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•••Government can't snatch walking stick from blind man without replacement, says Gumi
By Njadvara Musa, Maiduguri and Abdulganiyu Alabi, Kaduna
16 May 2020 | 3:50 am
Notable Kaduna-based Islamic scholar, Sheikh Ahmed Abubakar Mahmud Gumi, has called on the government to provide the necessary support for Almajirai returning to their home states.
Abubakar Mahmud Gumi
• Calls For Prosecution Of Parents Leaving Children To Beg
• Northern Govs To Adopt System With Marital Counseling, Says Association
The northern governors recently agreed to repatriate Almajirai, who roam the streets back to their various home states, with Kano State setting the ball rolling, with some of them later testing positive to Coronavirus (COVID-19) on arrival.
Meanwhile, the Association of Concerned Almajirai (ACAJ) has called on the Northern Governors Forum (NGF) to adopt the Almajiri system with marital counselling of parents, saying the premarital and marital counselling of parents could effectively enable them take responsibilities of their children, instead of allowing them roam the streets to beg.
ACAJ's leader, Onuchi Abdulghaffaar, disclosed this at a news conference in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, said: "The governors should make provisions for high sensitive and premarital counselling of their citizens."
Gumi, in his Ramadan Tafsir video clip, said northern governors cannot prevent the Almajirai from begging to survive without providing them with succour, calling on the government to ensure the system is permanently banned and the children have access to basic needs of life, including western education, wherever they are.
On issue of learning Quran, Gumi said: "Government should inculcate the teaching of Islam with that of the western education. Almajiri now is attached to begging and Prophet Muhammad and Islam is against begging and as such, any parent whose children roam around as Almajirai should be prosecuted.
"Prophet Muhammad said those begging on the day of resurrection will have no flesh on their cheeks, except bones. You are teaching this children what Islam forbade (begging)
"You, as parent, who send your child to Almajiri and they went begging, instead of you to be gaining reward, you are gaining minus. God will ask all those in authority, ranging from parents to governors, why this children are left begging.
"There should be no more begging, but the governors should make provisions for the children they sent out of the street. You should replace a blind mans working stick with another good working stick. Build schools for them. Let them be with their parents. Local governments should be funded to cater for them. They should be clothed.
"If God spares us and we are done with this coronavirus, there should be no more begging in this north. There was a time I went to Malaysia and there was no a single child that was begging. They said all their children were in school. Any parent who allows his child to beg should be prosecuted.
"What remains is jihad with good intentions. People are attributing jihad to Almajiri system, but Almajirai are those who travel to seek for knowledge in course for the sake of God. The question we should be asking is: Are nowadays Almajirai contributing to betterment of society?
"We cannot say because the Prophet rode on camels, then we drop our cars and start riding camels too, because the world is progressing and some discoveries are being made.
"This was not even how the Almajiri system was run in the olden days." Abdulghaffaar said in cases of child abuse and any other defaults of parents or guardians, proper actions should be taken by the 19 northern governors, wondering: "What moral standard have such people to talk about banning the rich, traditional Islamic Almajiri system?"
He also urged the governors to recognise and involve the Tsangaya teachers in decision- making process to improve on the system, saying: "The governors should accept the Almajiri system as formal system of knowledge seeking, considering the much it has done in civilising the north before the coming of colonial masters."
He suggested the setting up of a high-powered committee of stakeholders to produce a blueprint to overcome the challenges of Tsangaya system, describing it as a formal system of knowledge- seeking, which has been in existence and practiced in northern Nigeria before the invasion of colonialists.
he noted: "The system is a process of migration of an individual or group of people from one place to another in search of the knowledge of the Quran and Islam in general."
On the misconception of Almajiri, he said: "It is a Hausa corrupted Arabic word, which has Almuhajir as its original meaning of a migrant. In Northern Nigeria, it refers to someone who migrates from one place to another in search of knowledge," noting that it is not restricted to Islamic knowledge, but the study of the Holy Quran.
Asked what measures ACAJ would take if the governors failed to heed calls for the integration of Almajiri and Tsangaya systems, he said: "I
will be compelled to sponsor a bill to the National Assembly to address the ban of Almajirai, including their repatriation to their respective states. "Every citizen if free to live in any part of the country, as the 1999 Constitution guarantees free movements and residence of people in
almajirai
Sheikh Ahmed Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
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import errno
import os
import math
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile

from wikimedia_thumbor_base_engine import BaseWikimediaEngine

BaseWikimediaEngine.add_format(
    'image/tiff',
    '.tiff',
    lambda buffer: (
        buffer.startswith('II*\x00') or buffer.startswith('MM\x00*')
    )
)

class Engine(BaseWikimediaEngine):
    def should_run(self, extension, buffer):
        if extension not in ('.png', '.tiff'):
            return False

        self.context.vips = {}

        self.prepare_temp_files(buffer)

        command = [
            self.context.config.VIPS_PATH,
            'im_header_int',
            'Xsize',
            self.source.name
        ]

        width = int(self.command(command))
        self.context.vips['width'] = width

        command = [
            self.context.config.VIPS_PATH,
            'im_header_int',
            'Ysize',
            self.source.name
        ]

        height = int(self.command(command))
        self.context.vips['height'] = height

        pixels = width * height

        if self.context.config.VIPS_ENGINE_MIN_PIXELS is None:
            return True
        else:
            if pixels > self.context.config.VIPS_ENGINE_MIN_PIXELS:
                return True

        self.cleanup_temp_files()

        return False

    def create_image(self, buffer):
        try:
            extension = self.context.request.extension
        except AttributeError:
            # If there is no extension in the request, it means that we
            # are serving a cached result. In which case no VIPS processing
            # is required.
            return super(Engine, self).create_image(buffer)

        self.original_buffer = buffer

        try:
            source = "%s[page=%d]" % (
                self.source.name,
                self.context.request.page - 1
            )
        except AttributeError:
            source = self.source.name

