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Richard Lichtman: The Violent Disorder of Our Public Mind
Richard Lichtman,
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Since all human occurrences take place in society, it is obviously a truism that all insanity must, in some sense, be social. On the other hand, if we assert that insanity is due to biological factors then it might seem that insanity can be due to causes that are not in any sense social. However, even the designations that we apply to human activity derive from various social institutions and their forms of mental interpretation, so once again the social penetrates our understanding of insanity.
However, I wish to argue here for a more robust account of social insanity. I wish to argue that not only can individuals be dysfunctional and pathological but that societies can be irrational, self-destructive and given to denial, self-deception and violent self-contamination. Freud knew as much when he asked at the conclusion of Civilization and its Discontents:
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… would not the diagnosis be justified that many systems of civilization – or epochs of it – possibly even the whole of humanity – have become "neurotic" under the pressure of civilizing trends?
Nevertheless, it is true that in our time the term "insanity" tends to refer to a private malady. We lack an appropriate term for disorders of the public mind for the fundamental reason that we lack any notion of the "public mind" itself. And the reason for this disappearance is not that the phenomenon itself has ceased to exist but that public consciousness has become so fragmented and atomic that this collective form of consciousness tends to lack self-awareness. But this dissolution is itself the very form of public consciousness that is so important for us to grasp.
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For fragmentation, like loneliness or isolation, is only possible in society. It is only when we compete with each other for power and domination, when each of us comes to regard others as impediments to our own realization, all of which are of, course, social forms of action, that we experience ourselves as simultaneously individual and social, encountering acutely the very opposition between our individuality and our social nature. Of course, the most terrible forms of individual pathology occur through the most terrible forms of social chaos and despair.
It was not always so. In the 19th century terms like "alienation," "anomie," "disenchantment" and "ideology" referred to pathologies of social life and public mind as well as to individual dysfunctions. For many of the great sociologists, men like Marx and Durkheim, society had a nature that was not reducible to the sum of its individual members. Nor, of course, did it exist independently of them. It is not an easy phenomenon to conceptualize, but we need finally to ask what we can possibly understand by this term.
The "public mind" is not the sum of individual minds, but their source and presupposition. It is not a universal archetype, for it is specific to each distinct social order. It is not a concrete, innate system of any kind, for it cannot exist independently of the various social relations that activate its potentiality.
The public mind is the pattern of meanings and the system of feelings, desires and aspirations established in the codes, rules and symbols embedded in the objective structures of social, economic, historical and political life. Subjectively, it is the set of assumptions, convictions, beliefs and values that ground the shared sense of social existence of the multitudinous groups that constitute a given social order.
We have difficulty grasping the sense of public mind because in our time the collectivity that exists is obscured by the illusion that the individual is the source rather than the consequence of the culture of capitalism. But all we need to convince ourselves of the existence of social reality is to pass through a significant economic crisis in which we cannot find work because the capitalist cannot locate consumers for his production while his plant lies idle and its machines useless; the commodities they might make available cannot find the workers to operate the machines that would produce them or the consumers to purchase them. This is an irrational system, one in which everything that is required depends on other characteristics that themselves cannot function without the contribution of those aspects of the potential structure that remain actually idle. So, one might say, nothing can be what it is unless everything else is what it was intended to be; and yet, the same can be said for every aspect of the idle system that therefore fails to function.
At the core of the failure of capitalism is a systematic contradiction between the two most fundamental organizing tendencies of our contemporary life. On the one hand we live within a system of capitalism while, on the other, we simultaneously conceptualize ourselves in accordance with the ideals of democracy. These two structures are, however, completely opposed to each other; they are in a fateful contradiction.
For capitalism is an economic system based on institutionalized greed, self-interest, accumulation, expansion, domination and disregard of the lives of others. It is a system of power in blatant opposition to democracy, which is an order of values that exalts simultaneously the individual's uniqueness and capacity for cooperative relationships organized on behalf of justice, equality, dignity and universal freedom.
How has The United States been able to integrate two systems so fundamentally at odds with each other, so antagonistic to each other's motive and meaning, so radically in opposition? When all the falsehood and terrible mystification is pierced and suspended, when the truth fights through the veil of manipulated pretense and self-serving hypocrisy, casting aside, if only briefly, the horrible facade of false consciousness and organized dishonesty, one overriding fact looms portentously above the manipulated mystification of the populace.
How has the United States been able to integrate the contradictory tendencies of capitalist exploitation and democratic idealism? The answer is simple, pathetic and unavoidable: The ostensible integration has never taken place. Since its earliest history and with growing force and increasing speed, the United States has embraced the elitist domination of capitalist power and cloaked itself in the illusion of democratic self-righteousness. "Democracy," or its semblance, has been shaped to support the ravages of capitalist exploitation, while providing the illusion of its devotion to restraining and remaking the ills of economic malice.
Of course, this assertion needs to be supported by all the claims and counterclaims that are finally called upon to provide assurance. However, simply cast your gaze at the fraction of the populace that owns and controls the essential means of social domination, not even the 1% but the 1/10th of 1%, whose wealth and consequent power is more than equivalent to that of the struggling remainder of the citizenry. It is an exercise in despair to explore the whole range of actions that are fatefully skewed in the direction of this ghastly minority and its capacity to serve its interests at the expense of the lives of others whose daily existence is not constituted by a choice among irrelevant luxuries but the need to keep from falling into abject despair, anxiety, depression, illness and death.
Is there any wonder that there is disorder in the land; that lives are made hollow, meaningless and filled with an undying rage against one's self for failing, against others for what seems their superior gratification, for life as a whole that has promised so much and delivered so little. One inhales failure with every painful breath, or in keeping with the splitting of life between the power and the purpose to which we previously alluded, one retrenches, contracts, lives more and more into one's self, while the world beyond our private isolation grows ever more massive and monstrous until its slips in through the crevices of our passive surrender and threatens to take even more of us than we had ever realized was vulnerable.
Is it any wonder that terror and violence prowl about the wasteland of so many lives, or that the larger majority succumbs to apathy and paralysis? One could go on listing indefinitely the acts of dehumanized destruction, incomprehensible violence and deranged terror that transpire out of motives that neither its perpetrators, its victims nor observing savants can comprehend.
But stop for a moment and ask yourself: What is the meaning of this hatred and cold extermination? Ultimately, hatred and violence, murder and mayhem are modes of reconstruction in a world that has failed its most vulnerable, even more than its most comfortable.
Why do I link reconstruction with hatred and violence? To destroy is to remake the universe, to eliminate from it something – not necessarily what confronts one – but what that fragile presence before us symbolizes to its enraged and often deranged adversary. Violence contracts what cannot be embraced or even expanded; it minimizes what cannot be enlarged or shared: one's powers, one's love, one's creative affirmation of the humanity of life in a world that bears the possibility of transcendence in beauty.
In the passage I previously cited from Freud, he spoke of the destructive possibilities of "civilization." That assertion is in keeping with his tendency to universalize the conditions of life in his time. Reification is his constant nemesis. He pays insufficient attention to the diversity of societies and the importance of their differences. It is more misleading than insightful to trace human failures back to civilization as such. For Freud, of course, the conflict between human existence and civilization is ubiquitous and permanent, as is the conflict within human beings between their tendency to love and draw together against their tendency to die and destroy.
Marx functions with a different paradigm:
The more deeply we go back into history, the more does the individual … appear as dependent, as belonging to a greater whole … Only in the eighteenth century, in "civil society," do the various forms of social connectedness confront the individual as a mere means toward his private purposes, as external necessity.
So society confronts the individual and, rather than being a member of that social whole, Marx notes, the individual appears to himself or herself in "civil society" as an independent individual standing outside of society.
