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پایانم را رقم زدم
مجموعه: سهم من از کوهستان / کتاب: سهم من از کوهستان / فصل 21
سهم من از کوهستان
3 کتاب | 56 فصل
کتاب 1 : سهم من از کوهستان
1. من از بوران پناه بردم
2. شروع جسارت من
3. رفتاری که در مزرعه گریبلی یاد گرفتم
4. جایی که گیاهان مفید پیدا کردم
5. درباره ی درخت کهنسال
6. ملاقات با یک دوست
7. مهیا کننده ی پادشاه
8. کاری که با اولین دنبال کننده خودم کردم
9. یاد گرفتم که چگونه غذا را نمکی کنم
10. چگونه یک در روبرو من باز شد
11. وقتی شگفت انگیز الفبای خود را یاد گرفت
12. یک شخص زنده پیدا کردم
13. پاییز غذا و تنهایی می آورد
14. ما همه درباره هالووین یاد می گیریم
15. یاد گرفتم با شکارچی ها چگونه برخورد کنم
16. مشکل شروع شد
17. جمع آوری چوب و مقاومت در زمستان
18. درباره پرنده ها و مردم یاد گرفتم
19. به زمستان چشم دوختم و بهار را پیدا کردم
20. بهار در زمستان و آغاز انتهای داستان من
21. پایانم را رقم زدم
22. شهر بر من آمد
کتاب 2 : در دور دست های کوهستان
کتاب 3 : کوهستانِ شگفت انگیز
In Which I Cooperate with the Ending
By the middle of March I could have told you it was spring without looking. Jessie did not come around any more, she was fishing the rewarding waters of the open stream, she was returning to a tree hollow full of babies. The Baron Weasel did not come by. There were salamanders and frogs to keep him busy. The chickadees sang alone, not in a winter group, and the skunks and minks and foxes found food more abundant in the forest than at my tree house. The circumstances chat had brought us all together in the winter were no more. There was food on the land and the snow was slipping away.
By April 1 was no longer living off my storehouse. There were bulbs, tubers, and greens to be had. Meals were varied once more. There were frogs' legs, eggs, and turtle soup on my table.
I took my baths in the spring again rather than in the turtle shell with warmed-over snow. I plunged regularly into the ice water of the spring – shouting as my breath was grabbed from my lungs. I scrubbed, ran for my tree. I dried myself before the fire, shouting as I stepped into my clothes. Then I would sing. I made up a lot of nice songs after my bath, one of which I taught to a man who was hiking along the top of the gorge one day.
He said his name was Aaron, and he was quiet and tall. I found him sitting on the edge of the cliff, looking across the valley. He was humming little tunes. He had a sad smile that never went away. I knew I would not have to hide from him just by looking at him, so I walked up and sat down beside him. I taught him my "cold water song".
I learned he wrote songs and that he was from New York. He had come to the Catskills for the Passover festivities and had wandered off for the day. He was about to go back when I sat down and said, "I heard you humming." "Yes," he said. "I hum a good deal. Can you hum?"
"Yes," I replied, "I can hum. I hum a good deal, too, and even sing. especially when I get out of the spring in the morning. Then I really sing aloud."
"Lets hear you sing aloud."
So I said, feeling very relaxed with the sun shining on my head. "All right. I'll sing you my cold water song."
"I like that," Aaron said. "Sing it again." So I did.
"Let me suggest a few changes." He changed a few words to fit the tune and the tune to fit the words, and then we both sang it.
"Mind if I use the hum hum hum dee dee, part?" he asked presently.
"You can use it all," I said. "Tunes are free up here. I got that from the red-eyed vireo."
He sat up and said, "What other songs are sung up here?"
I whistled him the "hi-chickadee" song of the black-capped Mr Bracket; and the waterfall song of the wood thrush. He took out a card, lined it with five lines, and wrote in little marks. I stretched back in the sun and hummed the song of the brown thrasher and of Barometer, the nuthatch. Then I boomed out the song of the great horned owl and stopped.
"That's enough. isn't it?" I asked.
"I guess so." He lay back and stretched, looked into the leaves, and said, "If I do something with this, I'll come back and play it to you. I'll bring my portable organ." "Fine," I said.
Then after a drowsy pause, he said, "Will you be around these pans this summer?"
"I'll be around," I said. Aaron fell asleep, and I rolled over in the sun. I liked him. He hadn't asked me one personal question. Oddly enough, I wasn't sure whether that made me glad or not. Then I thought of the words Frightful had spoken in my head. "You want to be found," and I began to wonder. I had sought out a human being. This would not have happened a year ago.
I fell asleep. When I awoke Aaron was gone and Frightful was circling me. She saw me stir, swooped in, and sat on a rock beside me. I said, "Hi," but did not get up, just lay still listening to the birds, the snips and sputs of insects moving in the dry leaves, and the air stirring the newly leafing trees. Nothing went on in my head. It was comfortably blank. I knew the pleasures of the lizard on the log who knows where his next meal is coming from. I also knew his boredom. After an hour I did have a thought. Aaron had said that he was up in the Catskills for Passover. Then it must also he near Easter, and Matt would be coming soon. I had not counted notches in weeks.
A cool shadow crossed my face and I arose, whistled for Frightful to come to my hand, and wandered slowly home, stuffing my pockets with spring beauty bulbs as I went.
Several days later I met Matt on Route 27 at three-thirty. I tied his handkerchief around his eyes and led him, stumbling and tripping, up the mountain. I went almost directly home. I guess I didn't much care if he remembered how to get there or not. When I took off the blindfold, he looked around.
"Where are we? Where's your house?" I sat down and motioned him to sit. He did so with great willingness – in fact, he flopped.
"What do you sleep on, the ground?"
I pointed to the deerskin flaps moving in the wind in the hemlock.
"Whatdaya do, live in a tree?"
"Yep." Matt bounced to his feet and we went in. I propped the door open so that the light streamed in, and he shouted with joy. I lit the tallow candle and we went over everything, and each invention he viewed with a shout.
While I prepared trout baked in wild grape leaves, Matt sat on the bed and told me the world news in brief. I listened with care to the trouble in Europe, the trouble in the Far East, the trouble in the south, and the trouble in America. Also to a few sensational murders, some ball scores, and his report card.
"It all proves my point," I said sagely. "People live too close together."
"Is that why you are here?"
"Well, not exactly. The main reason is that I don't like to be dependent particularly on electricity, rails, steam, oil coal machines, and all those things that can go Wrong." "Well, is that why you are up here?"
"Well, not exactly. Some men climbed Mount Everest because it was there. Here is a wilderness."
"Is that why?"
"Aw, come on, Matt. See that falcon? Hear those white-throated sparrows? Smell that skunk? Well, the falcon takes the sky, the white-throated sparrow takes the low bushes, the skunk takes the earth, you take the newspaper office, I take the woods." "Don't you get lonely?"
"Lonely? I've hardly had a quiet moment since arriving. Stop being a reporter and let's eat. Besides there arc people in the city who are lonelier than I."
"Okay. Let's eat. This is good, darned good; in fact, the best meal I've ever eaten." He ate and stopped asking questions.
We spent the next week fishing, hunting, trapping, gathering greens and bulbs. Matt talked less and less, slept, hiked, and pondered. He also ate well, and kept Frightful very busy. He made himself a pair of moccasins out of deer hide, and a hat that I can't even describe. We didn't have a mirror so he never knew how it looked, but I can say this: when I happened to meet him as we came fishing along a stream bed, I was always startled. I never did get used to that hat. Towards the end of the week, who should we find sleeping in my bed after returning from a fishing trip, but Bando! Spring vacation, he said. That night we played our reed whistles for Matt, by an outdoor fire. It was that warm. Matt and Bando also decided to make a guest house out of one of the other trees. I said "Yes, let's" because I felt that way, although I knew what it meant.
A guest house meant I was no longer a runaway. I was no longer hiding in the wilderness. I was living in the woods like anyone else lives in a house. People drop by, neighbours come for dinner, there are three meals to get, the shopping to do, the cleaning to accomplish. I felt exactly as I felt when I was home. The only difference was that I was a little harder to visit out here, but not too hard. There sat Matt and Bando.
We all burnt and dug out another hemlock. I worked with them, wondering what was happening to me. Why didn't I cry "No"? What made me happily build a city in the forest–because that is what we were doing.
When the tree was done, Bando had discovered that the sap was running in willow trees and the limbs were just right for slide-whistles. He spent the evening making us trombones. We played them together. That word together. Maybe that was the answer to the city.
Matt said rather uncomfortably just before bedtime, "There may be some photographers in these hills."
"Matt!" I hardly protested. "What did you write?"
It was Bando who pulled out the article.
He read it, a few follow-ups, and comments from many other papers. Then he leaned back against his leaning tree, as it had come to be, and puffed silently on his pipe.
"Let's face it, Thoreau; you can't live in America today and be quietly different. If you are going to be different, you are going to stand out, and people are going to hear about you; and in your case, if they hear about you, they will remove you to the city or move to you and you won't be different any more." A pause.
"Did the owls nest, Thoreau?"
I told him about the owls and how the young played around the hemlock, and then we went to bed a little sad all of us. Time was running out.
Matt had to return to school, and Bando stayed on to help burn out another tree for another guest house. We chopped off the blackened wood, made one bed, and started the second before he had to return to his teaching.
I wasn't alone long. Mr Jacket found me.
I was out on the raft trying to catch an enormous snapping turtle. He would take my line, but when I got his head above water, he would eye me with those cold ancient eyes and let go. Frightful was near by. I was making a noose to throw over the turtle's head the next time it surfaced when Frightful lit on my shoulder with a thud and a hard grip. She was drawn up and tense, which in her language said "people", so I wasn't surprised to hear a voice call from across the stream, "Hi, Daniel Boone. What are you doing?" There stood Mr Jacket.
"I am trying to get this whale of a snapper," I said in such an ordinary voice that it was dull.
I went on with the noose making, and he called to me, "Hit it with a club."
I still couldn't catch the old tiger, so I rafted to shore and got Mr Jacket. About an hour later we had the turtle, had cleaned it, and I knew that Mr Jacket was Tom Sidler.
"Come on up to the house," I said, and he came on up to the house, and it was just like after school on Third Avenue. He wanted to see everything, of course, and he did think it unusual, but he got over it in a hurry and settled down to helping me prepare the meat for turtle Soup.
He dug the onions for it while I got it boiling in a tin can. Turtle is as tough as rock and has to he boiled for hours before it gets tender. We flavoured the soup with hickory salt, and cut a lot of Solomon's-seal tubers into it. Tom said it was too thin, and I thickened it with mashed up nuts – I had run out of acorn flour. I tried some orris root in it – pretty fair.
"Wanta stay and eat it and spend the night?" I asked him somewhere along the way. He said, "Sure," but added that he had better go home and tell his mother. It took him about two hours to get back and the turtle was still tough, so we went out to the meadow to fly Frightful. She caught her own meal, we tied her to her perch and climbed in the gorge until almost dark. We ate turtle soup. Tom slept in the guest tree.
I lay awake wondering what had happened. Everything seemed so every-day.
I liked Tom and he liked me, and he came up often, almost every week-end. He told me about his bowling team and some of his friends, and I began to feel I knew a lot of people in the town below the mountain. This made my wilderness small. When Tom left one weekend I wrote this down: Tom said that he and Reed went into an empty house, and when they heard the real-estate man come in, they slid down the laundry chute to the basement and crawled out the basement window. He said a water main broke and flooded the school grounds and all the kids took off their shoes and played baseball in it.
I drew a line through all this and then I wrote:
I haven't seen The Baron Weasel. I think he has deserted his den by the boulder. A catbird is nesting near by. Apparently it has learned that Frightful is tied some of the time, because it comes right up to the fireplace for scraps when the leash is snapped.
I drew a line through this too, and filled up the rest of the piece of bark with a drawing of Frightful.
I went to the library the next day and took out four books.
Aaron came back. He came right to the hemlock forest and called. I didn't ask him how he knew I was there. He stayed a week, mostly puttering around with the willow whistles. He never asked what I was doing on the mountain. It was as if he already knew. As if he had talked to someone, or read something, and there was nothing more to question. I had the feeling that I was an old story somewhere beyond the foot of the mountain. I didn't care.
Bando got a car and he came up more often. He never mentioned any more newspaper stories, and I never asked him. I just said to him one day. "I seem to have an address now." He said, "You do."
I said, "Is it Broadway and Forty-second Street?"
He said, "Almost." His eyebrows knitted and he looked at me sadly.
"It's all right, Bando. Maybe you'd better bring me a shirt and some blue jeans when you come next time. I was thinking, if they haven't sold that house in town, maybe Tom and I could slide down the laundry chute." Bando slowly turned a willow whistle over in his hands. He didn't play it.


