#Reshape

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Shaping - a temporary shift in identity/personality/etc. caused from a specific source.

Reshaping - a more permanent shift in identity/personality/etc. caused from a specific source.

these (re)shapes can cause many changes to identity; such as gender, orientation, nonhumanity, etc.

etymology: shaping/reshaping

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Reshape

"Today's paperweight, tomorrow's leveler." —Bruenna, Neurok leader

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Rewrite

Many people say that without suffering life would be boring. I'd rather it be boring.

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I don't play around with the reshape filters much which is probably a good thing

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NumPy : Reshape

NumPy Reshape function is used to change the shape of an array. It gives a new shape to an array without changing its data. How Reshaping Happens : The reshaping process includes two steps: As a first step the array is unroll to form a straight line. Later, in second step the array is roll back up into the new required shape. Why we do Reshaping : Using NumPy reshape helps us…

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Revolution in the Ranks: Nikki Haley's Maverick Bid to Reshape the GOP Presidential Race

Breaking Political Ground: Nikki Haley's Bold Move

In a climate brimming with political anticipation, Nikki Haley, the former UN Ambassador, crafts a new narrative for her political journey. In a daring departure from the shadow of her once-ally, former President Donald Trump, she positions herself as the refreshing alternative for the Republican presidential nomination. Why does this matter? Well, it's a major shake-up indicating ambition and a savvy recognition of shifting political sands. Haley's entry is a game-changer, effectively ending the GOP's waiting game on whether Trump's grip on the party is as ironclad as it once seemed. Historians might later regard this shift as the pivotal moment the Republican party began to edge away from Trump's spectacle toward what some hope might be a more traditional conservativism. In a political landscape charged with tension, Haley's declaration offers a dash of intrigue. Her recent video teaser did more than just generate buzz – it has the hallmarks of a strategic crusade to carve out her own swath of the GOP electorate. Beyond audacious, this is a calculated challenge to the narratives spun by media and political gurus alike. Her approach? Craft a vision of the future that nods respectfully to the past but isn't weighed down by it. Reduce economic burdens, tackle domestic strife head-on, and shine in international diplomacy – that's the triple-threat agenda she'll likely flaunt. However, her policy plays are not just folksy common sense revivals. Haley is on a mission to reshape the conservative dialogue, not just rehash it. Skepticism naturally follows her announcement, fueled by the precedent of loyalty and endorsement she once gave to Trump. Critics wonder: is this a true shift or a cleverly disguised continuation of the same narrative? Only time will reveal the authenticity of her political evolution. But Haley isn’t dancing solo at this party – the media has been quick to shine the spotlight. Dubbed by some in the press as 'the real deal' for Achilles-heeling Trump's perhaps dwindling dominance, her challenge is credited for reframing the media discourse around Republican leadership. Where once stood a monolith, now there are rumblings of a rebellion. With Haley's entry, every tactical move, every pledge and promise becomes a thread in the larger tapestry of the GOP's future. So, what does this mean for the media landscape that's feasted on the polarizations of yore? It signals a time for fresh narratives, critical analyses, and perhaps, even, a recalibration of political expectations. The newsrooms are abuzz with a novel tale – one that's less about clinging to coattails and more about striking independently. Enter the saga of Nikki Haley: a convergence of political courage, strategic foresight, and unyielding ambition. As this story unfolds, the stage is set for a dramatic reimagining of America's political arena, and like any worthy tale, it's the audience – the voters – who will write the final act. Stay tuned to this channel, for the journey ahead promises to be as tumultuous as it is transformative, as Nikki Haley attempts to carve out her presidential destiny, independent of the shadow of her once mentor. Read the full article

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How McConnell’s (Addison Mitchell McConnell III) Bid To Reshape The Federal Judiciary Extends Beyond The Supreme Court

— OCTOBER 31, 2023 | By Priyanka Boghani & James O'Donnell | PBS—NOVA

A Still From Frontline's Documentary "McConnell, The GOP and The Court."

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) is widely credited with cementing a conservative majority on the Supreme Court.

But McConnell’s crowning achievement may extend past the Supreme Court. Experts in Frontline’s upcoming documentary McConnell, the GOP & the Court, said that McConnell sees his role in filling the federal judiciary with conservative judges as one of the strongest parts of his legacy.

