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How do I find out I've been invited?
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The conference "Numerical methods for solving problems in the theory of elasticity and plasticity" was founded in 1967 by academician N.N. Yanenko. From the very beginning, the geography of the conference was quite wide: Novosibirsk, Vilnius, Chisinau, Tbilisi, Karaganda, Tashkent, Uzhgorod. Currently, the conference is held regularly - every two years, in different cities of Siberia. It is the only forum in the country where the computational aspects of the solution of problems in the theory of elasticity and plasticity are discussed in detail, taking into account the actual requirements of industry practice.
24 Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity (EPPS-2015) 2-4 June 2015, Omsk
23 Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity (EPPS-2013) 26-28 June 2013, Barnaul
22 Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity (EPPS-2011) 4-7 July 2011, Barnaul
21 Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 30 June - 2 July 2009, Kemerovo
20 Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 3-5 July 2007, Kemerovo
19 Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 28-31 August 2005, Biysk
XVIII Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 1-3 July 2003, Kemerovo
XVII Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 3-5 July 2001, Novosibirsk
XVI Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 6-8 July 1999, Novosibirsk
XV Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 1997, Novosibirsk
XIV Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 1995, Volgograd
XIII Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 22-24 June 1993, Novosibirsk
XII Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 30 May - 1 June 1991,Tver'
XI Всесоюзной конференции по численным методам решения задач теории упругости и пластичности 10-12 October 1989, Volgograd
X Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 23-27 February 1987, Krasnoyarsk
IX Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity, 26-30 June, 1985, Saratov
VIII Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 24-26 May 1983, Uzhgorod (Ukranian SSR)
VII Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 1-3 July 1981, Miass
VI Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 20-21 November 1979, Tashkent (Uzbek SSR)
V Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 11-14 July 1977, Karaganda (Kazakh SSR)
IV Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 15-19 October 1975, Lagodekhi (Georgian SSR)
III Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 10-13 September 1973, Kishinev (Moldavian SSR)
II Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 17-19 August 1971, trakai (Lithuanian SSR)
Conference on Numerical Methods for Solving Problems in the Theory of Elasticity and Plasticity 11-14 February 1969, Novosibirsk
The conference "Conference of lasers and plasma technologies" dates back to 2003. The conference discusses interdisciplinary tasks dedicated to the development of methods for studying the interaction of highly concentrated energy flows with materials and the application of modern electrophysical equipment in advanced technologies, as well as in medicine, biology, chemistry, ecology and other fields of knowledge. Among the technological processes under consideration are laser, plasma, plasmachemical and other high-temperature technologies, nanotechnologies and equipment for them.
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Pros and Cons of Polycarbonate Roofing
Pros and Cons of Polycarbonate Roofing in Baltimore
When it comes to making decisions about your home, it's important to weigh all of the options and consider the pros and cons of each choice. Polycarbonate roofing is a great option for homeowners who are looking for durability, insulation, and affordability. Let's take a closer look at what is polycarbonate roofing, the pros and cons of polycarbonate roofing, and how it compares to other types of roofing.
To install a polycarbonate roof you need a professional roofer in Baltimore. McHenry Roofing is the best polycarbonate installer in the business. They handle both residential and commercial projects. They also have a wide range of colors and styles to choose from so you can find the perfect roof for your home.
What is Polycarbonate Roofing?
Polycarbonate roofing is a type of plastic that is used for a variety of applications, including bulletproof windows, eyeglasses, and CDs. Polycarbonate is made from a combination of carbonates and plastic. It is a durable material that can withstand weathering and is relatively low maintenance.
Polycarbonate roofing is often used in commercial construction because it is durable and weather resistant. It is also lightweight, making it easy to install. Polycarbonate roofing is available in a variety of colors, including clear, opaque, and tinted. It's important to note that polycarbonate roofing is more expensive than other types of roofing materials, such as asphalt shingles.
Pros of Polycarbonate Roofing
There are a number of pros to using polycarbonate roofing for your home. These include:
Durability: Polycarbonate roofing is highly durable and can withstand extreme weather conditions.
Low Maintenance: Polycarbonate roofing does not require as much maintenance as other types of roofing materials.
Resistance to Weathering: Polycarbonate roofing does not warp or fade in the sun like some other materials.
Affordable: Polycarbonate roofing is often more affordable than other types of roofing materials.
Easy to Install: Polycarbonate roofing is easy to install, even for a homeowner.
Good Insulation: Polycarbonate roofing can help reduce your energy costs by providing good insulation.
Cons of Polycarbonate Roofing
There are also some cons to using polycarbonate roofing for your home. These include:
Higher Initial Cost: Polycarbonate roofing can be more expensive than other types of roofing materials.
Possibility of Discoloration: Over time, polycarbonate roofing may discolor from exposure to the sun.
Not as Attractive: Polycarbonate roofing is not as aesthetically pleasing as other types of roofing materials.
How Does Polycarbonate Roofing Compare to Other Types of Roofing?
When considering polycarbonate roofing for your home, it's important to compare it to other types of roofing materials. Asphalt shingles are the most popular type of roofing material in the United States. They are made from a combination of asphalt and fiberglass or paper. Asphalt shingles are affordable and easy to install, but they are not as durable as polycarbonate roofing. Metal roofing is another popular option. Metal roofs are available in a variety of materials, including steel, aluminum, and copper. Metal roofs are durable and long-lasting, but they can be more expensive than polycarbonate roofing. Slate and tile are two other common types of roofing materials. Slate is a natural stone that is durable and weather resistant. Tile is made from fired clay or concrete and is also durable and weather resistant. slate and tile can be more expensive than polycarbonate roofing.
The main disadvantage of polycarbonate roofing is its higher initial cost when compared to other types of roofing materials. However, when you consider the long-term benefits of polycarbonate roofing, it may be a more cost-effective option in the long run. It's good to weigh the pros and cons of polycarbonate roofing before making a decision.
Types of Polycarbonate Roofing
Polycarbonate roofing is available in a variety of colors, including clear, opaque, and tinted. It's important to note that polycarbonate roofing is more expensive than other types of roofing materials, such as asphalt shingles. However, when you consider the long-term benefits of polycarbonate roofing, it may be a more cost-effective option in the long run.
There are two main types of polycarbonate roofing: corrugated and multiwall.
Corrugated polycarbonate roofing is made up of two layers of material with a ribbed center.
Multiwall polycarbonate roofing is made up of multiple layers of material bonded together. Corrugated polycarbonate roofing is more affordable than multiwall polycarbonate roofing.
How to Choose the Right Type of Roofing for Your Home
When considering polycarbonate roofing for your home, it's important to choose the right type of roofing. Not all types of polycarbonate roofing are suitable for every home.
It's important to consider the climate in your area and the amount of sunlight your home receives. If you live in a cold climate, corrugated polycarbonate roofing may be a better choice than multiwall polycarbonate roofing. Multiwall polycarbonate roofing is better suited for hot climates because it has better insulation properties than corrugated polycarbonate roofing.
You should also consider the size and style of your home when choosing a type of roofing. Polycarbonate roofing is available in a variety of colors, including clear, opaque, and tinted. If you have a large home, you may want to choose a darker color to reduce the amount of heat absorbed by your roof. If you have a small home, you may want to choose a lighter color to keep your home cooler in the summer.
The type of roofing you choose should also be based on the style of your home. If you have a traditional-style home, you may want to choose a more traditional-looking roof, such as asphalt shingles. If you have a modern-style home, you may want to choose a more contemporary-looking roof, such as metal roofing.
Roofer in Baltimore
Are you looking for a roofer in Baltimore? If you're considering polycarbonate roofing for your home, contact the experts at McHenry Roofing. We can help you choose the right type of roofing for your home and install it for you quickly and efficiently. We offer a variety of roofing materials, including metal roofing, slate roofing, and tile roofing. We also offer a wide variety of colors to choose from, so you can find the perfect roof for your home.
McHenry Roofing has been providing quality roofing services in the Baltimore area for more than 60 years. It's important to compare all of your options before choosing a roofing material, and our experienced roofing professionals can help you make the best decision for your home.
If you are considering upgrading your home's roof, contact McHenry Roofing today to schedule a free consultation. Don't wait-roofing replacement can be a big project, and we book up fast!
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Home page > Questions internationales > Mondialisation > Manmohan calls for horizontal globalisation
Manmohan calls for horizontal globalisation
Monday 25 April 2005, by VARADARAJAN*Siddharth
Asia, Africa should strive for democratisation of world bodies
JAKARTA: Leaders from more than a hundred countries in Asia and Africa signed a declaration on the New Asian-African Strategic Partnership at an emotional function in Bandung on Sunday, bringing to a close a week-long process of consultation and discussion aimed at increasing the collective power of the two continents in world affairs.
In the meeting, which immediately preceded the signing ceremony, the Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, said that Asia and Africa should direct their efforts towards the democratisation of global institutions such as the United Nations, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
If globalisation tended to mean the forging of closer economic ties with North America and Europe alone, the Prime Minister emphasised that the need of the hour was "horizontal" globalisation. "We may well find that the solutions to [our basic] problems are available amongst ourselves," he said in his remarks to the Golden Jubilee meeting of the 1955 Asia-Africa Conference at Bandung’s historic Gedung Merdeka (Freedom Building). He was speaking on behalf of all Asian countries present.
Historic walk
Before the meeting, Dr. Singh joined 40 other heads of state or government in a brief walk from Hotel Savoy Homann to Gedung Merdeka - a re-enactment of the historic walk taken by Sukarno, Nehru, Nasser and others 50 years ago.
Sukarno, one of the prime movers of the 1955 meeting, is believed to have first had the idea of such a meeting in 1928, just before the Dutch colonial authorities sent him to prison in Bandung. "If the liong-Sai [dragon] of China works together with the nandi [cow] of India, with the sphinx of Egypt and the peacock of Burma, with the white elephant of Siam, with the Hydra of Vietnam, with the tiger of the Philippines and with the banteng [bull] of Indonesia, then it is certain that international colonialism will be smashed into bits."
Nehru’s vision
The Bandung spirit was equally influenced by Nehru’s vision. "If all the world were to be divided up between these two big blocs what would be the result," he asked delegates.
"The inevitable result would be war. Therefore, every step that takes place in reducing that area in the world which may be called the unaligned area is a dangerous step and leads to war."
Valid instrument
Non-alignment - which grew out of the 1955 conference to become an expression of the "independent voice" of countries that had been dominated by foreign powers - remains a "valid and effective instrument to ensure the creation of a just and fair global order," Dr. Singh said. But if NAM played a central role in the struggle for political emancipation in the past, "we need to revitalise this movement to make it a vehicle for social and economic emancipation today." he added.
Central to this task was the need to increase the level of cooperation between developing countries manifold.
"This will not only give us the benefits of solidarity, it will also force us to look within for suitable solutions and appropriate technologies,"he said. "But this will not happen if we ignore the importance of maintaining horizontal linkages between us in this age of globalisation."
At the core of many of the proposals made by Dr. Singh over the past two days is the belief that the more developing nations build economic and political links with one another, the easier it will be for them to challenge the stranglehold of the West over the U.N. and international financial institutions.
The NAASP declaration, which commits Asian and African leaders to a summit every four years, envisages cooperation in a large number of areas and a separate plan of action has been drawn up to implement the partnership.
In an oblique reference to events leading up to the U.S. aggression against Iraq, the declaration emphasises the importance of "multilateral approaches to international relations and the need for countries to strictly abide by the principles of international law, in particular the Charter of the United Nations."
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How To Avoid Debt Problems Due To Gambling
admin Gambling August 11, 2021 September 21, 2021
With the convenience of online gambling, people can play their favorite casino games and bet on sports online with computers and hand held devices through Internet from anywhere and at any time. Online gambling provides an alternative of betting games, but at the same time, it creates new debt problem. Gambling is a high risk game that may cause those who don’t have money to gamble to find money from various channels, include using their credit cards and borrowing from illegal lenders. Many debtors worldwide find themselves addicted in gambling and once they start the habit, it becomes a life style they cannot escape from. They turn to gambling to pay their daily bills and in the worst case, they may become compulsive gamblers who will lose themselves millions of dollars.
As gambling is a high risk game, you may end up losing a lot of money that you can’t afford to spend. This is why you should take some precautions with gambling, by limiting yourself to a certain amount each time you bet. setting a limit is a great way to protect yourself from gambling and losses. Before you place a bet, you should investigate the odds and the game you are betting on. If you are not that familiar with the game, you can research on the net to learn the rules and the surrounding events.
Don’t be too greedy and stick to your budget or your gambling budget. With some gambling programs, you can receive a discount on your next bet. This means you can buy more tickets in one day, butBear in mind that many Soccer bettors love betting on the FIFA World Cup Tournament. On the other hand, some avid gamblers may risk everything, including their house and jobs, to place just that one winning bet.
This leads us to the next point…the extremely successful professional gamblers, especially those that have created successful systems that punters often follow. These professionals, known as “experts” in the betting industry, have created and developed many successful systems that improve your probability of winning your bets. Do not automatically rule out the possibility of your house winning. It is statistically impossible to do so, but placing your bets on soccer tournaments can yield you a much higher probability of earning more money than other bettors.
Know your odds. By this I mean you must be aware of the possibility of landing exactly what you want to win. For example, you must be aware of the fact that you are more likely to get more winning bets if you bet on soccer matches that are being played on the equator, than on those that are being played on the winter solstice.
There are also other factors involved besides the luck of the draw, the weather perhaps, that you should take in mind before you place your bets. These include the injuries to key players, the team sheet, home team advantage, and whether or not the underdogs are playing with all their challengers in the game.
Last, but not the least, you should think seriously before you place your bets. You should ask some questions such as am I ready to risk all my money, am I ready to make a serious betting investment, or am I just spending a lot of money with nothing to show for it.
If you are not prepared, you probably will not market yourself as the person who is willing to make a bet all by himself, or else you are just asking for trouble.
To motto of the entire article, from now on let it be paraphrased: “It is possible to earn money betting on panen138 matches, but you should do so with caution.
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Texas Hold’em Tournaments – Five Winning Secrets
admin Gambling May 21, 2022 May 21, 2022
How to easily win at Texas hold’em poker tournaments? Well these five winning secrets will give you that edge over other players. You can’t learn from the same books selling the same books ever again. ajax.com has finally discovered the secrets to winning at Texas hold’em poker tournaments.
Discipline. If you are playing for any amount of time, you must have a plan on how to do so. You can’t follow the same exact route and that will take away the accuracy of your play. You can’t be philosophically right all the time and have all your matches in the same order. If you’re observant in trying to figure out what opponents have, what cards they will draw, when they will check, raise, or fold, you will be right a lot quicker than the other players.
Patience. Now this is one of the toughest things to develop because we as human beings don’t like doing things that take time. Some people will take three hours to play their pair of sevens in the local hold’em tournament. Then they can’t wait three hours again to play it the next tournament. If you’re one of those people who want the game to move along without having to really sit and wait, you’re going to get bored. You want action, you want tournaments to last, and you want to play that action. Now if you’re like me, you will play 30-40 hands on a poker card. If you’re like I was, you won’t be able to handle the boredom. You want an easy win, but you don’t want to spend your time doing something that you don’t want to be doing.
Be Selective and Realistic. This might seem obvious, but many players get a little too caught up in wanting to play every hand and want to win every hand. Bet with your heart and you might win a few, but if you are playing aggressively, you are going to win some hands and you are going to lose some hands. Select your tournaments and play them selectively. Only play the ones you have a positional advantage over, and don’t let the probabilities of the tournament determine your decisions.
Know Your Opponents. You are going to have the same odds with any opponent at the table. Certain players are better in certain situations. Against certain players you will get more value. Against a player just looking to get lucky, you will get much less value. There are a lot of gamblers at the poker table, and certain players are better than others. If you think you have better luck, you are wrong. Dewacasino is a game of numbers. There are a lot of odds that must be factored in when making a decision. If you are playing against a player who has a lot of odds against you, you should fold your hand. Gambler, survive and play them at right odds, and slow play. Play the odds, not the numbers.
Stay Focused. Everyone can’t win on every hand. I can’t win every hand. I have to stay focused, have patience, and be selective. Whatever the outcome of the hand, you can’t win if you aren’t trying. If you stay focused, stay patient, and are selective, you will be the better player. You can’t become a better player by losing focus and being unable to make the right decisions. Discipline will win you the game. Are you disciplined? Gamblers seek the easy way out. They don’t take the time to learn the strategies necessary for winning. They don’t play enough. If you want to win, put the time in. Sure, you can get lucky. You will probably lose at some point. Why not take your chance? Why not play smart? Play for a long time. Win the majority of your hands. You can’t win if you don’t play.
Winning is not easy. It doesn’t come without effort. If you want to win, be willing to work hard. If you don’t want to lose your money, be willing to lose it.
Learn to Win Sports Betting
admin Gambling April 11, 2022 April 11, 2022
There are easy step you need to learn about sports betting which will provide you the best way to become a winner. Winning sports betting is all about enthusiasm, and also gather information as much as you can about the game. You can equally subsequently compare your opinion to the oddsmakers. If too much of money goes on the team the bookmaker will move the line or point spread to encourage bets on the other team in an effort to gain a profit. You the bettor is attempting to beat the oddsmaker, or the person determining the gambling line. You bet on the first team to win which would be in the event you personally fail to predict the winner. You could also bet on the total score of the team, in effort to predict the time of the first score, or the final score. The Nevada sports books use a complex system to determine the sports bet score. You must get the actual score of the Vegas88 wrong to lose the bet. The essential method to beat the sport book is by betting the correct score. Mistakes are much more likely to occur if you bet on a game with a lot of volatility. The more events you miss the greater are the chances of losing the bet.
To learn how to win sports betting, you could assist yourself with the available picks online. Though this would be the same as if you will use your inner instincts to identify the winning picks, a well-made wager would be better than picking purely on your favorites. Making your contention on the winning team would be if not the simplest, most probable way to win. You would need to take into consideration the possible results of the other competitive teams. You must bet in a broadly pooled manner to win the wager and enjoy the sports betting.
In order to have a standard of winning against the bettors you need to grow you betting to a large amount before you finally master the method to bet on sports. You should not risk your early investment on a bunch of risky bets. Later on you will have more and more confidence to invest in the teams and you will also have the knowledge and to develop the more techniques which will be helpful in selecting the winning team.
You should never follow the temptation to bet on your home team. You should make an independent research and independent picks-even on your own home team. A bettor should never bet for any particular team if he does not feel confident about it. If you are not feeling comfortable with the process, you can always start with smaller bets and slowly build on your confidence.
You need to spend some time to build-up or newly found techniques to become a good bettor and to make a lot of money from sports betting. If you wish to become a good bettor it is important to invest and build-up your betting to a certain level. Avoid the big bets as they are usually very risky and do not yield a desired return.
Lotto Tip No. 2 – Dreams Can Come True
admin Gambling March 17, 2022 March 17, 2022 Pengeluaran SGP
Dreams can be very powerful. But I don’t mean having them when you’re asleep. I mean that those dreams can come true for you. In this article, I’m going to talk about a certain dream that many people have had, but don’t know how it happened.
Many people have had dreams about being famous. Winning the lottery, receiving fame. But others only have those dreams in which they play the lotto or have other types of dreams. One guy had a dream about hitting the jackpot. Another had a dream about meeting a woman that he fell in love with. Another guy had a dream about being on a date with a beautiful woman.
But this guy had a different dream. He had a dream about a beautiful woman, but she was dressed in boxers and nothing else. And she was on top of him. And he was in a box. And she was having her man-hands all over his body. And he was in a corner. It started to urgent, and he tried to cover her with ropes. But she was strong and he could do nothing but let her take him down.
Ropes, chains, ropes….He tried to wriggle free and escape, but she had him by the chains. He struggled, but could only limp free on one leg. Out of frustration, he decided to try to free himself by climbing over the top of the box. But she was waiting for him, and she lowered her unbeaten hand, revealing a king.
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He lay still for half an hour, just holding that single king. After looking at the card, she picked up her deck of cards and did the maths. Should she discard three kings and the six I guess? She discarded the three kings and kept the six. Then she looked at the six.
Showing the odds of the six vs. the king, she drew a bad flush. Sure, the king beats the flush, but she knows she’s got the better hand. I doubt that even in her wildest dreams she wouldn’t have realised that the odds were against her, but that’s beside the point. This was a dream, a fantasy, pure and simple.
This is what poker is about. Dreams and Day-dreams. day-dreams are encouraged, as they hone our decision making and sharpening ourarity. Poker isn’t about whether you have good cards or bad cards. Poker is about whether you can make the correct decision. It’s about the information you have, and all the information you can get.
When you reach the stage of realising you have such excellent cards, then you only ever bet when you have the best cards. Don’t bet when you have cards you think you should, or even though you have good cards. Only do this when you’re sure you have the best hand.
This is probably the most important point. Only ever bet when you feel secure that you have the best hand. If you aren’t really sure, then don’t bet. Period.
This is particularly important early on in the tournament, when the competition is relatively weak, and when the other players are more likely to be inexperienced. As the game progresses, and the skills of the other players improve, as they seem to be able to adjust and play different hands, then you can expand your hand selection, and become more successful.
At every stage in the game, don’t be afraid to lose. No, not really, but act as if you are. Betting is the same as taking risk; you have to risk something to gain something. Think of it as luck or gamble as opposed to a skill. You have to have the courage to risk something to gain a much larger reward.
Don’t be afraid to lose all your chips that you’ve earned during the game. No, you have to bet with your head, not your heart. Let your instincts guide you, and bet based on them.
This is the most important one. Okay, so you’ve heard a million times how to play a hand out, and you’re a firm believer. But they’re not really so certain, are they? Do you really think that the guy in early position has the killer hand? He probably does. And if you’re not sure, you can always get it out of the way when the opportunity arises.
Zone your play at the table. Don’t make an instant decision. Playing against blind aggression really forces you to make a decision pre-flop, or even pre-turn. Play your hand after considering your opponents’ hands, and playing your opponents’ hands after considering your own. If you can’t figure out what to do pre-flop, consider folding – even if you would normally call.
Primo the Ace.
The Exciting Game of Video Poker
admin Gambling March 2, 2022 March 2, 2022
Video Poker is a revolution in casino gambling that involves digitizing the actual thing. It has become a popular casino game played among fans of slot machines. It is a near-automated casino game that is based on the concept of the slot machine. It, however, adds a degree of strategy to any slot-machine game by dividing it into more than one section and having a coin size that permits more flexibility. It also allows the player to decide how much to bet and when to bet it. The game is often played using a slot machine that accepts tokens only, but the game can also be played using coins.
At a glance, the gameplay of video poker may seem incomprehensible, but once you learn to play the game, you will find that it is quite simple to master. The game starts by the player placing a bet of one or more credits that corresponds to the number of slot cards that have been discarded. The discarded cards are then replaced with new ones and the game starts again.
The credits that are played represent real monetary credits that the player can spend on whatever she likes. The tokens that are used normally are small plastic chips that can be used to substitute coins when the game allows you to do so.
The game of video poker is quite simple to learn and play. The player deals five cards to the computer on a screen that is displayed on the screen. The cards are dissected and re- dissected to try to reveal additional information not available through the rules of the game.
The last step in this learning process is to guess what the computer will draw from the discarded pile. The discard pile is the pile of cards that has not been played and is therefore considered “Learnable” or ” Ready for Learning” cards. This idea is best explained by an actual game played at a Las Vegas Casino.
On their way to the discard pile, the cards are briefly explained. The game is played with a single deck of cards that tells the player what the card’s value is, 1 through 5. However, the cards are ranked as follows: Ace, King, Queen, Jack, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2. Each of these card values is assigned a numerical value.
The player draws a set of 5 cards that he believes will be better than the cards the dealer has. If the player’s hand goes over the 21, then the player busts and the player loses the game. Should the player have any other hand besides the default, then the hand is added to the end of the player’s hand and the player must decide whether to stick with it or to break it.
The player can break his or her hand (fold) whenever the dealer breaks his or her hand. If the dealer has an ace and a king, the dealer might be busting with the ace and a king, but the player may not break his or her hand. However, the player may make an additional bet, which is known as a Horn bet, to increase the stakes. This bet may be done by telling the dealer to put more money into the game, or the player can declare a push on the hand. After all, the goal of playing video poker is to win.
The Vodka138 is played with a single deck of 52 cards, unless a player opts to use a superior deck. The action starts by the player placing a bet. The dealer deals 5 cards to the player, and 5 cards to himself. Then, the player decides whether to stick with the cards he has or to discard some entirely. After each player has made their decision, the dealer deals 5 cards again.
After this, the player can look at his cards and discard ones that he does not want. The dealer will deal 5 cards to the player and 5 cards to himself. The cards are turned face up to start a new round of play. If the player discards the cards that he does not want, he is paid 5 credits. However, if the player chooses to stick with the cards that he does want, the player will be dealt 3 credits per card if he has a total of 12 or more. The player will be further paid 5 credits a piece if he has a total of 11 or less.
The game ends when the dealer busts. Once the player beats the dealer, he/she can take the cards that were previously dealt to him or herself. However, they are not allowed to touch the cards. Once the player uses this opportunity to stick with his cards, the dealer will turn over his or her cards and the player can hoped that the dealer has a lower card total than the one that the player has. The player’s hand is then compared to the dealer’s hand and whatever the lower hand score, the player wins the game.
Poker Is the Ultimate Card Game
admin Gambling February 16, 2022
Poker is the greatest card game because it helps unite people together.
Poker is just about the only casino game arguably more popular than games based on probability like blackjack and 21. It is a social game that people often treat as a game of pure luck. But the reality is that the probability of winning a hand of poker is Sudoku – a very small chance. Most people often think of poker as a game of pure luck, and quite often poker is played as a game of pure luck. However, poker is not purely a game of luck; the best hand does not always win as most expert players will argue.
I would like to explore this idea of a “how to win” game of poker. How do experts play poker and win? How are poker odds evaluated?
When poker was a game only young men were ever interested in, there was a simple way to evaluate the hands of all the players. The first step was to understand the basic poker math, and then the rest could follow. Experts would ask questions like:
Do you really want to play your Q-6 from early position with a mediocre kicker?
Does your small blind play 3-2 suited after a raise? Why or why not?
Is it better to play a middle pair if the other players know you slow?
Are you better off checking/calling/raising from the button than checking/calling/calling from the blind?
Is it better to play heads up no limit than to play 6-handed no limit?
vernight the expert poker players became experts overnight. Young guys sitting in cafes learning the skills of playing poker became super-profitable poker players overnight.
How do you win at QQdewa? Television coverage of poker tournaments has made the poker an international sport, attracting millions of viewers. This makes poker players more aware of how to improve their game for profit.
The marketing of poker has helped as well. In the 1950s and 1960s, about 10 percent of the poker players in Las Vegas were professionals. In the past 15 years or so, that percentage has certainly risen, with approximately 300 players annually recruited annually in Las Vegas.
As more and more players compete for the poker title, the stakes rise. However, the marketing of poker and the access to poker training sites, apart from the quality of the players themselves, are factors that are much more important in determining a player’s success than the final score of the game.
Good pokers (mentally and physically) prepare for a game. The same cannot be said for those who play poker as a method of making money.
The final score of the game (money) is only a small element of the game. Even a superb player who scores a large amount of money rarely continues to practice for more than a few months. But it is not so with poker. Great players find ways to improve their poker skills and continue to play.
Critics of poker (such as emotionally void players) fail to realize that the game preparation and skills, though important, are not superior to other sports. Further, poker is a competition and like any competition, practice makes perfect. Poker players who improve their game in one sport will become poker players who improve their game everywhere.
Lastly, poker is not a competition of physical strength, and, if you don’t think poker is a sport, then you don’t truly understand the sport.
Poker is a game of business and strategy. Dealers, gamblers and players Managing their poker hands make optimal decisions for consistent, long-term success.
Many great poker players have one thing in common: they were great students. They studied, they practiced, they competed, and they continued to learn. Being a successful poker player is a combination of many things, and it’s almost impossible to be great at everything, and no matter how much everything is, you will have to work hard to get all of it. Professional golf players may be the best in the world, but they can’t take down a tournament, so it’s the same with poker. A poker lesson is one of the most important components of becoming a professional poker player. Reading a book or watching the concept of poker and understanding it, really improvements the game.
Horse Betting Tips – Be a Sure Winner
admin Gambling January 28, 2022 January 28, 2022
Is horse betting your favorite hobby these days? Have you tried earning double or triple than your first bet? Well, you are not alone in this kind of addiction. Gambling on horses has rapidly become the object of fascination for many people. But this is not new to others. Horse betting has already existed for so long time. Now this addiction is taken to new heights by allowing people to bet in multiple horses at once. And what do these gamblers do? They try to become sure winners.
On the other hand, horse lovers often scoff at those who bet on horses, thinking that this must be a mimic of their own hobby. Now, horse betting has gone beyond being a just a game by humans, became a way of earning more money by other people. Though this is the only feasible answer, horse racing is still the best horse betting sport on the planet. This is not only because it brings big bucks to those who win, but also drives out the loser, meaning you can go home with lots of money instead of empty pockets.
Of course, there are no guarantees that you can become a sure winner. The only sure thing about this is that more people end up losing than winning. But hey, you can always find a way to win, you just have to keep trying. One of the sure-fire horse betting tips today is not to be satisfied with the amount you are currently betting. You must constantly be asking yourself, ‘How much more can I win?’ This will help you increase your motivation and confidence at the betting table.
There is no single formula to increase your chances of winning. But of course, there are some horse betting tips that will help you improve your profitability. Playing the odds and doing research are two great horse betting tips to improve your profitability. Before you place your bets, you should know the statistics of the horse. Without knowing the statistics, you have no chance of winning big. Horse betting tips can help you identify winners and losers in the crowd, while also improving your chances of winning.
Of course, luck is a big factor too, but additionally, horse betting tips will also help you optimize your money. It is natural for people to get incomparable horse betting tips from different people. When you find a person who is better at betting than you, you can ask for your money back. Otherwise, you will lose money in the end.
So far, the biggest Egp88 betting tip that most people forget is to know the horse you are betting on inside and out. In fact, you can know the weights of the horse, which are as well as the speed figures, from receipts. With this, you can find out if the horse is likely to win or not. Similarly, weigh the choice of jockey who is riding it to ensure that you are in fact betting on a sure winner. Besides, always ask the question: is my horse ready to win? computation over how many reigns it has had on a certain ground or track, whether it is wise to compare your horse to other horses in the race. When you reckon up all your probabilities, you will have a pretty sure answer, whether you are ready or not to place your bet on a specific horse. Remember that nothing comes for free, whatever you think or know for sure.
So far I have mentioned some important horse betting tips to help you win big. Always remember that to be a winner, you too will have to work hard. Though luck will never be on your side all the time, but if you make good decisions and invest on a smart strategy, you will definitely become a winner. My day is coming soon, so I will be sure to give you some more horse betting tips soon.
Do You Have The Patience To Be A Successful Tournament Poker Player?
To be successful at the poker tables in tournament play you need to develop patience and discipline. Too many bad players get all overconfident right away and before they know it they are raising with hands they should not and not even knowing why. This is a very dangerous approach to take to the table as no player should ever be raising without a good reason nor a reason why.
If you don’t have the discipline to wait for a good hand and play premium hands cautiously, you risk letting your opponents gain more chips than you do. If you make a tournament sit and go table every day and play the same group of people, you’d have a 97% chance of winning on a single table in an hours time. Don’t make this mistake, you need to wait for a good hand!
Now depending on the size of the buy in of a sit and go, you may only have one shot in the hand. If you are unlucky enough to be in late position and everyone limps in ahead of you, you should limp in as well. This will allow you to see a flop with low cards and if you hit the flop, you have the potential to win a big pot. Just because you limp in, does not mean you have to play any hand but pocket pairs unless you put in a large raise.
When you reach the middle of the pack, you should start playing more hands but you should still use caution. Just because you’ve been in a tournament for a while, does not mean you have a good hand. The middle section of the pack is where the chip stacks are smaller and the tournaments are much leaner. When you reach these last two sections, it is time to become a more aggressive player. If you were playing in the first section of the field, you should pick your battles and stick to playing premium hands aggressively.
When you reach the bubble (just before the last few players) you should really loosen up and play all hands. Nobody has made it that far without playing some hands so you should not be in wait mode. If you are in the blinds and flop a monster, it is worth chancing it. Most people are not making it to the money and only one or two players are so you have your work cut out for you. Don’t be afraid to take the pot up if you’ve got a good hand, why not add a hand or two to an already strong hand?
As the field narrows in the middle, it is time to become more aggressive as fewer players are left. Remember, most players will play with an average stack so you want to steal the blinds and pots from the other players. When you are in late position and blinds are low, you can take a stab at the pot with any two cards.
Firstly, although it is acceptable to play mega88 poker, you want to be a force and not a paper target for other players. When you play tight, many players will automatically fold to you and your stack will gradually be taken to the bar. Secondly, although you are at home observing other players, you are not playing your own hands. Therefore, although you are using your chips to press an advantage on your opponents, you are not playing with your own cards and therefore, present a different target to your opponents. Consequently, in the next tournament you will not have your stack in the early rounds. Consequently, when you do hit a hand, the play is a lot different and you will have to adjust your play.
Conclusion All the factors needed to end up on the final table are present in every tournament. You should not ignore any of them, as they could either go your way or not. If you are a tournament player, you need to realize that winning a tournament is a marathon and not a sprint and you need to be prepared both in terms of time and money. Before making any decisions, you should consider these opponents and their style of play and adapt your play to it.Do not enter the final table without first having a profitable game. A lot of final table players end up with nothing, as the difference between first and second is very small and not many are willing to go out as early in the tournament. Consequently, first place raises are very essential to make. A lot of players wait on the button with a rubbish hand till the very end and once they see an opportunity charge the pot with their all in and hope that the others fold, but most of time they get raised and don’t win the pot. Therefore, you need to get a hand that would make a few people fold before the flop. After the flop if you have nothing, it’s better to check and fold. But if you have a hand consider a continuation bet or a re-raise.
Choosing Baseball Picks Without Consistency
admin Gambling December 26, 2021 December 26, 2021
Winning a baseball bet is easier than winning a bet on a football game. In football, you have at least a 50/50 chance of winning. You’d better a better odds and have some self-discipline! Baseball, however, is unique because it´s much easier to bet on a favorite team. You have at least a 75/25 chance of winning. You just have to remember that if the Yankees are 15 games clear favorites, they´ll still lose. You may say they have a lucky streak starting now. They’d better start backing off the favorites sooner rather than later.
You need to get picks that´s worth betting on and not a 50/50 shot. That 75/25 odds is worth betting on just one game. You needn’t chase a losing trend. When you bet on a favorite, you need to bet in small amounts. You might bet $10 today and be up $20 next month. Betting on the underdogs can be risky because you have to win 40% of your bets to break even. Before you place your bet, you should have a good idea of how many bets you will lose to win your target.
Some underdogs´ start off losing and end up losing and you lose and then you start to lose and then start to lose some more and so on. You should never bet on games where the underdog is just a 15% favorite. The most underdogs to bet on are usually the home underdog and the road underdog (except for oddmakers oddsmakers use the opposite corners as equal boards).
DewaGG are also special places to bet. The home team usually has an advantage in the first inning bycalling bouting. In the home team starting the inning, the umpire will strike the ball on the first change of pitcher to face the home team. About the time the home team scores, the score will not be updated on the score changes in the standings (score and umpire’s notes are included in the final score, but not in the updates, as of mid-afternoon). Ballparks also differ by league, with American League ballparks being similar to National League ballparks in terms of size and design, but Major League ballparks being located on the edges of pitchers’cientious off fields lifestyles.
Parlays is yet another special way to bet. It is also often referred to as twelve bets or twelve-team parlay. Against the point spread, which is the combined total of the several bets on a parlay, one bettor can win $1,000 for a $100 bet and $200 for a $300 bet. If all twelve points in a parlay team are winners, the bettor stands to win $1,000 regardless of the actual outcome of the game.
Teasers, Super cling, Tricard, Moneyline, first half/last half odds, if/reverse, round robin, cyclone and teasers’ are all special bets in baseball. All of these names stand for something different and it may be hard to remember all of them, so here is the lowdown.
A teaser bet is when you wager the favorite and the underdog on the same game. The bettor wins if both the favorite and the underdog win.
A super cling bet is also a bet on the favorite and the underdog. However, the bettor wins only if the favorite loses by two or more runs, not to return the call on the favorite.
A Money line bet is the baseball equivalent of a straight bet. The gamblers either bet the favorite or the underdog for a certain amount of money, as agreed upon before the game.
A first half/last half odds bet, also called a game status bet, is when the odds bet on the outcome of the game in half have been settled. In this situation, the odds no matter what are the same as the payoffs of the bets on the outcome of the game in the first half.
Cycle is the name given to a baseball betting option that involves getting different baseball picks of the same team from different books. The bettor is actually betting on the team’s game status during the game.
The name of the game is a parlay. The bettor is betting on the results of multiple pitchers within a game. The bettor could win if all the pitchers score at the expected time.
The expected score is the score the game is most likely to score at the start of the game. The better wins in the event that the score is a run, tie, score vary, if a pitcher allows a run, or a pitcher allows a home run. The bettor will win if the score is a minimum of the allowed score at the start of the game.
Common Poker Mistakes – 4 Strategy Mistakes Players Often Make
Are you frustrated that you can’t get it together and make money playing poker? These common poker mistakes will help you.
Sometimes, you might be doing everything perfectly but you are not. If you are then you most likely aren’t doing something really wrong. However, if you are doing things the wrong and if you are making a lot of mistakes you most likely are doing something wrong.
The following common poke strategy mistakes will help you understand what wrong and what you can do to fix it.
Common Poker Mistakes – #1 Strategy Mistake
The first mistakes mostly happen when players aren’t expecting to be doing so many things at once. They might be tired, not hungry or annoyed at having to fold first in a Holdem round. When you are tired or whatever you are doing at the table the last thing you will want to do is play poker.
Players making these common poker mistakes will find that they aren’t so good for no reason. They don’t have any energy to burn or any ideas to think with which is why they aren’t doing so well. What you need to do to make sure you are able to focus is to do exactly what I am going to suggest you do today.
The second mistakes is to not be able to handle being told what you should or should not do. You don’t have to necessarily listen to everyone or everything they say, but if you don’t then you will not really understand what they are talking about. This is a little harder to work with and you don’t necessarily have to listen to what they say. However, this is a little harder as anyone who has ever gone to a casino with a younger generation will know how to deal cards and push them to the center of table to throw strangers off naturally.
Work with what you are given and only ever gamble with what you have. Set yourself a limit that you will not easily break and this is called bankroll. Everyone has a budget they can live with but don’t let your life go up without this very important element.
The third mistakes is a little one yet very insidious. It is complacency. When you are winning at poker andadden your bankroll you are doing well. However when you are losing you are doing bad. You should have your ups and downs and have the confidence to deal with them.
This is where a lot of players go wrong. They are either winning too much or losing too much. Its a natural issue with poker. You are bound to have a losing session or two and even that though there is a lot of skill involved you will have a short break and will not have the consistency to make the correct decisions.
Until you are winning at dewalive consistently you should not be playing. You should be learning more, playing more and updating you practice and education online. Ask any pro and they will probably tell you that they started at a small limit poker tournament and made the final table. This is possible even if you consider yourself a professional.
You are now quite aware of some of the common mistakes you could make in poker and now you are realizing that you can fix them. This is a great sign that you are becoming a better poker player all the time.
All the bad players in poker got rich just by playing poker. If you want to become a rich poker player yourself then you too will have to learn a little more about how to play poker better. Good luck.
Texas Holdem Tournament – Playing Heads-Up Takes Nerve, Skill And Bluff
admin Gambling November 22, 2021 November 22, 2021
Playing heads-up is the closest you’ll ever get to feeling like you’re playing Russian roulette with Christopher Walken in The Deer Hunter. There might not be a gun to your head, but going toe to toe at the poker table is a high pressure situation.
And if you can’t conquer this aspect of the game then there’s no chance that you’ll be able to pull off your dream win, like American Chris Moneymaker.
Moneymaker busted opposition out through a number of online satellite tournament events on his way to winning the World Series of Poker Main Event in Las Vegas in 2003, scooping more than $3.5 million when he knocked out his last opponent on the final table. Neither Moneymaker nor this year’s winner, Australian Joe Hachem, had played in major US tournaments before but both proved that as well as playing the cards they were skilled at bullying an opponent in single combat.
Heads-up is much like a game of 7meter – you don’t need the fastest car or, in this case, the best hand. The nerves to stay on target and not deviate from the line once the pedal has hit the metal are far more important qualities. This kamikaze attitude could get you into trouble if you crash your Route 66 racer into a King Kong pick-up truck, but without it you may as well walk away from the poker table before you even lay down your first blind.
The most important thing to remember is that you don’t need the best hand to win; it doesn’t matter what cards you get dealt if the other person folds. If they toss in their 10-8 and you’re sitting there with an 8-6 you still pick up chips. In heads-up you can justifiably contest any pot with just a single court card and almost any pair is worth pumping.
Show some aggression F**k the flop
When the big blind is called and the flop hits the baize you can’t afford to look at the community cards in the same way as you would during normal play. If you hit a middle pair with a poor kicker you may still get a few punts at the pot, especially if your opponent has placed a bet. However, if they’ve picked up a pair, or any cards that suggest they’re strong, then it’s time to get out of there and have another go. It’s so easy to let your emotions get the better of you when you’re in a brief battle with a micro-stakes opponent, that’s why a lot of first-time poker players lose money such as poker setter.
Playing online poker as if you’re playing live money is a different situation and you need to adjust the way you think. In live play you have a human opponent to read and react to, however, online you only have a computer to beat. Loosing a f**ked kicker to a computer rock is one thing, but how about losing to a computer full of clay poker chips? That hits really close to home and I’d be reaching for the bottle again if I were you. Learn to become a poker guru and leave the game of poker in the hands of the professionals so that you don’t emulate what they do. Check out more poker tips by visiting TitanPoker.com. | [
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CMI ConsulTraining, France
Directorate-General for Education (DGE) of the Portuguese Ministry of Education, Portugal
D-Teach, Belgium
Educational Authority, Hungary
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
Erzincan Provincial Directorate of National Education, Turkey
European University Association (EUA), Belgium
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ATEE - The Association for Teacher Education in Europe
The Association for Teacher Education in Europe (ATEE) is a membership-based international not for profit association, which aims to enhance the quality of Teacher Education in Europe through active dialogue and international exchange of research and practice in initial and in-service teacher education. The ATEE are constituted by about 300 individual members and 38 institutional members from 30 countries around the world. They work both within and outside higher education. The Association brings its members together in 19 different Research and Development Communities, and at its three annual conferences (Annual, Winter and Spring conferences). The R&D Communities are the heart of the association, teacher educators from all over Europe and beyond meet, exchange and co-operate. The RDCs are open to members and non-members.
Beta School, Israel
Beta School was founded in Petah Tikva in 2015, thanks to a partnership between Microsoft and local and national educational authorities in Israel. Beta School is a teaching laboratory for teachers and students that offers interactive workshops showcasing the use of technologies to support disruptive pedagogy for learning in the twenty-first century. Beta School aims to promote innovation in education. Beta-School bases its pedagogy on disruptive trends in education, with an emphasis on learning by doing in a three-step process: inspire, empower, and create. It uses Microsoft technologies to implement this process, or techno-pedagogical approach, to inspire the desire to learn, to empower learning through research, and finally to create something that embodies newfound knowledge. We believe that as a part of ITELab we would inspire ITE on implementing Beta School's theory and practice of education for today's digital world in the region.
The Federal Ministry of Education is responsible for the Austrian school system. The responsibilities in the area of education cover the entire school system, from primary school to the completion of secondary school education, as well as university colleges of teacher education. Adult education and lifelong learning also fall within their sphere of responsibility. BMB focuses not only on the general education system but also on technical and vocational education including schools for engineering, arts, business, tourism, agriculture etc. The Federal Ministry of Education cooperates with organisations focusing on education at European and international level. Activities of BMB are also related to teaching material, teacher controlling and school law, political education and educational research and quality development. Within the Ministry, the department "IT-Didactics and Digital Media" is in charge of implementing information and communication technologies in education. The Department organises many conferences regularly in different provinces on national level for teachers of all levels of educations and is also responsible for the Federal centre eEducation Austria it represents a network of 500 schools (primary, secondary) with focus on school development and digital competences and a network of support (elearning, IT-didactics) at regional level for schools. The BMB is interested in providing various opportunities for teachers to continually develop competencies and reflect their teaching practices, especially regarding digital skills and the use of digital media in teaching. The aim is to build a bridge between ITE and CTE and to connect training with school principals' and local school administrators' responsibility for staff development.
The Center for Digital Pedagogy and Methodology (DPMK), an affiliate of Digital Success Non-profit Ltd. started to operate in 2017 as a new organization in Hungary. The primary aim of our organization is to implement the Digital Education Strategy of Hungary, assist in the preparation of calls for applications to finance digital programs in education, give support to schools and implement national and international projects in the field of digital schools and education supported by digital technology.
Interactive Multimedia Communication - CMI ConsulTraining
CMI is the French acronym for Interactive Multimedia Communication, i.e. all tools and solutions that allows to communicate both sound, image and data, often referred to as videoconferencing, telepresence or web collaboration. The objective of that structure is to provide for counselling, training and speaker services about visual collaboration, with a strong emphasis on usages, in different markets but with very high implication on Education over the last two decades. Jean-François Raffestin, CMI expert, has a long background in education: initially for adult training, where he was instructor, then education department manager, then director of a worldwide education center. Over the past ten years, he was involved in university level acting first as an advisor for deployment of more than 50 videoconferencing room in a French university, to finally train teachers on how to best use the solution just installed. He is also member of the steering committee of his local college, and videoconferencing expert for European Schoolnet.
Direção-Geral da Educação – Ministry of Education (ME), Portugal
DGE – Ministry of Education (ME) is the Directorate-General for Education of the Portuguese Ministry of Education. The DGE is responsible for ensuring the implementation of policies on educational and didactic component of pre-school education, primary and secondary education and extra-curricular education, providing technical support for the formulation and monitoring and evaluating its implementation, as well as coordination of tests and examinations planning. DGE's Team for Educational Technology and Resources is in charge of designing, developing and evaluating initiatives and projects related to the use of digital tools and resources in education. It fosters the implementation of new methodologies in the classroom supported by technology, for all students and teachers, and is a partner in several European projects. Joining as an Associate Partner of the ITELab Project we aim to have the opportunity to contribute to the development and piloting of course modules for training student teachers on the pedagogical use of ICT both face-to-face and via a MOOC for student teachers. We aim also at contributing with information on national and regional frameworks for integrating ICT in initial teacher education, including challenges in training future teachers.
D-Teach stands for Distance Teaching and offers personalized online learning via virtual classes and experienced teachers. All you need is a webcam, a device and the Internet. D-Teach is a bridge organization between Belgium and abroad and enables rapid integration into the local or foreign life for families who move. D-Teach is currently the only organization that offers complete online distance education in Belgium. We work with teachers, pedagogues, speech therapists, psychologists, language trainers. Our customers are expats and impats from young children to adults. D-Teach focuses on 3 steps for people on the move: 1. Before departure: help with language courses for learning foreign languages; 2. During stay abroad: help to keep in touch with the Dutch language and Flemish Belgian culture; 3. Return to country: help with tutoring for diverse courses and tailored lessons.
Educational Authority (Oktatási Hivatal), Hungary
Educational Authority is a background institution of the Ministry of Human Capacities, and it provides services for public and higher education. It is responsible among others for the organization of student admission processes, baccalaureate exams, national measurements and student competitions. The Authority maintains national databases about schools, students and teachers. The institution is also responsible for the accreditation and registration of in-service teacher training courses. The Authority operates the Sulinet website, which provides digital content, news and community functions for public education. The national coordination of eTwinning in Hungary is managed by the National Support Service (NSS), which is operated by Educational Authority.
Development of digital competencies is crucial in teacher training, and it is also important that prospective teachers should start their career with the methodological preparedness and knowledge appropriate to the 21st century. It would be a great benefit for teacher students to get acquainted with opportunities similar to eTwinning during their training. Educational Authority is mindful of competence development both in higher and public education. That is why we would like to join the ITELab project so that its results can be utilized in Hungary and we would like to contribute to the development process itself.
Eötvös Loránd University is the most popular institution of state higher education in Hungary, which has been operating since 1635. It has 8 faculties, and offers 38 Bachelor's degree programmes, 96 Master's and 118 doctoral programmes in 16 doctoral schools. The university has 25 000 students, and 2000 international students from 80 different countries, and 219 combined teacher training programs. The Faculty of Education and Psychology has developed and managed educational projects nationally and has a significant role in the teacher training in co-operation with the departments and methodological sections of other faculties.
Erzincan Provincial Directorate of National Education, Turkey is the umbrella organization of 278 institutions including primary and secondery school level as well as high schools and adult education centres. Within the body of the Directorate, 40.771 students receive education and 3.386 teachers work. The Directorate is one of the 83 local representors of Ministry of Education and is the umbrella organisation ruling all the formal and informal training and educational processes in Erzincan. The Directorate works in coordination with schools to achieve the targets of the European Union (EU) in the field of education. For this reason, our Directorate has carried out the EU projects, has been accredited as Eurodesk Info Point and is eligible to appoint eTwinning and Erasmus+ City Ambassadors who assist teachers in the city to carry out projects, inform the teachers about the aims of the EU in the field of education and disseminate the project results which are successfully performed.
