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Winter injury in sweet cherry in northwest Michigan, 2008
Editor’s note: This article is from the archives of the MSU Crop Advisory Team Alerts. Check the label of any pesticide referenced to ensure your use is included.
Winter damage has been observed in sweet cherries in the northwest as well as other regions of the state. Growers first noticed this damage because trees had no bloom. The trees look brownish and relatively bare compared to those with a true full bloom. The branches are covered with large reddish buds that feel empty to the touch (Photo 1). When these oversized buds open, there is nothing inside the buds, giving the damaged trees a brown appearance with few visible blossoms (Photo 2). This damage is likely due January 2008 weather when we had temperatures ranges from the mid-40s to single digits in a 12-hour time period. We believe that the injury showing up now in sweet orchards is a result of this mid-winter damage.
The next question is how to manage damaged trees this season to maximize tree health for the future. To begin, growers should assess the level of damage, as this measurement will guide their management decisions for the 2008 season. If growers do indeed have no bloom, a minimal pesticide spray program would save money and time. Sprays for cherry leaf spot are still warranted to maintain healthy leaves for photosynthesis throughout the season. However, with no fruit on the trees, growers will not need to spray for fruit-infesting insects such as plum curculio and cherry fruit fly. Additionally, American brown rot sprays can be limited as there will be no fruit for the Monilinia pathogen to infect. The dilemma is that most orchards are not likely to have a total loss of fruit. Therefore, if a small amount of fruit is present, insecticide and fungicide sprays are still warranted as pest infestation and fungal infection this season can lead to higher insect populations and increased fungal inoculum for 2009. Another potential problem is that certain varieties appear to have been hit harder than others (i.e., Schmidt), and in mixed blocks, growers would have to apply a standard spray program for only the undamaged cultivars in the block; limiting treatment for damaged cultivars may not prove cost and time effective.
Fertilizer recommendations will not vary greatly between orchards with and without damage. However, if nitrogen (N) applications have not yet been made this season, growers could reduce the N at this time. Trees will need some N to for growth, but with no fruit (which contribute greatly to N demand during the growing season) there will be more available N for tree growth. In short, the N that would have been used in fruit growth will go into tree growth. If blocks have no crop, growers could reduce N by 30 to 40 percent. Partial crops should receive the same N level as a full crop. If the crop is extremely light, growers could reduce N a small amount (approximately 10 percent).
In terms of pruning strategies for trees with winter damage observed this spring, no special techniques are required. Vegetative buds will likely have stronger growth because both overwintering reserves and new carbohydrates from current season photosynthesis that would have gone to early fruit formation and development will be used by the vegetative growing points. Stronger vegetative growth often occurs when trees suffer from winter damage compared to spring frost damage. Often only the floral ovary is killed by frost, and the otherwise undamaged flowers still use reserves for the bloom period even if the rudimentary fruit ultimately aborts.
Lastly, trees with few blossoms this year will have strong return bloom in 2009. Trees with few fruits and strong vegetative growth will lead to increased flower production the following year. Growers may want to prune a bit harder in dormancy to prevent overcropping, especially on varieties that have a tendency to set heavy crops (i.e., Ulster or Napoleon) or for cherries that will be used for the fresh market, since the proportion of small-sized fruit increases with heavy croploads.

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Corporate governance for associations, charitable and non-profit organisations often entails placing strong emphasis on auditing standards and financial management controls. However, the inclusion of insurance as part of these organisations’ corporate governance framework is seldom considered.
As at 31 December 2018, there were 2,277 registered charitable organisations in Singapore. In 2017, the charity sector received $20.5 billion in annual receipts, which include government grants, donations as well as fees and charges.1
Distribution of Charities by Sector (as at 31 December 2018) 1
Under the Code of Governance of Charities and Institutions of a Public Character issued in 2017, the Charity Council advised that there should be appropriate insurance coverage for board members, staff and volunteers. Insurance however, is not mandatory.2
Nevertheless, in the course of providing services to members or to the public, organisations face a risk of exposure to civil liability leading to expensive litigation.
Civil Liability may arise from wrongful acts in the:
The risks for associations, charitable and non-profit organisations remains relevant. Below are some scenarios* to highlight the importance of Association Liability insurance in the corporate governance framework of associations.
Charity X remunerated its management staff with an unusually generous bonus. Charity X also used donated funds for private or non-work related purposes.
Trustee of a charitable organisation persuaded donor to contribute sizeable sum for a specific cause. However, that donation was used for general work instead. Donor sues the Trustee.
Charity A (Insured) alleged that statements made on Charity B’s website was false. Charity A’s monthly publication also insinuated that other charities in the same sector had poor corporate governance.
In a bid to raise more donations, Charity A displayed a well-known logo whose copyright belongs to Charity B. Charity B sues Charity A.
An employee of Charity Z was unfairly terminated without substantive justification. Employee sues Charity Z for compensation.
An employee of a social welfare organisation entered into a relationship with a patient he was counselling. It was alleged that the employee took advantage of the patient’s vulnerability and trust.
Audit Committee failed to conduct audit checks on Treasurer’s misappropriation of fund. Treasurer engaged an unskilled volunteer to perform services that required proper qualification and expertise.
Committee of a Trade Association decided to revoke a membership because that member company’s business was not doing well financially. Member sues company for discrimination.
*The above scenarios are intended to serve as a guide for the possible circumstances under which an insured may be eligible for claim under the Association Liability insurance. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list. Coverage will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis and in accordance with the policy terms and conditions.
Smaller organisations are usually funded through donations, grants and membership fees, and often operate on a tight budget. What can the organisations do to ensure that funds are channelled towards its intended cause, and not to settle civil or negligence claims.
Association Liability insurance is a valuable tool of risk management, offering financial protection to these meaningful organisations that have been contributing tremendously to our society. Chubb’s Association Liability insurance provides protection to the organisation itself, its directors, office bearers and employees against potential civil liability they may face in the daily conduct of activities.
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The price of petrol increased by N$1.52 per litre, while both diesel grades will increase by 72 cents per litre, effective Wednesday, the Ministry of Mines and Energy announced.
The ministry in a statement said that the price of petrol at the pump in Walvis Bay will be N$22.30, diesel 50 ppm will be priced at N$21.77, and diesel 10 ppm will cost N$21.9.
Fuel prices across the regions in the country will be adjusted accordingly, Ithindi added.
“Global oil prices are experiencing an upward trend due to a reduction in oil supply brought about by geopolitical tensions in major oil markets, fewer operational drilling rigs, and uncertainty surrounding oil production,” he said.
Namibia, as an oil-importing country, is exposed to developments in international oil market prices, he added, noting that volatility in the supply and demand of fuel in global oil markets has a notable impact on local fuel prices.