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Bode Miller's Daughter Wandered Off and Fell Into Swimming Pool in Matter of Moments, Authorities Say
9:07 AM PDT, June 14, 2018 - Inside Edition Staff
Playing Olympic Great Bode Miller's Toddler Daughter Dies in Swimming Pool Accident
Decorated skier Bode Miller's young daughter was missing for just a few moments before she was found floating in a neighbor's swimming pool over the weekend.
Orange County Fire Authority Battalion Chief Marc Stone told InsideEdition.com that Emeline Miller, like so many children who perish in the same manner each summer, did not need long to wander off to the pool.
Nor did the family need long to find her. Stone confirmed that Emeline's mother, beach volleyball player Morgan Beck Miller, ran to the backyard as soon as she realized the 19-month-old wasn't beside her.
According to Stone, 911 was called immediately after she was discovered in the pool and operators instructed the caller on how to administer CPR.
Once paramedics arrived, Stone said they continued resuscitation efforts "for quite some time" and were able to get pulses and respiration from Emeline.
She was rushed to a hospital where efforts were continued, but it was too late. Emeline was pronounced dead at Mission Hospital in Laguna Beach, Calif.
As the Millers mourn, Stone cautions others that the same tragedy can happen to just about anyone.
A child can drown in mere moments in just two to four inches of water, Stone said.
With summer at our doorsteps, he says "it's vigilance" that will keep other parents from suffering the same loss.
Olympic Skier Bode Miller's 19-Month-Old Daughter, Emeline Miller, Drowns in Swimming Pool
Vacationing Dad Gives His Life to Save Kids From Drowning at Florida Beach
Hero Dog Saves Man From Drowning in River
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Q: Can't click button selenium Trying to press a button, but nothing happens. There are no errors when clicking, the element itself is located. Element is visible.

There is a my code:
verify = self.driver.find_element_by_xpath('//span[text()="Resend email"]')
ActionChains(self.driver).move_to_element(verify).click(verify).perform()

HTML:

<button class="UnstyledLink ButtonLink Flex-flex" type="button">

Resend email

</button>

UPD: Solved the problem. If u have same issue try to change browser profile / launch with default options

A: I was able to click on it... Not sure what is the problem on your side...
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=r'D:\geckodriver.exe')
driver.get('https://stripe.com/')

#click on Sign-in
driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/header/div[1]/nav/ul/li[3]/a[2]/span').click()

#send email
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="email"]').send_keys("abc@gmail.com")

#send password
driver.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="old-password"]').send_keys("akldjfkajdf")

#click on continue
driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div[2]/div/div/div/div[2]/form/div/div/div/div[4]/div/div/div/div/div/div[1]/button/div/div[2]/span').click()

#click on skip for now
driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div/div/div[2]/div[3]/div/div/div/a/span').click()

#click on verify you email
driver.find_element_by_xpath('/html/body/div[2]/span/div/div/div[1]/div/div[2]/div[2]/div/span/div/div[4]/div[2]/div/div/div/div/div[1]/div/div/div/div[2]/div[2]/span/span').click()

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Kim Jae-hoan (; born 27 May 1988) is a South Korean footballer who plays as a defender for Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors.

