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What's the true cost of shipping all your junk across the ocean?
Walmart and other retail giants import millions of goods on polluting cargo ships.
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Take a look around your home and you'll likely find plenty of goods that traveled by cargo ship to your doorstep. A set of IKEA plates made in China. A dresser full of pandemic-era loungewear, ordered on Target and made in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Tracing the impact on the environment from shipping any of these goods is incredibly tricky to do. The data — if you can find it — involves many companies, countries, and cargo carriers.
Such obscurity makes it hard to count the full cost of our consumption. But a recent report helps unravel some of the mystery.
Two environmental groups, Pacific Environment and Stand.earth, worked with prominent maritime researchers to track goods imported by the 15 largest retail giants in the United States. They then quantified the greenhouse gas emissions and air pollutants associated with those imports, usually ferried across the oceans on cargo ships running on dirty bunker fuel. In 2019, importing some 3.8 million shipping containers' worth of cargo generated as much carbon dioxide emissions as three coal-fired power plants. These shipments also produced as much smog-forming nitrous oxide as 27.4 million cars and trucks do in a year, according to the report.
"Our report affirms that these retail giants' dirty ocean shipping is fueling the climate crisis," said Madeline Rose, climate campaign director for Pacific Environment and the study's lead author.
The study is the first to trace retailers' shipping-related emissions, and it used data from a separate, larger project to track the industry's emissions that's set to launch in October. The findings are likely just a snapshot of the true environmental toll: Researchers said they could only verify emissions for one-fifth of shipments by the 15 retailers, owing to a lack of data and the companies' use of shell companies and franchises.
The largest retail company in the United States, Walmart, was also the biggest polluter of the bunch. In 2019, Walmart imported enough goods to equal 893,000 shipping containers, resulting in some 3.7 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions.
Maritime shipping is a crucial part of the global economy. About 80 percent of everything bought and sold travels on oil-burning, seafaring freighters at some point. All that shipping activity accounts for nearly 3 percent of the world's annual greenhouse gas emissions, as well as a significant share of air pollution in coastal communities. The International Maritime Organization, which regulates the industry, has recently adopted measures to curb cargo ship emissions and reduce fuel consumption. But experts say stronger regulations and bigger investments are needed to steer the industry away from fossil fuels and toward cleaner technologies, such as hydrogen fuel cells, batteries, and wind-harnessing devices.
Another way to spur companies to action is through accounting — figuring out how many emissions are produced by which activity, from which company, at which location. In the world of ocean freight, a shipment of cargo can pass through many hands and even owners between the time it leaves a factory and reaches a warehouse on the other side of the planet. The goal of the new research, Rose said, is "to bring baseline environmental and public health accounting oversight to this incredibly murky issue."
Cargo containers and tractor trailers at the Seagirt Marine Terminal in the Port of Baltimore. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images
For the report, the environmental groups commissioned University Maritime Advisory Services, or UMAS, a well-regarded research consultancy in London. UMAS has developed a proprietary tool for estimating fuel consumption and emissions from individual ships and is also a partner in the SEA-CASE project at the Stockholm Environment Institute. That initiative has gathered billions of records on vessel movements, detailed shipment lists, import and export data, and other information from big economies like the United States, Brazil, and China.
"Once you combine all of that data, it's a very powerful thing," said Javier Godar, a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute, who was not directly involved in writing the July report. "You can really start looking at responsibility for those emissions."
After Walmart, the next top polluter in the report was Ashley Furniture, which imported 270,000 containers and generated over 2.2 million metric tons of CO2. Next up was Target, with some 600,000 containers and over 2 million metric tons of CO2. Researchers could only track some 123,000 container imports for Amazon, a company whose 2019 revenues topped $280 billion. Those imports were responsible for more than 390,000 metric tons of emissions.
Representatives from Walmart and Amazon didn't comment directly on the study but provided information on their companies' efforts to curb emissions from their supply chains. In response to a request for comment, a Target spokesperson said the company is committed to "reducing our shipping carbon footprint," as it works toward becoming a "net zero enterprise" in its operations and supply chain by 2040.
A spokesperson from IKEA, which came in seventh place for CO2 output, said addressing emissions from cargo ships is "a significant topic" for the Swedish furniture giant. Ocean shipping accounts for about 40 percent of IKEA's total carbon emissions from transportation. The spokesperson said the company is working to reduce its carbon footprint from every shipment by 70 percent on average by 2030. To that end, IKEA participated in a 2019 pilot project to test biofuels in an ocean-going container ship.
Researchers who worked on the retail-focused report said it took them months to scour and analyze data. And it's taken years to develop the statistical models and build the database that underpin the recent findings.
Godar said his ship tracking efforts began in 2014 with the launch of Trase, an online database that follows the flow of agricultural commodities that are driving deforestation in tropical countries. A United Nations report might show the total amount of soy shipped from Brazil. With Trase, however, the idea is to discern whether that soy came from, say, illegal logging in the Amazon rainforest or a legal farm elsewhere, and then follow that to the final customer.
Researchers are increasingly able to access such valuable information as more companies keep records in digital form, Godar said, and as the ability to "scrape" data from the internet improves. Still, there are limits. Most data isn't publicly available, and it's expensive for researchers to buy. Godar hasn't been able to get a hold of shipping-related data from the European Union and other countries, which leaves an informational black hole.
A beta version of the SEA-CASE platform will launch this fall and be free for anyone to access. A preview over Zoom showed a flurry of yellow lines connecting continents, each one revealing a detailed breakdown of a particular voyage in 2019. A casual user could, for example, trace coffee imports by Starbucks into the United States, then see the carbon emissions associated with the shipments.
Ultimately, this kind of information could help consumers push retailers to cut carbon emissions from their suppliers, said Gary Cook, the global climate campaigns director for Stand.earth. Cook previously led Greenpeace campaigns challenging tech giants like Facebook and Apple to stop powering their data centers with coal-fired electricity and replace it with renewable energy.
"Companies can move very fast when motivated," he said. "It's to their advantage to show their loyal customers they care about the climate and are taking action."
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Could E2open be just the first network to go private again?
Insight Venture Partners is taking E2Open (EOPN) private in a $273 million transaction (ht to Jason Trevisan). E2open, as loyal readers know, started as a consortium of electronics manufacturers. EOPN built a supply chain network for that industry (and others) as well as related applications. Insight cited the network as one reason for buying the company.
This transaction had me thinking about other public enterprise software companies with networks that might also be candidates for a buyout. With some public B2B tech valuations a bit muted, and venture money plentiful, it could happen. Networks take time and money to build. Perhaps VC and PE firms who understand these businesses are more patient than public investors? The value proposition of such buyouts is only aided by the material savings of being private.
Here's a chart of the performance of these stocks, including EOPN, over the past year relative to the Russell 3000 Index. Happy speculating!
The case for and against investing in Covisint, whose stock has fallen dramatically since its IPO.
Covisint, one of the original industry consortia of the bubble era is going public. Have they expanded beyond the auto vertical?
Reverse logistics providers are in the news. But the players (Genco, LQDT, and Optoro) have different business models and valuations.
Liquidity Services (LQDT): Where is the growth?
Liquidity services is a public online marketplace for surplus consumer and governmental goods. The market is large, but growth has been hard to sustain.


