Gilead Sciences and Galapagos NV have announced their drug filgotinib met its primary endpoint in week 24 of two Phase III trials, Finch 1 and FINDCH 3, of rheumatoid arthritis patients.

In FINCH 3 a higher proportion of patients given 200mg or 100mg of filgotinib in combination with methotrexate (MTX) achieved an American College of Rheumatology 20% response (ACR20) at week 24, which was the trial’s endpoint, than receiving only MTX.

Also, a larger proportion patients in the two combination drug groups achieved ACR50, ACR70 and clinical remission at week 24, compared to patients receiving MTX monotherapy.

During the FINCH 3 trial, filgotinib was also studied alone. In addition to a higher proportion of the filgotinib monotherapy group achieving ACR20, ACR50 and ACR70, the drug inhibited the progression of structural damage and caused a greater reduction in the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index than the MTX monotherapy group.

Data showed 81% of 200mg combination group, 80.2% of the 100mg group and 78.1% of the monotherapy group achieved ACR20, compared to 71.4% in the MTX group.

The rheumatoid arthritis patients studied in FINCH 3 are naïve to MTX. Although the endpoint is ACR20 at week 24, the study will continue for the remaining 28 weeks.

In FINCH 1, which studies patients with a prior inadequate response to MTX and its primary endpoint was achieving ACR20 at week 12, two doses of filgotinib in combination with MTX were compared to adalimumab combined with MTX and placebo.

At week 24, 76.6% of the 200mg dose group of filgotinib and MTX, 69.8% of the 100mg dose group and 70.8% of the adalimumab and MTX achieved ACR20 at week 12, compared to 49.9% for placebo.

Additionally, a larger proportion of filgotinib combination groups achieved ACR50 and ACR70 than the placebo and adalimumab with MTX.

Gilead chief scientific officer and head of research and development John McHutchison said: “Across the FINCH program, the data continue to support filgotinib’s potential as a JAK1 specific inhibitor that may provide clinically meaningful responses combined with a favorable safety profile in a wide range of people living with rheumatoid arthritis, including those in the early stages of disease and those who have tried standard therapies without success.”

Gilead and Galapagos are also investigating the safety and efficacy of filgotinib in other inflammatory indications, including psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.


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The benefits of Box Breathing

November 27, 2020

The benefits of Box Breathing

November 27, 2020

Box breathing or square breathing is a breath technique primarily used to reduce stress. This slow, structured form of breathing helps to reset the body in high stress situations and is often utilized by those in high-stress jobs to remain calm and focused. This technique can also be adapted to everyday situations that trigger high levels of stress or panic. For example, preparing for athletic competition, public speaking, facing a fear or confronting a tricky situation.

Box breathing essentially helps to calm the response of our sympathetic nervous system which triggers the fight-or-flight mode in dangerous and stressful situations while dialing up the input from our parasympathetic nervous system. Studies suggest that box breathing offers both immediate and long-term benefits in reducing stress, improving focus and boosting mood, clarity and overall, positively affecting mental health – the most benefits seen by those practicing it long-term.

Box breathing basics:

  1. Start by sitting upright and placing both feet flat on the floor, fully emptying the lungs with a slow exhale through the mouth.
  2. Breath in through the nose for a slow count of four – counting in your head. Pay attention to the feeling of air moving through the nose and filling the lungs
  3. Hold the full breath for the same slow count of four
  4. Breathe out fully again through the mouth for a slow count of four, being mindful of the feeling of the air leaving your bod
  5. Hold on empty for a slow count of four

Repeat for 4 rounds.

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There are also many apps on smart phones and watches now that guide you through box breathing which can be especially helpful for beginners.

What are the benefits of box breathing?

Reduces physical signs of stress
Studies have found a reduction in physical stress not only immediately after using the box breathing technique but also long term. The instant calming of the fight-or-flight response helps to regulate involuntary systems like blood pressure and temperature, having a relaxing effect on the body. A regular breath practice may even help to reduce reactivity and susceptibility to stress in the future through changing gene expression. Studies suggest that relaxation response practices, like box breathing, tend to boost energy and reduce the activation of the genes that lead to inflammation and stress.

Boosts your mental state, improving mood and emotional health
Box breathing has been found to positively effect mood and emotional well-being. Some studies claim that this technique can be helpful in the treatment of depression, panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), stress and anxiety.

Boosts sleep quality
Improved sleep quality comes hand-in-hand with stress reduction. Box breathing taps into the parasympathetic nervous system or the “rest and digest” system that promotes sleep and recovery. Calming the nervous system at night with the breath can also be helpful in treating insomnia.

Improves focus, clarity and concentration
Becoming mindful of the sensation of air moving in and out of the body can help bring awareness to the present moment. This can help to reduce repetitive or whirling thought-patterns and help to focus your mind.

If you’re new to box breathing keep in mind that it isn’t always easy in the beginning. Holding the breath can feel uncomfortable and distractions may disrupt your focus. Try to find a dimly lit, quiet space to make it easier for you to focus and be patient with yourself if and when your attention does drift.

Box breathing is a simple, no-cost tool found to reduce stress, boost mental health, and promote clarity and focus, resetting the nervous system through breath control. The beauty of this reset is that you can do it anytime, anywhere and without any equipment. So, when you’re faced with high stress situations, whether it’s overcoming fear, performing in front of people or tackling a high-stakes conversation, try this breathing technique to pull you through.

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How to Cultivate an Authentic Employer Brand

BY Jennifer Paxton / October 17th, 2022 / 5 MIN READ

The importance of creating a strong employer brand is a relatively new idea that has been quickly gaining momentum. Companies are realizing that crafting a strong employer brand can help break through the clutter in this candidate-driven market and communicate the value that their organization can uniquely deliver.

It’s important to note though that your employer brand is only valuable to your organization and to potential employees if it’s authentic. In contrast, using performative employer branding (communicating something that you’re not) actually does more harm than good.

The Importance of Authentic Employer Branding

An employer brand is the outward expression of your company’s internal employee experience. Employer branding answers a basic question: What’s it like to work here? This can help you zero in on your employer value proposition (EVP) which is the selling point of what your workplace has to offer.

The Value of Authenticity in Recruitment Marketing

In order for your brand to be effective, it must be authentic. Too many employers make the mistake of using performative employer branding — advertising one company culture during recruitment — only to blindside employees once they join the company.

This sort of bait-and-switch approach doesn’t work and it can erode employee trust, which can lead to poor employee engagement and higher levels of turnover. Employer branding demands total transparency as well as an accurate representation of your company culture.

Benefits for Employees

A transparent, authentic recruitment process ensures greater candidate satisfaction and engagement. During the recruitment process, applicants may be less inclined to drop out of your recruitment marketing funnel when they have a clear understanding of what to expect from your workplace culture.

Once hired, your workers will feel that they got what they bargained for, and their actual experience of working for you matches the expectations created by your employer brand. And, when you solicit input from your current employees to hone your brand/EVP, your workers will feel more respected, valued and engaged in your company’s processes.

Benefits for Employers

Authentic employer branding helps companies attract workers who will integrate well into the company culture. In the short term, this streamlines your recruitment efforts, and transparent branding can pay long-term dividends as well.

Satisfied workers tend to be more productive and less likely to look elsewhere for employment. Long-term employees can develop skills that augment your operational effectiveness, and with lower employee turnover, you’ll spend less money on future recruitment efforts.

How to Use Employee Surveys to Generate Authentic Content

The success of your recruitment marketing depends on creating content that reflects the culture of your workplace. What’s the best way to assess your company culture? Simple: ask the people who make up your current workforce. Employee surveys can provide you with honest feedback that helps you cultivate your employer brand. Surveys might also pinpoint areas of friction that should be addressed before onboarding a new team member.

Here are some of today’s best practices for designing and implementing employee surveys.

1. Make It a Habit

Conducting surveys at regular intervals will provide consistent data to work from, and it can also enable you to track trends over time. Make employee surveys a regular part of your company culture. The frequency is up to you. Stick to a schedule to ensure greater accountability and full participation.

Try using Office Vibe Pulse Surveys to check in with your employees. You can send surveys on a weekly or bi-weekly basis, and they are designed to be quick, simple and integrated into the natural workflow. Pulse Surveys also provide you with clear reports to help you analyze employee engagement and make informed decisions.

2. Set Clear Goals

Start by identifying your goals for sending out an employee survey. Having a clear objective in mind can help you zero in on a short set of questions that you can ask your employees rather than simply designing a survey for the sake of completing an administrative task.

Defining your objective will also help you evaluate your data. Starting with a clear question (e.g., “Do employees prefer working from home?”) can ensure that your survey results answer your initial question and help you make decisions accordingly.

3. Pursue Anonymous Feedback

You’ll get the most honest feedback by keeping your surveys anonymous. Employees will feel freer to share their experiences and voice their concerns when they don’t have to worry about how their employer might react.

