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"Keep the head out of the game!" Morton yelled.
The coaches' motivation is to reduce injuries and penalties. The Seahawks could sure use some of both.
They led the NFL with 148 enforced flags and 1,342 penalty yards lost last season. That was 10 penalties short of the league record set by Kansas City in 1998.
The most controversial rule change for this season, and the one seemingly most difficult for players to learn and officials to enforce, makes lowering the helmet for any reason, by anyone, a 15-yard penalty plus potential grounds for ejection from a game.
"It is a foul if a player lowers his head and initiates contact with the helmet, lowering the head to any part of the opponent's body," Alberto Riveron, the NFL's senior vice president of officiating, says in the annual video presentation on rule changes and points of emphasis the league sent to each team to show its players early in training camp.
Like it or not — and many do not — the NFL is truly trying to take the head out of the game.
Players and teams already are howling after the first round of preseason games. Tackles and hits that used to be routine are now illegal.
But the players and teams that adjust to the league's initiative the quickest will be penalized least, and thus will gain a distinct advantage. That will be especially true early in the season, when officials and players adjust to the new rule.
Hence, Morton's running-back drill each day with the swinging bag.
Heads up.
"I think this is a topic that you guys should let yourselves become more familiar with, because this is a big deal. It's a big deal," Carroll said. "The game is in transition right now, and it's a really important transition. ... There's a couple of particular things that, coaching points, that have come up that the league has generated, that will be points of emphasis for us. And that's about keeping your face up as much as possible. It's just a tremendously clear emphasis of not using the top of your helmet, and you're not using your helmet as a weapon.
"There was a time, I don't know how many years ago it was, I was fighting it like crazy. I was fighting it just like an old dog. I didn't want to see it coming, didn't want to have it come our way. And I know I transitioned a while back and so as this has been coming to us now. I'm excited about the change for the game."


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Upi Elementary School student wins Doodle 4 Google contest for Guam
John I Borja
Claire Danielle B. Fadul imagines the future to be filled with robots.
When the fifth-grade Upi Elementary School student heard that this year's Doodle 4 Google contest theme was what students want the future to look like, she immediately thought of building robots to do things for her.
"I want my robot to clean my house," she said.
With help from her father, Robert Fadul, she drew herself watching her creations work and spell out the word "Google." This was the artwork she wanted to submit for the contest.
The contest drew a lot of attention on Guam. About 300 applicants from the island's public and private schools — from kindergarten to 12th grade — submitted artwork of their ideal future.
Guam is one of 53 states and territories eligible to compete in the Doodle 4 Google contest. A winner is picked in each state or territory. The winners then compete for the chance to have their artwork featured on Google's home page, according to the contest website.
On Thursday, Claire learned her drawing stood out the most to the contest's judges, which included singer Sia, Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles, late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel and "Pokemon" mascot Pikachu.
Recognition, praise
Two representatives from the Google company flew to Guam to personally recognize and award her at her school in Yigo. The Google team rewarded Claire with a Google Pixel tablet and a company T-shirt.
Claire also received recognition and praise from Yigo Mayor Rudy Matanane, Guam Education Board Chairman Peter Alecxis Ada and Joe Sanchez, Guam DOE acting superintendent.
"I'm very surprised," Claire said, with a wide grin on her face.
She smiled throughout the ceremony her school planned just for her. More than 100 Upi students, along with faculty, staff and Department of Education officials, gathered in the school's cafeteria to celebrate Claire's achievement.
Robert Fadul was shocked as well.
"I'm speechless. I just thought of it as a regular project that I had to help my daughter with," he said.
Robert Fadul said he always knew his daughter had a creative mind. He's an ice carver, and Claire's grandfather was a wood carver. Robert Fadul said the passion to create and build things was passed on to Claire, who is into a more futuristic way of building.
Cora Fadul said her daughter loves math and engineering activities. Claire recently competed in a Gifted and Talent Education math competition as well as a robotics LEGO contest, Cora Fadul said.
"We are very proud parents," Robert Fadul said. "She achieved so much with this, and I hope it will inspire her two siblings."
Vote for Claire
From here, the people will decide which of the 53 winners will make the national Top 5, and who will be crowned the overall winner.
The Guam community can help boost Claire's doodle by voting for it online at www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html, beginning Feb. 23. Voting will be open until March 6, according to a news release.
The national winner's doodle will be revealed on Google's front page on March 31, the news release stated.
The winner also will receive a $30,000 college scholarship, and the student's school will receive a $50,000 Google for Education grant toward a computer or technology program, the release stated.
Education stories:
UOG debuts center for compiling policy research in the region
Guam Community College rolls out new logo system

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The aim of the SFI Research Infrastructure Call is to support the research community in building and sustaining the required infrastructural capacity to accomplish high quality, high impact and innovative research in areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics that demonstrably enhance and underpin enterprise competitiveness and societal development in Ireland. SFI encourages the efficient use, renewal and development of existing national research infrastructures whilst also recognising the need for continued investment in cutting-edge research equipment and infrastructure in areas of national priority of particular relevance to SFI's prior and future investments.
Innovation 2020, Ireland's five-year strategy on research and development, science and technology, highlights the importance of investment in research infrastructure. This strategy sets out the roadmap for continuing progress towards the goal of making Ireland a Global Innovation Leader, driving a strong sustainable economy and a better society, underpinned by excellent research.
In order to both develop and support investment in research infrastructure, SFI is pleased to launch the SFI Research Infrastructure Call 2018.
Proposals are invited from individual eligible research bodies or consortia of eligible research bodies for infrastructure requests. Each Research Body must nominate a Lead Applicant from the Research Body who will have primary fiduciary responsibility and accountability for the management of the infrastructure award. Please refer to the call document for the eligibility criteria of this Lead Applicant.
Category A: H2020 Research Infrastructure Integrating Activities – Advanced Communities aligned bids.
For further details on these proposal categories, the remit of the programme, its eligible costs, application format and procedure, please review the Research Infrastructure 2018 call documentation for further details.
The Research Infrastructure 2018 Programme will have two deadlines.
Expression of Interest Deadline: 13:00h (local time Dublin, Ireland) on the 16th April 2018.
All proposals are to be submitted via SESAME, SFI's online grants and awards management system. SESAME will be accessible online for this call starting from 14th March 2018.
Research Infrastructure 2018 Webinar: SFI hosted a webinar on Thursday 8th March from 14.00 - 15.00 which outlined the details of the Research Infrastructure 2018 programme.


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Q: How do I use a function to include global variables within another function? I have a rather large set of global variables that I want to be able to use within other functions across various files. I know that to use these variables within other functions I need to use the global keyword to include the variable names.
Everything works when I do that, but since there are so many variables, I'd rather create a function that allows me to include the global declaration within the function, with the specific chunk of variables I need being included using a function parameter.
For illustrative purposes, this works:
variables.php (declared before other files are included)
$var1 = 'abc';
$var2 = 'def';
$var3 = 'ghi';

other-function-file.php
function my_function() {
  global $var1, $var2, $var3;
  return $var1 . $var2 . $var3;
}

But this does not work:
variables.php
$var1 = 'abc';
$var2 = 'def';
$var3 = 'ghi';

globals-list-declaration.php
global $var1, $var2, $var3;

globals-include-function.php
function include_globals() {
  include_once('globals-list-declaration.php');
}

other-function-file.php
function my_function() {
  include_globals();
  return $var1 . $var2 . $var3;
}

This is a little simplified, as there multiple variable and global declaration files, and I'll be able to specify which file to include by passing in a parameter to include_globals() in globals-include-function.php.
But for some reason, when I move the hard-typed global $var1, $var2, $var3; to a seperate file and include it in the exact same location (either through include or the include_globals() function decribed above), it ceases to work.
How can I make this work or is it even possible?
Thanks!

A: From the docs http://php.net/manual/en/function.include.php:

If the include occurs inside a function within the calling file, then all of the code contained in the called file will behave as though it had been defined inside that function

In other words, if can't use this:
function include_globals() {
    include_once('globals-list-declaration.php');
}

Because the definition of globals will only exists inside this function.