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Part 2: Biden Secrets Include Hidden Ukrainian Biolabs, Disturbing Covid-19 Reveal
Jeff LeJeune
The Biden family's crimes against humanity may very well include biological lab research into deadly pathogens.
Late last week, the Department of Defense revealed that the U.S. government has supported 46 biological research facilities in Ukraine since the turn of the century. This, after Americans were told earlier in the Russia-Ukraine crisis, when this information was coming out, that any such claims were just more Russian propaganda and disinformation as always….
Biden Secrets Include Hidden Ukrainian Bio Labs, Disturbing Covid-19 Reveal: Part 1
Investigations uncovered that Hunter Biden played the key role in securing millions of dollars for Metabiota to conduct research on lethal diseases that could be used as bioweapons. What's more, this activity was being conducted just a few hundred miles from Russia's western border–an encroachment that continued the slow and steady breach of a twenty-year old agreement between nations.
All of this was found on the laptop from hell.
The biolab in question is named Metabiota and is reportedly a contractor of the U.S. Department of Defense. The Mail claimed Metabiota specializes "in research on pandemic-causing diseases that could be used as bioweapons." According to the company's website, it is a biotech firm that is headquartered in San Francisco, California but has project sites in numerous cities globally, including Kyiv, Ukraine.
Federal government spending records show dozens of entries for Metabiota, dating as far back as 2010. Between 2014 and 2016, the government awarded $18.4 million for research and development in the area of Cooperative Threat Reduction. Details show that $307,091 of that amount was earmarked for "Ukraine research projects", so it does appear as if the US is involved in some capacity as Russia alleged. Amongst those expenses is a commission by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency for a Biological Safety Level 3 laboratory in Odessa. Such labs are often used to study deadly pathogens and infectious diseases.
Rosemont Seneca and Black & Veatch are also important names to know in all of this.
Maybe the most infuriating find for Americans is that all of this seems to involve Covid-19. This entire eight-minute segment from OAN's Pearson Sharp is worth your time, but Sharp begins to speak about U.S. funded biolabs directly at the 1:50 mark, and about Covid-19 at 3:25.
"According to official documents uncovered by investigators…, government funding records show the [U.S.] Department of Defense awarded $370 thousand to biolabs in Ukraine for Covid-19 research in November of 2019. For anyone keeping track, that's three months before the WHO officially even named the Chinese virus 'Covid-19'…. The U.S., and Hunter Biden specifically, were helping to fund research into the coronavirus before it officially existed at the same labs that the State Department also insisted didn't exist."
All of this should be looked at in conjunction with Hunter Biden, the natural gas company Burisma, and money laundering, which we discussed last week.
"So to break it down," Sharp concluded, "you have the disgraced son of the Vice President of the United States, hired to do favors for a corrupt Ukrainian gas company, and who is also connecting that company with a bioweapons research firm doing research on the coronavirus, before it was even released."
What does this say about our current resident in the White House? What does this say about our "leaders" and the crimes they have perpetrated on humanity?
Eh, we are sure there's nothing to see here. Surely the mainstream media knows what it's doing when it doesn't run these types of stories at all and tries to run cover by screaming Russia Russia Russia conspiracy theory.
Surely.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has given the West's encroachment and suspicious biological activity as a central reason for his invasion of Ukraine. He has been saying this all along, and all Resident Biden and the U.S. government has peddled to us is the claim that Russia is lying again. Fox News' Tucker Carlson, all the way back to early March, was covering this story, having to defend it in the face of the Disney-ABC, lefty-loon program The View.
Did Putin's invasion of Ukraine save us from another plandemic, one that was right on his country's very doorstep? Some very disturbing facts are beginning to coalesce.
Remember, this isn't your grandparents' America. We must avoid the United States vs Russia binary trap I've talked about if we are to see through the propaganda-driven onslaught of virtue signaling from corporate media and the government.
Tucker Carlson said about the biolabs: "And [the U.S. government] didn't secure them before the Russians invaded, though they knew the Russian invasion was coming because they told us…. And then, Victoria Nuland, the Under Secretary of State who oversees this disaster, testified under oath that, yes, Russian forces might seize those biolabs in Ukraine, and we should all be very worried about that possibility…. Over the weekend, CBS News reported that Pentagon officials have confirmed that these biolabs in Ukraine are, in fact, conducting research on anthrax and other deadly pathogens."
Tucker's investigation and comments came in response to hosts on Disney-ABC's The View. They struck at him like serpents for having the audacity to speak the truth, that the U.S. government is funding biolabs in Ukraine. Again, this is a fact the Dept. of Defense has now disclosed to the public.
Alyssa Farah, a former Trump White House communications staffer and frequent guest on The View, remarked, "What Tucker Carlson parrots every night on Fox News, what Tulsi Gabbard is spreading, is actually helping Putin get away with criminal acts against civilians." Ana Navarro, a Republican strategist and permanent host, added: "I think the Department of Justice, in the same way it is setting up a task force to investigate oligarchs, should look into people who are Russian propagandists shilling for Putin." Whoopi Goldberg remarked: "They used to arrest people for doing stuff like this."
It is a marvel that anyone still watches that filth.
We could go on and on with the sheer quantity of not-so circumstantial dots that connect and suggest, beyond a reasonable doubt, that the Biden crime syndicate involves Ukraine and deadly biological weaponry–perhaps even the Covid-19 plandemic that still haunts Americans. The very real possibility that the supposed President of the United States helped spearhead the greatest homicidal hoax ever pulled on Americans should scare every patriot to attention. The enemy wants control of the narrative at all costs, and we must be vigilant in not letting that happen.
President Trump has his say-so in all of this, for sure.
By the way, we thought you should know, the Russian Parliamentary Biolabs Commission and Russian Military are currently investigating the Monkeypox outbreak in Nigeria, and the Nicaraguan President just authorized the Russian military to move into Nicaragua.
Why are these two stories relevant to each other and to Ukraine?
Because it turns out this U.S. biological activity is everywhere.
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2008 Tutu Fellow, Hopewell Rugoho-Chin'ono, an award-winning journalist, was seized in a raid on 20 July, 2020 at his home in Harare, Zimbabwe. On Facebook Live, he managed to capture the moment the security agents entered his house to arrest him. The clip went viral and captured the imagination of the world, making headlines on various leading channels such as CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, SABC and newspapers like the Financial Times, New York Times, Washington Post and the UK's Guardian.
The government seized Hopewell without a warrant and jailed him on a charge of inciting violence after he tweeted about a protest being organised by political activist Jacob Ngarivhume. During court proceedings, Hopewell's lawyer Doug Coltart said that under cross examination, even the investigating officer admitted there was nothing in Hopewell's tweets that formed the basis of the charge to incite violence.
The United Nations expressed concern that the COVID-19 pandemic was being used as a pretext to clamp down on fundamental human rights. "Merely calling for a peaceful protest or participating in a peaceful protest is an exercise of recognised human rights," it said.
He was sent to remand prison initially and eventually to the notorious Chikurubi maximum-security prison – where he was held amongst the country's most dangerous convicted criminals, bringing his total time in detention to 43 days in dire conditions. Lawyers for Human Rights called out the conditions in which the prisoners were being held as inhuman, and Zimbabwean lawyers carried out a silent protest at the High Court, lobbying for the rights enshrined in the Zimbabwean Constitution. They placed a placard at the court entrance listing the constitutional rights that had been violated in recent weeks, in particular freedoms of assembly, expression and the media.
It took his legal team four attempts before he was granted bail by the High Court in Zimbabwe on 2 September, 2020. The bail conditions were that he lodges ZWL$10,000 with the clerk of court, surrenders his passport and title deeds to his home, resides at his given address and reports twice a week to the police. He is also not allowed to post on his Twitter account material perceived to 'incite the holding of mass demonstrations' until the end of the legal case.
His ordeal is not yet over, however, as his trial on charges of 'incitement to participate in a gathering with intent to promote public violence' is still to commence. Incidentally, in the lead up to his arrest, Hopewell had investigated and exposed a $60 million USD coronavirus supplies contract that enriched high-ranking members of the government. Most people believe this was the real reason for his arrest which brought widespread local and international condemnation and scrutiny of the Zimbabwean government.
Amnesty International accused the Zimbabwean government of 'misusing the criminal justice system to persecute journalists and activists', saying that the arrests were designed for intimidation. Along with journalists, elected opposition politicians were arrested. Foreign embassies in Harare joined the calls for Hopewell's release while the European Union issued a statement condemning the continued incarceration of Hopewell, saying that 'journalism is not a crime, but crucial for any democratic society' to help curb corruption and assist development. Pope Francis also expressed his concerns when he mentioned the social media campaign #ZimbabweanLivesMatter and referenced and named Hopewell and Jacob's detention. In a pan-African show of solidarity, a group of African writers penned a letter to the Africa Union Commission's Moussa Faki Mahamat, calling on the AU's direct intervention in Hopewell's detention, and condemning his arrest and subsequent denial of bail. The group of writers noted that while the African Union was quick to tell the world that #BlackLivesMatter in the wake of the George Floyd murder and other human rights abuses by police in the United States, it had been silent about the violation of Black Lives in Africa.
In response to pressure, the Africa Union Commission chairperson said the Union was closely following the political developments in Zimbabwe. He said the Union was concerned at reports of the disproportionate use of force by security forces and to uphold the rule of law, which, he said, was a breach of the African Union Charter. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is the current African Union Chair, appointed two envoys to visit Zimbabwe on the issue. In South Africa, shortly after Hopewell's arrest, nine media organisations in South Africa wrote to Ramaphosa, calling on him to intervene in the case.
On their bail release, Hopewell and Jacob Ngarivhume made a statement to the media from outside the prison. Dressed in red and white prison clothes, Hopewell said his time in prison had provided him first-hand information that would inform future journalistic pieces on the state of prisons in the country. He said that the work that he and other journalists had done in exposing corruption in the country had led to his imprisonment. "What I saw back there validates the claims I have been making that money is being stolen by this government. The prison hospital has nothing, they couldn't even check my high blood pressure. Looting of public funds and plundering of resources must stop."