When President Trump took office and McConnell served as Senate majority leader, Trump had more than 100 vacancies to fill in the lower courts, including 17 in the U.S. courts of appeals — all of them lifetime appointments. The Supreme Court hears around 80 cases a year, while the courts of appeals handle tens of thousands of cases annually — often making them the last word in most cases that impact the lives of Americans.

“[McConnell] has calculated, correctly, that most of the most contentious issues in our society eventually wind up in the courts,” conservative columnist and author Mona Charen told Frontline in a 2023 interview for McConnell, the GOP & the Court. “It is critical, if you want certain outcomes, to be sure that you have the right mix of judges.”

McConnell’s Strategy During Obama’s Presidency

During the first 2020 presidential debate on Sept. 29, President Trump boasted of the “record” number of judges he had appointed, adding that one of the reasons he had the chance to appoint so many was because former President Barack Obama had left so many vacancies.

“When you leave office, you don’t leave any judges,” Trump said. “That’s like, you just don’t do that.”

It wasn’t President Obama’s decision to leave the judicial vacancies, however. Just as McConnell helped cement a conservative majority on the Supreme Court for decades to come, judicial experts and journalists who spoke to Frontline for Supreme Revenge, a 2019 documentary examining the political battle over the highest court, credited McConnell with holding open vacancies that Trump then filled with conservative federal judges at a breakneck pace.

McConnell himself took credit for the strategy in a December 2019 interview with Sean Hannity of Fox News. When Hannity wondered why President Obama left so many vacancies, McConnell said: “I’ll tell you why. I was in charge of what we did the last two years of the Obama administration.”

McConnell “completely changed the nature of congressional warfare against Obama and Democratic judicial nominees,” Norman Ornstein, a political scientist at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute, told Frontline in 2019.

McConnell was exposed to the machinations of judicial appointments early in his career, when he worked for Marlow Cook, a U.S. senator from Kentucky who sat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. During his time as a staffer for Cook, McConnell saw two of President Richard Nixon’s Supreme Court nominees rejected.

“It was in those years that McConnell really came to understand the importance, the centrality of judicial nominations in our political system, both the Supreme Court nominations and also … federal lower-court nominations,” Alec MacGillis, a ProPublica reporter and author of “The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell,” told Frontline in 2019.

The young McConnell also learned “what it takes to get these nominations through the Senate, to really kind of figure out how to win that game, the game of judicial politics,” MacGillis said.

Those lessons proved useful when McConnell took on leadership positions in the Senate. Senate Republicans were in the minority for much of Obama’s tenure, but under McConnell’s leadership they employed filibusters to slow down or block the confirmation of judicial nominees — a tactic Democrats had used under President George W. Bush. GOP senators also withheld “blue slips,” which were traditionally given to the two senators from the home state of a judicial nominee for their approval or rejection.

In order to overcome those efforts to stall appointments, in November 2013 then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Democrats changed the rules, eliminating filibusters for federal judicial and executive branch nominees, with the exception of Supreme Court nominees.

At the time, McConnell told the Democrats, “You’ll regret this, and you may regret this a lot sooner than you think.” When Republicans took control of the Senate in 2015, confirmations of Obama’s judicial nominees slowed to a crawl.

According to the Congressional Research Service, only 28.6 percent of Obama’s judicial nominees were confirmed during the last two years of his presidency, the lowest percentage of confirmations from 1977 to 2022, the years the report covered.

Trump’s Judicial Appointments, With McConnell’s Help

When Trump won the 2016 election, Senate Majority Leader McConnell employed the “nuclear option” when Senate Republicans ended filibusters for Supreme Court nominees — stymieing attempts from Democrats to block Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation.

Thirty of President Trump’s appeals court nominees were confirmed during his first two years of office. According to CRS, that was the greatest number of appeals court nominees confirmed by the Senate in the first two years of any presidency since it started tracking that data.

President Trump maintained his pace through the last two years of his term and appointed 54 appeals court judges during his 4-year tenure — a higher number than any other recent president, with the exception of President Jimmy Carter. (By comparison, President Obama appointed 55 appeals court judges over the course of eight years.)

By the end of his term, Trump confirmed a total of 228 judges across the appeals and district courts. They were mostly young, white and male. They would go on to decide cases about elections, voting rights, immigration, the environment, labor, abortion, gun control and other issues that impact the lives of Americans. They will remain on the courts for their lifetimes.

Biden’s Impact on the Judiciary

When President Joe Biden took office in 2021, Sen. McConnell once again became Senate minority leader, with fewer tools at his disposal to shape the makeup of the nation’s judges.

