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About PNHRS Week
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NUHRA
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PNHRS
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Strategy Map
Implementing agencies
TWC Update
About PNHRS Law
Christine Jane Gonzalez
Regional Updates
4 ENLIGHTENING DAΥS OF BASIC RESEARCH METHODS TRAINING
On June 1-4, 2021, a 4-day training entitled The Basic Research Methods Training was conducted via Zoom attended and conducted by the member institutions of Eastern Visayas Health Research and Development Consortium. It aims to provide basic knowledge and skills in health research methodologies to researchers. Furthermore, it aims to generate more research project proposals aligned with the 2017-2022 Regional Unified Health Research Agenda (RUHRA).
On its first day, the training kicked off with a prayer and the singing of the National Anthem lead by Ms. April Rose Amor, an EVHRDC staff. Then everyone was welcomed with the opening speech from the OIC Regional Director of DOH-EV CHD, Dr. Exuperia B. Sabalberino. After which, Dr. Virgilio Sabalo, the EVHRDC CBC Chair explained the need for this training while Mr. Raymond Campo, an EVHRDC Staff, presented the DOST 6Ps and the updated 2017-2022 RUHRA. The training then commenced with the sequence: Engr. Michael Manguerra from De La Salle University talked about the opportunities and challenges of Biomedical Engineering, Mr. Leonido Olobia presented the sub-module entitled "Overview of the Reasearch Process" which tackled about the characteristics of the research process, and Dr. Willard N. Riveral from Biliran Province State University presented the sub-module entitled "Defining the Research Problem" after lunch break. At 2:30 in the afternoon, the Question and Answer session took place before Workshop 1 and day 1 of the training ended by 5pm.
The second day of the 4-day training started with a prayer and housekeeping rules setting by Ms. Amor. And so, sub-module 3 entitled "Establishing the Theoretical and Empirical Basis of the Research" was presented by Sr. John Mary Formillos an RMC/TRB member. She presented an overview of the two-step process which aims to establish both the theoretical and empirical basis for the objectives formulated and the variables investigated. Then Dr. Fidelita Dico of DOH-EVCHD discussed the sub-module 4 bearing the title "Epidemiologic and Experimental Studies". After lunch, RUC Chair Dr. Sherrie Ann Labid shared about the different "Sampling Designs" which is sub-module 5. She presented the applications of sampling in health research. A large part of the module was spent in describing the steps in implementing the different probability sampling designs. At 2:30 again in the afternoon, another Question and Answer session was conducted and another workshop as well.
And on the third day, it started exactly the same as the previous ones. Then it progressed on to Mr. Leonid Arado of PIT presenting the sub-module on "Sample Size Determination" which was about myths and misinformation. He presented the actual factors to be considered when computing for the sample size of surveys where subjects were selected using a probability sampling design. The next topic, "Qualitative Research" was discussed by Prof. Esther Bañar of Eastern Samar State University. And to top off the day, Prof. Ferdinand Abocejo comprehensively discussed about "Data Collection" and later on, "Data Analysis".
And finally, the fourth and final day of the training was opened with a prayer and a setting of expectation. As the event progressed brilliantly, Dr. Sarah Delorino, Co-Chair of EVHRDC ERC shared about the sub-module 10 which was "Ethics on Health Research. Then Dr. Lucia Dauz tackled sub-module 11 entitled "Administrative Aspects of Research". She talked about the steps and activities involved in addressing both administrative aspects of the research process. And finally, for the last sub-module "Writing the Research Proposal", we had Ms. Josephine Hipe, Chair of EVRHDC SOME to discuss said topic. Q and A with a workshop followed the discussions.
After the training ended, Ms. Anicia P. Catameo, the OIC of Institution Development from PCHRD delivered a message purposely to inspire and further motivate researchers to do better in the future. Then Ms. Jean Gay O. Ragub, EVHRDC Coordinator awarded certificates to the magnificent resource speakers. And finally, DOST 8 Regional Director and the EVHRDC Execom Co-Chair, Engr. Ernesto M. Granada, delivered a closing message which acknowledged the efforts of the trainers and the enthusiasm of the participants.
EMPOWERING HEI's: CHED CONDUCTS ORIENTATION ON THE ESTABLISHMENT AND ACCREDITATION OF REC AND IACUC
The Commission on Higher Education – Regional Office 1 (CHED-RO1) and CHED Office of Planning, Research and Knowledge Management (OPRKM) conducted an Online Orientation-Seminar on the Establishment and Accreditation of Research Ethics Committee (REC) and Institutional Animal Care and Use (IACUC) on May 25, 2021, with the aim of capacitating HEIs and researchers to overcome difficulties in establishing and subjecting their RECs and IACUCs for accreditation.
In a recent survey done by the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) Regional Office 1 and Regional Ethics Monitoring Board-1 (REMB-1) chaired by Dr. Mayrose L. Quezon, there were only seven (7) higher education institutions with established institutional Research Ethics Committees (RECs) out of thirty-six (36) higher education institutions (HEIs) offering graduate and health program. Two (2) of which are accredited by the Philippine Health Research Ethics Board (PHREB). Meanwhile, only three (3) out of eleven (11) HEIs conducting animal studies have Laboratory Animal Facilities that are registered with the Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI).
Speakers were Dr. Marita V. Tolentino-Reyes, Ethics Trainer of PHREB and Dr. Marlon G. Mendez, Veterinarian II of the Department of Agriculture- Regional Field Office I. Chairpersons of REC and IACUC of HEIs that are accredited by PHREB and BAI also shared insights and experiences for the participants to benchmark on.
A total of 141 participants attended from public and private HEIs offering graduate and health programs, composed of head of institutions, members of REC and IACUC, and from government agencies conducting research.
Expected output of the orientation-seminar is the submission of an application for REC and IACUC accreditation.
RHRDC XI 4th Mentorship Program is now OPEN
The DOST - RHRDC XI is now calling applicants for its 4th Mentorship Program. This program aims to empower local researchers, encourage them to submit research proposal and pursue studies for human welfare.
The program is composed of three (3) modules, each of which composes of 3-day sessions involving a series of intensive online lectures, one-on-one mentoring, and oral presentation. Ten (10) scholars will be selected with a chance that their proposal will be funded.
Researchers, Faculty Members, and Medical Doctors affiliated to the consortium's member-institutions.
Applicants must submit the following:
Application letter addressed to the Chair of RHRDC XI, Dr. Warlito C. Vicente
Endorsement/nomination letter from the head of the institution (free format)
Curriculum vitae (max of 4 pages, free format)
A 150-word essay on the reason/s for the application and future plans (free format)
A capsule proposal that should describe a health problem the applicant would like to address (download here). The chosen topic must be in line with the consortium's priority areas (download here)
Full guideline of the program can be downloaded here.
The above documents must be submitted online at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with subject: Mentorship Application. Deadline of submission is on July 5, 2021.
For inquiries, you may contact +639420180751 and look for Ms. Richell Ruyeras or email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
SCHOLARSHIP GRANT
Three modules with 3 days each training (1 day lecture; 1 ½ day writeshop; ½ day oral presentation)
One-on-one mentorship with the scholar's chosen mentor or identified expert in the field
Possible research funding support up to P1,000,000.00.
TIMETABLE OF ACTIVITIES
Dissemination of activity
Deadline of submission to the consortium
Selection of scholars
1st module: Technical Writing
August 2021*
2nd module: Research Methods
September 2021*
3rd module: Statistical analysis
October 2021*
EVHRDC Awards: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The EVHRDC Awards is presented to researchers in Region 8 to recognize significant contributions to knowledge related to health. The awards will have two (2) categories: the Distinguished Health Researcher Award and the EVHRDC Outstanding Novice Researcher Award. Up to three awards may be given annually under the two award categories. The selection committee may not confer any of the awards once no one meets the qualifications.
Eligibility for Distinguished Health Researcher Award
The Distinguished Health Researcher Award is open to all Filipino Citizen researchers of Region 8-Eastern Visayas (whether individual or group/institutional categories) of the affiliated members of the Eastern Visayas Health Research Development Consortium (EVHRDC) and other interested colleges, universities, and agencies not affiliated with EVHRDC. The award shall have no age restrictions and can be granted posthumously.
Eligibility for EVHRDC Outstanding Novice Researcher Award
This aims to encourage young researchers to undertake work in all fields of health research. The award will be granted to researchers within Eastern Visayas region that are employed by the member institutions of the consortium. This award shall be conferred to young researchers not exceeding the age of 40 at the time of nomination.
The Distinguished Health Researcher Award may be conferred to an individual or a group while the EVHRDC Outstanding Novice Researcher Award is conferred to individuals who have made a significant contribution to health. This contribution could be a long-term, cumulative contribution or a single, particularly insightful idea, experiment, application, or interpretation.
