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Low-Carbon Health Care Done Right
The health care sector plays an outsized role in climate change. Can well-meaning new policies avoid exacerbating inequities?
It’s a tragic irony: Even though climate issues are linked to millions of annual deaths worldwide, the U.S. health care sector is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, which in turn drive climate change.
From services and delivery to pharmaceutical manufacturing and the supply chain for products, the health sector accounts for 8.5% to 10% of all U.S. carbon emissions. That’s one of the largest carbon footprints in the national economy, points out Gary Cohen, president of Health Care Without Harm, a nonprofit aiming to reduce the sector’s environmental impacts. “Fifteen years into this work, we realized climate was really going to eclipse and amplify every other social determinant of health in communities,” Cohen says. “[Decarbonizing] has got to be core in what we do in the next decade.”
Health systems—thanks to recently publicized emissions data—have awakened to the need to decarbonize, or reduce their climate impact. They’re pledging to revamp everything from the food they serve to the types of energy they use, the transportation means they rely on, and the chemicals they purchase. Hospitals are installing solar panels, buying plastic-free supplies when possible, and looking for ways to reduce their waste.
Equally critical to reducing climate change’s impact on our health is ensuring that any new policy changes made by health care systems don’t cause inadvertent harm to the communities around them, particularly for members who already face disadvantages. “There’s no question that the people living in low-income areas and marginalized populations are more at risk than ever because they don’t have resources and are not served by [environmental] policies,” says Victor Dzau, MD, president of the National Academy of Medicine. “There’s a clear obligation for us to work on this.”
When Maria Merritt, PhD, an associate professor in International Health and in the Berman Institute of Bioethics, learned last year of the immensity of health care’s climate impact (see sidebar), she was shocked. Although she’d long been a proponent of sustainability and environmental activism, the scope of this problem and its clear connection to issues of social justice in public health caught her attention. Now, she’s exploring approaches to ethical decision-making to ensure that community members—in particular those who already face disadvantages and health inequities—are not inadvertently harmed as health care systems work to decarbonize.
Consider an ostensibly positive move by a hospital to use fewer vehicles in favor of buying more locally sourced goods. Might the mom-and-pop stores and gas stations supporting the drivers suffer economically, or a large trucking firm relocate its area office to a busier market? In the end, poorer community members with less ability to adapt stand to lose the most, says Merritt. She aims to help make such hidden consequences visible, a first step in being able to address them.
Equally critical to reducing climate change’s impact on our health is ensuring that any new policy changes made by health care systems don’t cause inadvertent harm to the communities around them.
“It's really crucial to engage the communities and hear the voices of people who are living with the worst of [climate] impacts, right now in the policy process,” Merritt says. “If we don’t deliberately examine policy choices going forward, we’re in danger of replicating the same injustices all over again.”
Merritt has taken on this kind of work before. From 2016 through 2018, as promising new treatment regimens for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) were emerging, Merritt led a team who asked MDR-TB patients, health care providers, and community members in South Africa and Uganda about patients’ experiences of treatment. The team found that, for some disadvantaged patients, a long course of many pills and potential hospital stays could be personally devastating. The results informed an analytic technique called “social justice assessment”—a guide including a decision-making flowchart and survey questions—allowing health policy decision makers to identify when some MDR-TB treatment regimens might be preferable to others on grounds of social justice, even if they might incur additional cost.
To explore possible extensions of social justice assessment to health care decarbonization, Merritt envisions a set of place-based case studies. As her earlier team did with MDR-TB patients, she’d like to interview community members to find out how they would see their lives affected by different paths to health care decarbonization. “This very quickly gets to the question of how to involve everyone who’s included in the conversation up front—and it’s arguably a better way to get solutions, too,” she says. In other words, people with personal stakes in a problem often have ideas about how to fix it; most MDR-TB patients in her prior work identified fewer pills or a shorter course, for example, as options they’d most like to have. Not only would that improve their lives, she adds, but making it easier for people to complete their treatment can reduce the risk of MDR-TB transmission to others: a win on two fronts.
“There’s a growing awareness that the actions we can take to mitigate climate impact [in the long run] will have shorter-term health benefits. Reducing things like air pollution and developing more sustainable food systems might have health benefits that themselves justify the investment,” Merritt says. This kind of effort might not always appear related to health care work. For instance, a hospital might find it worthwhile to plant trees in another neighborhood that suffers from higher temperatures on hot days than the rest of the city. In addition to preventing some heat-related emergency department visits, the hospital would also be reducing its emissions footprint by averting medical waste and providing carbon sinks.
“There’s a way to get to the low-carbon future that also is equitable for communities,” says Merritt. “It isn’t going to happen all by itself if we don’t try to make it happen.”

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Hi everyone! Welcome to another Stamp Simply CAS Christmas Wednesday! Each Wednesday from now until Christmas, Sharon will start a hop from her blog with the some of the DT showing some quick and easy Christmas card designs.
Today my card is super simple, I used a couple strips of pattern paper, ribbon, stamps and some rhinestones. The pattern paper is the new Christmas paper from Kaisercraft, Twig and Berry and the ornament stamp is from the JustRite stamp set, Noel Christmas Ornaments.
This design was so easy that I made another almost identical. Just a different border and sentiment. These would be easy to make in mass for my Christmas cards.
Now head on over to Sharon's blog and see what Christmas inspiration she has for you. She didn't have a chance to make a card, but she DOES have some new amazing Christmas goodies in the store!
Thanks for stopping by and have a great day! I'll leave you with a close up picture.
All supplies can be found at The Stamp Simply Ribbon Store.Card Deets:
Stamps - Noel Christmas Ornaments (JustRite Papercraft)
Paper - White and kraft cardstock; Twig and Berry (Kaisercraft)
Accessories - Tropic Wine seam binding ribbon, green rhinestones, scalloped border punch, green copic marker

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Anita Anand has been announced as Sam Walker’s replacement co-presenter on the new BBC Radio 5 Live Sunday morning show which starts this week.
Sam was due to host the ‘Double Take’ programme with BBC political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg who recently announced she was leaving the corporation to become Business Editor at ITV News.
Anita has previously presented 5 Live’s late show and also spent three years on Drive with Peter Allen before going on maternity leave last year. She has also been a regular presenter on BBC Two political show The Daily Politics.
We’re told ‘Double Take’, which will air in the 9.30-11am Sunday slot, will have a fresh look at the big stories of the previous week and anticipate the coming week’s stories with big guests and interrogate what lies behind the headlines.
Sam is a regular presenter on BBC Radio Manchester as well as doing the weekday afternoon show on Manchester commercial station Key 103.
Radio 5 Live Controller Adrian Van Klaveren said: “In Sam and Anita I think we have a great blend. Anita is a powerful and authoritative voice in politics and news and I think she will be the ideal complement to Sam who is a really exciting new talent to bring to Radio 5 live.”
