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Good morning trainers! Coming off the end of the Regional Championships for the 2022 season, we saw the Astral Radiance set make a huge splash. Amongst the new decks that took place, we saw Regigigas, Palkia VSTAR, and Blissey V take the center stage! Today, we’re going to talk about the nursing Pokémon themselves, Blissey. Buckle up, because this is going to be one crackin’ article!

I booted up my Pokemon Trading Card Game Online app, loaded up some PTCGO codes, and then traded those Pokemon online codes to trade for this Pokemon online deck. I was very excited, and it honestly didn’t take that many Pokemon TCG Online codes to make the deck. If you’re looking to buy some codes, we sell them here on PTCGO Store, and I highly urge you to check out our competitive pricing and swift delivery! Let’s talk about the newest way to play Blissey V!

Path to the peak

The main strategy of this Blissey V deck is to get as much energy into the discard pile as possible and attach them using Blissey V’s attack. We play a lot of interesting cards in this deck such as Path to the Peak to slow our opponent down while we can set up our field. Since Blissey has it so much HP we can afford to take a lot of hits from the opponent. This often translates into additional turns where we can draw more prize cards than the opponent. Cards like Miltank and Yveltal also aid us in this strategy because they also help to slow down our opponent in such a fast paced standard format. We use cards like Cape of Toughness in order to extend the HP of our Blissey V. This in return makes our Blissey V army even tougher to take down then before. If the opponent can comfortably knock out our Blissey V even when it has a Cape of Toughness on it, then they deserve the win at that point. The best part? Most decks can’t do this, especially when they don’t have access to their abilities, Special Energy Cards or non-V attackers. If the opponent is ever unable to take a complete knockout on our Blissey, we will have no problem completely healing our Pokémon with cards that we will get into later in this article. The current standard format has so many healing cards to be utilized; it was hard to choose which ones to include in our deck! Let’s take a peek at our deck list for this cool Pokémon.

Deck List

Pokémon - 9

4 Blissey V CRE 119
1 Miltank ASR 126
1 Radiant Greninja ASR 46
1 Dunsparce FST 207
1 Yveltal CEL 19
1 Tornadus BRS 126

Trainer - 36

4 Boss's Orders BRS 132
3 Professor's Research BRS 147
3 Avery CRE 130
2 Marnie CPA 56
2 Zinnia's Resolve EVS 164
1 Roxanne ASR 150
1 Cheren's Care BRS 134
4 Hyper Potion CPA 54
3 Quick Ball FST 237
2 Team Yell Towel SHF 63
2 Switch Cart ASR 154
1 Scoop Up Net RCL 165
4 Cape of Toughness DAA 160
4 Path to the Peak CRE 148

Energy - 15

4 Powerful Colorless Energy DAA 176
4 Double Turbo Energy BRS 151
4 Capture Energy RCL 171
3 Lucky Energy CRE 158

Blissey v decklist

Key TCG Cards

Blissey V

4 Blissey V - This Pokémon is one of the only attackers in our entire deck, and trust me when I say this: we don’t need anything else other than our Blissey V! Coming in at 250 HP, this tank of a Pokémon is ridiculously hard to take down and can dish out a beating on to our opponent. With a Cape of Toughness attached, we can increase the HP of this Pokemon to 300! Not many Pokémon in the current standard format can hit that much damage, meaning we can take at least 2 to 3 hits without playing any sort of healing cards. Blissey V preys on having energies in the discard pile: we get these energy cards in the discard pile by playing unique cards like Zinnia’s Resolve, or returning energy onto Blissey after a KO has been taken. Keep in mind - unlike VMAX Pokémon, Blissey only gives up two Prize Cards! Meaning our opponent will need to KO three 300 HP beasts in order to win most games. This sounds like an unlikely task; once we get one Blissey loaded with energy, there’s no stopping this monster! Not to mention it can abuse so many unique Special Energy cards (which we will get into later).

Radiant Greninja

1 Radiant Greninja - Our Radiant Pokémon that we’ve chosen to include is no other than Greninja! It can dump energy cards into the discard pile, and help us draw cards. What’s not to love? It has clear synergy with Blissey V, and the only nuance we need to look out for is Path to the Peak. This card finds a nice home in this deck.

1 Tornadus - Blissey is great at KOing Sobbles when using Blissful Blast with a Powerful Colourless Energy attached. In an effort to wipe our opponents’ Sobbles off of the board, we play this Pokémon for its ability. The attack can help to get through opposing Miltank. Tornadus can be helpful for resetting harmful attacks that could be potentially devastating to our deck, such as Flying Pikachu VMAX’s Max Balloon (which prevents damage from Basic Pokémon). Connor Lavelle used this strategy to KO Azul Garcia Griego’s Flying Pikachu VMAX in the 13th round of Milwaukee Regionals.

1 Yveltal - A terror for any deck that has played down too many Special Energy Cards. Double Turbo Energy can power this Pokémon up in a pinch.

1 Dunsparce - This gives us a “fighting” (get it?) chance against Urshifu VMAX.

1 Miltank - I’m going to stop milking all of these puns, but listen: Miltank ain’t no joke! This Pokemon’s Miracle Body ability can put a serious detriment on the opponent’s plans. If they don’t have an out to hit our Miltank, the opponent can very quickly lose the game to a single copy of this card. Rout does enough damage to put pressure on the opponent, especially if they fill up their bench with unnecessary Pokémon. This cow can put such a burden on the opponent that sometimes they run out of resources due to setting up unconventional attackers to hit this Pokémon. A second copy of Miltank could be a serious threat in this deck!