The selection committee shall consider the following criteria in selecting the recipient:
Demonstrated excellence in research, scholarly, and/or artistic work;
Recognition by professional societies, community organizations, or other external bodies;
Contributions to the research environment both locally, nationally, and internationally. This can include the development of major research installations (e.g. a research centre), participation in the deliberations of a major research granting agency (e.g. member and/or chair of a grant selection committee), or other prestigious forms of service to the field;
Contributions to the training and education of highly qualified personnel (e.g., undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and technical staff);
The selection committee reserves the right to make fewer than three awards or none at all in any year if there are no suitable candidates;
The institution of the individual or group researcher/s shall also be recognized;
The selection committee shall determine the award category of a candidate/nominee. Distinguished Health Researcher nominee should have a minimum of five (5) completed health researches conducted, and the EVHRDC Outstanding Novice Researcher nominee should have one or a maximum of four (4) researche/s.
The Distinguished Health Researcher Awardees and EVHRDC Outstanding Novice Researcher Awardees shall be chosen by the Board of Judges. Decisions of the Board of Judges shall be final and unappealable. The Board of Judges has the right not to declare any winner. The Board of Judges shall formulate their own guidelines of judging based on the suggested criteria:
Extent of impact on health/quality of life 40%
Economic benefits 30%
S&T benefits 10%
Research Pitching and Publications 10%
Research Training Involvement 10%
1.Candidates may be nominated by a colleague, any individual, any agency, or self-nomination may be allowed. The nominator should be of someone in higher stature than the nominee. It could be someone the nominee had worked with, i.e., mentor, consultant, or workmate.
2. The nomination package must include:
2.1. A letter from the nominator summarizing the candidate's research achievements and outlining the national or international significance of the candidate's scholarly work. (The nomination letter should not exceed 300 words);
2.2. Current curriculum vitae of the candidate;
2.3. Three letters of support from scholars in the candidate's main or cognate fields, commenting on the impact of the candidates' work regionally, nationally, and internationally. At least two of these letters must be from scholars outside the workplace.
Submit your nominations here: https://forms.gle/kSdg8UtBZJX1m9D66
==>EVHRDC Awards Nomination Form
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF NOMINATIONS: JUNE 25, 2021
Practical Research in the Service of Public Health
The Zamboanga Consortium for Health Research and Development (ZCHRD) in partnership with the Ateneo de Zamboanga University held the 4th session of the Research Utilization Webinar Series last 28 May 2021. The session was titled 'Practical Research in the Service of Public Health and had Dr. Bernadette C. Macrohon, Medical Specialist III at Zamboanga City Medical Center as resource speaker.
Watch the video here: https://www.facebook.com/DOSTRegion9/videos/262675418879843/
Region 5 wins 2nd place in the DOST-PCHRD 3-minute pitch to policymakers competition
MARY JOY B. SANDE, R.N., RM., MN., PhDNEd, a Bicol University College of Nursing professor and Bicol HeaRT (Health Research Training) Batch-2 scholar of Bicol Consortium for Health Research and Development (BCHRD) is the region's representative who won 2nd-Place on the recently conducted 3-Minute Pitch to Policymakers Competition last March 17, 2021 01:00 PM via Zoom conference with her winning policy-pitch entitled "Antenatal care: Every Pregnant Mother's Right for Quality Care". The said pitch was sourced from one of the recently concluded researches of DOH CHD V in collaboration with BCHRD and Bicol University entitled "Utilization and Implementation of Antenatal Care Services in Iriga City and Tabaco City".
Dr. Sande won 20,000Php along with certificates.
The 3-Minute Pitch to Policymakers Competition is one of the highlights of the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development's (PCHRD) 39th-anniversary celebration with the theme "Strategic R&D Partnership for Global Health." The said competition will focus on the presentation of successfully completed health research studies with aims of exercising and cultivating researchers' presentation, and research communication skills as a way of sharing evidence to stakeholders and policymakers.
For this year's event, we were able to witness 12 policy pitches of competitors who were nominated by their respective regional health research and development consortia. Competitors will present their completed research in a three-minute, one-slide presentation for a non-specialist audience based on set criteria.
Winners of the competition has received Php 10,000 for the 3rd place, Php 20,000 for the 2nd place, and Php 30,000 for the 1st place.
Prizes for audience votes will also be given as People's Choice Award worth Php 5,000.
CSU study proves 'bignay' wonders
Big things come in small packages. This was what the Cagayan State University (CSU) has found out after having uncovered in its laboratory that a small fruit endemic to the Philippines and other southeast Asian countries lived up to its long-held folk promise.
The tiny ruby-red cherries known scientifically as Antidesma bunius (L.) Spreng (Bignay) underwent extensive laboratory studies in Natural Product Research & Innovation Center (NPRIC)-CSU for months that led to coming out with a clean breast of reports confirming the numerous anecdotal health and folkloric claims by the local Filipinos where it is grown.
Using an animal model of respiratory diseases, Bignay has proven to be a powerful anti-inflammatory agent and effective against lung disorders like airway inflammation, asthma, allergy, and cough/colds. Bignay extract was also tested to be potent against chemically-induced rheumatoid arthritis, gout, and joint pains in rat and LPS- induced acute lung injury in mice in vivo.
It has an anti-oxidant property, anti-inflammatory activity, a cholesterol buster, and an immune system booster.
Balik Scientist Prof. Maria Nilda M. Muñoz, Inventor and Principal Investigator of the Bignay project, said that "the local scientific community that has put bioavailability-based studies as among its priorities gave the Bignay study result a one big leap."
Bignay is grown in Cagayan Valley and until the study, was just among the popular plant-based medicines employed by herbal doctors to their patients.
The long tradition of testimonials can now be said to possess with a seal of scientific and medicine merits after the conclusion of the CSU study and placing the fruit as a good source of beneficial human health supplements.
This Bignay study was supported by CSU President Urdujah Gaerlan Alvarado, and Department of Science and Technology Regional Director Sancho A. Mabborang. (by: Manila Standard)
Reposted from: http://region2.healthresearch.ph/
Source: https://manilastandard.net/index.php/lgu/luzon/344364/csu-study-proves-bignay-wonders.html
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Diageo has posted results for the half year that ended on December 31, 2018, revealing that the drinks company's operating profit rose 11% to £2.4 billion during the period.
Net sales rose 5.8% to £6.9 billion, with organic growth reportedly being partially offset by unfavourable exchange. Diageo stated that all regions contributed to broad based organic net sales growth of 7.5%, with organic volume being up 3.5%.
The company's organic operating profit grew 12.3%, while its net cash from operating activities rose £356 million to £1.6 billion and its free cash flow increased £317 million to £1.3 billion.
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"These results are further evidence of the changes we have made in Diageo to put the consumer at the heart of our business, to embed productivity and to act with agility to enable us to win sustainably.
"At £1.3 billion, we delivered another period of strong free cash flow. As a result, the board approved an incremental share buyback of £660 million, bringing the total programme up to £3 billion for the year ending 30 June, 2019.
"This half has benefitted from some one-time and phasing gains in both organic net sales and operating profit, and therefore we continue to expect to deliver mid-single digit organic net sales growth for the year, and to expand operating margins in line with our previous guidance of 175 bps for the three years ending 30 June, 2019.
"As we deploy our strategy, we remain focused on building the long-term health of our brands and ensuring we grow our business in a consistent and sustainable way."
Meanwhile, addressing the topic of Brexit, Diageo stated, "While there continues to be uncertainty over future trading arrangements between the UK and the rest of the world, we have mitigation plans in place for the short-term disruption that could arise from a 'no deal' scenario."
Diageo also announced the appointment of Colin Green to the role of on-trade director for the Republic of Ireland, following the recent move of Annmarie Phillips to the position of operations director at Diageo's Shieldhall packaging site in the international supply centre.
Diageo Ireland country director Oliver Loomes asserted, "I'm really delighted to be in a position to appoint someone of Colin's calibre and commercial experience to lead our work with publicans, restaurateurs and hoteliers across Ireland. Colin is known for his passion in unlocking new commercial opportunities, and we're really looking forward to him bringing this to the fore in his new role."


