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Interpersonally, space is not a physical distance, but cognitive distance
Personal space is often described as a ‘personal privacy bubble’, but it isn’t a matter of physical distance. It is the cognitive distance that matters.
Generally, it is normal to feel slight discomfort and uneasiness when somebody approaches you within 1~2 meters, and that’s what most people understand by ‘personal space’, but that’s not the whole picture.
Inside a bus, nobody gets uncomfortable just because somebody sat on the other side of the window, even though it’s mere 2 meters away.
However in a quiet basement parking at midnight, even a distance footsteps or shadows will heighten your alertness.
(Attenion males, now you know you’ve got to be considerate when walking behind women in the middle of the night)
Hence, you must keep in mind that personal space occurs from the moment your presence has been noticed.
That is why in the first and second chapters of this series, I have emphasised the concept of Pre-approach Knowledge, to not only allow your presence to be noticed, but also the principle of LTHB to smoothen your approach.
Instead of direct physical contact, you must use indirect physical contact
I remember coming across a book that advised:
in order to come across as attractive and increase your chance of asking some out,
lightly touch their upper arm incidentally.
Of course at the last paragraph it had been mentioned to be cautious
that if you do it wrong you might be accused as a molester.
So it makes me wonder what the author was expecting.
are incorrect understanding of how to enter another person’s personal space to
create a sense of attraction or build trust. Space Occupation ought not be interpreted as direct physical contact.
As mentioned above, personal space is not a matter of physical distance
but a matter of cognitive distance.
When you are working on your desk and your boss comes to you from behind
and just observe what you are doing quietly, that itself causes uneasiness and mild psychological pressure.
If we escalate that to the boss putting his arm on the back of the chair,
you will feel greater pressure and discomfort.
However these are conventionally done ‘downward’, not ‘upward’.
Hence, to those use physical contact as a method of choice, I always ask this.
When they interact with an intimidating professor they’ve been trying to impress,
will they go and touch their arm, touch their shoulders etc.
Beyond the narrow field of simply dating and romantic approach, if you wish to
gain a deep interpersonal strength capable of effective space occupation,
that works in various contexts regardless of situation and environment,
you must disregard physical contact based on actual touch,
and understand indirect contact approach that feels like touch-contact.
It is an approach where after the initial Space Occupation is done, you bring about the efficacy of actual physical contact, without inducing uneasiness or wariness. This indirect contact that brings about natural attraction and builds people’s confidence in you is called Shape-Contact, in SoGye.
You must enter the space before subconscious vigilance, or give a plausible justification
Shape-Contact brings about natural attraction and invokes a sense of trust.
In order to effectively use it to somebody whom you’ve just met,
or even those whom you’ve known but were not very close to,
you must be able to use either of the following two methods.
First one is
naturally entering the opponent’s personal space by Space Occupation
before their subconscious vigilance is activated against your attempt to do so.
Through a quick, smooth succession of events that do not alert people, you complete your entry into the personal space while they are still empty-minded. This is what has been described during Chapters 1 and 2 of this series.
Second method is used
when your attempt to enter the personal space has been recognised and they have become vigilant to your approach. At this point, you can nullify the vigilance through Allured Agreement, where they allow you to enter their personal space.
Collection of methods that involves understanding of others’ thoughts and alluring approval.
This is a much more difficult part, but I reckon this will be what all those young lovers looking for a sweet dates are most interested in, because this is the bridge towards actual physical contact such as a kiss or an intimate touch.
As the later methods involve situations where your intent to enter the personal space is recognised, it is used mainly to bring about their approval and consent.
This is what I tell couples:
“You are dating and growing in love because you like each others.
Don’t worry too much that they will find it repelling.
Even if someone you love make a mistake, it’s not a thing to hate.
Just make sure they don’t feel too startled.”
If all the theories you’ve learned so far is a little too difficult, don’t think too complicated and ask them nicely with warmth sincerity.
Of course, not too direct. 🙂
(Continued to the next entry in the series)
I have deliberately transcribed the teachings of my teacher.

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November 26, 2022 marks the centennial of the birth of Charles M. Schulz, creator of the beloved Peanuts comic strip. It seems his role as a cartoonist was preordained. Two days following Schulz birth in Minneapolis, Minn., an uncle nicknamed him “Sparky” after Spark Plug the racehorse in the comic strip Barney Google. Thenceforth he would be known as Sparky. It’s doubtful that the uncle, or anyone else, could have foreseen that Sparky would become one of the most influential cartoonists of all time. He penned 17,897 Peanuts strips syndicated in 2,600 newspapers at its peak, reaching 355 million readers in 75 countries. Forty-five animated Peanuts specials aired on television, and four full-length motion pictures showed in theaters. Since its opening 20 years ago, the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, Calif. has welcomed more than 1.5 million visitors from around the world. And though Schulz passed away 22 years ago, his cartoons and characters still resonate.
Much of Peanuts parallels Schulz’s own life. “If you read the strip, you would know me. Every thing I am goes into the strip…” he is quoted as saying. Like Charlie Brown, Schulz’s father was a barber. Together they enjoyed the funnies in the Sunday paper, the younger Schulz being fascinated by Popeye, Mickey Mouse and Dick Tracy. “All I ever wanted to do was draw funny pictures,” he said. Spike, the family’s black-and-white dog, would become the inspiration for Snoopy.
In high school, he experienced the first rejection of his work, as his drawings done for the school year book were not included in the publication. Shy and introspective, Schulz found an outlet in doodling and sports. His mother encouraged him to enroll in a cartoon correspondence course at the Federal School of Applied Cartooning, now the Art Instruction Schools. At age 20, he was drafted into the army. While in basic training, his mother passed away of cancer—a traumatic event for the young Schulz. During WWII, while serving as a machine gun squad leader in Germany, Austria and France, he saw little action. Of his time in the military, Schulz would later write, “The Army taught me all I needed to know about loneliness.” Loneliness also haunted Charlie Brown.
On discharge from the military, Schulz returned to St. Paul, Minn. where he lived in an apartment over his father’s barbershop. His burgeoning career showed promise with publication of Li’l Folks in the St. Paul Pioneer Press and the sale of 17 single-panel cartoons to The Saturday Evening Post.
He met a red-haired girl and fell in love. When he asked her to marry him she turned him down, marrying a firefighter instead. She would become the “Little Red-Haired Girl,” the object of Charlie Brown’s affection in Peanuts. Charlie Brown dithers, afraid to approach her. When he gathers the courage to ask her to dance, he finds her dancing with Snoopy. Unrequited love would become a Peanuts theme.
Schulz named several of his characters after friends. There’s a real Charlie Brown and a Linus. Schroeder caddied with him at a golf course. Though several names are attributed to friends, the personalities of the 70-plus Peanuts characters came from their creator’s vivid imagination.