4 Path to the Peak - The most oppressive Stadium in standard, Path can lock up abilities on Rule Box Pokémon. Since we barely play any abilities whatsoever in our deck, this card is effectively a one-sided Stadium that can slow our opponent down from using key abilities like Suicune V’s Fleet Foot, Crobat V’s Dark Ascent, or Arceus VSTAR’s Starbirth ability. Path to the Peak can also be used to bump other popular Stadium cards, like Temple of Sinnoh or Tower of Darkness. Sticking this card down on the first turn of the game can sometimes just shut it down for your opponent, hence why we play four! The only annoying thing is that this can shut down our Radiant Greninja’s ability, but don’t worry - it causes our opponent way more harm than it’ll cause us.

4 Cape of Toughness - A +50 HP buff for our Blissey army is a no brainer, especially in a tanky deck! These help our Blissey stay alive for longer and withstand more hits.

1 Roxanne - This disruptive Supporter can set our opponent back quite a bit, allowing us to catch-up with one stacked Blissey. Time this card perfectly alongside Path to the Peak for big results!

1 Cheren’s Care - I love this card in this deck because it can remove a Blissey V from play so that all we have is a lone Miltank. This can win so many games when pulled off correctly! The least amount of value this Pokémon can provide is by fully healing a Blissey.

4 Powerful Colourless Energy - This is one of the cards that makes Blissey V such a powerful budget deck. This energy allows us to do 20 additional damage to the opponents active Pokémon, and we can always recycle these energies back with our Blissful Blast attack. We play four of this card because we want to do as much extra damage as possible, and we also want to find these as quickly as possible as well.

4 Capture Energy - If you haven’t noticed we don’t really play very many search cards in this deck. Most decks often rely on playing ball cards, however this deck relies also on special energy in the form of Capture Energy. It makes sense to play four of this energy over a fourth Quick Ball because you can recycle these energies back with our attack.

3 Lucky Energy - This energy card proves to be a unique inclusion in to our deck because it allows us to draw cards without the use of a draw Supporter. Lucky Energy can be consistently recycled with our attack - this also means we’ll be drawing many cards throughout the game! This card also ties into the strategy of our deck so well because since our Blisseys will be tanking so many hits, we’ll be able to continuously draw multiple cards at the end of each turn. These also help us recover well after our opponent plays Marnie, and is one of the most important Special Energy cards in our deck. I wish I could find room for a fourth copy!

This deck is one of the most polarizing Pokemon online decks in the standard format, and it really stands a chance most things provided that your opponent doesn’t Marnie you too frequently or have the ability to OHKO you. If you like flexibility with Trainer cards each turn, lots of healing power and the ability to lock your opponent out of games with the Path to the Peak then I highly urge you to try out this deck. This deck requires a decent bit of stuff from different Standard expansions, so you should check out our shop for your PTCGO code needs. I’d suggest nabbing some PTCG Live codes and building this deck online, because this deck seems like it will stick around for a while - it could even be a good choice for some online events coming up. Until next time, have fun!

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Elad Zalait
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In PubPlus’ Data Science Department, we strive to make life easier with automated tools. That’s why we were so enthusiastic to design and build an infrastructure that could handle both a rapid growth rate for machine learning model training and producing predictions of our key metrics of interest.

The Objectives

Running machine learning models and data processing jobs are time consuming and demanding tasks. Therefore, we needed to plan an approach that enables us to parallelize computations as much as possible while making sure our data is stable enough to have a scalable solution.

The required architecture should allow us to quickly test, evaluate, and compare machine learning models and data processing components. In addition, none of the computational tasks should override output data, this allows us to retroactively run a specific version of the code on an input to inspect bugs and detect performance bottlenecks.

The Building Blocks

After some research and brainstorming sessions, we’ve chosen the following abstracted entities to be the building blocks of our selected infrastructure:

  • Task: a code module that performs a specific computation on a given input and produces an output
  • Pipe: a data storage unit representing an input or an output to tasks
  • Flow: a directed graph where the nodes are tasks and the edges are pipes. The flow defines the dependencies list for each task that should wait until all dependencies are finished or a timeout is reached
  • State: a list of all the active entities in the system during a given time
  • Wave: an execution of a flow over state

The tasks are describing code modules that would be executed in a containerized environment using AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS). We’ve selected Docker as our standardized unit of software due to its core benefits, such as:

  • Lightweight – Docker images share the machine OS kernel resulting in smaller image files compared to virtual machines
  • Portable – build an image from a Git branch that could be run on any worker
  • Flexible – write independent tasks as micro services in any programming language
  • Secure – each container environment is isolated from other containers

Each task implements a certain computation or machine learning model independently of other tasks implementation. This includes a preferred programming language, Python or Go are recommended.

Running experiments to evaluate models or code updates becomes as easy as deploying container cluster for each Git branch and inspecting the results on a Jupyter Notebook.

Function Task(task):
	while not all(task.dependencies.status == Status.Finished) \
            and Runtime() < task.timeout:

	UpdateStatus(task.status, Status.Running)

	config <- GetTaskConfig(task)
	pipes_data <- GetPipeData(task, config)
	processed_data <- ProcessData(pipes_data)

	UpdateStatus(task.status, Status.Finished)

Pseudo code of a task

The pipes are used as the exclusive input and output data units for each task. We chose to store them on Redis in the following key pattern:

“{version}/{pipe_name} {entity_key} {date}”

Lets take a deeper look into each key component:

  • Version: the module of the task that yields pipe data as an output. The usage of version prefixes allows us to simultaneously run different code that can later be compared for evaluation
  • Pipe name: the name of the pipe corresponds to the name of the task that created it
  • Entity key: the unique identifier of the base entity in which the flow is executed
  • Date: the date the action is related to, this is added for partitioning and for adjusting time to live (TTL)

We chose Redis as our data storage database due to its ability to cost-effectively handle thousands of ops per second with a low latency.

Listing a ‘pages per visit’ pipe in Redis CLI

Our system needs to collect data across multiple third party sources via APIs. It also needs to process that data and use it for machine learning model training. There are two types to tasks: data collection tasks and data computation tasks.

