Jamie Carragher believes that England manager Gareth Southgate should walk away from the job after World Cup 2022, stating that he has earned the right to decide his own fate at the end of the tournament, regardless of the outcome in Qatar.
In a new episode of The Eleven (opens in new tab), produced by SportBible and Sky Bet, former England internationals Jamie Carragher and Alan Shearer discuss who should start for England in their opening Group B game against Iran, as well as the job Southgate has done in his six years in charge.
Carragher suggested Southgate has earned the right to call time on his managerial career with England when he wants, and doesn't understand the criticism he has faced in recent months, despite England being relegated from the Nations League top tier.
"I think he'll decide when he leaves England," Carragher said. "And I think that's the right decision for him because of his success and where he's taken this England team. He's earned it.
"I don't go along with all the crap about that sometimes he's negative or the criticism. If you look at a lot of European countries leading up to this World Cup, a lot of them are struggling. There has to be a reason for that. England are one of them.
"So, a quarter-final for me, and then he's got England to a quarter-final, a semi-final and a final. I mean, look at where we were before that. We were garbage before that. So he's got us to that final, to that semi-final. I think it should be his decision when he chooses to leave England, not the other way around."
While the defender-turned-pundit is positive about how well Southgate has done, he also reckons the conclusion of the tournament represents the right time for him to walk away.
After all, it will have been Southgate's third major international tournament as England boss, and Carragher believes he still doesn't get the credit he deserves.
"If I was Gareth Southgate, and no matter what happened in this tournament, I would walk away," Carragher explained.
"There's sort of the feeling, whether it's the supporters, the media, they just start to turn on the manager. And I think it's been completely bang out of order, the reaction that we've seen in the last 12 months. What the England manager has done now, Gareth Southgate, puts him right up there, probably just behind Sir Alf Ramsey in what he's done.
"You think of other managers who've done really well, Bobby Robson got to a semi-final, Terry Venables - but Southgate has done it twice in two tournaments; a semi-final and final, so he's done a brilliant job. But I think if England don't get to a semi-final, I think there'll be a lot of negativity around the England manager, the England team, and I don't agree with that.
He added: "I think it'd be best for all if Gareth moved on after the tournament, because I think he just get this tournament out of the way, he doesn't need that negativity, really, because he's done an absolutely fantastic job."
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Letters to the Editor — June 11, 2013
To the editor: On Tuesday, June 11, the Town of Lebanon has a very important election! Remember it is not a personality contest and signs don’t make any one candidate better than another, its ability to do the job! Everyone is exhausted with entire conversation about the rescue assistant chief and various allegations. Changes need to be made in how the town is managed. The Selectmen’s meeting have become more and more contentious with lack of management and order. No one selectman alone can correct this. The changes have to be across the board. A rule of order and a gavel!
Several residents have questioned if certain candidates for the open position want to make significant changes in the town. It’s a great town but it needs responsible leadership, that is where the changes need to begin. A whole team that works for everyone, a team that settles arguments, that reaches out to the citizens for input. Decisions on how to expand our income and lower taxes can be decided with all of our input. Would zoning 202 for business be a consideration? I don’t believe anyone one wants to enact zoning that would affect personal property rights, decrease lot sizes, bring in big box stores.
From what I have heard from all candidates they are looking for a Board that works as a Team to provide services to the town, to be more transparent, lets us know what’s going on! To provide a fair treatment, to show honesty and integrity in their actions and abide by the rules.
To the editor: On June 7, the President of the United States said “If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress and don’t trust Federal judges to make sure we’re abiding by the Constitution, due process and rule of law, then were going to have some problems here”. Well Mr. President, wake up and smell the coffee!
People are reeling from learning the IRS has politicized nonprofit applications, targeting right wing groups. The DOJ has sought to label credentialed news gathers as “co-conspirators” and tap their phones. And the Attorney General apparently lied to Congress when first asked about it despite having signed off on the project.
The NSA is gathering information on every phone call our citizens make. The NSA head lied to Congress three months ago when directly asked if he was doing anything of the sort. The FISA courts which were given 1173 applications for these sort of efforts in 2012 approved them all, turning down zero. Not the sort of track record that makes anything think the NSA has anything other than a blank check when it comes to violating our privacy.
So Mr. President, your sarcasm inadvertently hits on the truth, people have no confidence in any of the three branches of government under the weight of evidence divulged, I might note, by foreign newspaper like the UK Guardian. Nor in either political party I might add, given the statements from some ranking members regarding the legitimacy of these programs.
To the editor: While I was not surprised that all thirteen New Hampshire Republican Senators voted to refuse to accept the Medicaid expansion provided by what they refer to as “ObamaCare”, that in no way lessened my disgust at their callous action. Their decision to let 58,000 New Hampshire citizens, who work at one more jobs that provide no health insurance, simply because they want to destroy President Obama and “ObamaCare”, demonstrates the total lack of concern Republicans have for the working class people of New Hampshire. Not only that, they are denying the New Hampshire economy of the estimated $2.5 billion that would create jobs and improve the health of our citizens.
Some of the Republicans, like Sen. Bradley, say that having Medicaid does not improve a persons health status. I wonder, of those 13 senators who voted against the Medicaid expansion, how many do not have health insurance, and how many of those that do would be willing to give up their health coverage, since they believe having it does not improve their health status? I dare say that none would give up their own health coverage, both for health and economic reasons.
Obviously, having health insurance allows individuals to obtain routine primary health care and access to screenings for cancer, heart disease and other conditions, before they become more advanced and less treatable. It helps avoid costly and inappropriate use of emergency care, and reduces the amount of uncompensated care costs that is passed on to all of us. But most importantly, to allow people to go without routine health care needlessly, simply based on politics and ideology, is disgraceful and heartless. It clearly demonstrates the true nature of today’s Republican Party.
To the editor: Several years ago a 6-year-old girl came with members of her family from Guatemala to the U.S. by way of Mexico. A friend of mine, who was tutoring her at a school in FL, asked her how she traveled from Guatemala. “We walked.” “And how did you get from Mexico to the US?” Her answer was “we ran.”
Why would people make such a trip over that long distance, with little or no money or property, facing who knows what kind of hardship and danger? In this little girl’s case it was because her father had been killed in violence at home and her mother had a job in an orange grove in Florida. Beyond this, however, was the same reason that prompted my family and your family to come to the US: they were escaping poverty, famine, political oppression, and/or lack of opportunity. The same reasons why the early McCains, Cruzes, Bachmans, Hannitys, and Limbaughs came here — to find a better life.
For a long time we welcomed these people and they came by the millions, seeking freedom and opportunity, jobs and education. But then there was a backlash — certain segments of the people moved to limit the number of “southern” Europeans and “orientals”. Many of the anti-immigrants were called Know-Nothings, for obvious reasons, but there were other equally vocal extremist groups who espoused a more “American” society: e.g. Irish Need Not Apply, and so on. In the last century there was the shameful refusal of increased Jewish immigration and the internment of Japanese residents during World War II.
In the past few years we have seen prominent politicians decry the problem of “illegal aliens”, using the number of 11 million as if some kind of invading army had suddenly descended on our shores rather than a rather gradual accumulation of people over the past 30-40 years (including our 6-year old). For the most part — as with the earlier generations of immigrants — these have been hardworking, law-abiding, tax-paying contributors to the progress and diversity of our country; harvesting our fruit and vegetables, mowing our lawns, picking up our garbage, and changing our bedpans — jobs that most of our “legal” citizens are unwilling to do or not willing to accept the wages that these jobs will pay. There is no question that they have been vital to the economy; just ask the American Chamber of Commerce.
Now Congress is dealing with what is being called the immigration “problem”, and behind a good deal of the political rhetoric we can detect some of the old attitudes:—”they” are taking our jobs; “they” should go back where they came from; “they” are not as good as “we” are and shouldn’t be attending “our” schools, be treated at “our” hospitals, and so on.
There’s no question that some changes should be made to the present immigration system, but none of our forebears were forced to return to Ireland, Italy, Poland or wherever to start all over again. People shouldn’t be treated as criminals for trying to find a better life and for wanting to find work, raise a family, etc. Billions are being spent on fences to keep “these people” out that could be better spent on schools, improved health care and housing.
There has to be a better way.

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Even with the 110-93 loss to Brooklyn at Chesapeake Energy Arena on Wednesday, the Thunder retained the NBA's best record at 24-7 (. 774) after the Los Angeles Clippers (25-8) lost 115-94 at Golden State later that night.
