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How would it be to find out one day that you donâ€™t entirely belong to this world and your parents have kept your true origin secret to protect you? Eurich was living a normal life until he started having strange visions about a parallel world and a future disaster that would lead to the destruction of both Earth and the hidden universe of Samsera. If these two worlds collide, no one knows what will be left of them, so what Eurich has to do is find a way to reinforce the barrier between them. But why him? He is no hero. Or is he?Â
As much as he wanted to be an average boy, Eurich is half dragon (dragoon, as these noble, powerful creatures are called in Samsera) and he has a mission: to stop the imminent collision between the two worlds. Unnatural phenomena start happening and no one knows why, or what should be done. Extra moons are rising in the sky and panic spreads among people. Eurich has to make a hard decision and make it fast: is humanity worth sacrificing his own life? His best friends, Jason and Raine, are right beside him, supporting him and offering their help. But this is not enough. Eurich has to learn how to use his newly discovered magical abilities and become the hero he was meant to be.Â Â
â€œManaâ€ is a fascinating story about loyalty, jealousy, friendship and self-discovery that will appeal to both teenagers and adults.Â
Asher Tensei has managed to create a unique universe where everything is opposite from what we see on Earth. The world building in this novel is absolutely brilliant and the amazing descriptions and details make the action unfold before your eyes like a fast-paced movie. The world of Samsera is full of incredible creatures and magic abilities. The characters are complex and well-developed, each having their own mysterious past, which makes this novel even more addictive. Readers will find themselves deeply engrossed in the story, turning the pages as fast as possible to find out what happens next, but also to learn more about the charactersâ€™ backgrounds. Thereâ€™s no doubt that â€œManaâ€ is the perfect addition to a fantasy loverâ€™s bookshelf.Â Â Â
To read more about â€œManaâ€ and the next book in the series, visit the authorâ€™s website: http://ashertensei.blogspot.com/.
Find it on Amazon: http://amzn.to/WoPa5p.

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Trai Byers, Ray Fisher, April Matthis and Michael Potts have joined the cast of the highly-anticipated revival of August Wilson’s seminal, Pulitzer Prize®-winning drama The Piano Lesson, the first Broadway revival in more than 30 years since the play’s Main Stem premiere in 1990.
Wilson is known for writing revered plays such as Fences, Jitney and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
The production of The Piano Lesson will be directed by Tony Award nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who is making her Broadway directorial debut and will be the first woman to ever direct an August Wilson play on Broadway.
Starring Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks and John David Washington, The Piano Lesson is set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1936 and revolves around brother and sister who are locked in a war over the fate of a family heirloom: a piano carved with the faces of their ancestors. Only by revisiting history can the siblings endeavor to move forward.
The Piano Lesson, wrote Frank Rich in The New York Times, “has its own spacious poetry, its own sharp angle on a nation’s history, its own metaphorical idea of drama and its own palpable ghosts that roar right through the upstairs window of the household where the action unfolds.
The play will feature Byers as Avery, Fisher as Lymon, Matthis as Grace, and Potts as Wining Boy, Jackson as Doaker Charles, Brooks as Berniece, and Washington as Boy Willie.
Produced by Brian Anthony Moreland, Sonia Friedman and Tom Kirdahy, The Piano Lesson will begin performances on September 19 at the St. James Theatre.


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Mini-Hotel Glove House is located in Kremenchuk. Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and luggage storage. Guests may use a roundtrip airport shuttle for a surcharge, and free self parking is available onsite.
Cons: Pure breakfast
Pros: Had very nice and comfortable stay at the hotel. Lovely owners and attentive staff. Would stay there again. Thank you everyone .
Pros: Very calm and relaxive atmosphere
Cons: Did not find
Pros: Quiet atmosphere
Pros: Beautiful design, very relative atmosphere
Cons: Couldn’t find
Pros: Apartment was spotless. Overall a beautiful apartment other than the cramped bathroom. Small but suffice for a short visit. Location is a little off the beaten track but for walking it is at the center of Kremenchug's highlights. I walked to the river and strolled to take photos of the bridge from the promenade. Then I headed back in the opposite direction to visit Peace Park. In one afternoon. Will use Glove House again. Great value for money.
Cons: Bath was half the size of western baths. A bit of a shock. Would be better with a shower. Very small sink for washing in. A shower would make this moan irrelevant. Staff were very polite if you came across them. Usually busy some where but not at the desk.
Pros: Nice rooms, helpful staff
Pros: The personal.. did what they could to be of service.. but only to a degree
Cons: Breakfast was served frozen... wasnt allowed to choose any just.. what they told ypu ypu could eat. Mold in shower... and just not comfortable at al. To european standard... pleas stay somewhere else
Pros: It's that kind of little hotel where you are treated like family members ... You can agreed about special breakfast variants, about the checkout time, etc ... Very comfortable & gives a nice feeling ...
Cons: Let's say ... the parking place is maybe not the safest you can imagine, but if you don't leave any obviously expensive things inside, you won't have any problems ...
Located in the city centre of Kremenchuk, next to Pridneprovskiy Park, Hotel Helicopter features air-conditioned rooms, free Wi-Fi and a free car park. The Bank of the Dnepr River is 200 metres away. The classic-style rooms feature a fridge and flat-screen TV with satellite channels. The private bathroom is equipped with a shower, hairdryer and free toiletries. Hotel cooperates with restaurant Maestro where guests can enjoy a meal. Several dining options are a short walk away. Helicopter Hotel is 2 km from Kremenchuk Train Station and 18 km from Kremenchuk Airport. Kremenchuk Bus Station is a 5-minute drive away.
Pros: Location, cleanliness.
Cons: Air conditioning could be more responsive. Glad it wasn't too hot during my stay. Perhaps it was just my room.
Pros: Fantastic staff that wotrked hard tp fullfill all of your requests! The room cleaners were great - everything kept clean but very cosy and homely! The location was brilliànt ' situated close to the city centre and the wonderful park
Cons: Anti slip in the showers and on the bathroom floor0
Pros: Great staff nice rooms
Pros: Staff was helpful and friendly.
Pros: The rooms are nice, clean, up to date but in an older stlye, comfortable and nice to stay in. Central location, amazing staff, and warm feeling keep me coming back. Four of 6 stays in Kremenchuk at the Helicopter.
Pros: I loved the location. Employees.
Pros: I can not begin to overstate the pleasant nature of the staff, and their desire to make one feel comfortable with the stay. The staff is very pleasant, willing to talk if that is your desire, provide tea or coffee, and provide information, make recommendations, and help their very best to make the stay as nice as possible. I took excessive advantage of their laundry service, knowing that it was available. That poor lady was so shocked at how much I had (I had been traveling for a week prior to coming to Kremenchug). But, with an appropriate tip, Everything was done, and incredibly quickly. I was very happy, and will plan to stay there again on following trips.
Cons: As many mention, the breakfast could be better. But, it is outsourced rather than provided by the hotel itself. So, given that as a consideration, I was not terribly upset. If it were so bad, there are many cafe's not too far away with great food and service. It is a little pricey considering the city. But, still a nice place to stay.
Pros: Didn’t spend a lot of time in the room, but it was good. It is cheap and safe.
