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There's a Fine Line Between Love and Hate
Chapter Sixteen
[Cat]
Ok. I'm pretty sure Raven likes Jonas. I mean, she always looks at him with this glint in her eye and she always blushes when he compliments her. The weird thing is, I think he likes her back. I mean, he always stares at her when she isn't looking and he smiles when she does and gets all nervous when she talks to him. Personally, I think it's absolutely adorable!
"Hey Cat?" I heard Lexi ask. I turned my head towards her letting her know she had my attention.
"Don't you thing Raven likes your brother? I mean look at her!" She whisper yelled to me. I took a glance at Raven and she turned back to Jonas and smiled at him. He blushed a little and waved while Jinxx just chuckled a little. I nodded my head. Lexi smirked and turned forward again. I smiled to myself and didn't let out a peep. I hate it when people like Xander come up and think that I think I'm better than everyone else.
I don't talk because of an incident that happened when I was 10. I didn't talk until two years ago when I turned 14. It was Raven who managed to get me to talk. She kept bothering me until I finally cracked and told her to shut up. At that time, she smirked at me and said, 'You can talk. I knew it.'
I smiled at the memory. I looked up and we were at the office. Raven knocked on the door and said,
"Hello? This is Raven Ferguson, Blaze Pac, Cat Pac, and Lexi Amberson." The door slowly opened to reveal a man who looked to be in his 20's. He had a bit of a shadow and the first two buttons of his shirt was unbuttoned. He had small bags under his eyes and it looked like he stood at about 5'8"
"Hello girls it's very nice to meet you. My name is Harry Compton and starting now I will be your new manager." Raven let out a small chuckle and said,
"No need to be so formal. It's no big deal really. I hate that crap." He laughed loudly and said
"Wow I just met you about 5 seconds ago and I already like you. Well go a head and call me Harry."
"Well I'm Raven Ferguson."
"I'm Blaze."
"And I'm Lexi" It was silent for a moment until he looked at me, expecting an answer.
"Cat."
"Ok then how bout' we head on over to the recording room. Then he lead us over the recording room, where Jeremy and Jonas were chatting and the rest of his band were sleeping.
"Um...?"
"Oh sorry. Hello I'm Jeremy Ferguson, Raven's dad. You must be their new manager." Jeremy said, shaking his hand.
"Yes that's me. I'm Harry Compton."
"Sorry about my band..." Jeremy said giving them a side glace. "They just didn't want to miss Raven's first recording. We're like a big family." Harry let out a soft chuckle and said,
"That's ok. Wait... Fuck aren't you guys Black Veil Brides?" Harry said, realization clear in his voice.
"Yes." Andy said while stretching his arms and gazelle legs.
"And you are..." Harry said, looking at Jonas.
"Oh hi I'm Jonas. Blaze and Cat's brother." They shook hands and then Harry got right to business. "Ok ladies. We're gonna do a few demos. Do you have any songs we could do to get a feel for your sound?"
"Oh yeah!" Raven said while she took off her backpack. She rummaged through it for a second and then she pulled out her black leather song book. She flipped through a few pages and then said "Here's the songs that we all know."
Harry looked through them for a moment and said "Here. This one's perfect. It'll show off all your skills. Ok so what we're gonna do is record one all together and then individually." We all nodded and picked up our instruments. Well my drums were already in there but I picked up my sticks. We all wrote this song together. It was sort of one of those songs that you write really fast because it just all flows out. We couldn't think of an ending but I'm pretty sure Andy helped Raven with that.
"Ok girls whenever your ready." Blaze started the song off and then we all faded in and Raven started singing.
Where are the people that accused me?
The ones who beat me down and bruised me
They hide just out of sight
Can't face me in the light
They'll return but I'll be stronger
God, I want to dream again
Take me where I've never been
I want to go there
This time I'm not scared
Now I am unbreakable, it's unmistakable
No one can touch me
Nothing can stop me
Sometimes it's hard to just keep going
But faith is moving without knowing
Can I trust what I can't see?
To reach my destiny
I want to take control but I know better
Forget the fear it's just a crutch
That tries to hold you back
And turn your dreams to dust
All you need to do is just trust
When we finished we all walked out and Raven was a bit out of breath. CC pounced on her and said "Rave! You were so good!!"
"Ugh CC get off me! We aren't done yet!" CC pouted and then sat of the couch.
"Ok girls that was great! Now Cat. You go in there, and put on these headphones." I nodded and walked in.
When the recording was over we decided to go get some lunch. "Pizza Hut!!!!!" Jake yelled. We all groaned but he was driving soo. Yeah. It sort of wasn't our choice.
Ok there is the next chapter. Yep. Please comment and rate! I like to know what you think. Wow that sounded sorta creepeh. Oh well. On that note, goodbye.
Update maybe?
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UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE IM NEED TO SEE THE NEXT CHAPPY!!!!!!!!!
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This is a really fantastic story cant wait for the next chapter xxx
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Well, here we are in the Greek capital. After Rome last week, it seemed the natural place to be. Also, we are sure that US author Gore Vidal would agree that Athens is as good a vantage-point as Rome from which to observe the last days of a dying civilization (see "Roma felix" our post for 24 May 2012). Which, of course, is why we have pitched up here. We thought we would like to have a last look at Greece before the warm waters of the Mediterranean opened up and swallowed it whole.
All the same, we already began to have some doubts about this apocalyptic scenario back at the airport in Paris. Our fellow travellers on Aegean Airlines flight A3611 were not dressed in rags and feeding on dripping. In fact the scene at Charles de Gaulle was much what it is at any time when you board a flight for Greece: French holiday-makers, Greeks returning home, American college students on the Grand Tour, etc. None of them looked unduly perturbed at the prospect of the catastrophic scenes of decline and deprivation that they were shortly to witness. In fact, the lady sitting next to us on the plane turned out to be a doctor heading for a medical seminar in Crete. Quizzing her, we got the distinct impression that she was totally unaware of the incontrovertible fact – fully acknowledged by the rest of the universe – that Greece is now a financial basket case facing irreversible economic meltdown. Still, we thought, these medics, maybe they don't get out much.
Our astonishment deepened as we took the super-smooth spotlessly clean underground train into town. The well-dressed Athenians of all ages who joined the train as it passed through the suburbs gave no obvious sign that they had just feasted at a soup kitchen.