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1988 births
Living people
Association football defenders
South Korean footballers
South Korean expatriate footballers
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors players
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players
Suwon FC players
K League 1 players
K League 2 players
J1 League players
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Making Visible Embryos (2008- ), by Tatjana Buklijaz and Nick Hopwood
Making Visible Embryos is a 2008 online exhibition of embryos authored and designed by Tatjana Buklijaz and Nick Hopwood who work in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Hopwood's research on the history of Ziegler wax models and the use of visual aids to promote the teaching and learning of science is well known.
Subject: Organizations, Outreach
Bowen v. Kendrick (1988)
On 29 June 1988, in Bowen v. Kendrick, the US Supreme Court ruled in a five-to-four decision that the 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act, or AFLA, was constitutional. Under AFLA, the US government could distribute federal funding for abstinence-only sexual education programs, oftentimes given to groups with religious affiliations. As a federal taxpayer, Chan Kendrick challenged the constitutionality of AFLA, claiming it violated the separation of church and state.
Subject: Legal, Ethics, Outreach
Arizona State University Embryo Project Photograph Collections
In the 1970s Stanford University Embryologist Harold Heath sent a box of photographs to Frederick B. Churchill, who was a Professor in the History and Philosophy of Science Department at Indiana University. Heath was born in Indiana, he knew that Churchill was the leading historian of embryology, and he wanted his photographs to be used and therefore wanted them to be housed somewhere with an interest in the history of biology. Heath made it clear that he was donating the photographs for use by scholars and the public.
Subject: Outreach
Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (1968)
The Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (UAGA or the Act) was passed in the US in 1968 and has since been revised in 1987 and in 2006. The Act sets a regulatory framework for the donation of organs, tissues, and other human body parts in the US. The UAGA helps regulate body donations to science, medicine, and education. The Act has been consulted in discussions about abortion , fetal tissue transplants , and Body Worlds , an anatomy exhibition.
Subject: Legal, Outreach, Reproduction
"Hybrids and Chimeras: A report on the findings of the consultation" by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in October, 2007
In 2007, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in London, UK, published Hybrids and Chimeras: A Report on the Findings of the Consultation, which summarized a public debate about research on, and suggested policy for, human animal chimeras. The HFEA formulated the report after conducting a series of surveys and debates from earlier in 2007. The HFEA issued a statement in September 2007, followed by an official report published on 1 October 2007. Their report on human-animal chimeras set a worldwide precedent for discussions of the ethical use of those embryos in labs.
Subject: Publications, Legal, Outreach
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (1922), by Harry H. Laughlin
Eugenical Sterilization in the United States is a 1922 book in which author Harry H. Laughlin argues for the necessity of compulsory sterilization in the United States based on the principles of eugenics. The eugenics movement of the early twentieth century in the US focused on altering the genetic makeup of the US population by regulating immigration and sterilization, and by discouraging interracial procreation, then called miscegenation.
Subject: Outreach, Legal, Ethics, Publications
A Child Is Born (1965), by Lennart Nilsson
Dell Publishing in New York City, New York, published Lennart Nilsson's A Child Is Born in 1966. The book was a translation of the Swedish version called Ett barn blir till, published in 1965. It sold over a million copies in its first edition, and has translations in twelve languages. Nilsson, a photojournalist, documented a nine-month human pregnancy using pictures and accompanying text written by doctors Axel Ingelman-Sundberg, Claes Wirsen and translated by Britt and Claes Wirsen and Annabelle MacMillian.
Subject: Outreach, Publications
Prenatal Care (1913), by Mary Mills West
Prenatal Care is an educational booklet written by Mary Mills West of the US Children's Bureau and published by the US Government Printing Office in 1913. The Bureau distributed West's booklets in response to their field studies on infant mortality, which found that lack of access to accurate health and hygiene information put women and infants at greater than normal risk of death or disease. In Prenatal Care, West offers advice on nutrition, exercise, and personal hygiene during pregnancy and describes the processes of labor and birth.
"Visualizing Human Embryos" (1999), by Bradley Richard Smith
In March 1999 Bradley Richard Smith, a professor at the University of Michigan, unveiled the first digital magnetic resonance images of human embryos. In his article "Visualizing Human Embryos for Scientific American," Smith displayed three-dimensional images of embryos using combinations of Magnetic Resonance Microscopy (MRM), light microscopy, and various computer editing. He created virtual embryo models that it is possible to view as dissections, animations, or in their whole 3D form. Smith's images constitute a new way of visualizing embryos.
Sex in a Cold Climate (1998)
In 1998, Testimony Films released the documentary Sex in a Cold Climate, which reported the true stories of four survivors from the Magdalene asylums in Ireland in the twentieth century. Magdalene asylums, also called Magdalene laundries and homes, were institutions of the Catholic Church that sought to reform women engaged in prostitution and those who birthed children out of wedlock by forcing the women to do hard labor.
Chapter One and Chapter Two from "Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development" (1994), by United Nations Population Fund
"Program of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development" comprises the majority of context within the twenty-year sustainable development plan, International Conference on Population and Development Program of Action, hereafter POA, published in 1994 by the United Nations Population Fund or UNFPA. Given the rising global population, the goal of the POA was to outline the steps governments around the world were to take to achieve sustainable development by 2014.
Subject: Publications, Outreach
Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act (1921)
In November 1921, US Congress passed the National Maternity and Infancy Protection Act, also called the Sheppard-Towner Act. The Act provided federal funds to states to establish programs to educate people about prenatal health and infant welfare. Advocates argued that it would curb the high infant mortality rate in the US.
Images of Embryos in Life Magazine in the 1950s
Embryonic images displayed in Life magazine during the mid-twentieth century serve as a representation of technological advances and the growing public interest in the stages of embryological development. These black-and-white photographs portray skeletal structures and intact bodies of chicken embryos and human embryos and fetuses obtained from collections belonging to universities and medical institutions.
Subject: Outreach, Publications, Reproduction
"Drama of Life Before Birth" (1965), by Life Magazine and Lennart Nilsson
Life Magazine's 1965 cover story "Drama of Life Before Birth" featured photographs of embryos and fetuses taken by Swedish photojournalist Lennart Nilsson to document the developmental stages of a human embryo. Included in this article was the first published image of a living fetus inside its mother's womb. Prior to this, embryos and fetuses were observed, studied, and photographed outside of women's bodies as non-living specimens.
Subject: Publications, Outreach, Reproduction
Menstrupedia Comic: The Friendly Guide to Periods for Girls (2014), by Aditi Gupta, Tuhin Paul, and Rajat Mittal
Menstrupedia published the comic book Menstrupedia Comic: The Friendly Guide to Periods for Girls, hereafter Menstrupedia Comic, in July 2014 in India. Aditi Gupta, the founder of Menstrupedia and a women's health activist, wrote Menstrupedia Comic while studying at the National Institute of Design in Gujarat, India, in 2013. Gupta worked alongside her husband, graphic designer Tuhin Paul, who provided the illustrations for the book. According to Menstrupedia, misconceptions and taboo surrounding menstruation in India prompted Gupta to develop the book.
Subject: Publications, Reproduction, Outreach
Eclipse of Reason (1987)
Eclipse of Reason is a 1987 anti-abortion documentary film directed, filmed, and narrated by Bernard Nathanson, an obstetrician in the US. American Portrait Films released the film in 1987 featuring Nathanson's commentary and footage of an abortion of a four-month-old fetus. The film also featured the testimony of women who had suffered following similar procedures. In Eclipse of Reason, Nathanson equates the fetus to a person, likening abortion procedures to murder and arguing for the illegalization of abortion.
Subject: Outreach, Religion
People's Padre: An Autobiography (1954), by Emmett McLoughlin
Emmett McLoughlin wrote People's Padre: An Autobiography, based on his experiences as a Roman Catholic priest advocating for the health of people in Arizona. The Beacon Press in Boston, Massachusetts, published the autobiography in 1954. McLoughlin was a Franciscan Order Roman Catholic priest who advocated for public housing and healthcare for the poor and for minority groups in Phoenix, Arizona, during the mid twentieth century. The autobiography recounts McLoughlin's efforts in founding several community initiatives throughout Phoenix, including the St.
Subject: Outreach, People, Publications, Religion
"Reproductive Injustice: Racial and Gender Discrimination in U.S. Healthcare" (2014), by the Center for Reproductive Rights, the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, and SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
In 2014, the Center for Reproductive Rights, SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective, and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health released a co-authored report titled "Reproductive Injustice: Racial and Gender Discrimination in U.S. Healthcare," hereafter "Reproductive Injustice." In "Reproductive Injustice," the organizations evaluate trends in the US federal system concerning racial and gender discrimination in sexual and reproductive healthcare.
Subject: Publications, Organizations, Outreach, Legal
Adolescent Family Life Act (1981)
The 1981 Adolescent Family Life Act, or AFLA, is a US federal law that provides federal funding to public and nonprofit private organizations to counsel adolescents to abstain from sex until marriage. AFLA was included under the Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1981, which the US Congress signed into law that same year. Through the AFLA, the US Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, funded a variety of sex education programs for adolescents to address the social and economic ramifications associated with pregnancy and childbirth among unmarried adolescents.
Subject: Legal, Outreach, Ethics, Reproduction
Ameisen: Die heimliche Weltmacht (Ants: Nature's Secret Power) (2004)
Ameisen: Die heimliche Weltmacht (Ants: Nature's Secret Power) is a nature documentary about ants. Wolfgang Thaler wrote, filmed, and directed the film, which focuses on the work of ant researcher Bert
Better Babies Contests in the United States (1908–1916)
Better babies contests were competitions held in state fairs throughout the US during the early twentieth century in which babies between the ages of 6 and 48 months were judged for their health. In 1908, social activist Mary de Garmo established and held the first better babies contest at the Louisiana State Fair in Shreveport, Louisiana. The contests, mirroring theories established in the US's eugenics movement of the twentieth century, aimed to establish standards for judging infant health.
The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
In 2002, Miramax Entertainment released The Magdalene Sisters, a film that portrays an interpretation of the true events experienced by four young women who were forcibly placed into a Magdalene asylum in Dublin, Ireland, in 1964. Catholic nuns ran Magdalene asylums throughout the world, where they forced women whom society deemed sexually promiscuous to perform hard labor in their laundry facilities. The film portrays the experiences of four women, Margaret, Bernadette, Rose, and Crispina, as they experienced negative treatment from the nuns and sought escape.
William Thomas Astbury (1898–1961)
William Thomas Astbury studied the structures of fibrous materials, including fabrics, proteins, and deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, in England during the twentieth century. Astbury employed X-ray crystallography, a technique in which scientists use X-rays to learn about the molecular structures of materials. Astbury worked at a time when scientists had not yet identified DNA's structure or function in genes, the genetic components responsible for how organisms develop and reproduce. He was one of the first scientists to use X-ray crystallography to study the structure of DNA.
Chernobyl Heart (2003)
In 2003, HBO Original Programming released the documentary Chernobyl Heart. Maryann De Leo directed and produced the film, which is about the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident and how the radiation from that accident has affected people living in the area. Side effects have included mental disabilities, physical disabilities, and genetic mutations.


