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Hannah Arendt was a German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. She is best known for her book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, which examined the causes of totalitarianism in the 20th century. Arendt is also known for her controversial coverage of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, which was published as Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
What is the most famous quote by Hannah Arendt ?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.— Hannah Arendt
What can you learn from Hannah Arendt (Life Lessons)
- Hannah Arendt teaches us to think for ourselves and to be critical of the world around us. She encourages us to take responsibility for our actions and to strive for justice.
- She emphasizes the importance of understanding the past in order to shape the future, and to not be complacent in the face of injustice.
- Lastly, she reminds us of the power of storytelling and how it can help us to better understand the world and our place in it.
The most stunning Hannah Arendt quotes that will add value to your life
Following is a list of the best Hannah Arendt quotes, including various Hannah Arendt inspirational quotes, and other famous sayings by Hannah Arendt.
When evil is allowed to compete with good, evil has an emotional populist appeal that wins out unless good men and women stand as a vanguard against abuse.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.
The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth, and truth be defamed as lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world - and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end - is being destroyed.
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.
Political quotes by Hannah Arendt
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have more in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
[About Eichmann:] It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lesson that this long course in human wickedness had taught us - the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.
Quotations by Hannah Arendt that are philosophical and reflection
Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within.
Loving life is easy when you are abroad.
Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time
All political institutions are manifestations and materializations of power;
they petrify and decay as soon as the living power of the people ceases to uphold them.
Rage is by no means an automatic reaction to misery and suffering as such;
no one reacts with rage to an incurable disease or to an earthquake or, for that matter, to social conditions that seem to be unchangeable. Only where there is reason to suspect that conditions could be changed and are not does rage arise.
The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility;
he can never admit an error.
Without being forgiven, released from the consequences of what we have done, our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever.
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story .
.. somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author.
It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, because you can remain the friend of the sufferer; who would want to be the friend of and have to live together with a murderer? Not even another murderer.
Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.
Although tyranny...may successfully rule over foreign peoples, it can stay in power only if it destroys first of all the national institutions of its own people.
The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself; they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the easy life of the gods would be a lifeless life.
Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods -moods of the masses and moods of individuals, the latter no less fickle and unreliable than the former -but no opinion.
The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.
The totalitarian attempt at global conquest and total domination has been the destructive way out of all impasses. Its victory may coincide with the destruction of humanity; wherever it has ruled, it has begun to destroy the essence of man.
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.
There always comes a point beyond which lying becomes counterproductive. This point is reached when the audience to which the lies are addressed is forced to disregard altogether the distinguishing line between truth and falsehood in order to be able to survive.
The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.
Factual truth is always related to other people: it concerns events and circumstances in which many are involved; it is established by witnesses and depends upon testimony; it exists only to the extent that it is spoken about, even if it occurs in the domain of privacy. It is political by nature.
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.
No civilization would ever have been possible without a framework of stability, to provide the wherein for the flux of change. Foremost among the stabilizing factors, more enduring than customs, manners and traditions, are the legal systems that regulate our life in the world and our daily affairs with each other.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
Thought and action must never part company.

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Over the course of four days, the 2014 NRA Show showcased more than 1800 suppliers and offered operators a chance to see firsthand technology innovations that could potentially change the scope of their day-to-day operations. The technology pavilion was teeming with new releases geared to helping restaurants drive business profitability and shape the future of the restaurant, foodservice and hospitality industry. Here are a few of the headlines that emerged as top stories.
Samsung Delivers a New Restaurant Experience at NRA Show 2014
Samsung Electronics America, Inc. is showcasing new possibilities for smart, immersive and interactive restaurant experiences at the NRA Show 2014, highlighting technology that helps restaurants attract new guests, improve customer loyalty and enrich the overall dining experience. Samsung’s digital signage solutions, Galaxy tablets, Chromebooks, award-winning multifunction printers and more will be shown in a number of real-world installations at booth #9166 at Chicago’s McCormick Place from May 17-20.
Restaurant Saves Thousands in Overtime and Cuts Wait Times in Half with Mobile POS Upgrade
“Smokey” John Reaves opened Smokey John’s Bar-B-Que and Home Cooking in Dallas in 1976. Up to this point, everything had to be tracked manually. The restaurant used an electronic cash register that spit out paper receipts, all of which had to be tallied, daily, by hand. Employee hours were also tracked manually, making it difficult for the restaurant to determine who was approaching overtime. In September 2013, Smokey John’s installed NCR Silver Pro Restaurant Edition, an affordable, iPad-based POS system that makes it simple to manage table assignments and server flow; access sales and other key metrics from a mobile dashboard; and route orders directly to the kitchen, bar or any other station.
Mobility and Guest Experience Drive New Release from Micros
MICROS Systems, Inc. is debuting its new MICROS mTablet E-Series and the new MICROS Engagement feature at the National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show taking place in Chicago, May 17-20, 2014. These newest MICROS innovations allow staff members to perform multiple activities from one device, including making guest interactions extraordinary, while providing advanced capabilities that will significantly raise the bar on modern point of sale systems.
Lavu Partners with Epson to Drive Mobile POS Innovation
Epson America, Inc., a supplier of value-added Point of Sale (POS) solutions, and Lavu, Inc., makers of Lavu iPad POS for restaurants, have announced at the National Restaurant Association Show (NRA) that they are joining forces to bring smarter, more flexible iPad POS solutions to restaurant operators of all sizes. Lavu is the first Epson partner to adopt the Epson OmniLink™ i-Series all-in-one smart solution for receipt printing and peripheral device management for its iPad POS. In addition, Lavu will also leverage Epson’s market-leading TM-T88V and TM-U220B printers for receipt and kitchen printing. The two global market leaders are working together to deliver a cutting-edge solution that offers restaurant operators a trusted and innovative migration path to tablet POS.
New 360° Mobile Marketing Solution Integrates Loyalty and Payment
AppSuite and BluePay, who specialize in helping restaurants deliver efficient, smooth and impactful service to their customers will jointly present their new mobile customer loyalty and payment processing solution at the 2014 National Restaurant Association show in Chicago. AppSuite, which builds branded loyalty mobile apps tailored to the needs of hospitality clients around the world is partnering with BluePay, a payment processor, to deliver their “360° of Mobile Marketing” program. The mobile solution includes 1-to-1 marketing tools, restaurant gift cards, mobile offers, events, mobile ordering capabilities, and social media in a “frictionless” process to increase restaurant profits and boost customer satisfaction.
Viableware Named a Finalist for the NRA 2014 Operator Innovations Awards
Viableware, innovators of the RAIL – a pay-at-the-table solution designed exclusively for full-service restaurants – has announced that it has been named a Finalist for the 2014 Operator Innovations Awards from the National Restaurant Association (NRA), the leading business association for the restaurant industry. Viableware is one of three Finalists in the Technology category vying for Innovator of the Year – which will be announced live in Chicago during the NRA Show (May 17-20).
The RAIL is a handheld device designed to look like the traditional bill presentation folder used at most full-service restaurants – but unlike the original, the RAIL will accept EMV payments, allow guests to securely self-swipe credit or debit cards, auto-calculate the tip, split the bill multiple ways, pay-by-item, and receive email receipts.
Pay-at-the-Table Tech Snags Operator Innovator of Year Honor for Dickie Brennan's
Dickie Brennan’s Restaurants has been named Operator Innovator of the Year by the National Restaurant Association (NRA) for its use of the RAIL at its New Orleans-based restaurants. Dickie Brennan’s and Viableware were one of three finalists in the Technology category that were nominated for the award and were honored live at the annual NRA Show (May 17-20) in Chicago. The Operator Innovation Awards are the only program where foodservice operators recognize and celebrate their peers who are transforming the restaurant industry through innovation. Dickie Brennan’s and Viableware were selected by an independent team of restaurant operator experts from across the industry.
DIY App Maker Launches New Platform
Como™, the do-it-yourself app-creation platform, displayed the new Como Console at the National Restaurant Association’s (NRA) international foodservice marketplace. With a redesigned look and feel, the revolutionized app maker provides an enhanced user experience that gives publishers an all-in-one solution for creating, promoting, and managing apps for all major mobile devices, with no coding required. Now restaurateurs—from family-owned establishments to national chains—can easily create and manage a custom app to integrate with their patrons’ mobile lifestyle and thrive in today’s mobile world.
Solution Drives Expansion with Loyalty and Data Analytics
KickBack Rewards, an Idaho-based rewards and loyalty solutions provider, will share its industry-leading technology capabilities with the foodservice and hospitality industry. KickBack offers highly sophisticated loyalty programs and data analytics specifically for the restaurant industry. Both proprietary and KickBack-branded coalition programs are available for all restaurant operators. Implementing a world-class loyalty solution can be the edge restaurant operators need to grow their business. Competition in the restaurant and hospitality industry is fierce. Many market segments are mature, meaning that the only new customers you get are those you get from other operations.
NoshList Debuts New Wait Waitlist App with Reservation Feature
NoshListh returns to NRA Show with waitlist app featuring text notifications. NoshList returned to this year’s National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show (NRA) in Chicago, marking the company’s third year as an NRA exhibitor. The company displayed multiple devices showcasing how the NoshList waitlist app and text notifications are changing the restaurant guest experience.
End-to-End Food Service Tech Improves Customer Experience and Boosts Sales
Panasonic debuts new solutions to demonstrate how operators can improve guest experience, increase sales and productivity. Panasonic System Communications Company of North America showcased its latest integrated technology solutions for restaurants at the National Restaurant Association (NRA) Show in Chicago, IL. Panasonic's easily scalable, end-to-end solutions were designed to enhance business efficiency and improve customer experiences, and incorporate a wide variety of Panasonic hardware including POS workstations, wireless drive-thru headsets, handheld tablets for line busting and mobile POS and digital signage.

