by 14 rabbis, all Sephardic.
According to the rabbis, the video conference must be operating before the start of the holiday, and left running after the seder until the next night when the first day of Passover concludes. The rabbis also said that the permission is granted "for emergency times only."
Among the signatories to the letter are Rabbi Eliyahu Abergil, a former head of the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court; Rabbi Shlomo Ben Hamo, chief rabbi of Kiryat Gat; Rabbi Yehudah Shlush, municipal rabbi of east Netanya, Rabbi Moshe Elharar, municipal chief rabbi of Shlomi; Rabbi Refael Daloiah; Rabbi David Zano, and Rabbi Daniel Boskilah.
Orthodox Judaism prohibits the use of electricity and electronic devices on Shabbat and holidays.
The rabbis compared the use of the technology for the seder to the permission to provide life-saving treatment on Shabbat.
According to the Jerusalem Post, the rabbis said in the letter that it is important to lift the spirits of the elderly, who have been separated from their families and others to avoid contracting the deadly virus, and to "give them motivation to keep fighting for their lives, and to prevent depression and mental weakness which could lead them to despair of life."
"Passover is a special holiday, especially the Seder night which everyone sees as a special event which is a covenant between God and Israel," the letter said. It also noted that some Jewish young people might not have a seder otherwise.
Some rabbis criticized the ruling. Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau told Army Radio Wednesday morning that it is "irresponsible, beyond ridiculous," and shows a "lack of minimal understanding of the meaning of halachic ruling." Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, chief rabbi of Safed, said the rabbis who made the ruling were "mistaken."