Flow example

The data collection tasks are triggered at once. The other tasks are executed only after their dependent tasks are completed.

A state consists of the current set of entities and at any given time. The data collection tasks constantly update the state. The state is kept on Redis while a common feature is used for partitioning. For example, a state could be defined as the set of all the current active campaigns.

A wave is an execution of a flow over a state. Each time we want to run a wave, we trigger a scheduled init task that gets the latest state and a given flow. Each entity in the state is compiled of an executable bash script to reflect the order of the tasks and its dependencies as defined by the flow.

Making Machine Learning Tasks Fault Tolerance

During execution, there might be networking issues, dying workers, and/or bugs. As a result, some tasks may fail. We want to avoid sophisticated retry mechanisms in order to keep the architecture as simple as possible while maintaining stable outputs.

In order to achieve this goal, each machine learning task forecasts several predictions for the coming hours instead of predicting only the current hour. This behavior makes the system robust to external API failures and internal cluster issues with a tradeoff of lower confidence interval if predictions for the later hours aren’t replaced by a fresh wave.

Wrapping It All Together

The compiled tasks are saved to a queue and are pending collection by a worker in the containerized environment cluster.

Once the compiled tasks are collected, they are executed with a pending status. The computation won’t start until all the dependent tasks update their status to finished or until a predefined timeout is reached. Once running, the task will get input pipes from Redis, make the computation, save the result as a pipe to Redis, and update its status to finished.

Example of a wave execution over a flow.
Task color represents its status: Pending, Running, and Finished.

Scaling machine learning models is not trivial. Using AWS ECS with Docker as the computation engine and Redis as the data storage platform, we’ve managed to design a system that can execute tens of thousands of machine learning model instances without increasing the total execution time in a cost effective way.

Elad Zalait
Elad leads the Data Science Engineering team at PubPlus, he is dedicated to applying robust machine learning models to state-of-the-art big data architectures. During his free time, Elad likes to travel, dance, and play poker (occasionally winning).


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College of Science welcomes new department heads from Johns Hopkins and MIT

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Senior scientists from Johns Hopkins and MIT will provide leadership for two key departments in Purdue’s College of Science beginning Friday (March 1).

Janice Evans, a biologist and professor from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University will become department head for Biological Sciences.

Daniel Cziczo, an atmospheric chemist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will become department head for Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

Dean of Science Patrick J. Wolfe said of his new colleagues, "I'm incredibly proud of our recruitment of Drs. Evans and Cziczo. Both are exemplary scientists and scholars with demonstrated leadership experience, and together they will provide exactly the creative thinking necessary to advance these key Purdue departments. These appointments speak to the reputational excellence of Science at Purdue and present outstanding opportunities for even greater accomplishments."

Purdue's Provost Jay T. Akridge said, "We are excited to welcome Drs. Cziczo and Evans to campus, and to these important department head positions. Under the direction of Dean Wolfe, our College of Science is advancing on all fronts – teaching, research, and engagement – and these two outstanding individuals join a strong leadership team that is focused on expanding enrollment, increasing research activity and impact, and further raising the national and international profile of the college."

Evans received her Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in biology from Davidson College and her doctoral degree in biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research addresses the biology underlying reproductive processes, and has been continuously supported by the National Institutes of Health since 1996. Her group's work identified specific molecules involved in sperm-egg interaction during fertilization, and revealed processes of the egg membrane's block to prevent fertilization by multiple sperm.  Her research team's current focus is regulation of the temporal and spatial requirements of the egg's progression through meiosis. She received both the Young Andrologist Award (2006) and Distinguished Service Award (2017) from the American Society of Andrology, and is the current president of the Society for the Study of Reproduction (2018-2019).

Evans is the first woman to lead the department in its more than 100-year history.

"I am extremely pleased to be joining Purdue University," she said. "Both my background and my professional interests regarding higher education are aligned with the mission of a public and land-grant institution. I am very excited about helping facilitate the department's outstanding research and scholarship as well as support a rich learning environment for our students."

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Cziczo received his Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Illinois. He went on to receive his Master of Science and doctoral degrees in geophysical sciences from the University of Chicago. His research is focused on improving our understanding of the chemical and physical properties of atmospheric particles, and identifying how these properties affect the environment. While at MIT, Cziczo was the Victor Starr Career Development Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry. Among his numerous awards are the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and a United States Department of Energy Outstanding Performance Award.

"I am tremendously excited and grateful for the opportunity to join the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences," Cziczo said. "The Department has a rich history and an exciting future, and I look forward to taking advantage of the myriad opportunities to make an impact in this broad range of disciplines."

Purdue's College of Science, founded in 1907, comprises nearly 350 tenure-track faculty. It enrolls more than 1,200 graduate students and more than 4,300 undergraduates across seven departments: biological sciences; chemistry; computer science; earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences; mathematics; physics and astronomy; and statistics.

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Rockies 14, Diamondbacks 6: The offense shows up in a big way

Trevor Story and Dom Núñez led the Rockies to a high-powered win in Arizona

The Rockies offense was clicking on all cylinders as what looked to be a close game for most of the night turned into a blowout late. The relentless bats just kept coming as the Rockies ended up facing not one, but two Arizona position players in the eighth and ninth innings. The rout was on and the Rockies cruised to a 14-6 victory.

Story Time returns to where it all began

Trevor Story announced his presence in the big leagues five years ago at Chase Field in Arizona, hitting four home runs in the opening series of the 2016 season. Tonight, Story looked happy to be back, going 3-for-5 and coming a triple shy of the cycle as he drove in two and scored four times. In the sixth inning, Trevor got under the ball and seemed like he just missed it, but the thin air of Arizona allowed the ball to carry and we saw a typical Chase Field home run for Story as a result.