A: Works for me:
<?php

$foo = 'hello';
$bar = 'world';

function include_globals()
{
    include 'do-globals.inc.php';

    return $foo . $bar;
}

echo include_globals();

Contents of do-globals.inc.php:
<?php

global $foo, $bar;

Output:
helloworld

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Last year, Indonesia only got 2.8, sitting in the 111th rank out of 180. Up 0.2 than the previous year, but not good enough. Indonesia scored even lower than the war-torn Rwanda (3.3, 89th) and Bosnia-Herzegovina (3.0, 99th)!
Our neighbour country Malaysia reached 4.5 (56th), while Thailand sat on the 84th rank (3.4). Singapore as usual stayed in the top list, scoring 9.2 (3rd). Indonesia only scored slightly better than Vietnam (2.7, 120th) and Philippines (2.4, 139th).
How will Indonesia perform in the 2010 index?
In the last year, sadly, we watched corruptors fight back in Indonesia. Two deputies of the Corruption Eradication Commission, Bibit Samad Riyanto and Chandra M Hamzah, were criminalized. Anggodo Widjojo, brother of fugitive graft suspect Anggoro Widjojo, accused the deputies of the anticorruption body had blackmailed Anggoro. Despite mass rejection, huge demonstrations on the streets asking the Attorney General to stop the prosecution, now the case is in process and soon will be trialed in the court.
We sickly read about one former low-level tax official, Gayus Tambunan, who is now a defendant in a tax corruption case. He 'helped' companies to evade their taxes, and actively bribed the officials investigating him. He confessed piling Rp 28 billion from his 'added value services' to the companies. If found guilty, the maximum sentence waiting for him is 20 years in jail.
And what did the goverment do, beside blaming other people instead of correcting the major flaws in the law enforcement?
Nothing. Well, at least, nothing good enough.
The goverment targeted to achieve 5.0 CPI in 2011. Will it happen?
"No. I estimate it will be stagnant at 2.8 this year, or even lower. So it'll be really hard to get to 5.0," said Transparency International Indonesia General Secretary, Teten Masduki, last week.
He rated three main pillars of Indonesia's law enforcement were inadequate to manage their jobs: not the National Chief Police Bambang Hendarso Danuri, nor the Attorney General Hendarman Supandji, neither the Law Minister Patrialis Akbar.
If President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is brave enough to turn the table, of course change can be done. But alas, it seems unlikely these days.
As much as I want to be optimistic, this time I've got to see the real picture. There's so much thing to do, and the government doesn't seem to have the will to do it.
But I believe by screaming it out loud, reminding them what's to be done and insisting them (and us) to do it, eventually we can improve Indonesia's CPI. Although 5.0 in 2011 might be unrealistic, what about 2014?
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A forensic probe by PwC has found that Steinhoff, which owns Poundland, recorded false transactions between 2009 and 2017, an accounting gap which the company first disclosed at the end of 2017 in a shock to its investors.
PwC found evidence that transactions made to seem independent of Steinhoff had in fact been constructed by a small group of former executives.
The transactions inflated earnings and asset values, and meant that over several years Poundland-owner Steinhoff could artificially boost profits.
In December 2017, South Africa's audit regulator announced a probe into Deloitte over the scandal. The investigation of the Big Four firm, which has audited Steinhoff for almost 20 years, concerned the financial years ended 2014-2016. Shareholders at Steinhoff then launched legal action against Steinhoff and the auditors.
PwC didn't name the specific deals under investigation but said that they fell into four categories – profit and asset creation; asset overstatement and reclassification; asset & entity support, and contributions.
Steinhoff said it would fully cooperate with any criminal investigations, and pursue claims against those responsible for fraud. The full 3000-page report will remain confidential for legal reasons.
Steinhoff's market value has lost 216bn rand (£11.3bn) since 2017 – more than 95% of its value – and several senior executives have resigned. Among them is chief executive, Markus Jooste, who denies wrongdoing but has not yet made himself available for PwC's investigators.
An utter disgrace that the contents of the report stay confidential. PWC has a moral & ethical duty to divulge the contents, whoever paid for the report. All the perpetrators should be bought to account. SAICA is failing the profession .


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Comedian Eddie Izzard is running over 1000 miles around the UK for charity, and an anonymous donor is helping every last mile count double.
Eddie's running his 39th almost-consecutive marathon today in support of Sport Relief, and with only five more marathons remaining before he reaches his destination in London on Tuesday 15th September, a donor has promised to match up to £43,000 ($71,000) in donations made by midnight on Sunday 20th September.
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20th District Lawmakers Detail Their Legislative Game Plans for Upcoming Session
Washington State Senn. John Braun uses a mic to speak to the crowd during a town hall event at the Veterans Memorial Museum alongside alongside state Reps. Peter Abbarno and Ed Orcutt last September in Chehalis.
Posted Monday, January 3, 2022 3:54 pm
By The Reflector
The 2022 Washington state legislative session is set to begin on Jan. 10. The 60-day "short" session will again be conducted with modifications related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Local lawmakers across the board expressed concerns over the modified procedure, which will now be in place for a second session.
The Reflector, sister newspaper of The Chronicle, reached out to local legislators ahead of the session's start to see what they would do to address the pandemic, as lawmakers also detailed their other priorities during a budgeting year.
Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
Committees and leadership positions: Senate Republican Leader, Ways and Means, Labor and Commerce.
Key priorities in 2022: What I'm hearing from people in Clark County generally matches the concerns of their neighbors in other parts of the 20th District, and it all mirrors what the members of the Senate Republican Caucus are being told by their constituents around the state. People feel less safe, and less able to keep up with the cost of living, and have less trust that state government truly cares about their interests. If you look at what came out of the 2021 legislative session and actions taken by the governor's office and certain agencies in the past two years, it's not hard to understand why our constituents feel like they do. That's why the Senate Republican priorities are to reestablish public safety, restore affordability, and rebuild public trust. I don't think anyone can argue with those goals.
How has COVID-19 changed your procedure? The people of Washington have been living under a state of emergency longer than anyone else in our country. It'll be past 680 days by the time the 2022 session starts, with no end in sight. State law doesn't allow the Legislature to end the state of emergency, but during the upcoming session, we will have opportunities to respond to the pandemic through legislation, as we did in 2021 with bills to help businesses reopen and get children back into school. The "usual" approach to lawmaking is some distance off because the Senate administration is restricting the public's access to the legislative process again in 2022, almost as severely as it did in 2021. It's amazing that people can shop and gather elsewhere in Olympia but will again be locked out of Senate and House committee hearings, even though we all know about taking precautions, and in spite of so many people being vaccinated and boosted. This is one of the most obvious examples of how government has broken the public's trust and the place to start rebuilding that trust is by reforming the state emergency powers law.
Outside of COVID-19, what should be addressed by 2022 legislation? The first thing the Legislature should do is repeal the big new payroll tax tied to the controversial long term care program. That should have happened before the new tax kicked in Jan. 1, but the governor and the majority side have been slow to even admit the program is seriously flawed. Republicans wanted to hit "pause" before the tax collection began, but we were alone on that.
Dealing with the payroll tax is only one example of how Republicans want to restore affordability. We're also looking at property tax relief and addressing the cost of energy. I and other Republican senators have also proposed a way to afford new transportation projects without new taxes, but our colleagues in the majority seem stuck in old thinking.
Another priority is reform of the majority's new restrictions on law enforcement that have clearly backfired. Those errors need to be addressed, along with the efforts to decriminalize hard drugs. This is what it means when Republicans say we want to reestablish public safety.
Legislative boundary redistricting: The new boundaries of the 20th District will take in more of Clark County. I'm looking forward to engaging with more people in this area.
Rep. Peter Abbarno, R-Centralia
Committees/leadership positions: Assistant Ranking Member for Capital Budget, Civil Rights and Judiciary, Environment and Energy, House Republican Caucus representative on the Office of Civil Legal Aid Oversight Committee and Statute Law Committee.
Key priorities in 2022: Several 2022 priorities for legislation include repealing the long term care payroll tax with House Bill 1594, helping military families and businesses with House Bill 1677 that expands B&O tax credits for businesses hiring military members and their spouses, raising awareness for cold water shock drownings with "Zack's Law" through House Bill 1595, and several bills that address infrastructure improvements. A good portion of the legislative session will also be spent on the capital budget bill that invests in many communities throughout Southwest Washington.
How has COVID-19 changed your procedure? COVID-19 and the state's response has magnified many issues in our community, including lack of housing inventory, inadequate behavioral health investments, disparity in education funding, poverty, etc. My focus for the upcoming session remains the same as the last session, which is to help my colleagues understand that the best solutions are local. One-size fits all, cookie cutter programs don't work. My focus will remain on working with local leaders on solutions for their unique issues that also reflect their values. Last year was my first year in the Legislature serving the 20th Legislative District. The 2021 Legislative Session was virtual despite my first vote last year in opposition to a virtual session. The 2022 session will again be virtual. I still believe the session can be conducted safely with all members present and I will continue to support a more open and transparent process with all members present. The governor has monopolized government for too long. There is an inherent checks and balances built in the Washington State Constitution that has been ignored and abdicated by the legislative majority. In 2021, I voted several times, unsuccessfully, for the House and Senate to regain its authority granted by the constitution. I will again advocate and vote for the Legislature to end and reform the executive emergency powers.
Outside of COVID-19, what should be addressed by 2022 legislation? I agree with 63% of Washington voters who opposed the long term payroll tax program when it was passed in 2019. I believe the long term care payroll tax and program must be repealed with HB 1594. "Fixes" to the program address concerns but do not address the program's solvency.
In 2021, the legislative majorities passed numerous "police reform" bills that make our communities less safe. There appears to be more bills on the agenda, such as recently introduced House Bill 1692, that reduces the penalties for drive-by shooting murders. I believe we need to reverse the dangerous trend to defund and disarm police, support victims of crimes, invest in law enforcement, and bring back fairness and accountability to our judicial system.
The state of Washington needs greater investment in coordinated infrastructure. As a former Centralia city councilmember, I recognize the importance of a "dig once" philosophy to improve economic opportunities and the quality of life in communities. On the House Capital Budget Committee, I will again emphasize the need for our state to focus on water, wastewater, electrical grid security and stability, and broadband. Before the state can build above ground, it must plan better and ensure communities are prepared for smart and effective growth.
Legislative boundary redistricting: I was elected to serve my community in the 20th Legislative District. The movement of district lines has not changed my approach to issues and my commitment to the residents of Southwest Washington.
Ed Orcutt, R-Kalama
Committees/leadership positions: Finance, ranking minority member, Transportation, Rural Economic Development, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Joint Legislative Audit and Review Committee member, Executive Committee member
Key priorities in 2022: Tax relief, specifically, property tax relief. Restoring order, reversing poorly crafted legislation restricting police officers' ability to apprehend those committing crimes in our communities. Also, to provide for the safety of first responders and crisis care teams when responding to those in crisis. Repealing tax increases such as capital gains income tax and the tax on employees' income via the long term care insurance mandate. Protecting personal freedoms and constitutional rights. Protecting jobs and the employers who provide those jobs.
How has COVID-19 changed your procedure? Most of my policy objectives are unchanged from previous years. I oppose tax increases, protect citizens' rights, provide for public safety, and want to keep businesses open and employees working, quality and accountability in education, and working to make government accountable to the citizens. The limits on in-person meetings with constituents and fellow legislators has had a negative effect on legislating and led to poorer policy outcomes for the citizens of our state. Changes in House procedures result in only a minor improvement over last year's procedures and likely will still result in policy falling short of truly serving the citizens we represent.
We need to restore employment for those terminated by the governor's mandates, finding or developing ways for them to participate in the workplace while keeping them, their co-workers, and the public safe from COVID-19.
Outside of COVID-19, what should be addressed by 2022 legislation? Reducing property taxes, restoring order and community safety, repealing recently passed taxes, protecting personal freedoms and constitutional rights, protecting jobs and those who provide jobs.
Legislative boundary redistricting: There is no shift for me. I have remained engaged with officials in some of the areas which will again be part of my district. Ridgefield and La Center were in my district before I was redistricted out of the 18th in 2013. Furthermore, I have worked with legislative colleagues from Clark County to address a variety of issues affecting citizens in Clark County and I intend to continue that work.