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2017 Rhode Island sWTF Bill
TITLE 39: Public Utilities and Carriers
Chapter 39-32: Rhode Island Small Cell Siting Act
§ 39-32-1. Definitions.
§ 39-32-2. Regulation of small wireless facilities.
§ 39-32-3. Collocation of small wireless facilities on authority poles and authority structures.
§ 39-32-4. Action on permit applications.
§ 39-32-5. Additional terms for collocation on authority poles and structures.
§ 39-32-6. Collocation of small wireless facilities on private poles and structures.
As used in this chapter:
(1) "Authority" means a city, town, or any other state or municipal government subdivision, agency, or entity that is authorized by law to regulate or control the use of the public rights-of-way or the construction or installation of poles or wireless facilities or that owns or controls property suitable for collocating small wireless facilities. The term does not include the state courts.
(2) "Authority pole" means a pole owned or controlled by an authority and includes metal, composite, concrete, or wood poles, as well as decorative poles.
(3) "Authority structure" means a building, water tower, or other structure owned or controlled by an authority, but not an authority pole.
(4) "Collocate" means to install, mount, maintain, modify, operate, or replace wireless facilities on a pole, including an authority pole, or on a building, water tower, or other structure, including an authority structure. "Collocation" has a corresponding meaning.
(5) "Communications service provider" means a cable operator, as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 522(5); a provider of information service, as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 153(24); a telecommunications carrier, as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 153(51); or a wireless service provider.
(6) "Person" means an individual, corporation, limited-liability company, partnership, association, trust, or other entity or organization, including an authority.
(7) "Pole" means a utility pole, light pole, light standard, or similar structure that is used, in whole or in part, for telephone service, wireless service, cable television service, information service, electric service, lighting, traffic control, signage, or similar function.
(8) "Small wireless facility" means a wireless facility with an antenna of no more than six cubic feet (6 cu. ft.) in volume and associated equipment with a cumulative volume no larger than twenty-eight cubic feet (28 cu. ft.). The following types of associated equipment may be located outside the primary enclosure and are not included in the calculation of equipment volume: electric meter, concealment, telecommunications demarcation box, ground-based enclosures, backup power system, grounding equipment, power transfer switch, cut-off switch, and cable and conduit runs for the connection of power and other services. Equipment that is concealed from public view within or behind an existing structure or concealment is not included in the volume calculations.
(9) "Wireless facilities" means equipment at a fixed location that enables wireless communications between user equipment and a communications network, including, but not limited to:
(i) Equipment associated with wireless services, such as private, broadcast, and public safety services, as well as unlicensed wireless services and fixed wireless services, such as microwave backhaul; and
(ii) Radio transceivers, antennas, coaxial or fiber-optic cable, regular and backup power supplies, and comparable equipment, regardless of technological configuration. The term "wireless facilities" includes small wireless facilities but does not include the structure or improvements on, under, or within which the equipment is collocated; wireline backhaul facilities; coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is between wireless support structures or poles; or coaxial or fiber-optic cable that is otherwise not immediately adjacent to, or directly associated with, an antenna.
(10) "Wireless service" means any services using licensed or unlicensed wireless spectrum, whether at a fixed location or mobile, provided using wireless facilities.
(11) "Wireless service provider" means a person who provides wireless service, as well as a person who builds, installs, or maintains wireless communications transmission equipment, wireless facilities, or wireless support structures.
History of Section.
(P.L. 2017, ch. 309, § 2; P.L. 2017, ch. 331, § 2.)
(a) A wireless service provider authorized to do business in this state or a contractor acting on its behalf may collocate small wireless facilities within, along, across, upon, and under any public right-of-way in this state, including state highways and freeways, and may construct conduit, cables, and facilities between such small wireless facility and other equipment or services located on or adjacent to the supporting pole or other structure, subject to the provisions of this chapter.
(b) Except as provided in this chapter, an authority shall not prohibit, regulate, or charge for the collocation of small wireless facilities.
(c) Small wireless facilities shall be classified as permitted uses in all zoning districts and shall not be subject to zoning review or approval.
(d) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to authorize a person to collocate a small wireless facility on a privately owned pole, structure, or other private property without the consent of the property owner.
(e) All agreements between authorities and wireless service providers that are in effect on the effective date of this chapter [September 27, 2017] and that relate to the collocation of small wireless facilities in the public right-of-way or on authority poles or structures shall remain in effect, subject to any termination provisions in such agreements. Notwithstanding the foregoing, at the election of a wireless service provider, the rates, fees, terms, and conditions established pursuant to this chapter shall apply to small wireless facilities that are the subject of an application submitted after the effective date of this chapter.
An authority may require a person to obtain a building, electrical, or a public right-of-way use or work permit to collocate small wireless facilities on authority poles or authority structures, provided such permits are of general applicability and do not apply exclusively to wireless facilities. An authority may not require a permit, other than a public right-of-way work permit, for routine maintenance on a previously approved small wireless facility or to replace a small wireless facility with a facility of substantially similar or smaller size and weight. An authority shall accept an application for, process, and issue a permit allowed under this chapter as follows:
(1) An authority shall receive applications for, and process and issue permits for, collocating small wireless facilities on a nondiscriminatory basis and in substantially the same manner as the permitting of other applicants within the jurisdiction of the authority. An applicant for a collocation permit shall not be required to provide more information to obtain a permit than communications service providers that are not wireless providers. If consistent with the preceding sentence, an authority may require an application to include information sufficient to determine whether the collocation meets applicable building or electrical codes or, if applicable, standards for construction in the right-of-way, provided such codes and standards are of general applicability.
(2) An authority may charge a fee to process an application to collocate a small wireless facility. The fee shall be no greater than the reasonable, direct and actual costs incurred by the authority to process the application, excluding any fees for review of an application charged by third parties on a contingency basis or a result-based arrangement, and further excluding any costs already recovered by existing fees, rates, or taxes paid by a wireless provider. The application processing fee shall be no greater than the application processing fee, if any, charged by the authority to persons seeking to place a pole in the public way. Except as provided in § 39-32-5, an applicant shall not be required to pay any additional fees or charges, or perform or provide any services not directly related to the collocation, in order to collocate small wireless facilities.
(3) At its discretion, an applicant shall be allowed to file a consolidated application and receive a single permit to collocate small wireless facilities at multiple locations within the jurisdiction of the authority.
(4) An authority may not institute a moratorium on filing, receiving, or processing applications or issuing permits or approvals for the collocation of small wireless facilities.
(5) All permits regarding the collocation of small wireless facilities shall be of unlimited duration but initial construction shall be completed within one hundred eighty (180) days after the permit issuance date, unless the authority and wireless provider agree to extend this period or a delay is caused by a lack of commercial power at the site.
(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of § 39-32-2(c), a permit for a collocation within a historic district as defined in § 45-24.1-1.1 shall be subject to historic district commission review and approval, in accordance with standards to be adopted by regulation or rule. The standards may include that a collocation meet reasonable design, context, color, and stealth and concealment requirements and make reasonable accommodation for location within the district. The historic district commission may waive one or more standards upon a showing that the standard(s) are not reasonably compatible with the particular location of a small wireless facility, or that the standard(s) impose an excessive expense. The waiver shall be granted or denied within forty-five (45) days after the date of the request for waiver.
(7) A permit may require a collocation on an authority pole that is a decorative pole to meet objective design standards, including that a collocation meet reasonable location, context, color, and stealth and concealment requirements. Such standards shall be adopted by ordinance, regulation, or rule. An authority may waive one or more standards upon a showing that the standard(s) are not reasonably compatible with the particular location of a small wireless facility, or that the standard(s) impose an excessive expense. The waiver shall be granted or denied within forty-five (45) days after the date of the request.
(a) An authority shall approve an application for a permit under this chapter unless the collocation does not meet applicable building or electrical codes or, if applicable, standards for construction in the right-of-way, provided such codes and standards are of general applicability. The authority must document the basis for any denial, including the specific code provisions or standards on which the denial was based, and send the documentation to the applicant on or before the day the authority denies an application. The applicant may cure the deficiencies identified by the authority and resubmit the application within thirty (30) days of the denial without paying an additional processing fee. The authority shall approve or deny the revised application within thirty (30) days. Any subsequent denial shall be limited to the deficiencies cited in the original denial. Where one or more locations addressed in a consolidated application do not meet the criteria of this section, the authority shall allow the application as to all other locations.
(b) An application shall be deemed approved if the authority fails to approve or deny the application within sixty (60) days of submission. If the authority notifies the applicant within fourteen (14) days after the initial submission that the application is incomplete and reasonably identifies at that time the information that is lacking, the time period stated above shall be tolled during the time it takes the applicant to respond. No other request for additional information shall toll such time periods.
(c) A person whose application or revised application is denied by an authority may appeal to the superior court within thirty (30) days of the denial. The superior court shall have jurisdiction to determine all disputes arising under this chapter.
(a) Within six (6) months of receiving its first request to collocate small wireless facilities on authority poles located within the public rights-of-way, but in no event later than April 1, 2018, an authority shall establish, by ordinance, regulation, or rule, nondiscriminatory, competitively neutral, and commercially reasonable rates, terms, and conditions for such collocation that are consistent with the provisions of this chapter. Aside from the application processing fee allowed under § 39-32-3, an authority shall not charge on an annual recurring basis more for such a collocation than one hundred and fifty dollars ($150) or the rate produced by applying the formula adopted by the Federal Communications Commission for telecommunications attachments under 47 U.S.C. § 224(e). The fee limitation shall not apply to authority structures.
(b) An authority shall authorize the collocation of small wireless facilities on authority poles not located within the public rights-of-way and on authority structures to the same extent the authority permits access to the poles and structures for other commercial projects or uses, and may authorize the collocation if the authority has not previously permitted access. The collocation shall be subject to reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates, terms, and conditions as provided by ordinance or in one or more agreements between the wireless provider and the authority. An authority may not charge on an annual recurring basis more for such a collocation than the amount charged for similar commercial projects or uses to occupy or use the same amount of space on similarly situated property.
(a) An authority may not prohibit, regulate, or charge for the collocation of small wireless facilities on poles or structures other than authority poles and authority structures.
(b) A wireless service provider may install poles in the public rights-of-way in order to collocate small wireless facilities, subject to request and authority approval. An authority shall receive, process, and approve such requests on a nondiscriminatory basis and in substantially the same manner and on substantially the same terms and conditions as the authority applies to similar requests by other persons seeking to place poles in the public ways.