Located just 160 metres from the Kremenchuk Reservoir embankment in Svitlovodsk town, this hotel features free coffee 2 times a day and free Wi-Fi. There is also free private parking. Every room at Paradise Hotel is individually decorated and includes a minibar. A hairdryer is provided in the bathrooms. Complimentary tea or coffee is served in the mornings or evenings, and some dining options are available within a 5-minute walk of the property. Buses to Kremenchuk city run from a bus stop, 100 metres from Paradise Hotel, and Kremenchuk Train Station is 22 km away.
Pros: Clean, good and fancy :) I like this place
Pros: The receptionist was awesome and very respectful. They were very helpful too
Situated in Vlasovka, GRK "Master" offers 4-star accommodation with a bar. Among the facilities of this property are a restaurant, a 24-hour front desk and a shared lounge, along with free WiFi. Private parking can be arranged at an extra charge. Guest rooms in the hotel are fitted with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. All rooms at GRK "Master" have air conditioning and a wardrobe. The accommodation offers a children's playground. Kremenchuk is 14 km from GRK "Master".
Pros: Good Work. The location is exclusive and excellent. Beautifully designed. Staff is very very courteaous. Keep it up
The Kremin hotel is located in Kremenchug, less than 600 metres from the Dnieper River. It has an on-site billiard club, and offers accommodations with satellite TV and panoramic views. Rooms and suites at the Kremin are heated and have private bathrooms. They come equipped with a small refrigerator. Some rooms have balconies that overlook the courtyard or city. In the elegant hotel restaurant, guests can relax on the terrace and enjoy regional and international cuisine made from local products. Hotel Kremin also boasts a nightclub and a tour desk. Further services offered by the Kremin Hotel include a 24-hour front desk service and luggage storage.
Pros: Centrally located hotel, very cheap, I had a Deluxe Junior Suite which is comfortable enough, bedroom and working room separately, a large wardrobe (almost a room)
Cons: Actually this is a renovated Soviet/PostSoviet hotel, too many personnel offices at ground level, lacks some elements, e.g. kettle, no elevator, breakfast is a fixed menu (though 3 options)
Pros: Excellent location. Very friendly staff. Spacious room with separate living room area and foyer. Very nice to have a full service restaurant in the same building as the hotel.
Cons: This building is slightly older, but what does one expect?
Pros: Loved the city so stayed extra night.
Pros: A convenient pleasant location and had great wif fi and was clean and had helpful staff
Cons: No lift and a lot of stairs to carry your own lugguage up. Breakfast starts too late and has inflexible look, never stayed as taxi arrived, probably a good thing.
Pros: Wonderful location and the wonderful friendly staff
Cons: Amazing staff , very helpful and professional. Especially all the reception staff
Okolytsia is located in Svitlovodsʼk. Featuring room service, this property also provides guests with a restaurant. The air-conditioned rooms provide a city view and come with a wardrobe and free WiFi. At the inn, each room includes a desk, a flat-screen TV and a private bathroom. All units will provide guests with a fridge. A continental breakfast is available daily at Okolytsia. Kremenchuk is 30 km from the accommodation.
Pros: Everything the staff were excellent and the room extremely good
Pros: Hotel and restaurant was great for this little town. Room was nice, clean, bed is good. WiFi worked perfectly. Breakfast can be ordered in the evening in the restaurant, also dinner and lunch was tasty. Staff is friendly. Location is far away from the city center, but still all stores and services are nearby.
Pros: Everything was really great: quiet and clean room, fast Internet and the breakfest!
Cons: Hotel's parking lot is LIMITED in reality
Pros: I loved the location as I walk a lot and everything was very easy to get to from this area. The breakfast pancakes were great and the staff ,(Ilona & Anna), were very friendly.
Pros: Very polite and friendly staff. Great breakfast ! Canadian-style from 80's. Good WiFi. Good bed. Quiet room.
Cons: Curtains couldn't be closed all the way. A bit smelly bathroom. Local analog tv-stations. Vault wasn't attached to anything.
Pros: The staff is helpful and polite. Especially, the man at the reception was very kind and always polite.
Pros: Good business style hotel in the center of the city. Private parking (free of charge), free wi-fi (high speed, it was important for me for the work), helpful staff. Clean room with the bathroom, mini-bar, comfortable and large enough. I also liked breakfast, which was much better than in many other hotels in Ukraine.
Cons: I reserved a room with aircon with my dog. I was taken to a room without Air con without being told. This required a complaint and was because of the dog despite my messages prior to arrival saying exactly what I needed and receiving confirmation. This led to unnecessary stress. I paid more and got air con but why make an issue? For goodness sake give people what they order, pay for and expect without the hassle.
Pros: Close to the the drop off point for busses out of town.. 3 minutes walk away from the bus station... Nice hotel nice rooms... Staff really nice with their broken English... I was well looked after and they were so helpful in the morning they told me where to get the bus for my next destination... Hotel needs to get an English menu... When you walk around the corner you are in the centre
Cons: A simple place breakfast needs improvement if you are a foreigner I could not eat it.. Had to eat eggs... If you don't get there early they don't replenish what's eaten
Pros: A decent breakfast, a small but comfy and quiet room with all the necessary amenities, friendly and welcoming hotel personnel, especially, the front desk ladies
Cons: Somehow I found the restaurant personnel behaviour quite "frivolous" at a certain point, mostly in a good way though^^
Evropeyskiy features a fitness centre, terrace, a bar and on-site dining in Kremenchuk. The 4-star hotel has air-conditioned rooms with a private bathroom and free WiFi. Guests can enjoy city views. At the hotel, each room is equipped with a desk. The units feature a wardrobe. Evropeyskiy offers a children's playground. Languages spoken at the 24-hour front desk include German, English, French and Russian.
Pros: Located not too far from the city center. Room was always perfectly clean upon returning to the hotel each evening.
Cons: Compared to 4 star Hotels in Lviv and Kiev, this one could definitely need some modernization, the interior in general and the room were outdated. The minibar was only stocked with mineral water, which to me is also very limited for a 4 star hotel.
Pros: We stay there for 2 week and it was a very nice stay. Everything is in best condition. The stuff beginning at reception, followed by housekeeping and not to forget the restaurant is very friendly and do their best especially in our case. We speak no russian and hotel almost no english. But talking with hand and feet and time we always get understood :-). This place is not at the center but therefore it is very quiet at night. Supermarced and other shops are nearby. Restaurant has very nice meals. I enjoyed my stay very much.
Cons: Only thing I would like is if more stuff speak english. But I would not really complain about it because, as I say, we found other ways to communicate.
Hotel Tropicana has a restaurant, bar, a shared lounge and garden in Svitlovodsʼk. The accommodation features a 24-hour front desk and room service for guests. Continental and à la carte breakfast options are available each morning at the hotel. Guests at Hotel Tropicana will be able to enjoy activities in and around Svitlovodsʼk, like hiking, skiing and fishing. Kremenchuk is 31 km from the accommodation.
Pros: The lady in the reception was super nice. Really comfortable room, and low price, totally recommended
Pros: Bed was comfortable.
Cons: Cold shower.
Pros: The staff is friendly and helpful, and the rooms are clean. All in all a good hotel.
Cons: The hotel is right next to the railroad tracks, so it might be a God idea to ask for a room facing the other direction. For those concerned with such matters, the TV channel selection is not tailored for English speakers (Arabic speakers will find a smorgasbord, however!).
Pros: Middle of nowhere on a filthy road.