The world-acclaimed author, playwright and film-maker Tsitsi Dangarembga was the first person to begin demonstrating outside Hopewell's home, shortly after his arrest, despite the threat of reprisals from the government. She was also subsequently arrested.
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Frank Coles will become Wallem CEO at the end of October
Former Transas CEO Frank Coles has agreed to join Hong Kong-headquartered shipmanagement group Wallem as its new chief executive officer, leaving his role at the head of the Transas organisation less than six months after announcing the sale of that business to Wärtsilä for €210 million.
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Today, June 25, 2019, is the annual Day of the Seafarer. The 2019 campaign is titled 'I am onboard with gender equality' and aims to highlight solidarity for gender equality in seafaring. Frank Coles, CEO of ship manager Wallem has released the following statement to highlight the Day of the Seafarer.
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U.S. to announce win in WTO trade dispute with China over autos
Brian Wingfield, Bloomberg News Service
WASHINGTON—The World Trade Organization has ruled in favor of the U.S. in a dispute with China involving automobiles, two years after filing complaints against the Asian nation, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The U.S. is set to announce the victory in Washington today, according to the person, who requested anonymity. Officials from the Chinese Embassy in Washington didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
President Barack Obama's administration in 2012 lodged a complaint with the Geneva-based WTO challenging Chinese duties on auto imports from the U.S. A separate U.S. complaint that year said China, the world's second-largest economy, unfairly subsidized its auto and auto parts manufacturers.
The U.S. this week dramatically escalated the trade battle with China, accusing five military leaders of stealing corporate secrets. The indictments are on top of complaints over issues such as tires, chicken parts, clean-energy products and credit- card payment services.
Since 2009, the U.S. has filed 17 cases at the WTO against China and other nations, including Indonesia and India, according to the U.S Trade Representative's office. The U.S. doubled the rate of filings against China over that time.
In March the WTO backed the U.S. in one of those cases, agreeing that China's limits on exports of rare-earth elements used in hybrid-car batteries and wind turbines violate trade rules.
The automobile issue has drawn recent attention. The U.S. in July 2012 filed a WTO complaint seeking to offset Chinese duties on more than $3 billion worth of auto imports from the U.S. The Beijing government had alleged that the U.S. industry gained an unfair edge in trade by using government subsidies and selling the goods in China below their value, a practice known as dumping.
Two months later, the U.S. filed the second WTO case against China alleging the Beijing government subsidized its own auto and auto-parts makers in violation of global trade rules.
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The Complete Peanuts 1989-1990
by Charles M. Schulz, Lemony Snicket (Introduction)Charles M. Schulz
In Vol. 20 of the Complete Peanuts series, which collects the 1989-1990 newspaper strips, Charlie Brown gets a girlfriend, Snoopy gets jury duty and much more.
Our latest volume is particularly dense with romantic intrigue, as Marcie and Charlie Brown end up at camp together, sending Peppermint Patty into mad jealousy (especially since Marcie can't resist teasing her)… and an old friend of Charlie Brown's attempts to look him up again but confuses him with Snoopy and goes on a date with him instead. But the most crucial event in romance is Charlie Brown's romance with Peggy Jean — even though he's so flustered in his first conversation with her that he ends up stuck with the name "Brownie Charles" for the duration of her relationship ("I kind of like it…"). This volume also introduces yet another Snoopy sibling, Olaf, who is humiliatingly invited to enter an ugly-dog contest (and, even more humiliatingly, wins). Plus lots of Zen-like Spike-and-cactus strips, Sally Brown non-sequiturs, D-minuses for Peppermint Patty, and wise thoughts from Franklin's grandpa… Snoopy treks through the wilderness as the Beagle Scoutmaster and through the desert as the World Famous Sergeant of the Foreign Legion, Woodstock takes a whack at being the King of the Jungle, Lucy enjoys Michael Jackson on her boom box, Marcie's perfectionism leads to a crack-up, Pigpen runs for class president, Snoopy gets called to jury duty… and for a change, Lucy pulls the football out from under Charlie Brown.
Complete Peanuts Series
Charles M. Schulz was born November 25, 1922, in Minneapolis. His destiny was foreshadowed when an uncle gave him, at the age of two days, the nickname Sparky (after the racehorse Spark Plug in the newspaper strip Barney Google).
In his senior year in high school, his mother noticed an ad in a local newspaper for a correspondence school, Federal Schools (later called Art Instruction Schools). Schulz passed the talent test, completed the course, and began trying, unsuccessfully, to sell gag cartoons to magazines. (His first published drawing was of his dog, Spike, and appeared in a 1937 Ripley's Believe It or Not! installment.) Between 1948 and 1950, he succeeded in selling 17 cartoons to the Saturday Evening Post—as well as, to the local St. Paul Pioneer Press, a weekly comic feature called Li'l Folks. It was run in the women's section and paid $10 a week. After writing and drawing the feature for two years, Schulz asked for a better location in the paper or for daily exposure, as well as a raise. When he was turned down on all three counts, he quit.
He started submitting strips to the newspaper syndicates. In the spring of 1950, he received a letter from the United Feature Syndicate, announcing their interest in his submission, Li'l Folks. Schulz boarded a train in June for New York City; more interested in doing a strip than a panel, he also brought along the first installments of what would become Peanuts—and that was what sold. (The title, which Schulz loathed to his dying day, was imposed by the syndicate.) The first Peanuts daily appeared October 2, 1950; the first Sunday, January 6, 1952.
Diagnosed with cancer, Schulz retired from Peanuts at the end of 1999. He died on February 13, 2000, the day before Valentine's Day—and the day before his last strip was published—having completed 17,897 daily and Sunday strips, each and every one fully written, drawn, and lettered entirely by his own hand—an unmatched achievement in comics.
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Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus becomes more eloquent, and more neurotic; Charlie Brown ...
Peanuts definitively enters its golden age. Linus becomes more eloquent, and more neurotic; Charlie Brown cascades further down the hill to loserdom; but the rising star is master mimic and blanket thief Snoopy.As the 1950s close down, Peanuts definitively enters ...
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Firsts in this volume of the paperback reprint: Linus spends the night in the pumpkin ...
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But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.
For all their incoherence and senseless rage, their message is attractive to those layers of the population who yearn for some order in their lives. If the fanatics promise to feed them and educate their children they are prepared to forgo the delights of CNN and BBC World.
— Referring to the Taliban. The Clash of Fundamentalisms (ISBN 1-85984-457-X), pg. 200.
All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.
The duty of universities is toward their nation, for which they must prepare leaders in all fields and these must be necessarily ethnically native. For it is intolerable that a nation educate for itself alien leaders in its universities.
— From "?tiin?a antisemitismului" ("The Science of Anti-Semitism"), Apararea Nationala ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922, lst year.
The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide.
How do you get rid of the trash? It's out there in society, it's going on every day […] You can educate children an awful lot easier than you can get rid of the trash.
— Sipchen, Bob (July 3, 1997). "Straight Talk From a Straight Shooter Journeys: Joycelyn Elders was known for her outspokenness during her run". Los Angeles Times: p. E-1. Retrieved on 2007-05-20.
[T]o teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.
We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?
— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 51.
The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them.
With all the efforts made by modern society to nurture and educate the young, how stupid it is to permit the mothers of young children to spend themselves in the coarser work of the world!
Freedom means having the right to freely educate your children, and freely means no obligation to send them in a public school, where teachers want to inculcate principles different from the principles that their parents want to inculcate them in a familiar context.
I think we should see whether we are wise trying to educate everybody to a high standard the way we are trying to do now. There has to be a high level of education so everybody is literate, but whether university education is necessary for everyone is open to question.
— "College Master Looks at His World: Author Davies Finds Youth Little Changed"
Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.
In order to have a large number of values in common, all the members of the group must have an equable opportunity, to receive and to take from others. There must be a large variety of shared undertakings and experiences. Otherwise, the influences which educate some into masters, educates others into slaves.
The Court's great power is its ability to educate, to provide moral leadership.
— Interview with Time magazine (November 12, 1973).
The best way to educate oneself is to become part of the revolution.
Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic , mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred , the finite as infinite .
The will the one thing it is most important to educate we neglect.
The lover of education labors first of all to educate himself.
Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.
— William O. Douglas, Time Magazine interview, (12 November 1973).
In old times, you see, a man who wanted to educate himself a Frenchman, for instance would have set to work to study all the classics and theologians and tragedians and historians and philosophers, and, you know, all the intellectual work that came in his way. But in our day he goes straight for the literature of negation, very quickly assimilates all the extracts of the science of negation, and he's ready.
We must all educate ourselves to the reality of the horrors taking place. Doctors today know that unborn children can feel a touch within the womb and that they respond to pain.
— Ronald Reagan, "Abortion and the Conscience of a Nation", Human Life Review, Spring 1984.
In both theory and practice the SPGB was an extreme manifestation of the pre-1917 Marxist tradition. Its function was to educate the workers in the intractability of capitalism and the hopelessness of all trade union action or reform: its medium was the streetcorner pitch where speakers would harangue passers-by and sell the Socialist Standard . Since prospective members were examined for their knowledge of Marxism and ability to speak in public, and since they prided themselves on their 'scientific socialism', propagandists of the SPGB enjoyed a reputation as formidable Marxist purists.
— Stuart Macintyre, A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain 1917–1933, 1980.
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Jennifer M Morton
Associate Professor of Philosophy, City University of New York
Jennifer M Morton is an associate professor of philosophy at the City College of New York and the Graduate Center-CUNY, and a senior fellow at the Center for Ethics and Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her book Moving Up Without Losing Your Way: The Ethical Costs of Upward Mobility will be published by Princeton University Press in Fall 2019.
Written by Jennifer M Morton
Graduating students of the City College of New York cheer during the commencement ceremony in the Harlem section of Manhattan, New York on 3 June 2016. Photo by Mike Segar/Reuters
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Society will be much improved by loosening the stranglehold of top universities on the education of elites. But how?


