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Danny Rosenthal
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...Preparation for Disasters Progresses in NYC's Human Services Sector
September 11, 2017 / Danny Rosenthal
HSC stands in sympathy with those who are suffering the effects of Hurricane Harvey as well as the multiple human services organizations that are attending to them.
For many New Yorkers, this event stirs up sharp recollections of Hurricane Sandy and serves as a reminder that, regrettably, the City could be victim to another such disaster.
Over the years since Hurricane Sandy, HSC has been partnering with many organizations from the human services and public sector toward ensuring that human services organizations are prepared to play pivotal roles in the event of a disaster. A number of recent developments give us cause for optimism that the sector's preparedness for disaster is improving, and will continue to gain strength:
Mayoral Taskforce
Following the passage of City legislation introduced by Councilmember Mark Treyger, whose district experienced first-hand the devastating effects of Hurricane Sandy, the Mayoral Administration established the Hurricane Sandy Houses of Worship and Charitable Organizations Recovery Taskforce to review the experiences of community- and faith-based organizations in the response to Hurricane Sandy and recommend strategies designed to lead to improved performances in dealing with future disasters. Chaired by Allison Sesso, HSC's Executive Director, the group produced a comprehensive report that sets forth numerous plans – such as enhancing inter-sector coordination and communications, better clarifying roles and responsibilities, and ensuring that participating organizations are properly resourced – that offer the promise of efficient systems and highly constructive partnerships going forward. Along with many of our colleagues in the human services sector, HSC will be conferring with City government colleagues toward implementing the report's recommendations.
Publication of HSC's Human Services Disaster Work "Framework"
With major input from members of HSC's Disaster Readiness and Resilience Workgroup, comprised of more than 25 leaders from disaster relief and human services organizations throughout NYC, HSC has developed and recently published the NYC Human Services Sector Framework for Serving New Yorkers after Major Disaster, a thorough guide to engaging in disaster work for human services organizations focused on such matters as integrating services, communications systems, the unique dynamics of the NYC landscape, and coordinating with government. HSC will be disseminating the document in a variety of ways and making use of it as a basis for collaborative planning as well for supporting the efforts of organizations to develop individualized plans.
Upcoming Training – Save The Date
HSC is partnering with colleagues from NYC Department of Health and Mental Health, NYC Emergency Management, and the Mayor's Office on Recovery and Resilience to produce a training session designed to help human services leaders better understand changes to their command structure post-disaster and to set the stage for ongoing joint planning between the human service sector and City government. Taking place at HSC on October 26 from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, the event will involve interactive discussions as well as a facilitated discussion about responding to a potential public health disaster.
Of course, we would all much prefer not to contemplate the specter of disasters, and at HSC we direct the majority of our efforts toward contributing to a healthy and equitable society. At the same time, we recognize that should a disaster occur, the human services sector, in combination with government, is well positioned to reduce suffering and help affected New Yorkers rapidly recover, and that by preparing in advance we can maximize the effectiveness of our efforts.
September 11, 2017 / Danny Rosenthal/
AN ANTIDOTE TO NYC'S AFFORDABLE HOUSING SHORTAGE:
August 20, 2017 / Danny Rosenthal
EMPOWER NONPROFITS AS DEVELOPERS AND OPERATORS
In the struggle to determine whether New York City will remain home to a mixed population and not continue the trend toward accommodating the affluent in favor of low-and middle-income people, the dearth of affordable housing looms as a crucial and defining issue.
For so long the City was a magnet for people of high aspirations from all backgrounds. Immigrants, students, artists and entrepreneurs arrived here with confidence that they could secure a decent and affordable dwelling and that opportunity to gain social and financial capital lay ahead. And they contributed to the City an unmistakable creative and contagious energy.
But the price of market-rate housing in the large majority of Manhattan has become prohibitive for all but the highest wage-earners and a rapid wave of gentrification continues to sweep neighborhoods in other boroughs -- both deterring newcomers without financial wherewithal and threatening to displace long-time lower-income locals.
Policy-makers consistently recognize the dilemma and pledge to rectify it, and the current and most recent former Mayor put forth what they characterized as comprehensive affordable housing plans.
But the shortage persists and it appears to be worsening: an estimated 54% of City residents are rent-burdened, meaning 30% or more of their income is expended on rent; and there has been a 45% increase in homelessness since 2012, not even including the increasing number of those residing on the streets and not in homeless shelters.
So what is awry with the City's affordable housing programs?
In too many cases, these projects include a large portion of market rate housing, and those units termed affordable are, actually, unaffordable for low-income New Yorkers.
This is occurring because government engages with for-profit developers to lead the majority of projects, and increasing the number of affordable units and lowering rents would mean relinquishing profits.
A prime such situation is currently at question in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and Jabari Brisport, a Green Party candidate for the 35thh City Council District, is seeking a solution that upholds the interests of the community.
City government identified public land called the Bedford Union Armory as a site for affordable housing development and selected the for-profit development firm BFC Partners to orchestrate the project. The 138,000-square-foot facility is slated to be converted into 330 rentals, 60 condos, and a recreation center -- but only half the rentals and 20% of the condos are designated for below market rates.
In response to a recent press conference at which advocates and elected officials expressed resistance to the arrangement, the developer released a statement indicating that"…the economic realities of cross-subsidizing a new rec center and the lack of housing subsidies mean that 50 percent affordability is the only option currently available at the Armory."
But Brisport and community activists counter that there is indeed another option: instead of engaging a for-profit developer, the City should place the site into a Community Land Trust, through which local residents and housing experts would form a community-controlled, publicly-funded nonprofit that would steward the site. Without the need to generate profit, Brisport says the housing could be made entirely and genuinely affordable, and that this model should be spread across the City.
In fact, there are numerous nonprofits with the ability and desire to develop and operate housing for low-income people, but since public systems are not sufficiently disposed to supporting them, playing this role requires of nonprofits a mammoth and highly complex effort.
City government contracts with nonprofits in the amount of approximately $5 billion annually to provide a range of services intended to achieve social and economic equity – among them child care, afterschool programs, employment training, English classes for immigrants, mental health services and foster care.
So why, in the case of so-called affordable housing, are for-profit developers so frequently entrusted by City government? Of course this relates to the fact that many developers are politically connected and contribute generously to the campaign funds of politicians.
But we cannot permit an over-zealous capitalism and a politics infected by money to dictate housing policy, and to allow for the suffering of so many of our neighbors, and for the character of our City to be stripped.
Private developers are generating handsome profits from market-rate projects.
Let us empower nonprofits to manage affordable housing.
August 20, 2017 / Danny Rosenthal/
NYC COMPTROLLER AFFIRMS HSC'S LONG-HELD POSITION
June 23, 2017 / Danny Rosenthal
Overhead Rates in City Government Contracts Are Inadequate and Injurious
Among HSC's most critical charges is remedying the chronic underfunding by government of human services – and increasing the rates at which City and State agencies reimburse human services providers for overhead, also known as "indirect expenses," is among our highest priorities.
With our advocacy partners, we have researched this matter, gathered data that makes the case, and sought relief from government – and while there remains a significant distance toward resolving the issue, we are gratified to have found allies and achieved incremental progress.
We applaud Comptroller Stringer for undertaking an independent study of the issue, and for recently releasing a report that arrives at conclusions similar to our own: that, based on a sizable sample, the average overhead reimbursement rate extended by City agencies to human services provided is 8.6%; that this percentage is considerably below the actual overhead rate of most providers; and that, as a result, "non-profits are severely hobbled and many vulnerable New Yorkers are deprived of high-quality, critical services."
Severely hobbled, indeed. No organization can fulfill its promise without sound management and infrastructure and this is certainly the case with nonprofit human services providers. For services on the ground to achieve the desired effect, they must be supported by high-caliber financial management, human resources, information technology, facilities management, and research and evaluation functions.
To illustrate briefly, afterschool programs cannot help youth excel and forge paths to college without support in recruiting the dozens of specialists that typically staff these programs and serve as mentors and sources of inspiration for young people. Senior centers, early childhood education facilities, mental health clinics, and supportive housing programs cannot meet their demanding missions if they are contending with the likes of leaky roofs or faulty HVAC systems. And, given that virtually all workplaces are highly dependent on e-mail, cell phones, and the Internet, no professional in any program can be productive without sophisticated technological support.