        # Replace the extension-less destination by one that has the
        # png extension. This is necessary because the vips command line
        # figures out the export format based on the destination filename.
        # It doesn't have any option to specify it.

        try:
            os.remove(self.destination.name)
        except OSError, e:
            if e.errno == errno.ENOENT:
                pass
            else:
                raise e

        self.destination = NamedTemporaryFile(delete=False, suffix=extension)

        shrink_factor = int(math.floor(
            float(self.context.vips['width'])
            /
            float(self.context.request.width)
        ))

        # Send a resized (but not cropped) image to PIL
        command = [
            self.context.config.VIPS_PATH,
            'shrink',
            source,
            self.destination.name,
            "%d" % shrink_factor,
            "%d" % shrink_factor
        ]
        result = self.exec_command(command)
        self.extension = extension

        # Pass the true source dimensions through the context, letting filters
        # like conditional sharpen pick it up
        self.context.request.source_width = self.context.vips['width']
        self.context.request.source_height = self.context.vips['height']

        return super(Engine, self).create_image(result)

    def read(self, extension=None, quality=None):
        if extension == '.tiff' and quality is None:
            # We're saving the source, let's save the original
            return self.original_buffer

        # Beyond this point we're saving the result
        if extension == '.tiff':
            if self.context.request.extension == '.png':
                extension = '.png'
            else:
                extension = '.jpg'

        return super(Engine, self).read(extension, quality)

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What's the likely fallout, politically and judicially, of Obama's Supreme Court choice?
Will Sotomayor's Style Blunt Her Liberal Views?
What's the likely fallout, politically and judicially, of Obama's Supreme Court choice?
Barack Obama has named his nominee for the Supreme Court, Judge Sonia Sotomayor of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals. What's the likely fallout, politically and judicially?
Politically, Obama gets a plus for naming the first Hispanic justice (unless one counts Benjamin Cardozo, nominated in 1932, a descendant of Portuguese Jews). Sotomayor has an appealing biography: She grew up the daughter of Puerto Rican parents in the Bronx, had a fine academic record at Princeton and Yale Law School, served in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan and practiced commercial law.
Republicans delayed her confirmation for the appeals court in the 1990s for the same reason that Democrats delayed and prevented the confirmation of Miguel Estrada for a judgeship during the first Bush term: to prevent the other party from promoting a Hispanic who would be a plausible Supreme Court nominee.
Sotomayor is that — she clearly meets the minimal standards for the job. Republicans are unlikely to prevent her confirmation, and Democrats can tell Hispanic voters they put one of their own on the nation's highest court.
It remains to be seen whether Sotomayor will prove as charming and articulate in her confirmation hearings as Chief Justice John Roberts was in 2005. And she will presumably have to defend some of her public statements. Such as, "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
That amounts to an assertion that some Americans are more likely to have the "empathy" that Obama said he sought in a nominee because of their gender and ethnic origin. It's not clear that most Americans agree. Pollster Scott Rasmussen reports that 45 percent of Americans believe that legal background and competence are the most important qualities for a nominee, while only 27 percent believe that diversity is the most important. Independents on this issue, as on several others lately, are more like Republicans than Democrats: Fifty percent say legal background and competence are more important.
Sotomayor is not the first nominee chosen for her personal characteristics. But identity politics is not necessarily a political plus for most voters. All of us have only one gender, and only a limited number of ethnic identities and personal experiences. But we don't like to think we're incapable of entering into a sympathetic understanding of those of different backgrounds.
Which leads to the second question: What would a Justice Sotomayor mean judicially? In a widely noted New Republic article, liberal analyst Jeffrey Rosen quoted former 2nd Circuit law clerks and observers as having reservations. One anonymous source said she was "not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench."
If that's a fair assessment, Justice Sotomayor might not fit in particularly well in a court whose current justices, by all accounts I've heard, have excellent personal relations with and respect for each other despite their sometimes sharp disagreements. Half a century ago, most justices came from political backgrounds — this court's members brought distinguished records from academic life and appeals courts or have demonstrated similar high abilities in their opinions.
Rosen expresses the fear that in this company Sotomayor may not prove an effective advocate for her liberal views. Which way that cuts presumably depends on what you think of those views.
One case currently before the court may be on point. Several white firefighters and one Hispanic firefighter sued the city of New Haven for setting aside the results of an examination because no black firefighters qualified for promotion. The federal trial court ruled this did not violate civil rights statutes, and a three-judge panel of the 2nd Circuit, including Sotomayor, affirmed, without a written opinion. This looked to many like a stealth strategy to protect racial preferences from legal attack.
In this case, Sotomayor seemed to share the view of legal elites that racial preferences must be defended, even at the sacrifice of candor, against all attacks. But most Americans tend to agree with Martin Luther King that people should be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin. The Supreme Court is expected to rule on this in June, probably just before Sotomayor's confirmation hearing. Is this an issue that Obama and the Democrats want to litigate in the court of public opinion?
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Written By Michael Barone
Mr. Barone is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a Fox News Channel contributor and the principal co-author of The Almanac of American Politics, published by National Journal every two years.