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Heavy police presence in the 24000 block of Kuykendahl Road and London Way.
A driver has been confirmed deceased at the scene by EMS.
North and South bound lanes are currently shut down by emergency crews. Expect Delays! pic.twitter.com/jmxS0fqHaQ
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The eighty eighth annual meeting of the Society was held in Athelstaneford Parish Church on Saturday 26th May 2012. Nineteen members were welcomed by the President. There were several apologies. The president gave a brief resume of the history of the church and the significance of Athelstaneford in the history of Scotland. He spoke briefly about the career of Sir John Hepburn the founder of the Royal Scots and touched on the history of the Saltire Flag.
Obituary Notices; The president paid tribute to Stuart Maxwell and Robin Forster who had died in the course of the year.
The minutes of the previous years meeting were approved.
The annual report for the previous year which had been circulated was accepted.
Mrs Dodd presented the accounts and the financial report was approved. She reported that the society was facing rising costs and steps were being taken to reduce expenditure. This situation meant that the next volume of the transactions would not appear until 2013, but work on the next volume was in hand. The president thanked Mrs Dodd for her work on behalf of the society and also Mr John Sparksman, the external examiner.
Elections The Dowager Countess of Wemyss and March was elected as a Vice President, Stephen Bunyan, President and Sir Hew Hamilton- Dalyrmple Bt GCVO, Vice President were re-elected The following were also re-elected; Mrs Joy Dodd as Hon Treasurer, Miss Sheila Millar as Hon Librarian Mr John Hunt as Hon. Field Naturalist Adviser, Mr Chris Tabraham as Hon Editor of the Transactions and Simon Boak as Website advisor. Diana Buchan a new member of council agreed to be Minute Secretary for the coming year. Allison Cosgove had indicated that she wished to resign as Secretary, but remain on the Council. The chairman paid tribute to her contribution to the life of the Society over many years and noted that she wished to remain a member of Council.
There was no nomination for the office of Hon Secretary or Press Officer and these posts remained vacant. In addition to those mentioned Jacquie Bell and Shena Jamieson were elected as members of council. The other members of council are David Affleck, Bill Dodd, Ian Hardie, Bridget Elwood, Vicky Fletcher, and Judith Priest. Mr John Sparksman was re-appointed as Financial advisor.
At the conclusion of the meeting, after tea, a talk was given by David Williamson of the Flag Heritage Centre Trust about the origins and history of the Saltire Flag. Members then looked round the church, the Doocot and the churchyard.
Programme 2012/13
Cousland. On Saturday 30th June the society visited Cousland. David Connolly of British Archaeological Resources had given a most interesting talk at the annual dinner in April on Cousland using a mixture of archaeological evidence, history and folklore to build up a fascinating picture of this largely lost village. This was a follow up visit, and members had an opportunity to explore the locations which he had talked about. The group was welcomed by David Connolly and by Sheena Irving on behalf of Cousland Smiddy Trust. They found the working Smiddy fascinating and enjoyed tea in the hall.
Colstoun. The society was to have visited Colstoun on 7th July but this had to be postponed because of flooding. The visit took place on 21st July.
The group was welcomed by Ludovic Broun Lyndsay, whose grandmother Edith, Lady Broun Lyndsay was a former president of the society. The party divided into two groups. One was led round the mansion house by Ludovic, who outlined its history and that of his family and showed the wonderful collection of furniture and family memorabilia. It was interesting to see how the building had been reduced in size to meet modern needs.
Cameron Sinclair Parry led the other group through the garden ground and policies to show how the Colstoun Company led by him and Freddie Macnamara are carrying out various enterprises to meet the challenge of the present day. The two groups met for tea and Ludovic expanded further on the history of the family.
Mellerstain. On Sunday 5th August members of the society braved torrential rain to visit Mellerstain. The group was welcomed by the Earl of Haddington, a member of the society, who gave a brief introduction to the history of the house and his family. The house was built by William and Robert Adam and with its collection of original furniture is one of Adam's finest creations. It is set in wonderful landscape which was further developed by Sir Reginald Blomfield in 1910. The rain having abated it was possible to enjoy the vista from the terrace garden.
Inveresk. On Saturday22nd September the society were taken on a guided tour of Inveresk by Stephen Edwards This was a most enjoyable tour of this delightful village with both Roman remains and a wealth of historic largely 18th century properties.
The group was entertained to tea at Rose Court by Mr & Mrs George Burnet
Luffness. The final outing of the season was to Luffness on the 13th October by invitation of Mr & Mrs George Hope. Luffness now an impressive mansion house was an important castle in the middle ages when it was seen as the key to Haddington
The tower house built in the 16th century by the Hepburns was enlarged on several occasions for the Hopes after 1739. Over tea Mr Hope gave an interesting summary of its history and led the party round the principal rooms where they were able to admire fine furniture and memorabilia. At the conclusion members were able to walk in the grounds.
Lectures. Three lectures were given in the course of the winter.
'Concentrating on winning the war- A land girl's tale'. On 6th November Mona Lewis McLeod gave a fascinating talk on her experiences. It was clear that this was a difficult and often lonely experience. She highlighted the scandal that proper recognition was not given until the granting of a medal in 2007.
"Gullane Old Church". The second lecture on 7th February was given by Bill Nimmo on the Restoration of the ruins of Gullane Old church. Members were impressed by this account of the background and problems involved in this important project which has done so much to conserve this important part of our heritage,
"Recent archaeology in East Lothian". The third lecture on 5th March was by Andrew Robertson, County Archaeologist. Members were impressed by the wide rang of projects being undertaken; some short notice rescue projects some ongoing work and some involving young people and primary school children.
The Annual Dinner was held on the 5th April when Dr Elizabeth Scott the author of The Best Soldier, The Life of Sir John Hepburn ,Marshall of France ,Founder of the Royal Scots c 1598-1636 gave a fascinating talk entitled 'Local Hero Scotland's only Marshal of France'.
She outlined his career from a difficult childhood in Athelstaneford,his success at St Andrews and his remarkable military career in Europe in the French Royal guard, in the thirty years war where he was Knighted by Gustavus Adolphus, came back to Britain where in 1633he was authorised to raise a regiment for France which he named the Royal Scots. In France he was eventually promoted Marshal de camp and ultimately Marshal of France.He was shot at Savergne in 1636
Transactions Volume xxix is complete and will be available at the AGM
We are grateful to contributors and to Chris Tabraham for his tremendous efforts in bringing it all together
Programme The Council has considered a programme for the coming season which will be produced at the AGM.
The President remains a trustee of the Lamp of Lothian in a personal capacity.
The President represents the Society on the John Muir Park advisory group which he chairs.
The President represents the Society on the Laws advisory group.
Mr J Hunt represents the Society on the Aberlady Bay advisory group.
The Society is represented on the East Lothian Heritage Forum.
The Society is vigilant in the face of threats to our heritage of buildings and landscape.
Membership of the society is steady. An encouraging number of new members have joined in the course of the year. The transactions are held in high regard. They are lodged in the copyright libraries and are purchased by academic and other libraries. They are issued to Queen Margaret University, Secondary Schools in East Lothian and to Loretto and Belhaven Hill School. Information about the society has been put on the web and in a number of international directories. Enquiries about the Society and about East Lothian continue to be received.
SAB 23 /04/13
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I've been thinking a lot lately about distributed systems and more generally, about programming systems of multiple-processes.
In my day job, I work heavily with MQTT. For those who don't know, MQTT is a publish/subscribe messaging protocol. It's rather simple and designed with Machine-to-machine(M2M) applications in mind. You can also do a surprising amount with the carefully selected primitive functionality it provides.
In MQTT, publishers and subscribers both connect to the central broker to exchange messages. The broker is more of an implementation detail than an active participant.
Publishers 'publish' messages to the broker. In the message header is a 'topic' - essentially a string which describes the data. An example would be 'lounge/temperature'.
Subscribers also connect to the broker, and 'subscribe' to topics. Once subscribed, you will receive all messages published to that topic.
There's also a 'retain' flag, which can be set on any message. This causes any new subscribers to that topic to immediately receive that message after connecting, even if the publisher is no longer around.
Finally, there's an Last Will and Testament, or 'LWT' message. A publisher can provide this message to the broker to be published automatically in the event that the publisher's connection is dropped.
It's dead easy to try out MQTT on a debian machine.
The 'mosquitto-clients' package provides the mosquitto_pub and mosquitto_sub command line utilities, which can be used to interact with the broker.
As I began to use this protocol more and more to tie together M2M applications, I started to see why the programming world is rejecting RPC methods like CORBA in the face of messaging technologies like MQTT.
Functions are great for programming. Specifically, they're great for programming threads; a thread being a path of execution that traverses functions. By definition, a thread cannot be in two places at once.
Multithreaded programming changes this very fundamental nature of a function, and can be hard to do correctly as a result.
RPC, or 'Remote Procedure Call' is the name given to techniques which attempt to make function calls network-transparent, such that when invoking a function, the implementation of the function and the work it performs can be carried out either locally, or remotely on another computer.
RPC systems are generally, in my view, hard to work with. This is due largely to what exactly a function is and does. Whilst it is absolutely technically possible to make function calls 'syntactically' network-transparent, there is a world of difference between what can be said about a function call, and what can be said about two threads communicating across a network.
A local function call will never fail in the ways that a remote one will often do, and code must be structured to work with this reality. RPC is a facade which we end up breaking apart in order to work correctly and usefully in the real world. What if a function call completes, but you don't receive the result due to a network disruption? That's a situation which doesn't exist with normal functions, and must be handled explicitly, thus breaking the abstraction and moving practical RPC farther away from anything like a typical 'procedure call'.
I would also argue that functions and their single-threaded call-and-return behaviour simply runs against what you actually need to do when building distributed systems. Even in a world of perfect network reliability and one where RPC performance matches that of local function calls, an application running on multiple machines is an application running on multiple threads, and the code you end up writing is NOT function-oriented. Normal functions and single threaded programming are oriented toward usefully manipulating state which you own. This may form an implementation detail of a node in a distributed system, but as a whole, we have a very different beast. Distributed systems are not single-threaded worlds of state - they're often message-oriented, like MQTT.
Sometimes you really do want request-response semantics exactly as a function presents to you, and in those cases this can easily be built atop a messaging protocol. Messaging semantics are, however, distributed systems-friendly. There is no value in implementing them via a paintakingly constructed imitation of a non-distributed system, as is often the case when you start building your distributed application with RPC.
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These addictive meatballs taste like Chinese dumplings and the sweet sauce makes them totally over-the-top irresistible. Serve them with rice and a cucumber salad for a lovely, simple dinner; or over Chinese noodles (Udon, Raman etc.) with plenty of the sauce. I love trying to come up with different recipes, using ground chicken or turkey as an alternative to beef. I have added Cranberries as well as chopped walnuts to this recipe for the sweet tang and the texture they add. Stephan (my Husband) does not like super sweet meals, (unlike his super sweet tooth for desserts) So I try to cut back on the sugars, I have kept the brown sugar in the recipe for you to use but I did not use the brown sugar for mine, the pineapple made it sweet enough for us. I am sure there are a ton of different ways this recipe could be made, perhaps bake the meatballs rather than use a skillet. I however like the skillet as I can get a lot of juicy taste for the sauce by de-glazing the pan.
Either way I am sure this easy quick recipe will be a nice change of pace for any family.
In large bowl combine chicken and turkey, fried onions, cranberries/walnuts, diced chili, egg, panko crumbs, 5 spice, salt and ginger; using hands or mixer, blend well.
Shape mixture into 1 1/4″ balls. In 12″ skillet over medium high heat, heat oil; add meatballs, cook about 12 minutes, turning frequently until well browned on all sides.
Using slotted spoon, remove to plate. To drippings in skillet, add onions and garlic; cook, stir over medium high heat, about 5 minutes, stirring frequently until crisp tender.
Pour the white wine into the pan to de-glaze the pan, scraping up all the cooked bits from the pan.
Add the pineapple with juice into the skillet along with vinegar, sugar and ground red pepper. Increase heat to high; bring to a boil, stirring. Boil 1 minute.
Return meatballs to skillet; cook 3 to 5 minutes longer until heated through.
Thanks for linking my pizza meatballs to your post. It's a fantastic recipe. Hope you try it sometime!
I would love to and I actually think I may do it this week with ground chicken. I will let you kow how it turns out!
I'm sure it will be wonderful. Ground turkey will work as well.