The Clippers' entire season has been a series of streaks. They won two straight, lost two straight, won six straight, lost four straight, won 17 straight and have lost two straight heading into Friday night's game against the rival Lakers at Staples Center.
OKC currently is on pace to win 63 games this season. However, after Friday's 7 p.m. home game against Philadelphia (15-18), the Thunder plays 11 of its next 13 on the road.
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*The Thunder is first in free-throw shooting (. 845), first in 3-point percentage (. 401), first in blocks (7.6), second in opponent blocks (3.8), third in scoring (105.5), third in field-goal percentage (. 478), tied for third in opponent field-goal percentage (. 430), tied for ninth in total rebounds (43.1), 14th in points allowed (97.1), tied for 14th in assists (21.9), tied for 17th in steals (7.8), 19th in opponent turnovers (14.3) and 29th in turnovers (15.7).
*Serge Ibaka is first in blocked shots (3.03) and sixth in field-goal percentage (. 561).
*Kevin Durant is third in scoring (28.4), third in free-throw percentage (. 903) and second in minutes played (39.6).
*Russell Westbrook is third in steals (2.13), fifth in assists (8.7) and sixth in scoring (21.7).
*Sixth man Kevin Martin is first in free-throw percentage (. 927) and fifth in 3-point percentage (. 450).
*In a stat where the Thunder literally is defenseless, opponents are shooting 78.0 percent at the free-throw line, the fourth-highest percentage in the league.
In its debut season of 2008-09, the Thunder tied San Antonio for the fewest technical fouls in the NBA with 31 (which includes defensive 3-second violations, delay of game, et al).
OKC already has 33 technical fouls in 31 games this season, third most in the league behind the Clippers (45) and Phoenix (34).
Don't blame it all on surly Kendrick Perkins, who has only four, a modest number for him. Westbrook has six (one was rescinded). Durant, who received his first career ejection after getting two technicals against Brooklyn, now has five. Ibaka has three, Hasheem Thabeet has two and Martin has one.
Thunder coach Scott Brooks said officiating had nothing to do with Wednesday's loss despite Durant's ejection.
“If I was playing in a pickup game back home, I wouldn't even complain about the referees knowing I didn't even get fined,” Brooks said. “They had nothing to do with us losing tonight. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Kevin did get frustrated, but he got frustrated because we don't like to lose.
“Referees had nothing to do with this loss. We had everything to do with it. Myself, our team. We win together, we lose together.”
Durant remains second in Western Conference voting for the 62nd NBA All-Star Game, which will be played at Toyota Center in Houston on Feb. 17.
Durant (1,088,797 votes) trails only Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant (1,177,456) in Western balloting. Miami's LeBron James (1,151,304) leads Eastern voting, followed by New York's Carmelo Anthony (1,054,099).
Westbrook remains fifth in Western backcourt balloting behind Bryant, Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul, plus Jeremy Lin and James Harden of Houston.
Ibaka is ninth in Western frontcourt voting.
Balloting concludes Jan. 14 and starters will be announced Jan. 17.
In the last two games, Martin is 5 for 22 (. 227) from the field and 4 for 14 (. 286) from 3-point range. … Perkins had a season-high 11 rebounds against the Nets (seven in the third quarter). … Wednesday was OKC's widest loss margin at home since a 120-99 loss to Utah on Oct. 31, 2010. … The Thunder is 16-3 (. 842) at home and 8-4 (. 667) on the road.
Westbrook after the loss to Brooklyn: “(We're in a) good spot. There's no need to panic. I think every game we lose around here everybody wants to go bananas. We lost a game. It's all right.”


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Living Word Church to host annual Christmas Toy Drive
Friday, December 6th, 2019
As Christmas Day is fast approaching, Living Word Church is seeking financial support to host their annual Christmas Toy Drive. The church plans to raise $US35,000 to donate gifts to 1,500 children in need on Ambergris Caye on Monday, December 23rd.
Living Word Church Pastor Ian Zaldivar shared with The San Pedro Sun that this is time for people to donate towards a good cause. “As a pastor, my heart cries out for the less fortunate children in my community. Would you kindly help us to meet the needs of these poor children? We will be faced with about 1,500 needy children, all hoping for their small little blessing, as we once again venture to show compassion this Joyous Christmas season. Toys are readily available in the stores in our area, so all we need is the money from a heart that cares. We need caring hearts to donate a total of $US35,000 so each one of these children can be blessed with a toy this year,” he said.
The church has set aside Sunday, December 14th to purchase the toys, so they can have the gifts ready for the outreach day. Any person or business that would like donate towards this cause can reach out to Pastor Zaldivar at [email protected]
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When your furnace is working properly it should cycle three to eight times per hour. Your furnace automatically cycles on when it senses that the air is too cold. Then, when the temperature in your home or business reaches an optimal level, the heating system shuts down in response. This process is so automatic that most home or business owners don’t notice the cycle, and with the warm weather still here, you may be tuning it out altogether.
But, when your furnace is turning on and off at random times throughout the day, there may be a more serious problem. Here is a short list of what your furnace is doing, and how to troubleshoot fixing a furnace before you need to place a call to Furnace Solutions.
May be short-cycling
Short-cycling is when your furnace keeps turning on and off in shorter periods of time than its usual cycle. This problem originates from within the heating system itself. And when neglected, can cause permanent damage to your heating unit, resulting in higher utility costs, and in worse cases a full furnace replacement.
A quick test to see whether your furnace is short cycling is to run a test cycle of your heating unit, counting how many times it stops and restarts in over 60 minutes. The average furnace cycle is three to eight times per hour. Anything more than that, it’s time to call an HVAC professional to run a full diagnostic, and provide you with a solution that won’t hurt your wallet.
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You might not want to think about the cold weather coming back, but even in the warmer months in Edmonton, your house may be too cold for your furnace. Temperature extremes are not your thermostat's friend.
When it’s time to use your furnace try to avoid turning your thermostat all the way down. Sure it can save you some money in the short-run, but in the long-term you’re making the furnace work harder which could cause you to pay the consequences later when you need your furnace the most. To put less stress on your furnace and reduce the risk of a potentially expensive furnace repair, try pre-programming your furnace to run on a preferred day and time for example, 30 minutes before you wake up.
May be too small
Whether you’re a homeowner or a business owner, the size of your furnace will depend on many factors, including the age of the home, the number of rooms, square footage, and number of occupants. Having a furnace that is too small or too large will affect its cycle.
You will see more problems in a furnace that is too small since it won’t be able to keep up with the dropping temperatures. It will most likely fail to make up the difference to heat your home, or commercial space. They end up running continuously or kick on and off every few minutes to keep up with meeting your desired temperature. Although a small unit is definitely a cheaper initial cost, the backlog of furnace services, maintenance and repairs may end up costing you more.
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If you’re into neon signs or period architecture, Fresno is something of a wonderland. But truth be told, I planned this entire leg of my trip around this sign alone. I mean, look at her! She might have seen better days, but to me she’ll always be a masterpiece.
This is the tenth installment of my Mission Mondays series, exploring all 21 Spanish Missions along the California coast. You can read more about this series, and see a sketch map of all the missions, at this post. Unlike last week, where we were smack in the middle of the California countryside, this week’s mission… More
We got stuck in some serious traffic on our way to the game yesterday, which had me wishing we had taken the Viaduct into town instead. That made me remember this sketch I did a couple of summers ago—one of several I’ve done over the years, knowing full well that the Viaduct’s days are numbered…. More
Today the Tailor and I had the chance to go to a Mariners game with friends, and spend the afternoon in the cushy comfort of one of the box suites. In terms of watching the game, it was the best seat in the house. We were in the front row of the box, with a… More
It’s hard to imagine that much time has passed already, but today this blog turns two years old. (Last year’s anniversary post is here.) In the past 24 months you’ve crisscrossed the continent with me, pinballing back and forth from place to place, landmark to landmark. So I figured there was no better way to… More
Mary-Alice and I were only in Baton Rouge long enough to grab a quick lunch and glimpse the city’s (fraternal) twin capitols—but that was long enough for me to add the city to must-return places. The new capitol—while lovely—mostly just reminded me of the Superman Building in Providence. It was the old capitol, however, that… More
We have a tradition of spending the Fourth with some friends who live down the street from us. We bring the old-fashioned hand-crank ice cream crock and the croquet set—they fire up the grill. The best part, though, is watching the fireworks over the bay. To everybody reading in the United States, have a happy… More
Revisiting Ladd’s Addition last week reminded me of another favorite neighborhood of mine. Well, not so much a neighborhood as two perfect blocks: Minneapolis’s Milwaukee Avenue. Today Milwaukee Avenue is a two-block stretch of pedestrian-only street: originally named 22 1/2 Street, to the unwitting eye it just looks like an alley between 22nd and 23rd…. More


A black exhaust tip is a sure sign of a powerful engine. Over time, the heat and emissions from the exhaust will cause the exhaust tip to turn black. While this may not look appealing, it is important to clean the exhaust tips regularly to protect the underlying metal and keep your car looking its best. There are a few simple ways to clean black exhaust tips.
