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Palestinians Need to Learn from South Africa's Mistakes
PALESTINE - ISRAEL, 7 Oct 2019
Ramzy Baroud – Al Jazeera
Palestinians who look up to post-apartheid South Africa have to critically examine its many failures.
Palestinians pose for a picture with a sculpture of the first democratically elected South African President Nelson Mandela in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on April 26, 2016. [AP/Nasser Nasser]
4 Oct 2019 – Today, the comparison between Israeli and South African apartheid is as pervasive as it is obvious. Just as South Africa and many other settler colonies did in the past, Israel is now utilising policies of racial segregation and ethnic cleansing to advance and preserve the interests of the colonialists while suppressing and marginalising the basic human rights of the colonised population.
Naturally, the Palestinian liberation discourse has adopted references to the popular struggle against South Africa's apartheid, while the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is also largely modelled around the boycott movement of South Africa.
The relentless resistance and overwhelming sacrifices of South Africans which were made to ultimately overturn hundreds of years of Dutch and British colonialism and racial apartheid are exceptional and praiseworthy. Challenging and officially defeating the powerful and sinister forces that upheld such historic injustice is a tremendous feat. It underscores the unsurmountable power of popular movements and presents a positive example for Palestinians.
However, in the rush to emphasise the similarities between the two experiences – which itself stems from the burning and justifiable desire of Palestinians to achieve their own "South Africa moment" – two major mistakes are being made.
One, Palestinians often misconstrue and romanticise the path of the South African anti-apartheid struggle. Two, there is a widely-shared belief, among Palestinians and their supporters, that the official scrapping of apartheid laws automatically ushered in a new age of democracy and equality in South Africa.
Such perceptions lead to the erroneous assumption that a similar legal victory in Israel can solve all of Palestine's problems and pave the way for the coveted one-state solution.
This issue occupied my mind during a recent visit to South Africa. While giving lectures on Palestine and the shared struggle of the two nations, I had the opportunity to meet and discuss the South African experience with a number of intellectuals, former anti-apartheid fighters and human rights activists who are part of today's South African struggle for equality.
In my opinion, Palestinians must hear and examine closely the views of South Africans who have fought and continue to fight for true equality and meaningful democracy, so that they can better understand post-apartheid South Africa and draw important lessons for our own struggle.
Nationhood, democracy and marginalisation
One of the main challenges that post-apartheid South Africa has faced is building a nation on the ashes of a regime which was predicated on racial division, marginalisation and oppression.
As South African academics Na'eem Jeenah and Salim Vally explained in their essay, Beyond Ethnic Nationalism: Lessons from South Africa, a common future for the colonialists and the colonised can only be built "when there is agreement that a new nation needs to be forged within a new state".
"While it might be tempting to talk about the new state now and leave the question of the new nation for some post-liberation phase, this would be a huge mistake. It was postponed in South Africa and South Africans are now living with the consequences," Jeenah and Vally wrote.
Indeed, while post-apartheid governments in South Africa emphasised symbols of unity and celebrated diversity – such as the rainbow flag – symbolism was not enough to stitch together a nation.
As Enver Motala, associate of the Chair for Community, Adult and Worker Education at the University of Johannesburg pointed out: the "approach to the constitution of nationhood in [post-apartheid South Africa] has often favoured the liberal democratic, aspirational claims of human and legal rights enshrined in a constitution, its symbols, flags and anthems for unification, while leaving untouched the structural arrangements and enduring characteristics of historically entrenched power, and social fragmentation".
Motala added that the formation of a truly unified state and nationhood can only be possible through "the demobilisation of every conceivable form of social privilege".
There has been the expectation that dismantling apartheid political structures and introducing democracy would facilitate the nation-building process. But as Karima Brown, a prominent journalist and political analyst, told me, the democratic breakthrough of 1994 was only "the start of deepening democracy and building a more equal, non-sexist and anti-racist order".
She emphasised the importance of not allowing apartheid colonialism to be replaced with a neo-colonial project that would continue to marginalise various groups and undermine the nation-building effort.
Inequality and land rights
According to a recent World Bank study, South Africa "remains the most economically unequal country in the world", a sad reality which has much to do with the neoliberal economic model which the democratically elected South African government adopted after 1994 and which is closely associated with the powerful, neo-colonial forces that remain at work in South Africa.
Vally told me that "the fault lines of the present system of inequality in South Africa can be traced to the nature of the negotiated settlement between the erstwhile, dominant liberation movement and the apartheid regime".
As a result, the end of apartheid law did not change the class formation and power relations in South Africa, as the post-apartheid period witnessed "the continuation of the class character of the state [despite the discourse of human rights, liberal bourgeois democracy and development] and the incorporation of South Africa into a global market economy".
"In a sense, while the scaffolding [racially-based discriminatory laws] was removed, the foundation and the house of inequality remains even stronger than it did prior to 1994. Traditional white capitalists, global capital, a layer of the black middle class and a few black capitalists are, today, the beneficiaries, at the expense of the vast majority," Vally said.
This persisting inequality manifests itself in a myriad of ways, most starkly in the issue of land rights and redistribution. As in the case of Palestinians, South Africans perceive land as having much deeper value than its market price; it is closely tied to identity and cultural roots.
Mahlatse Mpya, a researcher at the Afro-Middle East Centre, told me that the South African government is still unable to "comprehend what land meant to black people". For black South Africans, "land is part of their identity, heritage, a way for many of them to connect with their roots and ancestors", she explained.
Black South Africans expected the land to be returned to them in the post-apartheid era, but for years the African National Congress (ANC) remained reluctant to confiscate any land from whites for years. Fearing such a move would cause the country to lose foreign investment and support, the government instead sought to procure land by buying it from whites.