cīrāṇi — torn clothes; kim — whether; pathi — on the road; na — not; santi — there is; diśanti — give in charity; bhikṣām — alms; na — not; eva — also; aṅghripāḥ — the trees; para-bhṛtaḥ — one who maintains others; saritaḥ — the rivers; api — also; aśuṣyan — have dried up; ruddhāḥ — closed; guhāḥ — caves; kim — whether; ajitaḥ — the Almighty Lord; avati — give protection; na — not; upasannān — the surrendered soul; kasmāt — what for, then; bhajanti — flatters; kavayaḥ — the learned; dhana — wealth; durmada-andhān — too intoxicated by.
Are there no torn clothes lying on the common road? Do the trees, which exist for maintaining others, no longer give alms in charity? Do the rivers, being dried up, no longer supply water to the thirsty? Are the caves of the mountains now closed? Or above all, does the Almighty Lord not protect the fully surrendered souls? Why then do the learned sages go to flatter those who are intoxicated by hard-earned wealth?
The renounced order of life is never meant for begging or living at the cost of others as a parasite. According to the dictionary, a parasite is a sycophant who lives at the cost of society without making any contribution to that society. The renounced order is meant for contributing something substantial to society and not depending on the earnings of the householders. On the contrary, acceptance of alms from the householders by the bona fide mendicant is an opportunity afforded by the saint for the tangible benefit of the donor. In the sanātana-dharma institution, alms-giving to the mendicant is part of a householder's duty, and it is advised in the scriptures that the householders should treat the mendicants as their family children and should provide them with food, clothing, etc., without being asked. Pseudomendicants, therefore, should not take advantage of the charitable disposition of the faithful householders. The first duty of a person in the renounced order of life is to contribute some literary work for the benefit of the human being in order to give him realized direction toward self-realization. Amongst the other duties in the renounced order of life of Śrīla Sanātana, Śrīla Rūpa and the other Gosvāmīs of Vṛndāvana, the foremost duty discharged by them was to hold learned discourses amongst themselves at Sevākuñja, Vṛndāvana (the spot where Śrī Rādhā-Dāmodara Temple was established by Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī and where the actual samādhi tombs of Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī and Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī are laid). For the benefit of all in human society, they left behind them immense literatures of transcendental importance. Similarly, all the ācāryas who voluntarily accepted the renounced order of life aimed at benefiting human society and not at living a comfortable or irresponsible life at the cost of others. However, those who cannot give any contribution should not go to the householders for food, for such mendicants asking bread from the householders are an insult to the highest order. Śukadeva Gosvāmī gave this warning especially for those mendicants who adopt this line of profession to solve their economic problems. Such mendicants are in abundance in the Age of Kali. When a man becomes a mendicant willfully or by circumstances, he must be of firm faith and conviction that the Supreme Lord is the maintainer of all living beings everywhere in the universe. Why, then, would He neglect the maintenance of a surrendered soul who is cent-percent engaged in the service of the Lord? A common master looks to the necessities of his servant, so how much more would the all-powerful, all-opulent Supreme Lord look after the necessities of life for a fully surrendered soul. The general rule is that a mendicant devotee will accept a simple small loincloth without asking anyone to give it in charity. He simply salvages it from the rejected torn cloth thrown in the street. When he is hungry he may go to a magnanimous tree which drops fruits, and when he is thirsty he may drink water from the flowing river. He does not require to live in a comfortable house, but should find a cave in the hills and not be afraid of jungle animals, keeping faith in God, who lives in everyone's heart. The Lord may dictate to tigers and other jungle animals not to disturb His devotee. Haridāsa Ṭhākura, a great devotee of Lord Śrī Caitanya, used to live in such a cave, and by chance a great venomous snake was a copartner of the cave. Some admirer of Ṭhākura Haridāsa who had to visit the Ṭhākura every day feared the snake and suggested that the Ṭhākura leave that place. Because his devotees were afraid of the snake and they were regularly visiting the cave, Ṭhākura Haridāsa agreed to the proposal on their account. But as soon as this was settled, the snake actually crawled out of its hole in the cave before everyone present and left the cave for good. By the dictation of the Lord, who lived also within the heart of the snake, the snake gave preference to Haridāsa and decided to leave the place and not disturb him. So this is a tangible example of how the Lord gives protection to a bona fide devotee like Ṭhākura Haridāsa. According to the regulations of the sanātana-dharma institution, one is trained from the beginning to depend fully on the protection of the Lord in all circumstances. The path of renunciation is recommended for acceptance by one who is fully accomplished and fully purified in his existence. This stage is described also in the Bhagavad-gītā (16.5) as daivī sampat. A human being is required to accumulate daivī sampat, or spiritual assets; otherwise, the next alternative, āsurī sampat, or material assets, will overcome him disproportionately, and thus one will be forced into the entanglement of different miseries of the material world. A sannyāsī should always live alone, without company, and he must be fearless. He should never be afraid of living alone, although he is never alone. The Lord is residing in everyone's heart, and unless one is purified by the prescribed process, one will feel that he is alone. But a man in the renounced order of life must be purified by the process; thus he will feel the presence of the Lord everywhere and will have nothing to fear (such as being without any company). Everyone can become a fearless and honest person if his very existence is purified by discharging the prescribed duty for each and every order of life. One can become fixed in one's prescribed duty by faithful aural reception of Vedic instructions and assimilation of the essence of Vedic knowledge by devotional service to the Lord.