And, very simply, 8.6% does not cover these expenses. While overhead rates differ across the human services sector depending on variables like organizational size and content of program portfolios, we estimate that the average overhead rate is 15%. That means that an organization receiving $5 million in City contracts automatically incurs a deficit of about $320,000. This is a difficult and, for many human services organizations, an untenable way to operate. But because these organizations are deeply dedicated to service, they continue to accept these terms. This is an unfair and, ultimately, a damaging practice, that needs to be rectified.
With the adoption of the City's Fiscal Year 2018 budget last week, Mayor de Blasio and the City Council took steps toward accomplishing just that. They committed $88 million over the next five years to increase overhead rates in City contracts to 10%, and included $17.6 million of that amount in next year's budget.
Also very significant is that the budget included $22.7 million designated for a Model Budget initiative designed to increase budgets for selected human services programs to reflect the true and full costs of service provision. This initiative can begin to unravel chronic underfunding issues by examining the real costs of programs, addressing the salary disparities between human services staff and staff from government with similar responsibilities and qualifications, and gaining understanding about the true indirect costs associated with running programs and contracting with government. Programs involved in this effort are services for families dealing with instability, senior centers, services for runaway and homeless youth, and adult protective services, and plans are to extend this practice to additional programs in the upcoming two Fiscal Years.
These investments mean an improvement for human services organizations, and the acknowledgment of the issue by City government leaders is reason for optimism that further gains lie ahead.
HSC will continue to keep this issue atop our agenda to ensure that human services organizations are positioned to help New Yorkers surmount barriers, realize aspirations and contribute to a truly equitable City.
June 23, 2017 / Danny Rosenthal/
THE HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL STRENUOUSLY ENDORSES NYC AS A SANCTUARY CITY...And Will Vociferously Resist Federal Funding Cuts to Human Services
April 06, 2017 / Danny Rosenthal
Among Donald Trump's first acts as US President was to direct NYC and other local governments to pursue the deportation of undocumented immigrants with records of minor criminal offenses – and he signed an Executive Order decreeing that cities that do not comply, and that declare themselves Sanctuary Cities, will be stripped of federal funding.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill responded swiftly and forcefully -- asserting that NYC will indeed be a Sanctuary City, and that undocumented immigrants will not be harassed, and that they will continue to be treated as full citizens.
HSC applauds these City government leaders for rebuffing Trump's inhumane policy directive and blustery threat and for standing firmly alongside undocumented New Yorkers. Supporting immigrants and refugees has historically been among HSC's priorities, and many organizations within our membership advocate on behalf of the population and offer them such services as English-for-Speakers of other languages, employment assistance, early childhood education and afterschool programs.
The details regarding Trump's Executive Order that would deprive Sanctuary Cities of federal funding are unclear, and we are grateful that the Supreme Court has ruled that federal funds unrelated to immigration enforcement activities cannot be denied to localities refusing to adhere to Trump's plan, and we also appreciate Mayor de Blasio's pledge to legally contest any effort to strip federal funds from NYC.
However, we must be vigilant about this matter. Many human services in NYC are financially supported by federal funds in large amounts. As examples, these include: Head Start and Early Head Start, which provide essential early childhood education to children from low-income families and enable their families to work and attend school; Child Welfare services, which help challenged families remain together and support children in the foster care system; and the Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA) programs, which help un- and under-employed adults and youth gain access to decent-paying and meaningful jobs. Also, the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), through which more than a half-million New Yorkers receive affordable housing and services, is largely funded by the federal government.
Reductions in funding to these and numerous other programs would have devastating effects upon low-income New Yorkers while also de-stabilizing human services organizations and diminishing quality-of-life for all New Yorkers.
But we most certainly will not permit our undocumented neighbors to be harmed out of fear for the loss of funding.
Instead, we will partner with leaders from government and from across the human services sector in a massive resistance to simultaneously secure the safety of undocumented immigrants and sustain the City's human services network – while demonstrating that we will never -- ever -- relinquish our commitment to compassion and justice!
April 06, 2017 / Danny Rosenthal/
$15 Minimum Wage
February 16, 2017 / Danny Rosenthal
Nonprofits Championed A Sorely Needed Boost For Workers –
But the Law Adds to these Organizations' Financial Challenges
A Missive from Human Services Council and FPWA
Last year, New York and California adopted the historic $15/hour minimum wage law — an important vehicle for enabling self-sufficiency for workers and a defining symbol of the movement for an equitable economy.
The Human Services Council, FPWA, the Fiscal Policy Institute, and other organizations advocated strenuously for this measure – both out of our belief in its great value for those we serve and because many members of the human services workforce, whose salaries fall below the $15 per hour threshold and struggle financially themselves, would benefit.
These human services workers play vital and indispensable roles, helping low-income children, youth, families, immigrants, and seniors to rise above socioeconomic stresses, achieve stability, and pursue high aspirations. That these human services workers are contending with poverty is unacceptable, and a $15 minimum wage will translate to a meaningful quality-of-life improvement for them.
In New York City, the law will be implemented incrementally, rising to $15 per hour in 2018. To this point, the first installment has been executed, lifting the current minimum wage in the city to $11.50. Throughout the remainder of New York State, the current minimum wage has been raised to between $9.70 and $10 an hour depending on location, with the increase to $15/hour to occur in phases over the upcoming years.
To support the increase for human services workers functioning under City contracts, City government has extended the necessary funds to human services contracts, and City leaders have pledged to continue this practice until the law is fully executed.
But, with the exception of certain Medicaid-funded service providers, State government has not provided funds for the majority of human services workers functioning under State contracts and has not indicated a willingness to do so going forward — a move that has baffled and frustrated human services executives who are compelled to draw the funds from existing – and frequently highly compromised – organizational budgets.
The State has the ability to cover these expenses. Budgeting is a matter of asserting values and making choices and it is long past time that the State prioritized the human services workers and services that enrich our communities. The amount needed to fund the increase this year is $12 million and $25 million next year – sums that represent a mere .000007% and .000015% of the State's budget this and next year, but that translate into sizable expenses for individual human services organizations. In dozens of interviews and focus groups conducted by Human Services Council, FPWA, and the Fiscal Policy Institute across the State, executives of human services organizations have described the budgetary pressures they continually face. One calculated that eliminating their entire senior management team would cover only a quarter of the increased expense associated with the minimum wage law.
Another factor, unacknowledged by the law, is that to avoid wage compression, human services workers with salaries currently at and above $15 per hour will be due increases and pay scales will need to be adjusted upwards across organizations. While these workers are deserving of raises, the budgets of most human services organizations cannot absorb them while still maintaining the same level of service provision — thereby compounding the difficulties of the unfunded minimum wage increase.
The primary reason for the budgetary dilemmas of human services organizations is chronic and systematic under-funding by government. Government contracts often fail to cover the full cost of services and they rarely provide overhead rates that permit programs to be properly supported by administrative functions. Also critical, government contracts frequently do not provide sufficient funds for the salaries and fringe benefits of human services workers while government employees (and those from the healthcare sector) with comparable responsibilities are far better compensated. This makes it difficult for human services organizations to retain and hire qualified staff, many of whom turn-over to government positions. In too many instances, these factors threaten the quality of services and prevent human services organizations from acting on innovative ideas needed to reverse entrenched problems like high school dropout and homelessness.
State government's withholding of the funds to cover the minimum wage increase is, then, highly ironic. The law was designed to support low-income people, but shortchanging human services organizations will have the effect of weakening these very entities that government has selected to carry out this mission.
The Human Services Council, FPWA, and Fiscal Policy Institute have created the Restore Opportunity Now campaign, a statewide coalition of over 350 organizations determined to secure greater investments in the human services sector. As Governor Cuomo and members of the State legislature negotiate the State budget, on behalf of our partners, we convey to them this message:
We applaud you for leading the effort nationally to increase the minimum wage. This policy will assist many New Yorkers, and it should serve as a springboard to others that further remedy our skewed economic systems. But if we are to achieve a truly equitable society, the human services sector – the engine for helping people transcend the barriers of class and race – must be entirely supported. It is imperative, then, that the minimum wage for human services workers is fully funded in the State's 2017-18 budget.