In 1948, Schulz sold Li’l Folks (changed to Li’l Folk in syndication) to New York’s United Feature Syndicate. Concerned about copyright infringement with a cartoon titled “Little Folks,” the syndicate changed the name to Peanuts. The name may have come from The Peanut Gallery, the kids seating section on the popular Howdy Doody Show. Schulz disliked it. Normally mild-mannered and soft-spoken, he said, “I don’t like the name of my strip at all. I wanted to call it Good Ol’ Charlie Brown.” Schulz might have been onto something. In South America, instead of Peanuts, the strip ended up being called Rabinitos or “Little Radishes.”
The family man
In 1951, six months after Peanuts’ debut, Schulz married Joyce Halverson. Seven years later, they and their five children moved from Minnesota to California’s Sonoma County. Joyce was instrumental in creating, designing and operating the Redwood Empire Ice Arena across from the Schulz Museum. Schulz was passionate about ice hockey. The arena hosts Snoopy’s Senior World Hockey Tournament, a five-day annual event with 70 teams competing.
Some of the strip’s story lines seem to parallel the activities of Schulz children. When son Craig was into surfing, Snoopy surfed too. And when he flew helicopters, so did Snoopy. And when Craig had a motocross career, Snoopy took up motorcycle riding. Once daughter Amy was reprimanded at the dinner table for talking too much. She retorted, “Am I buttering too loud for you?” Schulz used the line in an exchange between Charlie Brown and Lucy. On another occasion, Schulz sat at his drawing board, struggling to come up with new ideas. Son Monte walked in with a model WWI aircraft. They chatted about fighter planes. That discussion ended with Snoopy on top of his doghouse wearing a helmet, goggles, and a red scarf around his neck, ready to take on the Red Baron.
In “The Peanuts Family Album,” Schulz mentions his unsuccessful attempts at kite flying. “I used the excuse that I didn’t live in a good area for flying kites,” he said. Yet when Schulz tried kiting with his kids, the problem persisted. “…when a kite gets caught in a tall tree, it becomes irretrievable and gradually disappears…obviously the kite had to go someplace…” That led to the creation of Charlie Brown’s nemesis—the Kite-Eating Tree.
The Schulz museum
In 1972, Schulz and Joyce divorced. The following year, he married Jean Forsyth Clyde. It was Jean’s idea to create a museum. Schulz, a modest man, initially resisted. He doubted anyone would come. No problem there. On a recent day, the museum’s education room bustled with young and old alike drawing and coloring Peanuts characters. Snoopy red doghouse paper replicas, signed by creators from Mexico, Canada, Brazil, Germany and Qatar, lined the wall. “It’s like being at the United Nations,” said Craig, longtime museum volunteer.
Four -year-old Tina, at the museum with her grandparents, proudly showed off her new toys—a Lucy doll, Snoopy with a Christmas stocking hat, Linus and Woodstock. When asked which was her favorite she said, “I like them all.”
Carla from Oregon recently visited the museum for the first time. She and her husband, Corey, were celebrating their fourth wedding anniversary. “I’m a huge Snoopy fan,” she said. “I got my first plush Snoopy when I was two-years old. And I still have three boxes of Snoopy memorabilia in my parents’ attic. Snoopy is so carefree, always happy. He makes me smile.” When asked about his favorite Peanuts character, Corey said “Actually, I’m a Garfield fan.” Through her role as museum president and chairman, Jean Schulz continues to promote the Peanuts legacy.
War and Peace and the answering machine
Benjamin L. Clark, museum curator, related an incident that turned into another Snoopy opportunity. “Schulz’s number was listed in the phone book. He didn’t like answering machines. When the phone rang, he’d sometimes answer it himself. He thought everyone else should do the same,” Clark said. “When he phoned Lee Mendelson, producer of Peanuts animations, he got his answering machine. So Schulz picked up a copy of War and Peace and read it, filling the machine’s tape. In a later comic strip, Snoopy sits on top of his doghouse reading War and Peace a word a day.”
English muffin, grape jelly and nibs
“Schulz started his day with an English muffin, grape jelly and a cup of coffee at the ice arena’s Warm Puppy Cafe,” Clark said. “Then he’d head over to his studio for a full day’s work where he drew all the strips himself.” Schulz exclusively used an Esterbrook Radio 914 dip pen, with a stainless steel nib, the pen’s pointed end. When he heard that the company who made the nibs was going out of business, he bought all of the nibs in their inventory.
In a video clip, Schulz mentions Charlie Brown, Snoopy and Linus as the characters he most likes to draw. “Sometimes, I lie awake at night thinking about them, what they’ll be like when they get older,” he says. “I see Linus growing out of his problems. He will become the most successful. Lucy will still be a fuss-budget. And Charlie Brown will always be Charlie Brown.”
From cartoon strip to animations
Clark says that, “Though Peanuts was popular early on, the strip and the brand hit its prime beginning in the mid ’60s through the ’70s. By then all the characters had been fully developed.” In 1965, Peanuts was featured on the cover of Time magazine. And the following year, the first Peanuts animation, A Charlie Brown Christmas, received an Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program. In the film, Charlie Brown frets about the commercialization of Christmas. It doesn’t help when Snoopy decorates his doghouse and wins the neighborhood tree decorating competition. Charlie Brown is asked to direct the school holiday play. Instead of following his direction, the kids dance and sing in wild abandon. Sensing Charlie Brown’s frustration, Linus drags his security blanket across the stage, stops and says, “Lights, please.” He recites from Luke chapter 2, the bible verse about the true meaning of Christmas.
The term “security blanket” would become part of the American lexicon. Following the Christmas animation’s success, It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was released. Linus confuses Halloween with Christmas and writes a letter to The Great Pumpkin asking for toys. Holidays were a favorite Schulz setting, with strips about Easter, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, New Years and even Arbor Day. For Arbor Day, Lucy plants a tree on Charlie Brown’s pitching mound.
Schulz often mentioned that Charlie Brown was a reflection of his own insecurities and anxieties. “Charlie Brown is the ultimate loser. That is both his magic and his destiny,” Schulz said. “The secret is not to win over adversity, but never to stop trying. That’s the key to the human condition. Charlie Brown is the World’s Champion tryer.”
Character of color joins the Peanuts gang
In 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., Los Angeles schoolteacher Harriet Glickman wrote Schulz a letter. I’ve been asking myself what I can do to help change those conditions in our society which led to the assassination and which contribute to the vast sea of misunderstanding, fear, hate and violence…. She went on to suggest including children of color in the Peanuts cast of characters. With input from African-American parents, Schulz created Franklin Armstrong. He and Charlie Brown met at the beach when Franklin returns the beach ball Sally let go astray. The pair build a sand castle. They talk about family and sports. Franklin asks Charlie Brown if he plays baseball, and if he’s good. Charlie Brown replies, “I have some friends who would regard that as a great topic for a panel discussion.” Franklin became one of Charlie Brown’s best friends and confidantes. “In contrast with the other characters, Franklin has the fewest anxieties and obsessions,” Schulz said.