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The Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce of Spain in Belgium and Luxembourg celebrated its Annual Gala Dinner where the Award Company of the Year 2014 was presented, in its II Edition, in recognition of its track record for innovation and its international trajectory, to the Spanish Consulting and Technology company:
Indra has a permanent presence in Brussels, with a corporative office in the European District (Rue Froissart nº 95-99, 4º -1040 Brussels) for the business development and support to operations at BENELUX, EU and OTAN.
The dinner took place at the Métropole Hotel in Brussels and counted, among others, with the presence of top-level management of several Spanish and international companies, members of the Spanish diplomatic community, representatives from Spanish institutions, Directors-General of the European Commission and Council, members of the European Parliament, and the EU Commissioner of Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete.
The President of the Official Spanish Chamber of Commerce in Belgium and Luxembourg, Juan Rodríguez-Villa Matons, addressed to the more than 110 assistants referring to the activities carried out by the Chamber during the 2014, emphasised the new Programa Jóvenes BeLux among others. The Program counts with the support and the grant of the Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security and it has allowed, among other goals, that a third part of the youth who have attended to the Chamber, have been able to find a job in BeLux in the last months. On the other hand, he pointed out the new Chamber of Spain, formed the last month of November, incorporates a main role to the Official Chambers abroad inside the national system of the Chamber.
Furthermore, he noted that since the Chamber applied for the creation of a mixed commission European Chamber-Parliament to give the chance to the SME's of join this necessary dialogue to legislate. "The Chamber, is the right framework for the dialogue of the company with the European institutions and we want to continue improving the good relationships", he argued.
The Spanish ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, Ignacio Matellanes, spoke at the event to highlight the evolution of the Spanish economy, the important commercial relationships with Belgium and the country as an investment destination.
The EU Commissioner of Climate Action and Energy, Miguel Arias Cañete, presented the Award to the President of Indra in Europe. The Commissioner highlighted that Indra "represents globally the success and the competitiveness of the European Industry" and pointed out feeling "doubly satisfied because of it as European and Spanish citizen".
Cañete added the multinational is also an "example of the continent's industrial renaissance" and highlighted the European Commission "wants the European industry to represent the 20% of the European GDP in 2020", a level which was already reached in the 90s, while nowadays it represents more than the 15%.
Santiago Roura, the President of Indra in Europe, pointed out the award "is the recognition of a collective effort and a brand", besides "it generates illusion for the 40.000 people who work in this project". He also added "the firm, a multinational which exists in 138 countries and leader in Spain and Latin America, is a long-term business project" and among its goals is "the immense challenge of becoming in a global company fundamental for Europe". "We want to be in Europe and work from the world for Europe", noted Roura.
Indra's represent highlighted the importance of the Spanish Chamber, "it is fundamental for the ones who try to have our products in a good position, solutions and services of the global market".
After presented the Award Company of the year 2014, the assistants enjoyed the dinner accompanied by wonderful Spanish wines offered by the associated company La Buena Vida.
The pianist Mauricio Vallina charmed his audience with his Classic Cuba performance.
Thank you for sharing this magnificent dinner with the Chamber.
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America Is Not the Heart
By Elaine Castillo
Read by Donnabella Mortel
Category: Women's Fiction | Literary Fiction
Category: Women's Fiction | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks
Apr 02, 2019 | ISBN 9780735222427
Apr 03, 2018 | 985 Minutes
Apr 03, 2018 | ISBN 9780525529552 | 985 Minutes
About America Is Not the Heart
Named one of the best books of the year by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Public Library
"A saga rich with origin myths, national and personal . . . Castillo is part of a younger generation of American writers instilling literature with a layered sense of identity." —Vogue
How many lives fit in a lifetime?
When Hero De Vera arrives in America–haunted by the political upheaval in the Philippines and disowned by her parents–she's already on her third. Her uncle gives her a fresh start in the Bay Area, and he doesn't ask about her past. His younger wife knows enough about the might and secrecy of the De Vera family to keep her head down. But their daughter–the first American-born daughter in the family–can't resist asking Hero about her damaged hands.
An increasingly relevant story told with startling lucidity, humor, and an uncanny ear for the intimacies and shorthand of family ritual, America Is Not the Heart is a sprawling, soulful debut about three generations of women in one family struggling to balance the promise of the American dream and the unshakeable grip of history. With exuberance, grit, and sly tenderness, here is a family saga; an origin story; a romance; a narrative of two nations and the people who leave one home to grasp at another.
Named one of the best books of 2018 by NPR, Real Simple, Lit Hub, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Post, Kirkus Reviews, and The New York Public Library
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Elaine Castillo was born in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. America Is Not the Heart was her first novel.
Category: Women's Fiction | Literary Fiction
Apr 02, 2019 | 432 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 | ISBN 9780735222427
Apr 03, 2018 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9780735222434
Category: Women's Fiction | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks
Apr 03, 2018 | 985 Minutes | ISBN 9780525529552
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Featured in * New York Magazine * Paris Review * Entertainment Weekly * Vogue * Elle * NPR * Marie Claire * Lit Hub * Shondaland * The Millions * Bust * Time Out * The Boston Globe * The New York Post * Vulture * Real Simple * PopSugar * Cosmopolitan * Southern Living * Buzzfeed * Refinery29 * The Rumpus * Mother Jones
"Hungrily ambitious in sweep and documentary in detail, and reads like a seismograph of the aftershocks from trading one life for another . . . Like Bulosan, [Castillo] channels a righteous anger, revisiting America's historical crimes."
"[A] powerful debut."
"An impossible-to-put-down, multi-generational family epic."
"A lively, often hilarious family epic stretching from the villages of the Philippines to Northern California . . . A fierce, deeply affecting story of immigrant life in America."
"One of the best debut novels (and novels, period) of recent years."
"A stunning, powerful look at the American Dream; at family; at all the past lives we can't escape, no matter how far away we are from home. It's tender, touching, and impossible to put down."
—Shondaland
"This extraordinary debut novel follows Filipino immigrants as they settle into the Bay Area. . . . The writing in America Is Not the Heart is tremendous, the descriptions evocative, and the characters will stay with you."
"Elaine Castillo's blazing debut America Is Not The Heart springs alive from the first page. Her characters—Filipina and Filipina-American women living in San Francisco's South Bay—are Technicolor-vivid, flawed and heroic, and her prose is as good as it gets. Castillo's food writing will make your mouth water, and her love scenes will make your heart pound. Ambitious, sexy, sprawling and open-armed, America Is Not the Heart is the start of a phenomenal career."
"[America Is Not the Heart] is filled to the brim with history and wit, and it's hard to shake the sense that by the time you turn the last page, the women have become your family, too."
"First-time novelist Elaine Castillo interweaves English and Filipino dialects and moves across time to explore how hard it is to truly escape the past."
"Castillo emerges as one of 2018's boldest new voices with this debut. In exquisite prose and with transporting sweep, she tells the story of three generations of Filipino immigrants making their way in the Bay Area while trying to preserve their family's complicated legacy."
"A love story, a multi-generational family epic, and a deeply personal, lavishly painted portrait of lives in revision . . .With a sophistication rare in a first novel, Castillo recognizes a larger network of suffering—an understanding that trauma is, along with our mutual need for love, food, sex, and a coherent sense of self, one of humanity's least exclusive clubs . . . [America Is Not the Heart] has an offhand vitality that startles on every page with its compassion and humor."
—Megan O'Grady, Vogue
"I've been saying to everyone who will listen that this book is the next big thing—you heard it here first. My new favorite book, and maybe yours, too . . . This is Castillo's first novel, and it is masterful. It has drama and tragedy in spades, but it also has so much love of every kind spilling out of its pages that I closed it each night with a huge, warm smile. I might go home and read it again."