It’s never too late to stop, reflect and take intentional steps toward improving your life -- and what a better way to do that through movies about God. Here's a list of God movies on Great American Pure Flix that will help you explore spiritual matters, while renewing and revitalizing your own personal faith.
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One of the best ways to explore the ways in which we can improve our faith — especially when struggling to get back on track — is to look at the stories of others who have faced challenges, overcome difficult barriers and relied on their relationship with God to journey through life’s oft-times tough and challenging seasons. These movies about God show exactly that!
Religious Movies About God & Faith
Long before Phil Robertson became a reality TV star, he fell in love with Miss Kay and started a family, but his demons threatened to tear their lives apart. Set in the backwoods swamps of 1960s Louisiana, "The Blind" shares never-before-revealed moments in Phil’s life as he seeks to conquer the shame of his past, ultimately finding redemption in an unlikely place. This stunning cinematic journey chronicles the love story that launched a dynasty, the turmoil that nearly brought it crashing down, and the hope that rose from the ashes to create a foundation for generations to come.
"The Blind" starts streaming exclusively on Great American Pure Flix March 22.
The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
When young Sara hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. Because of the strength of her faith, miraculous things start happening all around her. Suddenly, people in her town are mysteriously healed - but fame soon takes its toll. If you're ready to see the power of God and miracles, this is the movie for you!
Her birthright was determined by destiny until a frontier pastor’s love showed her otherwise. But when their daughter is kidnapped by outlaws, can this couple trust God—and each other—to find hope? Watch as Lucas Black and Sarah Drew play a couple who fight not only for their marriage but their family, faith and redemption.
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Based on a true story, "No Vacancy" follows a jaded reporter finds her cynicism transformed when she befriends a recovering addict while working a story about a church purchasing a motel to help homeless families. This movie about God shows that when a community comes together for a common purpose, for God's purpose, He will be in their midst.
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In this God movie, an Appalachian small-town preacher who gave up his law practice years ago follows a calling back into the courtroom. An eccentric man Mike defends in this case believes that God called Mike to be his lawyer for specific reasons. As the case unravels, Mike realizes this case has roots deeply woven into his own life. God is more affectionately known as "Papa" in this movie, which is a tale about truth, forgiveness and following God's calling.
Watch the trailer for "Mountain Top" on Great American Pure Flix now.
Miracle at Manchester
God is still in the business of miracles. Based on the true story, a high schooler’s bright future changes in an instant when he’s diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumor. But the power of prayer and support from his community renews a father’s faith and brings healing to a family. This true story doesn't only show the power of prayer, but also shows how a family can be restored and reunited in the midst of hardship.
Watch "Miracle at Manchester" on Great American Pure Flix today.
Faith Of Our Fathers
John Paul George (Kevin Downes) wanting to find out more about his father who died fighting in the Vietnam War discovers a letter mentioning Eddie Adams, a fellow service man. After tracking down Adams' son Wayne (David A.R. White), the two end up taking a road trip to the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial. Amid their journey Wayne (a cynical, non-believer) learns that his father was introduced to the Lord's prayer by John's father. Now it's up to Wayne to decide for himself whether or not to accept Christ. This God movies is a tale of the enduring bonds between fathers and sons and drives home that even in tragedy, faith and hope often emerge.
I Am Gabriel
Promise, Texas is a town whose residents are weighed down by the adversities they're facing in their lives. Just when things are at their darkest, a mysterious boy wanders out of the wilderness and into town. His presence creates a shift no one saw coming - and no one can understand. In this movie about God, we learn how God sends us messengers to help us throughout our lives. The God movie, "I Am Gabriel," is a Great American Pure Flix fan favorite!
A spiritual Encounter causes five strangers stranded in a diner to take a look at their lives in a way that will leave them changed forever. Enjoy the first installment of the God movie, "The Encounter" starring Bruce Marchiano that is a truly modern take on coming face to face with Jesus. Also checkout the television series about God,"The Encounter" Seasons One and Two now streaming on Great American Pure Flix!
Watch the trailer for "The Encounter" right now.
A Question of Faith
When tragedy strikes three families, their destiny forces them on a converging path to discover God's love, grace, and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs. This movie about God and faith stars T.C. Stallings amongst other Great American Pure Flix fan favorites!
The Prayer Box
Movies about God show us that good deeds can make a difference. That's exactly what young Wesley sets out to do when he starts finding ways to better the life of others in his community. His motivation? He promised his sister, who is suffering from a serious illness, to get God’s attention in hopes that God will heal her. Will his own prayer come true? This God movie shows you the power of prayer - and how hope can heal hearts.
Watch the trailer for "The Prayer Box" on Great American Pure Flix today.
Each of these Christian movies about God holds the power to help inspire, reinvigorate and renew faith. It is through these characters’ struggles, plights and quests to overcome the odds that viewers are able to look more deeply at their own lives to see where these lessons can most resonate.


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The New Republic is about the last place anyone would look for a fair reading of traditionalist conservatism. The magazine’s review pages are often outstanding, with such contributors as American historian Gordon S. Wood and classicist Peter Green, and its exposes of Republican crooks can provide almost as much satisfaction to principled conservatives as to liberals. But let’s be clear: The New Republic started out as Herbert Croly’s vessel for evangelizing the gospel of foreign interventionism and modern liberalism, and in the 93 years since then it has changed very little. The political environment has changed considerably, however, and Croly’s then-newfangled liberalism is nowadays hardly distinguishable from what’s called neoconservatism. The difference is that The New Republic continues to court the center-left, while the neocons have occupied the center-right. Lately TNR’s approach hasn’t been working out so well, as hard Leftists have decided that they’ve had enough of these hawkish liberals and have canceled their subscriptions in droves, resulting in a dizzying decline in the magazine’s readership.
This provides some context for the hit pieces against traditionalist and paleo conservatives that have recently sprung up in the print magazine and on TNR’s website. Russell Kirk has been a particular target. First, TNR selected a worthwhile book, The Essential Russell Kirk (full disclosure: I work for its publisher, ISI Books), and gave its reviewer enough space to—potentially—do it justice. TNR deserves some credit here: how many other left-of-center magazines would devote 6,500 words to reviewing an intellectually serious conservative book? But the reviewer, contributing editor and Boston College professor Alan Wolfe, produced an obtuse screed that displayed all the worst qualities of TNR, right down to the East Coast parochialism of poking fun at the imagined discontents of Iowa drugstore patrons. Has Alan Wolfe ever even been to Iowa?