Recently the ANC adopted a resolution to push forward legislation to expropriate land without compensation. While some have celebrated the move, others are wary.
"The land continues to be a contentious issue and will not be resolved by a government that prioritises foreign investment over the will of the people," Mpya said.
Violence and mob justice
Then, there is the issue of violence. The South African experience has demonstrated that the official demise of apartheid does not necessarily mean the end of state repression and coercion. While violence by the South African security apparatus is rationalised differently than in apartheid times, the traumatising impact it has is essentially the same.
Tokelo Nhlapo, a researcher at South Africa's Ekurhuleni Municipality for the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), told me that the South African government has used repression to maintain the same matrix of control that was utilised by the country's colonial rulers. It has been able to do so partly because South African transitional justice failed to address and resolve many of the effects of apartheid violence on the general population.
"The establishment of the judicial process of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) promised to heal South Africa and bring about reconciliation to a once deeply divided country," he said. "While the TRC was generally welcomed by the international community as a peaceful means of overcoming a violent past, in reality, the judicialisation of South Africa's history of conflict individualised state-sponsored violence aimed at entire communities, obscuring the link between perpetrators and beneficiaries."
He further explained: "By 'judicialisation', I refer to the over-reliance on legal means [to address] the core moral predicament of apartheid violence, denying the black majority the franchise of citizenship, limiting its movement through pass laws, forced removals from its lands, limited access to education and work opportunities – none of which the TRC interrogated."
As a result of the lack of true reconciliation and serious effort by the ANC to address apartheid brutality in all its manifestations and structures, violence also spread within formerly oppressed communities.
Mphutlane wa Bofelo, a South African cultural worker and social critic explained that today's mob violence in South African society has deep apartheid roots.
"There were attempts to build people's power through civic associations, street committees, ward committees, block committees, defence units and the people's courts," Bofelo said.
"A combination of factors, such as mass detention, arrests and exile of experienced and mature socio-political leaders, lack of skills, sectarianism, factionalism, and infiltration by agents of the [post-1994] regime, settling of personal scores etc, led to several acts of miscarriage of democracy that reduced the activities of some of the civic associations, street committees, block committees, defence units and people's courts into mob justice."
Indeed, as my South African interlocutors repeatedly pointed out during our conversation, the South African experience is fraught with difficulties and setbacks. Many of the country's intellectuals feel that the post-apartheid trajectory is hardly promising.
Palestinians should therefore pay attention to what is going on in South Africa today, rather than just blindly celebrate and praise its past of anti-apartheid struggle. All these issues – post-apartheid nation-building, economic oppression and endemic violence – need to be closely considered and woven into the Palestinian liberation strategy.
If we are to be successful in demolishing Tel Aviv's apartheid and building a brighter future in which Palestinian Arabs and Israeli Jews share the land and resources on equal footing, we have to learn from South Africa's mistakes.
Ramzy Baroud is a journalist, author and editor of Palestine Chronicle. He has a Ph.D. in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter and has been writing about the Middle East for over 20 years. Baroud is a Non-Resident Scholar at Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies, University of California Santa Barbara. His books include Searching Jenin, The Second Palestinian Intifada, and My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story. His latest book is The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story (Pluto Press, London, 2018). His website: www.ramzybaroud.net. Email: info@ramzybaroud.net
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Dairy Farmers of America reaches for the sky
A world-class milk drying facility in Garden City, Kansas, uses redundant systems and advanced automation systems to keep its processes running 24/7.
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Dairy Farmers of America's new 267,000-sq-ft facility in Garden City, Kansas, sits on 165 acres and stands 157 ft tall. Designed to run 24/7, the facility can receive up to 84 5,000-gal milk tankers from local farms per day. Photo by Katina Reist Photogra
I have witnessed the pinnacle of automated food processing plants, and it might surprise you that it is located in an unassuming, quiet corner of southwest Kansas. The Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) greenfield milk drying facility is strategically located in Garden City, Kansas, close to farms with more than 80,000 milking cows.
As drivers enter Garden City, they can't miss the building holding the largest single whole milk dryer in North America at this new state-of-the-art facility, now part of DFA's more than 40 manufacturing facilities nationwide. The DFA cooperative has more than 14,500 members in 48 states that produce approximately 23 percent of the milk in the United States from more than 2 million cows. Along with its fresh and shelf-stable fluid milk products, DFA produces cheese, butter, dried milk powder and other dairy products.
Before DFA arrived on the scene in Garden City, the land where the new plant stands today was a water-deprived cornfield. Now, the 267,000-sq-ft facility sits on 165 acres and stands 157 ft tall. Designed to run 24/7, the facility can receive up to 84 5,000-gal milk tankers from local farms per day and has storage for 4.1 million lb of milk, 350,000 gal of process water and 240,000 gal of pasteurized cream. The plant can produce up to 7,000 25-kg bags of low-spore milk powder per day.
According to Wesley Clark, director of operations for DFA's Garden City facility, "Our core focus is to bring value to the member/farmer owner members. They are a key strategic initiative for the cooperative." Through its commercial investments, DFA continues to provide a strong and stable milk market for its dairy farmer owners, he adds.
The Garden City location provides a home for local DFA members' milk, which was previously transported to other states, such as New Mexico or Colorado, says Clark. Building a strategically located new plant has allowed DFA to reduce long-haul transportation. Now, farmer/members can move the milk out of the farms quickly. "It gives them more opportunity, and the cost of the transportation is really driven down," states Clark. "It really helps the quality of the milk. We're talking five hours on the road minimum."