And Marx notes something that the advocates of capitalist society are most often blind to:
… private interest is already a socially determined interest, which can be achieved only within the conditions laid down by society … the reciprocal and all-sided dependence of individuals who are indifferent to one another …
"Indifferent dependence" cannot be the foundation of communal concern nor the root of empathy toward others. It is much more likely to foment conflict and exploitation, rage and repulsion, self-hatred and unending envy.
From the beginning of American history, human relations were constructed through a series of antagonisms: the European settlers against native Americans and Mexican populations; human beings against nature and those same human beings divided again by privilege and power exercised against each other. Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States begins:
Arawak men and women, naked, tawny, emerged from their villages into the island's beaches and swam out to get a closer look at the strange big boat. When Columbus and his sailors came ashore, carrying swords, speaking oddly, the Arawaks ran to greet them, brought them food, water, gifts. He later wrote of this in his log.
They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawk's bells … They do not bear arms, and do not know them. Their spears are made of cane … They would make fine servants …With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.
Columbus wrote further:
As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information …
The information that Columbus wanted most was: Where is the gold? Following that information, he set out to accumulate slaves. He later wrote: "Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold."
Zinn writes:
Among the Arawaks mass suicides began, with cassava poison. Infants were killed to save them from the Spaniards.
The story of Columbus the heroic explorer is still the iconic legend told to the greatest majority of school children in the United States. But the myth of Columbus is not merely for the innocents of the country: Even such authorities as Samuel Eliot Morison, the "distinguished" Harvard historian, endorsed the legend of Columbus' greatness. In his book Christopher Columbus, Mariner, Morison describes the enslavement and murder of the native populations and notes: "The cruel policy initiated by Columbus and pursued by his successors resulted in complete genocide."
But Morrison had set out to ennoble Columbus and so he concludes:
He had his faults and his defects, but they were largely the defects of the qualities that made him great – his indomitable will, his superb faith in God and in his own mission as the Christ-bearer to land beyond the seas, his stubborn persistence despite neglect, poverty … and discouragement. But there was no flaw, no dark side to the most astonishing and essential of all his qualities – his seamanship.
In other words, though he engaged in "complete genocide," and missed his original mark by several thousand miles, he was an admirable sailor and that, in Morison's eyes, counts for everything.
But why do I linger on Columbus since he was not an American but a Spaniard, raised in a foreign creed and of a different culture?
Morison, however, was an American and a distinguished one at that, who in his extravagant praise of Columbus reveals the deep and rotting soil from which he rose to his position of eminence among American historians, who simultaneously were called upon to establish his preeminence. In reading Morison, it is not Columbus that we primarily discover, but the long established American ideal of dominance and power. As Zinn reminds us:
What Columbus did to the Arawaks of the Bahamas, Cortes did to the Aztecs of Mexico, Pizarro to the Incas of Peru, and the English to the Powhatans and Pequots of America.
And it is what we have been doing for more than 500 years through the enslavements, invasions, murders, plunderings, dissolutions, eviscerations and wholesale slaughters of those whose lives and labors and territories and resources we coveted to the point of immolation. From the natives of early Virginia and Massachusetts to the Japanese at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, transformed into shadows of their once living corporeal selves, to the more than 500,000 Iranian civilians and the still uncounted Afghanis and Pakistanis we are still in the process of saving from themselves, we have witnessed an unending baptism of freedom in blood and rotting flesh.
However, it is not the individual atrocities that are the essence of this history but the pattern of imperialist carnage; the underlying structure of dehumanized self-aggrandizement that is most to be explored, comprehended and expunged. It is the fundamental structure of the capitalist system that produces the atrocities, not the atrocities that produce the system. For the atrocities reveal as their cause a set of interrelationships that require and provide for each other – what is referred to as a dialectical system. No aspect of this system can exist independently of the others and so each reveals something of the remainder when it is explored.
The basic aspects of capitalism are: 1) exploitation, 2) expansion, 3) access to state power, 4) enhanced technology, and 5) control of the conscious and unconscious processes of the mentality of the populace.
"Exploitation" signifies that the labor of workers is owned and controlled by those who possess the means by which their wealth is produced. Given this power over wealth, the dominant class keeps a larger and larger portion for itself and returns to the workers only enough to keep them sufficiently vital and aware, so as to maintain the capacity to provide additional labor. At times, when the working class is politically vigorous, it may win concessions and at other times, such as our time now, its share of the total wealth will decline precipitously. In other words, the level of the workers' wellbeing will fluctuate around a norm established by the underlying capacity of the capitalist to control capital and, through this control, the proportion of value accruing to the workers on the one hand and the capitalists on the other.
"Expansion" involves a structural and a geographical aspect. The capitalist system operates on the basis of continuing accumulation of profit. This follows from the fact that the system is competitive and, whether given capitalists embrace this condition or not, if they refuse to compete for a greater share of this wealth, they will find themselves driven from the marketplace and replaced by a new agent who is perfectly willing to take up the missing opportunity. It is not personal temperament or greed that produces capitalism, but capitalism that produces competitive greed. It must, of course, be the case that capitalism could not have originated absent a character structure that was attracted to personal advantage. But this characteristic was in some part the result of a desire for survival rather than enhancement and could not have persisted unless it was embodied in an expanding structure that encompassed more and more of social life.
Expansion and exploitation feed off each other: one as a dynamic process and the other as a structure that the process tends to establish. And everything that might be said about the domestic nature of a given capitalist country needs also to be repeated on the plane of international affairs. So, the world economic system is continually more subject to the voracious interests of various competing countries and the conflicts and outright warfare among them. All the while, individual capitalist firms give rise to oligopolies and monopolies that carry on the procedures of competitive exploitation on an ever more enormous and dangerous scale.
With continued growth, the economy comes more and more to depend on the resources, agencies and directives of the state, which becomes more and more essential as the economic system becomes more complex and requires a "center" that can coordinate the vast arrangement of activities that define modern capitalism: the defense and redefinition of property, the nature of taxation, the distribution of profit, the continuing support for innovation, the situating of labor, the form and content of immigration and numerous other activities that require a central agent to relate each of these activities to the others. And finally, and perhaps most to the point, the state can maintain an illusion of impartiality that defends the system against what would otherwise be the obvious charge of support of capital against the other dimensions of social life.
We should never forget that the tendencies and pressures that exist within the capitalist system have their counterpart in the forms of culture, human nature and psychological formations that pervade the social life of these societies. For example, the move to expansion has its replica in the lives of various segments of the population that sustain it. To maintain and enhance as much of one's self with as little expenditure as possible is not merely the admonition prescribed by the commercial system but is, simultaneously, the purported insight carried throughout the emotional and motivational structure of personal, psychological and social life.
Take without giving is one of the doctrines defining male culture, in which one's capacity to love or what passes for it is hoarded, and the accumulation of the love of others is an indication of a weakness in them that can be manipulated to one's advantage. Need for the love of others must be disguised by aggrandizement and apparent indifference and, consequently, of success in the economic struggle for love. The prevailing prescription of male culture is self-enhancement and the minimization of the resources, powers and defenses of others: greater wealth, greater access to dominance, greater sexual potency, a greater range of powers used to control others and a greater system of defenses to keep these others who are engaged in reciprocal attack upon one's self from succeeding. However, to accumulate without return soon becomes a wearisome task in which the value being sought and hoarded loses its significance as the other who is manipulated through this unequal exchange soon loses value and becomes, in fact, instrumentally useful but humanly worthless.
It is through the myriad forms of manipulation of others that the self loses its human potentiality. The contradiction between power and ideal with which I began these remarks has the dreadful consequence of placing one forever on the precipice of self-condemnation and social exclusion. The values that form one's ideal self are incapable of realization, and the individual therefore comes to assume responsibility for the persistence of its failure. In his brief account of Western attitudes toward death Philippe Aires notes:
Today the adult experiences sooner or later – and increasingly it is sooner – the feeling that he has failed, that his adult life has failed to achieve any of the promises of adolescence.
Adolescence is, of course, the period of life when idealism prevails, as the difficulties that stand between the individual and his or her fulfillment are not understood to derive from the larger society within which individuals are formed and measured rather than from the unique characteristics of these burgeoning individuals themselves.
Nor is this the conclusion of one's sense of failure; there is a further fact less often noted and commented upon: Individuals participate significantly in their own decline and ultimate demise. How does such self-destruction come about?
When we use terms like "masochism" we usually take for granted that we are speaking of individual pathology. However, consider that every social system is obviously inseparable from the channeled energies of its participants. In fact, each system is the embodiment of these energies, so organized as to form a larger and more persistent whole. So it is that the failure of our society, the harm it imposes on us, is in unavoidable measure the effort and product of our own lives. It is because we act out the forms of personhood required by our society that it is able to accumulate its power to force us into acting against ourselves. So masochism is not an individual occurrence but the basic imposition by which we construct the processes that deconstruct us. Constructing the powers of a destructive society, we deconstruct the ideal possibilities inherent in ourselves.
Of course, we are not self-consciously aware of this fact, but it occurs as it does regardless of our self-conscious ignorance. We make the social world that is our undoing. We produce the institutions and structures that maintain our very subordination. Our energies, which we define in terms of self-aggrandizement and rational self-interest, are beyond our understanding, the very opposite of what they initially claim. Our vaunted self-interest is self-denial, our cherished self-realization, the destruction of what we hold most dear.
It was not only Marx and his conservative counterparts who sensed the turning of liberalism into its opposite. It was in 1776 that Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, in which he argued as a thoughtful economic historian:
Not only would free, competitive markets direct the employment of capital to those industries in which it would be more productive, but they would also result, again through the invisible hand directing selfish profit maximizing into socially beneficial channels …
Or as Smith put the matter, speaking of the ordinary participant in the burgeoning capitalist market:
… he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of greatest value, he intends only his own gain, in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end that was no part of his intention.
Some 120 years later, Max Weber, a thinker of considerable brilliance and one more sympathetic to capitalism, having separated himself from his usual detached objectivity, noted with uncharacteristic passion and eloquence at the conclusion of The Protest Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism:
The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so. For when asceticism was carried out of monastic cells into everyday life, and began to dominate worldly morality, it did its part in building the tremendous cosmos of the modern economic order. This order is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which today determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism … with irresistible force. In [the Puritan] view the care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of "the saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment." But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage…
No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or there will be a great rebirth of old ideas and ideals, or, if neither, mechanized petrification, embellished with a sort of convulsive self-importance. For of the last stage of this cultural development, it might well be truly said: "Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that is has attained a level never before achieved.
So, at the dawn of the capitalist era, Adam Smith could see in the conjunction of individual self-interests the promise of a greater well-being than economic activity directed by a conscious intelligence could provide. But at the turn of the 20th century Smith's optimism had been transformed into an iron cage, of which "it might be truly said: Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines that it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved."
So the ostensive rationality of capitalist triumph is transformed into the alienation of the human condition and the expectation of progressive achievement into a morass of violence directed at others and eventually even at one's self. The murders at Newtown cannot be understood when separated from the long declining loss of rationality and its hope that marks the inversion of the liberal ideal. In short, they cannot be separated from our mass murders in Iraq, our droning of innocent families in Afghanistan, our unwillingness to hold the latest murderers of the dream of economic well-being responsible for their onslaught against the once vital fantasy of the bright rewards of diligent labor and financial probity.
As the dream dies, its debris spreads across the wasted land. To fight against the wounded apathy that blights so many more of us, what can be so exciting as the promising transcendence of this miserable world in a flash of apparent liberation delivered through the muzzle of a gun?
Note how many of these mass murders end in suicide, as though the promised moment of god-like power has been achieved, never to be reproduced again. In the life of such murderers this moment is intended to redeem their anguished trivialization. After the destruction of the other, it is vital to escape the mundane forces that have given rise to one's original rage. The world has been remade and one must leave it as such. One has entered the life of the vanished through one's own miraculous power to transform these others and one's self from the living into the dead. In murder, one enters the land of the transformed, lies with them, their life now absent, now void, as is one's own. This "nullity," as Weber referred to our contemporary condition, has realized the fulfillment of his prophecy in the horror of obliteration. When terror becomes the all too common currency of state and family, culture and sport, it should not surprise us that it finally comes to rest in the blind horror of individual life and death.
Richard Lichtman
Richard Lichtman is a philosopher who specializes in the relationship between the social and psychological dimensions of human life. His approach is broadly interdisciplinary: he has taught in departments of philosophy (University of California, Berkeley), humanities (San Francisco State University), sociology (University of California, Santa Cruz) and psychology (The Wright Institute, California School of Professional Psychology, etc.) and has been a faculty member of the Council on Educational Development (CED) program at the University of California, Los Angeles. His books also indicate the range of his interests: Essays in Critical Social Theory covers a broad range of topics in economic, social, and political theory, while The Production of Desire is a detailed analysis of the works of Marx and Freud.
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What are you doing right now? Are you walking to lunch and checking your phone for the latest scientific studies? Are you sitting at work, just taking a brief moment to glance at your cell and ensure you don't miss any of the action? If you aren't on a cell phone, know that your kind are becoming a rarity—that you are in an ever diminishing, some what tenuous, group.
Many of us use our cell phones to search the internet and communicate. We do it while working, while shopping, while jogging, and even while driving. According to a Pew research study, 34% of mobile internet users go online primarily, almost exclusively, using their phones. And it's not having a great impact on our bodies.
On average, we spend a staggering four hours a day looking down to read something—usually, we are checking our phones. Ultimately, each year, this adds up to a total of 1,400 hours of extra stress on our cervical spines (the part in our necks just above our shoulders).
And this is where the latest study comes in.
Kenneth Hansraj, chief spinal and orthopaedic surgeon at the New York Spine Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, recently published a paper on spines and cell phone use. In the paper, he asserts that, every time we look down to check our phones (or complete a similar activity), we're putting about 60 pounds (27 kg) of force on our necks. Since cell phone use in increasing so much, this is a little but troubling. It is especially worrisome as we still don't know what the long-term effects of this will be.
For his research, Hansraj used a 3D model of the human spine to measure the effects of constantly bending our heads down to check our phones. Because our heads are pretty heavy (they can weigh up to 12 pounds [5.5 kg]), it obviously requires a bit of effort to hold them up. And when we look down at our phone, we are increasing the gravitational pull, making our necks work harder. The fact that this posture increases stress on our necks probably won't come as news to anyone. However, the amount of force that Hansraj measured is rather impressive (and worrisome).
Of course, this does not mean that cell phones are bad, or that we need to be overly concerned about our increased use of this technology. Indeed, as Hansraj notes, he does not expect anyone to sacrifice their phone to save their spine; however, it is important to be conscious of the problem. Such knowledge will enable us to correct our posture as we're checking our phones (or reading a book or doing a similar activity), and this will greatly help in the long-run.
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Les peladillas sont des amandes confites (dragées) typiques de la région de Valence (Espagne). On les sert particulièrement à la période de Noël.