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Background: Most Indonesians with hyperuricemia are less than 40 years old, which suggests an increasing gout risk in the country. Meanwhile, untreated hyperuricemia was also suggested to lead to hypertension. Yet, it is unclear whether blood pressure (BP) plays a mediating role between urate and gout. Objective: We investigated the mediating effect of BP between urate and gout risk in Indonesians using a partial least squares-structural equation model. Method: A community-based retrospective case-control study was conducted between July 1 and August 31, 2019 in Indonesia. We randomly recruited 397 participants, including 86 patients with gout and 311 healthy controls from seven community health service centers. Multivariate logistic regression was employed to analyze the adjusted odds ratios of the association between risk factors, such as urate level and BP, and gout risk after controlling for other covariates. A path analysis was utilized to analyze the mediating effect of systolic BP between urate and gout. The STROBE reporting guideline for the observational study is adopted in our reporting. Result: We found that a 1 mg/dL increase of urate level significantly increased gout risk with an OR of 4.97 (95% CI: 3.48–7.09) and an AOR of 4.44 (95% CI: 3.07–6.42) after adjusting for covariates. The association between urate and gout was also significantly mediated by systolic BP (β = 0.05; 95% CI Bias Corrected [0.02–0.08], p < 0.001). Conclusion: Urate was significantly associated with gout risk and was possibly mediated by increased systolic BP in Indonesians. Controlling systolic BP could be one of the strategies to decrease the risk of gout for individuals with hyperuricemia. Health education can be carried out by community health nurses to individuals on controlling their urate level and systolic BP to decrease the gout risk among Indonesian.
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THE British Games Club will be hosting its annual St Valentine’s dinner-dance at the Teide Mar hotel, La Paz, on Tuesday, February 14, with a 7.30pm for 8pm start.
The Teide Mar is promising its usual excellent buffet, with a different menu to the recent popular and successful Burns Night.
President Susan Dickinson said: “For those who say ‘Oh no, not the Teide Mar again’, it’s the only hotel offering a superb buffet at a reasonable price and with all the trimmings thrown in.”
There will be a cava reception and roses for the ladies and live music with Denis. It all
Wine and water are included in the price of €25 for members and €30 for guests.
Posters will be displayed at the bowls and tennis venues, plus the English Library.
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Coordination of the ASCOBANS Jastarnia and WBBK Plans for harbour porpoises
Closing date: 20 January 2023
The ASCOBANS Secretariat is welcoming Expressions of Interest (EOI) from organisations and individuals to provide technical coordination for the implementation of the ASCOBANS Recovery Plan for the Baltic Harbour Porpoises (Jastarnia Plan, 2016), and ASCOBANS Conservation Plan for the Harbour Porpoise Population in the Western Baltic, the Belt Sea and the Kattegat (WBBK Plan, 2012), as outlined below.
The ten ASCOBANS Parties have adopted three Action Plans targeting harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena): the Recovery Plan for Baltic Harbour Porpoises (Jastarnia Plan) targeting the critically endangered Harbour Porpoises in the Baltic proper; the Recovery Plan for Harbour Porpoises in the North Sea (North Sea Plan); and the Conservation Plan for the Harbour Porpoise Population in the Western Baltic, the Belt Sea and the Kattegat (WBBK Plan). There are two Working Groups which regularly review and provide guidance on the implementation of the three action plans. The longest standing, Jastarnia Group, has acted as Steering Group for the Jastarnia Plan and since its adoption in 2012, and it also covers the WBBK Plan. The North Sea Group is responsible for the North Sea Plan.
As outlined in the ASCOBANS Recovery Plan for Harbour Porpoises in the North Sea, “Experience has shown that in order to be effective, Conservation Plans must have a recognised, full-time co-ordinator. This is particularly true where effective conservation requires action (including legislative action) by a number of stakeholders including: intergovernmental and national authorities, scientists from several disciplines, representatives from industry, local communities, and interested NGOs. The scale of work required by this Plan exceeds the resources available within the (part-time) ASCOBANS Secretariat.”
ASCOBANS Parties have therefore since 2017 (AC23) put in place a “Coordinator for the Harbour Porpoise Action Plans” and allocated funds accordingly. Currently, the Jastarnia and WBBK Plans are coordinated separately from the North Sea Plan.
B. Aims of the Contract
Building on the work already undertaken the individual or organization providing coordination should, under the supervision of the Secretariat, deliver on the following tasks:
- Coordinate efforts to deliver the action plans, identifying synergies and opportunities for efficiency savings;
- Review progress under the Jastarnia and WBBK Plans and make proposals for amending the Action Points in advance of the Jastarnia Group meeting;
- Review latest available information on harbour porpoise bycatch from the fleets operating in the Belt and Baltic Seas;
- Collate regional information on life history parameters (e.g. age structure, age at sexual maturity, reproductive information) for harbour pporpoises in the areas covered by the two plans, ensuring synergies with other fora;
- Provide technical support at the ICES WGBYC annual meetings and other relevant fora (e.g. Baltic Sea Advisory Council, HELCOM) as feasible;
- Provide technical support at meetings of the Regional Coordination Group which will develop the regional implementation of the Data Collection Framework (DCF), assuming this is practically feasible; and
- Provide advice on appropriate funding mechanisms for the long-term implementation of the two action plans and support fundraising efforts.
C. Deliverables and timelines
The overall output to be achieved is the effective implementation of the above-mentioned two ASCOBANS Action Plans. Specific outputs resulting from the above-mentioned task list under B. include:
- Regular liaison with Parties and key stakeholders providing implementation support in line with the tasks outlined in B above;
- Regular progress reports, including
- Analysis of the implementation of the Action Plans since the previous report (past progress reports can be found here).
- Report on each of the standing Action Points for both Action Plans by Range State.
- Quantitative assessment on progress for both Action Plans, following the format in the past progress reports (“summary table of progress in the implementation”).
- Progress reports should be submitted to the Secretariat prior to the meeting of the Jastarnia Group. Once the Jastarnia Group meeting has reviewed the progress reports, final versions are to be produced and submitted to the ASCOBANS Secretariat within 6 weeks of the meeting;
- Review the Action Points from the previous Jastarnia Group meeting (and standing Action Points for the Action Plans) prior to the Jastarnia Group meeting, and propose amendments to the ASCOBANS Secretariat, as appropriate, prior to the meeting;
- Upon the request of the Secretariat or the Chair of the Jastarnia Group, produce reviews and reports as outlined in the above-listed task list under B, provide technical support to meetings and attend these, if required.
Estimated Duration & Available Budget
From February to November 2023. Possibility for a one-year extension, upon successful completion of the contract.
USD 11,100. The Secretariat retains the liberty to adjust the amount according to the start date of the contract and currency exchange rate EUR-USD.
Required Profile and Qualifications
The ASCOBANS Secretariat welcomes EOIs from organizations or individuals with substantive proven experience and capacity to provide the required activities and outputs as described above can apply. In particular, the organization or individual should:
- Have significant experience in marine nature conservation as well as experience and a proven understanding of the political and legal context and of scientific issues concerning harbour porpoise conservation in the Agreement area, with particular emphasis on the Baltic proper given the conservation status of “critically endangered” in this region;
- Have excellent communication skills in English (other official languages spoken in ASCOBANS Party countries are an advantage), able to establish and maintain relations with and to represent ASCOBANS positions vis-à-vis the various stakeholders;
- Have good understanding of the mandates and work of ASCOBANS.
The ASCOBANS Secretariat is looking forward to receiving EOIs by Friday 20 January 2023, 09:00 CET. The EOI should be brief (2-3 pages) and include a technical proposal, description of the individual / team involved (incl. CVs annexed), and budget. Please send your EOI to the ASCOBANS Secretariat by email: email@example.com.
An internship at the ASCOBANS Secretariat provides a good opportunity to gain experience in a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environment, as well as in the day-to-day functioning of an Multilateral Environmental Agreement (MEA) Secretariat.