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Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers Now Available On PS4 & Vita
Flex your tactical muscle to save the world in Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers, now available digitally on PS4 & Vita.
KOEI Tecmo America today announced that Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers, Omega Force's SRPG set in the Dynasty Warriors universe, is now available for the PlayStation 4 and Vita via the PlayStation Store.
Marking a departure from the series' hack-and-slash nature, Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers is a grid-based strategy role-playing game set during the tumultuous end days of the Han dynasty, a period in Chinese history when ancient China was overwhelmed by uprisings, as well as upheavals within its own imperial court. Famed warrior Zhao Yun and his ally Lei Bin rescue a young girl, Lixia, from a mystical prison, and in their efforts to unravel the mystery behind her imprisonment, Zhao Yun and Lei Bin uncover a hidden, terrible fate. Now the two friends and the mysterious girl become entangled in a struggle to save the world itself.
As a bonus to players who purchase Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers during the game's first month of sale, they'll be able to further personalize their gameplay experience with a number of costume options. Lixia can switch her standard costume for the "Diaochan" costume, while Guan Yinping and Lu Lingqi will receive special costumes sporting fox ears and tails.
Will you be adding Dynasty Warriors: Godseekers to your collection? How do you feel about Dynasty Warriors making the jump to the SRPG genre? Be sure to let us know in the comments section.
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A Millstadt woman is facing a felony charge after police said she was driving drunk through several yards early Sunday morning in rural St. Clair County.
The St. Clair County Sheriff's Department responded about 2:30 a.m. to the area of 5600 Saxtown Road for a vehicle driving through yards and causing damage to property.
Upon arrival, deputies found a 2002 Jeep stuck in a field about 150 feet off the roadway. The vehicle was still occupied by a female.
The female, later identified as 59-year-old Cynthia Dori of Millstadt, was detained as deputies assessed the damage and spoke with residents in the area.
On Monday, Dori was charged with DUI and felony criminal damage to property.
Dori remains in the St. Clair County Jail with bond set at $50,000.