Our hotel was in the bustling Ambelokipi district, not far from the city centre but a place where Athenians tend to live rather a tourist magnet. True, there were some potholes in the roads and the occasional kerbstone was missing. But hey, you know, you can even find that in Paris or Berlin! And anyway, Athens wouldn't be Athens without the occasional outcrop of crumbling masonry. This is how we like this city and long may it resist all procrustean attempts to modernise and homogenise it. As all the other great cities of the world, hardly without exception, vie with each other to see which can be the fastest at turning themselves into glossy identikit plate-glass shopping malls, Athens – and to some extent its sister capital Rome – has largely resisted this fad. Long may that continue to be the case.
Ambelokipi in particular has a bohemian feel to it: lots of small mom-and-pop shops, greengrocers, bookshops, kiosks selling newspapers and a few million other things, cake shops, fancy and not-so-fancy bars, restaurants, kebab houses, shops selling antique furniture, natty clothes boutiques, and so on. It is a bit like the Cowley Road in Oxford or the district east of the Bastille in Paris. The shops were all open for business and there were customers in most of them. We saw no boarded-up premises. We had brought a larger-than-normal amount of euros with us because of press reports that banks were running out of notes and that cash points were empty. What was the reality? The reality was that the banks were open and flush with cash, the ATMs up and running. The streets were as crowded, the roads as congested as ever. The one petrol station we saw was doing a roaring trade. We didn't see a single person dressed in rags nor were we accosted by a single beggar. In cool northern cities like London or Paris you can't go three yards without falling over one.
So what was it all about? Were we in the wrong part of town? Should we have gone slumming it elsewhere?
Neighbours described the pensioner – a father of two – as a hard-working man. He had been employed at ship repair and construction sites and up until recently he had been working as an electrician on a merchant ship.
It is hard to follow up so tragic a story with comment of any kind. It speaks for itself. However, we shall try.
Our first point is to suggest that Greece is living a silent tragedy. On the surface life goes on as normal. It is underneath that the pain is felt. The suicide rate has rocketed. The family solidarity for which the Greeks are famous has not been strong enough to overcome the sense of defeat and loss of self-respect that has sapped the will to go on living in so many individuals. For them it's a case of: stop the world – I want to get off.
Secondly, as was apparent from the results of the parliamentary elections on 6 May 2012, when both the left-wing Syriza party and the fascist Golden Dawn ("Chrysi Avgi") party gained unprecedented support, the economic crisis has led large numbers of Greek voters to desert the centrist parties – the nominally socialist Pasok and the right-leaning New Democracy – and vote for genuinely left- or right-wing parties. The unnamed pensioner who hanged himself obviously inclined to the right. His last wish for a strong politician to emerge to rescue his country is a frequent reaction of those who have lost out in any major economic crisis. Hitler drew his support from precisely such attitudes. The leader of Golden Dawn, Nikos Michaloliakos, a supporter of the 1967-1974 military dictatorship, is well aware of this and is selling himself with some success as the man chosen by destiny to rescue Greece from its current plight.
Thirdly, it is also clear that the despairing pensioner believed that the Greek crisis had been caused, at least to some extent, by immigrants. This too is a classic loser reaction: blame your own plight on the foreigner. Here again, spotting his chance, Michaloliakos has been playing the anti-immigrant card for all its worth.
Moreover, we are not talking here about wealthy white Americans, of whom there are large numbers in Greece, partly as a result of the Greek diaspora. The immigrants being targeted are poor black immigrants.
A 32-year-old Pakistani was severely beaten by unidentified individuals late on May 29 in the ISAP ilektrikos (underground) station at Agios Nicolaos. The victim had to be hospitalised. The previous night an unknown individual stabbed a Bangladeshi national on an ISAP train. Police are investigating the cases and whether there was a racist motive.
Antigone1984 is spending the rest of this week in Greece in an attempt that to dig out the skinny on what is really happening here and thus contribute our obol's worth towards deciphering the crisis.
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From the 1990s to today: The power of a movement
Image from Take Back the Tech! campaign in Colombia, Colnodo
Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day that honours the Mirabal sisters, links gender-based violence to human rights and marks the start of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV). As Take Back the Tech! launches a 16 Days campaign exploring the movement against GBV, it's important to consider how this movement began.
Although women have resisted violence in a variety of ways throughout history, women's right to live free from violence was not formally recognised at an international level until the late twentieth century. In 1979 the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), an international treaty since ratified by 189 nations, though with reservations in many instances. The only states that have not either signed or ratified the treaty are the Holy See, Iran, Niue, Palau, Somalia, Sudan, Tonga and the United States.
In 1993 the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, a human rights declaration adopted at the World Conference on Human Rights, urged the United Nations General Assembly to adopt the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, claiming,
Gender-based violence and all forms of sexual harassment and exploitation, including those resulting from cultural prejudice and international trafficking, are incompatible with the dignity and worth of the human person, and must be eliminated. This can be achieved by legal measures and through national action and international cooperation in such fields as economic and social development, education, safe maternity and health care, and social support.
A few months later, the UN did indeed adopt the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which states:
Women are entitled to the equal enjoyment and protection of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field. These rights include, inter alia:
(a) The right to life;
(b) The right to equality;
(c) The right to liberty and security of person;
(d) The right to equal protection under the law;
(e) The right to be free from all forms of discrimination;
(f) The right to the highest standard attainable of physical and mental health;
(g) The right to just and favourable conditions of work;
(h) The right not to be subjected to torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Finally, in 1995 the Fourth World Conference on Women produced the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a set of principles affirming gender equality and recommendations on twelve areas of concern, including violence against women. These important documents paved the way for states to take action on GBV, but advocates and activists created the political will for UN and government representatives to take on these issues. In fact, the 1995 conference saw an unprecedented 17,000 participants and 30,000 activists come together in Beijing from around the world to advance women's human rights.
Two years before the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University started 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, running from the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women on 25 November to Human Rights Day on 10 December. One of the first actions 16 Days was to get people to sign a petition calling upon the Preparatory Committee of the 1993 conference in Vienna to comprehensively address women's human rights and recognise GBV as a human rights violation. Without the benefit of today's digital technology, the campaign managed to gather one million signatures!
More than 5,000 organisations in 187 countries have led or participated in 16 Days campaigns, not including the numerous individuals who join the call each year, and Take Back the Tech! has been part of 16 Days since our inception in 2006. Learn more about the history of Take Back the Tech! through our interactive timeline. Did you know our name was inspired by the Take Back the Night marches that started on university campuses in cities like Philadelphia and Brussels?
