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The Centaurus is a mixed use real estate development in the most prime location of Islamabad, which is rapidly taking its shape to be one of the most desirable addresses in Pakistan.
Decades of internal political disputes and low levels of foreign investment have led to slow growth and underdevelopment in Pakistan. Agriculture accounts for more than one-fourth of output and two-fifths of employment. Textiles account for most of Pakistan's export earnings, and Pakistan's failure to diversify its exports has left the country vulnerable to shifts in world demand. Pakistan's human development continues to lag behind most of the region. Official unemployment was 6.5% in 2015, but this fails to capture the true picture, because much of the economy is informal and underemployment remains high.
As a result of political and macroeconomic instability, the Pakistani rupee has depreciated more than 40% since 2007. The government agreed to an International Monetary Fund Standby Arrangement in November 2008 to prevent a balance of payments crisis, but the IMF ended the Arrangement early because of Pakistan's failure to implement required reforms. Although the economy has stabilized, it continues to underperform. Foreign investment has not returned to levels seen during the mid-2000s due to investor concerns related to governance, electricity shortages, and a slow-down in the global economy. Remittances from overseas workers, averaging more than $1 billion a month, remain a bright spot for Pakistan.
Pakistan remains stuck in a low-income, low-growth trap, with growth averaging about 3.5% per year from 2008 to 2014. Pakistan must address long standing issues related to government revenues and the electricity and natural gas sectors in order to spur the amount of economic growth that will be necessary to employ its growing and rapidly urbanizing population, more than half of which is under 22. Other long term challenges include expanding investment in education and healthcare, adapting to the effects of climate change and natural disasters, and reducing dependence on foreign donors.
Cultural and Creative Industries in Pakistan underscore their importance not only as economic catalysts for national growth and pathways to employability. The Creative Industries also affirm cultural identity, projecting a multifaceted international image of a vibrant Pakistan. Moving beyond traditional media stereotypes this report provides a broad overview of the challenges faced by the creative sector and makes practical recommendations to sector groups, policy makers and the financial sector. It demonstrates that the Creative Industries in Pakistan can be an essential component of economic growth, generating billions of income and millions of jobs. But a strategy and policy framework is needed for the next stage.
This report is part of a Pakistan research series placing individual empowerment at the centre of a diverse range of topics that could play a major role in Pakistan's economic and social future.
Can arts influence Pakistan's social and economic future?
The British Council's Dee Lowry and Abdullah Qureshi summarise the main findings of the new report on Pakistan's creative industries, published 22 October 2014.
– What are Pakistan's main cultural and creative industries?
– Why are these industries important to Pakistan's social and economic future?
– What are some of the challenges facing Pakistan's creative industries?
– How might these challenges be overcome?
– Why was the report commissioned?


A blockchain, as a purveyor of this site you already likely know, is an immutable, distributed database; each new "block" of data is confirmed to be truthful by some method (usually a Proof of Something) by a majority or measured minority. Almost all blockchain blocks contain primarily a batch of transactions that represent an exchange of that chains associated cryptocurrency. For example, the latest block committed to the Ethereum blockchain, contains a rich plethora of data within the block such as the block height, the number of transactions confirmed within the block, transaction hashes for all the transactions confirmed, the total value of ether exchanged within the block, the total value of gas & fees within the block & the reward for mining the block.
In short, there's a trove of beautiful blockchain data that naturally exists within each blockchain project. Ask almost any enthusiast for a price tracker or mock portfolio & you'll find yourself in a deluge of .io's & .co's; but ask any crypto enthusiast where they can find all the newest transactions confirmed in the latest Bitcoin block, and you're sure to receive a blank stare.
To be fair, understanding this data is hard, seeking it out and understanding it, is well, even harder. Thankfully, a new class of websites & apps are breaking into the crypto scene that make exploring blockchain significantly more intuitive.
We'll go through an Etherscan example later at length; for the most part, these block explorers have common core features with very similar interfaces.
A Block Explorer is basically a search platform that allows users to easily lookup blocks, transactions, smart contracts, and pretty much every data point in between for a specific blockchain.
All block explorers should list new blocks the second they're generated in their respective chains. As you can see, we're already diving a bit deeper into the raw data outputted by cryptocurrency blockchains; but this is only the beginning, clicking on a row (block) on either Blockchain.info or Etherscan.io reveal substantially more data about that block.
Both screenshots above show the actual data stored within each block in the Bitcoin & Ethereum blockchain respectively. First, you'll find that all of the data points that we saw in the previous views show up here as well, including height, & age.
We're now deep under the hood of the blockchain world by reading the raw data contained within each block. As you've probably deduced, since block explorers provide us with individual transactions hashes, they also allow us to explore these individual transactions at a deeper length.
Depending on which block explorer one uses, there are some additional features to be enjoyed as well. Blockchain.info, for example, has become much more than just a block explorer, as it also provides statistics and charts pertaining to the bitcoin network.
Even though the name "block explorer" would suggest it can only be used to look up individual network blocks, that is not the case. Block explorers can also search for transaction IDs and wallet addresses, making them quite a nifty tool to check on specific transactions to your own wallet address. A block explorer quickly becomes a tool everyone in the cryptocurrency relies on virtually every day, yet they are far more versatile than people anticipate.