European University Association (EUA)
The European University Association (EUA) represents more than 800 universities and national rectors' conferences in 48 European countries. EUA plays a crucial role in the Bologna Process and in influencing EU policies on higher education, research and innovation. Through continuous interaction with a range of other European and international organisations, EUA ensures that the independent voice of European universities is heard.
Ikastolen Elkartea (The Federation of Basque Schools), Basque
Ikastolen Elkartea is a leading European cooperative organisation, which for more than 25 years has been developing ICT curricula, innovative learning materials, classroom implementation and teacher training in order to promote an ICT-integrated approach. It has been regularly awarded prizes by both national and international bodies. It offers pedagogical and administrative services for 110 ikastolas in the Basque Country (ES-FR) - schools created ‘by people, for people'. It is committed to the transmission of the Basque language and its culture, but at the same time is open to universal culture. It promotes an integrated multilingual and cultural model based on competences. Its schools are educational communities managed on a cooperative basis, offering Basque-medium education from ages 0 to 18. They are co-owned by parents and teachers and are partly financed by the government. Our interest in the project consists of keeping in touch with innovative and experienced professionals in the field of curriculum design and teacher training to develop ICT competences for teachers and learners.
JAMK University of Applied Sciences, Finland
JAMK University of Applied Sciences / Teacher Education College is an international higher education institution with expertise in 8 different fields of study. Located in the city of Jyväskylä, Finland, JAMK has more than 8000 students from over 70 countries. JAMK's educational expertise is based on advanced pedagogical thinking and innovative approaches to teaching and learning, all of which are continuously developed by engaging in versatile international networks and intensive cooperation with the world of work. Solutions and services are provided in the areas of pedagogical training, management and leadership, electronic and mobile learning environments, health care, business competence and assessment in education.
The Faculty of Education's considerable experience in training teachers and education professionals means we have a regional, national and international reputation for success. Established over 100 year ago, we are one of the largest providers of Initial Teacher Education in the UK with around 1000 undergraduate and postgraduate trainee teachers studying full time with us at any one time. A number of routes are provided through BA and PGCE Programmes and over 20 subject specialisms are offered and delivered by our specialist staff. We have a strong interest in research with the world-leading Education and Social Research Institute being an internationally recognised centre of excellence for applied research and evaluation. Participation in ITELab will enable the faculty to continue its work in developing and promoting the use of technology in teaching across all subject areas.
Mary Immaculate College, founded in 1898, is an Irish third level Catholic College of Education and the Liberal Arts. The College community promotes excellence in teaching, learning and research at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It seeks to foster the intellectual, spiritual, personal and professional development of students within a supportive and challenging environment that guarantees the intellectual freedom of staff and students. Through involvement with ITELab, we seek to engage in shared learning experiences with other European stakeholders to explore various models of ICT integration across Initial Teacher Education (ITE), to reflect on our current pedagogical uses of technology, and to assist in the design and development of educational resources/competencies for use in ITE.
Regional Department of Education is a Delegated body of Public authority, representing the Ministry of Education and Science in Sofia-city. The Department is responsible for 580 educational institutions, 19 000 school professionals, over 130 000 learners and their parents in the Sofia-city region. The Department implements and develops national educational policies; governs educational institutions; constantly improves the quality of education considering the European Union standards; conducts national and regional competitions, exams and provides courses in all educational subjects related also to Information and Communication Technology. The Department facilitates exchange of best practices across the school network and has the responsibility to monitor, organize and manage school teacher qualification courses and personal teacher qualifications to improve teachers´ professional competences and skills. Through implementing control over the regional education institutions, inspection of the learning/teaching process, ensuring the improvement of teacher professional development, providing qualification courses and metrological help in all subjects, academic and professional fields, the educational process level is the highest among the other regions in Bulgaria.
Mondragon Unibertsitatea is a young university formed by the association of three educational cooperatives. One of the main characteristics of the university is the close and permanent relationship with the working world and the commitment to the society. In that line, the Faculty of Humanities and Education has a strong relationship with all the school networks within the Basque Country and also with companies and organisations within the field of education, communication and cooperative values. We also collaborate closely with the regional and national administration in the Basque Autonomous Community and other international and national Higher Education Institutions. One of the trademarks of the Faculty has always been innovation. In fact, we have a strong research background in the field of technology usage in education. Considering the importance of networking, we believe that participating in ITELab will bring us new and innovative perspectives to keep on developing ourselves and to improve our Teacher Education programs and research lines.
Northumbria University has a long tradition of initial teacher education. Our vision is to ‘create excellent 21st Century educators who can lead and inspire children and young people to reach their full potential.' With over 800 undergraduate and postgraduate students, and working in close partnership with hundreds of schools across the north east of England and beyond, Northumbria has embraced the English ‘school-led' initial teacher education policy, creating dynamic and innovative partnerships with schools to deliver high quality programmes, making innovative use of technology to engage both students and schools. ITELAB provides a wonderful opportunity to further enhance the learning experiences of our students, through the use of technology and pan European collaboration.
The NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) is nowadays the largest and most diverse Portuguese institution carrying out research in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities and forms part of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa.
In terms of research and international cooperation, FCSH ensures international teaching and research networks.
CETAPS (Centre for English, Translation, and Anglo-Portuguese Studies) is a dynamic research centre promoting research and activities with high national and international reach.
The Centre's goals and strategies involve:
to participate in international networks for collaboration and exchange, extend the range of our research and give international visibility to research outputs;
to invest in knowledge and technology transfer by further developing and updating CETAPS's Digital Lab, its databases and software, organising open online massive courses and training researchers to develop projects in the Digital Humanities.
TEALS – Teacher Education and Applied Language Studies – is a research area working within teacher education (covering primary/basic, secondary and tertiary education in Portugal) and provides "add-on value" to CETAPS in terms of research in the field of social and human sciences. We cover four different research strands: a)Intercultural studies in Language Teaching; b)CLIL; c)Languages, curriculum and teacher education; d)Translationality.
Oslo Edtech Cluster
Oslo Edtech Cluster is a business network established to support development, commercialisation and export of Norwegian educational technologies (edtech). Norwegian edtech is growing fast and is enjoying a good reputation internationally. In just a few years the industry counts for more than 60 Norwegian companies with edtech at its core (with well over 100 million users worldwide), research institutions, education institutions, and public partners . Our aim is to build an ecosystem, joining forces and pulling together to help making Norwegian edtech among the best and most competitive in the world.
Paul-Valéry University is situated in Montpellier, in the south of France. It is one of the most ancient universities in Europe. In 1970, the University of Montpellier was subdivided into three different Universities.The Faculty of Arts and Humanities became Paul-Valéry 3, as a tribute to the great writer who studied in Montpellier. Today it has 20.000 students and 1600 people work there. It encourages innovation in the pedagogical field with IDEFI, a special project aimed at helping students to overcome their difficulties and different cultural background. It offers online degrees and it is a reference point in this field in France.
School of Education and Social Sciences of Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre (IPP), Portugal
The Polytechnic Institute of Portalegre is organised in four Schools: School of Education and Social Sciences (SESS), School of Health, School of Agrarian Studies and School of Technology and Business Studies. SESS offers Professional Higher Technical Courses, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees on teacher training, journalism and communication, social work and tourism. SESS participates in several national and international Research and Development (R&D) programs and projects. SESS has also coordinated in-service teacher training in several areas with the Portuguese Ministry of Education. Joining as an Associate Partner of the ITELab Project, we aim to reflect on our current pedagogical uses of technology, to have the opportunity to learn about the pedagogical use of ICT and to contribute to the development and piloting of course modules for training student teachers.
School of Education of Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (IPS), Portugal
The Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (IPS), Portugal, is a public institution of higher education located in the Greater Lisbon Metropolitan Area, region of Setúbal. IPS was created in 1979 and started its activity in 1981. Nowadays, IPS comprises five Higher Education Schools, around 6.000 students, 400 FTE academic staff, most part of them holding a PhD. IPS develops its work in several scientific areas, such as technology, management, health, education, sports, communication, media, ICT, among others. IPS runs his Students' Welfare Services, include a Residence, at a walking distance from the Setúbal campus, sports facilities, as well as medical and psychological assistance, besides a structured programme for promoting academic success. IPS has two campuses: the Setúbal campus, where four Schools are located - Setúbal School of Technology, School of Education, School of Business and Administration, School of Health - and the Barreiro campus, where the Barreiro School of Technology is located. There are a number of well-equipped laboratories, documentation centers, audio-visual equipment, and computer facilities available to students and teachers. Besides short cycle professional degrees (CTeSP) and post-graduation diplomas, IPS offers a wide range of 1st cycle (licenciatura) and 2nd cycle (mestre) Bologna degrees, in the areas of its five Schools.
SCoTENS is a network of 37 colleges of education, university education departments, teaching councils, curriculum councils, education trade unions and education centres on the island of Ireland with a responsibility for and interest in teacher education. SCoTENS was established in 2003 to create a safe space for teacher educators – North and South– to come together and discuss issues of common interest, and explore ways of co-operating closely together. A part of the broader peace dynamic that was gathering momentum on the island of Ireland at the time, it has always been rooted in the deepest commitment to quality teaching and learning for all. We believe that SCoTENS is the only network of its kind operating across a contested border in the world. SCoTENS is involved in supporting a wide range of research, conference and exchange projects including a very successful annual conference, a cross-border research seed funding programme, and a North/South student teacher exchange project.
TELLConsult is independent consultancy firm with its objective to contribute to quality promotion of Technology Enhanced Lifelong Learning with a special focus on Technology Enhanced Language Learning. TELLConsult values the ITELab associate partner status as the project's aims match well with its mission and expertise of staff. The main activities are organised by two departments: PROJECTS and TRAINING. The PROJECT's department coordinates the definition, development and evaluation of innovative (EU) projects related to Information and Communication Technology in Language Education such as Computer and Mobile Assisted Language Learning (CALL and MALL), Educational Telecollaboration, Tablet and touch screen training and research, e-tools for Content Integrated Language Learning (CLIL) and 3D Virtual Worlds for language learning. In collaboration with (inter)national partners and experts TELLConsult TRAINING coordinates the organisation of courses for the professional development of teachers and teacher In addition to participation in various special interest groups and networks TELLConsult is national representative of The European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL) member and formal member of a number of professional organisations including The International language association (ICC) and The EUROVERSITY Association.
The Directorate of Digital Technology for Education (DNE), France
The Directorate of Digital Technology for Education (DNE) which embodies the French Ministry of Education's digital strategy to «bring schools into the digital age», implements and deploys a public digital education service. Among other numerous missions, it is in charge of establishing a policy of initial and continuous training of teachers «to» and «through» digital technology to help them integrate digital applications in lesson plans and teaching practices, find the educational resources adapted to their new needs and acquire digital literacy. A particular emphasis has been made on ICT in Initial Teacher Education and In Service Teacher Education, to train teachers with the Higher Schools for Teachers = ESP– Ecole Supérieure du Professorat launched in 2013. The ITELab project falls in line with the innovation process in which France has engaged. That is why, (being a member of the European Schoolnet consortium) the Ministry of Education has agreed to participate in this project coordinated by European Schoolnet.
Ministry of Education and Science, Lithuania
The Ministry of Education and Science is an institution of the Lithuanian executive power that formulates and implements the national policy on education and research and higher education studies. The functions of the Ministry of Education and Science are defined in the Law on Education (2011). Among other functions and responsibilities, the Ministry participates in shaping, implementation and ensuring of the state education policy; bears responsibility for education quality; co-ordinates activities of education departments of municipal administrations in the implementation of the state education policy; sets qualification requirements for teachers and school leaders; coordinates accreditation of general education curricula; maintains contacts with international institutions and international organisations; promotes national and international co-operation among schools; encourages and supports activities of Lithuanians residing abroad in the areas of education and studies; approves regulations of initial and in-service teacher education.
The Ministry of National Education (MoNE), Directorate General for Innovation and Educational Technologies (YEGITEK), Turkey
The Ministry of National Education (MoNE), Directorate General for Innovation and Educational Technologies (YEGITEK) is a public foundation under the Ministry of National Education in Turkey. The Directorate supports the effective usage of educational technologies in teaching and learning appropriate to formal education curriculum programmes. It evaluates new educational technologies and developments for their use in schools across Turkey. We carry out projects on the usage of Educational Technologies in education. The Directorate organizes and develops teacher in-service training activities for the usage of Educational Technologies in education. It also prepares and publishes ICT-based audio-visual educational materials for all levels of the formal education curriculum programmes.
YEGITEK continues its services to Turkish education as the ‘FATIH project and Educational Informatics Network (EBA) portal executer'. The project aims to provide tablets to teachers and students as well as interactive whiteboards in the classrooms. YEGITEK is also taking part in the EUN innovative ICT based learning and STEM education projects such as eTwinning, Scientix and TeachUP.
The Transformation Society works with society leaders worldwide (education, business, NGO's and policy makers) to bring essential understanding of issues that affect the evolution of an organization in complex digital environments. We are involved with the development of Information 4.0, the informational component of the fourth industrial revolution, marrying connected objects with artificial intelligence. We believe that children growing up in a world of autonomous machines need the type of preparation envisioned by the ITELab project, and bring our expertise to bear on giving a humanist approach to new technologies. We provide strategies for action-research, training, and active guidance to get beyond the boundaries of a specific problem in a given field, and open connections to build a wider view. We have specific expertise in dealing with complexity and accelerating technological change, as well as experience in managing information, designing and piloting training, and transforming organizations.
Triseum, the USA
Triseum, LLC, connects students to curriculum through the power of play. The company's award-winning serious games mirror the imagination, interactivity, suspense and sophistication of commercial entertainment games while maintaining strict learning efficacy supported by research. Students are empowered to learn through fun, engaging and immersive 3D adventures, and faculty is able to measure progress and assess outcomes. Triseum pushes the boundaries of education games with meticulously handcrafted, fully tested and evaluated serious games that deliver the ultimate teaching and learning experience. Its team is dedicated to creating products that profoundly impact instructors and students.
University of the Aegean, Greece
University of the Aegean (UAegean) was founded in 1984 and in 2016 was classified as the top-rated university in Greece, evaluated by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency (HQA). Department of Primary Education has participated in numerous EU and National funded research and development programs in disciplines like ICT in Education, Teachers Professional Development, Education for Sustainable etc. The Department promotes the innovative use of new technologies in education via inter-disciplinary collaborations with national and international public and private educational institutions. Media Pedagogy Research Group, a sub-division of the Laboratory of Psychology, Educational Research and Media in Education focuses on research areas such as Media Pedagogy and Didactics, ODL, e-Learning, MOOCs, AR, Learning Design and TPD.
Our research group is interested in piloting new approaches of integrating ICT in ITE based on project's outcomes. Moreover, as a teachers' preparation academic institution, we would like to provide feedback about the current status in Greece concerning ICT integration in teachers' preparation programs and be part of an international dialogue about the future of ICT in Education.
The University of Évora (UE) is organised in 4 Schools: Arts, Sciences and Technology, Social Sciences and Nursing and offers 34 undergraduate and 66 postgraduate degrees. Research and Development (R&D) covers several scientific areas through a network of 14 Research Units, all of them submitted to international evaluation, under the coordination of the Institute for Research and Advanced Studies. UE is one of the leading higher institutions in Portugal working in the educational technology and e-learning fields as well as in the teacher education (initial and continuous teacher training), evaluation and supervision, educational politics and curricular issues. The Education Department and the Research Centre on Education and Psychology are actively involved in several projects in partnerships with local, national and international collaboration initiatives.
The University of Iceland aims to be one of the world's leading universities and apply approved standards to all quality assurance of its operations. The university holds itself and its lecturers, management and other staff to high standards. High demands are also made of students; this ensures that a degree from the University of Iceland is considered to be of high quality and is trusted all over the world. In 2006, the University of Iceland set itself the ambitious long-term goal to become one of the 100 leading universities in the world. In order to achieve that goal, the university intends to focus on outstanding research, teaching and support services. The university now works purposefully towards implementing this strategy, and has already enjoyed great success. The university set up a classroom of the 21st Century based on the Future Classroom Lab. The university applies rigorous internal quality assurance measures to all its operations. External assessment regularly shows that the university is fully in line with international standards. I think that participating in your project would be of benefit for all parties as we are aiming at the same target.
Vernier, Ireland
When it comes to scientific data collection, Vernier has perfected the development and production of affordable, easy-to-use data-acquisition products (probe ware) for science classrooms and labs around the world. Whether you are looking for cutting-edge technology to enliven and support your labs in biology, chemistry, physics, or engineering, there is a Vernier solution appropriate for every grade level. And because we understand the needs of teachers – a high percentage of our staff are former teachers themselves – we offer unparalleled support for the life of your products. Our products are affordable, they are easy to use, and they offer the complete solution that teachers need. And that is because we understand teachers; even our employees who have never taught keep the demands of the classroom on the top of their minds.
Wriggle Learning
Wriggle Learning is an Irish company focused on supporting schools and higher education institutions in the utilisation of digital technologies for teaching and learning. Our partnerships with Apple (Apple Solution Expert in Education), Microsoft (Microsoft Gold Partner for Education) and HP (Education Partner) allows us to offer the latest classroom technology, which we combine with our team of expert educators to ensure the implementation of technology for teaching and learning is effective and achievable. | [
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Gender equality baseline study of Memory of the World in Asia-Pacific
The study is an example of the gender sensitivity of the nomination of written heritage in the Memory of the World register. The case study provides an understanding of gender analysis to identify gender transformative, gender responsive and gender sensitive nominations.
The Asia-Pacific region is home to a rich and diverse documentary heritage that reflects the cultures, histories, traditions and values of its nations. In order to prevent the irrevocable loss of collective memory, UNESCO launched the Memory of the World Programme in 1992. Its objectives are to facilitate universal access to this heritage and to raise public awareness of the existence of, the significance of, and need to preserve fragile documents.
Title: Gender equality baseline study of Memory of the World in Asia-Pacific
Corporate author:UNESCO Office Bangkok and Regional Bureau for Education in Asia and the Pacific
Document code: THA/DOC/CI/20/005
Collation: 19 pages : illustrations
Licence type: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Type of document: programme and meeting document
Documentary Heritage Preservation
Permanent link: http://en.unesco.kz/gender-equality-baseline-study-of-memory-of-the-world-in-asia-pacific
Asia-Pacific Regional Consultation on the Open Educational Resources Recommendation
Kazakhstan gets a vote on the Memory of the World Asia-Pacific Committee
UNESCO cooperates with three regional programs to address violence against women journalists from Central Asia
Kazakhstan: Launching of the Assessment of the Safety of Journalists’ 2022
Uzbekistan: Institutionalization of combating violence through the media
The first training of researchers assessing hate speech on social media in Kyrgyzstan
UNESCO Chairs launched the Platform on Journalism Education
Practical guide for amicus curiae interventions in freedom of expression cases
Resource Kit for UN Staff: "The UN and the Safety of Journalists" | [
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What is the value of (even fair) equality of opportunity in an unjust society?
By Anca Gheaus
In Distribution, Economics, Old Blog, Rights
People across the political spectrum care a lot about social mobility. For instance, a recent BBC documentary entitled ‘Who Gets the Best Jobs?’, about how little upwards mobility there is in the British society today, seems to have hit a nerve – judging form the large number of views on youtube but also form the large number of passionate comments from the public:
https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/6bD7U8kqI8A&source=uds
And there are people who would equate perfect social mobility with justice, and who therefore deplore its absence as the most worrisome form of injustice today.
I assume this is so because equality of opportunities of one form or another is a very widely accepted political value today. Why would anyone be against fair chances? For people on the right, the principle of equal opportunities embodies an ideal of meritocracy which in turn promises that desert will be rewarded. Those on the left are keen on a version of the principle designed to condemn as unjust the obstacles that class (and other kinds of social inequalities) pose in front of individuals’ efforts to obtain socially desirable positions. For instance, John Rawls‘ principle of fair equality of opportunities(henceforth FEO) requires this: ‘[s]upposing there is a distribution of native endowments, those who have the same level of talent and ability and the same willingness to use these gifts should have the same prospects of success regardless of their social class of origin.’ The rest of this post explores the value of this version of the principle.
One of the most compelling reasons for valuing FEO is the belief that it is unfair when factors such as the level of education or wealth in one’s family of origin determines one’s chances to lead a good life. This reason is either unstable or less compelling than it seems at first glance. If it is interpreted to say that how well someone’s life goes ought not to depend on factors that are outside her control and for which she cannot be held responsible, then the principle is unstable: we are as little responsible for our native talent, and, possibly, for our ambition, as we are for our parents’ money and education. If it is interpreted to say that people deserve to reap and keep the benefits of their talents the principle is contentious precisely because people have no merit in being born with particular native talents.
Here is an illustration: imagine that two children have an equally strong desire to get a job and that occupying it will contribute equally to their overall wellbeing; one is more talented, while the other has more parental support. If we bracket the question of the social utility of that job being occupied by one, rather than the other, person, does it make any moral difference which of the two gets the job? In any case there will be a winner and a loser, and in any case a form of luck will dictate who is who.
You may think that the issue of social utility ought not to be bracketed. A second ground for valuing FEO is that the ideal of meritocracy it embodies makes possible various kinds of excellence that all of us have reason to desire (who does not want to be served by competent doctors or civil engineers?). This reason has more weight when in comes to selection for some occupations than for others, and it may be often irrelevant in an unjust society. There is some reason to want, all other things equal, that the people who are most talented for medicine (amongst those who wish to practice it) become doctors. But with respect to other professions that are sought after, ‘good enough’ will probably do (say, when it comes to who ends up practising civil law.) FEO is not necessary to avoid the social disvalue of incompetent individuals landing jobs where they can do harm. A method of eliminating candidates below a certain threshold of competence will do.
An even more important point here is that people who live in unjust societies have reasons not to want the most talented people to occupy those desired positions that are connected to the exercise of power. The most talented lawyers serving a corrupt legal system are likely to do more damage than more mediocre ones; the most talented conservative politicians will be most efficient at keeping in place unfair institutions; and similar things can be said about the most talented bankers, tax advices and top managers working in unjust societies.
One last thought on why it is not socially useful if the most talented land the best paid social positions in unjust societies: such societies tend to have mechanisms that harness talent in the service of a well-off minority – one such mechanism is, obviously, better pay. To take again an example from medicine, much research talent is currently used to seek cures for trivial conditions that afflict mostly the rich. There is no social utility in the most talented researchers who compete for these positions getting them. Therefore (and other things equal) it is far from clear that FEO in an unjust society contributes to the maximisation of social utility.
Third, FEO can also be instrumental to improving the situation of the worst off. In Rawls’ theory of justice FEO is nested in a more complex principle, demanding FEO to regulate the competition for desirable social positions in a society whose basic institutions are organised to ensure that the worst off members of society are as well off as possible. If the most talented individuals occupy the best rewarded social positions in a well-ordered society, this will supposedly lead to the maximisation of the social product. As a result, everybody, including the worst off members of society, will end up better off than the would if other, less talented individuals were to occupy those positions. This is the meritocratic component of FEO. The best results in this sense will be achieved if individuals can develop their talents equally, unencumbered by their class, gender, race etc. This is the fairness component of FEO. In this justificatory story, the value of FEO is entirely dependent on its operation in an otherwise distributively just society. Rawls himself came to the conclusion that the realisation of the difference principle requires market socialism or property owning democracy. One may dispute this, but few dispute that current societies fail to realise the difference principle. How important is it to make sure that people have fair chances to win unfair competitions?
So, it seems a mistake to worry too much about social mobility. We should be a lot more worried about substantive inequalities than about the distribution of chances to end up as a winner rather than as a loser.
Anca Gheaus
I work on various issues concerning justice. I am particularly interested in the relevance of personal relationships to moral and political philosophy. I published papers about gender justice, parental rights and duties, the nature and value of childhood, the goods of work and the ideal-non-ideal theory debate.
Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon: An unjust system, how should individuals act?
What’s Mine Is Yours, or Is It?
Thanks for your post Anca, a very quick comment (and a lengthier one to follow) … concerning John Rawls' principle of fair equality of opportunities. Unless I am mistaken (and I am no Rawls scholar so this is possible), this principle must be understood in terms of an ideal theory. In ideal terms this should not conflict with your correctly expressed concern regarding substantive inequalities but of course we do not live in an ideal situation which is partially my problem with opposing the reality of substantive equality to the ideal of equal opportunities or am I missing something?
Hi Anya, thanks, I think you're right on Rawls and I'm not trying, in this post, to make any anti-Rawls point. My impression is that many people (who are as such unconcerned with the Rawlsian theory of justice) deplore the lack of equality of opportunity in existing societies. And *fair* equality of opportunity is the more attractive version of the principle, therefore the focus on FEO.
Andrew Walton
Anca, thanks for the post. On the whole, I am very sympathetic to what you say here, especially your concluding comment. I have two thoughts for you. The first concerns your last line of argument – on the instrumental issue. One thing that I picked up recently was about the Great Gatsby curve, the idea that equality and social mobility tend to move together. Various questions can be asked about this idea, but on one possible story, social mobility is good for reducing inequality. If that were true, it would seem that the concern for distributive equity would give us good reason to focus on social mobility (perhaps especially if, as your early comments suggest, the wide support for social mobility would make it a politically more feasible case to push). Might that instrumental case hold-up even (perhaps especially) in an unjust world?
The second concerns the first argument. I wondered here whether another idea (unless I misunderstand your comments) might concern the value of choice. When you reject the first line of argument, you argue that the idea behind the argument is unstable because talent and effort are often matters of luck too, thus the point goes further than equalising, e.g., social circumstances. But choice looks to be less suceptible to this problem. So might the first case look more plausible if it was cast as the aim of neutralising matters of moral luck to allow choice to take a more prominant role in where people end up?
Lisa Herzog
Hi Anca, although I fully agree that equality of opportunity is not the most important aspect of social justice, I was wondering what follows from the doubts you raise about its value. Taking up Anya's point: in practical, non-ideal circumstances, it will never be perfect, and will have to be balanced against other values (e.g. parental autonomy). But what *other* principle should we have about who gets which jobs? Do you have in mind other selection mechanisms? The danger I see in not paying attention to equality of opportunity, at least in reasonably just societies, is that opportunities will be distributed through some form of cronyism and through personal ties. This, however, could have disastrous distributive consequences, concentrating power and wealth in the hand of those who belong to powerful networks. An alternative could be, for example, to throw the lot between candidates who have passed a certain threshold of competence, but I guess this would fall under at least some definitions of equal opportunity?
Another point: could it be the case that in your argument against meritocracy, you (and maybe others in this debate) are using a narrow conception of talent, which does not include, for example, the ethical commitment to serve the rule of law in lawyers? One problem in this context is that it is hard to agree on standards of excellence, and that they are hard to measure. So you often end up with the use of proxies (e.g. marks in exams, number of publications, etc.), which do not fully capture what it means to be excellent in some area. This is a problem worth taking seriously, but I wouldn't count it as an argument against fair equality of opportunity; rather, it is a challenge for different professional communities to develop selection mechanisms that pay attention to excellence in a broad sense.
Thanks Andrew. I agree on the first point. If we had high social mobility this would be a good indicator of increased equality, since we couldn't have the first without the latter. And if a package of egalitarian policies could only go through by appeal to equality of opportunities/social mobility, so be it. But I think it's important at all times to remember what we want for instrumental reasons and what we want because it's good full stop. (And I suspect that equality and social mobility go together in some societies more than in others. When there's lots of social upheavals there may also be a lot of social mobility without equality – I suspect this may be the case when it comes to, say, Romania in the past 70 years although I don't have data.)
I don't know if I understand your second point correctly – you may be able to tell from my answer. I think choices often (more often than not?) reflect socialised preferences, as well as the individual's believes in her abilities. And I don't see how this could be different even in perfectly just societies. So I wouldn't be fine to call significant inequalities due to choice 'fair'. This doesn't mean I am opposed, all things considered, to even large inequalities resulting from choice since I think individuals' freedom to try to shape their lives is also very important. So perhaps the best way to reconcile the two desiderata is to make certain choices that can lead to significant inequalities reversible, and certain entitlements unconditional. (For instance: yes, you can give up your home and go live in that cave but, should you decide to return, you'll get another home; and you can always claim some health care.) Does this mean we'd have to keep saving the imprudent? Probably. Am I addressing your point?
Tom Parr
This is a really interesting question, and the post makes lots of thought-provoking claims. Thankst, Anca.
I have one general question to begin with. Are you challenging the value of equality of opportunity as such or just some particular version of the principle, namely Rawls´s? Though I´m somewhat sympathetic to your discussion of the two children who have an equally strong desire to get a job, your analysis seems not to sanction a rejection of the value of equality of opportunity as such; rather, it could suggest that we need a more expansive account of what constitutes equal opportunity. (Perhaps an account much more akin to Dworkinian endowment-insensitivity?!)
Anca, funnily, I am also unsure whether your answer addresses my point. Perhaps we are thinking along slightly different wavelengths. Let me try to come at the thought a bit differently. We might think, as your reply suggests, that a society should value individual circumstances reflecting (to some extent) individual choice (presumably, as you say, because we want to give people the freedom to choose the lives they deem best). My thought was that such an aim could give us reason to value equal opportunities – understood as the goal of neutralising factors arbitrary from the moral point of view (race, sex, social class, natural ability) in determining what opportunities face people – so that the differences between people are a better mirror of the choices they (and others) make (rather than something else). It may also speak to issues about distribution (both in favour of it and against it in different cases), but that would not prevent it giving a case in favour of equal opportunities, at least of a certain form and in a certain context. Does that make the thought clearer? As I understood it, your rejection of the argument for FEO that different circumstances should reflect different talents and efforts was that talents and effort are also the result of luck. My thought was that this objection does not apply to the choice argument. Perhaps your comments earlier in the paragraph suggest that the choices we make (turning, as they do, on preferences) are also a matter of luck to some extent. But that line (if it is what you meant) troubles me somewhat – I want to think we have some agency over our choices, at least to a greater extent than, say, our sex, class, natural ability, and so forth. Or have I misunderstood you there too?
Hi Lisa, good question! I guess that 'how should jobs be allocated?' is in itself a big topic on which I don't have that many thoughts – or rather nothing systematic. And things may pan out very differently in just vs unjust circumstances. I think that 'careers open to talent' (which is one kind of equality of opportunity) will always be best with respect to some jobs (surgeons?) while lotteries may work better for others. In unjust circumstances in particular: If (F)EO is not a trumping consideration, one will be more willing to accept quotas, for instance in order to improve relational equality – to diminish stereotype threat and/or implicit bias, for instance. And if FEO is not a trumping consideration one will be less worried about some of the effects of partiality (I think both are desirable!)
On the second point: I explicitly try to avoid using a narrow conception of talent and I agree that the difficulty of judging excellence cannot be a reason to reject meritocracy in principle. (It can only bring up feasibility considerations. Of course, these considerations may decisively tell in favour of abandoning meritocracy if, for instance, epistemic disagreement cannot be eliminated.) But I don't see that the complexity of 'merit' or 'talent' speaks either in favour or against the reasons I explore above.
Andrew, I finally see what you mean. Sorry for the earlier confusion.
No, you didn't misunderstand my comments on choice and chance. Yes, I also want to think we have some agency, and like many others am very unsure about its scope; but I am quite sure that whatever its scope, its contours as it were are determined by who the agent is – including socialised preferences and perceived abilities – which is itself a matter of constitutive luck. (Example: I may choose between salsa and tango, but I wouldn't have this context of choice if I thought I had two left legs.) Therefore I cannot get myself to contemplate what it would mean for differences between people to reflect their free choices.
I also suppose the answer to your second question/suggestion will depend on the reasons for valuing choice. Do we value choice for reasons that should make us want that different people's outcomes reflect choice equally? (Very complicated!)
Yes Tom, you may be right. I don't know how to think about what Dworkinian justice requires in non-ideal circumstances.
Thanks for the replies. On the second point: You are right that it does not decide the matter, but depending on how good we can be at discerning the right kind of excellence the more or less attractive the whole idea of meritocracy can look. And yes, I was thinking along the lines of feasibility constraints that you suggest.
On the first point: I do not see FEO as trumping (although it may trump in particular circumstances), but I would hold that even someone who believes in FEO can be in favor of quotas, by arguing that certain groups are systematically disadvantaged in their ability to achieve certain things, so to give them a fair chance (to make up for a previous injustice), quotas should be introduced (although they are not a very fine-tuned tool – one might rather argue in favor of something like, for example, a bonus in terms of publications for each child a person raises). Not sure what to think about partiality, that would depend on how you specify cases. I'm quite torn about certain kinds of partiality, e.g. hiring one's friends, because of the network effects on wider society.
Thanks, Anca. It seems to me that the problems of moving from ideal or non-ideal theory are perhaps not all that great. If what motivates a concern for equal opportunity in the ideal society is the thought that citizens' entitlements ought not to depend on factors that they are not responsible for, then can we not move the conclusion that, in the non-ideal world, we should look to lessen the extent to which citizens' entitlements depend upon factors that they are not responsible for? Of course, I am not saying that no new questions are thrown up by consideration of non-ideal worlds, it is just that what makes equal opportunity valuable remains the same. (FYI: Dworkin discusses the issue of moving from ideal to non-ideal theory in Sovereign Virtue. I'm not persuaded by much of it, but its certainly a good starting place.)
Florian Ostmann
Thank you for your post, Anca. Thinking about the relationship between equality of opportunity and more demanding goals of justice raises interesting theoretical and empirical questions that I haven't thought about before. I'd like to raise two questions:
First, would you mind elaborating a bit on your conjecture that people living in unjust societies may have reasons against the distribution of positions according to talent? I agree that it is easy to imagine how greater talent may cause greater harm or contribute to the continuation of an unjust system. But may greater talent not also be employed for justice-promoting purposes and possibly entail a greater ability to affect positive changes within the institutional setting within which it is put to use? I suppose an answer to this question will depend on how seriously one takes the possibility of change happening from "within the system".
My second question concerns the theoretical relationship between equality of opportunity and any more substantive demands of justice that we may be committed to. Bracketing the question of whether equality of opportunity contributes to the stabilization of an otherwise unjust system (in the sense of the point above), and setting aside the issue of how to prioritize our political energy between the pursuit of the goals of achieving equality of opportunity on the one hand and other goals of justice on the other: Would you consider equality of opportunity to have independent value? In response to your question, how important is it that people have a fair chance to win an unfair race: Assume, that – for whatever reason – there is nothing we can do to make the system fairer or more just; wouldn't an unjust system in which people have a fair chance still be morally preferable to a system that lacked equality of opportunity?
Anca, I am not sure here myself, but I have some intuition that choice can do some work in this question, perhaps more than your example suggests. Imagine a career dancing salsa pays more than a career dancing the tango and we have two individuals, one who opts for the former and one who opts for the latter. If we have neutralised the factors beyond their control prior to these choices (given them equal opportunities to decide between the two), I have some sense that the difference between them is fair (maybe not the full difference, but some difference). It is a difference that mirrors choices they wanted for their own lives, knowing what those choices would involve. There seems to me, at least, some reason to value that state of affairs, I guess deriving from a concern for autonomy. It looks less acceptable if their choices are informed by false information, such as in the example you give, and also if their preferences were entirely beyond their control. But would not even a small amount of informed agency seem to justify a small amount of difference on this rationale (and, thus, give some weight to the equal opportunities case)?
Florian, thanks, this is very helpful! I have been thinking quite a bit recently about the second question and I find it difficult. I incline to think that even if a competition is itself unfair there is some value to giving people a fair chance to win it if they cannot avoid it. So my intention in this post is merely to say that that FEO is a comparatively unimportant goal of justice, not that it has no value (so here my answer to you converges with my answer to Andrew.)
As for the first question yes, I agree with you that a distribution of positions according to talent will result in some gains as well as in some losses in social utility (in any society, I suppose?). The question is how likely it is for the gain to be a net one if the society is unjust. The answer will not turn on whether it is possible to change an unjust system 'from within', but on whether it is possible to change it from within its *most privileged* positions (if we assume these are the positions for which there is most competition).
Many thanks for pursuing this! To be sure, I agree that fair equal opportunities has *some* weight (see also my answer to Florian).
But now I am not sure how to understand your example in this context. The two individuals are equally talented, and make different choices, right? How it this related to equality of opportunity (understood competitively)? Do we assume it is justified that one career pays more than the other?
The discussion has made me wonder if we shouldn’t value fair equality of opportunity for a reason that is rather indirectly connected to distributive justice, but which might still be very important: it counteracts tendencies to concentrate power and wealth in the hands of a few privileged families (or a privileged class). If we assume that talent is distributed randomly (or even if we think that this is a sufficiently exact approximation, even if there may be some genetic element to talent), then fair equality of opportunity means that in every generation, the cards are given a new shuffle, as it were. It’s never going to be perfect, and it’s always going to be hard to find good proxies for measuring talent, but at least you *don’t* just rely on family networks. This might contribute to equalizing tendencies in the long run….
Lisa, I agree with you. I think that a society that respected FEO would indeed be very unlikely to have high concentrations of power and wealth in the hands of a few families. But this seems a rather indirect way of progressing towards an egalitarian society (so a principle directly regulating differences in wealth would do even better than FEO). Maybe I have misleadingly titled this blog post – I should have made it clear it was about the weight of FEO relative to other principles of justice. | [
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On the KNines website we allow the use of several types of Artwork or other copyrightable intellectual property. These are typically poses, backgrounds or text. The main types of artwork are Custom, Pre-mades, Free, Mods, Objects and Backgrounds. Some of this Artwork and other creative material on KNines has been created and/or submitted by Users like you. The Artist/Owner retains the copyright on submitted artwork. If the User is not the same person as the Artist/Owner, the User must have permission from the Artist/Owner before submitting the material to the site. By uploading Artwork to KNines, you are affirming that you have a LEGAL RIGHT to do so and that you have an agreement from the Artist/Owner (the current owner of the copyright) that he or she has agreed with all of the terms and conditions described here.
By submitting Artwork or copyrightable intellectual property to KNines, or by allowing others to do so, you hereby grant the site owner and also WUNDERWOOD LLC an unrestricted license to display these works on this website and other websites owned or operated by WUNDERWOOD LLC. This allows this website to act as a service by hosting and enabling others to view your Artwork on the site or on the forums. WUNDERWOOD LLC retains the right to reproduce and redistribute your artwork on all parts of this website and on any other websites owned or operated by WUNDERWOOD LLC. It exercises this right on behalf of the Artist/Owner.
WUNDERWOOD LLC agrees that any use of Artwork for other Commercial Purposes (such as merchandise, ads and banners) will require additional licensing from the respective Artist/Owner of said artwork.
WARNING: Your paid membership does not obligate this website nor WUNDERWOOD LLC to automatically accept submitted Artwork. All pieces of artistic material must go through normal channels of approval, via the Art Staff. This may include a waiting period, inquiries, and possible rejection.
Uploading artwork in which you (the User) do not own the copyright, or have permission to use is NOT permitted. Doing so will only get you banned from all chats owned or run by WUNDERWOOD LLC.
Our team works hard to keep unwanted use of artwork to a minimum. However, when material is submitted for public access, theft by others is possible. By submitting artwork or other intellectual material to this site, you have agreed to not hold this site accountable for theft that may have occurred on the site, or sites owned by WUNDERWOOD LLC. If you think theft has occurred, please notify a member of our team so that a swift resolution can occur. A permission list is also appreciated by the site ArtStaff Team.
The Artist/Owner recognizes that unwanted distribution may occur when sharing artwork, or other creative materials. It is important to understand that once a member of this site has been given permission to use a piece of artwork or other creative material, that permission cannot be revoked. However, if an Artist/Owner no longer wishes to allow their artwork to appear on this site, any new poses, rooms or other creative material will be rejected. The Artist/Owner recognizes that it is important to keep its art staff notified if he/she no longer wishes to allow artwork to appear on this site.
"Commercial Purposes" - Using artistic or other intellectual property to financially benefit this chat site or WUNDERWOOD LLC through advertising and or bringing in money. This may include the material to be used on CafePress, Zazzle.com, or other online stores. This does not include the direct resale of said material. WUNDERWOOD LLC will not take a custom pose and resell it to another User.
"Artist" - The person that originally created and thus probably, but not necessarily, owns the copyright to the work.
"Artist/Owner" - The person that currently owns the intellectual property rights to artistic material. This may not necessarily be the original creator of the work (the Artist).
"User" - The person using any of WUNDERWOOD LLC's services. The User does have to own the intellectual property rights to the artwork they are using, but they MUST have permission from the Artist/Owner to submit the artwork to any Chatlands™ site.
"Administration" or "Team" - The employees or volunteers that work for this web site and/or WUNDERWOOD LLC. These are two groups of individuals.
"THIS SITE", "THIS CHAT SITE", "THIS WEB SITE" or "KNines" is the website created and operated by the individual site administrator and it makes use of internet services, including a chat server, provided by WUNDERWOOD LLC. WUNDERWOOD LLC does not control the content of the individual chat site but requires that the site follow local laws and maintain respectable standards of operation.
Art Definitions
"Poses" - Pieces of artwork that represent someone on the chat. Some poses are unique to that individual (Custom Poses). Others have been obtained by a User/Artist as a set (Pre-mades).
"Custom" - Means there is no other like it. These might be rooms or poses, and they could be made by the User/Artist, or have been commissioned to be made by another User/Artist. These can also include custom colored or shaded outlines, and Pre-mades.
"Pre-mades" are generally generic Poses that are only allowed to be used by few individuals. Freebies can also fall under this category. These are generally copyrighted.
"Modified Poses" or "mods" for short, are poses that are made from pre-existing poses. Whether they be from the WOLFHOME default set, Customs, or Freebie poses. They are often made from a combination of different poses or props added to make a new pose. The terms of use for these can vary from a Custom pose to Freebie pose.
"Freebies include but are not limited to poses (outlines, grayscales, Modified poses or full color poses or Custom poses), User-submitted rooms (outlines, photographs or full color images), and forum avatars/signatures that the Artist/Owner has allowed to be used free of cost on WOLFHOME and or other sites/chats. Any Artist has the right to impose limitations and conditions on the usage of their artwork.
"Freebies" are made available for use by Users of KNines (and various other sites/chats) remain under the jurisdiction of the Artist. The Artist has the right to determine where and how they are used and alter their limitations at any time. If unsure about the allowed usage of an image, please contact the Artist or administration.
"Freebies" are not automatically labeled as Public Domain (no one owns the rights). In order for Freebies to be considered Public Domain, it must be made clear to the KNines Administration and Users that the material is Public Domain.
Subscriptions and other services on the KNines website are acquired by expending "Deltas". Deltas (see Chatlands™ Deltas FAQ) are purchased from us using PayPal. ALL SALES ARE FINAL. You may choose to cancel your account on Chatlands™ at any time. Any credit remaining in your account is NON-REFUNDABLE. Deltas purchased for for Chatlands™ services is treated in a manner similar to that of purchases for credit at an arcade that uses tokens to operate their video games. If you wish, you may transfer your unused Chatlands™ Deltas to another account before closing your account. Once an account has been closed, all remaining Deltas are permanently removed. Unspent Deltas cannot be transferred from a previously closed account.
You may transfer credit from one Chatlands™ account to another, but only if you have a valid e-mail address stored in the Chatlands™ database.
IMPORTANT: ALL FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS ARE MADE VIA PAYPAL. When we transfer money to you for any reason, unless explicitly agreed upon in advance by both parties, the financial transaction is made using PayPal. PayPal will send an e-mail to your account notifying you of the completed transfer. You should then follow a link in that e-mail to receive payment. Financial transactions that are left unclaimed for more than 30 days WILL BE CANCELLED.
We make every effort to protect your privacy (see our privacy policy for more). However, we do log the chat to protect both you and ourselves. This log is kept confidential and unread unless there is trouble.
You must be at least 13 years old or have permission from your parent (or legal guardian) in order to make use of any chat site on Chatlands™. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS. This is not an arbitrary decision on our part. Like all other websites operating inside the United States, WUNDERWOOD LLC must comply with COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (more information). The Chatlands™ website may be used by children under the age of 13, if the parent agrees, by clicking on a link sent to their e-mail address, but parents are strongly cautioned that kids may be exposed to adult language at times. We try to keep the public rooms at a PG-13 level, but we do not have the ability to prevent someone from acting badly. If this causes concern, the parent should not grant their child permission to use this website.
KNines and Chatlands™.com was created so you can chat with friends. Misuse includes harassing other users, using the messaging system to spam users, or to conduct or to solicit any sort of illegal activity. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO BAN ANY USER FROM THE SYSTEM FOR ANY REASON AT ANY TIME WITHOUT NOTICE.
We reserve the right to restrict the text you enter and the graphics you submit, including, but not limited to your user name, the description of your private room(s), and even your personal information. Many of our users don't want to be exposed to profanity, vulgarity, or sexual insinuation. The Constitution protects your right to say what you want. There is no law that that compels us to broadcast your words for others to see. If you desire free speech, do it on a street-corner and not in our chat.
There is no appeal process. All judgments are final. If you make yourself unwelcome in the chat, there is no reason we have to let you back in.
Misuse includes, but is not limited to, activities such as these:
writing scripts or programs that send the server multiple automated requests
striving to crash or halt the system or to degrade its performance (sometimes referred to as a "denial of service" attack).
attempting to abuse the system or attempting to make the system perform in a manner for which it was not intended
attempting to guess, steal or secretly obtain someone's password
attempting to gain access to someone's account without their prior knowledge and permission
NOTICE: This is not a comprehensive list but meant to serve as examples of unacceptable behavior. IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION, ASK AN ADMINISTRATOR.
We take hacking and the threat of hacking very seriously and we will defend WUNDERWOOD LLC and its properties against such threats. Do not threaten to hack us. Do not threaten to hack another user. You will be banned and you may face legal consequences as well.
Changes to the Terms and Conditions
We reserve the right to change these terms and conditions from time to time. When we make any significant changes to these rules, we will attempt to alert KNines members by way of a splash screen or with an update on the KNines home page. However, we do not guarantee that this will happen or that you will see it. It is your responsibility to check from time to time for updates or changes made to this document. BY CONTINUING TO USE OUR SERVICES, YOU INDICATE THAT YOU AGREE TO THE MOST RECENT VERSION OF THESE RULES.
NO WARRANTY. THE KNines WEBSITE, THE CHATLANDS™ WEBSITE INCLUDING THE CHAT SERVICE, THE FORUMS AND ALL OTHER MATERIAL IS PROVIDED "AS IS". WUNDERWOOD LLC DISCLAIMS ANY AND ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW. THE USE OF THIS WEBSITE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE CHAT SERVICES, FORUMS AND OTHER MATERIAL, IS AT THE SOLE RISK OF THE PARTICIPANTS INVOLVED. NEITHER WUNDERWOOD LLC, NOR ANY OTHER PERSON OR ENTITY ASSOCIATED WITH WUNDERWOOD LLC, ACCEPTS LIABILITY FOR ANY CLAIM BASED EITHER DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ON THE USE OF THIS SITE. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY PORTION OF SUCH A DISCLAIMER DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU, DO NOT USE THIS SITE. | [
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Labour Party Manifestos
LabourManifesto.com > 1923 > Manifesto text in a single long file
1923 Labour Party General Election Manifesto
Labour's appeal to the nation
After a year of barren effort, the Conservative Government has admitted its inability to cope with the problem of Unemployment, and is seeking to cover up its failure by putting the nation to the trouble and expense of an election on the Tariff issue.
Tariffs no remedy
The Labour Party challenges the Tariff policy and the whole conception of economic relations underlying it. Tariffs are not a remedy for Unemployment. They are an impediment to the free interchange of goods and services upon which civilised society rests. They foster a spirit of profiteering, materialism and selfishness, poison the life of nations, lead to corruption in politics, promote trusts and monopolies, and impoverish the people. They perpetuate inequalities in the distrubution of the world's wealth won by the labour of hands and brain. These inequalities the Labour Party means to remove.
'Work or maintenance'
Unemployment is a recurrent feature of the existing economic system, common to every industrialised country, irrespective of whether it has Protection or Free Trade. The Labour Party alone has a positive remedy for it. We denounce as wholly inadequate and belated the programme of winter work produced by the Government, which offers the prospect of employment for only a fraction of the unemployed in a few industries; and in particular provides no relief for women and young persons.
Labour's unemployment programme
The Labour Party has urged the immediate adoption of national schemes of productive work, with adequate maintenance for those who cannot obtain employment to earn a livelihood for themselves and their families. The flow of young workers from the schools must be regulated to relieve the pressure on the labour market, and full educational training, with maintenance, must be provided for the young people who are now exposed to the perils and temptations of the streets.
The Labour Programme of National Work includes the establishment of a National System of Electrical Power Supply, the development of Transport by road, rail and canal, and the improvement of national resources by Land Drainage, Reclamation, Afforestation, Town Planning and Housing Schemes. These not only provide a remedy for the present distress, but are also investments for the future.
Help for agriculture
Agriculture, as the largest and most essential of the nation's industries, calls for special measures to restore its prosperity and to give the land workers a living wage. The Labour Policy is one that will develop Agriculture and raise the standard of rural life by establishing machinery for regulating wages with an assured minimum, providing Credit and State Insurance facilities for Farmers and Small-holders, promoting and assisting Co-operative Methods in Production and Distribution, so as to help stabilise prices, and make the fullest use of the results of research.
The Labour Party proposes to restore to the people their lost rights in the Land, including Minerals, and to that end will work for re-equipping the Land Valuation Department, securing to the community the economic rent of land, and facilitating the acquisition of land for public use.
