Lots of developments on the Critter front, including a regular bedtime routine (and we no longer have to repeatedly run upstairs to calm him down after a 20-45 minute catnap), MUCH rolling over, and a definite love of having his hands in his mouth. I need to upload some more pictures – coming soon!
Congrats on the bedtime routine! For us, it's the best thing ever! Can't wait to see more pictures!
Screws fall out all the time sir. The world is an imperfect place. . .
Glad that the to-bed plans worked!
I did your meme on my blog too. It's harder than it looks!
The world IS an imperfect place. First he'll get up. Then you'll get up. We'll all get up. It'll be anarachy!
Ah, the glorious bedtime routine. I believe in opening presents on Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve (cue the rest of the Bull Durham speech), and I believe in a good bedtime routine. Congrats on getting on established! W00t!
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Growing up with autism
This is the post I didn't want to write.
When I sent out my last newsletter, as always, there was a health blurb. Since it was April, and that's autism awareness month, I did a blurb on early detection of autism. A line in that article alluded to the fact that I grew up with two autistic brothers. Several readers then asked me to share more about that experience.
Please recognize this is one woman's observations and path, and the interactions with my brothers and family should not be taken as a mandate, a proscription, or even as typical of experiences with autism. What I'm describing is how these two guys impacted my life, so it's a very narrow field of vision, and purposefully so. If I sound in any way callus, please understand that's not the case at all. It's learned gallows humor and the ability to objectively look at things that might come across as somewhat less than introspective. Frankly, if I get too emotional about this topic, I will not be able to write this post. Period.
It's super personal stuff, and it's rare that I talk freely about 'growing up with autism'.
But maybe it's time. Feels right. Seems like time to write this now that I've gotten some distance.
Since I love lists, and, well, they feel safe as a blog structure, then that's how this blog post is going to go down.
So, how did 'growing up with autism' change me? Hard to say exactly. I have no reference point for any other way to grow up… Okay, I've seen plenty of "normal" families, and would often compare my life to theirs, but it's not the same. However, here's my best stab at what I've learned:
#1) Talking to yourself can be normal. One brother can say a single word, and the other brother has about three nonverbal signs he can throw up (one of which unfortunately is the middle finger but he doesn't understand what it means). That meant, if I wanted meaningful conversation while hanging out with these two dudes, I had to provide it myself. In appropriate voices. With appropriate responses. And yes, that was normal.
#2) Compassion can be learned at an early age. One of my earliest memories was hanging out at the children's rehab facility, three times a week in the summer. Maybe I was five or six or seven. (Maybe all three – we went there for a long time.) I got bored. Like super crazy bored. So after watching the occupational therapist do stuff, I decided that looked kind of interesting, and I started hanging out with this spina bifida kid. Every day, I'd play out in the empty playground. (Right? Because the rehab kids couldn't go outside and play because most of them couldn't run around or walk.) I'd get bored of swinging and come back in the air-conditioned building and hang out with the happiest, most giggly guy on the planet. Because of the spina bifida, he was kind of schlumpy and couldn't walk, but he tucked his legs in and scooted all over the place. So we'd blow bubbles together and I'd get him to scoot around for a half hour. No idea if this was sanctioned activity or even helpful, but he seemed tickled by it, and it was fun to make him laugh.
#3) Interest in science can be learned at a very early age. Especially when your brothers are super duper sick, and the doctors who treat them take time to answer a bratty kid's (me) questions. Man, I bet we went to fifty plus doctors visits and hospital visits for my brothers before I was ten. Especially in the summer, when Mom had to drag me along. You see, my brothers weren't just autistic. They were super-duper autistic, with massive developmental delays and severe epilepsy. So there was way more going on than "just" autism. (TBH, it's never "just" autism, and even it if was, then "just" autism itself is plenty exhausting by itself, thanks.) So, here's the pecking order: me, then a brother 2 years younger J, then a brother 8 years younger T. When I was young, normal life centered around keeping J alive both at home and during hospital stays. I recall days of watching him seize on the floor or the bed. Like, that was normal. Then T came along and had issues and seizures and then a bout of meningitis that landed him in the hospital. So, normal life for us involved a lot of antiseptic smells, beds with rails, and IV's. Now thirty plus years later, J is declining and frail and has been in and out of the ICU and in comas and on ventilators enough to where it hurts me to think about the suffering he's gone through. And I wonder how much is enough. Anyway. Not my decision and a discussion for later.
#4) Thank God disability isn't an average. The joke in our family – and we have many – is that if you took my IQ and averaged it with J and T's, as an aggregate, we'd still be fully disabled. To fully understand that joke, just know that I always scored in the top decile of tests. Actually, our average might be skewed a little high only because their low scores are so low they cannot be measured. (Like the Marianas Trench of IQ scores!) J is somewhere around 9-18 month age developmentally, and T is 12-36 months or so. So yes, taken together, I still can't even bring up our class average enough to make us a functional unit.
#5) Weird stuff can be normal. Like it was nothing to be changing a 10-year-old dude's diaper and babysitting for hours while Mom and Dad went out. Granted, I was a pretty responsible 12 year old. Also weird? J had a sock fetish as part of his autism – like he'd play with socks all day long, flipping them back and forth in his hands. And because the world is made up of irony, T had a shoelace fetish and would play with shoelaces all day long. So because of them, Mom, Dad, myself, and anyone who visited went around the house in bare feet. And we locked up the shoes and socks. Seriously. You cannot make up this stuff.
#6) Naked can be normal. Man, there were no mysteries at our household, ever, with those two exhibitionists. J loved to swim. We didn't have a pool, so he'd stand at the fence and stare at the neighbor's pool. All the time. Even when they had pool parties. (These were very understanding and kind neighbors.) Unfortunately, one day, J's diaper got pretty weighed down and it fell to his ankles. So picture this: a scrawny kid, fingers laced in the chain link fence, goofy smile on his face, staring at the pool party. And he's buck-naked. How long he'd been out there like that, no one knew. (We didn't have the guts to ask the neighbors.) Mom made Dad go get him, and they were both pretty mortified by the experience. J? Poor guy -- all he wanted to do was enjoy the sights and sounds of the pretty swimming pool.
#7) Budgeting and rationing can be normal. Man, I was such a little puke, not understanding why we didn't "have" the same things as other folks growing up. I remember being utterly embarrassed in middle school because I >only< had four tops to wear all year long and three pairs of pants. Mind you, everything was clean, but it was the discount store variety of outfits. So, not 'cool'. Never had the fancy purses that peer pressure makes you want to buy so you can fit in. Never had a fancy house or cars that I heard kids' parents bragging about on the sidelines of sports events. It wasn't until many years later, that I realized that my Dad had socked away every last penny of his salary after expenses into two places: short-term and long-term care for J and T, and my college fund. Left zero room for anything else. We weren't destitute at all. My folks were crazy smart with their money, and looking back, that realization taught me a lot of good lessons about prioritizing what's really important.
#8) Kids in school can be little shits. Also in middle school (those are kind of hell years, aren't they?), I was dressed in my Special Olympics t-shirt, leaving class to volunteer at the spring Special Olympics, as one does, and a snot-nosed, fancy purse-carrying, big-house living, name-brand clothing wearing jerk looked at me and asked if the reason I was going to Special Olympics was to compete? Mind you, we were in some kind of advanced algebra class at this time. I explained why, and she laughed. Like, an ice-cold, no compassion human being kind of laugh. I never really understood that those people existed. Up until then, I always figured most people were decent and kind. I was wrong.
#9) Advocacy can be learned early. In high school, I'd spend study hall schlepping Kelly, a nonverbal kid in wheelchair, all over the school campus. We'd roll down the sidewalk outside, through the halls, I'd talk with her, we'd sneak into the theater and I'd play piano while she laughed. Because this was normal in the way that my world worked, and yeah it was kind of fun. But what was even more fun was getting the other students in school to understand that Kelly was okay to be around, even touch her or say hi. And if a football player said hi, holy cow that was it -- she had a giant grin plastered on her face for the rest of the afternoon.