Cons: A’s above
Cons: No lockers for personal belongings in the rooms
Sanatoriy Ivushka features a restaurant, fitness centre, a bar and garden in Omelʼnik. Featuring free shuttle service, this property also provides guests with a children's playground. The sanatorium has an indoor pool, a 24-hour front desk and free WiFi throughout the property. The units in the sanatorium are equipped with a flat-screen TV with satellite channels. Guest rooms at Sanatoriy Ivushka include air conditioning and a wardrobe. Spa and wellness facilities including a spa centre, a sauna and a hot tub, as well as the possibility to arrange massage treatments, are at guests' disposal during their stay at the accommodation. You can play billiards, table tennis and tennis at Sanatoriy Ivushka, and the area is popular for hiking and fishing. Kremenchuk is 28 km from the sanatorium.
Pid Strihoyu is offering accommodation in Kremenchuk. The accommodation offers a 24-hour front desk, airport transfers, room service and free WiFi throughout the property. The units in the hostel are equipped with a kettle. At Pid Strihoyu every room includes a TV with satellite channels. The accommodation offers a continental or à la carte breakfast. The area is popular for cycling, and bike hire is available at Pid Strihoyu.
Cons: It's a normal hostel to sleep
Pros: very clean and silence
Cons: it is hard to find it . near main road
Pros: What I liked the most was the absence of other people. I am not a maniac or something, but being alone was nice, as nice as it can be when you stay in a room for 8 people and grab it all for yourself.
Cons: Location was a bit on bad side cause I had to make my way at 11 PM through the industrial area with plenty of dogs that(as I understood when I was on me way back) were not chained and were more than 10 in a pack =)) So I was just lucky to make it through I guess.
Cons: Location very bad, their location not in the booking, they didn't helpful
Featuring free Wi-Fi throughout, Hotel Uyut is located a 5-minute walk from Mira Park, in Kremenchuk. It offers accommodation with a classic décor. Kievskaya Street with shops and cafes is 300 metres away. All rooms come with a TV, microwave, fridge and kitchenware. Apartments also feature an equipped kitchen with a stove. The property has laundry facilities. A hairdryer and ironing facilities can be provided upon request. Room service is available. Kremenchuk Train Station is 2.5 km from Uyut Hotel. Poltava Airport is 110 km away.
Located in the centre of Kremenchug, Pantagruel offers comfortable rooms with free Wi-Fi. It features a sauna and garden with terrace. Free private parking is available. The elegant rooms are air conditioned and decorated in warm tones. They feature satellite TV. Bathroom facilities are private except for economy rooms. The restaurant at Pantagruel serves dishes of local and Italian cuisine. The hotel also offers billiards and conference hall. Kremenchug Train Station is 2.5 km away, while Boryspil Airport is 263 km away.
Pros: Room was clean, large and the bed was comfy.
Cons: 1.Worst breakfast ever. At check-in, we had to select, from a very short list, what we wanted for breakfast; we picked omlette with chicken and mushrooms, bread, orange and coffee. What we got was a kind of thin tasteless pancake with some undetectable filling, few slices of orange, a bit of bread and a coffee. Never had a worse breakfast in my life! 2. The receptionist didn't speak any English at all. Luckily we have been assisted by some local friends, otherwise we could not communicate at all. 3. No bed lamp, no socket. I had to charge my phone in the bathroom. 4. TV with Ukrainean channels only. No foreign channel, whatsoever.
Pros: Value for money, spacious.
Cons: No kettle/fridge (mini), insufficient shower gel
Cons: everything except price and especially no electricity in bathroom
Pros: Friendly people, great location, I was very happy there.......
Pros: İn room only smell full from dıwn kitchen hotel.ı can not stay in room only was smell from down kitchen.
Pros: Adequate hotel by small city Ukrainian standards. Below standard for the West, but for the price, I was not unhappy. What should I expect? Olga is a very sweet receptionist.
Cons: Poor internet in rooms, Poor service in the restaurant. Lost power last night. Cold rooms. I will go elsewhere on my next visit.
Pros: Extremely pleasant and helpful staff. Clean & comfortable rooms. Convenient location - calm & quiet, while you are 10 mins walk away from city center. Nice home-style breakfast. Anti-mosquito device which helped a lot, since we do not use air-conditioning, but sleep with open windows. Decent quality bed linen and bathrobe, which is rare in Ukraine We love small hotels with smaller but cozy rooms - so this hotel delivered what we expected.

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Ok – let’s talk Heller. The question in Heller was not “individual” versus “collective” right, but whether the individual right must relate in some way to militia service. The Court said no, in a 5-4 party-line vote. I’m not crazy about the result, but I don’t care that much about guns. The reasoning, however, is far more troubling. Scalia’s opinion is blatant results-oriented analysis dressed up as rigid historical analysis. The idea that this result is compelled by the history is, frankly, absurd.
There are a million things about Heller on the Internets, so I’m limiting myself to this one point – the Heller opinion is an indictment of originalism. In particular, it shows the gaping weaknesses of a methodology that says our constitutional rights should turn on the ability of non-historian judges and law clerks to sift through cherry-picked snippets of early American history. Stuart kings should be less relevant than the realities of 21st century urban violence on this particular issue.
To begin, let me emphasize that history shouldn’t be irrelevant to constitutional analysis. It can be a valuable tool when the historical record is fairly clear. For instance, let’s say Congress decided to put images of our troops on quarters (25 cent pieces), and someone sued saying the Constitution prohibits “quartering” of troops. History there clearly illustrates that the text doesn’t refer to coins. Similarly, the “domestic tranquility” clause isn’t a basis for a federal domestic abuse statute. So yes, history can be relevant and even dispositive.
But the value of history to constitutional interpretation largely vanishes when the historical record isn’t clear – e.g., when it plausibly supports both interpretations. At this point, courts lack the institutional competence to decide which side’s cherry-picked history citations are more accurate. Judges aren’t historians. They haven’t been trained that way. They have no idea whether the subset of materials being presented is representative and sufficient and so on. Thus, when it’s close, courts need to move on to other interpretative methods.
In Heller, the opinion itself illustrates how unclear the record is. Both sides present historical examples that, taken alone, support their point well. But the evidence doesn’t compel a conclusion either way – particularly from institutionally incompetent judges. It can retroactively justify the decision, but it’s not determining the outcome.
Even if you’re not persuaded by Stevens’ dissent, he at least notes several powerful challenges to Scalia’s historical analysis. Just off the top of my head – (1) the original draft of the Second Amendment was more military-related; (2) several state constitutions explicitly mention self-defense, unlike the federal one. And there are many others. Again, I don’t want to get into a historical debate because it’s silly. The point is that Stevens provided several examples that, at minimum, complicate Scalia’s overly-rosy historical record (which of course neatly held up to a 5-4 vote).
But moving beyond Heller, the extensive use of history in complicated situations has at least two other major problems: (1) it’s anti-democratic; and (2) it’s completely divorced from real-world considerations. More on each below the fold:
History and Transparency
As noted above, the originalist reasoning in Heller makes the scope of the law depend upon conclusions about history. Thus, our constitutional rights will be defined by amateur historians’ ability to cherry-pick the historical record.
Aside from the epistemological problems, it’s worth noting how utterly non-transparent and undemocratic this methodology is. In the Middle Ages, priests kept power by using a language (Latin) that only the educated elite could understand. Similarly, the Court’s tedious examination of dueling history books makes the opinion unreadable, and prevents the larger public from having a meaningful debate about it.
