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Masha Gessen closes week with examination of Russian sociology
by Maggie Prosser on July 20, 2018 3.15K views
A once-banned field in the Red State, sociology is making a comeback — and it's helping Masha Gessen imagine a Russia, post-Vladimir Putin.
At the 10:45 a.m. morning lecture on Friday, July 20, Gessen spoke to what might happen when Putin leaves office, based on patterns of historical Kremlin transitions. Gessen closed Week Four's theme, "Russia and the West," to a packed Amphitheater.
The author of The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, which won the 2017 National Book Award for Nonfiction, Gessen experienced the rise of Putin firsthand while working as a journalist; the author was famously dismissed as editor of Russian science magazine Vokrug Sveta for refusing to send a reporter to observe Putin hang-gliding with cranes.
Gessen and other journalists around Russia were convinced Russia would adopt democracy after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 — that the Kremlin would establish a Congress, social movements would sweep the country and Russia would become a global player. Gessen said they were naive.
"Think about a person who has been through many years of abuse and trauma," Gessen said. "We don't expect that person to suddenly go out and have happy and healthy relationships and a well-adjusted life. We understand that is not possible; we understand that is not likely, ever."
And while societies aren't people, Gessen said, they are composed of people and are profoundly changed by the "abuse" of those people. And not dissimilar to people, societies develop coping mechanisms and devices for abuse.
However, after the Russian Revolution of 1917, Vladimir Lenin envisioned a new society — a "new man" — in perfect harmony with itself.
"Existing in perfect harmony meant there would be no more inner conflict," Gessen said."The goals of every individual would coincide perfectly with the goals of the society at large. If anybody's goals did not coincide perfectly with the goals of the society at large, that would be a rare thing and a pathology — a criminal pathology or a psychological pathology."
To create his new society, Lenin exiled historians and philosophers. Since there would be no deviancy, he saw no need for psychologists or sociologists and banned the professions. Lenin appointed new professionals, Gessen said, equipped with a simplified version of Marxism.
Over time, the Marxist elite realized they were not in touch with the lives of their people. In a democracy, Gessen said, people have the opportunity to express their opinions through voting and dissent; the Soviet Union had none of these measures.
"They didn't know what people thought or how they thought," Gessen said. "They literally, with every passing year, knew less about how people lived day to day."
And while socially this became a problem, it also became a problem in central planning. The culture of the Soviet Union was that of emanating greatness at whatever cost. Gessen said that "every industry lied to the center community of the Communist Party" about producing whatever amount of product was needed.
Because of this methodology, a heightened fear of shortages grew. Lenin quickly reinstated sociologists to report on the conditions of the Russian people. Sociologist Yuri Levada was at the center of the research.
However, Lenin feared sociologists were learning too much about Russia's people and his fleeting idea of a new man in a harmonious, new society.
"(The Marxist elite) really wanted sociology without sociologists," Gessen said.
Lenin, again, banned sociology.
After his research was suspended, Levada went underground. He met with other professionals in secret societies to study Western sociology. Gessen described their work as a hybrid of scholarship and investigative journalism.
"This is not actually unique in the Soviet Union," Gessen said. "The way of doing scholarship in quasi-underground home bases was something that was happening simultaneously in many paralleled fields."
This went on for 20 years, Gessen said, until the late 1980s when something odd happened; Mikhail Gorbachev of the Communist Party was selected as the new general secretary (essentially, the head of state).
Gorbachev began making reforms, but like his predecessors realized he had limited information on his people. As part of his efforts, Gorbachev brought Levada out of hiding. After 20 years of reclusive work, Levada was left with a predicament: He had no experience in creating or conducting a survey, and sociological research in the Soviet Union was taboo and seemingly unheard of.
"(Levada was) working with people who, for 70 years, had been banned from expressing their opinion, and (his) job was to go out and ask people their opinions," Gessen said. "It was an impossible task."
Levada eventually developed a questionnaire to measure aggression among Russians. The questionnaire asked, "What should be done with:"
"Disabled people,"
"Homosexuals,"
"Alcoholics,"
"Drug addicts,"
"Rock musicians and people who listen to rock music."
The response options were:
"Leave them alone,"
"Give them medical treatment,"
"Isolate them,"
"Liquidate them."
Opinions on homosexuality were mixed, Gessen said. The majority of Russians thought they should be liquidated. Others said "left alone" or "given medical treatment," but people tended to be tolerant of alcoholics.
The survey provided Levada with a base-level understanding of Russian social dynamics, but what blossomed from it was his hypothesis that Lenin had, in fact, created "a new man," which he dubbed "homo sovieticus." Levada hypothesized that homo sovieticus had adapted to the Soviet rule in distinct ways, inducing "doublethink."
"Doublethink, I think, is best described as the ability to think contradictory thoughts without having them come into conflict," Gessen said. "We all think contradictory thoughts throughout our lives, but remember … how Soviet man was not supposed to have any inner conflict. In a sense, that was accomplished."
Russians believed in their country's power and greatness, yet felt slighted by Russian leaders. These emotions paralleled one another but never came into conflict. As Gessen put it, "(they) pretend to work, (the government) pretends to pay (them)" — that, Gessen said, is doublethink.
Levada hypothesized that homo sovieticus was a generational phenomenon that had decreased since the death of Joseph Stalin, and would eventually die off with the death of communism.
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin came into power. He strongly believed he could build a democracy on top of a former totalitarian state and that switching to a market economy would boost the nation's wealth. Gessen described this as "trying to make fish out of fish soup."
For Gessen's profession, this was a great time; journalists were able to cover once-forbidden topics, writers created new genres, and local businesses reinvented themselves.
"For a small group of people, it was all terribly exciting," Gessen said. "For the larger country, it was just destabilizing and frightening and mean. In some ways, Russia had created a type of capitalism that had always been written about in Soviet newspapers. It was a caricature of Western capitalism. It was brutal, it was lawless and it was grounded in this incredible uncertainty."
As the Iron Curtain lifted off the Red State, Russians began traveling abroad and quickly realized the magnitude of their ill treatment. They saw that the lower-middle class in countries like Spain or France, Gessen said, lived better than Russians who believed they were well-off.
"An incredible kind of resentment took hold because what had they been sacrificing?" Gessen asked. "They had thought that they were part of a great country, a great nation — that was no longer there. It had gotten smaller, it had stopped being a superpower and it turned out they were not as well-off as they thought they were."
In 1994, Levada conducted his study again. The second trial revealed that homo sovieticus was not generational and doublethink was still apparent in a post-Soviet age. Based on his findings and the presence of homo sovieticus, Gessen said, Levada feared a totalitarianism relaunch.
Levada recreated the study again in 1999 — the year Putin announced his run for president.
"And they came back with an even more disturbing conclusion: They said homo sovieticus is not only thriving but reproducing," Gessen said. "… It shouldn't have been surprising. Why should people have to change their adaptation strategies? Why should people finally heal?"
Levada concluded that post-Soviet Russia was exhibiting all the hallmarks of a communist society, and Putin was eager to fit that narrative; he wanted to "make Russia great again," Gessen said, and in doing so, restore its old narrative.
With skyrocketing oil prices and a prospering economy, Putin established power and eliminated remnants of democracy in Russia. These efforts were welcomed, Gessen said, because of the "freedom to, freedom from" theory.
"Freedom from" is a negative freedom that prevents free will, whereas "freedom to" is a positive, self-directed freedom. Gessen said when people feel overwhelmed by "freedom to," they look for a leader to take away their agency.
This is what happened in Russia and it is what, Gessen said, is happening in the United States.
Gessen said homo sovieticus and Putin's rise to the presidency is a prologue to what could happen in a post-Putin Russia.
"There will be great opportunity for Russia when Putin leaves, but there will be great difficulty, probably the kind of difficulty we will have never seen anywhere in the world — that experiment has never been conducted anywhere," Gessen said. "And so, I am not terribly optimistic about what will happen."
After the conclusion of Gessen's lecture, Chautauqua Institution Chief of Staff Matt Ewalt opened the Q-and-A by asking who is fit to lead Russia after Putin.
"I can't answer that question because you can't see people who might be able to lead in a country where the public sphere doesn't revolt," Gessen said. "That is a trope used by Putin and his supporters. They say, 'Look, there is no alternative.' Well, of course there's no alternative because the alternative is either jailed or forced into exile or killed."
Ewalt followed up by asking how other countries should react to a post-Putin world.
"I think the rest of the world should be more attentive to signals that come from Russia and perhaps more trusting of them on the one hand," Gessen said. "On the other hand … the mistake that was made in 1991 was making assumptions on how Russia was about to raise democracy. … Anything is possible, but whatever is possible is probably different from what we've seen elsewhere."
To close Week Four, Ewalt asked a question from Twitter: "What do you think are the best possibilities for positive interactions between Russians and Americans now?"
"Is that a trick question after Helsinki?" Gessen joked. "I actually object to the question because I think it implies something that is well-intentioned but not there — it's this idea of citizen diplomacy that can supplement intergovernmental relations. There is something very (good-natured) about it, but I think it is fundamentally misguided."
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Buhari Signs Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit Bill
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President Muhammadu Buhari wednesday signed the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) Bill into law.
Making this disclosure, while briefing journalists in the State House, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Enang, said NFIU was the Nigerian arm of the global Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs), which he said, was hitherto domiciled in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as an autonomous unit operating in the African region.
The NFIU has the duty to ensure a country's compliance with international standards on matters bordering on money laundering and terrorism financing. It is also mandated to check suspicious transactions.
Enang, who added that the unit, which also had the responsibility to receive, request, analyse, and disseminate financial intelligence to relevant agencies, would henceforth be domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
"The Act establishes the NFIU as a central body in Nigeria responsible for the receiving, requesting, analysing and disseminating financial intelligence to agencies and other relevant authorities to enable the institutions act on same. The agency is an independent and operationally autonomous institution domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria," he said.
The passage of the NFIU Bill and its eventual signing by the president followed the suspension of Nigeria from Egmont group last year over the country's failure to separate the unit from EFCC and accord it the required independent status.
Its earlier emergence was predicated on the requirements of Recommendation 29 of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Standards and Article 14 of United Nations Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC)
NFIU had been admitted in 2007 into the Egmont Group, a global body responsible for setting standards on best practices for FIUs in over 131 FIUs from 131 jurisdictions.
The Egmont group was reportedly founded in 1995 to foster international collaboration in the exchange of intelligence by member states, support and influence the work of FATF in relation to the mandate of FIUs under FATF Recommendations 29 and 40.
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PayPal has expanded cryptocurrency services to Luxembourg, paving the way for expanding cryptocurrency services throughout Europe after the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) legislative enactments.
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Q: 20 recruits distributed into 4 groups each consisting of 5 recruits 20 recruits distributed into 4 groups each consisting of 5 recruits. In how many ways can we do that?
The answer is $\frac{20!}{(5!)^4\cdot4!}$, However I do not understand why can't we just do the following:
We have $4$ groups, in each we can have $5!$ of distributions of recruits, and out of those $4$ groups we can also do $4!$, so why isn't the answer $4!\cdot 5!$ ?