Top of the lineup delivers (and so does the middle and bottom)

There have been some lineup shakeups of late with Charlie Blackmon being moved around and Bud Black trying to find the winning combination at the top of the order. Tonight, Raimel Tapia got things going as he went 4-for-6 and set the table for Story, hitting second, and McMahon (2-for-4), who was in the three-hole this evening. When the top three guys in the lineup are all getting on base and hitting for power, it spells good things for an offense and keeps the opponent on their heels. Overall on the night, those three guys accounted for seven runs scored and seven RBI on nine hits.

The top three weren’t the only productive slots in the lineup, though, as all eight starting position players contributed a hit. The resurgent Blackmon had two hits and has finally climbed over the Mendoza line for the season. Dom Núñez provided the exclamation point on the game with a grand slam in the eighth inning, officially breaking the game open and making it a 14-5 game.

Austin Gomber does enough

Gomber would likely tell you he didn’t have his best game tonight. He did, however, stop the bleeding when necessary and kept the Rockies in it through his six innings of work. I’m a sucker for the big looping left-handed curveball and it was a pleasure to watch Gomber utilize his the way he did against the D-Back hitters. He threw it in all counts and did a good job of keeping the Arizona bats guessing by changing speeds and dropping the curveball into all parts of the strike zone. He finished his evening with two earned runs allowed on five hits while striking out four and allowing just one walk over the course of six innings.

Up next

Chi Chi Gonzalez (1-0, 3.60 ERA) takes the ball for the Rockies against Merrill Kelly (2-2, 6.33 ERA) and the Diamondbacks on Sunday afternoon. First pitch is scheduled for 2:10pm MDT at Chase Field. The Rockies will look to salvage a split of the four game set in Arizona.


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The Internal Revenue Service will delay the start of tax filing season until Feb. 12, 2021, which pushes the date when the tax agency will begin accepting and processing 2020 tax year returns.

On Friday, the agency said the start date for individual tax return filers will allow the IRS time to do additional programming and testing following the Dec. 27 tax law changes, which provided a second round of COVID-19 stimulus relief checks and other benefits.

"This programming work is critical to ensuring IRS systems run smoothly," the IRS wrote. "If filing season were opened without the correct programming in place, then there could be a delay in issuing refunds to taxpayers. These changes ensure that eligible people will receive any remaining stimulus money as a Recovery Rebate Credit when they file their 2020 tax return."

RELATED: Biden unveils $1.9 trillion COVID-19 stimulus plan, including $1,400 stimulus checks

In order to speed up refunds during the pandemic, the IRS is urging taxpayers to file electronically and opt to receive refunds via direct deposit."

Planning for the nation's filing season process is a massive undertaking, and IRS teams have been working non-stop to prepare for this as well as delivering Economic Impact Payments in record time," said IRS Commissioner Chuck Rettig.

"Given the pandemic, this is one of the nation's most important filing seasons ever. This start date will ensure that people get their needed tax refunds quickly while also making sure they receive any remaining stimulus payments they are eligible for as quickly as possible," Rettig said.

Erin M. Collins, who was sworn in as the national taxpayer advocate in late March, noted in an annual report that as of November there were still 7.1 million unprocessed individual returns from last tax season, as well as 2.3 million unprocessed business returns. Some of those returns dated back to April 15, FOX Business reported.

"The challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic will continue through the 2021 filing season and possibly for months longer, affecting both the IRS and taxpayers," Collins wrote in the report to lawmakers.

According to FOX Business, the IRS has faced several challenges this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the agency to operate with limited staffing.

April 15 remains the deadline for filing 2020 tax returns.

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Subtitle 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life

Ray Richmond
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This visual salute to the First Lady of Television spans Betty White’s more than 80 years as a performer and star of such legendary series as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Golden Girls.

Chronicling 100 highlights from the acting life and passions that have defined an entertainment career like no other, Betty White: 100 Remarkable Moments in an Extraordinary Life includes:

  • A foreword by actor Gavin MacLeod, who was part of The Mary Tyler Moore Show cast with Betty White
  • Over 100 photographs from her decades in comedy as well as a contestant on game shows including What’s My Line?, Password, To Tell the Truth, and Match Game
  • Interviews with friends and colleagues, such as Carol Burnett and Candice Bergen

White’s pioneering legacy extends back to the earliest days of TV in the 1950s, when she served as both producer and star of the sitcom Life with Elizabeth during an era that predated glass ceilings. The volume also vividly illustrates the beloved White’s lifelong advocacy for animals as well as the masterful comic versatility she displayed even as she closed in on the century mark.

Revel in Betty White’s talent, elegance, and spunk with this photographic retrospective of her life.

Format Trade Paperback 256 Pages
ISBN 9780760379110
Size8.50 in x 9.81 in / 215.90 mm x 249.17 mm
Published Date April 12th, 2022
Ray Richmond
Award-winning journalist and best-selling author Ray Richmond has worked as a chief television critic, columnist, and reporter for several publications, including The Hollywood Reporter, Daily Variety, the Los Angeles Daily News, The Orange County Register, and (online) Deadline Hollywood. He has interviewed many of the most famous celebrities and icons in the world, including Elizabeth Taylor, Lucille Ball, Shirley MacLaine, George Burns, Chris Rock, Martin Scorsese, Ben Stiller, Amy Schumer, Steve Carell, and Jimmy Kimmel.
As an author, Richmond’s books include memoir collaborations with the 98-year-old stage and screen legend Janis Paige (Reading Between the Lines) and the famed character actor William Sanderson (Yes, I’m That Guy). His earlier books include the New York Times bestseller The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family, This is Jeopardy! Celebrating America’s Favorite Quiz Show, TV Moms: An Illustrated Guide, and My Greatest Day in Show Business. He lives with his wife Jill and son Dylan in Los Angeles.
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Queen Rania Supports 100 Income-generating Projects to Alleviate COVID-19 Impact in Governorates

October 28, 2020

(Office of Her Majesty – Press Department – Amman) - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah held a virtual meeting with beneficiaries of income-generating projects on Wednesday, to learn about how their projects were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Founder of the Community Centers Association (CCA), Dr. Sari Nasser, and CCA President, Dr. Firyal Saleh, briefed Her Majesty on a survey carried out by CCA to assess the impact of the pandemic on the performance of these projects, and explained the methodology used to reach these findings.

