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2022 Budget: Let's stop being at each other's throat; cool heads must prevail – NDC MP appeals
By Frederick Kwarteng
Frederick Kwarteng
Despite the rejection of the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy, NDC Member of Parliament for Cape Coast South Constituency, Kweku Ricketts Hagan appears not to be enthused with the controversy surrounding the budget.
According to the MP, the rejection of the Budget will have serious consequences on Ghanaians hence the two factions of parliament must come together to find an amicable solution to the problem.
To him, the rejection of the 2022 Budget Statement and Economic Policy means that salaries of workers cannot be paid and investment into our economy will be stalled.
Here are the 5 conditions for which the Minority will approve 2022 Budget
Speaking in an interview monitored by ABC News, the Cape South MP noted that it is his prayer that the house, when it reconvenes on Tuesday, will take a second look at the decision rather than calling for each other's head.
"I pray and hope that on Tuesday [November 30, 2021] when we get into the house, instead of coming to be at each other's throat, or taking on the Speaker, we should rather look at how to address this issue," Kweku Ricketts Hagan noted.
He added that "for me, it is a second opportunity for us to sit properly and see how we can get this budget passed, else people will not get their salaries and we will not be able to spend on all the areas that we will add value to the economy."
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The 2022 budget was rejected by Parliament last Friday, November 26, 2021, after the Majority side staged a walkout.
The Majority Caucus later asked Ghanaians to disregard the supposed rejection of the budget as it was unconstitutional.
A statement from the Majority said: "For the record, the acts of the Minority and the decision of the Speaker to endorse it, constitute an unconstitutionality and an illegality and should be disregarded, as same is void and of no effect whatsoever".
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Road conditions tend to be poor in the region surrounding Manaus, which limits the usefulness of buses for travelling beyond the city limits, but there is a fairly comprehensive bus network. Taxis are plentiful in the city, but can prove expensive, with fares within the city around BRL 25. Manaus is a popular starting point for river tours, and a number of nearby towns and cities, as well as tourist attractions, can be most comfortably reached by boat. Most major tourist attractions in Manaus are within walking distance and hiring a car is usually unnecessary.


On May 2nd, Pat Ryan of Relevant Radio interviewed me here in Austin (the interview will air in the middle to late June). One of the first questions he asked me was about Blessed John Paul II and how important he is to my ministry with this blog. I shared with Pat that Blessed John Paul II has been a major factor in my life as a whole and especially in my life as a small-time theologian trying to do God's work for the Catholic Church. If it was not for my friend BK, I may never have grown to love Blessed John Paul II as much.
Karol Józef Wojtyla was born to Karol Wojtyla and Emilia Kaczorowska on May 18, 1920 in the Polish town of Wadowice. He was the youngest of three children. In 1929, at the age of nine years old, his mother died. At the death of his mother, young Karol Wojtyla said to the Blessed Mother that she now had to be his mother. All through his life, Blessed John Paul II had a great devotion to Our Lady, specifically under her title, Our Lady of Fatima. Today is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima and also the anniversary date of the assassination attempt on his life in 1981. Blessed John Paul II had such a devotion to the Blessed Mother that he prayed all 15 mysteries of the Holy Rosary (20 mysteries in 2002) on a daily basis and he was the first Pope in history to place the letter "M" on his Papal Shield representing Mary the Mother of God. Blessed John Paul II attributed his life being saved in 1981 to the Blessed Mother under her title as Our Lady of Fatima. Tomorrow's Mondays with Mary will discuss Our Lady of Fatima.
Many people are aware that Blessed John Paul II wrote many magisterial documents in his years as Pope, but what most people don't know is that Karol Wojtyla was also a poet who wrote poetry as early as 1939. It wasn't until his election to the papacy in 1978 did these poems come to light. They are the reflections of a man of God who understood his place in the Church and the world. It is my personal opinion that the acting and the poetry transformed him to be the Renaissance Man that he became as a Priest, Bishop, Cardinal, and Pope. The poetry of Blessed John Paul II is published in the only English version approved by the Vatican – The Place Within. Since today is Mother's Day and he found motherhood to be very important, especially the motherhood Our Lady showed him, I have chosen to give you a taste of his poetry under the title of Mother. There are other poems under this title in book.
used to them since childhood.
and hands clasped when the words lost their space.
the astounding events as they took place day by day.
in your wish to be with them through the work of your hands.
the light was you; it did not come from me.
Than I had of you as the fruit of my body, my blood.
To All the Mothers Today – Happy Mother's Day! To my Mother, Joyce Perna – Thank you for always being the shining beacon and foundation of our family. Your love for Carla and I is beyond words. As a grandmother, we get to observe the love you gave to us as children. We love you dearly.
I'm glad that I asked you about Blessed JPII so you could write this wonderful post. You are a fantastic interview! Thanks, Tom.


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Belgaum International Short Film Festival
+91-9742910758, +91-959-132-0574
302, Ganesh Vandan, 347,
Nehru Road, Tilakwadi,
Belgaum, Karnataka 590006
Sanket Kulkarni
Sachin Bhat
Festival Co-Director
Chinmay Shende
Membership Director & Operations Manager
Amrut Zad
Hrishikesh Sanglikar
Shwet Priya
Selection Committee Director
Started in 2016, Belgaum International Short Film Festival is organized annually by Society of Artistic Vision and presented by Niyati Creations to recognize and help aspiring filmmakers and film enthusiasts. Films are not merely meant for entertainment and over the years, we have seen that filmmakers have used this visual medium to raise their voice regarding global and local issues as well.
Belgaum, a blissfull town surrounded by hills from the three sides, has been a center of art since ages. Located at the border of Karnataka and Maharashtra, Belgaum enjoys the liberty of two languages, Marathi and Kannada. And, this is the reason behind the cultural richness of the city. Drowned in the sweetness of local delicacy, Kunda, the people of Belgaum have always been lovers of art in various forms.
Many famous names in the Indian art scenario have their roots from Belgaum. To name a few, Kumar Gandharva, Shobha Gurtu, Charan Raj, Shirish Deshpande, Sanjay Deshpande, Prasad Pandit and Sulochana Latkar. The city has also given shelter to artists like Atul Kulkarni and P. L. Deshpande(PuLa).
With digital filmmaking on its boom ride, Short films have become the easiest medium for artists to convey their ideas. And, we will always be striving hard to give the best possible platform and encouragement to all the artists with a voice.
Following awards will be given in each category (Open and Children)
A) 3 Best Films
B) Best Director
C) Best Cinematographer
D) Best Editor
E) Best Music
F) Best Sound Designer
Studio 5.0 Category
1 Best of Studio 5.0 (Annually)
"For open category, there is no restriction on the genre of the film".
"For children film category, cinema that is created EXCLUSIVELY FOR CHILDREN".
"The age of the participants must be at least 18 years".
General Rules and Regulations:
1. The maximum length of the short film should not be more than 15 mins. Including start and end credits.
2. A submission will be considered complete only after the DOWNLOAD IS ENABLED for the film's preview screener.
3. The participants cannot withdraw the film under any circumstances once they have submitted it to the festival.
4. There is no restriction on the language of the film. But, all the entries must be subtitled in English.
5. The films must not contain any copyrighted work(s) belonging to third parties unless the participants have a license to use such work(s) in the film. However, royalty-free music can be used with proper credits.
6. By submitting the movie to 4th Belgaum International Short Film Festival, filmmaker/producer takes the whole responsibility of copyright issues of music, script and other creative and technical aspects of the film.
7. BISFF organization has the right to use the nominated films for the Festival promotional purposes.
8. Films will be judged by a judging panel of industry professionals consisting of independent producers, filmmakers, and other film industry professionals.
9. 4th Belgaum International Short Film Festival does not take any type of financial commitment for the expense incurred on the correspondence by the participant. All Travel, Lodging & Boarding and other miscellaneous expenses will have to be borne by the participant himself for attending the festival. No request for the same will be entertained. However festival organisers may guide you through it.
10. All the Short Films will be confidentially screened by a pre-selection committee of the festival. Committee reserves every right to exclude submissions which are not in conformity with the objectives of the competition or which offend national feelings or likely to promote discrimination based on gender, caste, creed, religion or language.
11. Best films will be awarded cash prizes. The decision of the panel will be final, unquestionable and binding on all the participants.
12. Due to the large number of entries we receive, we will not be able to offer any feedback to those films not accepted.
13. The film submission fee is non-refundable.
14. The applicants will be notified about the selection for the screening.
15. The festival has rights to make any changes in the rules and regulations, guidelines, Dates, without any prior notice.
16. If Submitter is Student He/She should produce valid proof to the festival at savbisff@gmail.com
17. Festival has right to screen the short film in it's year round program under ScreenShort Film Club.
18. This film festival does not consider Documentary films.
19. Submitter can send his film in both the categories i.e. Open and Studio 5.0 by paying separate entry fee.
20. Entry fee is Non-Refundable
By submitting your film to 4th BISFF you accept the terms and conditions mentioned.
"Studio 5.0 Category":
This Category is in collaboration with Eyeline Pictures, Belgaum.
1. DO YOU HAVE A SHORT FILM LESS THAN 5 MINS.
2. 5.0 is an unique platform to showcase your short films.
3. After every Deadline, our Jury will select the best Film(s) and those film(s) will be screened at Belgaum International Short Film Festival in the month of December.
4. With the due permission of Maker we will upload these selected films on Eyeline Pictures' website (www.eyelinepictures.co) every month/week after the the festival is concluded.
5. Only the selected film(s) from every deadline shall compete in this Category .
6. No age restriction in this category.
7. All other general rules and regulations considered in this category as well. So please read it before submiting.
8. Submitter can send his film in both the categories i.e. Open and Studio 5.0 by paying separate Non-Refundable entry fee.
The cash prize will be awarded to filmmaker/ team mate of a particular film available at the closing ceremony.

