Ukrainian authorities and representatives of the construction market in Ukraine have agreed on a strategic partnership for the development of the industry over the next five years. 'Memorandum of Cooperation' was signed on February 20 at the opening of the 17th International professional construction exhibition, KyivBuild 2013.
This document was signed by the head of the Kyiv City State Administration Oleksandr Popov, Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Construction and Housing Dmitry Isayenko, heads of industry trade associations and exhibition organisers.
Purpose of the document: to develop the Ukrainian construction industry and to attract foreign and domestic investment. By signing this memorandum key industry players have joined forces to implement a strategic partnership. As the main annual event in the Ukrainian construction industry, International exhibition KyivBuild will act as a tool to support this development.
Among the signatories of the memorandum were , executive director of the Confederation of Builders of Ukraine Sergey Grabar, president of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine Vladimir Gusakov , vice - president of the Association of Ukrainian Cities Miroslav Pittsyk , president of the Association "Ukrainian Union of Manufacturers of building materials and products " Ivan Saliy , Vice - President of the Ukrainian Security Industry Federation Anatoly Dolynniy, CEO of Ukrainian green Building Council (Ukrainian Green Building Council) Stanislav Shulga and CEO of "Premier Expo" Anatoly Sushon.
Conference "Development of the modern city alongside cultural heritage"
International Conference "Construction of precast concrete in Ukraine. Technology and facilities.
2nd Transport Forum "Development of urban public transport in Ukraine. Perspective, technology, security "
XVI Ukrainian conference of the public organisation "Ukrainian Union of fire and technological security"
Conference "Ceramic brick : technology , construction and architecture"
CityBuild 2013: Conference "New approaches to the restoration, reconstruction and maintenance of immovable cultural heritage sites, historic centers and buildings "
E3- Forum 2013 - Ukrainian- German specialised forum "International experience for Ukraine: the introduction of "green" technologies in construction"
Conference "Autoclaved aerated concrete : production and use in construction"
Scientific and Practical Conference on "Historical styles and styles in modern interiors"
Roundtable "Popularisation of metal engineering"
Show presentation "The construction industry"
Round table "concept to improve technical safety regulations in the security industry. Creating a system of assessment "Registration in the security industry" - a step towards self-regulation"
Ukrainian Marketing construction industry Congress "Let's take off the rose-coloured glasses".
17,440 trade professionals visited KyivBuild 2012, an increase of 17% on last year's figures. 350 companies from 21 countries exhibited at the event, including national groups from Belarus, Germany, and China.
A special 'green' e3 mark was introduced at the event, highlighting the stands of companies offering products and technology related to energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly construction. Mykola Azarov, President of Ukraine and guest of honour at the exhibition, paid particular attention to these exhibitors, promising Government support for domestic companies developing green building technologies and materials.
Sustainable development of the modern city has been a key theme of the spring exhibition season. The CityBuild theme unified the business programmes of KyivBuild, KIPS, e3forum and the Architecture and Design Festival, attracting lively interest from construction and architecture firms, Government bodies, and urban planning professionals. A delegation from the Union of Architects of Russia, headed by its President Andrey Bokov, was among the participants of the CityBuild programme.
The General Plan for Kyiv was presented within the Architecture and Design Festival.
A standalone Innovative Projects Area presented new materials, equipment, and projects in the following sectors: the safe city, first-class infrastructure, energy saving, made in Kyiv, and electronic government.
The exhibition also featured the Intertool for Children charity event for the first time. Robert Bosch Ukraine and Ukraine's leading house builder Kyivgorstroy, supported by Premier Expo, built a children's playground for the Vasilek orphanage in Kyiv.
The growth of the KyivBuild international exhibition indicates the stabilisation and recovery of the construction industry in Ukraine and its neighbouring countries. The total exhibition area has increased by 10% to 10 160 sqm and the number of exhibitors has increased 11% to 335 companies.
This year saw the introduction of InterTool Kyiv a specialised exhibition for hardware, tools and DIY, which along with the Hardware & Tools exhibition has joined the KyivBuild family of brands. Organisers and participants noted the strong success of the new tool show format and the growing interest of visitorsin this sector.
The 2nd International Scientific and Practical Forum of Environment and Energy Efficient Construction 'E3forum' was co-organised by US AID Municipal Heating Reform project and GIZ (German Agency for International Cooperation).
The 9th All-Ukrainian contest for the best interior 'Inter'Year' together with the 'Architecture and Design festival' demonstrated the best interior design and town planning solutions of the year past. The number of works submitted to 'Inter'Year' increased by one third compared to the previous year. The winners of 'Inter'Year' 2011 were displayed in April at a special exposition of the best Ukrainian interiors during Mosbuild 2011 (Moscow), the major annual construction event in Europe.