Peladillas de Casinos
Casinos (province de Valence) et Alcoy (province d'Alicante) sont les deux principaux centres de production des peladillas en Espagne. La fabrication y est faite selon des méthodes traditionnelles.

Casinos célèbre chaque dernier week-end de novembre la foire de Dulce artesano, peladillas et nougats de Casinos, de grande popularité à un niveau autonome par la qualité de ses produits.

La typologie des peladillas de Casinos est variée, de l'élaboration des peladillas traditionnelles d'amande et de sucre à celles de différents types de chocolats.

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Q: Displaying XY coordinates CSV file but not showing correct location on basemap of ArcMap? I uploaded a CSV file to ArcMap with longitude and latitude value. The values were obtained from Google Maps and verified in Google Earth.
I used display XY with X(longitude) and Y(latitude) and I used the geographic coordinate system as WGS 1984. The extent of my point feature class created is in decimal degrees (dd).
However, the points do not display in the right location on my base map (imagery from ArcMap). They are showing off the coast of Cyprus while they should be in Lebanon (Cyprus and Lebanon are in the same UTM zone 36N).
I set the data frame's coordinate system the same as my layer (WGS 1984). I tried to project my layer to WGS 1984 auxiliary mercator and another time to UTM Zone 36N using project and define projection tools but they did not give the right output.
How can I fix this?
I have read through similar posted questions and couldn't figure it out.
Here are some sample data points:

A: Your longitude should be latitude, here is where 35 degrees longitude and 33 degrees latitude is in google earth.

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Home / International News / St. Lucia's National Security Minister Says About Foreign Prisoners, "…We Cannot Make Them Become A Financial Burden On The Country"
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St. Lucia's National Security Minister Says About Foreign Prisoners, "…We Cannot Make Them Become A Financial Burden On The Country"
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CASTRIES, St. Lucia, December 13, 2017 (CMC) – National Security Minister, Hermangild Francis, says prisoners, who were brought here, following the passage of two hurricanes through the Lesser Antilles in September, have not been a financial burden to the state.
"I just hope that we are collecting our dues from the persons, the countries that have sent their inmates here. It is all well and good having them be here and taking care of them, but we cannot make them become a financial burden on the country," Francis said.
St. Lucia accepted inmates from the British Overseas Territories of The British Virgin islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands after Hurricanes Irma and Maria caused widespread damage in these islands.
The prisoners are being housed at the Bordelais Correctional Facility (BCF) which said that arrangements made so far, can allow for the prisoners to remain for an 'indefinite' period until the necessary structures are put in place in their home countries.
"The guys are there, so far so good," Francis said, adding that the Director of Corrections has indicated that everything is "working okay".
"We are just praying that the countries get their prison systems back up, as quickly as possible, so that we can repatriate them," Francis said, noting, however, that he was unable to state, at present, the costs to house the prisoners.


Has your backup and disaster recovery system saved the day for your business when faced with a natural disaster or major area-wide service disruption? Hopefully you returned to business as usual, with minimal disruption to your day-to-day operations and without too much inconvenience to your customers.
While many business owners think of a disaster recovery system mainly as a form of safeguarding crucial digital information, it is also a competitive advantage that can actually win you new business in the wake of a major technology disruption.
When Superstorm Sandy hit the Eastern United States in October, 2012, the massive natural disaster left behind millions of dollars of property damage to devastated homes and businesses across a wide area. However, it also provided opportunity for those businesses that quickly recovered to offer immediate services to customers in need. Businesses that were able to open their doors (or at least provide some sort of service) before their competitors could gained new customers who needed immediate help.
The Mr. Rootor franchise based in Freehold, New Jersey is one example of how a cloud-based backup system allowed a small business to not only minimize downtime, but achieve a valuable advantage over other area businesses that took much longer to recover from the storm. With the help of their corporate offices, and thanks to the online recovery systems, they were soon able to start helping area residents in desperate need of their help.
The key to turning your backup and discovery strategy into a selling point is to make sure your existing and potential customers know about it. This is particularly true if you operate in an area prone to natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, ice or wind storms, or frequent power outages.
If possible, include a case study or testimonial on your website or print material illustrating how you recovered quickly to help your customers in the wake of a recent disastrous situation. This is particularly powerful if you are a business-to-business organization, as your clients will also want to become operational as quickly as possible to serve their own customers after a major service disruption.
It's important to let the public and your existing clients know that your business is up and running as soon as you can and in a variety of ways. In addition to emailing existing customers, Mr. Rotor staff distributed thousands of printed fliers across the local area by placing them on car windshields in parking lots and posting them on bulletin boards.
While internet, radio, and television access may be limited when the power is out, many people will still be able to use their smartphones in the first 24 hours after disaster strikes.
As soon as you are open for business, get the word out by email and social media – especially on Twitter and Facebook. Use hashtags that include your local area, the disaster itself, and your type of business. The key is to look at what's trending to choose the hashtags that Twitter and Facebook users are following. Remember, a current backup and disaster recovery system is more than just a tool to protect your business, it can also give you an edge over the competition when the time comes.