Posted on Monday, July 11th, 2011 at 2:12 pm by RadioToday UK

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Recover of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men". Using creative imagery representative of character elements.
Another Iron Giant poster. This one looks better than the last, is still slightly minimal, although the giant has quite a lot of detail surrounding him. Not a fan of the drop shadows on the type.
Absinthe Label & Print - Adam Hill / Velcrosuit - Graphic Design & Illustration
I like how there's that flat colour and also a pattern colour. There's a lot to draw the eye.
Ekaterina Trukhan Illustration | Grab a hat and a scarf for your little one before they go out in the cold!
A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 60: Posters in Social Protests
The Voyage ~ Art by Danny Haas retro illustration vintage print
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In this paper, the performance of the commercially available Bi-2223 tapes are carried out at liquid nitrogen temperature to estimate the basic characteristics of the tapes in order to design and development of superconducting cable for use in railway system applications. The current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of the tapes were studied at 77 K indicated that the critical current (Ic) is around 181-196 A. The pulse current that limited the fault current was estimated in different Ic tapes and these investigations suggested that the copper alloy protective layer was crucial to improve the over current quality. The effect of magnetic field on the critical current (Ic) of copper alloy laminated superconducting tapes show that the critical current strongly decreased with external magnetic field perpendicular to the tape surface. The results demonstrate that selection of tape and its basic characteristic are crucial importance in the design of the HTS cables.
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Removing the Barriers of Homelessness
Randy was about 43, living on the streets, and suffering from severe mental illness. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and was ignored by most people because he was dirty and hard to approach. He would stand outside and sob uncontrollably, screaming and yelling at the voices in his head. He felt lost and hopeless.
Many of us have walked right past someone like Randy on the streets. But Volunteers of America did not give up on him. Randy’s case manager asked him why he was not taking his medications, and Randy replied, “I don’t like to swallow pills.” Once they knew what was holding him back, the staff went to work, patiently helping him learn to take his medication regularly. They found out that Randy loves chocolate milk, so the staff taught him to grind up his pills and take them with his milk. Randy was stabilized within 3 weeks!
With help from people like you and a lot of work from Randy, he began to live a balanced life. Today, he lives in his own apartment, pays rent, and is going to school. He lives as a community asset rather than a liability.
Volunteers of America has found that it is not enough simply to give someone a warm meal. Rather, we work to remove the barriers that led to homelessness in the first place, helping our clients to leave poverty behind for good. By providing individuals with the tools and resources to be self-sufficient, you help us strengthen our community as a whole. Thank you for joining us in our mission.

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We've all seen the videos of thieves shamelessly stealing packages off of people's porches. Now someone is fighting back.
That someone is former NASA-JPL engineer/current science YouTube star Mark Rober and he ain't playing nice. He's spent six months crafting a beautifully over-engineered revenge package that looks like an Apple product. After the thief nabs it, it first gloriously sprays a pound of glitter when opened and then follows up by spurting out fart spray every 30 seconds. Oh yeah, it also has several phone cameras inside recording it, so we get to watch it all go down. He says it might be his "Magnum Opus" and I may have to agree. It's pretty crazy.
"I've officially peaked. This was one of the most arduous builds in a long time just because there were so many single points of failure for the system (means LOTS of testing/tweaking). Thanks for watching and sharing with anyone you know who has had a package stolen."
Now, if you don't have building skills like Mark (and who does?), you can do what I do. I put junk I no longer want in empty boxes, tape it back up and leave it on my porch. (It's not my idea, I saw some meme that's been going around.)
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Since it turned out the glitter bomb bait box was a hoax, I’ve finally accepted that nothing online is real. But this sure does look like a video of a porch pirate getting his ass ran down and beaten, complete with comical running back and forth, all set to the Benny Hill theme tune.
People who steal other people’s packages off porches are the frigging worst. They’ve no idea of what’s in the box they’re swiping: they don’t care what they get, so long as they get something. It’s burgling a house blindfolded. It’s the laziest form of break and enter. It’s one of the lowest forms of causal […]
It’s raining military secrets! Earlier this week, it was revealed that a group of hackers got their meathooks on an operator manual for the United States military’s MQ-9 Reaper UAV. The manual was fair game: a U.S. Air Force captain had it stashed away on his under-protected home network—you know, as one does with sensitive […]
The digital age is well and truly upon us, but let’s not forget there’s a load of free TV content floating literally over our heads. No, we’re not talking about the internet. Signals from major broadcast networks are still gratis for anyone who can pick them up with an antenna. And before you envision those […]
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22 June 2016
Having done little to no research for Helsinki, our Cruise Compass gave a sweetly succinct history to prime us:
In 1550, the king of Sweden had big dreams for newly founded Helsinki. Unfortunately, a series of disastrous fires, plague and war kept the town from growing…. until another series of events changed its path forever. After Russia defeated Sweden and annexed Finland in 1809, Czar Alexander I moved the capital – and the university – from Turku to Helsinki to be closer to St Petersburg. The city flourished, but Russian rule was short-lived. The Finns declared their independence in 1917, endured a devastating Civil War, and emerged with a new Republican government. Helsinki has since been its sparkling capital. Noted for its graceful architecture and elegant gardens; the Senate Square’s neoclassical style has Russian written all over it. Finnish art nouveau also defines much of the cityscape, with the mermaid fountain near the fish market its symbol.
Seeing as everything we’d read about Helsinki spoke of how small and compact it is and since we could see what looked to be a church spire of consequence on the not too distant horizon, we skipped the ship shuttle into town in favour of making the walk part of our own tour.
Right from leaving the docks there were signs of life: pierside restaurants, people on bicycles and pushing prams, a large and lovely park… only problem was that our location didn’t feature on the map we had. It was from the Cruise Compass and we rationalised that either it was because people getting the ship shuttle didn’t need to know or, more cynically, that without the knowledge would be compelled to take the shuttle.
With the spire to guide us, we simply felt that we were getting the full experience; the suburbs that others didn’t get to see. It helped that it was a beautiful sunny day (but not too hot) and that the city is so pretty and green.
It must’ve been a good 3km walk to the city centre, but we did manage to tick off a recommended sight or 2 en route.
We entered Helsinki at Kauppatori Market Square, located at the harbour end of the esplanade. A lively and colourful spot with everything from fruit, flowers, vegetables and freshly caught fish to local handicrafts, the market was a buzz with locals grocery shopping and tourists stroking woollen merchandise and sampling Finnish and Lapland delicacies. Strawberries must be a thing in Helsinki because scores of people were eating them straight out of little baggies or punnets.
Our rudimentary ship map indicated that there was a tourist office just off the square, which made for a logical first stop.