A: First of all, if there are $5!$ possibilities to line up the recruits for each of the $4$ groups, then you should get $4! \cdot (5!)^4$ possibiltiies.
OK, but that's still not right:
$4! \cdot (5!)^4$ is the number of possibilities of lining up all 20 recruits, where order matters, and where apparently you have already decided the groups.  That is, if you already have created the $4$ groups of $5$, and you now line them up, but in groups of $5$ (i.e. the first $5$ in the line-up belong to one group, numbers 6 through 10 belong to a second group, etc., then indeed you get $4!$ (the number of ways you can order to the groups in the line-up) times $(5!)^4$ (the number of ways to line up the $5$ members within a group, for all of the $4$ groups)
However, the question wasn't to line them up: it was simply to divide the recruits into groups. So, a group consisting of members $3,6,7,12$, and $17$ is the same group as the group consisting of $6,12,17,3$, and $7$. Likewise, you are not ordering the groups at all: there is no 'first' group of 'second' group .. there are just $4$ groups total.
Also, as I said, you assume that you already have $4$ groups of $5$ recruits, but the question was to figure out the number of ways to find those $4$ groups of $5$ recruits.
So, if you line up all $20$ recruits, and then say: the first $5$ in line forms group one, the next $5$ are group two, etc. then you going into the right direction.  Now, there are $20!$ ways to do that, but you are overcounting, again because order does not matter. That is: if in the line-up the first $4$ had switched position with the second $5$, you would have ended up with the same groupings. That is why we divide by $4!$. And likewise: had the $5$ members of a group switched posisions, it would have remoined that same group. So that is why we also divide by $5!$ for each group, i.e. we divide by $(5!)^4$. So, there are:
$$\frac{20!}{4!(5!)^4}$$
ways to find those $4$ groups of $5$