Marches and other offline actions remain a vital component of the movement despite the power of hashtags like #MeToo, #NiUnaMenos and #BringBackOurGirls. Just last year, hundreds of thousands of women across Latin America marched as part of Ni Una Menos, and this year an estimated five million joined the Women's March in 82 countries. But there are smaller marches and demonstrations all the time as well as other actions that do not get much coverage, and there is a wealth of invisible work that sustains the movement.
Revisiting our history strengthens our current resistance. Find actions in our campaign call and join us on this journey to uncover stories and lessons that will increase our collective power. Direct your browser to tap into the strength of the many activists who came before us and who come together now. Revisit to resist! Take back the tech!
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Written by Valentin Lakin on January 14, 2020
Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart: Historical Trauma in Native American Populations
Articles . Blog
Dr. Greathouse: Maria, it is such a joy for me to be able to spend time with you while you're here. Looking forward to your lecture and I feel so honored to be able to be spending this time
asking you some questions. Why don't you just sort of share a little bit about
your journey to Smith. How did you get here? What made you come? Dr. Brave Heart: I initially never thought of being in academia. I started out as a clinician. I got my master's at Columbia when it was very
psychoanalytic, psychodynamic and that was the culture there that people were often in their own therapy as part of learning how to do this work, which is also typical in the psychoanalytic training institutes, that you go through a training analysis. So I knew very early on that I wanted to work in behavioral health and all of my focus was behavioral health, mental health, therapy. Both of my field placements, I had the opportunity to work
with both adults and children, which was ideal. – What I love is how you found your way here by listening to people who are important in your life. – I was doing a presentation and this was at what's now called Sitting Bull Tribal College. It's on the Standing Rock Reservation in North and South Dakota and one of our elders came up after the presentation and said to me, "That was really good. You need
to get your phD," she said. She's a nurse, her name is Bertha Gipp. I'll always remember that. That just planted the seed in my head. I had never thought
about going on for a phD and that was the first sign. So I started thinking about it, and then I saw an ad for Smith in an NESW newspaper and it also caught my eye and then it talked about Smith having an anti-racist policy. I think I had also some
intuitive sort of things going on too, or just synergistic pieces because I didn't realize
until I got to Smith and they started talking about the history of the school in classes that Smith was a trauma school. So it was founded initially
to work with war neuroses, to train providers to
work with war neuroses. I just thought, "This is pretty uncanny," because my area is historical trauma and unresolved grief for native peoples. So it was just, it's a perfect fit. Within the first two
weeks, Dr. Roger Miller, who was at that time the director of the doctoral program and was asking us to meet with him and to talk with him about what our interests were in thinking about our dissertations,
what we were gonna do. So I talked to him about
my historical trauma work and developing an intervention, wanting to develop an
intervention more fully. That's when he said,
"Well, you could do that for your dissertation. You could do kind of a
pre-test post-test design of the effectiveness,"
and I was like, "Yes! Thank you! That's perfect,
absolutely perfect." So I knew that there was this synergy and Smith was the place,
it was exactly where I was supposed to be. That was very much supported. – Absolutely. Absolutely. When you were talking about the work you had done before you came to Smith, right after your master's,
I think that the way you started building
your appreciation, even, for not only the
psychoanalytic work you did but for the social work you did is also really important,
it's an important thread that you carry with you. Like some of your stories
about your first assessment and home visits, I think, are so valuable. – Yeah, I know. What I was sharing with
you before was my first, so I was about 21 years
old, my first home visit and my first year of field placement was at a community, it was an outpatient community mental health
center that had been part of a settlement house
originally, that was its origins, and it was in Spanish Harlem. It was just an amazing experience. The community was so warm and embracing. But my first home visit was in a half-abandoned fifth
floor walkup building and I was very green and I was visiting a woman
who was schizophrenic and stable on her meds and her daughter had been take away but reunited with her, so I was also working with her daughter. This was my very first home visit and– – And you were how old? 21? – I was about 21 and I was, my two biggest fears
were junkies and rats. (both laughing) I was like, I didn't
want to run into either so I thought if I stomp up the steps that I'll scare them off. But my plan was foiled because every second or third
step was all rotted out. Big holes in the step. So I made it up to the
top because she lived on the fifth floor and she opened the door and she was pretty flat
from her medication, but she was stable. Then she asked me if I
wanted something to eat and as she was asking me, which I wouldn't have accepted anyway in terms of the professionalism, but– – Right, that's the one
thing that we remember. – Yeah. – Boundaries, boundaries. – Right. So as she opens her refrigerator door, roaches are crawling all
over the food inside, it's just roach-infested. And I said, "Oh, no thank you." (Tanya laughing)
I think I took a glass of water, though to be, you know, appropriate. So we talked and when our session was over she said, "I'll watch for you while you go, till you get out the door." because from her landing
right outside her door, she could look down and see the door. I was just so touched by that, and that was the metaphor
for the community that the people in the community knew who all the Columbia students were, even though many of us
could have blended in with the community, everybody knew. It was just amazing. That whole experience and dispelling those stereotypes that existed at the time that poor
people and people of color don't have insight. They can't use insight-oriented therapy, and that was so not my experience. I had kids, I had an ex-gang
member come twice a week and sit and talk, a 14-year-old, and was getting better. So I was just excited. But I got involved within
psychoanalytic training because at that center
where I was working, a lot of people were involved
with psychoanalytic training. So what they did was… I was talking to them and
I was encouraged by it because I felt like, you're getting deeper to the root of the problem. You're not putting on Band-Aids. Sometimes I felt like because you have so many people to see that
you only have a chance to sort of do crisis
management and kind of put Band-Aids on and keep
them from falling apart and keep them functioning,
but you're not getting at what's underneath all of this. So I started the psychoanalytic
training institute and that's a powerful experience. – That is great. Yeah. I think also what you
were really highlighting is dispelling the myth that you can't work with individuals who have significant social, emotional needs because they're on such a low scale with
Maslow's hierarchy of needs that you just have to keep
addressing those basic needs. And you're like, "No, that's not true." Individuals, once those needs are met, or even if they're not met in the way we think they should be, you can still do some very valuable work with them. – It's funny that you brought that up because a lot of times I'm joking around with my colleagues in the Takini Network, which we'll talk more about that, but we say that sometimes we feel like we're operating at multiple
levels of that hierarchy so we're very altruistic on the top, but we're dealing with basic needs because there's no grant money and we're trying to survive. I think one can travel up and down that sort of pyramid. – Yeah. Nice. So do you want to say anything about your first assessment that you did? – I'm not sure about the first one, but just at the clinic where I was it was very, the structure was pretty… It was pretty rigid. That we had 45 minutes and we had to do a psychosocial history