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When Jesus taught in the hills of Ancient Palestine, he often illustrated from the landscape around him. He spoke of lost sheep, separation of sheep and goats, fields white unto harvest, seed and sower, to name a few. Jesus illustrated life and faith by the countryside around him.
Just as we are called to learn from distance runners, allow me to share some illustrations from sports as well.
To start with runners, one of the greatest sports accomplishments just happened a few days ago. On 16 September 2018, Eliud Kipchoge, of Kenya, ran a time of 2:01:39 at the Berlin Marathon, breaking the previous world record by 1 minute and 18 seconds. By comparison, the first marathons ran in the modern era were in 1896 and the winner ran in more than three hours. It seems that we are getting closer to the under two hour marathon.
A lesson is that God given abilities with intense training can accomplish great things. We are able to accomplish great feats when we do what we were made to do, with perseverance and discipline.
Most Americans sports fans are more inclined to watch team sports. Baseball season is headed into the playoffs, football has started, and basketball and hockey seasons are starting soon. Earlier this year, most of the world paid attention to world cup soccer.
Each of these sports operate around team principles. The most talented team does not always win the game. Knowing one's role and doing what the player is best suited to do, contributes to winning and success.
While the church is not in the business of beating opponents (except Satan, who is a spirit), we are effective and faithful to God when we work together. Disunity and fighting in church is a problem as old as the first Century. It takes discipline and self control for us to function together as a team and help each other.
Each one of us are to be a part of advancing God's kingdom. Do you understand your role and giftedness? Are you doing your part to pray, give and participate in the local church? Will you commit to help God's kingdom advance? God bless!
This year Fort Lee Gospel Church will continue to encourage the congregation to prepare shoe box gifts for children around the world.
Operation Christmas Child is a program that fills shoe boxes with school supplies, small toys, and toiletries, to be sent to children in poor and war-torn nations of the world. Our church has participated in this program for over a dozen years. Shoe boxes will be collected during the fall to be shipped out in time for Christmas, with a collection date of November 11th through 18th.
Samaritan's Purse has been sending shoe boxes around the world for many years. Plan to take part in this important ministry that God is using around the world. For details on packing the boxes, brochures are available or you can speak with Laurie. Further information on building a shoe box can be found online at www.samaritanspurse.org/occ. Be sure to check out this site.
The past few years our church has prepared about 100 shoe boxes each year. We believe God will use this ministry to touch many lives, as we all participate.
During the months of September, October and November, the main topic of preaching at Fort Lee Gospel Church will be Shalom.
Shalom is an important Hebrew word which is most often translated as peace. The meaning of Shalom is much more than just absence of conflict. It includes the idea of completeness, wholeness, prosperity and well being.
The series of messages will look at Shalom in the Old Testament as well as themes of 'peace' and 'peacemaker' in the New Testament. The scope of understanding peace and well being in the Hebrew caries over to the New Testament Greek understanding of peace. Even Jesus is called the 'Prince of Shalom' by Isaiah.
This month we will have a Bible Reading Guide available on the topic of "Light Over Darkness." This Guide was developed with the context of October in America where darkness is celebrated in the culture.
The Reading Guide includes a reading from the gospel of John, the Psalms, and other New Testament passages. It is a 10 day Guide which is intended for use from October 22—31. It can be adapted to another timetable.
7:00 PM, Oct 7 & 21 Evening Service Our Sunday evening service usually meets on the first and third Sunday of the month.
1:30 PM, Oct 14 & 28 NYC Nursing Home Ministry A group leads a service twice a month at a nursing home in NYC.
1:15 PM, Oct 21 Seniors Ministry A group leads a service at an assisted living facility in Teaneck.
2:00 PM, Oct 6 & 20 Women's Bible Study See page 2 for details.
5:00 PM, Oct 6 & 20 Couple's Bible Study An 8 study session looking at what the Bible says about marriage.
6:00 PM, Oct 13 Youth Group For those in 7th grade through their teens.
5:00 PM, Oct 27 All Nations Celebration See below for details.
This special event will include varieties of food, stories of faith from various cultures, special music, games and testimonies. A committee is working on the details now. They ask that you RSVP by Sunday Oct. 21 and that you plan to wear white shirts or tops in keeping with our theme verse.
One of the blessings of our congregation is the diversity of cultures which define us. We look forward to an evening that celebrates our Great God who sent His Son, Jesus to bring salvation to all cultures. Mark your calendar and consider inviting a friend. We look forward to a great time.
Halloween is a major event in our culture. Christian parents wrestle each year with how to respond to this event which celebrates darkness and often makes evil look like fun.
First, be aware that Satan attacks children. Satan does not have a human conscience which respects the innocent. Parents must be protectors of their children. Schools, media, and the culture are not working from a Christian value system.
Second, true joy and fun are God given. In the words of Jesus, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." (John 10:10) Satan is a master imitator. He takes our desire for pleasure and twists it so that God looks boring and sin looks fun. The reality is that true joy is found in following Jesus Christ.
Third, fear and phobias are real, often with roots in childhood. I do enough counseling to know that childhood exposure to evil has adult consequences. A childhood protected from horror movies, excessive violence and sexual perversions is more likely to lead to the need for less therapy in adulthood. Halloween often celebrates what is harmful.
There are plenty of creative ways to enjoy the autumn season without giving Satan access to our children. Enjoy God's creation and I pray that your late October season will be God-honoring. May God give us wisdom to raise our children to know the love of Christ, the blessings of God's peace, and the joy found in the presence of the Holy Spirit.