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Must aid be an ethical dilemma?
By Alexandria Neason, CJR
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, killing 200,000 people, destroying Port-au-Prince, and leaving more than a million people homeless. Reporters from the United States flew to the scene, and a debate quickly emerged about the role of journalists in such a desperate situation. Doctors who worked as medical correspondents for major news networks took off their press badges and put on their scrubs: CNN's Sanjay Gupta performed surgery on a girl with a skull fracture; NBC's Nancy Snyderman worked in a makeshift clinic; ABC's Richard Besser, encountering a woman who had just given birth in a park, transported her to a tent hospital. Perhaps most prominent was CNN's Anderson Cooper, who made headlines when he was filmed pulling an injured child to safety on his show, AC360, nine days after the first buildings shook.
Some observers believed that these journalists had made unethical interventions. Speaking to the Los Angeles Times, Bob Steele, a journalism professor and Poynter Institute scholar, said that, when reporters can save a life or stave off significant harm, they should step in to help, but "it's very hard for an individual who is professionally and emotionally engaged in saving lives to be able to simultaneously step back from the medical work and practice independent journalistic truth-telling." The source of his unease was a sense that journalism's role is to report the news, not to offer aid to the people caught up in the middle of a crisis.
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This rule is taught in journalism schools and in newsrooms as though it is black and white, without room for nuance or discussion. Journalists are comfortable referring to our industry as the fourth estate, playing a vital democratic role for the people. Holding truth to power—accountability journalism—is among our top values. But we trip over ourselves when it comes to conversations about whether reporters (especially those working in vulnerable places and dire situations) are allowed to provide aid to the people whose stories we sell.
We tend to say that helping sources is prohibited, asserting that this is a defense against allowing coverage to be influenced. But in reality, such a narrow position ignores the power dynamics inherent in an exchange between a Western journalist, backed by the resources of a news organization, and sources in a place that is struggling. If the goal of journalism is, in part, to confront injustice, should we mitigate our humanity when it bumps up against the dispassionate codes of reporting?
For reporters working outside the US, this question comes up regularly. Consider a radio story about the challenges faced by South Africans 25 years after the fall of Apartheid. Hugh Sykes, a veteran BBC reporter, was on assignment in Soweto, a township in Johannesburg. While recording a segment near a memorial for Hector Pieterson—a 13-year-old boy who in 1976 was shot and killed by police during demonstrations against the use of Afrikaans in schools—Sykes was approached by a child he described as neatly dressed in a school uniform, and polite. "Hello," Sykes greeted him.
"Can you buy me some bread? I'm hungry," the child said.
"He told me how much it is," Sykes tells CJR. He gave the child money and they went their separate ways. Part of their conversation can be heard in a story that aired on BBC's Newshour. The exchange did not raise concerns with his editors. "He's not engaging with me as a journalist, he's engaging with me as a white guy who is likely to have money in his pocket," Sykes says. "It added to my story. The child helped me say obvious things about poverty in a small place without having to spell it out."
Sykes first began work as a journalist for the BBC in 1970, and handles ethical dilemmas on a case-by-case basis, he says. But he has some hard and fast rules. On occasion, he has been asked if he would be willing to pay for an interview; the answer is always an emphatic no. For some people, his refusal is a deal-breaker. But most of the time, he has found, they agree to talk anyway.
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Declan Walsh, the Cairo bureau chief for The New York Times, says that making judgment calls depends on context. "There's a presumption that we are principally there to do our job as reporters, and that our primary responsibility is to execute that function," he explains. "We are not there as aid workers or doctors. That's what can be difficult sometimes—because you are dealing with people who are extremely vulnerable and fragile. So your instinct as a person, of course, is to reach out and help them."
But journalists are not always the best people to offer aid. Last October, Walsh wrote a devastating story about how the Saudi-led war in Yemen is starving millions of people to death, or near it. Alongside his piece were several wrenching photos of emaciated children who had been admitted to a hospital. "In that instance, there was no question of us intervening because they were in a hospital and people whose job it was to take care of them were there," Walsh says.
In 2001, Walsh was in Zambia reporting a story for The Independent about medical debt relief. He met a teenage girl named Caroline who had been hit by a car and suffered a bad fracture to her leg. "Large metal spikes were sticking out of her leg of the kind often used in poor countries to set a broken leg," Walsh recalls. The country's national health service was dysfunctional. "Her leg was rotting," he adds. "We were told that if she did not get some kind of private help urgently, when she did get to the hospital they were going to amputate."
Walsh wrote about her. A few days later, he and another reporter returned to her home, offered her family money, and brought Caroline to a private clinic. A doctor there said her injuries would require several operations, but that her leg could be saved. Later, in a piece on the ethics of his decision to help, Walsh wrote, "The easiest solution is to elbow aside these niggles and convince oneself that one's job is to bring the suffering to the attention of the world. It's what they call 'professionalism.' Sometimes, though, it's hard to believe in. And sometimes it is impossible to look the other way."
As it turned out, others wanted to help, too. "I was deluged with offers of money or assistance from readers of The Independent," Walsh tells CJR. In all, readers donated about $30,000; Walsh and his colleagues soon became responsible for monitoring and dispersing the donations. "We had to ultimately send someone from England to Zambia to make sure the money was being spent responsibly," he adds.
Sykes, on the other hand, bears thoughts of what he might have done, and didn't. In 2003, when he was on assignment in Baghdad—"the bad days," he recalls, when it was particularly difficult for reporters to move through the city safely—he met a man named Adnan, who told him about his 10-year-old son. One day, the boy was playing in the family's garden and, suddenly, Adnan couldn't hear him. "He went out and found his son lying on the ground, blood pouring through his neck," Sykes recalls Adnan telling him. The boy had been shot and left paralyzed.
Adnan sent his son to a hospital in Jordan; Sykes produced a story about the family. Three years later, he returned to Baghdad. Adnan, he learned, had died of a heart attack. Sykes was unable to track down his son. "I regretted that I hadn't been more proactive," Sykes says. "That I hadn't actively done anything to try and help other than put his story on the radio."
Journalism in the US brings reporters up against ethical dilemmas, too, but often without the same level of scrutiny. Many local television news stations, for instance, have consumer reporters who solicit tips and story ideas with the stated goal of helping save viewers money. NBC-owned-and-operated television stations display large buttons on their websites that track the number of dollars saved; the investigative team at NBC4 in Washington, DC, uses the tagline, "Working 4 U."
Does offering aid to the subjects of stories in the US put journalistic autonomy at risk? When Sarah Kliff, a health reporter at Vox, began investigating excessive emergency room medical bills, her ambition was to spur discussion about a policy fix. She's done that—San Francisco's board of supervisors has held hearings on hospital billing practices Kliff examined, and two related bills have been introduced in Congress—but her most direct impact has been on patients. "We've had a total of $65,000 in medical bills wiped out in the course of the series," she says.
As Kliff continues to report stories on emergency room billing—and as her sources continue to see their debts relieved—she has had to field a pile-up of submissions from patients seeking her help. It's difficult to turn people away. But Kliff says she does not make coverage decisions based on who might see their payments reduced. Instead, she tells CJR, she's looking for "an interesting story that tells a larger story about healthcare billing in America."
"It does weigh on me, thinking about the power I have in that situation and it speaks to what an unfortunate healthcare system we have," she adds. Sometimes, if she passes on a story, she suggests that patients reach out to local reporters and their elected officials. "At the end of the day, what we're trying to do is make our health system work a little better by writing about the parts that don't work—and that's something that advocates are trying to do as well," Kliff explains. "There is a fuzziness that doesn't always get acknowledged, but I don't think I've ever felt conflicted, like we crossed some kind of line. We feel good about the journalism we are doing."
UPDATE: This story has been updated to correctly identify the governing body of San Francisco. A reference to the views of Bob Steele of the Poynter Institute has been clarified with additional material from the Los Angeles Times.
ICYMI: Sinclair fires reporter as she battles cancer
Alexandria Neason is CJR's Staff Writer and Senior Delacorte Fellow. Previously, she was a reporter at The Village Voice and covered education for the Teacher Project, a partnership between Columbia Journalism School and Slate. A team she worked on won the 2016 Education Writers Association award for news features. Follow her on Twitter @alexandrianeas.