Peace among the nations
Labour's vision of an ordered world embraces the nations now torn with enmity and strife. It stands, therefore, for a policy of International Co-operation through a strengthened and enlarged League of Nations; the settlement of disputes by conciliation and judicial arbitration; the immediate calling by the British Government of an International Conference (including Germany on terms of equality) to deal with the Revision of the Versailles Treaty, especially Reparations and Debts; and the resumption of free economic and diplomatic relations with Russia. This will pave the way for Disarmament, the only security for the nations.
Relief for the taxpayer
Labour condemsn the failure of the Government to take steps to reduce the dead-weight War Debt. No effective reform of the National Finances can be attempted until the steady drain of a million pounds a day in interest is stopped. Treasury experts, in evidence before a Select Committee of the House of Commons, expressed their view that a Tax on War Fortunes could be levied, and have therefore admitted both the principle and its practicability. A labour Chancellor of the Exchequer, in consultation with Treasury experts, would at once work out a scheme to impose a non-recurring, graduated War Debt Redemption levy on all individual fortunes in excess of £5,000, to be devoted solely to the reduction of the Debt.
The saving thus effected, with reduction of expenditure on armaments, other sane economies, and the increased revenue derived from Taxation of Land Values, would make it possible to reduce the burden of Income Tax, abolish not only the Food Duties, but also the Entertainments Tax and the Corporation Profits Tax, as well as provide money for necessary Social Services.
The Commonwealth of Co-operative Service
The Labour Party is working for the creation of a Commonwealth Co-operative Service. It believes that so far only a beginning has been made in the scientific organisation of industry. It will apply in a practical spirit the principle of Public Ownership and Control to the Mines, the Railway Service and the Electrical Power Stations, and the development of Municipal Services. It will make work safe for the worker by stricter Inspection of Workplaces, and more effective measures against Accidents and Industrial Diseases. It will provide fuller Compensation for the Workers and improve the Standard of Hours.
The aged, the widows, the children
Labour Policy is directed to the creation of a humane and civilised society. When Labour rules it will take care that little children shall not needlessly die; it will give to every child equality of opportunity in Education; it will make generous provision for the aged people, the widowed mothers, the sick and disabled citizens.
It will abolish the slums, promptly build an adequate suppy of decent homes and resist decontrol till the shortage is satisfied. It will place the Drink Traffic under popular control.
Ex-service men's pensions
In accordance with its past actions inside and outside Parliament, the Labour Party will do its utmost to see that the Ex-Service men and their dependants have fair play.
Labour stands for equality between men and women: equal political and legal rights, equal rights and privileges in parenthood, equal pay for equal work.
Labour's practical idealism
The Labour Party submits to the men and women of the country its full programme. It urges them to refuse to make this General Election a wretched partisan squablle about mean and huckstering policies. It appeals to all citizens to take a generous and courageous stand for right and justice, to believe in the possibility of building up a sane and ordered society, to oppose the squalid materialism that dominates the world today, and to hold out their hands in friendship and good-will to the struggling people everywhere who want only freedom, security and a happier life.
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The desired path for most aspiring singer-songwriters is predictable: Move to a music-friendly city, record a demo tape, get discovered, sign a contract with a major label, and, naturally, become a star. For most aspiring singer-songwriters, however, this path quickly proves a mirage. Which is one of the numerous reasons why debut artist Warren Barfield is such a rare entity.
Instead of taking the predictable path, this young artist spent five years (between the ages of 18 and 23) logging almost 200,000 miles in his trusty '93 Mustang, carting himself and his acoustic guitar from church to church, gig to gig, all over the U.S. (as well as Mexico and Russia), all year round, all by himself, living hand to mouth while patiently honing his infectious, earthy baritone, complex instrumental prowess, and expert stage presence-and without a hint of expectation.
As to why Barfield chose this rarely traveled musical path in our electronic age of indie-artist websites and lightning-speed solutions? "I believe it's what God had in mind for me," he says, matter of factly.
The son of a North Carolina preacher, Barfield developed his endurance for travel early in life. "I was born in Goldsboro and have lived in Dudley, Clayton, Spivey's Corner-which, by the way, is the Hollerin' Capitol of the Universe. Now my parents live in Autryville-and I live in Charlotte with my wife, Megan."
His folks also instilled in him a love for music very early on. Since his mom and dad led worship services for the bevy of tiny, rural churches, it wasn't long before Barfield-along with his sisters and brother-got into the act as well. "We were the music!" he recalls. "My mom plays piano by ear, and my dad plays drums and sings. So they got my sisters Tonia and Rena to lead worship and sing as well his younger brother Jeffrey took over drumming duties for his dad, too. And about the time I turned eight, I began picking up the guitar. Before that, I was singing 'Somebody Prayed for Me,' standing eye-level with the piano keys. I always liked music."
As the years passed, Barfield caught the country bug and began teaching himself Garth Brooks tunes; then things really shifted into high-gear when he discovered Contemporary Christian artists like Wes King and Steven Curtis Chapman. "Learning about Steven Curtis Chapman especially was exciting because he showed me how to combine my two main passions-my faith and my music," Barfield explains.
Shortly thereafter, Barfield was found playing at his parent's church Chapman and King tunes along with songs he had written, and taking his guitar to school to play during breaks. The talented teenager received invites to play youth group lock-ins and services for nearby congregations-he even recruited his mom to chauffeur in a pinch. "Every month, it just slowly grew," Barfield continues. "I remember telling my parents that a youth conference called and wanted to fly me down to Atlanta for a few days-and they let me go!" As his reputation expanded regionally, Barfield continued his homework, graduated high school, and enrolled in a local college as a religion major. But his academic pursuits wouldn't last.
"During my freshman year of college, I realized if I stayed in school, I'd be stuck with more responsibilities and wouldn't have time to do music," Barfield recalls. "Besides, I couldn't imagine looking back years later and imagining, 'What if?'" So, with little to worry about, Barfield packed up some clothes, his guitar and hit the highways. A year later, he took stock-and was pleasantly surprised: 100 concerts in 13 states. "So I booked more shows in the second year and did it all over again."
Life on the road all by his lonesome not only opened Barfield's eyes to many realities of the music business-especially when money he received from Gig A often had to cover gas, food, and lodging on the way to Gig B-but his full-time musician status also forced him to improve and grow as a singer and songwriter on a daily basis. "My sound," he notes with a chuckle, "is the combination of all my influences, Steven Curtis Chapman, Dave Matthews, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Edwin McCain, James Taylor, and Pat Monahan from Train. They all pushed and challenged me in different ways."
Barfield found himself opening for well-known artists such as Crystal Lewis, Anointed, Clear, Scott Krippayne and Russ Lee. After opening for Krippayne, Barfield found that Scott was handed a copy of his songs from a promoter and Scott contacted Warren to fly him to Nashville, where his most recent chapters have been written-penning and recording his debut album.
"I've never really thought of myself as a writer," Barfield humbly admits, "so when I came to Nashville to start working on the record, I realized that I have a huge opportunity to express myself-then everything I saw driving down the road became a song title! I ended up writing a bunch of songs, and we narrowed it down to 20, then down to the 11 that made it on the record."
The main ingredient Barfield has been trying to get across in his songs lately is honesty-and he draws a ton of inspiration from authors, especially Christian authors like Brennan Manning and Philip Yancey. Warren's pastor Tim Aukerman also challenges Warren to be honest about his faith. "Most Christians want you to believe they're perfect, but they're just wearing masks and not being very honest about their lives," he notes. "But Manning and Yancey challenged me to be honest in my struggles, even to the point of questioning my faith at times. Because I believe that Christians who're honest about their lives will have the greatest impact on the world around them-and at the end of the day, that's the kind of artist I want to be."
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You Walked Away? Good…I Would Have Too.
Walking Away From The Wrong god.
I wish this title were actually click bait… but it’s true. There are many who have walked away from God, and after talking with them or hearing their stories – I don’t blame them, I would have walked away from “that god” too.
The truth is when I hear a “deconversion” story, (a story of someone abandoning their faith) one of the first things I do is try to figure out what “god” they claimed to believe in. One or two common ones usually show up, but very rarely do I hear of people who walk away from the God that I have put my hope and trust in. It’s usually some version of Him that has been twisted, altered, and changed to the degree that it’s no longer the fullness of God… but a version of a god who they thought was real.
Several months ago, a well-known pastor in Atlanta (Andy Stanley) was catching some serious controversy over a series he did called “Who Needs God.” He was getting a lot of flack from “churched” people, so obviously I was very interested in what he was doing. (I know it’s strange, but whenever today’s Pharisees get angry about something, it usually means that it’s something Jesus might have done!)
In one of his messages, he shared a list of “gods” that people have walked away from and I recognized several of the ones I have also seen in my life.
Here was his list: The God’s of the No Testament
Bodyguard God – he’s here to keep anything bad from happening to you
On-demand God – he’s here to grant our requests (like a genie)
Boyfriend God – you feel him constantly, he’s always with you, and you never fight
Guilt God – he motivates you by condemnation, guilt, and fear.
Anit-Science God – check your brains at the door, God doesn’t want you to understand anything
Gap God – when we can’t explain it, we shove this God in the gap and call it faith
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Posted on Wednesday, February 1, 2017
A Family Belief… OR… A Personal Conviction
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I’m not necessarily in this place personally, but I’m just around the corner with my 12 /2 year old and my 10 year old following right behind.
I’m speaking to the tension that exists between our families’ beliefs and our own personal convictions.
The longer we wait to allow our kids to substantiate their own personal beliefs and require them to hold to a family belief, the less of a foundation that they will trust in when they leave your home.
Example.
My kids are starting to watch movies where they can hear some choice words that “we don’t say.” They understand through school, friends, and environments that they are in that they cannot control what other people say. I want my kids to understand the value of choosing better words to describe or identify something rather than slang, cussing, or cursing.
The FAMILY BELIEF brings rules that have consequences for using that kind of language in my home. However, that’s not enough to cause my kids to hold these beliefs as a personal choice, especially when they are not in our home!
This applies to all areas of life & faith – our kids HAVE to take steps to make their faith and beliefs their own! It might look different for every family in what areas and ages you want to take these steps, but here are 3 steps I believe can help the next generation go from Family Belief to Personal Belief.
1. Explain WHY.
Our youth need to know WHY we believe what we believe (I certainly hope YOU know why you believe what you believe). It’s simply not enough to say “because the Bible says so.” They have to know WHY the Bible is an absolute truth they can trust as a foundation of their lives. They have to know WHY agreeing with Jesus is not only the BEST option, but often times the one that will cause the most tension in their lives. When they get to a certain age, WHY becomes more important than the behavior or rule itself.
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Lotte Anker & Le Quan Ninh
Since the last session, Klas was invited to present our project at The AEC European Platform for Artistic Research in Music (EPARM) Conference 2017, which took place at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp from 20th to 22nd April, under the title “Staging Research: from the laboratory to the stage and back again”. The fifth biennial EPARM conference welcomed music researchers, educators and/or performers to a three day exploration of the current state of affairs of the relation between artistic research performed at the academia and the implications on the field of music production, and vice versa. Besides presenting the process of the project, Klas discussed how the interaction between research, artistic production and audience is essential to our project. Examples were given from our experiences of doing “pedagogical concerts”, thus combining musical performance with demonstrations and discussions for/with the audience/participants around collective creativity. He also discussed the challenges and possibilities of presenting our research on stage, as well as thoughts for working with an “open laboratory”, guided by a nomadic ethics that is congruent with the project’s main theme of collective creativity. By participating in this conference we received valuable ideas and suggestions for further development!
Lab Days # 6 – Nathan Milstein Hall, Royal College of Music in Stockholm
For our last Lab Days before summer we invited Lotte Anker and Lê Quan Ninh to join the eight instrument strong Revoid Ensemble. Lotte is a marvelous saxophone player and composer that I have been admiring at a distance for some time, and in connection to this project I have been listening a lot to her album “What River Is This?”. Percussionist Lê Quan Ninh was brought in on the suggestion of our cello/voice artist Audrey Chen. As preparation for our days together with him I’ve been listening to his wonderful playing and also reading from his interesting and inspiring text “Improvising Freely: the ABCs of an Experience”.
Central to our research at this point is developing a kind of modular approach in which different pre-conceived materials (“modules”) are seen as “playgrounds” that can attract the attention of the players and bring out a specific sound in the ensemble, or perhaps serve as injectors changing the direction of an improvisation. Any player can engage in any module at any time and the other players reacting by joining or counter playing is optional.
Above is Klas’ score that we used for this occasion, the titled circles represent the different modules and have different materials, in musical notation and/or written instruction, connected to them. Some have suggestions pertaining to instrumentation, for others there are different alternative ways of arriving at a specific sound. In the middle we see a set of terms to investigate. To the left are concepts relating to experienced musical qualities (“resistance/affordance”, “ambiguity”, “morphability” and “permeability”), and to the right are practical suggestions that could enhance those qualities and that has to do with how we “approach”, “transition”, combine”, “organize”, “vary” and “relate” materials and/or instruments.
My experience when working with this score is that the modules substantially contributes to the piece without coming in the way of the airiness and openness of the improvisation. There are no sharp boundaries as to what is pre-conceived and what is inspired by the moment. I think it has to do with the combination of concrete materials and open and suggestive instructions, as well as the clear intention of not arriving at specific “versions” to be revisited, but rather to continue improvising with everything from small detail to big form. I felt it worked really well for organizing even a huge ten-piece improvising orchestra like ours, favoring focus and playfulness at the same time. Great fun!
-Ricard Österstam
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4. PROBLEMS WITH THE STANDARD COSMOLOGY
The hot Big Bang model has been very successful in predicting much of the phenomena observed in the universe today. The model successfully accounts for nucleosynthesis and the relative abundance of the light elements, (e.g., Hydrogen ~ 75%, Helium ~ 25%, Lithium (trace), Berylium (trace)). The prediction of the Cosmic Background Radiation and the fact that the universe is expanding (i.e., The Hubble Law), both represent successful predictions of the Big Bang theory. However, this model suggests questions which it can not answer, which brings about its own demise. These anomalies are discussed in the following sections. | [
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Joseph Scott Audia on how investment strategies can work for the objectives
The most excellent investing strategies are not always the ones that have the greatest historical returns. The best ones are those that work for your objectives and risk lenience. In other words, the best is the one that works best for you.
Investing styles and strategy should fit best. You do not need anything expensive or custom-made. You need something comfortable that will last a long time. This is even more the case if you are planning for the long term. Do not adopt an investment strategy and drop it for some hot new trend you found online. Stick to the time-tested fundamentals.
Joseph Scott Audia says that growth investing using fundamental analysis is one of the oldest and most basic styles. This is an active investing tactic. It involves evaluating financial statements and factors about the company behind the stock. The objective is to find a firm whose metrics show the prospective to grow in the years ahead.
This style of investing looks to construct a portfolio of 10 or more individual stocks. If you are a beginner, it can take a lot of time to do the research required to make this strategy a success, but it is what several fund managers use to get returns.
Growth stocks frequently perform best in the mature stages of a market cycle. The strategy reflects what investors do in healthy economies. They are often valued high but can produce beyond those valuations when the environment is right.
If you select this tactic, you will examine data from a business’s financial statements. In doing so, you may arrive at a valuation of their stock. That will help you find out whether the stock would be a good purchase or not.
Joseph Scott Audia says that it is better to stay away from investment strategies that are too incomprehensible, complex or out of your wheelhouse to keep up with. Ensure you understand the sector, the industry and the company if you are going to invest in a particular stock. However, several individual investors do not have the time or expertise to understand the intricacies that make specific stocks in specific sectors good investments.
Company Name: New Age Venture Capital
Contact Person: Joseph Scott Audia
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New Jersey Set to Expand Turnpike
By RONALD SMOTHERS
NEWARK, Nov. 30 - For the first time in 20 years, New Jersey officials have proposed a significant expansion of the New Jersey Turnpike, an estimated $1.3 billion project that would add lanes to a stretch of roadway long known as an infuriating bottleneck.
The proposal, expected to be announced Wednesday by Acting Gov. Richard J. Codey, would add additional truck lanes in both directions between Exit 8A in Jamesburg and Exit 6, where the highway connects with the Pennsylvania Turnpike, according to state transportation officials.
Trucking industry officials and others said the proposal, coming at a time when the state faces budget deficits and is unable to get federal funding for toll roads, was likely to require increases in highway tolls and possibly an increase in the state fuel tax.
Mr. Codey is scheduled to announce the proposal in Cherry Hill at a speech to Pennsylvania and New Jersey business groups. According to transportation officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Mr. Codey considers the corridor "one of the worst congestion spots in the state." Some 120,000 vehicles a day pass through the 21-mile stretch of roadway.
The southbound side is notorious because it is where two truck lanes and three car lanes slim down to just three lanes in all and trucks are fed into the car lanes. At all hours of the day or night, backups can stretch for miles to the north. The problem is made worse because there is a rest stop on the southbound side, where the lanes come together. On the northbound side, where the turnpike has three lanes up to Exit 8A, the problem stems from both congestion and lane jockeying by drivers anticipating the widening of the roadway.
Transportation officials said the governor's proposal to expand the roadway was spurred last month by Pennsylvania's decision to build a new interchange where the Pennsylvania Turnpike enters New Jersey and meets a spur from the New Jersey Turnpike.
That interchange is expected to funnel even more truck and automobile traffic onto the 52-year-old New Jersey Turnpike, along a booming corridor of warehouses and distribution centers that is already increasing traffic in the central New Jersey area.
One state transportation official who requested anonymity said the need to fix the problem in that area was widely recognized as long overdue.
"You have to think about the importance of this corridor to the state's economy, because it carries commuters and trucks from the port loaded with goods going to distribution centers for the whole region," the official said. "You can not overstate its importance."
News of the expansion plan was greeted happily, though with some caution, by trucking industry officials and representatives of drivers' groups in the state.
Gail Toth, a spokesman for the New Jersey Motor Truck Association, said the news was "a welcome surprise" to an industry that had watched various other proposals to ease the congestion fail amid budgetary and environmental concerns.
She said that by a conservative count, 147 warehouses and distribution centers have grown up around Exit 8A in recent years and that some employed as many as 400 people. Because there is little or no public transportation in that part of the state, she said, most of those workers must drive to work.
At the same time, she said, residential development is also booming in the area. "And all you have is the little old turnpike going through there," she said.
She said the industry was willing to pay increased tolls and even higher fuel taxes, so long as "they are properly phased in" to allow the industry to adjust.
Steve Carellas, the president of the New Jersey Motorist Association, said his group liked "the idea of increased capacity when there is a need" but was concerned about higher tolls. Further, he said, the debt service on the bonds for such an expansion was at least three times what the state was projecting.
Environmental groups and others said an additional benefit of the expansion was that it might eliminate the need for a proposed 6.5-mile spur at Exit 8A to carry truck traffic west to Route 1, Interstate 295 and other roadways into Pennsylvania. Environmentalists had opposed that long-planned road, listed as Route 92, arguing that it would destroy several acres of wetlands. Local residents also fear it will seed even more development in an area where there are still farms.
But Gov. James E. McGreevey and labor union supporters had long fought to keep the road proposal alive, and $244 million was set aside for it in the New Jersey Turnpike Authority budget.
One state transportation official cautioned, however, that there has been no change in the state's support for Route 92 and that it remained part of the state's "strategic plan" for easing congestion. He also said there were no plans to use the money set aside for that road to help pay for widening the turnpike.
That official said the first step in the project was to spend up to $10 million in existing New Jersey Turnpike Authority funds on an 18-month study of the cost, environmental and right-of-way barriers and construction schedule. Only then, he said, would officials focus on how to pay for the work.
"The very preliminary view is that a shovel might go into the ground in three years with completion in 2012 to 2015," he said. | [
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Arcisstraße 21, Munich, D-80333, Germany
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About Technical University of Munich:
The Technical University of Munich was originally known as the Royal Bavarian Polytechnic of Munich when it was founded in 1868. Specialising in the natural sciences, several inventors have studied at the institution, including Carl von Linde, who invented the refrigerator, and Rudolf Diesel, who conceived the diesel engine. In addition, 13 of the university’s professors or alumni have been made Nobel laureates since 1927. The most recent recipients include Gerhard Ertl, a former lecturer at the institution who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2007, and alumnus Wolfgang Ketterle, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2001. In 2014, 165 inventions were made by scientists at the university, while in 2015, 69 patents were submitted. The institution is also home to five Humboldt professors – academics who are internationally recognised in their field – while 18 Leibniz prizes gave been awarded to its scientists since 1987. The university has more than 400 buildings across three campuses in the state of Bavaria: Munich, Garching, and Weihenstephan. The institution is spilt into 13 departments, and also has an Olympic park and university hospitals. In 2002 it opened a campus in Singapore called the German Institute of Science and Technology – TUM Asia. It includes master’s degrees and training programmes for professionals. In 2006 the university launched a new institutional strategy, positioning itself as “The Entrepreneurial University”. More than 800 start-ups have been developed by students and staff at the institution. Its mission statement is: “We invest in talents. Recognition is our return.” Wolfgang Hermann, who became president of the institution in 1995, is the longest-serving leader of a German university.
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University of Palermo
Piazza Marina, 61, 90133 Palermo PA, Italy
www.unipa.it
About University of Palermo:
One of the focal points of the university is to valorize the international dimension and the internationalization of master courses with double degrees or in foreign language. The most traditional international program is student mobility within Erasmus program, that has allowed the European students to spend periods of study and apprenticeship in a foreign university since 1987, surely an essential experience according to the judgment of the students. The participant students put in common their experiences and draw a patrimony of values that they bring with themselves for the whole life. Another area of the internationalization concerns the increase of the double degrees, European or extra-European, recognized by the countries that release the qualification. A third area is that of the international cooperation with foreign partners to promote the development, through projects whose end is not only scientific or didactic but that can have a concrete impact on the territory through didactic and research initiatives.
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University of Trieste
University of Trieste, Piazzale Europa, 1, 34127 Trieste TS, Italy
www.units.it
About University of Trieste:
The University of Trieste is a medium-sized university in Trieste in the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in northeast Italy. The university consists of 12 faculties, boasts a wide and almost complete range of university courses and has about 23,000 students and 1,000 professors. It was founded in 1924. The historical international vocation of the University of Trieste is witnessed by its intense and high-level activity: Trieste is the centre of many research facilities, with which the university is connected by cooperation agreements. Among them, there are the International School for Advanced Studies, the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, the National Institute of Oceanography, the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, the Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste Facility, the Trieste sections of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) and Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF), and many others, building up the so-called "sistema Trieste" (Trieste System).
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Adding Mitigation
While risks describe what could go wrong in your organization, mitigation are the actions you can take to reduce or eliminate that risk.
In Risk Management, mitigation is the goal because it is what allows you to keep risks controlled. Mitigation lets you sleep at night!
A single risk can have one or more mitigations added. Typically, these are determined during the risk analysis stage. So you start out adding all the risks without mitigation, then you discuss with your colleagues what mitigation you can add for each risk, at a later stage.
There are many ways to mitigate risks, and it's beyond the scope of this user guide to go into depth about how you should go about mitigating all risks.
However, we will describe the types of risk mitigation that you can store in Staff.Wiki.
To add a mitigation to a risk, first bring up the risk by clicking it in the list.
Then you the "Add Mitigation" button, which will bring up the mitigation form:
Let's run through the fields you can enter, which will help you understand how risk mitigations are defined in Staff.Wiki:
Status: This is the current status of the risk mitigation. If it is already in place, then you will set this to Complete. But it can also be in many other stages:
Complete: The mitigation is active.
In Progress: The mitigation is currently being developed but is not yet actively in place.
Checking: The mitigation is complete, but it is being verified.
Planned: It is designed and planned, but work has not yet started on the mitigation.
Investigating: The mitigation is being investigated, but has not yet been fully planned.
Not Planned: This is a mitigation idea, there are currently no plans to implement it.
On Hold: The mitigation was previously being worked on, but has been put on hold.
Won't Do: This is a mitigation idea, but it will never be implemented.
Archived: The mitigation is no longer relevant or applicable and has been archived.
Canceled: Similar to "Won't Do", but work had previously gone into the mitigation but was later canceled and will likely not ever be fully implemented.
Type: This is the type of mitigation. There are several options:
Policy/Procedure: Most often, risks are mitigated by instituting policies or procedures. For example, to reduce the risk of an accident, specific procedures can be instituted in order to ensure people are acting safely and proper precautions are taken. This lets you select a policy or procedure that is mitigating this risk.
An important feature is that the mitigation will only be enabled if the policy/procedure it links to is performing, based on performance thresholds that you specify.
Insurance: Quite often risks are mitigated through insurance policies. For example, the risk of being sued can be mitigated by acquiring liability insurance. The risk of employees being away from work for a long time after getting seriously sick can be mitigated through health insurance. There are many different forms of insurance out there.
Remediation Actions: Selecting this option will show a "Tasks" link at the bottom of the form. This lets you specify one or more tasks, assigned to staff members, that relate to work that can be done to mitigate the risk. For example, if you had the risk of an intruder breaking in and nobody noticing, the remediation task may be to install an alarm system.
Liability Protection: Other than insurance, there are other ways to get liability protection. For example you can limit liability through corporate structure, moving the risk taking activity into an LLC (Limited Liability Company). That way, if you are sued, the financial and asset exposure will be limited to the assets belonging to that specific LLC company. Another way to limit liability is through contracts with third parties, where they agree to take on liability.
Collateral: One such contract is to take on collateral. When a bank lends money, they often ask for collateral - which is an existing asset owned by the borrower - which is kept aside to back up the money lent. If the borrower is unable to repay the money, then the bank will be able to sell the collateral in order to cover what could not be repaid. This is another way of reducing financial risk.
Guarantee: Similarly to collateral and insurance, a guarantee is a third party who is contractually obligated to cover any financial risk associated with an activity.
Accept: You would choose "Accept" if you believe the risk is worth taking without any (or certain) mitigation in place. Perhaps the opportunity is significant and rewards outweigh the risks involved. This allows you to reduce the visibility of the risk, while still acknowledging it, so you can focus on other risks you are more concerned with mitigating.
Transfer / Share: This is also usually a contractual mitigation. You can decide to share a risk with a partner or other organization, who is perhaps also going to benefit from the opportunity or reward the risk stems from.
Avoid: If the mitigation involves avoiding a certain activity involved in the risk, then this can be entered here. Usually this avoidance will involve a policy or procedure being instituted, but not necessarily.
Other: For any other form of mitigation, select "Other" and put the details into the Details field.
Policy Tab, Policy/Procedure: If you selected "Policy" in the Type, then these fields be enabled allowing you to select the associated tab and specific policy or procedure that will mitigate this risk.
Must Approve Changes?: If this is set, then the approver set on the Risk Register will be asked to review and approve any changes made to the specified policy. This is to ensure that changes to the policies are not compromising the mitigation, thus perhaps unintentionally increasing risks.
Probability Reduction: If the mitigation is successful, here you will indicate how approximately the mitigation will change the overall impact of the risk. Here you specify how it should reduce the probability of the risk occurring.
Impact Reduction: Here you specify the approximate reduction in overall impact, whether it occurs or not. Some mitigations will affect the probability, others will affect the impact, and some will affect both the probability of it happening, and the overall impact.
Probability of Success: Just because you enact a mitigation, it doesn't mean it will necessarily work. Here you can specify the probability that the mitigation will be successful. If you do not know, you can leave it as "Certain".
Approximate Cost: Mitigation involves work and often other investment. Here you can enter in the approximate cost (per annum) of the mitigation to be implemented. This can be useful in weighing whether the mitigation is worth it, compared to the cost of the risk itself. This is optional, if you do not know the cost then you can leave it blank.
Expiry: If the mitigation is only active for a certain period, put the expiration date here. For example, an insurance policy that expires on a certain date. After this date, the mitigation will no longer be applied and any reduction in probability or impact will be removed, re-instating the original values.
Notice (Days): If you entered an expiration date above, you can specify how many days prior to expiration you want to be notified. This will update the status of the mitigation to "Expiring", and will unapply any reduction in probability or impact, making the full risk visible in the matrix.
Details: Here you can specify more details about the mitigation.
Tasks: If you specify Remediation Actions then the "Tasks" link will appear, which will let you add one or more tasks to the mitigation, each of which you can track independently and assign to different staff members.
Once you have entered the mitigation, click OK to record it against the risk. So long as the Status is set to Complete, the probability and impact will be modified accordingly, and the Risk Matrix will be updated.
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One Book Opens Another
Magic in the Books
Chaotic Neutral – Follow Your Heart
Posted on February 20, 2023 by Colt
Picture this: You’re in a house in suburban Baltimore, tripping on four different drugs, watching grown men and women—including at least one grandmother—cuddle platonically on mattresses. Some are weeping, some are stroking each other’s faces, one is reciting the nursery rhyme “Humpty Dumpty” in a voice stunned by grief. There are candles and Buddha statues and a watercooler with crystals in it. Filling every room, blaring from Sonos speakers, is Mariah Carey’s version of “I Want to Know What Love Is.” You want to lie down yourself, preferably on a vacant mattress, but someone tells you to stay out of the sunroom because it’s “very angry.” The drugs you’ve been given have cute names, like secret agents: S and K and Ma, a blend of several “sacraments.” Their true identities are MDMA, DMT, psilocybin, and whatever the active compound is in kanna. Still, you feel good but not transformed. You fill up your water bottle. In the living room, a woman claims that Jesus visited her in the middle of the night and told her to pull up her kitchen floor, under which she discovered blood stains. The stains were from a girl who’d been made into soup and fed to the homeless. There’s a hammock in the backyard. You make a journey to it. You lie there, sipping crystal power. When you look at the tree above your head, the branches all burst into ghostly flowers, a continuous bloom. It’s like the tree is auditioning for a part called TREE. Per instruction, you haven’t eaten since lunchtime. Your stomach is in psychedelic pain. Your guide, a suburban mother who’s confessed to tripping over 500 times, is nowhere to be found.* You lie there, waiting for something bigger to happen. Because all this—the drugs, the group work, presumably the Mariah Carey as well—is supposed to cure you of your crippling fear of death.
*Some names and identifying details have been changed.
Why was I, a father of two young children, tripping in a house with a bunch of strangers? It’s a complicated question. At its root is something that happened to me the summer before. I was 44 at the time: no longer in the prime of youth, but certainly someone who anticipated a good thirty or forty more years of life on earth. My blood pressure is normal. I run regularly. I eat shitloads of kale. Aside from the occasional cheeseburger, I pretty much ascribe to the Mediterranean diet. But last July, climbing the stairs on an otherwise uneventful day of writing, my head exploded. I had heard about “thunderclap headaches,” and it was exactly that: a thunderclap of pain that began in my head and flashed down my neck, as though my spine were a lightning rod, before melting away. The experience fit the name so perfectly that I felt a bit of semantic pleasure.
Now, I get a lot of headaches. Little ones, migraines, the whole gamut. The neck thing worried me—I’d never felt that before—but I wasn’t horrendously concerned. I took a piss and went downstairs, feeling a vague lingering pain. I sat on the couch for a while and then called my wife, who insisted we go to the hospital just to be safe. In the car, my head started to hurt again: no thunderclap this time, but a slow storm rolling in from the horizon. By the time we got to the ER, I was crying. It felt like my head was being laboriously crushed. A nurse sat me in a wheelchair, where I started to howl, clutching my head as if I could maybe tear it off my neck. I threw up all over myself. The doctors seemed alarmed. I was past all pride at this point, bellowing like a madman, pausing only to heave up bile. They tried to give me an MRI, but I puked in the MRI machine and they had to start over. If someone had offered to kill me, I would have given them the thumbs-up. The world and my elaborate, one-of-a-kind past in it had evaporated: I was Present Pain. When the doctor returned with the results—“You’ve had a brain hemorrhage, a significant bleed”—they seemed obvious to me, as if someone had diagnosed me as a man.
Thus began a week in the ICU, the worst of my life. A subarachnoid hemorrhage is like a bruise in your brain—I heard this many times, from a battalion of doctors—and like a bruise, it takes a long time to heal. Even on Dilaudid and oxycodone, surfing in and out of consciousness, I had abominable headaches. I threw up for days, sometimes in front of my children. I had my penis shish-kebabbed by a catheter, which hurts exactly as much as it sounds. I was shaken from the depths of sleep, once an hour, for the same torture test: Where are you? What’s the date? Why are you here? I endured an angiogram without anesthesia—my heart rate was too low—which squirted my head with pyrotechnic bursts of pain. I discovered that walking is a triumph, a subconscious alignment of highly skilled maneuvers that requires a perfectly unbruised brain. Once a day, feeling like I’d stepped off the Pequod after a year at sea, I minced around the ICU with my wife’s help, the nurses cheering at the end of two or three laps, as if I’d won the Olympics. And I was in good shape, relatively speaking. If you ever want to remind yourself that we’re all animals, clinging to our humanity by the thinnest of threads, hang out in the neuroscience ICU of a major hospital. The guy next to me, fresh from brain surgery, couldn’t speak but only moan-bellow over and over again at the top of his lungs, as if calling for the rest of his brain to come home. He sounded uncannily like Chewbacca, when the walls of the trash compactor close in on him.
They never found the source of my bleeding—apparently a good thing—but it added to the sense I had of Death as mad sniper, poised to drop me for no reason. I was in His sights. Even being told by two neurosurgeons that the hemorrhage was a fluke thing, that it would never happen again, failed to assuage my dread. I wondered, perhaps to make my brain-clap seem less random, if my lifelong fear of death had somehow brought it on. It didn’t help things that it took me a couple months to recover, or that for some strange reason I felt compelled to keep it a secret from all but my closest friends. I was too nauseated to eat; I lost over 30 pounds; people stopped me in the halls at work and asked me why my lips were white. The two biggest toes on my left foot stayed numb, as if I’d dipped them in the grave. I worried about dropping dead while taking a dump. I was losing sleep. Sometimes I woke up in the middle of the night, heart drumming, that poor man’s Wookiee-like howls haunting my head.
So when I read about psychedelic therapy for terminal-cancer patients in The New Yorker, in an article by Michael Pollan, I was immediately intrigued. Here were people far worse off than I was, people staring their own deaths in the face, who after a hefty dose of psilocybin seemed to have made their peace with dying. They spoke of venturing into the void and then returning with an ineffable sense of well-being, of touching “the face of God.” The article made it sound like a miracle cure.
Which all leads me to what I was doing in a suburban house with a trampoline in the backyard, trying to swan-dive into my essential self. My guide for the evening had accepted my 400 dollars, the price for my journey, in tie-dyed pants. It was my own fault I wasn’t tripping very hard—I’d told her, out of nervousness, I didn’t want to travel to other planets—though I suspected she knew less about the “sacraments” she was prescribing to us than she purported to. (“Do you know that Peruvians drip ayahuasca into the eyes of their newborns?” she’d told me earlier. “All Peruvians?” I’d asked, and she’d blushed.) Still, I liked her, partly because there was something in her eyes that made me think of the Wordsworth line from “Elegiac Stanzas”: “A deep distress hath humanized my soul.” I sensed there’d been some suffering in her past. Many of the participants, I noticed, had the same benignly haunted look. An ex-physician told us that ten years ago she’d been diagnosed with advanced-stage cancer; she’d recovered, but couldn’t shake the feeling that it would return any second to finish her off. To allay her lingering fear of death, she’d enrolled in a psilocybin trial, and her “whole reality changed.” She divorced her husband and began to juggle motherhood and what full-time psychonauts call “The Work,” traveling the world to partake in aya ceremonies.
The more I talked to my fellow journeyers, the more I realized that almost all of them were dealing with death in some way. One guy—an ex-stockbroker who’d quit his job at a brokerage firm and was developing a health app called, mind-bogglingly, Nurse Ratched—told me he’d managed to purge his own fear of death by dying.
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“I mean I died on Ma. I stopped breathing for a long time. I couldn’t move or speak. But I was still there nonetheless. There was continuity—I continued.”
“You believed you were dead.”
He touched my shoulder. “You don’t understand,” he said. “I was actually dead.”
I nodded. Was he off his nut? Was it possible that if you “die” in Ayahuasca Land, it was somehow as real as brushing your teeth? Is our boring analytical mind only showing us half the truth? One of the four hallmarks of a mystical experience, according to William James, is the “noetic”: the conviction that the experience has illuminated some authentic truth. But don’t crazy people also believe—just as passionately—in their delusions? If I tripped hard enough, would I emerge with the conviction that I was immortal and could shine divine light out of my ass? If it got rid of my fear of death, would it matter?
The ex-stockbroker proceeded to tell me a story about a train running over someone, actually cleaving the guy in two and stopping with its wheel in the middle of his body. As long as the train didn’t move, the person was able to survive that way for a while. There was enough time to call his loved ones and have them say good-bye. I wasn’t sure what this had to do with me.
“Maybe you just need a deeper journey,” he explained.
That was it. Maybe I just needed to trip harder. To die without dying. I was determined, in any case, to try it.
I was not new to hallucinogens; in fact, I’d experimented with all manner of drugs in my youth. This was partly why the question of authenticity intrigued me. Over time I’d come to regard my drug experiences as resolutely inauthentic: quaint little escapades, akin to the stupid-drunk tales you trot out at parties. They weren’t trips so much as “trips,” pratfalls that made people laugh. Inevitably the stories ended with a punch line, the moment of disillusionment after I’d come down and recognized that the profound epiphany I’d experienced had been trite and farcical. There was the day, shrooming in Santa Barbara, when I brought a random twig home from the beach, convinced it was a priceless souvenir. Or the time my buddy Pete and I thought we’d unlocked the secret of the universe and wrote it down on a strip of paper, which we stashed in one of those wooden puzzle boxes with the trick latches. (When I opened the box the next morning, to discover what we’d written, I found SPECIFICITY INTO CHAOS.) Or the first time I tried Ecstasy. I bonded with a guy I’d never met, convinced he was the other half of me that Zeus had torn asunder. For two hours we sat with our arms around each other, listening to Jane’s Addiction’s Ritual de lo habitual and trading awestruck faces as each new song became THE GREATEST SONG EVER. After I’d started to come down, and to wonder why as a straight man I’d been snuggling with a dude on the couch, I wandered into his kitchen and discovered that my soul mate had a “Garfield” comic strip taped to his fridge.
And I’d had some bad trips as well, which worried me. This is why I’d stopped doing mushrooms in college. Once, after a party in which I covered myself head to toe in mud, I returned to my dorm room to shower, only to discover too late that the mud was my natural-born carapace, my naked body the repulsive lobster-like innards of an alien species. I cowered in the bathroom for an hour. Far worse was the time, in my twenties, when I tripped by accident. My best friend from high school came through town with his rock band, and I stupidly ate a cookie from a bowl sitting on the dashboard of their van. It tasted like shit. When I looked up, the whole band was staring at me. My friend asked me solemnly if I’d eaten the entire cookie.
He massaged my shoulder, very gently. This was someone who traveled with his own drug supplier. “Just remember, no matter what happens, it’s only hash.”
The rest of the band passed a single cookie around, taking little nibbles. At dinner, my enchilada began talking to me. It was not a pleasant conversation. I don’t remember the details, except that the enchilada had a strong survival instinct. I ended up in the fetal position for eight hours, whimpering like a dog. For the next couple days I called in sick to my construction job, terrified I’d never return to normal. Except for the occasional puff of weed, that was my last experience with mind-altering drugs.
o it was with trepidation and hope that I ended up at a “psychedelic salon” at Red Emma’s bookstore, the sort of place whose Fiction section is smaller than its Prison Literature one. That’s how I met Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu, a research psychologist at Johns Hopkins and an expert in the field of psychedelic science. He gave a talk about the psilocybin study he was running, working with nicotine addicts to get them to quit smoking. (So far, they’ve had an 80 percent success rate at six months, about a 40 percent improvement over the best treatment on the market.) Unlike most of the journeyers I talked to, Garcia-Romeu is smart and scientifically-minded, with a handy chemical knowledge of the brain. He has a doctorate in psychology and publishes papers with titles like “Self-transcendence as a Measurable Transpersonal Construct.” If there was ever a trustworthy ambassador for the transformative effects of psychedelics, he was it.
“Neurons that fire together, wire together,” he explained to me when I met him a week later over beers. We were at a historic Baltimore watering hole called The Owl Bar, most likely the only patrons talking about the ruminative patterns of the brain. “That’s what they say in neurological circles. We think particular thoughts—obsessive ones, anxious ones, all those elements of cultural programming that we accept without questioning—and then it gets chemically easier and easier to think them. It’s like wearing ruts into a carpet. These pathways can be very unhealthy. Sometimes the only way to get rid of them is to reset them completely.”
“How high?” I asked.
He put down his beer and looked at me. “It’s supposed to be an epic experience.”
On his iPhone, Garcia-Romeu showed me a pair of circles meant to represent people’s brains. The graphics were taken from a recent Journal of the Royal Society Interface study, which involved doing fMRIs on subjects who’d either taken psilocybin or hadn’t. The first circle—a normal brain—had a few colored lines arcing across it, whereas the second one looked like one of the rubber-band balls my friend’s mother used to keep in her pantry. These were the neural pathways of a tripping brain. “On psilocybin, all these parts of your brain that don’t usually communicate with each other start chatting. It literally reorders your brain.”
I started to get nervous. I liked my brain the way it was. I mean, there were some pretty big issues there, no doubt about it—a proclivity for depression, an obsession with the mistakes I’d made in life, the whole death-terror thing—but I didn’t want a new one. I had no interest, for example, in leaving my wife. A friend had told me a story about a couple who’d done ayahuasca and had an epiphany that they should get divorced, then took a second dose the same weekend and had an epiphany that they should stay together. What if they’d stopped after the first trip?
In fact, there was something a bit contradictory about this whole idea of self-transformation. You were supposed to get back in touch with your essential self, to tsunami away all the cultural programming in your brain, and yet the psychedelic experience was all about losing one’s self. (Which is why Brian Wilson, in his admonition to acidheads, warned them to “hang on to your ego.”) How could you escape your “self” and find it at the same time? Probably, in the Journey People’s calculation, the ego is different from the self; one of the paradoxical teachings of Buddhism is that there’s a “self” and a “Self,” and that you have to lose the small to find the big. Over and over that night at the suburban guide’s house, I heard the “analytical mind” referred to with distaste. But it was the analytical part of my mind—the one that thought critically about the world, that saw the absurdity in life and death, that was able to write clear and concrete things as opposed to “specificity into chaos”—that I admired most. Who would I be without it?
On the other hand, Garcia-Romeu’s good-hearted advocacy was seductive. It helped that I liked him a lot. Bearded and benevolent, he’d ordered a Bushmills with his beer; in different clothes he would not have looked out of place on a Harley. He recently got a tattoo of a serotonin molecule with an oriole perched on it. He told me he’d struggled with depression in college but had found his calling in what he deems the “Renaissance in psychedelic science.” In ten years, he believes, psilocybin will be reclassified a Schedule II drug; there will be clinical centers, equipped with trained and certified guides, around the country. This is his life’s mission—not only to get to the bottom of why psychedelic therapy works wonders but to legitimize it as a viable treatment.
There’s some thought, he told me, that our brains have evolved to attribute special meaning to life-altering events and that due to their neurochemistry, psychedelics trigger such feelings. How else to explain the long history of psilocybin and mescaline use among ancient peoples? (Archaeologists have found sculptures of magic mushrooms—“mushroom stones”—dating all the way back to 1000 B.C.) This jibes with what Garcia-Romeu has seen in the lab: “Consistently, people in our studies rank their experience as one of the most meaningful events of their lives, right up there with the death of a parent and the birth of a child.”
I’d read the same thing in The New Yorker but still found this hard to believe. “The death of a parent?”
“That’s what they say. Even 14 months later.”
I told him about my disappointing “journey” at the suburban guide’s house. He seemed a bit disheartened by the whole ayahuasca fad, as if it were giving his work a bad name. Maybe there was some value in these drug-ins, but they didn’t sound all that useful to him as therapy: “The work we do generally requires two to three months, working one-on-one with the subject and building up trust. The idea is to plant the seeds very carefully, then let it storm.”
He seemed like a dream gardener to me, someone I’d love working with. I asked him if he could fit me into one of the Hopkins studies, but alas, I wasn’t a smoker, and the other available one involved dosing people blindly with various drugs. I wasn’t into being a guinea pig. For several reasons—not the least being my brain hemorrhage—I wouldn’t have qualified, anyway. If I wanted to experience the real thing, I’d have to find a psychologist willing to do it on the Q.T.
Now, here’s where things get a bit tricky. Because I did find someone, a trained psychologist, willing to work with me on the condition that she remain anonymous. Because for the time being, these are still Schedule I drugs we’re talking about and she could lose her license (or worse). So let’s call the trained psychologist S. Why did S agree to do this for me? I don’t think it had anything to do with money, though I was paying her for her work, of course. Like everyone else in the field of psychedelic science that I talked to, she’s a true crusader and wants to spread the word any way she can. I think she also wanted, sincerely, to help me.
So we made up a plan, compressed into a month because of scheduling issues: eight hours of “preparation,” followed by an all-day psilocybin session, followed by four hours of “integration.” The preparation, meted out in face-to-face therapy sessions, would take up most of the month. And quite honestly, these drugless sessions—essentially talk therapy—were a hundred times more useful to me than lying in someone’s hammock, watching the trees blossom. I told S about my life. I talked about my mother’s Alzheimer’s. I discovered that I still have Daddy issues. I cried, sober as a judge. I discussed my “intentions” for the upcoming session, all the issues I was hoping to address: my terror of death. My chronic insomnia. My on-and-off struggle with depression. My life-is-elsewhere syndrome. My desire to recapture some of the gleeful spontaneity I felt when I first started writing. As the intentions mounted, multiplying like rabbits, I began to invest psilocybin with legendary powers
“I should warn you that during the session, you might believe that you’re going crazy. You might also think you’re exploding.”
I shifted in my chair. “What percentage of people have bad trips?”
“A little less than half.”
“Half?”
“Give or take.”
“How bad are these trips?”
“Some of them are hellacious,” S said calmly.
This did not seem like a scientific term to me. I remembered my all-nighter in the fetal position. But I’d signed on to this thing; it would have seemed cowardly—an acquiescence to my thanatophobia—to back out now. What if I was transformed?
On the day of the session, S picked me up at ten thirty in the morning and drove me to her apartment. The sun was out, sparkling off cars and delivery trucks, and it seemed a bit unseemly to be doing drugs before lunchtime. At S’s request, I’d made a playlist on Spotify of various jazz and classical albums I liked. (Words were too distracting, she’d said, and could interfere with the session.) I’d also brought some old family photo albums, to peruse while we waited for the drug to kick in.
S, who for obvious reasons couldn’t commandeer any lab-grade psilocybin, had bought some magic mushrooms from a friend. I knew she had done this, but it was still a bit startling to see her pull out a Ziploc bag full of caps and stems. There was something dispiritingly undergrad about it. Also, it looked like a lot to me. Enough for more than one person. I couldn’t remember ever taking that much as a kid. Outside a lab, of course, it’s impossible to measure the dose perfectly, so the best S could do was guess; she worried that it wouldn’t be enough. (When I asked her what constituted too high a dose, she told me that for our purposes there was “no such thing.”) I couldn’t imagine getting them all down my throat, so she very hospitably tossed the shrooms into a blender and mixed them up with some OJ and berries. A purple smoothie. It was delicious, with a hint of umami.
It’s a weird thing waiting for a drug to come on while someone observes you from a chair. You feel a bit like a TV set. I fought the urge to put on a good show. I was also scared, nauseated, and making some teary costume-drama good-byes to my brain. Eventually the shadows on the ceiling began to interest me. Not deeply, but in a vaguely groovy way. I couldn’t tell if a piece of geometric art on the wall was actually three-dimensional or not (it was). I put on my sleep mask—or “night shade,” as S called it—and waited to confront the void. The night shade is a major component of psychedelic therapy; it’s meant to direct you brainward, so you’re not distracted by groovy shadows. The music, too, is designed to take you inside yourself—to lead you, Pied Piper-style, to “a wondrous portal.” Or so I imagined.
But there were no portals in my brain, or even portholes. Just business as usual. Admittedly, the music sounded fucking great. It was like a trip to the stereo store, except we were listening to The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady instead of “Stairway to Heaven.” Still, I could have played a passable game of tennis. The only vision that came to me was that of an ice-cold beer. After a while, fighting off boredom, I started to wonder if this whole thing was an elaborate hoax.
“It looked like a good dose to me,” S said, perplexed. “It might have been a potency issue. Or you might be one of those people with an extremely high tolerance.”
“What do you do in those cases?”
“We up the dose.”
This is how I found myself in a hotel room a couple days later, preparing to take some LSD that S happened to have in her fridge. The only way we could fit the session in was to pull an all-nighter. I didn’t want to do it at home with my children upstairs, and S’s partner meant that her place was off-limits, so I’d booked a room at the Royal Sonesta with sweeping views of the harbor. Red and blue lights shimmered off the water, painting the face of the bay like smears of mascara. Yachts rocked gently in the dark. In the distance, giving us the neon finger, was the humongous guitar sign of the Hard Rock Cafe.
Like all hotel rooms, it was freezing cold. We had a portable speaker, a night shade, and the LSD. I’d never done acid before—had assumed I would die happily without trying it—but S assured me it was very similar to psilocybin. The main difference was the length of the trip, which was one of the reasons they didn’t use it in the lab. “Personally, I prefer it,” she told me. “Easier on the stomach.” Still, I was taken aback when she pulled two tabs from her satchel and told me to stick them under my tongue.
“Are they low doses?”
“Ordinarily I’d start you off with one, but we’ve seen how little you’ve been affected. Plus, they’ve been sitting around for a year.” S looked at me encouragingly. She didn’t seem worried. “I’d say we’re talking 150 to 200 micrograms.”