The facility in Garden City produces instant agglomerated whole milk powder, instant skim milk powder, 26 percent fat-filled whole milk powder, 28 percent fat-filled whole milk powder, medium-heat whole milk powder and nonfat dry milk. Sold to a vast array of food and beverage processors in the United States, Latin America and Asia, these dry milk products are packed in 25-kg bags and various tote sizes.
Best-in-class technology
After DFA decided on the Garden City location, it sought a partner to build its world-class milk drying facility. "We needed a gatekeeper with a strong sense of ownership," Clark says. "We wanted assurances that what we say we want today gets done tomorrow." Shambaugh & Son met DFA's stringent requirements as a one-stop shop that provides turnkey operations. Working with its long-time architectural partner MSKTD & Associates and building shell contractor McCarthy Building Companies, Shambaugh & Son began construction in September 2015.
According to Alan Low, Shambaugh & Son's senior vice president and project manager, "Building a food manufacturing facility correctly is always challenging, but a plant where individual pieces of equipment span from the ground level, through floors and to the ceiling over 150 ft above them is a whole different kind of mind set."
One of the biggest challenges was coordinating structurally sound sections of the building to be erected to support intermittent major equipment setting, while other sections of the building could be completed around them.
"I specifically remember the day we lifted the 138,000-lb dryer cone to 157 ft above the ground to drop it down into the building to rest on the 72-ft elevation concrete floor with the opening only 6 in. larger than the 38-ft diameter cone. It made me appreciate how valuable 3-D modeling really is," Low recalls.
In addition to the world-class dryer from Tetra Pak, the facility prides itself on high levels of hygienic design. "We've got HEPA-filtered air throughout the areas three, two and one in the plant, which means clean floors, clean walls, clean environment, cleaner than most homes," Clark explains. This dryer has all its air HEPA filtered, and the air environment around the shaking beds are all HEPA filtered.
The air system also handles positive control between departments. "If I'm in packaging, I want positive air. I don't want anything being pulled into that area. I want to be blowing stuff out," Clark says.
Quality and efficiency are paramount to DFA, and it shows in the depth of the machinery on site. The plant does not ever shut down for cleaning. Its state-of-the-art equipment allows it to run and clean continuously 24 hours a day.
"We've got dual pasteurization plates that get changed every 10 hours. We've got three evaporators that get changed every 20 hours. We've got separators that are rotated out every 10 hours, and each one is washed every 10 hours. All these things lead up to the quality in the finished product," states Clark.
Running four Tetra Pak separators and three Tetra Pak evaporators is a tall task, but advanced automation and controls allow only two employees to run the evaporators, silo, wet process and lactose blending.
The facility's production of milk powders 24/7 for more than 20 consecutive days is unique in the United States and represents a major improvement in overall equipment effectiveness. Designing a downstream dryer feed system with rotating evaporators that clean independently during production with a dual high-pressure feed line, high-pressure lance production and a clean-in-place (CIP) management system for this complex project required the development of a much higher level of automation than any of DFA's other milk powder manufacturing facilities, says Low.
"The ability to bring systems on and off production for cleaning, while maintaining a constant process rate through each, necessitated employing different design approaches and equipment," Low states.
Typically, mix-proof valves offer the ability to switch from production to CIP and back without manual intervention. This approach, however, needed to be expanded to allow the ability to bring systems online and offline and, at the same time, feed the same equipment or different equipment without a production interruption. More than 240 Alfa Laval mix-proof valves meet this challenge at the Garden City plant.
Plant infrastructure
The backbone of the facility is the infrastructure of the mechanical systems. Steam, compressed air, HVAC and incoming water treatment can be substantial energy wasters if not designed and integrated properly and can contribute to outside contamination if they underperform or fail.
The plant steam supply is generated by efficient natural gas-fired tube boilers that can provide up to 161,000 lb of steam per hour as needed. Each individual boiler is sequenced by the central control system to supply the exact amount of steam supply for any given demand, with an 8:1 turndown rate utilizing variable speed drives, oxygen trimming, flue gas recirculation, low-emission nitric oxide, nitrogen dioxide burners to reduce the carbon footprint, and internal stack energy economizers that provide heating to the utility rooms during cold months.
The plant's compressed air is supplied by a system of efficient rotary screw compressors with the capacity to provide a total of 3,100 cu ft of air per minute, as needed. Each individual compressor is uniquely cooled by the central refrigeration and equipped with specially designed exhaust and supply air ducting that allows for the automated recovery of compressor heat, zero-loss pneumatic condensate drains, a condensate separator for lubricant recovery and stainless-steel distribution to maintain the plant's hygienic requirements.
The plant's water treatment system is divided into separate distribution networks for treated, domestic and soft water, allowing each stream to be independently managed to prevent overuse.
Shambaugh's engineering team decided to use a centralized ammonia system design. In order to minimize the refrigerant charge and conform to EPA- and OSHA-mandated regulatory requirements, a safe secondary cooling medium of propylene glycol was used to distribute cooling to the process areas beyond the confinements of the refrigeration system utility area. The system was further enhanced with the use of variable frequency drive motors and a centralized control system for precise temperature control.
Complex automation system
Designing an automation system to manage all the complexities associated with downtime prevention and safeguarding for potentially unstable power, the automation team looked for a solution that would be fault tolerant. Rockwell's PlantPAx was chosen as the automation platform to provide a distributed control system built on a common Rockwell Automation platform using standard library objects.
Human machine interface (HMI) applications were deployed throughout the plant via the use of an APC ThinManager software platform that allows for centralized deployment to multiple devices. A centralized, plantwide uninterruptable power supply ensures the automation system continues to function through power surges, outages and brownouts. The plantwide Ethernet network ties the plant floor and the office environment together. This allows for the real-time monitoring and management of production activities.