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Endline Evaluation: Women for Women International's "Stronger Women, Stronger Afghanistan" Programme
M. Huber, M. Zupancic
Gender empowerment
Gender work and employment
Livelihoods gender
In 2011, Women for Women International (WfWI) received a three-year grant from Human Dignity Foundation (HDF) for its programme, "Stronger Women, Stronger Afghanistan." The overall goal of WfWI's Afghanistan programme is to improve the lives of socially excluded women and their families by building self-reliance and access to sustainable livelihood opportunities. The main purpose of the evaluation was to assess the impact of the intervention on women, families and communities in the programme locations.
This evaluation found that while the programme had a number of positive achievements it generally fell short of its target objectives. Fewer than one in four programme participants are earning an income, and of those, more than two thirds were earning an income prior to participating in the programme, suggesting that the programme had little success in empowering non-income earning women to become economically active. Additionally, less than one in ten participants earn more than 1 USD per day, though approximately 1 out of every 2 income earning women saves at least a portion of their income.
Generally, based on the results of the different measurements of women's empowerment included in theevaluation, it could be concluded that programme participants are somewhat empowered in the political, psychological, and physical domains of empowerment, but less so in terms of the socio-cultural beliefs and visibility, economic, familial/interpersonal and legal dimensions. While there have been some very positive outcomes in terms of women's sense of social belonging, self esteem, and self-efficacy, participants also demonstrated contradictorily somewhat negative gender role attitudes, a limited understanding of their rights, and many experience ongoing physical and/or psychological abuse. Taken in context of these findings, the evaluation concluded that at present, structural barriers are not adequately considered or addressed at the very root of the problem, inside the family, or at the macro-level and through institutions and legal mechanisms within the programme. Taken as a whole, the findings of the evaluation would suggest that at minimum, several key assumptions of the programme require further research and consideration.
Specifically, the results chain positing that women's economic participation can transform gender relations was unsubstantiated, particularly in consideration of the pervasive levels of ongoing abuse found in the evaluation. The dominant shortcomings in programme activities that emerged throughout this evaluation were a lack of follow-up support from WfWI, especially in taking what women had learned and translating it into income generating activities, which would require investment, access to markets, business skills and financial literacy, logistic and legal support. However, while the findings regarding women's economic empowerment highlight a number of fundamental areas of the programme that fell short of the programme goal and objectives and other aforementioned areas requiring further focus, the evaluation also found a number of positive aspects of the project. It is evident that the experience of participating in the long-term training programme may make important contributions to women's social wellbeing, and furthermore facilitate women's sense of self esteem and self-efficacy.
Related website content
International Women's Day: Tackling barriers to empowerment
08 Mar 2018: Over the past year, there has been an exposure of largely socially or publicly invisible sexual harassment and discrimination committed against women. On International Women's Day, initiatives from the Institute of Development Studies and The ESRC-DFID Impact Initiative are drawing attention to the more visible issues that form significant barriers to women's empowerment.
Heteronormativity
Within development there has been research, policy and practice which has offered an analysis of the impact of heteronormativity or challenged bad practice.
Understanding the social norms that restrict women's access to paid work.
Listening to women and girls diplaced to urban Afghanistan
S. Schmeidl, D. Tyler / Norwegian Refugee Council, 2015
Growing numbers of internally displaced people (IDPs) live in informal settlements in major Afghan urban centres.
Gender, youth and urban labour market participation: evidence from the tailoring sector in Kabul, Afghanistan
A. Pain, R. Mallett / Overseas Development Institute, 2014
The creation of good jobs and decent work in conflict-affected places is widely seen to generate not just better-off households, but also safer societies and more legitimate states.
Strengthening displaced women's housing, land and property rights in Afghanistan
J. Madzarevic, S. Rao / Norwegian Refugee Council, 2014
This report captures the Norwegian Refugee Council's (NRC) groundbreaking work in Afghanistan, including NRC's role in bringing greater understanding and visibility to Afghan women's housing, land and property (WHLP) issues in a displacement context. Over three million Afghan women have been internally displaced or sought refuge in neighbouring countries.
How do social protection and labour programmes contribute to social inclusion? Evidence from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India and Nepal
B. Babajanian, J. Hagen-Zanker, R. Holmes / Overseas Development Institute, 2014
Today, the positive effects of social protection and labour programmes on core dimensions of well- being such as food consumption and access to health and education are well-recognised. However, less is known about the ability of these programmes to tackle the structural causes of social exclusion and poverty or to promote sustainable changes in the lives and livelihoods of the poor.