Originally implemented by the CCA, with the support of a royal grant and the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, the projects were launched in various vocational fields including agriculture, raising livestock, handicraft work, sewing, construction, and beauty treatments and services, among others.

Speaking to the beneficiaries virtually, Her Majesty announced an increase in financial assistance to 100 income-generating projects across the kingdom, in order to expand their impact in local communities. She highlighted that despite difficult circumstances, what counts is people’s ability to create opportunities out of challenges and come up with strategies for using the crisis to their advantage.

Additionally, Her Majesty stressed the importance of adhering to workplace health and safety guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and safeguard the beneficiaries and their families.

The income-generating businesses receiving support will be identified by the CCA following a detailed assessment, and offered one-time grants to support ongoing projects and mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic on their owners.


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I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Tags: Found, Justice  ✍ Author: Abraham Lincoln

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

Tags: Sweet, True  ✍ Author: William Shakespeare

Gun bans disarm victims, putting them at the mercy of murderers or terrorists who think nothing of breaking the gun laws.

Tags: Gun, Laws  ✍ Author: Michael Badnarik

Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.

Tags: God, Love  ✍ Author: William Blake

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Tags: Justice, Punish  ✍ Author: Jim Cantalupo

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.

Tags: Injustice  ✍ Author: Robert Frost

The brave love mercy, and delight to save.

Tags: Brave, Love  ✍ Author: John Gay

One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.

Tags: Night, Stop  ✍ Author: Arielle Kebbel

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.

Tags: Firmness, Greatest  ✍ Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.

Tags: Mean, Show  ✍ Author: Joel Osteen

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Tags: God, Unjust  ✍ Author: Edward Young

When a man assumes leadership, he forfeits the right to mercy.

Tags: Assumes, Leadership  ✍ Author: Kenneth Anger

Mercy to animals means mercy to mankind.

Tags: Mankind, Means  ✍ Author: Henry Bergh

I never ask for mercy and seek no one's sympathy.

Tags: Ask, Sympathy  ✍ Author: Conrad Black

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

Tags: Fear, God  ✍ Author: John Braine

The essence of justice is mercy.

Tags: Essence, Justice  ✍ Author: William Ellery Channing

Think carefully before asking for justice. Mercy might be safer.

Tags: Justice, Might  ✍ Author: Tre Cool

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate.

Tags: Together, Works  ✍ Author: Dorothy Day

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.

Tags: Gods, Whether  ✍ Author: Jim Gerlach

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Tags: Afraid, Sin  ✍ Author: Danai Gurira

We have only one task, to stand firm and carry on the racial struggle without mercy.

Tags: Stand, Struggle  ✍ Author: Heinrich Himmler

When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy.

Tags: Justice, Portrait  ✍ Author: Billy Hughes
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We need to break our dependency on foreign sources of oil, which leaves us at the mercy of foreign powers. To do that, we should increase domestic energy production.

Tags: Break, Energy  ✍ Author: Bobby Jindal

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.

Tags: Exist  ✍ Author: June Jordan

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

Tags: Cruelty, Truth  ✍ Author: Ken Kesey

You're at the mercy of the editors' hands.

Tags: Editors, Hands  ✍ Author: Kelly LeBrock

Life is only limited by our prejudices. Destroy them, and you cease to be at the mercy of yourself.

Tags: Life, Yourself  ✍ Author: Mina Loy

Most people call me Mercy. I like it.

Tags: Call  ✍ Author: Mercedes McCambridge

Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Tags: Head, Heaven  ✍ Author: Herman Melville

May God in his mercy enable us without obstinacy to perceive our errors.

Tags: God, May  ✍ Author: Michael Servetus

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

Tags: Road, Stars  ✍ Author: Alexander Smith

Truth and mercy require the exertion - never the suppression, of man's noble rights and powers.

Tags: Rights, Truth  ✍ Author: Gerrit Smith

Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.

Tags: Songs, Suffer  ✍ Author: Jo Stafford

There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.

Tags: Bathroom, Show  ✍ Author: Kiefer Sutherland

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Parashah#47 Re’eh (See) D’varim (Deuteronomy)11:26-16:17

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Parashah#47 Re’eh (See) Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17
Haftarah: Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 54:11-55:5
B’rit Chadashah: 1 Corinthians 5:9-13

