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LAlliance des forces démocratiques pour la libération du Congo (AFDL), ou parfois Alliance des forces démocratiques pour la libération du Congo-Zaïre, était une coalition de dissidents à Mobutu Sese Seko et de groupes ethniques minoritaires congolais qui emmenés par  Laurent-Désiré Kabila prirent le pouvoir au terme de la première guerre du Congo (1996-1997). Bien que l'alliance ait réussi à évincer Mobutu du pouvoir, elle ne survécut pas aux tensions entre Kabila et ses anciens alliés, l'Ouganda et le Rwanda, ce qui amena au déclenchement de la deuxième guerre du Congo le .

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Vers le milieu de 1996, la situation dans le Zaïre oriental devenait de plus en plus tendue. Après le génocide au Rwanda de 1994, des centaines de milliers de Hutus avaient traversé la frontière jusqu'au Zaïre où ils se rassemblèrent en de grands camps de réfugiés. De nombreux participants au génocide, dont des membres des Forces armées rwandaises (FAR) et des miliciens interahamwe, profitèrent de l'anonymat offert par les camps pour se réorganiser dans le mouvement Rassemblement pour le Retour et la Démocratie au Rwanda (RDR). Le RDR commença à utiliser les camps comme base arrière pour son infiltration au-delà de la frontière et conduire une insurrection. Malgré les protestations du gouvernement du Rwanda, le gouvernement zaïrois, et les organisations internationales apportant l'aide humanitaire aux camps ne purent  séparer ces militants des populations de réfugiés.

Au même moment, la situation des Banyamulenge, des Tutsis présents au Zaïre depuis des générations, devenait plus précaire. Ils furent longtemps l'objet de discriminations, étant des arrivants relativement récents dans le pays, de culture et de langue différents des tribus voisines, et instrumentalisés par Mobutu pour entretenir des dissensions dans le pays pour asseoir son pouvoir. L'arrivée massive de Hutus, qui s'en prirent naturellement aux Banyamulenge, accrut encore les tensions. Le gouvernement du Rwanda, pour sa part, voyait les Banyamulenge comme des alliés naturels, et leur apporta un soutien militaire en prévision d'une escalade éventuelle et désormais probable.

Formation de l'AFDL

Le , le vice-gouverneur de la ville de Bukavu au Kivu, à la suite du fait que les Banyamulenge devenaient de plus en plus armés et présentaient un danger, décréta que ces derniers n'étaient plus les bienvenus et qu'ils devaient quitter le pays. En réponse, les  Banyamulenge menèrent un soulèvement armé contre le gouvernement local. C'était le début de la longue guerre entre les Forces armées zaïroises (FAZ) et le Front patriotique rwandais (FPR) qui opérait sous le nom de Banyamulenge et AFDL. Car, c'est le chef d'état-major rwandais qui en sera le commandant des opérations et de l'assaut qui se préparait. C'est ainsi qu'au bout de compte, il y aura un échange de mortier entre les FAZ et le FPR stationnées sur les deux rives du lac Kivu. Ces événements sont désormais considérés comme les premiers engagements de la première guerre du Congo.

Laurent-Désiré Kabila, un ancien rebelle maoïste qui, après avoir animé le maquis d'Hewa Bora à Fizi, avait passé la précédente décennie à vendre de l'or en Tanzanie, réapparut comme porte-parole de l'AFDL et leader de son ancien groupe, le Parti de la révolution du peuple. L'AFDL en ce temps-là comprenait aussi le Conseil national de la résistance pour la démocratie (CNRD) dirigé par André Kissasse Ngandu, le Mouvement révolutionnaire pour la Libération du Zaïre dirigé par Anselme Masusu Nindaga, et l'Alliance démocratique des Peuples de Déogratias Bugera, surnommé 'Douglas'.  Il faut préciser que lorsque le Rwanda et l'Ouganda mettaient en place l'AFDL, Laurent-Désiré Kabila n'y était pas encore associé. La partie congolaise était représentée par André Kissasse Ngandu, comme leader du groupe, Masusu Nindaga et Déogratias Bugera qui représentait les intérêts de Banyamulenge. Et Laurent-Désiré Kabila, pour sa verve oratoire ne va rejoindre l'Alliance que plus tard, comme porte-parole.

Mais, après avoir nié leur participation à la conception, création et animations de l'AFDL, le président du Rwanda Paul Kagame et celui de l'Ouganda Yoweri Museveni, n'ont plus pu se voiler la face lorsque les deux troupes s'affronteront dans la Province orientale, sur la terre, zaïroise pour le contrôle de l'or. Le  aura lieu le premier affrontement, plusieurs civils congolais perdront la vie. Du 2 au , l'affrontement se répétera. Ce conflit entre le Rwanda et l'Ouganda sur le sol congolais prendra l'allure d'une vraie guerre au mois d'août et ne prendra fin que le  à la signature de l'accord de Mweya, entre Kagame et Museveni. Et le , pour un accord de paix, ils se retrouvèrent à Rwakitura.

Déroulement de la guerre

Les premières actions de l'AFDL furent de prendre les villes proches des frontières orientales et de disperser les camps de réfugiés qui offraient un refuge facile aux militants des forces Hutues du RDR, ce qui fut dénoncé par les organisations humanitaires. À chaque destruction de camp, les réfugiés passaient au suivant, aggravant les problèmes humanitaires et sanitaires.  Le camp de Mugungu, au nord du lac Kivu, atteint , ce qui le rendait ingérable. Les forces Hutues et zaïroises furent cependant rapidement défaites en de sanglants affrontements, et les provinces du Nord et du Sud-Kivu furent rapidement acquises. Les réfugiés Hutus s'enfuirent, et environ  d'entre eux revinrent au Rwanda. Plusieurs centaines de milliers d'autres s'éparpillèrent dans les forêts du Kivu, exposés à la famine, aux maladies, aux fauves et aux bandes armées.

Pendant que Kabila, de par ses contacts internationaux et son multilinguisme, était vu comme porte-parole de l'AFDL, la question du dirigeant restait débattue. André Kissasse Ngandu, était le président de l'aile militaire de l'AFDL, le Conseil national pour la Résistance et la Démocratie (CNRD). Cette tension interne entre les deux hommes fut résolue le , quand Ngandu mourut en des circonstances obscures au Nord-Kivu. Kabila se présenta alors comme le président du CNRD, ainsi que porte-parole et responsable politique.

Une fois les Kivus acquis, le reste de la guerre fut essentiellement une longue marche de l'AFDL et de ses alliés à travers le pays jusqu'à Kinshasa. La population, lassée par le régime de Mobutu Sese Seko, accueillit généralement favorablement les conquérants. Les soldats de l'armée zaïroise prirent la fuite, se rendirent sans combattre ou rejoignirent les insurgés. Le , après une dernière médiation avortée entre Mobutu et Kabila en compagnie de Nelson Mandela, l'AFDL atteignit le quartier de Masina à Kinshasa et Kabila s'autoproclama président de la République démocratique du Congo. L'AFDL fut rapidement transformée en la nouvelle armée nationale.