February 16, 2017 / Danny Rosenthal/
Righting the Historical Undermining of Human Services
December 08, 2016 / Danny Rosenthal
The time has arrived for a set of damaging practices to be remedied.
For decades, funding from government to provide human services has fallen well short of covering actual costs – resulting in a continual struggle by human services leaders to operate high-caliber programs, maintain skilled and fairly compensated workforces and exercise strong management functions.
Let us consider major aspects of this dilemma.
Inadequate Salaries and Salary Disparities
The budgets of contracts between human services organizations and government frequently do not allow for compensation for staff consistent with responsibilities and necessary qualifications. This occurs with such positions as early childhood education teachers, social workers, youth development specialists and family counselors. Ironically, many human services staff, who have dedicated themselves to helping people contending with serious challenges find that they themselves are in need of the same sorts of services they are providing.
These insufficient salaries and benefits translate to a difficultly in recruiting and retaining high-performing staff, leading to disruptions in care and low morale among staff. Moreover, in a number of cases, government agencies, hospitals, and universities offer compensation for these sorts of positions that is considerably more generous than that which human services organizations can afford. Strong applicants continually express an interest in joining the human services field but indicate that given personal financial pressures, they often feel compelled to opt for employment in these other sectors.
The Under-Funding of Overhead
When contracting with human services organizations, city and state government usually limit the amount of funds that may be expended on overhead, also known as "indirect expenses," for such functions as financial management, human resources, information technology and facilities management. The large majority of human services contracts allow for overhead rates of between 8% and 10% -- but actual overhead rates for human services organizations usually range between 12% and 20%. This results in sizable deficits, compelling human services organizations to function without adequate management capacity and to scramble to raise supplemental funds.
However, the federal government employs a far more rational approach. It allows human services organizations, based on review of their financial data, to obtain standard overhead rates that are automatically applied in all cases in which they make use of federal funds. Human services leaders report that the process by which rates are determined is reasonable, and that receiving reimbursement for overhead that aligns with actual expenses goes far toward enabling high performance and financial stability.
We are, therefore, calling on the city and state government to adopt the federal practice.
Innovation and Impact
Human Services organizations aim to embrace bold ideas and forward thinking. Regrettably, though, because they are so strained by insufficient funding from government they too often lack the wherewithal to engage in innovation. If properly resourced, human services organizations would make use of philanthropic support to incubate, pursue data-driven strategies and ensure superior services. To achieve the highest impact, human services organizations must be enabled to stop operating in a climate of constant crisis. Like the people they support, they cannot be expected to thrive while their basic needs go unmet.
A Renewed Partnership with Government
The relationship between the human services sector and government is symbiotic. Government calls upon human services organizations to deliver the indispensable services that it itself is not equipped to provide. And human services organizations are equally dependent on government – indeed, government funds are the primary source of income for most human services organizations, often comprising more than 80% of their budgets.
We believe that public officials making decisions about funding for human services are well intentioned and that we share goals and ideals with them, and that fiscal austerity has been the primary factor limiting investment in the sector. But we must now address the fact that this practice is injurious: it jeopardizes the quality of services and the very viability of the organizations entrusted to deliver them, setting up a situation that will result in continuing social problems and increased costs later.
We are pleased that the city and state governments have taken steps to begin strengthening the human services sector. The city has established a Nonprofit Resiliency Workgroup designed to enable us to arrive collaboratively at solutions and we will take part fully in this effort. The state has created the Nonprofit Infrastructure Capital Improvement program and is refining systems like Grants Gateway, which simplifies the process by which human services organizations engage in contracts with the state.
While these efforts are important, we know there are further opportunities to strengthen human services. And toward this end, our organizations will be among the primary participants in a campaign called Restore Opportunity Now that will vigorously make the case for key investments and systems improvements in the sector.
We look forward to cooperating with our many partners throughout government and the human services sector to make the critical changes necessary to equip New Yorkers to realize high aspirations and support the organizations that serve them!
December 08, 2016 / Danny Rosenthal/
From Nonprofit to Social Purpose: A Minor Awakening
October 05, 2016 / Danny Rosenthal
Recently I collaborated with a consulting partner to develop language to describe the practice we are mounting. Our focus is engaging with nonprofit organizations-- so "nonprofit" was featured in all potential versions of our headline.
Then I recalled my mild distaste for the term. In my more than two decades of involvement with such organizations, I have occasionally found myself objecting to the way "nonprofit" suggests the sector should be defined: in the negative, rather than, affirmatively, based on what it is intended to accomplish – improving society.
What has bothered me vaguely is that we have been conditioned to understand that the primary purpose of professional enterprise is generating profit rather than providing a valuable good or service, allowing for meaningful jobs and servicing communities – and that this attitude prevails to the extent that we label efforts explicitly motivated by humanitarian desires within a profit-minded context.
So in our promotional material, my partner and I replaced "nonprofit" with "social purpose," a revision that felt satisfying.
While I think institutionalizing this shift would be useful, I introduce this topic not so much to advocate for this measure. Rather, in a moment of intense political discord and minimal substantive discussion about ideas, policies and visions, I want to highlight our predilection for uncritically accepting, as I did with the term "nonprofit," conventional language and, more importantly, entrenched social and economic conditions.
As examples, I cite a few issues that I wish would be exhaustively debated, but about which we hear little in the Presidential campaign and through mainstream communications channels:
The annual budget for the US military is $600 billion and this amount equals that of the combined military budgets of the seven countries with the next most sizable military operations -– and this while calls for free public college, universal health care and investments in a green economy are dismissed as unrealistic and met with the refrain: but where will the money come from?
An estimated 2.2 million or nearly 1% of adult Americans are incarcerated and another approximately 4.7 million American adults are on probation or parole, bringing the ratio of adults involved in criminal justice system to 1:35. The incarceration rate in the US is the highest of all countries globally; in fact, 4.4% of the world's population resides in the US while 22% of the world's prison population is housed here. And the rate has quadrupled since the 1980s though incidence of violent and property-related crime increased only modestly during this period. Of those now incarcerated, a considerable portion are Black males having committed drug-related and other low- level offenses -- and the per capita cost of imprisonment is about $80,000 annually, contrasted with the approximately $20,000 it costs to provide formal education for a year.
At the same time, the mega-bank Wells Fargo has admitted to committing systematic fraud upon its customers, and it seems the worst possible outcome for its CEO will be forfeiting a $40 million bonus and being compelled into early retirement, to be accompanied by a $120 million payout.
And in a country in which this sort of massive affluence exists, about 45 million people live in poverty and there is steep opposition to efforts to raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour.
I expect you will infer that I have opinions about these matters -- but the primary purpose of this post is not to express them, but instead to encourage greater awareness about the difficult and complex situations that we ignore or accept without sufficient examination.
Until a couple days ago, I probably uttered "nonprofit" thousands of times while barely considering the profit-centric attitude that the term reinforces. Far more significantly, I recognize that it is only in recent years that I have begun to develop a measure of sophisticated consciousness about environmental matters and that as a younger person my understanding about racism, economic disparity and homophobia was less developed than it is today. And I expect that I remain oblivious to many important matters – and that I am not alone in this condition.
To pry ourselves from ignorance and complacency, we should hold political leaders, media executives and others with influence responsible when they retreat to superficial talking points to protect financial interests and powerful positions. And we ourselves should contend with the discomfort that might arise by venturing outside our material and metaphysical comforts to examine what may be ailing in our midst, to consider whether our society measures to our aspirations, and whether we are called to adjust our stations within it.
Converting the term "nonprofit" to "social purpose" is a minuscule initiative. But maybe the mind-set behind it can serve us.
October 05, 2016 / Danny Rosenthal/
José Reyes Is Returning To Form -- How To Feel?
From 2003 to 2011, Jose Reyes was a force for the New York Mets.
Improvement in Disaster Readiness, But Rigorous Efforts Remain Necessary
Following a comprehensive research Initiative, the Human Services Council reports on the state of disaster readiness in the human services sector...
Let's Get Ready
HSC'S Disaster Forum sparks inter-sector dialogue and spurs planning efforts...