and come up with diagnoses and do a mini mental
status exam in 45 minutes. (Maria laughs) – Wow. A lot. – Yes, which is a lot. I must have done thousands of intakes so I got good at it, I
got good at honing the, it was almost like intuitive
knowledge or intuitive skills of being able to recognize
there were certain clues. Of course, at that time
it was the Diagnostic Statistical Manual II, which
was only about that thick, so it wasn't as complicated as now. It was more classical, it sort of went more along classical lines like Fenichel's writings
about the different kinds of personality disorders and
personality characteristics and things like that. I managed to do that, but we, we had to. That was just the way
it was, we had to do it. So again, that sort of
practice wisdom that evolves in using your intuition. I remember one gentleman, and I hadn't mentioned this to you before, that came in and… So it got to 40 minutes and
everything sort of checked out, but I just had this feeling like something's going on. There's something… I wasn't sure what diagnosis to put and so I said, but I just had this
uncomfortable feeling so I said, "Can you tell me again
why you're coming in now?" because you think about
there's precipitating factors or you look for people
whose symptoms are recent and then how long they've
had their symptoms and all of that. We weren't getting that
information before that. When I asked him that he said, "Because God told me to come
in and I'm Jesus Christ." I was like, "There it is!" (Tanya laughing) I knew. I knew. So all his delusions started coming out in the last five minutes and I was so glad that I followed my
intuitive, my gut sense, that something else was going on. Because he was able to hold
it together for 40 minutes and not be psychotic
and not show that he had a thought disorder. I often would tell
students that story to say, "Develop your intuitive
skills and your sense. Start observing. Pay attention to what feelings come up because they're clues,
they will tell you things." I remember another case where I was, it was in a therapy group, and the individual was talking and starting to talk about a conflict with his fiancée and, all of a sudden, I started craving pizza. Just out of the blue, I
started craving pizza. What you learn is you have this sort of hovering attention with
the psychoanalytic work that you pay attention
to where your mind goes and what associations you have while you're paying
attention to the person. It's a very rich and complex thing to do. I observed, I said, "Why
am I craving pizza?" As he kept talking, then
he starts describing an argument with his fiancée
over microwaving pizza, but this was after I
was having the craving. So I was picking up this
unconscious content. – Yeah. That's, like, crazy. That's cool. That's so cool. – Yeah. – This was your really
rich clinical foundation that you had. Then you started thinking about teaching. How did that grow out of that? – Actually, it was when,
in the doctoral program, one of the things that
we read was a book on "How to Complete and Survive
a Doctoral Dissertation." – Absolutely. I remember that one. – I don't remember the author or if I have the title exactly correct. One of the things that
they said in the book was some of the best jobs when you're ABD, all but dissertation, are in academia because of the culture
of academia to write and also the fact that sometimes you can teach courses in the area that matches with your dissertation research, or to try to do that. That was one of the things that I thought, "Well, hey. That'd be interesting." Then I got a Council on
Social Work Education minority doctoral fellowship and they brought us one year they brought us in to the CSWE meetings and they provided mentoring sessions and orientation sessions to academia. I still was like, "I don't know if want to actually become a faculty member," but I thought maybe teaching on the side or something. I had been doing full-time
clinical practice and working with tribes. Then as it went on people started recruiting me. I said I wasn't done yet but I had… I was close to finishing
the dissertation work. So they started recruiting
me and so I went. I was invited to come to
a campus and one of them said, "We just want
you to present and then if you want to interview,
we'll interview you," but they did want to interview me. It just sort of opened up another window and then all of these
things that were going on and talking about, and I thought, "Wow, this might be a good way
to get my work done," with historical trauma work. – Absolutely. What sort of piqued your
interest in starting to do historical trauma work? – Back in the 70s, I just remembered I was, that was when I was at Columbia. I was just finishing school there and checking into the psychoanalytic
training institutes there to you know, to get started. I was looking at, it was
just one day that I sat and was looking at some
historical photographs in my apartment and I
just started sobbing. I got this sense of overwhelming grief and it felt like it was huge, like it wasn't my personal grief, that it was something
that was generational. So I paid attention to
that, that I felt like I was carrying something,
carrying this grief and this trauma of our ancestors. After that, I started to just pay attention to that and then at the psychoanalytic
training institute I met a child of Holocaust survivors. That's also when Helen
Epstein's book came out, that was around 1976,
"Children of the Holocaust," which was really a qualitative study of the experiences of
children of the Holocaust. I started hearing more about that and that just really resonated for me and I thought about the
American Indian holocaust in a sense, and started developing more, more and more kind of, allies. I just remember my training
analyst happened to be Jewish and one time I was talking about something and he got it because he said… Because it was something
personal and native-specific and he said, "That's
genocide," and I was like, "Yes! Thank you for–" He acknowledged it. He got it. – And affirmed it. – Yeah. And I felt like he
understood. He understood. So that was really encouraging, too. – Very powerful. – Yeah. So I felt like I could keep on this, that I was onto something that could help, help our people. So I started integrating it and working in clinical practice and kind of taking that lens and, and then also in
presentations I was doing and groups I was running and just developing it and
building that in workshops. – Something that runs
through your narrative a lot is your ability to really
reflect on your internal process and your dreams are really
important to you as well. You've shared some of
those that helped inform. – Yeah, I had a dream
as a child that later, as an adult, was interpreted
by one of our healers. It was a dream about an elephant that, in my dream, the elephant
had escaped from the circus and I think I was probably
about six years old. It was dark and raining
and all of a sudden this elephant is, like, running. And I'm wide-eyed, just
standing there like, "What do I do?" And what I do in the dream is I just put my arms out, like to
welcome that elephant. Then the elephant jumps into my arms but turns into, like, a little kitten. When I was telling that
dream to the healer he said that was about, kind of, embracing the real ancient ways and the ancient traditions. Because I had another dream later about an elephant who was drowning and a whole group of us,
and this dream was 1992, and then all of us that had been involved with the first historical trauma and unresolved grief intervention, which is my dissertation work, we were all, and all of us are involved in traditional ceremonies. So we were all standing
around that elephant and we were going to that elephant to pray for that elephant and that that was, again, so those were really
connected was what I was told. – Yeah, wow. That's
really powerful, I think. Really, really powerful. So that's what, also,
you were referring to as the Takini Network, I believe. Is that right? The training that you did
with those facilitators. – Yeah, so in 1992, which is when I did the
actual dissertation workshop, we had two things. One was the training of the trainers to prepare for delivering