Amid that new dynamic, President Biden has left his own mark on the judiciary, nominating demographically diverse candidates. In June, Biden confirmed his 100th district court judge, which put him ahead of Trump’s figures at the same point in his tenure, though it’s unclear if that pace can continue through the end of his term.

As Biden’s push for judicial nominees has reached purple and red states, Republican senators have been slow to return “blue slips,” a tactic they used during the Obama administration, to thwart some of those nominations. That means Biden has struggled to confirm judges in southern states, especially those with two Republican senators. The Democrats’ leader in the House and some progressive groups have pushed for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee chair to do away with the “blue slip” practice.

The new confirmations came at a time when a number of high profile Supreme Court rulings and controversies have affected public perception of the federal judiciary, including scandals that led to calls for the Supreme Court to adopt an ethics code. McConnell has defended the Supreme Court, arguing that it is less polarized than the public believes and describing it as “ideologically unpredictable.”

Still, experts have told Frontline, the effectiveness of the judiciary — whether at a district court level or the high court — does depend in part on the public’s belief in their independence from party politics.

“The courts rule and expect their decisions to be obeyed based upon a sense among the public, fostered by our Constitution, that they are the ultimate arbiters,” Jamie Gorelick, who served as deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration, told Frontline in 2018. “They don’t have a standing army. They have no way to enforce their rules. Their rulings are enforced by the majesty of the courts.”

“If the American public comes to believe that this is just another political body, that you can count a Republican vote or Democratic vote, that this is a process that is easily manipulated by politicians, it hugely diminishes the courts and their ability to perform their function under the Constitution,” she said.

As the documentary McConnell, the GOP & the Court recounts, federal courts hold a unique power to McConnell to shape American policies in a lasting way that Congress, legislation and policy cannot. To McConnell, his role in shaping the judiciary has been a signature accomplishment, according to Dan Balz, who covers national politics, the presidency and Congress at The Washington Post.

“His overriding priority was to remake the federal judiciary,” Balz said. McConnell’s efforts not only shaped the makeup of lower courts, Balz noted, but also built a pipeline of conservative judges who would go on to serve in more powerful positions.

“When there were openings on the appellate courts and ultimately the Supreme Court, you had people who were fully experienced and ready to go and ready to step in and be nominated for the Supreme Court, that being obviously the ultimate goal,” he said.

— This story was originally published May 21, 2019. It has been updated.

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🇺🇸 Art consists of reshaping life, but it does not create life nor cause life.

- Stanley Kubrick

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JEREMIAH'S ASSIGNMENT—GO!

Because the vessel was not suitable for what the potter had intended, he had to remold it into something other than what he had first designed. This parable of the Potter and the clay contains several important principles for God’s work in our lives.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, Arise, and go down to the Potters’ house, and there I will cause thee to hear My words. Then I went down to the Potter’s house and behold he was working at the wheel. And the vessel that he was making from clay was spoiled in the hands of the Potter, so he made it over reworking it into another vessel as it seemed good to the Potter to make…

[yureipunk]

Plural Reshape - a more permanent shift in identity/personality/etc. caused from plurality.

etymology: plural, reshape (link)

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Iron is strong! Be a sanctified tool to another! Strong in faith put value on a friendship that challenges you in the Lord!

Allow yourself to be sharpened!

memorize scripture and bible verses

listen when others speak Gods truth

seek out wise counsel when in doubt

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Emotionally, Physically, and Spiritually

Iron is sharpened through heat and friction, cutting and slicing. It gets beaten and reshaped into something beautiful and purposeful and even better than before. Sharpening is purposeful, it is also painful, intentional, friction that often results in a purer, stronger, sharper character. We are not sharpened by thoughtless, careless, or unintentional relationships. We are shaped by those who lovingly help chip away excess junk who can recognize and visualize the masterpiece God wants us to become. Our dearest friend we could ever have is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit does the refining work. Deliberate, focused, detailed, trustworthy and true. Surrendering to Gods refining work inside of us can help others see the work of art in themselves.

God sharpen us!

Reveal the parts of our life that need refined. We surrender to the work you want to do with in us and around us. Help us with anger and bitterness allow us to release it with our fear! Thank you for your word, which reveals areas of our life that desperately needs your correction. Send people in our life that will walk with us, mentor us, and sharpen us. Sharpen us God and guide our tongues so that we speak with loving truth and intention to others.

Speak to God, he can hear you and he will speak to you. His grace is enough. Allow truth to fill you with the peace of God and rejoice.

