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BE THE REFUGE book review
Be the Refuge, by Chenxing Han
Published by North Atlantic Books
Jan 26, 2021 | 344 Pages | 6 x 9 | ISBN 9781623175238
A must-read for modern sanghas–Asian American Buddhists in their own words, on their own terms.
Despite the fact that two thirds of U.S. Buddhists identify as Asian American, mainstream perceptions about what it means to be Buddhist in America often whitewash and invisibilize the diverse, inclusive, and intersectional communities that lie at the heart of American Buddhism.
Be the Refuge is both critique and celebration, calling out the erasure of Asian American Buddhists while uplifting the complexity and nuance of their authentic stories and vital, thriving communities. Drawn from in-depth interviews with a pan-ethnic, pan-Buddhist group, Be the Refuge is the first book to center young Asian American Buddhists' own voices. With insights from multi-generational, second-generation, convert, and socially engaged Asian American Buddhists, Be the Refuge includes the stories of trailblazers, bridge-builders, integrators, and refuge-makers who hail from a wide range of cultural and religious backgrounds.
Championing nuanced representation over stale stereotypes, Han and the 89 interviewees in Be the Refuge push back against false narratives like the Oriental monk, the superstitious immigrant, and the banana Buddhist–typecasting that collapses the multivocality of Asian American Buddhists into tired, essentialized tropes. Encouraging frank conversations about race, representation, and inclusivity among Buddhists of all backgrounds, Be the Refuge embodies the spirit of interconnection that glows at the heart of American Buddhism.
The Sumeru review
A wabi-sabi blend exploring the lived experience of Young Adult Asian American Buddhists, Be the Refuge has all the inviting indeterminacy of a photograph by Rinko Kawauchi, coupled with extensive interviews and homage to those who went before.
Han's book also bravely and unblinkingly unpacks the fraught history of American racism toward Asians, as prelude to her conversations with contemporaries in Dharma practice.
Figuring prominently in the early sections of the book, the late Arunlikhati (author of the blog, Angry Asian Buddhist) serves as a touchstone for many of the points Han returns to in subsequent pages.
If you are reading this you know I am an old white male JuBu from Canada who publishes Buddhist books by authors from all over the world (including Ms. Han as a contributor to A Thousand Hands: A Guide to Caring for Your Buddhist Community), as well as having written a few myself. I suppose I've had quite an education in the cultural aspects of many lineages, as well as wonderful lessons from the teachers among them. I have my opinions, but I largely consider them to be useful only for me and try not to impose them on others, because I recognize that imitating my lived experience would be virtually impossible for anybody else, and probably not very instructive either.
Nevertheless, I am, like Chenxing, dedicating myself to honouring the Buddhists who are both our teachers and our fellow citizens.
In 2011, I conducted the first national sociological survey of Canada's Buddhist organizations, in association with the University of Toronto's Centre for the Study of Religion, with the guidance and support of Dr. Frances Garrett, based on the Sumeru directory I had created, which at that time comprised more than 500 temples, centres, charities, dojos and such – across Canada. The key findings from that study were published in The Journal of Global Buddhism in 2013.[1]
And, like Chenxing, I discovered that in many organizations, succession planning was not top of mind in terms of how to sustain their sanghas. In some cases, it resulted from cognitive dissonance between one generation and the next; in other cases, it resulted from existing in marginalized and impecunious communities; while in yet others it resulted from an overabundance of cult devotion to a demagogue.
Perhaps it is a function of being in Canada rather than the USA (a trope, I know, but forgive me), but the Buddhist folk I met here seem a lot more comfortable with permeable identities. Chenxing mentions Dr. Wendy Cadge's description of moving from an "ascribed identity" to an "achieved identity." That is a very succinct way of describing stages of our life journey, just as Gail Sheehy wrote about at great length in Passages. It resonates closely with Maslow's pyramid of actualization. In other words, it's a universal journey travelled along many paths.
At the risk of exposing my ignorance, I wonder if we dwell too much on the intersectionality of our many identities and lose sight of the transcendent spiritual power of Dharma practice. One of my Dharma friends has warned me that "the intersectionalists are destroying the Dharma from within, with their emphasis on our tribal identities and assertion that we can never and will never understand each other." He was pretty worked up about it.
Is it my Canadian sensibilities that lead me to believe that a syncretic approach is more pragmatic and fulfilling than orthodoxy? Well, no. There seem to be plenty of delusion and identity politics in Canada too, more than enough to go 'round.
As I write this, the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic rages. Listening to the ever-ongoing news cycle of statistics, conflicts, hopes hanging on a technological fix but boggled by the complexity of the global logistics it requires, puzzlement about the future, and generalized malaise, any sense of longer-range thinking has been set aside in the hurly-burly of the moment.
Almost 130 pages into Chenxing's book, I've yet to encounter anybody seriously discussing #climatestrike, #MeToo, or #BLM.
Further disclosure: in another of my identities, I am a technological design educator. A lot of what I teach has to do with future technologies, since the students of today will be the architects of the future. I'm not teaching them about the technologies themselves, but rather giving them a grounding in the kind of critical thinking and design project management we need to do the work that will be needed to heal our sick relationship with this planet and all its inhabitants. A lot of has to do with risk mitigation and preparing for unforeseen consequences from the best-laid plans.
The intersection of that identity and my Dharma identity yielded my 2019 book, Bodhisattva 4.0: A Primer for Engaged Buddhists.[2]
However, this is not a plug for me. I write it to point out that our personal lived experience, while obviously unavoidable and hopefully profoundly enriching, is not the nexus for our most fruitful expression of our Dharma practice. That must be in our relationship with the world, our mahasangha, as it were.
The Japanese American experience in San Francisco cannot easily be compared with the Tibetan Canadian experience in Montreal, for example. The prayer beads that unite them pass through individual fingers in 84,000 different ways.
So rather than focusing on specific quotes from specific interviewees reflecting on specific situations of alienation, stereotyping and confusion, Chenxing returns to her own evolution, referring to her own deepening practice as akin to steeping tea, rather than conversion. Discussion of conversion, what it means, and its limits, looms large in the middle section of the book.
I was intrigued when I read on the tagline at the top of the book's front cover, "[former] Buddhist chaplain, Chenxing Han" and I wondered why the termination of that identity would be so prominently displayed. Again, I can only refer back to my own lived experience. I publish books about chaplaincy and I consider it to be the face of spiritual practice for the future. In this pandemic, we have seen a profound awakening in respect for those who care for others, regardless of their religious affiliation or socio-economic status.
In Canada, where we have socialized health delivery systems, this looks a lot different from in the United States. In my teacher life, I have often recommended the book, Design for Care: Innovating Healthcare Experience[3] by Peter Jones (a Canadian) as a way to see the system rather than individual "heroes" and to explore how systemic design changes can improve every aspect of the healthcare sector.
Perhaps a similar phase shift (Roshi Joan Halifax's words, recently, from a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation interview about helping healthcare workers cope in the pandemic)[4] will take place in how we see our sanghas.
Gradually, as Dharma practice deepens, we become less concerned with our own spiritual identity, accomplishment or issues, and spend more time dancing in the mandala. We spend more time working at living our best lives for others and being of service with whatever unique and wonderful talents we possess.
For chaplains, who are present for careseekers in the most intimate and painful moments of their lives, this is such an important ability, and I will humbly admit that it is a skill of which I find myself in very short supply.
I am particularly heartened by books about the training and experience of Buddhist chaplains, because the field has been so dominated by the Christian paradigm even though the profession is all about serving careseekers from all religious (and non-religious) backgrounds.
That is why I was so looking forward to reading more about this subtext in Chenxing's book. After all, she wrote the chapter on "Young Adult Asian American Identities" in A Thousand Hands: A Guide to Caring for Your Buddhist Community.[5] I want to learn more about her chaplaincy work and what has apparently come afterwards. I wish the book had more of that thread.
One thing I can say for sure: Chenxing's book is an extended elegy to Aaron Lee, aka arunlikhati, and his enormously important blog. It's very sad that he has passed away.
Chenxing also takes on the "two Buddhisms" controversy. Full disclosure here: I published Charles Prebish's autobiography about 10 years ago.[6] He's the guy who came up with that observation from his fieldwork, and he's received a tsunami of criticism over it from younger academics who have tried to establish their own reputations largely by tearing him down in what he describes as ad hominem attacks that wilfully misrepresent what he actually wrote on the subject. In other words, this is a hot button topic where tempers can flare easily.
I see that chapter 10 of Chenxing's book is titled, Anger. Anger is a much-discussed emotion these days, as we struggle to figure out how to wield it constructively for social good. We've got the anti-masker rallies and right-wing pushback to what they pejoratively call "antifa" on the "radical socialist left." I am reminded of Gampopa's comment from more than 860 years ago naming the twin cause of suffering: conflicting emotions and primitive beliefs about reality.
Life is never going to go "back to normal." The Anthropocene leads to the Kali Yuga, not Camelot. Between the pandemic, climate crisis, mass extinctions, and all the nine planetary bio-boundaries we have crossed, we must be focused as hard as we can on the future rather than the past. Old rules don't apply.
The plight of climate refugees comes to mind. For those who are on the receiving end of incomprehensible injustice and violence, the customs and comforts of old simply have no meaning and no place in their traumatized future. The title of Chenxing's book is Be the Refuge. So, how do we best serve the refugee? How do we each see ourselves as a future refugee and find solidarity in community? Ah, I see that Chenxing's book ends with a chapter entitled, Solidarity.
The formative years of my Dharma practice were in Montreal and Toronto in the midst of the first wave of Tibetan refugees who were welcomed there in 1972. My first Buddhist teacher was Samu Sunim, with whom I've had a friendship for more than 50 years.[7] I've been a member of two sanghas that were run by white western teachers (both profoundly disappointing individuals in the end), been the facilitator for the Toronto Buddhist Federation and the Buddhist Council of Canada for more than a few years in the 1980s, and obviously stayed in touch with a lot of folks. I have deeply personal experiences in many different Buddhist lineages and find no strong need to identify myself with any of them. I'm simply a guy in his basement with a computer, who relishes conversations with other Buddhists in the ether (although I wasn't always so much the hermit).
Just before the pandemic hit, I was in Toronto to participate in a conference entitled, New Paths in Teaching Buddhist Studies, sponsored by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University Toronto, under the leadership of Dr. Frances Garrett, who had helped me so much with my sociological survey back in 2011-2012. The topic of my talk was: Teaching the Buddhism of the Future, Not the Past.[8] Speaking the same day was Jenny Bright, a PhD student at that institution, and her topic was about a Buddhist take on chaplaincy – particularly the bit about how CPE training emphasizes having a strong sense of self for chaplaincy work, obviously a rather inappropriate way for a Buddhist to think about the job, with our own truths about no-self. Unfortunately, her talk ran out of time before being able to answer that kōan, but I hope that conversation continues.
That's why I was delighted when Rev. Dr. Monica Sanford chose me to publish her book, Kalyanamitra: A Model for Buddhist Spiritual Care.[9] Dr. Sanford makes a cogent and comprehensive case for how Buddhists might be in the world, seen through the lens of chaplaincy.
[Perhaps Chenxing, you'd consider writing another book, on your experiences as a chaplain? I'd love to read it, if not publish it. North Atlantic Publishing is great, by the way, and you are in wonderful company there, so don't think I'm trying to steal you away. They know me and I've written them love letters in the past saying I feel like I've found a kindred spirit in them.[10] There are not a lot of people in the Buddhist publishing business, and we all sort of know each other, or at least know of each other.]