In a 1960s strip, Lucy sees Snoopy sitting alone and gives him a hug, something out of character for the normally crabby Lucy. As she walks away she smiles and says, “Happiness is a warm puppy.” That would become the title of Schulz’s first book (besides his popular comic strip reprint collections). In the book are Schulz’s illustrations of Peanuts characters along with sayings that show happiness can come from simple things. Happiness is finding someone you like at the front door…Happiness is walking in the grass in your bare feet…Happiness is being able to reach the doorknob.
Snoopy the Astronaut
March 1969 began a series where Snoopy fanaticizes about being the first beagle on the moon. The strip reflected a relationship with NASA dating back to the Apollo program. In Apollo 10, the crew’s mission was to skim the surface of the moon and “snoop around” checking out the landing site for upcoming Apollo 11 flight. The Apollo 10 crew named their lunar module “Snoopy” and the command module “Charlie Brown.” NASA created a Silver Snoopy award that astronauts bestowed on employees and contractors whose achievements contribute to the success and safety of a space mission. Silver pins that accompany the award depict Snoopy and are flown into space.
Seems only fitting that Snoopy would be invited back to participate in the Artemis I launch, scheduled for the end of November. Outfitted in an orange flight suit with a NASA patch, gloves and boots, Snoopy has a small but important role. A plush Snoopy toy will serve as a zero flight indicator, signaling when the spacecraft entered microgravity. Silver Snoopy pins and a pen nib from Schulz studio, wrapped in a space themed cartoon, will accompany him on board. The items will be returned to the Schulz museum for display.
USPS salutes Charles Schulz
In September 2022, the US Postal Service (USPS) issued stamps in honor of the centennial. Ten designs of Peanuts characters on a pane of 20 stamps frame a 1987 photograph of Schulz. USPS noted, “Each character reflects Schulz’s rich imagination and great humanity. His resonant stories found humor in life’s painful realities including rejection, insecurity and unrequited love.” The Schulz museum hosted the First Day of Issue Stamp Dedication Ceremony on September 30.
Streaming has provided Peanuts with a powerful platform that Schulz couldn’t have imagined. Apple TV teamed with WildBrain, Peanuts Worldwide and Lee Mendelson Film Productions to air the iconic Peanuts specials and produce new animations. The new animations are in competent hands. The Snoopy Show produced by Craig Schulz is in its second season. And Lucy’s School: A Tribute to Teachers was produced by Craig and his son, Bryan. The pair, along with Bryan’s writing partner, Cornelius Uliano, also wrote the script. The animations Craig and Bryan have put together remain true to the universe their father and grandfather created. For sure, he would be proud.
A sad farewell
Stricken with cancer in 2000, Schulz penned his final strip. It appeared the day after he died. “Dear Friends,” he wrote. “I have been fortunate to draw Charlie Brown and his friends for almost 50 years. It has been the fulfillment of my childhood ambition. Unfortunately, I am no longer able to maintain the schedule demanded by a daily comic strip…” Snoopy is pictured sitting atop his doghouse staring at his typewriter, looking forlorn.
In the 22 years since Schulz’s passing, his legacy lives on. Peanuts continues to have a loyal following. Perhaps it’s because the characters are so relatable. There’s a bit of lovable Charlie Brown, crabby Lucy, Linus and his security blanket and Snoopy, the master of disguise in all of us. And Sparky, with his vivid imagination and clever wit, knew how to make us smile.
Peanuts Gang Musings
“In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back.”—Charlie Brown
“I keep wondering if Mom’s planning to have more children. Lately, she’s been referring to me as ‘Volume One.’” —Lucy van Pelt
“Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.”—Linus van Pelt
“More health tips: eat lots of fruits and vegetables, get plenty of rest and learn to duck.”—Snoopy
“The world is full of unmarried marriage counselors.”—Marcie
“I got six compliments today…and two of them were sincere.”—Franklin
“Subtraction is the awful feeling that you know less today than you did yesterday.”—Peppermint Patty

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You can check if your Voter’s ID has already been printed or if your account is active by going to the COMELEC’s Precinct Finder site. The details that will be shown you will include the status of your registration and status of printing of your ID:
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ScienceDaily (Apr. 16, 2010) — To their surprise, researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) have discovered that morphine (a derivate of the opium poppy that is similar to heroin) protects rat neurons against HIV toxicity -- a finding they say might help in the design of new neuroprotective therapies for patients with the infection.
The discovery, being presented at the annual meeting of the Society of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, also helps explain why a subset of people who are heroin abusers and become infected with HIV through needle sharing don't develop HIV brain dementia. This brain disorder includes cognitive and motor abnormalities, anxiety and depression.
"Needless to say we were very surprised at the findings," he added. "We started with the opposite hypothesis -- that heroin was going to destroy neurons in the brain and lead to HIV dementia."
The researchers conducted the study because they knew that a number of HIV-positive people are also heroin abusers, and because of that, some are at high risk of developing neurological complications from the infection. Others, however, never develop these cognitive problems, Mocchetti says.
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Investors nowadays have an unhealthy obsession with growth (and by nowadays, I mean since about 1870). I, for my part, have no objection to growth, but as I have stated, I don't like overpaying for growth, which usually simplifies to "I don't like paying for growth."
But if growth is king, and people are willing to pay daft multiples for it, and even invent a mode of analysis called "real options" in order to justify even higher multiples (the real options concept is interesting in theory, but attempts to quantify it break down because unlike actual options, real options do not have the rigor imposed by the arbitrage elimination requirement), then a company that has anti-growth is a sort of pathetic phantom of Wall Street, doomed to wander in darkness eternally. But, as Ben Graham said of junk bonds, they exist in large quantities and someone has to own them. And sometimes, that someone should be us.
Deluxe Corporation (NYSE:DLX) has been in operation for a number of years as a check printer, and checks still constitute over 60% of their income. In addition to generic checks, they also produce, either directly or through banks, checks with licensed characters or associated with causes, such as Disney, Garfield, or the National Arbor Day Foundation. They also sell checks directly to consumers as well as through financial institutions.
Since electronic payments have been increasing in popularity, and and the lowered pace of economic activity recently has led to fewer transactions in general, their main line of business has been declining by several percentage points annually, and their total revenues have fallen from $1.59 billion in 2007 to $1.34 billion in 2009, although curiously their profit margins have gone up a bit thanks to aggressive cost cutting and control. Furthermore, the bankruptcy and consolidation of financial institutions due to the recent banking crisis have had a tendency to cost them clients, force them into a tricky negotiating position when a bank that is one of their clients merges with a bank that isn't, and also forced them to be more flexible in pricing when their contracts are up for renewal, since in banking nowadays every penny must count.
The firm also prints a number of customized forms for businesses, which they claim are often designed against the type of accounting and other records software commonly used by small business, as well as other printed items such as business cards and promotional materials. But with fewer businesses comes fewer forms, and of course form designing software is not so difficult to find these days, so that line is also under pressure. The firm is attempting to expand the range of business services it offers, such as web hosting, logo design, payroll management, and so on, primarily by making small opportunistic acquisitions. For financial institutions they also offer fraud protection and some record keeping and consulting services.