Don’t let anonymous surveys make you nervous. Employees generally won’t use this opportunity to vent. On the contrary, many employee surveys end up soliciting positive feedback that can help you refine your recruitment marketing efforts or employer branding strategy.

4. Shorter Is Better

Employees will be more willing to complete employer surveys when they fit more comfortably into the overall workflow. Shorter surveys, therefore, are preferable to longer ones. This is another reason why it’s wise to refine your objective before you design the survey, so you can focus on the areas that really matter. It also means you won’t have to worry about sifting through less relevant questions, and you can stay focused on your core areas of interest.

Here’s a helpful rule of thumb: the more frequently you send out surveys, the shorter they should be. Weekly questionnaires might best be capped at five questions, while you can save longer surveys for quarterly or annual evaluations.

5. Communicate Your Objectives to Your Employees

If you’re just beginning to implement surveys in your workplace, it helps to tell your employees what to expect. This might mean sharing your larger goal or explaining what employees might expect from the survey. When using the survey method for branding and recruitment, your employees may feel valued that you’re taking their feedback into consideration.

At the same time, make sure to respond to your employees’ feedback. This might mean verbally acknowledging a common trend from survey responses and taking steps to address this feedback. If nothing changes, employees may find themselves feeling unheard and less willing to engage in future surveys.

6. Seek Permission to Use Employee Feedback

While anonymous surveys provide unparalleled honesty, there’s something to be said for designing surveys that solicit positive employee feedback. After all, some of the best ways to sell your company to potential recruits are with the positive testimony of your current employees. You can use positive employee feedback in your recruitment materials, website or other marketing content to engage applicants better.

Just make sure to ask permission from that employee before publishing their remarks publicly. Naturally, this is impossible with an anonymous survey, so you may want to periodically ask for surveys to attach their name to their feedback or at least give employees the option of identifying themselves when they submit a survey.

7. Leverage the Data Wisely

Don’t just listen to your executives to craft your employer value proposition. Your employer brand should directly reflect the input from those with boots on the ground, so to speak, which is why your survey data can be invaluable in communicating your company culture.

This means looking at data from individual surveys, as well as monitoring workplace trends over time. The data you receive can help you refine your EVP and showcase your strengths, and it can also highlight weak points you may want to address to keep your current employees fully engaged even while you pursue further recruiting opportunities.

Cultivating a Strong Employer Brand

Your company’s culture is constantly flowing, continually changing and progressively evolving. Integrating employee surveys can help you step into the flow of your company culture and gather the most relevant information to hone your recruitment marketing strategy and present the most authentic employer brand.

Jennifer Paxton is the Co-Founder of Jamyr, a platform which helps busy recruiting teams scale employee-generated video content, and the Vice President of People at Smile.io, the world's largest loyalty program provider.

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In less than a month, the Texas Legislature starts its 82nd Legislative Session.  In Texas the Legislature only meets in regular session for 140 days every two years.  The 82nd Legislative Session kicks off on January 11, 2011.  Over the term of the session, I’ll try to identify the bills that, if passed, will impact Texas employment law.  In session prefiling, the following bills have been filed:

HB 223 (Strama) (Relating to unemployment compensation modernization)

HB 276 (Alonzo) (Relating to the minimum wage -would increase the state minimum wage to the greater of $6.15 or the federal minimum wage).

HB 387 (Turner) (Relating to the right of an employee who is a parent of a child enrolled in a special education program to time off from work to meet with certain persons affecting the eduction of the child).

SB 64 (Zaffirini) (Relating to the right of an employee who is victim of a crime to time off from work to attend court proceedings related to that crime).


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Organized by Asia America Multi-technology Association Pearl River Delta (AAMA-PRD) and co-organized by Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks (HKSTP), the 5th AAMA Technology Talk artificial intelligence (AI) seminar wrapped up recently. The seminar aimed to analyze and forecast the development and prospects of AI and robotics technology in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. On the seminar, experts introduced the applications of AI technologies to business leaders.

Dr. Crystal Fok, Associate Director, MPE Cluster & Robotics Platform of HKSTP, and Dr. Chao He, Vice President of Wisers and Founder of Wisers AI Lab were invited as speakers of the seminar, delivering keynote speeches titled “AI and Robotics Technology in HKSTP” and “Wisdom, Application, Limits and Challenges in AI”, respectively.

The organizer AAMA, founded in 1979 in Silicon Valley, is a communication platform for Asians technology and business leaders. It set up the first overseas branch at the Langrun Garden of Peking University in 2004. After years of development, it has become an influencer in the sector thanks to its well-recognized mission and unique growth model.  A large number of specialists have joined AAMA as mentors and entrepreneur trainees. AAMA’s branch network have  extended across the world including Silicon Valley in the US, Seoul in South Korea, as well as Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei and the Pearl River Delta in China.

Co-organizer of the event, Wisers, was founded in 1998. With over 20 years of experience in news intelligence service, Wisers has built a database of 85 billion pieces of news covering all Chinese media with the volume growing by more than 96 million every day. Its services have been expanded to cover intelligence and big data solutions for various vertical industries.  As of today, Wisers has developed data and artificial intelligence solutions for different application scenarios including public relations, digital marketing, brand management, market research, smart retail, financial risk control, intelligent investment research and intelligent policy.

The keynote speaker Dr. Chao He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), an AI doctor at the Beijing Institute of Technology, a postdoctor at the University of Alberta in Canada and the University of Paisley in Britain, and Kellogg-HKUST EMBA of the Northwestern University in the US and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). He has 20 years of experience in AI technical innovations and corporate R&D management. He has led excellent innovation in Chinese natural language processing at the Wisers AI Lab, whose automatic abstracting technology was awarded the first place in the International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Chinese Computing (NLPCC 2018).

Citing examples extensively, Dr. He introduced to the attending guests what AI is, how AI is "intelligent", how to make use of AI to explore business value, the current limitations of AI development, and the future development directions and opportunities.

With reference to the existing definitions, Dr. He, suggested in his speech that not only is AI the science and engineering for an “intelligent agent”, but it is also the foundation and the driver of “intelligent agent”. The “intelligent agent” goes through a learning process and builds its own decision-making system, through which it has a grip on the unknown environment, and its behavior and action to achieve its goals can affect the environment, he added. Professionals define AI as science and engineering while the general public views it as the ability to perform. Dr. He puts science to practical use and affirmed AI-enabled models’ empowering and supporting functions. He has also further explained the concept, mechanism and objectives of the “intelligent agent”.

By comparing the process of how children and the machine learn the characteristics of fruits, Dr. He explained how AI gains wisdom through machine learning, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of different machine learning methods including supervised/unsupervised and generative/discriminative. Dr. He unveiled the secrets behind various black technologies and introduced the latest developments of natural language processing and image recognition. At the seminar, Dr. He also discussed the applications of AI in marketing, consumer insight, advertising, credit review, smart investment and research, financial risk control, quantitative investment, intelligent transportation, self-driving, smart medical care and other fields.

Finally, Dr. He explained the concepts of narrow, general and super AI and discussed the limitations of AI technology, including deficiency in cross-field promotion, abstract thought, reasoning and common sense, and the resulting ethical and privacy issues. He also talked about the development and application of AI technologies, such as automated machine learning (Auto ML), Meta Learning, Federated Learning, the combination of AI, IoT and 5G and AI applications with high social value. He said that AI will play an increasingly important role in different fields, including improving productivity and creating new value.

However, under the current conditions and in the foreseeable future, AI will not and cannot replace human beings. Successful implementation of AI applications depends on how to achieve organic combination of AI and human workers and human-computer interaction in business processes.

After years of development, Wisers AI Lab has laid a solid foundation for the expansion and development of intelligent data services and AI solutions with its solid data strength and cutting-edge natural language processing technology. Wisers will continue exploring the application of AI and big data and expanding the application of AI to help more industries and enterprises in different fields achieve a successful digital transformation and embrace the era of AI.


Communication Capabilities

One particular group of researchers lately showed that pairs of common marmosets leave predictable gaps of 5 to 6 seconds among turns, and will match a partner’s rhythm if it speeds up or slows down. These simian see-saws could be independent innovations, or they could reflect an ancient framework that we humans built upon when we evolved the capacity for speech. The brevity of these silences is doubly astonishing when you consider that it takes at least 600 milliseconds for us to retrieve a single word from memory and get ready to truly say it.

Many enterprises deploy these AI-based tools to assist sales teams upsell and cross-sell much more efficiently. And as the technologies continues to advance and mature, new applications will help and/or automate further areas of operation. For consumer service departments, greater get in touch with volumes are portion of the new, post-pandemic reality. Applying conversational AI, chatbots and voice assistants can enable resolve low-worth calls and relieve beleaguered customer service teams in the course of sudden get in touch with spikes. According to a well-known adage, the online has not changed client expectations, but it has empowered them.