The tourist office is very jacked; lots of maps and brochures, lots of fluent and friendly staff and access to buy tickets to anything that needed.
A quick flip through the “Hel Yeah” book and we’d pegged our first 2 activities.
The first was Suomenlinna, only accessible by water, by a 15 minute ferry journey. The ferry departs from the east side of the market, opposite the presidential Palace. With 6 minutes until the next ferry to Suomenlinna, the lady at the counter chuckled good naturedly at our fluster as we stuffed our research materials in our tog bag and rushed through our thanks and goodbyes.
It was only upon reaching the ferryport – maybe a minute later, on the other side of the market and 100m away at most – that we realised why she was amused. We were possibly the only people in Helsinki rushing. There is no traffic, the people are relaxed and the public transport is superlative.
Suomenlinna is an irregular bastion fortress constructed on uneven terrain and on separate islands. Suomenlinna is also a UNESCO Heritage Site and one of the largest sea fortresses in the world, drawing over 800,000 visitors a year.
The main route across the fortress runs from North to south and takes in all the sights, so we got us a map and that’s what we did.
The brochure shared much of the back story to give context of what we were seeing.
Suomenlinna construction began in the 18th century (1748) when Finland was still part of the Kingdom of Sweden. It served as a Swedish naval base during the Russia Swedish War in 1788 before surrendering to the Russian army in the Finnish War in 1809. When Finland was incorporated as an autonomous part of the Russian Empire the fortress became a Russian base for the next 110 years, until it became a prisoner of war camp in the Finnish Civil War of 1918. In WWII it served as a coastal artillery, anti-aircraft and submarine base.
In 1973 the Finnish garrison vacated the islands and handed it over to the ministry of Education and Culture and today it is home to 800 or so permanent residents. It has the dubious honour of having served its role in the defence of 3 states – Sweden, Russia and Finland – with guns that still face west as a reminder of the period of Russian rule in the 19th century.
The islands are a completely open-air museum with guests free to explore the dark and murky tunnels inside the bastion walls. It can’t have been pleasant manning those bastions. They are far from comfortably and if chilly now on a perfect summer’s day, must’ve been freezing in winter!
Those first bastions lead to the Great Courtyard which has served as the main square since 1760s and now houses the tomb of August Ehrensvard (who must’ve been someone special, but there was no mention of him in the brochure and little more than his name and date – presumably of his death – in Roman numerals on his tomb).
The church on Suomenlinna did feature quite highly both in the materials from the tourist office and the Suomenlinna brochure. It was built to serve as a Russian Orthodox garrison church, but converted to a Lutheran church in the 1920s alongside Finnish independence. Its steeple doubles as a lighthouse for both air and sea traffic but besides that it’s a church among churches in a very church-intensive part of the world (and very plain after all the glitz and glam of the St Petersburg cathedrals!)
More interested in the military stuff (apparently), we beelined for Kustaanmiekka, which offers a view of the original bastion fortress as well as the late 19th century Russian defence line, complete with sand banks and artillery emplacements. Ramparts on Kustaanmiekka were built to house gunpowder during the Crimean War in the 1850s but with their big wooden doors and the grass grown over their rooves (presumably to hide and buffer the gunpowder reserves), they would fit just as well in The Shire.
What was more impressive was the collection of families on the postage stamp sized beach… SWIMMING!
To give perspective, it was a lovely summer’s day *for the Baltic*, meaning early 20 degrees without windchill, and clasping jersey neck together when the icy wind took up, which it frequently did.
The path next led to King’s Gate, built in 1753 as a ceremonial gateway to the fortress. The gate is built on the site where a ship carrying the fortress’s founder, King Adolf Frederik of Sweden, was anchored while he inspected the construction of the fortress. Royalty really did have it lush.
Last stop was at the Vesikko Submarine, the highlight of the tour for Christian. Built in the 1930s and having served in WWII, the Vesikko is literally one of a kind since, according to the Paris Peace Treaty of 1947, Finland was forbidden to have submarines and all except this one were scrapped. It was moved to its present location and opened as a museum in 1973. Fully restored, Vesikko is an opportunity to get a feel for the confined spaces submariners worked in and find out more about the tech of the time. Christian’s report was that it was very small and cramped inside and that he was surprised that it was only manned by (up to) 4 people.
Feeling culturally enriched already, the only pressure left was getting to the 2nd excursion on time. SparaKOFF is a historic tram that has been converted into a pub and offers passengers a unique sightseeing tour on a 40 minute lap of the city. Of course, the next ride was on the hour, which was in 9 minutes time from when the ferry docked… and station was 600m away.
Again the only people rushing in Helsinki, we power-walked around the market, down the main shopping street, alongside another pretty park – a rarity to finding one right in a city centre – past the elegant cafés and the smartly dressed people casually occupying them, past the lilting quartet playing Vivaldi, barely eyeing the impressive architecture, but delighting in finding the corner to turn right at… and then alarm as we realised we didn’t know what we were looking for… until we saw it.
There it was. The red party tram.
On the other side of the red traffic lights.
We thought we’d just missed it.
But this is Helsinki. And the tram driver had seen us. So he waited for us.
What a fun way to see the city! The tram seats about 24 people at tables for 2 or 4 and has a wooden bar built in at the back end. With big bay windows either side and tram tracks that run past just about everything of interest, it’s the perfect way to get a lay of the land. And have a local beer or draught for a well-rounded experience.
From what we’d mentally navigated on the tram, we made Senate Square our first visit on foot. The Square sits on a site that originally held 17th Century buildings; it is considered a masterpiece of city design and neo-classical architecture with its current 19th century tenants. The Government Palace, Cathedral (a behemoth and a beauty, easily the most recognisable building in Helsinki), University buildings and The National Library of Finland surround the Square, with boutiques and restaurants in between.
The one thing we saw from the tram that we didn’t get to on foot was Temppeliaukio Church, which sounds very impressive, carved out of solid rock, with a dome spanning 70 feet, covered on the interior by 15 miles of Finnish copper wire. It is both a popular tourist destination and working church.
In the short time we had for our afternoon in Helsinki the big takeaway is that it’s very pretty. They’ve taken care to keep a lot of green in their city and it gives the whole place an overarching air of relaxation. The buildings are elegant, the people are graceful. It’s easily navigated on foot or, preferably on a sunny day like that one, enjoyed on ass, at a cafe or on the grass of one of the parks.
If we’d have an overnight in Helsinki there are several things we saw at the market that we’d have liked to try for dinner, ranging from fresh seafood delicacies to more meaty Lapland delights.
But we didn’t have an overnight so it was back to the ship for us. As always, the walk back felt so much shorter now that we knew what we were doing and we were back at the port within half an hour, having hatched a plot to pub crawl the ship to ensure that we had explored the whole thing.