Time Miner grew up in his grandfather's church in Del City Oklahoma. Tim traveled with him mother and sisters signing. At the age of 16 Tim signed with Sparrow Records and recorded 2 albums. One was a self-titled release in 1982 and I Know You Think You Know in 1985. At the time Tim also served as a worship leader for Victory Outreach in Santa Ana, CA.
In 1985 Tim was asked to be an artist at the Residence for Church on the Rock in Rockwall, TX. Where he was under the direction of bestselling author Dr. Larry Lea. A co-venture deal with Frontline Records was signed by Tim in 1987 and started developing his own artists. In 1988 Tim signed with World Records where he worked with artists Kim Boyce and BeBe and CeCe Winans, among many others.
Tim was discovered by Stevie Wonder at a Hollywood Showcase and signed a global artist, publishing and production deal with Motown Records, becoming one of the first Caucasians to sign with them. In 2008 Tim signed a DVD distribution and worldwide music deal with Universal Music Group.
Time continues to score television and movies and has written and produced for the biggest recording artists on the planet. Now a days you can find Tim behind the director's chair directing feature films and music videos along with TV plots. Recently Tim worked with Justin Bieber as he wrote and produce the song "Only Thing I Ever Get for Christmas: for Justin's Christmas Album under the Mistletoe which was released November 2011.
Tim's has a long list of clients that include Justin Bieber, Al Green, Backstreet Boys, Baby Face, Boys to Men, Brandy, Gladys Knight and so many more. Currently Tim is an avid Golfer and spends time with his family in California and continues to work.
LOUISE: Tim, thank you for granting me this interview and taking the time out of you're busy schedule to talk with me.
LOUISE: How many songs and albums have you put out as a solo artist?
TIM: As a solo artist I think I have put out eleven albums and song wise I have put out almost thirty-five hundred songs I have written or produced with other artists, but for myself I believe it's ten or eleven projects.
LOUISE: What is your favorite solo song, if you have one?
TIM: It was a song that I wrote in 1985 called Forgive Me.
LOUISE: I am planning on putting up Missing You and Anyway with Steve Perry video at the end of the Interview and I have picked out Forgive Me to put up as well.
TIM: As a side note, I have never put uploaded one thing on myself on YouTube, ever. I'm not really that good at the self-promotion thing. You know there are a lot of artists who upload a lot of stuff on themselves on YouTube every day and I've thought about but I have just started my own YouTube Channel two weeks ago so I could upload my eight year old first time at bat for his little league team, and he hits a home run his first time, so the first thing I have ever uploaded happened two weeks ago. (Laughs).
LOUISE: What are some of your upcoming projects?
TIM: I am currently working on a few things. My wife and I have a film and television company and a script that she wrote called Steal Broken, it is a prison film and we're presently in talks with John Travolta and Nicklaus Cage to star in that and this is basically the first time they have done a movie together since Face Off, and my wife wrote the script and is on more that side of things. And my biggest interest in the project is obviously the music piece and because it is a prison film, it's going to be something I can pull from the rock world also the rap world, the music and the soundtrack is going to be very, very aggressive, so it's going to be fun to pull from the extreme side of the rock stuff and the extreme side of the rap stuff. I'm very much looking forward to that and that's something that's very much in play right now.
Also, I'm working on a Broadway show, a buddy of mine, director and writer, Stan Foster is working on a Broadway adaptation of Joyful Noise. Which was a film that starred Dolly Parton, well the film company and my friend is basically remaking it to put up on Broadway, and right now people who are in talks with to star in that are Faith Hill or Kristin Chenoweth to play the Dolly Parton role on stage and Jill Scott who is an incredible R & B singer who is slated to play the Queen Latifa role. So my friend Stan, is rewriting the storyline and they have asked me to come in and write basically brand new music for the stage play, so that's another project I'm very, very excited about.
LOUISE: So do you do the Music Score for the films?
TIM: Yes, I do the underscore for them. Just as a reach out, the way I met Stan Foster was we did a movie four years ago called "The Preacher's Kid" and he wrote and directed that film and I was the composer on it. All of the underscore and music is mine and all of the original songs are mine and I actually sing for one of the lead actors in the film, because he was one of the only actors that did not sing, so when you see him sitting at the piano singing and playing from the Apollo Theatre that is my voice. It was a fun project and that is kind of how we connected, through that film and it was a Warner Bros film. That's what brought Stan and I together and we enjoyed working together now we're getting to work on this Broadway musical together and I'm excited.
LOUISE; Well, it sounds like you've got a lot on your plate and your keeping very busy, and that's a good thing.
TIM: Yes, that is a good thing.
LOUISE: Now, shall we talk about working with Steve Perry and my first question is how did you meet Steve Perry?
TIM: First of all I like you, am a huge fan of Journey and Steve Perry. My first experience or ever heard of Journey was, I was on tour as a kid, fifteen or sixteen and was in a hotel room in Bakersfield CA and I was watching The Midnight Special. Which, (Laughs), only certain people remember what that is, so I was watching The Midnight Special, all of a sudden I hear this bluesy groove come on and I'm like, wow, and so I turn it up and I see this dude come out and open his mouth and just literally blew me away. And it was Steve Perry and Journey doing Lovin', Touchin, Squeezin'. And I was like, wow, who is this? So from that moment on, anything I could get my hands on that had to do with Journey I was buying it and spreading the word to all of my friends and telling them they needed to check it out and so I'm a huge fan of his. Now, skip up to 93 or 94 and my manager Michael Williams calls me and says some guy named Steve Perry called you today and wants you to call him. I said, wait a second, some guy named Steve Perry called me? You mean like from Journey Steve Perry. And my manager said yes I think so. Just so the readers understand, My manager was a big R & B guy and I was signed at Motown at the time and my manager really only knew R & B at that time, and if you asked him anything about any R & B singer at the time he knew everything about them but he really knew nothing about Rock and Roll, if it wasn't R & B it didn't exist as far as he was concerned. So I said Steve Perry from Journey and he said yes I think so. So in my mind one of my friends was playing a joke on my from TX or OK, they called my manager and was acting like Steve, so I got the phone number and I immediately called it and this guy answers the phone and I said, "Steve?" And he said, "Yeah." And I said "Steve Perry" and he said "Yes." He said who's this? And I said Tim Miner and he said Hey Tim, and then I said wait a minute and I started asking him questions so I said, if your Steve Perry, and I started asking him questions, and I was like, if your Steve Perry then you were in a group, what's the name of the group and he said "Journey", then I said you put out a solo album and what was the first hit off that record was and he said "Oh Sherrie", and then he said, "Tim, it's me." And I'm like, why, how are you calling me? And he said I heard a song. My guitar player gave me your Motown record for Christmas and he said there is a song at the very end of the album called Forgive Me, and he said I'd like to either recut that or maybe we could rewrite some stuff on it or we can write something brand new in that genre and I said I'd love to. So immediately we set up a meeting time to get together and kind of meet in person and that's how I met Steve, getting this random phone call out of nowhere through my manager.
LOUISE: So that's how you met Steve, now how did the song Messing You come about?
TIM: Well the first day we got together, we actually met here in California, at one of his residences, and we met up there and one of his bedrooms had a full blown studio set up in it with recording equipment and guitars and all that stuff and so we got in there and we talked about Forgive Me and we talked about changes and he basically said I don't want to mess with that song, I love it the way it is so let's just write something new. I said that sounds great so we turned the equipment on and I put my hands on the keyboards and started playing these chords and he said he liked that, so we literally started there and what I was playing, and we would write was he would have a microphone and I was at the piano and he would sing these beautiful melodies over what I was playing, so we kind of hammered out what was the first section and what would be the chorus section of what would become Missing You. We literally wrote that song in about fifteen or twenty minutes. You continue to tweak it as you go along but Missing You happened very quickly and the whole time I'm sitting there thinking here's this guy I have idolized all my life and have loved everything he's ever done, you know. And I kept pinching myself that I was in the room working with him. The Missing You writing sessions was only when we were tweaking it, the actual birth place of that song was in his home.
LOUISE: You knew I have the Missing You writing session on CD.
TIM: What you're listening to was a writing session in North Hollywood in a studio, and I was in one booth with a vocal mic set up at the grand piano and he was in another booth with a mic set up, and we were tweaking that song. And I would love to know who put that up on it on YouTube, because it wasn't me and it wasn't Steve, I believe it was one of the second engineers who made a copy of it and uploaded it on YouTube, he actually stole it.