In chapter 11, Anger, Chenxing continues to unpack Prebish's Two Buddhisms and the long tail of that premise, culminating in trying to reframe what she describes as his twin question: Why is American Buddhism so white?, and Why are Asian American Buddhists so invisible? It's a story with which I was largely unfamiliar in 2010 when Professor Prebish was keynote speaker at a conference in Vancouver and I was a presenter of a talk on how Buddhists (including Angry Asian Buddhist) were using the internet. We had some interesting conversations and he asked me in the following months if I would be interested in publishing his autobiography. I jumped at the chance. I don't feel qualified to speak on Two Buddhisms in any authoritative way, but it sure seems to me that Prebish deserves a lot more credit than he gets for pioneering the scholarly study of Buddhism in America freed from the Christian stereotypes that preceded him. I am led to believe that Chenxing has acknowledged elsewhere that Prebish's original fieldwork and observations were in no way an attempt to valorize white Buddhists, although one might draw that conclusion from the material in this chapter.
My sense is that folks are still working hard at trying to figure out everything that was wrong with what they perceived to be Prebish's approach (as opposed to what he actually wrote and said). From where I sit, there are not two Buddhisms, but more than 600 Buddhisms in Canada. Bows to each and every one of them!
Chapter 11, Privilege, continues with more on the life and impact of Angry Asian Buddhist, and it is clear that Chenxing and Aaron Lee shared a deep friendship full of unguarded moments. All the sadder, then, that her chapter ends with the details of Aaron's untimely death from cancer. It is a passing she describes in more detail in Chapter 12, recounting the posthumous accolades Aaron received for his pioneering work with "a community that didn't know they existed."
In the penultimate chapter, Solidarity, Chenxing begins to explore stories of interconnection overcoming conflict, solidarity healing division, and stories of spiritual friendship., So much has changed since he and a few Buddhist friends started the Dharma Folk blog in 2008. I remember those heady days of the blogosphere, having launched the Sumeru blog in 2009. Those were the days of the Blogisattva awards.[11]
Chenxing recounts that time, already so long ago even in 2014, with detail that is important for us to know if we really want to get beyond the stuck place of Buddhist identity conflicts. Even the rebirth of Shambhala Sun as Lion's Roar comes under the microscope and found to be, if not wanting, at least less than some hoped for in terms of diverse representation. Still not enough of a refuge.
I have similar mixed feelings about the two behemoth Buddhist book publishers, Shambhala and Wisdom. I remember Snow Lion and their wonderfully eclectic newspaper catalogues, and was disappointed when they closed, only to be buried in Shambhala's back catalogue like the Ark in the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, in some fusty warehouse.
When Chenxing writes about the enthusiastic reception her 2016 article in Buddhadharma received, it is indeed heartwarming, but the article did not arrive without some angry letters from white people, she says. Indeed, even publication of her book, Be the Refuge, met with refusals from a Buddhist publisher (not me) and an academic press.
For those with a more sociological bent, the appendices of the book are replete with details on the sociological context from which the book has emerged. They are filled not just with interview data, but many conversation-starters on the place of race in your sangha.
In short, this is a difficult book to read because it deals with a difficult subject, but it is heartening to know that many are willing to tackle these issues. Highly recommended.
[1] http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/138/153
[2] https://sumeru-books.com/collections/buddhist-books/products/bodhisattva-4-0
[3] https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/design-for-care/
[4] https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thecurrent/the-current-for-dec-3-2020-1.5825717/as-health-care-workers-face-soul-destroying-pandemic-zen-teacher-offers-tips-for-coping-1.5825733
[5] https://sumeru-books.com/products/a-thousand-hands-a-guidebook-to-caring-for-your-buddhist-community
[6] https://sumeru-books.com/collections/buddhist-books/products/an-american-buddhist-life-memoirs-of-a-modern-dharma-pioneer
[7] I was the typesetter for Samu Sunim's newsletter, Spring Wind, for a number of years in the 1980s after knowing him for almost 20 years, and donated my typesetting equipment to the Zen Buddhist Temple in Toronto in 1990 when I closed my business. In exchange for the donation, I asked for a tax receipt, a zafu and a package of incense. Now, some 30+ years later, I'm looking at the zafu. I only discovered a week or so ago that Mushim Ikeda was also a student of Samu Sunim in Wisconsin back in the day and that she had been the word processor of the magazine's first issue before I came along! Serendipity!
[8] https://youtu.be/fhCg0IfUC7o
[9] https://sumeru-books.com/products/kalyanamitra-a-model-for-buddhist-spiritual-care
[10] If you want to know more about kindred spirits, I highly recommend the CBC mini-series, Anne with an E, which presents a wonderful dramatic depiction of Anne of Green Gables' journey from ascribed identity to authentic identity, infused with a modern sensibility about prejudice based on gender, sexual orientation, race or ethnicity. [https://www.cbc.ca/anne/m_site/]
[11] http://blogisattva.blogspot.com/
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In the late 1990s an attempt to adopt 48V batteries failed, because at that time the industry wasn't prepared to convert all mechanic and 12V systems. In hybrid vehicles it makes much more sense; 48V lithium batteries deliver more energy per kg which allows power-consuming functions such as the power steering, starter alternator and brake pumps to be electrified and simplified. Even traction for parking or cruising can be derived from the 48V line. However this means the 48V line has to be available all the time and for this reason the main alternator is now supplying the 48V directly, while the 12V supply needed by some low power applications - such as the radio, infotainment and dashboard instrumentation - must now be generated with a DC/DC converter.
Two strategies exist; a decentralised 48/12V converter, where every 12V supply is locally generated and there is no need of an additional 12V battery, and a centralised 48/12V converter with or without additional 12V lead-acid battery. The industry appears to favour the second solution and in most cases a 12V battery is still present; in this case the DC/DC converter is required to handle bidirectional energy flow at a power level from 300W to 3 or even 5kW, which cannot be managed with a simple single phase topology but needs a multiphase configuration.
The centralised solution uses an inverter of quite high power, so far the industry is looking to support a total output current of around 200A at 12V in step-down mode, this means a maximum power output of around 2.5kW. The same power level is required in the boost mode, when the energy is taken from the 12V lead acid battery and reversed to the 48V Lithium Ion battery, the only difference is that this mode of operation is usually required for just a few tens of seconds while the normal working mode remains the buck mode. Figure 1 shows the general block schematic, the converter has to manage the energy flow between the two batteries and the conversion direction is decided by the ECU of the car based on the car utilisation condition and battery status feedback from the converter.
Monitoring becomes an important part of this converter architecture and partly because of this digital control is displacing more common analog control. Its flexibility to control phases according to the total current output needed by the load offers huge savings in switching losses. All architectures must cater for maximum power output, but for about 70% of the time the converter will be working at around 30% of its power or less; dropping phases during operation is not easy for an analog solution, but for digital controllers it is, while automatically recalculating the phase rotation between the remaining phases.
In these types of multiphase converter the energy flow is only in one direction, the 12V input comes from the so-called silver box unit inside the computer or the server and the load is the CPU, sinking high current with high load transients and frequency. The main challenge of these types of converters is to maintain the CPU voltage into the specified voltage window of usually 100-200mV despite the load transients, which may reach 200A at around 100A/μs variation on the power supply output.
The schematic for a 48/12V automotive version of this multiphase solution is shown in Figure 2. The main differences and consequences of this topology are that the input and output voltages are higher - 48V Lithium Ion and 12V lead acid batteries - this means that higher breakdown voltage components need to be used, with higher cost. Also, bi-directionality is needed to allow energy balance between the batteries during operation of the hybrid car, so the algorithm embedded in the digital controller should include both. Lastly, full telemetry is needed, including input/output current and voltages.
The two batteries will also have different charging/discharging characteristics and it is necessary in both cases to control the current sink to and source from them. This can be accomplished only by a precise current sensing scheme that can read, in real-time, the current from a sensing resistor or other sensing element. The DC value must be known and an easy solution calls for a Hall-effect or sensing resistor solution, however the first reveals to be quite expensive while the second requires a good level of precision and signal processing since it cannot be dissipative and it carries a common mode of 12 or 48V across the mV measurement value.
Precision of the current measurement is required to be around 1%, resolution of the measurement is usually required to be on the ±0.5A for the 12V side with ±200A total output current and ±0.2A on the 48V side with about ±50A total current. Another challenge in the current sensing is to measure current flow in the two directions since the current will be flowing in or out of the batteries based on the operation mode. This means that the signal out of the sensor will be positive or negative around the common mode, as shown in Figure 3.
The current information and its biasing position have to be correctly reported to the digital controller input to allow operation in the two different modes. The battery voltage can vary quite a lot in the car, due to sudden current consumption, load transients and overcharge. The reason for operation down to 0V is not very clear, since both types of batteries are actually dead if their voltage drops below about 60% of the nominal value, furthermore this very low voltage requires all current sensing structures to be able to withstand this large voltage variation. Particularly in the case of a resistor current sense and related differential amplifier, the very sensitive inputs of this last has to be able to withstand a very large input voltage common mode without being damaged during operation and typical qualification stress test like the Pulse 1 commonly used in the automotive environment (Figure 4).
Last but not least, in many circumstances batteries must include a constant current limitation to avoid overheating their cells, therefore the converter must also work in constant current mode and adapt his output voltage to the battery condition. This current value may even change with the age or temperature of the battery for optimum control and it is required to be updated on the fly during normal converter operation. This is not easy at all with analog controllers and a programmable digital controller is instead appropriate.
Taking into account all these issues a new chipset for automotive 48/12V is being developed by International Rectifier, the new chip-set comprises a multiphase digital controller and a new gate driver with current sensing amplifier. The AUIRCT1000Q digital controller is the first ever developed with the Automotive market as a target, it derives from a long history and experience of controllers for computing application. This device addresses all the problems identified here and adds more functionalities. It can control a maximum of eight phases for better, more defined phase number optimisation with current output, the suggested configuration calls for around 300W per phase so that the higher equivalent switching frequency will allow lower output capacitance and ripple, on the other hand it will also allow faster reaction times during load transients. Both control algorithms are embedded, phase add/drop and shedding is automatic or can be decided via the serial line and all parameters can be stored once the set-up configuration has been frozen, using the internal MTP.
The AUIRS2013S gate driver has been developed to be used in conjunction with the AUIRCT1000Q or any other digital controller with tri-state PWM output and analog input for current and voltage sensing. This device solves issues around current sensing; the internal differential OpAmp can read the sense resistor voltage dropout along a large common mode voltage from 0V to above the battery level and it is internally protected from high voltage spikes coming from the sensing lines. Its output provides a positive or negative signal around an internally generated 1.25V level which is then sent to the digital controller as a reference point for the ADC input of each phase current sense. A current signal above the 1.25V indicate a buck operation while below indicates a boost operation. This device also accepts a three state PWM input to allow easy phase add/drop during operation at variable output current.
The technical challenges of implementing a bidirectional DC/DC converter for the emerging automotive 48/12V applications are new to the market of power electronics and especially to automotive OEMs. Today's solutions based on existing components availability are forcing engineers to solve the main problems using complicated and expensive electronics in quite large schematics. IR and other electronics component manufacturers are getting ready to meet the new market requirements by developing dedicated parts that will address the new topology challenges and allow a cheaper and more reliable implementation of these converters, finally speeding up the adoption of this new 48V voltage standard for car applications.