The ASCOBANS Secretariat offers interships to qualified university graduates or students, enrolled in a tertiary course of study, interested in gaining experience in the areas of:
- Environmental and political sciences
- International studies
- Any other area related to the work of the Secretariat
Internship - Areas of Work
Interns are supervised by the ASCOBANS Coordinator, supporting her with particular tasks. Some examples are:
- Assistance with preparations and servicing ASCOBANS meetings or workshops
- Research in preparation for reports, documents or publications
- Assistance with outreach and education, incl. the annual International Day of the Baltic Harbour Porpoise (IDBHP)
- Dealing with website content
- Other support to the day-to-day operations of the Secretariat
Internship – Facts
Depending on places available, the ASCOBANS Secretariat offers internships for a period of 3 – 6 months, beginning at any time. The Secretariat is located at the UN Campus in Bonn, Germany.
Internships are not remunerated – all expenses must be covered by the intern or a sponsoring Government or institution. Written confirmation of enrolment in an appropriate health insurance scheme and in an university must be provided in advance.
Internship – Requirements and Application Procedure
- Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum Bachelor’ s level or equivalent), or be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent or higher), or have graduated with an university degree (as defined above) and, if selected, must commence the internship within a one-year period of graduation
- The working language of the Secretariat is English; full ability to work in English (written and spoken) is required. Knowledge of further languages spoken in the Agreement Area is an asset
- Interns should have standard computer skills (Microsoft Office)
- Interns need to agree with the scope of tasks before the start of the internship
For further information contact the ASCOBANS Secretariat at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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Magmart XI edition4/7/19
Magmart | video under volcano is an international videoart festival, which over the years has seen the participation of more than 1400 artists from +80 different countries, with thousand submitted videos. The Festival is open to all international videoartists. Between all submitted video, will be done a final selection based on vote of a Jury composed by experts. Any author can participate with max 5 video.
New Zealand International Film Festival 04/18/19
NZIFF presents a non-competitive, invited season of new films in a wide variety of styles and genres. To demonstrate the development of the art and contribute to a knowledge of new styles and trends in filmmaking. NZ/AUSTRALIA/PACIFIC ISLANDS DEADLINE


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Play chess better. I don’t understand how people can work out several moves ahead. I only know the basics, I learnt from playing against my father as a child. But I don’t know how to castle and I rarely play. I don’t know where our chess set and board are.
When I watched a film about chess players in the 1970’s I was amazed and impressed by them. But they were protégés and must have had some sort of mathematical minds so that they understood the game in great depth. Then of course computers were introduced which started to beat humans. So I would like the ability to beat a computer like Deep Blue. An ambition I’m sure I will never have!


Residents blame KTM project for drainage problem
Saturday February 7, 2009
by Priya Menon
According to the residents, the new Batu Cantonment KTM Commuter station that links Sentul to Batu Caves being built near their homes has caused the drainage system to turn into shambles.
The construction work that began in 2007 has caused much trouble for the residents in Jalan Bukit Berapit and Jalan Bukit Gantang.
The headline of the article above caught our attention as it was obviously designed to do. Only the section quoted above actually mentions the possibility that the construction project might be responsible.
One wonders if the author, Priya Menon, made some effort to contact KTMB or the contractors in charge of the project to get their side of the story. Since there is no mention of it in the article, we can safely assume that this did not happen.
Is KTMB or the contractor or the DBKL responsible? TRANSIT wishes that the media would find out before producing headlines such as the one above.


Recently acquired Juki Fx-1R in excellent condition.
Auto Teaching of Pick Position
Auto teaching of pick position reduces
changeover time and mis-picks
HMS (Height Measurement System)
Now standard on all R Series models,
the HMS is used to quickly and accurately measure the component pick height.
A laser sensor measures the distance instantly without any physical contact.
Camera Bad Mark Detection
Bad mark detection is performed using the machine’s standard downward looking camera (also used for fiducials and teaching).
This system accurately detects a wide range of marks on various substrates, including flex circuits.
Simultaneous Pick Priority Mode
Users can now select the best pick mode to suit their production requirements.
For the maximum possible throughput, simultaneous pick priority mode will try to pick as many components as possible
in a single pick sequence.
Each nozzle has independent Z and θmotors for high reliability and high accuracy.
Precise control of each nozzle is possible without affecting other nozzles.
A linear motor is used for the X axis for higher reliability and
lower maintenance. Linear motors require fewer structural parts
such as pulleys or supports and require no maintenance. In
addition, they are quieter and do not induce as much vibration
as other drive systems
The right technology for the application
The FX-1 uses 3 different drive systems: linear motor, belt drive and ball screw. Why?
Because each is best suited for different applications. Belt drive is used for the heavy
movement of the Y axis. A ball screw is used for the short frequent movement of the PWB
table. And the linear motors are used for the X axis to reduce weight and improve
performance. As technology continues to evolve, you can count on JUKI to use the best
technology for every application.
Juki FX-1R Specifications
|Board size||Ｌ size(410×360mm)|
|Component size||laser recognition||0603(0201)～□20mm or 26.5×11mm (0402 (01005) optional)|
|placement speed||Chip||33,000CPH(optimum condition)|
|placement accuracy||Laser recognition||±0.05mm|
|feeder inputs||Max. 80 on 8mm T/F|
|Power supply||200 to 415 VAC, 3-phase|
|Apparent power||Averaged value during pickup or placement||4kVA|
|operating air pressure||0.5±0.05Mpa|
|machine dimensions (W x D x H)||1,880×1,731×1,490mm|


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You’re invited! Reading Human Rights is a monthly book discussion hosted by the Howard County Office of Human Rights & Equity and Howard County Library System. We read books that promote cultural awareness, diversity, and equity. Tuesdays at 6:30 pm in person at the Miller Branch
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America. Part memoir and part cultural criticism, this collection is vulnerable, humorous, and provocative—and its relentless and riveting pursuit of vital questions around family and friendship, art and politics, identity and individuality, will change the way you think about our world.
The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history, the book is told by a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Texas native. Combining personal anecdotes with poignant facts gleaned from the annals of American history, Gordon-Reed shows how, from the earliest presence of Black people in Texas to the day in Galveston on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger announced the end of legalized slavery in the state, African-Americans played an integral role in the Texas story.
Author Sarah Gailey discusses their acclaimed novel The Echo Wife (also eBook and eAudiobook) in conversation with Maggie Tokuda-Hall, author of Also an Octopus (reviewed here). Gailey’s most recent novel, The Echo Wife, and first original comic book series with BOOM! Studios, Eat the Rich, are available now. Other shorter works and essays have been published in Mashable, The Boston Globe, Vice, Tor.com, and The Atlantic, and their work has been translated into seven languages and published around the world.
Publisher’s Weekly review of The Echo Wife:
This creepy, exhilarating science fiction outing from Gailey (Magic for Liars) dissects an unconventional affair that violates both a couple’s marriage vows and scientific integrity. Dr. Evelyn Caldwell is startled to discover that her husband, Nathan, has been seeing another woman—and even more shocked to learn that the other woman is a clone of Evelyn herself. Nathan created Martine to be everything Evelyn isn’t: attentive, submissive, and family-oriented. Adding insult to injury, Nathan used Evelyn’s own research to do so. An explosive confrontation among the three ends in Nathan’s murder, leaving Evelyn and Martine forced to work together to cover up the crime. It’s a situation that is not entirely unfamiliar for Evelyn, whose troubled past is teased out bit by bit. The women slowly discover that Nathan was hiding more secrets than either of them knew, forcing Martine and Evelyn to think on their feet in order to save themselves and the odd little family they create along the way. Gailey’s story unspools as a series of dark reveals that leave both the characters and the audience reeling. Readers won’t want to put this one down. (Feb.)
Gailey is a Hugo Award winning and bestselling author of speculative fiction, short stories, and essays. They have been a finalist for the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards for multiple years, and their bestselling adult novel debut, Magic for Liars, was published by Tor Books in 2019.
My book club (Books on Tap) read Magic for Liars for our May meeting. As with many other of Gailey’s books, it doesn’t fit neatly into one category. Yes, it’s a murder mystery complete with clues, red herrings, multiple suspects, and gory details. The book also tackles grief, illness, and how families deal with both. These weightier topics rather sneak around the edges of the crime scene. Our protagonist and Private Investigator, Ivy Gamble, is hired to solve the death of a teacher at the school for magical students where her sister teaches. She tells us up-front that she’s a liar, that she resents the living daylights out of her magical sister, and that she’s not proud of how the situation resolved. To say they are estranged doesn’t begin to cover the levels of distrust and bitterness that separate these twin sisters – one magical, one not. Do you trust that sort of narrator? It’s a terrifically entertaining read that nonetheless leaves you thinking about what you might do in a similar situation.