It is laudable that they are trying to become a one-stop shop for small business services (generally speaking, businesses have had bad results diversifying for its own sake (that can be left to stockholders themselves on a portfolio level), but if it is done pursuant to a sensible marketing plan it is at least defensible), but I do not believe at this time that the sectors they are expanding into offer them a great deal of potential for product differentiation. Their CEO was formerly the VP of "retail solutions" at NCR, which may explain the interest in product line expansion--not that I find that trying to get into the CEO's head to be a fruitful exercise from a value added perspective.
So, that's the bad news, and as you can see it's pretty bad. But the next question becomes whether this bad news is priced into the company, and I'm going to say that it largely is. Even if a company is in terminal decline, it may be able to remain profitable and spit out a lot of cash along the way, as, for example, Qwest and Windstream have despite the decline in use of of land lines in the United States. The firm has a market cap of $1.03 billion, and last year produced GAAP earnings of about $99 million.
However, this figure needs to be adjusted, both up and down, for nonrecurring events. It should be noted that cost of goods sold plus selling, general, and administrative expense, has declined from a total of $1.318 billion in 2007 to $1.117 billion in 2009, and the CEO claims he still has $65 million in costs to cut, although of course, like all costs, these are no doubt linked to revenue-generating activities and cannot be regarded as free money. But at any rate, 2009's earnings are hampered by $32 million in restructuring charges and asset impairment charges, which are noncash and/or nonrecurring, but which are offset by a $10 million gain on early debt extinguishment, so their real earnings are a bit higher at $121 million. Their real P/E ratio is thus about 8.5. If a 10% return is standard, this suggests that the market is pricing in a terminal decline in earnings of about 1.7%, which is not quite the 4-6% decline in check volume the firm has seen historically since around the 90s but it does show us the theoretical size of the gap that Deluxe has to fill, and the gap appears to me to be manageably small.
I believe that checks will always be in use by some people, as some people do like tangible records of transactions and not everyone likes either sending or receiving electronic routing information for single transactions, and there is substantial infrastructure built up around them as well as the tendency towards "stickiness" in payment methodologies, so it seems to me that the 4-6% decline may at some point level off. Also, it should be noted that Deluxe is hardly the only check printer exposed to this problem, so there may be opportunities for consolidation among check companies in future, and really I would like to see the CEO focus on that more than, or at least as well as, expanding their product offerings.
The wise value investor, however, does not console himself with rosy projections of the future, so these considerations may produce a bonus down the road but they should definitely not be relied on. But it appears that the firm has produced a reasonable profit margin despite a recession, and it has the free cash flow to pay down debt early. Furthermore, the first quarter of 2010 is promising, actually $5 or 6 million, or about 20% higher, than the first quarter of 2009 on my estimate of a comparable basis, and which translates to full year earnings of about $1.3 million, which produces a P/E ratio of 7.7. The firm and its analysts both expect the fall in revenues to arrest itself by 2011, but of course, they are paid to be optimistic. Depreciation and amortization of intangibles have exceeded capital expenditures, but on the other hand the company's strategy does seem to involve future acquisitions so this should not be looked on as a source of free cash flow.
The firm's balance sheet is not particularly robust, loaded as it is with goodwill and intangibles, but on the other hand it is not unusual for a balance sheet to look a little empty when capital expenditures are depreciated and not replaced, or for an acquisitive firm to carry a lot of goodwill. Non-replaced depreciation is the source of a lot of declining companies' ability to spin off excess cash flow, and Deluxe has closed down 9 facilities since its cost cutting began. The firm's interest requirements were covered five times in 2009, and fully 6.5 times in the first quarter of 2010, so it does not appear that the decline in business is likely to produce financial distress at this time, and it is the specter of financial distress that often causes the low valuations of declining companies to turn out to be perfectly accurate. The firm pays a 5.1% dividend which I believe to be more than adequately covered.
In sum, at current prices I believe that the investor in Deluxe Corporation is getting at least what he or she paid for, and the possibility of Deluxe arresting the decline at some future point would make this a reasoanbly attractive opportunity at this price and even more attractive should the price decline further.
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Healthy lifestyle combats cardiometabolic risk regardless of genetic risk
medwireNews: A healthy lifestyle bestows the same degree of relative risk reduction for type 2 diabetes irrespective of whether people have high or low genetic risk for the condition, shows an analysis of UK Biobank data.
If all 339,003 people analyzed had maintained an ideal lifestyle, 72% of the 4379 new incidences of diabetes might have been prevented, the researchers report in JAMA Cardiology. This rose to 90% when restricted to those categorized as having a poor (as opposed to intermediate) lifestyle.
Pim van der Harst (University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands) and co-researchers categorized people’s lifestyle as being ideal or poor based on having at least three healthy or unhealthy lifestyle factors relating to BMI, smoking, physical activity, and diet. An intermediate lifestyle was anything that fell between the ideal and poor categories.
The researchers also looked at cardiovascular outcomes, for which the effect was less strong, with 19%, 25%, 37%, and 44% of all incidences of stroke, atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, and hypertension preventable had all individuals maintained an ideal lifestyle. They caution, however, that the observational study design cannot prove cause and effect.
The participants were all White British and were aged an average of 57 years. Their genetic propensity to develop type 2 diabetes, based on 38 previously established single nucleotide polymorphisms, was also associated with diabetes incidence, with those in the highest quintile of genetic risk a significant 1.91-fold more likely to develop the condition than those in the bottom quintile.
Lifestyle had similar effects in all genetic risk categories, so among people with an ideal lifestyle having a high genetic risk increased the absolute risk for diabetes significantly but only slightly, at 0.52% versus 0.27% for low genetic risk. But a poor lifestyle had a large effect on people in both genetic risk groups, increasing the risk for diabetes to a corresponding 5.54% and 3.87%, amounting to relative risk increases of 15.46- and 10.82-fold versus low genetic risk and an ideal lifestyle.
For the cardiovascular outcomes the genetic risk effects were similar to that seen for diabetes, but the lifestyle effects were weaker.
“These findings indicate the strong potential benefits of adherence to multiple ideal behavioral lifestyle factors regardless of [genetic risk],” say the researchers.
“Therefore, preventive policies should promote stricter adherence to multiple ideal behavioral lifestyle factors (eg, eliminating smoking, eating a healthy diet, maintaining a healthy weight, and engaging in regular physical activity) for all.”
However, they emphasize the challenges of communicating individual genetic risk, noting that knowledge of their genetic risk “may lead individuals to believe they are destined to develop diseases regardless of their lifestyle and may insufficiently motivate behavior changes.”
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The "TowneBank Way"
October 21, 2012
TowneBank Chairman and CEO Bob Aston says impressive new facilities opened in Harbour View Friday are “about building our future leaders that will take this company forward.”