Later I’d find out that 200 micrograms was what Aldous Huxley asked his wife to inject him with when he was dying of cancer—in two smaller doses—but at the time it meant nothing to me. I melted the tabs under my tongue. Then I sat on the bed, waiting for my plane to depart. At this point, I half expected nothing to happen. S had to take a phone call, and I remember thinking that this was maybe the weirdest thing I’d ever done: sitting in a hotel room after dark with a near-stranger, waiting for a double hit of acid to kick in while she chatted amiably with her parents. Eventually, things began to look strange. I remember that my legs extended on the bed in front of me looked very long. Everything was long. I’d entered Long Land. The corners of the desk looked sharper and more protuberant. It was like I’d put on 3 1/2-D glasses. The chiaroscuro, too, was Vermeerian. Before long I began to swoon. It was like having the spins. After drinking the shroom smoothie, I had voluntarily lain down and put on the night shade, but now I had no choice: I couldn’t possibly sit up or look at things or move an inch. I lay there immobilized, trying to hold on to the fact that I was doing this for a reason—that I was supposed to go spelunking in the void and therapeutically return, purged of my fear of death. Then: BOOM.
Drug narratives are boring for the same reason that other people’s dreams are boring: Any attempts to describe the experience, which is by essence non-narrative, or in the very least experimentally plotted, come out sounding like dorm-room malarkey. You can’t make a plot without time, and time—chronology, cause and effect, some sense of action or drama—is what’s missing from the psychedelic experience. Time and, well, a protagonist. For about an hour and a half (or so I learned later, from S, because time had ceased to mean anything) I was completely obliterated. Blown into smithereens. I didn’t exist. The only thing that remained was a feeling, and even this is hard to describe, as it’s like no feeling I’d ever experienced before. It should be, in fact, impossible to feel. The best description I’ve found for it is the term mysterium tremendum et fascinans, coined by theologians to describe an encounter with the “Wholly Other”: a feeling of joy and demonic terror at the same time. Not two different feelings, mind you, but a single unbearable one. Huxley talks about it in The Doors of Perception as “the fear of…being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed to living most of the time in a cozy world of symbols, could possibly bear.” That’s how I felt: completely overwhelmed, though not by fear but by Joyterror. Even the notion of a “bad trip” was meaningless, though I could feel myself teetering on the edge of something evil. But the notion of “teetering” was meaningless too—I was on both sides of the precipice at once. The only thing I remember doing is crying, though S’s notes claim I said the following things: “intense,” “too intense,” “overwhelming,” “wow,” and “melting.” Rising action, climax, denouement. Not bad for someone narrating from the primordial void.
And then something happened. A tunnel opened up in the void, shaped something like a heating duct, though more attractive, pimped out with divine light, and at the end of this very long heating duct I saw my self. It was a joyous reunion. I don’t think I’ve been so happy to see anyone in my entire life. I conceived—in the way you sort of immaculately conceive things while on drugs—that this self, this Eric P., existed eight hours from now. I was looking down a time-tunnel, into the future. And this Eric from the future, no longer tripping, spoke to me in a small, faraway voice, assuring me that everything I was experiencing wasn’t real, that I’d merely taken a shitload of LSD. For the first time, the Joyterror relaxed its grip on me a bit and I was able to think, to understand that I was listening to music, and that this music was unspeakably beautiful, the shouting of angels. It was Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis (though I didn’t realize this at the time), and it was pouring down upon me from above. And then I felt something I will never forget. “Rapture,” I guess you’d call it, though it bears about as much relationship to the way I’ve used that word in the past as a sneeze does to an orgasm. The music became Beauty, and the waves of Beauty cascaded over me, rippling though my body, again and again and again. I was being bathed in it. A baptism. At the same time that I was being baptized by Beauty—and weeping, and trying to describe it to S—I was being delivered upward toward the source of the music, floating away from my body, ecstatic to leave the crummy, aging thing behind. I heard Eric P. talking from the end of the time-tunnel, saying This isn’t real or profound or unique, it conforms exactly to the Rapture as described in those Jehovah’s Witness pamphlets that come in the mail, but what I thought was: Fuck you, Eric, it doesn’t matter.
And then we floated back to earth, Eric and I, separate but within earshot, and the Beauty was gone. We hadn’t been raptured. We pulled the night shade off and took a look around us. The air vent on the ceiling rippled like the gills of a fish. The whole room was alive, pulsing in and out. We could see the world breathing. We thought about my mother’s Alzheimer’s, how meaningless it was that she was losing her mind, how cruel and senseless and obscene, and an image materialized of the Creator as a beast. He looked something like the Minotaur. We explained this to S, that God was a beast. We decided to take revenge on this beast, for the universe’s meaninglessness. We chased Him down and slit His throat with a sword, Theseus-style, and there was some catharsis in this. The blood of God was on us, and we liked it. As the night wore on, there were other epiphanies, ones that would sound trite in the retelling; suffice it to say that we forgave certain people that had wounded us, and lamented that we’d wounded others.
Eventually, the room stopped breathing and we began to feel more like a single person again. Then the only truly bad part of the trip began. Because S fell asleep on the couch—I don’t blame her; she was exhausted and I hadn’t been the most exciting company—and I was left to my own devices in a strange hotel room at three in the morning, too wired to sleep and feeling the seriously bad vibes of being my analytical self again in an out-of-whack world, wanting to leave the fun house but unable to find an exit. I paced the room, my clothes soaked with sweat despite the arctic temperature. The view across the bay morphed into an enormous Aztec mask blowing me a raspberry. It wouldn’t go away. The Hard Rock guitar, pointing up at the lonely dark, looked like the YOU ARE HERE arrow on a map. I tried watching TV, but the programming at 4 A.M.—Adult Swim and a show consisting of home videos of people throwing up—made me feel like I was still peaking. I wondered if the entire world had gone insane. Finally, just before dawn, sincerely losing my shit and feeling like my head had been gouged out like a pumpkin, I woke up S, who seemed alarmed by my appearance. As reassuringly as she could at five in the morning, she helped me into a cab and sent me home.
Did having my ego obliterated, then gradually resurrected, cure me of my fear of death? Was I transformed? In a year, I might have something different to report, but right now I have to say: not miraculously, no. Psychedelic therapy, at least as it was practiced outside a lab, did not solve all my problems. I still have trouble sleeping. I get badly depressed sometimes. And the biggie—my fear of death—seems to be in fine fettle. By experiencing the mysterium tremendum of the void, I may have even made it worse. Instantaneous transformation, I think it’s safe to say, is a seductive myth.
And yet I’m not exactly the same person I used to be. I feel the bottoms of my feet more acutely. I’ve stopped putting on sunscreen every time I go outside. I worry a bit more that I’m crazy, especially late at night. I feel exceptionally attached to my wife and children. And maybe it’s only a phase, but the idea that there might be another life out there for me, that I’ve somehow forsaken it, doesn’t haunt me so much. I suppose (and here the cliché takes over, my analytical mind is powerless) it’s called “being present.” Dr. Garcia-Romeu talks about re-acquainting people with what he calls “the beginner’s mind”: stripping away all the petty wants and concerns that we’ve mistakenly imbued with meaning, so that we can recognize again what’s truly important. I’m sure—and all the evidence seems to point to this fact—that he and S are helping people.
And there remains that feeling of euphoric beauty, of being—let’s just come out and say it—raptured. I don’t believe that I had a God-moment, or that I touched the oneness of the universe, or that I actually croaked and came back to life. As far as yoga-speak goes, I’m still on the Woody Allen side of the mat: “Students achieving oneness will move ahead to twoness.” Does that mean the feeling I had wasn’t authentic? It came from somewhere, from the chemicals in my brain, and the idea that my brain—this three-pound electric sponge in my head, made up of 86 billion neurons, with more connections among them than there are stars in the galaxy—created it kind of amazes me. This brain I had the good or bad luck to be born with can bleed spontaneously for no reason, and make me so depressed I can’t move, but it can also fill me with beauty until I weep. It can make me float to the heavens. For whatever reason, I have this superpower inside me.
A few weeks after my night in the hotel, I watched a video of *A Midsummer Night’s Dream—*a play that’s often staged as a kind of hallucination—with my kids. This staging, a Royal Shakespeare production, was particularly trippy; Puck and Oberon seemed almost demonic, dosing people with magic flower juice. I found myself sympathizing more than usual with Bottom, the woeful thespian, who undergoes a literal transformation when Puck gives him the head of an ass. When he wakes up as his old self again, he says he’s had “a most rare vision” that can’t be described. “I will get Peter Quince to write a ballet of this dream,” he says. “It will be called ‘Bottom’s Dream,’ because it hath no bottom,” meaning that it has no core but also that he, Bottom, is missing from it.
Later, after the kids were in bed, I sat outside on the patio, listening to Spotify drifting from the kitchen. Bob Dylan’s “Death Is Not the End” came on. Actually, it was Nick Cave’s version, sung in his sepulchral baritone:
When you’re sad and when you’re lonely
And you haven’t got a friend
Just remember that death is not the end
I don’t know if you could call it a flashback or not, but I stepped out of myself. Or rather: split in two. No heating ducts this time—more of a feeling, a disunity, like I’d grown a second head. It was a starless night. We were listening to a famously morbid singer tell us that life goes on after death. Dream on, the analytical me thought, frowning, while the other me thought, unburdened of him: Dream on and on.
Eric Perry is a pseudonym for a writer who has contributed regularly to GQ.
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the path not taken (so far): civic engagement for reform
Yesterday, the Huffington Post published a short piece of mine about the Obama Administration’s failure–so far–to engage the public in our great national challenges. A more complete version of the same argument follows.
As a candidate, Barack Obama made the strongest case since Bobby Kennedy in 1968 that we need to engage Americans in changing America. His biography and writing suggested that he knew what that would mean–concretely and practically. His civic engagement theme was popular with voters (although largely unreported by the press), and I believe it helped him win the primaries.
However, my own experience on two Obama campaign policy committees and my observations since then suggest that no one who has any influence in the party or the administration–other than possibly the president and the first lady–really understands the power of civic engagement. All the diagnoses of what’s going wrong focus on top-down strategy: the Democrats are too arrogant or too cautious, they took too long or tried to rush too fast, they focused on health care when they should have attended to unemployment, they catered too much to Congress or they didn’t give Congress enough leeway. Now the advice from all quarters is to change legislative objectives and to craft a new “message.” This whole discourse ignores what could be the unique advantage of having a community organizer in the White House.
The “Active Citizenship” Theme in the Campaign
Announcing his presidential candidacy in Springfield, IL on February 10, 2007, Senator Barack Obama said, “This campaign has to be about reclaiming the meaning of citizenship, restoring our sense of common purpose, and realizing that few obstacles can withstand the power of millions of voices calling for change. (Cheers.) … That is our purpose here today. That is why I’m in this race, not just to hold an office but to gather with you to transform a nation. (Cheers.) …”
Ten months later, as he campaigned to win the Iowa Caucuses, Senator Obama described his work as a community organizer: “In church basements and around kitchen tables, block by block, we brought the community together, registered new voters, fought for new jobs, and helped people live lives with some measure of dignity. … I have no doubt that in the face of impossible odds people who love their country can change it. But I hold no illusions that one man or woman can do this alone. … That’s why I’m reaching out to Democrats, and also to Independents and Republicans. And that is why I won’t just ask for your vote as a candidate; I will ask for your service and your active citizenship when I am President of the United States. This will not be a call issued in one speech or program; this will be a cause of my presidency.”
What Did Obama Mean by “Active Citizenship?”
Based on Obama’s writing and experience, I would interpret his general statements about “active citizenship” as follows. He believes that positive change comes from organized social movements, not from the government alone. (Michelle Obama hammered on this theme when she spoke last summer in San Francisco.) Social movements should be broad-based, not narrow groups of people who all agree with one another. They should promote discussion and collaboration across lines of difference–including ideological difference. Hence the need to build bridges to Republican citizens.
What critics of ACORN-style “community organizing” don’t understand is that Obama’s specific brand of faith-based organizing in Chicago was intentionally broad-based–not narrowly ideological, and certainly not partisan. As he said in May 2007, “politics” usually means shouting matches on TV. But “when politics gets local, when the person talking to you is your neighbor standing on your front porch, things change.” In that speech, he called for dialogues in every community on Iraq, health care, and climate change.
Further, Obama believes that social change requires work by many people. We must tap their skills, energies, networks, and local knowledge. Government programs cannot substitute for public work; nor can rights or entitlements. The “work” theme has been strong and consistent in his speeches. For example, on the 100th day of his presidency, in Arnold, Missouri, he said, “We’re living through extraordinary times. We didn’t ask for all the challenges that we face, but we’re determined to answer the call to meet them. That’s the spirit I see everywhere I go. That’s the spirit we need to sustain, because the answer to our problems will ultimately be found in the character of the American people. We need soldiers and diplomats, scientists, teachers, workers, entrepreneurs. We need your service. We need your active citizenship.”
At the root of many of our problems, Obama argues, are fractured relationships–among Americans and between Americans and major institutions. Bad policies are not the ultimate cause of our problems, and solutions require repairing relationships–something that only people (not institutions) can accomplish. Finally, there is a strong moral dimension to this work. Personal moral choices are responsible for our national successes and failures; and social movements can change those choices. In New Hampshire in 2006, Obama said: “We are going to re-engage in our democracy in a way that we haven’t done for some time … We are going to take hold of our collective lives together and reassert our values and our ideals on our politics. And that doesn’t depend on one person. That doesn’t depend on me or the Governor or a congressman or a speaker. It depends on you.”
Before the campaign, Barack Obama had been a broad-based community organizer, provoking moral discussions with diverse neighbors for social change. Because of his deep interest in the theoretical issues connected to that work, he was one of just two elected officials who joined Robert Putnam’s Saguaro Seminar, a leading project on civil society. Michelle, meanwhile, ran an AmeriCorps program (Public Allies in Chicago) that emphasizes civic skills, and then she took the job of building better relationships between the University of Chicago and its surrounding communities. I had the privilege of meeting her in October 2006 at a Campus Compact conference. The themes that I have quoted so far ran deep in the lives of this couple.
Did the Civic Engagement Theme Help Obama Win?
The press, including liberal columnists and bloggers, paid virtually no attention to the civic engagement theme in the campaign. I transcribed several of the quotes given above from YouTube videos because I could not find them in any print coverage of the campaign. Reporters regard a statement about “active citizenship” much like a comment about how wonderful it feels to visit New Hampshire in January. It’s just throat-clearing that precedes the attack or proposal of the day. Yet the videos clearly show rising applause at the civic moments in these speeches.
Within the campaign, policy advisers didn’t pay much more attention to the civic themes than the press did. The campaign did endorse expanding AmeriCorps, as did John McCain. But the Democrats’ proposals on matters like education and the environment included no concrete ideas for civic empowerment. A substantial proportion of Obama’s advisers were liberal technocrats who believe that society is divided into distinct interest groups. Progressive change comes from mobilizing the weaker interest groups to vote and then promoting their interests. Legislation is complex and fast-moving, and only insiders and the heads of interest groups can really understand it. Good government means informing, motivating, and negotiating with political leaders. All of these premises are at odds with the candidate’s own speeches, but I think that the “active citizenship” theme slipped past Democratic Party elites just as it escaped the notice of the press.
If the media didn’t report on active citizenship, and the candidate’s policy positions didn’t reflect it, how could it help him to win? One reason is that voters now get direct, unmediated access to the candidate’s speeches and his books. They could hear his civic rhetoric. I know, as an empirical fact, that they clapped and cheered at it.
More importantly, the campaign was structured in ways that reflected Obama’s civic philosophy. Volunteers were encouraged and taught to share their stories, to discuss social problems, to listen as well as mobilize, and to develop their own plans. There was a rich discussion online as well as face-to-face. This deliberative style was particularly attractive to young, college-educated volunteers, who felt deeply empowered and who played a significant role in the election’s outcomes, especially in Iowa. (And without Iowa, Barack Obama would not be president.)
The civic theme was consistent with Barack and Michelle Obamas’ personal stories and so helped to create a coherent narrative. I don’t believe that “narratives” determine general election outcomes (which can be predicted precisely based on macroeconomic indicators), but I do think that Obama told a better story than Clinton in the Democratic primary–and that mattered.
The idea of civic empowerment may not have generated major policy proposals, but it did play an important role in campaign debates. For example, Clinton and Obama argued over the meaning of the Civil Rights Movement, with Obama crediting the grassroots and Clinton praising Lyndon Johnson and other national leaders. That was a legitimate disagreement, but Obama’s position was consistent with his whole campaign. A related argument arose between Obama and Paul Krugman of the New York Times, with Krugman saying that America’s problem was the Republicans, and Obama replying (although not directly to Krugman) that the problem was our civic fabric.
What Happened After the Inauguration?
Once elected, President Obama signed the Kennedy Serve America Act, which triples the size of AmeriCorps. That means that about 250,000 Americans–mostly young–will perform civilian service for a year or so. On his first day of office, the president issued a strong executive order on Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration, and he renamed the White House Office of Public Liaison the Office of Public Engagement. The Administration took steps to release public information online so that citizens could use it, and the White House held online dialogues about how to implement the executive order.
The agenda so far has been strong on service and transparency, but almost entirely missing participation or collaboration–equal pillars in the original executive order. Service does not necessarily build civic skills or address fundamental problems; besides, even an expanded AmeriCorps offers no role to most people. “Transparency” means feeding information to organized interest groups, reporters, and a few independent citizens who have deep interests and skills in particular areas.
These forms of civic engagement are not nearly “edgy” enough; there is no fight in them. People are angry, in America–from the Tea Partiers to MoveOn. When citizens try to solve serious social problems, they identify enemies. They do not just hold hands and serve together; they strike back at those whom they perceive as threats. If “active citizenship” reduces to non-controversial “service,” it will completely lose touch with the legitimate anger of the American people.
The White House chose to make health care their major focus and included no aspects of civic engagement in the deliberations about the bill, in their advocacy for the legislation, or in the design of the statute. There could have been real public discussions, instead of sham “Town Meetings” that were really speeches by politicians with time for Q&A. Progressive volunteers could have been encouraged to conduct face-to-face dialogues in their communities and to form relationships with one another (instead of merely finding themselves on the receiving end of an email list). The legislation could have included health co-ops as an experiment in engaging citizens in policy.
In other words, a range of civic engagement strategies was available to the administration, including a deliberative approach (bringing liberals and conservatives together at the grassroots level to develop policy options), a more partisan and ideological strategy (empowering progressive citizen-activists to build relationships and persuade neighbors), and/or incorporating community panels or local insurance co-ops into the bill itself. The White House chose none of these strategies but opted instead for an inside game, trying to negotiate their way to a bill.
A health care bill may still pass, and it would probably be on its way to the White House already if it were not for a weak Democratic senatorial campaign in Massachusetts. On the other hand, the emerging bill was strikingly fragile because no passionate, organized, credible group of citizens supported it. It had the endorsement of some smart, independent policy experts but no enthusiastic popular backing. Nobody “owned” it. Lincoln was right: “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”
The President’s rhetoric has been subtly shifting from civic empowerment to a focus on his own personal leadership–from “we” to “I.” Seeking the nomination in Iowa, Barack Obama said, “I hold no illusions that one man or woman can do this alone.” More than two years later, responding to the Massachusetts Senate election, he said:
So long as I have some breath in me, so long as I have the privilege of serving as your President, I will not stop fighting for you. I will take my lumps, but I won’t stop fighting to bring back jobs here. (Applause.) I won’t stop fighting for an economy where hard work is rewarded. I won’t stop fighting to make sure there’s accountability in our financial system. (Applause.) I’m not going to stop fighting until we have jobs for everybody.
Before the Democrats turned to health care in 2009, they passed a stimulus package that could have been described–justly–as “public work.” Thanks to the stimulus, some Americans are building roads, bridges, and schools. Some are monitoring federal spending on websites. Some are advocating for priorities. Some are volunteering time in the same schools and hospitals where the federal funds go. Some could also deliberate about where the money should be spent at the local level. All this should be called “active citizenship” and described as a common project. Instead, it turned into a service of the federal government to us–inadequate for the task.
I recognize the challenges. Empowering grassroots volunteers to advocate for health care might have yielded a peaceful army in favor of “single payer,” which would then die in Congress. Public discussions of health care, even if moderated and appropriately structured, could be ruined by deliberate and angry opponents. No one knows for sure how to involve citizens in the administration of health plans over time. Yet the lack of innovation and experimentation in these areas is striking after the impressive record of the campaign. It is hard to identify anyone who even wants to try a civic strategy.
If “active citizenship” seems abstract and utopian, consider Community Action for a Renewed Environment (CARE), a program within the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). CARE makes grants to communities that have formed local partnerships to address environmental issues and determined their local needs. CARE also provides training and technical assistance and puts an interdisciplinary EPA team in partnership with each community. According to Carmen Sirianni, CARE has built a culture of collaboration and has obtained very energetic and enthusiastic support from EPA staff. However, as I understand it, CARE’s funding has been cut by the Obama Administration. Major national environmental organizations have little enthusiasm for its style of policy; they want top-down directives.
On health care, it is probably too late to try a civic approach. Climate change is so obviously stuck in the United States Senate that it is the issue I would use. The inside game can’t work. The bully pulpit is inadequate: after thousands of speeches by respected leaders and celebrities, there is still not enough political will for major reform of energy policy. Since negotiation cannot yield an acceptable bill, the administration should try a grassroots strategy that includes a genuine element of open discussion, not just “messaging.” And the legislation should include strong support for citizens’ work (not just volunteer service) to reduce our carbon emissions.
Six months ago, I was more persuaded by the risks of employing civic engagement to address a high-profile, deeply contentious issue like health care. I then saw the argument for ramming it through Congress. With that strategy in tatters, the case for active citizenship is stronger than ever.
This entry was posted in Barack Obama on January 27, 2010 by Peter Levine.
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June 11, 2022 June 11, 2022 Nick Kush Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg, Ethan Hawke, Maika Monroe, Phil Tippett, Scott Derrickson, Stop-Motion, The Black Phone
A horror legend returns this month to direct his first film in eight years. If you’re anything like me, you’ve | [
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Improving your building’s energy performance not only saves you money by reducing energy costs, it may also qualify you for a significant tax credit. The Energy Policy Act of 2005, signed into law by President George W. Bush, provides a tax deduction for energy efficient buildings via
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Create an APP-solutely Unbeatable Customer Experience
A mobile app creates a multitude of new ways to engage with your customers. But there are three main points businesses see right away in regard to their customer service abilities within a mobile app.
Reliable communication
This is a big one. Customers love being able to communicate directly with you no matter where they are. Of course, there is always email, but that can be slow. The same can be said for social media. Luckily through a mobile app you can have ready to go answers, an easily accessible FAQ section or even a chatbot to help you stay on top of your customers’ needs.
You’re also easy to access since your customers are likely to have their phones nearby at all times. You can keep in touch easily by being right there in their pocket and not even have to use data the way email, social media or websites do!
Ease of ordering
Whether you sell cookies or clothing, apps can make it so much easier for your customers to order what they need and go on with their day.
Shopping on websites can be overwhelming and slow if you’re on the go, but with an app it’s a matter of one or two clicks to get what you need and get going. You can even offer customers discounted services or items depending on your inventory. This can be an added perk to having the mobile app, as it can be something only offered to your most loyal, tech savvy customers!
Knowing their needs
By creating a mobile app you’re showing customers you are on the forefront of technological advancements. Mobile apps are, truly, the future of communicating in the same way websites were in the late 90’s and early 2000’s.
Customers are using apps constantly for other aspects of their lives and that’s only going to continue in the future. In recognizing how often people are using apps, you’re showing customers that you care about their leisure time. You’re saving them energy and time by making your business more accessible to them on their terms.
When it comes to offering the best customer experience possible, it all comes down to recognizing customers’ needs perhaps even before they do! A mobile app is the best way to do that. Contact Unleashed Mobile Apps to get started on your business success today.
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Browsing Category First Amendment
Jason Giambi is a gutless, steroid-using punk
August 18th, 2006 → 10:20 am @ Seth Mnookin
The Supreme Court has considered a case involving reportorial privledge exactly once, in the 1972 case Branzburg v. Hayes. In that case, a trio of reporters were subpoenaed to testify about illegal activities they witnessed in the course of their reporting: drug dealing and Black Panthering. In his 5-4 majority opinion, Justice Byron White held that reporters should not have a “testimonial privilege that other citizens do not enjoy.”
In that same decision, White wrote that there should be a “test” before reporters are compelled to testify before a grand jury. Citing Gibson v. Florida Legislative Investigation Comm., White said that the government needs to “convincingly show a substantial relation between the information sought and a subject of overriding and compelling state interest.”
For most of the last three decades, this ruling against the press has been used to support the press: because of White’s establishment of a “test,” reporters have almost never been called before a federal grand jury to reveal their sources. (Most states have shield laws granting reporters the right to protect their confidential sources.)
This, as you might have noticed, is no longer the case. In the past several years, this “overriding and compelling state interest” has time and time again been interpreted as anything the government wants to know about a journalist’s sources or methodology. The latest battleground is the Balco grand jury leak case. Earlier this week, a Federal judge in San Francisco ruled that Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, San Francisco Chronicle reporters and the authors of the book Game of Shadows, must reveal the sources that provided them with grand jury testimony regarding Barry Bonds’ steroid use. Oh, and the sources who told them that Jason Giambi had admitted to that same grand jury that he had treated his body as a grand science experiment. (It’s no accident that Giambi shares cover billing with Bonds on Game of Shadows.) In that testimony Giambi acknowledged that, at the very least, he had used either steroids or human growth hormone during three of the four years in which he’d hit more than 35 home runs: 2001, 2002, and 2003. In the year after Giambi’s last acknowledged HGH-fueled year, he hit 12 home runs and batted .208.
I’ve said much every chance I get that I think the fact that Giambi won last year’s Comeback Player of the Year is a sham. And I haven’t met a single person in baseball–club officials around the league, New York beatwriters, etc–who is convinced beyond a doubt that Giambi is now clean: his turn-around is too stark, his history too suspect. I’m sure he’s being tested more than your average bear. But MLB doesn’t currently take blood samples (or store its urine samples) and has no way of testing for HGH…Giambi’s admitted drug of choice just three seasons ago.
Earlier this week, Giambi told a reporter from MLB.com that grand jury leaks are a “serious issue.” “When we were brought in [to the grand jury], we had to talk about our situation that we went through,” he said. “People want to know the same thing now, because these laws are what our country is based on. However they obtained it, it was illegal.” Indeed, Giambi says he’s now concerned about the sanctity of the American legal system (although the sanctity of the profession that’s made him rich doesn’t seem to concern him): “There are now a lot of people who won’t testify in front of a grand jury because of the situation that has gone on. It was a situation that, who knows what would have transpired” had his testimony not been leaked. “I went through what I did and moved forward. I haven’t looked back.” That’s for sure: Giambi is currently on pace to hit 48 home runs, five more than his previous best.
A year and a half after his pathetic non-apology apology, Jason Giambi is lecturing reporters on their need to take responsibility for their actions. (Giambi, for anyone who doesn’t remember, made the Yankees remove the word “steroid” from his 2001, $120 million contract.) Chronicle editor Phil Bronstein has said his paper will not comply with the government’s demand that his reporters give up their sources. And there’s now another brewing showdown that could result in reporters in jail.
I’m pretty much a First Amendment absolutist: I think a robust free press is necessary for the healthy functioning of a democracy. That doesn’t mean I think reporters shouldn’t be held accountable or should have free license to operate outside of the law. In the cases involving the New York Times‘s Judith Miller and Time‘s Matt Cooper there was, at the very least, a compelling argument to be made for both sides.
That is not the case here. There is no “overriding and compelling state interest” outside of the government’s desire to keep grand jury proceedings secret. This is about steroids and baseball, not WMDs and war. Jason Giambi will not have any effect on the ultimate outcome of this case. But the fact that he’s acting as if he’s now concerned the Balco leaks will effect whether or not people feel free to testify in front of grand juries in the future is pathetic.
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Gee Bear and the Journey Through Sadness
Lee Nugan M.A.
Lee Nugan, author of The Song; The Transformational Power of Grief, has written a children’s book on grief titled Gee Bear and the Journey Through Sadness. Lee Nugan, a psychotherapist for over 30 years, wrote the books after working with many children and adults through the grieving process.
Gee Bear and the Journey Through Sadness is a beautifully illustrated book designed for children ages 3-11 and is a simple and powerful story that shows children that they will find joy again, even though someone they love has died. The story lets the child know that it is all right to feel sad, angry, lonely and confused, and also that it is important to express their feelings about the death. The child learns that they will feel the sadness, but they will also play again, laugh again, and go on with their lives. A child who reads this story will know that the love of the one who died will be with them forever. This book is written in a way that can reach a child on his or her own level. Even when parents and loved ones are trying their best, their words may not reach a child who is grieving.
The loneliness of grief, and the feeling of separation, can keep the child from healing, or can make the process of healing last much longer. This book is written with the hope that children who have suffered the loss of a loved one will not carry this pain forever.
The story is written from the perspective of a young girl’s teddy bear. It tells of the family’s journey of love, loss, and recovery. .
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EBOOK-Gee Bear and the Journey Through Sadness
EBOOK-for your computer or digital device - Lee Nugan, author of The Song, has written a children’s book on grief titled: Gee Bear and the Journey through Sadness. Lee Nugan, a psychotherapist for over 30 years, wrote the book after working with many children and adults through the grieving process.
The Song; The Transformational Power of Grief
BOOK - The Song is a book that goes beyond theorizing about grief. It deals with steps that help to support and comfort someone immediately after a loved one dies, as well as providing guidance through the months and years that follow. The book offers a different perception of grief and of what the death of a loved one can bring into your life. In spite of the immense pain of the loss, the transformational power of grief can take one beyond what one could imagine.
The Song and Gee Bear
SET - The set includes both The Song, The Transformational Power of Grief and Gee Bear and the Journey Through Sadness.
Never Saying Goodbye: A Life Changing Road to Acceptance
BOOK - Never Saying Goodbye After the suicide of her son, Forrest, Mary Jean wanted to change the rhythm of her life. With guidance from Dr. John E. Upledger and Dr. George Goodheart, she started exploring alternative choices. She began meditating and then she met Renata Moore, an intuitive counselor. These three individuals helped her on a spiritual path that ultimately led to peace and happiness. | [
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Belonging to the Indus Valley civilization, Dholavira is one of the largest and most important archaeological sites in India. Dholavira Tourism: Tripadvisor has 198 reviews of Dholavira Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Dholavira resource. Where exactly is Dholavira located? He told us he was part of the original ASI dig there in the 80s and 90s. With such unique geographic location, Dhelovira is a paradise on the earth. Made of sun-dried mud bricks and stone, buildings in the region still stand in good condition. 3 C. 5 D. 6 I had the good fortune to visit Dholavira in 2013. Also known locally as Kotada timba, the site contains ruins of an ancient Indus Valley Civilization/Harappan city. It is located on the … The 5,000-year-old stepwell is said to be three times bigger than the Great Bath at Mohenjo Daro, and is described by The Times of India as the “largest, grandest, and the best furnished ancient reservoir discovered so far in the country.” One of the most interesting and significant discoveries at Dholavira is the sign board found in the northern gateway of the city and is often called the Dholavira Signboard. 73.4m long, 29.3m wide, and 10m deep, the reservoir represents largest, grandest, and the best furnished ancient reservoirs discovered so far in the country. Budget 2020: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Union Budget 2020 speech announced that five on-site museums would be developed at five spots in the country. Dholavira site was excavated recently (in 1990s) compared to Harappa and Mohenjodaro. Dholavira is a small village inside an “island” called Khadir amidst the desolated salt plains of the Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. Another way to prevent getting this page in the future is to use Privacy Pass. Today what is seen as a fortified quadrangular city set in harsh arid land, was once a thriving metropolis for 1200 years (3000 BCE-1800 BCE) and had an access to … Please enable Cookies and reload the page. Dholavira reveals evidence of a remarkable planned city with broad roads, containing a central citadel (where the rulers or high officials stayed), a middle town with a spacious dwelling, a lower town with markets. The excavation site besides a small museum managed by Archaeological Survey of India is in dire state. 2 B. Dholavira (Gujarati: ધોળાવીરા) is an archaeological site in Bhachau Taluka of Kachchh district of Gujarat state in western India, which has taken its name from a modern village 1 km south of it.The site of Dholavira, locally known as Kotada timba contains ruins of an ancient Harappan city. Dholavira is the site of the world-famous Harappan civilization which is located deep inside the island of Khadir, amidst the salt plains of the Great Rann of Kutch in Gujarat. The city was also an important trading point as here one can see the presence of large reservoirs and a dam reflecting the existence of a sophisticated system of water harvesting. Completing the CAPTCHA proves you are a human and gives you temporary access to the web property. Performance & security by Cloudflare, Please complete the security check to access. Located 250 km away from the Bhuj district, near Khadir bet in the great Rann of Kutch of Gujarat, Dholavira is an ancient town that contains the fascinating and historic ruins of the Indus Valley Civilization. Context: Government of India has submitted two nomination dossiers namely ‘Dholavira: A Harappan City’ and ‘Monuments and Forts of Deccan Sultanate’ for inclusion in the World Heritage List for the year 2020. With such amazing architecture, one can figure out that good civil engineers were appointed to make the town. It is so remote that it takes a long time to reach it even from Bhuj, the biggest city in Kutch, which is round 220 kms away. India News: A 5,000-year-old stepwell has been found in one of the largest Harappan cities, Dholavira, in Kutch, which is three times bigger than the Great Bath a Edition: US How to reach Dholavira? But, reality is that the walls of Dholavira are slopy and it can not be a citadel. The ancient settlement is embraced by two monsoon channels, namely, the Manhar and Mansar. Note: No accommodation options are available in Dholavira, and one will have to book a stay in Gandhidham and Bhuj. This 47 hectares (120 acres) quadrangular city is … Dholavira, situated on the western border of our county in the Kutchh region of Gujarat seemed like a place straight out of a history text book. You can reach the … Dholavira is one of the five largest Harappan sites in the world and the most prominent archaeological site in India belonging to the Indus Valley Civilization. Solution: Harappa (2) By what name is the Indus valley civilization now called ? All these items and article are now displayed in the museum, which is located at the entrance of the city. VADODARA: Gujarat Government is planning to construct and develop an airport at Dholavira in Kutch district, one of the two largest Harappan sites in the country and also a "paradise" for bird-watchers, to connect it to the national circuit for promoting tourism. Solution: Dholavira, Lothal, Harappa, Mohen-jodaro. Which country labeled on the map above has a population of 81 million people, the second-highest population in Europe? All other Harappan towns were divided into two parts- Citadel and the Lower Town, but Dholavira was divided into three principal divisions- the … Archeologist even believes that the five-thousand-year-old town must have been a lovely city of lakes during the heyday. • What attracts the attention of the people to Dholavera is that the place provides insight into the pioneering Harappan mind, with the world's best water conservation system, first sign boards, and ancient Indus scripts. Grab the deal and start packing your bags for an indelible holiday with Tour My India. Hotel resort. If you are at an office or shared network, you can ask the network administrator to run a scan across the network looking for misconfigured or infected devices. He said that upto 60-70% of Dholavira has deliberately been left undisturbed in the ground. Popular locations. An ancient stepwell has reportedly been found in Dholavira, one of the largest cities of the Indus Valley Civilization. Popular locations. Lying on Khadir Island in the Rann of Kutch, Dhalovira covers an area of about 100 hectares. Dholavira is a sleepy village in the Great runn of kutch. The only other explanation for the structure in Dholavira is that it is a Mastaba. In fact, the residents of Dholavira had settled the town between two water streams, Manhar and Mansar, collecting their water in monsoon and using it for rest of the year. It is 150 kms and 3 hours drive each way. Many sites were discovered across northwestern India. In fact, as per some news release in 2014, 5,000-year-old stepwell has been found in Dholavira, which is three times bigger than the Great Bath at Mohenjo Daro. Rustic, beautiful and charming, Dholavira is a popular weekend gateways in Gujarat for people seeking peace and thrill. Dholavira- The zenith of Harappan town planning! By Roadways: Dholavira is 250 km away from Bhuj and is rechaed via Bhachau and Rapar. The City of Dholavira located in Khadir island of the Rann of Kutchch belonged to matured Harappan phase. Artefacts include terracotta pottery, beads, gold and copper ornaments, seals, fish hooks, animal figurines, tools, urns, and vessels that indicate trade links with lands were also dug out from this place. Dholavira is located on the island of Khadir in the Kutch district which has the distinction of being the largest district of India. This village is 165 km (103 mi) from Radhanpur. Kutch, located in the state of Gujarat, has good road, rail and air connectivity with the major cities of the country. With such unique geographic location, Dhelovira is a paradise on the earth. Hence we got a pretty good walkabout of Dholavira. Dholavira Homestay, Gujarat: See 5 traveller reviews, 17 user photos and best deals for Dholavira Homestay, ranked #624 of 965 Gujarat B&Bs / inns and rated 5 of 5 at Tripadvisor. Locally called Kotada timba, the site is the second largest Harappan site in India and fifth largest in Indian sub-continent. A. Rustic, beautiful and charming, Dholavira is a popular weekend gateways in Gujarat for people seeking peace and thrill. Today what is seen as a fortified quadrangular city set in harsh arid land, was once a thriving metropolis for 1200 years (3000 BCE-1800 BCE) and had an access to … There was a ASI museum employee who showed us around as a guide. It is one of the five largest Harappan sites and most prominent archaeological sites i… Cloudflare Ray ID: 614d17aebd792780 If you are interested in knowing about the ancient history and the primordial civilization of the country then Dholavira is the perfect place for you. Your IP: 37.157.196.165 The list contains world heritage sites. The town is situated at a distance of 445 km from Ahmedabad, making it easy for you to travel to the place. The City of Dholavira located in Khadir island of the Rann of Kutchch belonged to matured Harappan phase. Located 250 km away from the Bhuj district, near Khadir bet in the great Rann of Kutch of Gujarat, Dholavira is an ancient town that contains the fascinating and historic ruins of the Indus Valley Civilization. Meal plans available ... and a resort is just the place to find all the services and amenities you need for a relaxing time in Dholavira. • In the year 1967, people of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) unearthed the area. ... like the other ancient excavation sites in the country. Amongst the Harappan sites discovered so far, Dholavira is the only place that marks the presence of Harappan culture from 2900 BC to 1500 BC. One can hire taxis from the airport straight to Kutch. Hello, Dholavira is a very special gem in Kutch, but very far from everywhere.Gandhidham is your best option to cover Dholavira. There are daily flights from Mumbai to get here. The Harappan site of Dholavira is situated right in the middle of the Rann of Kutch lake and is one of the oldest discovered sites of the Indus Valley Civilization that existed in India and Pakistan in the third and second millennium BC. The Dholavira excavation site. Dholavira. If you are on a personal connection, like at home, you can run an anti-virus scan on your device to make sure it is not infected with malware. Dholavira which was situated in the Kutch area of Gujarat shows Harappan fortification and all the three phases of the Harappan culture. It is a location having an “Outstanding Universal Value”. Neighborhood. One can reach Dholavira from Bhuj by hopping in a private taxi or state tourism buses. Country House. What is a World Heritage Site? Dholavira is a large archaeological site of the ancient Indus valley civilization, situated in the Kutch district of Gujarat in Western India. The most interesting aspect of Dholavira is the inscriptions, mainly, ten large signs that are the first evidence of the written language. Safari / Tentalow. Bhuj Airport in Kutch is about 212 km from Dholavira and the closest domestic airport to the site. Somewhere like other Indus Valley civilization town, Dholavira fortification was also in the form of a parallelogram. How to get there? Dholavira. Very Short Answer Type Extra Questions & Answers 01 marks (1) Name the earliest city discovered in India. Neighborhood. Whereas consider the walls of mastaba shown in the picture on the right side, the walls are slopy at 30 degree angle and exactly match with the picture of mastaba shown in the picture. Dholavira’s location is on the Tropic of Cancer. After you submit the form, one of our travel experts will get back to you with customised holiday package based on your requirement, within 24 hours. The Mysterious Dholavira Signboard by Nadine Zubair Dholavira is a Harappan site located in the Rann of Kutch, Gujarat. Dholavira Tourism: Tripadvisor has 198 reviews of Dholavira Hotels, Attractions, and Restaurants making it your best Dholavira resource. Dholavira is where the remains of a part of the Harappan civilisation exist. The roads are generally good. Solution: Harappan civilisation (3) Name four excavation sites of the Harappan Civilization. how to reach dholavira. Bhuj Airport is the nearest airport from which you can get a flight for all the major cities. You may need to download version 2.0 now from the Chrome Web Store. Dholavira, at a distance of 250 km from Bhuj, is the larger of the two most remarkable excavations of the Indus Valley Civilization or Harappan culture in the country, dating back to 4500 years ago. Being one among the five largest Harappan cities in the subcontinent, Dholavira has yielded many firsts in respect of IVC*. Archaeologists have identified seven different stages in the city design. To get to Dholavira by train you will have to get off at Bhuj Railway Station and go the rest of the way by road. Between 1954 and 1958, more than 50 sites were excavated in the Kutch (notably Dholavira), and Saurashtra peninsulas, extending the limits of Harappan civilisation by 500 kilometres (310 miles) to the river Kim, where the Bhagatrav site accesses the valley of the rivers Narmada and Tapti. Dholavira, locally known as Timba Prachin Mahanagar Kotada, is an archaeological site in the Kutch District of Gujarat. Dholavira (Gujarati: ધોળાવીરા) is an archaeological site at Khadirbet in Bhachau Taluka of Kutch District, in the state of Gujarat in western India, which has taken its name from a modern-day village 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) south of it. The city seems important during the Indus Valley days as excavations have found evidence of seven layers, indicating as many settlements over a period of 1500 years. 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Changes are Coming to SAT Exams
Allie Runser|March 7, 2014
Recently, College Board has been making some major changes to the SAT college exam. These changes will affect how students prepare for their exam, how it’s scored, and even what’s on the test itself.
David Colman, the president and CEO of College Board, told CNN that standardized tests have become too “disconnected from the works of our high schools.” He also acknowledged that these tests cause unnecessary stress for students. Despite the fact that students spend much of their time studying, according to Coleman, they aren’t necessarily more prepared for college.
In 2016, the SAT exams will be redesigned to prevent students from simply filling in a bubble. Instead, they will demand that students justify their answers. To balance this new idea, the original score scale will make a return, changing from 2100 back to 1600.
In addition to the change in scoring, the essay, which was added in 2005, will now be optional for test takers. This portion of the SAT had faced criticism from educators who believed the essays focused too much on what the students wrote, no on whether or not the statements were true.
The math portion will also be facing some changes. Calculators will no longer be permitted for the entire test. It will also focus more on data analysis and real world world problems in addition to algebra and more complex math strategies.
“It’s not that helpful to tell students, ‘to get ready, they should study all of math,’” Coleman explained.
The reading and writing portions also face serious changes. While students will still be required to cite evidence to support their answers for document-based questions, the reading passages will be slightly broader. Coleman plans to increase the amount of science, history and social studies documents.
The infamous “SAT words” will also be changed dramatically. The plan is to remove random flash-card driven vocabulary words and replace them with words that the test takers will likely encounter again. The test could also focus more on the context of the words instead of the vocabulary words themselves.
Coleman is also planning to change the perception of inequality surrounding the expensive test preparation by creating more free studying options. College Board will partner with Khan Academy to offer free test prep through online resources.
“This isn’t just a ‘Hey, since it’s free, it’s better than nothing,” Coleman said. These opportunities are designed to be the best prep out there, not just the best free option.
Coleman told students, “We hope you breathe a sigh of relief that this exam will be focused, useful, open, clear, and aligned with the work you will do throughout high school.”
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What We Still Can Learn from Thomas Edison
Posted on 05. Mar, 2011 by Ira Yellen in Blog, business development, innovation, technology
Innovation and Inspiration from a Man born a 164 years ago
Edison was tenacious. He didn’t mind failure because he learned from it. He surrounded himself with very smart people. He had patience. But most important, he was a brilliant marketer. He understood that to make money he had to commercialize his inventions. He understood that to get a potential product/idea to market, it needed to be uniquely positioned against the chaos around it.
Though chaotic on the surface, now is the time to see the opportunities for you to introduce new products and services. Leading-edge companies are using this time to their advantage by incorporating an integrated marketing communication approach to their goals especially on the look out for new ideas and products. Addressing them strategically, and using targeted tactics (internet, public relations, targeted marketing, etc.) will help you reach your targeted market. Looking at the “big picture” before you begin project and the affect it will have for internal and external audiences is vital for marketing effectively. Over time, you will learn how to be a smart marketer, using marketing communication tools to that demonstrate the value your product or idea to a business.
Thomas Edison, the quintessential inventor and entrepreneur, can still teach us a lesson. Thomas Alva Edison held 1,093 patents for different inventions. Many of them, like the lightbulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, were brilliant creations that have a huge influence on our everyday life. However, not everything he created was a success; he also had a few failures. Take a look at his list of patents.
Thomas Edison’s greatest challenge was the development of a practical incandescent, electric light. Contrary to popular belief, he didn’t “invent” the lightbulb, but rather he improved upon a 50-year-old idea. In 1879, using lower current electricity, a small carbonized filament, and an improved vacuum inside the globe, he was able to produce a reliable, long-lasting source of light. The idea of electric lighting was not new, and a number of people had worked on, and even developed forms of electric lighting. But up to that time, nothing had been developed that was remotely practical for home use. Edison’s eventual achievement was inventing not just an incandescent electric light, but also an electric lighting system that contained all the elements necessary to make the incandescent light practical, safe, and economical. The miracle of the millennium was providing light and power to the masses.
Before Edison could make his millions, every one of these elements had to be invented and then, through careful trial and error, developed into practical, reproducible components. The first public demonstration of the Thomas Edison’s incandescent lighting system was in December 1879, when the Menlo Park laboratory complex was electrically lighted. Edison spent the next several years creating the electric industry. Edison was a poor student. When a schoolmaster called Edison “addled,” or slow. his furious mother took him out of the school and proceeded to teach him at home. Edison said many years later, “My mother was the making of me. She was so true, so sure of me, and I felt I had some one to live for, some one I must not disappoint.”
We can all learn a lesson here. Belief in oneself and ideas that help society, particularly the next generation. Happy Birthday Tom! | [
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The instructor that has had the biggest impact on me is Mr. Ron. Mr. Ron was my success coach in 2012 when I tested for First Degree and helped me every step of the way. No matter what my questions were, how busy he was, or how much I annoyed him (muahaha), he made sure that I was fully prepared throughout my Black Belt journey. It was with his help and guidance that I began teaching juniors classes and I am so grateful to him for all he has done to help me on this journey.
The instructor that has had the biggest impact on me | [
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Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario
More than a century ago, francophones in Ontario established an organization that has claimed and defended their rights in nearly every sector: education, arts and culture, economy, health and legal services.
Francophonie and Canada
The term francophonie has been in common use since the 1960s. It has several meanings. In its most general sense, it refers to all peoples and communities anywhere in the world that have French as their mother tongue or customary language. The term can also refer to the wider, more complex network of government agencies and non-government organizations that work to establish, maintain and strengthen the special ties among French-speaking people throughout the world. Lastly, the expression “La Francophonie” is increasingly used as shorthand for the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (International Organisation of La Francophonie).
United Farm Women of Alberta
The United Farm Women of Alberta (UFWA) was the first provincial organization of farm women in Alberta. Originally an auxiliary of the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA), the UFWA became a separate organization in 1916. The organization became the Farm Women’s Union of Alberta (FWUA) in 1949 and the Women of Unifarm in 1970. The organization dissolved in 2000.
Women's Movements in Canada: 1985–present
Women’s movements (or, feminist movements) during the period 1985–present — sometimes referred to as third- or fourth-wave feminism — engaged in multiple campaigns, from employment equity and daycare, to anti-racism and ending poverty and violence against women.
Women's Movements in Canada
Canadian women have participated in many social movements, both on their own, and allied with men.
The term “gender equity” refers to the belief that individuals of different genders require different levels of support to achieve true equality.
Fédération des femmes du Québec
Founded in 1966, the Fédération des femmes du Québec (FFQ) (Québec Federation of Women) brings together women who are individual activists or members of an activist association. This feminist lobby group is active in the political arena in calling for equality between the sexes and defending women’s rights. The FFQ is the driving force behind large-scale feminist rallies such as the Bread and Roses March (1995) and the World March of Women (2000).
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta (UFA) was founded in 1909. This organization advocated for rural co-operatives and for the needs and interests of farmers in Alberta (see Co-Operative Movement). The UFA became involved in politics and was provincially elected from 1921 to 1935. By 1939, the UFA ended its political activities, but it continued to support provincial farmers.
Orange Order in Canada
The Orange Order was a political and religious fraternal society in Canada. From the early 19th century, members proudly defended Protestantism and the British connection while providing mutual aid. The Order had a strong influence in politics, particularly through patronage at the municipal level, and developed a reputation for sectarianism and rioting.
Francophone Nationalism in Québec
Francophone nationalism in Québec or Québec nationalism is the result of the evolution of French-Canadian nationalism.
L' Action nationale
L'Action nationale was founded in 1933 by economist Esdras Minville as the voice of the Ligue d'Action nationale. It is the oldest journal of intellectual opinion writing in Quebec.
Fenians
Fenians were members of a mid-19th century movement to secure Ireland’s independence from Britain. They were a secret, outlawed organization in the British Empire, where they were known as the Irish Republican Brotherhood. They operated freely and openly in the United States as the Fenian Brotherhood. Eventually, both wings became known as the Fenians. They launched a series of armed raids into Canadian territory between 1866 and 1871. The movement was primarily based in the United States, but it had a significant presence in Canada.
Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB)
Since its founding in 1918, the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) has been creating programs, providing services and advocating on behalf of Canadians who are blind or partially sighted (see Blindness and Visual Impairment). The non-profit organization was founded and incorporated by a group of seven Canadian men — including several military veterans — in response to rising blindness rates caused by the Halifax Explosion and the number of wounded veterans returning home from the First World War.
Office québécois de la langue française
Created in 1961, the Office québécois de la langue française is a Québec public institution responsible for linguistic officialization, terminological recommendations and the francization of the language of work in both the public and the private sectors. Since 1977, it has been responsible for ensuring that the Charte de la langue française is complied with in Québec, and for monitoring the province’s language situation.
Black Lives Matter-Canada
Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a decentralized movement to end anti-Black racism. It was founded as an online community in the United States in 2013 in response to the acquittal of the man who killed Black teenager Trayvon Martin. Its stated mission is to end white supremacy and state-sanctioned violence and to liberate Black people and communities. The Black Lives Matter hashtag (#BlackLivesMatter) has been used to bring attention to discrimination and violence faced by Black people. BLM has chapters in the United States and around the world. There are five chapters in Canada: Toronto (BLM-TO), Vancouver (BLM-VAN), Waterloo Region, Edmonton, and New Brunswick.
October Crisis (Plain-Language Summary)
The October Crisis happened in the fall of 1970. It was sparked by the Front de liberation du Québec (FLQ). The FLQ used terrorist tactics to try and make Quebec independent from Canada. On 5 October, the FLQ kidnapped James Cross, a British trade commissioner. The FLQ also kidnapped Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invoked the War Measures Act. The Act had never been used before during peacetime. It suspended civil liberties and led to hundreds of arrests. Laporte was murdered and found on 17 October. Cross was freed on 3 December. The crisis ended on 28 December, when Laporte’s killers were captured.
(This article is a plain-language summary of the October Crisis. If you are interested in reading about this topic in more depth, please see the full-length entry.)
Persons Case (Plain-Language Summary)
The Persons Case was a constitutional ruling. It established the right of women to serve in the Senate. The case was started by the Famous Five. They were a group of women activists. In 1928, they objected to a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that women were not “persons.” As such, they were not allowed to serve in the Senate. The Famous Five challenged the law. In 1929, the decision was reversed. As a result, women were legally recognized as “persons.” They could no longer be denied rights based on a narrow reading of the law.
(This article is a plain-language summary of the Persons Case. If you are interested in reading about this topic in more depth, please see the full-length entry.)
Gustafsen Lake Standoff
The Gustafsen Lake Standoff was a month-long conflict (18 August–17 September 1995) between a small group of First Nations Sun Dancers and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The standoff took place in central British Columbia, in Secwepemc (Shuswap) territory near 100 Mile House. Sparked by a dispute between a local rancher and a camp of Sun Dancers over access to private land for ceremonial purposes, the armed confrontation raised larger questions of Indigenous land rights in British Columbia. On 11 September 1995, in what was later called the largest paramilitary operation in the history of the province, RCMP surrounded the remote camp and a firefight erupted during which, remarkably, no one was seriously injured. The standoff at Gustafsen Lake is perhaps the least known in a series of localized armed conflicts involving Indigenous peoples in the 1990s that included the Oka and Ipperwash crises in Quebec and Ontario, respectively. | [
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What does the 4% safe withdrawal rule mean?
03/21/2019 No Comments Richard Thripp General
The 4% safe withdrawal rule is not really a rule, but a general guideline that will result in a retiree’s portfolio outlasting their lifespan, most of the time. This should be true even for an early retiree that has achieved financial independence at a young age, because 4% is usually small enough to mitigate sequence risk, which is the danger that the market will decline soon after you retire. In most scenarios based on historical data, a balanced or aggressive portfolio will grow in perpetuity by withdrawing 4% of the initial balance per year.
The 4% rule does not mean you withdraw 4% of the present balance each year, but rather the initial balance. Typically, an inflation adjustment is included. If you retire with a $1,000,000 portfolio (for example, 80% stocks and 20% bonds), you would withdraw $40,000 in the first year, and if inflation is 2%, $40,800 in the second year, $41,616 in the third year, and so on. If you retired at the start of 2017, in 2017 your portfolio would probably have increased to about $1,175,000, but you would still withdraw $40,000 in the second year (or $40,800 with 2% inflation), not $47,000. You would withdraw the same amount even if it was a bad year for equities and generally, your portfolio would still eventually recover (rather than going to zero).
Historically, there are years where the 4% rule would not have performed well. Most recently, in 2000, but infamously in 1929 as well. The Great Depression was somewhere around an 80–90% decline, so if you retired right before the crash and then withdrew 4% of the initial balance the next year, that would be 20–40% of the decimated balance, leading quite quickly to running out of money. If you were lucky enough to retire in 2009, you saw immense capital gains in the following decade which has resulted in a much higher portfolio value even with annual 4% withdrawals. To account for potential market crashes, some have suggested changing the 4% rule to 3%. Of course, this is even more likely to leave huge amounts of money on the table when you die, which could be left to heirs or charity. Alternately, you could purchase a single premium immediate annuity from an insurance company, using a lump sum from your portfolio. Then, the insurance company will pay a fixed or inflation-adjusted monthly payment for the remainder of your life (“guaranteed income”). Of course, all insurance products have negative expected return, and their purpose is to protect against unlikely but disastrous outcomes. But, one can retire safely with a smaller nest egg when purchasing an annuity as compared with continuing to invest in securities.
If you are receiving other income, such as a pension or Social Security benefits, you can add these to the 4% rule when considering whether you have enough to retire. If your pension and Social Security give you $30,000 per year, but you need $40,000 to live on, then 4% of your portfolio only needs to amount to $10,000, which indicates an initial portfolio value of $250,000.
Vanguard has a piece from August 2012 on the 4% rule, which misses the point in a spectacular fashion. Vanguard complains about declining dividend yields from stocks and interest yields from bonds. Indeed, the average cap-weighted dividend in the U.S. stock market is presently only 1.87%, which is much less than 4%. But, issuing dividends is a boneheaded way for corporations to use excess capital, and in fact, income from interest and dividends is inferior to capital gains from appreciation in share price. A dividend compels you to take income on the corporation’s schedule, but you could simply sell a portion of your equity stake to receive income on your terms. Warren Buffett knows this well, which is why Berkshire Hathaway famously does not issue a dividend. This has fueled a meteoric rise in its Class A share price ($305,505 per share as of this writing) which otherwise would have been attenuated by the issuance of dividends.
Like most market forecasts, the Vanguard report takes part in a practice no better than fortune telling or astrology: predicting future market performance. Vanguard predicted quite pessimistic returns in August 2012… since then, the S&P 500 has doubled. Of course, it could drop by half in the near or distance future, but good luck figuring out when that will happen. Investing for the long haul is far better than trying to predict market returns.
As for timing withdrawals from your portfolio, because the duration you are invested in the market generally correlates positively with returns, anything that increases the duration you are invested is worthwhile. So, rather than taking your annual 4% withdrawal as a lump sum at the start of the year, monthly distributions are preferable, or even weekly if you can do it without fees or penalties. This is the same concept, in reverse, as to why paying a mortgage biweekly results in slightly less interest paid over the life of the mortgage than paying monthly.
Timing of withdrawals should also consider your tax situation. Because income taxes are assessed based on annual income, if you have less income in a certain year you might withdraw more to enjoy a lower tax rate on the realized income. If you need additional money during a year in which your income is already high, you could withdraw from your Roth accounts, but if your income is low, withdrawing from pre-tax retirement accounts or taxable brokerage accounts is more sensible.
In summary, remember that the 4% rule is in relation to the starting balance of the portfolio. This is related to the idea of declining risk with many decades of being invested in the S&P 500, whole U.S. stock market, or whole global stock market. The risk of loss approaches 0% with a longer duration of investment in relation to the initial balance, not the current balance. Consider two people: one invested $1 million in the S&P 500 on September 20, 2018, and another had $1 million in the S&P 500 as of September 20, 2018 that had been invested for 30 years. Both still wound up with a balance of about $800,000 on December 24, 2018, but the latter person still had much more money compared with their initial investment in 1988, even adjusting for inflation.
The 4% rule is an attempt to mitigate both sequence-of-returns risk and longevity risk. Sequence risk is the risk that you retire right before the market crashes, which could put you in the poorhouse. Usually, withdrawing 4% of the initial balance each year is sufficiently low to leave enough money in the portfolio for it to recover, despite the poor performance early in your retirement (although it is always better to withdraw less in such a scenario, if you can manage to do so). Longevity risk is the risk that you outlive your money, and the 4% rule mitigates this by leading you to dying with much more money than you started with when you retired, in most scenarios. Predicting one’s death is risky business… you can’t just look at life expectancy because that’s a median, which means 50% of people live longer than life expectancy. If you time your spending to run out of money right at 79, you might end up living to 99 but you will be destitute for those last 20 years. No one wants that.
Personal Finance Key Terms & Definitions, Part 2
Continued from Part 1, here are several more terms and my definitions for them.
Financial Freedom: For Americans, at a bare minimum this should mean one can “come up with $2,000 in 30 days,” a question that Peter Tufano found only half of Americans can answer yes to. A baseline of six months’ living expenses (an “emergency fund”) is more appropriate. This gives you the freedom of not living paycheck to paycheck or being compelled to work at a bad job.
Financial Independence: I look at financial independence as a term of art meaning you have enough savings/investments to live off of in perpetuity with no earned income and no sustained drawdown of real principal. Typically, financial planners and writers say you should have about 25 times your annual expenses to do this, which is $1 million if you spend $40,000 per year. This is pretty much the same as a financial endowment at the institutional/organizational level, but instead at the personal level.
There are 329 million people in the United States (November 2018) and U.S. households and nonprofit organizations hold an aggregate net worth of $107 trillion (2018 Q2), which is about $325,000 per person if evenly distributed, or about $425,000 if only distributed among adults—enough for $17,000 per year if income at a 4% withdrawal rate.
FIRE: FIRE stands for financial independence, retire early, a grammatically convoluted acronym that indicates achieving financial independence and then exercising the option to cease having earned income (“retirement”). Of course, one can be financially independent while continuing to work, and many who “FIRE” themselves end up continuing to work on a part-time basis.
Earned Income and Unearned Income: I would just use the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) definition for these. Earned income comes from work or pre-retirement long-term disability benefits, while unearned income includes bank account interest, dividends, and capital gains (e.g., from stocks).
Securities, Stocks, and Bonds: A security is an umbrella term that encompasses equities and debts, also known as stocks and bonds. Buying “stocks” actually means buying shares of a corporation’s stock, which confers ownership and possibly shareholder voting rights. If investing in an index-tracking mutual fund or exchange-traded fund (ETF), voting rights are conferred to your custodian rather than to you (e.g., Vanguard, Fidelity, BlackRock, etc.). Corporate bonds, another type of security, represent an obligation by a corporation to repay with interest, but confer no ownership rights. Stocks are generally more profitable than bonds, but if a corporation files for bankruptcy protection, bondholders get paid first. Many argue that U.S. Treasury bonds are the best type of debt to buy, because they are backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government, and that the reduction in risk compared to corporate and municipal bonds outweighs the lower yield. Municipal bonds may be useful to those with higher income who are subjected to state and/or local income taxes, due to their tax-advantaged status.
Emergency Fund: An emergency fund is money that is liquid, accessible, and protected from loss of principal. This is money that you have set aside for emergencies. Because the emergency fund could be needed at any time, it usually should not be invested in stocks because stocks can experience substantial short-term declines. See “The How and Why of Emergency Funds” for more information. If you have credit cards available, most emergencies can be paid for by credit card and then repaid by the statement payment due date, without interest, as long as you have been paying the full statement balance in full each and every month (otherwise, interest begins accruing from the date of the charge). Therefore, you can use an online bank for your emergency fund with limited or no ATM/cash access and pay back the credit card using the bank account.
Inflation and Nominal and Real Value of U.S. Dollars: “Nominal” just means numbers, so when we talk about nominal returns, this means we are not adjusting for inflation. Although the Austrian school of economic thought defines inflation as an expansion of money available (e.g., the monetary supply and quantitative easing programs of the Federal Reserve), this definition is unusual and not in common use. The predominant definition/measure of inflation is based on market prices of consumer goods, represented by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’s Consumer Price Index (CPI). Nowadays, the Federal Reserve aims to achieve 2.0% inflation per year, which means prices of consumer goods should increase by 2% each year. As of November 2018, many online savings accounts are paying an annual percentage yield (APY) of 2.0%. If inflation is 2%, this means that although the nominal account balance will increase 2% in a year, the real value will remain flat. When talking about past money, it is common to use CPI data to talk about the equivalent in today’s dollars. When talking about future money, discounting returns by about 2% per year to come up with a real, present day value of future money is common. If the stock market returns 10% in nominal returns in a particular year, this is probably about 8% in real returns, due to inflation.
Here are some items I intend to define in future posts:
Market Timing, Retirement, Sequence Risk, Single-Stock Risk, Index Fund, Tax-Gain Harvesting, Mutual Fund, Exchange-Traded Fund, Diversification, Tax Brackets, Payroll Taxes, Income Taxes, Tax Avoidance, Investment Management Fees, Load Fees, Dividends, Capital Gains
11/01/2018 3 Comments Richard Thripp General, Investing
Here, I will seek to define several common personal finance terms that are often conflated and misunderstood.
Financial Literacy: There is no consensus definition of financial literacy, but I would say it is mainly concerned with having financial knowledge. However, personal finance is an eclectic field; having a high level of financial literacy requires knowledge in other areas, such as behavioral economics, psychology, information literacy, law, and even nutrition. Although financial literacy is usually correlated with good financial practices, this is not a given; one can easily have expertise but fail to apply it, or succumb to believing they are exceptional and can earn more in the stock market than others, or miraculously avoid a probable, deleterious outcome.
Financial Capability: I would define this as financial literacy combined with demonstrated financial competence, which hinges on consistently making good financial decisions, given one’s available choices and opportunities. What constitutes a “good” financial decision is not always clear, but we can often put items in rank order. For example, taking a payday loan is objectively worse than taking a credit card cash advance, because payday loans have far higher interest rates. One can have financial capability but not be able to do much with it—for instance, marginalized peoples and those in adverse situations. Conversely, privileged people may squander a portion of their privilege due to low financial capability. To be financial capable, one must not only make good financial decisions but also know why their decisions are good, and why they selected them over alternative courses of action. Such expertise should result in repeated beneficent decision-making, whereas someone of low financial capability might make a good choice by chance, but is unlikely to reliably do so.
Gambling: Many people conflate gambling and investing, but they are not the same thing. I define gambling as an act or series of acts where you are more likely to lose money than not, meaning that your expected returns are negative. However, there is an exception for insurance that insures against unmanageable losses, including losses that may potentially be unlimited (e.g., health insurance). Obviously, insurance companies have to come out ahead overall, but insurance is worthwhile to insure against unlikely but highly deleterious financial events. Returning to the element of likelihood, any student of statistics knows that if you gamble $1 with a 49% probability of coming away with $2 but a 51% probability of coming away with zero, your odds of making money are close to 50:50. But, if you keep making this bet again and again, your probability of losing money overall gets closer and closer to 100%. This is how lotteries and casinos produce guaranteed profits. When you invest in a broad swath of the stock market (e.g., an S&P 500 index fund), your probability of making money on any one trading day is about 54%. However, in a given year, it is about 83%, and in a given 10-year span, it is about 91%. Assuming you don’t need the money for a long time, this is investing, not gambling. However, if you try to pick stocks or put all your money in your company’s stock, your expected return might be negative, and there is a large risk of catastrophic loss. This is gambling. A kinder word is speculating, but it is certainly not investing.
Speculating: If you pick individual stocks or even entire market sectors, you are basically speculating. Buying gold, silver, oil, or corn futures is speculation. Buying BitCoin is speculation. These assets don’t have a solid track record of producing real returns (after adjusting for inflation). Modern portfolio theory tells us that holding uncorrelated (diversified) assets can be advantageous, so it makes sense to have gold—but not more than a small percentage of your assets. Speculation is often better than gambling, but certainly worse (as a decision) than investing. Although you might have fantastic results from speculating, this just means you had the unlikely fortune of making a bad decision that resulted in a good outcome. However, if this inflates your ego, it can easily lead to future misfortunes!
Investing: Over time, investing results in a probability of real returns that approaches 100%. As Vanguard mentions, for an S&P 500 index fund, which consists of 500 of the largest U.S. public companies invested proportionate to the companies’ market valuations, your probability of positive returns on any given day is 54%, but in ten years it is 91% (based on 1988–2018 data, but others have shown similar results even going back 100+ years). Besides the stock market, one can be successful at investing in real estate, or even one’s education, as those with more education tend to be more happy and successful in life, including financial success. Of course, there is presently a student loan “crisis” going on, and it is important to avoid high-cost tuition and housing expenses while also finishing your degree. On another note, investments must have a high probability of succeeding within a reasonable timeframe, and what is investing for one person could be gambling for another based on how soon they need the money (e.g., older people should have “safer” investments meaning less risk of short- and medium-term losses and lower expected returns).
I will follow this up with a Part 2 in the near future.
Narrated Explanation for May 2018 Financial Literacy Quiz
06/07/2018 1 Comment Richard Thripp General
This is a June 2018 video by Richard Thripp (39 minutes) explaining the choices, answers, and rationale to a financial literacy quiz written by Richard Thripp in May 2018.
When watching it, I recommend adjusting the YouTube quality setting to the highest resolution (720p).
The video covers computing compound interest, numeracy skills, stock investing, tax issues, healthcare, retirement, credit scores, and many other issues.
Financial Literacy Quiz (May 2018)
New: I made a narrated video explaining the questions and answers.
This is a financial literacy quiz written by Richard Thripp in April 2018 and published on Tippyfi in May 2018. It covers interest rates, compounding, numeracy skills, stock investing, tax issues, healthcare, and retirement. After submitting, you will see how many points you scored, the answers you chose (marked with a red X if incorrect) and the correct answers (marked with a green checkmark) for all questions, and explanations for all questions.
1. Suppose you deposit $1,000.00 in a savings account that earns interest, amounting to a 1.00% annual percentage yield (APY). This means that after each year passes, the account balance will be 101% of what it was a year before. After two years, what will your account balance be?
Do not know how to calculate the answer
2. Suppose that when a person earns money, they pay 10% of their earnings as a tithe to their church. Pretend that other expenses and taxes (e.g., income, payroll, and sales taxes) are zero. For this person to be able to afford to purchase a $100.00 item, how much money must they earn?
3. If five (5) people all have the winning number in a lottery and the prize is $2,000,000.00 (two million dollars), how much will each of them get? Assume the prize is split evenly, taxes are zero, and that there is no penalty for a lump-sum payout. (Question adapted from the 2004 Health and Retirement Study)
$200,000.00 (two hundred thousand dollars)
$400,000.00 (four hundred thousand dollars)
$500,000.00 (five hundred thousand dollars)
$800,000.00 (eight hundred thousand dollars)
$1,000,000.00 (one million dollars)
$4,000,000.00 (four million dollars)
4. Suppose that a credit card charges a 24% annual percentage rate (APR) on purchases, compounded daily from the date of purchase (365 days per year). This means that each day, the amount owed is 100.06575% of what was owed the previous day. One year after a purchase is made, how much of the original amount will be owed? Assume no payments are made toward this purchase and no penalties are assessed.
5. If inflation increases prices by 2.00% per year for a given item that costs $100.00 now, how much will this item cost in 10 years?
6. You are shopping at a clothing store in a clearance section where all items are 50% off the marked prices. Items marked with a yellow tag receive an additional 30% off. Which method of computing the discounted price would result in a lower price for the customer?
Reducing the marked price by 50%, and then reducing the new price by an additional 30%.
Summing the two percentage discounts (50% + 30% = 80%), and then reducing the marked price by 80%, which is the sum of the two percentages.
7. Over a 30-year timeframe starting now, which of these is most likely to be the most profitable investment?
A certificate of deposit (CD)
A mutual fund of the Standard & Poor’s 500 index (S&P 500) of large U.S. companies
A 30-year United States treasury bond
8. Avoiding income taxes is a reason to contribute to an individual retirement arrangement (IRA).
9. Monies contributed to individual retirement arrangements (IRAs), 401(k) accounts, and 403(b) accounts can be invested in certificates of deposits (CDs), money market accounts, and fixed-income assets (bonds), but cannot be invested in equities (stocks).
10. In a 10-year period, which of the following earnings scenarios will result in an unmarried individual paying less money in U.S. federal income taxes?
Earning $500,000 in one of the 10 years but earning zero in each of the other nine years
Earning $50,000 in each of the 10 years
11. Given the performance of U.S. equities (stocks) in the past, if one invests in an index mutual fund of the whole U.S. stock market, the probability of making money in any particular one-year period is approximately what?
12. Given the performance of U.S. equities (stocks) in the past, if one invests in an index mutual fund of the whole U.S. stock market, as the number of years one stays invested increases (e.g., 10, 20, 30, 40 years, etc.), the probability of making money gets closer and closer to 100%.
13. If one has plenty of money saved, it is generally a good idea to purchase insurance that protects against minor expenses.
14. In most U.S. states, giving a person durable power of attorney means they can make medical decisions for you if you are incapacitated, even if their decisions are contrary to your family’s wishes.
15. Generally, designating someone as a payable-on-death beneficiary of a bank or investment account supersedes or bypasses beneficiaries named in a will.
16. A downside of health insurance is that hospitals typically negotiate higher rates with insurance companies than what they would bill an individual who did not have health insurance.
17. A disadvantage of accumulating an emergency fund is that you may become ineligible for means-tested benefits such as Supplemental Security Income (SSI).
18. Overall, the distributions of income and wealth in the United States have both been becoming more equitable since the 1970s.
19. On a dollar-for-dollar basis and without considering taxes, funds acquired through hard work and funds acquired via a windfall (e.g., winning the lottery) are of equal value.
20. Which of the following has a positive impact on your credit scores?
Being more than 90 days late on a payment
Your credit card’s statement balance being 90% of your credit line
All your credit accounts being opened within the past year
Having a jumbo mortgage
Having two or more different types of credit (e.g., credit cards, mortgage, student loans, auto loans)
Paying your storage unit’s bill on-time each and every month
Having a high net worth
Having a high income
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Roseburg Swift Watch – Friday Evenings During the Fall Southward Migration (and occasionally during the Spring as well)!
Location: Fir Grove section of Stewart Park behind the Umpqua Valley Arts Center off of Harvard Avenue
Dates/Times: Swift Watch is generally held several Friday evenings during the fall migration beginning an hour before sunset, typically beginning late in August and ending the middle of September.
Vaux’s Swifts (pronounced “vawks”) nest only in Western North America, migrating to Central and South America for the winter. Each year, thousands of Swifts gather in the chimney adjacent The Clay Place in the Fir Grove section of Stewart Park off of Harvard Avenue behind the Umpqua Valley Arts Center during their spring migration. At sunset during migration, Swifts gather in the dozens, sometimes hundreds or thousands, to communally roost. Typically, these roost sites are, as here, old industrial chimneys. While numbers vary from year to year, the display can be spectacular.
The Swifts exit the chimney in a very different way – more of a bubbling water fountain than a tornado. And the exit time is much less predictable, occurring anytime from sunrise to mid-afternoon.
During Swift Watch, Umpqua Valley Audubon Society members will be available Friday evenings to serve as interpretive naturalists, with information and brochures about Vaux’s Swifts as well as more general information about birding and our natural world. We also often coordinate with local artists to provide free art activities for kids ages 5 and up; participants must be supervised by an adult. In addition, weather permitting, the “Swifts Sisters and Friends” often join us to play Americana music, so come out and join in the fun.
In addition, throughout the fall migration, Audubon members will be participating in a West Coast wide data collection effort. We know swifts have lost much of their natural habitat and the number of chimneys available for roosting and nesting is also on the decline. Little is known about even the most basic habits of Vaux’s Swifts, to say nothing of how many there actually are. Working in conjunction with our partners up and down the west coast, we hope to fill in some of the data gaps.
Our data collection is part of the work being done by Vaux’s Happening. Vaux’s Happening promotes the conservation of migrating Vaux’s Swifts by raising awareness of the spectacular roosting events this species displays at a limited number of large trees and old masonry structures on the Pacific Flyway. Since its beginning in the spring of 2008, the project has documented over eight million individual roosting events in the US, Canada and Mexico. It is our hope that public awareness of the importance of these sites will play a positive role in the sites’ protection.
Roseburg Swift Watch is a partnership of Umpqua Valley Audubon Society, the City of Roseburg Parks & Recreation Department, and Umpqua Valley Arts Association. | [
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Car Modification Ideas
There are many different ways to modify your car. You can add racing stripes, custom interior and exterior paint, and more to get the exact look that you want. If you have a budget for modifying your car, you can also get a used one and make some cosmetic changes. The following are some examples of car modification ideas. These ideas can be applied to any model of vehicle. Adding these types of modifications will instantly give your old car a new look.
Adding superchargers or turbochargers to your car will give it more power without risking its emissions or safety inspection. If you’re in California, you can install a supercharger without breaking any emission regulations. However, if you live in another state, you must make sure that the modification will pass the state smog test. For this reason, you should avoid installing superchargers. While they will make your car perform better, they are not legal in all states.
You can improve your car’s performance by upgrading your car’s exhaust system. While some people will try to increase the horsepower of their cars, the main goal is to make the vehicle feel better. In other words, you don’t want a Porsche to look like a cheap Maruti, or vice versa. By replacing parts in your car, you can boost its performance without having to replace the engine. There are other modifications that you can perform without changing the engine.
Those who want to improve the performance of their car should consider the pros and cons of each modification. There are plenty of ways to customize your car without changing the engine. The most popular modifications are turbochargers and superchargers. These two options can dramatically increase the power of your car. The benefits of turbochargers are that they are very powerful and don’t cause your vehicle to fail its emissions or safety inspection. Although these modifications can increase the performance of your car, they don’t make it illegal in any state.
The most common car modification ideas are cosmetic. You can upgrade the engine with a turbocharger or supercharger. These upgrades will increase your car’s power, but they will not cause it to fail the safety inspection. A turbocharger can improve the performance of a car without messing with the catalytic converter. It’s important to check for safety before you start modifying your vehicle. If you’re not sure about the legalities of car modifications, you should consult a professional.
While some modifications are only cosmetic, others have real-life benefits. Some of these improvements can improve the overall performance of your vehicle and make it more desirable to the people who own it. While you may not be able to replace the engine, you can upgrade it to a higher performance level. This is an excellent option for those who want to improve their car’s engine without completely changing the engine. It will not only make your car look better but it will also help to protect the environment.
February 5, 2022 by jithu Uncategorized 0
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S: (n) Allies (in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers)
S: (n) allies (an alliance of nations joining together to fight a common enemy)
S: (n) ally (a friendly nation)
S: (n) ally, friend (an associate who provides cooperation or assistance) "he's a good ally in fight"
S: (n) associate (a person who joins with others in some activity or endeavor) "he had to consult his associate before continuing"
S: (n) adjunct (a person who is an assistant or subordinate to another)
S: (n) affiliate (a subordinate or subsidiary associate; a person who is affiliated with another or with an organization)
S: (n) bedfellow (a temporary associate) "politics makes strange bedfellows"
S: (n) collaborator, cooperator, partner, pardner (an associate in an activity or endeavor or sphere of common interest) "the musician and the librettist were collaborators"; "sexual partners"
S: (n) colleague, confrere, fellow (a person who is member of one's class or profession) "the surgeon consulted his colleagues"; "he sent e-mail to his fellow hackers"
S: (n) colleague, co-worker, fellow worker, workfellow (an associate that one works with)
S: (n) member, fellow member (one of the persons who compose a social group (especially individuals who have joined and participate in a group organization)) "only members will be admitted"; "a member of the faculty"; "she was introduced to all the members of his family"
S: (n) participant, player (someone who takes part in an activity) "he was a major player in setting up the corporation"
S: (n) shipmate (an associate on the same ship with you)
S: (n) teammate, mate (a fellow member of a team) "it was his first start against his former teammates" | [
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Common Grounds: Artistic Practices, Civil Society, and Secular Determination in Tunisia Today
anthonydowney 2012, Essays, Publications 0 Comments
Faten Gaddes, Punching-ball, 2011, installation view. Photograph by Adam Le Nevez.
‘Doing art means displacing art’s borders, just as doing politics means displacing the borders of what is acknowledged as the political …’ [1]
In the last year or so, a perennial issue has re-emerged in discussions of contemporary art practices in the Middle East and North Africa: what is the relationship of art to politics; or, similarly, what is the relationship of the aesthetic to revolutionary forms of activism? The confusion, intentional or otherwise, between art as a practice and art as a form of civil activism has given rise to a number of considerations, not least the role of art, if indeed it has one, in engaging civic and public space. This confusion has produced mixed results and a degree of scepticism towards opportunistic curatorial remits that co-opt art practices into the political aesthetic of revolution and, thereafter, into the service of a revolutionary politics. These curatorial gestures expose two relatively opposed positions in current debates: for some, art as activism negates the aesthetic dimension of art; whereas for others, art without activism of some sort – or at least a political inclination if not motivation – abrogates the authority of art as a form of social commentary. Neither position, I want to argue in what follows, is tenable – if indeed they ever were – and both need to reconsider the potential of a common ground between them, nowhere more so than in light of ongoing events in the region and elsewhere.
Art as a practice is always already engaged in the political, even if it is by virtue of being excluded from that sphere. In fact, in the moment of its exclusion or prohibition it can only ever be political. This is not about the blunt force that is politically-inclined forms of censorship; rather, this is about the ongoing role of creative practices in the development of forms of social engagement and the civic imagination. One of the clearest ways of acknowledging and understanding this relationship is in the manner in which art practices, which have always adopted an autonomous yet embedded role in social debates, are increasingly placed on the frontline of discussions about public and private space and who has access to it, not to mention what can be seen, said and heard within the contiguous yet divided realms of such spaces. In this context, the extent to which visual culture has become a key site of antagonism for the forces of secularism and, for want of a better term, extremism, is all the more notable when it comes to considering what is understood by public and private space in cities across North Africa and the Middle East today, and, crucially, who gets to determine the relationship between the two.
A recent example can give some granular detail here. On June 10, 2012, in La Marsa, a city adjacent to Tunis, an art exhibition Printemps des Arts (Springtime of the Arts) came to an end with ugly protests from both artists who were involved in the show and protesters – largely identified as Salafis (a collective term used for the most conservative Islamists) – who became locked in increasingly acrimonious exchanges that extended to physical abuse, a running battle with local police, death threats being issued to participating artists, destruction of artworks, the vandalisation of the Palais Abdellia, where the exhibition was being held, and a call for Mehdi Mabrouk, the Tunisian Minister for Culture, to resign.[2] In the days that followed, fundamentalist voices alleged blasphemy and used Facebook to publicise what were later determined to be doctored images of works that were purported to have been in the original show.[3] The Palais Abdellia, which had held Printemps des Arts for over a decade, effectively became central to the question of what could be viewed and who should have access to it – it became central, that is to observe, to any debate over civil, secular, public, religious and political space and how such spaces were engaged with and by whom. This intention had been clearly outlined in the curator Meriem Bouderbala’s accompanying text for the show’s catalogue, in which she wrote
In the current context, it is all about occupying cultural territory, of allowing everyone access to it and contributing to a strong democratic cultural constitution that demonstrates the strength of Tunisia’s creative potential.[4]
The use of terms such as ‘occupying’ and ‘constitution’ and, later in the text, ‘resistance’ and ‘civil society’ placed this text and the accompanying show firmly in the realm of the political. It also placed it in the antagonistic realm of secular self-determination. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this situation, and it is evident that both sides of the argument have been strained to mean different things to different people, culture is a political battleground in post-revolutionary Tunisia. Putting to one side its engagement with what are considered by many to be taboo subjects, the blurring here of private and public space, religious edict and secular determinism, political opportunism and civil rights, makes way for a heady mix in what still remains a fraught and hard-won freedom from despotism. What becomes all the more evident, thereafter, is that for civil society to flourish in a given moment in time – and for despotism to become a thing of the past – then public space, always a site of antagonistic forces, must be protected, and access to it must be maintained for all.
It is worth asking, before we proceed further, what is meant by civil society in, say, Tunisia or Egypt today, and how the term is being used. We may also want to enquire into the relationship between civil society, public space and art practices in countries were civil society has been largely absent as a social force. Civil society, in the broadest sense, is composed of voluntary social relationships, civic and social organisations, and other institutions that are relatively distinct from government and profit-led organisations or privately-funded initiatives. For my purposes, civil society is also understood in terms of being a community-based and community-organised activity that is not undertaken by either government or commercial, for-profit businesses. In perhaps simplistic terms, civil society is therefore often contrasted to state control and is seen as a bulwark against the excesses of the state. The absence of civil society and its institutions is likewise understood to be indicative of an authoritarian state and it is notable that throughout the Middle East and North Africa the ascendancy of despotism seemed to be realised through the de-legitimisation and marginalisation of the institutions associated with civil society. Clubs, community organisations, men’s groups, women’s groups, non-governmental organisations, private voluntary organisations, sports groups, environmental activists, cultural groups, religious organisations, social enterprises, academe, activist groups, charities, support groups, trade unions, artist’s groups, art institutions, and community-based art projects – all form the bedrock of civil society, and all were often placed in precarious relationships to state edicts and governmental control, if not outright proscription.
In Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya, forms of civil renewal are emerging that are not necessarily associated with the right to vote, the latter seen in the west, if we can use that term, as a sign of a democratic order. These ideals of civil renewal involve active citizenship and the strengthening of community bonds through the emergence of civil and community-based groups and activities. Shows in public institutions, of which there are few, are representative of this emergence – and reactions to them are testament to the sense that what is at stake here is a common ground upon which to voice debate, entertain disagreement and engage in discussions about public and private space, the rights of the individual, and freedom of expression – all of which are and remain critical to the commonweal of a given social and political order. Politics, to remain healthy, needs dissent and disagreement, which can be both entertained in public space and can, equally, realign the very parameters of that space. Dissent, in the sense that philosophers such as Jacques Rancière uses it, is the political materialisation and manifestation of the people. Dissent has to be thereafter policed, structured into, and contained within a symbolic order that is premised upon a ‘distribution of the sensible’ that asserts consensus through a prefiguration of the conditions of intelligibility, the effectivity of thought, the subjectivisation of the political subject and, perhaps crucially, the relationship of the subject to knowledge itself in any given social order. A prohibition of what is and what is not admissable within a given public space is a distribution (policing) of a given sensible and social order. It is a form of partitioning that has at its heart a paradigm of consensus based upon modalities of exclusion and inclusion within which forms of political subjectivisation are policed and, of course, out-lawed. It is dissensus that brings politics proper into existence by splitting this shared experiential world (consensus) of a community. And that experiential world is very much implicated in the distribution of a sensible order that includes the aesthetic and the forms that creative practices can and cannot assume in a given order.
For dissent to emerge, public and civil space need to be understood as sites of provisional inhabitation. None of which is to say that civil society and civil space as it is understood in, say, Britain or France, can be transposed to Tunisia or Egypt in a wholesale call for the emergence and sustainability of public and political dissent. This is the same order of delusion that promotes western-style ‘democracy’ in the region as the only possible solution to what have been decades of cultural, political, social and economic malaise.[5] However, community-based, co-operatively-inclined, non-state funded, and not-for-profit organisations, in whatever form they take, are crucial to the development of a common good and common ground upon which a social and political order can fully emerge in all its potential to actualise real change through forms of disagreement and dialogue.[6] And it is precisely that form of social ordering that has been either absent in the region or placed under continued threat, both in a pre- and post-revolutionary setting.
Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Shadid noted ‘[t]he challenges before Tunisia’s year-old revolution are immense – righting an ailing economy, drafting a new constitution and recovering from decades of dictatorship that cauterized civic life’.[7] Shadid’s analysis of the problems facing the emerging political system in Tunisia, one of the last of his dispatches before his death in February 2012, not only highlights the ongoing and vexed dynamic between constitutional rights and freedom of expression – which are increasingly strained in discussions concerning the role of religion in governments and societies across the region – but also observes how civic, or civil, society was effectively eviscerated in the country under the previous despotism of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and his murderous flunkies. Elsewhere in Shadid’s analysis, he quotes Abdelhalim Messaoudi, a journalist at Nessma TV that had broadcast the film Persepolis and incurred the wrath of fundamentalist groups for his troubles. Messaoudi, who was attacked in the aftermath of showing the film, noted, ‘[c]ertain Islamist factions want to turn identity into their Trojan horse […] They use the pretext of protecting their identity as a way to crush what we have achieved as a Tunisian society. They want to crush the pillars of civil society’.[8] Culture is increasingly positioned, by its supporters and detractors alike, as the forum within which these debates will persist, and it is cultural practices that have inevitably become contiguous with the emergence of public space, dissent, disagreement, and their role in sustaining civil society.
Speaking after the events surrounding Printemps des Arts at the Palais Abdellia in June of this year, Mehdi Mabrouk, the Tunisian Minister for Culture, reportedly said the following: ‘It’s enough for art to be beautiful, it shouldn’t be revolutionary, it should be nice’. This statement, from a Minister of Culture no less, betrays a simplistic attitude towards art as a practice that borders on foolishness. Nevertheless, it is worth exploring its content further because it also goes to the heart of the matter concerning the politics of culture and its imbrication within civil society. In suggesting that artists, be they revolutionary or not, should steer away from the political realm, Mabrouk is actually making a case for the opposite: in arguing that art has no place in politics, he is explicitly politicising art and bringing it into the political sphere. What could be more political than placing a sanction on an activity within a given social order? If art has no place in the political sphere, as Mabrouk suggests, and should thereafter maintain a quaint indifference to, if not aloofness from it, he is attempting to bar art from the political sphere and explicitly highlighting the fact that art is not only always already politicised in these debates but is also – consciously or unconsciously – questioning the very boundaries of art and its engagement with social and political issues. Doing art, to paraphrase my epigraph, is to displace and extend the boundaries of art. In this instance, art as a practice, considered a private pursuit with a public dimension, extends into debates around civil society and thereafter displaces its borders of engagement to include discussions around public space and access to such space. If art is indeed increasingly positioned as ‘political’ by virtue of being denied a role in the political, it is obvious that it is considered capable of potentially altering opinion, not to mention reconfiguring engagement with various communities. Inherent within Mabrouk’s off-hand and imprudent remark is an often occluded but nonetheless potent counter-proposition that alerts us to art’s potential to effect social debate in a country such as Tunisia.
We may want to pause here and reflect upon the extent to which art as a practice not only engages with relations of power – including the power to determine and police what is public and private space – but the extent to which it can also realign these determinations of public and private. If we can argue that politics is reflected in the sum of power relationships that exists in a given sociopolitical order, then any reflection upon that order or broadening of those relations effects a change in the way in which we view and engage with the political. And that, in and of itself, is a political act: to change how people engage, what they see, how they interact, and what they hear, can only ever be a political gesture. Thereafter we must observe that the very realm, if not innate power of the political, for many, is the ability to determine what is and what is not political as such, just as Mabrouk had attempted to do in his proscription of art from the political realm. Any expansion or retraction of the political order, and who has access to it, is an interjection into the syntax and logic of meaning and sense. It is an interjection into the very heart of what it is to think about the political and one’s role in it, not to mention the normative rules of determination to which an individual is subjected within such an order. In the moment of redefining the sphere and realm and scope of the political, and the core debate about what constitutes public, private and civil space within that order of the political, new forms of subjecthood, in sum, can be articulated, as can new forms of protest.[9]
If a government, be it the relatively pragmatic An-Nahda movement, who took over from Ben Ali’s regime, cannot guarantee the freedom of its people to protest and voice dissent in the name of self-expression and self-determination, then what is its function other than control and the normalisation of modes of subjectivity within a political order? Art, in the political sphere, can realign the order of thinking and hierarchies of thought that prescribe that very sphere and, likewise, freedom of expression and modes of self-determination. Mabrouk, paradoxically and no doubt unintentionally, is making the most explicit case for the fact that art is indeed implicated within a given political, social and civil order, especially if we consider that political order to be a site of dissenting and competing voices. Mabrouk is therefore right to suggest that art should not partake in the political or revolutionary inasmuch as it is obviously the one force that he and the government have no control over and are therefore perfectly within their remit – if they adopt autocratic forms of governance – to be afraid or suspicious of it. Art, in short, is revolutionary: it pre-figures not only horizons of engagement and imaginative possibility but also the potential ground for forms of self-determination within a given social order. It likewise provides the parameters for a debate on the very ideal that underwrites secular and religious views on what matters in contemporary Tunisia today: who controls public and private space and ordains what can be said, seen and done within those spaces. These, lest we forget, were the very issues that predicated the revolutions that we have seen erupting across the Middle East and North Africa since at least December 17, 2010.[10] This returns us to a very basic observation: art and culture have always contributed to the commonweal of civil society and the health of societies in general. A flourishing culture is a sign of a flourishing society. (I would draw attention here to the Greek origins of the term ‘happiness’ which is eudaimonia, meaning flourishing). Support for art and culture, it follows, is therefore support for the development of a healthy and sustainable form of civil society where debate and dissent can be entertained – the very forms of civil society that are still largely absent throughout the Middle East.
Which brings us to a decisive question: what role will culture play in the formulation of civil society, not to mention the sphere of the socio-political, in countries where dissent can still result in imprisonment or worse? What place do cultural organisations have in the Middle East, we need to also ask, if it is not to express and give form to the concerns and visions of their environment, in the first instance, and to subsequently promote a degree of introspection when it comes to the broader social, political and historical structure of those environments? The moment for supporters of the arts to develop new strategies for supporting the common good, common ground, and communal-based practices of art as an institution have never been so needed or indeed welcomed as they are now in the context of, for example, Tunisia, where civil society – of which artistic practices and institutions are an indelible part – is precisely that which is under threat after what for many must have appeared an interminable hibernation. Art as a practice, by way of a conclusion of sorts, can change how a social order looks at itself and understands its bonds of community or indeed differences within that community. This, for some, is the import of the aesthetic: the effective reconfiguration – through artistic practices – not only of what can be seen, said and heard, but who gets to see, say and hear in the first place.
I want to return to where we more or less began and end with a quote from Rancière, who proposes that ‘[t]here exists a specific sensory experience – the aesthetic – that holds the promise of both a new world of Art and a new life for individuals and the community’.[11] Artistic practice opens up a horizon of future possibility within which civic imagination can flourish and art as a practice contributes to the forms that civic space takes whilst, in turn, sustaining it through the modalities of engagement that can be expressed within such space. To this end, support for the vectors of possibility and potentiality in cultural practices and the way in which they are always already involved in the context of (and support for) civil spaces, dissensus, and debate, is not only needed but essential to the success and commonweal of the political sphere too. Politics needs culture if it is to reflect and sustain the ambition of its people towards forms of historical self-determination. Politics and culture, therefore, need a common ground for both to be sustained. This is not, finally, about art as a form of political protest (an all too easily co-opted cultural paradigm), nor is this to confuse the artist as protester (or vice versa); rather, this is about the potential of art as a practice to open up horizons of possibility for civic imaginations to emerge and be thereafter supported within a community-based network of social relations that includes but is not precluded by the political.
Co-Published with ArteEast in ArteZine, guest edited by Ceren Erdem and entitled “ANEW: Retelling the Stories of The Past and The Future”.
[1] Jacques Rancière , ‘The Paradoxes of Political Art’, in Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics, ed. and trans. By Steve Corcoran, Continuum: London (2012), pp. 134-151 (p. 149).
[2] It is unclear at the time of writing whether or not this was a Salafi-inspired protest or a more generalised one. What is clear is that Salafites in Tunisia want to see a more prominent role for Islam in both government and society, and that in itself brings it into conflict with secular culture.
[3] For fuller details of the events and aftermath, see Rachida Triki, ‘Freedom to Express: The Abdellia Affair’, downloadable at http://www.ibraaz.org/news/30 (first published 23 August, 2012), and www.tunisia-live.net/2012/06/11/artworks-and-property-vandalized-during-a-night-of-tension-in-tunis/
[4] Quoted in Rachida Triki, ‘Freedom to Express: The Abdellia Affair’, ibid.
[5] I borrow this notion of malaise from Samir Kassir’s Being Arab, Verso: London (2006, orig. 2004).
[6] It is crucial that I offer here, however provisionally, a degree of distinction between so-called Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) and the institutions of civil society. NGOs often contribute to the stabilisation of civil society in post-conflict countries. However, civil society itself cannot entirely rely upon NGOs to further expand the realm of the civic. Whilst this is not necessarily the best place to go into these debates, it is notable that the majority of NGOs began as humanitarian vehicles in the area of economic development, but have quickly extended into social and political spheres. This has given rise to a series of criticisms when it comes to examining how such organisations can effect neo-colonial cultural and political agendas and become conduits for the international regulatory systems of global capitalism. For a fuller discussion, see Tina Wallace, ‘NGO Dilemmas: Trojan Horses for Global Neoliberalism’, in Socialist Register, vol.40 (2004), pp. 202-219.
[7] Anthony Shadid, ‘Tunisia Faces a Balancing Act Of Democracy and Religion’, in The New York Times, January 31, 2012, p. A1.
[9] The political subject, for Rancière, challenges the ‘symbolic structuration’ of the community that abolished dissensus in the first place and is thereafter engaged in a process of non-identification with the distribution of the sensible in which he or she finds themselves. Subsequently, non-identification with a given order becomes a moment of instantiating political subjectivity as it introduces dissensus, the latter a disagreement with the established framework of perception/distribution of the sensible that effectively ushers in, as opposed to consensus, politics proper. Rancière writes: ‘Through the process of subjectivization, political subjects [le Sujet politique] bring politics proper into existence and confront the police order with the heterology of emancipation’. Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics, Continuum: London (2004), p. 90.
[10] It was on this date that Mohamed Bouazizi, an unemployed Tunisian residing in Sidi Bouzid, a small town south of Tunis, was slapped in the face by a municipal official and had his wares confiscated as he attempted to make ends meet by selling vegetables from a cart. This slap translated into an unforgiving act of self-immolation and thereafter into a conflagration that has brought with it both unforeseen freedoms and brutal repression in equal measure across the region. I have written elsewhere on this event, in ‘Beyond the Former Middle East: Aesthetics, Civil Society, and the Politics of Representation’, downloadable at http://www.ibraaz.org/essays/8, first published June 1, 2011.
[11] Jacques Rancière, ‘The Aesthetic Revolution and its Outcomes: Emplotments of Autonomy and Heteronomy’, in New Left Review (March/April 2002), pp.133-151 (p.133).
Downey, Anthony. “Common Grounds: Artistic Practices, Civil Society, and Secular Determination in Tunisia Today.” Ibraaz. Ibraaz, 2 Nov. 2012.
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MERCEDES CHAMPIONSHIPS
KAPALUA, HAWAII
JOEL SCHUCHMANN: World No. 1, Vijay Singh. Thank you for joining us. Another great start for the 2005 season. You're currently leading, 66, 7-under. Maybe start with some opening comments. A great day for you.
VIJAY SINGH: Yeah, I played really well. I left quite a few out there, but, you know, obviously everybody must have done the same.
You know, very comfortable, drove the ball well, hit a lot of greens, only missed one green, the 8th hole, but got up-and-down.
You know, putted well, too. I hit the ball on the lines the way I wanted to, so it was a good day.
JOEL SCHUCHMANN: We'll go right into questions.
Q. You said you wanted to send a message to let them know; you let them know?
VIJAY SINGH: Yeah, I'm here. (Laughter.)
I don't know, you know, you want to start the year off strong, and this is a great week to start. You've got no cut. You can go out there and try to do things that you don't normally do on a regular tournament. This is a huge tournament, and you know the field is very good. All of the winners are here, so it's a good one to win. I haven't done it yet and that's my intention is to go out there, play solid and see if I can win.
Q. Do you notice the leaderboard, the fact that you get Sergio and Tiger and Cink and good names up there? Of course, everybody is a winner, but the top of the list is up on the leaderboard, do you notice?
VIJAY SINGH: Well, it's everybody, not only those guys. Everybody is up there, Parry is a great player. It's a golf course where you have to go out there, play solid and make a lot of birdies.
It's only the first day, you can't be too concerned about the leaderboard. At the same time, you make sure you keep up the pace, as well. You know, my goal today was to go out there and play solid and see if I could get a few under par and stay up there. I was surprised that nobody else went lower than me. The wind wasn't as strong as what it normally blows here. I guess it was harder than I thought.
Q. We're getting a story of grainy greens perhaps maybe holding down the scoring, in that it was very difficult to get maybe into the grain putts close or get a feel for the speed of those?
VIJAY SINGH: Well, like I said yesterday, there's a lot more grass on the greens than there's been in previous years. You think you are hitting a good-paced putt, but it just comes out one or two rolls short, and that's when you miss the putt; the grain takes it away. That's why I guess everybody must have missed a lot of putts out there. It's in a good pace, so if you're aggressive enough, if you have enough courage to go ahead and hit a solid putt, you have a chance to make them.
Q. With the benign conditions today, was scoring important to get off to a good start today in these conditions?
VIJAY SINGH: I think so. The wind was coming from a different direction, so, you know 18 is playing into, and 17 is playing into, so those holes -- 18 is a very comfortable driver and probably a long iron. Today you couldn't get up there and the pin is way back there and doesn't roll out to the flag.