This year, E3Forum - the International Forum on Eco-Friendly and Energy Efficient Construction - was held within KyivBuild for the first time. Representatives of the following international companies presented papers: Dialog-Classic, Saint-Gobain Construction Products Ukraine, Knauf Insulation and Ноерр. Another event in the business programme was Inter'Year 2010, the 8th Open All-Ukrainian Competition for the Best-Realised Interior. The Show-Room, which featured master classes by AE&Design, Centre of Ukrainian Culture and Art, and Tabooret Interiors Laboratory, attracted a lot of attention.
The specialised events at the exhibition, and major international and national exhibitors attracted a large number of trade visitors and industry specialists. KyivBuild 2010 was visited by 15,000 construction professionals, 95% of whom were architects, builders, designers, and directors of construction and transport companies.
Despite the complicated economic situation at the real estate market and in the national construction industry in whole, the KyivBuild Show managed not only to make its permanent guests and exhibitors happy with innovations and its professional business atmosphere, but also extended its participant list with new exhibitors from such strategically important construction sectors as TechnoStone and ConMac. The total area of 2009 show was about 20,000 sq.m. and the number of visitors exceeded 15 000 experts.
Companies from 30 countries of the world including the UK, Italy, Greece, China, and Turkey, took part in the show. The program included the 9th All-Ukrainian ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN 2009 Festival as well as UKRAINA KVITUCHA Landscape Festival. The national stands of Luxemburg and Finland were demonstrated, too.
In 2008 KyivBuild's exhibition area grew by 4 500 sq.m. compared to the 2007 edition and totalled 25 500 sq.m. The show was visited by over 30,000 experts. Among exhibitors were world leaders of building and associated industries: EUROSTONE ENGINEERING, JUMA VOELLER, GBC MARMI & MARMI BACCI, SK INNOVATIONS, Strommash, VELOX, Welser Profile, Technopark, SCANDI, Runatel Eko, MD GROUP, INKERAM etc.
In 2007 the exposition area of the KyivBuild Show was 21,000 sq.m. It was visited by more than 27,000 experts. Its program included such sectors as: Interiors, Heat Vent, Windows&Doors, Santechnika, Landscape&Garden, Ceramica, Decotex, HardWare. Companies from China, Turkey, the UK, Greece and other countries presented their products.
The number of exhibitors increased two and a half times in comparison with 2005. The show filled out two pavilions.
For the first time KyivBuild was represented by the following countries: collective stands from Korea, China, Greece, Brazil. Hardware Ukraine 2006 was organised within the exhibition where companies dealing with metal-roll, metal wares, equipment for wire, cable ware, metal cord, ropes, reeds producing and equipment were represented. Stroykhimiya had its 3rd international conference involving POLIREM.
KyivBuild 2005 saw the birth of new shows; Technostone (Natural stone and technologies), Plastex (equipment and technologies for plastic and rubber manufacturing), and ConMac (Road, building, handling machinery. Equipment, machinery and units for mining industry), which have now become annual events, and since 2006 have been held in pavilion 2 of the International Exhibition Centre (IEC).
KyivBuild showed an increased number of companies representing their products for the first time in the Ukrainian market, especially among German and Russian exhibitors. Germany had a big representation with a national stand.
At the Architecture and Design Festival 2004, ATM company (Kiev, Ukraine) - The art of pools building and Deutsche Steinzeug Keramik GmbH (Schwarzenfeld, Germany) launched Water Taming competition that became the first annual architectural competition to promote design and building of pools and water-parks in Ukraine.
KyivBuild receives official support from the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber.
During Building Week Ukraine 2003, a new project was launched - the 1st International Conference Building and Building Materials 2003. The conference was a fantastic opportunity to increase communication channels through analysing the experience gained by introducing leading building technologies and materials, and establishing contacts within the professional audience. The conference showed that it was the best was of informing those who make decisions in building branch. The conference has become a traditional event at Building Week Ukraine (KyivBuild) to bring together representatives of leading Ukrainian and international building companies, heads of enterprises, representatives of state authorities and chief architects of Ukrainian cities and regions.
KyivBuild receives official support from the German Federal Ministry of Economy and Labour.
The best piece from the Architecture and Design Festival was honoured with a prize from the National Union of Architects in Ukraine, Volyuta (the annual prize in architecture).
The Architecture and Design Festival opened in the grounds of KyivBuild. The festival represents the best show pieces of Ukrainian architecture, as well as expositions of the National Union of Architects of Ukraine and Architecture Academy of Ukraine.
The KyivBuild exposition of manufacturers and suppliers of building materials and equipment was demonstrated at the Kiev Sports Palace. At the same time, the Architecture and Design Festival was held at the Ukrainsky Dom exhibition centre. KyivBuild became known as 'Building Week Ukraine' introducing a new approach in building exhibitions in Ukraine and bringing together architectures, builders, suppliers and manufacturers of building materials and equipment under the same exhibition area, showing all stages of the building cycle - from the architect's initial idea to the finished project.