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SoilTalks 01 ~ 26 February 2021
60 Harvests Left: True, False or Missing the Point?
The claim that our soils only have a limited number of harvests in them has become the call to arms for the soil health cause – the slogan chosen by campaigners, scientists – even Environment Ministers to distil soil down to a single, simple, memorable and urgent message.
But what is the evidence to support this claim? And is it even the right question? Does it help or hinder our understanding of the state of our soils, and so contribute to unlocking the changes in farming practice needed to guarantee long-term soil health and productivity?
To debate this issue, we assembled three speakers with very different backgrounds and experiences. Each gave short presentations on the topic, which was followed by 30mins of comments, questions and suggestions from the audience.
The event was chaired by Bridget Emmett of uksoils and UKCEH, with Anna Krzywoszynska of the Institute for Sustainable Food at the University of Sheffield, Soil Care Network & uksoils as moderator.
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Dan’s passion for soils research germinated in 2012 when he studied mobile debris lobes in Alaska during a Royal Geographical Society Scholarship. Since then, he has been working on various aspects of soil science; he produced the first globally-relevant estimates of soil lifespans. His research has featured in The Conversation, on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today, and Farmer’s Weekly. He is based at Cranfield University.
In my work, I have sought to integrate several scientific disciplines (Ecology, Biogeography, Agronomy, Archeology and Anthropology) to be able to produce interdisciplinary works, in large scale, and broad social interest. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Graduate Program in Ecology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), with the objective of knowing the cultural dimension present in the forests of South America and planning strategies for the use, management and conservation of native vegetation based on ancient and scientific ecological knowledge.
Simon Cowell won the 2018 Soil farmer of The Year competition organised by Farm Carbon Cutting Toolkit and Innovation for Agriculture. He started getting interested in soil and its biology twenty years ago and has been improving his heavy clay soils by stopping all tillage, making and applying highly biologically active compost and building mycorrhizal fungi populations.
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A lesson in consequences for my garden students: Don't. Forget. The Mulch.
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∞ Summarizing... Since the last post of this project mid-February, my job has been all but done. Kids learned about healthy soil, how it holds water, and how organics work their magic. They also learned about seeds and their amazing power to harness the sun to make food for our energy needs. The only thing … Continue reading School Gardens Update: ‘Summer’izing
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The bell tolls for Afghanistan
In 1623 the English writer John Donne wrote his Meditation #17. From it came these timeless lines, “No man is an island, entire of itself . . . I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to find out for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.”
In those long-gone days, a church bell would ring when a member died. Who was it? Donne suggested that really didn’t matter, because whoever had passed on, you were suffering loss by your connection to whomever it was, and sooner or later it would also toll for you.
Afghanistan has collapsed into chaos. How this will play out in the next few days or weeks is unknowable, and you will read this some days after I have written it. But as of now, the situation is grim indeed. People will die, people will suffer, tens of millions are being thrust back into what looks like a dark age indeed.
What we in the West are accustomed to think of as rights, be they possessed by women or men, will be discarded as so much useless baggage standing in the way of the re-institution of a virulent strain of Islamism. Twenty years ago we put a stop to all of this, but now we have tired of the effort, and good luck to the Afghans. What’s that to us?
It is a bootless exercise to search for people to blame for the chaotic collapse. Easy targets are all around. I suspect that, were Donald Trump still President, matters would have proceeded much more smoothly, but at the end of the day it wouldn’t matter. It was Trump’s decision to finally withdraw from the “endless war” and therein lay the fatal mistake.
Why, it has been asked over and over, are we losing lives and spending treasure, trying to govern an historically ungovernable land? How many times has the mantra been repeated that no power has ever been able to tame this fractious, mountainous, tribal, war-like and generally nasty piece of real estate? Let me ask a parallel question. Why, after decades of spending immense treasure, and thousands of lives, haven't we been able to tame parts of Chicago?
In line with the thinking on Afghanistan, there are calls on the left to defund the police. The absurdity of the position is being seen as the political loser it is, and such calls are fading away into a richly deserved oblivion where far leftist ideas go to die, in the fond hope that not too many people have been killed by such ideas in the meantime.
Back in 2012, when I spent a semester teaching economics and political economy in Lithuania to a hundred or so students mostly from lands once part of the Soviet empire, many of those students expressed dissatisfaction with the U.S. arrogating to itself a role as policemen to the world. In the next breath, however, they were very worried that the U.S. would give up that role since, they knew, in the absence of police, bad things were likely to happen.
I don’t blame them for not liking cops. Most of us have an uneasy relationship with armed and uniformed persons who have a license to kill us, if circumstances require. I don’t know about you, but whenever I am cruising down the highway and a cruiser gets in behind me, my blood pressure rises.
Having said that, I understand thoroughly the necessity of police. It is a cost civilization must pay for civilization, whether in Chicago or Afghanistan. In point of fact more American police have been killed in America than soldiers in Afghanistan over the past year or so. Does the presence of police guarantee that all will be well? The question answers itself. The question to ask is if their absence would make things worse?
The bell is tolling for Afghanistan. In the fullness of time the bell will be tolling for us when another 9/11, or worse, comes chiming in.
Charles Milliken is a Professor Emeritus after 22 years of teaching economics and related subjects at Siena Heights University. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.


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“Shazam!” electrifies with adolescent adventure
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Family entertainment has significantly shifted in the last ten years. Between the ever-increasing proliferation of computer-animated kids’ movies and the seemingly unstoppable rise of superhero films, it feels as though more traditional family-oriented adventures like “E.T.” and “The Sandlot” have fallen by the wayside in mainstream cinema. Who’s still making quality live-action kids’ movies that are actually about kids?
The answer: Darren Lemke and Henry Gayden. These lesser-known screenwriters worked separately on “Goosebumps” and “Earth to Echo,” respectively, and both successfully captured the spirit of Spielbergian children’s adventures that originated in classics like “Stand by Me” and “Gremlins.” Now, they’ve collaborated to write “Shazam!,” which released in theatres this week. Although it’s a superhero movie, “Shazam!” has more in common with 1980s family adventure films than it does with anything Marvel or DC has ever released. The movie definitely feels inspired by “Big” and “The Goonies” in the best possible way.
Directed by horror veteran David F. Sandberg, “Shazam!” is an absolute blast that hinges on some of the best adolescent actors outside of “Stranger Things.” Asher Angel’s Billy Batson and Jack Dylan Grazer’s Freddy Freeman carry the film with standout performances that inject the movie with both giddy humor and emotional resonance. Faithe Herman and Ian Chen also provide excel in charming supporting roles.