Update: Change of venue details as below – The Gozo Live rehearsed reading of plays is taking this Friday, the 8th of February. The plays, received in the 2018 competition, are varied, many are humorous and all are interesting, the organisers said.
Directed by Marion Sayers, the evening is being dedicated to the memory of Peter Day and starts at 7.30pm, it will now be held in the theatre of San Lawrenz School. There is some parking available for those that arrive early, the organisers said.
Everyone is welcome and entry is free of charge, although Gozo Live said that donations will be appreciated.


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Canyamel (kastilisch Cañamel) ist ein kleiner Urlaubsort an der Ostküste der Baleareninsel Mallorca. Es befindet sich sechs Kilometer südlich von Cala Rajada und südlich des Cap Vermell. Verwaltungstechnisch gehört er zur Gemeinde Capdepera.

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Der Name leitet sich von einer Konzession für den Zuckerrohranbau (span. caña de miel, katalanisch canya de mel; wörtl.: Rohr aus Honig; Canya=Rohr, Mel=Honig) ab, die Johann II. (Aragón) dem lokalen Gutsbesitzer 1428 erteilte.

Canyamel ist zu beiden Seiten von bewaldeten, 200 bis 300 Meter hohen Hügeln umgeben, die nach Südwesten in das Cap des Pinar o des Raix, und nach Nordosten, wo sich auch die Tropfsteinhöhlen befinden, in das Cap Vermell münden.

Mitten durch Canyamel fließt der Torrent de Canyamel und teilt die Ortschaft in die touristisch geprägte südliche Hälfte mit Hotels, Fußgängerzone sowie dem Torre de Canyamel und in die mondäne Nordhälfte am Cap Vermell, in der sich neben vielen Villen auch der Golfplatz und die Coves d'Artà befinden. Die Brücke über den Torrente wurde saniert und im Juni 2008 fertiggestellt.

Der feinsandige Strand des Ortes, die Platja de Canyamel, ist etwa 300 Meter lang und besonders in der Sommersaison gut besucht.

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 Der Torre de Canyamel auf quadratischem Grundriss mit drei Stockwerken ist ein massiver zinnenbekrönter Wehrturm aus dem 13. Jahrhundert, der mutmaßlich aus der Zeit Jaumes I. stammt, möglicherweise aber auf älteren maurischen Fundamenten errichtet ist. Ursprünglich hieß er Torre de Montsó und wurde erst im 15. Jahrhundert im Zuge des Zuckerrohranbaus umbenannt. Er diente als Flucht- und Wehrturm zur Abwehr von Piraten. Heute befindet sich dort ein kleines Museum und ein Restaurant.
 Die Höhlen von Artà (Coves d'Artà) sind die größten Tropfsteinhöhlen Mallorcas, sie werden auch als Coves de Canyamel ausgeschildert.
 Am Golfplatz führt ein halbstündiger Aufstieg in die Felshänge zur zwischen Olivenbäumen gelegenen prähistorischen Talaiot-Siedlung Es Claper des Gegants. Von der erst 1998 freigelegten Siedlung sind nur wenige Grundmauern ausgegraben, die, im Gegensatz zu Ses Païsses bei Artà, per 2005 noch nicht durch Informationsmaterialien didaktisch aufbereitet sind.

Golf

Kurz vor dem nördlichen Ortseingang Canyamels liegt der 1988 eröffnete 18-Loch-Golfplatz, den José "Pepe" Gancedo in die Ausläufer des Puig Negre (Serra Mitjana) unter dem Anspruch gebaut hat, so wenig wie möglich in die Natur Mallorcas einzugreifen. Die als schwierig eingestuften Fairways mit abschüssigen Grüns erstrecken sich zwischen Palmen, Feigen- und Mandelbäumen.

Weitere Golfplätze der Region Llevant befinden sich bei Capdepera und Son Servera.

Galerie

Literatur
 Gisela Völger: Mallorca. DuMont, Köln 1996, ISBN 3-7701-2991-1.
 Hans-R. Grundmann: Mallorca. Dr. Hans-R. Grundmann, Westerstede 2006 (17. Auflage), ISBN 3-89662-225-0, S. 265 f.
 Alexander Gorkow: Hotel Laguna. Meine Familie am Strand. Kiepenheuer und Witsch, Köln 2017, ISBN 978-3-462-31787-9. (Roman spielt in Canyamel)

Weblinks

 Website der Gemeindeverwaltung (Sprache: castellano und català)
  (spanisch)
 Bilderserie Torre de Canyamel
 ausführliche Beschreibung der Coves d'Artà

Einzelnachweise

Ort auf Mallorca
Capdepera

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ID, Sad Details, Go Fund Me Info for Slain 16-Year-Old EHT Boy
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Alejandro Gonzalez-Santos/GoFundMe page
Egg Harbor Township Police have released the identity and personal information about the teen who was shot and killed by another teen Friday night. Reading his obituary and learning about his jobs and what he liked to do seems to make his death even more heartbreaking.
Alejandro Gonzalez-Santos died from a gunshot wound to the head inflicted by a 17-year-old male at a Woodrow Avenue home Friday evening, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office. Reports say that both boys were students at Egg Harbor Township High School.
Gonzalez-Santos was a junior at Egg Harbor Township High School who had a summer job at Castaway Cove on the Ocean City boardwalk, and loved riding his skateboard and playing Xbox, according to his obituary.
Police have not made public the 17-year-old suspect's identity because he's a juvenile. The Press of Atlantic City reports that he was charged with aggravated manslaughter and weapons offenses and is being held in the Harborfields Youth Detention Facility in Egg Harbor City, the prosecutor's office said.
Gonzalez-Santos worked as a cashier at the ShopRite in Somers Point.
"He loved going to the boardwalk in Ocean City and riding the amusement rides," the obituary said. His favorite foods were pizza and Hot Pockets.
He was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Alejandro Gonzalez-Santos, Sr. and Crystal Ann Hartman, according to his obituary. Among those he leaves behind are six siblings and his girlfriend.
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Alyssa on Jimmy Kimmel Live (videos + screencaptures)!
Hello netters! As reported a few days ago, Alyssa appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live on May 22. She where there to promote Mistresses, but they also talked about her old music albums and more. I have uploaded the interview in three parts over at our video archives for you, and screencaptures can be found in our galleries (kudos to Samantha over at the amazing new site dedicated to Mistresses, Mistresses Online)!