#10) Good stuff can be learned or developed. People can learn to be nice or compassionate. People can learn to care, even if they don't understand how or why at first. As a physician and as a human, I contend that any piece of who I am that is good or compassionate, exists only as a direct result of my brothers. Without having grown up with the crazy and sick and twitchy and weird? Without growing up with the knowledge that these guys were always one foot on the proverbial banana peel when it came to their tenuous health? I would never understand how patients and their families deal with fear and hope. There would never be a good way to empathize and to care. Zero. Without the very normal and ordinary experience of growing up with my two strange and challenging brothers, I'd be an empty shell. Was it hard growing up with autism? Probably, I guess. But I didn't know any different life.
What I do know now, is that it was worth it.
Please consider advocacy for autism, or any other cause that warms your heart. Don't just sit there, do something. Go on a sponsored walk, volunteer, reach out, or donate a little. If everyone did even a tiny something extra, this world would be a million times better for everyone in it.
The Damsel in Distress is Dead! Long Live the Damsel in Distress!
Sleeping Beauty was my favorite Disney movie when I was growing up. Her hair! Her pretty dress! Her singing! And doggone it, she was the nicest person, too.
The scene where the prince (whatever his name – does he really matter?) kissed her and she wakes up? Perfection.
But as I got older, I started thinking about what happened after The End? Did Sleeping Beauty get a job or maybe crank out a passel of kids? Probably the latter. (It >was< set in medieval times, after all.) Did she and her prince go off on a bunch of adventures afterwards? Doubtful. Bet she got stuck pretending to enjoy embroidery instead of getting to race around on steeds or something awesome like that.
Well, that revelation was kind of a bummer.
(Uh, that's it?)
Then I started reading my mom's stash of romance novels, circa 1980-1986 publication dates. Those Harlequins and Silhouettes sure got the pulse pounding. The books were great fun. But again something wasn't quite right. The damsel in distress(D.I.D.)/sleeping beauty might have had her own life or a sort-of career. But more often than not she got pushed around by Rich Dude/Cold Businessman into being his woman and dumping aforementioned career in lieu of having kids/enjoying lounging on the beach in Capri/arranging flowers or whatever sinecure she was allowed to do post marriage.
(Yup, pretty sure I'm not going back to the secretarial pool after this Swiss vacation....)
Then came one of my all-time favorite series, Ruth Langan's Highlander series that came out in the 1990's. Such an awesome series, I still have the originals in a shoebox in my closet. Now we had something good! The heroines had most of their sh#t together during a time period when women mostly sat around and did exciting things like embroidery, and no, she didn't really need a dude, thanks for asking and damn most of those society mores. But when the muscle-y fella showed up and swept her off her feet, she was also down with that, circa 1560 or so.
But she was still a D.I.D., and somewhere in the story, the dude still had to rescue her/wake her up from an unconscious state. Ok, so still Sleeping Beauty/D.I.D..
(Sure, I'm in a wedding dress, but I wasn't getting married to YOU. Hullo? I have a clan to run.)
What happened over the next twenty years is a testament to how awesome women are in general, and how the writers have adapted to match our new reality. At the same time, the alpha heroes got more alpha-y. Like, because women were so fabulous at kicking ass on their own, either the guys had to be so over-the-top alpha or the situation was so over-the-top horrific that she needed some professional help, usually in the form of a hunky, massive warrior with piercing eyes. Yum. Even then, there were some tough women who were still D.I.D.'s.
Don't get me wrong, I like all of that strong woman + uber-alpha stuff. Lots of readers do, or authors like J.R. Ward, Maya Banks, Rebecca Zanetti and so many others wouldn't be so successful.
(If I were conscious, I could totally kick Alcide's -- or any dude's -- ass.)
But then I saw Sleeping Beauty again. Did I get the feels? Well, yes, but I was kind of sad. I kept wondering what Sleeping Beauty most likely said to herself after waking up: "Now what?" This time, 'The End' left me empty.
You know what, though? The D.I.D. never went away. Sleeping Beauty still exists. Only now, their partners are less sexist (and if they are sexist, the D.I.D corrects the dude's attitude or there will be No Sex for him), there are joint goals or joint decision-making, and readers are promised that after The End, there are more adventures to come.
Long live the Damsel in Distress! She's still alive and kicking (ass).
(Sure, dude, we can date. But only if you can handle my skillz.)
Jillian David writes alpha heroes and butt-kicking heroines, and yeah, sometimes one or both parties are unconscious and need assistance, often in the form of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. And that's a-okay.

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358K healthcare jobs added in June; hospitals see 1st gain since March
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Healthcare added 358,000 jobs in June, with hospitals seeing their first modest gain since March, according to the latest jobs report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The June count compares to 312,400 healthcare jobs added in May, and 1.4 million healthcare jobs lost in April.
Within ambulatory healthcare services, dentist offices saw the biggest job gains in June, with more than 190,000 new jobs. Physician offices saw more than 80,000 job gains, and other healthcare practitioners' offices had more than 48,000 gains in June.
Hospitals added 6,700 jobs in June, the first job gains seen since losing 26,700 jobs in May and 134,900 positions in April.
Nursing and residential care facilities lost 18,300 jobs last month, compared to 36,600 jobs lost in May.
Overall, the U.S. added nearly 4.8 million jobs in June, marking the second months of gains. The U.S. lost 20.5 million jobs in April, but added 2.5 million in May. The unemployment rate also declined to 11.1 percent in June, compared to 13.3 percent in May.
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Home/World/'Chest-slapping' Putin bared his teeth with a harsh glare to scare West with a chilling nuke threat, experts reveal
'Chest-slapping' Putin bared his teeth with a harsh glare to scare West with a chilling nuke threat, experts reveal
DevanColeSeptember 21, 2022
VLADIMIR Putin's 'chest punch' speech was meant to 'intimidate' the West as he 'bared his bottom teeth', a body language expert has revealed.
The Russian tyrant gave the camera a "hard look" as he issued a thinly veiled threat to bombard the West with nuclear weapons and ordered the partial mobilization of troops.
According to a body language expert, Putin showed signs of "anger" and "disgust."Photo credit: Sky News
The bully gave a "hard look" to "intimidate," it was suggestedCredit: AP
Body language expert Judi James said Putin – whose army had suffered huge casualties in the face of a stunning Ukrainian counterattack – looked "disgusted".
She said he also showed signs of "urgency" as he frantically dispatched 300,000 more troops to the front lines to prevent his invasion from collapsing.
Judi told The Sun Online: "This was direct, insistent, angry and very dominant body language from a leader who leaned forward to stare straight into the camera lens to show control and disgust with his facial expressions and batons.
"His hands were spread out on the table in her signature, but the left hand made a chopping gesture to indicate determined thinking.
"His movements suggested urgency and a 'tell' style that suggested no vice with discussions."
In his address, Putin also made a thinly veiled threat to bombard the West with nuclear weapons, saying he had "many weapons" he was willing to use.
Judi added: "His nose and lips curled in micro-gestures of disgust.
"His shrug suggested a lack of choice, and when he spoke of nuclear responses, his eye condition intensified as his lower jaw appeared to protrude and his lower teeth were bared in a gesture often associated with anger and determination.
"It looked like chest slapping body language with the hard stare at the end that was meant to scare and intimidate."
It comes as Putin today delivered his first address to the nation since he dispatched his troops to Ukraine in February.
As his disastrous war falters and Moscow loses ground on the battlefield, the desperate despot used the speech to call up more conscripts to bolster efforts in Ukraine.
The total number of reservists drafted in the partial mobilization is 300,000, officials said.
Russia lost about $1 billion in military equipment during the Blitz, which saw tanks and ammunition abandoned by fleeing battalions as Ukraine retook tracts of land.