A bridge in southwest Lincoln (top) and corresponding acoustic map (bottom) produced by civil engineers at Nebraska. Dark blue segments indicate pristine concrete, with the dark red representing areas where the concrete's layers have begun separating and might pose threats to structural integrity.
Lincoln, Neb. — Jinying Zhu's emerging technology is on the ball, off the chain and poised to make bridges safe by sound. The civil engineer has designed and refined an acoustic approach to detecting defects in concrete bridge decks. Her system represents a much faster, more accurate alternative to a conventional method of identifying delamination, a gradual separation of concrete layers that can subtly compromise the structural integrity of a bridge.
Zhu's system consists of a push-cart that drags multiple strings of metallic balls along the concrete. Those balls produce different acoustic frequencies when striking delaminated vs. pristine concrete. Small, low-cost microphones attached to the cart then record the sound, sending it to a laptop that collects and processes the signals. All the while, a specialized GPS unit tracks the cart's location down to the centimeter.
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Cinqair (reslizumab) approved for treatment of severe asthma
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CDC adds eight countries to Zika virus travel guidelines
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Bumble Bee Foods, Tri-Union Seafoods recall tuna
Bumble Bee alone is recalling 31,579 cases of potentially tainted products produced during February 2016. The UPC code (also known as the bar code) is found on the label of the product. No illnesses had been reported in connection with the recalled tuna. The canned tuna under recall from Chicken of the Sea would have been available for sale to consumers from Feb.
Only Ted Cruz Can Stop Donald Trump
Bound through the first ballot under state and party rules, Kozanecki said she "will not change" her vote on subsequent round, and called the " Stop Trump " movement "despicable". The form featured a table that outlines state filing deadlines, whether states allow for a person who lost a party primary to run again in the general election under another party and the amount of signatures needed in each state to put a candidate on the ballot.
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Current wind expansion plans could cost consumers at least €1.1bn through fixed price contracts, constraint payments and additional PSO levy charges. Like so many claims issued by the Wind lobby, it sounded good at the time, but was based on a utopian vision rather than any proper "real world" analysis.
1) Cost of wind power generated – This is paid from the market operated by SEM-O (Single Electricity Market Operator). However, rather than having to compete with other generators in a free market, wind energy gets a fixed price plus a further 15%, in effect a subsidy. In 2013 in the Republic, wind farms received a total of €277 million from the market. This works out at about €174,000 per MW of installed wind. If the plans to install another 2,200MW of wind go ahead, wind energy will cost circa €660 million per year.
2) Constraint payments – These are payments made to wind farms when they produce too much power for the grid to take. Currently, there is a combined limit for wind energy and imported power of 50% of demand at any given time. Exact figures are not made publicly available, but a wind industry representative acknowledged that these payments amount to roughly 39% of total power taken by the grid. Based on this figure, these payments amounted to € 108 million in 2013, an average of € 67,000 per MW of installed wind. But given the limit on wind power that can be taken by the grid, the more wind farms that are built, the more wind power is constrained. This means this percentage could rise to 49% in the future. If the plans to install another 2,200MW of wind go ahead, constraint payments could cost circa €320 million per year.
3) PSO Levy – This is paid mainly to wind farm generators who have a contract with a supplier, like Airtricity, Energia or Electric Ireland. If the contract is not lucrative enough, the wind farm receives a top up from the PSO.
The proceeds of the PSO levy are used to contribute to the additional relevant costs incurred by PSO-supported electricity generators which are not recovered in the electricity market, in many cases via contracts that suppliers have in place with electricity generators. So in this case, the electricity supplier receives the subsidised payment for wind energy from the market as explained in Point (1), and pays the wind farm company based on the terms of the contract in place. This wind farm is then further reimbursed from the PSO levy.
The portion of the PSO Levy relating to wind in 2013 was € 51 million. This year it has increased to € 94 million. So the consumer could be paying circa € 190 million per year if the current plans go ahead.
So in total, for 2013, wind energy cost € 436 million. The current plans to install an additional 2,200 MW of wind could result in costs of € 1.1 billion per year to the consumer. In 2013, this equates to roughly €100 per household and business per year, with large industry paying the balance of € 218 million. By 2020, this will rise to €250 per year for households and businesses with large industry paying a whopping €550 million per year. What cost to the economy can be put on the job losses and lost tax revenue when this industry ships out to China and India? There are also many other costs of wind energy, including transmission costs estimated at € 3 billion for Grid 25, and capacity and "security of supply" payments made to keep those fossil fuel generators, that are running less due to wind, financially viable.
But what about the fossil fuel savings?
The claimed fossil fuel savings due to wind energy are disputed by many parties, including Wind Aware Ireland. But as no amount of wind farms can replace a fossil fuel plant in its entirety, these savings are cancelled out by the aforementioned capacity and "security of supply" payments made to fossil fuel generators to keep their "capacity" available when the wind doesn't blow.


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American crocodiles thriving outside South Florida nuclear plant
Seventy-three hatchlings are rescued by specialists at Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point and dozens more are expected to emerge soon.
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Wildlife biologist/crocodile specialist Michael Lloret releases baby crocodiles back into the wild along the cooling canals next to the Turkey Point nuclear plant Friday in Homestead, Fla. Wilfredo Lee/Associated Press
MIAMI — American crocodiles, once headed toward extinction, are thriving at an unusual spot – the canals surrounding a South Florida nuclear plant.
Last week, 73 crocodile hatchlings were rescued by a team of specialists at Florida Power & Light's Turkey Point nuclear plant and dozens more are expected to emerge soon.
Turkey Point's 168-mile of man-made canals serve as the home to several hundred crocodiles, where a team of specialists working for FPL monitors and protects them from hunting and climate change.
From January to April, Michael Lloret, an FPL wildlife biologist and crocodile specialist, helps create nests and ponds on berms for crocodiles to nest. Once the hatchlings are reared and left by the mother, the team captures them. They are measured and tagged with microchips to observe their development. Lloret then relocates them to increase survival rates.
"We entice crocodiles to come in to the habitats FPL created," Lloret said. "We clear greenery on the berms so that the crocodiles can nest. Because of rising sea levels wasting nests along the coasts, Turkey Point is important for crocodiles to continue."
The canals are one of three major U.S. habitats for crocodiles, where 25 percent of the 2,000 American crocodiles live. The FPL team has been credited for moving the classification of crocodiles on the Endangered Species Act to "threatened" from "endangered" in 2007. The team has tagged 7,000 babies since it was established in 1978.
Temperature determines the crocodiles' sex: the hotter it is the more likely males are hatched. Lloret said this year's hatchlings are male-heavy due to last month being the hottest June on record globally.
Because hatchlings released are at the bottom of the food chain, only a small fraction survives to be adults. Lloret said they at least have a fighting chance at Turkey Point, away from humans who hunted them to near-extinction out of greed and fear even though attacks are rare. Only one crocodile attack has ever been recorded in the U.S. – a couple were both bitten while swimming in a South Florida canal in 2014, but both survived.
"American crocodiles have a bad reputation when they are just trying to survive," Lloret said. "They are shy and want nothing to do with us. Humans are too big to be on their menu."
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Zmeskal or Zmeškal (Czech feminine: Zmeškalová) is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Kim Zmeskal (born 1976), American gymnast and gymnastics coach
Tomáš Zmeškal (born 1966), Czech writer

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These look great - I'm always looking for recipe ideas I can cook with my son. And I love introducing him to other cultures through food. Thanks for sharing your ideas!