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Cinemetrics: Denzel Does It Again
Flight will land Oscars — but it would be nowhere without its star
by Zach Baron on November 1, 2012
All Denzel Washington movies are in a way the same Denzel Washington movie.1 But this week I've been returning to one in particular. It's not Flight, the vertiginous new Robert Zemeckis film that seems likely to win Washington his third Oscar — and deservedly so. In the pantheon of great Washington performances, his turn in Flight is near the top. He plays airline pilot Whip Whitaker, a charismatic degenerate whom we first see draining the warm dregs of last night's High Life, blearily sitting up in bed to admire the stewardess getting dressed at the foot of it. A couple lines of coke and a screwdriver later, he'll take a plane that's falling apart in the sky, turn it upside down, and land it safely on a patch of grass behind a church. Out of 102 souls onboard, 96 survive. In the aftermath, investigators listen in awe to the black box recordings, even as they prepare to sue the wasted Whitaker for criminal negligence.
He's guilty and a hero at the same time. And Flight, after its astonishing opening, digs into its main character's dilemma as Whitaker, an addict, seeks to do for himself what he reflexively, recklessly did on behalf of others. It's a conventional, even deeply conservative, Hollywood story, concerned with the moral redemption of its antihero, who proceeds neatly through the expected stages of denial, self-destruction, and comeuppance. But there are antiheroes on paper, and then there is Denzel Washington, and there's no comparing the two. The film's pat moralizing about deviancy and its reflexive need for Whitaker to atone for being a bad person would be something close to intolerable without Washington in it. Instead it's transfixing, one of the best movies of the year.
But this week I've been thinking about not Flight but 1998's The Siege. I imagine Fox would burn all surviving copies of this movie if they could, but instead it's streaming on Netflix. The Siege is about a terrorist assault on New York City. Washington plays an FBI agent who watches helplessly as first a city bus, then a Broadway theater, and finally FBI headquarters itself, at One Federal Plaza, are destroyed in bomb attacks. Martial law is declared in Brooklyn, just after a young and ferally right-wing Arianna Huffington makes a cameo as a television pundit, advocating military takeover. Tanks roll in. Young Arab men are rounded up and imprisoned in Yankee Stadium. Bruce Willis plays a general who beats a naked sheikh to death in a bloody bathroom interrogation.
It's the kind of movie that makes you realize how ridiculous this industry can be — a few screenwriters in a Los Angeles bungalow (among them no less an oracle than New Yorker staff writer Lawrence Wright) decided this would make a good scenario for a thriller, the wanton destruction of huge swathes of New York City, and so off everyone cheerfully went to realize their vision. In one particularly jarring shot, we get a helicopter view of Manhattan, the Twin Towers barely visible at the edge of the frame. Washington's gravity as an actor is so strong that you're drawn into the film anyway.
As I write this, my apartment is full of D batteries — I keep finding loose ones in drawers, packages of them in grocery bags I have yet to fully unpack. I have $260 in scattered ATM cash on my dining room table, more food in my refrigerator than I know what to do with, a flashlight, dozens of candles with pictures of saints on them, the Playboy-branded lighter I bought to light them with. I haven't left my neighborhood since Sunday, because I live in New York and there's nowhere to go. Unlike many people I never lost power. My apartment and the electric grid that serves it are on high ground. So when lower Manhattan went dark on Monday and Red Hook flooded, I was able to watch the whole thing on television and on Twitter, like I assume the rest of the country did. Somewhere around the ninth hour of continuous coverage, and after the wind and rain really picked up outside my windows, I turned everything off and started watching Denzel instead. It was all I could really think of as far as finding something to draw my eye when I couldn't stand to keep looking at what I was looking at.
And it worked. More so on Tuesday after the storm than on Monday during it. But mostly it worked.
One thing Denzel Washington gets asked a lot is the basic mechanical question of how he does what he does. He's a tough interview, especially on this subject. It's not that he deflects the question. It's that he gives the same answer every time he's asked it. From a recent GQ cover:
Q: When the Denzel biopic is made, what would an actor need to have in his performance to make you say, "He got me"?
A: That suggests I know what it is, and I don't want to know what it is. That's part of the mystery. It is what it is. I don't go, "I gotta make sure I put some of that Denzel Washington-ism in the movie." I don't want tricks. I don't want to lose my mojo.
From a New York Times article on this very subject:
What does an actor like Denzel Washington do, and how does he do it? Mr. Washington, 57, said, "It's a process. I don't know if a character is a destination you reach on Day 1 or Day 15 or ever, but you're always working at it. I never go, 'This guy, I can turn him on whenever I want.' If you go into a scene knowing too much, you're probably not going to come out with much."
The thing that seems to come back is that Denzel Washington doesn't want to know how he does what he does. I believe this. I think this fact is basic to his charisma. There is something about the way he is so self-contained, the sense that everything he feels and every decision he makes exists independently of whomever he's talking to. It's in the long pauses — those calm intervals when he makes you wait, even during a motivational speech, a courtroom argument, a death scene, an everyday conversation. He is unconcerned with the expectations of the actor opposite him, of the viewer watching him work. He will go at his own pace. His characters have arcs, revelations, crises of faith, but all of those changes seem to originate from somewhere inaccessibly deep inside the actor, rather than as the result of external forces. In Malcolm X he appears to basically convert himself to Islam, despite the actor playing mentor opposite him. In Flight, after Whitaker's crash landing, the whole world leans on him to sober up — I will not spoil whether he does — but when Whitaker does make his choice, it arrives eerily independent of anyone else, including the pleading, saintly girlfriend character played by Kelly Reilly. On the page, I'm sure, she is crucial to what ultimately happens to Whitaker. But onscreen it feels like all Washington.
Like other movie stars of his stature, he is recognizably himself from role to role — think of a Denzel Washington movie and you will remember not the crooked cop or the wife-murdering prison inmate or the real-life middleweight boxing champion but Washington himself. His incredulous murmur. The defiant pride, the controlled anger, the hitch in his step, the shoulder that swings in and out when he walks. That walk, like he's being dangled from a wire. His mirthless grin and guffaw — that faint amusement, no matter what the circumstance. Rage and levity, lashed inextricably together: We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Plymouth Rock landed on us!
It's no coincidence that when Jay-Z was suffering a post-retirement, post–Kingdom Come crisis of identity and artistic faith, it was Washington who brought him back. The plot of Ridley Scott's American Gangster, Jay has said, resonated enough with his own past life that it inspired him to make an entire record bearing the same name. But I've always thought Jay's rebirth was as inspired by Washington as it was by Frank Lucas, the real-life Harlem gangster Washington portrayed in the film. The two men, actor and rapper, share the same suspicious brand of warmth, the same dry amusement at an unfair world, the same core of anger cocooned in redemptive confidence. At the time, Jay said he saw himself in what Washington was doing onscreen: "The way he carried himself. The way he went about things. The way he wasn't loud, but he was very strong."
Or maybe I'm saying all this because I haven't been outside in five days and Denzel has been my only companion throughout. When I saw Flight last week, before the hurricane arrived, I was surprised I liked it as much as I did. The movie is the kind of pure Hollywood product that they used to make constantly and now barely make at all: directed, after a long digital sojourn in the motion capture swamps, by the ultimate crowd-pleaser Zemeckis, of Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, and Cast Away infinite-cable-rotation renown; written by Real Steel's John Gatins; soundtracked by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the greatest hits of a little-known band called the Rolling Stones. The movie is frankly disapproving of the druggy misanthropy of its main character. Whitaker's court-ordered separation from his wife and furious son is offered as proof of his need for redemption. James Badge Dale makes a cameo as a terminal cancer patient who makes a speech about God and why bad things happen to good people. The movie follows a three-act structure so clinical and predictable they could teach it in a Robert McKee seminar.
And yet Flight works. More than works, even. Its long opening scene, from when Whitaker saunters onto the plane drunk until he's carted off of it, bloody and unconscious, is as thrilling a 25 minutes of cinema as you'll ever see. The film's detail is spiky and particular: Reilly's character scores drugs at an Othello-themed porn shoot; Whitaker's dealer is a ponytailed John Goodman who sports a dragon on the back of his jacket and speaks in cocaine koans. When Whitaker finally faces down his investigators at a hearing, a steely Melissa Leo is asking the questions; Don Cheadle plays Whitaker's slimy, win-at-all-costs lawyer. And then, of course, there is Washington himself, doing what he does best: lending world-beating charisma to an unlikable man whom you find yourself liking anyway.
It's about control, I think. Washington takes a long time to reveal the self-directed anger that is ruining Whitaker from the inside out, but once it appears, it's all you can see. Whitaker's an effective liar because he makes a point of never asking himself for the truth. In the cockpit, as his plane hurtles toward the ground, the pilot takes the time to turn to his flight attendant, calmly tells her to say out loud that she loves her son. He tells her to do it for the black box. "Say 'I love you,'" he says. It's about the illusion of control when you have none.
Zach Baron (@xzachbaronx) is Grantland's Cinemetrician.
In the same way that all Tom Cruise movies are pretty much the same Tom Cruise movie. To be able to make this statement about an actor or actress is just another way of saying that he or she is a genuine, real-deal movie star.
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Assist. Prof. Yunus Uğur from History Department and Center for Urban Studies, has been awarded a TÜBİTAK 1001 - Scientific and Technological Research Projects Funding Program grant for his project entitled "Mapping the Ottoman Cities: Socio-Spatial Conjunctions and Distinctiveness (1520-1540)".
Ottoman cities in the early sixteenth century will be evaluated in terms of urban history and their socio-spatial features during the project. The aim of this study is to explore the similarities and peculiarities of the Ottoman cities located in different geographies of the Empire by focusing on the data collected from the archives between 1520 and 1540. Thereby, it is targeted to define the cities having several characteristics in common, to group them, and to go beyond the existing physical neighborhoods by evaluating them as socio-spatial neighbor cities.