Notes et références

Voir aussi
 Politique en République démocratique du Congo
 Massacres et violations graves des droits de l'homme en République démocratique du Congo entre 1994 et 2003
 Agence nationale de renseignements

Liens externes
 What Kabila is Hiding: Civilian Killings and Impunity in Congo, Report by Human Rights Watch,
  Congo backgrounder by Socialism Today

Politique en république démocratique du Congo
Faction armée en république démocratique du Congo


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Childcare centres encouraged to audit toys and books
Rebecca Urban, The Australian, 21 August 2017
Childcare centres, preschools and libraries will be encouraged to scrutinise books, toys and posters to ensure play spaces are "gender equitable" in the latest government-led bid to tackle family violence starting in childhood.
Based on the premise that gender inequality is linked to violence against women, a new resource for Victorian councils will help children's services to audit their resources to identify those that contribute to rigid gender stereotypes.
Produced by Melbourne's Darebin City Council, the Creating Gender Equity in the Early Years guide acknowledges that children's use of play areas often differs, depending on whether they are male or female.
"It is important to not only think about who is where and how often, but what are they doing there?" the guide says.
"What are the storylines of their play telling you about what the children think are the normal roles for women and men?"
The guide also highlights the importance of books for communicating messages that reinforce or challenge messages about gender, and suggests reviewing the storylines of all books held on the premises. "How many books include only male characters?" it asks. "Of all the characters in all the books, what percentage overall are female?
"Do the attributes, activities and behaviours of the main character reflect gender stereotypes? Do female characters achieve success because of their own initiative and intelligence, or is it due to their looks and relationships with male characters?"
The guide says stories that depict girls and boys participating in a wide variety of activities are important: "For example, stories about girls who get to be the hero and save the day, stories about boys spending a raining day inside doing the dishes and baking cakes".
The initiative, which was one of 10 local government projects aimed at preventing violence against women to share in $345,000 of state grants, follows the rollout of the Respectful Relationships program.
That program, which encourages teachers to intervene in "gendered play" and avoid gender-specific language such as "boys don't cry", has been criticised for being preoccupied with masculinity and gender stereotypes.
Darebin council's preventing violence against women officer Teneille Summers said research had consistently shown that family violence had its roots in gender inequality, and the early years were a vital life stage for shaping future behaviours.
"If girls are interested in playing with dolls, that's fine, as long as we're not preventing them from exploring other interests as well," Ms Summers said.
"It's about thinking about ways that everyone can have a go in each of the (play) corners.
"I think early years educators are considering a lot of this already but they wouldn't necessarily think about it as preventing family violence. But that is what they are doing."
But Centre for Independent Studies senior research fellow Jeremy Sammut warned the program should alarm parents because children were being used as cannon fodder in the culture war.
"Rather than mould character and foster universal values of treating everyone equally, regardless of sex — which is the true purpose of all education — this guide is clearly politicising childcare by advising how to indoctrinate kids with the ideology that says 'gender' is a social construct used by men to oppress women," Dr Sammut said.
Ms Summers denied that the program was about enforcing political correctness on children's services. "We've got great confidence in this resource because it's evidence-based and it's grounded on the findings of groups like Our Watch and the royal commission (into family violence)."
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Physician Dr. Michael Greger is also the author of the health and nutrition book 'How Not To Die', which instantly became a New York Times Best Seller. The book has become something of a holy grail within the plant based community, with a wealth of information on how switching to a plant based diet can be beneficial to human health.


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Q: Restrict tag value modification I am writing to ask your assistance regarding an important Azure topic.

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I have 30 different resources in Azure in different resource groups in a subscription. There is a tag (owner) on all resources. If the value of owner tag is a username the only person who will be able to modify the owner tag is the user whose username is equal the owner tag's value. Of course if user1 modified the owner tag's value to another existing username (user2) user1 wouldn't be able to modify the owner tag's value. In this case the only person who could modify the owner tag's value is user2. Is it possible to restrict tag value modification at any Azure resources?

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I have 30 different resources in Azure in different resource groups in a subscription. I create a custom role (ops-role) which has similar privileges in Azure than a Contributor except this role doesn't have privilege to modify the tags and tags' value. Then I create a another custom role (tagger-role) which has only (or almost only) tag modification privileges. Is it possible to create these roles in Azure?
I need a solution for the 1st or the 2nd scenario. I would like to restrict the tags modification on the Azure resources.

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*if my memory servers me well, there is no separate role for tags, anyone with write permission over the resource can tag so this is essentially not achievable, you need a custom api on top of azure to do that

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There are a lot of myths about yoga that can often prevent people interested in it to even try it. In this article we will look at some of the most common myths and let you know the facts so you can see whether or not yoga is right for you.
Myth #1: Yoga іѕ not much of a workout.
Fact: yoga uses the weight of your body for strength training. It is as effective as other forms of workout, though you may not always break a sweat.
Myth #2: Yoga is for lazy people because it is so slow.
Speed does not necessarily equal a better workout and it can often lead to injury. The slow and steady movements are low-impact which means are safe for just about everyone. In the same way that some weightlifters use slow lifting to work deeper into the muscle, yoga can build long, lean muscle more easily.
Myth #3 –You don't burn a lot of calories with yoga.
Any movement of the body will burn calories. It is just a question of the rate of burn. Depending on the length of the yoga session and type of yoga, for instance, Hatha versus Bikram or ashtanga, you can burn anywhere from 500 to 1300 calories in one 90 minute session.
Myth #4- Yoga can't help me meet my weight loss goals.
This myth is based on the 2 previous myths. The truth is that yoga helps you lose weight and then maintain it in a number of ways. Any exercise is good for you and helps your body burn calories. Lean muscle speeds up the metabolism and burns more calories than fat.
Yoga is for everyone, young or old, male as well as female. While it is true that a lot of women do yoga, it often has to do with the fact that is such an efficient workout and does not need a lot of fancy equipment or hours in the gym to show real results.
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If you've been thinking about trying yoga, we hope these facts will dispel any myths you may have believed in, so you can strengthen your body, mind and spirit.


Advances in magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia are opening new doors in cancer therapy. As a standalone or adjuvant therapy this new modality has the opportunity significantly advance thermal medicine. Major advantages of using magnetic magnetite (Fe3O4) nanoparticles are their highly localized power deposition and the fact that the alternating magnetic fields (AMF) used to excite them can penetrate deeply into the body without harmful effect. One limitation, however, which hinders the technology, is the problem of inductive heating of normal tissue by the AMF if the frequency and fields strength are not appropriately matched to the tissue. Restricting AMF amplitude and frequency limits the heat dose which can be selectively applied to cancerous tissue via the magnetic nanoparticle, thus lowering therapeutic effect. In an effort to address this problem, particles with optimized magnetic properties must be developed. Using particles with higher saturation magnetizations and coercivity will enhance hysteresis heating increasing particle power density at milder AMF strengths and frequencies. In this study we used oil in water microemulsions to develop nanoparticles with zero-valent Fe cores and magnetite shells. The superior magnetic properties of zero-valent Fe give these particles the potential for improved SAR over pure magnetite particles. Silane and subsequently dextran have been attached to the particle surface in order to provide a biocompatible surfactant coating. The heating capability of the particles was tested in-vivo using a mouse tumor model. Although we determined that the final stage of synthesis, purification of the dextran coated particles, permits significant corrosion/oxidation of the iron core to hematite, the particles can effectively heat tumor tissue. Improving the purification procedure will allow the generation Fe/Fe3O4 with superior SAR values.