Dramatic footage has captured Russian troops surrendering en masse, with reports of plummeting morale among the soldiers.
Putin said: "To protect our motherland, its sovereignty and territorial integrity. To ensure the safety of our people and the people of the liberated areas.
"I consider it necessary to support the proposal of the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff to declare partial mobilization in Russia."
In his speech, Putin also warned the West that it was not a "bluff" that Russia would use any means at its disposal to protect its territory.
Putin also grimaced "with disgust," said a body language expertPhoto credit: Sky News
He also made a veiled threat to nuclear bomb the West, saying he had "many weapons" he was prepared to use.
Putin accused the West of nuclear blackmail and took note of statements by some senior NATO officials about the possibility of using nuclear weapons of mass destruction against Russia.
He added: "If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will use all means at our disposal to defend Russia and our people, this is not a bluff.
"Russian citizens can rest assured that the territorial integrity of our Fatherland, our independence and our freedom will be secured by any means at our disposal.
"Those trying to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the wind can blow their way."
Putin also claimed that Western countries are trying to "block" any independence and development.
He added: "To brutally impose their will on other people.
"The aim of the West is still to weaken and destroy, they say so openly."
Putin's televised address to the nation comes a day after Russian-controlled regions in eastern and southern Ukraine announced plans to hold votes on becoming "integral parts" of Russia.
The Kremlin-backed effort to engulf four regions could pave the way for Moscow to escalate the war after Ukrainian successes.
Referendums scheduled to take place since the first months of the war, which began on February 24, begin on Friday in the Luhansk, Kherson and partially Russian-controlled Zaporizhia and Donetsk regions.
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Microsoft's Speech Recognition System Has Reached 'Human Parity', Claim Researchers
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Speech recognition system reported word error rate of 5.9 percent
That's the same error rate as humans transcribing the same conversation
The system uses neural language models for better recognition
Machine learning has come a long way in last few years and it has now been integrated into our lives in ways that make us hardly recognise its presence. In a development that marks a huge milestone for this aspect of technology, researchers at Microsoft have claimed that their speech recognition system has reached 'human parity'.
This effectively means that the speech recognition system can recognise words from a conversation as well as humans would do. It should be noted that 'human parity' doesn't mean error-free recognition as even professional transcriptionists make errors and don't recognise every word perfectly from conversations. This term essentially implies that the rate of errors made by the recognition system is now at par with the error rate of humans while performing a similar tasks.
During their tests, researchers at Microsoft reported a word error rate of 5.9 percent by the speech recognition system. "The 5.9 percent error rate is about equal to that of people who were asked to transcribe the same conversation, and it's the lowest ever recorded against the industry standard Switchboard speech recognition task," the Redmond-based company said in its official blog post.
"We've reached human parity," company's Chief Speech Scientist Xuedong Huang was quoted as saying in the blog.
This advancement in speech recognition can have wide implications for both business-based products as well as consumer products. This advancement can improve the user experience on a simple entertainment console like Xbox or can be used in speech-to-text transcription software. Microsoft's digital assistant Cortana is also likely to benefit from the improvement in speech recognition.
"This will make Cortana more powerful, making a truly intelligent assistant possible," company's Head of Artificial Intelligence Harry Shum said.
In order to improve speech recognition to this level, the researchers made use of neural language models, which puts similar words together for better recognition.
Even though Microsoft's speech recognition system has achieved a huge milestone by reducing the error rate significantly, the researchers still have a long way to go in order to make the technology useable in real-life situations. This will include situations where there is noise in background or when multiple people are talking and for devices like our phones to better understand the context of the conversation, like humans can do.
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Katy Perry Gets Stuck on a Planet during her US tour! She's Lost in Space!
Katy Perry's stage equipment breaks! Poor Katy!
Last night, in a concert in Tennessee, it got stuck, leaving Katy stranded in space! Oh no!
She ended up having to clamber off into the crowd!
But here's EXCLUSIVE footage of what almost definitely happened!


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I made these scones in order to participate in this month's Random Recipes. The challenge was to make the recipe on page 30 of the thirtieth cookbook you counted up in your collection.
I've owned the book I selected, 'Baked: New Frontiers in Baking', for four years. Unfortunately, I didn't realise before buying it, that it was a US cookbook, complete with US measurements.
I cannot get my head around the measure-by-volume system that the US uses and the conversions aren't as straightforward as some books would have you believe, so 'Baked' has been gathering dust on my bookshelf (literally: you could see its' outline on the shelf when I pulled it out). However, with the help of a more mathematically-minded friend, this bake turned out just fine.
Well, more than fine, actually. I really loved these scones. They are quite dense, perhaps more of a breakfast scone, than something to put on tiered plates for afternoon tea. I had them while they were still warm, on a Sunday afternoon, with some ricotta and a dribble of treacle.
I then had some more the next morning, very lightly toasted and topped with some crispy bacon and a thin slice of Cheddar cheese.
The recipe allows for a glaze of maple syrup to be added, but I thought this would make them far too sweet, so I left my batch plain.
The recipe can be found here and the rest of this month's submissions to Random Recipes will be posted up soon, here.


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Kanata, Ont.'s Mitel Networks acquired by U.S. investor group for $2.6B
Under the deal, Mitel will again become a privately held company, a move it says will provide it with additional flexibility.
OTTAWA—Mitel Networks Corp. has signed a deal to be acquired by an investor group led by Searchlight Capital Partners for about C$2.6 billion, including debt.
Under the agreement, Mitel shareholders are being offered US$11.15 per share in cash.
Mitel shares closed at US$10.16 on the Nasdaq on Monday and C$13.04 on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
Under the deal, Mitel will become a privately held company, a move it says will provide it with additional flexibility.
The business communications firm says its board of directors has unanimously determined that the offer is in the best interests of the company and will recommend shareholders approve the deal.
Searchlight is a private investment firm with investments in North America and Europe.
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UEFA set to announce Champions League reforms and decide on Euro 2020 hosts
Lausanne (AFP) – UEFA is expected to formalise radical reforms to the format of the Champions League at a key meeting of its executive committee on Monday which could also see some cities removed as hosts of the delayed Euro 2020.
Plans to reform Europe's elite club competition from 2024 onwards were initially set to be approved last month before being put on hold after the powerful European Club Association (ECA) said it was "not yet in a position to formally endorse key changes".
According to sources close to the negotiations, certain leading clubs wanted greater control of UEFA Club Competitions (UCC), the subsidiary company which advises UEFA itself on commercial matters.
Amid talk of an attempted power grab by certain clubs, and with the spectre of a breakaway Super League possibly involving several of those clubs still hanging in the air, the hope is that a solution has been found.
UEFA confirmed on Friday that the reforms were at the top of the agenda for the meeting in the Swiss town of Montreux, on the eastern shore of Lake Geneva.
The Champions League group stage is set to be completely overhauled, with an increase from 32 to 36 participants and the introduction of a so-called 'Swiss system' inspired by chess, with clubs playing 10 group games instead of the current six, all against different opponents.
While the broader outline of the reforms has been an open secret for some time, discussions have been ongoing about several details, including who the four extra places would go to.
France, as Europe's fifth-ranked nation, is expected to get a third guaranteed spot in the group phase, while more places could be given on the back of historical performances — using UEFA's club coefficient.
That would benefit clubs who have enjoyed success in the past but who failed to qualify via their league position — think clubs like Arsenal and Liverpool, currently underperforming in the Premier League, or Borussia Dortmund in Germany, who as it stands may all miss out on next season's Champions League.
The ultimate goal of the reforms is to increase broadcast rights for the competition to satisfy cash-hungry leading European clubs and end the threat of a breakaway Super League.
At the same time UEFA's need to finalise plans for Euro 2020 is pressing.
– Doubts over Munich, Bilbao and Dublin –
Postponed by a year due to the pandemic, the European Championship is set to start in Rome on June 11 and is supposed to be played at 12 different venues spread across the continent, a controversial arrangement even before the pandemic brought about widespread travel restrictions.