—Eleanor Pritchett, The Paris Review
"Flipping forward and back through time, Castillo challenges notions of home, critiquing class structures, exploring generational relationships, and examining cultural divides within the Filipino community, both overseas and in Milpitas, California. . . . This book has everything—war, love, family, displacement, and, of course, a Hero."
"Devastating and tender . . . [a] startlingly lovely first novel."
"This surging epic about three generations of Filipina women in the Bay Area conjures all the secret and not-so-secret wounds they carry into being Americans in a tale full of joy, anguish, and some of the best intimate scenes written in any genre all year."
"This family epic spanning from the Philippines to Milpitas, Calif., reads like a literary telenovela. It features a mysterious heroine, political upheaval and a sweeping romance. I couldn't put it down."
"Quite simply one of the best first novels I've ever read. Not since Junot Diaz first emerged 20 years ago have I seen a writer shuffle so confidently between codes and languages as she builds a world, one full of love and heartache. Like Diaz's stories and first novel, Castillo's is a story of immigration and its costs, a meditation on brutality and where trauma goes, a love story, a friendship story, a family story, and its also a deeply funny story in moments. Laugh aloud funny, not book snort-through-your-nose-in-a-barely-audible-way funny. It's astonishing she fits it all in. I've watched friends who got this galley walk around in the days after reading it as if clubbed on the head, as in, how I'm supposed to read something new after this? For a while, you won't."
—Lit Hub
"Part love story, part multigenerational family tale, and part exploration of intersecting identities in the late-20th-century Bay Area, America Is Not the Heart is certainly not the first family saga to suggest that home is more than a place. The book's dynamic characters and beautiful, nuanced relationships, though, give the adage weight."
"A really rich multigenerational story . . . it's about the self and family ties and feeling that pull back to where you came from and also exploring new things."
—Arianna Rebolini, Buzzfeed
"Beautiful, original, and heartbreaking."
"[An] important, engrossing novel."
"America Is Not the Heart is the sprawling, multi-generational family epic about immigration, national identity, and generational divides you need in your life . . . You won't want to miss out."
"We haven't been this excited about a debut in a while. Especially one as timely as Elaine Castillo's. America Is Not the Heart is a beautiful and heartbreaking debut about love, family, identity, and the Filipino experience."
"A recent turning point for me was listening to Filipino-American author Elaine Castillo at a reading. The immediacy of her prose held the room in a captivated silence. She reopened wounds for us by telling stories about first- and second-generation Filipino immigrant women, straight and queer. Hers is literature that speaks to our historical moment while it searches for a clearer retelling of the past."
—Los Angeles Review of Books
"My reading year has been characterized by sudden explosions in the midst of long dry spells. Without question the most powerful of these was Elaine Castillo's America Is Not the Heart—a gorgeous and gratifyingly huge novel about home and finding a home, replete with food and music and spiky tenderness."
—The White Review
"Castillo strikes a balance between humor and revelation: as Hero has it, America Is Not the Heart is 'funny, in that way of things being funny right before they dug deep, wrenched, and tore.'"
"Captivating . . . The novel is both a sweeping family saga, and a fervent reflection of the Filipinx-American borderlands. . . . Castillo uses fiction to reveal the influence of the past on the present and the role silence plays within our communities, creating a blueprint for seeing the complexities present in the intimacies of our daily lives."
"Hero is no ordinary heroine, and Castillo's novel is no simple story of self-discovery; instead, it's meditative, gorgeous, and surprising."
—Read It Forward
"[The book] follows three generations of women from a family that immigrated from the Philippines to San Francisco, and it's a testament to the sacrifices we make for our loved ones."
—BookRiot
"South Bay author Elaine Castillo makes an impressive debut with this novel of race, gender and immigration."
—San Jose Mercury News
"The creative accomplishments of this story are incredible: this unexpected family, this history, this embrace of the sacred and the profane, this easy humor, this deeply felt human-ness, this messy, perfect love story. Elaine Castillo is a masterful, heartfelt writer."
—Jade Chang
"Elaine Castillo's entrancing and magnificent debut is set to be a standout work of literature. Don't say you were not told. What a dazzling book!"
—NoViolet Bulawayo
"This glorious novel is a sharp, bracing, often hilarious family epic about a young woman tormented by the relentless ghosts of her past while in search of an American Dream that is not always available to those who seek it."
—Samantha Irby
"With the sheer propulsive power of her voice, Elaine Castillo blasts readers into her story."
—John Freeman
"Castillo's debut novel is particularly relevant in today's toxic political climate. A rich, challenging read."
"Castillo's debut, a contemporary saga of an extended Filipino family, is a wonderful, nonpareil novel . . . a remarkable feat . . . a brilliant and intensely moving immigrant tale."
"Castillo is a vivid writer, and she has a real voice: vernacular and fluid, with a take-no-prisoners edge. At the same time, she complicates her narrative by breaking out of it in a variety of places—both by deftly incorporating languages such as Tagalog and Ilocano and through the use of flashback or backstory . . . Beautifully written, emotionally complex, and deeply moving, Castillo's novel reminds us both that stories may be all we have to save us and also that this may never be enough."
—Kirkus (starred review)
"[A] raw and lyrical debut novel . . . Castillo's direct and urgent voice propels the sprawling epic with impressive skill. This unforgettable family saga is not to be missed."
This novel is a beautiful example of how the personal is political, and that for many, politics can't be unraveled from intimate, everyday life. Did you set out to write a political book, or is it the nature of the narrative?
Yeah, I'm one of those cats that believes all art is political, even (or especially) the art that insists on political neutrality or claims to transcend politics altogether.
I've written a book that's in part about a former New People's Army rebel, a book about people who've survived the Marcos dictatorship, about queer immigrant women, so it's relatively easy to point and say: Such and such things are the political aspects of the book. But I don't really subscribe to that idea. The book is in part a portrait of a former Communist insurgent, and as such there are things in the book that fall in line with that genre we call political art: social history, reflections on power, discussion of geopolitical landscapes. But what I'm even more interested in is the textured, daily minutia of the years she lives out in the book's present as an exile in America. The things Hero experiences as a newcomer to the Bay Area—taking a cousin to school, cleaning a house, working at a restaurant, falling in love—provide no less vital (or political) examples of the kind of radical community-building and cooperative principles that shaped her life in the NPA.
When it comes to political art as genre and aesthetic, I'm always conscious of the narrow, gendered assumption that "serious" political content is about war, empire, and history. There is no lack of war or colonial history in the book. But it's equally important to me that a young, queer, Bay Area Pinay's relationship to makeup artistry, or a former NPA insurgent's feelings about romance manga, could also bear significant political resonance—which is to say, could also be as alive to our civic selves as to our private souls.
Your characters often have to make hard decisions that wealthier, more privileged citizens might not have to. How does immigration status create a ripple effect around the tragedies these characters encounter?
My parents were immigrants, and there were close members of my family who were undocumented in the seventies and eighties. I was always struck by the normalcy. I think there's a tendency to dramatize and catastrophize when we talk about immigration, and there is absolutely no doubt that immigration-related catastrophes struck my family again and again and again—yet, for every story about a terrified person going into hiding from immigration authorities (becoming a TNT, short for "tago ng tago," Tagalog slang for undocumented immigrant), for every story about a person who moved to America and never, ever set foot in the Philippines again, there is also a story about being a taxi driver in Queens, falling in love with a young woman, and scavenging mussels on Long Island where nobody but immigrants would go to gather them.
Some of the most widespread American myths around immigration have to do with upward mobility, the idea that immigration—and the hard work that awaits immigrants in their new country—will catapult people out of their class, relieve them at last of their scarcity trauma.