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The Burnden Park disaster was a human crush that occurred on 9 March 1946 at Burnden Park football stadium, then the home of Bolton Wanderers. The crush resulted in the deaths of 33 people and injuries to hundreds of Bolton fans. It was the deadliest stadium-related disaster in British history until the Ibrox Park disaster in 1971.

The match, an FA Cup Sixth Round second-leg tie between Bolton and Stoke City, was allowed to continue, with the game ending goalless. The disaster brought about the Moelwyn Hughes report, which recommended more rigorous control of crowd sizes.

Disaster

It was estimated that the crowd was in excess of 85,000 people. Entrance to the Bolton end of the ground, which had no roof, was from the Manchester Road end only. The disaster happened at the Railway End of the ground where, in common with many other post-war grounds, facilities were rudimentary. The bank was crude, just dirt with odd flagstones for steps. Although there was room towards the Burnden side of the ground, part of the stand had been requisitioned by the Ministry of Supply and it had not yet been returned to normal use following the war. In addition, the turnstiles at the east end of the Railway Embankment which adjoined the Burnden Stand had been closed since 1940.

At the time, fans paid at the turnstiles rather than buy tickets beforehand. As a result, the end became packed and over capacity and it was decided to close the turnstiles at 2:40 pm. This, however, did not stop more people entering the ground, with people climbing in from the railway, climbing over the closed turnstiles and, when a locked gate was opened, entering through it. During the melee and such was the pressure from the railway end, that many fans were inexorably pushed along the side of the pitch, around the far end and eventually right out of the ground, ending up in the car park unable to watch the game.

Shortly after the game started, the crowd began spilling onto the pitch and the game was temporarily stopped as the pitch was cleared. However, at this time, two barriers collapsed and the crowd fell forward, crushing those underneath. The game was restarted but was quickly halted again when a Bolton Borough Police officer came onto the pitch to speak to the referee, George Dutton, to inform him there had been a fatality. He, in turn, called the two captains, Bolton's Harry Hubbick and Stoke's Neil Franklin, together to inform them and the players left the pitch.

The dead and injured were taken from the railway end terrace, with those who had died laid along the touchline and covered in coats. A little under half an hour after leaving the pitch, the game was restarted, with a new sawdust lined touchline separating the players from the corpses. At the end of the first-half, the players immediately changed ends and started the second half. Stanley Matthews was on the Stoke team, and later said he was sickened that the game was allowed to continue.

Aftermath
Moelwyn Hughes's official report recommended more rigorous control of crowd sizes. A conference on the licensing and regulation of sports grounds where it was recommended that, as a voluntary code, local authorities should inspect grounds with a capacity of 10,000 spectators and agreed safety limits should be in place for grounds of more than 25,000 capacity. Turnstiles should mechanically record spectator numbers and grounds should have internal telephone systems.

On 24 August 1946 England and Scotland drew 2–2 in an additional fixture in aid of the Disaster Fund. All tickets to the match at Maine Road, Manchester were sold raising £12,000 (2010: £). The Burnden Park disaster was the greatest tragedy in British football history until the Ibrox Park disaster at Rangers' home ground in 1971.

In 1992 a memorial plaque was unveiled at the stadium. In 2000, following the move by Bolton Wanderers to a new ground, the plaque was relocated to the wall of the supermarket which now occupies the site of the tragedy.

References

Sources

External links
Burnden Disaster
 Il disastro di Burnden Park (www.saladellamemoriaheysel.it)
 The Burnden Park Disaster: The Forgotten Tragedy
 Stoke City tribute at Merseyside Potters
 The Burnden Park Disaster: Examining The Sense Making Process of Football's Forgotten Tragedy

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and oats. The "haggis" is simply packed with vegetables, seeds and dried prunes, apricots and Moroccan spices.
I made a hearty meal from it in the form of a mash topped pie. You could also use regular haggis as well. As the Moroccan flavours really packs a flavour punch, I though it best to keep the rest of the pie nice and simple. Adding onion and carrots to the mix brings in additional texture, which I always think is needed in a mash topped pie.
Meanwhile, cook the haggis as per the packet instructions. I simmered mine on the hob for 25 minutes.
In a frying pan, gently fry the onion and carrot until tender in olive oil. Once the haggis is cooked, remove the casing and clips and add to the carrots and onion, cooking for a few minutes more.
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In a pie or Pyrex dish, add the haggis filling, then top with mashed potatoes. I like to make an uneven surface on the mash so it crisps better. You can use a fork or for a pretty effect, use a spoon to press a scallop design in the top.
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Mississippi River Levee – Greenville, Mississippi
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has placed a marker for Mississippi River Levee on the levee in Greenville, Mississippi.
Mississippi Department of Archives & History marker on the levee at Greenville, Mississippi.
This marker is located on the Levee on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Greenville, Mississippi. It was placed here in 2012. The marker reads:
"MISSISSIPPI RIVER LEVEE – The Mainline Mississippi River Levee was originally built in the 1800s. Following the flood of 1927, Congress passed the Flood Control Act of 1928, creating the Mississippi River & Tributaries (MR&T) Project. The notches at Main and Central Streets were the top of the levee in 1927. The levee was then raised 10 feet and cut-offs were built that shortened the river by 170 miles. The banks were stabilized to keep the river in one location. The MR&T Project was successful in containing the record 2011 Flood."
For a photo gallery of the 1927 Flood, click here.
The 1927 Flood inundated an area of about 27,000 square miles. It displaced 700,000 people in Mississippi and killed 246. Property damage was estimated at $400 million (1927 dollars).
Here are some videos of the 1927 flood:
Silent film footage from the Hoover Presidential Library. It's definitely promoting Herbert Hoover but it has some very good footage of the 1927 flood and its effects. Here's a link to the full movie (42:38).
1927 U.S. Army Signal Corps footage
Here's a report on how Mississippi agriculture was affected by the 2011 flood.
Memphis Minnie's song "When The Levee Breaks" and Charley Patton's recordings "High Water Everywhere, Pt.1" and "High Water Everywhere, Pt. 2" are about the 1927 Mississippi Flood.
The Mississippi River levee at Greenville is also significant historically because thousands of people gathered on top of the Greenville levee in 1927 to escape the flood waters. Memphis Minnie's song "When The Levee Breaks" contains the lyric, "All last night, sat on the levee and moaned" which reflects the historic reality of people camping on top of the levees in 1927 to escape the flood waters.
Memphis Minnie's "When The Levee Breaks" was covered by Led Zeppelin on the Led Zeppelin IV album.
The photo below was taken near the Mississippi Department of Archives & History marker and gives an indication of the height of the Mississippi River levee at Greenville, Mississippi.
The top of the Mississippi River levee at Greenville, Mississippi. The cars on the right of the photo give an indication of the height of the levee at Greenville.
There is another Mississippi Department of Archives and History marker nearby, which describes the River Stages At Greenville.
Mississippi Department of Archives & History marker for River Stages At Greenville, on the levee at Greenville, Mississippi.