0:00 Gersoff, Anya at goalie for Princeton.
0:00 Hatfield, Jenn at goalie for Harvard.
02:38 Penalty corner by Princeton Cesan, Michelle [02:38].
02:47 Shot by Princeton Benvenuti, Teresa, Save (by goalie) Hatfield, Jenn.
05:47 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Kirby, Sydney for Caro, Cat.
10:13 Substitution!Harvard substitution: Painter, Noel for Jacobson, Elizabeth.
11:54 Penalty corner by Princeton Cesan, Michelle [11:54].
12:04 Shot by Princeton Reinprecht, Julia, Wide.
12:09 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Caro, Cat for Copeland, Maddie.
12:54 Penalty corner by Princeton Cesan, Michelle [12:54].
13:03 Shot by Princeton Benvenuti, Teresa, Blocked.
13:24 Penalty corner by Princeton Cesan, Michelle [13:24].
13:34 Shot by Princeton Benvenuti, Teresa, Save (by goalie) Hatfield, Jenn.
14:18 Shot by Harvard Sinno, Dina, Wide.
14:22 Substitution!Harvard substitution: Jacobson, Elizabeth for Boudah, Kaitlyn.
16:13 Substitution!Harvard substitution: Rosenfeld, Rachael for Balleza, Marissa.
21:46 Shot by Princeton Arner, Cassidy, Save (by goalie) Hatfield, Jenn.
22:02 Substitution!Harvard substitution: Sinno, Dina for Haughey, Christy.
22:02 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Kirby, Sydney for Evans, Allison.
23:10 Shot by Princeton Cesan, Michelle, Wide.
25:57 Penalty corner by Princeton Cesan, Michelle [25:57].
26:12 Shot by Princeton Benvenuti, Teresa, Save (by goalie) Hatfield, Jenn.
26:17 Shot by Princeton Cesan, Michelle, Save (by goalie) Hatfield, Jenn.
26:28 Substitution!Harvard substitution: Balleza, Marissa for Rosenfeld, Rachael.
26:54 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Evans, Allison for Copeland, Maddie.
27:06 Green card on Princeton Kirby, Sydney.
30:09 Yellow card on Princeton Caro, Cat.
35:00 For Princeton: #3 Arner, Cassidy, #22 Copeland, Maddie, #5 Evans, Allison, #10 Byrne, Kelsey, #8 Cesan, Michelle, #12 Benvenuti, Teresa, #7 Reinprecht, Julia, #45 Gersoff, Anya, #18 Ferrara, Kate, #4 Donovan, Annabeth.
35:00 For Harvard: #1 Hatfield, Jenn, #6 Balleza, Marissa, #13 Rea, Caitlin, #3 Finnemore, Sarah, #24 Boudah, Kaitlyn, #4 Cordrey, Kyla, #8 McNeill, Caroline, #7 McDonald, Catriona, #2 Sinno, Dina, #12 van Weede, Sophie, #10 Jacobson, Elizabeth.
35:51 Penalty corner by Harvard Finnemore, Sarah [35:51].
35:58 Shot by Harvard McNeill, Caroline, Wide.
39:35 Shot by Princeton Caro, Cat, Save (by goalie) Hatfield, Jenn.
41:54 Shot by Princeton Cesan, Michelle, Blocked.
42:05 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Kirby, Sydney for Copeland, Maddie.
42:24 Shot by Princeton Reinprecht, Julia, Save (by goalie) Hatfield, Jenn.
42:45 Shot by Princeton Evans, Allison, Wide.
46:17 Substitution!Harvard substitution: Rosenfeld, Rachael for Boudah, Kaitlyn.
46:17 Substitution!Harvard substitution: McGillivray, Bridget for Balleza, Marissa.
50:14 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Boyce, Colleen for Arner, Cassidy.
50:14 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Mango, Allegra for Caro, Cat.
54:11 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Jenkins, Andrea for Evans, Allison.
55:15 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Arner, Cassidy for Boyce, Colleen.
56:00 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Evans, Allison for Copeland, Maddie.
57:52 Substitution!Harvard substitution: Jacobson, Elizabeth for Painter, Noel.
58:44 Penalty corner by Princeton Cesan, Michelle [58:44].
59:01 Shot by Princeton Benvenuti, Teresa, Save (by goalie) Hatfield, Jenn.
59:06 Shot by Princeton Reinprecht, Julia, Save (by goalie) Hatfield, Jenn.
59:21 Penalty corner by Princeton Cesan, Michelle [59:21].
59:31 Shot by Princeton Benvenuti, Teresa, Save (by goalie) Hatfield, Jenn.
59:36 Shot by Princeton Kirby, Sydney, Wide.
59:47 Substitution!Harvard substitution: Boudah, Kaitlyn for Rosenfeld, Rachael.
59:47 Substitution!Harvard substitution: McDonald, Catriona for McGillivray, Bridget.
60:32 Shot by Princeton Reinprecht, Julia, Wide.
62:23 Shot by Princeton Evans, Allison, Wide.
63:07 Shot by Harvard McDonald, Catriona, Save (by goalie) Gersoff, Anya.
63:16 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Reeves, Hailey for Jenkins, Andrea.
64:57 Penalty corner by Princeton Cesan, Michelle [64:57].
67:53 Green card on Princeton Evans, Allison.
68:31 Substitution!Princeton substitution: Caro, Cat for Kirby, Sydney.