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Long said the Ocean Pines Golf Members' Council has awarded more than $22,000 to 21 local seniors during the last four years. Students receiving these awards have shown an interest in the game of golf and are judged on the totality of their record. Participation in competitive golf is not a requirement.
This year, the golf members of Ocean Pines — including members of the golf club, the Ocean Pines Ladies' Golf Association and the Ocean Pines Men's Golf Association — raised more than $12,000 for the scholarship fund, and matched last year's record amount despite having to forgo the annual Ocean Pines Taylor-Bank Scramble and other fundraising events because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ocean Pines Men's and Women's Golf Groups Raise Money for AGH
The Ocean Pines Ladies Golf Association (OPLGA) and The Ocean Pines Men's Golf Association held their Annual Pink Lady Golf Tournament at the Ocean Pines Golf Club in October to raise money to help provide mammogram screenings through the Eunice Q. Sorin Women's Diagnostics Center at Atlantic General Hospital. The associations combined raised $2,310 this year, bringing their contributions over seven years to more than $10,500 raised for the center.
Pictured, from left to right, are Ginger Burke, Ocean Pines Pink Lady Committee Chair; Dot Waters, Pink Lady Co-Chair; Susan Morris, Ocean Pines Ladies Golf Association Chair; Michael Franklin, hospital President; Don McMullen, Ocean Pines Men's Golf Association President; Toni Keiser, hospital Vice President; Brooke Williams, Director of Imaging.
OP Golf Club Announces Promotion, New Hire
Ocean Pines this week announced the promotion of Justin Hartshorne to golf superintendent, and the hiring of Kurt Joseph as assistant golf superintendent.
Hartshorne and his wife, Justine, are both originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The couple have two young children: a 2-year-old son, Aiden, and an 8-month-old daughter, Paisley. They also have a "big Burmese mountain dog," Hartshorne said.
Hartshorne graduated from Penn State University with a bachelor's degree in turf grass science. His Maryland certifications include a pesticide applicator's license and a fertilizer applicator's license, and he recently completed Links "level two" irrigation software training.
"I've also been doing golf maintenance for 18 years now, so I have a lot of experience there as well," he said.
Hartshorne and his wife moved to the area about four years ago, and he initially worked at the Cripple Creek Golf and Country Club in Dagsboro, Delaware. Last September, he was hired as the assistant superintendent at the Ocean Pines Golf Club.
As the new superintendent, Hartshorne will help oversee the entire golf operation. His duties include managing the staff and budget, supervising chemical and fertilizer applications, and maintaining the irrigation system.
Clubhouse Bar and Grille Becomes Popular Spot for Locals, Sunday Football
Ocean Pines residents have discovered that the new Golf Clubhouse is a great place to watch Sunday NFL games and take advantage of weekly food and drink specials.
The Clubhouse Bar and Grille, opened in June, each week features the NFL Sunday Ticket on eight flat-screen TVs and one jumbo projection screen.
Ralph DeAngelus, cofounder of the Matt Ortt Companies that runs the Clubhouse Bar and Grille, said the new venue has already become a popular hangout for locals.
"In particular, last Sunday was super successful," he said. "People love the way the building is set up, and they love the food and drink specials, and the great customer service people have come to expect."
Domenic Monaco Named Men's Club Champion
Domenic Monaco triumphed in a two-day tournament to win the title of 2020 Men's Ocean Pines Golf Club Champion.
The annual event, held this year Oct. 10-11, was open to Ocean Pines residents. In addition to prize money for his win, Monaco will receive the use of the Men's Club Champion parking space for a year.
All tournament winners include:
Club Champion Domenic Monaco
Runner-up Frank Ruggiere
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2nd Net AJ Nosek