In numerous cases, though 1 individual is speaking, the other person is considering of what he will say when it is his turn to speak. Powerful communication is blocked by competition, prejudice, and worry, and parties’ approaches of relating begin to deteriorate. They tend to make impassioned statements about the difficulties and to concentrate on moral or logical flaws in the other side’s position.

Have you ever received the “death stare” from a person? You knew specifically what that meant, and that, my good friends, is a form of nonverbal communication. Interestingly, although face to face, you can not support but also take into consideration your audience’s nonverbal communication. You can be speaking to a coworker by way of Zoom or hanging out with your pals discussing the newest in the celebrity planet.

Think of them as a tool, but not the only solution, mentioned Ray. Using dating apps can feel like a enjoy-hate relationships due to the fact they are complete of possibility but also rejection. So, retain a good mindset and try not to get down from the experience. You also could feel far more comfy chatting with your match over a telephone or FaceTime call prior to going out with them. Ask to speak over the phone for no extra than 20 minutes, mentioned Spira. This will assist ascertain no matter if there is enough chemistry and interest to meet them in particular person.

Persons pay extra interest when they know why you are speaking. Mastering how to make the objective of your message clear is crucial to get the concentrate and interest you want from other individuals. Articles in this category enable you make the purpose of your messages clearer. Poor communication can have an effect on adults and youngsters alike, at times temporarily, or as a symptom of a broader mental overall health challenge.

This resource includes four total activities with an educator guide and lesson strategy. If you’re concerned about getting typical ground ahead of a big interview or sales meeting, do your due diligence. Ahead of you even step foot into the room, do a bit of research. Look up the particular person you will be speaking with to greater understand their point of view.

Rationing choices really should not be created at the bedside. In these ideas, we steer away from complex discussions about rationing, and use language that is for lay men and women rather than ethicists. This is a super-concentrated blast of recommendations focused on COVID. We’ve pared away all the usual educational stuff since we know you’re busy. If you want more, verify out the talking maps and videos on fundamental communication capabilities, household conferences, and ambitions of care at

Buyers right now have higher expectations—and additional options—than ever just before. Conversational AI can give companies a competitive benefit by driving superior targeting and conversion for advertising and sales teams. AI-based options can much better recognize the buyer profile, their social media preferences, part, etc. and supply relevant content that is tailored to their character and correctly timed to drive conversion.

There are various capabilities that are required to be productive with this sort of communication, and some of them will be discussed in this short article. Are you interested in learning click here for more info how to strengthen your organizational abilities? Right here are 11 sensible recommendations to help you organize your day-to-day life.

In addition to global comprehension, we will need to focus our attention on intensive listening. Concentrate your questions and interest at this stage on the segments of the texts that are accessible in terms of vocabulary and structures. Typically, individuals read and listen but hardly ever speak or write. Surprisingly adequate, reading is not indispensable to master a second language or even your native language.

This practical and entertaining book combines style theory with methods for constructing and education AI systems. In it, you will discover how to discover education data, assess efficiency, and write dialog that sounds human. You’ll go from building simple chatbots to designing the voice assistant for a full contact center. Conversational UI is the foundation underlying the capability of chatbots, QuickSearch Bots, and other types of AI-enabled consumer service. Conversational UI takes human language and converts it to computer language, and vice versa, enabling humans and computer systems to fully grasp every single other.


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Pitch Perfect 2 [Review]

Pitch Perfect 2 [Review]

As a love of music and a lover of movies (when I have time), I  loved the first Pitch Perfect movie and therefore had to see the sequel.

After winning the US national championships 3 times in a row, the film opens with the Bardon Bellas performing for president Barrack Obama, however due to an unforeseen wardrobe malfunction the a ca sisters lose their right to perform on their victory tour. Instead, the opportunity is handed over to a rival group from Germany, Das Sound Machine.

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In order to win back their rights as an a capella group, the Bellas must compete against the “physically flawless” DSM in the World Championships. At the same time Beca (Anna Kendrick) struggles to break into the music industry (outside of the a cappella world) and impress her boss at her new internship with the help of the new group member, Emily (who seemed like a pretty weak character to me).

The sequel isn’t too different to the first instalment. The film revisits the importance of teamwork as the Bellas struggle to find their sound before the big competition.

Unsurprisingly for a comedy, the film is hilarious. I found it myself laughing more than I did during the original, despite the reuse of certain jokes and ‘playful’ racism (mostly pretty comical and lighthearted jokes about Mexicans).

If you enjoyed the first film, I’d definitely recommend seeing Pitch Perfect 2. However, if you’re looking for a comedy with a bit more substance, I’d look elsewhere as the plot is pretty predictable.


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Name Origin:  The first element is from PIE *wer- ‘to turn’, but there are multiple opinions on how that led to later words such as veer, French virer, Dutch vieren, etc, plus the sailing term ‘to wear’.  The second element is from PIE *wed- ‘water’.

Notes:  On rounding Dunnet Head a vessel needs to turn through at least 30 degrees.  The sea can be rough in this area, but can be sailed safely in calm weather by a mariner who pays attention to the tides.

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Thankfulness of the souls redeemed by prayer in the Hereafter ....

The more willing the human being is to help the souls in the beyond, the more intimately these souls rejoin the human being, for they recognise in him the saviour from their plight. They only sever their connection with earth when they no longer need people's help, when they are, so to speak, more mature than those and now connect with the souls in the beyond who are in the same state of maturity.

But then they will help the human being again, yet no longer desiring to be close to earth, instead they will seek to draw people's thoughts up into the spiritual kingdom, they will seek to guide the human being's spirit away from earth upwards because they are happier in that kingdom and earth has lost all attraction for them. But they do not forget the people on earth, and they are particularly helpful to those who have reduced their state of suffering and redeemed them from their adversity and torment through prayer and heartfelt remembrance.

Once these souls have been redeemed they will have much strength at their disposal which they can pass on to the earthly human being, and his struggle on earth will become increasingly easier and his spiritual progress will be easily recognisable. For now the redeemed souls draw from an inexhaustible source .... It is their bliss to be able to help, and their love will turn to the people on earth who still have to struggle for the salvation of their souls. They now give their thanks in the same way, they help the unredeemed to become free from their bondage.

How easy it is for people to strive upwards when they have earned the love of the beings in the beyond through their willingness to help and are now rewarded for their love ..... Then people can enter the beyond in a state of light and be spared the agonising state of imperfect beings. For this is also spiritual good which the human being acquires on earth .....

He will find his loved ones again in the beyond, there will be no separation of those who were united in love on earth and whose love did not end with the death of the body either .... Intimate understanding and blissful love also unites the beings now, because the same spiritual state of maturity is the result of mutual loving remembrance. What it means to have contributed towards a soul's redemption will only be comprehensible to the souls in the beyond when both the state of happiness and the state of suffering come to the being's awareness ....

And therefore the redeemed being in the beyond is always willing to help the unredeemed, and its love extends to the kingdom in the beyond as well as to earth. And that is why people on earth should acquire friends in the beyond through their constant willingness to help the souls which are still dependent on their help and love. For whatever they do out of love will be repaid to them many times over ....

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Women’s Liberation Beyond the Limitations of the State

The following is an essay (of unknown quality, I don’t know) written for a university course on gender and politics.

Representation has become an extremely important facet of modern liberal democracies. From the political sphere to entertainment media and the workforce, great effort has been exerted from countless groups to ensure not just that diversity becomes the norm, but that it is visible and seen as a strength that benefits everyone. In a representative democracy, this diversity of people is meant to reflect not only the demographics of a particular nation, but bring the views, experiences, and perspectives of them to the public eye for consideration. Women, who make approximately half the global population, are one such group that has fought for centuries to achieve equal standing with men who have held the reins of power in almost all institutions of all societies in history, with few exceptions.

In recent years, various mechanisms have been implemented across the globe to increase women’s involvement and power in the political system, with quotas being a fairly ubiquitous example (Franceschet & Piscopo, 2013; O’Brien & Rickne, 2016; Baker, 2019), with uncertain results. What this essay intends to argue is that state mechanisms like quotas are not adequate to achieving gender equality, let alone women’s (and queer) liberation, but not that quotas should therefore be scrapped or dismissed entirely. Rather, quotas and other methods are useful but extremely limited tools within patriarchal systems and institutions, such as politics or the corporate world. The benefits are worth arguing for against those who would deny women access entirely, which is a very real danger (Mansbridge, 2005). On the other hand, their glaring pitfalls and omissions must be explored to ensure this political and social liberation applies to all women, not just those who “make it in a man’s world”. A more anarchic and grassroots alternative that can learn and adjust on a path to uplift all women is needed.