it to a larger group and then followed up within a few weeks by the full intervention, with 45, that was the 45 people involved. What I did was I recruited
all my friends and relatives to join me, because we
trained co-facilitators so each group had a male
and a female co-facilitator. But also, in that sort
of psychoanalytic vein, which I really think is important, is that if you're going to
do clinical work with people you need to do your own work. So the concept of self-analysis,
training analysis, is really important because otherwise your stuff can get in the
way and that's not fair to the people you're working with. The model was that,
that we would go through our own training, healing experience before we would deliver that. So we would go through what we were asking the people to do. So that's when we formed
the Takini Network. The idea was to have, to almost form an extended
family kinship network to devote to working on this and working on that healing. Those were the original
trainers that were trained, that I recruited. A couple were clinical providers, native, mostly all native folks, and
some were traditional healers, and some were Big Foot Memorial riders, and, you know, just people who were already doing a lot of
their own healing work and just very committed. So those became our core group. – Nice. Now, sort of, um… Do you think you that want to say any more just about your definition
for historical trauma? Before we fast-forward
to what you're doing now. – Yes, I define it as cumulative emotional and psychological wounding
across generations, including one's own lifespan, because everything up to
a minute ago is history. Some people misunderstand
it and think that I'm only talking about the
distant past and I'm not. I'm talking about everything
up to the present, including the present reality, which just happened a minute ago. But the idea was to ground it in the past, in the context, because that destigmatizes for people it gives people
a frame of, "No wonder. Look what's happened to all our people, all our ancestors across time," that we're just carrying this on and it's affecting us and there have been horrendous things that have happened. We lost the right to bury our dead the way that we did traditionally and those were… All cultures have wisdom in
what their practices are, have been, that fits with their culture and so when you can't
practice it in that way, that's one way of stunting the grief or trapping the grief. We have certain beliefs that if you don't have certain ceremonies, the spirit of the person can't be released and will be trapped on this earth, or that other things could happen. So not being able to do that, being survivors of massacres, you know, like the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the mass graves where those ceremonies couldn't be performed at that time. Those are things that affect people and that the grief and the trauma just gets carried on and on. So there are ways to heal with that, from that, both traditionally,
in traditional culture, but also incorporating what we know now about healing and alcoholism and trauma and PTSD and complex
grief, complicated grief, or prolonged grief, and
all of this knowledge that we've gained over many years. That's the idea. And in my experience with the evaluation and research we've been doing with this is that people at least perceive it as being helpful, the
historical trauma concept. They start to feel this
release of pressure and like, "Oh no, no
wonder I feel this way." One individual I know that is more of an elder stated that, and had been in outpatient
behavioral health treatment for many years, said that no one ever asked her about her boarding school trauma and she was never able to talk about it until she started doing
the historical trauma work and that she really felt like this weight had been lifted off of her. – Absolutely. Sort of like cathartic. – Yes. – Absolutely. Great. So fast-forward as to
what you're doing now. – Currently, I have a National Institute of Mental Health grant and so I've been progressing
and moving forward and that's been a dream of mine, too, which I have a little story
about that I'll tell you. I'll come back to it in a minute. That is looking at, taking
the historical trauma and unresolved grief intervention, which has been recognized
as a tribal best practice by SAMSA, the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in conjunction with First Nations Behavioral
Health Association. Taking the intervention and combining it with group interpersonal psychotherapy, which I think focuses on the, sort of, the relational
issues around depression and depression triggers, so conflict with another person, or your role, or grief and loss, those kinds of issues that get interwoven, then, into the model. Not saying that people who have depression may not have a biochemical aspect to it and may need medication, and there's been studies where sometimes medication and the
treatment work really well. This study is combining
both of those models because that IPT is something that NIMH has funded in the past. And I have some colleagues from Columbia who are consultants on
that who are IPT experts. So that's what's going on. We're taking the historical
trauma intervention, combining it with the group
interpersonal psychotherapy, and then randomly assigning
people to the two groups. One gets just the IPT
only and the one gets the enhanced historical trauma group. The goal is later to do
more with a larger study where you can have more sites and so maybe do something with perhaps just
the historical trauma only one with the combined, with the IPT, and other kinds of arrangements like that. We're finding, we don't have… We've collected the
data on the first wave, but we're still doing some
follow-up data collection. We don't have all of that analyzed, so we don't know what
the data forms will show, but we do know that
what is being expressed by the people who have
stayed in the groups is really positive, that they they feel that this has really helped them and… – Very good. – So that's– – Good. So that's what
you're busy doing now. Nice. Well, Maria, it was such a
joy to catch up with you. I feel so honored to have
been able to sit with you the last couple of days. – Thank you. – So thank you.
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Obesity is a major concern for people throughout the world. It has been estimated that 30% of the total population is obese. Out of this percentage, 15% are classified as excessively obese or morbidly obese which is a huge concern the NHS faces today.
In such cases where a person becomes too obese for regular diet and exercise, that person may opt for bariatric surgery to tackle excess weight issues.
As there is a stigma associated with obesity, most victims of bariatric surgery negligence are intimidated or nervous when it comes to seeking compensation. However, if you are informed as to what compensates bariatric surgery, you may find the confidence needed to hold those negligent responsible.
If you've suffered from any kind of medical negligence you have the right to claim the money you deserve. If you think you've suffered from medical negligence in the form of bariatric surgery, you can contact us direct to discuss your circumstances and possibilities of gaining the compensation you deserve.
Bariatric surgery is surgery which is performed to treat and tackle obesity (usually extreme or unmanageable obesity).
However, there are many other surgeries which are available for weight loss. Never should the surgery be the first option of a patient or a doctor, practitioner, nurse, or medical staff. Neither should bariatric surgery be used as a cosmetic solution.
Bariatric Surgery comes with a high level of risks, and it is essential that you fully understand the risks prior to committing to any medical procedure.
Yet, if you have undergone the surgery and are having complications, you should understand the difference between complications and regular side effects. If you find that you have any of these symptoms, you should seek medical diagnosis immediately.
Doctors, nurses, practitioners, and medical staff have a level of professionalism which should be adhered to in your surgery.
If you find that you were not advised as to the risks or if you were not presented with any alternatives to bariatric surgery then you may have grounds for a claim, especially if you are a high risk patient (such as anaemic) and have had adverse effects due to the surgery.