Dual high-pressure pumps allow the plant to run 24/7. With them, the plant does not have to shut down the dryer, and the temperature swings that occur when starting up the dryer are eliminated. "In this case, we can switch to the other pump without disturbing the dryer. The quality of the powder is improved with the consistency of the temperature. Because of the pump switching and the smoothness of how we can bring a pump online, it keeps the nozzles clean and really improves the quality of the finished product," Clark adds.
Addressing biosecurity
The raw milk receiving area poses one of the biggest risks to the biosecurity of a dairy processing plant. Potential contamination can come from nonpasteurized milk, milk tankers, receiving personnel and the dairy farm itself. To prevent cross-contamination, receiving personnel enter the plant through a different employee welfare and locker room area from the main plant staff. In the event of a required management or maintenance interaction in the receiving area, this staff cannot access the receiving area from the main plant; they enter from the receiving personnel locker area, after putting on additional personal sanitation protection equipment. Space is also allocated for the storage of equipment, spare parts and maintenance repair tools used in the receiving area, further reducing potential contamination from the receiving area to the main plant.
Other stringent facility hygiene features focus on plant attire in the strict work zones. On the plant floor, each employee must wear a uniform and boots in the pasteurized wet floor zone. The dryer area is protected with a key card entry. If employees need to enter the dryer area, they must don special booties. In order to enter the packaging area, workers must put on a jumpsuit over their uniform and wear special packaging room shoes.
"Just because we're in the wet zone with our boots and our uniforms on doesn't mean we're protected," declares Clark. "If we get water on our feet, then we've created a problem. Those boots are controlled, and they're only kept in area three for area three."
A viewing corridor was installed to allow visitors to observe the process plant without entering the hygienically controlled areas of the plant. If an outside individual must enter the plant, a separate red-line area provides appropriate outerwear covers and sanitizing stations.
Another unique hygienic design feature is how the plant has been set up for the drying and evaporation operations to communicate and work together. "We have dryer operators in the control room, but there's a countertop between them and the wet zone staff. There's a clean cutoff between them, so they can still work together," Clark explains. "They're both in the same area, but in different zones."
In addition to robust food safety management and HACCP plans, the facility features an on-site certified lab. It also obtained USDA approval prior to startup and has CNCA certification for shipping to Asia, as well as KDA approval for Grade A status on its cream.
It's all about the people
The plant's headcount is currently 66 people, quite a feat for a 285,000-sq-ft facility running 4 million pounds of milk. DFA recruited nearly all of its hourly workforce locally. Garden City Community College helped with food safety and electrical training programs before the plant started up. "It's getting harder and harder to find qualified people, regardless of the location," Clark says. "But a brand-new state-of-the-art plant can be an enticement."
Alan McEntee, DFA program manager for the Garden City project, worked directly with Shambaugh and says the cooperation of the owners, contractors, and local and state authorities made the project a success.
"I would say the best thing is that the project started on time," as Clark recalls that day in November 2017. "The first load of milk that came in over the scale — that was really neat! Being able to add value to a plant of that size, with a product that's not very developed in the United States — an instant whole milk powder — it was a really good experience," he concludes.
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Babies Born To Ukrainian Surrogates Meet Parents After Pandemic Restrictions Ease
Foreign couples who waited two months because of coronavirus-related border closures have finally collected their babies from surrogate mothers in Ukraine.
Ukraine's human rights ombudswoman, Lyudmila Denisova, said June 10 that 31 couples had arrived and been united with their infant children.
There were emotional scenes as new parents cried and held their babies after a long ordeal because of the pandemic.
"It's a very good ending of the story, unbelievable," said Andrea Diez of Argentina, who held her baby for the first time.
The babies have been stranded in Ukraine since the country closed its borders because of the pandemic.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry finally allowed the families to enter, conditional on a two-week quarantine and negative COVID-19 test.
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Fictional Dog Biography: Toto
By Langley Cornwell
Who was Toto? Fans of The Wizard of Oz movie are likely very familiar with this loveable little dog whose real name was "Terry." Toto is one of the most beloved and well-known dogs in film history, and this dog paved the way for many great dog actors in show biz.
There were other famous dogs of that era: Prince Carl, the Great Dane appearing in Wuthering Heights (1939); Buck, the Saint Bernard who co-starred with Clark Gable and Loretta Young in Call of the Wild (1935); Musty (Swiss Family Robinson); Mr. Binkie (The Lights that Failed) and Promise (The Biscuit Eater) were all very well-known. But Toto, Dorothy's adorable little sidekick, warmed the hearts of many and remained a fan favorite.
There is a lot more to Toto than you think. First, he was actually a she, and her story is a canine "rags to riches" tale.
Terry was a purebred Cairn Terrier who was born in 1933 in Alta Dena, California, according to her biography. She was taken in by a married couple with no children, and they named her Terry. The couple had problems house training Terry so they sent her to Carl Spitz's dog training school in the San Fernando Valley for help.
Spitz put her through his usual training process and in just a few weeks, she was no longer wetting the carpet. However, the owners had then become late on the kennel board fees and when he attempted to contact them, their phone had been disconnected. They never came back to retrieve Terry, so Spitz and his wife decided to keep her.
But there would be many great things in Terry's future. For one, she grew up in a home where she was loved. One day Clark Gable and Hedda Hopper stopped by the kennel to help build publicity about Gable's new film, The Call of the Wild because Buck, the St. Bernard who starred in the film, was one of Spitz's dogs. On that day, Terry made friends with Gable and Hopper, and made herself known to the Hollywood elite.