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Michael Kyprianou & Co LLC is one of the few law firms that has established and developed a practice in relation to the provision of services relating to Investment Firms regulation, capital markets and Funds regulation. The Firm has a dedicated team of advocates dealing with international and local matters in relation to the authorization, regulation, compliance and legal matters of Cyprus Investment Firms, AIFs, UCITS Funds, EMI, ASPs and their related legal matters. The team advises investors who are interested in investing in Cyprus with the provision of the aforesaid services. It also assists existing companies in relation to the legal and compliance matters and offers advice for their ongoing regulations. It also assists in relation to European and International matters for the issuing of legal opinions and receiving of legal advice at an international level, taking into consideration the market's current situation.
The Firm's lawyers offer legal and compliance support and advice on the structuring and documenting aspects for each case, and tailor made solutions and provide answers to complex situations. The Department's core focus is to provide the most beneficial outcomes to its clients as well as to bring about real commercial results. The Firm can assist in handling matters from the time of application for authorization up to the termination of the respective company's activities.
Michael Kyprianou & Co LLC's clients in relation to this market are international clients with a wide background in technology, financial services, services provision and other related financial activities.
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The Firm is continuously being instructed in relation to capital markets, compliance and corporate law and governance. The Firm advises, both on regulatory and corporate matters, a number of Cyprus Investment Firms which have an international technological base. These firms include SAXO BANK, XTRADE, SPOTOPTION, LEVERATE FINANCIAL SERVICES, IRONFX and RELIANTCO. The details of the clientele are confidential.
We have also been instructed by a UK based UCITS Fund to assist in the registration of the marketing of its units in Cyprus through the relevant and accessible passport service offered. We have also assisted in the deregistration once the marketing aspect has been completed.
The Firm has been involved in the setup, incorporation, authorization, licensing and regulation of a number of Investment Firms in Cyprus. The Firm has provided legal advice in relation to employment, corporate, regulation and compliance, immigration and matters relating to the day to day business operations.
The Firm has acted as the liquidator of one of the biggest Cyprus Investment Firms in Cyprus.
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Home Articles What Are Bunions?
This is a bony bump that develops on the inside of the foot at the big toe joint. This occurs when the tip of the big toe pushes against the second toe, causing a noticeable lump to grow out from the inside of the foot.
The symptoms and causes of bunions need to be considered to develop a better understanding of the condition. Early symptoms include pain at the big toe joint which gradually becomes warm and swollen as the condition progresses.
Risk factors for bunions include poor foot posture like flat feet that causes extra pressure on the big toe joint, tight-fitting shoes and hereditary factors. In some cases, a painful fluid-filled sac (called a bursa) may also develop over the bunion.
If you suspect you have a bunion, consult a foot specialist for a thorough physical examination and X-ray. Early detection and treatment with shoe modifications, stretching exercises and posture correction are important in avoiding surgery (bunionectomy).
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Getting new customers is all about exposing your solution to your customers. Instead of forcing your new amazing solution down your potential customers throat and bombarding them with advertising messages that they may not be ready for, take the proven strategy of attraction marketing.
I've made every effort to keep this as jargon‐free as possible without scrimping on actionability.
Remember this : it's all about being in your customers mind when they are ready to make the purchase decision.
Today I'm going to show you how to not only nurture your customers in 7 easy steps, but also what you can do to keep them coming back and while they're at it – telling all their friends how amazing your product or service is. Lets go!
What is the purpose of this content in my sales process?
Is it to educate and inform your customers that shows you are an expert in your niche industry?
Is it for lead generation and website traffic through SEO – search engine optimisation?
Or maybe it's for showcasing your products or services … Maybe.
I for one would like to push the idea that the main purpose of the content on your website is to convert website visitors into paying customers.
At the end of the day, the success of your business is dependent upon the converted sales you make. The quantity and quality of content you post helps to educate your prospects, build your brand and trust. But all this does not really matter until you convert them to a paying customer.
Even the number of social media followers and fans you have does not carry much weight unless you are able to turn them into paying customers.
It's how much revenue you make that truly matters.
How does this piece of content I am about to create fit into my overall marketing and sales process?
How do I create awesome content that will help turn a prospect into a paying customer or client?
The answer to the above can be found in the consumer buying process or cycle. The only way you can create great content that improves your overall conversion rate is to fully understand the stages a customer goes through before buying from you.
Buyer behaviour is by no means random as many entrepreneurs assume. Your prospects have to be exposed to different types of marketing content in different stages of the buying cycle in order to finally move to your goal of pressing that 'purchase' or 'buy' button. A typical customer goes through the following stages.
This is the very first stage of the buying process where a prospect does not even know that your business, product or service exists. They are also unaware that there is a problem that can be solved by the product or service you offer.
How do you get potential customers out of this stage and into the next stage of the buying cycle?
Most business use paid ad campaigns such as billboards, TV and radio ads, Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, sponsored social media posts and many more.
The great thing about sharing your content off your website is you have the ability to remarket / advertise directly to your warm prospects as they move across the internet. When they visit their favourite social media platforms and other websites, your ad can magically appear, reminding them that they in the past expressed a level of interest in your product or service.
This is basically the point where prospects identify certain problems that they need to solve. Awareness is the actual beginning of the buying process and this is where prospects get to know about some of the products and services that your business has to offer.
Nowadays, business owners and marketers do not wait for prospects to become aware, but rather create the awareness of the problem themselves. They simply create a problem and offer a solution – and it really works!
Once a prospect is aware of their existing problem, they begin to show interest. Interest often leads to a search for possible solution. For instance, if a customer needs to preserve food, they begin to show interest in refrigerators.
They proceed to educate themselves on the different types and makes of refrigerators available in the market. This is where SEO really comes into play – you want to be that company that appears high up in Google so they click on your website.
Businesses are publishing fresh content at least once a week.
Buyers viewed at least 3 to 5 pieces of content before contacting a business.
Consideration is all about evaluating available options. The customer already knows that they have a problem that needs solving. They have identified possible solutions to their problem and now it's time to evaluate which product or services suits them best.
For a business, this is the stage where you have to stand out from your competition in order to be chosen by the customer.
Justification is where the customer is making the decision of whether to buy or not to buy. This is the point where a prospect needs to be convinced that a particular product or service will meet their needs or solve their problems. Businesses can use testimonials and reviews to push prospects to the next stage.
People often buy with their heart/emotion and justify it with their heads/logic.
Finally, you have successfully guided an ordinary consumer through most of the stages of the buying cycle and they are ready to make a purchase. During this stage, it is critical that you remove all buying resistance.
Make sure that your purchase stage is as smooth as possible. Make it easy for your new customer to buy from you. In store, this may be as easy as being accessible and having pleasant sales staff and an array of payment options. Online, this may be having an easy checkout process that doesn't spook them with unnecessary checkout steps that could lead to cart abandonment.
The purchase stage is only complete when a customer makes a purchase and transfers funds from their account to yours.
The buying cycle never ends there. The next big step is turning your new customers into loyal advocates then into raving fans of your product or service. This not only creates an excellent brand and company culture, but drastically cuts down on the amount of advertising and marketing you must do because your customers are the ones leaving Google reviews and recommending you to their friends and colleagues.
Most businesses look to retain their existing customers as it costs considerably less to retain an existing one and get them to buy again from you then to go out and get a new one.
In order to keep customers coming back for more, you need to implement numerous remarketing techniques and customer retention strategies such as sending educational emails, having frequent communication, building rapport, doing follow-ups, providing outstanding technical support, extraordinary customer service and much more. Love on your clients, treat them like friends and they will keep coming back.
If you take the time to fully understand and explore the above listed touchpoints of the 7 touchpoints your customers need to go through before they buy from you, then you will be in a better position to create awesome content that not only educates your ideal customer that moves them through your sales funnel, but produces the results your business needs to succeed.
Best of luck – please comment below of your successes and challenges. I love to hear where you're at!
You touched all the key factors of landing a sale. Fantastic read.