In Parashat Re’eh, Moshe’s time as the leader of the Israelites nears an end and we are taken into the how the next generation of leadership is to be established according to G-d’s instructions. Before the mandates for kings, judges, and other public servants are described, Moshe lays out the parameters for a very peculiar sort of religious leader: the prophet, and not just any prophet, but a man or woman who produces “signs and wonders.” This person is given the power to manipulate the laws of nature, of suspending the physical rules of the universe, and foretelling the future with stunning accuracy. So. What could be better than to have a “real” prophet as a spiritual leader?
Unfortunately, man tends to search for people who can inspire and lead us; who are charismatic rather than a person who follows G-d’s Torah. As far back as the time of Adam and eve, mankind has been seduced by charismatic characters who may “look” like a leader (whatever that means) or speak eloquently; serving those who have itching ears. Some of these charlatans have learned to speak so far above the heads of the common individual, that the person is thought to be extremely intelligent. This happens in secular society and in religious institutions.
Spiritual leaders are harder to evaluate than those in secular society. By definition, the spiritual leader has knowledge, skills, and a particular type of power that his or her followers lack. The gap that divides the leader and the general public often makes the leader appear inscrutable, beyond our limited ability to judge or evaluate.
Remarkably, the Torah warns us to reserve judgment. Miraculous abilities are not necessarily a sign of authenticity; knowledge of the future is not an indication that this person should be followed blindly. Unlike so much of modern communication, the medium is not necessarily the message; the question should always be one of substance over form. What is this person advising, commanding or instructing us to do? Are the other events the results of strange, unexplained talents and charisma?
If, for example, the prophet – after performing wondrous acts – advocates worship of an alien deity, we are commanded to reject their leadership. Despite his or her unique, unexplainable abilities, this “prophet” is regarded as the most dangerous of all leaders. If the message is corrupt, self-serving, exploitive, this person is to be avoided according to G-d’s instructions. Today we see preachers and teachers who say they are doing things in the name of G-d, but their very actions are contrary to how Yahshua taught and cared for people. For example, one televangelist makes it a practice to hit people on the head, “slaying them in the spirit” and supposedly heals them of infirmities that are not verifiable by the “audience.” There are men who stand behind the individual ready to lay them down on the floor until they recover. This is NOT the way of the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Yahshua never advocated dog and pony shows when He healed people. Another televangelist promises special blessings and financial increase many time above what he asks them to send. Unfortunately, many people have been ripped off by these charlatans who are not true spiritual leaders.
We do not seem to learn from history. We do not seem to be able to discern a true spiritual leader from a fake. Despite our sophistication and worldliness, despite the bitter experience we have accrued, we lack the discernment that should prevent us from falling prey to snake oil salesmen and false prophets. We still want shortcuts to spirituality and would rather stand in line to receive the blessings and bogus insights of false spiritual individuals than take the time and make the effort to seek out truth. This is the crux of the problem. We cannot discern the real from the fake without Torah knowledge. Charismatic individuals will always be able to satisfy their base desires for adulation and obedience at the expense of those who choose form over substance in their quest for a quick spiritual fix because of human laziness and/or itching ears.
G-d’s warning is clear, and it is as relevant today as ever: It all comes down to substance. When a charismatic leader arises, if he (or she) does not unequivocally advocate adherence to the Torah, he must be regarded as a false prophet.
Apparently, the essential role of the prophet was to serve as the leader against idolatry, the spiritual counter to idolatry. Even true prophets, who stood strong against false and counterfeit spirituality, stood the risk of assimilating into the world of the occult, of becoming part of the problem rather than the solution in favor of increasing membership and money. When the desire to worship idols was banished, prophecy, too, became a thing of the past; it was no longer needed, no longer possible. As it states in Corinthians: when that which is perfect is come, prophecy, speaking in known tongues, and other G-d’-given talents ceased. This is because the entire Torah was available. We had and have access to the Old Testament and the B’rit Chadashah (the renewed refreshed covenants of G-d. One has not abrogated the other. The Old testament deals with the letter of the law and conscious/compassion. The B’rit Chadashah was Yahshua’s commentary and teaching of the Old testament from the perspective of the deeper meaning of the letter of the law; the spiritual aspect, placing grace and law as an inextricable relationship by which we are to deal with man and G-d.
Today, many people have the same overpowering urge to worship other gods and those who claim to have a special individual connection to G-d that can only be accessed through monetary donations or unquestioning obedience to the individual or cult. It is imperative for us to take a moment to question our own judgment, to compare what our spiritual leaders say to G-d’s written Torah, not the traditions of men or the various versions of Bible re-written and re-interpreted to make them more palatable to those who have been taken in by secular humanism or easy, non-accountability Christianity. We must not to be impressed by “signs and wonders,” by those with the gifts of charisma or clairvoyance. We must learn to discern the spirits as we are warned in the Torah.
The genuine article, a real spiritual leader, brings us closer to G-d through their knowledge and wisdom from above to divide the Word in truth. The teachings of G-d’s Torah should leave us with a feeling of conviction; pricking our consciousness to change those characteristics in us that are not consistent with Yahshua’s instructions. That is ultimately the litmus test; anything else is fraudulent. If a prophet(teacher) is “for profit,” he or she is no prophet. If a spiritual leader is exploitive – financially, emotionally or sexually – he or she is not the leader we are looking for. If, on the other hand, he or she educates, inspires, and brings us closer to G-d, we have found someone to learn from and be inspired by. We have found a true leader.
We must take such issues as discerning the spirits very seriously as G-d informed the people through Moshe, just as we are warned today. We will receive the blessings if we listen to G-d’s commands which means to hear spiritually and physically, internalize, and obey. The curse will result if we do not obey them and turn from the way of G-d, following other gods that we had not known. This includes false prophets, necromancers, astrologers, mediums, and the like. Because of secular humanism taught in our schools, our children are learning that they are free from any obligation or rules set forth by any deity, including the G-d of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We are admonished to follow G-d’s instructions again in Deut. 11:32; 12:1. Deut. 12:13 is very specific in telling us that we are not to worship G-d any way we wish, or think is the right way. We are to follow G-d’s instructions as He commanded. This is true worship. Too often , people get soulish behavior and spiritual behavior confused.
Chapter 13 addresses the issue of following other gods, prophets, etc. G-d allows us to be tested in this way to show us where our hearts and loyalty are focused. We are commanded not to overlook any efforts to seduce us away from G-d by even those in our family. Back then, these people were to be stoned. Today, we are to separate ourselves from them, lest we be seduced into disobeying G-d and following whatever deity they follow. G-d will have his day with antinomians. All we can do is try to set the example for G-d and pray for them. We are also instructed not to become passive when we see injustice (Deut. 13:13-18).
The dietary laws which stand today are described in Chapter 14. We are not to injure ourselves as a sign of mourning or shave our heads as the pagans and other religions did at that time. The tithe is commanded again in verse 22. Arguments that we do not have to tithe because tithing is to man and not G-d are a cop-out. We are responsible to tithe to G-d; how the clergy handles the money is something they must address with G-d one day if they are not honest and use it for the maintenance of the facility. The tithe back in the days of Moshe provided for the Mishkan and the Levites because they were given the responsibility to maintain the Mishkan. They did not receive any land inheritance at the time (Deut. 14:27-29). Some of the tithes were to be eaten by the people who offered them in the presence of G-d; at the Mishkan.
The laws of Sh’mittah are described in Chapter 15 as a time to allow the land to rest, slaves to be set free, and debts to be forgiven. Many in Israel continue to farm the land during this time. G-d will hold them accountable just as He said.
The parashah ends with a description of the designated times of Adonai just as they are described in Leviticus 23. Yahshua observed these special times just as He did the dietary laws. Who are we to think they were abrogated with His crucifixion? Those who disregard the commands/instructions of G-d will be held accountable, just as He warns us throughout His Word, even to the last chapter in Revelation. Such arrogance reminds me of someone about to go over Niagara Falls blowing up an inflatable mattress! If we want the blessings of G-d, let’s quit spending our time and efforts trying to find ways around His commands in an attempt to satisfy our animal souls/human nature. Let’s just stay on the King’s Highway and G-d will be with us all the way as he promised (Deut. 31:6; Hebrews 13:5).