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Hello everybody, i was having in mind a simple (maybe) project. Using an Arduino UNO (or MEGA) i would want measure the GPS coordinates of the board with a GPS module and transmit them, after the request through an sms, using a GSM module. I already have this GSM module:
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At this moment, i don't need to save hundreds of coordinate daily and so use a SD card. On the web i have found this:
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According to new research, getting closer to nature can impact on more than just our general wellbeing.
A new study, produced by the University of Illinois, has found that people who have access to natural environments are more likely to experience better sleeping patterns, than those in urban environments.
“It’s hard to overestimate the importance of high-quality sleep,” study author Diana Grigsby-Toussaint, a professor of kinesiology and community health at the University.
The research, published in Preventative Medicine looked at the links between green spaces and quality of sleep.
The research team reviewed data from 255, 171 adults, comparing their sleeping patterns with their geographical location and access to natural surroundings.
When asked about their sleeping patterns over a period of a month, most said they slept poorly fewer than seven nights a month.
In the participants who said they slept poorly 21-29 nights a month, the study found that they had little to no proximity to green spaces.
“Studies show that inadequate sleep is associated with declines in mental and physical health, reduced cognitive function and increased obesity,” Toussaint said in a university news release. “This new study shows that exposure to a natural environment may help people get the sleep they need.”
According to the results, the link between better sleep and natural surroundings was much stronger in men than women.
The results boomed in those aged over 65 as well.
“If there was a way for persons over 65 to spend time in nature, it would improve the quality of their sleep – and their quality of life – if they did so,” Grigsby-Toussaint said.


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If Mother Could Only See Me Now by Norman Rockwell
June 13, 1918 Issue of Life Magazine
If Mother Could Only See Me Now, this Norman Rockwell painting, appeared on the cover of Life Magazine published June 13, 1918.
An alternate title for this illustration is Soldier Mending Socks.
This was the eighth cover by Rockwell to appear on Life Magazine. A Rockwell cover illustration appeared on Life magazine a total of ten times in 1918 and twenty-eight times in all.
If Mother Could Only See Me Now
In this illustration, Norman Rockwell gives us a glimpse into the camp life of a soldier during the First World War.
This soldier and his dog are relaxing by the campfire. Well, not exactly relaxing. The soldier is mending one of his socks. Though this activity is no doubt mentally relaxing for the soldier, it is still work.
Here is the complete list of all Norman Rockwell magazine covers.
While he is doing his mending, he is enjoying a pipe of tobacco, or maybe some substitute since it is wartime.
His teapot is beginning to boil. When he takes a break from his sewing, he will be able to enjoy some nice hot tea.
In the shadow to our right, we can see the dog. He is wearing the soldier's hat. Surely this was not the dog's idea.
I do not believe this is the same soldier from the May 30, 1918 cover of Life magazine. Even though the light in the picture is different, the soldier's hair color appears different.
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The morning ceremony marked the end of Sunday's 'March for Justice' in commemoration of the Armenian Genocide.
Many who attended held signs -- demanding that the U.S. Government and Turkey recognize the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians, beginning in 1915.
"Turkey denies it. The whole world knows it happened. And Turkey knows also that it happened but they don't want to admit it. They don't want to admit their guilt," Fr. Vahan Gosdanian said.
City leaders and U.S. Representative Jeff Denham joined the Armenian people Sunday -- calling for a formal recognition of the Armenian Genocide.
It's estimated 50,000 people of Armenian descent are living here in Central California.