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Correspondence to Luc Bovens, Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A2AE, UK; l.bovens{at}lse.ac.uk
The central distinction in Yashar Saghai's thought-provoking article is between nudges and (behavioural) prods. What distinguishes a prod from a nudge is that a prod is 'substantially controlling' (SC-ing) whereas a nudge is 'substantially non-controlling' (SNC-ing). This has moral relevance in so far that a nudge but not a prod preserves freedom of choice.1
What is it to be influenced in a SNC-ing way? For Saghai, a subject is SNC-ed if she could easily resist the influence, meaning that she can effortlessly (i) become aware of the pressure exerted and (ii) 'inhibit the triggered propensity' if she wanted to.
In The Ethics of Nudge,2 I discuss subliminal images sliced into films to increase, say, the consumption of Coke. Suppose that we could also use this technology to encourage healthier eating habits. I argue that subliminal images are not nudges because they do not satisfy 'token interference transparency', that is, it is not possible for a person to become aware that they are being influenced when the image is presented to them. Saghai's condition (i) maps onto this requirement.
Condition (ii) is harder to understand. A commercial advertiser aims for prods, that is, to make 'irresistible offers' or offers which are such that the subjects could not inhibit the triggered propensity to drink Coke even if they wanted to.
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Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier (16. prosince 1888 Kodaň – 23. září 1965 tamtéž) byl dánský sportovní šermíř a veslař, občanským povoláním lékař. Byl členem kodaňského klubu Fægteklubben af 1907, trénoval ho Leonce Mahaut. Získal 25 titulů mistra Dánska a 13 titulů mistra Skandinávie ve fleretu, kordu i šavli. V rozmezí let 1908–1948 se zúčastnil sedmi olympijských her, největším úspěchem byla stříbrná medaile v kordu na Letních olympijských hrách 1912. Byl židovského původu, olympijské hry v Berlíně v roce 1936 bojkotoval na protest proti nacistickému režimu, druhou světovou válku přežil v exilu ve Švédsku. Jeho manželka Ellen Osiierová vyhrála soutěž fleretistek na olympiádě 1924 a stala se tak první ženskou olympijskou vítězkou v šermu. Po ukončení kariéry zastával Osiier funkci předsedy Dánské šermířské federace, obdržel Olympijský čestný diplom a byl jmenován do Mezinárodní síně slávy židovského sportu.

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HomeSociety NewsI Locked The Door Immediately She Entered My Office, She Begged Me But I Didn't Listen- Man Confessed
I Locked The Door Immediately She Entered My Office, She Begged Me But I Didn't Listen- Man Confessed
Staff Legitpost 2 months ago
One Dr. Stephen Ukenna has been arrested by the Police Operatives of Ogun State Command for allegedly sleeping with one of his students that he lured into his office. The lecturer, Dr. Stephen Ukenna was a lecturer in the Department of Business Management at the Covenant University in Ota. According to reports by Linda Ikeji, Dr. Stephen forcefully slept with a 17 year old student in his office after tricking her to come alone. After the lecturer was arrested, the spokesperson of the Ogun State Police Command, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi, gave a detained narration of how the lecturer raped the 17 year old girl in his office and how they were able to arrest him.
The 41 year old lecturer lured the student (name withheld) to come to his office alone by lying to her that he wanted to plan a surprise birthday party for her close friend. The girl was not aware that the lecturer was looking for an opportunity to have intercourse with her, so she went to see him in the office. On getting to the lecturer's office, the first thing he did was lock the door. Before they girl could realize what was going on and cry for help, the man grabbed her and forcefully slept with her on the top of the table in his office.
The lecturer might have threatened the girl not to tell anyone but she could not hide it from her parents. She told her parent what happened and her parents took the necessary steps. They went to the Police station to lodge complaint and the police worked on the information to arrest the lecturer. ACP Muyideen Obe swiftly deployed his JWC team to the University to arrest the lecturer.
During interrogation, the lecturer admitted that he forcefully slept with the girl with no viable justification for the terrible act. The State Commissioner of Police, CP, Edward Awolowo has ordered that the lecturer should be effective immediately transferred to the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, SCIID for further investigation and diligent prosecution.
We hope the girl gets justice for what happened to her because she would have to live with that nightmare for the rest of her life. The pains and thoughts never go away and it leaves an everlasting scar in the heart but we hope she gets through it. Also, it is very germane that every higher institution student learn a vital lesson from what happened to this girl. It is really not safe to visit lecturers' office without anybody's company. No matter what, try to go there with either a male of female friend.
Tola says:
The man is worthy of death penalty or life imprisonment
Dammie says:
What would one do in the case of writing and correcting a project by a female student assigned to a male lecturer? One have to go alone. Please kindly advise
I still can't fathom d rational behind ds dastardly act be some unscrupulous lecturers. For less than 3 minutes satisfaction, u destroy ur carrier, ur name, ur reputation, and everything. So, wht's d gain in it dt these people won't learn from d downfall of their other colleagues, instead, they'd choose to learn from their own stupidity?
Dr. Oshadare Segun says:
Why and why. This is barbaric. No girl deserves this. He must be punished.
Akinbote Olurotimi says:
Raping is what God don't like and a sin before God. I believe a man of his caliber should be wise enough to control his emotions, but involving in this act suggest he may be under spiritual attack, which no law recognize.
By now I'm sure he will be regretting his actions.
Abdullahi says:
I am short of words! This is not a case of sex for marks, this is a pure case of Rape! It is very unfortunate, but I believe that, the man is SICK!
Honestly, we need castration justice for rapists. By the time they see others get judgement, they will stop.
Emex says:
The man is caused from his village.Antway,first and foremost,he would be relieved from his job by now.
Kheandre says:
Stall News… Since last year and the case has already been resolved. Lecturer has been relieved of his duty and he is out of jail already after fulfilling all required of him by the law.
Young girls should also try to fight back in cases like this, calm down if after begging the dog and he doesn't hear you, don't resist him whilst trying to penetrate, pretend as if consented then grab his two testicles and he will be the one begging to be released no matter how strong he is.
This man deserves to die ….