Join us on Saturday, May 14 at 7 pm for this year’s gala fundraiser! Taking place at our East Columbia Branch, Evening in the Stacks features authentic cuisine, an African marketplace, an open bar, a DJ and dancing, and so much more. We will celebrate the continent of Africa – from the Mediterranean coast and the Nile in the north to the cities, grasslands, and deserts in Central Africa to the rainforests of the south.
Black tie is optional for all guests and formal African attire is welcomed for those who are part of or identify with an African culture. Evening in the Stacks is a fun party that raises money for Library initiatives. This year, our goal is to raise $150,000 to benefit the creation of welcoming and inviting teen spaces in the Library’s six branches.
We are also highlighting two spectacular authors, who are participating in a virtual author panel in conversation with Elsa M. on Tuesday, May 10 at 7 pm.
“I think the most important message in the novel is about Identity Construction,” says Tope Folarin discussing his debut book A Particular Kind of a Black Man. “All of us have that option in the 21st century. Tunde, the protagonist in my novel is forced to construct a persona because the persona he inherits from his father and society doesn’t match who he actually is.” (Simon & Schuster Books)
Living in small-town Utah has always been an uneasy fit for Tunde Akinola’s family, especially for his Nigeria-born parents. Though Tunde speaks English with a Midwestern accent, he can’t escape the children who rub his skin and ask why the black won’t come off. He spends the rest of his childhood and young adulthood searching for connection—to the wary stepmother and stepbrothers he gains when his father remarries; to the Utah residents who mock his father’s accent; to evangelical religion; to his Texas middle school’s crowd of African-Americans; to the fraternity brothers of his historically black college. In so doing, he discovers something that sends him on a journey away from everything he has known.
Winner of the Whiting Award for Fiction, A Particular Kind of Black Manis a beautiful and poignant exploration of the meaning of memory, manhood, home, and identity as seen through the eyes of a first-generation Nigerian-American.
Based in Washington D.C., Tope Folarin is the Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Studies and the Lannan Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing at Georgetown University. He also serves as a board member of the Avalon Theater in Washington DC, the Vice President of the Board of the Pen/Faulkner Foundation, and as a member of the President’s Council of Pathfinder. He was educated at Morehouse College and the University of Oxford, where he earned two Masters degrees as a Rhodes Scholar.
Glory was inspired by the unexpected coup, in November 2017, of Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s president who took office in 1980 and never let go the reins of government. The rhythms and pace of the novel are enthralling and extraordinary, narrated by a chorus of animal voices. As the book begins, Old Horse stands in for Mugabe, with an entire host of donkeys, pigs, and other creatures forming the political court around him, each one wanting to maintain their own power at the expense of others. Inevitable echoes of George Orwell’s Animal Farm occur throughout Bulawayo’s novel, but the voice is purely her own. She gives us characters with names such as Marvellous and Destiny, and allows us to (re)discover the delight of breathtaking political satire.
A review in The Guardian explains, “even the stylistic use of the refrain “Tholukuthi”, meaning “only to discover” (as in, “you thought you were getting a novel as good as We Need New Names, tholukuthi Bulawayo’s second is even more dazzling”), nods to a social media moment. Around the time of the Zimbabwe coup, the song Tholukuthi Hey! was released, and once it went viral, the refrain became a meme. “Tholukuthi” serves both as incantation and a form of punctuation in a novel that will appeal across generations.”
NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of two novels, including the most recently published Glory and the PEN/Hemingway (among others) award-winning We Need New Names. Her first book was also shortlisted for the International Literature Award, the Man Booker Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. NoViolet earned her MFA at Cornell University and has taught fiction writing at Cornell and Stanford Universities. She grew up in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and is currently writing full-time from the wherevers.
This year, with HCLS’s much anticipated gala event Evening in the Stacks moving to May, we’ve bundled our fundraising efforts together in a single online location.
Our gorgeous flower baskets are back, and already in high demand! Last year they sold out, so if you’d enjoy welcoming May with a 12” hanging basket of cheerful sun-loving flowers while supporting your favorite library system, you’ll want to act fast! Baskets will be available for pickup May 4th, 5th, and 7th at the Miller Branch.
This year’s raffle includes six unique gift baskets individually curated by each HCLS branch, featuring a remarkable array of local gift cards to restaurants, stores, shops, and markets, tickets to local events, tours, and museums, unique collectables, and more! The baskets range in value from $500 to $1,000, and you’ll definitely want to check them all out before deciding which to try for – or you can try for them all!
We’ll also have drawings for two tickets to Evening in the Stacks: Across Africa along with our Grand Prize: a Microsoft Surface Go 3 tablet.
And for our wine connoisseurs, we’re once again offering a Wine Pull available exclusively at Evening in the Stacks. Your ticket will get you a randomly selected bottle of fabulous wine, each valued at an estimated $20+.
All proceeds this year go to support teen spaces, safe and welcoming locations in each HCLS branch that allow teens to gather without paying for a membership or having to buy something. They’ll have access to interest-driven learning along with resources promoting empowerment, mental wellness, digital and tech fluency, and more!
You can also donate directly to support STEM tools for teens who have expressed an interest in engaging with coding or digital media creation such as 3D modeling, music-making, graphic design, video production, and social and educational gaming – all in a fun, inclusive, and positive environment.
I could not be any more excited about any of this, which is saying a lot considering how much I love our local library system. On behalf of Friends & Foundation of HCLS, we hope you’ll join in the fun while supporting Teen Spaces and HCLS. Thank you!
Conversation and Parsi Cuisine Demo with Authors Sujata Massey and Niloufer Mavalvala.
Navroze or “New Day” in Farsi (Parsi) marks the first day of the spring equinox for the northern hemisphere, which falls on March 20/21 each year. It reminds us that the cold is coming to an end, and it’s time to cleanse our homes that have remained closed over the wintry days – a new year to start afresh. The occasion is celebrated with friends, families, and neighbors, sharing what we are fortunate enough to have with others. (Mubarak means congratulations.)
On March 17, we bring you a specially curated and deliciously crafted evening where we discuss the richly detailed and intricately plotted Perveen Mistry mystery series with Author Sujata Massey. Sujata’s immensely popular book The Widows of Malabar Hill seamlessly weaves together historical, political and social layers–suffocating colonialism, societal systems more concerned with appearance than equity, racial and gender disparities. Through Perveen Mistry, Sujata brings to life Bombay in the 1920’s and captures the fine details of Parsi culture.
“Graceful prose and mastery of period detail . . . [The Bombay Prince] propels a rich story of female empowerment during a pivotal era.” -Kirkus Reviews
A favorite with our book groups, Perveen Mistry, the spunky, sari-clad lawyer, tackles mysteries with wit and a shrewd intelligence. Reviewing The Bombay Prince, Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code says, “Perveen’s investigation into the mysterious death of a young university student coincides with the imperial visit of the future Edward VIII, and the resulting trail of breadcrumbs through royal receptions, street riots, squalid jails, and lavish hotels makes for a deliciously satisfying read!”
Niloufer was born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan and her love for food combined with extensive world travel from a young age inspired her to experiment with world cuisines. She has written articles published in a variety of magazines, journals, and newspapers, and she has been a guest chef at Le Cordon Bleu in London and on the television show for The Cooks Cook in New Hampshire and, more recently, on Voice of Canada.
Niloufer warmly invites us into her home and kitchen as she demonstrates her favorite quick-n-easy recipe and details the unique history and culture of the Parsi community.
The Haftseen table is a symbolic tribute to the seven creations of the universe; fire, water, air, earth, metal, and the plant and animal kingdoms. It thanks the universe for what we have and pray for continuity in the days to come. It is called Haftsheen or Haftseen, where seven items that start with the sound ‘S’ or ‘Sh’ are placed on the table alongside other symbols.
Join us for Mysteries and Spices on Thursday, March 17 @ 6:30 pm. REGISTER
Learn the fascinating forgotten history of the LOLs – the Little Old Ladies of NASA’s Apollo Missions – with a hands-on STEM activity that celebrates the women who “wove our way to the moon.” Discover how core rope memory powered spaceflight, then create a simple beaded message using binary code.