I mentioned on previous post about the use of SPECT to diagnose ALS; I was wondering at the time if anyone knew anything about it. As the day I get my SPECT results comes closer, I have been researching this idea more, and have found that there are studies out there where (and please cut me some slack if I get this wrong) 1)SPECT has been used to differentiate ALS patients with Dementia from ALS patients without Dementia, and (these are the ones I find interesting) 2) SPECT has been used to identify particular patterns that patients already diagnosed with ALS might have.
My question is: For those of you who read this sort of stuff (Wright, others...) are you aware of any studies where they used SPECT to differentiate between normal controls and ALS patients? It seems all the studies I have attempted to decipher only utilized people with neurological problems.
And a comment: I have been reading LOTS about the potential for SPECT to identify Parkinson's in the preclinical stage, and despite this potential, have been on a couple of PD forums where very few of the posters have had a SPECT or only a few report getting one as part of a clinical trial or, and this bothers me, only got the SPECT after YEARS of trying to find out what was wrong...only to have it completely confirm the diagnosis of Parkinsons. If SPECT has this much potential then why not use it? I heard from some PD posters that they thought that now that SPECT has been around for awhile in research endeavors that it is starting to become more mainstream in actual practice, that as word gets out neuros are starting to order it. Can you imagine? To me it seems to have the potential to get rid of that horrible eliminate every other possibility first diagnosis process. And that is just with PD...what about ALS as well? How amazing that would be. Just a thought.
I withdraw my question on studies with normal controls. I found plenty. Not that it helps!
Just a wild guess here but I bet there aren't a lot of these machines around so the cost is probably large which might cause a lot of Neuro's to not suggest it which would in turn hinder research with it.
I heard that SPECT is the much cheaper version of PET. Even so, my insurance company wouldn't let me have it until neuro did some persuading. I haven't seen the bill yet, so I have no idea how much it cost. I know my insurance company did cover it in full. I do know that at the place I had it done, the tech guy told me they are the only place for miles around that does this sort of thing, that people come from Ohio, Penns, Canada (and yet the office was strangely shabby). We are ony about 70 miles or so from Rochester New York though and I bet there is one there as well. I read papers on this until the wee hours last night and I do believe that PET and SPECT are going to play a huge role in diagnoses in the future.
I've been to Buffalo many times. We're only a couple of hours away. I've never heard of SPECT before you brought it up. I have no idea if any Toronto hospitals even have one.