LOUISE: Well I have a copy of the CD of the writing session. I have a large catalog of Steve and journey DVD's and CD's and I know many of them are bootlegs.
TIM: Yes, that was s definitely bootlegged. And you know Steve and I talked about it too and it had to be one of the engineers or second engineer. You know you go in to these places and there's a level of trust and ever since that was stolen there's no trust anymore, so you know since that happened I don't do writing sessions anymore. You know that kind of stuff is personal. There is no trust anymore and that kind of stuff is very personal. I will tell you this, there are more tweaking sessions between Steve and I from here to San Francisco to Hawaii to Dallas TX , all over the place and we recording some of those sessions, and there are some of those sessions that are so funny and some of that stuff we would joke around and laugh. But you know that stuff would hurt some feelings if that stuff ever came out. And so quit doing that because of the trust issues. But Steve likes to do them and you know we sort of went down a bunny trail away from Missing You and that's how we wrote Anyway.
LOUISE: Yeah, I was going to ask you about that. I knew you worked on Anyway with him, so how did that come into play?
TIM: All of that was done at the same time, we wrote Anyway at the same time we wrote Missing You. That was also started the first day we got together at his home, both Missing You and Anyway were created that day. We basically wrote two songs the first time we got into the room together. That's how it came out and as I said we would go to these different places and record that's how you tweak it a little bit more. After this I want you to know I will call him and tell him that did an interview with you and how cool you are and that I did an Interview with you and this is actually my first Interview ever. I have never done this. I've been asked to do it a thousand times, but this is my first Interview ever.
LOUISE: Oh wow, that is so cool, thank you so much for doing this Interview and I appreciate you're kind words and choosing me to do you're first Interview, ever.
LOUISE: What made you decided to do it this time?
TIM: You know I try to get a feeling for someone and how they communicate, and the other past people who have asked me to do it, And you know it's just a feeling I fell internally and I'd I feel someone is out to bash Steve or Journey and if I get any if I get reservation in the message I don't even return the call or the mail.
LOUISE: But you returned mine, and in that email it said "sure", so I was like WOW.
TIM: You know like I said I get this internal feeling and through our communication online and through email and I could tell you were a real fan of his.
LOUISE: Tim, I so appreciate that, you have just brought tears to my eyes. Thank you so very much. I am truly honored and you know on Facebook I have a lot of haters on there, and you know I don't do a lot of the personal stuff on Steve, for me it is about the music. It's the music for me, it moves me and it has for thirty years now.
TIM: You know, I'm a fan too and he is a great man, he really is. He's a good man, he really is and you know I don't work with crazy people and you know I get phone calls who try to hate on it. And I got similar phone calls about Steve. That he's this and that and when we got together that wasn't my experience, he knows what he wants and he works very hard at what he does and that's why he's the best at what he does. You know people have put labels on Steve, he's a perfectionist and you know I guess I am that way too.
TIM: Absolutely! We had one phone call a few years ago about writing again and I always say yes. You know it hasn't happened yet and if it's supposed too it will. You know my wife's best friend got married in Nashville two years ago and you know the dance between her and her dad, the father daughter dance, at the recession they were playing Faithfully. So this was a huge wedding, there were about a thousand people there and it was a beautiful summer night. And there were lighters in the air like at concerts back in the day and it wasn't Steve's version it was a wedding band playing it and I got Goosebumps and I videotaped it then I emailed it to Steve and told him man, look how much love that is continuing to shine right here in Nashville right now. And he hit me back and said, "That was beautiful and thanks for sending me that." We continue to go back there often and there is a project I'm working on up there, we're in and out of there all the time.
LOUISE: I go to Nashville a lot because my son and grandchildren are there.
LOUISE: No I'm in TN.
TIM: Well there's a guitar company not far from you in Rossville, GA called Warner Guitars and that is the guitars I play.
LOUISE: What was the best part about working with Steve?
TIM: I believe the stuff that had nothing to do with music. When we were in TX I remember taking him to a Chili's and we're sitting at a table and about fifteen college kids come running up to the table while we were sitting there, and their like we don't want to bother you but are you Steve Perry? He's like yes and they were like we have Journey's Greatest Hits out in the car, would you mind signing it and he would so they went and got get it. My favorite part about working with him is just seeing how he is and how he is with his fans, and how they love him. And I remember another time, we was just finished cutting a song and we used the Dallas symphony on Missing You and we had just finished cutting the orchestra that day and I was taking him back to the hotel. And we had maybe nine or ten engineers that was working together, so taking him back to this hotel, and in this huge lobby area was this huge white grand piano, and it has marble floors. That's where all of my clients stayed when we were in TX. So I sat down at the piano and I start playing Missing You and he looked at me like, no I'm not going to do it but all of a sudden he starts, "The hurt in your heart….." So it went from eight or nine of us to every guest in the hotel and they heard that song and you could never do that today. Because someone would upload that or start recording it online. And this song had not even been released yet, we had not even finished producing it, so he sang one verse and the chorus in the lobby for about four or five hundred people who had never heard it. So my favorite times of working with him was not working in the studio, my favorite times were the dinners and the hanging out. We only wrote two songs together and we recorded in San Francisco and you know I am a fan, Yeah, I'm his producer and co-writer and I played the piano and bass and did the backup vocals then we brought in Michael Landau on the guitar. His keyboard player came in and then he asked me who I wanted to use so I brought in all of my guys, for Anyway and Steve was blown away for what he wrote, Michael Landau was one of my guys I've used for twenty years, whom he's played on the biggest albums on the planet so I said I wanted to use Michael and he said what about the bass and I said I'd like to play the bass. And the keyboard we used was actually rented and I wanted to do it over and he said no, he loved it the way it was. So I said let me try to replay it so we went to a place where there was a grand piano and he said no, there was something magical about that first time we made that piece. But he was right, there was something that was captured that day, you know the first time we wrote it, I couldn't recapture it again.
No, but he was that way you used the guys you want to use and all that so it was very cool, And you have to remember that I was s a fan and he was in the position to say you know you're a snotty nose little kid and I've sold five hundred billion albums but he was the most humble artist. You know artists like him and Al Green have albums done it all at the highest level, and even to this day their songs are continuing to be rerecorded and rereleased, and all that stuff and to have them ask what do you think Tim? That meant so much to me and here is this guy who have released all these things and still have a childlike innocence inside of there that gets excited, So that was the times I loved working with him when we weren't working.
LOUISE: You know I'm coming to CA next month if work permits and my ultimate goal is to get an Interview with Steve and if by chance I run ino him when I am in CA I would love to get a picture and an autographed, (laughs).
TIM: Well, once this gets posted and he sees how he was talked about my me and how you conducted the Interview, I think he's really going to be blessed and beside himself, and I believe that will happen with this Interview, it's going to open the doors for you guys to do that. And you know he will tell you, he'll read it and I expect to get a call from him and he'll ask the same questions, why did you do this one? You've never done one before. He's very intelligent and smart and he knows I've never done this before, so I expect to hear from him asking why did you do you finally do this now and I'm going to tell him because I think you're a true fan and your cool and for you it's about the music.
LOUISE; You don't know how much you've have made my day and my heart is beating so fast right now and I am so excited.
LOUISE: Thank you so much for your time and for tis interview. It means a lot to me and you have made me very happy by honoring me with doing you're first Interview with me. Thank you so very much.
TIM: One last thing; I love seeing him get honored and he deserves it. And you know I am one of those who believes that love conquers all and the light is what shuts out the darkness, That's what he is, he's a very light person and his personality, and I've never seen him without the biggest smile on his face, and he loves people.
LOUISE: He seems like he's a very content person.
LOUISE: Again I thank you so much for this Interview.
TIM: It was my pleasure and God Bless.