I mean, this is a problem with law opinions more generally. But debates about text and structure and policy and institutional allocation of power are least potentially accessible to the public.
Hell, I teach law and I can’t even get through the tangled 157-page mess that came down this morning. More to the point, it’s impossible for me to realistically assess the historical validity of these claims. To have fully informed decisions on close historical questions like these from the 1790s and earlier would require you to take a few years off and work on a history Ph.D. Thus, the dueling history opinions are not so much wrong, as they are unverifiable either way. I’m honestly not competent to assess them.
It shouldn’t be that complicated. If it is, we’re doing something wrong. Heller was an indulgence of amateur historians pretending to interpret important constitutional rights on the basis of the historical record. The opinion is completely inaccessible to the American public.
Another problem with the originalist methodology in Heller is that it ignores modern policy. I mean, don’t get me wrong – I care very deeply about what Antonin Scalia thinks of the Stuart kings. And he’s very clearly qualified to express opinions about them. But violence levels in DC strike me as a bit more relevant to the question at hand.
That’s not to say that courts should impose their own policy, but only that they should take modern policy into account on questions where the text and history are indeterminate. For instance, here, it seems worthwhile to note the difference between modern urban conditions and the Glorious Revolution.
If nothing else, the policy concerns could convince the Court that they’re not competent to make these decisions. Thus, maybe policy considerations would persuade them to allocate authority to legislatures and review them under a very deferential standard. (Again, that’s one benefit of process theory for liberals – it’s internally consistent and pro-democratic. This post, for instance, is fully consistent with my opposition to both Kennedy and the Exxon case, both of which contemplate enormous judicial power.)
We got no such thing here though – no real modern debate of any kind. We also got no sense at all of what lower courts should do in the inevitable wave of litigation to come. But we did hear detailed discussions of the Stuart kings. And that’s really what’s important – you know, what Scalia’s clerks thought of the Stuart kings.

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A Collaboration between Maude Arsenault and Ballets Jazz Montréal
In celebration of Women's History Month, Ballets Jazz Montréal is proud to unveil a heartfelt collaboration entitled "Equilibrium" with the esteemed photographer, visual artist, mother, and feminist - Maude Arsenault.
Continuing the company's lineage that was founded by two incredibly strong women, Alexandra Damiani, our current Artistic Director, who also identifies as a dancer, mother, mentor, and advocate for a feminine and human approach, is no stranger to the adversities that have plagued women in the dance world. She recently said, "The world of dance is struggling to reconcile a history of abuse and stigma towards women who decide to become mothers with a profound need to respect and appreciate the artist as a whole. This is slowly changing. Passionately and humbly, I want to play my part. I don't see feminity as gender specific. It is an energy that exists in all of us and something necessary in cultivating complete well-rounded human beings."
Moreover, in a recent article in Le Devoir, Maude explains that "a significant part of my recent practice denounces the oppression and aggression committed against women. Yet all my work evokes a certain gentleness. I think the idea of using the power of gentleness as an act of resistance defines my practice. [...] When my daughter became a teenager, I asked myself a lot of questions about what society imposes on young girls, and I realized that there were big problems to denounce." Her work aims at reconciling these issues and finding a way to express them through gentleness.
After several years behind the lens in the fashion world, Maude shifted her artistic focus toward visual arts in 2015. Her work invests the themes of female representation, bodies, and public/private spaces within the framework of a photographic and material approach that oscillates between abstract compositions, self-portraits, landscapes, and documentary images. She explores from the photographic, moving, and printed images, collages, sculptures, performances, and installations. In doing so, her projects deploy bodies as spaces and unexpected spaces of the body, in a perspective of self-determination for women.
We hope you enjoy this creative offering as much as we enjoyed exploring this space. It is our small contribution to all the incredible women who have come before us and to those iconic women whose voices and grit have shaped this company.
Artistic Direction Alexandra Damiani with our artists
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Get TV Today from Time Warner Cable in Wellsville, OH
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Wouldn't you want to know what went on in Padmavati's mind? What if the doomed queen herself were to narrate her story? Sutapa Basu lets us know in her outstanding book.
Wouldn’t you want to know what went on in Padmavati’s mind? What if the doomed queen herself were to narrate her story? Sutapa Basu lets us know in her outstanding book.
Our visit to the Chittorgarh Fort on a family trip last year piqued my interest about the legendary queen, Padmavati. While our tourist guide used a bouquet of superlatives to describe the queen, a single, stubborn thought kept swirling in my mind, ‘Are these people proud of her because of her qualities, or is she venerated just because she performed the Jauhar? More importantly, did she and the rest of the women, jump into the fire voluntarily? Because, let’s be honest, that is hardly the easiest way to die?’
And then, when the movie got released and a subsequent rampage was unleashed by the Karni Sena on public life, including and not limited to an attack on a school bus carrying children, this thought once again crossed my mind. What is this so-called ‘honour’ of a historical figure (whose existence is not even confirmed) that these people are so adamant in protecting, at the cost of hurting real human beings? Did the lady have any agency over her body or her mind, or was all she ever embodied some egotistic people’s definition of ‘honour’ and ‘respect’?
It was in this frame of mind that I came across Sutapa Basu’s Padmavati. In this book, Mrinalini Rao, a journalist, visits Chittorgarh Fort in her effort to find more details about the queen’s life. There she meets a local village girl, Uma, who claims to have read the ‘Padmawali’, Padmavati’s memoir written by none other than the queen herself! This, in my view, is a very innovative way of telling the queen’s story where the queen herself relates her saga.
This is one of the biggest reasons why the book might appeal to many readers. After all, Padmavati’s tale has been retold countless number of times by many people, but what about the queen’s own views? This book beautifully addresses that aspect. It reminded me of The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni where The Mahabharata was re-imagined from Draupadi’s perspective. Even though I’m not an avid reader of mythological fiction, it was a book that I immensely enjoyed reading.
Sutapa Basu’s Padmavati explores the life of the Sinhalese princess starting from her childhood in the beautiful Sinhalese kingdom in the 13th Century. Her parents treated her as they would’ve treated a son and an heir apparent. Hence, Padmavati grew up to be a skillful warrior, a brilliant scholar, a lover of poetry, and someone with a strong spiritual bent of mind. More than her exquisite beauty that mesmerized everyone who saw her (or even just heard about her as was the case with Rawal Ratan Singh), it was the kindness of her spirit, her quiet wisdom, and her undaunting bravery that made her a truly captivating princess.
However, her life took a turn for the worse when she came to the rough, arid, and culturally backward Kingdom of Mewar with her husband. Unlike her own country, the people of Bharatdesh were backward in their thinking. They did not treat women as equals, they were suspicious of her beauty, and despite her attempt at being friends with all around her, Padmavati was viewed as a foreigner who was out there to usurp the position of Ratan Singh’s first wife, Prabhavati.
However, the queen’s undaunting spirit always inspired her to look into the positives in every situation. Hence, she tried influencing social changes and empowering women by befriending and advising the villagers and helping them in their daily lives. On one hand she was her husband Rawal Ratan Singh’s best friend and closest advisor, on the other hand she was Ratan Singh’s mother Ba’s loving Banni. Padmavati was truly a lady ahead of her times.
And yet, all she was reduced to in the end was being the object of desire of the Sultan of Hindustan, Alauddin Khalji, making her the reason behind the bloody battle of Mewar which took away most of its men’s lives and forced its women to jump into the fire.