Contrary to that myth, what I've witnessed and lived much more often resembles jagged spurts of security: maybe ten or so years of being fragilely middle class, if that. But one death, one terminal illness, one deportation, one 2008 financial crisis, one kid going to jail—and you start again from zero. This is magnified by the fact that the nuclear family simply didn't exist in my world growing up; people thrive together, or don't thrive at all. We bailed out and were ourselves bailed out many, many times by people within the extended family and community. When you're an immigrant, especially when you're supporting not just your "immediate" family, but your extended family, your family back in the origin country, and other loved ones throughout the diaspora, it means that what meager wealth you might accumulate from years of backbreaking labor, even in middle-class jobs (my mother regularly worked at least two, often three, nursing jobs, usually for sixteen hours a day) is spread thin, thin, thin. Generational wealth, which is to say, sustainable wealth, the kind of material security that won't end with your lifetime, often remains unattainable.
Despite (or maybe because of) all that, I have a healthy amount of suspicion and exasperation around the positive language of hard work and sacrifice that often accompanies narratives around immigration. Sometimes it feels like much of that mostly well-meaning discourse amounts to a kind of instrumentalizing; i.e., immigrants are worthy of being treated as humans because of how much thankless work they perform. Or: if we just work ourselves to the bone, safety and succor will await us on the other side. Some of that exasperation is personal; growing up I was a sickly kid who has retained a fairly weak physical constitution, and that's meant my ability to work has been compromised throughout the years, so the idea of equating work with self-value is a troubled one for me. But I also know that there are plenty of people—predominantly women—in my family who've destroyed themselves with work, fully invested in the belief that their labor would translate to forward progression, if not in their lives, than in the lives of their children. And the heartbreaking truth is that often this isn't true at all.
Much of the book also deals with questions of physical health and healing; Hero has grave thumb injuries, and Roni deals with severe eczema that neither conventional medicine nor folk treatments seem to be able to really address. Why was it important to depict bodily pain or illness in the book?
Like most Filipino people I knew, I had pretty severe eczema growing up, and, like Roni, I spent most of my life until about my mid to late twenties undergoing various treatments for it, from faith healing and exorcisms, to the mildest topical steroids, to hardcore oral immunosuppressive drugs. Even just given how many people in my family and community had eczema, it would have seemed absolutely bizarre to me to portray a Filipino or Filipino American family that didn't depict anyone dealing with it. For me, it's simply part of the landscape.
There are also questions of health in the book that touch on corporate—what some might call neocolonial—history. In the book, Roni makes mention of the first few years of her life, in which she was only fed Nestlé formula. Something fairly similar happened to me growing up: I was fed, I believe, almost uniquely on Nestlé formula, from birth to about four or five years old. Like Roni and Hero, I find the experience difficult to parse. I only know that it happened, that when my family tried to wean me off the formula, I refused to eat. The story ended with my hospitalization, at which point I was fed intravenously and then gradually introduced to solid foods.
I can't say for sure why I was fed on Nestlé formula for so long; certainly everyone around me was working themselves to the bone, not everyone was documented; they were undeniably years of hardship and distraction. But I also sometimes surmise that the faithfulness to Nestlé formula may have some relation to the campaign Nestlé notoriously orchestrated in many third world countries—it was very present during my mother's youth in the Philippines—in which young mothers were aggressively encouraged to choose formula over breast milk as being superior for their newborn's health—notwithstanding the fact that many poorer young mothers had limited access to potable water and would thus be feeding their babies contaminated formula.
Part of this book is loosely based off your own experience as a child being kidnapped by your father and taken back to the Philippines. What do you remember about that time, and how has it affected your life and your writing?
I have the somewhat bland oblivion of most kids who've experienced something that other people read as traumatic, but who have lived with it for so long as something just wrapped up in their personal history without much dramatic affect. What struck me more was growing up and meeting other people who'd been similarly kidnapped in childhood, and for similar reasons: an immigrant parent who found themselves alienated in their new country and who made the decision to leave, often leaving behind spouses, perhaps even other children. It happens. Compared to some of the stories I've heard, mine was a kidnapping on a comparatively smaller scale, a matter of a few months—though obviously an eternity to anyone who wanted me back home.
I think that, rather than affecting my life or writing, thinking about the kidnapping as an adult helps to illuminate and contextualize some of the power dynamics in my family and in my community, especially around gender and class—who had the right to act with impunity, and who had to endure. Who felt they deserved what. But the most obvious effect that the eventually retracted kidnapping has had on my life and writing is that I was, in the end, raised in America—a Californian kid, a Bay Area kid—who wouldn't have been able to write this very Californian, very Bay Area book had my life turned out otherwise.
Stories about LGBTQ characters often center on questioning or discovering one's sexuality. While both Hero and Rosalyn are continually coming out in the novel, neither of them have doubts about who they are. Why did you choose to write characters whose main conflicts were not to decipher their own sexuality?
I was talking about something related to this to another queer friend recently; we were talking about the whole myth of coming out, as if it happens only once. For some, it does, and that's wonderful. But for many of us—I would say this especially as a bi woman—coming out isn't one discrete period in a life, but an ongoing process. If you're bi, the gender of your current partner is typically viewed as definitive of your sexuality. I remember once reading the back of a nonfiction author's book in which she was identified by the jacket as lesbian, and yet within the first lines of the book the author self-identified as a bisexual woman who was in a long-term relationship with another woman.
I suppose I wasn't interested in Hero or Rosalyn's sexuality-qua-sexuality as a Very Special Episode. That doesn't mean that these characters don't encounter discrimination, or don't experience a certain amount of internalized homophobia—my intention isn't to blot over the harsher realities of a queer woman of color's life. It's only that my approach is one in which sexuality is, again, a formative but not definitive part of someone's character. Treating LGBTQ characters like their sexuality is inherently something to be deciphered is part of heteronormativity, right?—because we aren't generally expected to read books by straight writers, about straight characters, and wonder why these straight characters never wrestle with or decipher their own sexuality. (Though we should.)
How does community affect personal identity? Are these effects visible in the novel?
I have to wonder: how often is this question posed in this way to white authors? In a basic sense, yes, of course—it's obvious that the contexts in which we are raised inform who we are as people, and those effects shine out of us: visible, palpable, livable. That said, I rarely see white authors being asked to speak to the ways in which community affects their personal identity, and whether or not those effects are visible in their novels—and yet when I read the work of such authors, it isn't difficult to see the ways in which community values, particularly around whiteness and class, impinge upon their characters' lives on every page. But there's often a kind of silent coding around words like community, as if community is a particularly racialized space that only applies to immigrant communities, or communities of color, etc.
But yes, communities are formative. There can be no doubt about that. They form us in ways we acknowledge; they form us in ways we never name; they form us even as we repel them; they form us even as we are repelled by them. Hero is born a privileged young Ilocana, and despite the profound decisions she's taken to live otherwise, there are aspects of her upbringing that she simply can't shake. And although she's often openly critical of it, Rosalyn is deeply defensive of her particular South Bay milieu, and because of that loyalty she's navigated her life and sexuality in ways that perhaps other young queer women in a different situation wouldn't. And, of course, the formative power of a particular community is exponentially magnified when the community itself is marginalized in some way, when people feel they have to stick together. I'm a Filipina American writer; I'm from the Bay; those things saturate every cell of me. What's helpful to remember when thinking about community and its relationship to identity is that plenty of things can be profoundly formative, without necessarily being definitive.
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Natalja Venediktovna Lisovská (; * 16. července 1962, Alegazy, Baškortostán) je bývalá sovětská atletka, olympijská vítězka, mistryně světa a výkonem 22,63 metru držitelka světového rekordu ve vrhu koulí.