If you aren't using the major social networks I've mentioned and don't know the best time to post on social media, the chances are that your customers are not finding you, not engaging with you and ultimately not buying from you.
Besides being free and fun to use, social media can be a powerful way for businesses to connect with large numbers of people. Conversation, engagement and dialogue are what make us human. But they also build trust and studies show that people buy from people (and businesses) they like and trust.
So communicating with your potential customers and converting these prospects or leads into customers for your product or service should be your number one priority.
How often do you meet someone at a business event and then check them out on Facebook or LinkedIn? How many brands or businesses on TV or radio advertise that they are on Twitter and invite you to follow them there?
These days, people no longer have to wait until they are in front of a computer or back at the office to find out about you.
With the surging popularity of smartphones and app technology, information about you and your business is available at the touch of a button.
It's therefore critical that you not only choose the right social media networks for your business, but that you also post at the right time to get the "biggest bang for your buck" .
After all, you don't want to be shouting into a void, hoping and praying that someone will hear you?
This process starts with knowing your target market, their habits and the times they are most likely to be online.
Office workers and professionals are unlikely to be online until after they have finished work.
But freelancers and entrepreneurs, especially home-based ones, may be using social media during the day since they can often dictate their hours of work.
Stay-at-home moms may dip in and out of social media throughout the day depending on their family commitments e.g. while the kids are at school and then later in the evening once they are in bed.
So, how much time is spent on social media and when your audience is likely to be online will vary and constantly change based on the specific people you are trying to reach.
The next step is to be aware that each social network is different, and that its audience may have different behaviors as well.
Facebook users tend to socialize more than those using Twitter, possibly because the 140-character limit of tweets restricts what you can say and how you say it.
Time spent on the different social networks varies greatly and can be an important indicator of how users engage with that social media site and how likely they are to stick around, interact and even buy.
In contrast to Facebook and Twitter, Pinterest is a visual social media network where sharing rather than commenting rules. And if you're using LinkedIn, you should be aware that these users tend to be higher-income professionals more interested in networking and business topics rather than chit-chat.
Usage, demographics and peak times vary from network to network. It might be convenient for you to post out in the morning if you are located in the UK but if you are targeting people in the USA then no one will be up to hear what you have to say.
Study each social media site and use scheduling tools like Hootsuite and Buffer to monitor engagement and see what times your content gets the most retweets, likes and shares.
Don't be afraid to test different times of the day. Is there a pattern emerging? You might be surprised.
Facebook Insights can also be a powerful source of information about the habits of your Facebook fans as can the recently launched Pinterest Analytics tool. But even analyzing your Pinterest activity feed and Twitter timeline can provide helpful insights.
This excellent infographic by Social Media Today take a deeper look at how each social network is being used, by whom and what the key social media trends to look out for are.
Success on social media comes from knowing who you are targeting, understanding the lifestyle, habits and behaviors of your audience and then making sure your message reaches them at the best time for them, not you.
Which social networks have yielded the best response for you? Are you surprised by any of the the information or stats on this infographic? Please comment and share below.
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Your favorite gaming console will be in stores this Christmas most probably before that and you will get the best Christmas gift for yourself or you can gift one to who is gaming freak. Confused? I am talking about Ps4.5 which is said to be in development with all new ultra rich 4k beauty. Rumours suggest that Sony is coming with the upgraded version of ps4's internal. The company is actually claiming that the new console will be the advanced version of Ps4 which will support 4k displays and comes with more horsepower for PS VR accessory.
The foremost aspect of upgrading Ps4.5 is it will come with the upgraded version of GPU. Sounds very interesting with this feature right? Because the GPU of Ps4 doesn't have enough horsepower to support 4k games making us only dreaming about the games we want to play.
We play these games for epic performance and dynamics and with Ps4.5 we are suppose to get these features alive in it. We have to look for how Sony balances the hardware with the customers' expectations. As rumours round the corner the Ps4.5 gaming console might release in over October before during holidays. Will look on to it how the console brings fun in our holidays.
Reports say that GPU will be twice as powerful as the Ps4's. Coming to price part it will cost us with $399.99 which might rise up to $499.99 because of its powerful GPU. The console will be 4K blue ray player with the VR upgrade. Though it said that the current games won't be getting any upgrade according to the developers, I know a big dis satisfactory! But still a faster console is much better to make the experience bloom.
Of course there will be much more exciting games which are suppose to come but these are till now rumoured to exist. The console might be sleek and slim likewise Sony has kept its design all in other consoles. This new console will offer 4k video streaming with support of HDR and HFR.
But there will be a big disappoint for those customers who have bought PS4 because all we get in this PS4.5 console is that it is redesigned with improved 4k playback. Big drawback for PS4 buyers! Existing playstation 4 owners will have to buy the new console to take full advantage of graphics and power.
Till now Ps4.5 seem to be much solid than ever. So according to the developer sources the new upgraded PS4.5 is on the making process with major graphical changes to be introduced. With all this exceptionally exciting features like the advanced and powerful console and high resolution games to be upgraded which are rumoured to be coming with PS4.5 is taking the gaming level in to the top of our imaginations. Awful for the Ps4 owners who cannot take this advantage but thumbs up who are thinking to buy the latest one.


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ST. PAUL — Minnesota's Rural Finance Authority Board on Tuesday, March 19, issued a disaster declaration for the state of Minnesota that makes low interest loans available for Minnesota farmers whose operations suffered barn collapses or other damage due to the record winter snowfall.
The funds are available to farmers for expenses not covered by insurance.
The Disaster Recovery Loan Program can be used to help clean up, repair, or replace farm structures and septic and water systems, as well as replace cropping inputs, feed, and livestock.
The program offers affordable financing to repair existing agricultural buildings to pre-disaster conditions.
Eligible farmers must have received at least 50 percent of their annual gross income from farming for the past three years and will work through their bank to secure the loans from the RFA.
More information on the Disaster Recovery Loan is on the Minnesota Department of Agriculture website.