A large crowd of the “TowneBank family” gathered at its 22-acre campus near the Riverfront area, where a 45,000 square-foot operations center was officially opened and the 16,000 square-feet Towne University dedicated.
The “university” will provide a “conference-style venue for seminars, meetings and classroom training” for employees of the bank and business units, Prudential Towne Realty, Towne Investment Group, TownBank Mortgage, Towne Insurance and TFA Benefits.
“We will always be respectful of and honor the past … but it’s also important to recognize we can’t be a prisoner of the past,” Aston said.
The fast-growing bank, now Virginia’s largest community bank and employing 1,500, Aston said, arose from a group of “unemployed bankers” who gathered in a Portsmouth garage in about 1998.
The bankers had worked for another community bank, which in 1995 merged with BB&T, effectively putting them out of work.
“Then we look at where we are today … and what has happened … (and it is) just something that just none of us would have dreamed was possible,” Aston said.
TowneBank has been able to get to where it is today so quickly by bringing good people together, Aston told the gathering.
“Let me say that bringing people together, I don’t think Harvard Business School has done it quite this way. To paraphrase Frank Sinatra, we did it the Towne way.”
Aston said the way to success is to have the best people, adding, “At this point, we have to make our own, and this is what this is all about.”
The training facility is “another sign of a company that does things different,” he said.
“I guess I have been accused of being unique, and I have been accused of being unorthodox; I don’t know which one is the right one.”
Suffolk Mayor Linda T. Johnson, who serves on the TowneBank board, paid tribute to the TowneBank Foundation, which has “provided charitable grants and donations to over 100 nonprofit foundations … and that is a great example of why you are totally known as a home-town bank.”
State Delegate Chris Jones cited the bank leadership’s vision and perseverance “when many thought that it would not work.”
With total assets of $4.23 billion at June 30, 2012, TowneBank now operates 26 offices in Virginia and North Carolina.


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Apple will reopen its New York City stores by appointment this week after Coronavirus closed them for three months.
The iPhone maker’s 10 retail locations will open their doors for the first time since March this week, it said in a statement, allowing customers to schedule appointments for order pickup or device repairs.
The California-based Cupertino did not say what day the store would open or reopen, and told customers to check its website.
Apple’s Global Flagship Store on Fifth Avenue will be reopened, along with other stores in Manhattan, Queens, Staten Island and Brooklyn.
“This week we will be returning to serve customers in several US locations, including an appointment in New York City, where we are proud to be standing next to New Yorkers as they leave this difficult time,” Apple said.
Visitors to the store “need to follow additional steps for the health of employees and customers,” according to Apple, “including temperature checks, facial expressions and social distance.”
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Is JNU Reduced to a Centre of Crime Today?
What was once a premium centre of education and learning in the capital city, turned into a flophouse of politics, treachery and scandals. Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU), the leading education centre of India, witnessed severe ups and downs in last couple of months. From debates on Afzal Guru and arrest of students to raising anti-India slogans and public protests against the government, JNU has made it to the front page several times this year. The institute is once again back in limelight, with local cops discovering the body of a Ph.D. scholar in his hotel room this Tuesday, on 25th of October.
The Deceased was North Indian but The Cops Don’t Smell Racism
They deceased was identified as J.R. Philemon, a native of Senapati District (Manipur). A resident of Brahmaputra Hostel, Philemon, was pursuing his Ph.D. in West Asia studies at JNU. He was a scholar of International Relations, better known for drafting a chapter in ‘Persian Gulf 2014: India’s Relations with the Region’, which was later edited by PR Kumaraswamy , a professor at JNU. Ishwar Singh, Deputy Commissioner of Police, South Delhi reported that none of the students have seen Philemon in last three days. However, neither college administration nor students informed the cops regarding his disappearance. When the body was recovered from his hostel Room (171), no signs of struggles and fingerprints were found on spot.
The Mystery Behind His Death
None of the students suspected anything amiss while Philemon was missing. Though the occupants of neighbouring rooms complained of a weird odour emanating from Philemon’s room. Students informed staff members of this situation, who alerted the police control room. When the police broke open the deceased’s door, in the presence of audience, they found his partially decomposed body lying there.
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- There was no suicide note in his room.
- Philemon’s body didn’t have marks of struggle or injury.
- Since the room was locked from inside, no one suspected any foul play.
- The deceased is said to be a binge drinker therefore, police suspects alcohol overdose to be the cause of his death.
- The cops didn’t register any case till Tuesday night, for they were awaiting autopsy report.
Considering the extent of decomposition, cops suspect that Philemon was probably dead since last 2 days. They couldn’t ascertain the cause of his death so the body was sent for post mortem. For now, the police have recorded the statements of neighbouring students, friends and teachers.
JNU Never Runs Out of Controversies…
Last month, some students had protested over the mysterious disappearance of another student Najeeb Ahmad. Last week, a group of students detained VC and the senior university officers in their office building overnight, in this regard. Next day, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh ordered a special team to track down Najeeb, who’s still missing.
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The man who tricked Hitler and won the hearts of a nation
Last month I was deeply marked by the death of King Michael the First, the last king of Romania. Ever since he has gone to a better world, it made headline news, people have begun to learn about the king's tragic destiny and a new expression of regret has appeared on their faces.
Unfortunately, the whole story has not been known so far, people being misinformed. That's why many regret now that they lost a king, a true and righteous leader. It is a guilt of a nation, that has now come to a peak, to appreciate someone at their true value only after they've died. It has happened many times and it seems that we do not learn our lesson.
Unfortunately, most people limit their knowledge to what they see in the media. And because there wasn't a lot of buzz over the plot of the Communist Party's successors or the King's fight for the country, people have not sought to inform themselves on their own initiative. Perhaps because King Mihai was a humble man who did not attract much attention to him.
I've heard many people say "I did not know" with tears in their eyes, including my mother. She always says it with regret. Communists had no interest in letting people know.
From the point of view of a youngster, I sincerely say that I did not know either, nor did I gave interest to the subject. Being born after 1993, I was too little to understand or even pay attention when the king returned to Romania. I grew up knowing we had a king, but without paying attention. Well, now I know and I want to tell you too.
I want to tell you about a man who for some might seem like a hero in a comic book, but who was actually just a man in whom humility, courage and justice were heavily rooted.
During the time of King Carol II (the father of the king we are talking about today), Romania had become an economic power and a hopeful partner for the Western countries. But Romania was at the intersection between East and West, being trapped between Nazi Germany and communism in Russia. To fuel the war, Hitler wanted the oil reserve, while Stalin wanted to occupy Bucovina and Basarabia, two key areas for the West.
Failing to obtain protection from the Allies, Carol II turned his gaze to Hitler. But this time without success, as Hitler had an agreement with Stalin to share Eastern Europe and allowed Romania to be chopped, losing one third of its territory. The dissatisfied Romanians blamed Carol, who was forced to abdicate in favor of his son, Michael I.
Although King Mihai had the crown, the true leader was Prime Minister Ion Antonescu, who forced the young king to meet Hitler, entered the war (WW2) without consulting and even changed the constitution, becoming a dictator in Romania.