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Introduce yourself. Where are you originally from? Where did you learn your craft?
My name is Abby Moriarty and I am from Minneapolis originally. Growing up I always was a creative kid, I could spend hours sewing clothes for my troll dolls or decorating my hand built dollhouse with wallpaper scraps my parents gave me. I moved myself out to Los Angeles at 20 years old to put myself through fashion school. After graduation my first job was in Knitwear. From there I propelled fast into a career as a Knitwear Designer. In 2008, I moved to NYC to work for Express, then moved onto Calvin Klein where I spent 8 years of my career, ending as the Vice President of Women's Design overseeing all categories of Design. Due to restructuring about 6 months after Raf Simons arrival I found myself (and my entire team) without a job. That was when I sat back and thought about what I really wanted and what the future could look like.
After a lot of thought and reflection I decided I wanted to create a brand that could tell a story that I could be proud of. I decided to focus on timeless essentials; the classic American made Tee shirt. I wanted my brand to be artistically driven, not trend driven. I wanted my brand to be made in the US from US grown materials, I wanted to sell direct to consumer so that I could really give my customers what they wanted. I looked at all the things that bothered me about the industry (fast, fast, fast, disposable, wasteful, the adverse effects on the environment, price gouging, the wholesale model, I could go on but you get the idea) and decided to take everything I have learned and do everything I could, to do something different.
That is when I created 1 9 2 0 and founded it on modernist design principles that honor simplicity, form and function over unnecessary frills with a focus on shape, color and material. We are a collection of refined, elevated T-shirts for men and women.
Explain the story behind the name of your company, how and why you chose it.
The brand takes it name from the year that the T-shirt was officially entered into Webster's Dictionary.
What were some of your original inspirations behind creating a company dedicated to high quality t-shirts?
I have always been drawn to the simple complexity of the T-shirt; how it withstands time and trends while consistently maintaining relevancy and modernity. My travels around the world have been an inspiring influence on my career and life. Through my travels, I discovered that I naturally gravitated towards Scandinavian modernist design and 1 9 2 0 leans on the same essential principles that made some of best designs of the modernist era still relevant and widely regarded today.
Why do you think the T-shirt is such an important piece to have?
The Tee shirt to me is everything. Your favorite Tee shirt can be as important to you as anything. When you find the perfect fabric, the perfect cut, it is the piece you dread the laundromat losing and cannot imagine your life without. It is the piece you can wear on a Saturday with denim, it is the piece you can dress up and throw a jacket on top of, or tuck into a trouser and take a meeting. The tee shirt is incredibly versatile and timeless. It is an American classic that I believe should be celebrated.
What is something valuable you have learned through working with multiple brands in the fashion industry?
The value of exceptional leadership; I get totally giddy about that. Before launching 1920 I was VP of Design at Calvin Klein and lead a team of 13 designers. Great leadership can empower lives and careers, it's absolutely amazing how you can help to shape so many lives and achieve great success through simply being a good leader.
What has been your greatest struggle obstacle so far? How did you continue to persevere through those adversities?
It has been most difficult being a one woman show and wearing the hats of design director, fit technician, accountant, marketing director and shipping and logistics manager… all in the same day! But it has been a challenge that drives me to do better and has opened my mind to learn a new batch of skill sets that I maybe would have never used before. Flexing all of these muscles daily now makes me feel whole. When you think you cant, you realize you CAN!
If you could go back in time, what advice would you give to yourself about starting your brand and business?
I would have taken more advice from my merchandising friends. I would ask more questions and not be so stubborn thinking I could do it all on my own the first time perfectly. Ask. Seek. Listen … while also trusting your gut!
Do you have any hacks for starting a small business?
I suggest starting a business that relates to your industry, something you have great knowledge in, and ask questions. I enrolled in night classes at F.I.T. before launching, studying aspects of the industry that I was not as versed in; such as writing business plans. There are so many resources out there, use them. Talk to friends who have started businesses. Champion each other, learn from each other, share and lean on others.
I follow a lot of Scandinavian Design. I love seeing how brands such as Ganni and Dagmar have grown over the years. I am also in a children's brand hole right now so I am discovering children's wear for the 1st time. I am loving Bobo Choses, Nation and Tiny Cottons.
What is your favorite album to work to?
Rhye or Sade. I can't have anything too disruptive or I lose focus.
Hi Betsy! Tell us a little bit about you and Sylvan Park.
Hi I'm Betsy Baird. I grew up in a small town in Northern California (Chico) and now call Brooklyn home. For most of my adult life, I worked in the music industry as a manager and graphic designer in both Austin and Nashville. I loved my work, but felt constrained by how much I was dependent upon the computer. I have always enjoyed working with my hands to produce a tangible product and took any opportunity I had to work in other mediums that allowed me to do so. Leather has always been a preferred material of mine. One day I had an idea for a handbag that I knew I wanted, and I felt pretty confident other women would too. Fast forward through many prototypes, changes, production samples, and the result of that original idea became my first bag, the Prospect Tote. I launched Sylvan Park over 2 years ago with the tote and I've been running and growing the business ever since.
Where do you live and work now, and how does this environment influence your creative process? How's the maker's community in Brooklyn?
I live and work in Brooklyn. Having only lived here for 4 years, I've been fortunate to find a great community of makers and designers who are also great friends. It's great to have peers around that understand the victories and hardships that come with trying to make something new. I find everyone really wants to help each other, and it never feels like a quid-pro-quo relationship. I've always believed that there's plenty of room for success amongst everyone, and I'm drawn to those that believe the same.
I like to keep a running list of products I want to produce. Sometimes it's an idea for a bag, a product that will expand upon the collection, and other times it's just something fun that I want to try. I start by sketching and then move to a tangible medium to see if the idea works in a three dimensional space (paper, vinyl or leather). Its at that point that I work on the scale and shape. After that, the piece is broken down to create a pattern and then I remake the sample with my finished leather. My whole collection is made with vegetable tanned leather that I source from a small family owned tannery in Tuscany. I love the look, feel and eco-sensitive nature of the this specialty leather, but it can be tricky to work with. It may take awhile to adapt the design, but once I'm happy with the result, I carry the sample for a while to test it and to get feedback from others.
For my workspace: I recently moved into a new space with textile artist Whitney Crutchfield of We Gather. We have a lovely light-drenched studio in Gowanus/Sunset Park and it's been great to share and collaborate with Whitney. The new space has also allowed me to have all my leather and stock in one place as well as expand upon my collection of tools and machines. I now have a much more complete collection of tools and equipment, which has allowed me to produce many more pieces in house. The pieces that I don't produce in house are handmade at a small factory in Brooklyn whose production is always top-notch. They are also great people to work with.
I love to walk and soak up everything around me. I get inspiration from everywhere; sometimes it in the craziness of midtown manhattan and other times it's in the quietness of a walk through Prospect Park.
Sylvan Park is the eclectic little neighborhood in Nashville, TN where I used to live. I love the neighborhood and still have a little house that I rent out. I wanted a name for the company that had some personal meaning; one that wasn't my own name. The imagery that comes from Sylvan Park was perfect. I love parks and am happy that many people assume Sylvan Park is the name of an actual park. I have named all the bags after my most favorite parks: Prospect (Brooklyn), Bryant (Manhattan), Bidwell (Chico), Griffith (Los Angeles).
When you are running a small business, you end up dealing with everything. This, unfortunately, means that all the problems, and potential problems, come your way. I have let myself get overwhelmed at times, and the more I've learned, the more I can focus on solutions rather than thinking through all the ways that things could go wrong.
PAPERWORK! Especially when the printer or scanner decides to act up!
Some bonus questions! We love meeting over coffee at Young & Able. What's your favorite local cafe?
Cafe Dada and Colson's in Brooklyn.
I listen to podcasts all the time. My favorite lately is Two Dope Queens but I'm also a Radiolab nut.
I'm biased but I'm going to say Whitney Crutchfield of We Gather.
Thanks Betsy for giving us a little insight to your small creative business! Browse Sylvan Park's leather goods here.
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Data, Sample, Variables
We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) as prepared for and described in Pfeffer and Killewald (2018). A replication package containing the data and code used in that article is available through the PSID Public Data Extract Repository via OpenICPSR at http://doi.org/10.3886/E101094V1 and a full replication package for the animations reported here is available at http://github.com/fpfeffer/wealthmobility.
The net worth measure in the PSID is based on a set of survey questions on the ownership and value of separate asset components, including financial assets (e.g. savings, stocks, etc.), home ownership (home value minus mortgages), other real assets (e.g. business and farm wealth, real estate, etc.), and different forms of debt. Parental wealth is measured as average household net worth in survey years 1984 and 1989, which contain the first full asset survey modules. Offspring's wealth is measured as average household net worth in survey years 2013 and 2015, the latest available PSID waves. We restrict the analytic sample to offspring aged 45-64 (N=1,936) to reduce life-cycle bias in estimates of intergenerational wealth mobility (as revealed in Pfeffer and Killewald 2018). The average parental age in this sample is 52.1 years (in 1984) and the average offspring age is 53.7 years (in 2013). Net worth quintiles are drawn based on the analytic sample just described and using the distribution of wealth for parents and children, weighted using longitudinal individual weights. The racial classification relies on the first mention of the offspring's race and distinguishes Non-Hispanic whites from Non-Hispanic blacks.1 The sample size is too low to support separate analyses of other racial or ethnic groups.
Additional Information on Animation 1
Higher rates of intergenerational downward social mobility for black children compared to white children have been established for at least fifty years (Blau and Duncan 1968: 208ff) and found across a wide range of indicators of socio-economic well-being (Featherman and Hauser 1978; Hertz 2005; Bloome 2014; Mazumder 2014). Our visualization confirms that these racial differences in intergenerational mobility also apply to family wealth (see also Conley and Glauber 2008; Pfeffer and Killewald 2018).
Unlike the visualization in Badger et al. (2018), which relied on full population administrative data (Chetty et al. 2018), our visualization draws on a much smaller sample from survey data. Thus, rather than displaying observed transition rates, we estimate transition probabilities more parsimoniously in a statistical model.2 Animation 1 displays predicted probabilities from an ordered logistic regression model. We can express offspring's relative wealth position as a latent variable, \(\tilde{y}\), that is a function of their parents' wealth position, \(\bf x\), measured in quintiles, plus an error term, \(\epsilon\). That is,
$$ {\tilde{y}=\mathbf{x}\beta+\epsilon} $$
The probability that a child's attained wealth quintile, \(y\), is quintile \(q\) can then be expressed as
$$ {Pr(y=q|\mathbf{x})=F(\tau_q-\mathbf{x}\beta) - F(\tau_{q-1}-\mathbf{x}\beta)} $$
where \(F\) is the logistic cumulative distribution function and the \(\tau_q\) parameters describe the cut-points of the latent measurement model. We estimate the ordered logistic regression interacting race and wealth origins to accommodate racial differences in transition rates, \(\beta\). The regressions are estimated using PSID's longitudinal individual weights, which partly adjust for attrition (Berglund et al. 2017a; more on weighting below).
One of the parametric assumptions of the ordered logistic model is the proportional odds assumption, which constrains all \(\beta\)s to be equal across outcome categories \(q\). Using global significance tests (see Long and Freese 2014: 329), across all but one test we cannot reject the null hypothesis of this assumption.3
To assess robustness of the reported patterns to alternative modeling approaches with either more or less stringent constraints, we provide Animation S.1, which displays the results created under alternative statistical models. First, a slightly less parsimonious model estimates the ordered logistic regression model separately for whites and blacks, which not only accommodates different transition rates, \(\beta\), but also allows the cut-points of the measurement model, \(\tau_q\), to vary by race, effectively allowing the distribution of the underlying latent variable to differ by race. In these models, we find clear statistical support for the proportional odds assumption.4 Second, we include results from a multinomial logistic regression, which –- with interaction terms for race and parental wealth -– imposes no further constraints on the data (saturated model): In contrast to the ordered logistic regression model, it allows the coefficients for each independent variable to vary by outcome category and thereby corresponds to the observed probabilities.5 Third, we provide results from a stereotype logistic regression model. In terms of parsimony, this model occupies a middle ground between the ordered and multinomial model: Instead of fixing the coefficients to be equal across outcome categories (as in the ordered logistic model), it imposes a linear proportionality constraint on the associations of the independent variables with each outcome category (Anderson 1984).
Animation S.1: Transition probabilities produced under different modeling approaches
This animation relies on the weighted cross-tabulation of parental and offspring wealth quintiles, separately for whites and blacks. To correctly represent the racial distribution across quintiles, we rescale the number of observations by multiplying all observations in these cross-tabulations by the average longitudinal individual weights of blacks and whites in the offspring generation (in 2013). These weights adjust both for the initial PSID oversample ("SEO sample") and later sample attrition; for a detailed description of the PSID weighting scheme see Berglund et al. (2017a; 2017b).
Other research on intergenerational mobility, in particular by economists following Solon (1992), has excluded the SEO oversample and instead used unweighted analyses of only the population-representative part of the original PSID sample (the "SRC sample"). The resulting lower sample size (N=1,223) increases concerns about low cell counts, particularly for blacks (N=94). The issue of low cell counts can be ameliorated by choosing broader wealth quantile categories. Animations S.2 and S.3 display the intergenerational wealth structure using quartiles and terciles, respectively, though we caution that the broader the categories, the more they hide inequality in the wealth position of black and white children within those categories. However, based on these coarser wealth categories, Animations S.2 and S.3 can also be used to display results restricted to only the population-representative SRC sample.6
Animation S.2: Wealth quartile mobility for different samples
Animation S.3: Wealth tercile mobility for different samples
Alternative Display and Comparative Advantage of the Animation
There are many other ways to visualize mobility tables, each with different comparative advantages in highlighting certain aspects of the mobility process. Examples include overlaying the cross-tabulation with a heat map that represents variation in mobility rates with different colors, or altering the size of the cells of a mobility table to include information on generational difference in the extent of inequality (see Lawrence 2018). The approach pursued here and in Badger et al. (2018) focuses on the comparison of transitions between different population groups (Animation 1) and the interplay between structural reproduction and individual-level dynamics (Animation 2). Of course, even within that focus, other approaches are available.
A commonly used alternative to our visualization is Sankey diagrams, which are displayed for comparative purposes in Figures S.1 and S.2 (as alternatives to Animations 1 and 2, respectively). While these static versions display the same quantitative information, we believe that the animations make the information more intuitively accessible and reduce the general reader's cognitive work in the following ways (for meta-analytic evidence on the educational benefits of animations compared to static displays see Höffler and Leutner 2007). First, the displayed movement of individuals who fall down or rise up is a fitting visual representation of the dynamics of downward and upward mobility; the Sankey diagrams are static and do not convey this movement as directly. Second, the directionality of the flow (from origins to destinations) in the animation assures that non-specialists read the information in the intended direction (since we are displaying outflow, not inflow percentages), but the direction of flow is less obvious in the Sankey diagrams. Third, the focus of this contribution is on the between-race comparison, which is directly supported by overlaying information on both racial groups in the same display. To achieve a similar goal, the Sankey diagrams display racial groups next to each other within each quintile (rather than separate Sankey diagrams for each racial group), but the direct between-race comparison is still much more immediate in our animations. Fourth, both experts and non-experts are better at reading and interpreting natural frequencies – e.g., 10 in 100 – than percentages – e.g., 10% – (see Hoffrage et al. 2000; 2015) and our visualization evokes that interpretation. Fifth, and perhaps most importantly, Animation 2 provides a visual illustration of the fundamental sociological insight that structural reproduction can coincide with ample fluctuation at the individual level. The co-existence of stability (reproduction of the racial wealth structure) and movement (individual-level dynamics) cannot be displayed as effectively in a static way.
Finally, we point to two aspects of what we consider purposeful pedagogical design: The underlying transition estimates are clearly too numerous to display at once (5 origin quintiles * 5 destination quintiles * 2 races = 50 transitions). We therefore decided to direct readers' attention in two ways: First, we have made Animation 1 interactive, purposefully forcing the reader to look at only one origin quintile at once (Figure S.1 seeks to do the same by highlighting quintiles upon hovering over connected paths). This is important because the visual impression should focus on the cross-race comparison within quintiles. Second, to help focus readers' attention in Animation 2, we decided to initialize the visualization. That is, rather than displaying the full flow at once (as in Animation 1), the animation reveals important information step-by-step (for other examples of the effectiveness of "chunking" strategies see e.g. Rieber 1991). The animation is also timed to correspond to readers' cognitive processing, which we imagine to unfold as follows:
Start – Second 8: Observation of overrepresentation of black children at the bottom of the distribution;
Seconds 8-13: Observation of ample intergenerational fluctuation;
Seconds 13-22: Observation that the overrepresentation of black children at the bottom of the distribution has not changed dramatically;
Second 22-End: Closer investigation (based on the now-revealed estimates of the racial composition in the destination distribution) reveals some equalization; but the overall visual impression remains.
Figure S.1: Sankey diagram as static version of Animation 1
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1. Drawing on up to four mentions of race and counting as white only those who do not report any classification other than white across all mentions leads to the reassignment of only 29 cases from the white to non-white category.↩
2. This illustrates the well-known trade-off between data and assumptions. One of the advantages of full population data is that they often allow the display of observed relationships without further parametric assumptions, eliminating the need for additional explanation.↩
3. Only the Wald test –- but not other statistical tests (likelihood ratio test, score test, Wolfe-Gould test, and Brant test; see Buis 2013) –- rejects the proportional odds assumption \(p<0.1\). Fit statistics that take into account model parsimony (e.g., BIC) indicate that the ordered logistic model is preferred over the more flexible generalized ordered logistic model (see Long and Freese 2014: p.371ff).↩
4. For both whites and blacks, different tests (see footnote 3) fail to reject the null hypothesis that coefficients are equal across outcome categories and the ordered logistic model is also indicated as preferred over the generalized ordered logistic model based on BIC. Because the very low number of black children in the top two quintiles results in situations of perfect prediction, the statistical tests of the proportional odds assumption for black children have to be restricted to the bottom three quintiles. Naturally, the near absence of black children from the top 40% of the wealth distribution is not merely a methodological or modeling challenge, but follows from a fundamental empirical fact, namely, the severely racialized structure of wealth holdings in the United States, which is the focus of Animation 2.↩
5. These probabilities also reveal the issue of empty cells in the underlying cross-tabulation for black children who grow up in the top two quintiles of the wealth distribution. We believe that the lack of any black children from these quintiles who also end up in the top wealth quintile themselves is a feature of the small sample. The model-based probabilities produced under the other statistical models represent our best estimates of the share of cases we would observe if we observed the full population.↩
6. The use of only the SRC sample portion of the PSID prohibits the use of any weights (as the weights were constructed based on both the SEO and SRC sample). For this reason, this sensitivity analysis does not use weights at any stage of the process (i.e., neither in the construction of the quantiles nor in calculating the cross-tabulations).↩