Haftarah: Yesha’yahu (Isaiah) 54:11-55:5
This week’s haftorah is the third of a series of seven “haftarot of Consolation.” These seven haftarot commence on the Shabbat following Tisha b’Av and continue until Rosh Hashanah.
G d addresses the “afflicted and storm-tossed” Jerusalem “who has not been or foundation, walls and ground of Jerusalem will be laid with precious stones. Her children will be “disciples of the L-rd,” and will enjoy abundant peace. Any weapon engineered against her will fail.
Then G-d through Isaiah invites the thirsty to acquire “water,” namely those who are thirsty for spirituality should study the quenching words of Torah. He promises the nation an everlasting covenant similar to that made with King David. This is also an allusion to the Messiah, David’s descendant (Yahshua), who will be revered by all of the nations of the world.
B’rit Chadashah: 1 Corinthians 5:9-13
Sha’ul tells the Messianic community at Corinth that when he told them not to associate with those who practice sexual immorality; greed, thievery, idol worship, and the like, he was not referring to people outside the city or “leave the world altogether.” He takes the point closer to home referring to those in our own families or communities, as mentioned in the parashah. He tells us that we should not even eat with these individuals. We are to use discernment and courage when we come into contact with those who profess to be our brothers in faith, or family; friends. We are to be strong enough to explain why we cannot associate with them; for this may be likened to wallowing with the pigs; guilty by association. Of course, if such an individual wants to meet with us to learn about our faith and ask questions about our G-d, we can certainly meet with them. G-d will judge those outside of His Torah. We are responsible for rebuking those within our community/family/circle of friends according to G-d’s Torah. This is also addressed in different contexts in 2 and 3 John. We are not to turn a blind eye to injustice or antinomian behavior within our families and communities. If we are not bold enough to confront such people head-on, we should support those who are; lobbyists, organizations that strive to correct such problems; pray for strength and courage to become active ourselves. We should not and cannot always depend on others to correct anti-Torah behaviors/practices. We have a personal responsibility to defend our G-d and His Torah just as Yahshua did throughout his life on earth.
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Constance Baker Motley, Then and Now

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This portrait of Constance Baker Motley was taken on April 16, 1965, shortly after she was chosen as the first woman as Manhattan Borough President. World Telegraph & Sun Photo by Fred Palumbo

With a recent nomination, the judicial trailblazer is once again in the news.

Constance Baker Motley, the remarkable civil rights leader and first African American woman to hold a federal judgeship, was long overdue for a deep biography when Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin began writing her new book nearly a decade ago.

Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality (Pantheon, 2022) was published on January 25. The next day, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his resignation. And in a span of less than 24 hours, with President Biden’s campaign pledge to nominate a Black woman to the Supreme Court hanging in the air, Motley was famous again.

Media from across the globe homed in on the new biography and Motley’s historic role as the first African American woman appointed to the federal bench and a contender—decades before Jackson’s landmark nomination—for a seat on the nation’s highest court.

On September 25, 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as a justice on the US Supreme Court, becoming the first woman to serve on that judicial body. Only four more women have served on the court since then. Ketanji Brown Jackson would be the sixth. Photo courtesy of the US National Archives

Motley could have been the first, but it did not happen. Race, gender bias, and political fear got in the way. To thwart her chances, critics said Motley lacked relevant experience—obviously untrue—and suggested she would be biased because of her civil rights achievements.

For Brown-Nagin, it has been a wild ride, with appearances on major news outlets retelling Motley’s largely forgotten story and unpacking the role that gender and discrimination play in politics, then and now. The confluence of Motley’s story and Biden’s nomination shines a spotlight on how much has changed, and how much has remained the same since Motley’s missed opportunity.

Brown-Nagin spoke with the Capitol Hill reporter Rhonda Colvin as part of a Washington Post Live segment on February 10. Answers are edited for clarity:

RHONDA COLVIN: It is just astounding to know how pivotal Brown v. Board of Education was and to not know that [Motley] was that involved in it and not to have heard of her name. So many people have not heard of her name or her contribution to history. Why do you think that is? Why do you think her contribution and mentions of her name aren't as well-known as Thurgood Marshall or as others that she worked alongside?