It seems like every season the major soccer brands come out with some be-all end-all new technology that's supposedly going to change the face of the beautiful game as we know it. You've come to realize, of course, that not all of these innovations are as groundbreaking as you're led to believe. So you probably have some 'old faithfuls' in your closet, classic leather soccer shoes from waaay back when$150 could buy you two pairs , not just a right and left cleat! In a boot landscape riddled with gimmicks, glitz, and glam, you may be worried about how you'll ever find a replacement pair of classic leather cleats.. Well breathe a sigh of relief my fellow traditionalists, the adidas adiPURE 11pro TRX is here!
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Should Assange be anybody's "Man of the year"?
In a column for The Daily Maverick (insert obvious disclosure here), Brooks Spector reports that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is the Maverick's "Man of the Year". In closing, the article notes that Assange is awarded this honour for "his sheer impact on the world and the lives of ordinary people". And since the article was published a small battle has been raging on Twitter, involving myself and other Maverick columnists, along with a few (mainly one) vocal reader.
The reader is incensed at the lack of "gender sensitivity" that she feels the column betrays – in her view, Assange is not worthy of being should not be named man of the year, despite the significant impact he has had in 2010. This is of course because of the allegations of rape against Assange. The situation is further complicated by the fact of the #Mooreandme trend on Twitter, kicked off by Michael Moore publicly expressing the view that the charges against Assange are bunkum, and simply an excuse to bring him to justice of other sorts.
Unfortunately, #Mooreandme has gone much further than that. Women (and men) who have protested the trivialising of the rape charges, and especially the disclosure of the identities of the rape accusers, have been subjected to a stream of invective and insult. Some of those doing the abusing are perhaps no more than abusers of the verbal rather than sexual sort, but many are cloaking their tirades behind a conviction that Assange must be innocent, and that these attempts to smear him must be false.
But we don't know either way, yet, and I'm fully behind those who argue that we shouldn't dismiss or trivialise the accusations of rape, whether or not they end up being true. Kenan Malik wrote about this on December 18, saying more than I intend to here. As for the Daily Maverick, and the Man of the Year award, I would not be at all concerned if the award was for something like "Newsmaker of the Year" – that's a claim that is difficult to dispute, and easy to defend.
"Man of the year" can suggest that the award is for the man as person, not only his work or impact. And even in terms of impact, if the rape allegations end up being true, that impact includes that felt by the women that he raped. So it is a risky time to give Assange this honour, and this is perhaps part of the reason why Time chose not to do so this year. Nevertheless, there's a history of making a separation between the impact a man like Assange has had, and unfortunate truths about a person's private life or beliefs. Ivo Vegter reminds us that Time chose Hitler once, Stalin twice, and in that Twitter conversation, I agreed that we should be able to separate endorsement of a person's actions or character from an award like this, which we all know to be given for newsworthiness and impact.
Sipho Hlongwane challenged us to do so, saying that a "higher standard is the @dailymaverick not treating its readers like they are children". And again, I agree, for paternalism is most often odious, especially in the case of paternalism directed at a presumably intelligent target audience. Having said that, it is also true that with such an emotive issue, and in the context of #Mooreandme, there is scope for justified sensitivity. And if I were awarding Assange "Man of the Year", I'd feel compelled to at least mention the allegations and court case as complicating factors in Assange's current and future reputation. Spector doesn't do so[ref]see his comment at 20:37 on the original article, where he points out that he does in fact allude to them – quite indirectly though[/ref], and I wish that he had. But at the same time, I can't be sure that I'm not being oversensitive myself. Any thoughts on this?
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Q: Monit memcached config without pidfile I have classic situation. Need to configure monit for memcached on CentOS7. The problem is, that all configs i can find in google contains this row:
check process memcached with pidfile /var/run/memcached/memcached.pid

However, There is no memcached.pid file in /var/run and no /var/run/memcached folder. I've checked /usr/lib/systemd/system/memcached.service
[Service]
Type=simple
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/memcached
ExecStart=/usr/bin/memcached -u $USER -p $PORT -m $CACHESIZE -c $MAXCONN $OPTIONS

So, there is no path to .pid file.
The question is can I check memcached without .pid file?
The second question - can be this .pid file in another location?

A: Replace in your monit config
check process memcached with pidfile /var/run/memcached/memcached.pid

with
check process memcached with match memcached

My config for memcached:
check process memcached with match memcached
    start program = "/usr/bin/systemctl start memcached"
    stop program = "/usr/bin/systemctl stop memcached"
    if failed host 127.0.0.1 port 11211 protocol MEMCACHE then restart
    if cpu > 70% for 2 cycles then alert
    if cpu > 98% for 5 cycles then restart
    if 2 restarts within 3 cycles then timeout