The Italian capital was only confirmed as a host city last Wednesday when local authorities confirmed spectators would be allowed in up to 25 percent of the capacity of the 68,000-seat Stadio Olimpico.
It joins eight other cities — Saint-Petersburg, Baku, Budapest, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Glasgow and London — in being confirmed, although the number of fans allowed into stadiums will vary from one venue to the other.
However, uncertainty remains over the three other host cities.
Munich, Bilbao and Dublin were all given until Monday to provide UEFA with additional information on their plans for spectators.
UEFA could yet take matches due to be played there and relocate them to other existing host cities, although the president of the Spanish Football Federation has said he will do "everything humanly possible" to ensure Spain keeps its four scheduled Euro games.
If UEFA decide that Bilbao, in the Basque Country, cannot host matches, Luis Rubiales has suggested Seville could be an alternative option.
"It is true that there are serious difficulties in Bilbao and with this in mind, it is UEFA who has to decide," he said.
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McDonald's to trial 'luxury' reservation-only Kensington restaurant
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McDonald's is to trial its first reservation service as it marks the national roll-out of its Signature Collection burgers.
The two-day pilot will run on 15 August at the fast food giant's Kensington High Street restaurant. Customers will be able to reserve tables for the fast food giant's "luxury restaurant" from 8 August by signing up online.
Diners will be welcomed to the restaurant – which will be revamped to include velvet curtains, and "fine burger art" - by a string quartet, and their choice of either the classic, barbecue or spicy burger will be served under a silver cloche by a white-gloved butler. Diamond-encrusted cutlery will be available upon request.
The restaurant says that depending on the outcome of the High Street Kensington trial, it may consider rolling the concept out for special events in partnership with an online booking platform.
The reservation trial follows success the restaurant found with its table service, which now features in 93% of McDonald's restaurants.
McDonald's UK and Ireland has reported 49 consecutive quarters of sales and guest count growth.
However the chain has struggled in the USA and worldwide due to increased competition from 'better burger' rivals such as Shake Shack, Five Guys and Smashburger.
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Karachi: Heavy firing at Chinese Embassy in Karachi.
The Chinese Embassy is under attack, however whether embassy was attacked or some nearby place only investigation will reveal, claim sources.
More than 4 terrorists have managed to get inside the Chinese Consulate and on the roof in Karachi. They are reported to be heavily armed with grenades and other ammunition.
So far three terrorists have been killed and 2 Police officials have embraced martyrdom.
Stay tuned with us at Baaghi Tv for more updates on the matter.


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Recognized as one of the greatest and most idiosyncratic artists of the postwar era, Cy Twombly left behind an oeuvre of incredible versatility, sensitivity and originality upon his death in 2011 at age 83. Working in the immediate aftermath of abstract expressionism, Twombly developed an intensely personal scription consisting of scrawled letters and words, in an effusive, calligraphic mark-making that suggests a kind of painted poetry. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture and photography with a restless energy, Twombly incorporated the gods of Ancient Greece, the poetry of Stéphane Mallarmé, and the history, culture and mythology of the Occident into his art. The Essential Cy Twombly, edited by Twombly's longtime collaborator Nicola Del Roscio, is the ultimate overview of his work, presenting the most important paintings and cycles of paintings, drawings, sculptures and photographs from Twombly's diverse oeuvre. The most accessible survey of his work to date, this volume includes essays by Laszlo Glozer, Thierry Greub, Kirk Varnedoe, and Simon Schama.
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A Chicago semi-truck crash that took place earlier this month on Interstate 90 close to Hoffman Estates left a Pontiac man with minor burn injuries on his body. The semi-tractor driver and co-driver also were hurt.
The Chicago tractor-trailer accident happened at around 10:50 August 10 after the semi-truck rear-ended 24-year-old Travis Miller's 2002 BMW, which had broken down in an eastbound lane. The large truck then hit the median wall. Both motor vehicles caught fire.
Miller was able to escape from his car through a window. He was later flown by air to a Park Ridge hospital and then a Maywood hospital for treatment of his burns. 24-year-old trucker Fidel Santa and hid co-driver 25-year-old Efrain Garcia were treated at a Hoffman Estates hospital for their truck accident injuries. An investigation into who caused the Hoffman Estates truck crash is underway.
Do NOT try to settle your Cook County truck accident case without exploring your legal options first. You may not know the extent of your injuries or costs that you may incur as a result of being the victim of a large truck accident.
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Down-on-his-luck talent manager Richie (Murray) takes his best act Ronnie (Deschanel) to perform to troops if Afghanistan, but then she does a runner. The real focal point is (or should be) local singer Salima (Lubany), but the film lacks confidence in her story and vastly misjudges the material, making for an unfunny mess.
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'Nobody tours Afghanistan,' Richie Lanz's estranged daughter warns him. 'Well, nobody good.' Enduring Barry Levinson's desperate, based-on-a-true-story dramedy, you have to agree. Bill Murray plays Richie, a down-on-his-luck talent manager who takes his…
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Scott Caan has replaced Shia LaBeouf in 'Rock The Kasbah'. The 'Hawaii Five-0' star is in talks to take on one of the lead roles in Barry Levinson's all-star comedy after the troubled actor pulled out of the project last month, according to The…
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Give the digital and technological landscape we have today, software development is in high demand. Not only does it enable companies to generate user-requested programs, it also covers the engineering, design, and testing of potentially market-changing applications. Because of this, software developers are considered an asset to any business.
Outsourcing is generally hailed as one of the most cost-effective options for businesses looking to hire specialized help for specific projects. Aside from the fact that it eliminates all unnecessary expenses—like overheads, training fees, extra supplies and equipment—outsourcing is, ultimately, the option easiest on the finances. Rather than paying software developers every week (or every month) regardless of whether or not they had something to work on, managers only need to pay a one-time fee upon project completion; no monthly charges, no annual costs, no tax additions … nothing.
Generally speaking, technical recruitment is a logistical nightmare. From the moment you post the job listing up until the end of the on-boarding process, your company has to devote a hefty amount of resources (both material and human) just to pick and choose the new employees. The oftentimes wasteful inefficiency of this option is what drives most business owners to outsource a dedicated software developer for most of their major IT projects rather than create their own in-house team. In fact, outsourcing is widely considered to be one of the best technical recruitment solutions available.


11 years in MotoGP™, winner of five World Championships, 282 races, 31 years old. Jorge Lorenzo starts a new challenge in 2019 when he joins the Repsol Honda Team. Just over two months before the season gets underway in Qatar, the Spanish rider gives his first interview to analyse his initial impressions of the Honda RC213V, talk about what it means to be part of his new team and outline his ambitions for the year.
How do you like the new colours?
What does it mean to you to belong to the Repsol Honda Team?
What did you think the first time you tried your new bike?
When you got off the Honda for the first time, you did so with a big smile. What did you think when you entered the Repsol Honda Team box?
Changes have already been made between the tests in Valencia and Jerez. What were they?
You said you were going to learn from Marc Márquez, but that he would also learn from you. What do you think Marc can offer you and what can you provide for him?
This year the Repsol Honda Team turns 25 and Repsol reaches 50 years sponsoring sports. What does this mean to you?
"25 years is a long time. When Repsol began sponsoring the Honda team in 1995 was when I started watching motorcycle racing on television. I remember the fights between Harada and my idol Max Biaggi in 250cc, but also 500cc tussles between Crivillé and Doohan, when Rossi signed for Repsol Honda and when Nicky Hayden won the World Championship in 2006. It's a very successful team, with many victories and world titles, and now I will have the honour and pleasure of being able to belong to it.
The team presentation is on the 23rd of January in Madrid. Is it a day filled with a lot of anticipation?
Jorge Lorenzo and Marc Marquez will debut their full 2019 colours alongside the RC213V in Madrid of January 23.