Wolfe’s review elicited responses from Jeffrey Nelson, Daniel Larison, and Paul Gottfried, among others, and now Wolfe has replied to his critics. Helpfully, he has restated the substance of his complaint against Kirk sans his earlier divagations about Kirk’s supposed pornography-viewing habits and other such nonsense. Shorn of material like that, Wolfe’s 6,500-word essay compresses into a single paragraph of eleven points. They add up to a willful refusal to understand what Kirk was saying and why he said it. In essence, Wolfe dislikes Kirk because Kirk was not a liberal and—what may be worse—because Kirk refused to pander to liberal sensibilities in expounding his own point of view. Kirk did not waste any ink apologizing for reading and appreciating Calhoun; nor did he feel the need to explain that in discussing the importance of religion for America, he was not advocating the establishment of a civil religion or state church. Wolfe genuinely seems not to understand where Kirk is coming from. For his benefit, and for the sake of others who may be confused by him, his eleven blunt points are worth addressing in fast fashion.
His first argument is so far from the mark one might think Wolfe is writing in bad faith, but let’s be charitable. His claims that Kirk’s “decision to treat only left-wing ideas as ideological is itself ideological.” The trouble here is that Wolfe’s premise is entirely wrong: Kirk did not treat only left-wing ideas as ideological. Certainly he thought libertarianism was ideological—see “Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries,” which is included in The Essential Russell Kirk. Wolfe himself spends two paragraphs discussing Kirk’s acerbic view of libertarians. And while Kirk didn’t consider libertarians conservatives, Wolfe evidently does—he writes that “conservatives from J.R.R. Tolkien to Ayn Rand were … attracted to fantasy.” If Wolfe really does believe that libertarians are on the right and are conservatives, then he must acknowledge that Kirk did indeed criticize at least one kind of right-wing ideology.
In fact, Kirk did more than that, since he also took aim at neoconservatives, in an essay entitled “The Neoconservatives: An Endangered Species” (included in Kirk’s Politics of Prudence collection). He allowed that the better neoconservatives were indeed on the same side as he (“I have wished that certain so-called Neoconservatives … like certain Libertarians for whom I retain a fellow-feeling, would content themselves … with the simple old badge Conservative”), but he cautioned against the group’s tendencies toward ideology—“[Irving Kristol] and various of his colleagues wish to persuade us to adopt an ideology of our own to set against Marxist and other totalist ideologies. Ideology, I venture to remind you, is political fanaticism…”
If Wolfe’s point is merely semantic, that Kirk never allowed that genuine conservatism could be ideological, then he is right but has proved nothing. There is more to an ideology than simply the use of words, and even if Kirk’s application of the terms “conservatism” and “ideology” is tendentious or partial, that does not an ideology make. But Wolfe seems to be trying to convict Kirk of a greater crime than just having a philosophically-charged way with words: he contrasts Kirk unfavorably with Rousseau, who though being a man of the Enlightenment himself criticized the rational excesses of other Enlightenment thinkers. Wolfe’s charge against Kirk is that Kirk doesn’t provide such an “auto-critique” of the Right. But he does: his special use of terms notwithstanding, Kirk was outspoken about the defects he perceived in libertarians and neoconservatives, two groups that Wolfe sees as being on the Right. Wolfe can hardly be accusing Kirk of not being sufficiently critical of Kirkianism, since the Rousseau that Wolfe admires never criticized Rousseauvianism either, even though he took shots other Enlightenment ideologies. Wolfe, not Kirk, is the one who contradicts himself here, by refusing to apply to Kirk the same standards he applies to Rousseau.
For Kirk, ideologies were substitute religions. Wolfe can’t tell the difference between the two. Thus he detects a contradiction between the universalism and infallibility of Catholicism, to which Kirk converted, and Kirk’s critique of the universalistic and infallible claims of ideologies. Wolfe also believes that Kirk’s “reverence for the Constitution cannot be reconciled with the Constitution’s separation of church and state, not, at least, when Kirk simultaneously insists that religion is a necessary prop of social order.” Finally, he complains that Kirk’s “case for religion is never accompanied by an argument on behalf of any particular religion, even though he does offer a discussion of why Judaism and Hellenism are inferior to Christianity.”
Wolfe wouldn’t like Kirk’s response to the first problem he raises, which might be summed up by the old Latin saw quod licet Jovi non licet bovi. God, and an institution directly connected to Him—which is what the Church is to a believing Catholic—does not have the same limitations as mortal man and his institutions. Kirk does indeed recognize a similarity between religion and ideology, but there are several crucial and distinguishing differences, one of those being that ideology denies the need for God. Ideologies are religions of man, which raise him to the level of a divinity, a maker of right and wrong unto himself, individually or collectively. Wolfe may disagree with the contention that if men make their own values, anything, including any atrocity, might be permissible, but there is no contradiction involved in Kirk holding that view and, as a Christian, believing that the Church is categorically different from a government or a business or a the World Bank. (Notably, although Kirk was a Catholic, he never, as far as I am aware, denigrated any other religious tradition as an ideology. He saw a fundamental dissimilarity between anything that points man’s eyes heavenward—whatever the errors of a particular creed might be—and movements and institutions that point man’s eyes toward a mirror.)
Kirk’s non-sectarian Christian political philosophy, far from being the puzzle that Wolfe makes it out to be, is the complement to the other quality that perplexes Wolfe so, Kirk’s respect for the Constitution. Surely even Alan Wolfe—who is director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life, after all—can understand that a broadly Christian politics and pre-political culture is possible without the establishment of a specific state church, which is all that the Constitution actually prohibits (and even then only on the federal level). A diffusely Christian public life prevailed in America for some 200 years after the ratification of the Constitution, and it did not depend on an “artificial creed” or “generic form of Christianity” as Wolfe supposes. A variety of Christian denominations—sometimes competing, sometimes cooperating—served the civil social order just fine.
If there is a problem here for Kirk’s political philosophy, it is in how to square the American political order with the conservatism of Burke and Coleridge, which did put great weight on the need for a national church. The solution to that problem, in part, is the separation of state and higher education: private universities in the United States can—or could—provide the function of a Coleridgean “clerisy,” which in Great Britain was provided by the established church and the religious public universities. Kirk’s “Reflections of a Gothic Mind,” in The Essential Russell Kirk, doesn’t spell all of this out, but is highly suggestive.
Religious institutions can serve civic ends without being state supported or becoming nationalistic civil religions. Do certain religions, especially some forms of Christianity, serve these civic ends better than others? Wolfe claims that Kirk cannot be in favor of Catholicism (too ideological) or Evangelicalism (too “bibliolatrous,” in Coleridge’s term). But he’s only half-right: Kirk didn’t engage in religious apologetics, but one can see quite clearly where the thrust of his thought leads: he admired most the religious-political views of Anglo-Catholics like Burke, Coleridge, and T.S. Eliot. America’s church-state relationship is different from Britain’s, but it’s safe to say that Kirk’s sympathies lay with Roman Catholics and the more “Catholic” elements in High Church Protestantism.