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Comparing aspects of education
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Imagine being a child who does not go to school. Instead of learning academics that are deemed important for one's future in today's education, little children are essentially their own teachers and rely on exploration of their surroundings and play in some type of form. They process the ways of life through their own experiences.
There isn't much need for learning such trivial things like mathematics or English. Instead, people become extremely knowledgeable about the variety of plants and animals in the area. After all, the only future career of these adolescents is being a hunter and gatherer, just like their parents. The goal is to just simply survive. There isn't a need for academia. This is the life of a child before agriculture existed.
Though becoming informed about the wilderness through exploration may not be the most traditional way of learning, it doesn't mean it is inferior to today's learning. It is just a different approach of education. In fact, some students yearn for a more intimate learning experience.
"I am more of a hands-on person and can't be sitting at a desk and listening to the same thing over and over again. It gets boring," sophomore Bennett Brownfield said. "But hands-on stuff helps me focus and keeps me more engaged."
Now, picture being put to labor as a juvenile. There are more ways to obtain food now besides hunting and gathering. There's a popular new thing called agriculture that has swept all across the world. Unfortunately for the children of the world, they will be put to hard labor. Their days are filled with plowing, planting, tending their flocks, cultivating and other agonizing work. Gone are the days of play. It is now the era of gut-wrenching work.
Youngsters may develop a good work ethic and character but don't gain much knowledge about academic subjects such as math or literature while exclusively working on a farm. Their duty is to support their families because when they have 10 other siblings who all needed to be fed, their families need all the help they can get.
Before education became more academic based, this was the life of young ones.
One student didn't think that the stress of labor is as useful for a child as an education. Specifically applying to the more useful knowledge education provides as opposed to simply just working on the fields.
"Education would most likely be more beneficial than labor because it has greater benefits for the kids' futures," sophomore Hannah Rettke said. "Education and the lessons you learn through schooling will help you through life with multiple things, such as math and English skills that are often required for multiple tasks."
However, as society progressed, so did the ways kids learned. As the industry advanced and became somewhat self-regulating, the need for child-labor declined.
The concept of Universal Education in Europe evolved from the 16th to 19th century. Most of its promoters were religious Protestants. Because of this, the main purpose of formal education was to instruct children on values and religion. Another influence of education at the time were employers. They saw education as a way to improve the future workforce. For them, the most vital things to be learned were following orders, resilience to long hours of work, and a basic understanding of reading and writing.
Schools developed to what they are today in the 19th and 20th centuries when academics became a more prominent part of the curriculum. From the 1890s to 1930s, what is known as the progressive era, the number of schools and students served increased tremendously, and by 1950, 50 percent of adults had earned a high school diploma in America.
Dr. Chris Belcher, former superintendent of Columbia Public Schools (CPS) and current assistant teaching professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia, gives insight on what shapes education today. His areas of expertise include school and district improvement, curriculum leadership, and leader development and learning.
"At one point you may remember hearing about common core curriculum, which was lots of states working a partnership trying to identify what were the key objectives for courses. And the types of activities and outcomes students should be able to demonstrate, those types of things. So that's the first way," Dr. Belcher said. "The second way is school districts are by law allowed to choose the curriculum they want to teach as long as it doesn't violate any kind of federal or state standard. School districts can look at those standards and integrate and adopt them to their own liking, so to speak. So that's the basic outline. And when I say the curriculum that's provided. Those are sort of broad outcomes, like a student will be able to understand the difference between a one variable expression and something else."
CPS has utilized the common core curriculum in the past. Sometimes reforms had to be made to CPS standards in order to better fit common core. Not necessarily because CPS had to, but because they believed what they were doing wasn't preparing students for life after school. Whether that be the military, the workforce, or higher education.
Teachers are also involved in the process of deciding what material to teach. Kory Kaufman, a physics teacher who has been teaching for more than 30 years, explained their role in forming what is taught.
"Most of what is decided as to 'what' is taught is determined by state standards. Teachers including me have opportunities for input to those standards when they are being developed," Kaufman said. "In terms of what I actually teach my students is somewhat up to me. I work with our PLT (Professional Learning Team), and we decide our common assessments and then I have a lot of freedom to decide exactly what I teach and how it's taught."
The district does have power in the decision of what the curriculum will be, however they don't get the final word in what learning will look like. Dr. Belcher illustrated just how much power the district has over what is taught.
"When you hear this term academic freedom, what that really means is, we give teachers the professional judgment to determine the best way to teach that curriculum," -Dr. Belcher
"When you hear this term academic freedom, what that really means is, we give teachers the professional judgment to determine the best way to teach that curriculum," Dr. Belcher said. "And in some cases, they have these certain assessments that the district has created, and when I say the district the teachers created it, to measure whether or not the students have learned that curriculum. So we give them lots of ways to implement the curriculum, but the principals expect the teachers to for the most part be teaching that curriculum effectively from that curriculum guide."
Though teachers don't have control over everything they teach, Kaufman is content with the power he has, especially because he has a lot more voice in the process than in the past.
"I feel that I have a lot of freedom in making decisions for how I teach and that's only because I was involved in what was taught. When I first was teaching, I wanted more because I had very little say in what was being taught," Kaufman said. "What I mean is when I first started teaching I was handed a curriculum and a book and it was up to me how I taught it. Since then I have been involved in changing the what and how of what's being taught. However, that would mean that a new teacher coming into the position would not feel they have a lot of freedom of what to teach."
However, some teachers believe there is room for improvement. Bob Borst, a math teacher for more than 25 years, sees a flaw in the current system of the curriculum.
"I wish we could pare down the amount of mathematics we have to teach in a given year. You may notice that the train keeps moving throughout the year and doesn't stop much to explore or apply the mathematics in our effort to complete the given standards by year's end," Borst said. "Mathematics is such a comprehensive subject that even though we cram in so much in a given year, we actually make conscious decisions to eliminate some topics that we would prefer to teach."
Not only that, but Dr. Belcher detailed some of the changes that were made specifically at CPS. "A good example of how curriculum has really changed a lot is project 'lead the way,' which is a curriculum we have at the Career Center. It was a recent development based on the needs of having more Science, Technology, Engineering and Math," Dr. Belcher said. "And so at a national level they produced a curriculum and CPS has adopted that and has integrated that into courses at the Career Center. So it's constantly changing based on the needs of the students and the workforce and college requirements and research."