Hrach Garden: The Highlands Sky 40 Mile Trail Run - Oh What A Feeling!
Hey Tiffany. Your race story sounds a lot like my race. This is Sandy Yocum the girl in orange in your last picture on the road. My feet took a beating on those rocks this year. Thanks for giving me motivation those last 4 miles. Congratulations on your finish and I hope to see you out on one of your adventures again.
You kept chugging! I'm so glad you came up to me afterwards - you kept me going too! It's the wonderful thing about this crazy sport that we can encourage each other. Great job, and I hope to see you again too!
No worries, Jim - I think some of my issue was feeling guilty at leaving him behind, though I left him with a bunch of other runners. I've never been involved with that kind of injury on the trail, and it just... worried me. I wasn't disappointed, just worried! And he was ok, so everything was great! Great job at the Aid Stations, and give the pooch a pat for me!
Great, great report. You are very good with words. Thanks for the pictures also. It helps show family and friends what it was like. It really is difficult to describe to someone who hasn't done it. Your time was great. I finished with 7 minutes to spare (and you thought you fought the cut off times?) I made one by .30 seconds. Blessings, and after a week or so, I am having positive thoughts about the race.


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Goulash (; pronunciación húngara, ) es un plato especiado, elaborado principalmente con carne, cebollas, pimiento y pimentón, originario de Europa del Este.