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Posted byCatherine Addington December 22, 2016 Posted inUncategorizedTags:2016, best of, best of 2016, blog, reference post
As in years past (best of 2013, best of 2014, best of 2015), I'd like to share some of the things I enjoyed this year, based on Eve Tushnet's annual list.
I started out this year intending to join @geekerrific in a Year of Reading Women, but then grad school (a parade of dead male Spaniards) got in the way. Still, my favorite reads this year centered women, and it was so good to be among them. I learned so much from so many different voices.
The main theme of these books is craft, not content. I read a lot more than I wrote this year, which I'd like to be an exception rather than the rule. It was disproportionate and dispiriting, but it was also a master class and a retreat. I'm looking forward to the fruits of this inspiration. Without further ado…
Best non-fiction read for the first time
One of Us by Åsne Seierstad
This book on Anders Breivik and the massacre in Norway, written by a Norwegian journalist and war correspondent, is phenomenal. It was a timely read, sad to say, and getting inside what radicalizes the young/white/male is an emotionally exhausting thing, but if you're going to do it, there is no better guide. This is the best that journalism can be.
Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner? by Katrine Marçal
The basic premise of this book is that domestic, unremunerated, generally women's labor is excluded from the formal economy and therefore the latter is even more fictional than we thought. I learned a lot from that argument, but I also loved the broader implications. This book critiques economic logic as insufficient, a limit on what it means to be human, an obviously artificial thing. I admire that she took every assumption I had and questioned it without making me feel stupid for having held them. This is the best that popular scholarship can be.
Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff
I loved this for the history, but even more for the historiography. Schiff does an amazing job making her scholarship accessible and does a lot with a little. Cleopatra is so often reduced to her sexual history and ultimate downfall that I would not trust any less capable hands with her story, and it was so gratifying to see what a smart take on well-trod history can do. This is the best that history can be.
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
A very welcome wake-up call from a surprising-to-me source, the author of Eat, Pray, Love (which I also read this year and chose to learn from, rather than scorn—a productive exercise, honestly). Much like EPL, you get more out of this book if you approach it with good faith and decide to embrace its high-stakes implications. I really admire Gilbert's approach to "creative living," and acknowledging creativity as essential, rather than luxurious. This is the best that self-help can be.
Thy Will Be Done: Letters to Persons in the World by St. Francis de Sales
I have read and reread these so many times this year and discover a new gem each time. I am so grateful for Francis' gentle, insightful spiritual guidance, and how wonderfully specific—and therefore broadly instructive—it is, especially for the laity. This is the best that spiritual direction can be.
Say Her Name by Francisco Goldman
An elegy to the love of his life; tragic without being punishing. As with so many of the books on this list, the craft grabbed me more than the content. Goldman's lyrical fury is unlike anything else I've read this year. This is the best that memoir can be.
Best fiction read for the first time
La Regenta by Leopoldo Alas «Clarín»
I jokingly referred to this book as "Anna Karenina, but you care about the Anna half." A better way of putting it is that Anna gets the complexity of the Levin half. Incidentally, the titular Regenta is also named Ana, and she's fascinating, and she desires transcendence, and she acts like a person, and I loved loving this book. Way too long, but hey, you're allowed to be verbose when you're also life-changing.
How to Be Both by Ali Smith
I have a sort of secret motto: I love "things that are both." I say sort of secret because it is the kind of thing I can never keep track of having declared or not. I love borders, blurs, betweens, boths. I wrote my entire statement of purpose for grad school about this. Homi Bhabha says that the location of culture is the moment of articulation of difference, the noticing your own distinctness from the other. How much more, then, when you find yourself inventing distinctions that do not hold up to lived experience. How much more interesting, then, is the both. In any case, I saw this title, and I sensed a manifesto. The book's cover is a detail from a painting of St. Lucia, my Confirmation saint, that eyes-sprig that is so part of my own iconography that I'd never noticed its strangeness until I saw it out of context, staring at me from the cover of this book. Between the two I felt myself called to this thing. It delivered. That's all I will say. I apologize for this not being anything remotely resembling a review, but I couldn't do it justice anyway.
Last Night in Montreal by Emily St. John Mandel
Mandel's writing has been so influential to me this year. Her sprawling North American stories have the impeccable structure of a small-town tale and I admire that so much.
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little-No-Horse by Louise Erdrich
I'm glad I am savoring Erdrich's books and making my way through them slowly. With each one, I let just enough time go by for me to forget how truly soul-shakingly good she is. And how perceptive and disturbing and unforgettable the faith in them.
The Revolutionaries Try Again by Mauro Javier Cardenas
Almost infuriatingly experimental, but he pulls it off. I would not recommend it to the monolingual or the faint of heart or the overly traditional, but if you're willing to be along for a wild ride that's just as much about college-years regrets as Ecuadorian politics, vamos.
Best movies/TV watched for the first time
There's best (Carol, The Revenant, Room) and then there's favorite (Love & Friendship, aka the Austeniest Austen, and Rogue One, aka Diego Luna in Space). The two movies that fit in both categories are Manchester by the Sea and Moana.
As for TV, El ministerio del tiempo has joined Lost and Jane the Virgin in the pantheon of my favorite shows of all time. This was also the year of Gilmore Girls and The Office, both of which have their flaws, but are ultimately delightful, especially for anyone who's ever loved a hometown like I have.
Honorable mention: hidden gem Superstore
Bad Jews
JMU Stratford Players, Harrisonburg, VA
I will never forget sitting in the black box waiting for the show to start. You could hear the river, gulls, chatter in several languages, traffic. The empty set was littered with Italian and Chinese takeout. I knew within ten seconds this thing takes place on Riverside Drive. Sure enough, they mention it in the first few minutes. That set and sound design was so brilliant, I will be raving about it for years. The play itself made me laugh and cry, everyone in it did such a good job, and I'm just so proud of JMU theatre in general.
Funk Cannon at the International Buskers Music Festival
Bastion Square, Victoria, BC
My sister and I walked around all of Victoria and collapsed, exhausted, at Darcy's Pub. We had garlic fries and hard iced tea and watched these kids go ham for hours. If I had to summon a Patronus I'd think about this.
The Flick
Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA
JMU did The Aliens last year, and The Flick is by the same playwright, Annie Baker. She writes about the inner lives of overlooked workers at everyplaces: the film nerd who works at the cinema, the stoner musician who works at the café, the high school kids who wander in and out of their worlds every summer. These plays are long, dialogue-heavy, and subtle. They're easy to do badly. JMU and Signature nailed them. In any case, if an Annie Baker production comes to your city, see it. Otherwise, head to the library—she reads well, too!
Impact Montréal vs. New England Revolution
Stade Saputo, Montréal, QC
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Studio Theatre, Washington, DC
This falls under my craft-master-class theme. It's a play in repeated, slightly altered scenes with just two actors, tied into the idea of parallel universes. It works so well. Each alteration ripples and says so much about these characters, how the same character can be alternately adorable and dangerous with the littlest trigger. It is remarkably well made. I don't love the ends this technique is used for (there's a lot of dressed-up nihilism in here), but I was totally taken with the skill of the format.
Best exhibits/museums
"Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France" at the Met
I spent a long time soaking in this exhibit with my friend Amanda, and I even bought the exhibit book to bring home. (I rarely do. Those things are expensive!) It's been on my coffee table ever since—mostly, I admit, because I love being an adult and having a coffee table that has a coffee table book on it—and it makes me smile every time I look at it. Because that's what people did when Vigée Le Brun was around. The most striking thing about her art is that her subjects seem genuinely happy to be there, which is hard to fake and even harder to maintain for hours of sitting for a portrait. This exhibit really evoked how intimate the experience of portrait painting is, and how much more comfortable and alive her subjects seem particularly in comparison to those painted by men. There is no element of scandal or even of tension here. There's a lot of humanity. Even Marie Antoinette comes off as a mother doing her best. That's hard to accomplish and it is such a good lesson in storytelling, for me, and why an artist's identity matters in accessing the full depth of a story.
"Pompeii," Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal
The most powerful object in this entire exhibit was, weirdly, an egg pan. It was gold in color, with four molded cup protrusions and a short handle, and it was designed for cooking eggs. I could not get over this. Ancient Romans had egg fryers. This was somehow more impressive to me than building an empire and temples and arenas. Similarly the jewelry, not so different in taste than what I'd see in a department store counter now, but ornate and genuine. It's little things like this that make people real to us. And then, of course, in the last room, we see them terrified and dying. So many historical exhibits feel like a guided dress-up and leave you feeling like you've learned something. I left this having felt something, too. That's different. That's what I want to aim for.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Québec
Québec City, QC
A complex of buildings full of art I'd never see anywhere else, from Inuit sculpture to romantic-style landscapes featuring Mohawk women to contemporary architecture that blends perfectly into the Plains of Abraham. It's a delight just to be there, let alone to have it to yourself as my family basically did, during the museum's weekly late hours.
Chihuly Garden & Glass
I don't know how to describe this. You just have to look at it. And even then I cannot get across the monumental scale of it with pictures. The whole thing feels very Wonderland.
I haven't actually written the article that inspired me to go here in the first place (yet). No me sale, I don't know what to tell you. We'll get there. But I've always been fond of museums or exhibits that focus on medium, rather than theme or period. You notice details you wouldn't otherwise. Quilting is a pretty straightforward, simple thing at its most basic—if I can do it, trust me, it's not that hard, because I am a disaster with things like this—but it lends itself to infinite experimentation. The two artists featured when I visited the museum, friends Constance Norton and Violet Cavazos, make fantastically detailed, monumental, contemporary, and occasionally even representational quilts that blew me away. I think I love this museum precisely because it celebrates an art that is often dismissed as craft, as if the latter was never the former, as if an object having a purpose robbed it of aesthetic value. (And, let's be real, as if women's work had no artistry to it.)
Honorable mention: the streets of Montréal in general
Best posts or articles by other people
Rich Cohen on the great Québec maple syrup heist for Vanity Fair
Reading this was a highlight of my December.
Jessica Weiss on female Cuban skateboarders for the Miami New Times
The best sports journalism of the year in my book.
Alexis Okeonwo on the defection of the Eritrean men's soccer team for the New Yorker
This is a crowning jewel in the "soccer explains the world" genre, which as we all know is my favorite genre.
Michael-Lee Murphy on Brexit and football in Belfast for Hazlitt
Another good one. I learned a lot about Ireland (both Northern and the Republic) this year, particularly because of the Easter Rising centennial. I've enjoyed increasing my understanding of it, in part because of my own heritage, but also because I have quite a few Irish and Irish-American friends—all Catholic, so I never really hear the Protestant half of the history. Murphy's article reminded me a lot of Tierra del Fuego, actually, all of the British-Argentine arguments and binaries that map poorly onto everything down there. It's a good read.
Jeanne-Marie Jackson on political performance in the academy for 3:am Magazine
I read this before my re-entry into academic life and it was very affirming to read, not only as an instructive example of why multilingual literary studies are important but also as a lament of overly abstract, uninformed, "cultural" academic work. That is: in order for academia to be good it has to be good, not just well-intentioned.
And, okay, they each get one:
Franklin Foer on Donald Trump for Slate
Rebecca Traister on Hillary Clinton for New York
Joshua Cohen on Bernie Sanders for The New Republic
Segue disguised as an honorable mention: Homilies at St. Botolph's London as found poems
Best posts or articles by me
Hagiography:
Jacques Hamel
Katharine Drexel
Kateri Tekakwitha
Catherines (forthcoming)
José Gabriel Brochero (forthcoming)
How soccer explains the world:
The mythical founding of Club Atlético Independiente
The politics and poetry of Copa América Centenario
A love letter to DC United
Gringasplaining:
Urban design in favelas
Socialism in Venezuela
Voting in America
The Bob McDonnell case
Obama in Argentina
Self-mythology:
Dénouement, revised / Washington, DC
Swamp heat, revised / Washington, DC
Bias-motivated incidents / Charlottesville, VA
On the move (aka Cracker Barrel Theory) / Seattle, WA
Québec series:
The work of God / Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (original)
He is faithful, and he will do it / Basilique Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
It is truly right and just / Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (modern)
Honorable mention (given that Rubén Darío did all the work): El nacimiento de la col
Cool things that happened this year, not mentioned elsewhere in this post
I had purple hair for a bit there
I got my first apartment
I presented pedagogical research (read it here)
I taught intermediate Spanish at a university
I got ridiculously good at making pierogi
My sister and I climbed to the top of a waterfall and got soaked on our way back down
I had the perfect, platonic-ideal coffee experience (honorable mention)
I know Portuguese now (and yes ok I finished the Duolingo)
I started a side blog to share and support contemporary Christian art
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Water as a human right – How Slovenia protects its drinking water
by Johanna Pauls
2.2 billion people in the world have only irregular access to clean water, including in Europe. While the EU is only hesitantly introducing improvements to secure the drinking water supply for the population, Slovenia is enshrining the right to drinking water in its constitution.
Making water a basic human right
Slovenia as a pioneer in the protection of drinking water
Clean, fresh water from the tap is considered a matter of course in most western countries. However, around Europe there is are a whole 1 million people which do not have regular access to clean (drinking) water. Homeless and poor people are particularly affected by the lack of drinking water, as without a home, access to water is difficult to impossible, whether for drinking or showering.
The United Nations (UN) Water Report 2022 shows that water supplies worldwide are becoming increasingly scarce, with demand for water rising at the same time. This is partly due to the constantly growing world population. The latter resulting in an increasing economical demand and changed living conditions of people in the globalized world. The UN is therefore urging states to take measures for a responsible use of the precious resource of water. By 2030, the "availability of water" is to be established as one of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals all over the world. Furthermore, public access to water such as drinking fountains or water dispensers should be offered, as the UN states.
With a population of around 2.1 million, Slovenia is one of the smallest Slovenia has a total of more than 7,500 water sources. And the country knows how to protect them: Since 2016, drinking water in Slovenia has been registered as a fundamental right in the constitution.
Lake Bled, Slovenia
The reason why this is necessary is that the increasing water shortage has led to a fierce battle for water as liquid gold. Countries that, like Austria or Slovenia, have drinking water sources should do everything they can to protect them. It is possible that, in the near future, a significant deal could be done with the trade of the scarce resource, which could attract big corporations.
With the establishment of the right to drinking water, any form of privatisation of water sources has been excluded. For the Slovenian population, this meant both security with regard to their own water supply and certainty that no profit-oriented business would be conducted with the country's water resources. However, only three years later, this changed.
In 2019, a vote took place under the still incumbent Prime Minister Janez Janša. It was supposed to allow the privatization of the Slovenian coast and some lake and river shores, the initiative for which came from the right-wing conservative government around Janša. This clear attack on the security of the drinking water supply was visibly punished by the Slovenians – 87% of them voted against the draft. This still secures the water supply in Slovenia, but it also shows how important it is to stand up against attacks on the right to drinking water.
City of Bled, Slovenia
As much as clean water is a matter of course for us, it is unequally distributed around the world. A country's water supply depends heavily on its geographical location and the existing infrastructure. This may lead to water becoming more and more valuable in the near future, thus increasing interest in water trade. Large corporations like Nestlé are already being criticised for their trade in water from African countries. They pump water from countries suffering from water shortages, bottle it and make millions in profits by selling it. Such practices can only be prevented if water is recognised and enforced worldwide as a human right.
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27 Nov 2018 Screen Zealots 2018 Film Reviews One comment
Family drama "Boy Erased," the true story of a Baptist pastor's gay son who is sent off to conversion therapy in the 1990s, spends most of its time playing catch up to the similar (and superior) "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" –a film that did it better earlier this year. Despite a talented cast and the best intentions, the ho-hum choices from director Joel Edgerton and the standard issue script ultimately fail to forge a meaningful emotional connection with the audience.