However, the Romanians looked at the war in a positive way hoping that they would regain their lost territories. Hitler had much to win from the alliance with Romania. Besides the numerous army, one third of the oil that fed the war machine was provided by Romania.
Romania's first victory at Odessa was quickly overshadowed by the massacre of thousands of Jews. Because of Romania's alliance with Germany, massacres of countless Jews were allowed.
During this time, King Mihai was close to the Rabin with whom he often communicated, while the mother queen often showed her dissatisfaction with the Jewish situation. That's why Hitler suggested Antonescu to liquidate her. The mother of the King, Queen Elena, managed to save many Jews from Romania and sent trains with clothes and food to Jews from Transnistria. Thus, the queen mother received the title of The Righteous Among the Nations.
But the war was going badly for Romania because it did not receive enough support from Hitler, and the Western countries had focused their attention on it, bombarding the main territories, such as Bucharest or the oil refinery. Antonescu was still faithful to Germany, so the King, together with other politicians, started planning the breakup of Hitler. What followed was a series of secret meetings, discussions, negotiations and plannings to get out of the war. They contacted Cairo saying that Romania wanted to get out of the war, but Russia took over the situation and contacted Antonescu directly, who insisted on his blind trust in Germany, saying that he did not trust Russia.
Then the king understood that he must take the initiative himself, trusting that Romanian citizens would support him, who did not talk due to fear, but shared his beliefs. Meanwhile, Hitler is informed that a plot is being prepared in Bucharest, but he did not expect to be king Michael I. Such a plot was very difficult to realize given that Romania was crawling with the Nazis, and the ambassador German even says, "I find out even when a leaf falls in Romania," when he really did not know anything.
The king's action was viewed with great admiration. It took a lot of courage for a 23-year-old to give the signal of a coup in the conditions in which Hitler was banging on one shoulder, and on another was beating Antonescu who had captured all the power. He did not consider his own safety and risked everything.
From Greece, to Poland, the entire Nazi movement has fallen due to the blow in Romania. The Germans were forced to withdraw and so the war in Europe was shortened by two to three months.
He tried to withstand the greatest executioners in the history of the twentieth century, Hitler and Stalin. He managed, up to a point. Where he succumbed, no one else could do anything else for the country or the dynasty ...
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During the past year, the new pope has tried to dial down the anti-gay rhetoric.
He said the church has become “obsessed” with abortion, gay marriage and contraception. He has tried to shift the church’s focus to the poor and oppressed.
“If a homosexual person is of good will and is in search of God, I am no one to judge,” the Pope said.
His position on same-sex marriage, however, didn’t change the church’s stance.
“The teaching of the church … is clear,” he said.
In it’s announcement, Time called Windsor “the unlikely activist.”
“In her ninth decade, she started a judicial odyssey, fighting a battle she never expected to wage — let alone win,” Time wrote. “Now she’s the matriarch of the gay-rights movement.”
For many in the LGBT community, however, Windsor has had a more immediate and personal affect.
Anti-gay Sen. Ted Cruz came in at No. 5 as “the barn burner.”


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The quest for stability in Syria will determine the outcome of the conflict.
Historian Niall Ferguson holds that order is always the best argument in favor of the empire. Precisely, territorial order or stability is taken by Richard Falk as the bedrock of state sovereignty. Historian Eric Hobsbawm, for his part, links the human need for such an order to people being subjects before becoming citizens.
The outcomes of the Syrian conflict are contingent on the different ways that stakeholders’ quest for stability and order in the territory unfurl.
A unilateral decision to attack Bashar al-Assad’s order-undermining regime was taken by the US after an alleged chemical weapons attack led to a death toll of 1,429 people, including 426 children, on August 21. Despite having claimed that the US had documented proof of Assad’s use of chemical weapons, the meaninglessness of gathering support was made obvious on August 31 – barely one day after it was confirmed that the UK would not lend a helping hand – when US President Barack Obama stated: “We are the United States of America, and we cannot and must not turn a blind eye to what happened in Damascus.”
The US underpins the intervention in restoring respect for human dignity, national security, and the global prohibition to use chemical weapons, as Obama listed in identical order on August 31. The loftiness in these goals has contrasted with the failure to comply with other provisions of international law by playing down the need for UN-provided proof, let alone a UN Security Council mandate. Being endorsed exclusively by those nations where public opinion was not requested to participate in decision-making, has not contributed either to lifting the public opinion’s half-heartedness with regard to intervention, as polls reveal.
Against this somber background, the White House has been prudent enough to make clear that the aim of the attack would not be to oust Assad, but to ensure the regime does not step over the red line again.
Should the conflict indeed scale up, the US would contradict its upholding a no-boots-on-the-ground approach. Iraq-allergic European parliaments and public opinion would be further dissuaded from supporting military action. Staying on once the civil war ends and developing nation-building plans in Syria, would contradict the 2010 US National Security Strategy which advocated an assertive building at home, and a more ambiguous "shaping" abroad policy.
Two hypotheses unfurl regarding the duration of a potential military strike.
The Non-Aftermath Scenario
First off, regardless of what option the US tilts toward with regard to the attack’s lifespan, Assad would pull off his one solid victory. Not only will he be granted the chance to endure an intervention that has aroused bottom-up rejection in the West so far, and which Ban Ki-Moon himself has failed to endorse. Moreover, this will help justify Assad’s unwillingness to take part in diplomatic negotiations. Russia, who has already deployed more naval forces from its Black Sea fleet, would start a comfortable discourse on how they advocated for diplomacy and were forced to respond before an American abuse of state sovereignty. An ironical axis of jihadist forces already in control of Syria’s north-east and US-supported rebel forces in growing control of the southern province of Dara'a, would emerge.
The US-led confrontation would run parallel to the civil war, which might unravel ad calendas graecas — meaning that a deeply ingrained conflict is here to stay.
This happened in the Lebanese Civil War, which lasted 15 years. Alternatively, it could have a sequel of official peace coupled with pervasive insecurity, à la Iraqienne, where sectarian attacks have proliferated since 2003 in spite of the official cessation of warfare.
Everyday confrontations reflect the sectarian tinge that the conflict has acquired. The UN report of the independent international commission of inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic gives examples, such as "raiding in predominantly Sunni areas in Latakia" or trials in ar-Raqqah and in al-Shajarah (Dara’a) in April, where Alawite soldiers who had been captured by rebels were executed, unlike non-Alawis, who were either freed or jailed.
As a result, a complex network of internal migration flows has arisen. Aside from heading for the coastlines, Alawites originally stemmed from cities such as Aleppo or Baniyas and have split into two after confrontation between sects, resulting in a stalemate. However, flows go beyond the mere Sunni-Shiite confrontation. Several Christian towns were emptied at the beginning of August as well. What is more, the bombing of a Shiite neighborhood in Beirut on August 15 is another reminder of the spillover effects of sectarian divisions.