Here are the four common ways to get from Bangkok to Nakhon Ratchasima or better known as Korat.
This is how I went there last weekend. Take the MRT (Underground) to Kamphaeng Phet station and from there by motorcycle taxi to Mo Chit Northern Bus Terminal (30 Baht). Go up to the second floor, that's where most of the ticket booths are located and that is where you book your bus ticket to Korat.
I got a 2nd class air con bus ticket for 171 Baht one way. There are also VIP buses with bigger seats available (three seats in one line) and they cost 220 Baht one way. The trip normally takes 4 hours, however last Saturday as I went lots of Bangkokians went back to their home town due to a public holiday the following Monday so it actually took me five hours to get there.
The good thing about taking the bus to Korat is that you can get off wherever you want and you don't have to go all the way to the bus terminal which is located at the northern end of the city. If it's your first trip to Korat I can recommend you to get off at "Terminal 21", Korat's biggest shopping mall and the place where everyone seems to hang out during the day.
If you travel back from Korat to Bangkok you can either take the bus from the old Bus Terminal (see right picture) located in downtown or, preferably for newer coaches, the new Bus Terminal 2 (see top picture) located on the main road near Terminal 21 Shopping Mall. Unfortunately most hotels don't have drop off services to the bus station (if they have one then usually to the airport) but they can call you a taxi and the fare will come down to around 100 Baht (including the 40 Baht service charge).
That's maybe the quickest way to get from Bangkok to Korat overland however you might also have a hard time with not much legroom during your journey if you get a bad seat.
The minivans also leave from Mo Chit Northern Bus Terminal (see the description above on how to get there). One way tickets cost between 180 and 220 Baht and the trip takes about 3 hours (slightly faster than the big busses).
The good thing about taking the train is that there is no traffic jam involved in your trip. However it takes several stops along the way and can take up to 6 hours depending on the type of train you catch. The easiest way is just by asking the ticket vendor for the duration, delays for this distance are not very common.
Trains from Bangkok to Korat leave from the Hua Lamphong main railway station that can be easily reached by MRT, take it to the last stop on the line (there is only one MRT line). If you go outside you are right in front of the railway station.
If you want to travel back from Korat to Bangkok you can check the departure times here.
The railway station in Korat is conveniently located right in the city center (see picture).
The flight time from Bangkok to Korat is only about 30 minutes but keep in mind that it takes also time to get to the airport in BKK, wait for the flight and get to downtown Korat from the airport which is located about 40km from the city. So it might be just about the same time (and less hassle) to catch a van or a bus.
There are currently no flights from Bangkok to Korat. The government has actually plans to build an express train from Bangkok all the way to Southern China that will stop in Korat and do the route in less than 2 hours. I'll update this page in the future as soon as any new services begin.
Now that you know how to get from Bangkok to Korat, check out this post to find out what to do in Thailand's second biggest city.
I have a huge luggage , possible to take the vip bus from Bangkok to korat?
I don't know how huge your luggage is exactly, but the busses always have big storage rooms. Should be alright.


Apache CloudStack will be exhibiting at the CloudTech IV Conference in Mountain View, CA at the Computer History Museum. Come by and chat with a few of the Apache CloudStack committers and get your free t-shirt!
- Why must I use Bosh? I just learned Chef/Puppet!


Anyway, the deaf little girl is going to feel even more guilty than just getting her little brother killed because he activated the toy spaceship. Wait until she figures out she could have saved her dad if only she'd figured out earlier that her "hearing aid" was causing the monsters to run away. It had already happened twice- if only she'd kept it on!


The Mesa County Commissioners honor Otis Darnell with a proclamation for his 39 years of dedication and exemplary service to the residents of Mesa County and extend their sincere best wishes for success in all his future endeavors. Commissioners celebrate Otis Darnell alongside his wife and grandson.
Many Mesa County Road and Bridge staff members attend the Commissioners' public hearing to honor and recognize Otis Darnell.
Mesa County Road and Bridge Maintenance District Manager Otis Darnell received a standing ovation after being recognized for his dedication and exemplary service to the residents of Mesa County for over 39 years. Read more at https://goo.gl/JUYRMe.
Mesa County Public Health and Mesa County Department of Human Services staff came together on Saturday for an active shooter training with the Mesa County Sheriff's Office and the Grand Junction Police Department. Here, the group debriefs on the morning training.
Albin Escamilla, Operations Manager, accepts the DHS Values Champion Trophy from Rory Cornelison, Employee Representatives Co-Chairman, for his exemplary demonstration of humanity. Congratulations, Albin!
The Board of Mesa County Commissioners proclaims the week of August 13-19, 2017, as National Health Center Week in Mesa County. Representatives from MarillacHealth accepted the proclamation at the Commissioners' public hearing.
The Board of Mesa County Commissioners adopts a proclamation to honor the life of Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Petty Officer 1st Class Remington Jordan Peters. Peters' family in public hearing listen while to Commissioners read the proclamation aloud into the record.
Military and law enforcement officials attend the Commissioner's hearing in honor of Remington J. Peters' family.
Mesa County Commissioners present the Peters family with a proclamation commemorating the life of U.S. Navy SEAL Remington J. Peters. From left, Commissioner John Justman, Peters' mother, Tina, niece, Taylor, Commissioner Rose Pugliese, sister, Cayce, father, Tom and Commissioner Scott McInnis.
The Western Slope Blue Star Mothers, a group of mothers of children who are serving or have previously served in the military, attend the Commissioners' hearing to present Tina Peters with a Gold Star Flag.
The Gold Star Flag is presented by the Western Slope Blue Star Mothers to Tina Peters, left, to honor her loss. The Gold Star Flag recognizes a mother's role as the Country's strength and inspiration.
Chief Navy Counselor (SurfaceWarfare) (Ret) Dan Chermock shares Remington J. Peters left an indelible impression on him. Chermock added it was an honor to have been able to help Peters start his Navy career.
Deputy Myles Shows and Ben Miller gave a presentation and demonstration of our UAV to the Plane Crazy and Newcomers Club yesterday afternoon.
Repairs to the Mesa County Animal Services facility are on budget and schedule for November 2017. Read more at https://goo.gl/uPg49v.
Interior framing is installed for masonry walls. Learn more about the construction progress at the Animal Services facility, watch this news clip: https://goo.gl/GYcS1w.
Masonry walls are going up at the Animal Services building. Construction is expected to be complete by the end of November.
Otis Darnell reflects on his years at Mesa County, including some funny stories, with employees of the Road and Bridge Department.
Otis' family supports him at his farewell party and gets some laughs in with him.
Otis Darnell with his wife, Norma, daughter, Cassie, son-in-law Russ, and grandchildren.
Mesa County and Rolland Consulting Engineers host an open house to give residents an in-person opportunity to learn and give input on the proposed design plans and improvements to 22 Road, from the bridge at J.9 to the K Road intersection.
The Gateway Resort in beautiful Gateway, Colorado.
Mesa County Assessor Ken Brownlee and County Administrator Frank Whidden speak with constituents and answer questions on Wednesday evening in Gateway.
Mesa County Road and Bridge Supervisor Rudy Bevan talks to constituents about roads in their district.
Commissioner Scott McInnis speaks to Gateway residents interested in issues concerning public safety.
The Gateway Community Coffee hosted by the Mesa County Commissioners was well attended and informative.
Commissioner John Justman answers a question from a resident Wednesday evening.
Mesa County Assessor Ken Brownlee explains some of the duties his office has during the community coffee.
Commissioner Rose Pugliese talks to constituents about matters that affect the county.
Gateway residents ask questions and share their priorities with Mesa County officials at the Gateway Community Coffee.
Mesa County Treasurer Janice Rich gives a brief explanation of the work her office does and its importance to constituents.
Residents of all ages had questions for county government officials.
Commissioner Justman speaks to a local resident on matters that are important to him.
Commissioner Scott McInnis and Treasurer Janice Rich talk to a constituent.