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Is Your Firm Stealing Your Rolodex?
I never understood people who hesitate to share info on their contacts with their firm. The way I see it is there is nobody in my address book whose address and phone number can't be bought.
With sites like Jigsaw.com, association directories, and businesses who sell lists of industry contacts, the days when contact info was valuable are over.
The value isn't in my rolodex. The value is when the receptionist says, "Matt Handal is one the phone," and the contact says, "send him through." Or when I send them an email and they actually read it. It doesn't get marked as spam. Nobody can steal that from me.
I couldn't simply steal Tim Klabunde's Outlook file and turn that into a couple million dollars for my firm.
But the idea of sharing contact info with an employer scares the pants off people. Some people would rather quit than give up their Rolodex. Others would have you pry it from their cold dead hands.
Is there something I am missing? Should we cling tight to our Rolodex?
Leave a comment below! We'd love to hear your thoughts!
Interesting topic. I see relationships as a form of currency and you hit it on the head when you stated the value comes from the relationship NOT the email address or phone number.
In my line of work, these relationships are part of the collateral that I bring (I work in business development). I think that in a true win-win atmosphere, all employees would want to leverage their relationships to help their company (and them) succeed. However, it's a two-way street and the employer must always realize that their actions can reflect poorly on the employee who helped facilitate that introduction.
Just because you are an employer doesn't mean you shouldn't follow the standard rules of ettiquette regarding employee contacts as you would for standard clients/leads. Sometimes people think "oh, this is Joe's friend, so I have a leg up" and then act ridiculously. I've been on the end of having to apologize for an employer in the past and it can really ruin releationships.
Thank you for joining the discussion. I think we are on the same page. I agree that firms have to think win-win and keep in mind that relationships are between two individuals. They are not exactly transferrable. You can get an introduction, but you have to build your own relationship with each contact.
Recently I starting working with a firm as the Director of Business Development and Marketing. Right off the bat they required that I download all of my previous acquired contacts into their database. Then they presented a contract of non-compete. The contract stated that I would have to wait for 5 years before I can work for a competing company and there was also a clause stating that any and all contacts in the database is now their property. They claimed that a previous employee was fired because they believed he was doing business behind their backs. They were acting out of mistrust.
I agree with the comments made above. No one can buy the relationship you have built over the years, but what happens when the company takes possession of the contacts you have built over many years and the contract keeps you from working with them if you no longer work with the company?
I strongly believe in sharing my contacts and believe in team work. I am not an expert in all of the services that this firm provides and in some cases I need an expert to close the deal. I am also very confident in the relationship that I have built with my clients.
The bottom line is how do I prevent losing my clients to a firm if things were to go wrong? Thank you for posting this question. Your feedback is appreciated.
I had a trusted attorney review it.
The contract was evenly balanced, meaning there was clear incentive for me to sign it.
In a profession where staying at one firm for five years is a "long time," signing a non-compete seems like a decision not to be taken lightly.
I'm sure each state has different laws regarding non-compete contracts. If you have already signed a non-compete, it may not be enforceable in your state. So, you really have to speak to a qualified attorney in your state.
Matt- First off, if anyone could turn someone else's contacts into a couple of million dollars it would be you.
I've only known the world of incentives. But I do agree, it is more effective to approach business development as a team.