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FS-Laser-Based Technology Creates Solar Power Generators
ROCHESTER, N.Y., Feb. 5, 2020 — A University of Rochester research team has demonstrated that the laser-based technology it used to create unsinkable metallic structures can also be used to create highly efficient solar power generators. The researchers used femtosecond (fs) laser pulses to etch metal surfaces with nanoscale structures that selectively absorb light only at the solar wavelengths.
The etched surface not only enhances the energy absorption from sunlight, but also reduces heat dissipation at other wavelengths, in effect, "making a perfect metallic solar absorber for the first time," professor Chunlei Guo said.
Using femtosecond lasers to etch metallic structures, University of Rochester Institute of Optics professor Chunlei Guo and his team have developed a technique that can be used to collect sunlight to heat etched metal surfaces, which can then power an electrical generator for solar power. Courtesy of J. Adam Fenster/University of Rochester.
The researchers experimented with different metal surfaces, specifically aluminum, copper, steel, and tungsten, and found that tungsten had the highest solar absorption efficiency when treated with the nanoscale structures. The tungsten selective solar absorber exhibited excellent performance as a high-temperature solar receiver. When integrated into a solar thermoelectric generation device, the tungsten selective solar absorber provided about a 130% increase in solar thermoelectric generation efficiency, compared to untreated tungsten, which is commonly used as an intrinsic selective light absorber.
To allow fs-laser-treated tungsten to operate as a high-temperature selective solar absorber in ambient environments, the researchers sealed the tungsten surface with a dielectric thin film. They used titanium dioxide (TiO2) for the film because it had limited absorption within the team's blackbody radiation wavelength range of interest. Tungsten absorbers coated with TiO2 were shown to withstand annealing at 500 °C without any noticeable degradation in their absorption properties.
The lab has also used the fs laser etching technology to create superhydrophobic (water repellent) and superhydrophilic (water-attracting) metals. In November 2019, Guo's lab reported creating metallic structures that do not sink no matter how often they are forced into water or how much damage they incur.
The researchers said that they are the first to produce fs-laser-treated surfaces that can act as high-temperature absorbers for enhanced thermoelectric generation efficiency. The technology could be useful for any thermal solar energy absorber or harvesting device, particularly in places with abundant sunlight.
The research was published in Light: Science & Applications (www.doi.org/10.1038/s41377-020-0242-y).
The University of Rochester research lab that recently used lasers to create unsinkable metallic structures has now demonstrated how the same technology can be used to create highly efficient solar power generators. In a paper in Light: Science & Applications, the lab of Chunlei Guo, a professor of optics, describes using powerful femtosecond laser pulses to etch metal surfaces with nanoscale structures that selectively absorb light only at the solar wavelengths but not elsewhere. Courtesy of Matthew Mann/University of Rochester.
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White Nationalists Still Love Trump, Even After He Denounced Their Robocall
Andy Cush
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Donald Trump, a presidential candidate whose campaign has been a little too much even for former KKK grand wizard David Duke, received some perhaps unwelcome support this month in the form of a pro-Trump robocall from an openly white nationalist group. After a considerable amount of prodding, CNN's Erin Burnett got the candidate to go on record disavowing the group's endorsement last week, but according to its leader, there's really no hard feelings at all.
In early January, the pro-white American National Super PAC began a campaign of automated calls in Iowa urging voters to support Trump because of his staunchly anti-immigrant views. In a press release about the campaign, American National called Trump America's "Great White Hope," and its founder told Talking Points Memo he was optimistic about the possibility of "a white ethno-state, a country made up of only white people," within his lifetime.
Trump later denounced the calls, but only after Burnett really, really pressed him on it. From Media Matters:
BURNETT: Mr. Trump, when you hear that, does that shock you? Do you denounce that?
TRUMP: Nothing in this country shocks me. I would disavow it, but nothing in this country shocks me. People are angry. They're angry at what's going on. They're angry at the border. They're angry at the crime. They're angry at people coming in and shooting Kate in the back in California and San Francisco. They're angry when Jamiel Shaw shot in the face by an illegal immigrant. They're angry when the woman, the veteran, 65 years old is raped, sodomized, and killed by an illegal immigrant. And, they're very angry about it, and — by the way, thousands of other cases like that. They're very angry about it. So, I would disavow that, but I will tell you people are extremely angry.
BURNETT: People are extremely angry, but to be clear, when he says, "We need smart, well-educated white people to assimilate to our culture, vote Trump," you're saying you disavow that. You do denounce that?
TRUMP: Well, you just heard me. I said it. How many times do you want me to say it?
BURNETT: A third would be good.
TRUMP: I said I disavow.
Notice how on the first two supposed disavowals, Trump only said he would denounce American National's support, then quickly followed the statement with a "but..." about the evils of immigrants. Well, William Daniel Johnson, the organization's founder, noticed it too. In an interview with the white-supremacist radio show The Political Cesspool, he called Trump's response "wonderful." Again, from Media Matters:
JOHNSON: Donald Trump's response when he was asked to address it was just a wonderful response. He disavowed us, but he explained why there is so much anger in America that I couldn't have asked for a better approach from him.
EDWARDS: I was going to ask you about that. So, you know, of course I saw that. In a perfect world he would say, "You know what? These guys are right. What are you going to do about it?" But understandably there is still a political reality. I think fundamentally, as I say on this show time and time again, most middle American, middle class whites agree with us fundamentally on the issues. But he's operating in a different world than that — I think it was certainly better than to be expected. And I thought too it was quite good, as you did Bill, so this was something that you can live with in terms of a response from the Trump campaign and of course from there it's over.
"Understandably there is still a political reality" is just the kind of thing people on the left say about Obama's failure to close Guantanamo Bay, or his lukewarm efforts at increasing gun control. In other words, it's the kind of thing you say when a politician acts against your interests in public, but you're certain that deep in his heart, he agrees with you.
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Home TV Reviews Part 2 of 'Siren' Season 2 Continues Deepening Its World-building and Social...
SIREN - Freeform's "Siren" stars Rena Owen as Helen, Ian Verdun as Xander McClure, Eline Powell as Ryn, Fola Evans-Akingbola as Maddie Bishop, and Alex Roe as Ben Pownall. (Freeform/Ed Herrera)
Part 2 of 'Siren' Season 2 Continues Deepening Its World-building and Social Commentary
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When we last saw the mermaid Ryn (Eline Powell) and her friends as well as foes, they had successfully managed to damage an oil rig that was hurting not just the mermaids deep underwater, but the entire Bristol Cove ecosystem to boot.
With the help of her girlfriend Maddie (Fola Evans-Akingbola) and boyfriend Ben (Alex Roe), Ryn and her mer-family were able to return to the deep without risk of being found or followed. But this was not without casualties. While saving his family, merman Sarge (Hugo Ateo) was killed, and in the fracas Ben and Maddie's friend Xander (Ian Verdun) had an accident that burned his boat down far out in the ocean before the Coast Guard could help. The second part of Siren's second season opens just moments after Part 1's finale and quickly follows up with a time-jump to two weeks later.
SIREN – Freeform's "Siren" stars Eline Powell as Ryn. (Freeform/Ed Herrera)
Siren songs apparently don't just affect men, because Maddie continues to grieve the loss of her mer-partner in big ways. Ben, on the other hand, seems adjusted and okay with Ryn's absence, eventually revealing to Maddie it's because he continues to listen to the recording of Ryn's singing to get him through. "It's just something to take the edge off," he tells Maddie, heightening the obsession and addiction metaphor that's been developed in Siren since its pilot episode. Only now, Maddie is addicted to Ryn's song, too.
This song may not be as comforting as it seems on the surface. Military scientist Nicole (Natalee Linez) has been pulling together the research of her predecessor Aldon Decker (Ron Yuan) and uncovers that the siren song may indeed be causing brain damage akin to radiation poisoning. (After Chernobyl, those words have taken on a new and horrifying meaning.) Nicole also reveals to Maddie and Ben that Ryn allowed her team to do preliminary tests on her before she went back in the water to help Ben get out of jail. Now that the mermaid stem cells the scientists had are running out, Nicole is hoping Ryn will return.
In the meantime, Ben's mother Elaine Pownall (Sarah-Jane Redmond) is in a crisis of her own as the paralysis from the boating accident she survived 10 years earlier begins spreading. Mer-human hybrids Helen (Rena Owen) and Rick (Brendan Fletcher) decide that it's time to let Rick's family know what they've discovered about their ancestry.
Siren has a lot of moving parts, both above and underwater. Underwater, Katrina (Aylya Marzolf) and Ryn's niece Cami (Millan Tesfazgi) are searching for a new home for the mers as well as any survivors from the oil rig's deathly sonic booms. Ryn misses her humans almost as much as they miss her, and she returns to the surface to see them again. Obsession and addiction go both ways in a siren's life. Her song has inextricably linked them, for better or worse.
SIREN – Freeform's "Siren" stars Fola Evans-Akingbola as Maddie Bishop and Alex Roe as Ben Pownall. (Freeform/Ed Herrera)
It turns out to be for worse, as Ryn, on finding out her stem cells could possibly save Ben's mother's life, offers to let the scientists mine her body without Ben and Maddie knowing. The procedure seems to work at first with no side effects for either Ryn or Mrs. Pownall. But the reprieve is short-lived as Ryn's body has a delayed reaction to the procedure, causing her to lose absolute control of herself. First, the humans were a deadly threat to mermaids, now a mermaid has become an extreme threat to humans — a full circle I wasn't expecting at all.
All the while, Siren's second season continues the excellent world building they've done so far by expanding on the community of mer-human hybrids that are much bigger than anything we'd suspected before. After visiting Rick's sister Beth (Caroline Cave), Helen and Rick discover she has known all along about their family's mer-cestry and there is a sizeable tribe who maintain many of the cultural practices that have been passed down over the centuries. Helen and Rick, perpetual outsiders, have a brief moment of kinship with the group that passes quickly. Helen's mom never told her about the tribe, having left them before Helen's birth. An elderly family member hints at a terrible event that drove them away, which Beth promptly dismisses as the ramblings of an old man. Helen and Rick smell something fishy, metaphorically speaking, and they know something is amiss.
For anyone who's done an ancestry test that turned up with a percentage of their DNA as unknown or unidentified, it's rather delicious to imagine that those strands are from a mythical creature nobody knows still exists. This is how Helen and Rick found each other to begin with. That there is a thriving mer-human hybrid community on land, even as questionable as their past might be, adds a fantastic new level to the creatures of Siren. I'm so looking forward to where this will all lead.