The next day, Spitz took Terry to Fox Studios to audition for a part in the Shirley Temple film "Bright Eyes" (1934). Terry played dead, hopped over a leash, barked on command and showed off as Spitz had taught her, and then she was taken in to meet Shirley herself for the final say. The story is that when Terry played and got along with Shirley's own dog, Ching-Ching, Shirley was sold and Terry got the part!
This would be her first film role but not her last. Later that year she did "Ready for Love" (1934) at Paramount and then appeared in "The Dark Angel" (1935) with Fredric March and Merle Oberon. She was on the road to becoming a canine superstar. Next she did "Fury" (1936) with Spencer Tracy; "The Buccaneer" (1938) for director Cecil B. DeMille and an uncredited part in "Stablemates" (1938) with Wallace Beery and Mickey Rooney.
All of these were good dog parts but it was when Spitz got word that there would be a film made of the famous classic book The Wizard of Oz that Spitz knew Terry's true calling. She was a spitting image of the dog, Toto, from the drawings in the book. Spitz began teaching her all the tricks from the book and when the call came for an audition, Terry was destined to get the part. She appeared in somewhere around 15 films in her lifetime, but Toto was her most famous role.
Around 1958, the Ventura Freeway was being built through the San Fernando Valley and the route went through Spitz's school, forcing him to relocate and unfortunately, covering Toto's grave on the property. When word got out that she did not have a proper marker and burial, a group of people set out to establish a Toto memorial marker.
Steve Goldstein posted an Interview with Carl Spitz, Jr. which has great info about Carl's memories of his famous dog and what happened to the remains of Terry after she passed. This was all part of the efforts to build a proper memorial for Toto/Terry, beloved dog actor and star.
Toto trivia:
• Toto really was a female Cairn Terrier named Terry.
• She broke her leg during filming, when a Winkie guard stepped on her.
• She was paid more than the Munchkins!
Do you have memories of Toto or Terry in some of her other films? Do you have a favorite canine movie star?
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Marg November 27, 2012 at 10:50 AM
That was great hearing about ToTo and we sure do remember her even though we thought it was a he.We didn't realize that she went through so much. What a strong little dog. Great post.


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The Lorelei Fountain
At the corner of Grand Concourse and 161st street, directly across from the Bronx County Courthouse, stands a seven-acre patch of green known as Joyce Kilmer Park. Originally called Concourse Plaza, in 1926 the park was renamed for Alfred Joyce Kilmer, an American poet who lived in New York City and was killed in action in France during World War I.
The highest point in the park is the setting of the Lorelei Fountain, which is dedicated to the memory of German poet Heinrich Heine and one of his most famous works, Die Lorelei. The poem tells the story of the Lorelai, a legendary siren with a magical voice who lures sailors to their deaths on the Rhine. At the foot of the white marble fountain is a large plaque which says:
The Heinrich Heine Fountain (also called the Lorelei Fountain) honors the German poet and writer (1797-1856) whose poem "Die Lorelei" immortalized the siren of romantic legend. The marble sculptural group depicts Lorelei seated on a rock in the Rhine River among mermaids, dolphins and seashells. The bas relief around the pedestal include a profile of Heine as a result of a campaign by many German writers and scholars.
The sculptor Ernst Herter (1846 – 1917) was commissioned with the financial assistance of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, to design the fountain in 1888 for the writer's home city of Düsseldorf, which declined the monument on aesthetic as well as political grounds. The fountain was purchased by a committee of German-Americans in 1893 and dedicated in what was then known as Grand Concourse Plaza on July 8, 1899. It was moved to the park's north end in 1940. In 1999 this monument was restored, relocated to its original location and placed in a newly landscaped setting in Joyce Kilmer Park.
The view from below
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The poet's face is below the Lorelei
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A mermaid reaches for Heine's laurels
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People Centricity In The Age of Robots
The Big Picture is a monthly PESTLE analysis to give you an overview of innovation over last month. Today we look at Society and Technology.
People centricity
Defining who we are and our identity evolves with time. As complex as it may be for individuals, it also proves to be a challenge on a nation wide basis, as the recent events in Hong Kong have shown. This "identity crisis" as Zwen Wang names it for the TIME is different from interest crisis, people cannot be forced or bribed to change who they are. People themselves are defining it. And we should encourage them to do so. As Alan Iny from BCG explains, we need to teach children to test and experience their ideas, learn to go through failures and build sustainable victories, manage doubt and uncertainties. In following article, he explains "the intellectual starting place to create and evaluate multiple scenarios is doubt". In following article from Forbes, Jordan Shapiro mentions how "Education becomes the structure within which narratives of personal and collective identity are contextualized using the intellectual structures and academic skills that we've inherited from preceding generations. But we need to make sure that these tools are also aligned with learning outcomes which prioritize human dignity rather than haste, consumption, and algorithmic metrics".
This also how we teach them to say "NO" and grow with external feedbacks and remarks that will be seen as constructive building points rather than negative grades. As Dionne Lew mentions on her blog, we need to be "insatiably curious, read constantly including from opposing views, be ready to tolerate discomfort". Yes, discomfort is also a part of who we are, how we behave, how we make decisions. They arise in tensions and conflicts that can have serious impact on a country level, and they need to be managed on a multi-cultural basis to be better driven.
Why? Because people want to know who they are in the whole wide world. In following article from IESE business school, Carlos Sanchez Runde explains how "in the global context, managers often have to negotiate a delicate balance between following their conscience and following the letter of the law in different countries". The lack of systematic understanding of cultural values and individual identities too often lead to conflict. The upside is greater value to share together. Follow the example of Ibrahima Sarr, a Senegalese coder, who used his dialect structure to translate Firefox into Fulah, "spoken by 20 million people from Senegal to Nigeria", as The Economist reports.