One of the major reasons for promoting and implementing quotas is that the political system, embodied by the state and its various institutions, is inherently patriarchal. Around the world, men make up the majority of elected (and unelected) officials, leaving women with few opportunities to reach positions of power. The contradiction of the state correcting for biases within the state will be explored below, but by including more women within these institutions it can provide gradual, if slow, increases in material outcomes and the presence of women in political office and elsewhere (Franceschet & Piscopo, 2013). While the political arena is extremely powerful and influential, there are other forces such as corporate and religious systems that hold similar sway. If the state can be wielded to enable progress in these areas, there is little reason not to take advantage of it.

It also provides an avenue to tackle the problem of merit. Ideally, any political candidate would be proficient and qualified for their role as a representative, and this is often used as an argument against “quota women” who are perceived to have been given, rather than having earned, their position (O’Brien & Rickne, 2016). But discrimination and inherent biases can result in certain demographics being under-represented, and some, such as Murray (2014), have suggested reframing our approach to gender quotas. Rather than focus on the under-representation of certain groups, like women, we ought to handle the problem of men’s over-representation. While this is a purely semantic difference, how something is framed can have significant impact on how it is received by the general public. This would also equalise the merit argument as men, rather than women, would have to “prove” their worth to be considered against their colleagues.

A related concern brought up by Mansbridge (2005) is that of combatting essentialism. She argues that in a world of flexible and fluid definitions and identities, setting quotas for women seems to enforce a sense of rigidity, whereby only women can represent women and that they cannot represent men or vice versa. But women themselves are not a monolith (as will be discussed below in detail), nor are they entirely disconnected or opposed to men and men’s concerns. Quotas in this context, according to Mansbridge, appear to focus almost entirely on differences, rather than the diversity in each category and the similarities between them. This is, in my view, a relatively trivial point, but it is worth pointing out because Mansbridge (2005) does provide the more nuanced argument that makes it so trivial. That is, we ought to set quotas, but do so in a way that takes into account the historical, cultural, social and structural biases. There should be quotas for women, so long as the word “woman” is understood to include black women, the LGBT+ community, disabled women, etc. (Mansbridge, 2005).

Introducing quotas also, as one would expect, accelerates women’s involvement and electability. In the short-term, this is a sort of “supply and demand” effect whereby the number of women gaining access grows as the demand for women in leadership roles increases (Franceschet & Piscopo, 2013). To complement the framing concern by Murray (2014), Franceschet and Piscopo (2013) note that women elected through such mechanisms are generally as qualified (or more so) than their male counterparts, placing the merit debate squarely on handling the over-representation of men. There are a couple of detrimental long-term effects, however, that highlight some limitations of quotas regardless of how they are framed.

Franceschet and Piscopo (2013) go on to discuss how this immediate success does not translate into long-term survival in the political arena, nor is it likely for many women to reach positions of leadership within a party for long, if at all. One example is Julia Gillard, Australia’s first female Prime Minister, who faced an uphill battle against her own party and the conservative Coalition parties led by Tony Abbott. After ousting Kevin Rudd in 2010, she narrowly won a minority election and never lasted a full term. One major (albeit difficult to quantify) aspect of her downfall was the discourse surrounding not just her gender, but how she performed her gender as a political leader (Johnson, 2015). Most of this was led by hostility from the Coalition in Parliament and from the media, with commentary on her clothing and marital status, and violent and sexualising harassment that smeared her image as a woman in power (Connell, 2021: 76). Alongside other fronts, such as business lobbying and propagandistic slogans on border security and climate change from the Opposition, this contributed to her polls tanking as a woman who cannot be trusted (McAdam & Chong, 2019; Wilkinson, 2020). The Labor Party subsequently reverted to Rudd and lost the 2013 election.

Quotas and inserting women into leadership positions can be good in the short-term for some women, and the arguments against them often come from misinformed and even sexist views that highlight why they are so urgently required. Yet for a variety of more critical and legitimate reasons, they fail to achieve the long-term goals of maintaining their positions and overall women’s liberation. How can working within the state, in its current form or at all, meaningfully contribute to the liberation of all women when it exists as a monolith of patriarchal power? Feminist author Jessa Crispin even calls such self-empowerment within the current system a form of narcissism, bluntly stating “doing well within the patriarchal system is not a political victory.” (Crispin, 2017). For instance, despite growing numbers of women in the Australian Parliament, sexual harassment and assault has been terrifyingly prolific over the past decade in the building that houses our government. That is not to say that women who are elected are in any way at fault for these specific actions – far from it. But can they, let alone men, call it a victory for equality when they feel unsafe or belittled in their workplace despite their position?

There are two glaring questions that arise from Crispin’s statement. The first is, which women? Which women get to benefit from mechanisms like quotas? Which women get to experience real material progress and liberation as a sex/gender as a result of increased women’s participation in the state? The second, assuming the answer to the previous question is “not many”, is what is a suitable alternative to the current system and solutions? To explore the question of which women, we must take an intersectional approach to describe the experiences of different women. While women as a group have all experienced gendered oppression, intersectionality seeks to investigate how different axes of oppression intersect and interact, including race, class, disability, etc.

On the matter of class, Julia Gillard serves as a contrasting example. On the same day she gave her now legendary misogyny speech, her government along with the Opposition passed welfare cuts to single parents, most of whom were and are women, and which was not based on any real evidence – just a bipartisan approach to welfare reform focussed on driving sole carers and parents into the workforce (Cox, 2012). Her government also reopened the Howard-era offshore detention and processing centres in Nauru and Papua New Guinea, holding men, women and children in illegal and unsafe conditions that resulted in harm and trauma for many (McAdam & Chong, 2019). This continued after Labor’s election loss, and included sexual assault and even instances of rape, incidents that, along with many others, events that ultimately led to most of these tortured refugees being brought to Australia anyway (Evershed et. al., 2016).

While Gillard held a powerful voice for women in Parliament and showed how brutal politics was towards women, those in lower socioeconomic positions or with asylum status were left behind in the name of fiscal responsibility and border security. Crispin (2017) uses Hillary Clinton’s record as Senator and Secretary of State to similar effect, noting that her position did not help poor women or women in countries where the United States intervened. In her book The White Possessive, Aileen Moreton-Robinson (2015) provides a particular framework for the settler-colonial countries, describing such nation-states as patriarchal white possessions. As a First Nations’ scholar, her work is mostly focussed on the matter of whiteness, but there is a very clear hegemony within whiteness along gendered and propertied lines. Sovereignty may have been claimed by the colonists, but men, mostly those of a certain social and economic status, are the ones who own, and therefore determine the design of, institutions like the nation-state (Connell, 2000).

On the question of quotas then, not only is there the issue of which women can attain a position of power within the system, but which women can even be represented at all. Certainly not First Nations’ women, who despite some bold figures like Greens’ Senator Lidia Thorpe in Parliament, suffer immensely through legislation such as the Northern Territory Intervention and the BasicsCard, and have one of the highest incarceration rates in the world (Moreton-Robinson, 2015; Maddison, 2009; Marks, 2022). Rather, a more direct and participatory form of democracy built upon grassroots community engagement and activism would be a much more suitable approach than a top-down state of distant representatives in striving for liberation (Kioupkiolis, 2017; Scully, 2020). As Bakunin (1990: 23) predicted, “it will scarcely be any easier on the people if the cudgel with which they are beaten is called the people’s cudgel.”

Again, this is not to suggest that mechanisms like quotas are entirely meritless, but simply that they fall far short of genuine liberation for all women. Purely from a pragmatic stance, it is as ridiculous to dismiss the concept of electoral politics and increased representation entirely as it is to isolate it as the only, or even ideal, pathway. What I do posit, however, is that the state is an inadequate framework to make meaningful progress, and that the elevation of individual women, or specific groups of women, to power does little in the long-term. New approaches are required. It is prudent, at this stage (particularly as a man writing on feminist issues), to note that I cannot speak for women nor prescribe to them solutions to their issues or how they should organise (Bey, 2020). Not even they can claim to do so for all women, as discussed above.

White suffragettes in the United States fought for the ballot, yet many stepped away from the concurrent struggle of getting the ballot for black men to win support from the South – where were the black women, one wonders (Davis, 1981). In Australia during the early 1900s, where (white) women had the vote, labour laws were strict and oppressive. Over a century ago, Emma Goldman asked what benefits women gaining the vote could bring that could not be achieved through direct action alongside working men and women (Goldman, 1910). The wisest course of action is to listen to the voices of the oppressed and hear what they have to say.