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My Log 264: Report on delegation to UN in defence of Abdelrazik's right to be removed from no-fly list
Recently a seven-person delegation went from Montreal to New York to plead the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Canadian citizen who has been persecuted for no reason, because of his Arab descent, and who was returned from a six-year enforced exile in Sudan, during which he was tortured, but eventually cleared of all wrong-doing, only because a Canadian court ordered the Harper government to allow the man back to Canada, as provided for the in Charter of Rights.
Since his return, Abdelrazik has continued to be persecuted because his name was placed on the UN Security Council 1267 No-Fly list, and he has been struggling to get his name off the list ever since.
A group of sympathetic Canadians has steadfastly represented his case to the higher authorities, and their latest move was to send a seven-man delegation to New York to plead with the relevant committee to remove his name from the list.
The report of their mission has been issued, and I reproduce it below:
On June 16th, 2011, a seven-person delegation, acting in solidarity with Abousfian Abdelrazik, met with a representative of the German Mission to the United Nations (Germany currently chairs the 1267-Committee) and representatives of the 1267 Monitoring Team. The delegation travelled to New York to support Abdelrazik's five-year struggle to have his name removed from the Security Council's "1267" blacklist.
During the almost two-hour meeting, the delegates, most of whom knew Abdelrazik personally, stressed the urgency of removing him from the list and pointed out the obvious inconsistencies of the blacklisting regime with the founding principles of the United Nations as articulated by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; including the right to freedom and to a fair trial, the prohibition on torture (false information obtained under torture seems to have been used against Abdelrazik) as well as rights to security of the person, to earn a living, and to free association.
The delegates argued that the blacklist should be abolished, not simply reformed. They were able to convey the fact that people are increasingly aware of the issue and that mounting numbers of organizations and individuals are calling for the regime to be scrapped.
The diplomatic reserve of the UN officials was briefly punctured when they were suddenly brought face-to-face with Abdelrazik via a personal video message, in which he invited those present, "and the rest of the committee to walk in my shoes. I invite you to come to live with me for one day ... I am sure this is going to touch you, because you are human beings. Please, I have suffered enough. I want to end this suffering." As the spokesperson for the 1267-Committee remarked, it was good to be reminded that there are real human beings involved.
* Full message from Abdelrazik to the 1267-Committee:
http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/video/abousfian-abdelraziks-statement-un-1267-committee/7513
Asked for a response that delegates could bring back to Abdelrazik, the 1267-Committee spokesperson asked Abdelrazik to trust in the delisting process. As Karl Flecker, National Director of the Anti-Racism and Human Rights Department of the Canadian Labour Congress and one of the delegates, explained to media after the meeting, "What that means for Abousfian is that he has to, once again, trust the people who have had control over his life for the last five years. And to wait longer for justice. We cannot acquiesce to the hope for modest reforms to something that has fundamental injustice."
* Video of Karl Flecker and Sameer Zuberi, Canadian Muslim Forum, speaking at press briefing outside UN after the meeting:
montreal.mediacoop.ca/video/project-flyhome-delegates-discuss-meeting-un-german-mission-concerning-abousfian-abdelraziks-s
After the press briefing, the delegates were joined outside the gates of the UN by supporters from New York and a fabulous marching band, the Rude Mechanical Orchestra:
* Audio of RMO (yes! they are singing, "hey hey, ho ho! 1267 has got to go!"):
www.mediacoop.ca/audio/rude-mechanical-orchestra-playing-abdelrazik-nyc/7516
It was clear from the meeting that the 1267-Committee is feeling international pressure and hoped to relieve some of that pressure by introducing a few modest reforms. Indeed, the meeting with the Project Fly Home delegation took place on the eve of a Security Council meeting where reforms to the blacklisting regime, as well as the political imperative of removing the Taliban from the list (in order to advance a negotiated deal in Afghanistan), were due to be discussed. However, in the end, the reforms adopted on June 17th by the Security Council to the delisting process, in resolution 1989, failed to make any significant progress towards justice. In essence, instead of 15 states having an unconditional veto over a delisting request, now only five do (the five permanent members of the security council).
* Press release from FIDH on the reforms
www.peoplescommission.org/files/abousfianMedia/fidh_june_2011.pdf
The delisting caravan was a focal point for support for Abdelrazik and for mounting opposition to the UN 1267-blacklist and to blacklisting schemes in general. The delegation was composed of spokespeople from seven diverse organizations: Emilie Breton, Project Fly Home; Dolores Chew, South Asian Women's Community Centre (SAWCC); Karl Flecker, Canadian Labour Congress; Pierre Jasmin, Artists for Peace; Nicole Leach, Regina Solidarity Group; James Loney, Christian Peacemaker Teams; and Sameer Zuberi, Canadian Muslim Forum. Each were backed by an extensive network from very different sectors of society.
* Delegate biographies:
www.peoplescommission.org/en/abdelrazik/past.php#caravan_delegate
The delegates delivered a letter to the 1267-Committee, calling for Abdelrazik to be delisted and for an end to the 1267-Regime, co-signed by almost 100 organizations across Canada, collectively involving millions of people: student groups, human rights organizations, faith-based organizations, labour unions, community groups, NGOs and more. These organizations were joined by American allies, including the AFL-CIO - the main American labour umbrella, with 12.2 million members - and the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), in calling for Abdelrazik to be delisted and the 1267-List to be scrapped.
* Read letter to Chair of 1267-Committee and see list of endorsers:
www.peoplescommission.org/files/abousfianMedia/letter_to_1267_en.pdf
The blacklist spokesperson also received a stack of letters from individuals across Canada, most of whom had donated to Abdelrazik in open defiance of the sanctions imposed on him. The letters offer a snapshot of the diversity and strength of support for justice for Abdelrazik across the country.
* Read quotes from some of the letters (well worth a read!):
www.peoplescommission.org/files/abousfianMedia/wittig_excerpts.pdf
The delegation was preceded by events in Vancouver, Calgary, Regina, Ottawa, Kitchener and Halifax, including two sanctions-busting events, as well as a press conference in Montreal and a caravan to the border to see the delegation off. The initiative was covered by the media quite sympathetically in Canada and internationally and two editorials called for Abdelrazik to be delisted.
* Select media coverage of the delegation:
www.peoplescommission.org/en/abdelrazik/articles.php
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My Log 263: Follow-up to Tar Sands horror: huge shipments of machinery being fought by Oregon citizens
A reader of this blog has sent me a follow-up to my piece on the Tom Radford film about the Athabasca tar sands and its horrors.
The piece is from a magazine called Eugene Weekly, published in Eugene, Oregon, and it gives details, suitably horrendous details, of the proposal to transport monstrous machines through that pristine part of the world to Alberta to take part in the rape of the earth there; and of the fight being waged against this proposal.
The link to this article is
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2010/09/02/coverstory.html
and I urge anyone who has any interest in these tar sands to read the piece. The proposal is to send shipments the largest of which is 210 feet long, 30 feet high, 24 feet wide and weighing 500,000 pounds, along the ordinary roads of the West, which, in the opinion of the protesters, pose all sorts of dangers en route, not even counting the harm these machines will do when once installed.
My thanks to Dana Magliari for providing this link.
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My Log 262: Film on tar sands screening on Al Jazeera, gives Canada huge black eye
Collage of tar sands
Canada has been receiving a well-deserved, mighty black eye around the world in the last week or so as Al Jazeera, the Arab online station now equipped with a full range of sophistication and excellent reporters, has been broadcasting a superb and persuasive film made by Niobe Nicholson and Tom Radford about the Athabasca tar sands.
The programme makes no bones about it: not only is the oil extraction from the tar sands in northern Alberta the biggest construction programme in the world, but it is also "the dirtiest oil project ever known."
Furthermore, the programme produces a lineup of ridiculous Canadian politicians, from Stephen Harper down to the environment minister of the province of Alberta, who disgrace themselves and their nation by pretending there is absolutely nothing wrong with this project that is almost single-handedly responsible for nullifying all global efforts to reduce the emission of the carbon gases that are so gravely damaging our planet.
Radford recalls on the Al Jazeera website that he made a similar film, Death of a Delta, in 1972 using a hand-cranked Bolex camera, whose subject was the right of the small community of Fort Chipewyan to "to have a voice in the construction of a massive hydroelectric project on the Peace River, the W.A.C. Bennett Dam. At stake was not only the survival of the oldest community in Alberta, but the protection of a World Heritage site, the Peace Athabasca Delta, a convergence of migratory flyways and the greatest concentration of waterfowl on the continent. In the David and Goliath struggle that ensued, David won. Water was released from the dam and water levels in the Delta returned to normal. The unique ecology of the region was saved. The town survived."
Today, that same David, the one thousand native residents of Fort Chipewyan are fighting an even more imposing Goliath, this monstrous development of the tar sands whose "expansion will have an estimated $1.7 trillion impact on the Canadian economy over the coming decades. An area of boreal forest the size of Greece will be affected by industrial activity. Once again the issue is water, but this time it is not just the flow of the river, but the chemicals the current may be carrying downstream from the strip mines and bitumen upgraders. In recent years, according to the Alberta Cancer Board, Fort Chipewyan has experienced an unusually high rate of cancer. Local fishermen are finding growing numbers of deformed fish in their nets."
Radford's online notes record that "gripped in a Faustian pact with the American energy consumer, the Canadian government is doing everything it can to protect the dirtiest oil project ever known."
He produces a string of very calm and factual scientists who have discovered the facts about what is happening, placed those facts before the public, and are challenging the two governments to reveal their own data which has apparently persuaded them that there is nothing unusual occurring, nothing dangerous, in spite of the spike that has been recorded in cancer in the area, and who do not admit that if they were to introduce remedial measures, the cost of them would be so high that the whole operation would cease to make money.
Heaven forbid! Faced with the inexorable logic and honesty of a man like Dr. David Schindler, also a hero of the earlier struggle, the government produced an investigatory board which unequivocally concluded that improvements are needed in the governments' methods of collecting facts about what is in the Athabasca river and delta. The local natives, led by chief Alan Adam, know that their rights --- constitutionally guaranteed, by the way --- to hunt and trap, and catch fish, have already been nullified because of the pollution of a huge area of the boreal forest in which they have always lived, along with the animals on which they have depended for their living since time immemorial. At a meeting of the chiefs of communities who inhabit the area of the tar sands, and the Athabasca delta --- a World Heritage site --- Chief Adam said bluntly, "If I am standing alone against this, I am going to have to make a deal with these mining interests," something which, in the context of this whole development, seems unthinkable.
Already thanks to the tar sands, Canada has become the biggest supplier of oil to the United States, and the most chilling statement in the film comes from Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State in the Obama administration, that they have to depend on dirty oil from the Arabian gulf, or on dirty oil frm the Athabasca tar sands. In other words, money is primary; the incessant demands of the modern economy for ceaseless exponential growth, a mantra that is shared by every government on earth, so far as one can tell, must be fed, one way or the other. This is a suicide position.
Never mind the boreal forest; never mind the animal populations that are already under immense pressure; never mind the rights of local native tribes. Give us that oil, Jack, we need it…
Tom Radford is to be congratulated for this movie. Al Jazeera is to be congratulated for screening it every day for nine days on the trot.
And our Canadian politicians have surely been given a warning that they cannot afford to stand at the head of the lineup of people who don't give a damn about the health of the earth. Something's gotta give, and Albertans and the rest of it, if we have any say in it, are going to have to face up to what we are doing to the earth.
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My Log 251: The world of the traveller today: mass tourism, or luxury tourism, and its deleterious impact on the human environment.
Dubrovnik, Croatia: the mass tourists arriveI have done quite a bit of travelling in the last two or three years, and have begun to develop a stronger than ever distaste for the impact of mass tourism on the human environment.
First, on a visit to my home country of New Zealand, I found evidence that the luxury tourism business into which New Zealand has now slotted itself, has reduced what was once an agreeable, modest little country of mostly small towns, into a major rip-off place. This was later confirmed by a British Rugby writer, Peter Bills, of the Independent, who had exactly the same feeling about it, after many trips. And it has been reconfirmed by the reports of the extravagant prices being charges by many operators for the coming Rugby World Cup, the most recent of these, unless my memory betrays me, suggesting that one operator is charging $15,000 a night, or something equally ludicrous.
At the moment I am on my second visit to Dubrovnik, in Croatia, a small, walled city, extremely beautiful, but one that after being more or less restored to its full glory following Yugoslavia's disastrous wars of the 1990s, has now been completely taken over by the tourist industry, not so much just luxury tourism, as mass tourism.
Not a day goes by without the arrival of some cruise liner, which shuffles its passengers ashore in tenders, disgorges them in one or other of two harbours, and then sends them marching off around the town under the guidance of guides who hold up signs with numbers and languages to indicate where each tourist can find his proper place. These guides, who do presumably know a lot about the city and its history, pause on the streets from time to time as they go through their spiel. They are under strict orders to perform certain functions, to show their packs of people certain notable landmarks, and at each landmark they have an allotted time, beyond which they cannot dare venture for fear that the following group might overtake them. In one palace, currently used for symphony concerts in the evenings, but traditionally one of the central buildings in the choosing of the Parliament, they have had to build a second door so that the occupying group, if one may call it such, can escape by the back as the following group is marching through the front door.
Why anyone would regard being herded about a town in this way as having anything to do with a holiday is beyond me. Personally I am here staying with a friend, who I am helping as she tries to build an autobiographical account of her rather remarkable life. Yesterday we went as a small group of five to have a meal along a river that runs into the second harbour, called Gruz, on the other side of town. Just getting on the bus among these crowds of tourists, with their baby-carriages and their backpacks, and their intensity, an experience to which one apparently commits oneself voluntarily in the full flowering of one's mind, gave me as much of a whiff of this kind of tourism as I will ever need. Verily, it was a sort of nightmare, until the mob disembarked from the bus en route, leaving us to find in solitude a very pleasing riverside restaurant free of the pack.