Moreover, there have been many changes in education over the years. This consists of modifications of how students are taught, or even a decision to make a class mandatory. There are also outside factors, such as future employers of students, that go into deciding what adjustments are made.
"There was a group of people in the late 90s that got together in Missouri and decided that all students should have to have a personal finance class. And we [the district] thought so at the time, really didn't think that was a mandate that was necessary because we had personal finance classes that kids could take, and we weren't sure if kids should be required to take that," Dr. Belcher said. "Well, ultimately the state, working closely with the business industry, decided they wanted to make that a requirement."
With the development of resources in society such as the internet and other technologies, a lot of what we know as the traditional curriculum is subject to change in the future and has already been changed. Because of the access to answer virtually any question, the amount of memorization incorporated in class has been cut down. Kaufman described specifically how methods of teaching have changed over the years.
"When I first started teaching over 30 years ago there was a lot of emphasis on memorization of facts. When the MAP (Missouri Assessment Program) was introduced, the assessments didn't rely as much on facts but more of an emphasis on application of information," Kaufman said. In physics "There is very little memorization of facts since most can be found with a quick google check and an obvious emphasis on what to do with those facts. Tomorrow's workers need to be problem solvers and that is currently what the curriculum does today."
Borst gave his opinion on how education has developed, too. Since he started teaching, many changes have been made to how kids learn. He revealed how each change affected him personally as a teacher.
"I began teaching in the '90s and it was a traditional approach to teaching. I didn't really know any other way as this was the way I was taught as a kid. Then in the upper '90s and early '00s, the district decided we would try a new approach that was making waves in pockets across the country," Borst said. " 'Standards-Based' teaching was a departure from lecture, notes, and memorization. We still taught the 'what,' but the 'how' meant teachers and parents had to approach learning from a different place. It absolutely required teachers to understand mathematics at a deeper level and required us to teach it in a radically different way."
Although this method seemed to be effective based on the improved understanding and test scores of students, teachers were forced to shift back to traditional ways of teaching because of another major player in the deciding of the curriculum. The opinion of the taxpayers.
"At the middle school we were problem-based and we developed thinking students. Students became comfortable wrestling with problems without notes or a blueprint on how to solve. Eventually, this type of teaching and learning was thrown out by the superintendent who bowed to pressure from loud parents and some teachers," Borst said. "It was no longer politically-correct to stray from tradition and tax-funded schools answer to the taxpayers. Test scores were improving for our students, but that was not enough to quiet the noise. CPS teachers were told that we had to change back to a traditional approach to teaching math."
Furthermore, the previous approaches of the curriculum have impacted the present-day custom of teaching. Some of these techniques didn't work the way they were planned to. Dr. Belcher demonstrated an example where education was affected by past experiences that weren't sufficient.
"We've seen a lot of push to stop schools from offering low-level classes that don't really challenge kids," Dr. Belcher said. "Often times they were offered so that kids could process through them gradually but they really weren't graduating with the skills that they needed, so you see curriculum tightened in schools to where more and more kids are pushed into more rigorous courses. We've taken out some of that fluff that used to be there in the '70s and the '80s."
There are many reasons why education is the way it is today. But it is always changing, and one must account for what is in store for students tomorrow. Dr. Belcher went into detail on where he sees education going. He noted that online school may trend up, and the overall freedoms of students should increase.
"I think we're gonna see a huge shift in the way that students get their curriculum where it's online. It's gonna give a lot of individuality to students to choose when they take their course and how they take their course," Dr. Belcher said, "Then I think we'll start to see that; I don't know how long it's going to take, but there may be a time that students will be at the RBHS campus maybe half the time. You know, they may be taking some courses online. They may be doing some sort of apprenticeship with a business. That's another thing that's going to unwind. The desire to get students, especially in their junior and senior year, out in the environment of where they think they might wanna work and do some work in the industry in which they think they want to go on and seek a degree or certificate in."
With this freedom comes a lot of responsibility as RBHS faculty likes to tell their students. In a perfect world, all students would be able to handle this freedom, but the district knows that isn't realistic.
"I talk with a lot of my colleagues, and the fear from the professionals is that some students are ready for that independent level of study and when they do that they won't complete the assignments or they don't have the study skills to stay organized and they're not successful in the class," Dr. Belcher said. "So there's gonna be that. Some way you're going to have to determine who's going to be successful at something that is atypical from the current model and who needs to be there and have direct guidance at a much higher level."
Teachers and experts have their concerns and hopes for the future of learning, as well. Not only because of the lack of human communication but for an unrelated issue of the next generation of teachers.
"With the increase in online learning options, I'm not sure this is a good thing. Ideas are developed and problems are solved when we have dialogue with each other. I have never had a student who didn't have something to contribute," Kaufman said. "I am also concerned about recruiting good teachers. Other country's top students become teachers. Here in the U.S., that's not the case. I have made a concerted effort to tell my top students that I think they would make a great teacher."
Online classes are currently offered at RBHS for a wide range of subjects. Vera Reichlin, a Math teacher who also teaches online math classes, shared her input that it takes determination from students in order to succeed in the class.
"One of the negatives [of online classes] is that students need to be pretty self-motivated in order for online learning to work. If students aren't very self-motivated, it's pretty easy for them to fall behind," Reichlin said. "Also, in math classes, students have each other and the teacher to ask if they don't understand something. Online there are videos to watch, but no one to ask."
Nevertheless, there are students who do have the drive to stay caught up in the class and can benefit from the opportunity and flexibility that go along with online classes.
"The benefits [of online classes] that I have seen are if students have health issues that prevent them from being able to attend an in-seat class," Reichlin said. "Online classes allow those students to continue to learn and meet their educational goals."
"Online classes, overall, will be good for the future of education because it provides them with the resources and opportunities that some regular classes might not allow. The only negative I could see from online classes is that students will no longer be receiving that in-class experience in addition to not being able to interact with other students or teachers face-to-face."–Hannah Rettke sophomore
The teacher's opinions aren't the only ones that matter. At the end of the day, the student's viewpoint is the most relevant. One student sees the positives in online education and how it could offer more possibility, though they also see how it could damage one's social life.
"Online classes, overall, will be good for the future of education because it provides them with the resources and opportunities that some regular classes might not allow," sophomore Hannah Rettke said. "The only negative I could see from online classes is that students will no longer be receiving that in-class experience in addition to not being able to interact with other students or teachers face-to-face."
Another student sees the advantage in more open space in schools. Not only that, but it would allow students to apply themselves more than a typical class would.