When you hear the word, “weaving” and the phrase, “little old ladies,” what image comes to mind? Most likely the mental picture is not one of making a sophisticated computer program designed to send the Apollo spacecraft to the moon! For Women’s History Month, we are going to celebrate the women who, using ferrite core beads and copper wire, literally wove the components that made up software programs for the Apollo Guidance Computer.
The “little old ladies” or LOLs moniker certainly was not the most progressive way of referring to these highly skilled factory workers who crafted the core rope memory for NASA. Their precise weaving and manufacturing skills were crucial to the success of the Apollo program and to the astronauts arriving safely on the Moon.
The NASA Apollo Guidance Computer used read-only, core rope memory to store its programs. The weaving was complicated: “The cores are arranged in ropes of 1024 cores each. 10 inhibit pairs (20 wires) provide the address-decoder weave as 2^10=1024. Although the memory words are 16 bits wide, each core has up to 64 sense wires woven through it.”* Remarkably, this guidance system used only 72k of memory, which is equivalent to the memory of a simple calculator.
Want to try your hand at making a simple version of core rope memory in the tradition of the LOLs? Join us at the Glenwood Branch for a brief history overview of the contributions of these amazing women who “wove our way to the moon” and then craft a single word-weaving project using binary code, thread, and beads.
Lori, the Teens’ Instructor & Research Specialist at the Glenwood Branch, idolizes Sally Ride and in an alternate life would have trained to be an astronaut. She also loves baseball, knitting, and reading dystopian novels.
Howard County Library System invites you to an exceptional series of four poetry slam workshops with Lady Brion this February and March.
Slam poetry is a spoken-word form of poetry meant to be performed live, with topics that tend to be political and provocative. It has an energy to it that is mesmerizing, and slam poets strive to elicit cheers, laughs, or gasps from their audience. Slam poets evoke strong feelings and the power of everyday language and delivery with their enthusiasm and voice, versus more formal or academic poetry techniques.
Poetry slams started in Chicago in 1984. The first slam competition originated to move poetry recitals from academia to a popular audience. American poet Marc Smith, finding the poetry scene at the time to be “too structured and stuffy,” began experimenting by attending open microphone poetry readings, then turning them into slams by introducing the element of competition.
Lady Brion has said, “Poetry creates a unique opportunity to galvanize and unify people. It shows us the universality of the human experience by allowing us to see similarities more than differences as we share stories and frustrations…a poet and their work can reflect the audience in which it is being read before. That is affirming because as an audience member it means that we are seen, we are recognized, and we are not alone. Poetry can evoke the voices and the emotions of those society consistently silences and marginalizes and there is real power in that.”
Lady Brion is an international spoken-word artist, poetry coach, activist, organizer, and educator, and she has performed since the age of twelve across the world, including London, Ghana, Zanzibar and many US states. She is a recipient of the Open Society Institute Fellowship, centered around her project facilitating poetry workshops in prisons and group homes throughout Maryland. During her time as a competitor in slam competitions, Lady Brion became the 2016 National Poetry Slam Champion and the 2017 Southern Fried Regional Slam Champion.
She received her B.A. in Communications from Howard University and her MFA in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore.
The University of Baltimore’s Yale Gordon College of Arts and Sciences calls Lady Brion, “bold, dedicated and inspirational,” fitting in perfectly with slam poetry’s power to trigger emotional responses from a live audience. “I will speak for those you forgot to listen to yelling blindside from jaded views. I am courage passed down. I am the dismantling of power structures on surround-sound.” To see and hear Lady Brion perform is to truly witness the power and beauty of slam poetry.
Brion uses her poetry—focused on the Black struggle, gender equality and women’s empowerment, and religious themes—to merge the space between art and activism.
The Anthem – February 16. Explore writing celebratory unapologetic anthems about themselves, especially in the midst of an oppressive society that rarely gives space for anyone to express their fullest and truest identity. REGISTER.
Picketed – March 9. Discuss the history of social movements and the way that radical demonstrations and protests can lead to change. This context will be used to have students create their own picket signs and craft a poem from it. REGISTER.
If these streets could talk – March 16. Explore a social justice issue that is important to them by personifying a space, place, or object connected to their chosen social ill. REGISTER.
Open Mic – March 23. Participants are encouraged to share poems created in one of the previous workshops or any other work that they have created. Host Lady Brion performs some of her social justice-related works. REGISTER.
Welcome to the Year of the Tiger! The Lunar New Year is the most important social and economic holiday for billions of people around the world. Tied to the lunar-solar Chinese calendar, the holiday was originally observed as a time to honor household and heavenly deities and ancestors. Today, Lunar New Year brings friends and family together for feasting and festivities in China, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Mongolia, and other countries all over the world.
This website, recommended by our presenters, offers a helpful guide where you can discover more about everything from food and drink to clothing and decorations for Lunar New Year celebrations. In addition, we have an assortment of books and other materials available at HCLS to help families learn and celebrate.
In recognition of this significant holiday, HCLS is celebrating with an online class, Learn About the Lunar New Year Celebration, in partnership with Howard County Chinese School. A panel of middle and high school students and parents share the histories and traditions of the Lunar New Year celebration in a variety of Asian American Pacific Islander sub-communities. Join us on Saturday, Feb 5 for a combination of short presentations, Q&A, and interactive educational games with prizes.
Additional upcoming children’s classes with Lunar New Year-themed sessions include:
Elie Wiesel was a Holocaust survivor in addition to a prolific author and Nobel laureate. Reading Night for the second time (I first read it many moons ago when I was in college) reminded me both of the horrific things he and his fellow prisoners suffered at the hands of the Nazis during World War II, and of that lesson from The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe. How much of Wiesel’s memoir could I trust? I learned from reading The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe that everyone’s memory of events is imperfect. How does that help or hinder us from learning about a Nobel Prize winner and human rights advocate’s experience when we read his first book, Night?
As we just recently passed the 80th anniversary of America’s entrance into that war on December 7, 1941, we are closer and closer to the time when no eyewitnesses to the Holocaust will be alive anymore. Thankfully, there is now an entire genre of books detailing and remembering the experiences of many survivors of the Holocaust. Though the stories are all different, the one theme that comes through almost all of them is the incomprehensible brutality and inhumanity the Germans perpetrated on 6 million Jews simply because they were Jewish, and countless others for being gay, Roma, communists, or anything else the Nazis didn’t like.
Night is a symbol of all the darkness that the victims of the Holocaust felt. The fear, the hunger, the horrid conditions, the not knowing what any minute or hour or day might bring. The lack of hope, and the lack of trust even in your fellow prisoners. In some ways, it’s amazing that any of them survived.
But in Wiesel’s life, I think that Night represents something else as well – his doubt of his faith. Wiesel makes it clear that he grew up as a religious Jew in Sighet, Romania, and that family and religion were two of the most important things to him. Yet as he witnessed the Holocaust, his faith began to leave him. Those who are avid fans of his writings will find these struggles throughout many of his books, and how he resolves it as well. But in Night, he makes clear how his faith is failing in a particularly gruesome scene. The Nazis have just hanged three victims, one of them just a boy (for those of you who wonder why, does it matter? That’s the kind of “night” all the prisoners had to deal with). The two older men die quickly from asphyxiation, but the boy, who doesn’t weigh much, dangles from his noose for a while before finally succumbing. Wiesel reports, “Behind me, I heard the same man asking “For God’s sake, where is God?” And from within me, I heard a voice answer: “Where is He? This is where – hanging here from this gallows…”
After working through his theological crisis, Wiesel went on to become a professor, a father, and a strong voice and advocate for human rights everywhere. That’s what earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, “for being a messenger to mankind: his message is one of peace, atonement and dignity.” The lesson we should all take from this is that no matter the hardships we may face, or how palpable the darkness we feel may seem, we can overcome and do great things with our lives.
Holocaust Remembrance Day Book Group is discussing Night by Elie Wiesel, with the conversation led by Rabbi Fuller. Join us online January 27 at 6:30 pm. Register.
Rabbi Gordon Fuller is an independently ordained rabbi who grew up in Detroit but has lived in many other places. He moved to Columbia, MD in 2015 to be near children and grandchildren.
Rabbi Gordy worked in Jewish education for 20+ years before being ordained and has co-authored two books. He is as passionate about pluralism and the environment as he is about his family and the Jewish peoplehood.
In true Eliana fashion, I started to blitz through this title as an audiobook. I had to ask my librarian friend, Sarah, “Is it just me or are these characters just the most emotionally stunted dolts I have ever not actually come across?” I love them so much, they make me want to tear my hair out.