My friend, who has lived here for 40 years, complains that in the old days the city was full of little shops offering services of all kinds –— barbers, tailors, grocers, wine merchants, drapers, and so on. Now, she says, these have all gone, or nearly all gone, and been replaced by shops selling T-shirts made in China.
One is constantly being solicited by beautiful young woman with brochures advertising this or that thing: one I picked up yesterday advertises the locations of three stores within two streets of a firm called T-shirt World, which promises to transfer anything anyonewould want on to a T-shirt, "within one minute." This has apparently become the quintessential event of mass tourism, allowing the participant to offer a hackneyed T-shirt to nieces and nephews on return home. "We are offering a catalogue with over 500 applications --- funny, new, always actual, with Dubrovnik motifs or desired text and picture," says the brochure, which, although quite small, is printed in six languages.
I love that expression "always actual", whatever it means. Of course, only 20 years ago they were pummeling each other to smithereens, these people, in favor of each of their nationalisms, so that "always actual" might contain some sort of hidden message. I hope not.
My Log 260: Air Canada: the perfectly Incommunicado Social System, isolated from their customers, never a real voice to answer a phone
Ottawa Airport
A few years ago I worked for a few months with a sociologist Ben
Singer, from the University of Windsor, who gave me a copy of a paper he had written called Incommunicado Social Systems. His thesis was that every major entity in our society --- government or private --- was sheltering behind a wall of electronics that effectively isolated them from their customers.
To prove his point, he loved to go into a bank with a cheque which he would demand they cash. Oh, no, sir, we can't cash this cheque. Of course you can, Ben would sad, let me talk to your supervisor.
Ben knew quite well that by simply picking up a phone to confirm the cheque, they could cash it. And he was prepared to wait for hours until he had persuaded them to do it.
I thought of this yesterday when I was trying to confirm an air booking I made online in March, for next week. I had the ticket, but I wondered if I could either check in, in advance, or book my own seat, and print my own boarding pass. When I got in touch with Air Canada, they demanded my booking number. I gave them two numbers that seemed to be what I had been given as a booking number, but they did not recognize either of them, so I couldn't take my inquiry further without telephoning them directly.
So I did that, and after hanging on for ten minutes or so was advised that the wait time for a telephone connection would be 45 minutes.
Forty-five minutes! Unheard of. Oh, well, I thought, I will just pop into their booking office downtown and check all this out.
Think again, old man. I discovered to my amazement that they closed all their downtown offices years ago. Their only office in Ottawa is at Ottawa airport, which would require for a guy without a car, a ride costing $30, and another $30 coming back. No thanks, old man.
So it seems Air Canada has fulfilled Ben Singer's requirements as an Incommunicado Social System. They have isolated themselves into a remote place where they can't be visited, and further isolated themselves behind a telephone system that doesn't give a connection.
I tried again today, and although they still rejected my numbers, they did, somehow or other this time print out my ticket, which at least proves that they know about me. As for checking in and printing my own boarding pass, not until 24 hours before I leave am I able to do that.
Twenty-four hours! Don't they realize that is almost as long before departure as I have to be at the airport just to go through their stupid, pointless, intrusive security checks.
Wow! The modern world., It isn't like it was when I was a kid riding my bike around a New Zealand village.
Of course, that was almost eighty years ago.
Link of the Day June 9 2011: Central Asia is alive with intrigue, according to this fascinating story from the Asia Times Online, written by M K Bhadraku, US breathes life into a new cold war. Kazakhstan alone has the biggest reservoir of natural gas in the world, and the US has been angling to get hold of it: but Russia is using energy policy as a prong of geopolitics, has become the major energy supplier in Europe, which suggests a weakening of the American hold over Europe. And there is a great new alliance forming embracing China, Russia and the central Asian republics that the US doesn't like at all. This is great stuff, as so much in the Asia Times Online is.
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Link of the Day June 8 2011
Here is an article of relevance in Canada: why do people vote for centre-left parties (like the NDP) that are proven to be useless in confronting the enemy of the people, namely, the owners of capital, and their neoliberal politicial policies. Steve McGiffen, writing in Dissident Voice, says such votes are useless --- as has been proven over and over again in Europe, most of whose citizens are natural supporters of the welfare state, but have been disappointed by their left-leaning parties, but some hope may rest in the extra-parliamentary movements of dissent that are emerging everywhere. Read Social Democracy and Social Progress….
My Log 259: A man of strong will and unquenchable spirit has died, who was an inspiration to everyone who knew him
Jacob Diegel, with whom I have hung out in the Morala coffee shop on Bank street in the Glebe in the last few years, has died. In his memory I posted the following piece in the window of the coffee shop. Since I wrote it I have been told by his son that he was not only a man of amazing resilience and spirit, but in his younger days he had tremendous physical strength, having been known to lift a 45-gallon oil drum (500 pounds) on to the back of a truck by himself.
With that small addition, which certainly hangs together as all of a piece with what I knew of him, my piece stands:
Jacob Diegel, a regular customer of this café, and a friend and inspiration to many of us, has died, and these few words are designed in memory of him.
What made Jacob remarkable was his indomitable spirit. In 1985 he suffered a severe accident when working one of the machines he owned as he worked in the bush close to Thunder Bay, and from that moment until his death a quarter of a century later, he was in constant pain. Somehow or other he contrived to ignore this, and to maintain his cheerful outlook on life, until almost the end. His suffering was intense, and would have stopped most men from being ambulatory, but nothing could stop Jacob.
A few years ago he fell over and broke his leg in several places. His doctors doubted that he would ever walk again, but after a longish stint in hospital, his leg healed, more or less, and he was back among us, now hobbling on two sticks instead of one, but still ready for a joke and a laugh.
I enjoyed his company many times, and my memory of him is of the many laughs we had together. We were the same age, within a month, and pretended to be wiser than those around us. At one point I had Jacob and the others who usually gathered around schooled to react when I would say on arrival. "You know what it is out there?" Jacob was always ready with the answer. "It's bloody criminal out there," he would say, borrowing my antipodean slang.
Jacob's wife, Mrs. Diegel, came into the café occasionally, and although she was not in the best of health was always able to carry on with us a serious conversation not only about their life together, but about the affairs of the world --- a charming, good-humoured woman, the essential life-long partner needed to help Jacob through his many trials.
How many times did he tell us how, when his son was a teenager, he gave management of one of his cutting machines to him during the school and university holidays, and told him he could keep the profits from his work on the machine, which, Jacob proudly added, was evidently good training, for the boy had become a successful lawyer in Ottawa?
How many times did he tell of his three grandsons, of whom he was so inordinately proud as he introduced them to us when they came into the café in search of him?
Jacob came to Canada from Germany in 1951 as an immigrant, but after a few years during which he worked in the bush, enjoying the outdoor life, he was called back to manage his family's large restaurant. It was not work that he enjoyed --- "too many drunks," he used to say --- and one day, as he was passing a Canadian consulate, on an impulse he went in and began the formalities for returning to Canada. Then he went back home and told his wife, who had no particular wish to return to Canada. (A brave man, Jacob, to do such a thing, but Mrs. Diegel, however reluctant she might have been, was up to the challenge, went along with his decision, and they returned to Canada for good).
He built a good business close to Thunder Bay, bought a small shack on 12 acres of land in the countryside, worked it over and expanded it in the succeeding years, and when he left it to join his son in Ottawa (his effective working life having been cut by his accident) he had a beautiful home, the fruit of his and his wife's labour and their love of the countryside he had always worked in.
Once again, after that recent severe accident, he fell and again damaged himself: one would have imagined that would almost have finished him off. But within a few weeks he appeared again, even more shaky than before on his two sticks, but always with his customary bright smile and cheerful greeting.
Often he came into the café on his way back from the frequent visits he had to make to the hospital. In his last few years his health problems became intense. If it wasn't his leukemia, with which he had lived for many years, it was his internal bleeding that required him to have numerous blood transplants; or just the need to take such care not to knock his arms, or bang his legs against anything, which could create severe bruising.
I can say one thing for sure, for everyone who knew him in the cafe: we were all cheered to see him appear at the door, put away his two sticks, and make his way painstakingly to the counter to order his coffee. He had that gift for bringing optimism and good cheer with him, just by the sheer doggedness and unquenchable spirit that kept him going, and smiling.
We will all miss him terribly. He was an inspiration to all of us, and we extend to his wife and family our sincere condolences in their loss. We know how much he meant to you all: and I can say he meant as much to all of us.
Link of the Day June 6 2011: In a significant article in the New York Times, Justin Gillis raises and investigates yet another major global problem: the suspected impact of climate change on agricultural yields. Read this important information, which signals a halt to the success of the Green Revolution, and the problems that lie ahead for scientists whose budgets are being squeezed, as they race to find a solution to inevitable problems.
My Log 258: Remarkable Spanish film, Even the Rain, shows that our modern version of colonialism is as bad as the historical version
I saw a remarkable Spanish film last night which dealt with a number of issues of importance in the modern world ---- the problems of neo-colonialism, the oppression of indigenous people, the greed of multinational corporations, the corruption of governments. In other words, it was the kind of film that personally I think most films should be like --- committed, radical, and determined to face the real world.
The name of the film is Even the Rain, its director was Icíar Bollaín, a woman, and the film was one of those on the fringes of nomination for an Academy Award this year as best foreign language film.
The film deals with an attempt by a low-budget film crew to shoot a movie about the arrival of Christopher Columbus among the indigenous people of South America. Bolivia was chosen as the location for the film-within-the-film because of the easy availability of cheap extras, who could be hired for a few dollars a day. The movie opens with a huge line up of impoverished Indians who had responded to the promise of the filmmakers that everyone would be considered who showed up, which turned out to be the first of many promises they were unable to fulfil.
A leader among this straggle of impoverished people turned out to be a riveting personality called Daniel, played with extraordinary intensity by Juan Carlos Aduviri, who had turned up with his daughter, and whose demand that his daughter be given a chance to act in the movie attracted the attention of the filmmakers. Daniel was chosen to play the lead, but what the filmmakers did not know was that he was also the leader of an immense movement of the Indians who had taken to the streets to protest the handing over of the Cochambamba water supply to a private company.
This was a real event in Bolivia, fought by impoverished peasants against the local authorities.
When the filmmakers discovered this, when Daniel was arrested and beaten, they pleaded with him to stand aloof from the protest, at least until they had managed to shoot their essential scenes, and offered him a large bribe to do so. He took half of the money, but did not keep to his bargain, arguing, when upbraided by the producer, that the argument the Indians were undertaking was about water, that water was life, and the filmmakers did not understand the real priorities.
Thus the themes of colonialism, as illustrated by the story being told about Columbus, and of neo-colonialism, as illustrated by the behaviour of the film crew, and of the government in forcing the people to accept huge payments beyond their means for the very water they depended on for their lives, were intertwined from the beginning, and were forcing the filmmakers to act in the brutal way customary in colonies, whether of the ancient, or of the modern world.
The director of the film-within-the-film, played with a winning hesitancy and charm by the well-known actor Gael García Bernal, at first argued against accepting the ultimatum of the government that if Daniel was allowed to play his role in those essential scenes, then the producers should agree to surrender him to the army when they were finished, The producer agreed, the director did not. But later, after yet another violent demonstration, when Daniel's daughter was injured and needed urgent medical attention, it was the producer whose heart melted and the director who insisted he must get his whole crew out of the area before they were endangered by the violence. In these shrewd plot twists the filmmaker, Senora Bollain did not dodge the fact that colonialist attitudes are human and stem from moral decisions made by those who are imposing their power on weaker groups.
This is the kind of decision that is seldom confronted in your usual Hollywood film: but it was confronted in this movie, and no one in the audience could have been left without knowledge about what was really involved in the story told by this movie.
The only film I can remember that dealt with this theme was Celui Qui Doit Mourier (He Who Must Die), the first film made in Europe by Jules Dassin in the 1950s, after he was exiled from the United States because of his political views, and incidentally the film in which he first met Melina Mercouri, the great Greek actress, who later became not only his wife, but a minister in the post-colonels government of Greece. Mercouri was such a figure that when she died more than a million people came out in the streets to be present at her funeral. The Dassin film was made from a Kazantzakis novel, and dealt with the ironies of a desperate group of refugees arriving in a Cretan village, and being rejected, as the villagers were mounting the annual Passion play, emphasizing the contrast between the cruel behaviour of the local powers, and the moral of the story they were telling.
In our own era, when such huge sums of money are spent on making the most trivial and absurd movies, it is good to be reminded by films such as Even the Rain, that films should be about the major problems confronting people, especially (at least in my view) the relationship between classes, between power and people, between decency, humanity, and naked greed.
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Jan 16 Reginald De Koven, composer, dies at 60 on this day in history.
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Feb 20 Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), dies at 63 in the year 1920.
Feb 23 Alexander Alexandrovich Il'yinsky, composer, dies at 61 on this day in history.
Feb 27 Alexandru D Xenopol, Romanian historian, dies at 72 in the year 1920.
Mar 01 Joseph Trumpeldor, killed defending Tel-Mai against arab attack died on this day in history.
Mar 08 Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega), dies at 69 in the year 1920.
Mar 11 Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865) died on this day in history.
Mar 27 Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26 in the year 1920.
Apr 03 Homer Newton Bartlett, composer, dies at 74 in the year 1920.
Apr 07 Karl Binding, German jurist (b. 1841) died in the year 1920.
Apr 15 Jacob van Stolk Azn, art collector, dies at 74 in the year 1920.
May 10 John Wesley Hyatt, inventor/plastics pioneer, dies in the year 1920.
Jan 01 Elisabeth Andersen, [Anna de Bruyn], Dutch actress (Yerma, Titania) was born on this day in history.
Jan 01 Roger Peacock, writer was born on this day in history.
Jan 01 Virgilio Savona, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) was born in the year 1920.
Jan 02 Peter Harrison Swan, bomber pilot/stockbroker was born in the year 1920.