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Latino vote in pivotal Florida may hinge on faith issues, analysts say
Supporters of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden are seen in Miami Oct. 5. (CNS/Reuters/Marco Bello)
by Peter Feuerherd
A television ad for Joe Biden playing on Spanish-language television presents a montage of photos. They tell a story in images from Biden's days as a young senator to today's 77-year-old nominee. Included is a photo of the Irish Catholic politician famous for carrying a rosary being anointed by a cleric, his head bowed in prayer. Soon the scene moves to a photo of Donald Trump, a sporadic churchgoer, awkwardly holding a Bible outside St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House after ordering the dispersal of protesters to make way for a photo op June 1.
The message for Latino voters: Biden may be an Irish Catholic from largely-Anglo Scranton, Pennsylvania, but he shares your faith understanding. Trump doesn't.
Frank Orlando, director of polling at St. Leo University near Tampa, told NCR that it may well be religiosity and church moral teachings, not national identity, that will play the largest part in garnering the pivotal Latino vote in the pivotal state this year.
In Florida, the Hispanic mix includes Cuban Americans; Venezuelans hit with scarcity and chaos at home; Puerto Ricans who left their island after a string of natural disasters; and newcomers such as Central Americans fleeing poverty and violence. But those national identities often obscure other factors that influence voting.
"It's a tired idea that national identification plays a huge role in Latino voting patterns," said Orlando.
Ana Sofía Peláez, co-founder of the Miami Freedom Project, an officially non-partisan voter education program, agreed that Democrats need to bring faith into the electoral equation.
"It's part of our culture and our identity," she told NCR.
Peláez told NCR that the response of Florida Latino voters is complex. While many remain strongly anti-abortion, "none of us live a single-issue life."
Politicians this year have focused on two groups: Puerto Ricans, who are U.S. citizens and eligible to vote once they establish a mainland residence, and Cubans, who have deep roots in the U.S.
A Miami Herald poll released in early September sent shudders through Democratic circles. It showed that, as usual, Florida was tightly contested, and that Biden has made inroads among older, white voters. But Democrats were shocked to discover that Biden was trailing Hillary Clinton's 2016 performance among Latinos, when Clinton lost Florida and the national election. While Florida was rated a tossup, Trump was said to be surpassing previous Republican presidential contenders among Latinos.
Trump's public anti-abortion stance helps to explain the surprising strength Trump is showing among Latino voters, Orlando told NCR.
President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Cecil Airport in Jacksonville, Florida, Sept. 24. (CNS/Reuters/Tom Brenner)
The Trump campaign has targeted Latino voters in Florida, hoping that they can cut into what has been seen as a Democratic strength. In February, Trump appeared in Miami, and much of the crowd consisted not of the older, white voters that come out for "Make America Great Again" rallies in the Midwest, but Latinos from evangelical churches, a bastion of Republican strength.
The Biden campaign has stepped up its efforts since the August poll. They formed Creyentes con Biden ("Believers for Biden") to rally Christian Latinos to the Democratic ticket, including evangelical and Catholic leaders.
Yanira Merino, president of the Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, told NCR that Florida has always been complicated.
"Florida has always been a challenge [for Democrats]," she said. This year, even more so. She told NCR that Latinos are facing many of the issues affecting the wider community, including COVID-19, which has directly affected Latinos more than whites and other minorities.
"Latino workers are working in low-wage industries. The impact of COVID has been devastating," Merino said about the health toll and financial impact, particularly those working in low-wage service jobs in the devastated tourist industry in central Florida. Disney recently announced 28,000 layoffs, many of them among Latino workers with the growing union.
Peláez is the daughter of Cuban emigres and an expert on Cuban cuisine who has written extensively on that topic. Her parents were among those who fled the island and the Fidel Castro regime.
The anti-communist fervor among many Cubans had placed them firmly in the Republican camp in the U.S., but younger, more established Cuban Americans are now more likely to vote Democrat, said Peláez. Many more traditional Cuban Americans react negatively to socialist labels, at the same time they are dependent upon programs such as the Affordable Care Act. Venezuelans in south Florida often express similar sentiments against socialism, she said.
"We have to see people as complex. There are a lot of conflicting motives," she said, an insight reinforced by the Miami Freedom Project regular get-togethers among southern Florida Latino voters. There, often over ethnic dishes, the project tries to encourage discussion on political and social justice issues among South Florida voters.
Biden's Catholicism is a plus. Latino voters connect with his overt Catholic piety, and his discussion of how faith has played a role in overcoming personal tragedies, including the deaths of his children and first wife, according to Peláez, of the Miami Freedom Project. "That has always connected with me as a Catholic," she said.
Cuban Americans, she said, have never been a monolith. Their attitudes toward their home country differ. As a young girl, she watched as Miami protestors demonstrated against an art exhibit at a local museum featuring the work of her aunt, Amelia Peláez del Casal. Because her aunt remained in Cuba after the revolution, she was considered suspect, a part of the regime, even though her family included a political prisoner who spent decades in a Castro jail.
Miami Latinos remained connected to events in their home country. Peláez embraces the description of the city as the Latin American capital. It undergoes regular changes, as groups, including Cubans, Venezuelans and Argentinians, flee to South Florida when life in their home countries become unbearable.
"We have the immediate impacts of anything happening in Latin America," she said, noting that is now particularly true of Venezuelans. "You feel these population shifts in real time."
"New York is New York no matter who comes. Miami is more mutable, it contains these different shapes," said Peláez, who once lived in New York.
Orlando says that Democrats need to try a different tack to reach reluctant Florida Latinos. Outrage against Trump immigration statements and policies, or equating the Black Lives Matter protests with Latinos, will not persuade reluctant Latinos who lean Republican. "In some ways, white voters are more offended by this stuff," he said about Trump's often controversial remarks.
"A lot of Hispanic voters don't consider themselves as people of color," he said, with many viewing their immigrant experience as vastly different from those of Black Americans. While Latinos are now the nation's largest minority, they still comprise a much smaller part of the electorate. Black Americans traditionally vote in larger numbers.
Trump's anti-abortion policies retains support among his Latino evangelical and Catholic base, said Orlando. Biden has not been helped among that group by his transition from young pro-life senator to his pledges to maintain Roe v. Wade and public funding for abortions.
The president's personal address at this year's Right to Life March, a largely symbolic gesture, has made an impact among such voters, he said.
His colleague at St. Leo's, theology professor Stephen Okey, told NCR that Latino evangelicals are willing to support the president, even while cognizant of his largely irreligious background and his pre-presidency reputation as a New York playboy. They see him through a biblical lens: some as King David, also guilty of sexual sins, who was used by God. Others see him as comparable to Cyrus, the pagan Persian king who liberated the Hebrews.
"They will use that kind of language to talk about President Trump," said Okey.
Biden, said Orlando, might be able to more effectively persuade older white voters in Florida, such as those who live in The Villages, a giant retirement community.
"They can recognize Joe Biden as an older established Democrat from the places they moved from," he told NCR. "Appeals to identity might work better with white Catholic voters who are less interested in church teaching."
What won't work, he emphasized, is what he described as "a tired trope" that Cuban Americans will vote Republican, while Puerto Ricans are safely in the Democratic camp. Both groups include many who defy the stereotype. Whether religious-minded Latinos will accept Biden's personal identification with them or Trump's transactional anti-abortion alliance will be determined in November.
[Peter Feuerherd is NCR news editor. His email is pfeuerherd@ncronline.org.]
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A version of this story appeared in the Oct 16-29, 2020 print issue under the headline: Latino vote in Florida may hinge on faith.
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Happy Easter everyone! And of course the 1st of the month means a new colour over over at White with 1 :) - and this month is the delicious TOFFEE CRUNCH .... yum!!!
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The sexual revolution in the 1960s United States was a social and cultural movement that resulted in liberalized attitudes toward sex and morality. In the 1960s, social norms were changing as sex became more widely discussed in society. Erotic media, such as films, magazines, and books, became more popular and gained widespread attention across the country. These changes reveal that sex was entering the public domain, and sex rates, especially among young people, could no longer be ignored.

With the introduction of the pill and second-wave feminism, women gained more control over their bodies and sexuality during the 1960s. Women could engage in sex without the risk of pregnancy.  At the same time, many women involved in the feminist movement questioned the traditional gender and sex roles ascribed to them. Women's liberation movements sought to free women from social and moral confines.

Developments in the gay rights movement occurred during the same period, such as public demonstrations and protests to challenge discrimination against sexuality. Some activists began celebrating homosexuality, but the movement did not really take off until the Stonewall riots of 1969.

Changes in social norms
In America, a dramatic shift in traditional ideas about sex and sexuality arose from a number of social changes. In 1969, Blue Movie, directed by Andy Warhol, premiered. Films as early as the 1880s contained sexual images and some pornographic content was filmed in the 1920s, but Blue Movie was the first erotic film to gain wide theatrical release.    This film helped to introduce "porno chic" and the Golden Age of Porn (1969-1984). Pornography became a publicly discussed topic that was taken seriously by critics.

Magazines depicting erotic and nude content increased in circulation at this time as well. After Playboy's founding in 1953, the magazine was selling 1.1 million copies by 1960.  By 1970, it was circulating 5.4 million copies worldwide, and it peaked in circulation in 1972 with 7.16 million copies and "a quarter of all American male college students reportedly reading it in the 1970s."  The first Playboy Club opened in Chicago in 1960, and members were served food and drink by Playboy Bunnies. Clubs were later opened in 23 other U.S. cities.  Writer and prominent feminist of the time, Gloria Steinem, went undercover at a Playboy Club in 1963 and found that women were often mistreated and exploited.