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How does a change of government affect public policy? Social protection policy reform under the Sata presidency in Zambia
Presenter(s): Hangala Siachiwena
The election in 2011 of President Michael Sata and his party, the Patriotic Front (PF), led to not only a major expansion of social cash transfers (SCTs) but to a decision for the initiative to be mostly state (as opposed to donor) driven as well. This study finds that under the former ruling party, the Movement for Multiparty Democracy (MMD), there was a failure to address salient issues such as unemployment and income inequality, despite sustained economic growth between 2002 and 2011. The shortcomings of the MMD's neoliberal economic framework led to increased demand especially among urban Zambians for a pro -poor reform agenda. Sata and the PF capitalised on these demands using a populist electoral strategy that included promises of pro-poor economic growth that would benefit people in villages and urban townships. Between 2011 and 2014, i.e. from the time of Sata's election to his death in office, the PF government emphasised a shift from agricultural subsidies (which were preferred by the MMD) to cash transfers while also increasing budgetary allocations to other social protection programmes such as empowerment funds for youth and women. Reforms were also driven in part by other actors including international donors and agencies, civil society and bureaucrats, all of whom interacted with political leaders through various processes. The study highlights the importance of socio-economic factors, populist politics, electoral dynamics, and the roles played by different actors to understanding social policy reforms that happened after a change of government in Zambia.
Hangala Siachiwena holds a BA in Development Studies and Economics from the University of Zambia and an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cape Town (UCT). He is currently a PhD candidate in the UCT's Sociology department and a researcher on the Legislating and Implementing Welfare Policy Reforms (LIWPR) research project in the CSSR. His research looks at how and why social protection policy making is affected by changes of government in Southern African countries, including Malawi, Namibia and Zambia.
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I was just informed that our proposal to receive a Giant Traveling Map from National Geographic was accepted! Last year we had the South America map come to Rhode Island, and several schools found it to be a great event. We'll be receiving the map of Africa that comes with an excellent set of resources on how to interactively teach, explore, learn and play with this specific map as a part of your curriculum. This map will soon be coming to Rhode Island March 11th to the 26th and the Alliance wants to make this accessible to as many RIGEA members as possible. For schools with 4 RIGEA members, this map can be rented for a free of charge for the first day with any additional days at a rate of $150 per day. Remember that it's free for teachers, administrators and parents to sign up to become RIGEA members—consider this your chance to recruit them for a good cause for your school AND the Alliance. For schools without 4 RIGEA members, they can still rent the map for $150 per day.
SCHEDULING THE MAP:
For those interested, please send your request to rigea@ric.edu with the following information
Include the subject line "Scheduling Africa Map"
Select day(s) on or between March 11-26 that you would like to schedule the map with at least two alternative dates
List the names of Alliance members (or future Alliance members) at your school. This can be a "work in progress."
The name and address of your school
Contact information for the person who will be responsible for transporting the map to the subsequent school (phone and email).
The borrowing school must transport the map and trunk to the next Rhode Island school on the list. The map is VERY large (26′ x 35′) and rolled into a 10′ long transportation tube that can transported by a large van or a pick-up truck. Please view this video for instructions on how to correctly and efficiently prepare and pack the map for shipping:
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"Africa's tremendous Sahara, deep forest, and endless savanna await your students on this visually stunning map, based on the September 2005 National Geographic Magazine map insert. The brightly colored map is 26' x 35', and clearly illustrates oceans, seas, rivers, mountains, countries and capitals. The map comes with a trunk of rich activities, games, props and educational resources. Explore the continent with your students using these educationally powerful and fun activities."
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One of the most biologically diverse forests in Africa, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is home to Uganda's largest population of mountain gorilla and is understandably a highlight of any trip to the country. Dense rainforest mixed with bamboo and nettles covers the steep ridges of the hills and valleys in this national park which forms the eastern edge of the Albertine Rift Valley. The trek to reach the gorillas is challenging and can take as long as five hours. However, your first glimpse of a gorilla is unforgettable and easily ranks as one of the world's greatest wildlife experiences. Whilst here, keep your eyes peeled for black and white colobus monkeys whose fluffy tails stand out against the dark green canopyPart of Uganda's charm is that it still less developed than many mainstream tourist destinations. This means things may not always run smoothly, but if you are happy to relax and enjoy the ever-changing scenery, you are sure to have an amazing adventure.One of the few places in the world to see wild chimpanzees. Kibale Forest National Park has dense and diverse vegetation which provides food and sanctuary for 13 species of primate. It is an excellent park for exploration on foot as paths lead deep into the forest. It is one of the best places in Africa to search for chimpanzees in their natural habitat, as well as blue monkey, L'Hoest's monkey and grey-cheeked mangabey. Nearby, the Bigodi wetlands are a birder's paradise, boasting a colourful array of marsh-dwelling birds and clouds of butterflies. Kibale is also surrounded by dozens of pretty crater lakes, which offer superb walking opportunities for the more active traveller, as well as tea plantations which blanket the countryside in verdant greens.
The spot to witness the great migration, as thousands of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle face the treacherous crossing.
These beautiful exotic islands are the perfect spot to explore the small Swahili town, watch the dhows sail or just relax on the sandy beaches.
A chance to see some of Africa's rarest species, like Grevy's zebra, Beisa oryx, reticulated giraffe and gerenuk.
A peaceful location in the Rift Valley to see abundant birdlife, hippos, giraffes and zebra.
A beautiful lake often covered in a cloud of pink flamingos, as well as a large population of both white and black rhinos. One of the three permanent lakes in the Rift Valley, Lake Naivasha's shores are surrounded by flower farms, old colonial properties and small villages of clay and thatch houses.The birdlife is beautiful and includes fish eagles, ospreys, lily- trotters and black crakes. With a number of animals grazing by the shores, it is an ideal place to relax for a few days. A few miles further north (and within easy reach for a day trip from Naivasha) is Lake Nakuru.The first thing you will see when approaching the lake is a roseate cloud along the shoreline.As you draw near, the pink mass turns and forms the shape of millions of flamingos. This is one of the iconic sights of East Africa and a spectacle of immense beauty. A game reserve has been created around the lake where black rhino are protected and can be seen along with many antelope, giraffe, lion and hyena.Lake Victoria is the second largest body of freshwater in the world. Although only a tiny percentage of the lake is located in Kenya, there are a number of islands scattered throughout the waters. Easily accessible from the Mara, it is also a wonderful place to relax before or after a safari. Other activities include trips to local villages and nearby islands and excellent bird-watching.
African wilderness that is home to several Samburu villagers who live amongst the elephant and other game. Stretching over a vast area from the foothills of Mount Kenya to the shores of Lake Baringo, the Laikipia Plateau is one of Kenya's lesser-known wildlife areas, yet it harbours more endangered species than anywhere else in East Africa.This is the place to see Grevy's zebra, sitatunga, Jackson's hartebeest and wild dog. Many northern species are found, including reticulated giraffe, Somali ostrich, Beisa oryx and gerenuk. There are large elephant populations, thriving lion, leopard and cheetah and numerous impala and gazelle.The land on the plateau is divided into huge ranches, most of which are devoted to wildlife conservation. The large conservancies of Lewa, Ol Pejeta and Lekurruki have all been instrumental in research and education on this vital subject, and as a guest you can learn about the ongoing projects.Far from the beaten track, they are also ideal for those looking to relax in total wilderness. You might track elephant on foot, ride a camel across rugged plains or watch the sunset from the top of a kopje. The game is wild and unfettered and the earth is brick-red, stretching as far as the eye can see.