Jared (Lucas Hedges) is 19 when he's outed to his conservative, religious parents (Nicole Kidman and Russell Crowe) and is faced with an ultimatum: attend a camp that will help control his "unnatural" urges or be permanently shunned by his family. The story, based on the personal memoirs of Garrard Conley, examines the struggles the young man faces while being forced to question his true identity.
One big positive is that this story seems almost irrelevant in today's more accepting climate for homosexual youth. To avoid sounding callous because it was incredibly brave for Conley to share his true experiences, the film would've made a larger impact if it had focused on the young man's sexual assault. The aftermath of a rape where a gay teen has nowhere to turn is so sad, and it's something that's rarely (if ever) discussed.
The characters and ideas presented are as conventional as the lack of filmmaking craft. There's the strong mom who truly cares, the stern and strict dad, and the unqualified leader of the conversion camp (Edgerton) who embodies the very idea that religion encourages hate towards some classes and groups. The story is as predictable as it is frustrating, but luckily there's that one moment that makes the entire film. Here that anchor takes place in a brief and moving scene where Jared comes out to his parents in the kitchen. The disappointment and subsequent shame on their faces deals an effective blow.
While Kidman is mostly going through the teary-eyed motions, Crowe is the standout in his supporting role because he manages to make a devout preacher sympathetic, even when he seeks counsel and ultimately sends his son away to be deprogrammed. The arguably talented Hedges has yet to convince me that he's more than a one-trick pony because he gives a similar performance in every one of his films.
The lengthy epilogue is too preachy and drags the film down. Overall, "Boy Erased" seems to be little more than slightly insincere Oscar bait.
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Operating systems are the foundation of all computing devices, from phones to laptops to desktops. They are the software that helps us navigate our devices and perform our day-to-day tasks. Each operating system has its own unique features, and it communicates with different layers of the hardware in our devices. This article will explore how different layers of operating systems work together and how they impact our devices.
Different layers of an operating system communicate with each other via various protocols. The lowest layer, the kernel, is responsible for providing basic services to the user and running applications. The next layer up is the device driver layer. Device drivers are written in a specific programming language and interact with hardware devices such as printers or mice. They provide these devices with access to the operating system, allowing applications to run on top of them.
The next layer is the interface layer. This layer provides a uniform API across all applications and drivers, making it easy for developers to create new applications or drivers without knowing how the underlying operating system works. Above that is the application layer. Applications use this layer to interacts with users and other applications. It also manages resources allocated by the kernel, such as memory or files.
Different layers of operating system communicate with each other via various mechanisms. For example, the kernel communicates with user space through pipes and shared memory, while the middleware layer buffers network packets for applications. In this article we will discuss how these different layers work together and what roles they play in the overall operating system.
User space is the level of operating system where users interact with applications. Applications run in user mode and use the resources of the host computer accessible to them. User space also provides a platform for running processes that are not part of the main operating system, such as those used by drivers or utilities.
Kernel mode is the lowest level of the Linux kernel. It sits between user space and core kernel services, such as file systems, network interfaces, and timers. The kernel manages resources on behalf of users and provides an interface to core kernel services. When an application requests access to a resource in kernel mode, the kernel delivers it directly to user space.
The Linux kernel can be divided into two types of modules: standing modules and loaded modules. A standing module is a module that was compiled into the Linux kernel at compile time; it is not dynamically loaded like loaded modules are. A loaded module is a module that was dynamically loaded by the Linuxkernel into memory at runtime; it can be unloaded again by using dmesg or udev .
In order for an application to request access to a resource in kernel mode, it must first register its request with the kernel. The kernel maintains a table of all the applications and their requested resources, and it will deliver the requested resource to user space whenever the application requests it.
The Linux kernel also provides a mechanism for isolating processes from each other. Whenever a process wants to access a resource that is not available to other processes, it must first use the kernel's semaphore mechanism to protect the resource. The semaphore is a object that can be used by one process to wait for another process to release a lock on the object. Once the second process has released the lock, it can access the resource.
Different layers of operating system communicate with each other via various methods. Older, less powerful systems communicated with each other by sharing memory or files, while more powerful systems used remote procedure calls (RPCs). Today, most systems employ messages sent over network sockets to communicate with each other.
One of the benefits of using messages is that the sender and receiver can keep their own copies of the information being transferred, which can be useful if one party is offline or otherwise unavailable. Network sockets are particularly well-suited for this type of communication because they allow multiple processes to share access to a single socket. This allows a process listening on a socket to receive messages from any process that has registered to receive them.
Socket programming is relatively simple, so it's often used in lower-power systems where performance isn't as important as reliability. For example, many embedded systems use sockets to communicate with external devices. When a device connects to an embedded system, usually via USB or Bluetooth, the embedded system starts up its socket receiver and starts sending out messages corresponding to the device's respective protocol.
Different layers of operating systems communicate with each other via a variety of mechanisms. This article discusses the different ways in which these layers interact, including how they exchange data, control hardware devices, and manage processes. Understanding how these various interactions work will help you better understand how your computer works and can potentially allow you to troubleshoot problems.
Operating systems are the most important component of any computer system. It is responsible for managing and controlling all other elements, such as hardware, software, networks and user interfaces. The operating system mainly consists of different layers that communicate with each other in order to facilitate the running of applications and services. Each layer has its own unique functions which it needs to perform in order for the system to work properly.
The communication between these layers is essential in order for the operating system to function correctly. This communication occurs through various means such as interrupts, message passing protocols, shared memory segments and device drivers. Interrupts are used by one layer to inform another layer about events related to an application or service while message passing protocols allow information exchange between two entities running on different machines connected over a network.
👋 Hi everyone!
Today, we're going to talk about how different layers of the operating system communicate with each other. It's an incredibly important topic and one that every computer user should understand.
First of all, it's important to understand what an operating system is. In simple terms, it's the software that runs on your computer and is responsible for managing the hardware and providing a platform for applications to run on. It's the "master" of the computer and controls how it interacts with everything else.
Now, the operating system is broken up into several layers. These layers are responsible for different tasks and allow different programs to communicate with each other.
At the very bottom is the kernel layer. This is the actual code that runs on the hardware and is responsible for managing it. Above that is the system call layer. This is where applications interact with the kernel and request resources, such as memory or access to the hard drive. The operating system then provides those resources and communicates with the other layers in order to provide the requested service.
The application layer is the layer that user-facing programs run on. This is where programs such as web browsers or word processors run.
Above the application layer are the user interface layers. These are the layers responsible for the look and feel of the operating system. They provide things like window management and the graphical user interface that we're used to seeing.
Finally, the networking layer is responsible for communication between different computers. This is the layer that makes it possible for us to access the internet and share files with others.
So, as you can see, the different layers of the operating system communicate with each other in order to make everything work. From low-level functions like managing the hardware to high-level functions like providing the user interface, everything is connected and reliant on each other. 🤝
Thanks for reading! Hopefully this has given you a better understanding of how the different layers of an operating system interact.
Take care! 🌻
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