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Q: Is it safe to use an object in different threads, but NOT at the same time? I've read everywhere that if a field is used at the same time by different threads, some sort of synchronization is needed, and that if it is used by only one thread, it's not needed. But what if it's used by different threads, but not at the same time ?
Let's take a code like this:
Thing thing = new Thing();
Thread t1 = new Thread(new MyRunnable(thing));
Thread t2 = new Thread(new MyRunnable(thing));
t1.start();
t1.join();//Wait for t1 to finish
t2.start();

MyRunnable is:
class MyRunnable implements Runnable {
    //skipped constructor and field "private final Thing thing"
    public void run() {
        thing.someUpdate();
    }
}

Is it safe? Are all the updates made by t1 visible by t2?

A: In this case then the changes are visible because Thread.join and Thread.start creates happens-before relationships between the actions in both threads. See Memory Consistency Errors:

*

*When a statement invokes Thread.start, every statement that has a
  happens-before relationship with that statement also has a
  happens-before relationship with every statement executed by the new
  thread. The effects of the code that led up to the creation of the new
  thread are visible to the new thread.

*When a thread terminates and causes a Thread.join in another thread to
  return, then all the statements executed by the terminated thread have
  a happens-before relationship with all the statements following the
  successful join. The effects of the code in the thread are now visible
  to the thread that performed the join.

If you weren't using these methods in that order, then the changes may not be visible. The threads don't need to be running at the same time to cause an issue because values can be cached within a thread or some optimization could occur etc.

A: I think the question is too abstract. General answer to question "Are all the updates made by t1 visible by t2?" is "Yes". But they will be visible only because of the way you run the threads. Threads in your example are not parallel. So, yes, in this example, fields of MyRunnable will be visible for both threads. But MyRunnable class itself is not thread-safe. If it will be used with concurrent threads you will probably
get troubles.
It depends on details of MyRunnable.someUpdate(). You should use "volatile" keyword for your fields, "java.util.concurrent.*" classes or any of synchronisation mechanisms if it's necessary.
Maybe this documentation will help to start: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/concurrency/atomic.html

A: In your case it is safe since both Threads are not running on the same time.

A: join() method is a blocker method and waits for a thread to complete. t2 should see all updates of t1.

A: Its safe in this instance. Changes made by t1 on the thing object will be visible to t2. If there was no t1.join(); the code would not have been thread safe.
t1.start();
t1.join();//Wait for t1 to finish
t2.start();


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Q: Highly-available, Web-accessible and scalable deployment of statsd and graphite I'd like to setup statsd/graphite so that I can log JS apps running on HTML devices (ie. not in a contained LAN environment, and possibly with a large volume of incoming data that I don't directly control).
My constraints:

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*entry point must speak HTTP: this is solved by a simple HTTP-to-UDP-statsd proxy (eg. httpstatsd on github)

*must resist the failure of a single server (to battle Murphy's law :)

*must be horizontally scalable: webscale, baby! :)

*architecture should be kept as simple (and cheap) as possible

*my servers are virtual machines

*the data files will be stored on a filer appliance (with NFS)

*I have tcp/udp hardware load balancers at disposal

In short, the data path:
[client] -(http)-> [http2statsd] -(udp)-> [statsd] -(tcp)-> [graphite] -(nfs)-> [filer]
My findings so far:

*

*scaling the http2statsd part is easy (stateless daemons)

*scaling the statsd part doesn't seem straightforward (I guess I'd end up with incoherent values in graphite for aggregate data like sum, avg, min, max ...). Unless the HTTP daemon does consistent hashing in order to shard the keys. Maybe an idea ... (but then there's the HA question)

*scaling the graphite part can be done through sharding (using carbon-relay) (but that doesn't solve the HA question either). Obviously several whisper instances shouldn't write the same NFS file.

*scaling the filer part isn't part of the question (but the less IO, the better :)

*scaling the webapp seems obvious (although I haven't tested) as they only read the shared NFS data

So I was wondering if anyone had experiences and best practices to share for a solid statsd/graphite deployment ?

A: There's a statsd proxy with consistent hashing, that makes is possible to spread statsd traffic between multiple statsd aggregators, each using its own set of metric names. It's a crucial scalability element in your architecture, allowing you to scale statsd processes.
Graphite is also tricky, but hopefully you won't need infinite scale and can do just fine sharding by service or some other static parameter.
Hardest part is scaling webapp, and it depends a lot on what are your heaviest graph queries. However you can always pre-aggregate data for hardest graphs and get rid of most of the load.
I've been using HostedGraphite for quite some time to avoid all this pain, these guys have implemented their own Riak backend for Carbon and do all the scaling there.


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Victor di Suvero
Individual Artist
Lee Gruber
Individual Contributor to the Arts
New Mexico PBS / KNME ¡COLORES!
Major Contributor to the Arts
Marc Neikrug
Nicholas Otero
Roxanne Swentzell
Celebrating the Significance of the Arts
In the State of New Mexico
The Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts were established in 1974 by then Governor Bruce King and First Lady Alice King to celebrate the significance of the arts to the State of New Mexico. Nominations are accepted from interested individuals and art organizations statewide culminating in an exhibition and awards ceremony each fall when the Governor acknowledges exemplary New Mexican artists, arts organizations and arts supporters.
Home | about the awards | the process | the exhibition | award winners
The New Mexico Governor's Awards for Excellence in the Arts is a joint program of the New Mexico Museum of Art and New Mexico Arts. Both are divisions of the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.


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package ventanasCliente;
import javax.swing.DefaultListModel;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JList;
import javax.swing.ListSelectionModel;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JButton;

import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;

import javax.swing.SwingConstants;
import javax.swing.JTable;

import jugador.Jugador;
import jugador.Ranking;

import java.awt.Component;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;

import propiedadesDelJuego.Partida;

import java.awt.ComponentOrientation;

import javax.swing.border.EmptyBorder;
import javax.swing.event.ListSelectionListener;
import javax.swing.event.ListSelectionEvent;

import java.awt.Font;
import java.awt.Color;

import javax.swing.ScrollPaneConstants;

public class ListaJuegos extends JFrame {
	private static final long serialVersionUID = -4883499042801315273L;
	private JPanel contentPane;
	private JTextField nickTxtField;
	private JButton btnUnirse;
	private JButton btnCambiarNick;
	private JButton btnCambiarPassword;
	private JButton btnCerrarSesion;
	private ArrayList<Partida> listadoPartidas;
	private final JList<String> partidasList = new JList<String>();
	private String partidaSelecionada = "";
	private JLabel lblInfoEspera;
	private JLabel lblInfoEstado;
	private JLabel lblInfoJugadoresReq;
	private JLabel lblInformacion;
	private Principal principal;
	private Ranking ranking;
	private JTable tablaRanking;
	private int partidaMaxJugadores;