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HER iconic rendition of Let It Go from the Disney movie Frozen has been sang in households all around the globe.
But what do we know about singer Idina Menzel, and what else has she done?
Who is Idina Menzel?
Idina is an American singer and actress who made her name on Broadway starring in Rent.
She was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in 1996, and later went on to win the prestigious award for her role in the musical Wicked as the character Elphaba.
The talented star has also made the leap to TV starring in Glee from 2010 to 2013 as Shelby Corcoran.
What did Idina Meznel do in Frozen?
Idina captured kids around the world singing the Oscar and Grammy Award-winning song Let It Go in Frozen in 2013.
She spoke and sang for the character of ice queen Elsa, with actress Kristen Bell voicing her sister, Anna.
She reprised the popular role for the 2015 short film Frozen fever, and has announced she will star in the sequel to the main film, Frozen 2.
What else has Idina Menzel done?
Fans may remember Frozen isn’t the only Disney movie she has starred in, as she also played the role of Nancy Tremaine in Enchanted.
Idina released her Holiday Wishes album in 2014, which reached number six on the Billboard 200 album chart.
She returned to Broadway in 2014 as Elizabeth Vaughan in the musical If/Then, which earned her a third Tony Award nomination.
When is Idina Menzel on tour in the UK?
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The tour schedule in the UK is:
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- Thursday June 15 – Royal Albert Hall, London
- Friday June 16 – Portsmouth Guildhall, Portsmouth
- Sunday June 18 – Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
- Monday June 19 – Symphony Hall, Birmingham
- Tuesday June 20 – Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow
There are still tickets available for the concert, which sees Idina perform in venues around the world.


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New York- The National Football league has just started a voting initiative to get people involved with voting in this year's Presidential election.
The NFL Votes system will educate others about the importance of voting and bring awareness about social issues around the globe.
"Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was meant to ensure the right to vote for all Americans, prohibiting discrimination in voting based on race or color," said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. "Through meeting with players and legends to better understand causes and issues they are passionate about, we found a consensus around the importance of voting. That's why we're putting the power of our platform behind NFL Votes, aiming to inspire and encourage people to get educated about the voting process, to get registered to vote, and to ultimately exercise their right to vote."

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52 Days into the lockdown, and the Ministry of Health and Child-Care reported that as at 20 May 2020, cumulatively a total of 18 244 rapid screening tests and 14 618 PCR diagnostic tests had been conducted. The total number of positive cases has risen to 48. This comes after 2 female returnees tested positive today.
We are concerned with the functionality and operation of the lockdown that this stage. The reality is that currently in Zimbabwe, especially during the day, there is very limited sense of a lockdown. This is despite the sustained border closures, compliance with the limit of 50 persons at funerals and other social gatherings, mandatory wearing of masks, resumption of the formal businesses across essentially all sectors subject to a few conditions; the closure of education sector, however the increased movement of the citizens to get to work, the keeping of supply lines open and operational functionality of food stalls and food suppliers. These measures which have been put in place do not correspond with the growing number of positive COVID-19 cases.
We highlight once more, as incidents are on the rise, the living conditions at most mandatory isolation centres. We are concerned regarding;
- Appropriate, applicable safety and security measures in place at centres to address the complex blend of retuning residents and deportees of various classes.
- Access to services, including sexual and reproductive health services in centres.
- Access to applicable and supportive services for children, the elderly and women.
- Appropriate and adequate water and sanitization.
This follows reports of an additional 19 returnees who are alleged to have escaped quarantine in Beitbridge on Monday the 17th of May 2020. The total number of persons escaping mandatory quarantine, according to our sources, has therefore risen to 28. Such disturbing news which point to poor security systems, come at a time when Government recently released a report reassuring the nation that security systems at the centres had been beefed up with the support of the army.
Compounding the matter, is the report indicating 14 Malawians in a Masvingo mandatory quarantine Malawians have undertaken a hunger strike.
- We are therefore concerned about the underlying issues that may be causing detainees to consider absconding as a viable option.
- We call for an immediate inspection of mandatory quarantine and isolation centres by the Constitutional Commissions to ensure that the conditions at the facilities are adequate and appropriate.
- We further call for the Parliament of Zimbabwe to remain vigilant and the Members of Parliament of the constituencies under which these centres fall, to urgently to address this critical issue.
Critical Emerging Issues
1. Protection of the prison populations
Noting that we are yet to receive a publicized report on the protection of prison population;
Further noting that the courts have resumed operations under Level 2;
Further aware that on a daily basis there are new entrants who are sent to remand prison from the outside world, where they may have been exposed to the virus and remain asymptomatic;
Aware that most of our detention facilities may not be capacitated enough and that social distancing rules may be difficult to enforce;
- We continue to urge Government to urgently publicize and implement a comprehensive crisis plan to cater for the rights, needs and safety of detainees in the COVID-19 era. Paying particular attention to vulnerable detainees such as juveniles, pregnant women, persons with disabilities and those with underlying health conditions.
2. Observing the lockdown measures
Concerned with the reports from our networks indicating lockdown fatigue and non-observance of social distancing, particularly in Bindura, Chivi, Murehwa, Plumtree, Zvishavane and certain parts of Harare;
Deeply concerned with the level of traffic from high density areas, approaching Harare Central Business District;
- We continue to urge citizens to continue observing social distancing and public health guidelines in efforts to contain the further spread of COVID-19.
We further urge the enforcement officers to remain vigilant and not relax, whilst on duty, in order to ensure full enforcement of the lockdown, while at the same time respecting citizens’ rights.
3. Security of the Persons in Mandatory Quarantine and Isolation Centres
We reiterate our concern of security measures in mandatory isolation and quarantine centres.
Sadly unsurprised at the reports of security incidents at mandatory isolation and quarantine centres.
Distressed at the risks and vulnerabilities of women, girls, children and the elderly;
- We reiterate the need to ensure that deportees and retuning residents are not seen as a homogenous group and consider the risk profiles of persons and the applicable separation of the different sets of returning residents and deportees.
- We call for the Government to ensure that safety of women, girls, children and the elderly in mandatory quarantine centres.
- We continue to call for Government to ensure adequate provision of sexual and reproductive health services in quarantine centres to both men and women without stigma.
We remind all citizens, that Zimbabweans throughout the world have the rights to return to Zimbabwe, their home country. And that no persons shall be stateless
- We condemn public statements and sentiments, that seek to fuel a negative narrative against Zimbabweans who are returning to Zimbabweans voluntarily and other wide
- All citizens have a right to be protected from statelessness
4. Safety of Public transport
Reports from our grassroots networks continue to point to non-existence of social and physical distancing measures while accessing public transport.
The lack of capacity by ZUPCO to meet the growing demands of commuters as the eased lockdown in continued indefinitely must be addressed urgently before transport hubs and ZUPCO services become points of high risk exposure to potential infection. We raise the poor adherence and enforcement of the social and physical distancing witnessed in Harare, Chinhoyi Bus terminus and Kwekwe.
- We therefore continue to raise alarm on the risks posed by the public transport system in spreading the COVID-19.
- We call upon the enforcement agent to effectively enforce social distancing at bus terminuses and pick up points.
- We continue to call upon the Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing and also the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development to enhance the capacity of the public transport system to cater for the high demand by the public.
1. Family Planning Pills
The majority of reports received from our chapters today raise a red flag on the shortage of family planning pills.
Reports from our networks in Bindura indicate women who are failing to access family planning pills exposing women to unplanned pregnancies and gender-based violence when adopting other means of contraceptives methods.
- We highlight that family planning pills have been reported to be accessible only through the black market, and is being sold in US dollars only, at an average cost of US $1 per pill.
- We reiterate our repeated calls for ramping up the availability of the family planning pills which were already in short supply prior to the COVID-19 lockdown.
- We call for urgent attention to the supply lines for family planning pills specifically,
- We urge Government to direct its attention and the strengthening of the long standing community distribution mechanisms of the same to ensure undisrupted access to sexual reproductive health and rights services including the supply of family planning pills.
While we understand that resource constrains bedevilling the nation in responding to COVID-19, we emphasize and warn against the temptation to abandon critical service delivery areas for women.
The government must strive to achieve operational and administrative balance in its ability to respond to public health needs of citizens.
2. Official Masks Guidelines
We continue to raise the fact that Government has yet to release official masks guidelines. We therefore put plainly to Government that citizens are;
- Using various materials including, non-fabric products to make “face coverings”.
- “Trying on” masks prior to purchasing.
- “Using dust masks”.
- Using disposable face masks all day for periods of over 3 days or more in many instances
- Washing and ironing disposable face masks.
- Wearing masks continuously for over 5 consecutive hours
Without clear, open and direct Zimbabwean guidelines masks, many citizens have difficulties in undertaking positive behavioral change, which is critical to save lives, in this regard.
This SITREP is developed by and through, the collective network of organisational and individual members of the Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe, who are engaged at community levels to national levels in the COVID-19 Zimbabwe response.
Source: Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ)