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>Ferrari
>Ferrari / 456GT
This is a Ferrari 456GT at 1995 year. The body color is Blue Leman.
This is the last 12 cylinder retractable light model.
This car has elaborate heat control.
There are some scratches on the wheel, but it doesn't stand out. It is better to change tires.
I have a small scratch.
The plastic lens cover for lights is in excellent condition.
This is a variable spoiler.
The hood opens wide from the side.
It is F116 type 5.5 liter V12 engine. The maximum output is 442 ps and the maximum torque is 56kg-m.
The separate trunk room is easy to use.
The genuine tools and case are in good condition.
The passenger door is in better condition than the driver's.
The interior has rapidly become modern since the 1990s.
The mileage is 75000km.
The shift base divided into gates is classic.
It has a sense of use corresponding to the mileage.
There is no slack on the roof liner and the condition is excellent.
It feels like it is used but it is not torn and it can be repaired if it is torn.
The resin coating of these days becomes sticky when it deteriorates. Countermeasures are possible.
The condition of the passenger seat is good.
When I removed the genuine Cornes mat, I could see the beautiful carpet!
The glass is genuine.
The mall on the driver's seat side gets distorted when you use it.
There are some scratches like this, but they are not noticeable.
It is a small scratch on the rear fender.
It's the dent in the left door.
I'm checking this car's condition (Jun Nishikawa).
1995Ferrari / 456GT
last 12 cylinder manual gear box 4 seater
The models Ferrari sold to customers in its early days were not pure road cars, but pure sports cars for truck use that could run on a weekend circuit. However, as the Ferrari brand begins to gain popularity in the U.S. market, there is a growing demand for a luxury GT car that is a bit more comfortable to drive, rather than a hard-to-handle pure sports car that makes a loud noise.
Then, in 1960, a 12 cylinder FR 4seater coupe called Ferrari 250GTE was born. This model is virtually the beginning of Ferrari's road car business. Since then, the 250GTE genealogy has continued, and various 12 cylinder 4seater GT models have been born. Also, these 4seater 12 cylinder FR were often loved by Enzo, the founder of the company. In other words, the 4seater 12 cylinder FR coupe is a Ferrari tradition, and is part of the line of orthodox models.
It evolved into the 365/400/412 series in the 1970s, but when production of the final model ends in 1989, there will be no 4 seater 12 cylinder GT for a while. Enzo died in 1988, so along with the "il commendatore" seemed to have run out of life.
Of course, Ferrari never gave up on the four-seater model. Rather, There were working on a new model, scrapping the original plan (412 Evolution Types) to give it modern performance and styling that could be passed on to the next generation. It is said that Enzo himself was very interested in the project before he died.
Thus, the new 4seater GT introduced in 1992 was called the "456GT". It debuted as a highly ambitious model with styling reminiscent of Ferrari designs from the mid-1990s, and a newly developed 12 cylinder engine with a variable damping suspension system. The development costs were unusually high at the time.
"456" in the name indicates the displacement per cylinder according to tradition. The 5.5 liter V12 is called the F116 and is a completely newly developed engine. Since then, several improvements have been made based on this engine.
When it was first released, it was set only for the 6-speed MT, but later GTA which combined the 4-speed automatic was introduced. As AT was also popular in the previous generation (400 series), GTA gradually increased. Its moderate-sized body was one of the largest at the time, and yet its performance was a testament to the dawn of the new Ferrari era. A minor change was made to 456M in 1998 (Redesign by Kiyoyuki Okuyama). About 3300 units were produced until 2003. It is said that 1/3 of them are AT.
As a result of adding many new technologies to the flagship model that appeared during the transition period, it was rumored in the used car market that "break down" but since it was a 4-seater practical Ferrari, it was not easy to maintain after the second user, and it is true that many of the cars gradually deteriorated. I've tested the new 456GT in Maranello, but I can only remember that it was a "great GT that wakes up".
The 1995 model 456 GT features a subdued Blue Leman body color and vivid blue interiors. There is an image that the body color of 456 matches blue or silver. This car is a typical example. At first glance, it doesn't look like a modern Ferrari, but rather like an adult's "Prancing Horse" style.
The current owner got the 456 GT from a friend 6 years ago. The previous owner was a frequent rider, and when he received the car, the odometer had already shown 65000 km. Therefore, there were many minor troubles such as a small oil leak, but it was not a car that requires a huge repair cost.
I can't believe this car has driven 75000km. The front desk is slightly down. The lights and rubber are surprisingly free from discoloration and damage, and if you look at the details, you can safely say that the mileage is 10,000 km. I was a bit surprised by the condition of this car because I saw many more cars with more damage on the 456 that only ran about 30,000 km. When I asked the owner why, he said that he had never gotten wet in the rain. It's a good example of how you can keep it in good condition if you keep it in your garage. If you polish the whole body, it will look better.
As the mileage is high, small scratches can't be helped. There are some minor scratches on the mirror, the door and the front and rear fenders. The hood and rear bumper have been repainted. In the interior, the seats, floors, pedals, handbrake switches on the driver's side had damage that were commensurate with the model year and mileage. Especially the cracks on the seat are noticeable, but if you take it to a repair shop specializing in interior decoration, it should be back to the same condition as the rear seat. The secret to having a good time with a neoclassical model is that you will enjoy petit restore.
After all, this is the last 4seater Ferrari with 12 cylinder front engine and 3 pedals MT. By putting the lever to the clearly cut shift gate and enjoying the sound of the metal touching each other, there is a feeling that the shift is indeed connected to the engine and cannot be experienced with the latest Ferrari.
I enjoyed driving for about 30 minutes, but the engine feels good after it's warmed up as it's being maintained by a regular dealer and a specialty shop. However, there are some parts that need to be treated in the future, such as the clutch is not working well and it is hard to put into the second gear, and the transmission oil pump makes noise when it is cold. But as long as you ride carefully, you don't feel any inconvenience so far.
It is a car that can enjoy 12 cylinders with 3 pedals. Please try it once.
Photo by Hidehiro Tanaka
Published on December 2019
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Recently, I had the pleasure of meeting with a seasoned emergency management director with responsibility for a good-sized American city. Our discussion revolved around incident command, lessons learned from a major event, and the relationship between emergency operations centers and field incident command. As we talked, the emergency manager mentioned "the terrorism – emergency management gap". I hadn't heard the phrase before. It sounded like a practicing homeland security professional was describing something that happens in homeland security. I wanted to know more about the phrase and what it means.
After some discussion I learned that the director was describing something he had noticed in the response to a violent incident. Violent incidents, such as terrorist attacks or active shooters, elicit a tactical response by agencies that are not as accustomed to using the Incident Command System as a primary operational structure. With active violence, the appropriate focus is on threat eradication and incident stabilization, and thus primary responders, including leaders, are typically focused on tactical operations. In such a case no one is left behind to coordinate staging and assignment of arriving resources, evacuations and other coordination tasks. With leaders in tactical mode, and the incident growing in complexity, the need to act strategically becomes increasingly important – thus the terrorism – emergency management gap.
At the heart of the "terrorism – emergency management gap" is an opportunity to engage agencies in a discussion about when and how to use incident command, unified command, and coordination assets (like EOC's) in the response to a violent incident.
To his credit, the emergency management director with whom I met will be conducting an exercise to practice these concepts this year. Perhaps in his city he will fill the gap.


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This is a lovely interview as always. Andrea has a spunky and captivating spirit and I'm so happy to watch her career grow and thrive.
Find Your Fade is a WIP for me now. Need to get coordinating field bag! I felt so happy when I saw Andrea's stash. Lovely and well organized. Thanks for a great interview!
I really enjoyed this interview. Thanks!
LOVE the shelfie! I can see how it would be inspiring to have it all right before your eyes.


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Sinha has over 25 years' experience in senior sales and marketing positions in the cybersecurity and enterprise IT sectors. He joins from VMware, where he was VP for Asia-Pacific and Japan for 4 years. Prior to this, he was the Theater VP and General Manager for APAC at Palo Alto Networks for 2 years. He has also held several sales and divisional leadership roles at Cisco over an 11-year period in the Asia-Pacific region.