In the 1960s, bans on erotic novels were challenged, and the standard of what should be banned was changed. In Grove Press, Inc. v. Gerstein (1964), the Grove Press published Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Cancer, which was banned in the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the ban on the novel in a 5-4 vote because it was decided it had literary merit and was not "utterly without redeeming social value."  In a similar case, Memoirs v. Massachusetts (1966), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided that John Cleland's The Life and Adventures of Miss Fanny Hill was obscene. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned that ruling in a 6-3 vote and stated that this book was also not "utterly without redeeming social value."  This ruling made banning books with sexual content more difficult because any books with literary merit or social importance could no longer be considered obscene in the United States.

Despite the changing social norms, it is unclear if rates of sex increased in revolutionary proportions during the 1960s. Daniel Scott Smith studied sex rates and saw increases in certain groups between 1940 and 1967. As John Levi Martin explains, "[Scott] concludes that members of the upper classes, whom the female-college-student surveys tend to study, change later than the rest of the population, and it is when they finally rejoin their lower-class counterparts in sexual mores and behavior that we suddenly believe a sexual revolution is upon us. This argument is supported by historical work that suggests that premarital sex – and not simply sex with a fiancé – was by no means uncommon among urban working-class women before the 1920s."

In addition, Phillips Cutright examined data about the age of first menses in the Western population and illegitimacy levels from 1940 to 1968, and he found that no changes of revolutionary proportions occurred. The only "substantial increases" were among young whites with their future husbands. He determined that the age of the first menses in women decreased from 1940 to 1968 likely due to better nutrition, which suggests that earlier "low illegitimacy rates among young girls were due to biological factors as well as to the social controls depressing sexual activity." He suggests that "the myth of an abstinent past and promiscuous present is highly exaggerated."

The Pill
Beginning in 1960, "The Pill" provided many women with an affordable way to avoid pregnancy. Before the pill was introduced many women did not look for long-term jobs because they would need to leave the job market when they became pregnant. Abortion was illegal and presented many health risks if performed. After birth control, a higher percentage of women graduated from school and college, which allowed them to later gain professional careers.

With the invention of the pill, women could safely control their sexuality and fertility. Previous methods of birth control existed, including herbal remedies and early condoms, which were less protective and not legalized.  Birth control "was female-controlled, simple to use, highly effective, and most revolutionary of all, it separated reproduction and contraception from the sexual act." While critics claimed that the pill would lead to immorality, it allowed women to gain some freedoms in making choices about their bodies.

The pill was originally endorsed by the government as a form of population control to counter overpopulation. President Lyndon Johnson's social reform policy, The Great Society, aimed to eliminate poverty and racial injustice.  By 1960, the Food and Drug Administration had licensed the drug. 'The Pill', as it came to be known, was extraordinarily popular, and despite worries over possible side effects, by 1962, an estimated 1,187,000 women were using it. Despite its popularity with women, the pill was still a controversial subject. In 1964, it was illegal in eight states, including Connecticut and New York.

The pill was easier to obtain for married women, especially after Griswold v. Connecticut (1965). The U.S. Supreme Court sided with Estelle Griswold, the executive director of the Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut, and stated that the right to privacy for married couples was granted in the U.S. Constitution.  While this ruling made it easier for married women to obtain birth control, unmarried women who requested gynecological exams and oral contraceptives were often denied or lectured on sexual morality. Those women who were denied access to the pill often had to visit several doctors before one would prescribe it to them.  In 1972, the Supreme Court extended these rights to unmarried couples in Eisenstadt v. Baird.

Criticisms of the Pill
Criticisms of the pill developed among certain groups, Black populations in particular. The origin of the pill as a form of population control for those living in poverty created distrust among groups that were systematically impoverished. Robert Chrisman argued that birth control could now be used as genocide with racist motives, saying "contraception, abortion, sterilization are now major weapons in the arsenal of the U.S.' Agency for International Development."  Attendees at the Black Power Conference in Newark, New Jersey also argued against birth control and feared it was a tool to limit Black power.

These fears about the pill continued to develop through the decade, and even into the 1970s. The United States, especially the South, had a history of controlling Black fertility, first under slavery and later through sterilization. In Dick Gregory's cover story for the October 1971 edition of Ebony magazine, he wrote, "back in the days of slavery, Black folks couldn't grow kids fast enough for white folks to harvest. Now that we've got a little taste of power, white folks want to call a moratorium on having children." Still, a number of Black women chose to take the pill because they desired control over their fertility.

In 1969, journalist Barbara Seaman published The Doctors' Case Against the Pill, which outlined a number of side effects. She provided evidence for "the risk of blood clots, heart attack, stroke, depression, weight gain, and loss of libido." Her book would lead to congressional hearings about the safety of the pill in the 1970s.

The Women's Movement
Second-wave feminism developed in the 1960s and 1970s, demanding equal opportunities and rights for women. The feminist and women's liberation movements helped change ideas about women and their sexuality. In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan discussed the domestic role of women in 1960s America and the feeling of dissatisfaction with that role. Friedan suggested that women should not conform to this popularized view of the feminine as "The Housewife" and that they should participate in and enjoy the act of sex.

The women's liberation movement also criticized the beauty standards of sexuality in the 1960s. The New York Radical Women, a radical civil rights, New Left, and antiwar group, protested against the Miss America beauty pageant in Atlantic City, New Jersey. These women threw their bras, copies of Playboy, high heels, and other objects of beauty into a "Freedom Trash Can."  Later feminists argued that sexual liberation allowed the patriarchy to hypersexualize women and gave men "free access" to women.

However, despite second-wave feminists sometimes being considered "anti-sex," many women were interested in liberating women from certain sexual constraints. The women's liberation movement prioritized "its cultural challenge not to unjust laws but to the very definitions of female and male, the entire system then called 'sex roles' by sociologists."

Gay Rights and the "undocumented" sexual revolution
Homosexuality was still considered a developmental maladjustment by medical establishments throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Prejudices against homosexual behavior were cloaked in the language of medical authority, and homosexuals were unable to argue for the same legal and social rights.