There’s a popular saying that wars are caused by women. But this book makes you think: shouldn’t men be blamed for their greed and lust towards women, and a hankering for power? It is men who reduce women to a mere piece of flesh that needs to be fought for. A woman might be equal to a man in every respect and yet, some men will still see nothing beyond her physical beauty. Wars, thus, are not always caused by women, but by men’s desires. This is one of the main reasons that makes the theme of the book relevant even in contemporary times.
Sutapa Basu is a wordsmith who gives us rich descriptions and vivid portrayal of places, complete with the clothing and accessories, and the food of those times, making for an enriching experience for the reader to enjoy. The character of Padmavati has been etched in such a way that women of today will also find inspiration from her. Padmavati believes in equal marriages, in doing everything that a man can do; she is a spiritually strong woman whose practice of meditation strengthens her mind. She is an artist, a warrior and an all round social justice champion. The relationship between Ratan Singh and Padmavati is an endearing portrayal of a loving, equal marriage based on mutual respect and understanding. The story goes on in a manner that makes us wish for the well-being of the couple who we fear will soon face huge adversities, where the king’s loyalty for his country and the love for his wife will be put to test,
Sutapa’s writing makes the book a fast paced read. The events unfold before our eyes with vivid clarity because of the writer’s penchant for intricate and rich descriptions. However, I’d have loved to see some more of that intricacy in the other characters of the book, as well. Other than Padmavati, elaborating on the supporting characters’ complexities might have made the novel even more richly layered. In fact, if some of the descriptions from external settings was sacrificed to flesh out the characters more, in all their vices and virtues, that might have made Padmavati an even more engrossing and more complexly textured read, in my opinion.
Along with that, the narration of Padmavati’s story by the village girl Uma to journalist Mrinalini Rao, in the queen’s own voice was a clever way of telling the tale. But when Uma at times tries to justify Padmini’s decisions by making Mrinalini understand that those times dictated some of her behaviors, it felt unnecessary – surely the readers themselves can judge from the ongoing events whether something was justified or not?
All in all, the book presents the events in the manner that would make the most sense in contemporary times. Unlike the recently released movie that according to critics reduces Padmavati’s tale to a regressive portrayal, this book offers reasons and explanations for the events in the queen’s lives. Most importantly, it gives Padmavati the agency to decide her fate at every juncture, and the power to inspire women across all times. Herein, I feel, lies the biggest reason why it makes for an inspiring and worthy read for lovers of mythological, historical or women’s fiction.
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No matter where one’s fandom lies, if one saw the clip of you visiting your son in jail, the sheer dignity would have one converted to 'being yours'!
I have done enough stuff in my journey making my son and husband often exclaim vexedly, ‘Aap Zara Sa Tham Jao Ji!’
But never in my dreams did I imagine that I would be writing an open crush-puff-piece at this stage of my life!
If the Chitrahaar Gods were especially propitious, they would showcase the song 'Papa Kahte Hain' and she would croon along to the song and wonder with you... where did her future lie?
The magazines called you the ‘Chocolate Boy’ and a little girl in a small town, who loved chocolates, rare as they were in the eighties, fell in love without even realising it. Not yet introduced to the charm of the brooding hero, she found your delectable rasogulla looks enticing enough, at the tender age of ten, to fall head over heels. You see, she had yet to be indoctrinated into the Tall, Dark, Handsome myth. Of course, if she had been a little bit older, she might have thought it was better to take greater note of your lipstick shade than your chocolate boy looks, for looks as they say, are here today and gone tomorrow.
She would wait impatiently for Wednesday and Friday evenings, counting the days in her heart. Come evening, she would be so excited, the spring in her steps would be hard to miss. She would be scared everyone would know the secret in her heart but still she was the first one to plop in front of the television at 8 o’clock promptly. It was the time for Chitrahaar and her only opportunity to gaze at your beautiful unblemished countenance without drawing attention to herself. You see, she carried her love for you like a firefly in her heart, a glow for difficult times.


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News we never want to hear in Abilene
Police will tell you that crime involving youngsters is the hardest part of the job.
And that's saying a lot because in the course of a in law enforcement career, they'll see just about everything in life that's not good.
And so, the investigation of an Abilene man for indecency with a child and possession of child pornography is tough. On them, and all of us.
But especially the victims, their parents and the day cares that trusted the man charged with the crimes and other who may have known something was amiss.
More than 20 cases have been opened. Eight cases of indecency with a child by sexual contact have been confirmed, Police Chief Stan Standridge said Friday.
More charges are expected, he said.
While at other times we become anxious for resolution, say in a murder case, these cases take time and care. The person responsible must be punished but at the same time, the welfare of the victims is paramount.
Meanwhile, churches are talking, as they should, about what happened and how it can be prevented. Of all places where children should be safe, a church tops the list. It is unfortunate that churches must deal with violence, theft, vandalism and the safety of youth. But churches operate amid what is not good in the world, and try to open the gates to the community, not be a fortress.
This is "disturbing" — the chief's description — news for Abilene. But we have put faith in our law enforcement and our churches, and believe our community rises above others because of that. Now is the time to keep that faith and believe a bad situation was discovered and stopped, and efforts are underway to lessen the chance it happens again.

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Final month, this smartphone was launched in China beneath the title of Motorola X30 Professional, and Motorola just lately launched a tweaked model of the identical cellphone in Europe. Motorola Edge 30 Extremely sports activities the world’s first 200MP digicam.
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Earlier, the weather office had said that the monsoon trough is likely to “continue to shift gradually northwards” and it led to an increase in rainfall activity over north India from Wednesday. (Representative image)
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The Delhiites woke up to pleasant weather
as rainfall lashed several parts of the national capital on Saturday.
With this, the maximum temperature in the capital city dropped to 25.8 degrees Celsius, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD
) at 8.30 am.
The IMD had earlier predicted a generally cloudy sky with rain
and thundershowers on Saturday. “The maximum and minimum temperature would be around 33 and 25 degrees Celsius, respectively,” according to an IMD official.
Parts of the city received light rainfall on Friday, causing the maximum temperature to drop by two notches below the normal to settle at 32.2 degrees Celsius, the IMD said.
Among the areas that reported rainfall on Friday included Lodhi Road, Ridge, Ayanagar, Palam, Pitampura, and Jafarpur.
As rain lashed the city, the traffic police alerted commuters about possible road congestions due to waterlogging, and advised them to avoid certain stretches.
“Traffic is affected on Rohtak Road in both the carriageways from Rajdhani Park towards Mundka and vice versa due to waterlogging. Kindly avoid the stretch,” the Delhi
Traffic Police tweeted late last night.
Earlier, the weather office had said that the monsoon trough is likely to “continue to shift gradually northwards” and it led to an increase in rainfall activity over north India from Wednesday.


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Title : BEING A GOOD PARENT
A . Introductory Statement
B. Thesis Statement : To be a good parent,parents have to face with some requirements that you have to follow and apply them if you want to be a good parent for their children.
A. First Supporting Idea (Topic Sentence) : Parents should spend time with their children
Examples 1. try to know children
2. small talking
3.telling story before go to bed
B.Second Supporting Idea (Topic Sentence) : Parents should love and understand their children
Examples 1 . hug them without any specific reason
2. show affection
3.don't use bad words
C.Third Supporting Idea (Topic Sentence) : Parents should teach everything that they can face
Examples 1 . being effective parent
2.praise good behaviour
B.Restate thesis : Share yourself with their children and if parents do like that,children will love their parents and children can learn everything from their parents.