"School's are already overcrowded, and [online classes] would get less kids in school, and teachers could possibly work more with students one on one because they don't have to deal with a great number of students in a class," Brownfield said. "[Apprenticeships] would get [students] more prepared for what's coming and what they would have to know. I think interactions with people in the field you want to be in would be better than just sitting in a classroom dealing with a teacher. I'd like to deal with what they would go through on a daily basis."
There are so many components that go into what students are taught, it's hard to tell what actually makes a difference. What truly matters and makes a difference, is who is teaching whatever the curriculum is, be it based on what's going on in the present, what's happened in the past, or planning for the future.
"A good teacher has the biggest effect. Whether that teacher is employing a mostly traditional approach or using exploration and discovery it matters that the teacher knows is the students are learning and can adjust when students are not understanding. We cannot just push math into brains and make it stick," Borst said. "All CPS teachers are teaching the same standards, but the results are still varying from teacher to teacher. This is why our teachers continually meet together and attend professional-development so we can continue to learn from one another and improve so all students can benefit from the best instruction."[vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTI3aHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZjZG4ua25pZ2h0bGFiLmNvbSUyRmxpYnMlMkZ0aW1lbGluZTMlMkZsYXRlc3QlMkZlbWJlZCUyRmluZGV4Lmh0bWwlM0Zzb3VyY2UlM0QxVDNHcmNkVmtWM0hFTVk3aUZNMzFmU1QyaGM1cXJZTlpRTF9EcGdLczlBRSUyNmZvbnQlM0REZWZhdWx0JTI2bGFuZyUzRGVuJTI2aW5pdGlhbF96b29tJTNEMiUyNmhlaWdodCUzRDY1MCUyNyUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTI3MTAwJTI1JTI3JTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTI3NjUwJTI3JTIwd2Via2l0YWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwbW96YWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjcwJTI3JTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[/vc_raw_html][penci_fancy_heading title="American college v international university" block_id="penci_fancy_heading-1558456895153″][/penci_fancy_heading]
Education is an important part of American society, but many other countries seem to have worked out far better systems of learning, es
pecially regarding college. A good education is almost always necessary in the United States to get much more than minimum wage, and higher level positions often require more difficult degrees. The main problem most students are hav
ing is the cost of college, which can sometimes be absurdly high.
Other countries, especially in the EU, publicly fund free education such as Germany, or significantly lower the cost of higher education compared to the US such as France or Switzerland. The United Kingdom's education system has instituted universal income based tuition in order to comba
t rapidly rising student debt. This means that in the UK, what a person pays for university is directly tied to how much money they make in a year, so it is very hard to rack up debt as long as they are responsible.
So, what has the US done to combat student debt? Recently, hardly anything. The price of university has been exponentially rising, and the government has basically ignored it. According to the College Board, the average student pays about 34,000 dollars a year. This means the average student could end up in tens of thousands of dollars in debt coming out of college before they even get a chance to use their degree.
Another pressing issue is the quality of education within America. We may perceive our colleges and universities to be some of the best in the world, but Americans with bachelor's degrees score 6 percent worse than the international average, according to the New York Times. Many degrees are quickly obsolete due to the quickly developing nature of our job market, meaning even the most educated among us can have problems finding work.
Overall, the American system of higher education is inconvenient, unfair, and expensive for the average citizen. The universities cost far too much compared to our international counterparts, the knowledge is lacking, and degrees become useless fast.
Josh Kiesow[penci_fancy_heading title="Homework consumes students' time" block_id="penci_fancy_heading-1558624294927″][/penci_fancy_heading][penci_text_block block_title_align="style-title-left"]School can affect kids in many ways, including their grades their personal life and their health. Over the time they spend in class and the time they spend doing their homework school can start to get to be too much and make them lose motivation. Homework helps kids do well outside of the class and keep the information they need to know. But there is a line between doing homework enough to keep information and doing too much homework and getting overwhelmed. People think that homework only affects students grades but depending on the amount that they do it can cause other problems outside of the classroom.
Students involving themselves in extracurriculars and doing extra stuff with friends and family outside of school can give them a chance to refill their energy and have some fun while doing so. With homework, kids might not have enough time to hang out with friends or do extra things like sports or theater. If students do participate in these extracurriculars, students might have to stay up later to finish their homework which can result in doing worse in school as a result of being tired, some people might not have a problem with this but if you are very involved in your activity then you could spend lots of time while doing it. Many students get home and the first thing they do is homework. They're pressured by their parents to do their homework while simultaneously being encouraged to spend time with family, eat, spend time with friends, go outside, participate in sports or other extracurricular activities, and sleep for 7+ hours. Rather than motivating students to master material and learn efficiently, homework negatively impacts students by taking away from personal time that is necessary for them to lead balanced lives.
"I have trouble getting my homework done on the nights of games." Junior baseball player John Crouse says, " If I don't do it the night before, and it's due the day after a game. I'm usually unmotivated to do it when I get home."
Homework can also get in the way of people's social life and make it to where they can't have time with their friends and little time with their family. If they go to hang out with their friends after school they probably don't have much time with them because they need to get home and do homework. If people hang out with friends too long then you might have to stay up later doing homework which could turn in a health problem. According to a new study, conducted by the Better Sleep Council, homework stress is the biggest source of frustration for teens, with 74 percent of those surveyed ranking it there highest reason to be stressed.
Along with personal problems, homework can affect health as well. According to a study done by Stanford University, 65 percent of students said that homework is a primary cause of stress. Homework can also be linked to health problems like lack of sleep, headaches, exhaustion and weight loss. It can also result in bad eating because students want to eat quickly so they eat snacks or not their full meal.
Homework can also start to cause stress, freshman Elly Hall said "I get stressed out if I don't think that I have enough time to get my homework done before falling asleep while doing it or quitting because I'm too tired. If I do this then it isn't done the next day and it can affect my grade."
There are people who can help with this problem. Parents can help by being a part of their child's homework and help them if they get stuck but not give them the answer or they will not learn anything. Having a routine that kids repeat every night will help them become better at doing their homework and complete it in time. Teachers can also help by figuring out what they can do to help their students that are struggling.
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CPS provides a program known as EEE (Extended Educational Experiences) to provide specialized instruction to gifted students, as dictated by Missouri legislature. Senate Bill 638 passed by the General Assembly in 2016 states, "School districts in Missouri may establish programs for gifted children when a sufficient number of children in the district are determined to be gifted and their development requires programs or services beyond the level of those ordinarily provided in regular public school programs…" Dr. Beth Winton Ph.D., the Administrator of Secondary Gifted Education, believes an appropriately rigorous class is necessary to ensure these students reach their fullest potential.