Residents in Gateway, Colorado have a lot of questions for Assessor Ken Brownlee.
Mesa County Noxious Weed and Pest Management was joined by members of the Bureau of Land Management and Colorado Canyons Association to scout the Gunnison River for rare invasive species and collect data and samples for studies by the Colorado Department of Agriculture and Colorado State University.
BLM and Mesa County employees take a lunch break along the Gunnison River between Escalante and Bridgeport.
BLM and Mesa County employees get ready to scout the Bridgeport to Whitewater section of the Gunnison River.
Mesa County Noxious Weed and Pest Management watch two desert big horn sheep fighting on a cliff above the Gunnison River between Bridgeport and Whitewater in the Dominguez Escalante National Conservation Area.
Mesa County Noxious Weed and Pest Management spot two desert big horn sheep on a cliff above the Gunnison River between Bridgeport and Whitewater in the Dominguez Escalante National Conservation Area.
Today is Mesa County Assessor Ken Brownlee's birthday. Happy birthday, Ken!


The SCQF Partnership is hosting a sharing of best practice event for our School Ambassadors.
The inaugural event will be held in Robertson House, 152 Bath Street, Glasgow, G2 4TB on Friday 8th March from 10am – 3pm.
The event is intended to provide practical support for school staff wishing to incorporate a broader range of SCQF credit rated programmes within the school curriculum.
Input will be provided by the Scottish Government Learning Directorate, Insight Professional Advisor Team, Youth Scotland and Clydebank High School.
This event is be open to all staff within SCQF Ambassador Schools.


Bryan Russell, Assistant Director, MBA, RYT-500, Yoga Siromani, Sivananda and SchoolYoga Certified, Hatha and Vinyasa Yoga Teacher.
Bryan has been teaching yoga classes in the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire since 2005 and is also a facilitator for SchoolYoga Institute Yoga Teacher Training Courses in Keene and around the world. Bryan is an active member in the local yoga community and has been involved with projects like YogaDay Keene, KeeneOnYoga.com. Bryan's classes vary in style and ability and he enjoys having fun and being creative while still maintaining a disciplined approach to the yoga practice.
Bryan completed his 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training at the Sivananda Ashram in Val-Morin, Canada in 2005. In 2007, he received his 500-hour certification through SchoolYoga Institute, where he studied Sadhana Hatha Flow and Sadhana Vinyasa Flow with Vedantin.
Bryan has been working with SchoolYoga Institute for the past four years. He teaches Sadhana Hatha and Vinyasa Flows and leads Yoga Teacher Trainings worldwide. Bryan has also worked as an outdoor guide for Raw Shakti Yoga, a yoga retreat and adventure company, since their beginnings in 2004 (visit www.rawshakti.com). He is passionate about the outdoor places he shares with groups. If he isn't traveling, Bryan teaches yoga in New Hampshire. An avid hiker, he likes to climb his favorite mountain, Monadnock, at least once a week when he's home.
In 2008, Bryan started Blooming Mountain to offer yoga to business people in corporate settings. He sees so many people burdened by stress and developing unhealthy habits at work. Although workplace stress is often accepted as normal, Bryan believes it doesn't need to be this way and that yoga has a tremendous amount of wisdom and health benefits to offer business employees.


Chilean Police Forces carried out raids in Mapuche area.
Chilean Police Forces carried out another raid at the Mapuche area.
1. Special Chilean Police Forces carried out another raid at the Lof [area] of Yeupeko, in the township of Vilcun, this mourning Tuesday January 13, 2009. Yet another encroachment to the Mapuche Nation.
2. At 5:30 am, two buses and close to 10 trucks burst into the community, kicking down doors, pointing their guns at women and children. They damaged the community households in search of so called "terrorists."
3. It is because of this act and tired of the constant harassments on behalf of the Chilean State, its Interior Ministry, and its Police lackeys that the Yeupeko Community decided to confront this new raid.
4. While the police lackeys spread throughout the countryside in this part of Wallmapu, the pu Weichafe [the Warriors] of Yeupeko ambushed the police, developing into an armed confrontation between them and the police for over 15 minutes.
5. Unto this, the police decided to abandon the site, without any injury on either side.
6. We would like to point out that the harassment towards this community has been systematic and constant, of which has already cost the life of a community member. The Weichafe [Warrior] Matias Catrileo.
7. Lastly, despite the fact that the anniversary of our murdered Weichafe was less than ten days ago, this new raid has shown the true colours of the Capitalist Regime and its State, which is willing to continue with their old ways. Meaning: to beat and discriminate those who are willing to resist in our Wallmapu. Despite this, the combativeness of our Mapuche People keeps rising and the police will find it that much harder to come in and beat our elders.


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On December 22, HBO Max premieres season two of this psychological thriller created by Ran Tellem, directed by Jorge Dorado and produced by The Mediapro Studio.
Point Nemo is an area in the South Pacific so far from land that often the closest humans are space station astronauts. And it is precisely in this inaccessible environment, aboard a massive ocean freighter, that biologist Arthur Wilde (John Lynch) is carrying out a crucial mission in the fight against climate change. That is until, once more, various macabre murders take place, turning the mission into a type of 'every man for himself' quest for survival. And thus The Head, a psychological thriller created by Ran Tellem and produced by The Mediapro Studio in association with Hulu Japan, returns for a second season – "very different, more physical and with more depth" – dropping on December 22 on HBO Max in both Spain and the United States.
"We made the first season to be complete in itself, we didn't think there would be a second one. It was after it was so successful, especially in the US, France and Japan, that the possibility of continuing the series was floated," shares Jorge Dorado, director of the six new episodes. "This time, the story and the way we are telling it are very different. There are no longer just two characters sharing their version of what's happening, instead they are all narrators, so we have 20 different points of view. This gives the series more depth and allows us to explore everyone's dreams and ambitions. It's still a psychological thriller, but the action scenes are more powerful," explains Tellem, executive producer together with Laura Fdz. Espeso, Javier Méndez, Bernat Elias and Mariano Baselga. Baselga this time also heads up the writers' room, where the team, also including Jordi Galcerán, Isaac Sastre and Cauê Laratta, took up the baton from the Pastor brothers, who penned the first season. "Having new writers allowed us to explore uncharted waters. When you make a series based on the same concept, you run the risk of repeating yourself," says Dorado.
John Lynch leads a lineup where the only other original cast member back for season two is Katharine O'Donnelly, to the chagrin of his character. New onboard The Head 2 are about twenty actors of ten different nationalities, among them Olivia Morris, Hovik Keuchkerian, Moe Dunford, Enrique Arce, Josefin Neldén, Thierry Godard and Sota Fukushi. "It's the series that I most enjoy casting because I have the whole world to explore. It's amazing. For season one, English was the priority language and we had Danish and Swedish as secondary ones, but this time we wanted it to be Spanish," the director shares. "For me, mixing different schools of acting and personalities is also part of the DNA of the series. So Jorge can be less Luis Enrique and more Guardiola," Tellem jokes.
'The Head 2'. HBO Max.
To be continued?
"It was quite a surprise to come back," says Lynch. Especially with the pandemic hitting between the first and second shoots. "Lockdown was more relaxing for me than it was for the characters," he says, with some irony. "Just imagine, I was in Ireland, where we could only travel within 20km of home, and all of a sudden I'm spending 12 weeks in the Canary Islands on a shoot with incredible people from all over the world," adds Dunford.
To understand the chains of command and how hard life aboard a freighter is, even without a murderer on the loose, Jorge Dorado gave out a book about a woman who spends months at sea on a large ship, explains Keuchkerian, who plays Charlie, a very unique character with an intellectual disability, "who is like a big boy." Furthermore, the series was filmed on a real ship.
With an ending "open to interpretation," as a smiling Morris describes it, it's hard not to hope for a third season of The Head. "We'd like to keep going with it. Let's keep our fingers crossed that we'll be able to do one more season," says Tellem.