If you have not seen any change in your weight after undergoing a gastric band surgery you may have grounds for compensation. You will need to have it verified that the band is not damaged and causing harm to your body. In many cases the band can be removed or the fill can be adjusted. However, if you find that the band was not inserted correctly and that the gastric band has not been effective because of the negligence, you may have grounds for a claim.
Individuals who have undergone liposuction and have had organs damaged or haemorrhaging due to the unprofessionalism of the doctor, nurse or medical staff may have grounds for a claim. Those which have had loved ones injured critically or fatally due to the procedure may have grounds for a claim if it can be shown that another surgeon under the same circumstances would not have caused the damage or fatality.
Those which have had to undergo psychiatric therapy due to unreasonable scaring and deformities caused by the bariatric surgery may have grounds for a claim, especially if that person has been prescribed medications to deal with depression and other issues arising out of the negligence.
If you're unsure whether your circumstances are eligible for a medical negligence compensation claim, you can find out for sure with us. As the UK's leading legal firm for medical negligence claims, we're able to offer accurate legal information surrounding your circumstances and direct you on the best route to receive maximum compensation amounts.
When filing a negligence/compensation claim it is essential that you do so as quickly as possible.
All medical claims have a process and procedures which must be adhered to in order to receive any compensation. We will work with you to ensure that the documentation and claims are filed properly and on time. Please note that claims are determined typically by the duration of the pain, the severity of the damage, and the grossness of the negligence.
Keep in mind that there is a difference in negligence and common risks. You are encouraged to seek the advice of a medical professional to diagnose your current condition.
If you believe that you have been a victim of bariatric surgery negligence, or if you have had a loved one suffer or die from the negligence of a weight loss surgeon and would like to receive a consultation about your case, please contact us. We understand that you may have many questions regarding your case and your rights to compensation. Our team of professionals will work with you one on one evaluating the specifics of your case to determine which option is best to get you the compensation you deserve.
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Cut to length is a mechanized harvesting system in which trees are delimbed and cut to length directly at the stump. Our systems are set-up as a two-man, two-machine operation with a harvester felling, delimbing, and bucking trees and a forwarder transporting the logs from the felling to a landing area close to the road accessible by our trucks.
Mechanical Whole Tree Systems
Nicols Brothers also utilizes fellerbunchers, grapple skidders, and delimbers to harvest trees in the woods. These mechanical, whole tree systems operate as a three-man, three-machine operation with the feller buncher cutting the trees and laying them in bundles. From there, the grapple skidder transports the trees to a landing area where the delimber limbs the trees and prepares them for the market.
Nicols Brothers Log Yard
When Nicols Brothers moved to the Rumford Industrial Park in 2004, they established a log yard where logs could be delivered and sold to other businesses. This helps Nicols Brothers by allowing them to merchant their wood to log buyers at one central location, making it more accessible to the buyers.
Our Trucking Fleet
Nicols Brothers has a variety of trucks that are used to transport wood across the market. Currently, the company owns six trucks and subcontracts with other drivers to deliver wood that has been harvested in the woods. Along with moving wood, these trucks, along with lo-beds, are used to transfer equipment between job sites.
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This site http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2012-06-10/013924565621.shtml points to a June 16 launch date.
Rumors on 9ifly that the chosen feminine taikonaut is Wang Yaping.
This choice is not very strange because Yaping seams to have a Tereshkova's like past. Her family has a rural background. Her parents are peasants that plant cherries and her two sisters still live with their parents. Yaping left home and made a military career becoming cargo plane pilot. Her choice would be a PR and propaganda boost to the Chinese space program. On the other hand, Liu Yang family has some military connections and her choice could make some damage to the program.
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This message reflects my personal opinion based on open sources of information.
CCTV news is reporting tonight that Tiangong-1 has been moved into a lower orbit and that "on June 16 three astronauts, including a woman, will board the Shenzhou-9, blasting off into space".
Here are the two crews.
I do not recognise the unknown men from previous images.
There is no indication of which crew is prime and which is back-up.
On 9ifly they have an image of the crew 2 planting a tree, but I don't attach any significance to this, as I imagine they all plant trees.
Would someone as senior as Nie Haisheng be asked to serve a backup again?
One of the two female astronauts, Liu Yang(L) and Wang Yaping (R), from the Wuhan Flight Unit, will join Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft docking mission with Tiangong-1 spacecraft in mid-June. They are selected as members of the first batch of female astronauts in China because of their excellent flight skills and psychological quality.
The speculation on the other thread was without the photos, and Chen Quan and Liu Wang were just educated guesses. I'm not sure who the two unflown guys pictured today are are. The guy in Nie's crew could be Chen Quan, but I'm not sure.
3. There is a lot of speculation on Chinese and some English forums that Wang Yaping will be the first woman. Many of these posters are claiming their sources as people close to JSLC.
Watching the picture planting trees, the man on the right is Jing Haipen, and watching the haircut of the woman (is short on her ear side) I think isn't the identified as Wang Yaping on the "two crews together" picture.
From the 9ifly Chinese space forum, the Shenzhou-9 crew mission patch.
From Xinhua, Shenzhou-9 may face thunder, high temps: experts.
Has there been any mention of the names of the three taikonauts of the third crew (support crew)?
According to an English language report on CCTV, the female crew member will be designated 'Mission Expert', and will undertake an experiment programme on TG-1. It doesn't sound as if they have an active role in flying Shenzhou.
This suggests that, although both are Air Force pilots, their accelerated training ( recruitment to launch in two years) results in the capabilty to serve as an MS or SFP, in NASA/Roskosmos language.
Presumably, this means that, as well as flying a woman for publicity or political purposes, the Chinese will also have demonstrated a capabilty to train and fly engineers, doctors, or other specialists, to TG-2 and TG-3, without taking them out of their mainstream career for many years. Neat!
From Xinhua, Shenzhou-9 full-system drill a success: official.
news.ifeng.com is saying that SZ-10 Shenzhou-10 can be launched before the end of the year.
Nobody knows until they walk over to the pad?


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There has been a serious debate that has been having about the issue of men and female being just friends. It is a tough question with varied responses, and affects the dating arena and relationships that we possess.
So God made a woman, and the woman have become Eve, her beauty captivated the poor son of terrain during this age old first dating instance, to a issue of seeing no carelessness when he was given that forbidden fruit.
That took Eve a very few minutes after being created to provide Adam a dating knowledge with the forbidden fruit to believe that, the women and males of today, who will be absolute sexual maniacs, may have mere friendship talk and leave each other at who. This happens not in the modern world. Eve tried within a holy place but failed. What about the sexual oriented woman and men in today?