Area Roundup: Shepherd baseball ousted from conference tourney
BECKLEY – Concord University recorded a 5-1 win over Shepherd University in the Mountain East Conference tournament at Linda K. Epling Stadium on Saturday. The loss eliminated Shepherd from the tournament.
Concord took a 1-0 lead in the third as Brandon Costa led off with a single and later scored on a failed pickoff attempt.
The Mountain Lions added a pair of runs in the fourth behind an RBI double by Brad Sullivan and an RBI single from Costa.
Joey Miller hit a two-out double in the fifth and later scored on a single by Joe Camp to give Concord a 4-0 advantage.
The Rams got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the fifth as senior outfielder Kyle Porter doubled and later scored on a groundout by junior outfielder Mark McCormick.
Concord added another run in the seventh on a solo homer by Miller.
Miller went 2 for 5 to pace the Mountain Lions.
Porter went 2 for 3 to lead the Rams.
Chris Kelly (9 IP, 7 H, 1 ER, 2 Ks, 2 BB) (8-2) gained the complete-game win for the Mountain Lions. Sophomore starter Ryan Pansch (6 IP, 7 H, 4 R, 3 ER, 7 Ks, 3 BB) (6-4) took the loss.
Shepherd fell to 38-12, while Concord improved to 38-15. The Rams await word on seeding for the upcoming NCAA II regional tournament.


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How much coffee is produced worldwide?
Total global coffee production is a dynamic figure that can vary from year to year due to various factors such as weather conditions, crop diseases and market demand. In 2021, the total estimated coffee production worldwide was approximately 172.85 million 60-kilogram bags. This figure represents the culmination of the efforts of coffee-producing countries around the world, each bringing their unique flavors and varieties to the global coffee market.
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The top ten countries with the highest coffee production are Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Honduras, Peru, India, Uganda, and Guatemala.
Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world and is responsible for around 30% of global coffee production. The country is known for its vast coffee plantations, particularly in the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná. Brazilian coffee is usually characterized by its mild flavor and balanced acidity.
Vietnam is the second largest coffee producer in the world, known primarily for its Robusta beans. The country’s coffee industry has grown rapidly in recent years and coffee plantations have expanded to new regions. Vietnamese coffee is often used in blends and is known for its strong, bitter flavor.
Colombia is famous for its high-quality Arabica coffee, which is mainly grown in the mountainous regions of the country. Colombian coffee is known for its rich flavor, mild acidity, and full body. The country’s coffee industry is closely linked to its culture and economy, with coffee being an important export.
Indonesia is known for its unique coffee varieties, including Sumatra Mandheling and Java. The country’s coffee is characterized by its body, low acidity and earthy flavor. Indonesian coffee is grown on small farms and is often processed using traditional methods.
Ethiopia is widely considered the birthplace of coffee and is known for its diverse range of coffee flavors, which can range from fruity and floral to spicy and wine-like. Ethiopian coffee is an integral part of the country’s culture, with coffee ceremonies being an important social tradition.
1. Brazil – 3.0M Tons
2. Vietnam – 1.7M Tons
3. Colombia – 885.1k Tons
4. Indonesia – 761.0k Tons
5. Ethiopia – 482.6k Tons
6. Honduras – 476.3k Tons
7. Peru – 363.3k Tons
8. India – 319.5k Tons
9. Uganda – 254.1k Tons
10. Guatemala – 225.0k Tons