Origen
El goulash es un plato muy popular en la cocina húngara, así como en los países vecinos de Europa central (Eslovaquia, la República Checa, Austria, norte de Italia), los Balcanes (Croacia y Serbia) y en Rumania.

Características
El aspecto es parecido al de la carne estofada o ragú, aunque también existe la sopa de goulash. Se considera como una comida casera y sencilla, debido a que requiere solo un poco de atención al comienzo durante su preparación, además de estar compuesto por simples trozos de carne. El único problema que presenta este plato es el largo tiempo de cocción de la carne. A pesar de su sencillez y de sus orígenes humildes, suele servirse en la mayoría de los restaurantes.

Hay una gran variedad de goulash, dependiendo de la región. Puede acompañarse de ensalada de patata y perejil y comerse con pan; también con spätzle, patatas u otros alimentos de carbohidrato.

Referencias

Véase también

 Gulyásleves
 Pörkölt
 Guiso

Gastronomía de Austria
Gastronomía de Hungría
Gastronomía de Albania
Estofados
Platos nacionales

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Miracles happen when you trust, have faith, and do your best. I was able to keep my thoughts and feelings focused on positive outcomes (exercise faith) because I had taken the time to clear away the negative influences in my heart, mind, and spirit. I am so grateful for God's hands in carrying me safely there and back and providing the necessary information and people to help me resolve this problem. I'm grateful that He provided me with the tools I needed in order to be prepared to face this challenge. I'm grateful that He sent people with the skills and prior-knowledge to help me.


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