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“Reshape and Revitalize: Thigh Lift Surgery”

A problematic area for many people is the upper legs, whether this is due to the effects of ageing, weight-loss or simply the case of a stubborn area, resistant to diet and exercise. Some individuals find they feel self-conscious about their thighs and the saggy, excess skin. A thigh lift is a body contouring procedure that reshapes the thighs by removing fat and excess skin to create a smoother lower body.

It is important to understand that in some cases a thigh lift alone will not remove excess fat. If your skin elasticity is poor, liposuction as well as a thigh lift may be necessary.

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Federal regulators on Tuesday [April 23, 2024] enacted a nationwide ban on new noncompete agreements, which keep millions of Americans — from minimum-wage earners to CEOs — from switching jobs within their industries.

The Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday afternoon voted 3-to-2 to approve the new rule, which will ban noncompetes for all workers when the regulations take effect in 120 days [So, the ban starts in early September, 2024!]. For senior executives, existing noncompetes can remain in force. For all other employees, existing noncompetes are not enforceable.

[That's right: if you're currently under a noncompete agreement, it's completely invalid as of September 2024! You're free!!]

The antitrust and consumer protection agency heard from thousands of people who said they had been harmed by noncompetes, illustrating how the agreements are "robbing people of their economic liberty," FTC Chair Lina Khan said. 

The FTC commissioners voted along party lines, with its two Republicans arguing the agency lacked the jurisdiction to enact the rule and that such moves should be made in Congress...

Why it matters

The new rule could impact tens of millions of workers, said Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist and president of the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. 

"For nonunion workers, the only leverage they have is their ability to quit their job," Shierholz told CBS MoneyWatch. "Noncompetes don't just stop you from taking a job — they stop you from starting your own business."

Since proposing the new rule, the FTC has received more than 26,000 public comments on the regulations. The final rule adopted "would generally prevent most employers from using noncompete clauses," the FTC said in a statement.

The agency's action comes more than two years after President Biden directed the agency to "curtail the unfair use" of noncompetes, under which employees effectively sign away future work opportunities in their industry as a condition of keeping their current job. The president's executive order urged the FTC to target such labor restrictions and others that improperly constrain employees from seeking work.

"The freedom to change jobs is core to economic liberty and to a competitive, thriving economy," Khan said in a statement making the case for axing noncompetes. "Noncompetes block workers from freely switching jobs, depriving them of higher wages and better working conditions, and depriving businesses of a talent pool that they need to build and expand."

Real-life consequences

In laying out its rationale for banishing noncompetes from the labor landscape, the FTC offered real-life examples of how the agreements can hurt workers.

In one case, a single father earned about $11 an hour as a security guard for a Florida firm, but resigned a few weeks after taking the job when his child care fell through. Months later, he took a job as a security guard at a bank, making nearly $15 an hour. But the bank terminated his employment after receiving a letter from the man's prior employer stating he had signed a two-year noncompete.

In another example, a factory manager at a textile company saw his paycheck dry up after the 2008 financial crisis. A rival textile company offered him a better job and a big raise, but his noncompete blocked him from taking it, according to the FTC. A subsequent legal battle took three years, wiping out his savings. 

-via CBS Moneywatch, April 24, 2024

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Note:

A lot of people think that noncompete agreements are only a white-collar issue, but they absolutely affect blue-collar workers too, as you can see from the security guard anecdote.

In fact, one in six food and service workers are bound by noncompete agreements. That's right - one in six food workers can't leave Burger King to work for Wendy's [hypothetical example], in the name of "trade secrets." (x, x, x)

Noncompete agreements also restrict workers in industries from tech and video games to neighborhood yoga studios. "The White House estimates that tens of millions of workers are subject to noncompete agreements, even in states like California where they're banned." (x, x, x)

The FTC estimates that the ban will lead to "the creation of 8,500 new businesses annually, an average annual pay increase of $524 for workers, lower health care costs, and as many as 29,000 more patents each year for the next decade." (x)

Clearer explanation of noncompete agreements below the cut.

Noncompete agreements can restrict workers from leaving for a better job or starting their own business.

Noncompetes often effectively coerce workers into staying in jobs they want to leave, and even force them to leave a profession or relocate.

Noncompetes can prevent workers from accepting higher-paying jobs, and even curtail the pay of workers not subject to them directly.

Of the more than 26,000 comments received by the FTC, more than 25,000 supported banning noncompetes.