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Virginia Water Radio 34: Week of Sept. 20, 2010
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is Virginia Water Radio (Episode 34), for the week of September 20, 2010.
Sound file (7 min./50 sec.) archived 7-25-14; please contact Virginia Water Radio to request access to the file.
Efforts to reduce nutrients and sediments reaching the tidal Potomac River led to significant water quality improvements in the river between 1990 and 2007, according to a study published by researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (or USGS) and England's National Oceanography Centre. The September 7 USGS news release on the study states tha t "[s]ince 1990, the area covered by [submerged aquatic vegetation, or SAV] in the lower Potomac has doubled [to 8441 acres], the area covered by native SAV has increased ten-fold [to 3081 acres], the diversity of plant species has increased, and the proportion of exotic species [especially Hydrilla] to native species has declined as nutrients have declined." The study covered a 50-mile stretch of the tidal Potomac below Washington, D.C. News source: Potomac River: Ten-fold Increase in Native Submerged Vegetation Reflects Improved Water Quality, U.S. Geological Survey News Release, 9/7/10. More information: The report, "Long-term reductions in anthropogenic nutrients link to improvements in Chesapeake Bay habitat," was published in the September 7 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and is available online at http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1003590107.
On September 8, Old Dominion Electric Cooperative, or ODEC, announced that it is postponing for 18-24 months any action toward acquiring air permits for its proposed coal-fired power plant in Surry County. In a news release, ODEC attributed the postponement to a decrease in demand for electricity as a result of the recent economic recession. Prior to the postponement, ODEC was in the process of seeking several dozen state and federal permits needed for the Surry site. The cooperative also has the option of using a site in Sussex County. ODEC has already received local land-use permits, although some local residents have filed a lawsuit challenging those permits. ODEC's news release said that the cooperative will continue to work with local property owners to secure the rights-of-way for a water pipeline from the James River to serve the proposed plant. The $4-6 billion plant would have a capacity of 1500 megawatts, making it Virginia's largest coal-fired power plant. News sources: Planned Surry Co. coal plant put on ice, Virginian-Pilot, 9/9/10; and ODEC Announces Plans to Extend Timeline for Cypress Creek Power Station Project, ODEC News Release, 9/8/10; ODEC hits a snag on Surry plant, Daily Press, 9/29/10; and The pros and cons: Surry County coal plant," Richmond Times-Dispatch, 5/17/09.
And our last news item this week focuses on Virginia's lingering drought. As of the September 14 National Drought Monitor, more than two-thirds of Virginia was "abnormally dry," while most of the eastern third of the state was in "severe drought" and parts of Frederick and Shenandoah counties were in "extreme drought." At least 65 percent of Virginia has been abnormally dry since late June, and the severe drought area has persisted since early August. Low stream flows are one result: As of September 16, seven-day average stream flows were below normal at 66 percent of U.S. Geological Survey gaging stations in Virginia. The low rainfall and low-water conditions are causing agricultural impacts and water-use restrictions. The September 17 Richmond Times-Dispatch reported that 46 localities have requested agricultural disaster assistance, while nine localities have imposed mandatory water-use restrictions and 17 localities have implemented voluntary restrictions. Unfortunately, things may get worse: As of September 16, the seasonal drought outlook from the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center forecast that drought conditions would persist or intensify in most of eastern Virginia through December, with slight improvement forecast for some areas. News sources: State's drought could quickly become much worse, Richmond Times-Dispatch, 9/17/10; U.S. Geological Survey's WaterWatch Web site, 9/17/10; National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center, Seasonal Drought Outlook for September 16, 2010. More information: The National Drought Monitor's weekly assessment has five categories of increasingly worse drought: D0 = abnormally dry; D1 = moderate drought; D2 = severe drought; D3 = extreme drought; and D4 = exceptional drought.
WATER SOUNDS AND MUSIC
This week we feature a mystery sound: The Belted Kingfisher
[7-25-14 note: Please see Episode 224, week of 7-28-14, for an episode on the Belted Kingfisher.]
Besides being found in the Virginia Water Radio logo, Belted Kingfishers are found commonly throughout North America around streams, rivers, ponds, lakes, and estuaries. This bird is known for its habit of hovering above water and then diving to capture fish. Kingfishers burrow into banks beside a water body to make their nest, and their rattling call is used to defend their territory. This week's recording recording was provided by Lang Elliott of NatureSound Studio. Information on Belted Kingfishers was taken from A Guide to Field Identification of Birds of North America, by Chandler S. Robbins et al., St. Martin's Press, 2001 edition; and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Bird Guide Web page at http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/search.
First, in government policy and regulatory meetings occurring between September 22-September 29:
On September 27 and, if necessary, 28, the State Water Control Board meets in Richmond. For more information, phone Cindy Berndt at (804) 698-4378.
On September 28, the Marine Resources Commission meets in Newport News. For more information, phone Jane McCroskey at (757) 247-2215.
Next, here is one upcoming meeting about Total Maximum Daily Loads, or TMDLs, for impaired waters:
September 28, in Christiansburg, on the TMDL study for Little River and several of its tributaries in Floyd and Montgomery counties. For more information, phone Mary Dail at (540) 562-6715.
Finally, in educational and recreational events:
On September 29, at the James Madison University Festival Conference and Student Center Grand Ballroom in Harrisonburg, Virginia Clean Cities is holding the Virginia Biodiesel Conference. For more information, phone Ryan Cornett at (540) 568-5586.
From October 7 to 10, Cape Charles and Onancock are the central locations for the 18th annual Eastern Shore of Virginia Birding and Wildlife Festival. For more information, phone Beth Davis at (757) 581-1081.
And from October 14 to 16 at the Hotel Roanoke and Conference Center, the Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment, and Blue Ridge Parkway 75 Inc., are holding Imagining the Blue Ridge Parkway for the 21st Century: Sustaining Communities, Environments, and Economies, a symposium in connection with year-long observances of the Parkway's 75th anniversary. For more information, phone Bob Smith at (540) 231-7679.
For more information about government policy and regulatory meetings, click here for the Virginia Regulatory Town Hall, where these meetings are listed by date. E-mail addresses for contact people are available there. For TMDL meetings, click here for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality TMDL Web site. Please note that TMDL meetings are also listed at the Town Hall site, but are included among all other meetings. Organizations, events, or both are hyperlinked whenever possible. Click on those links for more information.
Virginia Water Radio is a product of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, which is solely responsible for the show's content. Hosting and bandwidth for this podcast are also provided by the Virginia Water Resources Research Center. We invite you to visit the center online at www.vwrrc.vt.edu.
Show notes and production assistance were provided by Patrick Fay. Recording assistance was provided by the Office of University Relations at Virginia Tech.
Opinions expressed on this show are not necessarily those of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, Virginia Tech, or our broadcasting stations.
If you need more information about anything mentioned this week, call us at (540) 231-5463, or visit our web site at www.virginiawaterradio.org.
Posted by Alan Raflo at 11:05 AM
Virginia Water Radio 32: Week of Sept. 6, 2010


UPWIFT Founder & President Heidi Philipsen-Meissner was the Just Sayin' contributor for the July 2014 issue of the Albany version of Herlife Magazine. She wrote an article about women and film. (Click for bigger images.) For the full article, check out the digital issue of the magazine.


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China's Pledge to Civilise "All Under Heaven"
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Raymond Nels Nelson (September 2, 1921 – June 1, 1981) was bureau chief of The Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin and later a member of the staff of Senator Claiborne Pell. He was found murdered in his Washington, D.C. apartment on June 1, 1981. The murder is still unsolved.

Life

Born into a large working class Swedish family, Nelson didn't speak English until the age of 6. His twin brother, Ralph Hilmer, died of spinal meningitis in 1930. Nelson began his career at The Providence Journal as a typist after his honorable discharge from the Navy. After rising to bureau chief he was tapped to join the staff of future Senator Claiborne Pell.