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The North East has been treated as a cash cow by the Scottish National Party Government. That's the claim from the Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats as the First Minister travels to the North East of Scotland today.
Recently the Scottish Liberal Democrats uncovered that the Scottish Government has been short-changing North East Scotland. New figures revealed that Aberdeen City is set to be £23million short of the funding level promised by the SNP.
Commenting Mr Rennie said:
"Clearly the First Minister is spooked by the upcoming general election fearing that her neglect of the north east will come back to bite her. However, it is too little too late for the SNP who have neglected this area during their obsessive pursuit of independence.
"The North East has been treated as a cash cow by the SNP and they should be punished for it at the polls.
"Nicola Sturgeon cannot escape the fact that the SNP's actions have directly left areas like Aberdeen short changed. Business rates are up and local council funding is down. It makes grim reading for local services and businesses.
"The transport infrastructure is inadequate especially considering the economic contribution the region makes to the Scottish economy.
"The SNP cannot claim to be a party for the whole of Scotland when they neglect the needs of regions like the North East.
"This election is a chance to change the direction of our country and put an end to the SNP's obsession with independence. A vote for the Scottish Liberal Democrats is a vote for a party that will put local needs first for the whole of Scotland."


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He wasn't the only one who saw the ghost.
Whether or not you believe in the supernatural, there are sometimes incidents that are too strange to be explained with logic.
NCT Dream's Renjun had one of those moments when he encountered a being that could best be described as a ghost.
Since they were telling ghost stories, Renjun wanted to tell the group a real one of his own. It took place at the radio station where he records his show Akdong Seoul, "You know I host a radio show, right? You know how a lot of people see ghosts at recording studios, right?"
When he came to the station, he'd headed to the recording studio to prepare before they began airing. Renjun saw someone there and thought it was the show's producer.
He looked further inside the room to confirm it, "At this recording studio, I saw a glimpse of something there. So, I looked to check if that was the producer."
It hadn't been who Renjun thought. Instead, it was a man seated there. He didn't think too much of it and continued waiting outside, "But, a man was sitting in front of the computer. So I thought, 'Oh, okay. I guess someone came,' and kept waiting."
The person who Renjun had been expecting finally came, which prompted him to take another look inside the studio. It was suddenly empty, "Then, the producer came. So, I looked to see if anyone's at the studio. But no one was there."
Since the studio was tiny and only had one exit, Renjun wondered how it was possible for the man to disappear into thin air.
What made it scarier was the fact that he hadn't been the only one to see the man, "That studio is really small. It's this big. Also, there is only one door. The writer and I saw the same guy. No one was there. That was a ghost."
Even though Haechan couldn't understand the level of scary it was, Jisung pointed out why it was so frightening, "Right. It's scary because it's real." If you saw a ghost and had it confirmed by someone seeing the exact same thing, that would send a chill down many people's spine.
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Because he's recording Akdong Seoul often, he's probably reminded of it every time something unusual happens in the studio. See Renjun share the tale about his very real experience with a ghost here.