Whatever the future holds in terms of organisation and approach, there are some ideas we can use to guide these decisions. In her book Feminism Without Borders, Chandra Talpade Mohanty (2003) looks to an internationalist (or transnational) vision of the feminist movement, one in which all women – including “Third World women” who are often spoken about in a paternalistic and monolithic manner by Western and liberal feminists – take part in a global movement. This transcends national borders and electoral politics, highlighting freedom, choice and sustainability in all aspects of life as worthy aspirations. These are built atop a foundation “in which democratic and socialist practices and institutions provide the conditions for public participation and decision making for people regardless of economic and social location.” The work to achieve this must be “on many fronts, in many different kinds of collectivities in order to organise against repressive systems of rule.” (Mohanty, 2003: 2-3).

This is no small task, and one which the state cannot be an active player. Despite lofty promises and romanticised versions of history, the state as an institution will first and foremost act to ensure its own self-preservation. The Russian Revolution heralded a shift toward communism in Russia that remains the greatest inspiration for liberation today, yet Lenin’s vanguardism and the Bolsheviks conflated their success with the ideals of the Revolution and ultimately crushed those who wished to see power delivered to the workers (Berkman, 1929; Mett, 1938). Similarly, the dominance of men has been cemented within the nation-state, and while women have gained some concessions and sway within these institutions, they are just that – mere concessions. The structure still stands, and it knows it must adjust to keep the threat of real women’s liberation at bay lest it be dismantled to make way for a more just system (Crispin, 2017).

Any viable alternative must set its sights beyond engagement with the status quo – it must be revolutionary in nature. Beyond the state, feminism must embrace internationalism to learn and grow from the myriad of cultures and collectives that can shape our understanding of women’s place in the world (Mohanty, 2003). Beyond electoral politics and well-meaning mechanisms such as quotas for women, direct action and participatory democracy initiated and carried out by women (and men) for women are necessary to allow everyone, not just select groups, to reap the benefits of a truly free world.

Pragmatism and opposition to those who would shackle women to traditional and subservient roles in society demand we fight for equality within the system. Here, quotas and diverse representation can help us build a more transcendent consciousness with immediate short-term action. Gender equality in political decision making, if it is to be truly actualised, must ultimately leave pragmatism behind. There are far more productive, fruitful, and fulfilling avenues we can take to grasp liberation.

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  1. Sep 2022
    1. in discussing economic mobility across generations, we refer to theintergenerational elasticity statistic. Again, this ranges between 0 and 1 andindicates how strong the relationship is between parents’ income and theirchildren’s income.10
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    1. Her opposition to police and prison starts with the experiences of marginalized people, who have to deal with police and carceral violence every day.

      Although I know this from a first hand experience and experience of family members, I think statistics on incarcerated people would benefit the article.

      If someone who has never researched this topic reads this, they wouldn't truly understand the gap between marginalized people incarcerated and those not.

      Another good statistic that could be used is the recent amount of people that have been released early or with certain crimes being decrimalized and what groups those are.

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    1. ReconfigBehSci. (2021, July 20). No it doesn’t- it reflects the statistics of what, mathematically, has to happen as more and more people are vaccinated with a vaccine of less than 100% efficacy (as all vaccines are) [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1417520720960131073

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    1. David Benkeser. (2020, November 9). Another view on uncertainty associated based on Pfizer’s results. Even if you were highly skeptical about MRNA vaccines (many are [were?]) with 50% prior belief that VE ~ 0, based on an 8:86 vax:placebo case split, the posterior probability that VE > 75% is ~ 1. Https://t.co/xtBONtGHmT [Tweet]. @biosbenk. https://twitter.com/biosbenk/status/1325856366225993729

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    1. more than 400% above the federal poverty level,83% of employees are offered employment-basedinsurance.5In households with a family income levelbetween 100% and 250% of the federal povertylevel, only 38% are offered employment-basedinsurance.5
    2. A reduction in health careexpenditures by only 10% would free $330 billion eachyear to meet other public and private needs

      Major decrease if health care was reduced.

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    1. A cross disciplinary study of link decay and the effectiveness of mitigation techniques

      Tried to add to Mendeley, but it kept pulling up an article with a similar subject, but it was not the same article.

      Link rot statistic

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    1. 什么是统计量的size和power？          size是指size of the test，就是置信水平（1 - 阿尔法）里面的那个“阿尔法”，又称“检验水平”。 power是指power of test statistic，是统计量的“统计检验力”。 在有限样本时，即使当N和T分别小于50和2时，该检验统计量仍然拥有合理的size, 特别当T大于等于10时，该检验拥有良好的power.——这句话怎样理解？ "合理的size就是能够满足合理的置信水平条件，也就是犯I类错误的概率很低。良好的power是指犯II类错误的概率很低，也就是H0为假时拒绝H0的概率很高。"

    1. lthough rarely as sophisticated as Ithaca’s efforts, such review of social media information is quite common: a 2015 Kaplan Test Prep Survey of 397 admissions officers found that 40 percent of admissions officers visit applicants’ social media profiles, often to verify information presented on their applications

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    2. The three weeks of the NCAA Basketball Tournament, known as “March Madness,” generate over $770 million in TV rights deals alone.
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    1. However, high-Impact-Factor journals (JIF ≥ 28) only account for 11% of papers that have an RCR of 3 or above.
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    2. ewly hired biologists now have almost twice asmany publications as they did ten years ago (22 in 2013 vs. 12.5 in 2005).

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    1. However, preprints in biology have not achieved a critical mass for takeoff. Last year, for example, bioRxiv received 888 preprints compared with 97,517 for arXiv, even though many more papers are published in the life sciences.

      Sobering statistic. Whatever solutions we propose for biomedicine, they generally are not adopted.

    2. Over the past 30 y, the US scientific workforce (e.g., postdoctoral fellows and graduate students) has increased by almost threefold (5, 6), fueled, in part, by the doubling of the NIH budget between 1998 and 2003.

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The Bible Collection: Jesus

Film Jesus

Plot Summary

Jesus was and is the most significant figure in history. As God in the flesh, He lived among humanity for three years, establishing His earthly ministry with the least likely people. However, Jesus always knew that His ultimate purpose would be fulfilled in His sacrifice on the cross, paying the sin debt for all humanity. Nonetheless, it wouldn’t end there since He would rise again victorious.

Production Quality (1.5 points)

Like over Lux Vide offerings, Jesus sports a fine production, including good sets, locations, and props. Camera work and video quality are also professional save for some wild action shots. Audio quality is okay, even if the soundtrack is a bit generic. However, generic special effects and poor editing drag this score down to the middle line. At times, cuts and transitions are very abrupt, creating a confusing experience for the viewer. Therefore, this is the best rating that can be awarded in this category.

Plot and Storyline Quality (-1.5 points)

Throughout the movie, Jesus is portrayed as having a strange attitude, as if He’s unsure of what’s happening or even surprised at events. This assumption seems to rise out of an odd theological implication that Jesus only became God after His baptism. It also impacts the temptation sequence as Satan appears to know more about the future than Christ does during this experience. Because there’s too much content to cover in this narrative, expository dialogue poorly bridges the gaps as precious time is wasted on unnecessary extra-biblical asides, such as a pointless romantic suggestion between Jesus and the sister of Lazarus. These tangents are included while more pertinent points are glossed over, and most scenes are generally disjointed as they typically end in abrupt ways. Besides these obvious concerns, the sheer amount of information that’s thrown at the audience in less than two hours is overwhelming. There are simply too many subplots and characters to keep up with, which predictably leads to low quality. Overall, due to the gross alterations of historical record, a negative rating is warranted in this section.

Acting Quality (1.5 points)

In keeping with many other biblical entertainment options, the acting of Jesus tends to be theatrical and dramatic. However, it’s not always bad as emotional and line delivery is inconsistently acceptable. Nonetheless, the casting isn’t always culturally authentic, which is another common misstep in films based on the Scriptures. In the end, despite its faults, this section still keeps the overall rating from being zero.

Why are movies about Jesus usually among the worst? What’s the point of fielding such bizarre portrayals of the Christian faith’s central figure? It’s clear that such failed attempts at capturing the true essence of a historical figure Who changed the course of history are based on faulty information. Screenplays like this one only further turn people off to Christian entertainment, but hopefully, things will continue looking up in the future.

Final Rating: 1.5 out of 10 points

The Bible Collection: Solomon (Movie Review)

The Bible Collection - Solomon - FORMED

Plot Summary

Production Quality (2 points)

Plot and Storyline Quality (1 point)

Acting Quality (1.5 points)

Final Rating: 4.5 out of 10 points

Saint John: The Apocalypse [2000] (Movie Review)

Plot Summary

When a Roman soldier is exiled to the island of Patmos for insurrection, he does not expect to meet the infamous and fabled Theophilus, who happens to be the aging Apostle John.  A group of Christians whom the Roman solider knows also comes to the island in search of the mysterious Theophilus, all the while John is experiencing the visions from God that later became the Book of Revelation.  All of their lives intersect in a way they could not have previously believed.