There was a considerable amount of growth in the number of Russian exhibitors. KyivBuild has become a springboard for companies entering the Ukrainian building market. A lot of new representative offices of international companies were opened after KyivBuild 2000.
The number of Ukrainian exhibitors increased considerably. KyivBuild promoted the strength of their brand and increased new business contacts as well as active promotion of products and business development.
There was a record number of Polish exhibitors with a group occupying over 40% of the show.
KyivBuild witnessed a drastic increase of interest among Finnish building materials & equipment manufacturers.
The birth of KyivBuild (Building materials, equipment and services). The share of international exhibitors amounted to 85%. This was the highest rate of international participation among any other building show organised previously in Ukraine.


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The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 8: Everything We Know
Pratik Handore
'The Brokenwood Mysteries' is a crime drama television series that first began airing in 2014. The series follows Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd, who solves various murder cases in the small town of Brokenwood where everyone knows everyone else, and a crime such as murder has large implications on the entire town.
It has a mystery of the week format, with each episode focusing on a new case Shepherd tries to solve alongside Detective Kristin Sims. The characters' personal conflicts form loose connectivity throughout the season. The show's seven seasons have received widespread critical acclaim thanks to its engaging plot. If you are interested in knowing the details about 'The Brokenwood Mysteries' season 8, here's everything we know.
The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 8 Release Date
'The Brokenwood Mysteries' season 7 premiered on March 29, 2021, on AcronTV and is scheduled to wrap up its run on May 4, 2021. The seventh season breaks the pattern of 4 episode season followed by the previous seasons and consists of six 2-hour long episodes. As for season 8, no official comment has been made by the network or the show's creators as of yet.
Given the show's binge-worthy format and increasing popularity outside its native New Zealand, it wouldn't be a surprise if a season 8 renewal is announced soon. The show usually returns with new seasons in the fall, barring the exception of season 7, which was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. If the mystery crime drama is renewed in the coming months, 'The Brokenwood Mysteries' season 8 could release sometime in the Fall of 2022.
The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 8 Cast: Who can be in it?
Neill Rea portrays the unconventional and abrasive Detective Mike Shepherd while Fern Sutherland essays the role of Detective Kristin Sims, his intelligent and by-the-books partner. We expect both the lead actors to return in season 8. Other main cast members expected to return are Nic Sampson as Detective Constable Sam Breen, Cristina Ionda as Dr. Gina Kadinsky, and Pana Hema Taylor as Jared Morehu, Mike's neighbor. As the show revolves around a new mystery and new characters in every episode, our guess predicting which new cast members will be added is as good as yours at the moment.
The Brokenwood Mysteries Season 8 Plot: What can it be About?
'The Brokenwood Mysteries' season 7 sees Mike and Kristin solving new grisly murder cases that keep audiences pinned to their seats. Season 7 is filled with complex character drama and the show's signature dry humor. As if that isn't enough to keep fans hooked, the cases this time around are even more reflective of the current socio-political climate, making the narrative even more engrossing.
In all likelihood, Mike and Kristin will continue driving around town in Mike's vintage Holden Kingswood car, solving new cases in season 8. Although their friction has somewhat reduced recently, they will still sometimes butt heads over the details of their investigations. We could also see progress on the romantic front for both characters. Mike could finally address Cristina's romantic inclinations towards him, while Kristin could break her streak of dating bad luck in the new season. We also expect Sam to have more hilariously awkward and uncomfortable interactions with the suspects, and the wise-headed Jared could continue getting drawn into investigations and use his many acquaintances to help out the detectives as he often does.
Read More: Is The Brokenwood Mysteries Based on a True Story?

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It's not about you, it's about your customer.
Anais Nin is famously quoted as saying, "we don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." This truism is never more apparent than at the time in our lives when we are toiling over a great idea or expanding a great organization that has the potential to revolutionize our industry.
Our aim is true. We know we should be laser-focused on our target audiences and how to help them. Yet, it so easy to lose perspective. The customer perspective, to be exact. I should know — there was a time in my own career in health tech that if they'd given an award for navel-gazing, I would have been champion… of the world!
So, what do I mean by award-winning navel-gazing? I mean being so close to a product or cause that you can no longer see it with objectivity or identify with the experience of a person who is encountering your brand for the first time. I mean being so internally focused on your own organization that you can't tear your eyes (and your messaging) away from, well… you. Think: Narcissus gazing at his own reflection.
Don't get me wrong, I am not suggesting that we should avoid being incredibly passionate about our organizations and solutions and their abilities to change a category, the market, or even the world. Why else would we sacrifice sleep, weekends, and time with the people we love to instead grow and nurture great organizations? But the kind of passion that points us too inwardly can be extremely dangerous to our brand and our success.
The reality is, at some point, we are all likely to indulge in some unhealthy navel-gazing. Consider this from Dr. Leandro Herraro's 2016 examination of "me focus" across society as a whole: "companies look 90% at themselves and 10% at the market. And when they use the 10%, 90% of that 10%, it is looking at competitors, not the real buyers, not society."