Meanwhile, the adults in the cast deliver fun performances. Zachary Levi, best known for his role as the titular bumbling superspy on NBC’s “Chuck,” seems born to play the adult, beefed-up superhero version of Billy Batson—a 14-year-old who transforms into a grown-up caped crusader when he shouts the name of a wizard. Levi perfectly embodies what any young teenager would act like if they suddenly became Superman, and in an ideal world, “Shazam!” would serve as the career launchpad that “Guardians of the Galaxy” was for Chris Pratt. Mark Strong also excellently portrays a surprisingly sympathetic villain.
The film’s greatest asset is its tone. Despite its springtime release, “Shazam!” definitively feels like a Christmas classic, bursting at the seams with sincere warmth that’s often forgotten by many modern family films. The characters are all immensely likeable, and seem to genuinely care about one another. The heart of the film lies in the core cast’s strong familial bond. It’s important to note that this isn’t primarily an action movie––while it features a few decent setpieces, the action and special effects take a backseat to the wonderful humor and rich character relationships.
“Shazam!” is easily one of the funniest superhero movies, and is certain to leave any viewer with a smile. Yet the comedy doesn’t come at the expense of serious character development. Batson’s backstory unfolds tragically, and while his arc isn’t particularly complex, it is incredibly effective. Similarly, the film’s themes, which deal with the responsible way to use power and what it means to belong to a family, are nothing new, but they’re handled very well.
“Shazam!” as a whole is reflective of its titular hero: it’s cheesy and full of imperfections, but maintains endless charm, humor, and heart. It may not be the greatest movie of the year, but it’s certainly in the running for the most fun.


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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers will have Charles Sims as their top option in the backfield for Week 3. Sims will get the nod as the starter, but he is expected to split some of his touches with fellow backup running back Jacquizz Rodgers in the team’s matchup with the Los Angeles Rams this Sunday.
Fantasy Impact: Primarily used as the Bucs’ running back in passing situations, Sims will get the opportunity to show the rest of the league how he can make an impact as a starting running back for the next few weeks.
However, his first career start against the Rams will not be an easy one by any means. Los Angeles comes into Sunday’s game having not allowed an opposing running back to rush for 100 yards or more since Week 9 of last season. Their defense only allowed a total of two players to accomplish that feat through the entirety of 2015.
Sims’ best bet for success in Week 3 may come as a pass catcher out of the backfield rather than a runner. The Los Angeles defense seems to have a harder time with running backs who also have the ability to make plays as a receiver since they allowed eight backs to catch at least five passes during their matchups last year.
For fantasy owners, Sims seems at least seems like a logical flex option as Yahoo! projects the running back to gain 88 total yards on 17 touches against the Rams.

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Unleash Pro-Level Excellence: AHC30921 Certificate III for Modern Landscape Construction
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Our journey begins with the essence of sustainable landscaping, a philosophy that goes beyond aesthetics to nurture nature’s delicate balance. Participants explore the historical evolution of sustainable practices, understanding the significance of eco-friendly design in contemporary landscaping. Real-life examples showcase the transformative impact of sustainable landscaping in preserving biodiversity and enhancing outdoor spaces.
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Environmental conservation becomes the mission of landscape professionals, portrayed as guardians of green spaces. The program emphasizes the metaphorical role of professionals as stewards, responsible for preserving natural habitats and promoting biodiversity. Real-life examples highlight the impact of conservation efforts in mitigating environmental challenges and creating sustainable landscapes.
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Hardscape construction is explored as the art of building foundations in outdoor spaces. Participants engage in metaphorical construction, understanding how elements like pathways, walls, and structures form the backbone of landscape architecture. Real-life examples showcase the transformative impact of well-crafted hardscape elements in creating functional and aesthetically pleasing outdoor environments.
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Softscape elements are likened to an artist’s palette, allowing professionals to paint with nature’s colors. The program explores the selection and arrangement of plants, flowers, and foliage, creating living artworks within landscapes. Analogies draw parallels between softscape design and the strokes of a painter’s brush, emphasizing the creativity involved in curating vibrant and harmonious natural compositions.
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Soil management is portrayed as nurturing the earth’s canvas, ensuring a fertile foundation for vibrant landscapes. Participants explore the metaphor of soil as an artist’s medium, understanding how proper management enhances plant health and contributes to the overall aesthetic appeal. Real-life examples highlight the transformative impact of soil management in creating thriving and sustainable outdoor spaces.
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Plant selection becomes a curator’s task, akin to selecting instruments for a symphony. The program delves into the principles of selecting and arranging plants, considering factors such as color, texture, and seasonal variations. Analogies draw parallels between plant selection and composing a melodic arrangement, emphasizing the role of professionals in creating captivating natural compositions.
9. Irrigation Systems: Watering the Symphony
Irrigation systems are likened to watering a symphony, ensuring that each element of the landscape receives the necessary hydration. Participants explore the metaphor of irrigation as conducting water as a musical conductor guides the flow of music. Real-life examples highlight the efficiency and sustainability of well-designed irrigation systems in maintaining healthy and vibrant landscapes.
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In conclusion, the AHC30921 Certificate III in Landscape Construction encapsulates a transformative odyssey into the realm of pro-level excellence for modern landscape professionals. As we traverse the diverse landscapes of sustainable landscaping, outdoor space design, and the intricate artistry of hardscape and softscape construction, we unveil the secrets of environmental conservation, project management, and the mastery of landscape architecture.
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MANCHESTER (United Kingdom): Ben Stokes took two late wickets to assist drag England again into the primary Take a look at towards Pakistan at Outdated Trafford on Friday. Pakistan, on prime for many of this match, had been 137-Eight of […]
Pakistan, on prime for many of this match, had been 137-Eight of their second innings at stumps on the third day — a lead of 244 runs.
Stokes, who did not bowl within the third Take a look at towards the West Indies at Outdated Trafford final month due to a quad harm, took 2-11 in 20 balls.
He struck with simply his eighth supply of the match when he had Mohammad Rizwan lbw for 27 on umpire’s name.
And the paceman struck once more earlier than stumps when he had tailender Shaheen Afridi caught fending at a brief ball.
However leg-spinner Yasir Shah, who had earlier taken 4 wickets, was nonetheless there at stumps on 12 not out.
Pakistan had been nonetheless comparatively well-placed.
Solely twice have a group chased greater than 200 to win within the fourth innings of a Take a look at at Outdated Trafford, with England making 294-Four towards New Zealand in 2008 and 231-Three towards the West Indies on the Manchester floor in 2004.
England had been additionally attempting to finish a run of dropping the primary Take a look at in every of their final 5 collection, with eight of their previous 10 openers ending in defeat.
There have been, nonetheless, nonetheless two days left within the recreation, albeit on a carrying pitch the place Yasir earlier took 4-66 — together with three for 4 in 27 balls — as England had been dismissed for 219 in reply to Pakistan’s first-innings 326.