Wolfe’s next group of complaints centers around slavery and the South. Kirk, you see, admired certain Southern statesmen like John Randolph of Roanoke, who owned slaves. He also admired John C. Calhoun, who was a “radical,” says Wolfe, because “he opted for slavery over country.” And Kirk didn’t believe in abstract human rights, which according to Wolfe, “would have made it difficult for him to find slavery a moral evil even had he bothered to discuss it.”
In fact, Kirk did “bother” to discuss it; he devotes a chapter of his first book, John Randolph of Roanoke, to the institution Randolph called “the Cancer.” Randolph early on detested slavery, and—contrary to Wolfe’s assertion that “the things Randolph wanted to buy and sell included … slaves”—“he never bought or sold slaves, no matter how great his immediate need for money might be,” as Kirk records; indeed, he opposed the slave trade. But Randolph, as Kirk’s study and the work of other scholars makes clear, provides a case study in the conflict between a personal abhorrence of slavery and a belief in the peculiar institution’s embeddedness in the social order: Randolph thought that sudden emancipation would lead to a social or servile war in the South—to a Haiti-like situation. That fear, of course, turned out to be unfounded: instead the U.S. had an even bloodier experience, a national war of unification.
Kirk was no apologist for slavery, and he dealt head-on with the paradoxes in Randolph’s thought. Wolfe however ignores Kirk’s nuance; unlike Kirk, who recognized the flaws in men such as Randolph, Wolfe subscribes to a Manichean worldview, in which the North is simply good and the South utterly evil. But why can’t someone esteem Randolph and the Old Republicans without condoning their view of slavery? Presumably, one is allowed to admire abolitionist sentiment without endorsing John Brown’s terrorism or the atrocities committed by William Tecsumeh Sherman. Then again, maybe Wolfe would approve of those enormities—the ends justifying murderous means.
Calhoun was not the ambiguous figure that Randolph was—he refused to see slavery as an evil at all. But Calhoun was no “radical,” as Wolfe says: he did not want to create a new political order, but rather to preserve his region, his land and people. If doing so meant breaking up the Union, so be it: local loyalties came first. What could be more conservative? As for the contention that one cannot regard slavery as a moral evil without believing in the rights of man—sez who? There are any number of other value systems that provide grounds for condemning slavery: natural law, religious traditions, even a philosophical belief in equality or the brotherhood of man. (The last has been adventitiously linked to rights-talk in the modern world, but the connection is not a necessary one.) It’s true enough that none of these belief systems is necessarily anti-slavery—but then, neither is a belief in the rights of man, if one maintains, as many Enlightenment thinkers did, the slave group is less than fully human.
Wolfe’s final few points touch on the nature of conservatism. Kirk claims that conservatives are prudential; but pragmatists, says Wolfe, tend to be liberals. Kirk was not an outright anti-capitalist, and this, according to Wolfe, “is in tension with his passion for tradition.” And Kirk’s skepticism toward universalism sounds to Wolfe a little like multiculturalism. Finally, he thinks Kirk has misread Lionel Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination.
Wolfe profoundly misunderstands what Kirk believed could be accomplished in this world. The “tension” between tradition and capitalism is not something that conservatism proposes to eliminate: Kirkian conservatism depends upon prudence precisely because we do not live in a world in which all forces pull harmoniously in the same direction. No economic system, and likewise no tradition, is ever without its tensions with other sides of life. To propose that such tensions can be extirpated is the dream of utopians, not conservatives. The real question is whether there would have been less “tension” in his thought if Kirk had been a socialist or a rabid anti-capitalist. To answer that question, just think of the social and political upheavals that would be necessary to make the U.S. a non-capitalist county.
Luckily, there is no tension at all in what Wolfe perceives as the paradoxical liberalism of most pragmatists. Here Wolfe makes a mistake that only an academic could make, conflating philosophical pragmatism with practical prudence. The politics of John Dewey and Richard Rorty tells us nothing about prudence as Kirk and Edmund Burke understood the term. In ordinary usage, “pragmatic” can indeed mean “prudent”—but Kirk’s meaning should be clear enough when he says that a conservative, while he may be pragmatic, is not a pragmatist.
Nor, though the conservative values “the proliferating variety and mystery of human existence” (as Kirk wrote in The Conservative Mind), is he a multiculturalist. Here too Wolfe overlooks an important distinction: multiculturalism, more often than not, is not antithetical to universalism. It is instead of a kind of universalism itself, an overarching narrative about the evils of Christian and European civilization and the virtues of oppressed peoples—no matter how much interpersonal or institutional violence might characterize the culture of the oppressed. To this way of thinking, hoop skirts were absolutely more evil than human sacrifice.
The Kirkian conservative, by contrast, is circumspect about the cross-cultural value judgments he makes. He prefers his own culture, but allows that it does not have a monopoly on the good, that other ways of life may be appropriate to other times and places, and that other civilizations have their own peculiar virtues and vices. This modesty and respect for civilizational diversity is one reason that Kirkian conservatives are staunchly anti-imperialistic. As Kirk wrote in A Program for Conservatives, “cultural form and substance cannot be transported intact from one people to another.”
Wolfe closes his original review by quibbling with Kirk’s characterization of Lionel Trilling’s preface to The Liberal Imagination: “Lionel Trilling, more than thirty years ago, found the liberal imagination nearly bankrupt,” Kirk wrote. Against that claim, Wolfe quotes Trilling’s famous remark in the same book that (“some isolated and some ecclesiastical examples” notwithstanding) conservatives had no ideas but only “irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.” This is no refutation at all, since Trilling’s whole point was that liberals, without the challenge of an intellectually stimulating opposition, had grown flabby and complacent. It may be tempting to say that conservatism must be in as a bad shape now as it was when Trilling wrote, if Wolfe is the kind of liberal opposition it inspires. But that would be a mistake: Trilling was wrong in 1950—there were more intelligent anti-liberals than he cared to know about—and whatever the flaws of conservatives today, they shouldn’t be held responsible for Alan Wolfe’s mind-manacled liberal prejudices.
Daniel McCarthy is a senior editor for ISI Books.

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The new Health and Social Care Secretary, Sajid Javid, recently warned that the number of people on a waiting list for NHS care in England could reach as many as 13 million. New IFS modelling shows the scale of the waiting list challenge ahead, as the millions who have missed out on care come forward, and the NHS is potentially hamstrung by infection control measures and the continued need to treat a high number of Covid-19 patients.