Homosexuals were sometimes characterized as dangerous and predatory deviants. For example, the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, between 1956 and 1965, sought out these 'deviants' within the public system, with a particular focus upon teachers. The persecution of gay teachers was driven by the popular belief that homosexuals could prey on vulnerable young people and recruit them into homosexuality. In addition, male homosexuals were often seen as inherently more dangerous (particularly to children) than lesbians, due to stereotypes and societal prejudices.

In addition, most states had sodomy laws, which made anal sex a crime. It was punishable by up to 10 years in prison.  However, by 1971, the first gay pornographic feature film, Boys in the Sand, was shown at the 55th Street Playhouse in New York City. With this movie, the gay community was launched into the sexual revolution and the porn industry.  Earlier homoerotic films existed, especially in Europe, as early as 1908. These films were underground and sold in discreet channels.

The gay rights movement was less popular in the 1960s than later decades, but it still engaged in public protest and an attitude "celebratory about the homosexual lifestyle." The Mattachine Societies in Washington, D.C. and New York staged demonstrations that protested discrimination against homosexuals. These groups argued "that the closing of gay bars was a denial of the right to free assembly and that the criminalization of homosexuality was a denial of the 'right to the pursuit of happiness.'" In 1969, the United States had fifty gay and lesbian organizations that engaged in public protest.

These gay rights groups also challenged traditional gender roles, similar to feminist movements of the time. The Mattachine leaders emphasized that homosexual oppression required strict definitions of gender behavior. Social roles equated "male, masculine, man only with husband and father" and equated "female, feminine, women only with wife and mother." These activists saw homosexual women and men as victims of a "language and culture that did not admit the existence of a homosexual minority." The homophile movement and gay rights activist fought for an expansion of rights based on similar theories that drove some heterosexual women to reject traditional sexual norms.

The Stonewall riots, 1969
In the early morning of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, the most popular gay bar in New York City, located in the city's Greenwich Village neighborhood. The police asked for identification from patrons of the bar; asked to verify the sex of cross-dressers, drag queens and trans people; and assaulted lesbian women when frisking them. As they took people out of the club, a scuffle began between a woman and police officers, and it quickly dissolved into a riot. Protests continued into the next day. The Stonewall riots are considered a defining moment in the gay rights movement and have become a "'year zero' in public consciousness and historical memory."

The Stonewall riots of 1969 marked an increase in public awareness of gay rights campaigns, and it increased the willingness of homosexuals across America to join groups and campaign for rights. However, it would be misleading to conclude that resistance to homosexual oppression began or ended with Stonewall. David Allyn argues that numerous acts of small-scale resistance are necessary for large political movements, and the years preceding Stonewall played a role in creating the gay liberation movement.

The Stonewall riots are a pivotal moment in gay rights history because they enabled many members of the gay community to identify with the struggle for gay rights.  Gay life after Stonewall was just as varied and complex as it was before. Still, the development of the Gay Liberation Front in 1969 sought "to create new 'social form and relations' that would be based on 'brotherhood, cooperation, human love, and uninhibited sexuality."

See also

 Birth control movement in the United States
 Blue Movie
 55th Street Playhouse
 Helen Singer Kaplan
 Masters and Johnson
 Make Love, Not War: The Sexual Revolution: An Unfettered History, 2001 book
 New Andy Warhol Garrick Theatre
 Reproductive rights
 Sex in the American Civil War
 Timeline of reproductive rights legislation

References

Sexual revolution
Sexuality in the United States
Counterculture of the 1960s


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Springfield leaders now say a longer time period between tax renewals will allow the city to take on bigger projects, increase efficiency, potentially save money and have the flexibility to respond to unforeseen needs.
Before City Council made the decision earlier this month to place the tax on the ballot with a 20-year lifespan, former Mayor Jim O'Neal cautioned them to carefully consider if extending the sunset is necessary.
O'Neal's concern highlights a careful calculus that the city has to make every time it asks for a tax hike or continuation — how can voters be convinced to say yes?
O'Neal said when he first joined City Council in 1987, Springfield tried to get a one-cent sales tax with a 10-year sunset passed.
"It failed badly," he said. Later, a city-hired consultant told council that it was voted down because the city was asking for too much money, didn't tell voters what would be done with the money and — above all — 10 years was too long, he said.
Two years later, in 1989, the city successfully asked voters to approve a smaller sales tax, which would go up for renewal every three years. That was the beginning of the 1/4-cent capital improvements sales tax.
It has been a winning strategy for the city of Springfield. Not only has the tax been continuously renewed since 1989, but the approval rates have also been high. About 86 percent of voters supported the tax in 2016.
"I just don't want to see it fail," O'Neal said, noting that he would support whatever decision council made. "It would be a massive problem for this community if that sales tax is not renewed."
In April, if the 1/4-cent sales tax is voted down, it would be a major loss to the city. Springfield would have about $10 million less a year to spend on projects, such as intersection improvements, street widening and repaving and bridge replacements.
Public Works' total budget from the past year was just under $47 million, according to Assistant Director of Public Works Martin Gugel.
Losing the 1/4-cent capital improvements sales tax "could have a negative impact on (the city's) ability to take care of our system," Gugel said.
However, it appears that city leaders are feeling confident that voters will continue to support the tax, as they have for the past three decades.
Councilman Craig Hosmer said he believes voters will see the value in extending the sales tax in April.
"It's been an effective program and done good things for the city of Springfield," Hosmer said.
Extending the lifetime of the tax to 20 years will allow the city "to do more with the same amount of money," he said.
"It's not going to increase the tax at all, just lengthen the period of time," Hosmer said. "It will give you a longer period of time to do planning, design and construction."
Gugel explained that currently, many big projects are split into different phases because not all can be done within a three-year time span. Waiting for another tax renewal can create unnecessary delays and expenses.
"A longer cycle allows us to fully commit to citizens that the project will be fully completed," he said.
Consolidation of those phases could mean increased efficiency and more accurate estimates of project costs, Gugel said.
Another benefit to the longer cycle is that it will allow the city to consider bonding out more major projects, he said. Bonds, which require voter approval, let the city borrow money to work on projects that are too expensive to pay for using cash on hand.
Flexibility is another factor. There are emerging needs which could unexpectedly arise, Gugel said.
Just because the tax might not come back to voters every three years doesn't mean that the city will stop telling them what the money is being used for, according to Gugel.
Using information from a public survey completed earlier this year, the city has created a list of projects to be funded for the next five years if the tax is renewed.
"We would continue to reach out to the public through surveys, through meetings and have conversations with our partners and stakeholders," he said, noting there will be a new list of projects every five years.
Gugel noted that the Citizens' Tax Oversight Committee would also watch the tax revenue and expenditures.
"We're proving ourselves to be good stewards of the funding and with the approval ratings we've gotten on previous renewals, I feel like we've put forward a really good case," Gugel said.
Shanda Trautman spoke in favor of council's decision to put the tax measure on a ballot with a 20-year sunset.
She talked about the importance of cities investing in streets, sidewalks, parks and community spaces in order to attract and retain professionals.
"The capital improvements programs allows us an increased ability to plan, maximize dollars and really think big and bold about our future," Trautman said.
Here's what the city hopes to fund for the next five years if voters renew the sales tax, according to a city news release:
The specific proposed construction projects include:
Galloway street widening (Luster to Lone Pine)
Division Street reconstruction (National to Glenstone)
West Bypass and Kearney intersection improvements
Division Street sidewalk (West Avenue to Kansas Expressway.)
Battlefield and Lone Pine intersection improvements
National and Sunset intersection improvements
Scenic Avenue over Wilson's Creek bridge replacement
Walnut Street over Jordan Creek bridge replacement
The specific proposed design projects include:
Kansas Avenue widening (Maplewood to Walnut Lawn)
Fremont Avenue widening (Erie to Independence)
Campbell Avenue widening (Republic to Westview)
Proposed citywide programs include:
Major street resurfacing and rehabilitation, including of National, Battlefield and Sunshine
Sidewalk and curb and gutter construction
Schools sidewalk program
Neighborhood initiative program
Cost-share and economic development projects
Traffic signal and traffic calming, including at National and Commercial
Center city development, including a Jefferson Avenue streetscape (Walnut to St. Louis)
Rountree Stormwater Improvement Project
Grant Avenue from Norton Street to Woodridge Street
Berkeley and Westwood to Seminole and Nettleton
Hampton from Seminole to Cherokee
Loren Street and Karla Avenue to Bennett Street and Meadowview Avenue
Area around Lone Pine Avenue and Catalpa Street