	//CONSTRUCTOR--------------------------------------
	public ListaJuegos(ArrayList<Partida> listadoPartidasArg,Ranking rankingArg,Principal principalArg) {
		setTitle("ZombieLand - Seleccion de partida");
		setResizable(false);
		this.listadoPartidas = listadoPartidasArg;
		this.ranking = rankingArg;
		this.principal = principalArg;
		contentPane = new JPanel();
		contentPane.setLayout(null);
		contentPane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5));
		this.setContentPane(contentPane);
		this.setBounds(100, 100, 800, 550);
		this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane();
		scrollPane.setBounds(15, 35, 150, 81);

		partidasList.setDoubleBuffered(true);
		setListaPartidas();
		partidasList.setSelectionMode(ListSelectionModel.SINGLE_SELECTION);
		scrollPane.setViewportView(partidasList);
		partidasList.addListSelectionListener(new ListSelectionListener() {
			public void valueChanged(ListSelectionEvent arg0) {
				mostrarInformacion("");
				if(partidasList.getSelectedIndex() != -1) {//Si hay algo seleccionado.
					partidaSelecionada = listadoPartidas.get(partidasList.getSelectedIndex()).getNombre();
					lblInfoEspera.setText(Integer.toString(listadoPartidas.get(partidasList.getSelectedIndex()).getConectados()));
					lblInfoEstado.setText(listadoPartidas.get(partidasList.getSelectedIndex()).getEstado());
					lblInfoJugadoresReq.setText(Integer.toString(listadoPartidas.get(partidasList.getSelectedIndex()).getJugadoresReq()));
				}
			}
		});

		JLabel lblSeleccionDePartida = new JLabel("PARTIDAS");
		lblSeleccionDePartida.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblSeleccionDePartida.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblSeleccionDePartida.setBounds(15, 10, 150, 14);
		contentPane.add(lblSeleccionDePartida);
		contentPane.add(scrollPane);

		btnUnirse = new JButton("Unirse");
		btnUnirse.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
				if(partidasList.getSelectedIndex() >= 0) {
					setEnabledGeneral(false);
					principal.recibirMsj("SELECCION_PRINCIPAL_UNIRSE");
				}
			}
		});
		btnUnirse.setBounds(45, 130, 90, 23);
		contentPane.add(btnUnirse);

		JLabel lblEstado = new JLabel("Estado");
		lblEstado.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblEstado.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblEstado.setBounds(215, 10, 100, 14);
		contentPane.add(lblEstado);

		lblInfoEstado = new JLabel();
		lblInfoEstado.setLabelFor(lblEstado);
		lblInfoEstado.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblInfoEstado.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblInfoEstado.setBounds(215, 40, 100, 14);
		contentPane.add(lblInfoEstado);

		JLabel lblJugadoresEsperando = new JLabel("Jugadores esperando");
		lblJugadoresEsperando.setBounds(370, 10, 160, 14);
		lblJugadoresEsperando.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		contentPane.add(lblJugadoresEsperando);

		lblInfoEspera = new JLabel();
		lblInfoEspera.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblInfoEspera.setBounds(370, 40, 160, 14);
		lblInfoEspera.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblInfoEspera.setLabelFor(lblJugadoresEsperando);
		contentPane.add(lblInfoEspera);

		JLabel lblJugadoresReq = new JLabel("Jugadores requeridos");
		lblJugadoresReq.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblJugadoresReq.setBounds(595, 10, 165, 14);
		contentPane.add(lblJugadoresReq);

		lblInfoJugadoresReq = new JLabel();
		lblInfoJugadoresReq.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblInfoJugadoresReq.setBounds(595, 40, 165, 14);
		lblInfoJugadoresReq.setLabelFor(lblJugadoresReq);
		contentPane.add(lblInfoJugadoresReq);

		JLabel lblRanking = new JLabel("RANKING");
		lblRanking.setBounds(420, 140, 80, 23);
		lblRanking.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		contentPane.add(lblRanking);
		JScrollPane scrollRanking = new JScrollPane();
		scrollRanking.setViewportBorder(new EmptyBorder(0, 0, 0, 0));
		scrollRanking.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
		scrollRanking.setBorder(null);
		scrollRanking.setBounds(165, 180, 595,115);

		setearTablaRanking(armarModelo());
		tablaRanking.setColumnSelectionAllowed(true);
		tablaRanking.setCellSelectionEnabled(true);
		tablaRanking.setComponentOrientation(ComponentOrientation.LEFT_TO_RIGHT);
		tablaRanking.setRowHeight(17);
		tablaRanking.setAlignmentY(Component.BOTTOM_ALIGNMENT);
		tablaRanking.setAlignmentX(Component.RIGHT_ALIGNMENT);
		scrollRanking.setViewportView(tablaRanking);
		contentPane.add(scrollRanking);

		nickTxtField = new JTextField(principal.getCliente().getUsuario());
		nickTxtField.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		nickTxtField.setBounds(230, 330, 170, 23);
		contentPane.add(nickTxtField);
		nickTxtField.setColumns(10);

		btnCambiarNick = new JButton("Cambiar nick");
		btnCambiarNick.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
				if(nickTxtField.getText().isEmpty())
					mostrarInformacion("El nick no puede estar vacìo");
				else if(nickTxtField.getText().contains(";"))
					mostrarInformacion("El nick no puede contener ';'");
				else {
					principal.getYoJugador().setNick(nickTxtField.getText());
					principal.recibirMsj("LISTAJUEGOS_PRINCIPAL_CAMBIO-NICK");
					mostrarInformacion("Tu nick ahora es: "+ nickTxtField.getText());
				}
			}
		});
		btnCambiarNick.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		btnCambiarNick.setBounds(230, 370, 170, 23);

		btnCambiarPassword = new JButton("Cambiar password");
		btnCambiarPassword.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		btnCambiarPassword.setBounds(465, 370, 170, 23);
		btnCambiarPassword.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
				principal.recibirMsj("LANZAR_CAMBIO_PASS");
			}
		});

		contentPane.add(btnCambiarNick);
		contentPane.add(btnCambiarPassword);

		btnCerrarSesion = new JButton("Cerrar sesion");
		btnCerrarSesion.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
				listadoPartidas.clear();
				principal.cerrarSesion();
			}
		});
		btnCerrarSesion.setHorizontalTextPosition(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		btnCerrarSesion.setBounds(348, 435, 150, 23);
		contentPane.add(btnCerrarSesion);

		lblInformacion = new JLabel("");
		lblInformacion.setForeground(Color.RED);
		lblInformacion.setHorizontalAlignment(SwingConstants.CENTER);
		lblInformacion.setFont(new Font("Dialog", Font.BOLD, 13));
		lblInformacion.setBounds(15, 480, 320, 20);
		contentPane.add(lblInformacion);
	}