Thus, regardless of the duration of the attack that the US pursues, the least worrying consequence would be a short-term intensification of refugees. This would, in turn, multiply the Syrian population’s destabilizing potential in the region. Timothy Garton Ash recently provided a graphic explanation of the problem by pointing out that "Syrian refugees already make up 10% of the population of Jordan. That is like the whole of Bulgaria moving to Britain.”
In short, even if the goal of intervention is restricted to preventing Assad from violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which forbids the use of poisonous gases as a method of warfare and remains the only instrument signed by Syria so far in this domain, the acrimony of the continuing war would prevent an intervention from having a "shock and awe" effect. Nor would such awe be felt by other stakeholders, notably in the international community’s demanding stance towards post-Iraq appeals of R2P. A non-aftermath would ensue, meaning the strike would fail to trigger new (less ruinous) phases in the dispute.
The Aftermaths of a Post-Strike Syrian Civil War
After reaching selected chemical targets or transport linkages, the Obama administration may stick to the unwillingness stated so far regarding a long-term operation and allow for the civil war to be waged on. Several scenarios may be forecasted.
A Ba’athist Status Quo
Assad could end up holding (unquestioned) sway of power again. The idea of resuming routine negotiations with a victorious Bashar al-Assad at the other side of the table does not seem to be the most appealing option for a post-strike US, as well as for the rebel-hosting and rebel-welcoming, such as Turkey and the EU, respectively.
Alternatively, the Ba'ath party could remain in power and have the head of the party removed. The latter would be a more plausible aftermath, insofar as the regime is backed by the institutional support built around the dynasty and is, as CIA Chief General Michael Flynn stated, more voluminously manned and superiorly armed.
In any case, regional forums such as the Arab League or the Gulf Cooperation Council, which have already accepted the Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as the legitimate representatives of the Syrian Arab Republic, would have to build bridges over troubled internal waters and accept a broader coalition or even allow for it to be replaced by an eventual Ba’athist representative.
Then again, regional frameworks can always be reshaped, as happened after the 1978 Camp David talks between Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli PM Menachem Begin, when the Arab League suspended Egypt and removed its headquarters from Cairo until 1989.
The Collapse of the Timeworn
Without an active international community backing the opposition after a tiptoeing version of R2P, a Ba’athist downfall may be regarded by many as untenable. Yet prolonged military superiority, without military victory in sight, might undermine moral resilience among Assad’s supporters and contribute to resistance forces being successful at leaking within the breaches.
That being said, securing a victory requires an electoral process, the benefits of which are twofold.
First, an election would contribute to dissolving the National Coalition, a conglomerate of opposition forces which by de facto represents the Syrian people opposing the regime, but lacks a legitimate mandate to do so. Not only does the coalition lack origin-based legitimacy, it also suffers from a faulty composition. The Syrian National Council only agreed to share speaking and deciding for Syria once the Arab League assured the council that it would constitute nearly 50 percent thereof.
Internal decision-making processes would reproduce the unilateralism upon which the Assad dynastic government was based, under an inexistent equivalence between the number of council members and of Syrian citizens supporting their mandate. Authors dating back to Alexis de Tocqueville in the 19th century have warned against the risks of the tyranny of the majority, where the oppression of the minority is a mere collateral damage. Western-led international organizations’ voting systems ring some bells here.
Secondly, including Alawites in the electoral process would turn them into an essential force in forging the post-Assad Syria. Alawites, Druze and other minority groups, who were originally awarded autonomy by the French under the conviction divide et impera, should have the right to contribute to the Syrian political landscape with an added value as a result of the population demanding so.
Greek historian Thucydides described hegemonic wars as the consequence of a relatively stable hierarchy of powers where a hegemon is confronted with a subordinate power’s disproportionate growth. Raymond Aron believed the outcome of such conflict would be the transformation of the system of interstate relations.
Given the absence of equal-scale powers to the dynasty in Assad's Syria, a national hegemony can be easily perceived. The dense network of threads intertwining regional powers and, through the implication of the UN, the international order, is bound to link the altered domestic hierarchy of powers to Aron’s prediction.
In any of the hypotheses, the reluctance towards a long-term and large-scale intervention may reflect a definite Western turn towards punctual actions.
Unprecedented support for R2P among the heads of a number of allied leaders has run parallel to the de-escalation of such aims by a peculiar coalition of the unwilling, composed of UN authorities, domestic stakeholders in the West, the Russia-China axis and a belt of regional powers south of Syria. The paralysis, albeit temporary, that the latter are capable of accomplishing regarding the intervention attaches a greater role to the use of regional forces and forums as vectors, sparing themselves the concerns of remaining (politically inert or illegitimately active) within sight of the public eye.
The Obama administration initially planned to limit its contact with Congress to providing representatives with relevant information. Only did it seek congressional approval once the British parliament had ruled out endorsing a non-UN-led, evidence-less operation. It may only be a matter of time until this reluctance to ask for a confirmation of legitimacy turns into a habit.
What is more, the incoherent view of R2P as a paralegal alternative to the UN Security Council process of intervention described in Chapter 7 of the UN Charter, is coupled to healthy practices such as holding parliamentary debates on R2P. Such practices reflect that national democracy prevails over international democracy (inasmuch as Security Council mandates are waited for and respected on the grounds that parliaments request so), but it is still a sign of greater involvement of the people’s representatives in foreign policy.
In other words, the unpredictable depth of structural changes in state conduct that the conflict is bound to bring about, regardless of which hypothesis prevails once the conflict is over, may turn out to be the key uncertainty that the Syrian quagmire brews.
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Jim discusses millions in government waste with Adam Andrzejewski of OpenTheBooks.com. A Wyoming school district with $10 million dollars in credit card charges, millions in farm subsidies being paid to people living in urban locations, and government employees receiving six figure salaries and millions in bonuses. The $21 trillion dollar national debt and why Republicans and Democrats are both to blame for massive deficits and pork.
Jim discusses the explosive testimony by Christine Blasey Ford and the response by Judge Brett Kavanaugh and why this week could be even more explosive than last week. What is the government still hiding about Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas mass shooter? Ripple XRP passes Ethereum to become the number two cryptocurrency, will it pass Bitcoin next? and Jim gives a preview of his two week trip to Seoul South Korea.


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Robotic automation has changed the way manufacturers and fabricators run their businesses. In many cases, robots are helping companies stay online during the last weeks of the year when they would have otherwise been shut down for a holiday break. This provides the opportunity for employees to fully enjoy the holidays.
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Robots don’t celebrate holidays, so in some cases, production floors can produce around the clock without human involvement, even in lights-out situations. An employee can check status online to ensure the systems are running smoothly without being onsite.
Robots increase productivity, quality and throughput, helping companies be more competitive and handle more work. This makes it easier to meet customer demands without worrying about labor shortages. Robots run consistently and reliably, ensuring the work gets done on time so workers can breathe easy and enjoy some vacation time.