Is your marketing content mostly about your recent mergers or acquisitions?
Does your website messaging highlight you, rather than the value your target audience derives from your organization?
Do you define your target audience's needs based on the benefits of your solution?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you might be a navel-gazer. Congratulations! The first step to solving a problem is recognizing that there is one!
Now that you have a sense of the problem, seek objective outside counsel. Whether that's an agency partner or consultancy, current clients, or folks in your organization (outside of product leadership, the founding team, or sales — these people are wonderful, but can sometimes be too close to be objective).
What do we need to do as a company to deeply understand our audience's pain points?
Your existing clients can really help you with this one (along with other industry contacts from whom you feel comfortable soliciting this kind of input).
How do we help them address these?
Feedback from your own teams, along with clients, can be invaluable at helping you think this question through.
And, perhaps most importantly, what do we understand about our target audience that enables us to break through?
Using what you learned from the first two questions can start you on the right path to answering this question. This answer becomes the basis for your messaging and content strategy.
You can learn more about how ReviveHealth helps refocus brand and messaging and enjoy some lively discussion about healthcare target audiences (and how to stay laser-focused on them) in our webinar, Navigating the Maze of Selling to the Hospital C-Suite.
Navel-gazing is one of the 4 most common health tech marketing pitfalls we see.
Check out the webinar and transcript!


The Albrecht Squad: ADHD is a Gift!!!
I rarely discuss any of the challenges that my children have been blessed with. There is a reason, mainly I don't want my children labeled or prejudged. There is enough of both of those in the world without adding to it by discussing those things when it comes to my children. I am not ashamed but to me what point does it serve to throw out what my children's specific challenges are upon introduction. Now in saying that, this is how I feel. I'm not saying it's not ok for others to do that if that's what they choose.
Anyway, today Neil had a doctor appointment to have his ear checked out and also to have his meds refilled for his ADHD. We didn't get to see our regular doctor since this was a last minute appointment so I was a bit nervous. We have been blessed (really in the military this is rare) to have had the same pediatrician for the four years we have lived here, she really does know my kids. The Dr. we got to see was GREAT! When I mentioned we needed his meds refilled, she asked me what they were for and when I told her, she turned to Neil and said...ADHD is a gift!!! Did you know that? She went on to tell me how ADHD kids are so smart and that they need medication to help them slow things down a bit. She explained it to him in relation to a car and brakes. She told him that just like a car needs brakes to slow down, these meds do the same thing for him. She told him that she thought he was great and to keep being a good kid. It was really a motivating appointment. It's nice to talk to someone who see's it like I do. I get tired of hearing the negative about ADHD kids. I hate the stigma that is placed on them that they are not smart or behavior problems. Neil excels at many things, he just requires a little bit of help to slow down a bit to get it done. I'm happy when people see it like I do.
She is right ADHD is a gift. Despite somedays when I feel overwhelmed with the challenges in our family's life with different characteristics that make up my children, I also work hard to remember that the Lord thought enough of Kevin and I to handle these special spirits. We have been blessed at being able to see the world in a whole new way and forced to step out of the "norm".
She sounds awesome....and I love how she put ADHD is a positive light.
I once heard someone say that when her son was labled ADHD, she took it as a compliment for the same reason. "my son is brilliant" she would say. "the meds just help him slow down to our pace..."
Thank you for sharing this. It sure is a gift, and I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.
Okay so that is such great perspective! I'm also tearing up because I feel pretty sure that Sierra is ADHD, but hasn't been diagnosed. That is such a neat way to love and understand behavior that can be so frustrating at times.


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Richard Pervo (Profit with Delight) compares Acts with ancient novels and finds striking resemblances. We tend to resist finding the thrill of novelistic adventure and humour in the books of the Bible. Holy books are supposed to be read with much gravitas, after all. But Pervo's comparison with ancient novels has persuaded him that Acts shared their particular qualities that excited and entertained his audiences. I have read many ancient novels over recent years — and many ancient historians over a longer period of time — and fully agree with him.
Students of biblical literature should read widely in literature contemporary with those biblical books. It's the only way to really dispel impressions we pick up from our religious background that the Bible's books are like no others. I suspect that a cultural predisposition to read Acts as a devotional-like religious history has focused many till now on attempting to find parallels with ancient historians at the expense of "less serious" literature.
The former account I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up, after he through the Holy Spirit had given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen, to whom he also presented himself alive after his suffering by many infallible proofs, being seen by them during forty days and speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
Prefaces were highly conventional, and probably taught in school. Their claims could be parodied.
Medical writers, astrologers, dream interpreters, and novelists all used prefaces. They were not the preserve of historians. Novelists could use them to create verisimilitude.