The analysis shows that whether or not waiting lists rise as far as 13 million depends crucially on the ability of the NHS to expand its capacity and treat more patients than it did pre-pandemic. If that proves impossible, waiting lists could indeed rise to 13 million – or even higher.
NHS waiting lists have grown by less than a million since the start of the pandemic despite there being 3 million fewer planned admissions and 17 million fewer outpatient appointments in the first ten months of the pandemic alone. This is because 7 million fewer people joined the waiting list between March 2020 and May 2021 than would otherwise have been expected. What happens to waiting lists in the short term will therefore depend crucially on what fraction of these 7 million “missing” patients come back for treatment.
In the longer term, NHS capacity to deal with non Covid patients will be crucial. Even if only two thirds of the missing patients return then with capacity at 95% of pre-pandemic levels – much more than the NHS is currently managing – waiting lists could easily exceed 13 million (and keep growing). Expanding capacity will be the only solution to cutting waiting lists in the future.
Finding ways to boost NHS capacity will therefore be a major and pressing challenge for the new Secretary of State and NHS Chief Executive, and will undoubtedly feed into discussions around NHS funding at this autumn's Spending Review.
Max Warner, a Research Economist at the IFS and an author of the analysis, said:
"More than 4 million people were on an NHS waiting list even before the pandemic. Covid-19 has only made matters worse, as millions of people have missed out on treatment and millions more haven't even been referred onto the waiting list to begin with. There is a real risk that if the NHS cannot find effective ways to boost its capacity – a challenge at the best of times, let alone after a major pandemic – then much longer waiting lists will be with us for years to come."


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Dr. Galvan Named as New Director of Oklahoma Nathan Shock Center
Dr. Galvan pioneered the studies of biological mechanisms that link aging to the pathogenesis of age-associated neurological disease. Her laboratory provided the first evidence for a role of ‘pillar’ molecular mediators of aging in the etiology of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The goal of her research group is to define molecular processes that underlie age-associated neurological disease and identify translational interventions that promote nervous system healthspan and improve quality of life. Dr. Galvan has been actively involved in the leadership of center and program grants including but not limited to Nathan Shock Center programs. She has contributed more than 80 publications, some cited over 1000 times, has been recognized by prestigious awards, and is a Fellow of the American Aging Association. Dr. Galvan served as President of the American Aging Association and currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Geroscience, the Journal of the American Aging Association. In addition to directing the Oklahoma Nathan Shock Center on Aging Dr. Galvan serves as Co-Director of the Oklahoma Center for Geroscience and Healthy Brain Aging and Co-Director of the Geroscience Center of Biomedical Research Excellence at OUHSC. She is also a Research Career Scientist at the US Department of Veterans Affairs Oklahoma City VA Medical Center.
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NEW YORK -- The night came crashing down on the New York Knicks with all the force of the Metrodome roof, and suddenly the latest regular-season game of the week and century had less to do with LeBron James than it did Carmelo Anthony.
The fourth quarter was a 12-minute SOS, a garbage-time plea for disaster relief from the Mountain time zone. But as much as the Miami Heat made the Knicks look like a team that needed Denver's Anthony sooner rather than later, Friday night was about the here and now, not the hopeful future or painful past.
James played a beautiful game of basketball in the arena that is supposed to appreciate beautiful basketball like no other. So it would be unfair to the artist and the art to make this Madison Square Garden passion play about the Knicks' fervent pursuit of Anthony or even their failed pursuit of James.
With the spurned New Yorkers booing his every touch, LeBron elevated the city game to a place only the Jordans and Kobes could touch. He answered the fans' rage with an efficient, athletic elegance, tempering their emotions until they could jeer no more.
When he was done posting his triple-double -- 32 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists -- in Miami's 113-91 victory, James was asked whether he'd slowly but surely defanged another hostile crowd. James had inflicted enough pain on Gotham in the summer. He was smart enough to keep his answer confined to the court, a safe distance from the stands.
"As a team that's what we try to do," James said, "just try to wear teams down."
James already had laughed last at Cleveland's expense, plowing through the Cavaliers before a full house that would have treated Art Modell a whole lot better.
On Friday night, James toyed with the white-hot Knicks before an audience looking to settle a not-so-old score -- a free-agent courtship that turned out to be a practical joke, one big, exploding cigar.
"No comparison," James said of the reception he received at the Garden and the one he got in his home, bittersweet home.
The fans here booed him on introduction, booed him when he sent his cloud of pregame powder into the air in medicine man form, and booed him again whenever he caught and bounced the ball. Only James didn't respond with the same angry defiance that carried him through the fire in Cleveland earlier this month.
James calmly and coolly played a brand of ball the Knicks can't play, a brand even Dwyane Wade can't play, a brand even Amare Stoudemire can't play. "Right now he's the MVP of this league," James said of Stoudemire.
Only it's hard to be the MVP of the league when you're not even the MVP of a resuscitated Knicks-Heat rivalry.
James claimed that title by making 14 of 23 shots, including half of his six 3-point attempts, and by throwing a midair pass behind his back to an open Erick Dampier under the hoop.
"He's an awesome player," Chris Bosh said. "I'm glad I'm playing with him. I didn't even know he had a triple-double."
That was the best compliment of the night. James forced absolutely nothing across his 38 minutes of play, even when his counterpart, Danilo Gallinari, went off with a 21-point first half.
Despite all the madness around him, James played at room temperature. His stroke on the jump shot looked effortless. His drives to the basket looked controlled.
On the defensive side of the ball, James was part of the posse that locked Stoudemire inside a phone booth, leaving him no place to turn. Stoudemire's streak of nine straight games of at least 30 points was left to die a slow and painful death.
The Knicks were the It Team in town entering this game, a show with some serious sex appeal and pizzazz. But they don't play any defense, and the Miami Heat surely do. The Knicks scored 17 points in the third quarter and 17 more in the fourth, and suddenly they looked like the pre-Amare Knicks, the ones who spent two years begging James for some crumbs.
Before the game, James was at his flirtatious best. He tweeted a picture he took of a giant Nike ad near the Garden, the billboard showing his image under the word "Destroyer." An earlier James tweet Thursday night read like this: "NYC!! One of the best cities in the world. Gotta love it."
James didn't love it enough, of course. He tried to explain why in a pregame news conference, speaking into a microphone carrying the Knicks' logo while a banner of Knicks logos served as his backdrop.
"I think they've got a lot of talent, got some great players, some great pieces," James said of the home team. "The meeting I had with this franchise [in July] was great, but at the end of the day, I felt like the Heat organization and the Heat personnel fitted me best and that it was the best chance to win."
James reasoned that his oft-stated affection for the Garden merely reflected the dream of every performer to play the NBA's answer to Carnegie Hall, rather than a desire to play there 41 nights a year.