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Looking for a meal that is way simpler than it tastes and will be a full, healthy meal the entire family loves? This Easy Chicken Tortilla Soup with Nachos will satisfy everyone with its tangy-spicy-smoky flavors and toppings!
I’m not sure why it’s still “soup weather” in large parts of the country, including here in the Pacific Northwest, where April showers bring … hummingbirds, …er, I mean, they bring many splendid tulips. This rainy, cold weather just reinforces the melancholy I’m feeling over not having my beloved local hummingbird mama nest right outside (!) my window ?. Following her nestings the past 3 years in a row, I’ve almost come to expect her. And I’ve so missed leaning far off my front porch, peeking at the beauty of those navy-bean sized eggs, watching and waiting for sounds of the baby bird tweets. I literally spent hours watching the nest, watching the mother (we called her Nancy) feed her hatchlings, seeing them grow to eventually fill up the nest, waiting for their first flights. And, indeed, I did see the first flights. (When I said I watched for “hours”, I wasn’t exaggerating!)
I followed them to see where they lived, after leaving the nest, still in my yard, being fed by Mama Bird for the next several days.
During those weeks, there were days that I couldn’t pass by front door without peeking out at the nest, sometimes just waiting to watch Nancy feed her babies.
But, I still needed to make a good dinner (among other things), in pretty short order for my hungry family. We had quite a few “leftover nights” during those few weeks of the year. This Chicken Tortilla Soup would’ve been the perfect quick meal that only seems like it took hours!
All my whining about hummingbirds aside, this soup is incredibly tasty – it is seasoned with Chipotle chiles for smokiness and spice, and has a healthy squeeze lime juice for tanginess. Also, it is filled with lovely veggies and tender chicken, and then adorned with NACHOS of all things, providing additional flavor, texture, and fun! The nachos also add a bit of “full meal” feel, which, as you might know from my Smoky Lentil Soup with Sausage post, is something some of us, (not saying who exactly) need when eating soup.
And, if you tend to spend some time doing things like bird-watching, this flavorful meal is deceptively quick – start to finish, you could have it done, including the nachos, in 30 minutes. So it could be a weeknight meal. The recipe was advertised on Epicurious as a 22-minute meal, but for some of us, much of that time is the time it takes to preheat the oven, am I right? So I adapted the recipe a bit, but it still took me 30 minutes. Maybe you will be more efficient than me.
So whether you are a bird watcher or not, this easy and quick Chicken Tortilla Soup with Nachos should be on your weeknight dinner list. It did made me feel a bit better about those crazy birds abandoning me, …ummm, I mean, choosing a more private spot this year. Hey, there’s always next year! And don’t forget, Cinco de Mayo is coming – make some Chicken Tortilla Soup with Nachos! You won’t regret it! Enjoy!
Easy Chicken Tortilla Soup with Nachos
This smoky, tangy, spicy soup is healthy, hearty and so delicious! The entire family will love the nachos either as a topping or on the side!
The best way to prepare this is to make the soup broth while the oven preheats. Let the broth simmer while you make the nachos, then add the chicken while nachos are cooking. That way, everything gets done at the same time!
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 20 min
- Total Time: 30 min
- Yield: 4 Servings 1x
- Category: Soups
For the Soup:
- 2 T neutral-flavored oil (olive, safflower, grape seed)
- 4 (6”) Corn tortillas
- 1 Small-Medium Yellow Onion, peeled and chopped
- 1 t Ground Cumin
- 1 t Kosher Salt
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 4 c Low-sodium Broth (I used Chicken)
- 1 – 14oz. can chopped tomatoes, fire-roasted
- 1 seeded chipotle chile, chopped, from can of Chile in Adobo plus 1 t adobo sauce
- 1/2 t ground Black Pepper
- 1 lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1/2” thick strips and cut lengthwise if large
- 2 T fresh lime juice (1–2 limes’ worth) plus 1 lime, cut into wedges
- (Optional for serving) Sliced or cubed avocado, sliced radish, chopped cilantro leaves
For the Nachos:
- 4 (6”) Corn Tortillas, cut into 1” pieces
- 1 T Neutral-flavored oil (olive, safflower, grape seed)
- 1/2 c Refried Beans (I used jalapeno-flavored, but any type will do)
- 3/4 c Shredded Cheddar or Monterrey Jack Cheese
- 1/2 t Ground Cumin
Prepare the Soup Broth
- Preheat oven to 425F. Oven is for preheating for the Nachos, but you can make the soup broth while the oven preheats.
- In a large saucepan or a 4-5 qt pot, heat the oil to Medium-High. Then saute the chopped onion and cut tortillas until onions are slightly browned and soft, about 5 minutes. Add a bit more oil if tortillas begin to stick too much.
- Add the minced garlic and cumin and stir until fragrant, about 1 minute. Then add the tomatoes, broth, chiles, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil, then cover and reduce heat to simmer, while you make the Nachos.
Make the Nachos
- Place tortillas on a large sheet pan. Brush a bit of oil on top of each tortilla. Place in oven for 5 minutes. Turn tortillas over, return to oven and bake 4-5 minutes until crisp.
- Spread about 2 T refried beans onto each tortilla. Shake a bit of cumin and a bit of salt over each tortilla, then 1/4 of the cheese. Return tortillas to the oven and bake until cheese is melted and starting to brown.
- Remove to a cutting board. Prior to serving, cut tortillas into quarters.
Finish the Soup
- Uncover the soup pot, add the chicken and cover for about 5 minutes or until chicken is fully cooked through. Add the lime juice, stir.
- Divide broth into bowls, and serve with chopped avocado, radishes and cilantro. Garnish with nachos if desired.
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Senior Fellow Brian Atwood, a former director of USAID (United States Agency for International Development) recently sat down for a Q&A to offer his insight into the United States’ mission for humanitarian and development aid.
Q: What is the overarching goal of USAID around the globe and how does such a mission reflect on the United States’ international reputation?
A: There are two aspects. The development function is helping others to help themselves, which could be on any aspect of society’s well being, from social issues like health and education to governance issues. It’s the entire breadth of what a government needs to be a healthy, democratic government. The humanitarian side is relief, saving lives. We now have 66 million people who are dislocated because of conflict or natural disasters, more than ever before.
Q: What role does USAID play when responding to a humanitarian crisis, such as the recent hurricanes that struck the Caribbean?
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Q: How do USAID’s efforts for international development differ with its humanitarian mission?
A: The humanitarian function is short-term, while in development, you are partnering with governments and NGOs working on the ground permanently. There are 110 “missions,” or offices, around the world where USAID employees live and work with local government and ministries. Only 10 percent of USAID employees are American; the rest are Foreign Service nationals. They know the country, and that is an invaluable asset.
Q: What misconceptions do you feel the American public holds regarding international development and humanitarian aid?
A: Americans are traditionally quite impatient. Members of the House of Representatives are only elected every two years and, if they want to sponsor a project, they would like to see something done right away. But you don’t transform a school system, for example, in two years. That is not the way development works. It is a partnership that takes longer, over a decade or more. The concept of development is to try over time to make the world a better place for all of us to live, and that is an American interest.
Q: Is there a country you would consider to be a successful project in terms of USAID-backed development?
A: Ghana is a good example of an African country that has become a lower middle-income country from being a very poor country. It has had three to four successful elections in a row and a peaceful transfer of power. It is an accountable, democratic government. That is important because if governments are accountable to the people, they tend to make sure that the people are satisfied with what the government provides. A lot of the countries that were terribly poor are now in the middle-income category, and they have become trading partners of the U.S.
Q: You served as USAID administrator under the Clinton Administration from 1993-1999. How has the agency’s role changed within the U.S. government and international community since you were in charge?
A: During my tenure, I had to really fight for resources. The Clinton Administration was one of the first that came out of the Cold War, and there was a huge cutback in spending and resources, what they called the “peace dividend.” Today, there is much more bipartisan support for this concept of the three D’s: defense, diplomacy and development. Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC), who is now chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee had been asked by the Trump Administration for huge cuts in USAID. He put almost all of it back. Secretary of Defense Mattis recently said, “If USAID and the state department are not funded, you have to give me more weapons.”
Q: President Trump has already angered the international community by not immediately waiving the Jones Act to allow foreign carriers to Puerto Rico, and also withdrawing from UNESCO by 2018. Do you believe the President’s actions hinder our international development mission?
A: I think that the “America First” approach is a message that is probably well received by authoritarian governments around the world, but not necessarily by those who believe in collective action. There will be a lot more suspicion of what USAID’s motives are, but fortunately Trump has named former Wisconsin congressman Mark Green to head the agency. I think his ideas for what he wants to do with USAID are very positive, and because of support from Congress on a bipartisan basis, USAID will continue to get the resources to do good work.
Q: In a recent Foreign Affairs article, you argued for establishing a cabinet office representing USAID. How would that enhance its mission?
A: It helps to have the voice of long-term development at the table where decisions are being made about foreign policy. For example, you are sitting around the cabinet table and the agriculture secretary says, “We need to provide much more assistance to American farmers so that we can sell our products internationally cheaper.” That is a distortion of development because you are not allowing developing countries to improve their own agriculture sector. But who is going to say that? If you are a cabinet officer representing USAID, you may not win the argument, but if you are not there, you can never make the case.
J. Brian Atwood is a senior fellow of International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute. From 2010 to 2012, he served as chair of the Development Assistance Committee of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He had earlier served as under Secretary and Assistant Secretary of State and was the first President of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI). He has published numerous articles on foreign affairs and international development, most recently in the Washington Post and the Toronto-based Globe and Mail.
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) Health Centre in Mbera Refugee Camp
A woman and children waiting in the shade of the maternity tent at the Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) health centre in the Mbera refugee camp for Malian refugees in southeastern Mauritania on 2 March 2013.
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There is anxiety on both sides but I think the shorts are exhibiting more. How could you enjoy a long holiday week-end with a short position in MAGS? There is far more risk long than short here. I think a lot of short positions were established today in hopes of bringing MAGS under $ 20. My cost basis in MAGS is approximately $ 15. I will watch the action carefully tomorrow particularly with my trading shares. I am armed to add to my trading position tomorrow if the opportunity presents itself. IMHO the shorts are far more nervous and vulnerable here due to the uncertainty of the week-end.
Whip-Ass has it right. This stock is a hedge against the market. Right now my indicators point to a high probability for a flat market at best with strong prospects for a lower market due to continued concerns over terrorism, the price of oil and prospects for higher interest rates that will stall the economy's recovery.