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Q: how to override Angular library scss variables? I created a library in Angular 12 and I have implemented several components, I wanted to standardize the styling colors so I also implemented scss variables, I have created a SCSS file:
lib\dinotable.scss
$primary-color: green;
$secondary-color: red;

But I also want the library consumers to be able to override the colors in their consuming applications, how can I let them override the variables inside dinotable.scss?
you can find the library here:
https://github.com/chr1soscl/dinolib, use "npm run pack-dt" to build and pack the library, the consumer application is here: https://github.com/chr1soscl/dinolib-consumer

A: I would suggest trying to set the variables in the TS file instead, and let the end user override it in general configuration.
Take a look at this:
access SASS values ($colors from variables.scss) in Typescript (Angular2 ionic2)

A: I would suggest to make a seperate SCSS file, maybe called overrides.scss, where the consumers can override the variables themselves. However, you need to make sure that the override styles imported after the default Angular SCSS.
This means, you'll maybe have something like:
lib\global-variables.scss

$primary-color: green;
$secondary-color: red;

@import 'overrides.scss'

Note: SASS are deprecating the @import feature and changes it to @use instead in the future.

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This is the day my father lets us sleep, then brings us tea in bed. The sun streams in at unusual angles. He leaves his docker's hook among the coats, and his gasbag empty, like a small dead animal. 'Come on,' he says 'el día libre.' My mother joins him. Perched on our bed, they laugh together as if they're younger. 'Let's go,' he says. 'We'll miss the train.' My mother's eyes scale cupboards, hands twitch, as she plans out a meal. 'Potatoes and carrot.' I see her lips move. 'We need some eggs.' Like King Canute, he stops her. 'OK.' He pats a large soft bag of purple and green, string-handled, spilling a patch of faded blue. This day he wears a summer weight suit, a light coloured trilby and sandals with socks. My mother's cardigan is ruby red, with patterned frock, he hair swept back. We take the train. Fish paste sandwiches come out of his bag, a flask of tea. Moves close to mother. They kiss, and lipstick's smudged on his stubbly pale face. This is the day when from the large bag come smaller white crumpled ones, stamped 'Lucky Bag'. I get a frog, a sherbert lemon, my brother a disguise. False nose and glasses, we swap them round.
This is the day we lose ourselves in the sand. Wet, dry, we lie in it, dig, throw it over each other. The sea's on the turn, exposing the rocks. We prize off limpets, attach them to lines; crabs cling on to land in our bucket. Twenty three later, we throw them all back.
This is the day we head off to a pub. My brother and I sit outside with outsize ice creams, fluffy with air. We all go for a walk, her fingers sea-clammy, smelling of Woodbines. She presses her palm into the centre of mine.
This is the day the evening comes down quick, and shadows appear. 'When's the last train?' Her face harbours old things; time, washing of uniforms, meals she can make from almost nothing. Neighbours who twitch and gossip behind curtains. But this day is his. He's grand with goodwill and beer and fears not a soul. Today. We give this to him, as all round a crowd gathers, scents something about to happen. He undoes the bag, and pulls out clothes.
And on this beach, it's right this day as for the first and only time, with country and western suit, gangster tie, bell bottoms, he sings to us.
I first saw Kath McKay's marvellous prose poem 'Father's Day 1970' in a magazine. It subsequently appeared in Anyone Left Standing (Smith/Doortstop, 1998), which was the overall winner of the 1997 Poetry Business Pamphlet Competition.
There is nothing in the poem that does not feel absolutely right, both in terms of overall tone and specific, lived detail. Each time I read it I see new things: the father's empty gasbag, 'like a small dead animal'; the notation of Spanish, not English speech to announce the day off; his gesture of command to his wife 'like King Canute'. We love novels of course, but as Peter Sansom says, a poem can give us in one line what the longer form achieves in twenty: 'This day he wears a summer weight suit, a light coloured trilby and sandals with socks'. A man's life, compressed into perfectly weighted language that bears the fruit of compassion because it is precise.
I admire the way the action is kept moving forward, from bedroom, to kitchen, to train, to beach, to pub and back with the tiniest of brush strokes: the mother's twitching hands, the fish paste sandwiches and sherbert lemons, the twenty-three crabs, the 'outsize ice creams, fluffy with air'. The repeating refrain of 'This is the day' announces each shift of scene, but it's these details, spoken from the perspective of a child, which lift the poem both from schmaltzy romanticism and mere documentary accuracy: 'Her face harbours old things; time, washing of uniforms, meals she can make from almost nothing. Neighbours who twitch and gossip behind curtains.' The pun on the verb 'harbours' seems to bear a lifetime's unspoken freight of sadness which stems from routine and the neighbours' surveillance.
The use of the verb 'twitch' in that sentence is a direct echo with the mother's same action as she 'plans out a meal' at the start of the poem. The tone in that instance seems to indicate anxiety mixed with excitement. The second time we see it we are viewing the mother through the eyes of others, their malice implied but not stated. The two 'twitches' appear to argue for a lack of hope in the poem, or at least of social mobility.
Anthony, thanks for this wonderful post and introduction to Kath Mckay.
Brilliantly insightful analysis, AW, which added much to my appreciation of the piece, thank you. More, please!
Thank you. More where that came from!