BEING A GOOD PARENT
Parenting can be a source of tremendous pleasure over a lifespan.But, it's also a time-consuming and a difficult job for parents. In addition to satisfying their children's basic physical needs, parents can face lots challenges of upbringing such as intellectual, emotional and social development of their offspring. Like every child, every parent is different. However, all good parents share some basic qualities that help their children develop into responsible adults.Parents have eyes only for their children's future and they do everything for them. But doing everything is not enough for being a good parent.To be a good parent,parents have to face with some requirements that you have to follow and apply them if you want to be a good parent for their children.
To begin with,one of the most important reason for being a good parent is,spending time with their children.It doesn't mean that you...
Our parents are the person who have an influential impact on their children, and therefore they are the most indispensible role in our steady growth. There are some characteristics which are important of being a good parents.
First, they must support their children in any way. After all, parents are the ones who trust most. If they can not gain any support, it will do harm do their developments. Take an extreme case for example. Not all students are good at academic field, so they are various sorts of jobs to choose from. At this time, parents are playing a critical role to encourage them to do something else. However, if they pay less attention on them or even ignore them, it seems they are abandoned by this world. This will make them less confident and may finally go astray.
Equally important is responsible. If they don't correct their children's bad behaviors at early stage, it will lead to a serious consequence in the end. I think my friend Jimmy is a good example. He is the only child in his family and thus he had been mollycoddled since he was born. At the beginning, he just didn't want to write the homework at most. Gradually, he behaviors became more and more deviant. Finally, he was put in jail due to a theft in a shop. According to this case, parents are indeed the people who could prevent this happening.
Lastly, the capacity of love is quite necessary. Studies show that being in a loved family will for form a well-sounded character. Once children live in a happy and careless family, they easily tend to become more open-minded and sociable. This will be likely to communicate with people and willing to accept suggestion. These traits also are more likely to make them fit in with a group or society.
To sum up, a good parents must be responsible, full of love and always on children's side. Parents who have these characteristics will make sure their kids will always be the best.
Overall, it's a great essay. I see some grammatical errors which could easily be fixed, but the content of the essay is great. Here are some of my suggestions and I might be repeating some of the things that Karina said... :)
Our parents are the people who have an influential impact on their children, and therefore they have the most indispensible role in our steady growth. There are some characteristics which are important to/for being a good parent .Or you could even reword this sentence to read something like: There are a few characteristics that are of importance to being a good parent.
To sum up, a good parent must be responsible, full of love and always on their children's side. Parents who have these characteristics will make sure their kids will always be the best.


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Pain in trauma
Trauma is tissue damage caused by external injurious factors and is one of the most important causes of mortality in the world. Occurrence of the traumatic main pathology leads to the presence of pain and treatment on the second platelet. Pain management in trauma patients not only improves patient comfort but also affects long-term outcomes and reduces morbidity.
The first approach to acute trauma is directed to resuscitation and stabilization. The primary approach is to provide respiratory and cardiovascular system stability, control of hemorrhage, and fluid and blood replacement. Priority is given to the repair of organ damage after urological, neurosurgical and orthopedic evaluations. Occurrence of pathologic interventions, such as bone fractures and soft tissue damage, causes the pain to be ignored. It is difficult to intervene in pain as hemodynamic disorders caused by traumatic pathologies can be deepened by the effects of analgesic agents and analgesic agents can have frightening side effects such as respiratory depression or dependence and the clinical findings of an underlying undiagnosed surgical condition can be suppressed. In one study, 74% of multiple trauma cases followed up in intensive care unit reported that their pain was moderate or severe, although 81% of the nurses thought that adequate analgesia had been performed.
Pain due to tissue damage; Increased sympathetic activity, increased endocrine and metabolic response to serum epinephrine, norepinephrine, growth hormone, cortisol, renin, aldosterone, and antidiuretic hormone levels. As a result, increase in heart rate, increase in blood pressure and increase in muscle blood flow together with kidney, decrease in intestinal blood flow, decrease in glomerular filtration rate and increase in sodium and water retention. Accelerated glycogenolysis, lipolysis, and proteolysis with increased catabolic response elicit increased blood glucose. Increased vasoconstriction and heart rate may be life saving by limiting early damage, but may result in ischemia and infarction in organs late. In addition, older age, long-term inactivity and extensive trauma area; Thromboembolic events increase the risk of life-threatening thromboembolic events when combined with hemostatic changes such as increased platelet count and blood viscosity, decreased fibrinolysis, and irregularities in coagulation factor levels. Trauma pain, diminished chest wall motion and reflex diaphragmatic dysfunction may also reduce pulmonary function. The resulting hypoventilation and atelectasis cause hypoxemia and ventilation-perfusion failure. Decrease in functional residual capacity and vital capacity, difficulty in coughing due to pain may lead to accumulation of secretions, increased atelectasis and associated pneumonia. Untreated severe pain may also cause anatomical and physiological changes in the nervous system. The altered nature of the nerve tissue, known as neuroplasticity, in response to a repetitive stimulus,
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is also common when pain control is not sufficient. It has been proven that the severity of chronic pain is closely related to PTSD. For example, one study showed that 50% of patients who had chronic pain treatment after a motor vehicle accident had PTSD. The prevalence of PTSD varies from 7% to 40% in general, although it differs for various traumatic conditions.Depending on the age of the patient, the physiological condition, the region of the trauma, the severity and the type of trauma, the most effective analgesic method should be determined and applied quickly.
The standard drugs initially given are paracetamol, nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) and systemic o. Although paracetamol and NSAIDs do not usually provide adequate treatment alone for severe pain relief, Are considered additional treatments because of their safety profile. Especially in pediatric patients, adjusting the dose of paracetamol by age reduces the analgesic requirement. Disadvantages of NSAIDs are low efficacy in pain control, impaired platelet function, toxicity in the kidney and gastrointestinal system. O are drugs that can be considered the gold standard in the treatment of severe pain. In addition to oral, parenteral, neuroaxial routes, they may also be administered transmucosally as rectal, fentanyl lollipops. Although oral route is sufficient for small trauma, Intravenous administration should be a particularly preferred route because of the rapid onset of action during major trauma and burns and the ease of dose adjustment. However, intravenous injection is accompanied by a rapid plasma concentration increase, as well as the risk of overdose and breathing difficulty. Injection should be done carefully and slowly, and it should not be forgotten to evaluate the patient's conscious state, pupil diameter and respiratory function before each application of o agents.Ketamine is also commonly used in situations such as wound debridement and closed reductions; Spontaneous respiration and airway reflexes, and cardiovascular system stimulation. When administered parenterally, it can lead to a dissociative condition accompanied by amnesia and deep analgesia within 1 min. However, it should not be forgotten that the use of intracranial pressure enhancers in head trauma patients may be inconvenient and may increase secretions, agitation and hallucinations.
Topical lidocaine is particularly useful for analgesia in burns.
Tricyclic antidepressants (TSA) can also be used to reduce pain in trauma patients, to treat neuropathic pain or depression, and to improve sleep, with antidepressant effects and analgesic effects independent of it.
Although benzodiazepines do not have analgesic effects it can be used as Sedation, anxiolysis and muscle relaxation.