A large number of short treatises, of about the length of Lk's work, have been examined in Loveday Alexander's authoritative work (Alexander 1993). She establishes that it was a convention to begin with a preface similar to his, including such matters as name of author and recipient, his aim, the sources of his information, the importance of the subject, and a claim to personal competence for the task. Luke's preface accords with these conventions, though in detail it is more similar to medical, mechanical, military and mathematical treatises than to historical works.
So Pervo concludes that the author's use of a preface or prologue cannot decide the question of the genre of Acts, or lead us to conclude a priori that the ensuing narrative must be historical.
Links are direct to the prefaces or pages on which they appear.
No finer or more courageous man is held to have existed than Alexander, king of Macedon. He had a special way of doing everything and found his own qualities always had Providence for a partner. In fact, his wars and battles with any one nation were over before historians had time to gather full information on its cities. The deeds of Alexander, the excellences of his body and of his soul, his success in his actions, his bravery, are our present subject. We begin with his family — and the identity of his father. People are generally under the misapprehension that he was the son of King Philip. This is quite wrong. . . .
Wherever Ptolemy and Aristobulus in their histories of Alexander, the son of Philip, have given the same account, I have followed it on the assumption of its accuracy; where their facts differ I have chosen what I feel to be the more probable and interesting. There are other accounts of Alexander's life – more of them, indeed, and more mutually conflicting than of any other historical character; it seems to me, however, that Ptolemy and Aristobulus are the most trustworthy writers on this subject, because the latter shared Alexander's campaigns, and the former – Ptolemy – in addition to this advantage, was himself a King, and it is more disgraceful for a King to tell lies than for anyone else. Moreover, Alexander was dead when these men wrote; so there was no sort of pressure upon either of them, and they could not profit from falsification of the facts. Certain statements by other writers upon Alexander may be taken to represent popular tradition: some of these, which are interesting in themselves and may well be true, I have included in my work.
If anyone should wonder why I should have wished to write this history when so many other men have done the same, I would ask him to reserve judgement until he has first read my predecessors' work and then become acquainted with my own.
Prologues or prefaces came into vogue in the Hellenistic era.
They were used in all kinds of formal prose.
In the Greek Bible the only other prefaces are by the grandson of Jesus ben Sirah (Ecclesiasticus) and the author of the Second Book of Maccabees.
Prefaces were the usual form for Greek and Latin historians, geographers, scientists, doctors and other prose writers, and even poets provided prefaces (sometimes in prose).
Contents of the prefaces were prescribed by the rhetorical rule-books.
Prefaces often include references to particular preceding writers on the same theme (sometimes to comment on them negatively), to the author's authority in the subject, to his decision to write and his purpose in writing.
Prefaces mention the official addressee of a work, to whom it is dedicated and his interest in the work following.
The author's name is usually included at the end of the preface.
Prefaces were often in marked by a sophisticated style in contrast with the technical books they introduced. Aim was to make a favorable impression at the start. Even purely scientific works had artistic prefaces.
When a work required more than one volume, a secondary preface often occurs.
The preface to the later book would begin with summaries of the preceding book and of the book just begun.
Sometimes the latter summary occurs instead at the close of the preceding book, or even in both places.
Secondary prefaces were not universal. In many cases the books followed one another with no obvious break. And in many cases, the divisions into the books we know were not the work of the original author.
Rhetorical writers, however, could elaborate each separate volume with artistic prefaces — often alien to the subject of the volume to follow — as if they were completely new works.
We are told Ephorus wrote 30 books prefixing each with a new preface.
Diodorus Siculus claimed to write regular prefaces to prevent, he said, others from revising the works into something he hadn't said.
Jerome justified prefaces on the grounds that they helped keep the books or volumes in their correct order.
Possibly books without prefaces and on separate rolls risked becoming mixed up in order.
When a work was of more than one volume it was customary to mention the addressee at the beginning of each volume.
Sometimes the preface took the form of an attached letter.
This custom has led to moderns mistaking formal treatises for personal letters. (e.g. "letter" of Aristeas to Philocrates, and the so-called Epistle to Diognetus). Neither of these treatises was really a letter.
The relation of the addressee to the work and to its author varied. Personal friend, fellow author, patron, a name to add prestige, or any person appropriate to the book's contents (e.g. a general for a work on military strategy). The name may not have had any personal association with the author and may not even have been personally interested in the work written.
The significance of including an addressee was to declare that the work was for public reading. The real readers may have been quite different from the addressee in the preface.
Of all the examples of ancient prologues cited and linked above, the closest one in appearance to Acts is the one introducing a treatise on how to interpret dreams. When comparing the words used, its brevity, its structure and the function of its contents in relation to the main text, its avoidance of self-identification and other specific details about sources and predecessors, the prologue of Acts is least like the more well known prefaces to ancient histories.
But note Cadbury's comments on the preface to Acts to quite unconventionally fail to mention the purpose or contents of the book it introduces.
Posted on 2007-11-12 21:32:11 GMT+0000 by Neil Godfrey.	This entry was posted in Biblical Studies and tagged Ancient literature, Luke-Acts prologue, Pervo: Profit with Delight. Bookmark the permalink.