However Pakistan’s Shan Masood, who batted almost eight hours for a Take a look at-best 156 within the first innings, was out for a duck when caught behind down the legside off a poor Stuart Broad supply.
In-form paceman Chris Woakes diminished Pakistan to 63-4, having Babar Azam nicely caught within the slips by Stokes earlier than Pakistan captain Azhar Ali, out for a duck within the first innings, was lbw for 18.
Wicketkeeper Rizwan, much more spectacular behind the stumps than England counterpart Jos Buttler, batted nicely in a partnership of 38 with Asad Shafiq, till Shafiq was run out by Dom Sibley’s direct hit.
England resumed Friday on 92-4, which represented an enchancment on their dire place of 12-Three on Thursday.
Ollie Pope was 46 not out and Buttler 15 not out.
Buttler, with only one hundred from his earlier 44 Assessments, was beneath strain to attain runs after expensive errors behind the stumps.
He dropped Masood on 45 after which missed an opportunity to stump him on the identical rating — errors that intensified a debate about whether or not the World Cup winner ought to stay England’s red-ball gloveman.
Pope accomplished a composed 81-ball fifty.
However there was little he might do when, on 62, a Naseem Shah supply climbed off an excellent size to take the shoulder of his bat and went to Shadab Khan at gully.
England suffered a contemporary collapse after lunch, dropping their final 5 wickets for 60 runs in 18.Three overs — a sequence that began when Yasir bowled Buttler between bat and pad for 38.


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The premier was frustrated and impatient, ready to foist a “strong-mayor” system on Toronto.
The mayor felt hamstrung.
The councillors enjoyed their clout.
The media wondered why even the little things weren’t getting done amid all of the partisan bickering.
The public just wanted city services to be delivered efficiently.
No, not Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford, Toronto Mayor John Tory and a council of savvy progressives.
That premier was Liberal Dalton McGuinty, the mayor was New Democrat David Miller, and the councillors were swaggering right-wingers like Rob Ford, Denzil Minnan-Wong and Doug Holyday, who basked in trying to thwart the “left-leaning” agenda.
Lost in the criticism swirling since the Star revealed Tuesday night that Ford plans to impose a “strong-mayor” model — which would give Toronto and Ottawa mayors greater responsibility for budgets and appointments — is that the idea is neither new nor surprising.
“This is an issue that is independent of personalities, political leanings,” McGuinty mused in 2008, two years after his government passed the City of Toronto Act giving the provincial capital more power and autonomy than any other Ontario municipality.
“It’s all about ensuring we have an effective governance model … I don’t think that we’ve got the model in place that allows (Toronto city council) to do that,” he said.
“I’ve said before that I’m in support of a strong-mayor system and my support remains.”
Liberals thundering against Ford’s gambit may have forgotten McGuinty, who won three elections and governed from 2003 until 2013, remains the most successful Grit in Ontario politics since Sir Oliver Mowat left office in 1896.
McGuinty likely would have given Toronto a strong mayor if the global financial meltdown later in 2008 hadn’t moved his focus elsewhere.
In the years since, positions have shifted on both sides of the political spectrum.
Miller, who publicly embraced a “strong-mayor” system in 2008 after a blue-ribbon panel he commissioned gave that recommendation, groused on Twitter that “the province needs to stop interfering with Toronto.”
“All of these actions not only are wrong, but are gutless,” he tweeted Tuesday.
Similarly, Minnan-Wong, who railed against granting Miller more authority in 2008, is singing a different tune now that his ally Tory is mayor.
“Do you want to give this mayor more power? Until he does a better job, I think the answer’s no,” the veteran councillor said 14 years ago.
Fast-forward to Thursday, when Minnan-Wong said at the final council meeting before his retirement that he “strongly supports” the reforms, which essentially codify agenda-setting powers the mayor already has.
“By creating this strong-mayor system, we are telling the people that we are creating an accountable system whereby people can judge the mayor by what he’s actually doing … and allows the mayor to deliver on his agenda,” he said.
Even Tory, who was leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives in 2006, voted against the City of Toronto Act, although the then-opposition leader said he did so because it was “an unfortunate missed opportunity” that failed to create “some of the autonomy the city needs to make some of its own decisions.”
All of which is to suggest that — notwithstanding McGuinty’s counsel to set aside “personalities, political leanings” — some of the criticism and praise now directed at Ford’s move may stem from partisan self-interest as much as altruism or concern for democracy.
Under the existing “weak-mayor” system, a mayor can appoint committee chairs, but only has one vote on council.
That means the chief magistrate need the backing of a majority of councillors to make major changes.
Yet no elected politician in Canada receives as many direct votes as the mayor of Toronto.
In 2018, Tory earned 479,659 votes from Torontonians. By comparison, Ford got 13,934 votes on June 2 in Etobicoke North and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau garnered 22,848 votes in Papineau in last September’s federal election.
The mayor’s total was a staggering 129,244 more votes than the combined tally of the entire 25-member city council, which received 350,415.
Coun. Cynthia Lai (Ward 23-Scarborough North) won with just 5,589 votes while Coun. Ana Bailão (Ward 9-Davenport) led her colleagues with 26,219 votes.
However, on the council floor, Lai, Bailão and their fellow councillors have the same voting power as Tory.
In an extraordinary moment of candour four years ago, the mayor admitted to David Rider, the Star’s city hall bureau chief, how relatively powerless he was.
“I think people right now, they think that I have the authority to do a whole lot of things, and in fact I have authority to do very little,” Tory told Rider.
Certainly, many of the hundreds of thousands of Toronto residents who cast ballots for their mayor might be surprised a councillor receiving as little as 1.2 per cent of that support has the same voting pull in the council chamber.
Ford, for his part, insists he’s not trying to neuter progressive councillors by transforming the mayors of Toronto and Ottawa into autocrats after the Oct. 24 elections. (And if what he dubbed a “trial” is successful, other large cities, like Mississauga, Brampton, and Hamilton would get strong mayors after 2026.)
“We’ll get into the details later but … two-thirds of the council can overrule the mayor,” said the premier, who lost to Tory in the 2014 Toronto mayoral race.
“Any mayor needs to be respectful,” he told reporters Wednesday at Queen’s Park, adding that, ultimately, voters have the last word over any mayor’s authority.
“If they aren’t respectful, they won’t be in office in four years.”


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through Jackson Creek, where we stopped for a coffee and bought a sandwich for lunch.
on the way to Caples Lake, a beautiful place,
where in 1849 Dr. James Caples passed through on his way to California's Gold Country. After a brief stay in old Hangtown (Placerville) Caples remembered the lake and returned here with his family to establish a way station, that served weary travellers for thirty years. The lake, known variously as Summit Lake, Clear Lake and Twin Lakes, is two miles long and has a surface area of 600 acres. We stopped for a photo opportunity
and at Lake Tahoe.