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Senior Director of Administration, Budgets, and Planning
Bronx, New York
Junior Research Scientist
Senior Grants and Finance Manager
Harvard University Medical School
USA - MA - Boston
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Mahwah, New Jersey
Research Scientist - Language Development
Refugee Program ESL Specialist
Baltimore City Community College
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Adjunct Part-Time Instructor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University
Postdoctoral Associate -Simons Collaboration on Wave Turbulence
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Clinical Research Manager, Head & Neck and Gastric and Mixed Tumors
Manager, Plant Operations
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Laboratory Research Specialist
Postdoctoral Associate (Seeman group)
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Postdoctoral Associate (Jerschow Lab)
Location: Bronx, New York
Administrative/Support
Higher Education Institution
Internal Number: A00910
The Senior Director of Administration, Budgets, and Planning supports the Dean of Arts and Sciences Faculty/AVP of Arts and Sciences in providing effective oversight of administrative functions, data analysis, strategic planning, budgeting, and financial management. In this role, the Senior Director 1/ manages the administrative functions of the A&S areas, including FAS Departments, Programs, and Centers, 2/ manages the budgets and financial operations of the Office of the AVP of Arts and Sciences and the A&S Departments, Interdisciplinary Programs, and Centers, 3/ provides support for joint strategic financial planning of A&S area budgets (including collaboration with FCLC, FCRH, and GSAS) and supports the design and implementation of coordinated Arts & Sciences initiatives, and 4/ liaises with the Provost's Office as well as other financial and administrative offices, including Finance, Procurement, and Human Resources.
Supports the Dean of A&S/AVP for A&S in financial and administrative functions, managing all non-academic personnel resources of A&S, including budgets, space, planning, analysis, etc.
Coordinates the collaborative financial and planning efforts of the A&S Finance Directors/Managers in the Fordham College Lincoln Center, Fordham College Rose Hill, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to support a coordinated financial strategy for Arts and Sciences. Supports the BPREP processes for A&S overall, working with the four Deans' individual budget-support staff. Oversees, maintains, and prepares annual budget requests including new initiatives for A&S area budgets (FAS, GSAS, FCRH, FCLC).
Provides guidance to 20 A&S Chairs and approx. 30 Directors on financial and administrative functions, including budget management, hiring, onboarding, and supervision of non-instructional staff.
Provides training and oversight to A&S support staff in departments and programs in the implementation and management of FAS policies, technical and procedural information, as well as administrative processes and procedures employed by the University.
Manages the allocation of faculty office and administrative space allotments to A&S Departments, Centers, and Interdisciplinary Programs on both campuses.
Participates in the planning of new A&S initiatives by providing data analysis, forecasting, and other supporting reports.
Supports the analysis of A&S faculty composition, including tenure track authorizations, non-tenure track hiring, adjuncts, faculty leaves, and factors impacting faculty course load.
Tracks faculty absences due to internal and external fellowships, medical and other leaves, retirements, and resignations.
Tracks reported faculty teaching loads; within FAS policy guidelines, records faculty course reductions and overload requests.
Tracks gap funding and salary savings from faculty leaves.
Coordinates department and program administrative nominations (chairs, associate chairs, and program directors); processes and tracks compensation for these administrative appointments including, where applicable, stipends, course releases, and/or research or other support.
Maintains faculty recruitment budget, which includes communication of dollar limits and reimbursement requirements to A&S Chairs.
Designs, implements, and analyses the effectiveness of FAS funding programs including:
Academic Travel
A&S Deans' Challenge Grants
Supplemental Lab Supply Program
Manages the FAS/ GSAS Teaching Credits program, including the distribution of GSAS mentoring reports and course reduction requests from Department Chairs.
Analyzes A&S area and department budgets for efficiencies and opportunities to maximize University resources in support of a unified A&S vision.
Provides Banner Fund training and support to A&S Deans, Department Chairs, and Interdisciplinary Program Directors and serves as liaison to other University financial offices (Human Resources, Finance, and Procurement).
Participates in University budget meetings in support of A&S Deans.
Coordinates department and program requests for the coming year from annual review submissions.
Maintains, communicates, and updates the FAS Disaster Recovery plan (operational procedures and forms that permit vital office functions to continue under extraordinary circumstances).
Supervises the FAS Executive Secretary and graduate interns/student workers.
Manages prioritizing projects, tracks strategic initiatives and annual goals.
Supervises and prepares special reports such as annual reports.
Approves, with Dean's oversight, all FAS fiscal transactions and maintains necessary accounting records.
Handles issues related to the day-to-day financial operations of the Office of FAS and serves as liaison to other University financial offices (Human Resources, Finance, and Procurement).
Master's Degree or equivalent professional experience in a relevant field is required.
An MBA, a master's degree in Finance, Management, Public Administration, or a similar field preferred.
10+ years of experience in administration and financial management, including 5+ years of experience in higher education.
About Fordham University
Fordham Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its 9 colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United kingdom.