After all, our system is calling for change, and we should see this as an opportunity. Dorie Clark from Forbes how "awesome" it is that "job security is dead", because it provides us with more opportunities to "relearn to learn", and ask ourselves the right questions. This way, as Mark C Crowley has found out in following article, "traditional beliefs about how best to motivate human beings continue to be the key reason why 70% of the working population is disengaged". We should instead focus on what they desire as workers, to enable real change in companies, consider fatherhood, diversity and men/women equality, and appreciate difference, as Lynda Gratton from the London Business School remarks.
We should focus on individual needs for another reason: we do not want to go wild. Do we? Several voices are rising to claim the "Capitalism has gone wild", and they count Julia Kirby from HBR among them. She says that "if we start to think about indicators that society needs, what creates innovation, we can start to spring capitalism out of its excesses". Alex Nicholls from Saïd Business School is following the same idea, and he claims that "timidity is not the way forward". From his point of view, we shouldn't just focus on competition but more on innovation. "Let's see the social economy re-engage with the ideas, heroes and heroines of its past and set out an alternative vision of society that is values-driven, bottom-up, proud and stroppy" is his conclusive call. With such obvious changes needed, conscious capitalism has emerged as a way to have a better impact on the world. It focuses on cultural values and inspirational leadership to build businesses that care as much for their employees and customers as it does for their impact on the planet, as Susann Cramm from Strategy & Business highlights.
In the Age of Robots
As The Economist points out, annual robot shipments has risen from 50 million in 1992 to 175 million in 2013. Where are they going? Automotive is the first choice, with around 70,000 sales in 2013, followed by Electronics with around 40,000 sales. The vast majority of robots are heading to China, around 35,000 of them. No surprise until then. Here it comes: "for every robot deployed, there's 3.6 jobs created to install them. As there will be 200 million shipments around the world in 2014, that's 720 million new jobs" created by robots, for humans. Really? Well, there is a disagreement. When asked, 42% of experts said yes, and 58% said no.
Here's someone who says yes. In following article, Abel Fernandez argues that when a society makes a technical innovation, which leads to industrial innovation, it has always and will always find a way to improve its own wealth, by creating and innovating in new services and products that could have never existed before. As the writer concludes, we are in the second half of Moore's law, and from now everything is possible.
For example, decision making might be programmable in the near future. As Michael C Mankins explains for HBR, "Advanced analytic models can incorporate the experience of an organization's best decision makers, helping to eliminate alternatives that are less viable than others and focusing the evaluation on the most promising courses of action." This would allow (or force?) enterprises models to change and develop new skills, which in the long term will transform society. Why wouldn't it be towards a positive future?
As we move the second half of the famous rice chessboard that relates to Moore's law on exponential growth, computers can now also learn exponentially developed skills. As The Economist explains, "The next phase, many are predicting, will be defined by computers that no longer need to be explicitly programmed but instead learn what it is they need to do by interacting with humans and data". Experts and scientists are currently developing neuromorphic chips that work by mimicking neurons and synapses in the brain. "Stanford University, Handerberg University, University of Manchester, ETH Zurich lead the field. But companies like IBM and Qualcomm also have very promising neuromorphic chips in R&D".
Does it mean that computers will be able to think? Hard to say, or more precisely, hard to prove, as Antonio Regalado from the MIT explains. He interviewed M. Koch, chief scientific officer of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle, on the possibility that computer may eventually become conscious. Koch answers in this analogy: "you can make pretty good weather predictions these days. You can predict the inside of a storm. But it's never wet inside the computer. You can simulate a black hole in a computer, but space-time will not be bent. Simulating something is not the real thing. Consciousness is always supervening onto the physical. But it takes a particular type of hardware to instantiate it". As we are still far from understanding where how human intelligence is built from a biological point of view, there is no point in wondering how we could code it.
What if we would? There are slightly more pessimistic approaches developed in cybernetics. One of them is called "singularity". "In terms of the technological singularity, it is the point where technological advances are happening at such a fast rate that it becomes impossible for contemporary humans to comprehend or understand. Simply put this means that computers will understand the world and its technologies better than humans. At this point we'll be left behind and the world will become AI-centric", explains Martin Butters from MarkITWrite Tech. According to him, some scientist fear that machines take control and improve by themselves up to the point they think humans are "redundant". Maybe because we've turned out to actually damage Earth more than we protected it, as the article suggests. That's of course in the eventuality that machines also learn to judge. Any reason why they couldn't? Hey, this is Moore's law.
So now is time to act. As Horizon shared in this article, E.U has granted financial support to projects "developing computer algorithms that harness information to augment human memory". Jessica Leber, from FastCoExist, explains "IBM scientists announced in a publication in the journal Science last week that it has developed an ultra low-power computer chip, named TrueNorth, that thinks like a human brain, complete with 1 million programmable "neuron" connections". The Wall Street Journal mentions that according to BCG, "Spending on robots is exploding worldwide and is projected to hit $67 billion a year over the next decade. According to the report, annual spending on robots will reach about $27 billion next year and more than double to nearly $67 billion by 2025."
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Gov't Thinks Taxpayers Are ATMs
The finance minister met with the head of the nationwide transportation labor union on Monday but failed to reach an agreement as city bus drivers are set to go on strike Wednesday. The reason for the planned strike is that their working week is about to be mandatorily shortened to 52 hours. The only solution the government has been able to come up with so far is to raise bus fares, though the ruling Minjoo Party on Monday proposed turning more city bus operators into semi-public entities that receive massive government subsidies.