We just had time to settle into our hotel, shower and change before we were heading down to the lake
M.S. Dixie II, the largest cruising vessel in South Lake Tahoe, for a Sunset Dinner Dance Cruise to Emerald Bay.
MWM even went up on the bridge
where the Captain let him take the wheel.
After that little adventure we retired to the bar where we joined some of our fellow travellers


An Odd Entrances by Thee Oh Sees
An Odd Entrances by Thee Oh Sees. Released in 2016 by Castle Face Records.
The prolific Thee Oh Sees newest album have created a partner record to their amazing A Weird Exits. Their punchiest one yet because of their double drummer set-up, this album also features some great laid back instrumental tracks.
One of our best albums of 2016, buy the record in store or online now.
- You Will Find It Here
- The Poem
- Jammed Exit
- At The End, On The Stairs
- Unwrap The Fiend, Pt.1
- Nervous Tech (Nah John)


Three years after his “It Is What It Is” EP, UK producer INTALEKT is back with another project. While the last release was flavored with vocals by the likes of Kojey Radical, Jay Prince and Ella Frank, the new one is an instrumental only EP. “The Adventures Of Masta Splinta” contains ten smooth and jazzy hip hop beats that will perfectly fit in your chill playlist. Trust me!
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What is Community Planning?
Community planning is a way of working which means public bodies work together with communities to plan and provide better public services. Together these public bodies form a community planning partnership (CPP), in Aberdeen the CPP is called Community Planning Aberdeen. The partners involved in Community Planning Aberdeen are:
• Aberdeen City Council
• Aberdeen Civic Forum
• Aberdeen City Health and Social Care Partnership
• Active Aberdeen Partnership
• NHS Grampian
• North East Scotland College
• Police Scotland
• Skills Development Scotland
• Scottish Enterprise
• The Scottish Government
• Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
• Our communities
The Community Empowerment Act (Scotland) 2015 requires that CPPs prepare and publish a Local Outcome Improvement Plan (LOIP). Community Planning Aberdeen published the LOIP for Aberdeen city in August 2016.
Find out more on the Community Planning Aberdeen website:
You can read more about community planning at the Scottish Government website.
Community Planning - Online Simulator Results
The Community Planning Aberdeen online simulator asked citizens to express what is important and of value to them and for their community. The simulator closed on 31 March 2021 which 2642 responses were received.
The summary report provides the main findings and key themes raised, as well as the next steps. This report, along with the full detailed report and simulator results dashboard can be accessed at our Community Planning Aberdeen LOIP refresh page. All are being used to support the development of the refreshed Local Outcome Improvement Plan and Locality Plans which are to be considered in July 2021.
Participation Requests - Community Empowerment
The Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 introduces Participation Requests aiming to extend and improve community participation in improving outcomes for communities. The legislation enables communities to request to participate in decisions and processes which are aimed at improving outcomes. The Act states that a community participation body may make a request to a public service authority to permit the body to participate in an outcome improvement process.
The basic Participation Request Process is as follows:
- A community participation body puts forward a participation request to a public service authority asking them to take part in a process with a view to improving the outcome set out by the community body.
- The public service authority must agree to the request and set up an outcome improvement process unless there are reasonable grounds for refusal. If it refuses the request, it must explain the reasons.
- How the outcome improvement process will work and how long it should take is discussed between the community participation body and the public service authority.
- At the end of the process the public service authority must publish a report on summarising the process, whether the outcomes were improved and how the community body contributed to that improvement.
More information about Participation Requests is available through the following links:
To make an informal enquiry or send a completed form please email email@example.com or by post to:
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A man has been arrested for suspected involvement in a case of robbery with hurt.
A 28-year-old woman had her necklace and pendant - valued at $400 - snatched by a man who pushed her to the ground.
This took place in Geylang Bahru at about 9.10am on Tuesday.
The man had earlier asked her for money, but she had ignored him.
Two passers-by who witnessed the incident helped look out for the suspect.
Responding officers spotted a man who matched the suspect's description in the vicinity and detained him.
The woman's belongings were found on him.
The 29-year-old will be charged today for robbery with hurt.
If found guilty, he faces up to 20 years in jail and at least 12 strokes of the cane.
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(photo credit: en.wikipedia.org) Samson, the mythical Israeli, who was born with the strength to rip apart a lion with his bare hands, loses it all, when Delilah, an unreliable female “partner”, in whom he confides that the source of his strength lay in his long hair, cuts them off, in exchange for “blood money” from […]
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(photocredit: unrealtimes.com) In inimitable style, Prime Minister Modi freed the nation from the “stifling” control of the Planning Commission (PC) on August 15-India’s Independence Day. Not many are likely to mourn its passing. But bureaucracies dislike a power vacuum and it is not clear who inherits the mantle of work the Commission used to do. […]
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FreeRADIUS is the premiere open source RADIUS server. While detailed statistics are not available, we believe that FreeRADIUS is well within the top 5 RADIUS servers world-wide, in terms of the number of people who use it daily for authentication.
FreeRADIUS project scales from embedded systems with small amounts of memory, to systems with millions of users. It is fast, flexible, configurable, and supports more authentication protocols than many commercial servers.
The FreeRADIUS Server Project encompasses more than just a RADIUS server. The related software includes a PAM authentication module, and an Apache 1.3 and 2.0 authentication module. The server comes with a PHP-based web user administration tool, called dialupadmin.
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In it simplest form, the server is similar to Livingston's 2.0 server. Many configuration files are similar, and the general operation of the server should be familiar to anyone who has used a variant of the Livingston server.
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To support the demanding requirements of a modern RADIUS server, FreeRADIUS features more than 50 vendor-specific dictionary files. It ships with support for LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle databases. It supports EAP, with EAP-MD5, EAP-SIM, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP, and Cisco LEAP sub-types.
It supports proxying, with fail-over and load balancing. It has reached a stable 1.0 release, with incremental improvements being added and tested daily. In short, it is a powerful, fast, and complex RADIUS server which is compatible with the latest network protocols and practices, and is well suited for deployment in any size network.
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With the much anticipated princess revelation’ of ‘Cristine Reyes‘s character in Esperanza, IBC-13’s first phenomenal teleserye turns Season 2 premieres at the new year 2013 continues to reign.
Based on the data of Kantar Media last Monday (December 1), Esperanza marks on its Season 2 premiere once again made it on the top spot of the most watched TV shows in the country with its 37.4% national TV ratings, or almost 25 points ahead versus its rival show in ABS-CBN's Ina, Kapatid, Anak got 16.9% and GMA's Pahiram Ng Sandali which only got 14.4%. Now that Doña Consuelo (Jean Garcia) is sure that Anton (Cesar Montano) was the man who found Esperanza, will she finally reveal the truth to Raphael Salgado’s (Jake Cuenca) wicked plans against Esperanza (Cristine Reyes)?