Production Quality (1.5 points)

There is a lot going on this early 2000s production from Trinity Broadcasting Network and others.  Though there are plenty of attempts to create historically and culturally authentic sets, locations, and props, there are some other issues here that hamper the production.  These include some randomly poor lighting and wild zooms for dramatic effect, as well as some unnecessarily overdubbed audio.  The voice of God that echoes throughout the film is also a bit annoying.  A lot of the special effects used are very obvious and poorly done—if you are making a production about the Book of Revelation, you’d better have some well-funded special effects.  Yet on top of this, there are plenty of realistic gritty elements throughout, as well as good video quality and average editing.  Essentially, this is a very unique production and is a mixed bag at that, thus warranting the average score.

Plot and Storyline Quality (.5 point)

Unfortunately, the plot writers decided to consult The Robe and the old Ben-Hur for how to make a first century Roman\Jewish story and cast of characters most like a soap opera.  This includes a cheesy romantic subplot and a lot of overly dramatic dialogue.  All of the characters are impossible to access due to their lofty and inhuman demeanors.  However, there is a very realistic historical context portrayed here, as well as a lot of good plot ideas that are basically wasted.  Yet these elements save the plot from being a total loss.  There is a lot of content here, and in the right hands it could have made a great two-part movie or miniseries.  They needed a better writer to be able to handle the complex content from the Book of Revelation properly.  But unfortunately, anything that involves TBN is guaranteed to be overly dramatic.

Acting Quality (1 point)

The same can be said for the casting and acting, as nearly every cast member uses a breathy line delivery reminiscent of Nicholas Cage and the actresses from the old Ben-Hur and The Robe.  Thus, line deliver is too measured and drawn out, like a Bible soap opera.  However, though the cast is not entirely culturally authentic, the costuming is at least historically accurate.  There are also some good acting moments that save this section from being a total loss.

One thing can be said for this film: it’s not your run-of-the-mill cute\boring Christian film.  It’s ambitious, but perhaps too ambitious for the resources the creators had at their disposal.  It’s very difficult to depict the visions of Revelation properly—this requires state-of-the-art special effects, which usually do not exist in Christian films, unfortunately.  Yet there is no excuse for having acting this bad, even though it’s not BRITISH.  This plot needed a total rewrite, but the idea definitely needs to be retained for future reworking and improvement.  Maybe one day it will be remade.

Final Rating: 3 out of 10 points

Paul the Apostle {St. Paul} [2000] (Movie Review)

Creepy Paul…….

Plot Summary

Saul of Tarsus was a ruthless man bent on destroying the church of Jesus Christ, until he had an unforgettable encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus.  From there, his life was never the same as he became Paul and effectively switched sides and became zealous for sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Though many were still skeptical of him, God was with him all of his life and used him to turn the world upside down.  His work as an Apostle of Jesus Christ is still affecting the world today.

Production Quality (1 point)

It’s clear that there was money behind this film—you don’t get the opportunity to make a more than two hour film every day.  For the most part, this production is average, with okay camera work and historically authentic sets and locations.  However, some of the video quality is blurry and some of the lighting in outside scenes is poor.  There is also an unusual use of weird special effects throughout, including an annoying use of negative video quality in an attempt to be dramatic.  We also are provided with unnecessary location subtitles as a crutch for bad editing.  With a such a large idea, editing is key, as it is in any epic.  Yet the editing of this film is totally off and allows the plot to focus on all the wrong things.  In short, a lot of wasted money was thrown at this production.

Plot and Storyline Quality (0 points)

Paul the Apostle gets caught up in the all-too-common trap of Bible films: using a movie named after a well-known Biblical character to focus on all kinds of useless side issues and peripheral characters.  It’s fine to make a movie about a character or group of characters who shadowed a well-known Biblical figure, but don’t pretend like the movie is actually about that figure.  Though there is a substantial amount of content in this film about Paul, this movie is not about Paul’s life, but about things that happened around Paul during random parts of his life.  It’s not like Paul has a small story—there is tons of content about him that would make an awesome movie.  Yet we are left with half-measures and allusions to what could have been.  As extra-Biblical events take up the time of this story, pointless time jumps are taken and tons of off-screen content is alluded to.  Dialogue is designed to move the plot along and only crafts characters who seem lofty and inaccessible rather than like real people.  Alas, what could have been with this very important and engaging historical account.

Acting Quality (0 points)

Once again, another Bible movie commits the cardinal sin of casting: British people trying to portray Middle Eastern people.  Thus, there is a lack of cultural authenticity that is not helped by the partially unrealistic costuming, the creepy makeup jobs, and the obviously fake beards.  This is not to mention the overly theatrical, dramatic, and breathy delivery of lines and emotions.  Unfortunately, there is not much good to mention here.

So you have over two hours of runtime and virtually only a third of your content actually pertains to the Biblical historical account of the Apostle Paul.  Very few film makers have the luxury of having this much time on their hands to craft a movie, yet this team decided to waste it on tons of non-Biblical and quasi-historical content, complete with large time jumps and completely unnecessary characters.  Besides this, the characters don’t even feel like realistic or authentic Jewish people, which is not helped by the fact that they are played by British people.  It’s no wonder so many people are weary of films that have the “Bible” stamp on them.  We eagerly await the day when Biblical movies are honest about what they are depicting and create historically realistic and culturally authentic portrayals of people in the Scriptures.

Final Rating: 1 out of 10 points


IPL 2022: ‘He had starts, was unable to convert them into big ones’, Mahela Jayawardena on MI skipper Rohit Sharma

Rohit has amassed only 155 runs in 9 innings this season.

Rohit Sharma | BCCI/IPLMumbai Indians (MI) are enduring a dismal IPL 2022 campaign. The five-time champions have lost 8 out of their 9 matches and they are already out of the playoffs race.

Skipper Rohit Sharma’s performance also reflects on MI’s standing on the points table. In 9 innings, the veteran opener has amassed only 155 runs at an abysmal average of 17.22 with the highest score of 41 to his name.

On the eve of MI’s clash against Gujarat Titans, head coach Mahela Jayawardena weighed in on Rohit’s exploits with the bat, saying the captain has not been able to convert his starts this season.

Jayawardena also highlighted how the finishers have failed to take the five-time champions over the line.

"Let me answer that in a much fairer way. Yes, as you rightly said Ro (Rohit Sharma) has been brilliant in batting for long periods, getting those big scores consistently and the rest of the guys have batted around him. He knows he had starts and he is disappointed that he has been unable to convert them into big ones. For a team to work it is not about just one individual, it is about a team executing a game plan. The way we have structured our lineup this season, that is something we have lacked and at the top," said Jayawardene during a virtual press conference, as quoted by NDTV.

"At the same time, we have not had those finishers at the backend also. It is about getting most of the guys playing good cricket and having that consistency going through. That is something we have lacked. You take Gujarat Titans for example this season, you have seen them winning 3-4 games at least from positions from where they were completely outplayed by individual brilliance or finishing games off by either Miller, Tewatia or even Rashid. That is what the season requires and we have not had that spark. So, this has been one of those seasons where we have not been able to win those close matches and we have not been able to ruthlessly finish games off. You need your main batters to be consistent and getting those runs. But it is just not one individual, it is about a collective team performance," he added.

Mumbai Indians registered their first victory in the ongoing season in their last outing against Rajasthan Royals.

When asked if someone like Arjun Tendulkar can be tried out in the remaining matches, Jayawardena replied: "Well, I think everyone is the squad is an option, it is about match-ups and how we can win the matches. Every game is a confidence thing, we managed to get our first win and it is about stringing wins together. It is about putting the best guys on the park. If Arjun is one of them then yes, but it all depends on the combination that we put out."

(With NDTV inputs)

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Top Fantasy Series of 2021

Top Fantasy Series of 2021

Are you looking for new fantasy series to binge-watch?

Here are our top fantasy series of 2021.

The Wheel of Time:

The wheel of time is an American fantasy series released in 2021.

It is based on Robert Jordan‘s novel series of the same name, produced by Sony Pictures and Amazon Studios.

It currently has just one 8-episode season.

Nevertheless, The wheel of time follows the story of Moiraine, a member of a magical group called the Aes Sedai.

The Aes Sedai are a group of women with the ability to wield a mysterious power called the “One Power”.

Furthermore, Moiraine embarks on a journey to find the “Dragon Reborn”, the reincarnation of a being who has the power to stop the dark one, an evil being, and is prophesied to save or break the world.

Top Fantasy Series of 2021: Sweet Tooth:

Sweet Tooth is a post-apocalyptic fantasy drama series based on Jeff Lemire‘s comic book of the same name

The 8 episode series premiered in June 2021.

“Sweet Tooth” follows the journey of Gus, a Man-Deer Humanoid Hybrid, who lives in a world where the human population has been decimated due to a viral outbreak. The outbreak coincided with the emergence of hybrids like Gus.