He denied that he teased New Yorkers in the early hours of his free-agent circus by declaring, "You have to stay open-minded if you're a Knicks fan." James also denied that he ran scared from the pressures of lifting a downtrodden franchise and ending a championship drought in the world's noisiest marketplace.
"It's not a spotlight that I can't handle," he said. "It's not a situation I can't handle."
James thrived under those Friday night. His one and only troubling moment unfolded when he got a foot stuck under a chair on the Knicks' sideline, leaving him hobbling about.
James recovered and finished off his overmatched foe. It was a flawless display of ballplaying grace and no occasion to get caught up in what could have been with James in the past or what might be with Anthony in the future.
It wasn't a time to remind the world of how James embarrassed himself over the summer. It wasn't even a time to point out that James is exclusively a regular-season phenomenon, a stat-mongering Alex Rodriguez or Peyton Manning before they finally won their rings.
It was simply a night to watch greatness rise above the sound and fury. It was a night to appreciate the artist and his art.


The reality television universe lost one its brightest, most over the top, larger than life stars early Thursday morning: Big Ang has passed away at age 55.
Angela Raiola, better known as “Big Ang”, and the everything-is-bigger-Staten-Island star of Mob Wives, lost her battle to Stage 4 cancer surrounded by friends and family.
The bar owner (and niece of one of Brooklyn’s most infamous mob bosses) had been diagnosed with a tumour in her throat in early 2015. It appeared she was in the clear until late last year, when it was revealed the cancer had spread to her lungs and brain.
Rest in peace, Big Ang!
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Hard match at Stadio Marc’Antonio Bentegodi. Verona receives Inter’s visit, the match will be played on Thursday, starting at 22:45.
It comes after the failure of Brescia. Before the start of this round he is in the first half of the standings; occupies the 8th position with 42 points.
He has 11 wins, 9 draws, 10 defeats and a goal difference of 37:36.
Samuel Di Carmine is the main scorer of the team with 6 successes.
This season he did much better on his own field. Out of a total of 42 points, 27 were obtained from home games and only 15 from away games.
He has at least 1 goal scored in 9 of the previous 10 Serie A matches played on his own field.
He has won 5 of the last 6 championship matches played at home.
Like the opponent in this game, he comes after a failure; lost at home to Bologna (1-2; the only goal of the Milanese was scored by Lukaku).
Following this failure he interrupted a series of 4 consecutive matches without defeat in Serie A (3 victories and 1 draw).
Before the start of this stage, it ranked on the 3rd position with 64 points, with only 1 point more than the team ranked on the 4th place, Atalanta.
He has 19 wins, 7 draws, 4 defeats and a goal difference of 63:31. Romelu Lukaku is the team’s top scorer with 20 goals.
Alessandro Bastoni and Danilo D’Ambrosio are suspended for this game, but Milan Skriniar returns after the suspension.
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▪Verona (3-4-2-1): Silvestri – Rrahmani, Kumbulla, Gunter – Faraoni, Amrabat, Veloso, Lazovic – Pessina, Zaccagni – Di Carmine.
▪Inter (3-4-1-2): Handanovic – de Vrij, Skriniar, Godin – Candreva, Gagliardini, Brozovic, Biraghi – Eriksen – Lautaro Martinez, Lukaku.
▪Verona: Adjapong, Dawidowicz.
▪Between: Sensi, Vecino, Barella, Moses, Bastoni, D’Ambrosio.
⚽History of Direct Confrontations.
▪In 3 of the previous 4 direct meetings it was marked from both camps.
▪Inter won 2-1 in the championship round match.
Football Prediction of the Day Verona vs Inter
Verona has solid evolutions on its own ground and scores quite often; I think he will score in Thursday’s game, counting quite a lot and the fact that Inter received a goal almost match by match in the last rounds.
But, at the same time, I believe that the Milanese will also score; Inter has an average of over 2 goals / scored.
Antonio Conte has at his disposal 2 of the best scorers in Serie A; Lukaku has scored 20 goals so far, and Martinez has 12 successes.
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BENGALURU: Nearly 3.5 lakh government staff have been appointed for election duty the coming week, to monitor Karnataka’s most anticipated election. While Kannadigas watch the battle eagerly from their screens, these government employees, of all cadres, are set to face their personal battle on the day. Speaking to TNIE, Shantala (name changed) a government employee has been deputed as an officer. “A pregnant lady was put on training duty on May 7. Her senior officer refused to excuse her. They asked her to have a caesarean operation on Monday, post the elections. I took on her work responsibilities too and asked her to apply for a few days leave. On Thursday, she delivered a baby boy.”
Another election staffer whose husband is in the last stage of stomach cancer has been posted in Bengaluru, and she is struggling to accept that she would be away from her loved one during his final battle. “I have left my housemaid to be with my husband. The doctors have given him a few more days after his chemo ended. I have to be with him but despite repeated requests, I’m put on election duty,” she said as she broke down in tears. She was hoping someone else would fill in for her.
Serving his last days at work, Shivappa, who is employed with the water supply department, said, “Next week is my last working day. As my career comes to an end, I am working on this election.” But, he has no regrets and is one of the few who are enthusiastic. Roopashree and her colleague Hemalatha, both Heath Department officials, were seen excited as this is their first election posting. “We didn’t know what exactly happens. We are curious and are ready to do what our officers instruct us. The training session was helpful,” she said.
Speaking to TNIE, Ujjwal Kumar Ghosh, Additional CEO, said, “Ever case is different, therefore the higher officer takes the call. For Bengaluru, the BBMP Commissioner is in charge. ”Under the exemption category, staff facing various issues, including family matter or personal health, were exempted. “IT officers and Excise Department staff also fall under the exempted category.”
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Hubballi: The staff deployed for election duty staged a protest at a mustering centre at Women’s Polytechnic here on Friday alleging that the district administration has not provided them food and water till noon. They reached the mustering centre to collect EVMs and other poll material meant for Hubballi-Dharwad Central constituency on Friday morning, but were allegedly not provided breakfast even after 12 noon. In the afternoon, the staff launched a protest against the authorities for their careless approach. Some staff had a verbal dual with returning officer Ibrahim Maigur for mismanagement. “We are not beggars. The authorities should provide us basic facilities. We need food and water,” they said.


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Mumbai, Jan. 3: Reliance Industries is set to add up to 3 million metric standard cubic meters of gas per day (mmscmd) to its production from the KG-D6 fields, beginning this month.
Sources said RIL along with its partners BP Plc of the UK and Canada’s Niko Resources have spud the seventh well on the MA oil and gas field in the KG-D6 block. The well is likely to start production this month.