Arsenic contamination in the ground water of Bangladesh is now well recognized and it's impact on human life and the environment has already proven to be life threatening at a national level. Under the circumstances we should look for other sources which could be used as an alternative sources of drinking water rather than further exploration of the ground water.
contamination. According to "Progatir Pathey" a publication (July 1997), of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics it is safe. This source is prone to external contamination and thus sanitary protection and surveillance is required to ensure safety.
Dug-well is an ancient source of drinking water in the world. Sub-surface water which contain soil and surface water are the main source of ring well and has found to be free from any arsenic contamination.
According to "Progatir Pathey" a publication (July 1997) of Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics it is safe. This source is prone to external contamination and thus sanitary protection and surveillance is required to ensure safety.


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Q: MySQL connect on Laravel 5.2 Can't run artisan migrate. This error appear:

[PDOException]
    SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

Here is a partial of my .env file:
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=scotchbox
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=root

Running mysqladmin -u root -p status on SSH return this:

Uptime: 1308  Threads: 3  Questions: 131  Slow queries: 0  Opens: 48  Flush tables: 1  Open tables: 41  Queries per second avg: 0.100

If I change DB_PASSWORD to '', the system cannot find the table:

[PDOException]
    SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database 'scotchbox'

Here is the MySQL Workbench screen confirm the connection:

UPDATE
Now, I'm trying using homestead. But the error is the same:

SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'homestead'@'localhost' (using password: YES)

A: Try using Laravel's default credentials:
Username: homestead
Password: secret

Once you are able to connect successfully, create a new user in the database with the desired username and password.
Let me know if that helped!

A: You should update your Database connection in the .env file. The .env file should be in the your project root.

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As of today IVF treatment is being offered through the new facilities installed at Mater Dei Hospital.
The facilities, which include a theatre and 2 laboratories specifically assigned to IVF and andrology, have been granted the necessary license in accordance with the Embryo Protection Act, protocol of the Authority for the Protection of Embryo, and European directives in force to carry such procedures.
The facilities at Mater Dei also cater for the freezing of gametes (cryopreservation).
"We are very proud of our medical team for achieving this milestone. The Department of Health envisages that by the end of 2015 around 150 to 200 couples would have benefitted from this IVF service through six sessions lasting a fortnight each. The first cycle that started today will involve 30 couples," parliamentary secretary for health Chris Fearne said.
Fearne said that the IVF services at Mater Dei enjoys close collaboration between Maltese professionals in the field and overseas embryologists. Over the last months a number of nurses and councillors undertook specialised training on topics related to infertility by the British Infertility Counselling Association, the only accredited association in this field in the United Kingdom.
IVF services in Malta are open for women aged 25 to 42 years. In line with established protocols women over the age of 40 can undergo two cycles while those who have not yet reached the age of 40 will be given the opportunity of three cycles.