Yet the government has known for over a year that bus operators will have to shorten the working hours of drivers this July, and it has done nothing to forestall any strikes or cutting of routes. Now, city bus operators are demanding that the government foot the added cost of hiring more drivers, and bus drivers are threatening to go on strike unless the government makes up for their lost income. A mere W200 increase in the city bus fare would raise the monthly expenses of a four-member household by W480,000 (US$1=W1,188). Why should the public clean up the mess the government created?
In another ill-thought-out move, the government also announced the selection of new satellite towns near Seoul, which has prompted residents of older new towns nearby to protest. They are fuming at the short-sightedness of officials who announced new dormitory towns that are closer to the capital than theirs when there is already an oversupply of housing, which will inevitably slash the value of their homes.
Earlier, the Moon Jae-in administration drastically hiked the minimum wage by almost 30 percent over the last two years, putting many small businesses out of work or causing them to lay off workers. The government's solution to that mess was to earmark W6 trillion in taxpayers' money to subsidize them. It spent another W77 trillion to create temporary jobs for senior citizens and menial jobs for the low-income people to make the employment figures look less devastating. Then the government hastily declared a nuclear-free energy policy, which resulted in turning financially sound state utility KEPCO and Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power into money-losing propositions. The solution, of course, will be to raise electricity fees or again tap into taxpayers' money.
The government keeps turning to the taxpayer to pay for every mistake it makes. A government exists to solve problems and deal with difficulties citizens face, not to create more of them and then hand them the bill. But in Korea, the government is like a child that wants to be rewarded with a better toy for every one it breaks.
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Q: Why are my npm_modules folders all highlighted red in VS Code? I recently cloned a React repository (based off of create-react-app) from BitBucket. Why are all my node_modules folders highlighted red in Visual Studio Code?
I ran npm install, npm update, and npm start and didn't run into any errors, but the folders are still highlighted red. How can I make sure these packages are being installed/updated properly?

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Scientists at the University of Sheffield have discovered what keeps the perfect balance of breaks and repairs in our DNA – something which could help improve the success of chemotherapy and combat neurodegeneration associated with ageing.
Our genome, where precious genetic information is stored, is challenged with thousands of breaks every day.
Cells possess an army of proteins that search for, detect and fix these breaks to maintain genome integrity, but little is known about how the cell fine-tunes the level of response in these repair factories to suit each and every repair event.
The level of proteins in our cells is controlled by synthesis and degradation. Cells get rid of proteins when not needed by attaching a small peptide called ubiquitin.
The new study, led by Professor Sherif El-Khamisy at the University of Sheffield's Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, has revealed an enzyme called UCHL3, which controls DNA repair by removing ubiquitin marks from TDP1 - a DNA repair protein. The findings also have implications in brain ageing which has an affect on memory, cognitive function and learning.
An overexpression of UCHL3 causes less ubiquitination of TDP1 and increases its protein level, which is found in chemotherapy resistant cancers such as rhabdosarcoma – the most common soft tissue sarcoma in children, which has a debilitating effect on the muscles, tendons and cartilage.
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Professor El-Khamisy said: "This study identifies UCHL3 as a novel therapeutically druggable target where suppression of its activity can improve cancer treatment, whereas encouraging and fuelling its activity can combat neurodegeneration.
"Defective DNA repair is a common theme in a number of neurological disorders including motor neuron disease and dementia. Finding novel approaches to fuel the cell's ability to repair genomic breaks may hold promise in improving treatment of a broad range of neurological diseases."
The five-year study is funded by a Wellcome Trust Investigator Award to Professor El-Khamisy and involved collaborations across departments at The University of Sheffield and internationally.
The full study: UCHL3 Regulates Topoisomerase-Induced Chromosomal Break Repair by Controlling TDP1 Proteostasis is published today (12 June 2018) in the journal Cell Reports.
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten's new restaurant at London's The Connaught marks the 37th opening in his portfolio. Here's his global empire by the numbers.
By Regan Stephens
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In late July, Jean-Georges Vongerichten opened a new restaurant in London luxury hotel The Connaught—his first to serve a full menu at breakfast, lunch, dinner and afternoon tea. The sleek, sunny spot in London's Mayfair neighborhood marks the 37th restaurant in Vongerichten's global portfolio, and his 8th opening this year alone. Beginning in February with the debut of the vegetable-focused abcV in New York City, the legendary French chef has since unveiled restaurants in Singapore, São Paulo, Brazil and Los Angeles. And there are still four more months left in 2017.
"I'm not searching just to open restaurants," said Vongerichten. "It has to be the right property, the right concept and people." And each new restaurant must also have its own character. "It's very important to balance the local identity of a place with the essence of what we do," he said. This sentiment is reflected in each of Vongerichten's menus, including at Jean-Georges at The Connaught, where British classics—fish and chips (subbing the traditional mushy peas for a petits pois remoulade), a full English breakfast—appear with his signature Asian-inspired French cuisine.
The Alsace, France-born chef came to the United States in 1985 via Asia, where he trained in kitchens including the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok and Hong Kong's Mandarin Hotel. After a brief stint in Boston working under French chef Louis Outhier, Vongerichten moved to New York City in 1986 and was the executive chef at the Lafayette restaurant in the now-shuttered Drake Hotel before opening his first restaurant, JoJo, with restaurateur Phil Suarez in 1991. An Upper East Side mainstay, the contemporary French bistro is temporarily closed for renovations and is set to reopen this fall.