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The Impact of the Great Recession on Student Achievement: Evidence from Population Data
64 Pages Posted: 31 Aug 2017
See all articles by Kenneth Shores
Kenneth Shores
University of Delaware - Collegeof Human Services, Education & Public Policy
Matthew Steinberg
University of Pennsylvania - Graduate School of Education
The Great Recession was the most severe economic downturn in the United States since the Great Depression. Using newly available population-level achievement data from the Stanford Education Data Archive (SEDA), we estimate the impact of the Great Recession on the math and English language arts (ELA) achievement of all grade 3-8 students in the United States. Employing a difference-in-differences strategy that leverages both cross-district variation in the economic shock of the recession and within-district, cross-cohort variation in school-age years of exposure to the recession, we find that the onset of the Great Recession significantly reduced student math and ELA achievement. Moreover, the recessionary effect on student achievement was concentrated among school districts serving more economically disadvantaged and minority students, indicating that the adverse effects of the recession were not distributed equally among the population of U.S. students. We also find that the academic impact of the recession was more severe for students who were older at the time of first exposure to the recession, compared to their younger counterparts. Finally, the recession's effects on student achievement were concentrated in districts with the largest reductions in teacher personnel, providing evidence that the effects we observe are driven, in part, by the recession's negative effects on school resources. We discuss the implications of and potential policy responses to economic shocks that adversely affect student achievement and widen educational inequality.
Keywords: Great Recession, Economic Downturn, Student Achievement
JEL Classification: I21, I25
Shores, Kenneth and Steinberg, Matthew, The Impact of the Great Recession on Student Achievement: Evidence from Population Data (August 28, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3026151 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3026151
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Pictured are (l-r) Stephanie Mansfield, Mark Cantor, Brian Doughty, Sandy Davis, Monica Frobese, EJ Brooks, Erin Bowles, and Judson Center President Lenora Hardy-Foster.
Brooks Kushman, an intellectual property (IP) and technology law firm, has been selected as a 2017 Corporate Partner of the Year by the Judson Center, known for its mission to strengthen children, adults and families impacted by abuse, neglect, autism and other mental health challenges.
The honor was bestowed on Brooks Kushman at the Judson Center's annual Community of Caring Summer Solstice event on June 22.
The volunteer efforts of Brooks Kushman's Stephanie Mansfield and Sandy Davis were hailed by Judson Center leaders at the gathering held at its Royal Oak campus. Mansfield and Davis were instrumental in galvanizing Brooks Kushman team members' participation in the Chemical Bank Detroit Free Press Marathon and the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) to benefit Judson Center. Brooks Kushman has raised more than $100,000 for Judson Center since 2008.
Mansfield, a 20-year veteran of the firm who specializes in patent prosecution, has organized team members for the last 10 years to be part of the Brooks Kushman Team Autism group that participated in Detroit Marathon events and raised money for Judson Center and its Autism Connections program. Davis, meanwhile, led the firm's work during the 2016 and 2017 auto shows in Detroit.