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John Pereira named IC fellow at IBM Center for the Business of Government
By Loren Blinde	March 23, 2018
On March 20, IBM's Center for the Business of Government announced that John Pereira will serve as its new intelligence community fellow.
Pereira will lead thought leadership activity focused on the intelligence enterprise in government, providing insights and recommendations that can help leaders across intelligence agencies improve program performance, effectiveness and efficiency in this critically important mission area. He also serves as Intelligence Industry Leader for Defense & Intelligence for IBM Global Business Services, Public Services Sector.
Pereira retired from a distinguished career as a senior leader in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He served in CIA for over 30 prior to his retirement in 2014. From 2004 to 2012, he helped run the CIA's Directorate of Support (DS), first as the Deputy Director then as the Director of DS (2008-2012). As the Director of DS, Pereira developed and oversaw the implementation of a strategy designed to increase the speed, agility and effectiveness of support delivery for continuity, sustainability, and mission readiness, while reducing process and cost.
During his tenure with the CIA, Pereira earned a number of awards to include the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award (2013), the CIA's Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the William J. Donovan Award for Excellence, and CIA Director's Awards from David Petraeus, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, and Porter Goss.
He also taught leadership as an adjunct professor at George Mason University, served as an ex-officio member of the Board of Visitors at the National Intelligence University, and was also a member of the Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.
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Tonight is the last class of a Comic Book writing course I have been taking the past 6 weeks. The 5 page comic I wrote was of Arrian reflecting on an incident that happened with Epictetus while he was a student, completely fictional of course.
What is interesting is that the story began out of Discourses 2.1 concerning 'caution and courage' and even includes a line about BugBears/bogey-men. It grew into something a bit different from there, concerning our wished for roles vs. our actual roles.
I have this book, but haven't gotten a chance to read it yet, just your blog pieces (trying to run a business while doing homework after 20 years off has been an experience!!).
There is a certain satisfaction to read this and feel that it's tracking with what I tried to distill into 5 comic book pages up to a certain point.
Glad to hear it, Jaycel! Keep us posted on your progress!
Thanks for this post. It seems relevant to me now. I can see a relationship between "physics" and the dichotomy of control, in that my knowledge of modern natural science allows me to accept more easily than someone else might that the scope of what a human being can do is very limited. Consider, for example, the huge split between the New Age misunderstanding known as "quantum consciousness," the notion that we literally create the world with our minds, and the much more limited scope of the actual relationship between "observation" and quantum mechanical behavior: every time we "observe" something in quantum mechanics, we need to design an experimental apparatus made with other quantum-mechanical objects, and thus actively and significantly interfere with the system. And even then, it's not that the quantum object we're trying to experiment with is magically coming into being, it's that we're forcing this quantum object, which we already know is going to be there before we make the final measurement or the experiment design would make no sense, to display macroscopic-type physical properties that it doesn't necessarily have in its untouched state.
Even then, those physical properties don't come into being magically according to our conscious will, but according to very well-defined statistical laws that are the same for all people who design and use similar experiments, regardless of their conscious will. Also, something happens when enough quantum things interact with each other that creates a macroscopic object that does, in fact, have well defined physical properties…so, so much for "creating your own reality" in practical everyday situations. Such realism may strike modern consumer society as a bummer, or bad for business, but it's very good for aiding decision-making.
After reading this post, I've realized that it's these fundamentals of the dichotomy of control and the reasonable alignment of desires, supported by physics (both modern physics and the broader sense of natural philosophy used by the ancients), that I most need to work on right now. I have trouble getting myself to do what I know I should do, or not do what I know I should not do, on the basis of a distorted vision of what matters vs. what I can control. By definition, I have to make sure that everything that really matters to me is in the category of what I can control. I need to not be fooled by things that seem to be in easy reach but are not, nor scared away by things that I know are hard to reach while forgetting about the valuable in-my-control steps along the way that will in and of themselves make the activity worth doing.
Indeed, that's why, despite Johnson, I still think Hadot was right to link Stoic physics to the discipline of desire. And yes, I have similar problems to yours, that's why we keep practicing, right?
Hello. I'm new to Stoicism and also have not read Johnson's book yet, so maybe assistance with this situation based on roles in Stoic philosophy may be obvious. Anyway here goes, with a 'skeleton' of a problem that I've been faced with which I think is not an uncommon professional vs. personal roles problem in small-town America.
Suppose I'm a HR manager in a corporation in a part of the US where there aren't many jobs. I've just been told (in the a.m.) that one division will be dissolved in the afternoon with all division employees losing their jobs. I've been told ahead of time because I'll need to be involved in informing individual employees. I'm expected to keep this information confidential from everyone until the announcement is made (core expectation for HR professionals that I do so, with no exceptions).
However, I have a close friend (sibling? former wife?) who works in this division and I also know that they are about to close on a mortgage later this morning, and they're unlikely to get another job locally, so they're going to be in deep trouble. What guidance might Stoic role philosophy have about what I may do or need to do? E.g. not say anything because of my HR role? say something because of my role as a close friend (sibling, former husband)?
This text is somewhat related to your issue: http://modernstoicism.com/honesty-in-business-a-stoic-experiment-by-jacob-henricson/ .
It seems to me that the virtuous (and Stoic) thing to do is to confidentially alert your friend or relative. It won't make much of a difference to HR, but a huge difference to the person you care for. It's not like you are giving them an unfair advantage in competing for a job, say. You are simply saving them from a disastrous financial situation that is not of their making.
Of course, if HR finds out, maybe because of an indiscretion from your friend, then you will need to serenely face whatever disciplinary consequences, in the knowledge that you did the right thing.
dsferrara & Massimo, thank you for your thoughts. I'm planning on doing some drilling down based on your responses over the next while, but I thought I would write some initial questions that have begun to float around in my head while this thread is current.
HR managers consent to abide by the code of ethics of their professional organization, and a big component of this code is not releasing confidential information. In my experience, if the company found out that the HR manager had done so, his job and probably his career as a HR person would be toast.
Let's assume that HR managers expect to encounter situations like the one I describe at least a few times in their career (I think that's reasonable based on my experience). If a Stoic is thinking of becoming a HR manager, and knows that he will respond as Massimo suggests, he will also know that this response is in violation of the HR professional code of ethics. Does this mean that a Stoic could not be a HR manager?
Or let's say that the HR manager became a Stoic at some point into her career and is subsequently faced with this situation. The Stoic response means that she is no longer abiding by the code of ethics to which she had previously consented. For the sake of her integrity, would she need to resign from her HR position as part of her response? I guess I'm wondering if staying in her HR manager position hoping that her company will not discover what she did, is acting with integrity. Even if she were never found out, it seems that her responsibility based on her role as a HR manager, and her responsibility based on her role as a Stoic are just incompatible.
You raise good points, but my perspective is that an arbitrary code of ethics imposed by a faceless organization is simply not sufficiently binding, ethically speaking.
If we are talking about real lives, of your friends, about to be ruined, there is no doubt in my mind that the virtuous thing to do is to say the hell with HR's code.
No, I don't think that would damage your integrity, because in fact you are helping someone in need at significant personal risk. That's integrity.
If HR offices actually cared about Human Resources they would make provisions for exceptions covering this sort of situations. What, exactly, is the rationale for imposing the silence to begin with? I'm curious.
If you, say, have been a father before becoming a Stoic you continue to abide by the obligations of parenthood. The commitments you have made in the past remain in force, provided they are consistent with virtue. Starting some Stoic practices is not a magic wand that changes our allegiances.