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The Indian tablet market grew 68% in the March 2022 quarter; Lenovo leads
Mary Dawson | Posted on May 17, 2022 |
The tablet market in India grew 68 percent year-on-year in the first quarter ending March 2022, leading the Lenovo chart, according to a cybermedia research report released on Monday.
According to the report, tablet shipments are likely to register a healthy 10-12 percent increase in 2022.
4G tablets grew 74 percent year-over-year in the reported quarter.
"Driven by epidemics and the constant rise and fall of COVID-19 cases, many sectors survive with hybrid or remote work. It continues to fuel tablet adoption, e-learning and content usage.
Cybermedia Research (CMR) Analyst-Industry Intelligence Group Menaka Kumari said, "The education and healthcare sectors have contributed to the overall development of the tablet market in India.
Tablet shipments with 8-inch displays make up 26 per cent of the total shipments in the Indian market, while tablets with 10-inch and larger displays account for 61 per cent of shipments.
"Lenovo maintains its first position in the region, driven primarily by its commercial business and retail market. The Lenovo Tab M8 (HD) (Wi-Fi + 4G) 2GB 32GB series has gained 32 percent market share, primarily in terms of value (Rs 7,000-25,000). In the first quarter of 2022, Lenovo shipments recorded a significant growth of 48 percent (YoY) per year, "the report said.
Apple and Samsung each registered 22 percent market share, followed by Realme and Lava in the March 2022 quarter.
Kumari said the tablet market in India is going to be strong with the growing availability of 5G-enabled tablets, as well as new market entrants like Xiaomi's Pad 5.
"With other potential tablet marketers, such as OPPO, Vivo and OnePlus, consumers have more choice in the Android tablet market than ever before. From an enterprise perspective, the commercial economy and the public sector will continue to gain strength due to the traction of the digital economy and e-governance, "he added.
Proposal to settle with the bank deposited in NCLAT, said the former Supertech
Follow the rules or leave India, the government tells VPN service providers
Airtel tariff hike: Subsequent hike will help the company cross the Rs 200 ARPU mark, MD says
Drones can save lives by providing healthcare in rural India: WEF report
Rajnath Singh embarked on a P-8I anti-submarine warfare aircraft
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God calls us to be ambassadors for him and advocates for those in need. And the Bible is filled with verses in which God specifically asks us to speak on behalf of others, as well as condemnation of civilizations who chose not to, or worse, who oppressed widows and orphans and took advantage of workers.
So how does this play out in our day? How can we fulfill God's call to do justice and love mercy in our own day? Our friends at World Vision have a few things to say about advocacy for God's people who are most in need.
If secular advocacy is calling on government officials to pay attention to what's important to you, biblical advocacy should be reminding them to do what God has called them to do – since 88 percent of the members of Congress publicly claim faith in Christ. What has God called them to do? Read on for what God's Word says about advocating for these people he loves.
But first, let's consider the stories of advocacy throughout the Bible – think of Moses, Daniel, and Esther, people who rose to the occasion (even if reluctantly) when God called them. To secure the Israelites' freedom, Moses used his connection to Pharaoh to speak for the people. Daniel spoke up on behalf of himself, his friends, and his faith when he and his friends were taken from their own people and delivered to a king and country they did not know.
Esther was willing to risk everything to save her people. "… I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish" (Esther 4:16). By using her influence with the king to advocate for the Jews, she put her newly found status as queen, and even her own life, on the line. And it worked: King Ahasuerus heard Esther's pleas. She and her people were saved.
God also calls each of us to be good stewards of our gifts. As Americans, we have the gift of influence with our government. When we steward that gift well, leaders can make decisions that fight the systemic causes of poverty, conflict, and injustice. One determined voice can help change lives around the world — and that voice could belong to you.
"This is what the LORD says: 'Do what is just and right. Rescue from the hand of the oppressor the one who has been robbed. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place.
Consider what Mordecai tells Esther as she's considering whether she should advocate for her people: "And who knows but that you have come to your royal position for such a time as this?" (Esther 4:14). Is God calling you to be an advocate somewhere?
World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization dedicated to working with children, families, and their communities worldwide to reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. Motivated by our faith in Jesus Christ, we serve alongside the poor and oppressed as a demonstration of God's unconditional love for all people. World Vision serves all people, regardless of religion, race, ethnicity, or gender.


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Bruce Alexander Bilby FRS (3 September 1922 – 20 November 2013) was a British mechanical engineer, and an Emeritus Professor at the University of Sheffield.

Life
He was a graduate of Dover Grammar School for Boys.

He once taught at University of Birmingham and was the Professor of the Theory of Materials at the University of Sheffield from 1966 to 1984.
He was a colleague of Alan Cottrell.

He died aged 91 on 20 November 2013.

See also
Cottrell atmosphere
Flow plasticity theory

References

People educated at Dover Grammar School for Boys
Academics of the University of Birmingham
Academics of the University of Sheffield
British mechanical engineers
Fellows of the Royal Society
1922 births
2013 deaths


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