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Q: Changing iOS status bar color or navigation bar color after presenting a view controller? So I'm using a third party api, specifically, this one:
https://github.com/twitchtv/twitch-ios-plugin-bin
What this API does is basically let me make this call:
[[TwitchKit sharedPlugin] presentStreamForChannelNamed:channel.user mode:TKStreamPresentationModeRemainInApp];

where channel.user is a NSString with a Twitch channel name, and a new view pops over my current one with the video stream I am requesting.
I don't see any way to change Twitch's source, so I'm stuck with it how it is.
However, my app uses a dark color scheme, and Twitch's popover has what looks like a navigation bar at the top, but it's white (default Apple color).  Since my color scheme is dark, my status bar is white.  So when the Twitch overlay pops up, it makes the status bar unreasonable.
There's two simple solutions to this:

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*Make the status bar turn black when Twitch's view comes up.

*Make Twitch's nav bar be dark.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to get either of these to work.  I tried this right after the presentStreamForChannel call:
[self.presentedViewController.navigationController.navigationBar setBackgroundColor:[UIColor purpleColor]];

but no dice.
I also tried:
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleDefault];

with little success.
How can I either make the status bar black when this transition happens, or make the new controller's bar dark?

A: I have tried demo following solution is working for me.
Go to your info.plist, add property "View controller-based status bar appearance" and set it "NO".
Add following code to your app delegate.
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleDefault];
This will make status bar to black through out the app.

A: You have to set bartintcolor for the navigationbar, If you want black status bar, set background color of the window to black and set status bar style to blacktranslucent.

[self.presentedViewController.navigationController.navigationBar setBarTintColor:[UIColor purpleColor]];
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] setStatusBarStyle:UIStatusBarStyleBlackTranslucent];
[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] window] setBackgroundColor:[UIColor blackColor]];

Hope it will work.


Profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways.... You can prove anything by it. I am speaking of the abuse of psychology, gentlemen.
The 1947 movie Miracle on 34th Street is shown often at Christmastime every year. It is about a psychologist who gives an evaluation to Santa Claus, and then tries to get him committed to a mental hospital. The corrupt judge finds an excuse to avoid the unfavorable publicity. There is also a single mom with no faith. It is actually an excellent feel-good movie that is much better than its remakes.
Critics who take this movie too seriously have accused it of bad law and bad logic. But at the time the movie was made, it really was possible to commit a man to a mental institution based on a psychiatrist saying that he was delusional. Nowadays, there has to be evidence that the man is a serious threat to harm himself or others. So I guess that the field of forensic psychiatry has made some progress. The field has gotten worse in other ways, such as forcing dangerous psychotropic drugs.
In the Soviet Union, systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place. Soviet psychiatric hospitals were used by the authorities as prisons in order to isolate hundreds or thousands of political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally. This method was also employed against religious prisoners and most especially against well-educated former atheists who adopted a religion. In such cases their religious faith was determined to be a form of mental illness that needed to be cured. Formerly highly classified extant documents from "Special file" of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union published after the dissolution of the Soviet Union demonstrate that the authorities of the country quite consciously used psychiatry as a tool to suppress dissent.
A major theme of The Culture of Critique is that several Jewish-dominated intellectual movements developed theories in which ethnocentrism by Whites (and only Whites) was an indication of psychiatric disorder. This was true not only of the Frankfurt School, perhaps the main offender, but also Richard Hofstadter's diagnosis of "status anxiety" for Whites concerned about their displacement and Erich Fromm's analysis in terms of "sado-masochistic reaction formations" (see here, p. 195ff). All of these movements were facilitated by psychoanalysis, an infinitely plastic bit of anti-science that was able to get any desired result.
We are now seeing a trend for psychiatric diagnoses to be given to Whites who are angry about the massive invasion of non-Whites that are destroying the traditional cultures and threatening the status of the traditional populations of White countries. Anders Breivik was recently diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic for his rampage, mainly against young activists and the children of the leftist Norwegian elite he viewed as responsible for the immigration assault on Norway. This despite the fact that his operation was well-planned and despite the fact that his manifesto shows that he is quite intelligent and has read widely on the ongoing disaster of the Muslim invasion of Europe.
The case revolves around a stepfather who towel dried his eleven year old stepdaughter's hair as he had been doing for six years once every month or so. I know that you would not be surprised with the decision of the Commissioner (judge) on this case. The stepfather was put on the California "Child Abuse Central Index" before the first hearing in Dependency Court and charged with Sexual Abuse..
No wonder why there's no reference to MacDonald in wikipedia.
Steven Pinker, the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, wrote that MacDonald's work fails "basic tests of scientific credibility."
"So who do you believe? A big-shot Jewish Harvard psychology professor or some feminist activists?"
Here is the Wikipedia article on MacDonald. MacDonald and Pinker are both evolutionary psychologists, a controversial field.
I quoted Pinker on the decline of violence because he just wrote a whole book on the subject and documents his conclusions. Pinker has also attacked MacDonald, saying he has not read MacDonald's books and that they are unworthy of his attention. I would take Pinker's criticism of MacDonald more seriously if there were some substance to it.
It's not just Pinker. Another scientist, John Tooby, who, along with his wife Leda Cosmides, gave the field of evolutionary psychology its name in 1992, directly challenged MacDonald's work. Tooby told Salon.com in 2000 that "MacDonald's ideas — not just on Jews — violate fundamental principles of the field." John Hartung, the associate editor of the Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and an associate professor of anesthesiology at the State University of New York, called MacDonald's The Culture of Critique "quite disturbing, seriously misinformed about evolutionary genetics, and suffering from a huge blind spot about the nature of Christianity."
I don't play the guilt-by-association game. If MacDonald is wrong, then go ahead and show me where he is wrong.
Why not first show me where you're right ?
I did have another evaluator who was a Christian. He treated me with respect. He believed in having a strong role for the father. He wanted to do what was right, regardless of what the court had done previously.
But the two psychologists appointed by the court were completely different. They were prejudiced and anti-Christian. They have no morals and they have no Christian values and respect for others who have Christian values. They were only interested in destroying family relationships, and it bleeding money out of me in the process. And yes, they were both unable to give any explanation for their opinions other than their own anti-Christian hatred. They are bigots of the worst sort, and they should be exposed for what they do.
Oh, I believe that the were prejudicial towards you, but I I've seen the same players favor the christian parent over the jewish parent, too.
Yes, they were out to bleed money out of you, but it had nothing to do with any religious issues.
And yes, they were both unable to give any explanation for their opinions other than their own anti-Christian hatred.
MacDonald proposed a federal constitutional amendment to repeal the 14th and 15th Amendments.
McDonald is wrong because to repeal the 14th amendment would deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Also,, you'd written extensively of being denied your 14th amendment rights.
Do you feel McDonald is right or wrong about repealing the 14th. amendment ?
"I don't play the guilt-by-association game."
Anyway, do you share any views with David Duke and the KKK ?
MacDonald is a psychology professor. I was quoting him on the subject of psychology. If he misstated the facts in that quote, please let me know. I am not endorsing his political views. I know very little about his political views. I had never heard that he favors repealing the 14A and 15A amendments. If so, then I do not agree with on that issue. I did a quick search, and I was unable to confirm it. If you want to post a link, go ahead. But his politics are irrelevant to my post.
I quote all sorts of people with different political views. Please keep your comments related to the subject matter. Again, I don't play the guilt-by-association game.
They were prejudiced and anti-Christian. They have no morals and they have no Christian values and respect for others who have Christian values.
What did they say that proved to you that they were anti christian, and that they have no christian values and respect for others who have christian values ?