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Capital Dock on Dublin's Sir John Rogerson's Quay, the tallest apartment block in Ireland
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Government to extend enforcement of Rent Pressure Zones until 2021
RPZ laws were first introduced in December 2016 to address spiraling rents.
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THE GOVERNMENT HAS announced that it plans to increase the time that Rent Pressure Zones (RPZs) are in place until the end of 2021.
Tánaiste Simon Coveney announced the move in the Dáil today, when he revealed that the Government had agreed to a number of changes to the law regulating RPZs.
"The Government has made a decision today to extend Rent Pressure Zones until the end of 2021, but also to change how the qualification criteria for Rent Pressure Zones are actually calculated," he said.
RPZ laws were first introduced in December 2016, when Coveney was then Minister for Housing, as a way to address spiraling rents, but were set to begin expiring later this year.
Under the laws, annual rent rises can not increase by more than 4% in areas considered RPZs.
The zones are located in parts of the country where rents are highest and where households have the greatest difficulty finding affordable accommodation.
This afternoon, Coveney implied that the Government would seek to separate the criteria from Dublin from the rest of the country, due to the higher cost of renting in the capital.
"One of the qualification criteria of [rents] having to be over the national average is a criteria that needs to change for outside of Dublin," he said, adding that Minister for Housing Eoghan Murphy would outline the agreed changes in coming days.
Short-term solution
The announcement comes a week after two more parts of the country – Limerick City East and Navan – were deemed to have met the criteria to become RPZs.
Green Party TD Catherine Martin said, who questioned Coveney about the legislation before his announcement, welcomed the news in a statement this afternoon.
But she also cautioned that while the move would provide some with a "significant relief", RPZs were still a short-term solution that showed no ambition for rental communities.
"With growing numbers in long-term rental situations we need long-term solutions to affordability and security," she said. "Ad hoc approaches simply won't suffice."
The laws surrounding RPZs have also come in for criticism in recent months.
In November, Sinn Féin's housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin TD said the zones were not working for new entrants to the rental market or people who had to move home.
"The Rent Pressure Zone legislation is failing new entrants to the rental market," he said.
"Asking for new lets are very clearly circumventing the 4% cap and this is adding to the housing affordability crisis."
With additional reporting from Hayley Halpin.
Stephen McDermott
#DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING
#EOGHAN MURPHY
#HOUSING
#HOUSING CRISIS
#RENT PRESSURE ZONES
#RPZS
#SIMON COVENEY