Inhaled nitrous oxide (entonox, 50% / 50% nitrous oxide / oxygen mixture) is used as a reliable and effective agent in urgent servicesses in patients with severe painful trauma without causing loss of consciousness due to rapid onset and rapid effect. After 20 seconds of inhalation, analgesia and anxiolysis begin and the maximal effect reaches approximately 2 minutes.
Patient-controlled analgesia (PCA)
Patient controlled analgesia is a method of providing more effective analgesia with less total medication, giving the patient the possibility of self medication when the patient is in pain with the condition that he or she is in the treatment protocol programmed by the doctor. Can be administered intravenously or epidurally. However, close observation of the patient is necessary to avoid any adverse side effects and complications during treatment. Early mobilization is effective in facilitating compliance with physiotherapy, shortening the length of hospital stay after surgery, and reducing postoperative complications.
Nerve blocks may also be an alternative to systemic narcotics in limited burns, trauma and fractures to an extremity. Catheters can also be inserted for continuous local anesthetic application. In the upper extremity injuries interscalene, supraclavicular and infraclavicular and axillary nerve blocks can be applied. For interscalene block shoulder pain, supraclavicular and infraclavicular blocks are suitable for pain in the region between the shoulder elbow and axillary block forearm and hand pain. Lumbar plexus or sciatic nerve blocks are preferred in patients with lower limb damage that can not undergo epidural anesthesia. Three nerves emerging from the lumbar plexus; Femoral, obturator, and lateal femoral cutaneous nerves include the anterior part of the upper leg; And the sciatic nerve is the inner part of the back of the upper leg and the greater part of the lower leg.
Local anesthetic agents may also be administered as topical (transdermal), intravenous regional or infiltration anesthesia. Some of the alternative methods in the case of the thoracic region are intrapleural analgesia and intercostal nerve blocks.
Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) is a non-invasive method that can be used as an adjunctive therapy, especially by reducing the analgesic requirement.
Psychological approaches to cope with situations such as hypnosis, acupuncture and pain-increasing fear, anxiety and depression are also frequently discussed in recent years. However, these applications alone do not have an activity.
Assessment of pain at the beginning of the treatment is one of the key points in pain management. The introduction of pain management protocols leads to the early onset of analgesia and the comfort of patients in many patients. Recent studies have demonstrated that pain medication and the response of the body to trauma affect endurance pain and affect morbidity and mortality.

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However they’re a lot less keen to show how Twitter can sometimes get it completely wrong. In the case of Obama people took a punt on the news conference announcing the death of bin Laden, and when this came to pass they could look back and show that they were the first with the news.
But it also happens the other way. On 12th of May a rumour started circulating on Twitter than Fabio Capello had quit as the England manager. As with the bin Laden story, the spark was the announcement of a news conference.
This is the trend for mentions of 'Capello' over the past 30 days. You can see that there was a huge spike on the 12th May.
As far as I can work out byrno25 made the first tweet “FA making an announcement at 11pm. Hearing rumours that Capello is gone.”
This was subsequently re-Tweeted over 100 times, and people started adding their own spin to it.
“Twitter riddled with rumours that Capello has left England manager's job. Supposed annoucement by #theFA at 11pm”
“Stuart Pearce is my bet to take over from Fabio Capello, true English determination! #capello #England”
But of course, the news conference at 11pm turned out to be about something totally unrelated (an enquiry re Triesman’s allegations) and Twitter moved on.
(At this point I should add that I also tweeted about the rumour when I heard it "Wow - has Cappello gone..?", but later followed up with "No truth in Cappello rumour it seems. FA story is about FIFA & Triesman")
Rumours spread because they are stories that people want to believe. It good to use twitter, but always question what you're reading. As they Super Injunction stories grow and grow, it's important to retain a level of scepticism.
Update - see also this article on how writer Graham Linehan created a rumour surrounding Osama bin Laden and his TV show The IT Crowd.


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BEIJING, April 6 (Xinhua) -- China on Tuesday released a white paper titled "Poverty Alleviation: China's Experience and Contribution." The report depicts China's poverty alleviation efforts, shares the country's successful experience, and presents its contribution to ending poverty in other countries and regions.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has, on many occasions, made remarks on China's efforts in ending poverty. The following are some highlights of his remarks.
-- In his special address at the World Economic Forum Virtual Event of the Davos Agenda in January, Xi said as a steadfast member of developing countries, China will further deepen South-South cooperation, and contribute to the endeavor of developing countries to eradicate poverty, ease debt burden, and achieve more growth.
-- Speaking at the 12th BRICS Summit in November 2020 that also gathered leaders from Russia, India, South Africa and Brazil, Xi said: "We need to call on the international community to place the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the heart of international development cooperation."
Poverty eradication must be made a primary goal, and more resources must be channeled to poverty reduction, education, health and infrastructure development, he noted.
-- Addressing the 27th APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in November 2020, Xi said the digital economy represents the future direction of global development, while innovation has fueled the economic takeoff in the Asia-Pacific.
Xi pledged in the meeting that "China will host a workshop on digital technology-enabled poverty alleviation, in a bid to unleash the role of digital technologies in eradicating poverty in our region."
-- Speaking at the 20th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in November 2020, Xi said that true development is development for all and good development is sustainable.
"China supports setting up an SCO joint working group on poverty reduction and stands ready to share our good experience with other parties," he said.
-- China has every confidence to meet 10 years ahead of schedule the poverty eradication target set out in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and lift out of poverty all rural residents living below the current poverty line within the set time frame, Xi said in September 2020 via video link at the general debate of the 75th session of the United Nations General Assembly.
-- China now contributes over 30 percent of global growth, and has lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty by the UN standard, Xi said in 2018 in a signed article titled "Open up a New Future Together for China-Philippine Relations" and published in three Philippine newspapers ahead of his state visit to the Southeast Asian country.
-- In the past few decades, China has lifted more than 700 million people out of poverty and will completely eliminate poverty by 2020. The Chinese economy has been contributing over 30 percent of the global growth for many years, Xi said when delivering a speech titled "Harnessing Opportunities of Our Times To Jointly Pursue Prosperity in the Asia-Pacific" at the 26th Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders' Meeting in 2018.
-- "We should strengthen development cooperation and help developing countries eliminate poverty so that people in all countries will live better lives. This is what fairness is essentially about; it is also a moral responsibility of the international community," Xi said in 2018 when delivering a keynote speech titled Jointly Charting a Course Toward a Brighter Future at the APEC CEO Summit. Enditem


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If the unemployment rate is so low why have wages for most Americans failed to go up very much recently? The simple answer is for the very same reasons why economic inequality and social mobility in America has largely ground to a halt in the last 40 years–the decline and war on labor unions.
Last Friday the Labor Department announced that the unemployment rate dropped to 3.9%–the lowest rate since the 1990s. Yet with this drop wages have yet to increase very much, especially since the Great Recession of 2008. Why? Venerable neo-liberal economists, such as the New York Times’ Paul Krugman, hypothesize that employers are reluctant to raise wages for fear they cannot cut them in the future.(insert hyperlink here) Others contend that we have not fully recovered from the recession or that the actual labor force participation rates are still high, making wage increases sticky. All of these explanations miss the point. Employers are not raising wages because they do not have to. The reason is that labor unions are so week now that they cannot do what they historically have done which is to pressure employers to increase wages.