The American college experience is iconically defined in popular culture by several universal markers — lively Greek life, hip campus coffee shops and of course, the cultural force of a student-run radio station. WTJU — and its companion, entirely student-run sister station WXTJ — have served as the University's broadcasters for over 60 years since its founding in 1957.
The radio station finished moving its headquarters Saturday from the common area of the Lambeth Field Apartments — where it has broadcasted from there since 2000 — to a new space at 2244 Ivy Road. The new location is off-Grounds — making commuting a slightly more difficult endeavor for student DJs. As a larger space with a built-in performance stage, it was chosen to meet the needs of a growing station that is trying to be more community-focused.
WTJU hopes in this new era of its existence to collaborate with performers, student CIOs and members of the Charlottesville community as a whole.
"We're at our best when we are the … bright shining thread that runs through the fabric of our community," said General Manager Nathan Moore, who joined WTJU in 2011 after working in national radio.
To inaugurate their new space officially, WTJU hosted an Open House event on Saturday and distributed free t-shirts and stickers to a diverse crowd of Charlottesville residents, families, University students and volunteers coming together to celebrate the station's milestone.
Guests entered the first floor area, home to the new performance stage where just last week WTJU broke a Guinness World Record the week prior by having over 80 DJs hosting one radio show. Fitting so many bodies in one recording space was only possible because of the 2,600 square feet of room now available to the radio station. The move cost half a million dollars in total, and Moore said that $300,000 of the funds came from the University directly, with the rest being fundraised on air.
Coming from the confined and dimly lit environment of the Lambeth Field Apartments, the new studio lets in ample light and provides plenty of space for WTJU to grow into. The station hopes to push radio forward and pursue in-person events.
While the new station headquarters provide a more pleasing and well-lit view to the eye, some felt conflicted about losing the character of the former Lambeth location.
The new features like "brighter walls, un-stained wood, a big window" provide what Hullman feels is a new character of its own that student DJ's like her will likely have to get used to as the station adapts to new priorities beyond traditional radio. She values the added feeling of legitimacy of "not being as dependent on U.Va." by virtue of being off-Grounds — even if much of the move was financed by the University, funds WTJU. The station is also backed by additional funds from private donors.
Moore added that an in-person focus would not take away from the station's music and radio legacy.
"We have a foot in both and we're really proud to be a bridge between those two," he said.
In addition to the legacy equipment brought in from Lambeth, WTJU now has access to a more digital and modern suite of tools and technology that will enable new types of content production, such as student-led podcasting efforts.
The station's newer facilities are high-tech, but Moore said they like to envision themselves as "technology-agnostic," viewing the new equipment as a tool providing opportunities for more free creation as opposed to being benefits in their own right. The bulk of excitement centers around the forward-thinking potential that the Ivy Road location presents, though several student DJ's expressed mixed feelings about the move.
Second year College student and DJ Gabrielle Ringer mentioned missing the unique culture of the classic Lambeth headquarters.
"It was covered in art that students made, posters, and stickers from bands that came to Charlottesville," she said.
Guyer, who has access to a car, finds getting to Ivy Road is not significantly harder, but she worries about the proposition for students without a vehicle.
"For DJs without access to a car and with show hours that don't line up with the bus schedule, accessibility is a frustrating problem to tackle mid-semester," said Guyer.
For drivers, a parking lot offers a welcome upgrade from Lambeth, but not everyone will benefit from the new arrangement.
"There are parking spaces so it's easier to drive to, but not as pedestrian, bike, or public transport friendly," said Ringer, mentioning the added burden the new location places on car-less commuters.
Beyond site accessibility concerns, Guyer and Wringer both expressed general optimism for the new resources and opportunities available to the station and its volunteers.
The Open House event on Saturday served as a celebration of the station managing to get through the big move and to break a Guinness World Record the week before. That celebration was open and accessible to the community, with free food and artisanal sodas served out of kegs as tours of the new space were provided.
"We can make this a really nice home and it can be a really nice home that we can share with our broader community," said Moore.
With the half-million dollar move completed, Moore's WTJU hopes to continue growing into what it envisions as its future potential. Student DJ's are not pleased with the logistical situation but find reason to be hopeful with the new resources available to them.
"I'm optimistic that we will find different ways to make and celebrate art in this new space," said Guyer.
Having recently finished the intensive process of moving, student volunteers like Guyer also have practical reasons to celebrate the occasion.
"I'm looking forward to getting Italian food at the place next door," she added.


This is a known integration issue between swarm and docker-compose. The error occurs when the swarm manager tries to recreate a service container that defines port mapping to the host machine port. See this article for details.
To check whether services see each other or not, you can issue a GET request to http://<address.of.node.where.opscenter.is.running>:10080/monitoring/frontends. It should return a non-empty list if the cluster is running.
If the link is not available it could mean that the haproxy/opscenter services are not finished starting yet.
If the link returns an empty list, then most likely a connection between services has not been established (note that the list might be empty for a short period of time on startup while the frontend service is not yet initialized).
To restore the connection, try disabling the firewall on the swarm worker nodes in the cluster. For more details including what ports should be opened on the swarm cluster nodes in the firewall/access control lists, refer to this description.


Total credits available from ECO 2 standard pathway = 20 credits.
You should have completed 10 credits in NCEA Level 1 Economics or Level 1 Literacy 10 credits.
why does the exchange rate keep changing?
Students who study Economics discover the reasons behind the news headlines and are able to explain the changes that are taking place in our economy and society. Students find they are more able to participate in political debate as a result of understanding economic ideas.
Learning in Economics will be assessed through both internal and external achievement standards. The focus is on learning the skills that are needed to explain how our economy works and how government policies affect our economy and society.


24 to 3 at the half!!! Man, the look on those stupid pittsburgh stillers fans faces is precious! Jerome Bettis; what a bonehead! All I ever hear from these morons is "We've won four Super Bowls and you've never even been there!" Forget that we won four NFL Championships while they were the most inept team in the league! They say " ancient history, that was forty years ago." Uh Huh, I guess thirty years since winning is somehow better, but I wouldn't be bragging about it! Screw Pittspuke!!
ps. Lebron scored his second triple double in three nights last night. The Cavs are in first place by 1.5 games right now. Where is Pittspuke's NBA team in the standings? Oh, that's right. I forgot............ :smt041 Touchdown. New England!!!!!!
He don't know him cause he can't see that far up in the standings!