Nelson managed Pell's first Senate campaign in 1960. Pell, considered a long-shot, became the first unendorsed aspirant to win a statewide primary in Rhode Island. When Pell was elected, Nelson went to Washington DC as his Administrative Assistant (AA). Commenting on the folly of staking his career on an unknown candidate, Nelson said: "There is absolutely nothing like being right when everybody thinks you're wrong," and called the campaign "the most fun I ever had." (Providence Journal-Bulletin, June 2, 1981). In a 1971 interview in the Sunday Journal, Nelson prided himself on Pell's Senate office's open door policy and college intern program, at the time the largest and most active on the Hill. The article declared Nelson as "…a nice guy and a tough guy, and he knows when to be which." (Providence Journal-Bulletin, June 2, 1981).

Nelson's influence on the early drafting of Federally funded college aid, later known as 'The Pell Grants', is detailed in G. Wayne Miller's biography on Pell, An Uncommon Man: "I don't believe he ever considered going to college," his son, David C. Nelson, recalled. "He had both admiration and disdain for higher education, believing he was as smart as any college graduate. This may have been a class thing, because he identified himself as a 'peasant', and my grandfather referred to the 'upper crust' as 'a bunch of crumbs held together by a little dough'. They almost lost their home several times during the Depression and were very traumatized during that period."

"Recognizing the complexities of the new world that his children would inherit convinced Nelson of the value of a college degree, and he brought that perspective to his boss in their discussions. Like Pell, Nelson saw a model in the G.I. Bill." (Page 156, An Uncommon Man)

In 1974 Nelson abruptly left Pell's office and joined the staff of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. Pell appointed another member of his staff, Paul Goulding, as his new AA. (Providence Journal-Bulletin, April 10, 1974).
Nelson was seemingly a happily married family man with three children and a home in Bethesda, Maryland. In 1976, he openly declared himself a gay man and left his suburban home to live in the city. He remained good friends with his wife, whom he never divorced, and maintained contact with his children.

Death
Nelson was found murdered amid scattered newspapers and magazines in his apartment near Catholic University in Washington D.C. at 701 Quincy Street, NE, on June 1, 1981. The reported murder weapon was a large office typewriter.

On the floor of the Senate, the day after the murder, Senator Pell said: "There is probably no other Senate employee known to more of us than Ray (Nelson). The respect and affection with which he was regarded by his colleagues was shown when he was selected to serve as president of the Senate Staff Club, and last year was presented the Distinguished Service Award by the Congressional Staff Club 'for his long time service in every facet of Senate life.' He also served as Senate Chairman for the Combined Federal Campaign." (The Congressional Record, Vol. 127, No. 82, June 2, 1981.) In a Washington Post article the day after the murder, Pell also said "Ray Nelson was a dear and old friend of my wife and me, as well as an associate who worked with me for many years. I grieve with and for his wife and children."[2]

Before police sealed Nelson's apartment and office, a Senate staff member was allowed entry to remove 'sensitive' documents, thereby compromising evidence. Family members, with Nelson the night before his slaying, were not interviewed by police. Decades later, police revealed the crime scene had been staged and called the investigation "faulty police work". In November 1981, Wilmot Robertson wrote that Washington police had "clamped a lid of total secrecy" over the murder.

See also
List of unsolved murders

References

External links
 DC police notice on open murder case
 Nelson's story
 Raymond Nels Nelson remembered