Very interesting reading and nicely related to the christiancadre.blogspot.com Acts historicity claims. You have really research the subject. Can't wait for the 2nd part.
From the south side of the border.
No scholar (worth his salt) actually claims that having a prologue itself is indicative of it being historiography. Instead, its the contents in the prologue which can help assign whether its historiography or something else.
And it is the nature of the contents as much as structure and wording that one is invited to compare with the above examples.
Since most men and women of that age of the world were unable to read or write, it being work of scribes and scholars, you are forgetting that the work was read to them as oral history and story, and part of the storyteller's art. Of course it was going to be written as lovely and enticing as possible, knowing the audience was one used to such spoken words.
But recall that Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon were popular reading/hearing without writing in the vein of popular fiction.
Cadre blog have quietly begun a series to critique on their "all of one mind" blogsite this and subsequent posts. Well, after Cadre deleted two links I posted in response to their posts — in which I had pointed to a fuller rebuttal of some of their claims — and after being regularly addressed with insults, I decided it would be preferable to put my reply to their discussions here — where I know it and associated links will not be deleted at whim and where I have some control over the level of abuse these good Christian folk like to deploy.
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This is a speech given at the Environment Council of Rhode Island Annual meeting on June 7 2021 by Greg Gerrritt
Good evening and thanks for coming to help ECRI celebrate 50 years of activism protecting the RI environment. Before beginning my talk I also want to acknowledge my retiring colleagues Meg Kerr and Rupert Friday. Their work will be missed. Then they will be replaced and the work will go on. I am looking forward to moving to other challenges by the end of the year myself and expect fully that ECRI will continue to move forward
I also need to say that you are getting my side of the story this evening. Everyone would tell this story differently. I also realize that as I shortened this to fit tonite that some of the pieces that hit the floor were the parts that note that the oppressed communities of the world are their most important advocates and have much to offer to the environmental community. Going forward their leadership and participation will be crucial to keeping the planet and all communities healthy
The Arc of the Moral Universe is long, but it bends towards justice is not the exact quote abolitionist Theodore Parker penned in the 1840's when speaking of the inevitability of the ending of slavery, but it later inspired Martin Luther King Jr and it is how we think of it today.
Clearly most of the environmental groups that popped up in the United States as the passenger pigeons were being wiped out and the Bison slaughtered were founded by people as racist as the general population. Even if many of their members were not racists, which is not a given. the tone of the large environmental non profits was let us protect land, water, and wildlife with no real thoughts about the people who lived on the land, from time immemorial, or the relationship between long standing communities and the land the invaders wanted to think of as uninhabited wilderness.
All of North America is stolen land, and it is only now that western thinkers and scholars are beginning to understand that in North America, and actually across the entire world, indigenous communities have developed cultural adaptations that enabled them to harvest more for their communities while still maintaining healthy ecosystems, and have in many cases successfully managed these eco/cultural systems for thousands of years.
The Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act have been critical in efforts to clean up our air, waters, and neighborhoods, though how well depends upon whose neighborhood unfortunately. The sins of omission, the refusal to limit pollution in sacrifice zones even as some places got cleaner, clearly is part of the racist and classist trends that American politics has followed throughout history. The Black, Indigenous, and low income communities of color that have been the nation's dumping grounds reflect the power structure of the United States as well as anything we see today except for the racialized policing and the suppression of the vote. But even from its beginnings there were many active in the environmental movement that understood that justice was how we get to a clean environment. even if justice was not centered in the environmental movement.
The burst of progress beginning with the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act and continuing through the passage of key environmental legislation not only brought about the founding of ECRI, it also brought immense pushback, officially beginning with future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell's Chamber of Commerce memo in which the super rich declared war on progress, and began a massive 50 year PR campaign that is grounded in the racist neoliberal economic plans that came out of universities in Virginia. The campaign not only bequeathed to us horrible economic policy, it offered us attacks on democracy, voter suppression, underfunded infrastructure, and environmental roll backs. Unfortunately, the founders of neo liberalism understood quite well that no one would vote for their program if it was discussed honestly so they created the Big Lie.
These days almost anyone paying attention realizes that undercutting democracy and legislating injustice is always accompanied by an anti-environmental position so as to protect the profits of the super rich, but in the mid 1980's there was one group that specifically linked man's inhumanity to man to the destruction of the environment. While they continue to be a marginal piece of the American political and environmental story, the Green Party's slogan of Ecology, Equality, Democracy, Peace, chosen in 1984, reminded us that everything is connected and shows that even in the dimly lit past many in the environmental movement have always stood for justice, racial and economic, and understood that progress on all these issues is intimately connected.
Robert Bullard really began the process of opening eyes in the environmental community about environmental injustice with Dumping in Dixie in 1990. I read it and it opened my eyes.