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DLC: At PAX East 2020, Davionne Gooden, Astrid Refstrup, and Brian Wilson discuss their personal approaches to storytelling in games
Friday 10th April 2020
From time to time, there are interesting bits from GamesIndustry.biz coverage that don't really fit well into the rest of the story, but are still worth reporting. Rather than relegate them to the trash bin of unpublished work, we'd like to repackage them into columns intended to provide additional insight on a variety of topics. While the exact format of these columns is still taking shape, we will publish them under the banner of "DLC."
At this year's PAX East, I had the pleasure of spending a good chunk of the show lurking around the various indie developer and publisher booths. Among the many stand-out games I encountered, the three in today's DLC had two important things in common: they're made by incredibly small teams, and they all have a different, yet pointed focus on storytelling.
Okay not to be okay
The first, She Dreams Elsewhere from Studio Zevere, is solo developer Davionne Gooden's first "Big boy, big she-bang, commercial" game, as he puts it.
It's already doing work to earn that moniker, as it's been picked up and featured by the ID@Xbox program and will be released day one on Xbox Game Pass. That support has been critical to getting Gooden out to multiple shows to market his game (he was set for GDC and E3, too, before both were cancelled due to COVID-19), and has meant the game is effectively already profitable for him even though its Game Pass presence means it won't see traditional sales numbers.
Davionne Gooden
"It is kind of weird because I'm going to be on Game Pass on both PC and console, but financially, I'm okay, and for me the goal is for as many people to experience the game as possible," Gooden says. "Whatever format that takes place in doesn't matter for me at all.
"My goal is to make a dope artistic product and have my voice be as genuine and as authentic and the best thing it could possibly be, no matter what shape that takes place in."
She Dreams Elsewhere is, Gooden says, very much a game shaped by his own voice and personal experiences. Gooden's been making games since the fifth grade, and working on this particular idea since he was a senior in high school, when he thought he'd be able to turn it around in just a few months. At first, he tells me, it was just a game about what everyday people dream about...and have nightmares about.
But as he worked on it further, She Dreams Elsewhere became more of a personal project. Gooden began to examine his own fears and anxieties, a consideration that led to what came across at PAX East as a fairly dark, surreal game: lots of black and white and static, a protagonist with attacks that highlight her anxieties and frustrations, and a scene at the end of the demo in a dark corridor that begins to touch on themes of despair.
"My generation, we're very much in that, 'Yeah, I'm depressed and depression sucks, haha' mindset. We joke about the awful stuff"
I tell Gooden that his surreal dreamscape feels like a very sad one.
"Well, thank you!" he replies.
"As dark as it gets, I don't take myself seriously, at all," he continues. "So there is a lot of comedy to off-set it all."
That comedy comes through in what Gooden hopes is authentically written dialogue between the game's protagonists, who find themselves caught in a strange dreamscape together that they must escape. He says he writes the dialogue from his own speech and that of his friends, as well as the tendency of his generation to respond to tragedy with a kind of snarky, gallows humor as a coping mechanism.
"My generation, we're very much in that, 'Yeah, I'm depressed and depression sucks, haha' mindset. We have our own way of dealing with it. It's very much the way my generation deals with it. We joke about the awful stuff.
"And it's okay to not be okay. I don't like RPG heroes who are like, 'I'm the big, strong, muscular hero!' I wanted to do something a little more realistic, despite the surreal backdrop."
She Dreams Elsewhere is planned for launch sometime in 2020.
Gaming around a bonfire
I realize it's in poor taste to flaunt swag given out at PAX events, but my visit to Welcome to Elk from Triple Topping Games gave me the most interesting bit of take-home I've ever received: a story written on a tiny, rolled up piece of paper inside a bottle.
I won't share it with you here, as it's one of the many tales included in the game, and these stories are Welcome to Elk's main focus. Though tied together by a fictional protagonist, Welcome to Elk is a game of stories centered around unique minigames, and all the stories are based on real yarns spun mostly by developer Astrid Refstrup's family and friends.
Speaking at East, Refstrup says Welcome to Elk was conceived when her brother returned from a trip to Greenland and went with her to a bar, where he began telling her a series of incredible stories he had heard there from the people he met.
Astrid Refstrup
Though she had originally wanted to make films, Refstrup pivoted to games due a belief that interactivity would only enhance the stories she already wanted to tell.
"Games are even more amazing [than film]," she says, "because you invite people to be a part of the movie and act it out.
"There are some really amazing examples [of storytelling in games] and I think people are taking the story part of the games more and more seriously."
To that end, Refstrup says she wants to somewhat buck the trend of how games normally tell stories. Specifically, she wants to avoid trying to attach a story onto traditional game mechanics, and instead wants the game mechanics to serve the different vignettes she wants to share.
"We have people dying in the game, and you want to portray that the right way, with a lot of respect for the person"
"With Welcome to Elk we are really trying to move the player forward without 'Go pick up something' or 'Go find a key'," she says. "We just want them to flow along with the story. That's something I feel is missing in a lot of games I've played recently. Using minigames is interesting and is an area I want to explore even more. I think Night in the Woods did it well, but I want to have even more of it because you can really emphasize a story if you're creative with the mechanics."
Though the stories she's telling almost all come from people she's already close to, Refstrup is aware that it's a bit of a challenge to avoid airing everyone's dirty laundry. She says her team is careful to change names, change details, and will occasionally merge stories together or fictionalize them further to remove them somewhat from the actual humans behind them. And she's telling a wide range of stories too, from goofy vignettes about drinking with buddies to a dark scene where a man is killed in front of his family.
"Using real stories was a huge challenge," she says. "You need to think a lot about how you're presenting the people. We have people dying in the game, and you want to portray that the right way, with a lot of respect for the person. Using real stories gave us a lot of talks about life experiences, and I think that added a seriousness to the game that was interesting to work with."
That said, she adds, it's important to keep them grounded in their reality and "keep reminding people that these things really happened." Some of the stories are accompanied by real video of her brother or others explaining what really happened, and she's put some of the true stories online on the Welcome to Elk website, too.
Ultimately, everything in Welcome to Elk is in service of storytelling.
"It comes down to what humans do," Refstrup says. "We sit around the bonfire and tell each other stories. I love when people are telling me a good story. It sticks with you. That's why we watch movies. We like this kind of entertainment, and putting it in video games and taking it very seriously is just expanding all of that."
Welcome to Elk is planned for launch sometime in 2020.
Finally, I visited The Forest Cathedral, the second game from Where the Bees Make Honey developer Brian Wilson.
Though Where the Bees Make Honey did well for Wilson, he tells me that once it was out, he needed a break. He took a few months off and spent a lot of time in the woods, where he picked up fly fishing.
"I thought I was going to be making something a lot darker and grittier [after Where the Bees Make Honey], and I needed to not be around anyone," he says. "So I went into the woods, and that shifted into the kind of game I was going to make."
At the time, he was reading Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, and began looking into her life -- specifically, her discovery of the harmful effects of DDT on the environment, and attempts at silencing her by the chemical industry. There, he discovered there was "so much more there" than he had previously realized.
"Some kids my age around 25 to 30 learned [about Carson] in school, but I didn't. My parents and their generations know about it. I thought it was an important story, and the things that I wanted to put in my next game kind of came together and it was all right in front of me.
"There's just this whole world right in our backyards that's affected by this"
"There's just this whole world right in our backyards that's affected by this. You can't eat the fish in my local lake because of this, even though it was 60 years ago. If I could tell this story in my way and have people experience it and learn a little more, then I've achieved my goal."
The Forest Cathedral, then, is a fictionalized retelling of the attempted silencing of Carson. Players control Carson, who is doing research on a remote island when things begin to go amiss. Something is wrong with the fish and insects, and a mysterious force won't let her leave the island. It's environmental history packaged as a psychological thriller.
That effectively gives Wilson two goals. He wants to retell Carson's story as accurately as possible, but recognizes that he needs to fictionalize it in very particular ways to make sure his game is fun.
"There's a fine line between being brutally honest and tailoring it so it's a fun, interesting experience and also a video game," he says. "I'm okay with that though, because I think about her trying to tell the real story. You can't really mess that up. It's pretty straightforward, but I'm fudging some things to make sure it works, and I have all these other complicated elements that I have to make sure it all works together. But the story is the most important thing.
"You can listen to an audiobook, or read Silent Spring, and there are really great documentaries. But the fact that you can play as her, and you can do it, you feel more connected and have control. If you watch a movie, you wouldn't feel the same way. But here, you have a piece of it, because you did it. It's very specific, but there are a lot more stories to be told and I have a lot more ideas."
The Forest Cathedral is planned for launch sometime in 2021.
Disclosure: GamesIndustry.biz is a subsidiary of ReedPop, which runs PAX East.
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HCI Group (HCI) to Buy United Insurance's 3 Personal Lines Arms
HCI Group (HCI) will provide 85% quota share reinsurance on all in-force, new and renewal policies of United Property and Casualty Insurance Company in the Southeast.
HCI Group Inc. HCI has agreed to acquire United Insurance Holdings Corp.'s UIHC personal lines insurance business in the states of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. These businesses together represent about $90 million of annual premiums. This transaction reinforces this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) HCI Group's growth strategy to expand into new geographies.
Pursuant to the transaction agreement, HCI Group will provide 85% quota share reinsurance on all in-force, new and renewal policies of United Property and Casualty Insurance Company ("UPC") in the Southeast from Dec 31, 2021 through May 31, 2022. UPC will receive a provisional ceding commission of 25% of the premium earned during the term of the contract that could increase up to 32% depending on the direct loss ratio results for the reinsured business. Net ceding commissions are expected between $8.3 million and $10.6 million, given an estimated ceded earned premium of $33.3 million (85% of $39.2 million).
The agreement also entails HCI Group to pay UPC a catastrophe allowance equal to 9% of the premium earned, which is expected to be $3 million for the contract period.
UPC will give renewal rights of personal lines business in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to HCI Group for an up-front cash payment of $3.8 million (which will be adjusted based on the amount of premium transitioned to HCI Group, subject to a maximum of $6 million).
This transaction thus enables United Insurance to intensify its focus on its growing commercial specialty property portfolio.
Earlier this year, United Property & Casualty Insurance Company agreed to transition its personal lines business in four New England states, representing approximately $125 million of annual premiums to HCI Group.
Shares of HCI Group have rallied 71.6% year to date, outperforming the industry's increase of 13.2%. Well-performing Homeowners Choice and TypTap coupled with conservative reserving practice should continue to drive HCI Group.