	//GETTERS & SETTERS-----------------------------------------------------
	public String getPartidaSeleccionada() {
		return this.partidaSelecionada;
	}

	public void setPartidaSeleccionada(String juegoSelecionado) {
		this.partidaSelecionada = juegoSelecionado;
	}

	public void setPartidaMaxJugadores(int valor) {
		this.partidaMaxJugadores = valor;
	}

	//OTROS METODOS---------------------------------------------------------
	/**
	 * Actualiza (partidasList) la lista de partidas que se muestra en la ventana
	 */
	public void setListaPartidas() {
		DefaultListModel<String> modelo = new DefaultListModel<String>();

		for(int i = 0; i < this.listadoPartidas.size(); i++) {
			modelo.add(i, this.listadoPartidas.get(i).getNombre());
		}
		this.partidasList.setModel(modelo);
		if(!this.partidaSelecionada.equals("")) {
			for (Partida partida : this.listadoPartidas) {
				if(partida.getNombre().equals(this.partidaSelecionada)){
					lblInfoEspera.setText(Integer.toString(partida.getConectados()));
					lblInfoEstado.setText(partida.getEstado());
					lblInfoJugadoresReq.setText(Integer.toString(partida.getJugadoresReq()));
					if(principal.getVentanaEspera() != null)
						principal.getVentanaEspera().setValoresEspera(this.partidaMaxJugadores, partida.getJugadoresReq(), partida.getConectados());
				}
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Actualiza los atributos de una partida
	 * @param IDPartida
	 * @param estado
	 * @param jugadoresRequeridos
	 * @param conectados
	 */
	public void actualizarPartida(String IDPartida, String estado, int jugadoresRequeridos, int conectados) {
		for (Partida partida : listadoPartidas) {
			if(partida.getNombre().equals(IDPartida)) {
				partida.setEstado(estado);
				partida.setJugadoresReq(jugadoresRequeridos);
				partida.setConectados(conectados);
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Habilita o deshabilita los elementos activos de la ventana
	 * @param estado
	 */
	public void setEnabledGeneral(boolean estado) {
		this.partidasList.setEnabled(estado);
		this.btnCambiarNick.setEnabled(estado);
		this.btnCambiarPassword.setEnabled(estado);
		this.btnCerrarSesion.setEnabled(estado);
		this.btnUnirse.setEnabled(estado);
	}

	/**
	 * Actualiza el texto a mostrar en el etiqueta de informaciòn de la ventana
	 * @param info
	 */
	public void mostrarInformacion(String info) {
		this.lblInformacion.setText(info);
	}

	/**
	 * Actualiza el modelo de la tablaRanking con los jugadores de la listaRanking
	 * @return
	 */
	public DefaultTableModel armarModelo() {
		String columnNames[] = {"Posici\u00F3n", "Jugador", "Puntaje Total", "Partidas Jugadas", "Partidas Ganadas", "Prom. PPP"};
		@SuppressWarnings("serial")
		DefaultTableModel model = new DefaultTableModel(columnNames, 0) {
			@Override
			public boolean isCellEditable(int row, int column) {
				return false;
			}
		};
		int pos = 0;
		for(Jugador jugador : this.ranking.getListaJugadores()) {
			pos++;
			if(!jugador.getUsuario().equals(this.principal.getCliente().getUsuario()))
				model.addRow(new Object[]{pos, jugador.getUsuario(), jugador.getpuntajeTotal(), jugador.getJugados(), jugador.getGanados(), jugador.getPromPPP()});
			else
				model.addRow(new Object[]{this.principal.getMiPosicionRanking(), jugador.getUsuario(), jugador.getpuntajeTotal(), jugador.getJugados(), jugador.getGanados(), jugador.getPromPPP()});
		}
		return model;
	}

	/**
	 * Crea la tabla y la agrega a contentPane
	 * @param model
	 */
	public void setearTablaRanking(DefaultTableModel model) {
		this.tablaRanking = null;
		this.tablaRanking = new JTable(model);
		this.contentPane.add(this.tablaRanking);
	}
}

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Biografia
Eugenio Balzan nacque in una famiglia di proprietari terrieri della provincia di Rovigo, ebbe una giovinezza difficile a causa dell'alluvione del Polesine che nel 1882 mandò in rovina la sua famiglia. Si trasferì a Milano e lavorò al Corriere della Sera, dove fu assunto nel 1897 come correttore e poi come giornalista. In breve ricoprì i ruoli di redattore, capocronaca ed inviato speciale, firmò celebri reportage sullo sfruttamento degli italiani emigrati nel Nordamerica (Canada e USA).

Nel 1903 Balzan ne divenne il direttore amministrativo, avendo anche acquisito parte della proprietà stessa del giornale, seppur si trattasse di una piccola quota. Braccio destro del direttore Luigi Albertini contribuì alla crescita economica del giornale che divenne il principale quotidiano italiano passando dalle 75 000 copie del 1900 alle 150 000 del 1906, alle 275 000 cinque anni dopo ed alla fine della prima guerra mondiale a quasi 400.000. Nel 1920 la tiratura arrivò a 600 000 copie.

Grazie alla sua iniziativa la vendita degli spazi pubblicitari venne gestita direttamente dal "Corriere" che, oltre al quotidiano, avviò dei periodici collegati che ebbero un grande successo: nel 1899 La Domenica del Corriere, nel 1901 "La Lettura", nel 1903 il "Romanzo mensile" e nel 1908 il Corriere dei Piccoli. Balzan si preoccupò di innovare il "Corriere" dotandolo delle macchine rotative tecnologicamente più avanzate e automatizzate, gestendo anche al meglio la distribuzione e la rivendita.

Nel 1921 Luigi Albertini cedette al fratello Alberto la direzione del quotidiano. Nel novembre del 1925 gli Albertini furono costretti ad abbandonare la proprietà e la guida del giornale, per le pressioni del regime fascista, a favore dei fratelli Aldo, Mario e Vittorio Crespi, che rimasero gli unici proprietari. Balzan invece restò al suo posto nel "Corriere". Come ebbe modo di scrivere:

L'ambizione e il ritorno economico della sua posizione lo portò a vivere quel periodo come "anni del compromesso": da un lato il punto più alto della carriera e dall'altro le continue tensioni con l'ambiente che lo circondava. Accusato dai fascisti ed in particolar modo da Roberto Farinacci di essere contrario al Duce, si avvalse dell'amicizia del fratello di Benito Mussolini, Arnaldo, giornalista, che però morì improvvisamente nel 1931.