So it was a harder-to-judge pace, even chipping or pitch shots. That's why I think the scoring was not as low as I thought. Still a lot of people shot under par. I think the whole field shot or under, and that tells you that the guys are ready.
JOEL SCHUCHMANN: We'll touch on your round and take one or two final questions. First birdie of the day, No. 3 par 4.
VIJAY SINGH: I hit a driver, sand wedge to about 15 foot.
5, I hit driver, 6-iron about 20 foot and 2-putted.
10, I hit a 5-wood, sand wedge to about six-foot.
11, I hit an 8-iron 5-foot.
12, I hit a driver, sand wedge, six-foot.
15, I hit a driver, 6-iron just short and chipped it about three-foot.
16, I hit a driver, sand wedge, about eight-foot.
JOEL SCHUCHMANN: One or two final questions.
Q. You changed irons, Vijay, after leading the Tour last year in GIR from the fairway. Can you talk about the change, how long you've tested them and how they are different?
VIJAY SINGH: The irons?
Q. Yeah, the new irons.
VIJAY SINGH: I go through three sets a year. So it's not that -- I make sure that the grooves are pretty much, you know, fresh when I play them. So, they are the same irons that I've been playing. So it's just a new head. If I put it down, you won't tell the difference, same shafts. But it takes one or two days to get used to it, but other than that, it's just the same one.
Q. It's not a new model?
VIJAY SINGH: The GI is the model they are using, but the heads I'm using is pretty much the same. The driver is brand new, though.
Q. You've got it quite a bit closer on the back, did your game get better? You looked like you were hitting quite a bit closer.
VIJAY SINGH: I don't know, I think it's an easier side to score on the back nine there's a lot more short holes. 10 is pretty much a wedge 5-wood, wedge, sand wedge. And 12 you have short holes, and 14, as well, 15. It's a much shorter side to approach the greens on. So you've got a lot of chances for birdies.
Front side, you've got 1 is pretty difficult to make birdie on and 4 and 6 and 7. They are just harder -- I think the front side is a lot harder side than the back side.
Q. If you see conditions stay like they were today, do you think is it going to take a really low number to win this thing?
VIJAY SINGH: Well, I think the greens are going to get a little faster. I don't think they are putting water on them. They are getting more brown, a lot more browner than what they were when we started off on Tuesday. So I think they are going to get faster and the guys are going to get used to it, used to the speed of the greens. If it stays like this, I don't know what the record is, it could go --
Q. 31?
VIJAY SINGH: Well, I don't think it will get that low. But it will probably go in the mid 20s.
JOEL SCHUCHMANN: Vijay Singh, thank you. | [
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Help for Getting Your Semester Started2021-01-142021-01-21http://www.bcc.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/bcc-cuny-logo-2.pngBronx Community Collegehttp://www.bcc.cuny.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/springnso-1.png200px200px
The virtual New Student Orientation (NSO) and Welcome Week that were introduced at the start of the fall semester are returning for the spring.
As new students register, an invitation to the mandatory NSO is automatically sent to them. Conducted on Blackboard, the orientation consists of ten “modules” — PowerPoint videos on topics like financial aid, student life, the college community standards, learning technology, etc. After watching each video, students are asked a question or two about the content they have just absorbed. The online orientation, which takes 90 minutes to complete, is self-paced and can be done in more than one sitting.
New NSO features include more video and music and a “next steps” module at the end of the program that connects students to further resources — including how to get a loaner laptop. Linda McKernan, Confidential Executive Coordinator for the VP of Student Success, was the guiding force of the orientation’s latest incarnation.
“NSO is for new students, transfer students and readmit students,” says Associate Dean for Student Development Manny Lopez. “It’s there to make sure that they get off to the best start possible so they have the best opportunity for success at Bronx Community College.” The first step: go to the NSO webpage.
“Week of Welcome” which runs from Friday, January 29, the first day of classes, to Friday, February 5, features three two-hour information sessions every weekday from 8:00 to 10:00 a.m., noon to 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. Student leaders will join staff and administrators from student support areas on Zoom, where anyone with questions about BCC and BCC life can drop in. It will be the virtual equivalent of previous years where such sessions were held around the campus.
Included in the week will be representatives from the Academic Success Center, Accelerated Study in Associate Programs, BCC athletics, College Discovery, the Office of Disabilities Services, Evening and Weekend Classes, First Year Seminars, the Male Empowerment Network, Career Development, Personal Counselling, Student Life, the Access Resource Center and veteran and military resources and financial aid. Also on hand will be student volunteers and cabinet members. If no one from these specific areas is available during any particular session, there will be people who can guide students to the solutions they are looking for. Breakout sessions for private, one-on-one advisement will also be available. Student Life Specialist Tiffany Dubon organized this marathon of mentoring.
“Week of Welcome is for any student,” notes Dr. Lopez, ”new, continuing, or confused.” The week is designed to dispel any and all confusion and provide a foundation of information for the semester ahead. | [
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Joshua Ray Walker on Thu, May 23, 2019
Posted in Shows on May 6, 2019
Raised on the music of the Smokey Mountains, Joshua Ray Walker took a precarious path back to traditional country music. one forged by musical exploration and life experiences that most his age have not yet endured. He has played his songs on stages All across Texas and beyond, enthralling listeners with his brand of melodic, character-driven writing which puts a new spin on traditional story-telling country. Expect his first full-length release this Summer, 2018.
Thu, May 23, 2019, 8:00pm
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Best Coaching Links of Last Week: How to Prepare for Matchday, Perfectionism, Personal Brand & Leading By Example
Not everyone might like it (and it isn't the be all) but ultimately, a coach's work is seen when there is a match. Here are a couple of videos by Ally Bain on how to prepare players for matchday.
How important is perfectionism for success? My own view is that it is success is ab accumulation of small things done extremely well which sound very much like perfectionism. Anyway, here's an article debating that issue.
I'd never really noticed the site of the League Managers' Association but these are two fine articles that have ensured that I will be keeping a close eye on it in the future. The first piece is about leading by example, something that every coach has to live by.
The second piece deals with developing a personal brand. This might seem like marketing spiel and has very little to do with football but, ultimately, when you think about any top managers you immediately think about the characteristics that define them. Can you reach the top if you're bland?
"If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win." - Carl Lewis
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The Case For The Use of GPS In Football
Football is traditionally slow in adopting new technologies. Analysts are still looked at with suspicion (at best) by those who believe that the only way to judge a game is by looking at what you can see on the pitch rather than at what the numbers say.
It took years for goal line technologies to be introduced even though their benefit – as we’re seeing now – was obvious. And, despite this, there are still those vehemently against the idea of introducing any new technological support for referees.
The same applies on the coaching side. The idea of having proper nutrition took years to take hold.
The irony is that other sports where resources and popularity are more limited than football are much more forward in their adoption of technology. Australian Rules Football is a very prominent case in point. This sport that to outsiders might appear one where brawn is the only pre-requisite is also one of the earliest adopters.
Global Positioning Systems (GPS), for instance, has been in use in Aussie Rules for more than a decade. So integrated is their used in AFL that in 2012 it was extended to measure activity in junior football.
“The key thing about this study is that it is the first time we have ever gathered information like this on kids playing football and the first time we’ve been able to quantify how our kids are experiencing sport. The study is unique and groundbreaking in that we’re getting real data about what kids do when they’re involved in junior football.” So said at the time Associate Professor Pamm Kellett who was handling the research aimed at measuring player’s activity during games as well as how long they were on the field, the amount of exertion used and how fast they were running.
Football is a completely different world. At around the same time that AFL was being involved in that forward looking experiment, football was just dipping its feet into the pool. The pioneer was David Casamichana, a Spanish coach involved with Rayo Cantabria de Santander (a semi-professional Spanish third-division team) monitoring their GPS use during training and friendly games; at the time FIFA banned their use in official games (the ban was only lifted towards the end of 2015).
Despite the limitations of the technology at the time – the GPS that he had available tracked movement every second meaning that movement that took place in a fraction of that was not measured – Casamichana’s worked proved the value of this tool. It allowed teams to measure just how much their players ran, how often they were involved in sprints (thanks to an accelerometer) and, ultimately their fatigue.
Based on this he found that centre backs and centre forwards are the ones that run the least distance. Contrary to that, midfielders run most but they cover least distances in sprint. When they do sprint, however, they top the table for high intensity.
On top of it all, his studies found that as games wear on the intensity begins to decline.
All of that might seem obvious but that is because it discounts the finer level of detail that can be obtained through GPS. Not all midfielders play the same role within the team meaning that not all have the same characteristics. Having that data at hand provides another tool that coaches can use to fine tune their side.
It also helps improve the quality of training. If you know the characteristics of different positions than you can provide different preparation. Having access to such data allows you to view the session as a whole rather than just one sprint whilst it provides you with historical baselines with which to compare a group of players or an individual coming back from injury.
Indeed this data can be used to help prevent further athletic injury given that it is possible to gauge when an individual is getting close to his limit that provides you with the ability to stop them before they hurt themselves.
All such knowledge can be used to improve the intensity that a team can show during a game. A team’s ability to keep on going during a match for longer than their opponents can provide a significant advantage.
And the future will see even more extended use of GPS, in particular during games.
In an article late in 2015, Wycombe midfielder Matt Bloomfield explained the benefits that he saw from GPS. “Every footballer is different and some of the lads pay more attention to the information given to us than others.”
“Some lads are really interested in the feedback and check their stats first thing every Monday morning, while some aren't so interested and will only deal with the stats when told to. And then there are the lads who pretend not to care but still check when no-one is looking!”
“I'm fascinated by it all so I'm always asking for feedback and information about what I should be able to do and how far I should be running. It's all part of the competitive edge needed to build a career for yourself.”
“I'm sure that the technological advances will continue and I will always embrace them while always trying to gain that edge.”
Sadly, not everyone is like Boomfield. Indeed, Plymouth manager Derek Adams complained when Wycombe used those devices in a game between the two sides. "Somebody could head it and injure themselves, or somebody's finger could get caught in it,” he said. "There are a number of things that can go wrong. Somebody could get choked if they are pulled too hard.”
Admittedly, Adams also said that what he wanted was clarification and it would be wrong to label him because of this one incident. Yet such thinking is, sadly prevalent among the football fraternity.
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The Art of Coaching
Whilst it may be easy for some to dismiss the work that is put into a lower league club’s academy, the reality is that there are coaches at such clubs who are as determined to improve their players and as hard-working as anyone at the top clubs. If not more, given how many of those coaches have to juggle their coaching with a full time job.
Tony Mee is one such coach. Whilst he might be among the full-time staff at Scunthopre United’s academy, a lot of his interaction is with coaches who work on a part time basis. That, however increases his desire to excel which is also evidenced in his desire both to learn off others and also impart what he has learned over the years.
Blueprint for Football: What is your role precisely? What work do you do?
Tony Mee: My current role is Lead Youth Development Phase Coach (12-16) at Scunthorpe United where I oversee the coaching programme for those age groups. I'm also Lead Coach for the Under 16s. A lot of my daytime work is based around the PMA, designing sessions to fit our syllabus, helping to coordinate all aspects of running the Academy and the evenings and weekends are coaching and games.
BfF: What is your philosophy? In particular, how did you develop it?
TM: I want players to be technically excellent and tactically flexible. In terms of how I like my teams to play, I enjoy fast paced, attacking football, played by players who are prepared to try things in possession but know how to defend when they don't have the ball. I've always tried to get players to be comfortable in possession and have a strong work ethic.
I suppose I’ve developed it as a result of working with coaches who’s teams I’ve enjoyed watching or who’s teams I was fortunate enough to play in during my time in the Army, where we were given plenty of opportunity for sport. Whilst serving in Germany, I also played for Dutch and German coaches who exposed me to their ways of working, although there are probably less differences than you might think.
With the Academy boys that I work with, there is a greater need to be helped to develop the resiliency needed to cope with the increasing demands of the game and it can be a struggle to get enough work on the right hand side of the 4-Corner Model when you are at a Cat 3 Academy. However, you have to be honest with the players (& parents) at all stages of development.
BfF: How do you fit that philosophy when working for a club that might have different ideas?
TM: You have to be somewhat pragmatic! For some of us, this is our job, and with every job, in every walk of life, you are beholden to someone! Some great discussions can be had amongst coaches on Social Media and it's refreshing to see so many get involved, however, the reality is if your manager tells you that he wants a certain type of player, or play a certain style of football you have a choice to make…
BfF: How do you get new ideas? Where do you look for new ideas?
TM: I engage with fellow coaches as much as possible! I was very frustrated, in the early part of my coaching career, at the lack of support once you became qualified. You had to rely on the things you had learned on the course or had been exposed to as a player.
I do an awful lot of reading, not just football, but associated areas too. I’m also experienced enough to see a session that someone else might deliver or post and adapt that to the needs of my players. I’m grateful to all the managers and coaches that I have worked with and who have allowed me to watch their sessions because you can’t beat seeing it come to life on the grass.
These days there are no excuses for coaches, social media, coaching books, websites, local coaches associations are all out there to support clubs and coaches to deliver a better experience for ALL players, not just children. The Licensed Coaches Club through the FA & the increasing presence of the FA Mentor scheme is also good news for coaches & clubs.
BfF: What is the toughest thing that smaller clubs' academies face?
TM: It's tough to try and reconcile the demands of the EPPP with a (largely) part-time workforce and the limitations of the facilities available when a club doesn't own all its own facilities. We are quite fortunate with the support we get from St. Lawrence Academy and Melior School, here in Scunthorpe.
Dependant on location, recruitment can be an issue if you are constantly battling other clubs for the same players, and with the rules being lifted on travel times for the big clubs, they all have a presence at our games. There's no doubt in my mind that parents can be easily swayed if the big clubs come calling. There are also a lot of talented kids who don't want, or whose parents can't afford (time/commitment/financially) to come into Academies as they'd rather play with their mates, then at Under 16 they suddenly become interested.
BfF: In general, are enough young players being given an opportunity?
TM: I'm not sure what else we can do to be honest. There's leagues that cater for all levels of players, the Academies are there for those at the appropriate standard and the bigger Academies hoover up the top talent, I guess that's the way it should be. I see a lot of criticism of the Academy system, particularly when it comes to players being released but the reality is you can't have massive numbers, players develop at different rates and we all believe, I'm sure, that we are making the right decisions at the right times.
BfF: Why don't more English players move overseas when they don't find clubs at home?
TM: This is a strange one for me. I genuinely believe, having lived, worked and visited other countries that our players are as good as any others as they come through the age groups but, other than the boys who go onto the States on scholarships, I think this is vastly underused. I think one of the main problems is a lack of language skills.
With English being such a universal language, a lot of kids don't see the need to learn another one and this restricts them in the job market. Pretty much wherever you go in the world, English is first or second language but I'm not sure a lot of our talented 18 year olds, who don't make it here, are prepared to take that step. Most of them won't even try Scotland or Wales and I don't get it! You have to get out of your comfort zone at some point and I question whether they want it enough.
There will always be the exception, one of my ex-apprentices is currently playing in Sweden and I know a couple of others who played in Belgium but most just drop down the leagues and play with their mates.
BfF: Same goes for coaches, right?
TM: It probably is the same with coaches. The language barrier is still an issue but there's a bit of fear about being away from the UK job market. Some big names have gone abroad, Gary Stevens and Tony Adams being recent examples and whilst I'm sure it has broadened their horizons and developed them as coaches and as people, I don't think it makes them more employable in the eyes of those who matter.
BfF: How do you prepare a player to make move from academy to first team?
TM: I keep going back to it but, realism and honesty. They already know all the stats about first contract, second contract, drop-out rates at 18, 21 etc. because the League Football Education programme informs them, so we have to ensure they are mentally strong enough and adaptable.
If they are going to shrink in under 18 football with their parents being the only spectators, how will they cope with a few thousand when they make a mistake and their team are struggling? They have to make a good impression straight away when they get to train with the first team because managers don't get given a lot of time these days.
BfF: What would you like to see happening?
TM: This is another tough question because we can't influence anything other than the players. I'd like to see players given an opportunity when they deserve it. I'd like there to be more long-term thinking but I understand the process, I've seen first team managers and academy managers get the sack and I can (sometimes) see why, but the majority of players that we produce at 18 years of age aren't ready to be thrown into regular first team action at that age as they are still developing in so many ways.
They need to be eased into the cut and thrust of first team football, but some clubs don't have Development squads or Reserve teams to supplement that process. If a club has limited resources to staff its first team they aren't going to have too many 18 year olds on the books!
For more from Tony Mee, be sure to follow him on Twitter.
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Home renovation is a great way to express your creativity. It gives you the option to create a space that is truly unique and reflective of your personality. It also allows you to add value to your home should you ever wish to sell it in the future.
Renovation doesn’t have to cost a fortune either. There are many small jobs you can do that make a huge difference to your space. Take a look at some of the most recent modern home renovation ideas for inspiration.
Connect To Your Garden
Natural light is highly sought after in modern properties. Many people are opting for new windows to create better lighting inside their homes. Creating a connection to your garden is one step better.
Consider knocking a wall down and replacing it with glass windows that let in the most light from your garden. Visit lakesiderenovationanddesign.com for ideas on how to achieve this. You could even consider installing glass sliding doors for quick access to your garden.
Broken Plan Layout
The benefit of open plan layouts is that they create a spacious look and an opportunity for natural light to reach as much of your home as possible. However, the downside to an open plan is that it doesn’t leave much room for intimacy or privacy. A broken plan layout provides the best of both worlds.
You’ll still get the space and light that an open plan offers but you can section off your home by adding partial walls to spaces. This allows for some privacy in small corners of your home in addition to the benefits of an open plan.
Expose Original Materials
Many buildings were originally built with beautiful materials that have been covered up. Exposing some of this beauty can be time consuming but it doesn’t have to be expensive. For example, many buildings have old wooden beams within the ceilings that have been covered to achieve a modern day look.
Exposing the older materials inside and outside the home can add depth of character that people pay handsomely for.
Split Level Living
Split levels can be a great solution if you want to extend your property but it won’t be level. Creating a step down into another level will give you the option of creating a whole new space or an extension of the existing one. It can also help to separate the space and ensure it will be used as additional space instead of becoming a dumping ground for more clutter.
Third Story
If you need to create more space a third story can be an excellent option. Whether you need an extra bedroom, office space, or you just want to increase the value of your property, three story homes are becoming more popular. You’re often more likely to get planning permission for an extra story than you are for a first floor extension.
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Dred Scott Redux: Obama and the Supremes Stand Up for Slavery
While we were all out doing our Christmas shopping, the highest court in the land quietly put the kibosh on a few more of the remaining shards of human liberty.
It happened earlier this week, in a discreet ruling that attracted almost no notice and took little time. In fact, our most august defenders of the Constitution did not have to exert themselves in the slightest to eviscerate not merely 220 years of Constitutional jurisprudence but also centuries of agonizing effort to lift civilization a few inches out of the blood-soaked mire that is our common human legacy. They just had to write a single sentence.
Here's how the bad deal went down. After hearing passionate arguments from the Obama Administration, the Supreme Court acquiesced to the president's fervent request and, in a one-line ruling, let stand a lower court decision that declared torture an ordinary, expected consequence of military detention, while introducing a shocking new precedent for all future courts to follow: anyone who is arbitrarily declared a "suspected enemy combatant" by the president or his designated minions is no longer a "person." They will simply cease to exist as a legal entity. They will have no inherent rights, no human rights, no legal standing whatsoever -- save whatever modicum of process the government arbitrarily deigns to grant them from time to time, with its ever-shifting tribunals and show trials.
This extraordinary ruling occasioned none of those deep-delving "process stories" that glut the pages of the New York Times, where the minutiae of policy-making or political gaming is examined in highly-spun, microscopic detail doled out by self-interested insiders. Obviously, giving government the power to render whole classes of people "unpersons" was not an interesting subject for our media arbiters. It was news that wasn't fit to print. Likewise, the ruling provoked no thundering editorials in the Washington Post, no savvy analysis from the high commentariat -- and needless to say, no outrage whatsoever from all our fierce defenders of individual liberty on the Right.
But William Fisher noticed, and gave this report at Antiwar.com:
In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s refusal Monday to review a lower court’s dismissal of a case brought by four British former Guantanamo prisoners against former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the detainees’ lawyers charged Tuesday that the country’s highest court evidently believes that "torture and religious humiliation are permissible tools for a government to use."
...Channeling their predecessors in the George W. Bush administration, Obama Justice Department lawyers argued in this case that there is no constitutional right not to be tortured or otherwise abused in a U.S. prison abroad.
The Obama administration had asked the court not to hear the case. By agreeing, the court let stand an earlier opinion by the D.C. Circuit Court, which found that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act – a statute that applies by its terms to all "persons" – did not apply to detainees at Guantanamo, effectively ruling that the detainees are not persons at all for purposes of U.S. law.
The lower court also dismissed the detainees’ claims under the Alien Tort Statute and the Geneva Conventions, finding defendants immune on the basis that "torture is a foreseeable consequence of the military’s detention of suspected enemy combatants."
The Constitution is clear: no person can be held without due process; no person can be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. And the U.S. law on torture of any kind is crystal clear: it is forbidden, categorically, even in time of "national emergency." And the instigation of torture is, under U.S. law, a capital crime. No person can be tortured, at any time, for any reason, and there are no immunities whatsoever for torture offered anywhere in the law.
And yet this is what Barack Obama -- who, we are told incessantly, is a super-brilliant Constitutional lawyer -- has been arguing in case after case since becoming president: Torturers are immune from prosecution; those who ordered torture are immune from prosecution. They can't even been sued for, in the specific case under review, subjecting uncharged, indefinitely detained captives to "beatings, sleep deprivation, forced nakedness, extreme hot and cold temperatures, death threats, interrogations at gunpoint, and threatened with unmuzzled dogs."
Again, let's be absolutely clear: Barack Obama has taken the freely chosen, public, formal stand -- in court -- that there is nothing wrong with any of these activities. Nothing to answer for, nothing meriting punishment or even civil penalties. What's more, in championing the lower court ruling, Barack Obama is now on record as believing -- insisting -- that torture is an ordinary, "foreseeable consequence" of military detention of all those who are arbitrarily declared "suspected enemy combatants."
And still further: Barack Obama has now declared, openly, of his own free will, that he does not consider these captives to be "persons." They are, literally, sub-humans. And what makes them sub-humans? The fact that someone in the U.S. government has declared them to be "suspected enemy combatants." (And note: even the mere suspicion of being an "enemy combatant" can strip you of your personhood.)
This is what President Barack Obama believes -- believes so strongly that he has put the full weight of the government behind a relentless series of court actions to preserve, protect and defend these arbitrary powers. (For a glimpse at just a sliver of such cases, see here and here.)
One co-counsel on the case, Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights, zeroed in on the noxious quintessence of the position taken by the Court, and by our first African-American president: its chilling resemblance to the notorious Dred Scott ruling of 1857, which upheld the principle of slavery. As Fisher notes:
"Another set of claims are dismissed because Guantanamo detainees are not ‘persons’ within the scope of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act – an argument that was too close to Dred Scott v. Sanford for one of the judges on the court of appeals to swallow," he added.
The Dred Scott case was a decision by the United States Supreme Court in 1857. It ruled that people of African descent imported into the United States and held as slaves, or their descendants — whether or not they were slaves — were not protected by the Constitution and could never be citizens of the United States.
And now, once again, 144 years after the Civil War, we have established as the law of the land and the policy of the United States government that whole classes of people can be declared "non-persons" and have their liberty stripped away -- and their torturers and tormentors protected and coddled by authority -- at a moment's notice, with no charges, no defense, no redress, on nothing more than the suspicion that they might be an "enemy combatant," according to the arbitrary definition of the state.
Barack Obama has had the audacity to declare himself the heir and embodiment of the lifework of Martin Luther King. Can this declaration of a whole new principle of universal slavery really be what King was dreaming of? Is this the vision he saw on the other side of the mountain? Or is not the nightmarish inversion of the ideal of a better, more just, more humane world that so many have died for, in so many places, down through the centuries? | [
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JUST DIAL: A Story Gone Horribly Wrong For Investors
Market February 1, 2016 admin
On June 5, 2013, Just Dial (NSE: JUSTDIAL) made its debut on the Indian stock exchanges, surging 19% intraday. The stock listed on the exchange at Rs 590, and went on to hit a high of Rs 1779 in January the following year.
Investors rushed to pour money into the then-unstoppable stock which had leading Bollywood celebrity Amitabh Bachchan as the brand ambassador (and holder of 62,794 shares of the Company at a price of Rs 10). Ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala also had a stake in the Company, which gave investors another reason to jump into the bullish bandwagon. But, Rakesh realized that all was not good with the Company and exited, others didn’t and paid heavily.
Just Dial stock has today hit a low of Rs 536 on huge volumes. It has already witnessed a massive depreciation of 37 percent in January alone, and there is no bottom in sight.
Just Dial Stock Specifications
The Company has a market cap of roughly Rs 4,000 crores. The price-to-earnings ratio is 26 while that of the industry is 39.31. The book value is 95.48, and the dividend yield is hardly worth considering at 0.35%.
Why is the stock crashing?
Investors were thoroughly disappointed with the Company’s Q3 results reported on Jan 28. The net profit for the quarter ended December stood at Rs 27 crore, the lowest in the past 5 quarters. Apart from this, the market punished the stock as the management failed to curtail the expenses which stood at Rs 142 crore, up 28% as compared to a year ago.
With no concrete information from the Company regarding the future actions, it is hard to tell what holds for the stock price.
But we can employ technical analysis to approximate the bottom for this stock.
Taking a look at the weekly Just Dial price chart taken from icharts.in, one can find a wide, downward sloping trading channel. Since the chart is based on closing prices, hence, if the stock closes below the lower range of the band on a weekly basis, investors can expect more pain in the coming sessions.
If bulls manage to put up a fight and protect this crucial level, which comes in at around Rs 590, a strong rebound cannot be ruled out. That would obviously be another opportunity to exit the counter or build short positions.
A couple of technical indicators, RSI and Money Flow Index, are signaling oversold conditions for the stock. The 14-week RSI at the end of last week stood at 29.607 while the 14-week MFI stood at 22.765.
RSI reading at or below 30 and MFI value at or below 20 suggest oversold conditions, and also a possible rebound.
There are currently no positives for Just Dial, except that a technical rebound may come in the next few sessions if the security gets seriously oversold.
Do not attempt to catch this falling knife, but rather, build short positions on rallies.
Earnings slowdown, Investing, Just Dial, Just Dial crashes, Just Dial selloff, Stockmarket, Trading
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They will be allowed into Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, when the Dodgers and Braves meet in Game 1 of the NL Championship Series. The awesome Snitker couple shares two children together. Before that, he was serving as the coach for the Braves team since 1985. Houston hitting coach hopes to continue in father's footsteps, Snitker proud of son's career path with Astros. Moreover, he mostly played a catcher with some exceptions at the first base position. Morton hopes to be able to pitch next year. He has served as the manager of the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball since 2016. Brian Gerald Snitker was born to his mother, Catherine Snitker, and an unknown father on October 17, 1955, in Decatur, Illinois. Braves manger Brian Snitker: I felt worst last year.. All rights reserved. After graduating, he went to the University of New Orleans for higher education. Unsurprisingly, Brian has been married for over two decades now. Snitker played right field for the 1971 Macon High School baseball team in Illinois. "[4], Snitker is a graduate of the University of New Orleans. Last seasons first base coach, Alex Cintron, will shift to the role of hitting coach a role hell share with Troy Snitker (the son of Braves manager Brian Snitker). To be precise, Brian has a reported net worth of $8 million. Although it is a considerable sum of money, the gap between the players and managers are there for all to see. Maybe more importantly, he seems to possess the same strong communication skills that his father has exhibited while spending the past four decades serving a manager or coach for the Braves at the Minor and Major League levels. On March 3, You might know about this professional footballer, Harry Kane, who competed in the English Premier League for the England national team and Tottenham Hotspur. Julian Edelman is an American Football Player, wide receiver, and punt returner who played for the New England Patriots of the NFL. Snitker has been in the Braves organization in different roles since becoming a If Tampa Bay declines his $15 million option, he isnt sure how much demand there will be for him in what is likely to be a tough free-agent market. Born in the year 1955, Brian is 64 years old currently. [27][28] After retiring as a player, Troy joined the Houston Astros organization as a coach. Well, whatever the reason might be, we fully respect Snitkers decision as it is his family. "I'm very proud of him.". Brian Gerald Snitker (born October 17, 1955) is an American professional baseball player, coach, and manager. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. In the 2011 MLB Amateur Draft, Snitker's son Troy was drafted by the Braves in the 19th round and traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates in March 2013. Well, during that time, he collected an extraordinary sum. The right-hander has made two starts in this postseason, and has been limited to eight innings because of the blister. As of 2020, Snitker is earning a yearly salary of $800,000 with the Atlanta Braves as thier manager. In addition, they are also tactful and diplomatic in their relationships. Theres a lot of young athleticism on both sides, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. Later, he extended his contract for two years in 2018. Besides, Bruce Bochy of San Francisco Giants and Joe Maddon of Chicago Cubs are the highest-paid managers of the MLB teams in 2019. References External links. Contrarily, not only did they fall in love but also got married and later on had two kids. Brian Gerald Snitker (born October 17, 1955) is an American professional baseball coach and former player who is the manager of the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). Snitker's 31-year-old son, Troy, is a hitting coach for the Astros, who are in the AL Championship Series. Weve been playing really well.. Then in the World Series, McCullers started Game 7 and Morton wound up with the win. He was also the Atlanta Braves' bullpen coach in 1985 and 1988-1990. Nonetheless, there are some details about his educational background, which we managed to unearth. The 64 years old former baseball player and coach is enjoying his married life for almost two decades. Brian signed his first contract as a manager with Atlanta Braves in 2016. Proud poppa Brian Snitker talks about his son Troy, new hitting coach with the Houston Astros. Playerswiki - Celebrity Biography, news and gossip, Brian's wife Ronnie with her grandchildren, Major League Baseball Manager of the Year Award, Finalist of the NL Manager of the Year Award 2019. Brian's wife was born as Veronica M. Sylvester on 15th August 1965, in Pennsylvania. While the general public will be allowed to attend games, it will be far from a full house at the $1.2 billion stadium with a retractable roof for the NLCS and the World Series. [31], Field, Jeremy (August 2018) "Managers bring Legion Baseball experience to the majors", National League Manager of the Year Award, Sporting News National League Manager of the Year Award, "Brian Snitker: From Macon High School to manager of Braves", "The Magical Season Of The Macon Ironmen", Brian Snitker Minor Leagues Statistics & History | Baseball-Reference.com, "Brian Snitker is NL's top manager after leading Braves to East title", "Braves Weekend returning to Pelicans Ballpark. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. On October 14, 2013, Snitker was named the manager of the Braves Triple-A club, the Gwinnett Braves. Morton and McCullers have enjoyed a lot of success when pitching in the same game, albeit on the same side. Each of these veterans returned to Houston with a glowing review. Learn how your comment data is processed. Troy Snitker was drafted by the Braves in 2011 and spent two years as a catcher in the organization. There were about 11,500 tickets available, sold in groups of four with each of those pods separated by at least six feet. Other than that, he also played in the American Legion Baseball where he got the opportunity to showcase his talents to the scouts. [17][18] Snitker shared that year's Sporting News National League Manager of the Year Award with Craig Counsell. The reason being, ever since Brain started his professional career with the Atlanta Braves farm system in 1977, he has been involved with the same franchise all these years. There is not much about their personal life but the couple has appeared in some public functions together. Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora, Seattle Mariners managers Scott Servais and Atlanta Braves manger Brian Snitker are right above them on the Walker Bueher, troublesome finger blister and all, starts the opener for the Dodgers when they play Atlanta in the NL Championship Series at Arlington, Texas. Morton again faces his former team when he starts Game 2 of the AL Championship Series at Petco Park. ATLANTA -- Braves manager Brian Snitker recently received a text from Bobby Coxs wife, Pam, that read, Bobby wants to know when the [heck] are you going to start playing baseball? You can almost see the somewhat ornery smile Cox may have shown when he decided to send this message, knowing there was still too much uncertainty to determine when the season might begin. "As a father, it's special," Brian Snitker said. Before today's game, our hitting coach Troy Snitker exchanged lineups with his dad, @Braves manager Brian Snitker. (AP Photo/Eric Gay). 2018, I think we were just excited to make it, we completely flipped the script of our record from 72-90 to 90-72 in a year, so were just thrilled, said Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman, maybe the favorite for this season's NL MVP. He threw seven shutout innings against Cincinnati in the wild-card round, then scuffled in a start versus Miami in the Division Series. LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- As Braves manager Brian Snitker looked across the field Monday afternoon and saw Troy Snitker prepping for his first season as the Astros hitting coach, he couldn't help but think about the countless experiences he had shared with his son here at ESPN's Wide World of Sports complex and in countless Minor League cities. "I wanted to go to World Series so bad, but we did a lot of really really good things." LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- As Braves manager Brian Snitker looked across the field Monday afternoon and saw Troy Snitker prepping for his first season as the Astros hitting coach, he couldn't help but think about the countless experiences he had shared with his son here at ESPN's Wide World. As he played for more than five seasons in MLB, his total career earnings can be assumed over $500,000 from playing career. Lefty Max Fried (0-0, 3.27) goes for the Braves. And if the ball happens to go over the fence, well take that too.. Aside from that, there is no news suggesting that Brian had any siblings. So its just one of those things that you just have to deal with every now and then.. His father, Brian Snitker, is the manager of the Atlanta Braves. Alike his father, Troy is also a former Atlanta Braves catcher. Atlanta Braves' Ronald Acuna Jr. flies out in the eighth inning against the Miami Marlins in Game 3 of a baseball National League Division Series, Thursday, Oct. 8, 2020, in Houston. Were a stronger team than we were two years ago, our offense, just the total, the bullpen. The contract amount is not revealed yet but as per the reports, his salary will increase to some extent in each season. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki). Those many hours spent serving as a bat boy, experiencing long bus rides and observing his father helped direct him to his current role as a 30-year-old big league hitting coach -- who had just three years of professional coaching experience before the Astros promoted him this winter. Its a really neat thing to have going on in our family, dad said. In addition to this, their other son Erin lives with his family in Georgia, Buford. More AP MLB: https://apnews.com/MLB and https://twitter.com/AP_Sports. Likewise, son Troy Snitker is also an MLB player who was drafted by Brians team, Atlanta Braves in the 2011 MLB Amateur Draft. Similar is Among various sports around the world, tennis is one of the most popular individual sports. Its not fun playing baseball without fans. Braves manager Brian Snitker addresses Atlantas offensive prowess in NLCS so far despite some early concerns about the ballparks dimensions. Jayson Tatum is a renowned American professional basketball player who played for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Its weird, he said. Thats about 28% of the 40,518 capacity at the new $1.2 billion home of the Texas Rangers. Leading off for the Braves is 22-year-old center fielder Acua. That allotment sold out for Game 1 and three other NLCS games so far, as well as all every World Series game. Brian also served as the coach of the Braves organization for several years while he also played for the team. 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Washington Post: Nearly 100 years after film, Tarzan's cry returns to La. jungle to honor 'king's' legacy
Friends of Atchafalaya: The Friends of the Atchafalaya, a group dedicated to promoting conservation of the historic, cultural, and natural resources of the greater Atchafalaya Basin region, will hold its annual membership meeting at 6:30 PM at the Bluebonnet Branch of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, on April 24, 2012. All interested members of the public are invited to hear reports on the condition of the Atchafalaya Basin Floodway, the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area, and new archaeological findings in the area, and to discuss the future of the Atchafalaya Basin. Bring your talents to an organization committed to conserving a great Louisiana resource.
Visit http://www.atchafalaya.info for more information.
Three reports are scheduled for presentation at the meeting:
Basin watcher Charles Caillouet will describe several different "Atchafalaya Basins" and relate a brief history of the area, and will comment on some effects of the flood of 2011.
Debra Credeur, Executive Director of the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area will talk about the status of the Heritage Area, their projects and the groups that are working with them.
Naturalist and Basin researcher Jim Delahoussaye will report on some surprising findings in middens (refuse piles) at a 1400 year old Native American village site inside the Atchafalaya Floodway.
FLASH FLOOD WATCH
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On May 1, 2012, Governor Bobby Jindal sent a letter to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to request that the Corps increase the water flow through the Old River Control Structure into the Atchafalaya Basin. The Governor states that below-normal water levels in the Atchafalaya Basin have resulted in adverse effects on water quality and wild crawfish harvests, and that an increase in flow into the Atchafalaya Basin could be achieved without causing adverse effects on navigation or either the Mississippi or Atchafalaya Basin systems.
Louisiana Life Magazine: How to grow crawfish
Louisiana Sportsman: Bear Bayou Bream Basics
Louisiana Sportsman: Double dipping
The Advocate: Red snapper limits to head wildlife meeting
Upcoming events: The 8th Annual Step Outside Day is scheduled for Saturday May 12th from 9:00 am-3:00 pm at the Sherburne Wildlife Management Area Headquarters. Click here to learn more.
Forecast: expect to FALL 2.2' by 5/07 | [
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The Atchafalaya Basin Program Technical Advisory Group met today to discuss proposed FY2013 Water Management Projects. The next TAG meeting will be on Thursday, October 20th. More details to come.
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Houma Times: Bluegills attack! Recreational fish striking on light bait in local waters
LDWF: Louisiana's free fishing weekend set for June 6-7
The Advertiser: She's 6 and she will change the world
Avoyelles Today: Red River Rising Should Be Minimal in Avoyelles
The Advocate: Fishing report: Don't pass on a great weekend
Louisiana Cajun-Zydeco Festival, June 6 - 7 from 11 am to 7 pm at Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans
Bird Walk at the Swamp, June 6 from 7 - 9 am at Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center in Baton Rouge
Les Mains Guidées: Beadwork, June 6 from 10 am - 1 pm at Vermilionville
Les Coudre Points Quilting Circle, June 11 (and every Thursday) from 1:30 to 3:30 pm at NUNU Arts and Culture Collective, 1510 Courtableau Highway 93 in Arnaudville
National Trails Day at Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site, June 6 from 9 - 11 am at Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site in St. Martinville
Bankline Management Workshop, June 6 from 9 am to noon at the Breaux Bridge Library
Creole Culture Day, June 7 from 10am to 5 pm at Vermilionville
Beginner's Canoe/Kayak Lesson, June 13 from 8:30 to 11:30 am at Vermilionville
Friends of the Atchafalaya monthly meeting, June 23 at 7 pm in Baton Rouge
Atchafalaya Basin Program Technical Advisory Group Meeting, June 24 at 9:30 am at 617 N. 3rd St. in Baton Rouge
Atchafalaya Basin Program Research and Promotion Board Meeting, June 25 at 9:30 am at 617 N. 3rd St. in Baton Rouge
Intermediate Canoe/Kayak Lesson & Paddle Trip, June 27 from 8:30 to 11:30 am at Vermilionville
Ann Vidrine: Cajun Fiddler, lecture and performance for kids 5 to 11 at various branches of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, 10 am June 22, 23, 24, 25, and 29. | [
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KATC-TV: Declaration of Emergency for Revised 2011-2012 Deer Hunting Season Dates in Portions of Atchafalaya Basin
2011 Atchafalaya Basin Sweep:
The 2011 Atchafalaya Basin Sweep will take place this weekend on Saturday, November 5 from 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. This is the Evangeline Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America's 2nd Annual trash clean-up event aimed at picking up trash and beautifying critical access points into the Basin. In addition to volunteers from the public, only Boy Scout Troops, Venturing Crews, second year Webelos, their families and leaders from the eight parishes that make up the Council are invited to gather at boat ramps and other sites scattered throughout the Basin to assist with the clean-up efforts.
Last year's event was a HUGE success, as Boy Scouts removed an estimated 45,000 lbs. of garbage! This year they will strive remove over 50,000 pounds.
Volunteers are encouraged to stay safe and wear orange or brightly colored clothing as this event is taking place during hunting season. Those without proper clothing will not be able to participate, so don't forget to Stay Safe and Wear Orange.
Forecast: expect to FALL to 19.5' by 11/7
Forecast: expect to HOLD at 2.7' by 11/7 | [
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Happy New Year from the Atchafalaya Basin Program!
The Times-Picayune: McCutchan's deft "River Music" evokes Atchafalaya country and a Cajun musician
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Raised / Lifted Dakotas - Create new thread at bottom of page.
Torsion Bar Adjustment ? 24 Joe L. 11/22/2003 21:41:56
Any1 tried removing sway bars for flex 2 Yorktownva 11/21/2003 18:11:02
04 suspension lift?? 3 ek9keith 11/21/2003 15:55:57
do they make 15x10's for Daks? 6 99Dakwheeler 11/21/2003 12:44:14
what does the 5.5 mean on 15x10 6on5.5 ? 3 99Dak5.2L4x4 11/21/2003 12:13:52
Coil Spacers + shocks? 0 REAL ARTHUR 11/21/2003 01:54:41
V8 torsion bars 8 Jeff 11/20/2003 20:16:09
gen 2 body lift 0 dakota 93 11/18/2003 13:20:29
Wheel Bolt Pattern??? 3 GMB 11/18/2003 09:03:29
Fabtech Parts For Sale! 5 GoatRoper 11/17/2003 17:45:26
Help! 0 Tyler 11/17/2003 13:05:42
Best lift for 2003 quad V6 7 Matt 11/16/2003 18:25:47
Can you body lift an 03 2wd Dakota? 1 troublemaker 11/16/2003 18:21:18
can't find a lift kit 0 Jeff Wright 11/16/2003 18:11:13
how big of tires? 0 94dakota 11/16/2003 00:40:26
Lift/Tires 1 Dodge Ram 11/15/2003 22:02:50
Body lift bumper brackets 4 Ryan 11/14/2003 21:22:37
Goodyear MTR's another clearance ?? 8 Lance 11/14/2003 15:45:54
What's the best lift for my truck? 6 James Dark 11/14/2003 14:39:26
NERF BARS FOR SALE 1 Frank Gandt 11/14/2003 12:08:46
33's with 3"body on 4x4 Q's 4 Tim 11/14/2003 08:59:48
skid plates for T.C lift? 6 born2steel21 11/14/2003 02:12:30
tire size questions 1 Brad 11/14/2003 00:47:21
34in. tires???? 4 kev man 11/13/2003 21:12:24
Steering U-Joint 0 DrRock 11/13/2003 19:24:38
Air shocks? 0 Matt 11/13/2003 17:33:45
coil spacers 1 tkdcoop 11/13/2003 14:59:40
03 quad 4x4 question 3 B real 11/12/2003 20:08:08
Safety Issues with 3in Body Lift 1 Jason Wiley 11/12/2003 09:55:15
265/75/16 2wd 2001 CC 3" B.L. 4 rickjag 11/12/2003 03:11:21
HELP HELP Body Lift 1 Jason Wiley 11/12/2003 02:57:11
3" Body Lift Pics - 2wd 22 Coastal Kota 11/11/2003 21:41:55
Will it Rub? 9 Jesse 11/11/2003 15:50:33
No 3" PA Body Lift for '03? 1 B real 11/11/2003 12:40:51
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Nursing and Health Care Journals Press Releases
The Effect of Family-Based Intervention on Quality of Life and Sense of Cohesion in Women with Breast Cancer
Recent abstract published in Integrative Journal of Global Health by Ziba Farajzadegan, Isfahan Medical Sciences University, Iran
Introduction: Survival in patients with cancer has increased in recent years with the advancement of early detection tools, medications and therapies. This has made the importance of supportive cares for patients more important than ever. These cares focus on the health and well-being of patients and do not emphasize disease-causing factors. One of the most effective steps to improve the quality of life for patients is to pay attention to their cohesion. A sense of cohesion reflects one's life vision and ability to respond to critical and stressful situations. In recent years, special attention has been paid to improving the sense of cohesion and consequently the quality of life of patients. Various interventions such as family-based group therapy and peer group are among these interventions. The purpose of this study was to compare the cohesion, quality of life and the relationship between these two factors in two groups of women.
Material & Methods: Study participants were selected from women aged 18-65 years with stage 3 and higher of breast cancer referred to the Cancer Center in Isfahan. 80 patients after taking informed consent were randomly assigned to family based and self-care intervention groups. BR23 quality of life questionnaire (range of 23 to 92) and Antonovski SOC13 sense of cohesion (range 13 to 91) were applied. Validity and reliability of questionnaires were approved in Persian language. The status of patients was assessed before and after intervention.
Results: The mean age of patients was 45.4 7±. 7.9. The mean score of quality of life and sense of cohesion in family focused group were 60.4 ±10.7and 50.3 خانواده± 13.3 and in peer group were 59.3 ±8.4and 51.7 که±9.6, respectively. (pv >0.05). After intervention, in family focused group, it was 66.7 ±6.05and 61.3 ±12.9. In peer group intervention 62.2±5.9 and 55.8±9.3. The scores of qualities of life and sense of cohesion increased in both groups after intervention but it was remarkable in family-based group.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that, patients with cancer need, family and peer support, to find out meaning of life, to understand the nature of disease, and to be able to improve their quality of life.
Integrative Journal of Global Health is a peer reviewed journal that focuses on providing insights into various aspects of global health, healthcare, public health, nursing, midwifery and health education research and practice, that is intended towards improvement of health standards of people across the globe.
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USA Women’s Hockey Boycott, March Madness Begins
March 16th, 2017 | Category: Basketball,Hockey
The US Women’s Hockey Team has decided to boycott the World Championships taking place March 31st-April 7th in Michigan due to a wage dispute over compensation and support equal to the mens’ team. The women currently make $1000 per month for 6 months leading up to the Olympic Games, so esssentially just $6000 for 4 years, as they need to train during the 4 years between Olympic Games. USA Hockey responded to the boycott and issued a statement expressing their commitment to the team and an increase in pay, however the players expressed through their lawyers that the USA Hockey statement was “dishonest” and they are still in dispute.
March Madness officially kicks off today, which means if you haven’t filled out your bracket yet, you have until around noon ET today. It’s easy to fill out. Just go on any sports site and pick your own teams or have them auto fill for you. The next few weeks will be all NCAA basketball all day. | [
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Our Family Saints
Rakstar Designs
As we try to strengthen our prayer life and live out our calls to be intentional disciples of Christ in this world, we have decided to ask the saints in a special way to keep our family in their constant prayer. For the next year(ish), these are the saints to whom we plead for intercession:
St. Dominic: We are fortunate to have a lovely relic of St. Dominic in our home, so it only makes sense that we would implore him more fervently for prayer. Having had the Rosary entrusted to him, a passionate preacher, he is a model of devoted disciple and bold apostle. Add to that Blessed Frassati's devotion to him, he becomes a natural intercessor for our little family. You can learn more about the life of St. Dominic here.
Blessed Mother Teresa: Sharing my birthday with her feast day, her mission city with my heritage and now her "patronage" over the Hubbers' high school class, Blessed Teresa already plays a significant role in our prayer lives. Why not ask her for more prayers for our family? She is the perfect model for the Casa as we try to live out the tagline: "love selflessly, serve joyfully, live boldly" You can learn more about the life of Blessed Teresa of Kolkata here.
St. Gianna Beretta Molla: As Li'l G's namesake, St. Gianna definitely holds a special place in our hearts and prayers. As a professional woman married later in life, I connected instantly to her story when I first came upon it. Since then, she has prayed me through two pregnancies alongside St. Gerard and continues to be a model of selfless and sacrifical love. She too, now receives special prayers for her intercession from us all. Learn more about the life of St. Gianna here.
St. Jude: As Judah's namesake, St. Jude has become a go-to in times of prayer for us. As the patron of hope (not only for hopeless causes!), St. Jude helps us to stay focused on the promise that "hope does not disappoint." Whether it be the milestone of the day, such as potty training or tantrum taming, or the trials of life in general, St. Jude offers us consolation that all shall be well, and nothing is too little for God. Learn more about the life of St. Jude here.
Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati: In no small part, we owe the beginnings of Famiglia McCormick to Blessed Frassati. Whilst both the Hubs and I were working in young adult ministry, it was his involvement with the Frassati Society of Detroit that brought our paths together more frequently than our work otherwise would have. Add to that an Italian young man with a love for the Eucharist, the poor, and enjoying life, and we have ourselves another member of our family of saints. Learn more about the life of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati here.
St. John XXIII & St. John Paul II: With the canonizations of these saints last year, we decided that their newly sainted prayers may serve us well. Both men continue to remind us that we must be about sharing joys and the sorrows of our neighbors. We have to find new ways to engage one another in the mystery of faith and life so that one day all men and women might know the deep love of God and share in His eternal kingdom.
Laura @ Keeping Up With the Mikes March 10, 2015 at 5:26 AM
I just came to your blog via Instagram. Thanks BIS! My husband and I just moved to Ypsilanti last year. I just love connecting with local bloggers, so HI! That's all. :-)
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All Wrapped Up in Christmas
Once upon a time, three kings followed a star in the night sky in search of a newborn boy who was prophesised as the Son of God. With them, they bore gifts as an expression of their love and respect for the one who would come to be known as the Son of Man.
On this day, Christ was born. And so was Christmas.
More than 2,000 years later, this concept of giving gifts at Christmas first set by the three kings has prevailed, even if the true meaning of Christmas has been somewhat lost amongst the mountains of discarded wrapping paper and quick-fix presents.
From where has this pressure to give presents at Christmas come? From department stores with their glittering window displays and ‘Christmas Sales’? Money-hungry business people capitalising on the commercialisation of an ancient tradition held close to the hearts of many? From social norms, that say those who don’t give presents during Christmas are frowned upon as being thoughtless and uncaring? Whatever happened to ‘it’s the thought that counts’?