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Stephen Lang (born July 11, 1952) is an American actor and playwright. He started in Broadway theatre, but is more widely known for his film roles in Gods and Generals (2003) and Avatar (2009). From 2004 to 2006, he was a co-artistic director of the Actors Studio.
Lang was born in New York City, the youngest child of Theresa (née Volmer, d. 2008) and Eugene Lang, a prominent entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has two elder siblings - Jane, an attorney and activist, and David, who served as an executive at REFAC, the company their father founded in 1952. Lang's father has donated much of his net worth (in excess of $150 million) to charity and will not leave an inheritance to his children, believing they each needed to learn to become self-sufficient. Lang's mother was of German-Irish Catholic descent, and his father is Jewish (Lang's paternal grandparents were immigrants from Hungary).
Lang attended school in Jamaica Estates, Queens. For high school, he attended George School, a Quaker boarding school in Newtown, PA. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1973 with a degree in English Literature; on May 30, 2010, Swarthmore awarded him an Honorary Degree from College in recognition of his distinguished career in theatre, television, and film. His youngest son, Noah, received his bachelor's degree during the same ceremony. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Jacksonville University and was an artist in residence at Northeastern University in 2011. In the fall of 2015, Lang served as a Jury Member for the Woodstock Film Festival.
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Steven Lang (sometimes spelled Stephen Lang) is a fictional character, a supervillain in the Marvel Comics universe. He is a manufacturer of the mutant-hunting robots called Sentinels. He first appeared in X-Men #96.
Dr. Steven Lang is a pioneer in the field of robotics and genetic mutation who hates mutants. An employee of the U.S. government, he is placed in charge of a federal investigation into the origin of genetic mutation. He plans to use his talents to create an army of mutant hunting robots to kill all mutants. To this end he seeks to get the government to endorse and financially support his operations. Lang begins by targeting mutant criminals such as Mesmero. He is backed by Ned Buckman and the "Council of the Chosen," the secret group in control of the New York Branch of the Hellfire Club prior to Sebastian Shaw's takeover.
To defeat his main targets, the X-Men, Lang creates the "X-Sentinels," android doubles of Professor X and the original X-Men. However, the X-Sentinels manage only inferior imitations of the X-Men's powers, and are easily defeated by the new X-Men. Jean Grey then telekinetically forces Lang to crash his mini-gunship into a wall-screen. He is left in a coma with severe brain damage. During this time, Lang's brain is used as a template for the minds of two sentinels, Conscience and a new Master Mold, both of whom are destroyed in an attempt to release a virus which would have killed all mutants and roughly 97% of normal humans on Earth.
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Campaign Visuals In The Age Of Facebook
An Interview with photographer Stephen Ferry.
By Michael Shaw
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Stephen Ferry is a freelance documentary photographer based in New York City and Bogotá, Colombia. Ferry's work has received numerous prizes and honors, including two World Press photo awards. In more than 20 years of international travel, Ferry has concentrated on long-term reportage on issues of historic change and human rights. His 1999 book, I Am Rich Potosí: The Mountain that Eats Men (Monacelli Press), documented the lives of silver miners in Potosí, Bolivia, over an eight-year period. Since 2000, Ferry has focused his work on Colombia, carrying out assignments for GEO, National Geographic, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and The New York Times. He is currently based in Bogotá and is dedicated to long-term coverage of Colombia's civil war. In this Q&A we discuss his image, shown here, taken January 7 at a campaign stop in Rochester, New Hampshire.
Michael Shaw: Given the range of campaign images I've been looking at lately, this one you made the other weekend, just before the New Hampshire primary, is substantially different. This has a completely different kind of energy.
Stephen Ferry: It seems a little funny talking about my own work this way, but of all the photos I shot in New Hampshire, I think this one speaks to something new and essential going on. Although Obama was the subject, it says less about him than about this social moment in time. Specifically, it seems to me there's a "Facebook zeitgeist" in this campaign.
MS: What do you mean?
SF: First of all, it's about equalizing. Notice how his smile and her smile are lit by the same kind of light. Both are subject to the same cameras that are in everybody's hands nowadays. That, to me, speaks to the Facebook experience. Once they are posted there, all photographs are equal on Facebook. The only way they differ in importance has to do with how many people connect to them.
MS: But it doesn't seem like Obama and the girl are together so much as just sharing the same space.
SF: That quality is Facebook, too. If you look at one face then the other, it looks like a collage. Notice how he occupies a rectangle in the upper left. Really then, it's like you're looking at a screen. It's like he's a post, or a picture on a Web page. You don't feel his three-dimensionality. If I did a time exposure shot of a computer screen, these could be the faces that would come up. It's as if both are already posts on a Facebook page.
MS: As a supporter, though, she and Obama are connected, right? After Obama won the Iowa caucus and was believed to be way out in front in New Hampshire, the coverage was all about how people were being swept up in the energy of his campaign.
SF: I think the photo is also about that. Notice there are three hands of cameras in the picture, with the middle one blasted out with flash. There is no interruption between the over-exposed area of Obama's forehead -- also blown out by a flash -- and that hand. It's like we are witnessing an energy field or rush of fire going from Obama's head downwards out of the frame and connecting to those around him, or that a pure energy could equally be rushing upwards into him.
This idea of lines, wires, cables also applies to the girl. If you look to the left of the girl's chin -- do you see those grayish vertical lines? Playing on the idea of energy, to me at least, they look almost like pipes or cabling. Also, notice the strap hanging down from the camera above the girl's head, like a cable?
There is an energy also flowing into and coming out of her, from her mouth, from her smile. It's like she's connected -- by virtue of being photographed -- to the energy field too, but not with the same intensity as him. He's definitely most connected ... like he's got broadband.
I associate that blazing energy which connects him and her, and which flows in and out of the frame, with the Internet. So yes, the way they are connected is through the energy field that I would call "the spirit of Facebook," the phenomenon of instantaneous connectivity that defines this campaign.
MS: When you say "broadband," it has a feeling like he and the girl are electrons, like they are already online.
SF: Well, that's the point. For me, this is a photograph of a transmission: from subject into camera and from camera onto the Web.
We see Obama lit by the flash of one of the cameras there. So the moment we see him is simultaneously recorded in one or another of those devices. And you know that as soon as these people with the cameras get home -- if not sooner -- that stuff is going on the Internet. Technically, in fact, it is already possible, for the first time, for those pics to have posted to the Internet simultaneously with the instant I took this picture -- if those cameras were equipped with WiFi-enabled Flash cards. This is very, very new right now, but everybody will have them soon.
With these cards, you can shoot and post at the same time. So, what I was shooting, in real time, could have easily already been a screen shot. You can call it the elimination of the last remaining gap in the "immediacy circuit."
Or you can call it Facebook.
--Michael Shaw is a practicing clinical psychologist, but American Photo knows him through his popular, politically charged image-analysis blog, BAGnewsNotes.com . With his adept dissection of newswire photos and his Reading the Pictures feature at the Huffington Post, Shaw has cultivated an outspoken voice and a loyal following within the blogosphere. We are happy to bring his insights to our readers in the form of this online feature as well as a guest post on our State of the Art blog.