"Between 25 and 35 percent of identified gifted kids are underachieving academically," Dr. Winton said, "which means that that's one out of every three or four identified gifted kids is not performing in school in the way that their potential suggests that they should. It's not that they're not unmotivated or they don't love learning. They're disenchanted by the system."
STUDY TIME: Sophomore, Bet Menen, works in the atrium to finish up some classwork. Photo by Sarah Mosteller.
Despite the apparent necessity of this program for gifted students, recent statistics suggest that gifted students of color and low income are disproportionately unserviced. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) releases an annual report of racial and socioeconomic diversity among Missouri education programs. The 2018-2019 report found that with the exception of Eastern Asian, every group of students of color is underrepresented in Missouri Gifted Programs. The 2018-2019 reports of CPS's EEE concur with the DESE statistics, with the exception of adequately representing mixed-race students. This issue of underrepresentation is not unique to EEE or other Missouri gifted programs, it is an issue of national proportion. According to the National Association for Gifted Children, African American, Hispanic American, and Native American students are nationally underrepresented by at least 50% in programs for the gifted.
Sophomore and student of color, Shruti Gautam noticed a lack of racial diversity in her EEE classes. She notes this has nothing to do with the empirical abilities of underrepresented students.
"As for looking at racial diversity in gifted program intrinsically, it definitely isn't representative of an ideal ratio," Gautam said. "Many racial groups who are historically associated with a lower socioeconomic level, such as African American and Latino, tend to not be in these programs. Even though, there is nothing wrong with the kids themselves. I know plenty of talented and genius kids of these groups, they just have a lower presence."
To explain the disparity several students describe, a variety of theories have arisen. Some students, including Wu, theorize that this inequality is because of the lack of awareness of the testing process.
"I feel like it's always the parents who research it and who prepare their kids for the exam," Wu said. "I don't think the school really advertises it to students that EEE is a thing that's a good opportunity."
Gifted Teacher and Counselor Gwen Struchtemeyer agrees with Wu's assertion that students whose parents do not have the time, energy, or knowledge to look into gifted program are put at a disadvantage in the identification process.
"Right now we have about 300 students who qualify for gifted services, but fewer than 12 are of African American or Latino descent, which is several times underrepresented as compared to the general population. I do find students every year who I think would be on my roster if they had been selected earlier. Undoubtedly, a variety of social challenges weigh into this. I have a lot of students whose parents actively seek gifted acknowledgment. Some students may not have been selected because they moved around a lot as children, or they did not have a parent at home who could seek out services, and that is also tied to lower socioeconomic status."
Although there is a universal screening in elementary school, joining EEE during middle school requires a testing recommendation. This may put under-resourced families at a disadvantage as they do not have the time or resources to research the program. According to the U.S. Department of Education, underprivileged families have less access to academic material like books. This disadvantage is clear in the DESE report citing, while 44 percent of CPS students receive free and reduced lunch, only 12 percent of EEE students receive these services. According to Dr. Winton, Free and Reduced is often used as an indicator of low-income among students. This underrepresentation may have contributed to the lack of socioeconomic and racial diversity in EEE as students of color have higher rates of Free and Reduced Lunch qualifiers. According to the Missouri Department of Education, CPS's free and reduced lunch serves over 60 percent students of color, yet the district is made up of only 40.1 percent students of color.
The correlation between socioeconomic and racial diversity creates a unique issue for screening gifted students. Dr. Winton said the screening for EEE can be biased toward students with more resources.
"One of the issues with the identification of gifted kids is sometimes the screening procedures are biased or imperfect and they end up screening kids out. So ideally you want a universal screener where everybody is screened within some kind of nonverbal assessment," Dr. Winton said, "so we don't screen out kids for whom English isn't their primary language, kids who have some kind of language processing disability or kids who are from underprivileged homes who don't have strong language skills."
In order to qualify for EEE students must meet program benchmarks on the Wechsler Intelligence Scales for Children, Fifth Edition (WISC5). This test is administered one-on-one to any student if the student first meets a program benchmark on the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test, Second Edition (NNAT2). The Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test is administered to all students new to CPS and to all kindergarten students during the spring of the kindergarten year. This test acts as a prerequisite to the WISC5. Test creators Naglieri and Ford found that for the NNAT2, White, Black, and Hispanic children of similar household income had similar mean scores and were equally likely to meet common percentile cuts for participation in gifted programming. More recent studies, however, found that students from low income households and underrepresented minority groups scored 14 Naglieri Ability Index score (NAI) points lower on the NNAT2 than non-minority students from middle-class families.
The varying ability to present giftedness based on the background makes it difficult to identify underprivileged gifted individuals. The current screening processes measure primarily academic giftedness and tend to skim over other forms.
"We don't want to disadvantage kids from the under-resourced background because you don't have a thousand books in your house, doesn't mean that you can exhibit the giftedness, it just means it looks different and it's our job to know that it looks different," Dr. Winton said. "To know what those differences are and to actively go out and look for kids who have exhibited in the way that we know those kids exhibit their giftedness. It's our fault for not doing that. It's not their fault for not showing up knocking on our doors saying, 'Hey, I'm here'. Our job is to go find them."
To find these individuals, the EEE program opened referrals to allow testing recommendations from family, friends, teachers or even the students themselves. Still, Dr. Winton believes that more can be done to identify the giftedness in all its forms.
"You can be at the top academically, musically, artistically or creativity. There are lots of other avenues," Dr. Winton said. "Some students can memorize the words to every song they've ever heard. That's just as strong a memory skill as the kids who have memorized every book they ever read, but our schools tend to value that book skill over the kind of non-academically related displays of giftedness. So what I would love to see us do, and one of the things that I try to work in my role as coordinator is to expand opportunities for gifted kids to display different skills."
To consider these varying displays and eliminate resource bias, Dr. Winton suggests a holistic approach to EEE applications. She believes this will help identify giftedness among underprivileged students whose skills may not manifest themselves in test scores.
"What I would love to see ultimately is a committee interview process where we collectively look at all of the information about a particular child in school and out of school," Dr. Winton said. "We would interview them and sort of take collectively their whole experience, as opposed to just how well did you do on this set of tests of these last five years."
Dr. Winton resides on the Advisory Council on the Education of Gifted and Talented Students, which works to improve and manage the policies surrounding gifted education. The Advisory Council meets each month, at Drury University, to discuss making the Missouri gifted programs more inclusive.
"I don't view it as a kindness to be more inclusive. I view it as an ethical requirement," Dr. Winton said. "It's a moral decision that if we have a program that targets needs of gifted kids and we know that the way that we identify gifted kids isn't as good as it can be. We have a moral imperative to make it better."
By Amira McKee