PTI reported that production from MA-8 could rise by 1 mmscmd to 3 mmscmd. At 3 mmscmd, MA-8 will be RIL’s biggest gas producing well in KG-D6.
Production at KG-D6 has dropped to around 12 mmscmd. The KG-D6 fields, which began production in April 2009, hit a peak output of 69.43 mmscmd in March 2010 before a fall in production, which Reliance said was caused by water and sand ingress.
The higher production follows the Centre allowing Reliance to sell natural gas at new prices from April. RIL, however, will have to give a bank guarantee to cover its liability if found guilty of hoarding.
The bank guarantee will cover the difference between the current gas price of $4.2 per million British thermal unit (mBtu) and the revised rate, which is expected to be about $8.4 per mBtu.
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The proposal, submitted by Lincs Design Consultancy on behalf of Mr. J. Thompson, Mr. R. Thompson & Mrs. E. Burkitt, would see three detached bungalows and 10 detached houses, plus garages and vehicular/pedestrian access, being built on land to the west of the playing fields adjacent to Monks’ Dyke Road.
One neighbouring resident, Maxim Griffin, wrote to East Lindsey District Council’s planning department to object to the proposals on ecological grounds - and also claimed that the fossilised remains of a mammoth which died ‘14,000 years ago’ lie beneath the site.
Mr Griffin’s letter of objection states: “The potential development will have a catastrophic effect on the considerable wildlife and flora, who have occupied the field since it fell fallow. The hedgerows alone should have a preservation order on them.
“There is also evidence of prehistoric activity in the immediate surroundings, not to mention the monastic associations. The field is a very rare example of a kind of accidental wilderness. A heron lurks there.
“It is be deeply troubling to think that this could be the last spring in which the hawthorns blossom.
“The development will probably go ahead anyway, concrete and cheap red bricks above the fossilised remains of the mammoth who died there 14,000 years ago.”
The Leader understands that flint arrowheads and potential fragments of mammoth bone have been discovered around the site in years gone by.
Town Clerk, Lynda Phillips, confirmed that members of Louth Town Council’s planning committee resolved to object to the application at their meeting last Tuesday evening (April 2) - partly due to the archaeological concerns raised by Mr Griffin.
The Town Clerk told the Leader: “The Council resolved to object as it has concerns (with reference to) the loss of ecological habitats, traffic generation, access and highway safety, and - due to neighbour’s comments - suggests that a proper archaeological survey should be obtained.”
Andrew Clover, director at Lincs Design Consultancy, said the applicants will comply with any formal request for an investigation.
Mr Clover told the Leader: “It is impossible to speculate as to whether there is any archaeology below the site.
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“If any investigation is required by the County Council this will dealt with accordingly.”


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At one time or another, we’ve all been in a rut. We feel that what we’re doing or producing is no good and that we ourselves are no good. You start to doubt yourself and constantly second guess your photos. Professional photographer Zack Arias knows this feeling all too well and expounds on it with a video he made. This video was first published back in 2009 but it remains relevant and inspiring to this very day.
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Breslow’s disabled list trip is retroactive to March 21, meaning that he can be activated as early as April 5. He has pitched in two minor league spring training games, tossing 15 pitches (10 strikes) in an inning of work with a fastball at about 87 mph and a swing-and-miss changeup on Thursday. Breslow felt like the DL stint was unnecessary and told the Sox as much, but the team feels that he will benefit from building arm strength with perhaps two or three minor league outings before he joins the roster.
“[Breslow] felt like with three appearances that were outlined [during spring training], he felt like he’d be ready for the start of the season. We just felt like similar to last year, with a couple extra outings in that first week of the season just to continue to build his foundation,” said manager John Farrell, alluding to the fact that Breslow spent the initial weeks of last year on the DL. “I thought today, watching him in the minor league game, there was a clear step-up in stuff without overexerting. We expect this stay to be minimal.”
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Interesting that the article doesn't mention the investors that lost when the govt took over GM. It also doesn't mention the govt mandates that banks loan to people based on race, regardless of whether they could afford it.See:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJc8Mzg0C-c&feature=player_embedded
The point of the article is that corporate corruption has its' tentacles wrapped around our govt. to the point that we can't trust anyone......
And it could have said that without bashing those who feel that the lack of social morality has an effect on society as a whole.
I read his opening statement and already now he comes from a liberal mind set. You can not differentiate between private and public morality. They go hand in hand, especially in a representative democracy. The fact that he takes everything away from the individual, and put all blame on the whole is a skewed point of view. Here is why, we as a voters have strayed away from morality. Therefore our elected officials have too. It's a direct reflection on us as voters. If we as voters did not put up with the public immorality and corruption, it wouldn't happen as often. It would still happen, we are still humans and that in it's self makes us flawed, but the thought of losing your job would change a lot of the behavior. The belief that the whole is greater than the individual, instead of the whole is stronger because of the individual has brought this on in my opinion.
Diesel, if you would have said 'tentacles intertwined with' our government, you would have shown a unique OPENMINDEDNESS that would give me hope that you may be seeing the ENTIRE PICTURE, instead of the PART of the picture that Diesels background and upbringing are biasing him towards! Just playing with you.
I'm glad you guys took the time to read and consider it! Thanks! :u:
Guys? Only guys read and commented on your post? What is that word feminists love to use??? Sexist...that's it! Your comment is sexist, d!
Need a few more Winkies in this conversation OCVF, liked you analysis of the article. Pretty much spot on. Yes, Reich is the poster boy for liberalism, though why we don't just call it what it is, socialism, is beyond me. Never understood why people are afraid of using the correct words for things. Diesel, Reich is just as guilty with the "name calling" as anyone else....he must have been on his best behavior when he wrote this article
I don't know anything about Reich. I liked the article and thought it would spur good discussion. If you'd like to bring in examples of him "name calling" that's your prerogative. Despite your preconceived notions of his politics, I think he makes a valid point about corruption within the corporate world and how that corruption has turned our political system into a puppet for big business.
You must have missed the last "winkie" on the name calling item.....
You must have missed the last "winkie" on the name calling item.....As to Big Business "controlling" everything....Nope....big government is the one pulling the strings....it's really easy to blame someone else for one's own corruption which is exactly what guys like Reich and Obama do...."oh, if he just hadn't given me the money none of this ever would have happened", ignoring the fact that he took the money and did whatever he had to to get more or laundered tax payer money with Solindra type schemes.
Guys is a term that is a generic 'euphamism'(did i spell that right?) for everyone. Cmon now Valley, Dont go making something outta nothing. By making an issue out of this when there WAS no issue, thats called REVERSE SEXISM, and thats just as bad as sexism :shy:Wait, I think i just confused myself. (although thats pretty easy to do)
I use the term "guys" when I'm talking to pretty much everybody......LOL!!