Along with the engaging characters, Roseanne A. Brown does an excellent job incorporating African culture into this novel, described on the book jacket as, “The first in a gripping fantasy duology inspired by West African folklore in which a grieving crown princess and a desperate refugee find themselves on a collision course to murder each other despite their growing attraction.” The setting has quiet elements of West African culture, the furnishings, the clothes, the streets, even the characters’ hair.
My favorite part was the hair routine Karina’s maid does with her. Shea butter and the other oils along with twisting are, in fact, accurate to curly hair. It’s part of why I haven’t been braiding my hair so often. My curls look much lovelier when out of their braids. My family is Puerto Rican, and although Puerto Rico takes a fair amount of influence from African cultures, there are also Taino and Spanish influences there as well.
Back to the book: Karina has all the qualities of a good queen, she just needs time to heal and properly grieve her mother (the previous queen). Outside of the eyes of the courtiers, Karina is surrounded by the love of her family and friends, but she’s closed herself off from them. With the way Karina’s trajectory is headed, Karina may completely alienate everyone around her before something happens to shatter her worldview and push her into regaining allies. There is a notable difference between the Karina who does whatever she can to avoid hosting the Solstacia Festival and the Karina who fights tooth and nail to fulfill her duties as a new queen.
Karina is something of a tempest. For much of the novel, she is insecure, grieving, and constantly worried about whether she’s a good enough ruler. She *worries* about her fitness to lead and actively tries to remove the person she deems to be an unfit ruler (herself) from succession. Heck! The whole reason she even gets into reviving her deceased mother is that she believes her kingdom would be better with her mother’s leadership!
Her opposite in the story is Malik, a child who has seen the absolute worst humanity has to offer. His own family and village were horrible to him. The world sees him and his people as awful. And yet he cares. He cares *so much.* He worries about both of his sisters. He pays attention to the servants and even worries for Karina, a person who he is actively trying to kill, when he overhears how the court lambasts her for needing a day to recover from an attempt on her life.
I’m still listening to the book, so I wonder if there is a reason Malik’s people are oppressed like they are. I know that in the real world, oppression often has no tangible reason. In most fantasy media I have interacted with, the oppression is typically caused by some ancient bad-blood event. I appreciate the author’s sensitive and visceral depiction of anxiety and panic attacks, which didn’t trigger one of my own. I like that she included coping strategies. Somewhere out there, a reader will see Malik thinking of his lemon tree and adopt a similar strategy.
One last note to my friend Sarah: I feel like am a parent now. I want to wrap Malik and Karina up in my arms, tell them that everything is okay. I wanna whack them upside the head and ask them, “What were you thinking?!” (affectionately) Are you happy, Sarah? You have ruined me. Everyone should read this book.
Meet the author Roseanne Brown at HCLS Savage Branch (or attend online) on Tuesday, January 25 at 6 pm. Register here.Thirty attendees will be randomly selected to receive a free copy of A Song of Wraiths and Ruins.

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|Work, Life, And Leisure
metropolis A populous city that is often its capital as well.
Urbanization: The process of developing into a town or city.
Philanthropist: A person who works for the welfare of others and social upliftment and gives his money and time for this.
Tenements: makeshift and often overcrowded apartment buildings. Such houses were found in abundance in the poor areas of big cities.
Temperance Movement: A social reform movement primarily led by the middle class that began in the nineteenth century in America and England. Under this movement, alcohol was held responsible for the destruction of society and family. In this movement, emphasis was laid on reducing the consumption of intoxicating drinks, especially among the working class.
Asphyxiation: The process of suffocation due to the reduction of oxygen
Individualism: The doctrine that advocates freedom, rights, and free action of the individual, not just of the community.
Presidency Cities: Bombay, Madras, and the capitals of the Bengal Presidency during British rule.
Depressed Classes A term used for people who are considered ‘untouchable’ and ‘low caste’ in the caste system.
Land Development: Making marshy or submerged land fit for farming or living or any other work.
Short and long answer Type questions
Write in brief-
1. Why did the population of London start expanding from the middle of the eighteenth century? Give the reason.
Answer: There were mainly two reasons for the expansion of the population of London in the eighteenth century- (i) People from the surrounding areas went to London on a large scale. In the words of Gareth Stedman, “19th-century London was a city of clerks and shopkeepers, small professionals and skilled artisans, a growing population of skilled and manual laborers, soldiers, servants, day laborers, hawkers and beggars.”
(ii) People were employed on a large scale in the docks of London and the five major industries there. Apart from this, the production of motor cars and electrical equipment started in London during the First World War, there was a further increase in the demand for laborers.
2. How did the work available to women in London change between the 19th and 20th centuries? What were the reasons for these changes?
Answer: The changes in the work available to women in London in the 19th and 20th centuries were due to the following reasons – (i) During this time women used to work in factories to a large extent. But due to the improvement in technology, women working in factories had to lose their jobs and they were limited to domestic work.
(ii) Women started hiring people in houses to increase their family’s income. Apart from this, she started doing work like sewing-weaving and making matches at home.
(iii) In the 20th century, women again started getting work in industries and offices for wartime work. The main reason for this was the high demand for men in the war zone. The establishment of new industrial units, reduction in foreign imports, expansion of ancient industries, and motivation to contribute more to the war were the reasons for this change.
3. Having a large urban population affects which of the following? Explain with historical examples.
(a) Zamindar The huge urban population started creating challenges before the landowners. Among them, the problem of slums was the main one. While eating and drinking in the cities, there was a demand of the residents that the slums should be cleaned, but slowly people started understanding the fact that there should be housing arrangements for the poor of the city as well.
Because the houses in the slums were overcrowded, there were no facilities for cleanliness. Due to this health problems could arise. Secondly, there was a danger of fire in the dilapidated houses, thirdly, there was a possibility of general upheaval in this huge crowd. To overcome all these problems, various housing schemes were started for the laborers. It was for these reasons that private landowners in London, Berlin, and New York had to pay considerable attention to housing and its related problems.
The problems of pollution also came before the private landowners and the talk of arranging ‘new lungs’ for the cities started to arise. In this context, an attempt was made to bridge the gap between the countryside and the cities by creating a green belt around London.
(B) Superintendent of Police handling law and order With the increase in population in the cities, problems arose in front of a Superintendent of Police to maintain law and order in the cities because along with the increase in the population in the cities, the number of criminals also increased. Had happened. For example, in the 1870s there were at least 20,000 convicts living in London alone.
(c) Leader of a political party The leader of a political party is greatly influenced by the large population in the cities. ,
(i) Political parties try to increase the number of supporters of themselves and their parties in the cities.
(ii) When in 1886 it was impossible to work in the houses due to extreme cold, a situation of riots broke out in London. The demand of the people was that they should be freed from poverty.
(iii) In 1887, police used more force to quell a similar riot. This action is known in history as Bloody Sunday. In such circumstances, political parties often bake their political loaves of bread.
(iv) After about two years the dock workers of London went on strike for union recognition of the dock workers. Such incidents hurt capitalism and encourage leftist parties and leaders.
3. explain the following
(a) Why did wealthy Londoners in the nineteenth-century support the need to build houses for the poor?
Answer: This was due to the following reasons. Because the children in the slums were becoming criminals, so it was considered necessary to arrange accommodation for them inspired by humanitarian sentiments.
(ii) The poor were insecure among them, so providing them with safe housing was necessary to provide their continuous services to society and the factories of the rich class.
(iii) The filth spread in the slum could create serious health problems for the poor as well as the rich living nearby.
(iv) Dilapidated houses were more prone to fire.
(b) Why were so many Bombay films based on the lives of outsiders in the city?
Answer: Most of the films from Mumbai were based on the lives of people coming from outside the city. Because these films wanted to discourage people from running away to Mumbai. In these films, the life of Mumbai is shown in the dirty environment, lack of residential houses, lack of drinking water, the centrist attitude of the people there, and the sense of neglect towards human values.
Songs like ‘Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Jeena Yahaan, Zara Hatke, Zara Bachke, Ye Hai Bombay Meri Jaan’ and ‘Jiska Joota, Usi Ke Sar’, ‘Dil Hai Chhota Bada Shahar, Arey Wah Re Wah Teri Bombay’, etc. express.
(c) Why there was a huge increase in the population of Bombay in the middle of the nineteenth century?
Answer: Bombay’s trade became a major center of commerce –
(i) In the 17th century, Bombay was a group of seven islands that came under the jurisdiction of the Portuguese. But in 1661, it went under the authority of the British and the East India Company established its headquarters in Bombay from Surat, the major port here. Bombay was declared a Presidency city in 1819 and gradually it became an important administrative center of western India. By the turn of the century, it had emerged as a major industrial center.