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The Seven Worlds of Vladimir Vysotsky
Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center
"Hallways. Seven Worlds of Vysotsky" is a new exhibition at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center dedicated to the late singer and actor Vladimir Vysotsky, considered to be among the most brilliant poets of post-war Soviet Russia. The exhibition is the first in a series dedicated to the lives and art of prominent Jewish figures.
Vysotsky's family on his father's side came from the Brest region of contemporary Belarus. Allegedly, the poet's family name is derived from the name of the settlement Vysokoye. Even though Vysotsky's Jewish heritage has never been a significant theme in his poetry and songs, he acknowledged it in one of his poems: "A family of Jews, they dwelt in Rome / Vysotsky, known nowhere else but their home."
Vysotsky would have celebrated his 80th birthday this year. He died in 1980 at just 42 years old. A singer-songwriter, poet and stage and screen actor, Vysotsky had an enormous and lasting effect on Soviet and Russian culture. A recent biopic "Vysotsky: Thank God I'm Alive" (with a script by his son) provoked controversy because of the way it presented the artist — who is still idolized today — by largely focusing on his drug and alcohol problems.
Little is known about Vysotsky's personal life despite his immense popularity in the Soviet Union. Since he often sang in the first person, his fans assumed his songs represented his own experiences. But they didn't always. Contrary to his songs' subjects, Vysotsky never took part in World War II, never served time in a prison camp and never even sailed a ship. His songs took place in worlds created by their author, but they felt so authentic that his listeners often mistook them for the real thing.
The idea behind "Hallways. Seven Worlds of Vysotsky" was to show some of these worlds and explain their roots. The exhibition is literally a sequence of hallways, each symbolizing a certain theme in Vysotsky's poetry. Visitors will be able to walk from one hallway to another and see replicas of a Moscow communal apartment, a World War II trench, a Moscow alleyway, a mental hospital and a typical Soviet pub. The experience is similar to immersive theater. All the items are authentic: furniture, cutlery and clothing — there's even fresh food in the kitchen. You can touch most of the items and even open drawers in a cupboard.
"Hallways" tackles just one aspect of Vysotsky: his poetry. The exhibition only briefly mentions his work as an actor or his tumultuous personal life in the section devoted to the artist's biography. The poems escort you along the way. Handwritten and typewritten drafts are displayed on the walls, while the headphones' recording explains the visuals provided within the "hallways."
In every hallway there's background information explaining why this or that theme appeared in Vysotsky's oeuvre. The communal apartment tells the story of the poet's childhood; a dangerous alleyway refers to widespread crime in Moscow after World War II; and the psychiatric ward is Vysotsky's reflection on the U.S.S.R. as a whole.
The exhibition is the brainchild of Yan Vizinberg, the creative director of Lorem Ipsum, the company that participated in the creation of multimedia installations for the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg and Zaryadye Park in Moscow. To produce the exhibition, he gathered a film crew. Production designer Andrei Ponkratov, who worked with Andrei Zvyagintsev on "Leviathan" and "Loveless," served as the art director; while cinematographer Vladislav Opelyants, known for working with embattled director Kirill Serebrennikov on his last two movies, "The Student" and "Summer," was the lighting designer.
After exhibiting at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, "Hallways. Seven Worlds of Vysotsky" will tour Russia and other former Soviet countries. It runs through Sept. 23.
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Visitors welcome at any time.
To schedule a tour, please call us at the phone number listed above.
City living is an enjoyable experience for the residents who call St. Catherine Labourè their home. We are conveniently located on the Sisters of Charity Hospital campus on Main Street in Buffalo, which is easily accessible by private or public transportation.
St. Catherine's is a two-level, air-conditioned facility where residents have single or shared rooms available to them. Rooms have individual climate controls for each person's comfort.
Our residents have quick access to immediate care at Sisters Hospital should they need it, as well as specialists, x-ray, lab and other hospital services.
They also have access to our on-site Adult Day Health Care program to help ease the transition back to home after successfully completing long-term rehabilitation.
All exit doors are equipped with an alert system for the safety of our residents.
Our associates find activities that you will enjoy and engage in to help with your adjustment to community living. Participation is voluntary.
A wide selection of meal choices meet a variety of culinary preferences. Residents have access to a private dining room for family gatherings or small parties, as well as a second floor patio for relaxation or picnics.
Spirituality of all denominations is woven into the fabric of services provided. Our chaplain is an expert in servicing the spiritual needs of residents and patients.
Mass is celebrated three times per week and daily communion is available.
Visitors for our residents are welcome at any time.
Several payment options are available including private pay, Medicare and Medicaid.
Financial counselors are available to guide patients and caregivers through this process.
In general, Medicare pays for short periods of skilled nursing care. Medicaid pays for long nursing home stays for those whose income and savings are insufficient to cover the cost.
St. Catherine Labourè Health Care Center is a proud participant in the WNY Alliance for Person-Centered Care, the first community-wide initiative of its kind in the U.S. aimed at transforming the way nursing homes and senior care providers deliver care to elders. Its vision is to educate, promote and develop person-centered care and to improve the quality of life for elders, their families and the community at large.
The Continuing & Home Care Foundation supports Catholic Health's subacute, long-term care and home care facilities. Please consider donating to the foundation to help us continue to provide needed care in Western New York.


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Young entrepreneurs celebrate release of Heartland hangi-flavoured potato chips
Lincoln High School 2016 YES Company Parareka have continued their business and their Hangi flavour potato chips are hitting the shelves this week.
It's crunch time for a group of enterprising Kiwi students as their hangi flavoured potato chips are launched to the public this week.
The eight former Lincoln High School students hope New Zealanders and the touring public will like the new chips, which took two years to hit shelves.
Sarah Freeman, whose family recently moved to Owaka in the Catlins, is part of the group who came up with the new chip flavour as part of the national Young Enterprise Scheme two years ago.
The scheme aims to teach students how to start a business.
The year 13 students had the choice of creating a start-up, or developing a new product within an existing business.
They decided on creating a new potato chip flavour for South Canterbury company Heartland Potato Chips.
Their flavour – hangi – was inspired by the Māori method of cooking food in an earth pit.
"Our goal was to give our project a New Zealand aspect," Freeman said.
The fact potato chips were so universally popular was also a factor in the project.
The students formed a company called Parareka, after the Māori word for potato, and created a logo.
Using their entrepreneurial skills, they approached Heartland, the Bowan family-owned business in Washdyke, near Timaru.
The potato-growing, chip-making business owners embraced the idea of a novel chip with a distinctly Kiwi flavour.


In the Bible we read of a number of occasions where God's people gather, with a purpose, to pray and fast.
For more information please visit our fasting page which explains more about fasting. This page is concerned with the purpose of this prayer and fasting time.
If you look across our Baptist Churches in Scotland you see Churches stuck at these places. We are at one of these "barrier points" at the moment. Our average attendance is now hovering around 250. If we remain as we are we will stick at this point. Two actions will enable us to punch through this barrier and move on to the next phase of growth.
Increase our accommodation. Space is a barrier to growth. When a church reaches 80% full it is "perceived" by the attenders to be full! Our Growing Space team is tackling this barrier. Nelson Searcy comments "Do not introduce a second service too early. It's better to grow to 300 or 400 before starting one".
Certainly since the last church meeting it has become evident that any move to two services in the morning would bring considerable challenges, particularly in regards to people resources. Searcy identifies our challenge well, we need to grow a bit more before we can make the final decision on moving or not moving to two services. This in itself might just be an intermediate step, before moving to bigger premises or church planting.
To help us continue to know the right way forward the Leadership Team have employed an architect company "McLean Architects" to do a feasibility study on the church sanctuary. Don McLean, Managing Director of McLean Architects, is a member of the Scottish Baptist Property Group, and has given us advice in the past. In brief we have asked that this study identify potential for additional seating capacity. If we could grow by another 50+ then we would be in a much stronger place to move to two services and then onwards.
Increase Staff. Increasing accommodation by itself will not enable us to punch through the growth barrier, there needs to be an increase in staff also. Two possible areas of staff growth, may be around administration and community engagement.
Exciting times and stimulating challenges require God's people to come together and pray.
There is clearly a biblical precedent for God's people praying and fasting for the purpose of more clearly discerning His will.
We are calling the Church family in EMBC to a time of prayer and fasting during the week of the 16 to the 22 of June. Our focus is specifically the above issues, increasing space and should we increase staff.
On Friday the 20 and Saturday the 21 of June the church will be open for prayer.
We would love you to come along on one of these days.
The prayer room is also available during the week and can be booked through Joanne Gray, in The Village Centre.
this is what it is all about, people far from God coming to faith in God. This is why we wrestle with the big issues of where God is leading us, we want to see His Kingdom growing in our time and in our town.
At this meeting we will share and feedback on what God has been saying to us as a gathered church family.
Let us come with confidence to our Father God, through Jesus and the guidance of the Holy Spirit to listen, ask, seek and call out to Him who loves to guide us.