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The MP for Hamas Movement, Ismail al-Ashqar, said that the airing of a TV program about the assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, more than eight years ago, proves Israeli bankruptcy and promises and early demise of the usurping entity.
“This can only prove the extent of degradation of the illegitimate Hebrew state, whose political and military leaders stooped to the assassination of a chair-bound elderly man,” Ashqar said commenting on an Israeli television program about the assassination of Sheikh Yassin.
Concerning Israel’s objective behind airing a program detailing the planning for the assassination of Sheikh Yassin; Ashqar said: “This is a state that has been living on lies and illusionary heroism and is trying to show that it is capable of assassinating the leaders and icons of Hamas.”
He added that this was a form of muscle flexing which shows Israeli society to be a blood-thirsty one and proves that political assassination is part of the Zionist ideology, “which portends an early demise of this deformed entity,” because “societies established on injustice, oppression of peoples and bloodshed cannot survive.”
The Israeli Channel 10 TV aired a lengthy investigation about the operation of Sheikh Yassin’s assassination, trying to showing that it was a complex intelligence and military operation that required great skills.
The details of the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and a number of other Hamas leaders were revealed for the first time.
Israeli occupation had targeted Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in March 22nd, 2004, as he left a mosque near his house after dawn prayers. He was killed with nine other Palestinians by the Israeli occupation airforce.

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The Karachi K2 generator unit in Pakistan, China’s first overseas Hualong One nuclear reactor, began charging late last month, laying a solid foundation for reaching a critical state and operations.
China National Nuclear Corp or CNNC, the Hualong One technology’s developer and constructor, said in a statement that the project is expected to produce nearly 10 billion kilowatt-hours of power annually after its completion, providing local people with safe and clean energy. It has driven growth of relevant industries and created more than 10,000 jobs in Pakistan, according to China Daily on Friday.
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A major result of the nuclear power cooperation between China and Pakistan, the progress of the K2 generator unit lifted Pakistan-China all-weather strategic cooperative partnership to a new level.
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Read more: Nuclear Power: Bridging the energy gap
The K2 is one of the two 1100 MWe Nuclear Power Plants being constructed at Karachi. The other plant, K3 is expected to become operational by the end of 2021. The completion of these nuclear power plants has remained largely on schedule despite the difficult times due to the COVID-19 pandemic.


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It seems sex education is a hands-on course at the HS for Health Professions and Human Services – city officials yesterday revealed charges of a second affair between a female educator and a teen student at the school in as many days.
Education officials are looking to fire guidance counselor Samantha Solomon for allegedly having sexual trysts with a male student at the Gramercy Park school – just as 25-year-old teacher Rhianna Ellis (left) became pregnant by an 18-year-old student, as The Post reported exclusively yesterday.
Department of Education spokesman Keith Kalb said that Solomon, 29, has been working in a regional office since last month, when schools investigators began probing reports that she had a relationship with a 17-year-old male student.
Special Schools Investigator Richard Condon informed the department last week that his office had concluded that an affair indeed took place, officials said yesterday.
Solomon yesterday flatly denied that anything sexual took place between her and the college-bound student, whom she met in November, and said that investigators have not presented their case to her.
“We were friendly, just purely friendly, and we worked together on him going to college,” Solomon said. “There was no sexual relationship. He was my student.”
She acknowledged speaking with the boy over the telephone after school hours, but said it was common for prospective college students to call her for help.
Nonetheless, the department is moving to fire Solomon and Ellis.
“Several steps have to be taken in order to terminate their employment,” Kalb said. “We are in the process of taking those steps.”
Kalb added that Ellis, who has been on unpaid medical leave since October, was a no-show at a disciplinary hearing and has not responded to written requests from the department to explain the charges against her.
A source close to the situation said Ellis, who has tenure, verbally announced her resignation to her principal on Tuesday. The principal, Marta Jiminez, did not return phone calls.
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The student, Cesar Pozo, now 19, a former basketball star at the school, could not be reached for comment. But his tearful mother told The Post that he is “nervous about the case” and wants “peace and quiet.”
Many students described Ellis as a conscientious teacher with a pleasant disposition.
“We all cried when she left,” said 11th-grader Tracey Duffus, 16. “She said she was pregnant and had to go.”
Rumors about Solomon’s sudden departure had also been the scuttlebutt around Health Professions.
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Kaufman Police Chief Chris Aulbaugh who came into the national spotlight after a prosecutor was killed as he walked to the courthouse on Jan. 31 has turned in his resignation after being on the job for just under a year.
Aulbaugh, 53, told city officials that his last day as chief will be about Aug. 1, said Kaufman City Secretary Jo Ann Talbot. He assumed Kaufman's top cop post last summer after leaving his job as a Dallas police lieutenant. (Aulbaugh's resignation letter is below.)
Aulbaugh, who could not be reached for comment, is the sole finalist for a Coppell police deputy chief job, a Coppell city spokeswoman said. Aulbaugh's salary as police chief is $85,000. The pay range for the Coppell job is about $104,800 to $110,300, a city spokeswoman said.
A grand jury has indicted former Justice of the Peace Eric Williams and his wife, Kim, on capital murder charges in connection with the January slaying of prosecutor Mark Hasse and the Easter weekend slayings of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, in their Forney area home.
Hasse and McCelland had prosecuted Eric Williams for theft and burglary. That conviction cost him his law license and his elected office. He also resigned his commission with the Texas State Guard after his conviction.
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Aulbaugh has also said Williams’ connections to the State Guard had no influence on how he conducted his investigation.
It was only after Williams' house was searched and he was arrested on suspicion of making anonymous threats to Kaufman County officials that two State Guard soldiers came forward with important details about the case.
One of them told investigators that he had rented a storage unit for Eric Williams earlier this year. Investigators have since matched spent shell casings found at the McLelland crime scene to a live .223-caliber round found at the storage unit. They had cycled through the same gun, authorities say.
The Coppell deputy chief position became vacant when Matt Kosec resigned in April after he showed another officer look at nude pictures of a teenaged assault suspect. The photos had been uploaded from the assault suspect’s phone, records show.

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You notice you receive one of the following errors whilst trying to browse to the home page of one of your WordPress sites after updating to 4.4.1:
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I saw this on one of the WordPress sites I manage for a local takeaway. The problem occurred after the update to 4.4.1 and had me stumped.
All other pages would load but not the static homepage. Changing the permalink structure to plain (post-id) fixed the problem but changing it back to postname made the problem reappear.
Interestingly, if I browsed http://homepage/index.php or http://homepage// (yes, a double slash) the home page would load up just fine. Weird. I’m sure a .htaccess rule would fix this but I didn’t delve in to this.
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