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Heading south from Montreal, the slick and stylish downtown core gives way to a swirl of highway and then to the Mercier Bridge. It's a long, concrete, well-trafficked link from the island of Montreal to the south shore of the St. Lawrence. The bridge passes over the river, a strip of land, then the deep blue of the artificial canal. On the right sits a village of small clapboard houses, a visual contrast to the texture and size of the city, not to mention a cultural one. The village is a reserve called Kahnawake. Historians know it as the oldest Mohawk territory in Canada. Journalists have characterized it as one of the most militaristic reserves in the country. Most people know it as a community of Mohawk Warriors who blockaded the Mercier Bridge during the summer of 1990 in support of the protest against the expansion of a golf course onto native land in nearby Oka.
On Highway 207, the road that leads into Kahnawake, there is a dark red shack with an arrete sign out front. A concrete barrier beside the shed and a Warrior Society flag painted on the wall, red with a traditionally garbed Mohawk against a large, yellow sun, are the only reminders that this was once a checkpoint to keep police out and control who came in.
Through the unnamed streets of the village, into the physical centre of the community, in a garage beside an unnumbered house, is the office of a small native newspaper. The paper, which was four years old in January, is called The Eastern Door, so named by its 48-year-old editor and founder, Kenneth Deer, because in the Longhouse of the Iroquois Confederacy, the Mohawks are the keepers of the eastern door, and Kahnawake is the easternmost Mohawk territory in Canada. The name and the editor are both traditional; Deer is a member of the Longhouse, with strong ideas about what it means to be Mohawk. The paper's strength lies in Deer's keeping his own opinions from dominating the paper while retaining traditional Mohawk values that all in Kahnawake can relate to. The result has been a strong paper that has encouraged unity in a changing community and attracted the attention and admiration of journalists, native people and experts from beyond the small reserve.
Deer has only been a journalist as long as he's been editor of The Eastern Door. He spent most of his working life in education as a principal and a high-school counsellor. His wife, Glenda, continues to work as a Mohawk-language teacher, but Deer left education in 1987 to work as a coordinator between the Longhouse and the Mohawk Nation Office. By 1990, however, the politics there changed, and Deer quit to devote his time to a deckbuilding business.
That summer, a group of Mohawks from Kanehsatake set up a camp to protect an ancestral pine forest from the town of Oka, which wanted to cut it down for the expansion of a golf course. On July 11, police advanced on the barricades and a Surete du Quebec corporal was killed in the gunfire between police and Mohawks. As soon as news of the raid made it to nearby Kahnawake, Warriors in the community barricaded the Mercier Bridge in solidarity. It was an effective but costly move, generating attention but also anger, especially from the neighbouring suburb of Chateauguay. It also created economic problems for businesses, including Deer's, whose supply lines were cut off. The barricades were lifted in the fall, but soon after, his deck business folded.
As Deer looked for work, it became clear to him that the community needed a quality source of information. "After the crisis, there was a lot of tension, a lot of anxiety, and people were getting all their information from the mainstream press," he says. "The community was living on gossip and hearsay, and people didn't know what to believe and were believing all kinds of things." Eventually, Deer got together with a group of people who were interested in volunteering on a newspaper, provided it was unbiased and not just a Warrior newsletter. The director of the Kanienkehaka Raotitiohkwa Cultural Center in Kahnawake, Wendall Beauvais-who goes by the Mohawk name Kanatakta-was there at the paper's conception and felt Deer was the best person to be editor. "I've always found that he's been a very fair person, and we knew the paper was something we would be judged on in the community."
The people of Kahnawake have seen their share of newspapers over the years. Most were more like partisan fliers, and none of them ever lasted long. The Eastern Door has not only outlived them all but has gone on to win awards from organizations like the Quebec Community Newspapers Association. Allan Davis, executive director of the association, gives most of the credit for the paper's success to Deer: "Ken is particularly gifted as a publishing editor and has struck exactly the right balance between daily bread and butter and national bread and butter' "
Most people who know Deer agree that, besides running the paper virtually on his own and being articulate and well informed, he is also quite simply a nice guy. He speaks softly and laughs easily. Around the office he wears jeans, a plaid shirt and an Eastern Door baseball cap over his long, grey ponytail. Enn Raudsepp, the director of the journalism department at Concordia University, who did a study of native publications in 1985, notes that while the political beliefs of an editor often bias a newspaper and alienate parts of the community, Deer's ideals of responsibility and family, along with his knowledge of native history and language, are just what Kahnawake needs in its paper. "These are the kind of values that the whole community can coalesce under. Factions don't develop under this kind of traditionalism."
Deer's even-handed approach and benign nature don't just work well on the small reserve but travel successfully to Geneva, where he's been working with the UN's Working Group of Indigenous Populations for about 10 years, creating a draft declaration on indigenous rights. Besides yearly trips to Geneva, he's been to Australia, France and would have gone to Peru if the country hadn't rejected his Iroquois passport. "It makes it a bit more difficult to travel," he admits, "but it's my way of expressing my nationalism." He expresses his ideas in the community as well, through active membership in the Longhouse-he has served as a chief, worked at the Nation Office and acted as a negotiator in the first days of Oka.
By the end of 1991, Deer had a house, two sons and an ill mother-in-law but no job to help support them. "I was desperate now. I had to think of a way to make a living. So I did it, I calculated costs, found a printer, got access to a computer and got people who said they'd write for free." In two months he sold enough advertising for five issues, and he launched the first paper on January 31, 1992. That began a difficult year: Deer had few staff, little money and only minimal acceptance from the community. He only sold about 600 copies per issue to a wary Kahnawake, which believed, thanks to Deer's past, that The Eastern Door was a traditional paper. But Deer kept the promise he prints in each issue's masthead, that The Eastern Door serves "the Mohawks of Kahnawake regardless of birth, sex, age, language, politics or religion. The paper strives to be a factual, balanced, authoritative source of information with access to all segments of the community."
By the beginning of the next year, Deer had moved the paper out of his dining room ("When it spilled out into the kitchen, my wife said,'Time to get out"') and into his renovated garage, and he was selling 1,000 copies an issue. His circulation peaked in 1994 at 1,500 copies. The Eastern Door switched from biweekly to weekly in February 1995 and the circulation settled at 1,350, an impressive total for a community of only 1,600 homes. The paper sells for $1 in shops on the reserve and is shipped to Kanehsatake, the territory at Oka, and to Akwesasne, a Mohawk territory near Cornwall that bridges Ontario, Quebec and New York state. And every week, copies of The Eastern Door are sent out to 162 mailboxes in Canada, 78 in the U.S. and eight overseas.
The current office hardly looks like a newsroom at the heart of native politics. It smells of wood and has an unfinished wall here and an absent doorknob there. But to Deer and his staff, who are always short on time and money, the finishing touches on the week's paper are far more important than the building's. One fall afternoon, Charleen Schurman, the office manager (who currently is away on maternity leave), is discussing story ideas with Kim Delormier, the layout editor. While Schurman's job is supposed to be running the office-looking after staff, answering the phone, balancing the books-she usually spends a lot of her time assigning stories, editing and helping with layout. "We're pretty heavy on administration," says Deer. "But we're pretty light on the reporting end, and that scares me." Before Tom Dearhouse joined the paper last fall, The Eastern Door had trouble keeping a full-time reporter; most either couldn't handle the work or had other commitments. While the paper is now fully staffed, with Deer, Dearhouse and freelancers doing the writing, it is still up to the small office staff to take care of the rest. While Schurman and Delormier make sure the paper won't have any blank spaces this week, Deer is heading out to a meeting. "That's him, in and out, in and out, all the time," says Schurman. If he's not off to Geneva for a UN conference then he's attending a community meeting or doing an interview or delivering the papers around Kahnawake on Fridays, a task that takes him several hours because, according to Schurman, he stops to gab along the way.
Almost everyone in Kahnawake loves The Eastern Door and rushes out every Friday to pick up a copy in town. It's a clean, attractive little paper, with no advertisements on the first three pages, something Deer has insisted upon from the start. The flag, printed in a different colour each week, is topped by a drawing of eagle's wings, giving the paper a distinctly native look.
The most popular sections inside are those that can be found in almost any community paper: local news, local history, police reports and announcements. Joseph Montour, chief of the Kahnawake Peacekeepers, says that people often read the "Police Blotter" column, both to make sure they're not mentioned in it and to clear up the half-right information that weaves its way through town each week. "Oftentimes an incident will happen, and what you hear on the street or in the coffee shop is only a version of what happened. The Eastern Door presents the facts." On the lighter side, readers love seeing their neighbours in the "Nosy Newsbabe" section. Reaghan Tarbell, the paper's intrepid student reporter, corners local people willing-and many are not-to be photographed and answer a question that relates to the news, like "Do you agree with using images of Indians as mascots?"
By far the easiest and most profitable part of The Eastern Door is the birthday section. Deer printed a birthday photo for a reader once and, according to Schurman, "It caught on like wildfire. It's our most popular feature in the paper only because everybody knows everybody here." Now the paper charges to print birthday and memorial photos, and the section, which can take up over two full pages, generates enough revenue to pay one person's salary in the office.