Democracy has always been critical to ecological healing. Communities/governments where the people cannot be heard, where demonstrating is not allowed, where petitioning the government is stonewalled, never take care of the environment, never care about public health, never tell people what is poisoning them. Authoritarians never let community opposition keep them from allowing the rich to do whatever they want in pursuit of profits.
Communities need the right to say no. Whether it is RIDOT wasting our money destroying Kennedy Plaza. Washington Park residents looking to stop the building of a dump, or the people of Burrillville rising up against a power plant, the right of a community to say no would save all of us big headaches.
I want to mention how important the study and discipline of anthropology has been to the development of some of the good trends we see,. Anthropology has roots as racist as any academic discipline, but even from its earliest periods it had people that understood that skin color is malleable in evolutionary time in response to the amount of sunshine a community receives and that under the skin we are all pretty much the same. In the early 1950's a number of anthropologists were openly condemning racism as an idea with no scientific underpinnings.
One useful thing anthropologists have been able to do is to offer some intellectual heft and amplification of indigenous voices around the world on the topic of how good indigenous stewards of the land are when their land base is intact, and how important indigenous communities maintaining their control of their land is to the future of the planet. This meme has radically changed conservation biology and laws on land tenure around the world and now local communities are at the heart of preserving and repairing the ecosystems that sustain them as well as benefitting from some of the travelers who are sustained by experiencing ecosystems in good hands. Applied locally it means being allies of the people organizing to protect their own communities.
Given my background in anthropology maybe it is not surprising that for about 20 years I have used the slogan "You cannot heal ecosystems without ending poverty, you cannot end poverty without healing ecosystems. I came up with it based on my understanding of how the poorest people live in the most degraded ecosystems, whether it is gatherers and swidden farmers in West Papua displaced by an iron mine, dump pickers in the Philippines the residents of cancer alley in East Texas, or residents of Southside fighting natural gas expansion and dumps on Allen's Ave. The converse is also true. People living in healthy environments, if they have access to the resource base, have better nutrition and are healthier.
ECRI has not in the past been an outlier on issues of justice. Many ECRI activists care deeply about justice and have included justice advocacy in their lives. But we swam in the cultural stream as an organization. I do not think since 1990 we have shied away from environmental justice, it is just that we did not center it. About 12 years ago, to give a boost to work on environmental justice, ECRI was a part of group that created the Environmental Justice League of RI, which as much good as it did, did not do all we had hoped precisely because it was created by well meaning outsiders rather than arising from the community. A lesson to us all.
Recently, with the wave of issues around climate justice, fossil fuels, and the port a rooted EJ movement has started to take hold in Providence. Like many of these things, it was not any generic organizing that got it moving, it was a reaction to very specific threats to communities that activated people and organizations. ECRI has welcomed this organizing but there has been some tension over what ECRI brings to the table, the nature of the challenges, and what community groups would like to see from ECRI.
ECRI always has capacity issues, it mostly works on what its members want it to, so newcomers may find less than they wish in the way of support, often not understanding how few resources ECRI has, which are mostly the energy and knowledge of the advocates of the various member organizations that work together at ECRI. Sometimes it is hard to ponder how slow a coalition of 60 member organizations changes. These are the issues we have asked Resolve Conservation to work with us on.
One thing I have been pondering is that often the misunderstandings we encounter are with organizations very involved in elections, and often using legislation to push an elections agenda rather than good governance. ECRI has been wise to stay out of the endorsements and elections business, as that allows us to focus on the work that goes on no matter who is in office.
The boost that Black Lives Matter has given to the movements for justice is immense. The push has permeated nearly every part of the environmental movement, adding to the pressures the climate justice movement of the youth was starting to generate. We can see it in all the large national environmental organizations, such as the National Wildlife Federation where the staff of the national organization was ahead of the board and most of its affiliates, but have been able to help the whole apparatus move forward. We can see it in the ECRI membership with those organizations that clearly see justice in their mission moving faster than those with a little distance from these issues due to geography or topics of interest.
Sunrise has been important. Especially in its beginning phases it electrified the climate movement, expanding it, demanding that it center justice and demanding that communities and politicians rise up to actually meet the challenges of the climate catastrophe. And for the first time the climate/environment movement had a segment that reflected the diversity of America.
The work of the community groups focused on the port of Providence and the environmental mess there has been fabulous. The People's Port Authority and all of its predecessors and allied neighborhood organizations have changed the discussion in the city and contributed to real changes in city ordinances. The Conservation Law Foundation has been a real resource for the neighbors, and other ECRI organizations and members, especially those based in Providence, have deepened connections with residents and expanded their activism along Allen's Ave.
If we honestly assess ECRI's contribution to forward progress, it is on a variety of fronts. We have recently been much quicker to respond to calls for help and resolutions in support of front line urban communities and support for legislation of interest to EJ groups. We have taken upon ourselves to help the environmental community in RI and in our networks address these issues even as we work on ourselves. Often this work is facilitated by ECRI connections, even if it is not officially an ECRI project. Just do not ask us to endorse half-baked bills.