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1981 deaths
1981 murders in the United States
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American newspaper journalists
American people of Swedish descent
Deaths by beating in the United States
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Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı
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Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı (1940-2017) was a psychologist who studied family structures while considering culture as a primary variable. The common belief at the time she did her work was that as non-Western societies urbanize, the family structures will converge towards Western family structures. Kağıtçıbaşı disproved this and focused on showing that children who grow up in these family structures are not deficient when compared to the Western family structure. Her work inspired many Western psychologists to take issues that were traditionally studied with a Western lens and instead study them at an international level. Thus Kağıtçıbaşı popularized what became known as cross-cultural psychology.
Kağıtçıbaşı first developed an interest in this topic while she was pursuing her graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley in psychology. During her time at Berkeley she was disappointed with how psychology went about examining family structures. This was due to the assumption that the family studied was (what I will refer to in this post as) a typical Western family or the family model of independence (this is what Kağıtçıbaşı calls it in her papers). This Western archetypical family is based on the idea of a nuclear family where one is close with their immediate relatives and the rest of the family is much more separate. Intergenerational independence is valued and autonomy, privacy, and realizing your own potential are considered important concepts for children to develop. Psychologists studying this family structure find that early separation and focus on developing as an individual are key to psychological development. However, they concluded that this is the best way for all children to develop.
The obvious question to ask after seeing the above paragraph is what about the rest of the world? Before answering why Western psychology did not study these societies, we first explain what we mean when we refer to the typical pre-industrialization non-Western family (Kağıtçıbaşı refers to non-Western societies as the Majority world due to the fact that they contain more people than Western societies. We will follow this convention.). This family structure will also be called the family model of total interdependence. Here, each generation of the family depends on each other to help meet the economic needs of the whole extended family. There is also a great emphasis on the whole family being emotionally close. Individuality in children is seen as a threat because the older generations will eventually need the full support of the youngest generation. Then the goal in raising children is for them to grow up as obedient as possible.
Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı. Source: Sosyal Bilimler 2017.
One of the major reasons Western psychologists did not study these cultures at the time was due to social Darwinism in the form of the modernization perspective. Kağıtçıbaşı describes it as follows "The modernization perspective claims that intergenerational dependencies (family interdependence) should decrease and separation/ nucleation within the family should increase with socio-economic development, pointing to a convergence toward the Western nucleated independent family." (A Model of Family Change in Cultural Context, page 4). Here we see that culture was viewed as a secondary variable. Implicitly within this, we see the view that it is not as important to study family structures in non-Western societies as they are formed primarily due to economic pressure. The modernization perspective spread through textbooks that similarly downplayed the role of culture in family structures.
After graduate school, Kağıtçıbaşı moved back to Turkey and shortly began one of her career's most important studies. It was a nation-wide study in Turkey (part of a larger 9 country study) on the value of children mainly to investigate the reasons for childbearing in these countries. Before presenting this study, it is worth noting here that we will be using information both from Kağıtçıbaşı's academic papers and her book (Family, Self, and Human Development across cultures). In the book, Kağıtçıbaşı posits that parents raise their children in a way that is optimal according to their values or society. As an explicit example, as urbanization increases in the Majority world, parents focus less on filial piety and more on the individual growth of the child. Kağıtçıbaşı goes on to explain that this is likely due to the fact that the children need to develop more individually to get a career and support themselves. We will present explanations of this type as it reflects how Kağıtçıbaşı's views psychology and it is a view that she became more certain of as her career progressed.
We now return to the Value of Children study. Its goal was to find reasons and patterns in childrearing. To do this, families were interviewed on the values they attributed to their children. These interviews consisted of both multiple choice and open-ended questions. The values were put into three categories: economic value, psychological value, and son preference. Economic value has to do with the material benefit that the children bring both while young (for example doing work in a family business or doing chores) and while in peak working age (providing support for the older generations and continuing the family business). Psychological value has to do with the love and pride that the child brings the parents. The Value of Children study focused how these values vary depending on different family demographics. For example, in the majority world before urbanization, the economic and psychological value of children were both salient factors. However among more urban families, the economic value of children decreased.
Kağıtçıbaşı was most interested in the above pattern as she could now study family structures of urbanizing Turkish families and compare her results to Western families as the modernization perspective predicts they should be similar. However, She found that there was a different type of psychological value of children between Western and non-Western cultures. In particular, there was an additional value of children due to them being emotionally close to the whole family. Then although the economic dependency decreases, emotional interdependencies do not. Upon further study, Kağıtçıbaşı found that the Modernization hypothesis is not correct as these urbanizing Majority world families have a third type of family structure, which we will call the typical urbanized Majority world family or the family model of emotional interdependence.
Kağıtçıbaşı's work was interesting as she conducted a study in psychology but collected data using interviews or surveys that are often more suited for sociological studies. This led to an increase in interest in studying the role of culture in psychology through large multinational studies. Also due to increased immigration, Western psychologists were able to study ethnic communities without any travel. Then smaller scale studies on individual immigrant communities using these methods became more popular as well.
We will now describe the family model of emotional interdependence. As emotional interdependency is valued, Parents still strive for closeness with their children. Compared to a Western parent, they are more involved with the child, and are often more authoritative. They also emphasize the importance of the whole family so the nuclear family concept does not hold. However, there is still an element of autonomy because the child needs to develop the skills to do tasks such as school or specialized training for jobs. Children raised in these sorts of family tend to find meaning in their achievements both individually and as something the whole family can take pride in.
Kağıtçıbaşı had more interests beyond describing the differences between urbanized majority world family structures and Western family structures. She also wanted to show that the self that arose from this family model of emotional interdependence (which we will call the autonomous-related self) was not deficient compared to the self from the family model of independence. More specifically, Western family structures put a lot of emphasis on developing autonomy in children mainly through early childhood separation with the parent. It could be argued that the autonomous-related self does not develop autonomy as well because of their focus on connecting with parents.
Çiğdem Kağıtçıbaşı. Source: European Association of Social Psychology.
However, there is evidence that this is not the case. Studies done in China, Korea, and India show a positive correlation between autonomous behavior and close emotional relationships with family (Lin and Fu (1990), Cha (1994), Sinha(1985)). A similar study was done with ethnic minorities in the U.S and a similar result was obtained (Kim et al. 1998). Then the people developing in this type of family are not deficient compared to the Western family structure as they are not missing out on individual development or emotional closeness with their parent. In fact, researchers in China and Turkey found depression to be linked with early separation from parents (Steinberg and Silverberg (1986), Aydin and Oztucu (2001)).
This leaves room to argue, as Kağıtçıbaşı does, that both autonomy and relatedness are essential for ideal human development and so the autonomous-related self is in some sense optimal as the independent self ignores the relatedness component. She goes further to say that for this reason, it would be better if the family model of emotional interdependence was taken up globally. This has not happened currently although there are some studies that show that in certain postmodern societies in Europe this model is becoming more popular (Inglehart, 1991).
I would also like to highlight that Kağıtçıbaşı wanted to apply these ideas about family structures to help disadvantaged communities in Turkey. Although the majority world is modernizing, there are still educational issues among poorer children. One way to help these educational issues is to have early childhood development programs (ECDs). In the 1980's there were many ECDs in the Western world, but very few in the Majority world. In regions such as South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, less than 10% of children received some form of ECD. Due to these low rates, there was a push to develop ECDs in the Majority world. Kağıtçıbaşı developed an ECD that focused on promoting the family model of emotional interdependence and led a longitudinal study on its efficacy. This may seem confusing as I said earlier that urban Turkish families usually had a family model of interdependence. However, these families were much poorer than average and so they usually had the family model of interdependence.
The ECD was held in five low-income neighborhoods of Istanbul where factories employed many women to run day cares. Kağıtçıbaşı developed an 18 month long training program for a randomly selected group of mothers whose children were 3-5. The training focused on giving mothers school preparatory material to teach their children (this particular material was originally developed for a U.S. based program). It also included a mother training group with group discussions about the needs of growing children and how best to communicate with them. The goal here was to try to create an environment where more families could move towards the family model of emotional interdependence. As such, these group sessions focused on close-knit family ties and emotional relatedness while also introducing the benefits of more independent children.
I think it is worth comparing this to the work done in Hull House. The major similarity here is focusing on using a field of study to help disadvantaged communities rather than studying it purely academically. However, Kağıtçıbaşı was focused more on applying theory she had made rather than helping the community while doing academic work. And although both end up educating the community, Kağıtçıbaşı is more focused on setting a foundation that schools will build on while Hull House is directly educating the community. So although the spirit of using a social science to help the community is there in both cases, the execution is different as Kağıtçıbaşı had to work under the constraints of an ECD and the focus of her project was the ideas in psychology.
Four years after the start of the training, children whose mothers received such training were found to perform significantly better academically than children whose mothers did not receive training. What was more interesting was that the family models of mothers with training shifted towards the model of emotional interdependence. The parents in these families interacted with their children more and more favorably and they valued autonomous behavior more. Then intervention programs can bring family structures closer to the model of emotional interdependence and this is beneficial to the families involved.
The results here were so successful that mother training groups were carried out as a public service by women groups and parent-teacher associations. After seeing similar successes here, the Turkish ministry of education again employed Kağıtçıbaşı to develop further training groups. In 1993, Kağıtçıbaşı made some modifications to the cognitive training portion and made some logistical changes to require less of the mother's time. By 2005, this program had reached 230,000 Turkish women and even saw some use in Europe(France, Belgium, Germany) with Turkish immigrant families and also in Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. So through her work, Kağıtçıbaşı was able to help many people throughout Turkey and other countries. This work again popularized a new method. Psychologists applied cross-cultural ideas to issues such as ethnic relations and development of communities.
This highlights Kağıtçıbaşı's commitment to helping her community with her work. She continued to apply her ideas in psychology to communities in need, working on projects such as radio broadcasts, intervention programs for adolescents, and she continued to do consultative work for the Turkish Ministry of Education until her death in 2017. She was also active in developing the community around cross-cultural psychology. She acted as an executive council member of the International Association of Cross-cultural psychology from 1982-1994 and as the president from (1990-1994). She also mentored many young psychologists. Furthermore, many of the questions about childrearing and family structures that Kağıtçıbaşı raised are still active research topics. For example, psychologists studying how cultures conceptualize autonomy find that certain conceptualizations are incompatible with relatedness. This could be the cause of the difference between the Western and Majority world that Kağıtçıbaşı observed.
Ajay Mitra is a 4th year Mathematics major at the University of Chicago who grew up in Hamden, Connecticut. He hopes to pursue a PhD after graduating.
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