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Today, Michelle Wu signed a measure into law for the first time as mayor of Boston. The measure is to divest city funds from the fossil fuel industry. This is an astronomical move for a city like Boston and will create the groundwork for … [Read more...]
Who can challenge Charlie Baker in ’22?
This excellent opinion piece by Somerville mayor Joe Curtatone reminded me that there had been some discussion on this site of Curtatone as a possible Democratic candidate for governor. Until this week, I'd been thinking that Charlie … [Read more...]
“Breaking our will” — or finding it?
Gov. Baker essentially pushed out his undersecretary for Climate Affairs, David Ismay, over some comments he made to a group of Vermont community leaders working on climate change. In talking about the inherent difficulties in changing … [Read more...]
Will Beacon Hill become Downing Street?
As noted below, former State Senator Ben Downing is running for Governor. I think I saw this coming, and I'm pretty pleased that he's taking the plunge. I hope other rank-and-file Democrats can allow themselves to get interested and even a … [Read more...]
Why won’t Charlie Baker sign the climate bill?
UPDATE: Speaker Mariano and Senate President Spilka have indicated that if Baker vetoes, or pocket-vetoes the bill, they're just going to refile it -- and presumably pass it with a veto-proof majority. In other words, Baker might as well … [Read more...]
Gov. Baker skewed the Health Impact Assessment for the Weymouth gas compressor
In response to residents of the South Shore complaining about the proposed Enbridge gas compressor, in 2018 Gov. Baker threw them a bone: A Health Impact Assessment, to be finished before the permitting process in January 2019. In a weird … [Read more...]
Right Now: Rent and mortgage relief; take care of gig workers
Wednesday was the first of the month. Rent was due. Unemployment claims for Massachusetts were 329,000 over the last two weeks. That's ... 4.8% of the entire population of Massachusetts, and 9% of the workforce, newly out of a job, right … [Read more...]
Our own Berlin Airlift: Patriots Plane defies Trump’s effective blockade
In a tale of logistical wizardry, persistence, and sheer physical endurance, Massachusetts is being whisked some 1.4 million N95 masks on the New England Patriots' plane. 300,000 some masks will go to New York. Bob Kraft is paying for some … [Read more...]
You knew this wasn’t right: Trump *and Baker’s MassDPH* are botching the response
I had hoped, maybe somewhere in the denial/bargaining stage of processing the coronavirus testing debacle, that at least our state officials were on top of the situation, and at least giving us reliable information. The evidence before … [Read more...]
Weymouth compressor: MassDEP’s Chewbacca Kafka Humpty-Dumpty Up-Is-Down Catch-22
Added: Nice story and interview by CBS-4 with Alice Arena of FRRACS, one of the compressor station resistance leaders: They're down to this: Physical blockades of the gas compressor construction site in Weymouth. Nine folks from … [Read more...]
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March 2, 2017 – Andrew Bowen reports – Much has been made of San Diego’s need for transit-oriented development — building dense housing and commercial space along public transit corridors. The keys for unlocking that kind of “smart growth” rest in the hands of city officials in charge of land use and zoning policy.
But Nicole Capretz, executive director of the nonprofit Climate Action Campaign, said the city’s climate plan cannot succeed without the buy-in of private industry.
“I actually think that those companies that are truly embedded into the community actually feel a broader purpose, and actually feel that it is part of their role to … help reduce our carbon footprint,” she said.
Not all employers have the resources to offer the kinds of biking and transit subsidies that Vertex gives its employees. Capretz said the city needs to talk with those companies about what they can do to encourage their employees to forgo driving. And, she said, the city can always lead by example.
“I’d love to see the mayor ride his bike to work once a week,” she said. “Something that, again, sets the right tone and signals a cultural shift, and signals that we are all in this together, and we all have to do our part.”
READ + WACTH the full story here (Nicole starts at minute 3:27): http://www.kpbs.org/news/2017/mar/02/private-industry-san-diego-mobility-goals-climate/