However, not all of The Eastern Door is just for fun and profit. Deer has higher goals for the paper: "We try to produce a newspaper that is a mirror of the community-if you look at The Eastern Door, you see Kahnawake." The most literal example of this is the "Golden Eras" column, where Johnny Beauvais writes about the history of Kahnawake and old photographs show the community as it was. Many of these stories had never been written down before. Selma Delisle, a prominent member of Kahnawake, says: "The young people love it. They're getting to know what it used to be like." Perhaps not as popular, but equally important to Deer, was the Mohawk-language story and game page. It appeared for two years, but after running through most of the school curriculum and tiring out volunteers, it had to be discontinued. At the office, the only person with any previous newspaper experience is Schurman, who was a secretary for six years at the New York Post. When she arrived at the new office in November 1992, there were no books, files were in cardboard boxes and invoices had yet to be sent out. The paper had been surviving, just barely, on advertisers who paid without being invoiced, a local donation at the start-up and a series of grants. With self-sufficiency as a goal, Schurman got the books in order, a few more grants came along and the paper joined the Quebec Community Newspapers Association and changed to a weekly to increase advertising revenues. These efforts have paid off, and now Schurman says, "The last six months I can say we've been totally self-supporting."
Unlike many native papers and the majority of radio stations on reserves, The Eastern Door has received grants with no strings attached. Enn Raudsepp says that of the 30 native and Inuit publications he studied 11 years ago, few are still running because most "never did establish a sound financial foundation." The Eastern Door, Raudsepp says, is special because it is "not beholden to anybody-that's a remarkable thing for a native newspaper."
Many native publications that do survive are tied to a benefactor, and that can affect editorial content. Before 1970, three-quarters of publications were produced by non-natives or the government. Today, many papers and magazines are owned and published by native people, but only a handful are as financially independent or as journalistically objective as The Eastern Door. Since funding often comes from the local band council, papers have trouble covering their council's activities. The Tekawennake, from the Six Nations territory in southern Ontario, covers life on the reserve as if it revolves around council. Traditionalists who used to find their viewpoints unrepresented now turn to the Turtle Island News, launched in 1994.
Those native papers that have been able to retain editorial control still suffer, as The Eastern Door does, from a tendency to report the news on a superficial level. Analysis, context and criticism of current issues and events are virtually absent in even the best native papers. Windspeaker, a highly respected newspaper out of Edmonton, covers national native news and politics with a focus on Western Canada. However, when it was discovered that there were pot fields growing in Kanehsatake last summer, Windspeaker ran a front-page story that made no mention of the dramatic internal conflicts in the community or the fact that many people, including band council members, knew about the pot long before the media found out. Wawatay News from Sioux Lookout in northern Ontario also does an excellent job of covering not only politics, but the social issues of the area. But its report on funding for a solvent abuse centre focused on the political debates and mentioned some details about treatment but offered no analysis of why such abuse exists in the community.
Akwesasne Notes, which had its heyday in the 1970s and early eighties, used to provide high-quality investigative journalism. It began as a cut-and-paste of native stories from mainstream papers across North America and developed into an idealistic paper with volunteer writers submitting hard-hitting native-issue pieces. By the late eighties, though, Akwesasne Notes had become one-sided and got so heavily involved in the politics of the reserve that the paper's office was actually set on fire twice. It eventually closed in 1992, but in early 1995 it was resurrected, this time in a glossy magazine format as slick as it is safe, featuring articles about the good deeds of band council chiefs and the perseverance of native people.
What the old Akwesasne Notes had-and The Eastern Door does not-is a comfortable distance from readers. Gerald Alfred, a political scientist at Concordia and a resident of Kahnawake, says he thinks it may not be the role of The Eastern Door to provide a tougher kind of journalism: "People want harder stories but not from a local paper. They want it from an anonymous paper." Writers at the paper have often wanted anonymity. Reporters in the past have asked to be taken off sensitive stories, and occasionally they have not wanted to sign their name. "ED Staff" was frequently used as a byline in the first years of publication, especially in the trial coverage of Mohawks involved in the 1990 Oka crisis. Often it is Deer who writes the paper's front-page stories, and he always signs his work. "I don't shrink away from it," he says, admitting that certain stories are easier for him to write, thanks to his extensive knowledge of the issues in the community and his little black book full of contacts.
It is rare that there's a story in Kahnawake that is too hot to handle, but there are many in nearby Kanehsatake: the pot fields, legal problems with the size of last summer's Super Bingo jackpot and the alleged corruption behind a proposed casino. Susan Oke, a young writer from Kanehsatake who freelances for Deer, covers town meetings and certain political stories, but didn't write about the pot fields, even though she knew about them. "It would have been, I think, dangerous to write about it," she says. People who have spoken out against the band council there say they have been threatened, and one woman says her car was blown up. When the existence of the pot fields was revealed to the media at a press conference last August, The Eastern Door's cover story-written by Tarbell, not Oke-focused on how some women in the community had organized the press event, rather than on the pot fields.
Selma Delisle is a big supporter of The Eastern Door and a friend of Kenneth Deer. "I love the paper," she says. "I think it's the greatest thing that ever happened to this community." Her family often makes a few trips into town on Fridays, waiting for the paper to arrive. But Delisle thinks the paper's coverage of social issues in the community is poor. Stories about substance abuse and violence are written almost exclusively by social workers. The Eastern Door doesn't carry journalistic pieces about, for example, the effects of alcohol in the community, or the discovery of abuse in a local family or the faults of a popular treatment for drug abuse-stories that people like Delisle feel are important for the community to read, despite how difficult they are for local reporters to write.
Along with community news, Deer's paper focuses on national news and native politics. But like many other native newspapers, The Eastern Door rarely provides analysis in its stories. For instance, the paper's coverage of the Mohawk Roundtable negotiations between the chiefs of Kahnawake, Kanehsatake and Akwesasne explained the meetings and their purpose but neglected to question the motives of the people involved or note the larger impact of the Roundtable on native self-government initiatives.
Lately, however, Deer has been making the paper progressively tougher. One of the biggest stories in Kahnawake last year was the policing agreement between the Mohawk Peacekeepers and external police forces. Initially, the paper's reporter at the time, E.J. Diabo, wrote stories that basically followed the public-relations statements of the Peacekeepers and the government.
But Deer took over the coverage after September 11, when the agreement was signed amid protests and vandalism. His cover story attempted to put it all in perspective. "The impact of the agreement, the vandalism and the images of violence in the media, have caused the community to take a hard look at itself," he wrote. "Those opposed to the agreement say … that it erodes the jurisdiction and authority of the Mohawk People…. The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake say that the agreement only recognizes what is already in place."
The article is not only the kind of clear, in-depth story that The Eastern Door needs more of, it also shows how Deer's writing has matured. The editorial on the next page bluntly begins: "All the justification and rationalization in the community just doesn't wash…. Violence is insidious." This is a major shift from Deer's very first editorial, where he took a safe middle line on the tradition shooting guns off to celebrate New Year's Eve, suggesting that blanks be used instead. In other recent editorials, Deer has taken a stronger stand on such topics as the mainstream media and the image of native people outside the reserve.
While the effectiveness of The Eastern Door and other native publications may be up for discussion, their necessity is not. Both native and non-native critics of the mainstream media say that not enough coverage of native issues, but what is printed and broadcast usually portrays native people as violent, unlawful and dependent on government. Gerald Alfred thinks most coverage is implicitly negative, and while "the important things are development in our capacity to govern ourselves, resolution of land claims and peaceful accommodations made between whites and Indians, these things are never heard about unless- they go wrong, unless they cost people money." Susan Oke has watched non native journalists at work in Kanehsatake and noticed that "they don't know what the real issue is, they don't know what questions to ask and whom to ask, and that's why their coverage is not really accurate."
Covering world, national, provincial and local news for Kahnawake has always been Deer's goal, but with his limited resources, it has never been easy. The paper has fallen short of critical expectacations from both inside and outside the reserve. Deer and his staff also think the paper could be better. "I'd like to see more news," Deer says. "I want to carry more news from the Internet, network more with other the outside." He thinks of TheEaster Door should get connected to native papers and cover more stories in Kanehsatake and Akwesasne. But he is also very proud of his paper." The Eastern Door is special because the Mohawks are special. Because Kahnawake is unique, the newspaper has to be unique. Kahnawake is on the cutting edge of a lot of issues. People look at it to see what Mohawk people are all about."
Deer's leisurely drive around Kahnawake on Friday mornings creates a weekly tide of excitement. "Did you see what was in The Eastern Door?" is echoed across the reserve. The delivery of the paper marks the end of a week of rumours about who was responsible for the car crash in the middle of town, what the chief thought about a local conflict or how federal legislation will affect native people. Deer has tried to make the paper a mirror of the community, and has succeeded also in reflecting his own ideas not those of an opinionated activist-but of the fatherly, traditional peacemaker that is the best of Kahnawake and the best part of himself.
Diane Peters was a Senior Editor for the Spring 1996 issue of the Ryerson Review of Journalism.
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There is a small tank in front of the entrance which is connected to a labyrinth that guides the water to the valley. One look up and the Islamic inscriptions in Persian/Urdu can be seen on the top of the building as well as the archway. While the primary Shivaling is in the central hall, there were other idols in the adjoining rooms. I climbed up the stairs from the side of the temple to the terrace to get closer to the waterfall behind the temple. Inspite of all the crowd and noise, there was a sense of peace around.
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Das Wohn- und Geschäftshaus Reichenstraße 17, Ecke 3. Twiete in Boizenburg/Elbe (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) ist eines der älteren Fachwerkgebäude im Ort.