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“We’re trying to do something different with this and I need a place where I can breathe and do that,” Ava DuVernay said of the family drama Queen Sugar, and why OWN was the best place for the series toplined by Dawn-Lyen Gardner, Kofi Siriboe and Rutina Wesley. “We need a place where we can have black people in the South, where the matriarch of the family is a waitress and one of the three major characters is a formerly incarcerated man,” the Oscar-nominated director added.
DuVernay was speaking about the all-female-directed series executive produced by Oprah Winfrey at Deadline’s The Contenders Emmys event last month at the DGA Theatre. The A Wrinkle In Time helmer was joined onstage by Gardner, Siriboe and Wesley.
Based on Natalie Baszile’s 2014 novel, the September 6, 2016-debuting Queen Sugar focuses on a trio of estranged siblings that attempt to deal with death and the ties that bind. In that context, the show, which returns for its second season next month, also deals among other things with issues of class, the politics of geography, the criminal justice system, race, sex and police violence.
For the three leads, finding the relationships to cover that canvas came quickly, says True Blood alum Wesley. “It was really important, I think, that when Ava cast that she cast for a spirit,” she said.
“We’re like kindred spirits, I feel like, just naturally, so it is really easy for us to connect immediately,” she added to approval from Gardner and Siriboe. “We can really get raw with each other and hug it out at the end of the day and you can’t always do that.”
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City Nomads exhibition programme
23 June - 23 September 2016 / London / UK
City Nomads is an exhibition of contemporary Kazakhstani creative talents emerging in an era of a newfound independence. The projects brought together in this showcase all embody a shared desire to search for a new identity through an investigation of the pre-Soviet Kazakh nomadic roots.
City Nomads was first exhibited at the British Council headquarters in London in 2016.
Nomads are driven by destination and through constant movement they gain their wisdom. The contemporary nomads travel the globe and gather experience; learning about the world.
The Green Bazaar sits at the heart of Almaty, its formation stems from the place where traders met the caravans of the Silk Road.
Kazakhstan is home to people of many ethnicities and has been for centuries, from the ancient Scyths and Saks, to the Huns and Mongols.
Flexibility is the characteristic that defines the nomads and in modern Kazakhstani society this phenomenon still exists.
The steppe is a vast area of grassland and savannah stretching over 2200 km across Kazakhstan. It is perhaps the most significant feature in Kazakh nomadic culture.
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The Gogglebox cast has been keeping viewers entertained on social media over recent weeks, but throwback photos and sweet Instagram posts are no replacement for the show itself. Fortunately, then, we don't have long to wait until Gogglebox is officially back.
The programme confirmed the start date of series 17 in its Twitter bio, revealing that Gogglebox will be back in its 9pm Friday night slot from February 26. Yay!
The news of Gogglebox's return comes after the show was forced to deny allegations made by previous employees about the allegedly "toxic" work culture behind the scenes.
Production company Studio Lambert insisted that it takes "the welfare of its teams extremely serious across all productions" in response to the claims.
"[We have] a number of measures in place to encourage people to come forward with any concerns they may have, as well as support systems for a range of issues," it said in a statement.
Meanwhile, in slightly more upbeat Gogglebox news, Sophie Sandiford recently shared an adorable black-and-white selfie of her, her brother Pete and his girlfriend Paige with followers.
Clearly impatient for the gang to get back together, Sophie reassured fans that the Instagram pic was "old". "My best friends forever," she added.
Gogglebox airs on Channel 4.
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David Cameron insisted aid spending made him "proud to be British" today as he urged more investment to tackle global hunger.
Hosting a conference intended to drum up money for the developing world, the Prime Minister backed a target of saving 20 million children from chronic malnutrition by 2020.
Bill Gates and Danny Boyle are set to address the protest rally to coincide with the London meeting, which preceeds the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.
The demonstration, hosted by lobby group Enough Food For Everyone If, is expected to attract thousands to Hyde Park.
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(CNN)Former FBI Director James Comey wrote in a memo that President Donald Trump asked to end to the investigation of national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Comey was so appalled by the request that he wanted to document it, the source said. Comey shared it with FBI senior officials, according to the source.
“I hope you can let this go,” Comey wrote, quoting the President. CNN has not viewed the memo but the source described it to CNN.
The memo is the clearest sign yet of potential interference by Trump with the investigation into whether members of his campaign team colluded with Russian officials.
Writing the memo was “not out of character,” especially if he was concerned about the legality or moral issues, according to a former Justice Department official.
The New York Times first reported news of the memo.
Multiple White House officials refuted the claim on Tuesday, including one who said a “conversation of that nature” did not happen.


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New York State created the Statewide Health Information Network for New York (SHIN-NY) to allow the electronic exchange of clinical information and connect healthcare professionals statewide.
The SHIN-NY enables collaboration and coordination of care to improve patient outcomes, reduce unnecessary and avoidable tests and procedures, and lower costs.
The SHIN-NY is overseen by the New York State Department of Health and governed by privacy and security policies and standards. Patient information in the SHIN-NY is protected under HIPAA, other applicable federal and state laws, and national data exchange standards, making data safe and secure.
Health records are NOT publicly accessible. Only a patient decides who can see their records. As a patient, you must give consent to your doctor to access your records. You may opt-out at any time.
The SHIN-NY is the Statewide Health Information Network for New York. In partnership with the New York State Department of Health, NYeC developed and manages the technology platform that connects the Qualified Entities (QEs) and enables the sharing of data statewide, ensuring that the SHIN-NY provides access to a patient’s electronic medical records wherever and whenever they need it.
A "Network of Networks"
The SHIN-NY connects regional networks, or Qualified Entities (QEs), which allow participating healthcare professionals, with patient consent, to quickly access electronic health information and securely exchange data statewide.
Each regional network enrolls participants within their community, including those from hospitals, clinics, FQHCs, home care agencies, payers, and ambulatory practices, among others, so they can access and exchange electronic health information with participants in their region.
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The SHIN-NY is integral to the success of state and federal initiatives propelling healthcare toward a fully integrated, patient-centered system.
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Use of the SHIN-NY to access patient information is associated with:
- 50% reduction in the rate of hospital admissions
- 26% reduction in the rate of Emergency Department admissions
- 35% reduction in the rate of repeat imaging procedures
The Future of the Network
The SHIN-NY 2020 Roadmap was developed by NYeC with input and feedback from QEs and stakeholders across the State. The strategies outlined in the roadmap and new tools such as performance-based contracting will further strengthen the network’s ability to support high-quality, value-based care and, ultimately, dramatically transform the healthcare system into one where HIE is universally used as a tool to make lives better.


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