Tenant advocates in the New York State Legislature have proposed a series of bills designed to dramatically increase tenant protections and decrease property rights. These proposals, and others to come, will be debated in Albany next year when the rent laws come up for renewal. This article will discuss three of those proposals, concerning the Urstadt Law, limits on MCI rent increases, and the elimination of high rent vacancy deregulation.
The Repeal of the Urstadt Law
The Urstadt Law, originally enacted pursuant to L. 1971, ch 372, gives the New York State Legislature virtually exclusive authority to amend New York City rent regulatory laws, rendering the New York City Council largely powerless. A proposed bill (S.3179/A.5557) seeks to repeal the Urstadt Law.
The relevant history is as follows: In 1969, the City Council bypassed Albany and enacted the Rent Stabilization Law (RSL). Albany responded in 1971 by enacting three statutes that curbed rent regulation: Chapter 371 (vacancy decontrol of rent-controlled apartments), Chapter 372 (the Urstadt Law), and Chapter 373 (denying rent regulatory protection to non-primary residents).
The Urstadt Law was premised on the Legislature’s belief that wresting control of rent regulation from the City Council would encourage new construction and limit incursions on Albany’s power. The Urstadt Law disenabled New York City from (1) enacting any law that would make regulated apartments subject to “more stringent or restrictive provisions of regulation and control than those presently in effect,” and (2) extending regulation to housing accommodations presently exempt from control.
The scope of the Urstadt Law was addressed in City of N.Y. v New York State Div. of Hous. & Community Renewal, 97 NY2d 260 (2001). There, the New York State Court of Appeals held that the city’s adjustment to the MBR formula under rent control, designed to measure property value with greater accuracy, did not violate the Urstadt Law. In response, the Legislature amended the Urstadt Law pursuant to L. 2003, ch 82, §1. The amendment stripped the City Council of all power except the authority to (1) extend or decline to extend rent regulation; and (2) amend rent regulatory statutes to deregulate particular classes of housing accommodations.
The First Department addressed the interpretation of the amended Urstadt Law as recently as April 5, 2018 in Alston v Starrett City, 161 AD3d 37 (1st Dept. 2018). The court unanimously held that city legislation designed to ban discrimination against tenants based on “lawful source of income,” including Section 8 federal housing vouchers, violated the Urstadt Law. The court held that the city statute unlawfully compelled “a landlord to renew a lease for up to five years at a minimum increase tied to other city rent regulatory programs to which the housing unit is not presently subject.”
The proposed bill repeals the Urstadt Law in its entirety, thus permitting the City Council to amend the rent laws at will. This is the most far-reaching proposal of the bills under consideration. It may also be the least likely to pass.
Irrespective of its merits, which are not addressed here, the bill is essentially about transferring political power from the Legislature to the City Council. It is not clear why New York State legislators (other than those who are tenant advocates and whose districts are in New York City) would give away such power. When legislators control the levers of power on a particular issue, advocacy groups fighting for influence will shower those legislators with campaign contributions. Those same legislators can seek votes and endorsements based on the need to protect tenants, or, conversely, the need to strengthen property rights. If the Urstadt Law disappears, so too would that money and power.
The End of Permanent MCI Rent Increases
Section 26-511(c)(6)(b) of the RSL authorizes rent increases where a building owner performs work that qualifies as a major capital improvement (MCI). The increase is amortized over eight years if the building has 35 or fewer units; otherwise the amortization period is nine years. The statute also limits the amount of an MCI rent increase to 6 percent per year, which could lead to an even longer amortization period.
DHCR and its predecessor, the New York City Conciliation and Appeals Board, had always construed the MCI provision as warranting a permanent increase in the stabilized rent. Tenant advocates took the opposite position. In Ansonia Residents Ass’n v New York State Div. of Hous. & Community Renewal, 75 NY2d 206 (1989), the Court of Appeals held that DHCR’s interpretation of the statute was not inconsistent with its language. Turning to the legislative history and public policy, the court wrote:
As we have recognized, the dual purposes of the Rent Stabilization Law were to protect tenants from eviction as a result of rapidly spiraling rent increases and to encourage future housing construction by allowing landlords reasonable rent increases so that they could profit from the operation of their properties. Thus an interpretation of section 26-511(c) to allow permanent rather than only temporary rent increases for major capital improvements serves the purposes of the Rent Stabilization Law by providing owners with an incentive to make improvements which benefit owners and tenants alike. Under the construction of the statute urged by the tenants, owners would have little incentive to invest in major capital improvements if they can only recover the cost of their investment, and in fact might incur additional expenses in maintaining such an improvement after its initial cost had been recovered. (Internal citation omitted).
The proposed legislation (S.4312) would, among other things (1) make MCI rent increases a separate charge that would not be compounded by annual rent adjustments; and (2) eliminate the charge once the cost of the improvement is fully amortized.
Again, the wisdom of the proposed legislation will not be discussed here. It should be noted, however, that the fundamental economic reality that the Court of Appeals recognized in 1989 still stands: If owners are not economically incentivized to improve their buildings, they will not do so. Instead, they will patch and repair building systems, delaying upgrades for as long as possible. Although the proposal would result in lower rents—the obvious goal of the legislation—it would concomitantly encourage disinvestment and accelerate the physical decline of New York City’s aging housing stock, much of which is pre-war.
Another inevitable outcome is that the bill would injure businesses that manufacture and/or install roofs, boilers, elevators, windows, plumbing systems, electrical systems, and other common MCIs. The union and non-union employees of such businesses would also be injured.
The Repeal of Luxury Deregulation Based on Vacancy
RSL § 26-504.2, the subject of the Court of Appeals’ recent decision in Altman v. 285 West Fourth LLC, deregulates “high rent” apartments that become vacant. Over the years, the threshold rent for deregulation has increased from $2,000 to $2,500 to $2,700, as thereafter increased each year by the annual one-year guideline percentage authorized by the Rent Guidelines Board.
Luxury vacancy deregulation was added to the rent laws by the Rent Regulation Reform Act of 1993 (L. 1993, ch 253). The New York State Senate Introducer’s Memorandum in Support described the Legislature’s intent as follows:
With regard to the high rent vacancy decontrol provisions of this bill, current rent regulation statutes define a ‘housing emergency’ as a vacancy rate of less than 5%. The vacancy rate for apartments renting at $2,000 or more, however, exceeds 12.5% (2.5 times the statutory standard). Thus, there is clearly no ‘housing emergency’ for apartments renting for more than $2000.
The proposed legislation (S.3482/A.433) makes no finding as to the vacancy rate of apartments renting above the current ($2,733.75) threshold. If the vacancy rate exceeds 5 percent, it is difficult to understand why rent regulation, rather than the free market, should control.
Notably, the Legislature has not proposed to eliminate high-income deregulation, whereby tenants earning more than $200,000 per year in apartments at or above the deregulation threshold will lose their right to continued stabilization protection. There are two obvious reasons for this inaction. First, media stories about millionaires and movie stars paying regulated rents do not help the cause of rent regulation. Second, the number of apartments deregulated based on high income, as opposed to vacancy, is quite small.
It remains to be seen which, if any, of these proposals will become law.
Jeffrey Turkel is a member of Rosenberg & Estis and was the prevailing attorney in Altman v 285 West Fourth discussed in the article.