Kariéra
Dvakrát reprezentovala na letních olympijských hrách. Poprvé se zúčastnila her v jihokorejském Soulu v roce 1988, kde vybojovala zlatou medaili. K titulu by ji stačil každý z jejich šesti finálových vrhů (21,69 m, 21,49 m, 21,24 m, 21,74 m, 21,11 m), když stříbro získala Kathrin Neimkeová z NDR za 21,07 m. Nejdelší vrh však předvedla v poslední, šesté sérii, kdy kouli poslala do vzdálenosti 22,24 metru. Tímto výkonem zaostala o 17 centimetrů za olympijským rekordem Ilony Slupianekové z her v Moskvě 1980.

V roce 1992 se stala v italském Janově halovou mistryní Evropy a jako reprezentantka SNS se zúčastnila olympijských her v Barceloně, kde ve finále obsadila výkonem 18,60 m 9. místo.

Osobní rekordy
Její halový osobní rekord je druhým nejlepším vrhem v celé historii, když světový rekord drží výkonem 22,50 m od 19. února 1977 Helena Fibingerová.

Venku
 Vrh koulí – 22,63 m – 7. června 1987, Moskva  (Současný světový rekord) a ER
Hala
 Vrh koulí – 22,14 m – 7. únor 1987, Penza

Osobní život
Je provdaná za bývalého kladiváře Jurije Sedycha (rovněž světového rekordmana ve své disciplíně), se kterým má dceru Alexii, která v roce 2010 vybojovala na letních olympijských hrách mládeže v Singapuru zlatou medaili v hodu kladivem. Bydlí ve Francii.

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Olympionici Společenství nezávislých států
Členové Síně slávy IAAF
Narození v roce 1962
Žijící lidé
Ženy
Narození 16. července
Narození v Baškortostánu


Highest paying jobs with a masters in accounting because accounting is one of the oldest fields of business. Records show accountants existed in Mesopotamia over 7,000 years ago. These historic accountants kept records of crops and livestock. Today's accountants usually work on behalf of organizations to produce financial records of the organization's expenditures and profits, in addition to preparing tax records. They can be considered as the backbone of many businesses, as they are necessary for the efficient operation of these organizations.
The employment of accountants and auditors is projected to grow 11 percent from now until 2024, revealing just how high in demand accountants are across all job occupations. This is great news not only for those looking to obtain a position in the profession, but also means that the outlook for the U.S. economy is growing. As a result, more accountants will be needed to prepare and examine financial records.
So if you're on your way to becoming a CPA and are thinking about ways to expand your professional opportunities, here are some of the top high paying jobs in the industry that you can consider as you pave the path for your career in accounting.
Managerial accountants prepare financial information for only the internal users of a company, such as management or executives. They may be asked to submit reports on a weekly, quarterly or yearly basis, depending on the needs of the client. These reports are confidential and used for decision-making. In managerial accounting, the goal is to examine financial data for forecasting purposes. The average salary for managerial accountants is from $45,000 to over $65,000 per year.
As technology continues to advance in today's day and age, firms, and companies are always looking for better ways to streamline workflows and data processing. What is better software there than one that is created by accountants for accountants? If you enjoy working with developers and have a knack for design or user experience, becoming an accounting software developer may just be right up your alley.
Ever wonder how celebrities or other millionaires budget and invest their earnings? Becoming a personal financial adviser for the rich and famous allows you to do just that. While you'll still work in traditional areas of accounting, you'll be doing it for those who make more money than they know what to do with. You would be involved in estate planning and a myriad of other expenditures to help your clients with their financial goals.
Tax accountants prepare and file income tax information for personal, corporate or government clients. It is also necessary to keep track of ever-changing tax regulations, in addition to determining the tax consequences of future business plans. Tax accountants are involved with reducing a company's tax liability, and ensuring clients are aware of the consequences of failing to abide by tax regulations. It is often necessary to work with financial teams to formulate strategies to benefit the client. The starting salary for tax accountants ranges between $51,000 and $70,250 annually.
Many students of accounting desire to earn a doctorate degree in order to become an accounting professor. An accounting professor researches and teaches accounting students and fellow professionals. They perform research on accounting information systems, financial accounting, managerial accounting, tax accounting and auditing. As teachers of accounting, professors cover these same areas. The courses range from introductory to advanced. The average starting salary of an accounting professor is $127,400. An assistant professor earns $113,800; an associate professor earns $114,900; while a full professor earns $137,800 yearly.
Again, many companies across different industries will have a financial director, which is someone who directs an organization's financial policies and oversees all financial functions including accounting, budget, credit, insurance, tax, and treasury. Typically, a finance director will represent the second most senior executive and requires an advanced degree with 10 or more years' experience.
Individual CPA or Large Firm?
As an accountant, one will consider the risks and benefits of working with an accounting firm against running a solo operation. As an individual accountant, it may be harder to garner the attention of clients, as opposed to having the support provided by a large firm. This is worth considering during times of economic instability, as it can affect one's livelihood in both ways. An accountant with his or her own firm has the opportunity to run a business within itself, making all executive decisions with guaranteed employment. With a large firm, employment may not be guaranteed, but there is the better chance of maintaining a steady stream of clients. New accountants earn more at large firms than at smaller companies. Entry-level accountants at large firms earn between $50,000 and $55,000.
Government accountants focus on the financial affairs of government organizations. Government accounting uses a fund accounting system. Fund accounting is a system which emphasizes accountability over profitability. Government accountants manage funds assigned to a unit for specific purposes according to certain regulations. Government accounting differs from traditional accounting in that it focuses on measuring the influx and outflow of government finances rather than measuring economic activity. On average, government accountants earn $59,000 a year.
Pay rates for accountants differ contingent upon the organization, area, field, and experience. The instructive level additionally influences the normal pay. Those utilized by the Big Four will normally procure increasingly and will have more noteworthy open doors for future business. Regardless of the pay earned, a gifted bookkeeper will without a doubt have the mastery to deal with the riches he or she is certain to acquire in one of these lucrative fields.