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Vongerichten's restaurants now span the globe, located in eleven countries and ranging in concept from Simply Chicken, a fast-food stall in Madison Square Garden where visitors can tuck into an Asian chicken sandwich or chicken hot dog with slaw and spicy mustard, to the three Michelin-starred Jean-Georges. It was at the swank Columbus Circle restaurant where chef Vongerichten perfected signature dishes like Egg Caviar (a layer of scrambled eggs topped with whipped cream and a dollop of caviar, presented inside an egg shell), lobster tartine and garlic soup with sautéed frog legs—now all part of a tasting menu comprised of seven of these courses for $218. While a sandwich at Simply Chicken costs less than $15, Jean-Georges remains one of New York City's best deals to experience luxe fine dining at $58 for a two-course lunch.
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Including Jean-Georges and Simply Chicken, thirteen of the chef's restaurants are located in New York City. The remaining twenty-four are spread out in other cities (Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo), in seaside and tropical locales (Le Dock in Fire Island, On the Rocks and The Sand Bar at Eden Rock in St. Barts) and in the suburbs (The Inn at Pound Ridge in Westchester, New York.) Eighteen restaurants are inside hotels, like Prime Steakhouse in the Bellagio in Las Vegas and The Mercer Kitchen in New York City's Mercer Hotel.
Over the years, technology has made Vongerichten's sprawling life somewhat easier. "When I started cooking in 1973, I had to go to Asia to learn about spices," he said. "Today you search for tamarind on Google and can see where and how it grows, and thirty recipes to use it. It's a different world." (He maintains he would still rather go to Asia to explore spices.) But to really preserve the brand's essence amid its rapid growth, Vongerichten credits an exceptional team—a dozen members have been with him for decades, including numerous chefs and Lois Freedman, the president of Jean-Georges Management since 1986.
Vongerichten is working on a project with the Howard Hughes Corporation to revamp the Tin Building that was once home to Fulton Fish Market. With a restaurant, oyster and sushi bars and a market with a range of counters, the chef said it will be "Eataly, meeting Harrods in London, with a little more of an industrial feel." It's not due to open for another couple of years, but don't be surprised if several more restaurants debut in the meantime.
Finally, just a for a sense of scale, here's a not-so brief timeline of Jean-Georges Vongerichten's major openings:
1991 Jojo, Upper East Side, NYC
1997 Jean-Georges, NYC
1997 Nougatine and The Terrace
1998 July, The Mercer Kitchen in the Mercer Hotel, SoHo, NYC
1998 October, Prime Steakhouse in Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas
2000 October, Dune at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island in the Bahamas
2001 Market, Paris, France
2004 Jean-Georges, Shanghai
2005 Perry Street, West Village, NYC
2005 Café Martinique, Atlantis Hotel, Nassau, Bahamas
2009 Jean-Georges Steakhouse, Aria Resort and Casino Las Vegas
2010 The Mark, The Mark Hotel, NYC
2010, May/June, ABC Kitchen
2011, On the Rocks, Eden Rock, St. Barts
2011, The Sand Bar, Eden Rock, St. Barts
2011 December, Simply Chicken in NYC at MSG
2012 July, Mercato, Shanghai
2013 May, ABC Cocina, NYC
2014 January, The Inn at Pound Ridge, Westchester, New York
2014 March, JG Tokyo, Japan
2014 December, Matador Room at Ian Schrager's Miami Beach EDITION Hotel Miami
2015, Seared, Los Cabos, Mexico
2015, Suviche, Los Cabos, Mexico
2015 January, Market, EDITION Hotel Miami
2015 January, Tropicale, EDITION Hotel Miami
2015 June, Jean-Georges Kitchen, Dubai
2016 May, Mercato, Hong Kong
2016 May, Le Dock, Fire Island, NY
2016 June, Jean-Georges at Topping Rose House Bridgehampton, NY
2017 February, abcV
2017 March, The Dempsey Cookhouse & Bar, Singapore
2017 May, Tangará Jean-Georges São Paulo, Brazil
2017 June, Jean-Georges Beverly Hills, Waldorf Astoria Hotel
2017 June, The Rooftop by JG Waldorf Astoria Hotel
2017 June, Public Kitchen, Public Hotel, NYC
2017 June, Louis, Public Hotel, NYC Lower East Side
2017 August, Jean-Georges at the Connaught, London
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E.U. proposes to increase Ukraine grain exports
By Holly Demaree-Saddler
The E.U. is Ukraine's largest trading partner, accounting for more than 40% of its trade in 2015.
KIEV, UKRAINE —The European Commission has proposed that the E.U. increase its Ukrainian grain imports duty-free.
The E.U. is Ukraine's largest trading partner, accounting for more than 40% of its trade in 2015. Ukraine accounts for 0.8% of E.U.'s total trade, with a turnover of €1.16 billion in 2015.
The proposal includes annual tariff rate quotas for 100,000 tonnes of wheat, 650,000 tonnes of corn and 350,000 tonnes of barley. Cecilia Malmström, trade commissioner, presented the proposal while in Kiev, Ukraine. The proposal must be approved by the European Parliament and the Council of European Union. Currently there is no review date for the proposal. If approved the proposal would be effective for three years.
The proposal is an effort to support Ukraine's economy by increasing trade and to grant concessions in the form of autonomous trade flows concerning the import of certain agricultural products and to grant concessions in the form of autonomous trade measures in selected industrial products in line with the acceleration of the elimination of customs duties on trade between the E.U. and Ukraine, according to the E.U. Office Journal.
The autonomous trade measures would be granted in the form of zero-tariff quotas for certain agricultural products in addition to the preferential tariff-rate quotas set out in the agreement, and the partial or full removal of import duties on several industrial products.
In January, the E.U. and Ukraine provisionally applied the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA). The agreement permits both sides to mutually open their markets for goods and services based on predictable and enforceable trade rules.
"We hope this can give a positive boost to the Ukrainian economy," Malmström said. "Our progress so far is clear, but much work still remains to unleash the full potential of our free trade area."
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