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Given the insurance industry's adequate capital level, players like Stewart Information Services Corporation STC and Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. AJG are pursuing strategic mergers and acquisitions.
Stewart Information has acquired Devon Title Agency to expand in Michigan. STC has a sizeable merger and acquisition pipeline and boasts a strong balance sheet with $585 million over regulatory requirements and $74 million on an existing line of credit facility supporting growth initiatives. Stewart Information remains focused on improving operational efficiencies by adding scale, investing in priority markets and strengthening core business with real estate technology and services.
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. acquired Tave Risk Management, LLC. Arthur J. Gallagher boasts an impressive inorganic story. AJG's merger and acquisition pipeline is quite strong with about $400 million revenues associated with nearly 50 term sheets either agreed upon or being prepared. The insurance broker estimates more than $2.5 billion for mergers and acquisitions consisting of $1 billion in cash, about $650 million of net cash generation in the second half of 2021, and $600 million to $700 million of borrowing capacity.
Shares of Stewart Information and Arthur J. Gallagher have gained 55.6%, and 32.9%, respectively, year to date while that of United Insurance lost 26%.
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The Real Unknown History of Taj Mahal
There are several myths about the real history of Taj Mahal. Do you know how it was constructed and why?
Taj Mahal is the most popular tourist landmark in the world that many times created headlines about its history.
According to some Hindu legends, Taj Mahal was once a Hindu temple.
The legend states that the temple was dedicated to Lord Shiva and was known by the name of 'Tejo Mahalya'.
Moreover, some also believed that the Taj built centuries before the arrival of the Mughals in India.
But there is no valid evidence to prove that the Taj Mahal was a Hindu structure.
As of now, India's official history says that Shah Jahan built the Taj Mahal in memory of his queen, Mumtaj Mahal.
The controversy surrounding Taj Mahal isn't yet solved, let's see what truth comes in near future.
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What do fitness and strength training do for you?
What would you do it for?
What if you do not?
How do you book results with fitness and strength training?
Fitness and strength training are good ways to burn calories, improve your fitness, to become healthier and to lose weight. For example, fitness and strength training contribute to a good condition of your heart and blood vessels, to the prevention of osteoporosis and it plays an important role in weight control, or in weight loss. In this article you will read what fitness and strength training can contribute to your health.
Fitness and strength training is training with weights. This is also called resistance training. Fitness and strength training are actually the same. The resistance comes from weights. With weights you can think of dumbbells, fitness equipment, kettlebells and dumbbells.
Fitness and strength training is aimed at strengthening your muscles. This increases them slightly in size. You will not immediately become a bodybuilder. Do not worry about that.
A bodybuilder owes his body to daily hours-long training sessions and a special diet. It takes years before you have developed such a body. An hour or 3 to 4 fitness and strength training will not give you such results. But it does give many other positive effects.
Fitness and strength training do a lot of good. In this section you can read a number of very important health effects. Later in this blog you can read what fitness and strength training can mean for your body weight.
Fitness and strength training promote the health of your heart and blood vessels. This lowers the risks of high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels. These 2 are an indication of the extent to which you are at risk of a heart attack, a stroke or even a stroke.
In the West, heart attacks and strokes are among the most important causes of death. Hundreds of thousands die each year from the consequences of a heart attack or stroke. You do not want to belong to that, right?
You can also prevent (or limit the extent of) osteoporosis with fitness and strength training.
Osteoporosis is a natural process that belongs to aging. Your bones become brittle because of this. But fitness and strength training ensure that this process stops, or slows down. After all, your muscles become stronger and grow in size.As a result, they attract more to your tendons, which are attached to your bones. In response to this, your body makes sure that it sends food and building materials to your bones, so that they are strong enough to handle the strength of your muscles.
Fitness and strength training also promote your metabolism. Metabolism plays a very important role in the number of calories you burn every day. This makes it a big influence on your weight.
Stimulating your metabolism is important anyway if you do not want to arrive or if you want to lose weight. Knowing more? Read the e-book Your Metabolism Boost once.
In addition, fitness and strength training also have positive effects in increasing glucose tolerance in diabetes 2 patients.
This is very nice because your body cells are better able to absorb glucose. If this process does not work properly, your body needs more insulin to absorb glucose in your body's cells.
Insulin is the hormone that ensures that glucose is absorbed by your body's cells. The disadvantage of insulin, however, is that it also stimulates the storage of body fat. In addition, insulin blocks your body's ability to address that body fat for burning. Consequence; you become fatter, but your body fat can not be used.
Do you want to lose weight and have you tried many things? Then read the e-book First Aid for Responsible Weight Loss . You quickly discover how important muscle mass, hormones, the right calories (not the number !!!) and the speed of your metabolism are. You will also discover how you can use all those functions to lose weight.
In addition to these important health aspects, there are 2 aspects in which fitness and strength training play a role. These are the physical and the mental aspects. These are described separately for each point.
Through fitness and strength training you get more muscle mass. Muscles use 10 times more energy per day as body fat. For 1 kilogram of extra muscle mass, your body burns up to 100 calories per day extra. This is much more than is the case with fat mass.
At 1 kilogram of fat mass, your body only burns 10 calories to maintain this mass. This fact makes fitness and strength training very suitable for sustainable weight reduction.
If you also want to lose a few pounds (and so far nothing succeeded), read the e-book First Aid for Responsible Weight Loss . I choose a different approach and you can be confident that this will work.
Another positive effect of fitness and strength training is that the speed of your metabolism increases so that you burn more calories every day.
Finally, fitness and strength training have a positive effect on the prevention of injuries in other sports or other forms of exercise and it plays a role in the prevention of osteoporosis.
You relieve stress through strength training. That is beautiful in itself, because stress can ensure that you arrive. This effect can also have other sports. However, with fitness and strength training you generally make more testosterone. This also makes you more alert and more confident.
Although this can not be demonstrated 100%, fitness and strength training can cause feelings of anxiety, insecurity and depression to disappear.
Do you also want to appear stronger, more confident and stronger? Then quickly read the e-book What You Think Is Yourself . You soon discover that you can achieve anything you want. Success is no secret at all.
From the previous paragraph you could already use fitness and strength training to help you discharge stress, that you become more confident and it helps with weight loss. You could also read that through strength training, you feel your muscle mass increase and that muscle mass burns more calories.
There is another positive effect of fitness and strength training with weight loss. Or rather, slimming. Muscles occupy 4 times less space as body fat. This means that your body becomes slimmer as your muscle mass increases. Your fat mass then automatically decreases, as it is good, because the speed of your metabolism is increased . If this is not the case, then you should take a critical look at your diet.
Want to know more about speeding up your metabolism and losing weight? Then read the e-book First Aid for Responsible Weight Loss . After payment you can download it directly from the site. So you have it right away.
Fitness and strength training are both very effective for burning body fat. You burn calories in 3 ways and those calories come from your body fat for a significant part.
In the first place you burn about 400 to 500 calories during an hour of fitness and strength training. This can be less than 1 hour of running, but your recovery time for strength training is about 48 hours. This is much longer than cardio training, such as running.
During those 48 hours your muscles ask for extra energy to recover. This means that, in those 48 hours, a lot of calories go to your muscles. This is the so-called after-burn, or kick-back effect.
You burn much more calories up to 48 hours after a workout. That is why fitness and strength training are so effective when it comes to losing weight and maintaining weight (if you have a healthy weight).
Then your increased muscle mass requires a lot more energy every day. Your muscle mass acts as a driver of your metabolism.
The larger your muscle mass, the more calories you burn. Of course, the right diet is also important, as are your hormones. You can read more about this in the e-book First Aid for Responsible Weight Loss .
If you do not like fitness and strength training, there is no man on board. You can also do interval training. You will also become stronger and burn a lot of calories with it. There are classes such as body pump, cross body, CrossFit and Bootcamp. During such work outs you train for an important part with your own body weight.
You already get results when you go to the gym twice a week for work out of 1 hour. You will not immediately develop huge muscle bundles, but you will notice that your muscles become stronger and that your body becomes tighter.
If you do not want to go to a gym, you can do some exercises at home. Impressions, squats and sit ups are particularly effective strength exercises for your arms, your chest, your stomach and your leg muscles.
Fitness and strength training help you lose weight. Fortunately, there are other things that help you lose weight. Perhaps you have already heard about the role your hormones play, your metabolism and the type of calories. Do you also want to lose weight responsibly? Then read the e-book First Aid for Responsible Weight Loss .
As a responsible father or mother you know the importance of good health and a healthy weight. But how do you put it into practice? You do not have time to thoroughly explore everything and a lot of information is contradictory. How well are you good?
Well, I have chosen everything for you. This was a lot of work and you can read the result in the e-book Healthy in 10 steps .
Of course you can only achieve good results with fitness and strength training if you adjust your diet. Therefore read the e-book on Healthy Food.
You could already read that fitness and strength training increases your metabolism, so you burn more calories a day. You also stimulate your metabolism by eating certain foods. Do you want to know more about it? Then download the e-book Your Metabolism Boost .
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Key Words: poverty, neediness, destitution, hardship, indigence, impoverishment, need, etc.
1. What is the cycle of poverty?
2. What are the causes of economic poverty?
3. How do you think individuals can eradicate poverty from our country?
Do you really think that poverty can be eradicated? I don't think so.
4. What are the effects of economic poverty on suitable marriage?
Yeah, it's just better to collocate marriage with 'happy' or 'successful', but it does not mean that suitable marriage is wrong.
It's better to change 'marriage' to 'marriages' which refers to various cases of marriage.
That is influence of economic destitution to another side of society such as culture , literature, art ,axe ?
6- I personally believe that individual poverty is deeply rooted in your subconscious mind or self-image, and by changing your image, you can change your economic status. What's your idea about it?
7- What's your idea about those people who overcome their poverty at any cost, e.g., charlatanism, defraudation or sycophancy?


What's it like to be gluten-free at college? It depends on where you go. Some schools are well-trained and prepared to meet the needs of students with special diets. Others are less accomodating.
In this article from The Savvy Celiac, Amy Leger speaks with gluten-free students at the University of Minnesota. At the time, the students were fighting to get better gluten-free options on campus, which "spans the Mississippi River and two cities," Amy notes.
It's a battle between supply and demand, with financial, emotional and social costs at the center.