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Premier League: Man Utd Must Finish In Top Three, Says Ronaldo
Manchester United's Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo makes a rare appearance as captain during the English Premier League football match between Manchester United and Wolverhampton Wanderers at Old Trafford in Manchester, northwest England, on January 3, 2022.
Cristiano Ronaldo says finishing outside the top three in the Premier League would be unacceptable for Manchester United as Ralf Rangnick struggles to turn around his under-performing team.
The German interim boss has steadied the ship since taking over from the sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer but United are languishing in seventh place, 22 points behind leaders Manchester City.
The five-time world player of the year has called for a change of mindset within the dressing room to address United's poor form, which resulted in a 1-0 defeat at the hands of Wolves in their most recent league outing.
"Manchester United should win the league or be second or third," Ronaldo told Sky Sports. "I don't see any other position for Manchester United.
"In my heart, I don't accept that our mentality be less than being in the top three in the Premier League, in my opinion.
"I think to build up good things sometimes you have to destroy a few things. New year, new life, I hope that Manchester can be at the level people want, especially the fans. We are capable of changing things now.
"We can do it better, all of us. I don't want to be here in the club to fight to be in sixth or seventh place. I am here to try to win, to compete. I believe if we change our mind we can achieve big things."
Rangnick was brought in until the end of the season after Solskjaer was dismissed in November following a run of heavy defeats.
The German has won four of his seven games in charge in all competitions but the team's style of football has still attracted criticism and there have been reports of disquiet within the squad.
United produced another disjointed display in their FA Cup third-round tie against Aston Villa on Monday but managed to scrape through 1-0.
Ronaldo backed Rangnick to turn things around but pleaded for patience ahead of Saturday's league trip to Villa Park.
"He arrived here five weeks ago," said the Portugese superstar. "He changed many things but he needs time to put his ideas through the players and on the pitch.
"It takes time but I believe that he is going to do a good job. We know we don't play the best football, as we should do, but we have many games to improve. Since he arrived I think in some points we are better, but he needs time."


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import static com.todoroo.andlib.sql.SqlConstants.AND;
import static com.todoroo.andlib.sql.SqlConstants.BETWEEN;
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import static com.todoroo.andlib.sql.SqlConstants.LEFT_PARENTHESIS;
import static com.todoroo.andlib.sql.SqlConstants.RIGHT_PARENTHESIS;
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    public Criterion neq(Object value) {
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            return UnaryCriterion.isNotNull(this);
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    public Criterion lt(final Object value) {
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            @Override
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                for (T t : value) {
                    sb.append(t.toString()).append(COMMA);
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            }
        };
    }

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        final Field field = this;
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            @Override
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                sb.append(field).append(SPACE).append(Operator.in).append(SPACE).append(LEFT_PARENTHESIS).append(query)
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}

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« Beacon School Quality Mark
Torpoint Community College – Quality Mark
We are delighted to announce the Centre's ninth Quality Mark Beacon School: Congratulations to Torpoint Community College.
In Mrs Charlotte Lane, Torpoint Community College have a committed Holocaust educator, an experienced and innovative, gifted teacher and aspiring middle leader, determined to develop Beacon School status and provision. She is widely regarded as 'the heart and soul of the programme', enjoying the collegiality and support of colleagues within the History department and wider college – particularly of Mr Golding; all have embraced the Beacon School programme and adopted the scheme of work or the Centre's pedagogy.
All this has been underpinned by the College's senior leaders who have a clear forward-looking vision, ensuring Holocaust education is a right for all learners, that students have the enriching learning experience and outcomes they deserve. Together with the UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, Torpoint Community College has truly embarked on the 'Beacon School journey' to its fullest – it is an immense team effort and we are delighted to partner with you and re-designate the schools Beacon School status for a further three years.
Key strengths of the Torpoint Community College's hugely ambitious and innovative programme of Holocaust education include:
The centrepiece of Torpoint Community College's excellence in Holocaust education is built upon the foundation of its constant pursuit for quality teaching and learning. The quality of teaching and learning about the Holocaust and range of provision and opportunity to engage with this complex past is excellent. The Holocaust is a central and distinctive feature of History and College's wider curriculum offer.
The innovative inclusion of strategies, materials and Poland study visit experiences is exceptional, as are the artistic and creative responses opportunities that the scheme of work/scheme of learning provides; all this whilst retaining historical disciplinary integrity, vigour and skills.
The ambition of the scheme of work and wider provision plan for Holocaust education at Torpoint Community College is to be admired.
The regard with which UCL Beacon School status is held is testament to the inspired leadership of a hard-working Lead Teacher and CLT who understand the significance of Holocaust education – these components, working and communicating effectively, have been fundamental to the College's Beacon School success.
Despite its successes in Holocaust education, Torpoint Community College is not complacent. Senior and middle leaders are proud of successes and strengths to date, whilst able to identify potential weaknesses or areas for innovation and development and are increasingly outward looking, open to opportunity and innovation.
Torpoint students are magnificent ambassadors for the College and are articulate and insightful advocates of quality Holocaust education provision and its impact. They are genuinely interested in and enthused by teaching and learning about the Holocaust. They enjoy studying it, and want to know more.
Beacon School status plays a crucial part in securing excellent SMSC provision and this should be widely celebrated. The initiative has proven important in and of itself, but also for its contribution to whole college priorities like Global Learning, FBV, citizenship, healthy schools and Prevent. It has also successfully linked with the College's UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools work.
Pedagogical practice in Holocaust and genocide education at the Torpoint Community College is underpinned by research-informed practice and access to quality CPD via UCL
Our Quality Mark review process confirms that Torpoint Community College's Holocaust education provision, its quality teaching and learning is indeed outstanding and a powerful contributor to both a curriculum that informs, engages, empowers and inspires its learners and wider school improvement. Given so much excellence, it is fitting Torpoint Community College be recognised for its innovation in, provision for and commitment to quality Holocaust education with this prestigious award.
The Centre's Nicola Wetherall MBE remarked:
'Within Torpoint Community College's offer you find the core elements of all that is best about UCL Beacon School Quality Mark status. With Acting Headteacher Dr Plumb and College leadership team support from Mr Golding, a gifted and ambitious Lead Teacher, Mrs Lane, has embarked on a journey in partnership with the Centre, which has improved student outcomes, refreshed teaching and learning, encouraged research engagement, helped support school improvement and reinvigorated colleagues, both personally and professionally. Torpoint Community College provides all necessary proof that investing in Holocaust education can have far reaching consequences for curriculum design, assessment, teaching and learning, leadership, school improvement and investment in staff, whole person development, SMSC and legacy outcomes for learners – it was a huge pleasure to visit, to see such impactful and impressive work. Students, staff, community and governors should be proud of this Quality Mark award; it is richly deserved recognition of Torpoint Community College's commitment and efforts in the field of Holocaust education.'
Here is another wonderful example of UCL and schools working in partnership. Torpoint Community College epitomises the ethos, aims and ambition of the Centre's Beacon School programme: all involved in the school's Quality Mark process, including mentor Tom Haward and Programme Director Paul Salmons are proud of Torpoint's achievement, but with the College open to development and refining of practice we all look forward to seeing what the future of Holocaust education in Torpoint may look like.
A copy of Torpoint Community College's full report can be found here