Having lectures uploaded to the internet could prove beneficial for people studying for degrees who are finding it difficult to manage their student finances, it has been suggested.
Monash University Student Association president Imogen Sturni noted that there are a number of reasons why some of those who are supposed to attend classes cannot turn up, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.
She told the publication that some students have to find jobs to pay their rent and bills.
Ms Sturni said this circumstance is occurring "more and more" at the university, but that putting lectures online for people to watch in their own time could make studying easier for these people.
However, the idea has met with resistance from some lecturers, who are reportedly concerned that recording the classes will put them at risk of defamation lawsuits or that students will appropriate comments or errors and post them on social networking sites for their own amusement.
The government is currently trying to encourage more people to go into higher education with the aim of having 40 per cent of those between 25 and 34 years of age holding bachelor degrees by 2025.


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The National Lottery Heritage Fund
Arthur House
BT1 4GB
The National Lottery Heritage Fund is the largest dedicated grant funder of the UK's heritage. Since 1994, we've awarded over £8bn to more than 44,000 projects across the UK. Using money raised by the National Lottery, we inspire, lead and resource the UK's heritage to create positive and lasting change for people and communities, now and in the future.
City Life Projects
C.L.P
City Life Centre
143 Northumberlnad St.
We are based on the peaceline at Northumberland St. between Shankill & Falls Rd. Our centre is a converted warehouse with child care facilities, coffee shop, main auditorium and sports hall as well as offices. We run many projects helping the local and wider community.
Oxfam Ballyhackamore
BT4 3EY
Oxfam Ballyhackamore is a charitable organisation a great place to work learn new skills and meet new friends.
Claire Hanna MP
1 Rushfield Avenue
BT7 3FP
Claire Hanna is the Member of Parliament for Belfast South.
Prisons Memory Archive - Visual Voices Project
Prisons Memory Archive
School of Creative Arts, Queens University Belfast, 21 University Square
The Prisons Memory Archive (PMA) is a collection of 175 filmed walk-and-talk recordings with those who had a connection with Armagh Gaol and the Maze and Long Kesh Prison during the conflict in and about Northern Ireland The recordings were made in 2006 and 2007.
The Molly and Mia Foundation
Edfield Way, Fivemiletown BT75 0QH.
BT750QH
The Molly and Mia Foundation is a registered charity aiming to create a supportive environment and social outlet for families following the loss of a baby. We aim to create opportunities for young people to try new activities, socialize and build new friendships following the loss of a brother or sister. Children and young people are directly connected to our charity in this way; having lost a brother or sister through still birth, miscarriage or infant birth.
Book Trust G8
Battersea Studios, 80 Silverthorne Road, Battersea
SW8 3HE
BookTrust transforms lives by getting children and families reading. BookTrust is the UK's largest children's reading charity. Each year we reach 3.4 million children across the UK with books, resources and support.
Grow Wild UK
TW9 3AE
Supported by the Big Lottery Fund and led by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Grow Wild inspires communities, friends, neighbours and individuals across the UK to come together to transform local spaces, by sowing, growing and enjoying native wild flowers.
Knockmore Community Association
21D Hertford Crescent
BT28 1SP
For more information please email.
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Moira Kelly Net Worth
Moira Kelly Net Worth:
Moira Kelly Net Worth: Moira Kelly is an American actress who has a net worth of $2 million. Moira Kelly was born in Queens, New York, in 1968, and studied at Marymount Manhattan College. She held several small acting parts as a kid, first appearing in the TV movie "Love, Lies and Murder" as Cinnamon in 1991.
She also had roles in "The Boy Who Cried Bitch" and "Billy Bathgate" the same year. When Kelly was cast in "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me" as Donna Hayward in 1992, she had to get permission from her priest to appear in an on-screen sex scene. Four years later, Kelly starred as the title character in "Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story". She appeared in 13 episodes of "To Have & To Hold" in 1998 and voiced adult Nala in "The Lion King" and "The Lion King II: Simba's Pride". In 1999, she was cast as Mandy Hampton in 22 episodes of "The West Wing". Four years later, she landed the part of Karen Roe on the hit series "One Tree Hill", appearing in close to 100 episodes between 2003 and 2009. Kelly's other TV and film credits include "The Lion King 1 ½", "A Smile as Big as the Moon", "Drop Dead Diva", "Two Tickets to Paradise", "Heroes", "The Twilight Zone", and "Love Walked In". Kelly has been married to her husband, Steve Hewitt, since 2000. They have two children together, Ella and Eamon.
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Is Time Travel really possible? In the following clip, part of The science of Doctor Who series, the professor Brian Cox – a confirmed Doctor Who fan – undertakes an experiment with a light showing that time moves faster for a stationary clock than a moving clock, which appears to move more slowly over the same length of time. His conclusion is that time travel is possible, but only into the future!


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Q: Is it possible to include one CSS file in another? Is it possible to include one CSS file in another?

A: Yes, use @import
detailed info easily googled for, a good one at http://webdesign.about.com/od/beginningcss/f/css_import_link.htm

A: yes it is possible using @import and providing the path of css file
e.g.
@import url("mycssfile.css");

or
@import "mycssfile.css";

A: @import("/path-to-your-styles.css");
That is the best way to include a css stylesheet within a css stylesheet using css.

A: The "@import" rule could calls in multiple styles files. These files are called by the browser or User Agent when needed e.g. HTML tags call the CSS.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="EN" dir="ltr">
<head>
<title>Using @import</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<style type="text/css">
@import url("main.css");
</style>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

CSS File "main.css" Contains The Following Syntax:
@import url("fineprint.css") print;
@import url("bluish.css") projection, tv;
@import 'custom.css';
@import url("chrome://communicator/skin/");
@import "common.css" screen, projection;
@import url('landscape.css') screen and (orientation:landscape);

To insert in style element use createTexNode don't use innerHTML but:
<script>
var style = document.createElement('style');
style.setAttribute("type", "text/css");
var textNode = document.createTextNode("
    @import 'fineprint.css' print;
    @import 'bluish.css' projection, tv;
    @import 'custom.css';
    @import 'chrome://communicator/skin/';
    @import 'common.css' screen, projection;
    @import 'landscape.css' screen and (orientation:landscape);
");
style.appendChild(textNode);
</script>

A: The @import url("base.css"); works fine but bear in mind that every @import statement is a new request to the server. This might not be a problem for you, but when optimal performance is required you should avoid the @import.

A: The CSS @import rule does just that. E.g.,
@import url('/css/common.css');
@import url('/css/colors.css');

A: Import bootstrap with altervista and wordpress
I use this to import bootstrap.css in altervista with wordpress
@import url("https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css");

and it works fine, as it would delete the html link rel code if I put it into a page

A: @import url('style.css');

As opposed to the best answer, it is not recommended to aggregate all CSS files into one chunk when using HTTP/2.0

A: Yes.
@import "your.css";

The rule is documented here.

A: Yes. Importing CSS file into another CSS file is possible.
It must be the first rule in the style sheet using the @import rule.
@import "mystyle.css";
@import url("mystyle.css");

The only caveat is that older web browsers will not support it. In fact, this is one of the CSS 'hack' to hide CSS styles from older browsers.
Refer to this list for browser support.

A: In some cases it is possible using @import "file.css", and most modern browsers should support this, older browsers such as NN4, will go slightly nuts.
Note: the import statement must precede all other declarations in the file, and test it on all your target browsers before using it in production.

A: Yes:
@import url("base.css");

Note:

*

*The @import rule must precede all other rules (except @charset).

*Additional @import statements require additional server requests. As an alternative, concatenate all CSS into one file to avoid multiple HTTP requests. For example, copy the contents of base.css and special.css into base-special.css and reference only base-special.css.

A: I have created main.css file and included all css files in it.
We can include only one main.css file
@import url('style.css');
@import url('platforms.css');

A: Yes You can import easily one css to another (any where in website)
You have to use like:
@import url("url_path");

A: sing the CSS @import Rule
here
@import url('/css/header.css') screen;
@import url('/css/content.css') screen;
@import url('/css/sidebar.css') screen;
@import url('/css/print.css') print;

A: For whatever reason, @import didn't work for me, but it's not really necessary is it?
Here's what I did instead, within the html:
  <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="myap-print.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" media="print" href="myap-screen.css">
  <link rel="stylesheet" media="screen" href="myap-screen.css">

Notice that media="print" has 2 stylesheets: myap-print.css and myap-screen.css. It's the same effect as including myap-screen.css within myap-print.css.

A: I stumbled upon this and I just wanted to say PLEASE DON'T USE @IMPORT IN CSS!!!! The import statement is sent to the client and the client does another request. If you want to divide your CSS between various files use Less. In Less the import statement happens on the server and the output is cached and does not create a performance penalty by forcing the client to make another connection. Sass is also an option another not one I have explored. Frankly, if you are not using Less or Sass then you should start. http://willseitz-code.blogspot.com/2013/01/using-less-to-manage-css-files.html


Getting financial institutions (FIs) on board with accepting real-time payments means assuring that doing so won't bring any unreasonable risk. At a time when many national faster payment schemes are growing around the world, both in terms of transactions processed and FI participant counts, security has become the top concern for many operating in the faster payments space.
In the June Faster Payments Tracker, PYMNTS takes a look at how these schemes are growing and the new security efforts intended to safeguard sensitive information against increasing attacks.
One of the latest security initiatives comes from ACH Alert. The security service provider recently released two offerings focused on advancing ACH credits and payments security. In part, the tools give account holders greater control over approving incoming payments.
Players in the space are also looking at how banks can improve their approach to faster payments security. Fraud experts from Mastercard-owned payment company Vocalink, executive vice president Gary Kearns and director of product management David Divitt, recently outlined their strategy for identifying and fighting fraud in a conversation with PYMNTS' Karen Webster. The two recommended that banks take a network-wide view and use artificial intelligence and machine learning to foil bad actors' attempts to launder money or trick bank customers into sending payments.
Other solutions are less focused on identifying attackers and more focused on denying them leverage. A new solution from data technology company Rambus aims to better protect payments information. The company's solution tokenizes account numbers in an effort to guard credentials in direct debit, direct credit and P2P payments of central banks and clearing houses.
Find more of the latest headlines in the Tracker.
It's a small world — and one that's linked together by supply chains that wind across borders. To keep business uninterrupted, corporations seek to make their supplier payments quickly, and without incurring hefty foreign exchange fees.
In this month's feature story, PYMNTS caught up with Brian Jamieson, CEO and co-founder of London-based FinTech Centtrip, about how his company aims to enable corporations to make instant domestic and international payments, and its strategy for supporting quick access to 15 different currencies.
In a time when some fear that faster payments could lead to faster fraud, Jamieson also weighed in on security and fraud prevention before funds are even sent.
For the full story, download the Tracker.
The PYMNTS Faster Payments Tracker™ is your go-to resource for staying up to date on a month-by-month basis. The tracker highlights the contribution of different stakeholders, including institutions and technology coming together to make this happen.