Before I go on, I should state that I am not a Scrooge and I certainly do not say ‘bah humbug’ whenever someone offers me Christmas cheer. I think Christmas brings out the best in people and today, even atheists will wish their friends and family a ‘Happy Christmas’ during this festive season. This is great, but do they know what they are saying? Do they know the meaning of Christmas? Whether we’re talking about the word or the holiday, you simply cannot have Christmas without Christ.
The very thing about Christmas is that it should be a time to remember Christ and give him thanks. The giving of gifts should be to express our love and respect for the people we hold dear. It is, after all, the season of giving. But let’s think about why we are giving the gift in the first place. Did you wander aimlessly around the shopping centre with a list of names, trying to find something – anything – that you could buy so in order to cross off another name on the list? This is not the meaning of giving. In essence, this type of present is nothing but gift-wrapped emptiness, devoid of meaning and emotion.
The best gift I have received this year was from my mother. She gave me a beautiful card with even more beautiful words inside. She said that she couldn’t think of anything to ‘buy’ for me that would bring me happiness; but she knew without a doubt what to ‘give’ me that would make me truly happy. She wrote in her card that her gift to me was that she would continue to meditate and devote herself to her prayers. She said she would give thanks to the Lord. She said she knew that this would please me more than anything else, and so this is what she was giving to me for Christmas.
What my mother gave me was something lasting. Something that was only for me and something that showed just how much she loves and cares for me. What my mother gave me made me happy, far more than a set of matching socks, a new alarm clock, or a new car. For Christmas, my mother gave me love.
There is nothing wrong with buying gifts for people at Christmastime. But ask yourself what the gift means – to you and to the person you are giving it to. The focus should not be on the gift, but on the expression of love and care for another human being that the gift represents. The gift doesn’t have to be expensive or elaborate. But it must have meaning.
To each and all of my readers, my gift to you is this Gem. May you take just a few moments to ponder the question of what the people around you mean to you, and by doing so, may you give them a gift that truly matters this year.
Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy and successful new year to you all.
Group Managing Director, QI Ltd
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The Fundamentals of Networking: Present the Present
Posted on December 18, 2009 by ramya
Have you ever bought someone a present? I’m guessing the answer here is ‘yes’. When you buy someone a present, you obviously consider what the person would like, what they would want, and what they would need. Once you’ve found the right present for the person, it is then very likely you would take the time to wrap the present in an attractive way, perhaps with ribbons and bows, before giving the present.
Why am I talking about presents and gift-wrapping? Because the way you select and wrap a present with the recipient in mind is exactly the same as the way you prepare and present a presentation to your prospect.
Think about the word ‘presentation’ and analyse the word ‘present’. Just as when you select a present for someone as a gift, when you present to your prospects, you must consider the person to whom you are presenting. What will interest them? What will motivate them? What will excite them? A presentation must be packaged around the person you are presenting to, so it is very important that you know who your audience will be. You cannot rely on the same presentation to be successful with every audience. It must be tailored to suit your audience, so it is therefore essential to have established a relationship or rapport with your prospect before you present to them.
The next similarity between present-giving and presenting is that you don’t give a gift that is not nicely wrapped, and you don’t give a presentation without wrapping it with all the right trimmings that people want to see before getting to the core of the business.
I used to give my daughter gifts without wrapping them, so to not waste paper. But my daughter would complain that it wasn’t as exciting to receive an unwrapped present. She likes the anticipation. It is the same with a presentation. A lot of people fail because they start talking about the intricate details of the business too soon in their presentation: the costs, the involvement, the compensation plan. When you do this, your audience will quickly grow disinterested and will think you’re trying to sell them something for your own benefit. They will not be as receptive as they would be if they thought you’re giving them a gift. If the audience is not receptive, it is the presenter who is failing. The approach should be that of giving a present. “Hey, I have something here that will be of value to you. I want to give it to you.”
Normally, in a big group presentation, you cannot be so specific to the needs and wants of an individual, and you can’t really close. So, that’s why when you speak to a large crowd, you wrap your present with many different trimmings, try to use as many examples as you can, and express various ways of saying your point, so that you try connect with each person at different times.
What’s more, when you are presenting, another trimming is the atmosphere and the environment. It is important to set up the right atmosphere, where people appreciate what you are saying to them. When I am giving a presentation, when I am giving someone a gift, I don’t become uncomfortable. I don’t think that he or she is doing me a favour by listening or accepting my gift, nor do I feel that I am wasting his/her time. I am giving them a present.
So wrapping it is very important. The different trimmings that would attract a particular person is best applied one-on-one. You can then focus on their individual needs, what they want, what dreams and aspirations they have, and all the things that excite that person. These are the trimmings. The details of the business are the present.
So, in this final Gem in the Fundamentals of Networking series, I am not going to tell you ‘how’ to present. I can’t tell you that because I don’t know who you are going to be presenting to; because who you present to dictates how you present. I can only give you parameters that you should consider, and advise that you should always show respect, be careful how you dress, be prepared in terms of what you’re going to say, have a thorough understanding of the business, know the background of your audience, and so forth. The rest is up to you and your prospect.
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The Fundamentals of Networking: Getting the Invite Right
Posted on November 25, 2009 by ramya
We’ve spoken about the need to do your homework, the invaluable process of developing your prospect list, and the importance of maintaining a prospecting mindset. So, now what?
Now you need to invite people on your list and who you have prospected to hear what you have to say. You need to pick up that phone and start dialling and inviting prospects to a business presentation.
When it comes to the invitation part of networking, I can give one very simple, very valuable piece of advice… make friends with your phone.
When I invite someone, the best mode is through the phone. The phone gives the perfect arena for me to say what I need to extend my invitation to a presentation, but without getting caught up in the questions and details usually demanded in face-to-face invitations.
Always remember – the phone is for inviting only. The phone is the place to ‘close’ with a date for the presentation. It is not the place to ‘close’ with a new Downline. Never attempt to give a business presentation over the phone. When you use the phone to invite, try to limit what you say. People normally ask so many questions and want so many details over the phone. So, when you invite someone, it is better to have a scheduled date, place and time in mind. Then you can invite them personally to attend the presentation, and you have a reason for not discussing everything on the phone. Also, be sure to have a set of schedules to tell your prospect, just in case they say no to your first suggested date.
On the other hand, if you invite someone face-to-face, be ready to present right there on the spot. People will often want to hear all about it then and there, instead of going through the ‘hassle’ of organising a time with you. And it is hard to reason why you can’t tell them about the business when you are looking right at your prospect.
Another thing about inviting is that it allows you to ‘prepare’ or ‘practice’ for the actual presentation, by becoming confident talking to people and building a rapport with them. Learn how to invite, even if you don’t have the confidence to do the business presentation just yet; you can always invite a prospect to someone else’s presentation. And there is a benefit to doing this. It is called the ‘Triangle’.
How does the Triangle work? Let’s use an example: Let’s say Mr B invites a prospect called Mr C to a presentation set to be given by Mr A. For Mr B to be successful in this, Mr B would talk about Mr A and edify him. He would build him up to Mr C by saying that Mr A will be in town and he is very successful and it will be very advantageous for Mr C to attend the presentation of such a prominent networker. You see, in this scenario, there is already respect and a relationship between Mr B and Mr C. In fact, Mr C is attending the presentation because of the credibility of his relationship with Mr B. This credibility extends to Mr C having respect for Mr A before the presentation even begins, simply through association. Mr B has spoken highly of Mr A and Mr C begins to share that respect. Mr B becomes the bridge. He attends the presentation with Mr C and gives him confidence in the presentation and the presenter. And then, after the presentation, is when Mr B makes the close. This is the Triangle.
If you have just met your prospect, build a relationship with them first before inviting them to a presentation. No matter what the situation, people don’t like invasion of privacy and they don’t like feeling as if they are being taken advantage of. So take your time.
One last word on inviting prospects: Never do it in desperation. When you invite people, it should be because you want to do good for that person, not because you are needy to gather Downlines. Don’t plead. Don’t push. Be polite, knowledgeable, confident, and friendly. It is truly amazing what these basic character traits can do for the success of your invitation.
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Human Life Begins… When?
There are four propensities of life… eating, sleeping, mating, and defending. But is that all there is to life? And if so, how are we, as human beings, any different from animals?
Humans have mastered these four propensities. We have an endless menu of gourmet cuisine and all manners in which to cook it so that our food not only gives us sustenance, but a sensation of incredible tastes. When it comes to sleeping, we have perfected the art of getting a good night’s rest, with ergonomic beds, neck-support pillows, and cosy blankets. And it is frightening just how well we have enhanced the act of mating, and how much we have sharpened our ability to defend ourselves.
The question human beings should be asking, is whether this really is the goal of life? Just to eat, sleep, mate and defend. If this is the goal of a life of a human being, then you can argue that it would be better to be an animal. For example, if the goal of life was to sleep, wouldn’t you rather be a crocodile? I heard that a crocodile could sleep for 20 hours a day! If sex was to be the goal, then why not prefer to be a pigeon? A pigeon could have sex 100 times a day, without caring for the offspring or being in a relationship. If eating was the main focus of life, then who wouldn’t want to be a pig, who can eat anything and everything all day long? My point is, humans are equipped with so much more potential to fulfil more than any of these propensities. That is how we are different from animals. If we focus our lives around this sense gratification, surely we’re missing the point of life. We must awaken ourselves from our slumber. There must be a higher purpose.
Human life begins when one starts questioning, “What am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose? What is my relationship with this world I live in? What is my responsibility to the environment? Who am I?…” The questioning and the learning are endless.
We have the ability to act independently; we have free will. We have a higher intelligence. We have the ability to question. We can philosophise. We can actually ponder what happens after death. A life of a human being is a life of responsibility and consequences; a life of questioning and seeking answers.
Yes, we have perfected the four propensities, the basic needs of life, but it is not what makes us human. We’re missing the purpose and potential of human life if we care only for eating, sleeping, mating and eating.
Please take a moment to ponder… don’t wither away a life of great potential, questioning and learning. Strive to understand the world around you. Don’t allow yourself to be satisfied with a life similar to that of an animal, because you simply won’t be doing justice to the incredible gift we’ve all been given… life as a human being on this planet.
Joseph T. Bismark
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Thinking Long-Term During Our Anniversary Month
Posted on September 17, 2009 by ramya
It was 1998. The so-called ‘dot-com bubble’ that had enveloped the world was deflating at a rapid rate. The Asian economy was falling in a manner not so different from the global economic climate of today. But we started a company anyway. And if I knew then about all the ups and downs that were to follow, I am not so sure I would have signed up for the ride.
Eleven years later, I know that I am glad that I did. But I have to tell you, in these years, I’ve never before experienced such successes, such challenges, such hardships, and such happiness. It has been the proverbial and clichéd rollercoaster. As I said, had I known what the future was to hold back in 1998, I don’t think I would have embarked on such a ride.
I guess that when you dive into something and are so passionate about it, it is a true blessing that God doesn’t show us what lies ahead. A farmer could not experience a harvest if he did not first go through the preparation of land and the hardship of the sow, the labour and toil, all without being guaranteed a successful crop. He must have faith that the seeds he plants will grow, that the rain will come at the right time, and so many other unpredictable considerations. Then, and only then, may he reap the harvest and enjoy the fruits of his labour. The best thing we can do is to propose and let God dispose. And that is exactly what we did when sowing the seeds of this company.
Back then, I really wasn’t sure we were going to make it. There were many detractors who shared the same thought. They said we wouldn’t last a week. So when we did survive the first week, we celebrated. We celebrated our second-week anniversary as well. Now our detractors said we wouldn’t last three months. So, we celebrated again on our three-month anniversary. Then it became a year. And then three years, and then we celebrated our fifth year and we were still growing. Last year, our tenth anniversary celebrations traversed the globe and to see the impact this company and our mission of RYTHM has had on the people of the world – from Asia to the Middle East to Africa and beyond – made me again thankful that the future is a mystery until it becomes a past to reflect and build upon.
We held our official 11th anniversary celebrations in Hong Kong on the 8th September 2009, but it is the whole month of September that for me is a month of reflection and introspection. It is not time to boast what we’ve achieved, but to contemplate from where we’ve come and to where we shall go.
Consider this. How do people think? A beggar thinks from meal to meal. An employee thinks from month to month with the arrival of their monthly salary. A boss may think from year to year. But a King would think for a decade. And an Emperor thinks for a century. When you see how different people think, you’ll see how they got there. And you’ll see where they’re going. The question today is, ‘do we want to think the way we think today?’ No matter what position you hold within this company, take ownership of it. It is your ‘rice bowl’. Fight for it. Protect it. Fill it up. Take ownership of what you do without the title or the extra salary. It is once you take ownership, and what you achieve through this, that the title and the rest of the perks will follow. The farmer cannot demand the harvest before he ploughs the land. Are you going to think from day to day? Or are you going to think long-term?
This whole month is a time for reflection on our lives, our career, our company. QI is our mother company and it is feeding all of us. Everyone in QI is a part of combined excellence. Every anniversary is a time for us to be grateful. This Gem is my heartfelt appreciation to the founders of the company, the directors, the chiefs, the managing directors, the hundreds of fantastic staff we have, and our extended family of IRs who are out there building on our behalf. This is a chance to thank everyone for thinking long-term and for strapping into this rollercoaster with us. Thank you for toiling and working to bring the company to harvest. Thank you for taking ownership of your rice bowl. It is the people doing all this throughout every rank of the company that makes me stronger, and makes the company stronger. Happy 11th Anniversary to every person, past and present, of the QI family.
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The Fundamentals of Networking – Maintain A Prospecting Mindset
Posted on September 9, 2009 by ramya
As part of this Fundamentals of Networking series, I would like to take the opportunity in this Gem to speak a bit more about the stage of Prospecting, before we move onto Inviting. This is because developing and maintaining the ‘Prospecting Mindset’ is so essential and so integral to being a networker.
I mentioned in my previous Gem that networkers should never stop adding to their prospect list. To do this, you must have the right mindset. There is a saying in the network marketing business: ‘If it breathes, it is a prospect.’
The basic rule in prospecting is that you are networking no matter where you are or what you are doing. This doesn’t mean becoming annoying and invasive and continually approaching people about the business, even after they’ve said no. It simply means being friendly. It means speaking to people standing behind you in the queue at the supermarket. It means striking up a conversation with someone sitting next to you on the bus. Get to know the person around you in everyday situations to the point where you could perhaps ask them what they do for a living, or to the point where you could exchange business cards. You can then call them later and invite them to a presentation. It is about talking to people. The more people you talk to, the more opportunity opens up to you. The less you talk, the less you meet. Even if someone you approach says no, you have not lost; you have practised your communication skills, built your confidence in approaching prospects, developed your people skills, and you may have met a new friend or perhaps made a new contact, such as a mechanic, whom you may need to call upon later in life when you have car trouble.
Being a networker means that there is a probing thought constantly playing in the back of one’s mind: ‘Could this person be interested in the business?’ If this question is always on your mind, then you will become more alert to people who would be genuinely interested. It is like switching on your antenna. Think about this… have you ever wanted a new car? And then somehow everywhere you looked, you see that same model of car that you wanted, but no one else really notices it? This is because you are subconsciously thinking of the new car you want and in essence, your antenna is tuned into that car. So, you take notice when you see it. The same applies with networking and prospecting. If you’re not looking, you won’t see. If you are a networker, prospecting becomes part of you.
The definition of prospecting is to identify potential people to join your business. So, this is what you should be doing – all the time. If you are a real estate agent, you will always be on the lookout for good development opportunities and every time you walk into a friend’s house, you will probably mentally appraise the house’s market value. The same applies with almost any profession. In any business, you are always ‘noticing’ and on the lookout for the subject of your profession. In networking, the subject of your profession is everywhere. The subject of your profession is people. This prospecting mindset and your list of prospects are the core principles of being a good networker.
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The Fundamentals of Networking – Develop The List
Posted on August 31, 2009 by ramya
As part of the Fundamentals of Networking series in these Gems of Wisdom, I have already spoken about the importance of doing your homework before you begin the actual business. One thing to mention is that this first step as a networker is never over. You must always be learning, staying informed, and improving yourself.
Once you are ready to begin the business, it is time to make ‘The List’. This list will quite possibly be your most treasured asset you will ever own as a network marketer. The list is the first part of the ‘Prospecting’ process.
The List is your prospect list. Sit down and think of absolutely, positively, every single person you can think of, from your family and friends, to your doctor and local shop attendant. Your first lesson here is that everyone – yes, everyone – is a prospect; someone who may be interested in joining your business. So start to write down all of these names. You should be able to come up with at least 100 names. Don’t let that figure scare you. I was speaking on this topic at a seminar once, and I gave everyone in the audience 30 minutes to write down 100 names. One old lady said that there was no way she could think of 100 people to write down on her list. Everyone in the audience was empathic with this lady because they were having a hard time as well. So what did I do? I offered her $100 for every name she wrote down. And what did she do? She wrote down more than 100 names. Why could she suddenly think of so many names? She had started putting a value on each name. This is the mindset of prospecting.
Once you have your list – and I should mention that you should never stop adding to your prospect list – you can then start identifying categories. Start with two categories – all the people whom you think would be easy to approach, such as your family and friends, and the people whom you feel may be more difficult to invite into the business, such as your doctor or someone you don’t know very well. It is the latter group, the difficult group, which you should approach first. These are the ones who you think will have all sorts of excuses, concerns and reasons why they don’t have time for the business or why they’re not interested. You should approach this difficult category first because it gives you a chance to sharpen your inviting skills. This is where your homework comes in, as it will give you confidence, information and resources to tackle difficult questions. But we will speak more about the art of Inviting in a later Gem.
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The Fundamentals of Networking – Do Your Homework
Many of my readers of Gems are networkers. It is the life we live and breathe. So, I think it appropriate to spend some time talking about the principles of networking. I want to go back to basics and discuss what makes us successful in the beginning of this business. Self-development and character building is important, but in the business of network marketing, you also need to have the skills of a networker. I mean, just because someone is a good person doesn’t make them a good driver of a car. The same applies to networking.
In the next few Gems, I would like to address three basic areas of networking: Prospecting, Inviting, and Presenting. But before we get into any of that, you need to do your homework first.
I think of a network marketing company as a cake with many pieces. If I don’t like one of the pieces, I would not join that particular company. These ‘pieces of cake’ include considerations such the wider direct selling industry, the company’s background, the network, the corporate management, the compensation plan, and the products.
Make sure you know about the industry, and the difference between pyramiding and legitimate networking. Make sure you know the company you will represent. A good network marketing or direct selling company must have a good, strong sales force or marketing team in terms of the actual network, and the corporate management must be intact and effective. There needs to be that balance. Also, immerse yourself in the compensation plan to ensure it is structured for longevity. If a company has no limits to its payouts, then you know the company won’t last.
Be sure you actually try the products. If you are promoting the products of a company, it is hypocritical and ineffective to promote something you have never used, or a product that you don’t even like. Another consideration is to find out what type of training and support the company offers. This is an important factor in your growth as a networker.
Before you even think about your prospect list or earning potential, make sure you have done this basic background research and that you have taken the time to understand the industry, the company, the compensation plan, and the products. As your life as a networker develops, you will be very thankful that you did.
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Posted on August 7, 2009 by ramya
When I was a young child, my parents found it extremely difficult to get me to eat anything that even remotely resembled a vegetable. I loved hot dogs and hamburgers and junk food, like most young children. I didn’t like carrots, and really disliked broccoli. Then, when I was nine years old, I was taken on a tour of a slaughterhouse in the Philippines. I was shocked to see a half-dead cow being hung from the rafters by a big hook, slowly bleeding to death, being kept alive as long as possible so as to keep the meat fresher for longer. I was sickened by the suffering of this animal. At nine years of age, all I could think was, “Is this what animals go through, just so I can eat them?” The reality I saw in the slaughterhouse didn’t match the hamburger commercials I’d seen on TV, where cows were happy and chickens danced around huge farms.
At such a young age, I didn’t know there was such a thing as a vegetarian. I certainly didn’t know there was a whole philosophy behind vegetarianism. But instinctively, I just felt it was wrong to take another life so I could eat. I had never before made the connection between live animals and the meat on my dinner plate. My young mind thought that if there was an alternative to killing the animals I saw in the slaughterhouse, then I would rather take that alternative. I haven’t eaten meat since then.
Being a vegetarian is a matter of choice. And there are many reasons behind why people make the choice to become vegetarian. Of course, some of these reasons are health-related. A properly balanced vegetarian diet is healthy and beneficial to the human body. Also, scientifically, the physical make-up of humans is not designed to be carnivorous. If you look at the anatomy and function of herbivores in the animal kingdom, their intestines are very long, like humans, meaning they’re not able to fully digest meat, which rots very fast in the intestines. Vegetarian animals, like cows, water buffalo and giraffes, don’t have canine teeth that are designed to rip through meat. Instead, they have flat, grinding teeth, much like that of humans, which are perfect for eating plants and vegetables. What’s more, our saliva contains a specific enzyme that has the sole purpose of digesting complex carbohydrates found in plant foods. This enzyme is not found in the saliva of carnivores. Interesting, isn’t it? We’re just not designed to eat meat.
Not only are we not designed to eat meat, but instinctively, we are not meant to either. I remember an experiment where a toddler was placed in a cot with an apple and a rabbit. The toddler ate the apple and played with the rabbit. But when a small tiger cub was placed in the cot with an apple and a rabbit, the tiger ate the rabbit and played with the apple! The meat industry and commercialisation has made it so easy for humans to eat meat, by removing from sight and mind the connection between live animals and meat we eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Our natural instincts have been diminished.
Albert Einstein once said, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet.” This quote is perhaps even wiser than the man who said it.
There are more than six billion people in this world, and according to the UN, if everyone adopted a vegetarian diet, not one of those people would need to worry about going hungry. Plus, the meat industry is one of the biggest contributors to global warming, deforestation, and water consumption; consider the hundreds of thousands of litres of water needed to rear livestock and produce meat products, the many hectares of trees that are being cut down so that cattle can graze, and the sheer magnitude of methane produced by cattle. More than any human activity, these things are slowly chipping away at the ability of the Earth to sustain life.
The QI Group is a vegetarian company, but that does not mean we try to force our employees or anyone else to be vegetarian. Everyone has a choice. As Group Managing Director of QI, the Board of Directors and I agree that the health, ethical, and environmental advantages of practicing vegetarianism is worth promoting and embodying. It is our company statement that all life is sacred.
Please take a moment to ponder… Vegetarianism is a choice we make for our own good, as well as the greater good. It is a choice we make after realising the bleakness of the consequences of the alternative. But it is a choice. And we must decide, sooner or later, what choice we are going to make.
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To Be Like the Bee
There are many lessons we can learn just by looking around us… from the most seemingly insignificant occurrences in nature to the most obvious of human behaviour.
Take, for example, the predispositions of the humble bumble bee and the common fly. Think about where you normally see these creatures. You will find the bee merrily buzzing around the sweet nectar of flowers. The fly, on the other hand, is drawn to the filthy places of rubbish bins and waste. The same can be seen in people. Some people choose to surround themselves with good by seeing the positive things in others and in the world around them. They recognise there is negativity and evil, but they choose to focus on what is good and right. They do not gossip about the badness of others. They do not finger point and bring people down. These people are ‘bee-like’. Then there are the ‘fly-like’ people. Attracted to the dark side of things, these people choose to see the negative and they draw the attention of other people towards the ills of something. They point out people’s flaws to third parties and they have no interest in helping the person they are talking about.
This is not to say that we must be blind to others’ faults. But if you are to draw attention to these faults, you should do so to the person concerned, and only with the motive of helping that person to improve. It is not for you to speak about that person’s flaws with other people, as this is non-constructive and serves no purpose other than the spread of malicious rumour that will not help the person involved.
Please take a moment to ponder… do not focus on the imperfections of others. We are imperfect ourselves. Before we correct others, let us first correct ourselves. We should be humble in what we see and do. We should be bee-like, and should avoid the trappings of viewing the world through the eyes of the garbage-seeking fly.
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Home Front Page News Microfluidic device that sorts cells by stiffness may help identify disease
Microfluidic device that sorts cells by stiffness may help identify disease
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Research into the stiffness of diseased cells is lacking, in part due to limits in technology. Researchers have developed a new technology to sort human cells according to their stiffness, which might one day help doctors identify certain diseases in patients, according to a new study.
The mechanical properties of cells are often an indicator of disease. Cancer cells are typically soft and squishy. When the malaria parasite is inside a red blood cell, for example, the cell is stiffer than normal. Sickle cells also vary in stiffness.
“There are no real techniques to sort cells by stiffness right now in large numbers,” said Alexander Alexeev, an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. Alexeev is an expert in fluid mechanics and a co-author on the study
The research team, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, hopes that their technology might one day aid doctors in the field to rapidly and more accurately diagnose disease.
Aside from testing for disease, the cell stiffness sorter could also be used in as a method for purifying and enriching an undifferentiated stem cell population from the differentiated cells, which would be useful for laboratory scientists.
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“We’re assured the device is very sensitive to say that the soft cells are all soft, but what we don’t know is whether all the disease cells are soft,” Sulchek said.
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“The main problem is how to sort cells very rapidly because if we are looking at cancer cells, there are very, very few of them. So we need to look at thousands of millions of cells to capture maybe a hundred cancer cells.”
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“There are several microfluidic approaches, but there’s not a real device yet,” Alexeev said.
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“We show that we separate by stiffness, not by other factors,” Sulchek said.
The new research was scheduled to be published in the journal PLOS ONE. The research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. The researchers also have a patent on this technology.
Cells are injected into a microfluidic channel on one side of the device. As the cells move through the channel, they are forced to squeeze over a series of ridges that are fabricated at an angle to the channel. If the cells are very flexible, they will easily squeeze over the ridges and follow the fluid stream. But if the cells are stiffer, when they hit a ridge, they will slide along the angled ridge before squeezing over, causing the cells to move to one side, separating them from the softer cells. These ridges eventually separate a single stream of cells into two streams depending on the cells’ stiffness, which in some cases can be an indicator of a disease.
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“If you imagine a microfluidic channel that is focusing a stream of cells, you’ll push the cells in different directions based on their mechanical properties,” said study co-author Todd Sulchek, an assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Sulchek specializes in studying the mechanical properties of cells.
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To show that their device can successfully sort cells based on stiffness, the researchers made some cells artificially soft, then labeled them with a different color so they could find them later. After running the cells through their device and analyzing the separated cells by color, they found that the artificially soft cells were separated from the other cells. Then the researchers used atomic force microscopy to probe the cells’ mechanical properties to make sure they were actually different.
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The research team will now work on using their device to separate cancer cells, malaria-infected cells, and sickle cells, and to sort stem cells.
A few other research groups are working on microfluidic approaches to sorting cells by stiffness, but Sulchek and Alexeev believe their technology will be quite sensitive.
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The researchers tested four different commercially available cell lines. White blood cells sort by stiffness particularly well, the researchers reported.
Their technology can sort cells at speeds similar to other cell sorting devices, such as a fluorescently activated cell sorter machine, which is a commonly device used in research labs.
The new technology is being tested in a small device, about 1 inch wide by 1.5 inches long.
“This is also a useful tool for just basic research and understanding what the effect of specific disease is on cell mechanics,” Alexeev said.
Stiffness Dependent Separation of Cells in a Microfluidic Device . Wang G, Mao W, Byler R, Patel K, Henegar C, et al. (2013) Stiffness Dependent Separation of Cells in a Microfluidic Device. PLoS ONE 8(10): e75901. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075901 | [
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You are here: Home / The Daily Pose / So lets see if this ¤θθ^
So lets see if this ¤θθ^<￦￦¥ phone will post a pis
………….. Oh yeah man, it went right in! Can’t wait to get to the shop………
A new video on working the striker plate on your door. The next video was shot yesterday where we finally bent the door. That video will be out Monday.
There’s been so much talk about how Christmas this year will be different……….I hope everyone gets thru this and next year will be better………i don’t think I need to say anything else here……….there needs to be at least one place to get away from it all if at least for a little bit. I hope I can make this page retakes you from all that…..at least a little while.
Numbers here are still up so I hope you guys look at this page too like that.
and the beat goes on…… I’ll be back when I get to work, talk to ya then……….
It’s so nice at the shop in the morning….. I mean before the sun is up and the guys tyrn this place into a subway station at rush hour! All the goings on without the people……for some reason I enjoy this time of the day. Here’s the subject coach for the door straightening video yesterday the guys are all over the coach finishing up projects.
This is also one of the great things doing this for so long. Here’s a coach we put together gosh has to be 15 years ago……the “flying 4” flying formation, we built this coach up for a recently……at that time ……..commercial pilot and of course he flew fighters! we’re doing an mechanical review before we get started bringing this proud machine back to the road. I’d like to thank all the owners since we delivered the coach being good stewards, I know it’s now in good hands too.
TECHNOLOGY UPDATE: That cute little red 3.2cf frig has been put thru its paces we found its true, the critter pulls 80 watts AC or less with the compressor running. It’s obviously not a DanFoss compressor needing a full since wave inverter as opposed to the cheaper modified since wave units. An 1100watt pure since wave inverter pulls @ 6.5amps from a DC power source while the compressor is running, pulls only standby current of 1amp with the inverter on at rest. This can work in an efficient solar/battery regulated supply and cost delivered was $250…….. Yes, the pure since wave inverter cost more than that! And it’s just so cute! This will go into JayGee as soon as I can put together a new frig cabinet in the coach…….sTay tuned…….
Boy, getting my phone cleaned out is really making pics post nicely……awesome! Soon, this fresh candy blue sapphire drive train will be set up on our old run in stand, stay tuned for the redneck lullabye……..a big block on the ground with open headers……..yeah man, I love it! Stay tuned…….
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The best laid plans ...
Our weekend started out really nicely ... I slept in on Saturday morning, and we packed up and went to the pool on Saturday afternoon. Unfortunately, while we were there, I started getting a headache (I suffer from migraines).
When we got home, I took my medicine and took a shower in the dark, trying to keep the migraine at bay. Unfortunately, it didn't work. I went downstairs to sit with everyone while they ate supper, then played with the kids a little before bedtime ... but soon I had to head upstairs to begin the inevitable process.
It was a long night of searing pain, getting up countless times to throw up, and tossing and turning (gently) in the bed trying to find a position that caused the least pounding in my head. I think it's hard for people who've never had a migraine to grasp what being in the throes of one is really like. The pain is so bad that it's literally blinding, and you hurt so much that all you can do is eek out periodic bursts of prayer that God will spare you and return you to normal. But at that point, you can't even remember what "normal" feels like. Oh, the torture of a migraine. (WHINE MUCH?)
And all of this on Father's Day Weekend. I'd planned to be up early (for me) yesterday, to fix lunch for everyone, give Grayson the afternoon off so that he could take a nap and read a book, then take everyone out to supper last night.* Instead, I spent Sunday in the bed, still with the remnants of the migraine, taking more medicine and hoping it wouldn't come back full-force. At some point in the evening, Grayson brought me six Saltines and some apple juice, the first thing I'd eaten since lunch on Saturday, and still the only thing I've eaten since then. Post-migraine, I'm always reluctant to eat, because I'm so scared that it won't stay down. I might try something light for lunch today.
So Grayson's Father's Day 2009 was spent as a single dad with no break to speak of. I did manage to get downstairs around lunchtime to pull his gifts out (Season 2 of Rome on DVD and a new Krispy Kreme sweatshirt to replace the one he just threw out because it was threadbare). And he did take the older boys to a movie yesterday afternoon while I kept Jake (poor Jake ... I was basically a bump on a log), but I'd planned for it to be a better day for him.
So, to Grayson today -- a day late -- thank you for all that you do every day for the boys. They have so enjoyed the extra time with you this summer, and they idolize you. I know we get bogged down in the everyday frantic pace of life, but they are taking notice of you, and they are taking notice of the time you're spending with them. We all love you very much! Happy Father's Day from all of us.
* I bet you thought I was going to say "fix BREAKFAST for everyone." But Grayson didn't think I was going to say that. He knows.
Brenda is SO Blessed said...
I have migraines as well. Really the pits. and you are absolutely right---if you have never had one you don't understand. I am so sorry your day ended badly. hope you aren't 'ambushed" again too soon.
Katherine @ Grass Stains said...
Brenda, I'm sorry you have them, too! What a drag. I honestly had been doing very well for a while with just one a month or so, but lately the rate has quadrupled. I'm hoping to get them back under control soon! | [
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Green Business Singapore Interview – Conergy Renewable Energy Singapore
Insights September 1, 2008 September 15, 2017 business sustainability, Clean energy, conergy, go green, interview, Renewable energy
There has been tremendous growth and interest in clean energy in Asia and Singapore over the past few years. To understand more about clean energy issues and trends, we have the privilege of interviewing Mr Stefan Mueller, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific of Conergy Renewable Energy Singapore.
About Conergy Renewable Energy Singapore
Conergy Renewable Energy Singapore has been established since 2006 and operates as Regional Headquarters for Hamburg-based Conergy AG. In the Asia-Pacific, Conergy offers a broad range of renewable energy solutions, serving customers from its satellite operations in Australia, China, India, Korea, Singapore and Thailand. Our office in Singapore serves as regional headquarters for the Asia-Pacific and the Middle East; and with a sales, engineering and operational unit for all other countries.
Since its entry into the Asia-Pacific market, Conergy-Asia Pacific has secured various milestones in a short timeframe of two years. Our renewable energy solutions range from building-integrated, grid-connect and off-grid photovoltaic to small wind power solutions. Deploying products with uncompromising quality and expert engineering, we design, install and maintain customised solutions for residential consumption, community projects or large commercial and industrial applications.
1. Singapore has been developing its clean energy industry over the past few years. How would you rate Singapore’s efforts? What are the challenges faced by Singapore? Where do you wish to see improvements in?
The clean energy industry in Singapore has a strong focus on manufacturing and less on market activity. This is similar to countries like Taiwan and Mainland China. However, countries leading in renewable energies, such as Germany and Spain invested in the market before manufacturing, which follows once market activity has developed – hence building a stable investment environment needed for cost-intensive production facilities. Singapore has good ideas, at present, clean energy certifications and programmes are emerging strongly here.
However, the threat of a “brain drain†syndrome is imminent. In any successful economy, human capital will inadvertently gravitate towards market activity and right now, there is minimal market activity in Singapore. This is largely due to a lack of incentives available for investors and consumers – which are all required for the market to be attractive in order to drive growth. Should this trend continue, a “brain drain†syndrome will occur, resulting in homegrown talent leaving Singapore in pursuit of other opportunities.
2. How has the clean energy market in Asia grown over the past 5 years? Where do you see it heading in the next 5 years?
The past five years have seen major players such as Korea and Japan taking the lead in large-scale developments in the global clean energy market. Korea has had especially strong market growth due to a good feed-in tariff. Aside from meeting energy needs, the Korean and Japanese governments are also taking the lead by committing themselves to clean energy targets and a diversified energy mix. China and Taiwan are also becoming strong players in the industry, but mostly in manufacturing.
Technology-wise, there has been a great increase in demand for innovative off-grid renewable energy solutions in the region. India alone has a vast need for off-grid power with more than 13% of its 600,000 remote villages lacking electricity. Off-grid renewable energy solutions have also penetrated many industrial sectors in Malaysia and Indonesia that require efficient power in remote locations, or reliable electricity backups for diesel gensets.
3. What are the major Conergy projects in the Asia-Pacific region?
Conergy has just completed constructing Asia’s largest photovoltaic power plant in SinAn, South Korea with an installed capacity of 19.56 megawatts. The plant will be expanded to a total of 24 megawatts by year-end. We are also actively involved in rural electrification initiatives in India, where over 100,000 people from 250 remote villages have benefited from our solar-powered lighting systems in their homes and communities. In addition, industrial solutions in off-grid solar power are also a key area for us – for example, providing PV-and-wind hybrid systems to offshore oil and gas platforms in India, as well as off-grid photovoltaic systems for telecom repeater stations in Indonesia.
4. Which country do you think deserves to be Asia’s clean energy hub? What are the reasons?
Singapore has the potential to excel here, thanks to an ideal location in close proximity to major clean energy markets. In addition, Singapore has a strong network of resources ranging from a good education system and engineering infrastructure, to a stable government. Singapore’s banking and financial system is also one of the strongest in Asia, which makes it an ideal place for business due to a reliable and trusting environment.
5. What are your views on climate change and the role of clean energy?
Clean energy solutions can play a major role in mitigating carbon emissions and the effects of climate change. Solar energy for example is a very universal application that can be easily employed by both businesses as well as individuals. Photovoltaic applications are versatile enough to be installed in a variety of places and have little moving parts, thus requiring minimal maintenance.
However, clean energy solutions are just one facet of the solution in tackling climate change. They must be harnessed in combination with conscious acts by individuals to use energy in an efficient way. Such acts will involve exploring alternative means of transport, energy-efficient applications in households and regulated air-conditioning temperatures.
6. Clean energy investment could be the next dotcom bubble. Do you agree?
Much like the dotcom bubble of the ’90s, the clean energy industry is advancing rapidly, with an annual growth rate globally of approximately 50%. However, unlike the dotcom industry, clean energy is neither a fad nor a ‘bubble’ – it comprises real technologies and practical solutions driven not only by market forces, but also strong energy needs and depleting environmental resources. Analysts predict that grid parity (the point at which conventional energy and solar energy prices will converge in developed countries) will take place between 2012 and 2015 – by then, the market will change dynamically again. Solar energy will then be regarded as a mass commodity, as opposed to the new technology it is now.
7. Please describe Conergy’s green initiatives and practices in Singapore.
As a clean energy company, we recognise that business operations contribute significantly to the inefficient use of energy. We’ve adopted energy efficiency measures in our workplace – such as making the switch to 100% recycled printing paper, encouraging recycling and using energy-efficient and motion-sensor lighting. We also make environmental awareness a part of our company culture and aim to spread its positive message to our employees, clients and stakeholders.
Education is also of key importance to us. Through our internal “Green Team” initiative, we circulate regular newsletters to our employees region-wide that share news and research on environmental topics. In addition, many of us are working actively in collaboration with the Singapore government and schools to encourage information exchange on clean energy issues and technologies. Through this exchange of ideas and knowledge transfer, we hope to boost the growth of clean energy here and also spread eco-awareness.
8. What advice would you give to companies and organisations who are interested to go green?
I would advise companies to make sustainability a core part of the organization’s corporate culture as this creates a rewarding, fulfilling environment for employees while fostering opportunities to sustain social and environmental resources. Workplace energy efficiency is a great way to start as business operations usually account for a large percentage of carbon emissions. Another key area would be donating time, funds and business resources towards helping our society’s underprivileged attain a sustainable future.
This interview is conducted with Mr Stefan Mueller, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific of Conergy Renewable Energy Singapore. Visit Conergy Renewable Energy Singapore’s website at http://singapore.conergy.com/.
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GuestRoomMaribor
RESIDENCY OPPORTUNITIES
FUNDED RESIDENCIES
AELIA HAZIL 2020
Aelia Hazil: Searching for Aelia
Kaja Kraner
The analyzes of the impact of digital technologies on the changes in established approaches to storing and organizing memory begin to be articulated especially from the 1990s when also the countries of the so-called former second and third worlds are gripped by a wave of digitization and the general expansion of internet access. Precisely memory seems to be a good entry point that unfolds all the complexity of the intertwining of the cultural sphere and technology. Namely, memory is, among other things, an integral part of the formation of culture as such as well as identity (in the broadest sense of the word), and consequently crosses all segments of social communication, (self)understanding and orientation. The initial optimism about the democratic potential of so-called digital reproducibility among other things stemmed from the potential to blur the distinction between authors and consumers, where the author is increasingly becoming a consumer of existing, to an ever-larger extent accessible, materials and where the consumer is somehow becoming the (co)author of the work.
In strictly anthropological terms, the digital form of storage is not significantly different from mummification or techniques of storing analogue heritage: in all of the cases, it is a way of the symbolic overcoming of human finitude through technology. One could even argue that the symbolic overcoming of human finitude through technology is actually synonymous with culture, that is, with something opposite of the randomness, non-selectivity, and non-reflexivity of the instinctive, automatic, or oblivion that supposedly rules the realm of the natural. The digital form of storage is, at best, special in that the potentially endless expansion of storage space and, at the same time, the reduction of storage time undermine the very foundation of the cultural that arises from the selection between what is worth preserving and what is not. At the same time, the digital form of storage is special in that its primary object – unlike mummification, which tries to preserve the matter – is information about or memory of material objects. Exactly through this, in a way, double detachment from the material, additional aspects are revealed: digital reproducibility corrodes the connection of the medium of memory preservation (statements, objects, images) with the place of enunciation as well as the context from which it originates. Through this, the social regulatory techniques are also corroded, the very techniques which otherwise guarantee the status of reality: digital reproducibility threatens to eliminate the conditions for the possibility of distinguishing between factual, objective and fictional. But this has ultimately always been the specifics of artistic language or art as such.
The work of Aelia Hazil, a Palestinian artist besieged in Lebanon, could be roughly termed post-internet archival art, whereby at the first glance this designation primarily concerns the media and chronological placement of her work. Nevertheless, it is necessary to be more precise. Archival art from the 1990s onwards is supposed to derive from the establishment of information processing as the central aesthetic problem within the framework of conceptual art, i.e. it concerns the change of the epistemological basis of contemporary art. In the case of Hazil, however, the cultural and geopolitical location of her work is also crucial. In her work, she addresses the collision between the materiality of bodies, very specific (political) territory, identity (basically a radically virtual and fictional phenomenon) and the seeming boundlessness of the sphere of the virtual – be it the World Wide Web or the imagination. Excessive documentation, which is one of the key starting points of her work, is therefore not only related to the general features of “digital culture”. It is indistinguishable from her ethnic, cultural and geographical origin or her existential experience: "with the fears, we inherited from our parents and ancestors that erasure or interruption, displacement and forced migration, for example, can happen at any time."
The clash between the materiality of political, cultural boundaries, the physical/biological body, its needs and limitations, and the virtuality of spirit, image, imagination and the World Wide Web seems to be most intensified and evident precisely in the case of Middle Eastern peripheral global capitalism. What existential experience does this collision bring? At the level of narration, we encounter accelerated fragmentation, constant interruptions (power and internet outages) and glitches. So with a phenomenon that generally seems to represent a kind of immanent temporality to the digital medium, wherein the flow of time there is a sudden stop or the blast of the present, which at the same time exposes the material side of the otherwise emphasized virtuality of the digital image. At the level of spatial display, we encounter radical dispersion and distribution, where each component acts as a shrapnel of information or a trace of our presence and activities that we constantly leave and produce in other people or online.
Hazil began her art practice as a travel blogger and visited Palestine and other places via Google Earth, the places she cannot physically visit due to her location in a specific geopolitical space. As stated in her biography, through virtual travel, she began to accumulate memories that inevitably affected her identity, while at the same time she began to build her artistic persona. So who is, therefore, Hazil? Is she still besieged in the physical space of Lebanon, where space is full of material and symbolic traces of an unresolved past, the result of the complex political history of the Middle East and where “identity is formed by an ID”? The title of the exhibition is perhaps the most informative in this connection: Hazil is (still) searching for herself. The formulation at first glance acts as a typical example of the (Western) life ethic of authenticity, stemming from the idea that the source of ourselves is our own interior, not so much the culture, place, and time in which we were born. But in virtual space and the so-called post-internet art one no longer finds authenticity without a (cynical) distance. Is Hazil’s identity thus merely a by-product of the fragments of her face, voice, conveyed emotions, messages sent to a person she cannot physically visit (everytime, Alo Beirut, Look at me now), an archive of memories of images of the Lebanese-Israeli border and Palestinian apartments (1001 views of Palestine) and other traces she leaves in virtual and actual space?
Aelia Hazil (00/00/0000) is a Palestinian visual artist besieged in Lebanon. Her artistic practice uses 3D scanning, photogrammetry, digital photography, CGI (computer-generated images) and artistic glitch. She began her art practice as a travel blogger on Instagram, where she documented her virtual trips to Palestine and created documentation of the trips via 3D scanning application display.land, using visual material of real places and people from occupied Palestine. In the process of appropriation and integration of those images, Aelia Hazil’s identity is being constructed, based on fictional memories, where her Instagram account is used as a narrative medium for telling an animated story of an intangible person, who is trying to overcome the borders/boundaries. Hazil’s work focuses on the policies, implemented and accelerated over the Internet, and interrogates a virtual world without borders.
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13 dead in Chile amid struggle to contain raging wildfires
SANTIAGO, Chile >> At least 13 people were reported dead as of Friday night as a result of the more than 150 wildfires burning across Chile that have destroyed homes and thousands of acres of forest while the South American country is in the midst of a scorching heat wave. | [
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21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother[a] will be liable to judgment; whoever insults[b] his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell[c] of fire. 23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. 25 Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison. 26 Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.[d]
27 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ 28 But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. 29 If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell. 30 And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.
31 “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’32 But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery, and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Oaths
33 “Again you have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not swear falsely, but shall perform to the Lord what you have sworn.’ 34 But I say to you, Do not take an oath at all, either by heaven, for it is the throne of God, 35 or by the earth, for it is his footstool, or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. 36 And do not take an oath by your head, for you cannot make one hair white or black. 37 Let what you say be simply ‘Yes’ or ‘No’; anything more than this comes from evil.[e]
38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. 40 And if anyone would sue you and take your tunic,[f] let him have your cloak as well. 41 And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. 42 Give to the one who begs from you, and do not refuse the one who would borrow from you.
43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’44 But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. 46 For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?47 And if you greet only your brothers,[g] what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? 48 You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
Matthew 5:22 Some manuscripts insert without cause
Matthew 5:22 Greek says Raca to (a term of abuse)
Matthew 5:22 Greek Gehenna; also verses 29, 30
Matthew 5:26 Greek kodrantes, Roman copper coin (Latin quadrans) worth about 1/64 of a denarius (which was a day’s wage for a laborer)
Matthew 5:37 Or the evil one
Matthew 5:40 Greek chiton, a long garment worn under the cloak next to the skin
Matthew 5:47 Or brothers and sisters. The plural Greek word adelphoi (translated “brothers”) refers to siblings in a family. In New Testament usage, depending on the context, adelphoi may refer either to brothers or tobrothers and sisters
English Standard Version (ESV)The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers.
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TG4 appoints Áine Lally as Communications Manager
20 Dec 2022 : News Desk
New TG4 Communications Manager, Aine Lally.
TG4 has announced that Áine Lally has been appointed as the broadcaster's new Communications Manager. Áine has over twenty years’ experience as a broadcast journalist and newscaster with Nuacht TG4/RTÉ.
In the late 1990s, she began her television career in TG4's Communications Department working with former Deputy Chief Executive Pádraic Ó Ciardha. She is known throughout Connemara and beyond for her unique journalistic and storytelling style giving insight into Gaeltacht and Irish-language communities in Ireland and abroad.
During her years with Nuacht TG4, she has produced many documentaries about Irish Americans in Boston, New York, Pittsburgh and Louisiana. She has covered US elections for the station and has previously been a reporter for RTÉ's Nationwide and also worked with Galway Bay FM. She was a researcher and presenter of entertainment series Féilte for four years working with Aoife Ní Thuairisg and Síle Ní Bhraonáin. In 2004, Áine presented Gradam Ceoil TG4 with Páidí Ó Lionáird.
TG4 Director of Marketing, Development and Partnerships Lís Ní Dhálaigh, welcomed the appointment saying: "I would like to welcome Áine Lally to this important role in TG4. Áine has extensive journalism experience and knowledge of Irish language and Gaeltacht communities which will be a great asset as she undertakes the position of Communications Manager with TG4. I have no doubt that she will take to the role with the same energy and commitment that she is renowned for in her journalism work."
Áine succeeds Deirdre Ní Choistín who was recently appointed TG4's Head of News & Current Affairs. Áine will start her new job in January.
Filming underway on Kneecap, the new Irish Language feature film about Belfast-based rap trio
Parkland Entertainment acquires Irish-language rowing drama Tarrac! for Irish and UK release
TG4 joins forces with Broadcasters from Wales, China, and Korea for international Stadiums co-production | [
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Where Gandhi & Mandela Are Palpable Parts of Our Present
By Danita Dodson
On July 13, 2015, a new era in my life began. Travelling from Tennessee, I arrived in California to attend the Ahimsa Center’s Summer Institute for K-12 teachers. Held at Cal Poly Pomona, Journeys of Nonviolence focused on two champions of nonviolent action for social change, Mohandas K. Gandhi and...
Nelson Mandela, who devoted their lives to battling racism, oppression, violence, and poverty. This biennial program introduces teachers to the concept of ahimsa and assists them in creating innovative curriculum that brings the ethics of nonviolence to their classrooms. Joining a select group of thirty-one educators from across the U.S., I was privileged to participate in a two-week journey that was truly life-changing.
I was drawn to the Ahimsa Center when a good friend shared his own experience in the 2013 Institute. Because I have always valued opportunities that nurture transformative learning, my friend’s description resonated deeply. While I am a joyful person, I cannot remember a time when I did not recognize and mourn the injustices and disharmonies around me. Growing up and teaching in rural Appalachia—a region steeped in both discrimination and activism—I endeavor to help disadvantaged students realize the importance of social action to end cruelty, discontent, and poverty. Desiring to help them fathom the 7 billion Others and to realize that local troubles are akin to problems around the globe, I was attracted to the Institute’s mission. It promised to help me teach Gandhi’s and Mandela’s shared truth that injustice, violence, and hatred can be remedied only by the propagation of kindness, harmony, and respect for all life.