It took the knowledge of God to realize that guy required someone during his life, perhaps a friend or relative of his own kind to be with. It was that birth of dating ideas in the mind of Goodness. Yet you can think of the explanation that God thought of a good companion for Adam to be complex, but the answer is simple.
It is the reason that so many affairs abound today as males and females try to be friends only to realize that within the center of their anatomies there the shrubs of the forbidden fruit abound with fruit and they basically exchange and what follows can be sexual affairs from a great act of friendship.
This is the place that the point that a man and woman cannot be just friends. From the story of creating to now, the two creatures are always in permanent magnetic attraction towards each other and it does not really matter how old or how teen the women and men happen to be, they were made to lie inside sublimes of magnetic drawing card and complement each other.
Some people have been against this just a friend thing, such that they have asked that, how conceivable it could be, to have a female, and a beautiful at that question, as your best friend and nothing more but someone. It's something that has created many people to ask this question countless of times to a point of asking any essence of friendship plus the joys of dating.
Dating is ultimately between gentleman and woman, and it is the reason why as to why God ordained the marriage faculty. When The person created Adam, he concluded that the guy was quiet, as much as he had everything in the Garden of Eden to regulate and use. However the boy of the soil was not pleased.
The bible says who Adam was created in the similarity of God, and that is the place everything lay. Likeness fails to mean God, so Adam was a lowly figure in the hierarchy of The almighty. This was the reason as to why this individual thought of a companion, since he wanted someone who had previously been in the same level for the reason that himself.


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You've finally made the jump and moved into an HOA. From increased home values to a general sense of community, living in an HOA has proven to be a very positive experience for many homeowners. The adjustment can be intimidating, but being the new kid on the block doesn't have to be so bad. If you're new to the community, take these steps to get acclimated.
1. Familiarize yourself with your surroundings.
Familiarizing yourself with your surroundings is an easy way to make your community feel like home. Take a walk around to get a general lay of the land – check out the other homes, find out where you can park, where the child-friendly areas are located, and the details about the amenities and facilities that are available to you.
Once you've learned about the places that surround you, it's time to meet the faces. Whether you need to borrow an egg, or have someone collect your mail while you're away, living in a community with neighbors close by is extremely beneficial. Start engaging early on; strike up a conversation or say hello to people out and about – you never know who you could meet. Many communities have welcoming committees and host events like bake sales, garage sales, and cookouts, so make sure to take advantage of those opportunities as well.
3. Get to know the decision makers.
In an HOA, the board of directors is the decision makers for the community. Board members are homeowners, like you, who volunteer and have a true interest in improving the community. They serve as the voice of an association and are responsible for managing most aspects of your community, like governing documents and finances. The board actively works to build a sense of community in your association and controls the direction your community takes into the future, so get to know the board members, go to a meeting, and sign up for their communications.
4. Read the governing documents.
Reading your community's governing documents is a crucial step in getting acclimated to your community. Governing documents often include important information like Articles of Incorporation, Bylaws, Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions, and Rules and Regulations. From what color you can paint your house, to pet restrictions and when assessments are due, these documents contain important information you won't want to miss.


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Outcomes of the 3rd Strategic Plan (2019-2023) of the Library Cooperation Council in Spain
by Susana Alegre Landaburu
As the 3rd Strategic Plan (2019-2023) of Spain's Library Cooperation Council (Consejo de Cooperación Bibliotecaria, CCB in its Spanish acronym) is stepping into its last year, it is a good time to reflect on the work in progress and the accomplishments already made.
The Library Cooperation Council was created back in March 2008 and it came into being with the aim of creating a framework in which Spanish libraries could work in cooperation.
In this regard, it must be clarified that Spain is one of the most decentralised countries in Europe, with most of the competences related to libraries belonging to its Comunidades Autonómas –the regions, with their own governments and significant political competences- and the municipalities. Accordingly, the regions have elaborated throughout the years their own library systems and library laws.
The Spanish Law for Reading, Books and Libraries, dated June 2007, provided for the creation of the Consejo de Cooperación Bibliotecaria, as the body that channels library cooperation between public administrations. It is a collegiate body of inter-administrative composition, dependent on the Ministry of Culture and Sports. As mentioned before, it started working in 2008 and is regulated by the Royal Decree 1573/2007. The Decree states the following functions for the CCB:
To promote the integration of publicly owned library systems into the Spanish Library System.
To prepare specific plans to favor and promote the development and improvement of the conditions of libraries and their services.
To promote and foster exchange and professional training in the library field.
To mandatorily report the legal and regulatory provisions that affect Spanish libraries as a whole.
To propose the implementation of projects.
The preparation, study, and development of all kinds of actions related to libraries entrusted to it by the sectorial conferences on Culture and Education and the Conference of Rectors of Spanish Universities.
All types of libraries are represented, and each has their own committee: National and Regional Libraries, Academic Libraries, School Libraries, Special Libraries and Public Libraries.
In the years following the establishment of its different bodies, the need for Strategic Plans was clear and the task to elaborate on the first started, resulting in the approval of the first Strategic Plan 2013-2015. Subsequently, the Plenary of the Library Cooperation Council approved the second Strategic Plan 2016-2018 at its meeting in March 2016. Highlights include, among others, the development of eBiblio, the Spanish e-book lending platform, run in cooperation between the Ministry and the regions, and the Report on Socioeconomic Impact of Libraries in Navarre.
After these two experiences, the need arose for strategic plans to have a longer time span since there were a number of possibilities that could be undertaken under the different objectives and two years proved to be a very short period of time to be able to carry them out. Therefore, it was agreed to take on the task of producing a third Plan with a 5-year span. During 2018, work was carried out on the preparation of the third Strategic Plan 2019-2023, its transversal axis being gender equality, reflected in the different lines of action established.
The result, the creation of which involved nearly 200 library professionals at its different stages, with work being carried out throughout 2018, was a plan with 5 very different lines of action:
1. Users, users, audiences and audiences
Encouraging Participation and Citizens with a Critical Capacity
Identifying New Audiences/Non-users
2. Professionals and teams
Defining Recommendations for a Map of Libraries
Promoting the Suitability of Professional Profiles
Developing an Ongoing Training Plan
3. The Visibility of Libraries
Communicating the Value of Libraries
Cooperation with Other Sectors
4. Digital Citizens
Preserving and Disseminating Bibliographic Heritage
Driving Open Access
5. Library Cooperation Council Operations
Improving the Running of the Council and its Bodies
Enhancing CCB's Sphere of Influence
Establishing Spaces of Cooperation
Let us go through some of the actions that have taken place in the last few years.