As Siren continues its excellent embedded social commentary of environmentalism, addiction, obsession, and the importance of consent through the metaphor of mermaid-human interactions, easily my new favorite addition is the inclusion of an LGBTQ storyline to make everyone's toes curl. The romantic and sexual relationship between Maddie, Ryn, and Ben is arguably one of the boldest statements a Disney-produced show has ever made. In fact, Siren could just have easily been only about this and I'd be back until eternity to see where the lovebirds are at this week. Pansexual mermaids in relationships with humans? I mean, who could ask for anything more, especially during Pride month?
Along with the excellent fresh world building above water, from the first two episodes of the second half of the season, we also get some juicy hints of the mermaids' worlds and traditions from underwater. I can't choose what I'm most excited about. If Siren isn't already on your radar, remedy this and stat. The social commentary is on point, the inclusion and representation on all the levels (race, gender, sexuality) are three-dimensional, and the mermaids are spectacular, both in and out of the water. Siren is mer-mazing, and I'm overjoyed to report it's been renewed for a third season. Bring it, fishes.
Siren airs Thursdays at 8pm on Freeform.
If Siren isn't already on your radar, remedy this and stat. The social commentary is on point, the inclusion and representation on all the levels (race, gender, sexuality) are three-dimensional, and the mermaids are spectacular, both in and out of the water.
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LFC keeper strangely signs new contract
Congratulations Andy Firth!
The 21-year-old, who we're not sure every Liverpool fan will have heard of, has renewed terms at the club he's been at for 12 years.
Liverpool sack key backroom staff member
Firth has long been part of our youth teams and played for the U23s at times last term, although he's not been touted for first-team football.
Still, he's rightly delighted and posted this snap on social media:
Delighted to announce I've signed a new contract at @LFC! Looking forward to my 12th season at my childhood club! 🔴
Massive thanks to my family, friends and all the staff at the club for making this possible 📸📝⚽❤ #LFC #AF1 #Round12 pic.twitter.com/hhbQGPXWEe
— Andy Firth (@andyfirth1996) July 5, 2018
Firth will be 22 in September and unless something serious changes, will not be a first-team stopper at Liverpool.
He enjoyed a loan spell at Chester last season, but they play in the National League North – which is below the conference!
For this reason, we find the contract renewal a little strange, but Liverpool know more about Firth than we do.
Good luck to the lad.
He likely needs another loan spell this season however, as despite our goalkeeping woes under Klopp he's a long, long way down the pecking order.
It remains to be seen whether a new stopper will arrive to compete with Loris Karius for the no.1 jersey, although we reckon the German will be entrusted with the role for another campaign.
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History Made
Wales are through to the semi-finals of the Euro's, they beat Belgium 3-1.
Not such a one man team anymore, goals from Ashley Williams, Hal Robson-Kanu and Sam Vokes sealed the win. A win orchestrated by Chris Coleman.
Gareth Bale is the star he puts his team on this level, this unattainable level without the Real Madrid star.
Wales' star man, Gareth Bale.
Bale's sheer brilliance, this raw talent honing his skills amongst the best players in the world, he in his right up there with the best in the world.
It is not just Bale that has been good though, Aaron Ramsey has endured a mixed season for London club, Arsenal but in the red of Wales has been immense.
Robson-Kanu looks like a quality striker, surely a club won't be too hard to find after a performance like that.
The whole back four including captain Ashley Williams has been tremendous, the team have only conceded four goals, two of which came against England in the only game in which Wales looked slow.
England have been humiliated whilst Wales have risen to a level that may well take them to a European title.
It's all set up to be a cracker brilliance v belligerence, Bale v Ronaldo, Wales v Portugal.
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How Far Can England Go?
England's win over Wales on Thursday has made sure that their destiny is in their own hands and they won't have to rely on other results to qualify for the next round.
Following Slovakia's win over Russia on Wednesday it has sent England to the top of their group.
Hodgson has been heavily criticised for a number of reasons, firstly the fact that the Premier League's most prolific striker, Harry Kane was taking corners and also the arguably negative approach that has been adopted over his tenure.
Today though the former Liverpool boss has to be commended his decision to introduce Daniel Sturridge and Jamie Vardy at half-time proved to be inspired as both strikers scored goals to overturn the 1-0 half-time deficit.
Roy Hodgson, England manager.
England have not done it the easy way conceding a late goal against Russia in their first game in Marseille and then having Gareth Bale give Wales a one goal half-time lead.
The character shown today and the way all three substitutes (Vardy, Sturridge and Rashford) played are encouraging for England. England could well progress to the quarter-finals should this form continue.
England should seal top spot this Monday when they play Slovakia in Saint Etienne. Wayne Rooney and his players will believe that should they play as they did in the second half and if Roy Hodgson does get his selection right then England could well impress a few people.
My England XI to play Slovakia (4-3-3)
1 Joe Hart; 2 Kyle Walker 5 Gary Cahill 6 Chris Smalling 3 Danny Rose; 20 Delle Alli 10 Wayne Rooney 17 Eric Dier; 22 Marcus Rashford 15 Daniel Sturridge 11 Jamie Vardy
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London coronavirus: How the city's fight against Covid-19 compares to other global cities like New York, Paris and Tokyo
The other global cities have also gone to extraordinary lengths to try and fight covid-19
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Navy Hospital Ship USNS Comfort travels up the Hudson River in New York to help with the huge number of people infected
Coronavirus has changed the way people have been living across the world since it was declared a pandemic around 20 days ago.
Since then governments both national and local, across the world, have been doing what they can to keep cities running while ensuring as few people as possible are infected, suffer the most serious symptoms or worse, lose their life as a result of the virus.
We know London has already changed completely. The majority of us are working from home or have been asked to stay home and not come in to our jobs. Schools have been closed for the rest of the academic year alongside all our universities and despite some rush hour crowding, public transport is virtually empty.
But so far, it has not been enough. The number of confirmed cases has now passed 9,000.
The government has made it clear London is "weeks ahead" of the rest of the UK in the transmission of the virus, which may be due to its huge population of almost 9 million as well as the vast number of international trips being made to and from the capitals airports since the strain emerged in late December in China.
But these problems aren't just unique to London. Other cities around the world are also battling to fight the virus, so what is their response to the crisis?
The first confirmed case of coronavirus in the Big Apple was on March 1, while London's was on February 11.
Despite this, there are now 75,983 confirmed cases of the virus in New York and sadly, 1,714 lives have already been lost.
Just as London is the worst affected part of the UK, it is estimated that the pandemic is five times worse in New York compared to the rest of the Unites States.
A man walks through a nearly empty Times Square (Image: AP)
In another similarity, the army has converted a vast conference centre known as the Javits Convention Centre into a 2,910 field hospital. There are also hospitals in the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, home of the US Open and even Central Park, with others in the pipeline. The Nightingale Hospital at the Excel centre in London has around 4,000 beds.
A US Navy hospital ship, USNC Comfort has also docked in New York City to help care for the huge number of patients.
New York's mayor Bill De Blasio has come under fire after his comments in early March that New Yorkers should "go on with your lives and get out on the town despite coronavirus". Days later the state's governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency.
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He also took the decision to shut down bars and schools have closed, although they may reopen later this month.
The Subway and other public transport remain open to use and while people are being asked to self-isolate and quarantine if they have symptoms, a "lockdown" of the city has been rejected by the governor as "un-American".
London's closest "global" city witnessed the first Covid-19 death outside Asia in mid-February.
Days later 2,500 people attended a week-long church gathering in Mulhouse, a town in East France, with around half of the attendees later testing positive for the virus.
The Ile de France region of the country, which includes Paris, is the worst affected in the country, with more than 12,000 confirmed cases.
Medical staff evacuated a patient infected with the COVID-19 virus on a train at the Gare d'Austerlitz station (Image: AP)
In Paris, 1,656 have been hospitalised with the virus and 180 have died.
Some Paris Fashion Week shows were cancelled in Early March, as well as the Paris Marathon which would have had 44,000 participants.
In mid-March, Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 football matches were cancelled indefinitely, and Parisian institutions including Louvre, Centre Georges Pompidou, Eiffel Tower, Musée d'Orsay, and Château de Versailles were all shut to visitors.
As of March 23, essential journeys can be made including shopping for food, travelling to work, accessing healthcare, and exercising within 1km of the household.
For any non-essential journeys, Parisians must carry an attestation form.
Paris' second-largest airport at Orly has also closed due to the virus. Charles De Gaulle airport remains open, as does the Eurostar train connecting Paris to London, however the number of services has been slashed heavily.
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Tokyo was due to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, but they have now been postponed to July 2021.
Being so much closer to the epicentre of the disease in Wuhan City, Tokyo was the first of these cities to have a confirmed case of the virus, by January 16.
Schools across the country were shut down in late February and travel restrictions were put in place.
Tokyo residents have been asked to stay home and businesses have closed (Image: Getty Images)
Tokyo's governor Yuriko Koike first warned of a lockdown on March 23 and then on March 25, asked people to work from home if possible, refrain from going out on nights and weekends and to isolate for 14 days if they have returned from a foreign country.
As a result of the announcement, Tokyo residents started panic buying, emptying shelves of instant noodles and canned goods. The following day the stay at home guidance was extended to the areas around Tokyo.
The bulk of the government response centred on travel from Hubei province and the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked in Yokohama.
Scandal hit the Prime Minsiter Shinzo Abe however after it emerged his wife went to a dance party while her husband was explaining the need for social distancing.
Despite the early spread of the virus, and a population roughly the same size as London's, Tokyo has only reported around 521 cases, while 16 lives have been lost.
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La mente adaptada: psicología evolucionista y la génesis de la cultura es un volumen editado, publicado inicialmente en 1992 por Oxford University Press, redactado por Jerome Barkow, Leda Cosmides y John Tooby. Ampliamente considerado como el libro fundacional de la psicología evolucionista, este describe la integración propuesta por Tooby y Cosmides de los conceptos de biología evolucionista y psicología cognitiva, así como muchos otros conceptos que eventualmente tomarían importancia en la investigación adaptacionista.