Robots often take the more repetitive and dangerous jobs that put people at risk, such as press brake operation, feeding a furnace, grinding, deburring, welding and heavy lifting. This allows people to do more valuable and challenging jobs such as operating the robots and quality control. Without excessive fatigue or repetitive injuries, people are less likely to experience the aches and pains caused by manual labor.
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‘Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue’ Brings Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Berkeley Law Lecture to the World
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg looms large in Berkeley Law Professor Amanda L. Tyler’s life as a boss, a mentor, a role model — and, now, a co-author.
Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union, which has been released to great fanfare, bloomed from Ginsburg’s ties to Tyler and another Berkeley Law icon, the late Professor Herma Hill Kay. A large section of the book features the October 2019 lecture Ginsburg gave at the school in Kay’s memory, and the conversation between the justice and her former clerk that followed.
While Ginsburg was in Berkeley, they learned the University of California Press was considering publishing the project Kay spent decades working on: A history of the first 14 women to become professors at U.S. law schools. (Kay was the 15th, and the second woman to join the Berkeley Law faculty as well as its first female dean.) They hatched a plan to offer a book project based on Ginsburg’s lecture and their conversation to the Press, as an incentive to publish Kay’s book.
Paving the Way: The First American Women Law Professors will be published in April, joining Tyler’s book as part of a new Law in the Public Square series from the Press.
“To our collective delight, the Press was only too happy to take on both books, and now they’re releasing them together this spring as part of the new series,” Tyler says. “I’m really thrilled. And I know that if she were here, the justice would be really just over the moon to see this now all come to pass.”
A north star
After the Berkeley Law event, Tyler and Ginsburg worked on the book for months, even as Ginsburg’s health faltered. They last saw one another in person in January 2020, with emails and phone calls taking over once the pandemic stopped travel, and submitted the first draft of the book three weeks before Ginsburg died.
“It was really special — because every time I spent with her was really special — but this one took on a greater meaning, and that has only increased,” Tyler says. “It would be hard to overstate how lucky I feel to have been able to work on this project with her and be able to talk with her so much in the last months of her life.
“You know, she was a north star in my life, and in the life, I think, of all her law clerks.”
In addition to the Berkeley lecture and interview — a far-ranging reflection on her personal and professional life, as well as Kay’s legacy — the book collects some of Ginsburg’s most famous and influential legal work. Among them are her brief in Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, in which she first argued that gender discrimination was unconstitutional, and some of her oral arguments as an advocate.
Readers can peruse several of her famously biting dissents, including in the Lily Ledbetter salary discrimination case, Shelby v. Holder, a voting rights case that has become a flashpoint, and her majority opinion that threw out the Virginia Military Institute’s all-male admissions policy. Several of Ginsburg’s last speeches are also included.
Finally, there is an afterword from Tyler. It begins simply: “This part of the book was not supposed to exist.”
“She had beaten cancer so many times with courage and grace, and had this almost superhuman ability to propel herself forward, such that I think I started to believe she was invincible,” Tyler says. “And so even knowing what I knew about her health, when I got the news that she had passed, it still shocked me, and it was devastating.”
Completing the project on her own has been bittersweet.
“I am so proud and I feel so fortunate to have been a part of this project with her. And I’m so, so happy to see the release of Herma’s book that I know was so important to her,” Tyler says. “But it is a constant reminder that she’s not here anymore. And I miss her. I miss her terribly. Clerking for her changed my life, in so many ways. It wasn’t just all the things she taught me about how to be a good lawyer, and how to think about the Constitution. It was also that she taught me a lot about how to live a good life, how to be a good person, how to choose a great partner in life.”
Now, it is Tyler who is doing the talking, on a whirlwind virtual book tour that includes a March 16 event with Ginsburg’s granddaughter, Clara Spera; a March 22 talk with New York University Law School Dean Trevor Morrison; an April 6 conversation with feminist icon Gloria Steinem; and an event with journalist Soledad O’Brien April 15. The book is generating lots of buzz, and Tyler has already done interviews with National Public Radio, People magazine, and many more.
Kirkus Reviews calls the book “an informative perspective on a tireless advocate for fairness and equity.” Harvard Law Professor Lawrence H. Tribe wrote, “With Justice Ginsburg, Amanda Tyler has compiled a page-turning book that is the perfect tribute to her former employer and hero, the incomparable Ruth Bader Ginsburg. … Bringing a legend to life isn’t easy. With Ginsburg, Tyler has done that and more — lovingly and with deep understanding.”
A fresh appreciation
Tyler says she fervently hoped Ginsburg would live to see both books published. More importantly, she wished Ginsburg had the opportunity to retire, rest, and reflect. She regrets that the timing of Ginsburg’s death, just weeks ahead of the 2020 presidential election, meant that political warfare largely eclipsed a broader appreciation of her legacy.
“I hope that our book is an inspiration, a sort of call to arms to people to continue the work that she was doing, and that defined her,” Tyler says. “As I’ve said before, I think she’s one of the most important Americans ever to have lived. And I honestly think whether she’d ever sat on the Supreme Court or not, I would be sitting here saying that. She changed American society tremendously through her work, and particularly her work in the ’70s, and created a much better, more just society from which all of us have benefited.”
She and Ginsburg carefully planned their Berkeley Law conversation — as Ginsburg did with everything. But Tyler remembers feeling frustrated to not be able to ask more of the questions they had planned to cover. As she sat on the stage, she saw Ginsburg’s security detail looking at their watches, encouraging her to wrap it up.
“I just wanted to keep interviewing her,” Tyler says. “I was having so much fun, and I knew the audience was enjoying it. But I also knew that by that point, she’d been on stage for quite a long time. And so finally, we did cut the cord.
“But I wish, in retrospect, that we had gone on a little longer.”


Boston Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens and his brother were arrested early Saturday following an incident at a Houston nightclub, police said.
Clemens, 28, and his brother Gary, 39, were arrested at 1:30 a.m CST at Bayou Mama's nightclub and charged with aggravated assualt, said police spokesman Dan Turner.They were charged with the Class A misdemeanor, jailed and posted $2, 000 bond, Turner said.
Turner said the Red Sox pitcher allegedly was involved in an altercation at the nightclub when a uniformed off-duty police officer working security at the club arrived at the scene.
The officer tried to break up the incident when Clemens' older brother, Gary, "stepped in to defend his brother by physcially involving himself with the officer," Turner said. "The officer was struck a number of times."
The officer then arrested Gary Clemens, at which point Roger Clemens intervened and also was arrested, Turner said.


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ALL THAT REMAINS Guitarist OLI HERBERT - “Victory Lap” Solo Lesson Video Posted
July 11, 2017, a year ago
Guitar World has posted this new episode of All Or Nothing, in which Oli Herbert shows how to play his solo from the All That Remains song "Victory Lap”.
All That Remains are touring in support of their eighth studio album, Madness, out now via Eleven Seven Music. The band performs next on July 14th at In The Clink in Mansfield, OH. Find their live itinerary at this location.