Raised in Sugar Land, Texas, Jonathan Kinsey is the Creative Services Coordinator for Sam Houston State University Online, in addition to being an MFA candidate.
While his bachelor's degree concentrated on Film, his MFA focuses on Integrating New Media Arts & Technology with Live Performing Arts.
He has worked for the GRAMMY Foundation, NobleMotion Dance, Phusion Creative, Sugar Land Baptist Church, and Forest Glen Camps, gaining experience melding various media with communications and live performance.
Through these collaborative efforts, his interest in integrating media continues to grow. He is constantly pursuing new, innovative concepts by weaving traditional media into communication, design, and live performance.


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GTA Trilogy Receives Major 1.03 Update
Nov 30, 2021 Matt Cook
It's good to see Rockstar listening to its players.
The GTA Trilogy was released to waves of ridicule earlier this month. Everything from bugs and glitches to strange design choices and character models were latched onto by gamers. Players began demanding refunds, Rockstar had to stop selling the trilogy on PC, and the games received some of the lowest user review scores ever on Metacritic.
The backlash was so bad that it led to Rockstar apologizing for the state of the games. The company also pledged to fix the plethora of issues via updates and offered PC players the original versions of the games for free. The day after the apology, the first update for the game (not including the day one update) was released. That was update 1.02 and it included a variety of fixes. Now, Rockstar has released update 1.03 and this is the first one that seems to actually be taking player feedback into account.
The update notes, which are extensive, reference many of the issues that have spread like wildfire across social media. In GTA: San Andreas, there are multiple fixes to character models, particularly CJ. Other issues that were prominent online have also been taken care of. These include misspelled store names, the Nut prop on the Tuff Nuts donut shop, and the utterly bizarre rain. The patch notes almost read as if the top Twitter threads and Reddit posts from recent weeks were consulted directly by the developers. That's good news in a sense. It shows that Rockstar has been taking note of the biggest complaints in the community.
It's likely going to take several of these major updates to actually fix the GTA Trilogy to the standards that fans of the series have. Unfortunately, that is becoming more and more commonplace in the industry. In the past, games may have needed one or two updates to fix glaring issues. Now it seems like more and more are needing months of post-release support to get the games up to day one standards.


Improved high-speed internet is on the way for 26 communities in the Basin, bringing people opportunities to learn, connect and better expand their businesses. The Province announced today $4.8 million in provincial funding to support the Trust on two new projects to improve broadband access in rural areas.
Minister Jinny Simms, Johnny Strilaeff, Trust President and CEO and Minister Katrine Conroy.


CENTURY Properties Group, Inc. (CPG) plans to start developing its first horizontal economic housing projects, along with leisure and tourism developments, before the yearend as it moves to diversify the business.
The company is looking to launch two economic housing projects near the National Capital Region this year, its President and Chief Executive Officer Jose E. B. Antonio told reporters after an annual stockholders meeting in Makati City on Friday.
"We're actually closing on major properties. Hopefully we will announce this in the next few weeks," Mr. Antonio, who had served the Philippine government as ambassador, said when asked if CPG had already secured land for the housing projects.
The company intends initially to build 3,000 houses within a 26-hectare property and 5,000 within 44 hectares. It will invest P1 billion to P1.5 billion to develop every 10 hectares and generate 35% to 40% of gross margin.
"We are targeting first time homebuyers, which is a lot. You and I know that the average age of Filipinos is 24 years old so a lot of first [time] homebuyers will be buying, and they're buying. That's where the backlog is," Mr. Antonio said.
In addition to this, CPGI is looking at starting to develop properties acquired in Batulao, Batangas and San Vicente, Palawan to take advantage of the expected influx of tourists in the Philippines. The company earlier announced an investment of P4 billion for the projects.
"San Vicente is actually the place where the international airport is going to be. We're just waiting for the airport -- the airport is finished, the facilities are finished plus the 3-kilometer runway," Mr. Antonio said.
"They're just waiting approval from the CAAP (Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines). Local officials said they're getting it by end of the year so if that happens we are going to launch our project in San Vicente," he added.
The company also plans to finalize the blueprint for the Batangas property and start the development within the year.
"The figures in the Tagaytay area -- on a weekend you get half a million people. So, everybody has disposable income now and because of the traffic in Metro manila, everybody wants to have a second home," Mr. Antonio said.
The planned horizontal economic housing and tourism-related projects form part of the company's strategy to diversify the business which is currently focused on vertical housing development.
"Currently, we are present in two operating segments, namely the vertical developments and investment properties. We are in the process of diversifying into two allied real estate segments, specifically leisure and tourism and horizontal economic housing," CPG Chief Financial Officer Jose Carlo R. Antonio told stockholders during the meeting.


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For Kids, Accidental Burns Another Scar of the Pandemic
FRIDAY, Oct. 8, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Accidental burns among U.S. children rose by one-third during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study.
"COVID-19 and stay-at-home orders inevitably created a new dynamic between children and their social environment. One result was the increased risk of burns those children experienced," said Dr. Christina Georgeades, a study author and pediatric surgery research fellow at Children's Wisconsin, in Milwaukee.
"Understanding specific factors that contributed will be key in minimizing the risk of future burn injuries as we continue to navigate the pandemic environment," Georgeades added in a news release from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).
Many children stayed home from school and may have been unsupervised at times. Most burns among children occur at home and unwatched children are at increased risk for burns and other accident-related injuries.
For the study, the researchers analyzed data from nine trauma centers in the United States. The investigators found the total number of children treated for burn injuries rose from 394 in 2019 — before the pandemic took hold in the United States — to 522 in 2020. That's about a 33% increase.
Fireworks were partly to blame, according to the researchers.
While the study found an increase in all types of burns between 2019 and 2020, the largest increase was in burns from open fires, which could include fireworks-related burns.
The study authors noted that burn injuries spiked in July, when firework injuries are common in the United States due to the Independence Day holiday. And because professional firework shows were canceled nationwide in 2020, there may have been a rise in amateur fireworks, leading to an increased risk of fireworks-related burns.
The findings are to be presented Sunday at the virtual AAP national conference. Data presented at meetings is usually considered preliminary until published in a peer-reviewed medical journal.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has more on treating and preventing burns.
SOURCE: American Academy of Pediatrics, news release, Oct. 8, 2021


The WideAnt2-5G™ by WirEng® is a 5G and 4G true MIMO (+45° and -45° wave polarizations), fully enclosed, all-weather, ultra-linear, larger dual antenna for outdoor/pole/mast installations. The WideAnt2-5G™ can be used with a variety of radio equipment systems, including MIMO modems, hotspots, and routers (as the external antenna) and with many other applications in the 450MHz to 3800MHz range. The WideAnt2-5G™ is fully enclosed and all-weather resistant, and is ideal for MIMO devices because it captures and transmits waves in two different polarization modes, as per MIMO-devices standards The WideAnt2-5G™ can also be used with other dual-antenna-port devices such as Aux/Diversity devices. The connectors on the WideAnt2-5G™ are 24K gold plated N female directly on the antennas' bodies, and this set includes 30-feet dual cables and adapters for direct connection to devices with FME-female connectors. Industrial-strength stainless steel Single-to-Dual antenna pole mount adapter included. The WideAnt2-5G™ includes a one-year warranty period.
The WideAnt2-5G™ is an elegant, larger, fully enclosed, powerful directional Dual antenna that truly captures and transmits both +45°- and -45°-polarized waves independently, as per strict MIMO standards. This set includes 30 feet of low-loss cables with 24K gold plated connectors for direct connection to FME-connector devices.
The WideAnt2-5G™ features 24K gold plated N-Female connectors and includes WirEng®'s exclusive industrial-strength, stainless steel single-to-dual pole adapter so that you'll be able to install this set on a standard TV antenna pole (1.25 inches in diameter recommended).
The WideAnt2-5G™ can be used with FME-connector MIMO modems, hotspots, routers, and with M2M applications.
The WideAnt2-5G™ operating frequency range is 450-3800 MHz with a peak gain of 2 x 16 dBi*, a horizontal aperture of 55° and a vertical aperture of 40°. This WideAnt2-5G™ system is made for FME-connector devices (SKU FMEM-WDAX2) and is mainly recommended for Outdoors (Pole) applications.
*Gain in dBi values are averages increases obtained by comparing the standard/internal device antenna to a properly-installed WideAnt2-5G™ located substantially higher than your device location. The WideAnt2-5G™ itself measures 17.5 x 9.2 x 21 inches and weighs 6.7 lbs. One year manufacturer warranty included.