Descripción

Para fines prácticos el libro puede dividirse en dos partes. La primera parte (pp.1-159) establece las fundaciones teóricas de la psicología evolucionista, y consiste de la introducción, escrita por Cosmides, Tooby y Barkow, un ensayo escrito por Tooby y Cosmides titulado Las bases psicológicas de la cultura, y un ensayo escrito por el antropólogo Donald Symons titulado En el uso y el mal uso del Darwinismo en el estudio del comportamiento humano. La segunda parte (pp. 160-637) es una colección de publicaciones de investigación empírica titulada Adaptaciones cognitivas para el intercambio social,que ayudan introducir al lector hacia algunos tópicos de interés de la psicología evolucionista, como el apareamiento, la psicología social y de desarrollo, las adaptaciones perceptuales, etc. Esta parte incluye contribuciones de los psicólogos evolucionistas más conocidos de la época como Steven Pinker, David Buss, Martin Daly, Margo Wilson y otros.

Bases psicológicas de la cultura

"Las bases psicológicas de la cultura", por Tooby y Cosmides. Más o menos las primeras cuarenta páginas del ensayo están dedicadas a una crítica extensa de lo que los autores llaman el "SSSM", abreviación para Standard Social Science Model, que traducido al español significa Modelo estándar de las ciencias sociales. El término se refiere a una metateoría que el autor afirma que ha dominado las ciencias sociales y del comportamiento a través del siglo XX, mezclando ecologismo radical con empirismo ciego. El SSSM ha retenido y reificado la dicotomía naturaleza/crianza, mientras que sus practicantes han amasado de manera meticulosa la evidencia sobre los impulsos biológicos como el hambre y la sed que se han retenido en la categoría de "naturaleza".

En el debate naturaleza/crianza

Más comúnmente, ellos continúan, la evidencia para tal preponderancia de la crianza sobre la naturaleza está trazada desde el registro etnográfico. Un fenómeno (por ejemplo, el matrimonio, la religión, la reciprocidad, etc.) es tomado para ser de origen puramente ambiental o cultural si se puede mostrar que se manifiesta en diferentes formas dentro de diferentes culturas. Pero esto refleja la suposición de que los fenómenos biológicos son instintivos e inflexibles, incapaces de asumir formas diferentes.

En la sección titulada "La selección regula cómo los ambientes moldean los organismos" (pp. 82-87), Tooby y Cosmides argumentan que esta perspectiva de naturaleza/crianza es profundamente errónea. Ellos comienzan con la declaración de que la selección natural es necesariamente responsable de adaptaciones biológicas complejas, incluyendo la clase extremadamente compleja de fenómenos biológicos que son mecanismos psicológicos humanos.

"La suposición de que sólo los genes evolucionaron refleja una idea equivocada sobre la manera en que actúa la selección natural. Los genes se conocen como unidades de selección las cuales son heredados, selectas, o eliminadas, y por ende son algo que en efecto evoluciona. Pero cada vez que un gen es seleccionado sobre otro, un diseño para un programa de desarrollo es seleccionado sobre otro también; por virtud de su estructura, este programa de desarrollo interactúa con algunos aspectos del ambiente en vez de otros, dejando ciertas cualidades ambientales causalmente relevantes al desarrollo. Entonces, paso por paso, a medida que la selección natural construye el set de genes de una especie (elegido a partir de mutaciones disponibles), construye conjuntamente el ambiente de las especies relevante según el desarrollo (seleccionado de un set a partir de todas las propiedades en el mundo). De este modo, tanto los genes y el ambiente desarrollativamente relevante son el producto de la evolución" (p. 84).

Tanto con los genes humanos como los genes ambientales "biológicos" en la naturaleza, la dicotomía naturaleza/crianza carece de cualquier significado. En su lugar, Tooby y Cosmides proponen una distinción entre programaciones de desarrollo "abiertas" y "cerradas", las cuales se referencia en la magnitud para la cual los varios mecanismos psicológicos pueden variar en su forma manifiesta dependiente de la aportación que ellos encuentran durante el desarrollo (programas desarrollativos cerrados), mientras otros (por ejemplo, las facultades de lenguaje humanas) van a variar en su forma manifiesta de acuerdo en la aportación ambiental que ellos reciben durante el desarrollo (mecanismos desarrollativos abiertos). Sin embargo, se argumenta, si el mecanismo es abierto o cerrado, así como el rango de las formas que puede asumir está abierto, es algo que está codificado en las instrucciones genéticas que han sido afinadas a lo largo de millones de años de evolución.