Das Gebäude steht unter Denkmalschutz.

Geschichte
Die Fliesenstadt Boizenburg mit 10.730 Einwohnern (2019) wurde 1171 erstmals erwähnt. 1709 brannten viele Häuser ab.

Das zweigeschossige barocke Fachwerkhaus mit Ausfachungen aus Backsteinen stammt als Kaufmannshaus aus dem 18. Jahrhundert. Bemerkenswert ist das barocke Treppenhaus.

Der Haus wurde in den 1990er Jahren im Rahmen der Städtebauförderung saniert.

Die Stadt hat neben dem Rathaus viele weitere Fachwerkhäuser, z. B. Klingbergstraße 39, Reichenstraße 1 und 15, Wallstraße 32, Große Wallstraße 11 und 19, Königstraße 23 und 24, in Fiefhusen oder am Bollenberg und der Barock-Pavillon am Wall.

Literatur
 BIG Städtebau (Hrsg.): Boizenburg/Elbe – 10 Jahre Städtebauförderung. 2001.

Einzelnachweise, Hinweise

Bauwerk in Boizenburg/Elbe
Baudenkmal in Boizenburg/Elbe
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L'escola Àtica va ser una escola filosòfica antiga que es va desenvolupar a Atenes durant el . Va ser fundada per Sòcrates, i els seus més destacats representants van ser Plató i Xenofont.

L'escola Àtica es caracteritzava per la seva èmfasi en la reflexió i el diàleg com a mètodes per arribar a la veritat. Els filòsofs Àtics també van ser pioners en l'ús de la dialèctica, una tècnica de debat que consistia en preguntar i respondre per arribar a una comprensió més profunda dels conceptes discutits. El pensament filosòfic de l'escola Àtica es va centrar en temes com l'ètica, la política i la naturalesa de l'ésser humà. Plató, per exemple, va escriure sobre la justícia i la idea de la ciutat ideal, mentre que Sòcrates va reflexionar sobre la moral i la veritat.

L'influència de l'escola Àtica es va estendre molt més enllà d'Atenes, i els seus ensenyaments van ser adoptats per moltes altres escoles filosòfiques posteriors. Encara avui, les idees dels filòsofs Àtics continuen sent estudiades i debatudes en tot el món.

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Filosofia a l'antiga Grècia