The surviving humans blame the hybrids for the outbreak and therefore, hunt and kill them.

But did the hybrids cause the virus or did the virus create the hybrids?

Furthermore, the series captures how Gus’ journey culminates with the travails of other characters in the show. These characters include a former hybrid hunter who journeys along with Gus and protects him, a doctor trying to find the cure for the virus and a former therapist who gives sanctuary to hybrids.

Shadow and Bone:

Shadow and Bone is an American fantasy series adapted from the novel series, Shadow and Bone and Six of Crows.

The series follows the story of Alina Starkov who discovers she is a Grisha; people with magical abilities.

Alina is not just a Grisha but the long-awaited Sun Summoner who has the power to destroy the fold, darkness that divides the world, and the creatures it brings. Alina comes under threat as dark forces seek to manipulate or kill her. It also features the Crows, a group that crossed the Fold to kidnap Alina.

Top Fantasy Series of 2021: The Nevers

Top Fantasy Series of 2021

The Nevers is an epic Sci-Fi/Fantasy series produced by HBO and Mutant Enemy Productions

The series premiered on April 11, 2021. It has just one season, split into two 6-episodes parts. Nevertheless, the second part of the season will be debuting in 2022.

The story follows a group of Victorians, called “The Touched”, who suddenly develop supernatural abilities. Consequently, Amalia True, a mysterious widow leads this group against enemies on a world-changing mission.

Furthermore, It has a great plot and even greater plot twists.

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Trigger an animation in Unity Augmented Reality with a collision (SDK: Vuforia) and problem with a tutorial

February 1, 2021 - 11:53am #1

Hello Everyone,

I am kind of new to Unity and I am trying to get two bodies to interact with each other via an animation when they're in close proximity.

When these 2 bodies are separated they're supposed to be idle.

One of the bodies has a rigid body and box collider. The other one only a box collider with a trigger.

I used 3 states in my animator, to trigger the animation I used a boolean condition.

This is my script:

using System.Collections;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using UnityEngine;

public class Kollision : MonoBehaviour

    [SerializeField] private Animator myAnimationController;

    // Start is called before the first frame update

    private void OnTriggerEnter(Collider other)

        if (other.CompareTag("Player"))

            myAnimationController.SetBool("Zusammen", true);

    // Update is called once per frame

    void Update()

I can't get the animation to start. Can you please help me?

The version I'm using is Unity 2020.1.11f1

My second question is regarding the tutorial from the Vuforia library: How To Dynamically Add Content to Targets in Unity

I think the code is deprecated, I replaced ITrackableEventHandler with DefaultTrackableEventHandler. I had a second mistake that I coulnd't find an answer for

What should I replace mTrackableBehaviour.RegisterTrackableEventHandler(this); with?

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Fiin550 Fin560 Chap7 3. The Following Are The Monthly Rates Of Return For Madison Cookies And For Sophie Electric During A Six-Month Period. Compute The Following. A. Average Monthly Rate Of Return For Each Stock B. Standard Deviation Of Returns For Eac

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3. The following are the monthly rates of return for Madison Cookies and for Sophie Electric during a six-month period.

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a. Average monthly rate of return for each stock

b. Standard deviation of returns for each stock

c. Covariance between the rates of return

d. The correlation coefficient between the rates of return

What level of correlation did you expect? How did your expectations compare with the computed correlation? Would these two stocks be good choices for diversification? Why or why not?

7. The following are monthly percentage price changes for four market indexes.

Compute the following.

a. Average monthly rate of return for each index

b. Standard deviation for each index

c. Covariance between the rates of return for the following indexes: DJIA–S&P 500 S&P 500–Russell 2000 S&P 500–Nikkei Russell 2000–Nikkei

d. The correlation coefficients for the same four combinations

e. Using the answers from parts (a), (b), and (d), calculate the expected return and standard deviation of a portfolio consisting of equal parts of (1) the S&P and the Russell 2000 and (2) the S&P and the Nikkei. Discuss the two portfolios.

8. The standard deviation of Shamrock Corp. stock is 19 percent. The standard deviation of Cara Co. stock is 14 percent. The covariance between these two stocks is 100. What is the correlation between Shamrock and Cara stock?


Q&A – 18 July 2022

Suing a soldier in his absence

I have been in a dispute with my neighbour who is an army officer. The long term misunderstanding has been on my inherited piece of land and claims that my father sold it to him before his death. Last month he mobilised building materials in that piece of land to commence construction of a house. I have initiated a case at the Ward Tribunal but I was told that my neighbour will be going for a AU mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) very soon. A friend told me that it is not possible for a case to continue until determination in the absence of that soldier. Please advise me.
AR, Mwanza

Your friend is wrong. It is possible to proceed with a suit against your neighbour army officer in his absence. The procedure for instituting a suit against a military personnel who cannot obtain leave of absence for the purpose of prosecuting or defending the suit in person is provided for in the Civil Procedure Code (CPC).

Order XXVII of the CPC clearly states that where any officer or soldier actually serving the Government in a military capacity is a party to a suit, and cannot obtain leave of absence for the purpose of prosecuting or defending the suit in person, he may authorise any person to sue or defend in his stead. The authority should be in writing and be signed by the officer or soldier in the presence of his commanding officer. However, if he is the commanding officer, the next subordinate officer should sign. It further states that where the officer or soldier is serving in military staff employment, the head or other superior officer of the officer in which he is employed, such commanding or other officer shall countersign the authority, which shall be filed in Court.

When the authority is so filed, the countersignature is sufficient proof that the authority was duly executed and that the officer or soldier by whom it was granted could not obtain leave of absence for the purpose of prosecuting or defending the suit in person. A person authorised by an absent army officer may act personally or appoint an advocate.

Thus, it is possible to continue with the suit you have initiated at the Ward Tribunal in the absence of your neighbour army officer as he can follow the process stated above. Your lawyer can advise you further on the process.

Maternity leave period when a child dies before 84 days expire

I took paid maternity leave but a month after safe delivery, my child died. I informed the HR Manager about the death of my child. A week after I reported the death of my child to the HR Manager, she called me and informed me that I am supposed to go back to work because I am no longer breast-feeding so my maternity leave cannot continue till the expiry of 84 days which is what I was granted as maternity leave period. I would like to know from you if maternity leave ceases when a child dies before the expiry of 84 days which is the statutory leave period.
PP, Morogoro

Section 33(6)(a) of the Employment and Labour Relations Act [Cap.366 R.E 2019] provides 84 days of paid maternity leave days irrespective of the fact that the child dies before the expiration of the leave period. Therefore the HR Manager is not right to call you back to work simply because you are no longer breast-feeding. Maternity leave is not taken only for breast-feeding an infant. It is also granted to give the nursing mother the opportunity to recover from health problems associated with birth.

Amount of cash one is allowed to carry

My cousin was going back to his home village where he is undertaking a big construction project. He carried with him in the car TZS 100M to enable him clear various costs of the project. On the way at a police barrier he was stopped and when he was car searched, he was found in possession of the cash. Police asked him why he was carrying such huge amounts of money in the car and was arrested and interrogated for the offence of possession of property suspected to have been stolen and money laundering. Can you tell me what amount of money a person is allowed to carry with him from one point to another within the country?
KN, Moshi

There is no law governing the amount of cash money a person can move with from one point to another within the country. Section 23 (1) of the Anti-Money Laundering Act and the Anti-Money Laundering (Cross border Declaration of Currency and Bearer of Negotiable Instruments) Regulations, 2019 (GN No.268 of 2016) regulate the amount of cash a person is required to declare when he is leaving or entering the country but not when someone is travelling within the country.

Carrying a huge amount of cash is not a money laundering offence but it may raise reasonable suspicion that the money is a proceeds of crime and the bearer is avoiding the use of financial institutions because he does not want to leave traces. When a person is charged with possession of property suspected to have been unlawfully acquired, the burden of proof shifts to him to explain, within the balance of probability, how he came into possession of the property.


Are Land Acknowledgements Justified?

Commentary, Aboriginal Futures, Culture Wars, Frontier Centre

Recently, Canadians have seen various institutions implementing Indigenous Land Acknowledgments (ILAs) to recognize the institution as situated on previously occupied Indigenous land. They are widely accepted, but privately disputed.

It is obvious that the moral outrage regarding Canada’s First People prevents open discussion. Instead, we have been told to be quiet and ashamed. Our ancestors have been labeled simply as “visitors” or “white settlers.” People from all over the world call Canada home, yet it is largely those of European descent who are vilified. We are brainwashed into thinking we committed genocide by building Indian residential schools (IRS) and erasing Indigenous languages by not allowing pupils to speak them.

There is no doubt that some atrocities were committed, as in any long-term human institution, and that evil must be condemned and punished. Every legitimate perpetrator should be brought to justice and punished accordingly in a court of law.