TOMIKO BROWN‑NAGIN: I would say it’s because the historical significance and leadership are essentially coded male. There are many men involved in the movements, not only Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall who, of course, are rightly remembered and a part of the American historical landscape now, considered great leaders, a lot of people who, frankly, contributed less than Motley who are better known.

Part of what I wanted to do in this book is correct the historical record and encourage readers to see the movement through the eyes of a woman, through the lens of gender, and connect Motley to a number of activist women at the time who also made contributions to the Civil Rights movement and who more recently are receiving attention but also suffered from a relative lack of attention. I'm thinking of Ella Baker, Pauli Murray, people of that nature, strong women who had tremendous impact, just like Motley.

The interview then touched on what Motley’s story can teach us today, with Biden readying to name an African American jurist to the Supreme Court, including challenges that lie ahead for the nominee and the nation.

COLVIN: I wanted to get your thoughts on a quote that we had in the Washington Post. It was by a Georgetown student who said having a Black woman on the Supreme Court could be life-changing for the young Black girls coming behind me, proof that what we believe for ourselves can come true.

What does it mean for you, as someone who has researched this historical figure in Motley and this history‑making moment that will be coming at the end of this month, Biden making a pick? These figures, bringing their stories out, what do you think that tells the next generation?

BROWN‑NAGIN: Well, Motley was and is inspiring, and one of the reasons that I wanted to write this book and claim her rightful position in history is precisely because of the importance of visible diversity for all of the people for whom she stood in, women and immigrants and African Americans, working class. It’s important for the range, the full range of humanity to be represented in positions of power, which is why I can appreciate what the Georgetown student said there.

At the same time, one of my—one theme of my book is about the price of the ticket, which is a way of suggesting that no one individual should bear the weight of social change for an entire race or gender to class of persons. The fit between representation and substantive outcomes is inexact, and I think that's true, regardless of if the individual is Constance Baker Motley or this person who is going to be nominated to a court where there is a conservative super majority and likely will be for some time. So there are limitations on what that person could accomplish despite being on the highest court in the land.

Now, as Washington prepares for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s confirmation hearing, history is repeating, with critics either dismissing Jackson’s distinguished track record—as an appellate public defender, vice chair of the United States Sentencing Commission, district court judge, and court of appeals judge—or citing it as evidence of bias.

In fact, Jackson brings substantially more judicial experience than many recent appointees, and her time as a public defender gives her a unique perspective. As the retired judge Nancy Gertner, also a senior lecturer on law at Harvard Law School, said in a recent WBUR commentary, “Diversity of background matters.”

"When Justice Thurgood Marshall retired from the bench, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor reported that his presence on the Court changed the conversation in the judge’s deliberations, not simply because of his race, but because of his background,” she continued. “At oral arguments and conference meetings, in opinions and dissents, Justice Marshall imparted not only his legal acumen but also his life experiences, constantly pushing and prodding us to respond not only to the persuasiveness of legal argument but also the power of moral truth.”

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by Daniel M. Gerstein

March 7, 2018

President Vladimir Putin's state of the nation address in which he described new emerging nuclear capabilities for use as delivery systems could represent an erosion of international nonproliferation mechanisms and a new destabilizing arms race.

This comes on the heels of other recent warnings about Russian intentions to increase reliance on nuclear weapons in deterrence and warfighting and its withdrawal from a bilateral treaty with the U.S. on plutonium stockpiles.

In his address, Putin highlighted testing of a nuclear-powered cruise missile and a multiyear program for development of a nuclear-powered underwater drone.

Such systems would likely have unlimited ranges and long operational timelines. They would also represent major changes in how nuclear capabilities could be employed and increase the risk of dangerous proliferation.

While the U.S. and Russia have had nuclear-powered submarines and ships for decades, the use of an unmanned nuclear-powered system could set a dangerous precedent.

With manned systems, the crew serves as the security against the proliferation of the nuclear power plant. However, using unmanned systems removes this layer of security, should a deployed nuclear-powered system fall into foreign hands.

One need only think of the case of the American RQ-170 Sentinel stealth drone captured by Iran in 2011, as an example of what could happen if a nuclear-propelled drone were to fall into the hands of a hostile nation or terrorist organization. Iran reverse-engineered a similar system based on the U.S. captured system.

Imagine though if a Russian nuclear-propelled drone were to be hacked and brought down. Such a scenario could allow the capturing nation to reverse-engineer its own nuclear-powered system, and/or the nuclear material used for propulsion could be reprocessed to create a nuclear weapon.

The use of nuclear capabilities for propulsion also calls into question the applicability of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The NPT certainly pertains to nuclear weapons, while unambiguously supporting the use of nuclear capabilities for peaceful purposes.

It requires nuclear-weapons states not to transfer, assist, encourage or induce any non-nuclear-weapons state to manufacture or acquire explosive devices, while requiring that non-nuclear-weapons states do not receive or manufacture nuclear weapons.

If these new types of nuclear-powered drone systems are considered “nuclear weapons,” any transfer to a non-nuclear state would violate the NPT.

However, if nuclear propulsion systems without nuclear payloads are not considered to be weapons, the outcome is potentially more dangerous, as the international nuclear nonproliferation foundation, the NPT, would not apply. This could open new possibilities for the proliferation of nuclear and radiological material.

Global nonproliferation efforts, established through the NPT, have served as important foundations for keeping dangerous material out of the hands of dangerous state and non-state actors.

Putin has linked the development of these new weapons capabilities to the U.S. refusal to collaborate with Russia on arms control. Perhaps before Russia goes down this path, another attempt at dialogue would be beneficial as both nations have expressed a shared interest in limiting nuclear proliferation.

Incorporating nuclear capabilities into more weapons systems could threaten these shared nonproliferation goals.

Daniel M. Gerstein works at the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation and is an adjunct professor at American University. He was the undersecretary (acting) and deputy undersecretary in the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security from 2011-2014.

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