Argentina's former coach is an unlikely hero across the border in Chile after steering their national team to the brink of World Cup qualification.
Chileans tend to look at Argentinians with a certain suspicion. Cross-border conflicts, typical of South America since the overthrow of the Spanish, have marred relations between the two countries separated by the Andes – a huge barrier in itself, with the highest peak outside the Himalayas.
All the more remarkable then that Harold Mayne-Nicholls, president of the Chilean FA, sought Marcelo Bielsa as coach of the national team, and that the former Argentina boss should become a national hero in Chile, transcending football to impress leading Chileans in other areas of life.
Bielsa, a reclusive, studious man who enjoys success but not the trappings, has been talked about by politicians, psychologists and newspaper columnists to name just a few. When he was discovered in the audience at a Santiago theatre, the applause for him at the final curtain was as loud as it was for the actors.
Mayne-Nicholls says it was his idea to persuade Bielsa, who had not worked since quitting the Argentina job in 2004 after six years, to take the Chile vacancy. "One likes to work with the best and he is one of the most talented trainers in the world," he explains. "Marcelo was available and I realised he was capable of doing a great job with our players. The manner in which he achieves his objectives is what interested us.
"The results were far better than we imagined. We hoped for a change in mentality in our players and that in time this would be reflected in results. But the change and results came at the same time. We have, after a long time, a concrete chance of qualifying for a World Cup. To that, add the way this team are playing.
Bielsa, 54, youngest son of a middle-class, educated Argentinian family, and whose brother, Rafael, is the country's former foreign minister, has imbued Chile's players with a renewed belief, a winning mentality that has carried them to second place in the South American qualifying group for the 2010 World Cup.
He has got inside the skin of his players to get them to change, convincing them hard work comes first. The secret of his success is to keep sight of his long-term objectives and not let results affect his thinking.
Perhaps the key moment was going to Bolivia and Venezuela in mid-2008 with young players instead of more recognised regulars after a 3-0 home defeat by Paraguay in November 2007. Chile had four points from four matches, but Bielsa's eye to the long term, to developing a style of play for the team, brought two away wins.
The victories were followed by a 3-0 home loss to Brazil and a 4-0 win over Colombia in four days in September 2008. The team's record under Bielsa is good, but not brilliant. A 2-1 win away to Denmark in August made it 14 wins and 10 defeats in 29 games since taking charge in 2007.
The qualifying record is impressive, though. Chile are the team with most wins, eight in 14 matches, compared to seven each for group leaders Brazil and third-placed Paraguay, and they are the second-highest scorers with 23 goals, two fewer than Brazil.
Chile's players were once renowned for caring more for their celebrity lives than for wearing the red shirt of Chile. Since the generation that produced the brilliant Marcelo Salas and Ivan Zamorano reached the 1998 World Cup in France, the closest they have been to real success was an Olympic bronze medal at the Sydney Games in 2000 and third place at the 2007 Youth World Cup in Canada.
Hector Soto of Chilean newspaper La Tercera, wrote the following, in a vein not unlike the coach's own way of speaking: "Bielsa is an obsessive type who seeks, not unlike medieval alchemists who tried to find the philosopher's stone, the key to the internal equilibrium of the pitch. He seeks to turn each victory not into a matter of chance but the inevitable result of hard and rewarded professionalism.
Back home in Argentina, fans who see Diego Maradona foundering as national team boss are proud of Bielsa doing well abroad, but also wonder how the Argentinian FA let him go.


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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Mitternacht.Common.Collections;
using Mitternacht.Database.Models;

namespace Mitternacht.Modules.Permissions.Common {
	public class PermissionsCollection : IndexedCollection<Permission> {
		private readonly object _localLocker = new object();

		public PermissionsCollection(IEnumerable<Permission> source) : base(source) { }

		public static implicit operator List<Permission>(PermissionsCollection x)
			=> x.Source;

		public override void Clear() {
			lock(_localLocker) {
				var first = Source[0];
				base.Clear();
				Source[0] = first;
			}
		}

		public override bool Remove(Permission permission) {
			lock(_localLocker) {
				if(Source.IndexOf(permission) != 0) {
					return base.Remove(permission);
				} else{
					throw new ArgumentException("Cannot remove the permission 'allow all'.");
				}
			}
		}

		public override void Insert(int index, Permission permission) {
			lock(_localLocker) {
				if(index != 0) {
					base.Insert(index, permission);
				} else {
					throw new IndexOutOfRangeException("Cannot insert permission at index 0. The first permission is always 'allow all'.");
				}
			}
		}

		public override void RemoveAt(int index) {
			lock(_localLocker) {
				if(index != 0) {
					base.RemoveAt(index);
				} else {
					throw new IndexOutOfRangeException("Cannot remove permission at index 0. It is always 'allow all'.");
				}
			}
		}

		public override Permission this[int index] {
			get => Source[index];
			set {
				lock(_localLocker) {
					if(index != 0){
						base[index] = value;
					} else{
						throw new IndexOutOfRangeException("Cannot set permission at index 0. The first permission is always 'allow all'.");
					}
				}
			}
		}
	}

}