Since Gender Equality is at the basis of the Plan, the first step was to establish an Advisory Committee on Gender Equality and Libraries. Under this umbrella, two different committees have been working on a number of issues. A map of women authors in Spain is under construction, as well as the Guidelines to Include Gender Perspective in Libraries Work.
The Library Labs project (see the former post on this blog Library Labs: a project from Library Coordination at the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports), promoting public participation with the help of libraries, has been given a boost with the creation of the Expert Group that actively participate in the Ministry's project. In this regard, a Study on Public Participation and libraries is due to be published in the early months of 2023.
Special libraries have been in the spotlight with the elaboration of a Visibility Strategy, which involves, among others, the creation of the Special Libraries Map, released in 2021 and including: nearly a thousand libraries at this moment, a Report on the Situation of Special Libraries in Spain, and its first Special Libraries Conference, held last November 2022 under the theme ¿Invisibles? Imprescindibles (Invisible? Indispensable).
Regarding digitization, The National Digitisation Strategy (translated into English) was approved in 2021, and it was the result of the work of a Strategic Group, created for that end. This National Digitisation Strategy was conceived as an instrument to define the basic guidelines for digitisation, between different administrations and governing bodies, of bibliographic heritage, acting as a framework to later draft Operative Plans developing each of its working lines. The Strategy aims to facilitate coordination on different aspects of digitisation and to promote joint actions and cooperative projects in the field of bibliographic heritage digitisation. It is carried out in accordance with the Commission Recommendation of 2011 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation (2011/711/UE), also highlighting the importance of coordination and cooperation. In Spain, considerable steps have been taken in this line of cooperation through Hispana, a portal to access Spanish digital heritage and a national aggregator of Europeana. The National Digitisation Strategy will be developed from 2022 to 2026.
The main objectives of the Strategy are:
to improve the collection of data on digitization in Spain – which is the first line of work currently being developed;
to rationalize the efforts of memory institutions on digitization, online accessibility and the preservation of bibliographic materials through actions and cooperative projects to eliminate duplication;
to expand the quantity and quality of digital collections;
to promote the accessibility and reuse of content through its contextualization and positioning on the web, the confluence with the creative industries and the dissemination of clear and simplified information on intellectual property rights and to develop a "National Strategy for the Digitization of Cultural Heritage, following the recommendations of the European Commission, including all sectors of cultural heritage (libraries, archives and museums).
Also in 2021, the Recommendations for Projects of Digitisation of Bibliographic Heritage and Historical Photography were published with the aim of being a reference for any institution willing to embark on a digitisation project. The publication addresses all types of text, printed, graphic and cartographic materials, such as books, newspapers, magazines, maps, drawings and engravings, scores, manuscripts, microfilms, and photographic materials, and all the stages of the process, from initial planning to delivery of digitized materials.
The rural world, with its special factors related to depopulation and an ageing population has specially being taken into account, with a Committee working on different aspects. The current law states the obligation to provide public library services in municipalities with a population of more than 5,000 inhabitants. The Committee has worked on a proposal to modify the criteria to 2,000 inhabitants. This proposal was approved by the Plenary – the highest-ranking body in the CCB composed, among others, of representatives of all the administrations involved in 2021 and presently, the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces has included it in the proposals that they are presenting to the Government. The Committee is working on the viability of the proposal and the different ways public library services can be provided.
The Libraries for Agenda 2030 Committee has been especially active in the last few years, publishing The Implication of Spanish Libraries in the 2030 Agenda, conceived as an advocacy tool for library professionals to show how libraries actively and in a very important way contribute to different SDGs. In the same way, the Committee is currently updating its National Strategy for Information and Libraries.
The pandemic has undoubtedly hit some of the actions in the plan and left others un-started, but it has also arisen other topics and points of view, which otherwise probably would not been taken into account, that will certainly be addressed in future plans.
Susana Alegre Landaburu is Head of Cooperation at the Libraries Coordination Subdirectorate, in the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports
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Offering a host of subjects of particular interest to toxicologists, medical researchers, public health officials, and industrial hygienists, Part II of Arsenic in the Environment is an indispensable reference that sheds new light on arsenic's unique chemistry as well as its health and environmental effects.
JEROME O. NRIAGU is a professor in the Department of Environmental and Industrial Health, School of Public Health, the University of Michigan, and an adjunct professor at the University of Waterloo. For many years he was a research scientist with the National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Ontario. He is the editor of the Wiley Series in Advances in Environmental Science and Technology and has edited, among many other volumes, Nickel and Human Health, Food Contamination from Environmental Sources, Gaseous Pollutants, and Aquatic Toxicology. Dr. Nriagu received BSc and DSc degrees from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, an MS from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and a PhD in geochemistry from the University of Toronto. He has published extensively in leading geochemical and environmental science journals and has received a number of awards for his work. lie is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Arsenic in Human Medicine (M. Gorby).
Health Effects of Environmental Arsenic (W. Morton & D.Dunnette).
Toxicity and Metabolism of Arsenic in Vertebrates (S. Naqvi, etal.).
Effects of Arsenic on DNA Synthesis in Human Lymphocytes (Z.Meng).
Chronic Arsenism from Drinking Water in Some Areas of Xinjiang,China (W. Lianfang & H. Jianzhong).
Estimation of Human Exposure to and Uptake of Arsenic Found inDrinking Water (H. Xu, et al.).
A Review of Arsenic Hazards to Plants and Animals with Emphasis onFishery and Wildlife Resources (R. Eisler).
Arsenic in Marine Organisms: Chemical Forms and ToxicologicalAspects (K. Shiomi).


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Q: Can I add the Facebook app itself as a 'valid native platform'? I'm implementing device login: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/for-devices
This works perfectly if the user visits https://facebook.com/device and remains in the browser. If the user goes through the Facebook app (Android in this case) they are given this error after entering the code:
Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration: One or more of the given URLs is not allowed by the App's settings. To use this URL you must add a valid native platform in your App's settings.
My thinking here is that it is refusing because I'm accessing from a native app so would it be possible to register the Facebook app itself to the "Add platform" option in the dev portal?
If so I can get the Google Play Package Name and main activity but what about the key hashes??

A: yes, I am using google sign in as my primary log in method in an app. This removes the hassle of creating an authentication system

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