I also hope that as people focused on ecology that we remember how important diversity is to environments and ecological stability and that all of us woven together are stronger and make more progress than all of us working alone. On a personal note I relish the idea that the next person in the ECRI office will reflect the changes in the environmental movement in ways that a dinosaur like me cannot and therefore help us connect better to the future movement..
Could ECRI do better, sure, everyone and every organization can do better. But we are moving forward, and are now trying to speed up the process with the help of experts. Whether the experts provide us with things we can use or not, the arc of the moral universe is bending toward justice and we are consciously trying to flow with it. We shall find new ways to bind our community together, we will better incorporate justice into our understanding of environmental issues, we shall better understand how issues are connected, and we shall be better neighbors and allies for front line communities. It will be a bit messy, misunderstandings and history will make it a bit bumpy. But we are all aware that the issues we all care about will only be resolved if we pay attention to the moral arc and move consciously towards justice. I look forward to a better ECRI.


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Clinton's illness cited in new plunge by Mexico peso
Marco Ugarte

People stand outside an exchange house advertising the sale of U.S. dollars at the rate of 19.90 Mexican pesos per dollar in Mexico City, Monday, Sept. 19, 2016. The Mexican currency reached the psychological barrier of 20 pesos per dollar, and analysts and commentators cited the role of the U.S. presidential campaign. (Photo AP Photo / Marco Ugarte)

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Economists have long said that when the United States catches a cold, Mexico gets pneumonia. But analysts said Monday that Hillary Clinton's pneumonia has given Mexico's peso something worse.
The Mexican currency reached the psychological barrier of 20 pesos per dollar, and analysts and commentators cited the role of the U.S. presidential campaign.
Banamex, one of Mexico's largest banks, listed the peso at 19.96, and other banks and exchange houses listed it even higher.
A Banco Base analysis said the strength of Republican candidate Donald Trump influenced the peso's decline.
"The possibility that Donald Trump could win the Nov. 8 elections has made financial markets nervous and that has been especially reflected in the Mexican peso," the bank said.
Trump has been critical of Mexico and the trade agreements that give it access to the U.S. market. The U.S. has an outsize influence on Mexico's economy, buying about 80 percent of Mexico's exports.
Newspaper columnist Carlos Loret de Mola said Clinton's health problems are key.
"Speculation broke out against the Mexican currency last week due to the poor health of the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton," Loret de Mola wrote in the newspaper El Universal.
Clinton had to leave a Sept. 11 memorial ceremony early, and later revealed she had pneumonia.
Mexico's Treasury Department declined to comment on whether the U.S. campaign has affected the country's currency. The department attributed the peso's decline mainly to concerns about a possible interest rate hike in the United States and the drop in oil prices.
Oil prices were cited in the peso's decline in previous months, but they have risen somewhat from this year's earlier lows.
The peso has dropped almost 17 percent in value in the last year.


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if exist "%_WRAPPER_EXE%" goto conf
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Finding time to blog some pictures has been a bit tricky as we have been very very busy as you will see. We have a few things to finish off and then we will be starting the floors downstairs. Its really coming together now and has a great feel to it.
Hi Clare, house is looking awesome… The timber panelling is a great idea, the mix of textures on the walls really helps to break things up – looking very sophisticated. I'd love to re-post a few of your pics on the Storybook website and include a link back to your blog if you'd like – people would love to see what can be done if you put your mind to it… Great Job… Cheers . Nathan – Storybook Designer Homes..
Hi Nathan, that would be lovely! We have had a very positive experience and more than happy to share about it. I would love to blog more but have been too busy with the build! Have learnt so much and loved every minute!!


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Q: how to write a macro to add metadata to a function Given the below function -
(defn ^:export hi [] (+ 2 3))

I would like to write a macro that does this -
(defex hi [] (+ 2 3))

The macro defex just adds the ^:export metadata in front of the function. How do I do that?
Edit - I checked the function on repl (meta hi) and it gives nil. So most probably I dont want to add metedata but define a function in the above manner.
Thanks,
Murtaza

A: You don't want the meta on the function itself, you want it on the var (or whatever clojurescript's equivalent of that is):
user> (defmacro defex [name & defn-args]
        `(defn ~(vary-meta name assoc :export true) ~@defn-args))
#'user/defex
user> (defex hi [] "hi")
#'user/hi
user> (meta #'hi)
{:arglists ([]), :ns #<Namespace user>, :name hi, :export true, :line 1, :file "NO_SOURCE_FILE"}

A: you can use a basic template-macro that builds a function and uses def to save it in a var
user> (defmacro defex [name args & body] `(def ~name ^{:export true} (fn ~args  ~@body)))
#'user/defex
user> (defex hi [] (+ 2 3))
#'user/hi
user> (meta hi)
{:export true}
user>

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