Especificación de dominio

Otro tema esencial del ensayo es la crítica de lo que Tooby y Cosmides llaman "mecanismos psicológicos de dominio general": las facultades psicológicos las cuales según el SSSM comprenden la mente humana. Estos son mecanismos de propósito general, exentos de contenido situacional, y funcionan igualmente bien sin importar el dominio conductual. Por ejemplo, los denominados "métodos de resolución de problemas", a los cuales los psicológicos cognitivos se han dedicado tradicionalmente por ellos mismos, son estrategias racionales abstractas (por ejemplo, seccionar el problema en partes más pequeñas o empezar a trabajar desde atrás por un fin deseado hacia el estado presente) que se supone que sirven igualmente de manera independiente a si uno quiere jugar una partida de ajedrez, ordenar pizza o encontrar una pareja sexual. Como los autores sugieren, esta preocupación académica con mecanismos de dominio general deriva directamente de la noción folclórica del hombre como un ser racional que ha perdido o suprimido de largo sus institutos animalescos, siendo que en la actual opera principalmente según la razón.

Tooby y Cosmides dedicaron la parte más extensa del ensayo a establecer que la mente humana no puede consistir exclusiva o incluso primeramente de mecanismos de dominio general. El argumento podría ser resumido de la manera siguiente: dado que los mecanismos de dominio general vienen sin contenido innato, ellos deben hacer funcionar la solución para cada problema desde cero a través de acciones costosas y potencialmente letales de prueba y error. Los mecanismos de dominio específico, por otro lado, vienen con el contenido que está especializado para su dominio (por ejemplo, apareamiento, forrajeo, teoría de la mente, etc.) y puede por consiguiente desestimar de inmediato una asombrosa cantidad de cursos viables de acción (por definición, un mecanismo de dominio general habría de examinar uno por uno) por una o pocas alternativas favorecidas. Por esta razón se espera que la selección natural haya favorecido a los mecanismos de dominio específico, que son más rápidos y efectivos que sus contrapartes de dominio general.

Los autores concluyen que la apariencia flexible y altamente inteligente del comportamiento humano no es el resultado de mecanismos de dominio general adquiridos de mecanismos más antiguos de dominio específico (o "instintos"), sino que es exactamente lo opuesto; los mecanismos humanos de dominio específicos han proliferado hasta el punto donde el hombre se ha vuelto competente en un número inaudito de dominios, y pueden por tanto emplear de manera usual alguna gama diversa de estos mecanismos especializados para sus propias ideas novedosas (por ejemplo, un individuo tiene la combinación de habilidades linguales, visuales y motores para inventar la palabra escrita, para lo cual no existe un mecanismo psicológico especializado).

Véase también

 Psicología evolucionista

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Evolutionary Psychology: A Primer, por Leda Cosmides y John Tooby

Psicología evolucionista
Libros publicados por Oxford University Press
Libros de 1992


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"a portrait of my children, once a week, every week, in 2013"
harper: ready for spring, ready for the easter bunny to hop on in.
sawyer: baby snoozes on the couch.
it's been harder than i imagined to get photos taken every week. maybe it is because of the dreary snowy weather or just being stuck inside all day long. i know we are all ready for some warm sunshine and longer days.
Harper looks very cute in those bunny ears. I just bought a pair like that at Walmart but they're too big for my baby girl, maybe next year.


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Council 9597 Mournes the Loss of Andy Bryce
July 4, 2015 July 4, 2015 / mmajeres
On Sunday, June 14th, our council lost one of its charter members as Brother Knight Andy Bryce passed to his eternal reward. He was 90 years young. As our council noted in a resolution passed the week before, "Council 9597 is proud to recognize Brother Knight Andy Bryce for a long history of efforts to move our council forward. 3rd Degree Knight Andy Bryce has provided the council invaluable service over the history of the council, being one of the charter members of our council, as well as a member of the Knights since 1958. His brothers of Council 9597 wish to ensure that he knows of our high regard, respect, and that it is a blessing that he is a member of our council and parish. Andy lives out the order's principles of Charity, Unity, and Fraternity as he has served as an outstanding model of Knighthood and is most worthy of our high esteem and regard." Andy was one of the forward-looking men who formed our council, after almost 20 years as a knight in other councils. He served his country honorably in both the Navy and the Army, as well as a distinguished career as a chief surveyor. The Bryce family remains a fixture at our parish, and his widow, Olga, is in our prayers.
Andy was born at Sunnyside Colorado in the rustic homestead house his father and uncle built on the old Southern Ute Indian Reservation near the little community of La Posta. He was the sixth of eight children born to La Plata County Pioneers, John Robert and Edna Bryce.
Raised on the family homestead, Andy attended schools both on the Florida Mesa and in Durango. Andy was in his senior year at Durango High School when the Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor. Andy was 17 years old when he joined the Navy on February 12, 1942 on a deferred enlistment reporting for active duty immediately upon graduation.
Andy spent three years and eight months on active duty during World War II. First in San Diego as an instructor on aerial torpedo maintenance and later in the war he was stationed on the Majuro atoll in the south pacific. Andy returned to Durango in February 1946 and continued his military service by enlisting in the Naval Reserve.
Civilian life for Andy started again in 1946 when Andy began working for the Colorado Department of Highways in the District Construction Office in Durango. He was on several surveying parties locating and constructing many of the major highways and bridges in and around southwest Colorado.
During a chance meeting January 3, 1947, Andy met the love of his life, Ms. Olga Grisenti, also a Durango native. They were married on July 3, 1947 and over the coming years had nine children.
In October of 1949, Andy left the Naval Reserve to join the Colorado Army National Guard, eventually becoming the Commander of the Durango Artillery Post with the rank of Captain.
In 1958 Andy left the Highways Department to pursue an opportunity to set up a small appliance repair business which he had for four years. In his own words "That didn't work out too well". With an ever growing family, Andy took up Government service again and went to work for the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation. While at the Bureau, Andy worked on three major water projects in Colorado and one in the Dakotas.
In 1969, Andy retired from the Colorado National Guard and rejoined the reserve service. Andy served a total of thirty-three years and nine months in military service to the country prior to transferring to the retired reserve in 1976. Andy was a life time member of the American Legion.
When President Carter brought a halt to all federal water projects in 1977, Andy transferred from the Bureau of Reclamation to the newly created Department of Energy (Western Area Power Administration – WAPA) as the Chief Land Surveyor. During his time at WAPA, Andy worked on locating paths for many major federally owned transmission lines west of the Mississippi. Andy retired from WAPA in 1985 and took a job as a consultant for SATO Engineering for an additional 5 years, finally retiring for good in 1990. Andy was a licensed Professional Land Surveyor in the state of Colorado from 1968 until he retired in 1990.
After retiring from work, Andy became a Master Gardener and spent many years providing support to Jefferson County Extension Agency all the while winning many awards for his home grown vegetables and other plantings.
Raised in the Presbyterian Church, Andy converted to Catholicism in 1955. He was very active in the Catholic Church as a lector. He sang in the church choir for many years and had a beautiful voice. Andy was a member of the Rosary Guild and made thousands of rosaries for the missions. He also was a 3rd Degree member of the Knights of Columbus. In addition he loved to support young people in their vocations within the church.
Andy is survived by Olga, his wife of 68 years and his children Andrea, Annette, Carol, Thomas, Mary Ann, Donald, Patricia, John Daniel.
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A dripping faucet can drive you crazy--especially if you can hear it all night long. If the drip does not stop no matter how tight you turn the knobs, it's time for professional help.
Long-term leaks waste gallons of water a day. Leak repair is one of the most common fixes we perform for our customers, as faucets tend to form leaks as the gaskets and seals age. Many times, replacing a worn seal can correct the leak. If your faucet is more than a decade old, it might be time to replace the entire fixture.
Why Does My Faucet Whistle?
Customers often call for help when they hear a high-pitched whistling or squealing noise coming from their faucets. Usually, the noise comes from a faulty aerator. The aerator is designed to help control the flow of water from your faucet. The aerator, as its name would suggest, adds air to the water. This air spreads out the flow of the water, slowing the water down so that it pours instead of sprays.
An aerator that is clogged or on crooked will whistle to let you know something is wrong. Do not use tools to attempt to correct the problem yourself. Cranking too hard on a crooked aerator can strip the faucet. A stripped faucet usually will have to be replaced.
Need help with your Falmouth plumbing installation? Call (508) 388-6007. We also serve Barnstable County and Cape Cod.


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