Nel 1933 Balzan cedette alle pressioni e lasciò il "Corriere" autoesiliandosi, emigrando in Svizzera, dove negli anni aveva accumulato una fortuna. Tra Lugano e Zurigo visse fino al 1950, anno del suo rientro ufficiale in Italia, anche se non tornò mai a stabilirvisi. Morì a Lugano nel 1953.

Onorificenze

La Fondazione Balzan
Dopo la sua morte l'unica figlia ed erede, Angela Lina, diede vita alla Fondazione Internazionale Premio Eugenio Balzan, che dal 1961 conferisce il Premio Balzan in varie discipline scientifiche, umanistiche ed artistiche.
Eugenio Balzan fu anche un amatore d'arte e sapiente collezionista di opere italiane dell'Ottocento e Novecento . Le variegate opere della sua Collezione furono esposte per la prima volta al pubblico in una mostra a Zurigo, allestita a cura del sodale Giuseppe De Logu, nel 1944. A seguito della scomparsa di Balzan, nel 1953, e dell'istituzione della Fondazione Internazionale, la raccolta venne acquisita dalla stessa. Dal 2014 la Collezione Eugenio Balzan è conservata ed esposta nell'omonimo Teatro Sociale del comune di Badia Polesine.

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Your weekly guide to Houston: Five (plus) don't-miss events — wild Britney Spears impostor included
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Rainbow on the Green's entertainment lineup includes performer Derrick Barry as pop queen Britney Spears. Courtesy photo
The Summer Solstice Observation at the Rothko Chapel welcomes the season with Vedic fire rituals, Sanskrit chanting, silent meditation, yoga and music. Courtesy photo
Houston Arboretum and Nature Center's "BBQ, Telescopes & A Night in the Woods" includes dinner, a night hike and an opportunity to view the night sky with telescopes. Courtesy of Houston Arboretum and Nature Center
Round Top is home to a classical music festival that welcomes international talent and promising students from around the globe. Courtesy of Round Top Festival Institute/Facebook
Life on Four Strings by Tadashi Nakamura chronicles the life of ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. Courtesy of Jake Shimabukuro: Life on Four Strings/Facebook
Oh, Houston summer. How we love to hate you.
I say let's embrace our sultry alter ego and shout its arrival from the roof tops with this week's event suggestions, which include summer solstice celebrations, a fabulous dance fete with reality television stars and one sassy celeb, a night walk through the woods, a day trip for classic tunes and a film festival that lauds the benefits of a pluralistic society.
Land Rover Houston Central's "Rainbow on the Green" presented by Legacy Community Health Services
The kings and queens of Houston's most absolutely fabulous scene are setting the stage for a great al fresco dance party on the grounds of Discovery Green. Alongside Mix 96.5's Chad Pitt as emcee, the entertainment lineup includes Derrick Barry (as Britney Spears), The Voice season four runner-up Michelle Chamuel and American Idol season six runner-up Blake Lewis.
The skinny: Friday, 7 p.m.; Discovery Green; admission is free.
Summer Solstice Observation at the Rothko Chapel
Shake up your chakras and clean up your chi ahead of the Houston summer with the help of this Rothko Chapel yearly event that celebrates the arrival of the summer solstice, which you can think of as the critical point in which the Earth's rotation signals the passing from one season to another.
Led by Bayou Bliss Yoga and with music by Bhakti House Band, guests will welcome sunrise with activities — Vedic fire rituals, Sanskrit chanting, silent meditation and yoga — that appeal for personal and cosmic healing. Return to the plaza at sunset for a family-friendly dance party helmed by Austin-based SeVana Marimba, a group known for executing energetic Zimbabwean tunes on large xylophones.
The skinny: Saturday, 6:20 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.; Rothko Chapel; admission is free, $10 suggested donation.
Houston Arboretum and Nature Center hosts "BBQ, Telescopes & A Night in the Woods"
It's been around for so long that it's easy to forget a bucolic gem exists within the hustle and bustle of this megalopolis. The Houston Arboretum and Nature Center is a relaxing, charming nature sanctuary that feels as though it were located a world a away from Houston's urban jungle.
Enjoy the forested setting during the longest day of the year — the summer solstice. The evening stroll includes dinner, a night hike and an opportunity to view the night sky with the help of telescopes and the guidance of the Houston Astronomical Society.
The skinny: Saturday, 7:30-10 p.m.; Houston Arboretum and Nature Center; tickets are $35 for individuals, $70 for a family of four (two adults/two children).
Round Top Summer Music Festival: Texas Festival Chamber Orchestra concert with conductor Linus Lerner
You may think of Round Top for antiquing. And for pies. Because no visit to the Fayette County destination is complete without stopping at Royers Cafe for a thick slice of Texas Trash pie that contains chocolate chips, pecans, caramel, coconut, graham crackers and pretzels — need I say more?
But Round Top is home to a classical music festival that welcomes international talent and promising students from around the globe. The Round Top Summer Music Festival, which runs through July 12, has an ambitious schedule of concerts, recitals and master classes, including a performance of Schubert's Symphony No. 5 in B-flat and Bartók's Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta this weekend.
The skinny: Saturday, 7:30 p.m.; Round Top Festival Institute; $20 for adults, $10 for students.
10th Annual Houston Asian Pacific American Film Festival
A popular spicy sauce, a dribbling record-breaker and ukulele whiz. These three featured flicks that screen on Sunday as part of the 10th Annual Houston Asian Pacific Film Festival explore some of the remarkable contributions of Asian Pacific Islander American culture.
Sriracha by Griffin Hammond, Linsanity by Evan Jackson Leong (the Jeremy Lin movie) and Life on Four Strings by Tadashi Nakamura (on ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro) were chosen as they entertain and educate audiences with thoughtful storytelling and beautiful visuals.
The skinny: Sunday, 1 p.m.; Asia Society Texas Center; admission is free with reservations.
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In his 1887 novel Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy introduced the idea of credit cards. Thirty years later, hotels and gas-station chains began issuing them to customers. The modern-day slab of plastic came about in the 1950s with the introduction of the Diners Club card and, later on, Carte Blanche and American Express. In the near future, plastic will likely be replaced by something even less substantive — cell-phone currency, a form of electronic money with no physical properties at all.
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