Helena Cortés. Journalist (by profession) and audiovisual communicator, is the girl on TV on ABC and ABC Play. I was analyzing series and programs in 'Non Stop People' (Movistar +) and Cope and now you can listen in to it on 'Las cinco letras' of the 'El enfoque' program on Onda Madrid. Learning and lecturing on Journalism at Universidad Carlos III.
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What caused the ending of slavery?
By geordief,
September 25, 2022 in Politics
geordief
I am listening to someone singing "We shall not be moved"
Very moving and my first inclination is to suppose that the moral and physical strength of that oppressed group was the overriding factor in the changes that brought an end to slavery in Europe and the USA.
On reflection I am wondering if I was naive and whether there were other factors that brought about those changes.
Can anyone say what they think might have been the main factors?
It wasn't a case of economic change that made the practice less profitable,was it?
Or the new communication technologies that shone a light on what was happening?
It doesn't seem to me that our common wisdom has to increase as time passes and the generations follow each other.
Did those African slaves just get lucky at that juncture or was slavery always living on borrowed time?
Edited September 25, 2022 by geordief
Sep 25 geordief changed the title to What caused the ending of slavery?
J.C.MacSwell
Clearly it all started with the American Revolution:
At that point Americans invented the concept of Slavery being a bad thing. Prior to that, even slaves themselves going back to prehistoric times thought it was perfectly fine:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/desantis-american-revolution-slavery-b2174224.html
Phi for All
Chief Executive Offworlder
You should probably define what you mean by slavery. Is it defined by a lack of pay for productive work? If so, does paying a pittance make it NOT slavery? Emancipation didn't end slavery in many areas.
In any case, describing African slaves as "lucky" sounds like something that would prolong slavery as opposed to ending it.
CharonY
Biology Expert
1 hour ago, geordief said:
There is quite a bit of scholarship around the various factors and the first thing to consider is that the motivation for each country to abolish slavery was somewhat different. The two most common arguments that you can find are related to morality as well as economics, as you pointed out. Economically, slave trade were connected to colonies, and obviously they becoming less profitable and in connection with the industrial revolution, slave labour was becoming less profitable and ethical concerns got more weight as a result.
However, one often overlooked factor are also the actions of black abolitionists, and perhaps, most famously the Haitian Revolution, which in one fell swoop cut France off from its largest plantation colony. While it took a while (and the Haitians had to pay reparations for their freedom until recently https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2021/10/05/1042518732/-the-greatest-heist-in-history-how-haiti-was-forced-to-pay-reparations-for-freed ), some historians argue that this was a turning point in the abolition of slavery in the French (and British) empire.
So, while there is no singular (or simple answer) to the question in OP, it should be noted that luck is probably not a good answer and also takes away the agency of folks who were opposed to it.
Seriously...I think humans have always had the ability to empathize...and the ability to not empathize...with fellow humans of other races.
Britain did seem to be ahead of the US though, more recently speaking.
6 minutes ago, Phi for All said:
any case, describing African slaves as "lucky" sounds like something that would prolong slavery slavery as opposed to ending it.
Maybe that is how it sounded to you.Certainly not the sentiment I meant it to express.
Good people can be lucky as can bad people. People of any kind can benefit from luck.
When I think of slavery I think of a very strong kind.The kind where you are hunted down by the "legitimate" forces if you attempt your freedom.
Sure there are gradations but I didn't have that in mind.
14 minutes ago, Phi for All said:
No. Though that could be argued if there was simply no alternative. Slavery is much worse. Slaves are owned and forced to work, paid or not.
Edited September 25, 2022 by J.C.MacSwell
5 minutes ago, J.C.MacSwell said:
So lack of empathy would be a stronger factor than outright hatred(or less strong dislikes)?
It has to be dehumanising ?(I think it was common for vanquished peoples to be enslaved but there would surely be some respect for a defeated foe)
the main factors?
Never doubt the power of passionate individuals banding together to change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has.
Whether a critical mass of people decided enough was enough, or specific individuals in power decided enough was enough (or some combination of both), I do not know.
9 minutes ago, geordief said:
Now this alludes to a rather different discussion. There are different forms of slavery, which involve different types of attitudes between slaves and slave owners. However, chattel slavery is infamous for the particular reason that the slaves were basically treated as tools and properties and sometimes disposable ones. Enslaving of prisoners of war falls under a somewhat different category (though someone enslaved under one condition could end up in the other category). For chattel slavery there is generally no path to freedom as compared to some other forms slavery, the children born to slaves are slaves themselves. Dehumanization seems rather apt here for this type of slavery, at least. Also, in modern times slavery became increasingly connected to race.
But again, this would make a whole new discussion and I think it is important to distinguish different forms of slavery and their historic context. Otherwise one would be stuck with making very generalized statements that are just inaccurate, depending on which era you are talking about.
Here is an interesting overview:
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/whp-origins/era-6-the-long-nineteenth-century-1750-ce-to-1914-ce/64-transformation-of-labor-betaa/a/read-why-was-slavery-abolished-three-theories-beta
Peterkin
1 hour ago, CharonY said:
Generalized statements such as: Slavery ended.
It never did. It did change some of its forms and methods, but a whole lot of people are still owned by other people, and a lot of modern slavery is legal. In the US, it's illegal and underground - but it continues. In many places, it is nominally illegal, so they call it something else. Lots of places, it's normal. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/feb/25/modern-slavery-trafficking-persons-one-in-200
1 hour ago, Peterkin said:
And again, it depends on what precisely what we are talking about. Based on OP I would interpret it as general laws pertaining mostly to the Atlantic chattel slave trade, which as practice has ended. But if it is about slavery in general, including e.g. legal forms in the US as per the 13th amendment then it would be a very broad discussion.
If the actual question is "What caused the ending of slavery?", then it's already much broader than the type and location of the slavery in question - it's rather about the causes of a significant social change over a significant portion of the globe.
In Britain (and consequently all British colonies), it was done neatly, through an act of Parliament, as a political expedient. After the French Revolution, all kinds of uprisings and riots broke out; slavery was becoming just too dangerous and expensive; plus there was increasing pressure from religious factions. Britain itself was not heavily invested in slavery: they had plenty of cheap native labour as well as increasing mechanization. There was plenty of other cargo for its shipping trade. The Other European slave trading and imperial nations were in a similar situation; they all abolished slavery by simply passing laws.
In the US, the situation was different.
7 hours ago, geordief said:
In the US, that was certainly a factor in dividing North and South. The constitution had already done that: the slave-owning part developed a completely different economy and culture based on work-intensive agriculture and a severely segregated caste system, while the northern cities charged into the industrial age, with rapid urban growth, enthusiastic enterprise and cheap immigrant and child labour. The progressive half had already begun to eclipse the feudal half in economic and political clout.
In the US, the conflict was not over the institution of slavery itself, but the future of newly opened territories, and which kind of state they would become. The Confederacy was aggressively pushing its own way of life onto the west - which would have made it the far larger, more powerful faction. It wasn't about "states rights", so much as who has a right to impose its social structure on new states. The issue was contested in a hugely destructive civil war, but never resolved. The abolition side won the war and passed an amendment and a handful of laws ... which were not widely enforced or obeyed, so that another series of violent confrontations were needed to put them into effect 100 years later - confrontations that continue to this day.
was slavery always living on borrowed time?
I deleted the luck reference, because I took this to mean: Was the institution of slavery a historical phenomenon with a predetermined life-span; was the ending of it an inevitable step in social development?
To that, I would have to say no. It shifts shape and changes colouring, but it lives on.
Edited September 26, 2022 by Peterkin
18 minutes ago, Peterkin said:
it was done neatly, through an act of Parliament, as a political expedient.
Considering, the lengthy abolitionist campaign and the fact that there were several stages (first trade, then abiut 30 years later owning them), it seems only neat in hindsight and compared to the US.