We are also told we attempted to eliminate Indigenous culture by creating Indian reserves. But ownership of land was resolved by signing treaties between Indigenous chiefs and the Europeans, who then settled their portions and eventually created Canada.

However, my home province of British Columbia only existed when the last treaty was implemented in 1921. No treaties in this province have led to a myriad of disputes over whose land is whose and whether or not land was stolen.

Nevertheless, if you ever have the misfortune to attend any woke Canadian event, like a modern church service, a university function, or a parliament session, you will hear something like, “We acknowledge that this [insert institution here] is on the unceded territory of the [insert Indigenous group here] and we apologize for the crimes of our ancestors,” et cetera.

On the surface, this acknowledgement sounds respectful and caring. Underneath, however, it is condescending and rude, addressed to a people regarded by those who claim to care as an infantile mass, not unique individuals with a rightful potential to succeed like any other Canadian.

Several reserve schools still do not have running water. Several reserve churches have been burned to the ground because of the Kamloops IRS mass grave claims. Many reserve inhabitants still live in squalor and poverty all over the country.

I know this because I have seen it.

Canadians should be uniting and helping one another, not proclaiming self-righteousness to satisfy their egos. Progressives who shout propaganda from the rooftops live in a bubble of (though I cringe as I use the word) enormous privilege and ignorance. They do not know those whom they claim to protect, nor see the effects of both their actions and inaction.

For example, the Inuit, who definitely cannot afford an electric vehicle, have been told that the fossil fuels they rely on to survive are bad for the land they have lived on for thousands of years and will certainly prevent our country from reaching Net Zero by 2030. The water in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory still runs brown instead of clear like that of every nescient “Indigenous ally.” And, finally, after turning to drugs, alcohol and sex work to survive poverty, Indigenous women make up almost one-quarter of all female Canadian homicide victims, another infamous result of neglectful government policies.

I have visited a number of reserves, met and worked with Indigenous people who are very aware of this situation. I find it unacceptable that 21st century progressives have the temerity to spew this rhetoric while simultaneously undermining the success of our Indigenous population. Why is this group of people still living a lower quality of life than the rest of us? Why does the government pour billions of dollars into this “Indian (Inuit, and Métis) Problem” with no results? Where is that money going?

It appears that those who rule us govern with division and deceit. They want this disparity to be a perpetual problem, sowing the seeds of segregation and disunity. They are Canada’s real enemy.

That money will never go to the people in any other form than government handouts, ensuring their dependence on the state. No matter how many ILAs are introduced, the root problem has not changed.

Land acknowledgements are blatant hypocrisy masquerading as compassionate concern for a genuinely victimized population. Those pushing for them only appear to have the answers: their words are meaningless, their acknowledgements, unjustified.

It is time to solve the real issue. It is time for all Canadians to be proud of this country, what we have built, and how we treat each other.

Sophia Leis is a student intern at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. She is a third-year university student majoring in political science. She is passionate about Canadian indigenous issues, economics, and Western cultural influence.

See related discussion You are Now on Treaty Land, Brian Giesbrecht, April 29, 2018.


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Sahara Color

Sahara is soft, warm-toned shade of warm yellow. It is better contrasting with white. This color combines beautifully with cool blue, warm magenta or warm cyan

Inverse Color #485deb
Complementary Color #1428b7
Color Shade: warm yellow (52.27° hue)
Color Temperature: warm
Lightness: 39.8% (better contrasting with white)
Sahara Color Sample
Sahara Color Sample

Better Alternatives To #b7a214

If you're looking for a similar warm yellow shade, there are some better alternatives to Sahara Color. The Retro Vibe color for instance is a lighter and a bit more vibrant option, however this color has a orange bias. Consider a darker and more saturated alternative called Loden Yellow (#b68b13) for more energetic effect. Try Chanterelle as it also a bit more faded and calm.

Complementary Palette

#1428b7 is the best complementary color to Sahara. Cool blue shades generally complement the warm yellow hues best as they are found on the opposite end of the color wheel. The most popular #b7a214 complementary color is Persian Blue, as it offers maximum contrast and grab the viewer's attention.

Analogous Palette

The analogous palette of warm red, warm yellow, and cool yellow colors offers a soft combination of similar warm shades. The analogous colors of Sahara are #b75014 and #7ab714. Thus found on the left and right of #b7a214 on the color wheel with a 30° gap. Consider matching Fiery Orange and Lima colors as they work well with Sahara.

Split-complementary Palette

The split-complementary Sahara palette consists of #5014b7 and #147ab7 colors. They can be found 30° apart on either side of the complementary color (#1428b7). Try Blue Gem and Denim colors in combination with #b7a214, as they are not as contrasting as a complementary color, hence, giving more hue variety to make your design stand out.

Triadic Palette

The triadic palette of #b7a214 offers a combination of cool magenta and warm cyan shades and equally high contrast between the three of them. Find triadic colors at the 120° distance from the Sahara. Thus Seance and Mountain Meadow giving maximum hue separation to use all three together.

Square Palette

The square color palette of Sahara contains three additional colors. Thus, complementary Persian Blue, Malachite, and Red Violet split by 90° on the color wheel. #b7a214 square combo is a palette of warm yellow, cool green, cool blue and warm magenta shades that work together well.

Tetradic Palette

The tetradic palette is a bit more complex than the square and has more of a rectangle shape. Sahara tetradic combo consists of cool blue complementary color (#1428b7) and two others. The Mountain Meadow is positioned 120° clockwise from the primary color and Thunderbird – 120° from the complementary Persian Blue. This palette is not recommended to use as-is. Try to tweak the saturation and brightness of #14b7a2 and #b71428.

Conversion Table

In a RGB color space, hex #b7a214 is made of 50% red, 44% green and 5% blue. In a HSL mode Sahara has a hue angle of 52.27°, a saturation of 80.3% and a lightness of 39.8%. In a CMYK space (used in printing only), hex #b7a214 is made of 0% cyan, 8.23% magenta, 63.92% yellow and 28.24% black ink.

HEX #b7a214
RGB Decimal rgb(183,162,20)
RGB Percentage 50%, 44%, 5%
CMYK 0, 8.23, 63.92, 28.24
HSL hsl(52.27,80.3%,39.8%)
HSV (or HSB) hsv(52.27,89.07%,71.76%)
CIE-LAB lab(66.4882,-5.6458,66.6003)
XYZ xyz(32.575,35.9584,5.8856)


Best answer: How does the climate affect the plants?

Climate change causes warmer summer temperatures and inconsistent precipitation patterns. These environmental alterations affect the flowering periods of plants globally. As the global temperature increases, plants will flower earlier in the season. … As precipitation decreases, flowers may bloom later in the season.

How does climate change affect plants and crops?

What plants have been affected by climate change?

Climate change may affect the production of maize (corn) and wheat as early as 2030 under a high greenhouse gas emissions scenario, according to a new NASA study published in the journal, Nature Food. Maize crop yields are projected to decline 24%, while wheat could potentially see growth of about 17%.

How does climate affect agriculture?

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Does climate change affect crops?

Climate change may actually benefit some plants by lengthening growing seasons and increasing carbon dioxide. Yet other effects of a warmer world, such as more pests, droughts, and flooding, will be less benign. Under the HadGEM2 model, corn farmers will see crops decline by nearly 16 percent. …

How does climate change affect trees?

“Climate change can create new habitats for tree species and make existing habitats unsuitable. … Some tree species are migrating uphill and northward as temperatures increase, while other species are migrating downhill and westward as changing precipitation patterns create drier conditions.

How does climate change affect the land?

How climate change affects plants and animals?

It Destroys Habitats

Additionally, heavier rainy seasons, extended droughts or unpredictable snowfall in regions that aren’t used to that precipitation may cause animal and plant habitat destruction. Plants may freeze or shrivel up, and animals may have difficulty staying warm or finding enough food or water.

How does climate affect the production of farm crops?

The positive impacts of global warming include the increase in crop productivity due to fertilization effect caused by the increase in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, expansion of the areas available for production of tropical and/or subtropical crops, expansion of two-crop farming due to the increased …

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How does climate change affect crop yield?

Climate change most likely causes an overall increase in crop yields at EU27 level. Adjusting crop sowing dates and varieties leads to yield improvements. Sowing dates and varieties have less impact on economic and environmental outcomes. Technical progress has a higher impact on crop yields than climate change.

How does climate change affect agriculture essay?

Climate change is affecting agriculture by interfering with the efficiency of crop production. Agriculture is facing droughts, flooding, sea level elevations, natural disasters, and health hazards for employees. All of these exponents lead to crop failure that creates famines and food prices to rise.

How does warmer climate affect agriculture?

What is the relationship between agriculture and climate change?

Agriculture affects climate through emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. These emissions come directly from use of fossil fuels, tillage practices, fertilized agricultural soils and livestock manure in large proportion.