Within the current global and local contexts of escalating hostilities and divisions, the Institute affirmed just how crucial it is that teachers connect pedagogy and nonviolence. The interdisciplinary format included the themes of compassion, forgiveness, transformation, and reconciliation, providing not only notable lectures about the history of nonviolent social change but also invaluable curriculum-development workshops with exceptional facilitators. Working with expert faculty and scholars in appraising the importance of Gandhi and Mandela in their own eras and also their continuing relevance in our time, participants were exposed to readings, discussions, and documentaries that enhanced our understanding of nonviolence and nonviolent social change. Based on our learning experiences, reflections, and analysis of sources, each of us wrote a comparative essay on a salient aspect related to Gandhi and Mandela and developed an associated lesson.
By the end our exploration of Gandhi in week one, we began to jubilantly pronounce the words swaraj, swadeshi, satyagraha, sarvodaya, and to advocate their vital applicability to our lives and our instruction. One of the most poignant experiences of that week for me was a close study of Gandhi’s talisman, which encourages us to envisage “the face of the poorest and the weakest” when we act. Pondering this benevolent wisdom as I continued to immerse myself in Gandhi’s writings, I began to realize that his life itself is a talisman of compassion, and the study of his journey can only bring us goodness. In the second week, approaching Mandela’s writings through this lens, I became cognizant of his comparable empathy for the oppressed as he worked to lessen their suffering and to facilitate their freedom. Working with a Mandela scholar, participants engaged in a thorough study of the horrific conditions under apartheid and the extraordinary movement against it. We also had the unforgettable opportunity to hear Linda Biehl share her story of love and forgiveness for the four men who killed her daughter Amy in South Africa, men she now calls her friends. Presented within this multifaceted and profound framework, Gandhi and Mandela transcended history and became a palpable part of our present.
In addition to giving participants a critical assessment of Gandhi and Mandela and their contributions to history, the Institute allowed us to experience the sense of community that these men diligently sought to create. Assembling educators whose applications exhibited a deep interest in teaching students a greater appreciation for humanity and its oneness, the program placed us within what Gandhi called an “oceanic circle” with a common goal that still respected the individuality of each. It inspired a bond that will likely last a lifetime. Currently, I am in contact with my Ahimsa fellows almost daily, and we continue to be mindful of our unified endeavor to “be the change.”
Although only one month has passed, I have begun to put into action the lessons of nonviolence in my school system, for the Institute has empowered me with the ability to extend the oceanic circle into my own community. Two weeks ago, in a professional development session, I shared Gandhi’s talisman and related insights. Emulating approaches I learned at the Ahimsa Center, I noticed receptivity radiating from Tennessee educators as I reminded them of human connections. Though the words ahimsa, swaraj, and sarvodaya were foreign to them, their equivalents nonviolence, freedom, and well-being of all were not. Last week I also began the work of bringing the principles of compassion, civility, unity, and trust into my classroom. I have designed a multicultural curriculum to provide disadvantaged Appalachian students a bright lens through which to view both their region and their world, one that will encourage them to make their own inward journeys, to imagine positive possibilities, and to understand the oneness of all life. This curriculum includes the lesson I created at the Institute, which explores how Gandhi and Mandela helped their peoples reclaim cultural heritage, symbols, and values; it is anchored in a framework that promotes cultural competence, tolerance, and appreciation of the heritage of others. Thanks to the Ahimsa Center Institute, I have made a commitment to be more fully present in every encounter, professionally and personally. The experience has helped me tap into my truest self, delve into my purest potential, and embody the essence of nonviolence in my life. (Danita Dodson is a high school English and Spanish teacher in Sneedville, TN. She also teaches literature and humanities as an adjunct instructor at Walters State Community College. To learn about the Ahimsa Center : www.cpp.edu/ahimsacenter.)
Samantha Hopper
Thank you Danita for capturing our shared experience so beautifully. I am so grateful to be continuing on this journey together and so happy that we are all connected by the positive use of the internet. Succinct, clear, true, and profoundly articulated.
In Ahimsa, | [
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PPPs Likely to Undermine Public Health Commitments
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram Reprint | | Print |
Capacity-building support for developing countries to safeguard the public interest in terms of public health and especially, to ensure that no one is left behind, is essential. Credit: IPS
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR , Jan 17 2018 (IPS) - The United Nations Agenda 2030 for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is being touted in financial circles as offering huge investment opportunities requiring trillions of dollars. In 67 low- and middle-income countries, achieving SDG 3 — healthy lives and well-being for all, at all ages — is estimated to require new investments increasing over time, from an initial $134 billion annually to $371 billion yearly by 2030, according to recent estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO) reported in The Lancet.
Selling PPPs
Deprived of fiscal and aid resources, none of these governments can finance such investments alone. The United Nations Intergovernmental Committee of Experts on Sustainable Development Financing estimated in 2014 that annual global savings (both public and private sources) were around US$22 trillion, while global financial assets were around US$218 trillion.
The third International Financing for Development Conference in Addis Ababa in mid-2015 recommended ‘blended finance’ as well as other public private partnerships (PPPs) to pool public and private resources and expertise to achieve the SDGs. Development finance institutions (DFIs), particularly the World Bank, are the main cheerleaders for these magic bullets.
Sensing the new opportunity for mega profits, the private sector has embraced the SDGs. The World Economic Forum now actively promotes PPPs with DEVEX, a private-sector driven network of development experts. A recent DEVEX opinion claims that PPPs can unlock billions for health financing. It invokes some philanthropy driven global partnership success stories — such as the Global Alliance for Vaccine Initiatives (GAVI) and the Global Fund to Fight Aids, TB and Malaria — to claim that national level PPPs will have similar results.
A managed equipment services (MES) arrangement with GE Healthcare in Kenya is also cited as a success story, ignoring criticisms. For example, Dr. Elly Nyaim, head of the Kenya Medical Association, has pointed out that MES has not addressed basic problems of Kenya’s health system, such as inappropriate training and non-payment of salaries to frontline health workers, encouraging emigration of well-trained health professionals to developed countries, further worsening Kenya’s already difficult health dilemmas.
It should be obvious to all that private sector participation in the development process is hardly novel, having long contributed to investments, growth and innovation. Not-for-profit civil society organisations (CSOs), especially faith-based ones, have also been significant for decades in education and health. Thus, in many developing countries such as Bangladesh and Indonesia, health and education outcomes are much better than what public expenditure alone could fund.
False claims
However, PPPs have a long and chequered history, especially in terms of ensuring access and equity, typically undermining the SDG’s overarching principle of “leaving no one behind”, including the SDG and WHO promise of universal health care. Also, partnerships with for-profit private entities have rarely yielded better fiscal outcomes, both in terms of finance and value for money (VfM).
Misleading claims regarding benefits and costs have been invoked to justify PPPs. Most claimed benefits of health PPPs do not stand up to critical scrutiny. As a policy tool, they are a typically inferior option to respond to infrastructure shortfalls in the face of budgetary constraints by moving expenditures off-budget and transferring costs to future governments as well as consumers and taxpayers.
Typically driven by political choices rather than real economic considerations, PPP incurred debt and risk are generally higher than for government borrowing and procurement. PPPs also appear to have limited innovation and raised transactions costs. PPP hospital building quality is not necessarily better, while facilities management services have generally reduced VfM compared to non-PPP hospitals. Underfunding and higher PPP costs lead to cuts in service provision to reduce deficits, harming public health.
Healthcare PPPs in low- and middle-income countries have raised concerns about: competition with other health programmes for funding, causing inefficiencies and wasting resources; discrepancies in costs and benefits between partners typically favouring the private sector; incompatibility with national health strategies; poor government negotiating positions vis-à-vis powerful pharmaceutical and other healthcare service companies from donor countries.
Perverted priorities
Rich and powerful private partners often reshape governmental and state-owned enterprise priorities and strategies, and redirect national health policies to better serve commercial interests and considerations. For example, relying on antiretroviral drugs from PPPs has resulted in conflicts with national authorities, generic suppliers and consumer interests, which have undermined health progress. Donor-funded PPPs are typically unsustainable, eventually harming national health strategies, policies, capacities and capabilities.
PPPs may divert domestic resources from national priorities, and thus undermine public health due to financial constraints they cause. Such redirection of investment exacerbates health disparities, adversely affecting vulnerable groups. Health workers often prefer to work for better funded foreign programmes, undermining the public sector.
PPPs can thus lead governments to abdicate their responsibilities for promoting and protecting citizens’ health. Partnership arrangements with the private sector are not subject to public oversight. Therefore, selecting private partners, setting targets and formulating operating guidelines are not transparent, they only aid in creating more scope for corruption.
PPPs are certainly not magic bullets to achieve the SDGs. While PPPs can mobilize private finance, this can also be achieved at lower cost through government borrowing. Instead of uncritically promoting blended finance and PPPs, the international community should provide capacity building support to developing countries to safeguard the public interest, especially equity, access and public health, to ensure that no one is left behind. | [
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AMERICAN ASSOCIATES OF THE NATIONAL THEATRE: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Fundraising Gala – ARRIVALS
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Celebrity Politics, Israel-Style
Wednesday, February 1, 2012 by Micah Stein | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Just two weeks ago, the always-excitable Israeli political world was abuzz with the news of two famous new Knesset candidates. One of them was a famous son—journalist Yair Lapid, whose father, Tommy Lapid, served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice under Ariel Sharon.
Whose Holocaust?
Friday, January 27, 2012 by Margot Lurie | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
For much of Europe, today is the UN-designated International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has dedicated his address this year to children murdered by the Nazis, with the message that "the best tribute to the memory of these children is an ongoing effort to teach the universal lessons of the Holocaust, so that no such horror is visited upon future generations."
Siren Songs
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 by Shlomo Zuckier | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
"For your voice is sweet and your appearance pleasant" (Song of Songs 2:14). On the basis of this verse, Jewish law prohibits a man's listening to kol ishah, a woman's voice in song. Unlikely as it may seem, this prohibition has sparked a controversy that could shake the foundations of Israel's self-defense and self-definition.
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Educating Adolf Felix Bohr, Spiegel. Biographers of Hitler have long pondered what transformed him from a struggling artist into a demagogue. A new book claims that the key lies in his military service after World War I.
Surviving Stalin Ben Cohen, Tablet. Stalin's "Doctors' Plot" is now seen by many historians as the opening move of a grand plan to deport and eliminate Soviet Jews. They were saved only by Stalin's own death.
When Egypt Ruled Jerusalem Noah Wiener, Bible History Daily. Archeological evidence points to a significant Egyptian presence in late Bronze Age Jerusalem—which had mysteriously disappeared by the time King David conquered the city.
Reason, Revelation, and Revolution Patrick Allitt, Claremont Review of Books. America's founders have been characterized both as devout Christians and as militant secularists. A new book argues that they remained believers in God, but revolted against the Bible.
Are Christians the New Jews? Yitzchok Adlerstein, Patheos. With Islamist attacks on Christians commonplace from Nigeria to Pakistan, Christians have replaced Jews as numerically the most persecuted people in the world.
Hitler's Philosophers Richard J. Evans, Times Higher Education. The idea that German philosophers were to blame for the rise of Nazism has long been discredited. A new attempt to revive the theory fails to convince.
Building Herod's Temple Leen Ritmeyer, Biblical Archeology Review. At both the southwest and southeast corners of the Temple Mount, stones weighing over 80 tons are still in place 100 feet above the foundations. How did they get there?
Purim and Presidents Day Aaron Zelinsky, Huffington Post. Purim and Presidents Day rarely fall in the same week. They do this year, and the coincidence is appropriate—since the early presidents were fans of the Purim story.
Misuses of the Holocaust Peter Berger, American Interest. "Is the Holocaust of European Jewry during World War II an absolutely unique event? Or may it properly be used to refer to other events of mass massacres?"
Searching for Sodom , Bible History Daily. Using biblical clues to search for ancient Sodom, archeologists excavated Tall el-Hammam in Jordan—and found evidence of a sudden and extreme conflagration over 3,000 years ago. | [
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POLO RALPH LAUREN vs. US POLO ASSN
Posted on 2020年8月9日 2022年1月3日 AuthorMasaki MIKAMI
The Appeal Board of the Japan Patent Office (JPO) affirmed Examiner’s refusal to register the wordmark “U.S. POLO ASSN.” due to similarity to and a likelihood of confusion with earlier registered mark “POLO” owned by The Polo/Lauren Company, L.P.
[Appeal case no. 2018-5222, Gazette issued date: July 31, 2020]
United States POLO Association filed a trademark registration for wordmark “U.S. POLO ASSN.” in standard character on January 13, 2016, over various kinds of bags, leather products, and other goods in class 18. [TM application no. 2016-3277]
On January 12, 2018, the JPO Examiner rejected the applied mark in contravention of Article 4(1)(xi) and (xv) of the Japan Trademark Law on the grounds that “U.S. POLO ASSN.” contains a term “POLO” which has become famous as a source indicator of The Polo/Lauren Company, L.P in connection with clothing and home décor. Relevant consumers with ordinary care would conceive the term as a prominent portion of the applied mark. If so, both marks shall be deemed similar or likely to cause confusion when used on the goods in question.
Article 4(1)(xi) is a provision to prohibit from registering a junior mark that is deemed identical with, or similar to, any senior registered mark.
Article 4(1)(xv) is a provision to prohibit any mark from being registered where it is likely to cause confusion with other business entity’s well-known goods or services, to the benefit of brand owner and users’ benefits.
U.S. POLO ASSN filed an appeal against Examiner’s refusal on April 16, 2018.
JPO admitted a high degree of reputation and popularity of “POLO” as a source indicator of The Polo/Lauren Company, L.P in connection with clothing as well as bags based on following fact-findings.
American company Polo Ralph Lauren was founded in 1967 in New-York by fashion designer Ralph Lauren. The 1980s and 90s saw massive expansion for the Ralph Lauren brand and it became a worldwide phenomenon.
“POLO” appears with definitions of ‘trademark of US designer, Ralph Lauren’ and ‘leather products designed by Ralph Lauren’ in some dictionaries which clearly demonstrate “POLO” is known as an abbreviation of ‘POLO RALPH LAUREN’.
“POLO” has been substantially used adjacent to “RAPLH LAUREN” on various goods and frequently advertised as a famous brand of RALPH LAUREN in the media.
A customer survey conducted in January 2010 from 900 adults age 20 years and older revealed that RALPH LAUREN has ranked 3rd-most popular brand in clothing after Burberry and UNIQLO.
Annual sales exceed USD4,800 million in 2008, USD7,450 in 2013.
The Board found the applied mark “U.S. POLO ASSN.” shall be seen as a composite mark consisting of “U.S.”, “POLO” and “ASSN.” Since the last word “ASSN.” is too unfamiliar to average Japanese consumers to see it as an abbreviation of ‘association’, the applied mark would not give rise to any specific meaning as a whole. Besides, its pronunciation ‘ˌjuː.es poʊ.loʊ eɪeɪesén’ sounds redundant. Even if the second word “POLO” means ‘a game played on horseback by two teams of four players each’, given a high reputation of the word as a source indicator or an abbreviation of ‘POLO RALPH LAUREN’ the Board can’t overlook the fact that it has the same spelling as RALPH LAUREN’s famous apparel brand.
If so, relevant consumers would consider “POLO” as a prominent portion of the applied mark and it shall be permissible to compare the portion with the cited mark in assessing similarity of mark.
In this viewpoint, the applied mark would give rise to a sound of ‘poʊ.loʊ’ and the meaning of “RALPH LAUREN’s famous apparel brand”. Therefore, the applied mark shall be deemed confusingly similar to senior registered mark “POLO” owned by The Polo/Lauren Company, L.P in class 18, and others (TM Registration no. 4040052, 4931614, and 4931615).
Based on the foregoing, the Board found that Examiner didn’t error in fact-finding nor applying Article 4(1)(xi) and (xv) of the Trademark Law and decided to refuse the applied mark accordingly.
Categories2020, Abbreviation, Article 4(1)(xi), Article 4(1)(xv), Composite mark, Famous mark, Likelihood of confusion, Similarity of goods, Similarity of mark, Trademark AppealTagsArticle 4(1)(xi), Article 4(1)(xv), Famous mark, JAPAN PATENT OFFICE, Japan Trademark Law, Likelihood of confusion, POLO, Ralph Lauren, similarity of mark, trademark appeal, US POLO ASSN
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What If Our First President Had Been Barack Obama Rather Than George Washington?
This is a letter I sent to The Wall Street Journal on 3/6/12, commenting upon various editorial tributes to the great philosopher and political scientist, James Q. Wilson, who died last week.
Your various pieces on the occasion of the death of James Q. Wilson, and particularly the references to The Moral Sense, put me to thinking about the role of the moral sense in American history, and led me to speculate:
What would America look like today, if the first president of the US had been Barack Obama rather than George Washington? If the Founding Fathers had been Timothy Geithner, David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, Eric Holder, Austan Goolsbee, and Van Jones, rather than Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, and Franklin? If the first important Chief Justice of the Supreme Court had been Ruth Bader Ginsburg, rather than John Marshall?
The essence of the great experiment that was the United States of America, was an enormous gamble: a bet that a parlay of individual self-interest and individuals’ moral sense would result in result in a nation that was better and stronger than all of the various states and empires that had been produced by governments that attempted to impose order and engender progress by means of tight regulation of all of their subjects or citizens. The Founders, in their magnificent wisdom (and their mastery of the principles enunciated by Adam Smith), understood that liberal democracy and free-market capitalism, propelled by the “invisible hand” of individual initiative (or greed, if you prefer) and restrained primarily by religious or secular “moral sentiments” rather than excessive legal regulation, were a magical combination.
After more than two-and-a quarter centuries of field testing, it is pretty hard to argue that the Founding Fathers’ experiment has not been a great success. And after more than three years of field testing, it is pretty hard to argue that the Obama White House has anything but contempt for the governmental model that was created by our country’s founders. It is clear that this President and his administration do not believe that there is such a thing as Smith’s moral sentiments (or James Q. Wilson’s “moral sense”), and it is clear that they, like most of history’s monarchs, Party Chairmen, and other leaders of authoritarian states, believe that every aspect of human behavior needs to be tightly regulated by the state in order to maintain civil order and attain social justice and economic prosperity.
So, short answer: if America had been founded by the Obama administration, it might look today a lot like France, or maybe most of the African continent. It would perhaps offer a decent regional cuisine or culture, it would make a modest living off of its natural resources (which would have been rudely extracted at a cost of all of the pristine beauty of our beaches, shorelines, and wilderness areas), it would long since have been totally taken over by Germany, Japan, or Russia, and there would be no such thing as individual freedom or democracy within its borders.
1 thought on “What If Our First President Had Been Barack Obama Rather Than George Washington?”
robert l. brooks on March 7, 2012 at 11:29 am said:
An interesting idea which I’d like to see explored in much greater depth. | [
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Climate Change Controversy in California: Effects of Prop 23 on AB 32 and Arguments in Support of AB 32 (Part II of II)
Several weeks ago, I posted a detailed overview of AB32 and Proposition 23 in anticipation of the approaching California Gubernatorial Election. With Election Day itself – November 2, 2010 – now just one day away, I am posting again with the hope of raising some last-minute awareness and increasing knowledge on one of the most controversial ballot propositions of the 2010 US gubernatorial elections: Proposition 23.
In my September post, I went into great detail about the specifics of AB32, California’s landmark “Global Warming Solutions Act”, and Proposition 23, a Texas oil company-led proposition to shelve the four-year old climate change legislation until unemployment levels in California drop down below 5.5%. I won’t rehash the information here, but to get acquainted with the issue, check out my related post entitled Climate Change Controversy in California: A Summary of California Climate Bill AB 32 and Ballot Proposition 23 (Part I of II).
While the above post focused largely on summarizing the details of the bill and proposition and putting the issue into the context of previous California environmental legislation, this post concentrates wholly on the effects of Proposition 23, which include effects on AB 32 and on the momentum and uncertainty of climate change legislation in the California and the United States. I should mention that a critical aspect of the debate on whether or not to suspend AB 32 is the economical impact, but I am not mentioning too much in regards to this here. Instead, this post remains focused on the effect of Prop 23 on greenhouse gas emission reductions, climate change policy momentum, and state and regional environmental initiatives.
Effects of Proposition 23 on AB 32 Measures
If the people of California vote tomorrow in favour of Proposition 23, measures mandated under AB 32 will feel the effects of this action most directly and most immediately. A number of discrete actions have already been initiated under AB32, and in some cases related action has been under development for four years already. Below is a sampling of AB32 measures that would be stalled by Prop 23.
Cap and Trade Program
In the realm of emissions trading, Prop 23 will suspend the cap and trade program currently being finalized by California Air Resources Board (CARB) regulations, a move that would have several negative implications. Perhaps most significantly, suspension of the proposed California cap and trade program would indirectly affect the development and implementation of the fledgling Western Climate Initiative (WCI) cap and trade program, with impacts on environmental policy and the economy of WCI partners.
Formed in 2007, the Western Climate Initiative is a “collaboration of independent jurisdictions working together to identify, evaluate, and implement policies to tackle climate change at a regional level”. The WCI operates independently from national governments, and its members are western states and provinces of the United States and Canada including Arizona, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and, most notably for this particular topic, California. One of the main goals of the WCI is to “design and implement a multi-jurisdictional market-based cap and trade system” among its members. The program would cover the six Kyoto greenhouse gases and major economic sectors including energy and transport, and would involve a two-phased introduction beginning January 1, 2012. The WCI focuses on developing a regional, rather than national, plan to reduce GHG emissions by 15% below 2005 levels by 2020. Upon complete implementation by 2015, it would cover almost 90% of GHG emissions in the WCI partner states and provinces.
California has been working closely with the WCI during the development of its own cap and trade program. The purpose of this working partnership was to design a program that would link easily with the state and provincial level programs of other WCI jurisdictions, and help to lower the overall costs of program implementation and administration. However, if Proposition 23 suspended California’s cap and trade program development, WCI cap and trade program momentum would slow considerably, and the regional cap and trade program would suffer from the lack of coordination with California. If the WCI cap and trade program is able to move forwards without support from California, another major problem exists: if AB 32 is still suspended when January 1, 2012 – the date for implementation of Phase 1 – rolls around, the pool of emissions covered by the program will be almost halved, since California represents about 40% of GHG emissions to be covered by the WCI program. Its absence from the WCI program would significantly impair the ability of the WCI to meet its emission reduction goals, and would reduce the effectiveness of the program due to the substantially smaller emissions trading market. Finally, any companies that took early action in anticipation of a California cap and trade program in order to reduce compliance costs would receive no credit for their investments and work.
In summary, the success of the WCI regional program depends heavily on California’s significant emissions market share and climate policy experience, and suspension of the state cap and trade program by Prop 23 would cut the legs out from under west coast emissions trading for the foreseeable future. Given that a common point against AB 32 is that it requires that California disproportionately invest in low carbon initiatives compared to fellow states, it needs to be pointed out that the impacts on the WCI cap and trade program brought about by AB 32 suspension would slow down momentum and progress in other states that are working towards sustainable economies.
Renewable Portfolio Standard
A Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) is a regulation requiring that renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar, and biomass, represent an increased proportion of energy production. In 2002, the California Renewable Portfolio Standard was created and requires that California energy companies must expand their renewable portfolio by 1% every year until 2010. Governor Schwarzenegger passed Executive Order S-14-08 in 2008, mandating an RPS of 33% by 2020 on top of the ‘20% by 2010’ requirement. Prop 23 jeopardizes the 33% RPS since Governor Schwarzenegger based his executive order on AB32 authority, and AB32 suspension could delay or, worse, invalidate, the 33% RPS. During the last couple of years, the existence of the 33% RPS has been pivotal in driving investment in the biofuels industry in California, an area of continued economic growth, even during the recession. Suspension of this mandate will likely result in investors and emerging companies seeking states with more aggressive RPS requirements.
Vehicle and Engine Efficiency
There are several measures related to vehicle and engine efficiency mandated by AB 32 that would be suspended by Prop 23. Regulations are currently being developed by CARB that dictate requirements for vehicle design and maintenance in hopes of reducing fuel and high-GWP gas use, and their associated GHG emissions. In addition, regulations have been proposed by CARB that would improve the efficiency of heavy-duty vehicles used for goods movement in California ports. Specific areas for research and development include advanced combustion technologies and waste-heat recovery. While the Clean Air Act, a piece of federal legislation enacted to control national air pollution, covers some area of goods movement, the CARB proposals are more comprehensive, detailed, and state-specific. Finally, AB 32 includes measures to reduce GHG emissions from transportation through retrofits to medium and heavy-duty trucks. The CARB scoping plan makes mention of reducing aerodynamic drag and rolling resistance as two areas for potential improvement.
Discrete Early Actions
The suspension of AB 32 would require that all nine of the CARB-mandated ‘discrete early action greenhouse gas emission measures’ be suspended indefinitely. These measures are directed at reducing GHG emissions from specifically targeted areas, including vehicles, landfills, and industrial processes, and are projected to achieve 12% of the overall emission reductions called for under AB 32 to meet the 2020 reductions target.
Four of the nine measures, including those targeted at perfluorocarbons (PFCs) produced by the semiconductor industry and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) from non-electric and non-semiconductor applications, focused on reducing emissions from high global warming potential activities that are significantly more damaging, on a tonne-to-tonne of gas basis relative to CO2, to GHG emission levels. One of the measures is directed at increasing the capture of methane from landfills through various technologies. Landfills with methane capture technology are able to recycle heat produced through landfill activities and waste degradation into heat and power.
Perhaps the most significant early action, the establishment of a low carbon fuel standard to reduce the GHG intensity of transportation fuels by 10% by 2020, would also be suspended. This measure, required by Executive Order S-01-07, had the highest associated reduction capacity, with projections estimating reductions of 16 million metric tonnes CO2e by 2020. Under Prop 23, this measure would be suspended, and car manufacturers would be responsible for reducing emissions from their vehicles with no mandated requirements on the oil industry to improve fuels. Suspension of this measure would also affect the nascent biofuels industry, a significant area of economic growth in California, by removing requirements on the transportation industry to invest in low-carbon alternate fuel sources.
Cogeneration Plants
Combined heat and power (CHP), known also as cogeneration, is a process by which both electricity and thermal energy are simultaneously generated by a power plant. It is one of the most common forms of energy recycling. Every power plant creates and emits heat as a by-product during the generation of electricity. Cogeneration plants, however, capture a portion of this heat to be used for heating purposes, typically as hot water for district heating systems. The benefit of a cogeneration plant is that it reduces or eliminates the need to build new power plants, or expand current ones, since some heating requirements can be met through efficiently using heat that would otherwise be wasted.
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) proposed that CHP should comprise 20% of US generation capacity by 2030, but the bill left the specifics of implementation and enforcement up to individual states, meaning that many areas of the US have done little in regards to CHP plant promotion and investment. In response to this, “CARB plans to set a target of 4,000 MW of installed cogeneration capacity by 2020”. Prop 23 would suspend these measures, an action that would, in the long term, require investment by the state into existing or new electricity power plants that would be more wasteful and environmentally damaging than cogeneration plants.
Effects of Proposition 23 on Regulatory Certainty and Momentum
Aside from the suspension of AB 32 measures, Prop 23 would impact the momentum of California, and in some ways the United States, in regards to climate change policy and low-carbon fuel research and development. Policies directing environmental measures have been increasing in number over the past decade in California, and an indefinite suspension would cause a rolling stone to gather at least a little moss. The slew of measures under AB 32 have also significantly contributed to raising interest across the United States, most notably in the form of stimulating private investment.
As of now, California is top state in the race to be a national leader in clean energy and clean technology. Suspension of AB 32 and its myriad of low-carbon fuel and other measures requiring significant R&D into clean technologies would dramatically reduce innovation and investment in the clean energy and clean technology sectors of California, two of the few sectors able to maintain positive growth during the national recession. There are numerous impressive statistics available indicating the recent success and growth of these sectors in California, and their positive impacts on California economy and jobs. For example, since 2005, California ‘green’ jobs have grown in number ten times faster than the statewide average, and 500,000 employees currently work in clean tech or green jobs in California, according to a recent report from the California Employment Development Department. Further, in 2005, 1 year prior to the signing of AB32, California companies received 35% of the United States’’ clean technology venture capital. This has risen to 60% over the last 5 years, and is five times the investment of the closest competitor, Massachusetts. There are currently more than 12,000 clean tech companies in California (including 40 that have gone public), with 1,200 clean tech patents registered between 2002 and 2008.
This impressive growth would be heavily impeded by suspension of AB32. Indeed, the very prospect of suspension has already stopped investment into California. James Watson, the managing general partner of CMEA Capital, stated that his venture capital firm “literally stopped investing in [California] clean tech energy eight months ago due to this uncertainty”. This trend would only continue if AB 32 were to be suspended, and a statement released by the Green Chamber of Commerce suggested that California “risks a loss of more than $80 billion in Gross State Product and more than half a million jobs by 2020 if [the state] fails to implement this law as scheduled”. While it is difficult to predict the precise effects of Prop 23, it is safe to say that a large number of jobs within the clean tech and clean energy sectors would be in jeopardy.
It’s pretty widely agreed upon amongst economists that driving the unemployment rate below 5.5% could take a number of years, especially in the recovering economical climate, and that the time to achieve this is quite difficult to predict. The four years of investment and action already taking place under AB 32 would quiet fairly quickly during the inevitable period of uncertainty, and, perhaps more importantly, legal and regulatory confusion would be created without the direction of a centralizing plan. Without the CARB scoping plan to direct action, organizations and sectors would need to develop independent approaches to tackle any applicable regulations, and the expertise, time and headache required to sort all these out would lead to higher costs for some.
Another area of uncertainty related to Prop 23 is that the proposition doesn’t actually state a replacement deadline for the AB 32 mandated reduction target, so it’s assumed that it would remain as 2020. Given that, what happens if the unemployment rate achieves a level below 5.5% in, say, 2018? Would applicable regulations and targets still apply? There is a clause within AB 32 that states that the Governor can, during times of an economically unfavourable period, delay the target by a year. But what conditions would qualify to allow this delay? And would one year be enough? Certainly not for some companies, who may not have predicted the ‘un-suspension’, and wouldn’t have the capital to invest in the necessary technologies, research, or infrastructure to meet the requirements, a problem that would be especially serious for large-emitting, infrastructure-heavy sectors like the electric power industry. The need to acquire huge funding to achieve mandated reductions and investments on such short notice could translate into sudden, unexpected spikes in energy costs. This feeling of uncertainty would impact a range of players, including businesses, investors, and state and local governments.
The suspension of AB 32 could impact a few other areas as well. The CARB scoping plan has some guidance related to educational programs that facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy by raising awareness. Finally, as mentioned earlier, suspension of AB 32 would also lead to a loss of momentum for some regional initiatives, such as the WCI cap and trade program.
To Sum it Up
So folks, to sum it all up: California would still be able to make progress on some environmentally focused state measures and initiatives if AB 32 is suspended tomorrow. However, I think that the removal of AB 32 as a comprehensive coordination centre for these efforts would ultimately reduce the effectiveness of the remaining measures while at the same time most likely increasing long-term costs to the state. Right now, California is the most influential juggernaut for leadership on climate change in the United States. While some Californians will undoubtedly – and understandably – feel that the costs of leadership shouldn’t have to fall on their state, California already has an impressive number of measures, mandates and man-power in place to continue to do just that: lead.
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(135): Towards True, Practical Change [in Nigeria]
Muhammad Muhsin Ibrahim
muhsin2008@gmail.com
[Appeared in Onumah, C. (Ed.) (2020). Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices. Abuja: Premium Times Book. Pp. 340-345]
Recently, headlines and social media hashtags featured Nigerians in negative light. In both the USA and UAE, some Nigerians involved in online fraud were arrested. At the same time at home, Boko Haram resurfaced in Borno, in the Northeast, and expanded their operational theatre to neighbouring countries in the Lake Chad Basin. This further dented the image of the country. Add to this, the ubiquitous “Nigerian Prince”, the ever-present title in many email scams that have been traced to different countries in West Africa.
Unfortunately, after 60 years of independence, this is not a good time for the Nigerian identity, especially overseas. By default, we are suspects of potential online scam, terrorism, among other related crimes. It is not surprising, therefore, that some Nigerians outside the country lie about their nationality. But that is a reductionist, twisted, single-story of Nigerians. According to experts, Nigeria’s most valuable export is now its people. Many Nigerians in the Diaspora are not only highly educated individuals who earn legitimate money in their countries of residence but are also getting appointed as government officials in those countries. Thus, these few bad elements cannot represent the 200 million in Nigeria and the more than five million Nigerians outside the country.
This essay is not a defence of Nigeria and its citizens. People are responsible for their actions. It also does not aim to project any romantic view of the country. However, the facts mentioned above need to be known from the onset. Instead, the objective here is to celebrate the country at 60. Great Britain granted Nigeria political independence on the 1st of October 1960. Whether the country, like all other former colonial enclaves in and outside Africa, is truly and entirely independent is a topic for another day. Nonetheless, I believe that whatever and whoever lives for 60 years deserves to be celebrated. Nigeria has survived several serious challenges, including a bloody civil war (1967-1970). All lost for Nigeria to remain as it is today: one united and, hopefully, indivisible nation.
Nigeria is, undoubtedly, a great country of great people who have excelled in several walks of life globally. It earns the moniker, ‘Giant of Africa’ for that and more: biggest economy, largest population, among other stellar records, on the continent. Unfortunately, Nigeria has many problems and there have been debates about who should be blamed: the leaders or the followers. Or both. To answer this, we need to revisit Chinua Achebe’s argument. I think the argument should resonate with many Nigerians. In his influential book, The Trouble with Nigeria, published in 1983, the author attributed Nigeria’s failings to poor leadership. He noted that “A basic element of this misfortune is the seminal absence of intellectual rigour in the political thought of our founding fathers.” Some people have rejected this argument stressing that our democracy is still young. However, the length of our democracy cannot be an excuse for bad governance.
Whether Achebe and those who align with his argument are right or wrong, blaming Nigeria’s leaders, past and present, for squandering and embezzling oil riches and other resources the country has in abundance is commonplace. Yet, it is quite difficult if not impossible, to blame a single Nigerian leader for the country’s pervasive ills. The problem started a long time ago, way before the country’s independence. True or false, the problem exists, and it’s not getting better. It is exacerbating to a systemic failure, making it more challenging to pin down, not to talk of tackling it entirely. But, humans make or mar the system. No system exists in a vacuum. Thus, Nigeria’s is not beyond repair, and it is not the duty of the leaders alone to save it.
Achebe argued that as most Europeans would talk about the weather when they meet, Nigerians would likely talk about their country’s problems. He was right. As a Nigeria in the Diaspora myself, I have met several fellow Nigerians who, after exchanging greetings, talked to me about the country’s problems. Often, we blame the leaders as if we are entirely blameless. But, beyond the blame game, no one seems to care to ask what can we all do together to salvage our country from what the former American ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell describes as “dancing on the brink”? Here are my thoughts.
From the beginning, let us remember that the Nigerian public, especially the youths who make more than half of the country’s population, is an equal player in the situation the country has found itself. The leaders are not imported from any foreign country. They are members of our communities who attain power or some form of authority. In other words, we are the leaders of today, tomorrow and the future. Thus, we cannot always blame those in power and exonerate ourselves. If they fail, the failure is all ours.
In one of its efforts to change the whole narrative about poor leadership in Nigerian, the President Buhari-led government in 2016 launched a campaign tagged Change Begins with Me. Had it been effectively implemented, it would have been one of the best things to have happened in contemporary Nigeria. We would not have to complain about a lot of things today. However, due to our carefree attitude and the government’s lack of commitment, the campaign died. While many people have today forgotten about it, I believe it should be revived and re-launched.
The word “revolution” has a weighty negative connotation. It’s even more problematic to use in Nigeria, thanks to the recent encounter between an activist-turned-politician, Omoyele Sowore and the government. Nonetheless, it has other, less provocative meaning that I consider favourable. Therefore, we need to revolutionise our politics. Today, patron-client relationship, prebendalism, thuggery, among other similar themes characterise Nigeria’s politics. For this and more reasons, there is an urgent need to revolutionise the political dispensation for positive change to occur. There are several routes to take, but education is the surest one.
The education sector is the first and the best way to use to save the youth from falling for the machination of politicians. It is worrisome the way schools remain closed for many months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Federal university lecturers were already on an indefinite strike before the closure. Staff members of other institutes have unsettled issues with the federal government because of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), for which the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has also gone on strike. With COVID-19, the situation has worsened. It’s not the right way to go. Government could and should do better, for education is essential for the development of any country. Government and teachers at all levels ought to find better means of settling dispute other than industrial action, which has become so recurrent in the country. Always, students of the poor are at the receiving end.
A recent report by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) says that approximately 44.1 million Nigerians are either jobless or underemployed. This number is staggering and, thus, should scare any concerned Nigerian. Of course, the situation on the ground corroborates this claim. Many Nigerians, including some with PhDs, are daily searching for employment or a “better” job. There is a problem, however, with our attitude concerning employment. It is not always the government’s fault that there are no job opportunities in the land; it may be ours, a responsibility many do not want to take.
One of the most surprising things I have seen in Cologne, Germany, is how almost everybody works. In several classes that I teach, we discuss on immigration and unemployment in both Europe and Africa. I am always amazed to learn that almost all my students work either part time or full time, in different places such as public or private institutions, bars, restaurants, malls, and so on. People do not look down on others for doing any job. I wish our young men and women, especially those clutching certificates and waiting for the “perfect” government job could learn from this example.
Many young people in Nigeria, especially those with university degrees or other qualifications, do not want to do “menial” jobs. Almost everyone prefers a so-called white-collar job. Nevertheless, such jobs are not always there, particularly in today’s Nigeria. Sadly, we are in an era when getting a job – especially the kinds most youth dream of or prefer – is difficult. It is either you have an influential public officer recommend you for the job or you are asked to pay a bribe before you are considered for employment. The simple solution to the job crisis for the young people to learn to take things easy and humble themselves. My advice is, do not think too highly of yourself. Learn to maximise your potential. If you can do this, you can start something to sustain your life until something better comes up. A few years ago, I saw a master’s degree holder in the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, who sells snacks and drinks. This is more dignifying for her than asking others to give her money every day. I am sure she had to ignore a lot of gossips.
Politically, we must end the politics of patronage. In their seminal book, Nigeria: What Everyone Needs to Know, Campbell and Page (2018:115) argue that “Some politicians...have very little structure, relying on powerful patrons (“godfathers”) to help realise their ambitions. In the run-up to an election, godfathers can be a huge political asset, providing candidates with the financial and political muscle they could not otherwise muster”. Undoubtedly, patron-client politics is one of the drawbacks in Nigerian politics that has kept thousands of youth in perpetual bondage. I believe that only education and employment can liberate the youths and prevent them from being victims of godfatherism.
Nigeria cannot move forward without tackling corruption, which, according to an Al-Jazeera journalist interviewing President Buhari, has become synonymous with Nigeria. Without giving details to validate that disturbing description, I will refer us to Achebe once again. Achebe (1983:64) suggests that “... to initiate change, the President of this country must take, and be seen to take, a decisive first step of ridding his administration of all persons on whom the slightest wind of corruption and scandal has blown. When he can summon up the courage to do that he will find himself grown overnight to such stature and authority that will become Nigeria’s leader, not just its President, only then can he take on and conquer corruption in the nation.” The number one citizen of the country has to lead by example, for everything rest on his shoulder.
In as much as individuals are encouraged to shun corruption, bribery and other related financial crimes, the government has to come in to win the war. Unfortunately, however, corruption has been instituted in Nigeria, thanks to successive governments – civilian and military. Interestingly, when Nigeria returned to democracy in 1999, Olusegun Obasanjo, the first president of the Fourth Republic, established anti-corruption agencies such as the Independent Corrupt Practices Commission (ICPC) and the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC). Years earlier, Obasanjo was instrumental in the founding of Transparency International. However, he and his successors have been accused of using the anti-corruption agencies to attack and muzzle the opposition. Campbell (2011:31), in another critical book entitled Nigeria: Dancing on the Brink mentions that:
The EFCC is capable of excellent police work. A U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations expert told me it was the most professional law enforcement body in West Africa. It was compromised, however, because it almost exclusively proceeded against Obasanjo’s political rivals and personal enemies while he was chief of state. Nevertheless, the EFCC was widely seen as a step in the right direction, and if its targets of prosecution appeared politically selected, few doubted their guilt.
It is hard to exhaust what needs to be done to put Nigeria on the right track. In summary, education, employment, ending corruption and, of course, ensuring security, should be the priorities of government. Several observers pointed out that in 1960 when it gained independence, Nigeria was at par with Malaysia, Singapore, Brazil and Taiwan. Today, these countries have gone way ahead of us. But, Nigerians can and should change the story, for our country is endowed with both natural and human resources to bring about true, practical change that will benefit the 200 million people that live in Nigeria from Aba to Zungeru, from Badagry to Yola.
We only need to be more committed, love one another, do away with tribalism, fanaticism, corruption and all other subversive tendencies. Let’s start now. This is what 60 years of independence should be about.
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Habibu Maaruf Abdu 1 March 2021 at 15:54
As you said "It is hard to exhaust what needs to be done to put Nigeria on the right track". This is true, but you almost said it all sir. This is one of the Best things I read so far this year!
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Joint Press Release - Georgian Parliament Speaker and Republic of Serbia National Assembly Speaker Emphasise Mutual Support for Territorial Integrity and Sovereignty, As Well As Georgia and Serbia’s EU Accession
12th Sitting of the Committee on the Judiciary, Public Administration and Local Self-Government | [
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It's A Girl!!!
Two weeks ago, The Pilot and I welcomed our sweet baby girl, Aurora Olivia, into the world and I couldn't be more in love.
We've been thinking about and planning for these early weeks with a baby for so long and now that we're finally experiencing it, we've jumped right in. We're learning to respond to her cues and what different cries mean, what she needs when, and even getting her on a very loose schedule (eat, play, sleep). For the first week, we didn't have any visitors - I wanted that time for us to figure out our new family and I don't regret that decision for a second. Although, now that my mom is here, I'm so grateful for the extra help!
I thought I'd write this post to share a little bit about how we're doing and answer some of the most common questions I've gotten since bringing Aurora home!
How am I doing? Postpartum recovery has been tough. I thought I managed my expectations well but two weeks postpartum, I still can't go up or down stairs without pain and I still can't get in or out of bed while holding Aurora. I've graduated from being mostly bedridden to being able to get up and about the house. We've left the house quite a bit but it's always a struggle. I didn't expect to still feel like this two weeks postpartum without major complications or a c-section but here we are. I didn't have any complications but it took 27 hours of active labor with almost 5 hours of pushing to bring her into the world and that isn't easy to recover from. I honestly thought I'd be back to walking Peyton within a week of coming home and thought that timeline might even seem generous. I'm listening to my body but I really want to be able to just go outside and take a walk. I talked to my midwife about it and she said that I could still be feeling like this for another week or two which is a little disappointing so I'm just doing what I can to try to heal.
Did we really not know what we were having? Yup! It was a total surprise and the absolute best moment when, right after she was born, The Pilot said, "It's a girl!" I never really had a feeling one way or another through my pregnancy. I wouldn't really let myself have a strong feeling one way or the other. The night before I found out I was pregnant, I had a dream that I had a boy. Right around the start of my third trimester, I had a dream that I was having a girl. We had already picked out names for both a boy and a girl and two weeks before she was born, I was driving and got cut off by a truck with the name Aurora written across the back and then I really started wondering if she might be a girl.
How did we choose her name? The Pilot and I had a really hard time thinking of baby names. It was really important to me that our baby's name could easily be said by my Spanish speaking family. I didn't feel like the name had to be Spanish but it needed to be easily translatable and that was tough. The Pilot came home one day and asked how I felt about Aurora. He had just heard the name somewhere and liked it but what he didn't know was that Aurora was my great grandmother's name, is my grandmother's middle name, and my aunt's middle name! And that was it! I've always liked the name Olivia so we chose it as her middle name.
How is Peyton handling a baby in the house? Peyton doesn't think she's allowed near Aurora. It's pretty adorable. She gets pretty close to her but won't come too close even when we try to get her to, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Every time The Pilot takes her out, she comes back in and runs to the bassinet to check on Aurora. It's adorable. She definitely doesn't mind having a baby in the house though. When she wakes up in the middle of the night, Peyton runs to her bassinet and lays down underneath it. It's super cute.
So that's it! We have a baby and I have to say, it's pretty great!
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"If You Wanna Get Back Your Lady" by The Pointer Sisters
Genre: R&B, Dance
Pop Bits: The Sisters' album "So Excited!" put them in a slight slump. Their previous two albums were gold sellers that produced Top 10 hits. The best that "So Excited!" could generate was the #16 "American Music." The lack of a solid single hurt the album and it failed to go gold. This third single wouldn't help the cause as it petered out in the lower third of the chart while only reaching #44 at R&B.
ReduxReview: Of course, the vocals are top-notch, but the material is far from their best. There is a lot of jammin' going on over a lengthy single chord, like in the verse. There are times that can work, but I don't think it does here. The Sisters certainly give it their all and they do take the song to another level, but even that level is far below the one on which their main hits reside.
Trivia: For the "So Excited!" album, the Sisters recorded their version of the song "I Feel for You." Originally written and recorded by Prince for his 1979 self-titled album, the song would end up becoming a major hit two years later for Chaka Khan (#3 pop, #1 R&B).
▼ Sep 6 (7)
"I Melt with You" by Modern English
"Love's Got a Line on You" by Scandal
"Wind Him Up" by Saga
"New Years Day" by U2
"Let's Dance" by David Bowie
"Stranger in My House" by Ronnie Milsap
"If You Wanna Get Back Your Lady" by The Pointer S... | [
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Subscribers Haven’t Given Up On Print
Remember the days when a marketer just had a couple of marketing communications channels from which to choose? Magazine advertising, printed newsletters, shows? Here were are today with a plethora of channels; it would take a laundry list to cite them all. Well, along the way there has been a notion brought forward that in this day of multiple channels, and in this day of instant communications, the magazine is a dead duck.
While out visiting clients a couple of weeks ago, an old friend said:
“Our subscribers haven’t forgotten about our (print) magazines, our advertisers have.”
I thought that was very revealing and it struck me right between the eyes as we have all seen interest in magazines wane as an advertising channel. Absolutely, astute marketers and purveyors of media channels recognize the wisdom of integrated media buys when the budget permits. However, being somewhat old school, I cringe a bit when the print product, for whatever reason, takes a back seat to other channels. To me, print should be the flagship of the brand. Being realistic, I recognize that there are some circumstances in which this does not make sense. Fair enough. But aside from those situations, I believe print has unfairly taken the hit.
I’d like to share with you some examples of why print is not on the ropes.
From a study that was completed in 2018 by our firm, an extensive survey of farmers and ranchers, it was learned that print is the channel used most, whether on a weekly or monthly basis, as an information resource. What’s interesting to me is that in the same study conducted in 2016 and 2014 the same pattern with a print and other channels emerged.
In a similar study, conducted in more traditional business-to-business markets, we asked respondents to report their usage of various media channels in their work. Of nine channels included in the research, such as conferences/trade shows, social media, print publications, webinars, etc., search engines are the number one channel in terms of regular usage in work-related activities. To me, that makes a fair amount of sense. However, 74% reported regular use of printed publications. While print publications are tied with e-newsletters, also at 74% regular usage, the next closest channel is at 55%.
Both surveys also asked participants to report on another key behavior, actions taken as a result of viewing advertising in a specific medium or at events. In our study of farmers and ranchers, 86% indicated taking at least one action as a result of advertising in printed publications. While I don’t have an answer in particular about why this is, there is something about the trust and confidence users have in printed publications. It’s a relationship that has been built up over many years. Over on the B2B side, while the similar number is 60%, a fair piece below what we see observed in the ag space, publications are still the number one channel!
Finally, both surveys included attitudinal questions aimed at understanding how media users feel about the various channels. In our farmer/rancher survey, 50% said they rely on printed publications to help inform and validate their purchase decisions. Over on the B2B side, 89% agreed with the following statement: “Printed publications provide trusted information related to my industry/profession.”
Sometimes when you look at the results of surveys, it’s not just the numbers that are important.
It’s the trends and patterns.
Between these two very broad spaces, agriculture and business-to-business, what is striking are the patterns, similar patterns. While consumers of media in all markets have a wide variety of choices, it is staggering when you see how powerful print remains, contrary to some popular opinion. I believe there still is a strong case for print as part of an integrated media buy. I have encouraged publishers to stick to it, to surround their flagship with powerful electronic and in-person channels, but continue waving the banner for their printed publications. Perhaps I’m just old school and too fond of print. On the other hand, remember, subscribers haven’t given up on print.
-Jack Semler, Readex Research
Stratifying a Sample
Aggregated results allow you to make claims such as, “20% of respondents work for manufacturing firms.” It may be helpful to look deeper and determine the characteristics of the manufacturing firms. You might discover that “of the 20% who work for manufacturing firms, 90% work for companies with more than 100 employees.” Then you could […]
Agri Study Sees Consistent Use of Media Channels
American Business Media’s Agri Council conducted an update to their 2010 Media Channel Study. The council wanted to look at how farmers and ranchers use the many communication channels that serve their operations and observe the changes that could impact how marketers may formulate their communication plans. The current survey replicated 2010’s methodology: a mailed […]
Black and White Ads Struggle in A Colorful World
Our world is filled with color. Look around. Peek out a window or at your computer screen. Nature doesn’t come in grayscale and our electronic devices no longer dictate an artificial black and white world. Despite the millions of colors that surround us, some advertisers insist upon running black and white ads. To see the […]
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