And again some historians are putting more weight to the Haitian revolution as one of the factors weighing against slavery. Also not really neat. JC's link has a good summary (though as non-historian hard to tell how much nuance is list).
14 hours ago, J.C.MacSwell said:
I don't agree that slavery is defined strictly by ownership. Even the slavery the OP is talking about didn't end when black people stopped being "owned" by white people.
"Forced to work" is a different measure. It doesn't only refer to beatings if you can remove all the other options available, so that work or suffer are the only choices.
TheVat
Have always liked economist David Graeber's view that debt, and the concept that people have "worth," always tends to lead to slavery in some form.
The labor movement has always struggled with this. As the guy says in the folk song Sixteen Ton, "I owe my soul to the company store."
Capitalism wants labor to be cheap. Which means somewhat trapped. And it's indebtedness that helps maintain that state.
The first slaves shipped to the Americas were debtors. They were held by tribal chieftains to whom they were indebted, or their families were indebted, and their bodies were payments. The chieftain could either work them or sell them to European slave traders. The latter was often the simplest option, with a quick return.
Fastest way to end all slavery might be a MBI and cancelling of all debt. But that's another thread perhaps.
8 hours ago, CharonY said:
I was comparing it to the US. Passing laws of major reform is always the result of lengthy political contention, and usually done piecemeal over time, but the usual alternative is revolution and civil war. I don't think Britain was really confronted by that option - the abolitionists were unlikely to arm and overthrow the government. But the British establishment did have some reason to fear its own lower classes, so many of whom were displaced by steam and impoverished, they may have thought to mollify the working class - and its increasingly articulate and influential progressive advocates - by removing another perceived rival for their jobs. That was my criterion for 'neat' vs 'messy'.
And again some historians are putting more weight to the Haitian revolution as one of the factors weighing against slavery.
Well, that certainly played a major role in France's decision at the time. Yet, the uprising in Saint-Dominique had little effect on England (or, indeed, Haiti, which practices legal child slavery today), but the republican government did abolish slavery in France three years later, which more than likely encouraged the abolitionist factions (and insurgency) in British and Hispanic colonies. Eventually the British government moved on the issue, and the Spanish and Portuguese followed. Meanwhile In France, the restored monarch struck down that law only 8 year later, and France didn't choose the 'neat' option again until 1848, the year of Nationalist revolutions all across Europe.
Of course there are contributing causes for every major change, some of which go back centuries, others born out of unexpectedly erupting events. The definition of institutions also changes with various influences, political and economic trends, shifts in power between interest groups. But there is a thread of truth-in-practice underlying human social structures that doesn't change when a new label is stuck on it.
You can restrict a discussion to "slavery as represented by the European trafficking, marketing and exploitation of African captives across the Atlantic" , but you can't restrict the concept of "slavery" to that single slice of it or discuss the ending of just that aspect with the ending of slavery itself.
2 hours ago, Phi for All said:
I don't agree that slavery is defined strictly by ownership.
Nor do I. All kinds of people have been and are enslaved by all kinds of other people in all kinds of legal and illegal forms.
1 hour ago, TheVat said:
And this seems tied to the religious hierarchy so many cling to to this day. God is above everyone, and the rest of us are placed beneath Him in descending order based on worthiness. Our leaders MUST be better than we are, and priests and doctors and lawyers are surely the goodest folks ever, so they're usually ranked very highly. The masses desperately try to place themselves as highly as they can, and are generally only too happy to judge which folks are BENEATH them, or less worthy than they are. Most businesses are set up with this hierarchy, and so are most governments. And with this structure, there will always be slaves at the bottom with no alternatives.
As it is currently thriving in the East. https://www.antislavery.org/slavery-today/bonded-labour/
India is supposedly an up-and-coming modern democracy, because it's embraced the ideals and practices of capitalism and western technology. It also has the highest number of debt-slaves in the world - far more people than were enslaved in the Americas. https://scroll.in/article/898862/india-is-home-to-the-worlds-largest-slave-population-yes-slavery-still-exists
I wonder how much of the US effort was from industrialization and the associated rise of business, and the increase of a (northern) population that didn't require slavery, so they were free to see the enslaved as people, while the ones who were economically dependent on the institution (who saw slaves as property) just fell into a minority that was too small, even with the slave states wielding outsized influence in federal government. Which of course led to slave states seeing secession/war as their only option to maintain their worldview.
uncool
On what level do you want an answer?
Because on one level, it was a bunch of wars and abolition movements. But that doesn't answer how all those wars and abolition movements came together.
On another, it was a bunch of philosophical movements that led to ideas of liberty. But that doesn't answer why those movements came to the forefront.
On another, it was a result of economic forces giving rise to systems that outcompeted slavery. But that doesn't answer why they hadn't happened earlier.
And so on and so forth.
And this seems tied to the religious hierarchy so many cling to to this day. God is above everyone, and the rest of us are placed beneath Him in descending order based on worthiness.
Not just religious, but in any cult. The leader becomes the god figure. Worshiped and can do no wrong. Outsiders can't be trusted. They're lying. Not just Scientology, but MAGA.
9 hours ago, Peterkin said:
India is supposedly an up-and-coming modern democracy, because it's embraced the ideals and practices of capitalism and western technology. It also has the highest number of debt-slaves in the world - far more people than were enslaved in the Americas.
Not that it matters to each of these individual human people indentured in their servitude, but given the vast size of Indias population it would be better to normalize your metric.
Instead of saying highest total number of X, say total X per Y-millions of people. Once done, then you can see how many people this represents as a percentage of each country's population.
We share a desire for the number here to be zero and not to get distracted with accuracy or math, but if you're going to start comparing regions and generational epochs at least ensure the numbers are normalized.
21 minutes ago, iNow said:
It didn't occur to me. I just cited the article, to give some credence to the continued existence of slavery and one modern example. According to the Wall Street Journal it's 1.4% . I didn't check the figures for Afghanistan or Congo, and forgot what they were for the ones I did look up.


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IPL newbies Gujarat Titans defeated Rajasthan Royals in the final to clinch the crown on debut in front of home fans at the world's largest cricket stadium in Ahmedabad. During the expanded 10-team tournament, captain Hardik Pandya was the enforcer-in-chief, while senior pacer set it up for the Titans in the power-play overs. The seasoned pacer is often bracketed among the bowlers with the best seam position in modern-day cricket. (Also Read | 'No. Not happening. Sorry': Ex-India batter explains why Rahul Tripathi won't make international debut in Ireland T20Is)
With his new-ball prowess, Shami ended up picking 20 wickets in his first-ever spell with the Titans. For the India speedster, the secret to his success lay in bowling in the right areas. He will be next seen playing the on-off Test in England but it remains to be seen whether the team management tries him in shorter formats as well.
Former India speedster Ashish Nehra, who enjoyed a stellar IPL season as head coach of Titans, said he would 'definitely' consider Shami for next year's T20 World Cup at home. Nehra also feels Shami should play the three-game ODI series in England, beginning July 12.
"Seems like he doesn't feature in the current scheme of things for the T20 World Cup. But we all know about his abilities. Even if he doesn't play this year's T20 World Cup, India will definitely consider him for the 2023 World Cup at home. We don't have many ODIs this year and Shami is on a break at the moment after IPL. India can play him in England for the 50-over games after the Test match," Nehra told Cricbuzz.
Parthiv Patel also heaped praise on Shami, saying the pacer has evolved as someone who can bowl in all three phases of a game. After a highly successful spell with Punjab Kings, he moved to Titans, who bought him for a hefty sum of ₹6.25 crore in the mega auction this year.
"People used to say that Shami has the ability to bowl only with the new ball. But in the last two three years, he has shown what he can do in the death. When Shami was playing for Punjab, he was bowling well at the start but he also picked up wickets in death overs. No player is stagnant and we shouldn't put a stamp on him. Shami has definitely evolved as a three-phase bowler," said Parthiv.
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