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Has individual storage slots in the foam for 15 microphones and storage compartment for microphone accessories. This is an extremely solid case! Compare to any other ATA case and you'll agree that OSP Quality Cases are second-to-none. This new and improved item is more compact and has rounde..
OSP Professional pop shield filter for studio use complete with goosneck. Product Features: Dual layer mesh filter effectively reduces breath noise and pops Flexible metal gooseneck Universal vice style clamp for stand mounting ..
X-style keyboard stand with adjustable height, double braced construction and non-slip support tiers and feet. Easy adjustable lever lock system. Black finish. Profile KDS400D Features: Double X Braced Design For Maximum Stability Secure-Lock Center Clutch Height Adjustment..
This stand is well crafted and very sturdy. Featuring a microphone boom arm and tripod base. Height adjustable, black. The adjustable clasp allows easy manouvering of the boom arm. Order today for inexpensive, reliable mic placement. ..
The Pyle PCBLCO101 inter-locking cable protection ramp is great for running cables safely in high traffic areas. The Pyle PCBLCO101 cable ramp covers provide safe and reliable protection for cables, wires, hoses and pipes. Made from heavy duty engineered construction, these cable protect..
The Pyle PCBLCO19 inter-locking cable protection ramp is great for running cables in continuous tracks in high traffic areas. The Pyle 'PCBLCO19' Cable Ramp Track Covers provide safe and reliable cord and wire management. Made from heavy duty engineered construction, these cable protecto..
The Pyle PCBLCO22 inter-locking cable protection ramp is great for running cables in continuous tracks in high traffic areas. The Pyle 'PCBLCO' Cable Ramp Track Covers provide safe and reliable cord and wire management. Made from heavy duty engineered construction, these cable protectors..
The Pyle PCBLCO26 inter-locking cable protection ramp with covered groves is great for running cables in continuous tracks in high traffic areas. The Pyle 'PCBLCO' Cable Ramp Track Covers provide safe and reliable cord and wire management. Made from heavy duty engineered construction, th..
The Pyle cajon travel & storage bag works with the Pyle stringed Jam Cajon (Model PCJD15). Safely store and transport your cajon with this stylish zipper bag. Pack it up and play it at the party with the Pyle cajon travel & storage bag. Will work for all cajons measuring less..
With the PEPF20, you can prevent annoying vocal thrusts and p-pops that are the bane of recording engineers in any professional recording environment. Stop plosives and protect your microphone with this easy-to-install pop filter. The swivel amount allows for easy positioning. Includes boom ..
The Pyle PEPF30 Microphone Pop Screen is an effective studio tool for vocal filtration. It effectively softens explosive 'p' and 'b' consonants from your voice and controls unwanted breath noise. To use, simply attach the clamp to your mic stand and position the pop screen anywhere from 2'' ..
The Pyle PEPF40 Microphone Pop Screen is an effective studio tool for vocal filtration. It effectively softens explosive 'p' and 'b' consonants from your voice and controls unwanted breath noise. To use, simply attach the clamp to your mic stand and position the pop screen anywhere from 2'' ..
Don't be unprepared, Get the PGUTRPKIT11 Professional guitar service tool kit from Pyle to aid in all your guitar repair and maintenance jobs. Pyle PGUTRPKIT11 Features: Full set service kit for guitar, bass and other string musical instrument The must-have kit for the musi..


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Owing to the Project, Valožyn will become a launching platform to barrier-free development of tourism. The first Belarusian tourist center and a hostel for people with disabilities will be built in the city, and a special path will be created in Naliboki Forest (Nalibokskaja pušča).
Goals and Objectives: Based on joint efforts of the District Executive Committee, non-governmental organizations and the tourism sector, facilitate social integration of people with disabilities and make tourist services available for everyone.
Intermediate Outcomes: The project presentation was held in Valožyn in December 2015; it was attended by tourist farm owners from Valožyn District and representatives of Belarusian tourist business interested in the development of tourism for disabled people. A training workshop for volunteers was held in February; they were trained to define urban environment accessibility for disabled people based on the case of Valožyn. The attendees: tourist farm owners, representatives of authorities and NGOs, journalists, along with experts from the Belarusian Society of Disabled People based their assessments of accessibility for disabled people on 279 infrastructure elements, such as building entries, ramps, entrance halls, restrooms, driveways, parking lots, etc., in 66 establishments and 14 tourist farms in the city and raion of Valožyn. According to the monitoring findings, 30 public facilities providing social and recreational services will be adapted for people with disabilities. Ramps, handrails, tactile paving and special parking spaces have already been arranged at 19 facilities.
The first start-up school was held in Valožyn in autumn of 2017. The participants' ideas were focused on involvement of people with disabilities. In December, the school top three finalists presented their achievements to mass media.
A tourist information and recreational centre for disabled people, including a hostel and a conference hall; as well as an outfitted eco-path in the Naliboki Forest, are to be opened in spring – summer of 2018. The Social Integration Festival will be held at the same time with the centre opening ceremony; the Festival will bring together about 1,000 guests. The Festival agenda is developed by 60 participants of an inclusion camp for people with and without disabilities.


Still the girl from the block! After a successful day in the slopes or the park, unwind and get comfy wearing our classic design - the Block Life. This ringspun t-shirt is slightly tapered to give that comfy Missy fit.


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Home / UNHCR says its transferring facilities for refugees in Libya are overcrowded
UNHCR says its transferring facilities for refugees in Libya are overcrowded
UNHCR complained of the overcrowding of its facility for the gathering and transferring of refugees, in Libya, explaining that this will hamper the transferring process of migrants.
The UNHCR explained in a statement that the overcrowding of its facility will affect its ability to transfer refugees at risk in Libya, to other safer countries.
The facility, which was built by the UNHCR in December last year, is overloaded and hosts more than 1,000 refugees, while it is only equipped to accommodate 700 people, according to the UNHCR.
Libya left to deal with illegal immigration alone, Al-Sarraj says
Migrants protest UNHCR decision to evacuate small number of migrants from Tajoura center
UNHCR evacuates 130 immigrants from Libya to Niger
Libya's Foreign Minister and UNHCR discuss sending immigrants home or to third countries