Last week was May 1–May Day. Yet people forget why we have unions. The last 150 years of American history is the battle of workers and unions against corporations. America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century was the country of trusts. It was the emergence of the railroads, steel, big oil, and monopolies. It was also the era of sweatshops, child labor, adulterated and unsafe foods, and the six day, 70 hour+ work weeks. It was also the era of piecemeal below subsistence wages, poor working conditions and high injury rates, no health benefits, no retirement benefits, and no protections against discrimination and harassment. It was the world of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle. Unions were illegal, and workers who stood up for their rights were beat up by the Pinkertons–company hired security–or arrested by the newly created public police forces which were created to control and brake unions.
No one should wax romantically for this era if you care about workers and the people. America economically may have grown exponentially, but it did so unevenly, producing massive fortunes for a few but significant economic inequalities for the rest. The America of the early nineteenth century–the one that Alexis De Tocqueville so famously described in his Democracy in America as one characterized by a general equality of conditions–had vanished. By the time the stock market crashed in 1929 the income and wealth gap in America had literally produced two Americas: One was the country of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, the other of the depression-era novel The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
The 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) or the Wagner Act brought relative peace to the labor market in that it recognized the right of workers to collectively bargain. The NLRA established a process for how to unionize, organize workers, hold elections, and bargain for benefits. It was a victory for workers, but also for the American people and the economy. The Wagner Act was part of the New Deal, it was one element in a package of legislation to restructure the economy and fix the market failures in the economy.
The NLRA had more than an economic purpose or impact. Many of the economic problems in America are political. They are produced by asymmetric political power between corporations, the rich, and rest of the people. Unions at their best can be what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., once called the countervailing power to help limit the power of businesses and corporations. The Wagner Act thus reset the political equilibrium in American politics to help favor the people.
And it worked. Labor density and unionization in America dramatically increased in the United States, peaking in 1954 with over 35% of the workforce collectively bargained. But what did unions accomplish? There is powerful evidence first that they brought tremendous economic benefits to American workers and the economy. They produced the minimum wage, the eight hours, five day work week. They improved workplace safety, gave us health insurance, retirements, and workers compensation. They raised the standard of living of most Americans, often even those not in unions. They also helped bring more economic equality to the economy, significantly erasing the disparities of the Gilded and Robber Barron eras. Unions grew and flourished at a time of significant economic growth, and there is little hard data to show that they caused rises in unemployment. America’s post WW II affluence is tied in with unions.
But in addition to the economic benefits that unions bring, there was a political aspect to them. Unions were part of the Democratic New Deal coalition. The strength of the Post World War II Democratic Party dominance was tied to unions. Unions got out the vote and they did so to the advantage of Democrats.
But many employers, conservatives, and Republicans hate unions. Even many workers, especially white collar professionals, share this animosity, thinking they are better off on their own. Almost from the day the NLRA was passed opponents sought ways to circumvent the law. The found ways to fire striking workers and replace them. They harassed and fired organizers, they found ways in court to delay or challenge elections. They claimed unions hurt the economy or restricted individual freedom and passed right-to-work legislation. Yet unions remained a potent force in American politics until President Reagan became president and signaled with the firing of the air traffic controllers in 1981 that it was okay to go to war against the unions. Since then, one can correlate the rising inequality that Thomas Piketty describes or the decreasing social mobility in America to the decreased power of unions.
As Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison tell in The Great U-Turn, the Reagan era war against unions was part of a strategy along with deregulation and tax cuts to restructure the economy. It was also part of a political restructuring of American politics. The strategy has largely worked. Overall, less than 12% of all workers are now in unions in the United States, with only 7% of the private labor force collectively bargained.
The decline of the American income in the last 40 years goes part and parcel with the decline of unions. In the last thirty years the American economy has seen a dramatic increase in the gap between the rich and poor such that it now mirrors that of the 1920s. According to the United States Census Bureau in 2010 the richest five percent of the population accounted for 21% of the income, with the top 20% receiving over 50% of the total income in the country. This compares to the bottom quintile accounting for about 3% of the total income.
A second study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in 2010, drawing upon Congressional Budget Office research, found that income gap between the top one-percent of the population and everyone else more than tripled since 1973. After-tax income for the top one-percent increased by 281% between 1973 and 2007, while for middle class or middle quintile it increased by 25%, for the bottom quintile it was merely 16%. Looking beyond income to wealth, the maldistribution has not been this bad since the 1920s. According to the Institute for Policy Studies, in 2007 the top one-percent controls almost 34% of the wealth in the country, with half of the population possessing less than 3%. Since the Great Recession, the numbers have accelerated.
Opposing unions and workers costs families money. There is a significant difference in median family incomes in states that are right to work (RTW) versus those that are not. Several years ago I did a study using a three years average median family income for 2009 to 2012. I found that RTW states have a median family income of $46,919, non RTW it is $53,418–a difference of $6,499 or 13.9% per year. Testing for the statistical impact of RTW on median family incomes, the relationship is -0.4. This means there is statistical evidence that RTW is associated with lower incomes. RTW depresses wages. If all of this does not demonstrate a war against unions it definitely does reveal an attack on workers.
Yet Americans have been convinced unions and workers’ rights are bad. They resent successful unions that pay better wages than they receive instead of organizing to bring themselves up to that level. We live in a culture that worships the Donald Trumps and MBA-led management teams, yet these are the people who brought us the economic crash of 2008, gross mismanagement of the economy, and the mass layoffs that frequently dot our workplaces. For many middle class workers, the image of a surprise visit to your cubicle by a HR person with a box telling you that you are fired and have one hour to clear out your desk is all too real. Yet despite this, Americans continue to believe that they are better off without unions and worker protections.
Fixing the NLRA is a must to yet again reset the economic and political imbalances in the law. Some claim that unions are no longer relevant or that their corruption has led to their own demise. There is no question that unions need to clean up their act and support meaningful government reform, but there is also evidence that many people do want to organize and want representation in a union. If it were easier to organize, perhaps more people would have health care even without Obamacare, or maybe more people would have retirement pensions.
At the federal level, unions made fixing the Wagner Act a top priority in 2008 and 2009 with the Employee Free Choice Act. The law would have streamlined organizing and holding elections. While initially as candidate saying he would support such changes, President Obama never pushed the Act when the Democrats had control of Congress, and now the chances for its passage are dead. Perhaps the most important structural reform of the economy Obama could have made, he simply ignored, costing lasting damage to workers and middle class America. And how with the Supreme Court ready to take the final constitutional shot against public sector unions, the last organized force to represent workers will be gone.


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The Tao of Women
For centuries women have remained quiet, suppressed by society. Yet in their silence a singing can be heard, celebrating their truths. In The Tao of Women, female voices speak out. Finally, the wisdom of Taoist philosophy is linked with the deep and mysterious wisdom of women.
The Tao of Women captures and presents the power and wisdom generated by centuries of women's lives with the hope that this wisdom will not be lost. These brief and poignant meditations amplify the voices of our grandmothers and their mothers before them, they illuminate the connections over time and space and culture, allowing us to understand the women who came before and the daughters who will follow.
In 1950, a secret language was discovered near Hunan Province, China. It was not until 1982 that anyone collected and translated this secret "women's script." Known as Nu Shu, this ancient language was developed and used by women to communicate with each other when their society would not allow them to learn to read and write. For the first time in America, 81 original Nu Shu illustrations and their translations can be seen in The Tao of Women.


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Another development is that people are finding and following me, whereas at the beginning it was the opposite way around. That’s cool! I like it! Want to join in the fun? I’m Bridgy_s