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A man will appear in court charged in connection with a fatal stabbing at a graveyard in Co Kerry.
Thomas Dooley (43), from Killarney, was fatally wounded while attending a funeral at Rathass Cemetery in Tralee shortly after 11am on Wednesday morning.
His wife, Siobhán Dooley, was injured during the incident.
On Thursday, gardaí arrested two men in relation to the attack. One man, aged in his 30s, has now been charged.
He will appear before a sitting of Kenmare District Court on Friday morning.


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“I remember when this was all sea, 30 years ago,” says Detective Lok (Peter Yu) in the first line of Yeo Siew Hua’s Locarno Festival Golden Leopard winning film A Land Imagined - a musing that sets the tone for the film to follow. “It is nothing but reclaimed land now,” an empire of towering skyscrapers and beaches built from imported sand. A visually resplendent, effectively directed neo-noir with a twist, the film looks at what lies beneath Singapore’s ever transforming landscape: the people—rarely seen on screen—that slip between the cracks of the machine.
Singapore as it is depicted here may seem alien, a dystopian hotbed of rain-soaked cityscapes, dirty neons and smoky skylines, but the story seems at first to be a familiar one. Lok, a worn down, sleep-deprived cop is in search of a lost man, a migrant worker, Wang Bi Cheng (Liu Xiaoyi), who disappeared in mysterious circumstances, similarly sleepless and broken, last seen wandering with Mindy (Luna Kwok), a punkish cafe-worker who brightens his nights. As the plot thickens, reality drifts from recognisability and the character’s minds and the mutating territories they inhabit come to seem equally malleable. Neither character knows who or what they are looking for, nor what is real or what is a waking dream.
A hazy, hallucinogenic and hard-edged film—pitched somewhere between contemporary crime thriller, romantic psychodrama and social-realist city portrait—A Land Imagined remains, by design, hard to get a grasp on, but at no point does it slip entirely into futurist fantasy. This is a supremely confident, slippery and surreal film, but also one centred in contemporary capitalist reality. In a place growing so rapidly that borders between land and sea are no longer an obstacle to expansion, people disappear without trace and no-one notices, let alone has time to look for them.
Originally appeared in the catalogue for London East Asian Film Festival 2018.


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An Anthology of Nonfiction
Edited by Brendan Burford
Villard: 154 pp., $16.95 paper
Brendan Burford likes to say he created "Syncopated" because he wanted to do for comics what Joseph Mitchell did for journalism. After self-publishing three volumes over five years, Burford's thoughtful artistic experiment -- I love that he calls them picto-essays -- has been picked up by Random House. "Syncopated" shows us the subtleties available in a medium best known for POW-BOP-BANG: "Syncopated" is the graphic narrative equivalent of slow food.
These hand-drawn, hand-lettered, black-and-white comics by a variety of writers teach the reader's eyes to adjust from the glaring colors of bright sunlight to something more gentle. After reading through Nick Bertozzi's picto-essays that quietly explain hay-baling -- "Nails were bitten watching the night skies looking for clues into the next days weather" -- we come across Tricia Van den Bergh's wordless study of Washington Square Park at various times of day. (Like Mitchell, Burford has an abiding love of New York City.) The early pieces focus our eyes, showing us how the art deco park lights, drawn as orbs with radiating lines, glow in the suggested twilight. Buildings are both rectangular juggernauts and squarish phantoms. Despite its lack of human forms, the piece is completely satisfying.
Yet this collection contains more than stylized musings. Somewhat reminiscent of artist Kara Walker's work (though far more rough), Greg Cook has taken material from the FBI's oral histories of Guantanamo Bay and created a narrative, illustrated in silhouettes. We see a hapless figure beaten and forced to watch a woman squat over a Koran; then he lies frozen, shivering on the ground. "Most times they had urinated or defecated on themselves, and had been left there" -- words without the human form would not convey the horror, but realistic images would be a further violation. Shadow figures may be the most dignified way to narrate torture.
Also touching is Paul Karasik's short piece on psychologist Erik Erikson's hugely influential theory of development. Karasik, who helped adapt Paul Auster's "City of Glass" into a successful graphic novel, sandwiches Erikson's famous Eight Stages between two disturbing stories from Erikson's life. This causes us to question the psychological paradigm yet gives it a living, breathing context:
There are a few missteps. A series on subway buskers feels amateurish, and a narrative about development in Coney Island adds nothing new to familiar arguments. But what remains is a sense of something quiet that, unlike in other comics, does not foist itself upon you and yet has gravitas. The contemporary eye (your eye, my eye) is well-educated in the cartoon image. For three generations, we've stared at balloony, sketchy figures, learned to gather in their nuances. What we're not used to is looking at them and finding depth. "Syncopated" is another step in the maturation of the art form. Reading it is like listening to a simple music and realizing how wonderful melody can be.
Maury is a New York-based writer and critic.

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I created this painting on multiple levels, in what for me represents a sort of alchemical process. First the construction with a thick collage layer of paper of various types, magazines and other, then the destruction with the collage and finally the painting through which I highlight the shapes that emerged during the creative process. This process creates an effect of texture and depth.
Among the shapes that emerge, there is a dog in the center of the composition. The sunlight seems to give off a warm golden atmosphere, which spreads throughout the painting.
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