(ii) After the defeat of the Marathas in the war of 1819, the city started expanding rapidly after it was declared a Presidency. Apart from this, with the opening of textile mills, a large number of people started coming and settling in Bombay.
(iii) Due to the establishment of new industries, there was a huge increase in the population here. Between 1881 and 1931, only a quarter of the population living in Bombay were locals.
(iv) The city of Bombay is the junction or meeting point of two major railway networks. Due to the railway, the people coming to the city started getting more facilities and this city started spreading more. Due to all the above reasons, Bombay emerged as an important center of trade and commerce.
1. What means of entertainment came up in England in the nineteenth century to provide opportunities for entertainment to the people?
Answer: The following means of entertainment were available in England in the nineteenth century –
(i) In the last decades of the eighteenth century, many types of cultural events like opera, theater and classical music, etc. were organized for the groups of elite families.
(ii) The toiling classes used to spend their free time in pav or liquor houses during this period.
(iii) Gradually, new ways of recreation for the common people began to emerge, in which libraries, art galleries, and museums were to be opened.
(iv) With the abolition of entry fees to museums in Britain in 1810, there was a rapid increase in the number of visitors to museums.
(v) Beach walks were an important means of entertainment for British industrial workers during their holidays.
5. Explain the social changes in London that led to the need for the underground railway. Why was the construction of the underground railway criticized?
Answer: Social change and an underground railway in London
(i) The urban population increased.
(ii) Due to the increase in factories, various types of pollution, health, cleanliness, law and order, the decline in morality, child labor, the arrival of a large number of immigrants, etc. problems came to the fore, as a result of which there was a lot of change in the society.
the need to build an underground railway
(i) The underground railway was built to prepare Londoners to move from the city to the suburbs.
(ii) One of the objectives of the underground railway was also to stop the wastage of more time spent in movement.
Criticism It has been criticized on the following grounds-
(i) Many people did not consider underground train travel to be suitable for health. They said that the bins were small and stuffy, with the smoke from the smokers adding to the suffocation.
(ii) Many people felt that these ‘Iron Giants’ had added to the unhygienic and unhealthy atmosphere in the city. Secondly, a large amount of sabotage activities were done due to their construction, which is a waste of resources. According to an estimate, on average, 900 houses were demolished to lay a railway line about two miles long. Because of this the poor were uprooted in large numbers.
6, What is meant by the Haussmannization of Paris? To what extent do you consider this development to be right or wrong? Write a letter to the editor of the newspaper supporting or opposing this and give reasons in favor of your point of view.
Answer: Hausmannization of Paris means Hausmannization of Paris means to develop Paris as a modern city. In 1852, Louis Napoleon III declared himself emperor. After this, he started the work of rebuilding Paris. The emperor entrusted this work of construction to an architect named Baron Haussmann, who was the Prefect of Sian. His name has become synonymous with the forced reconstruction of cities in the name of beauty and order.
He cleared the slums from the center of Paris to beautify the city and to remove the possibility of any rebellion. (Hint – Try writing a letter to the editor of the student newspaper on your own. They can include the following facts in their letter. I support this modernization activity on the following grounds.
- (1) It has given a new look to the city.
- (2) It has increased the standard of living of the people.
- (3) It has increased the sense of being civilized.
- (4) Modernization of the city has encouraged every social, intellectual, and cultural development here.
- (5) As a result of strong infrastructure, trade, and commercial activities have been encouraged.
- (6) Now the slum dwellers of the city have got better housing facilities in the city.
- (7) The problem of pollution has been reduced.
- (8) Tourism-related activities have increased.
- (9) The beauty of the city has increased.
- (10) The prestige of the city has increased at the international level.
7, To what extent have government regulations and new laws solved the problem of pollution? Give one example of each of the successes and failures of laws made to change the level of:
(a) Public life
(b) private life
Answer: The government forced new laws and acts on the people to solve the problem of pollution. but still
These rules and regulations have not been completely successful in solving this problem. Below are some examples of their success and failure.
1. examples of success
(a) Public Life The Governor of Bombay, William Hornby – approved a proposal to build a huge wall on the seashore to protect the low-lying areas of the city from being hit by seawater and polluting the land. saved from
(b) Private life The Singapore government got rid of the problem of pollution by controlling the private life of the people. Every inch was accounted for by the government while planning the city. High-rise residential blocks were provided with ventilation and all kinds of services to keep the city pollution free.
2, examples of failure
(a) Public life By the 1840s, laws were passed to control smoke in cities such as Derby, Leeds, and Manchester, but factory owners made only minor modifications to their machinery that made no significant difference to the amount of smoke. Thus the smoke control laws of 1847 to 1855 had failed in their purpose.
(b) Private Life – The new laws and acts have not succeeded in protecting the private life of the people. The development of the underground railway in Britain greatly affected people on a personal level because of the smoke inside the coaches and the massive destruction of property at the time of its construction.
Class 10 History Solution
What is the reason for the rise of nationalism?
Indian nationalism emerged to some extent as a result of colonial policies and the Indian response to those policies. The expansion of western education, the rise of the middle class, the expansion of railways, and socio-religious movements played an important role in the development of nationalism.
What are the causes and effects of the rise of nationalism?
Nationalism in Europe arose as a result of cultural, ethnic, as well as political policies, which led to the formation of nation-states and new national identities in place of former multi-ethnic empires. It began with the Age of Enlightenment in the middle of the 18th century.


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Just a reminder of what voters think of Donald Trump,from the new Quinnipiac poll:
- 56 – 40 percent that he is not honest;
- 59 – 38 percent that he does not have good leadershipskills;
- 54 – 44 percent that he does not care about averageAmericans;
They’re not with him on the issues, either, from the 58 percentwho don’t think his attacks on NFL players were appropriate to:
- 38 – 58 percent for handling foreign policy;
- 39 – 56 percent for immigration;
- 35 – 59 percent for race relations;
- 37 – 49 percent for taxes.
Presumably the 35 percent who approve of Trump’s handling ofrace relations are overwhelmingly the people who think formerPresident Obama was a racist who somehow—mysteriously—madeeverything worse just by existing.
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As of Monday, the popular Quad gathering spot Cabot Café is now open in the mornings, following student demands to extend the coffee shop's hours.
After six years of business, the student-run late night café decided to expand its hours to open from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. every Monday through Thursday. Previously, the coffee shop was open only from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sunday through Thursday nights.
Cabot Café staff say they decided to extend their hours after considering students’ interest in the earlier hours and the café’s recent financial success.
“We’ve had a lot of demand for it in recent years,” said Pepo A. Zivny '19, Cabot Café’s facilities manager. “And the café’s been doing so well, at least financially, that we thought we could risk it.”
The café is located in the basement of Cabot House and offers a variety of coffee and tea drinks, as well as bagels and pastries. For now, the menu will be the same in the mornings and evenings, according to senior barista Maeva M. O’Brien '18.
In addition to providing refreshments, Cabot Café serves as a frequent hang-out and study space for Quad residents. It showcases student artwork and hosts live performances, according to its website.
O’Brien said that because of this unique role as a nighttime gathering space, she expects that the café will likely see less traffic in the morning than in the evenings.
“At night, a lot of people go to the café to spend a lot of time there working, or studying, or talking to friends, and I don’t know if that culture will be the same in the morning,” she said.
For some like Cabot House resident Emma S. J. Schwartz '18, the new hours are a welcome change. Schwartz said she looks forward to working in Cabot Café in the mornings.
“I think the hours are very convenient for people who have 9 a.m. classes, 10 a.m. classes, 11 a.m. classes to get their coffee before they go,” she said. “I think they’re going to get a lot of business.”
But for others, the new hours may not be as useful as Cabot Café staff hope.
Ana K. Cepeda Diaz ‘19 said she was less excited about the café’s choice in hours, adding that it should open on Friday and Saturday evenings instead, when Cabot’s dining hall does not offer late-night snack options at Brain Break.
“I found it odd, because you’d think they wouldn’t have a market if breakfast is open, so it would compete with breakfast,” Cepeda Diaz said.
While the café adjusts to its new schedule, baristas say they already look forward to pursuing other changes to Cabot Cafe’s operations.
“We’re always looking to expand our menu and expand our drink options,” Zivny said. “In the coming months or weeks, we might invest in a cold brew machine so that we can offer slightly more caffeine to our very hardworking students."
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