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The Boxer Hotel is a Boutique style hotel located In Boston's Bulfinch Triangle. This flat-iron style 80 room property is old on the outside but new on the inside. It offers affordable chic accommodations with a helpful and professional staff. Rooms are quiet, well appointed, spotless, however, they are on the tiny side.
Located in downtown Boston, The AAA four-diamond Langham Hotel is a contemporary luxury hotel rich in history. The Langham is located in the landmark Federal Reserve Bank. It overlooks the gardens of Post Office Square, and is just steps from Faneuil Hall, the North End, the Freedom Trail, the waterfront, and the shopping district.
The Boston Copley Marriott is centrally located in the Back Bay Section of Boston. Comfortable clean up to date rooms with good views for upper floors. Linked with a skywalk to the Prudential Center – Upscale shopping and dining on both sides, on the other side is the Copley Mall.
This is a great pick for staying in Copley Square. The rooms are fairly spacious, very clean, well decorated and comfortable. This is not like the typical Courtyard, it is a step-up in class. The staff is great-and you can walk to many of the attractions from this location.
The Long Wharf is our Family Pick for Boston. The location on the waterfront could not be better. You are next to the new England Aquarium and across the street from all the activities in Faneuil Hall, and walking distance to the Italian North End.
The Marriott's Custom House is a 26-story 1847 landmark building which served as the official customs house. Today it operates as a time-share condo unit of Marriott vacations. guest rooms feature separate living and dining rooms with wet bars, microwave ovens, and mini refrigerators.
Located next to Faneuil Hall is the luxury European style Millennium Bostonian. The hotel features balconies that overlook the Quincy Market. Guest have access to the fitness club or Beacon Hill Athletic Club. Bathrooms can be a bit on the small size, and since you are so close to the Bars and Restaurants it can be noisy at night.
This historic landmark hotel offers a great location – borders on Theater District and Back Bay. The Hotel underwent a major renovation in 2001, the lobby is quite impressive has that old world feel, rooms are just ok. The hotel offers many options when it comes to room size, the economy rooms are tiny (but you can get them cheap), bathrooms are small typical of many older city hotels.
The Sheraton is one of the large hotels connected to the Hynes Convention Center. Location is great, especially in those harsh New England winter months when you have access to a lot without ever stepping outside. It's one of those cookie cutter large business hotels, however that's not always a bad thing.
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This is a solid hotel in the back Bay area. Located across the street from one of the entrances to the Hynes Convention Center. Expect clean rooms – bathrooms can be a bit small, but overall the Hotel is in very nice shape.
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A Peter Thiel-backed blockchain platform just invested $10 billion in a new crypto exchange
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Block.one announced on Tuesday that it would launch a crypto exchange called Bullish.
It's landed over $10 billion in backing from Peter Thiel, Mike Novogratz, Louis Bacon, and Nomura.
Novogratz said that Bullish's scale and Block.one's experience would make it "a formidable player."
Block.one, a blockchain platform backed by the billionaire Paypal and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, just invested $10 billion into its new subsidiary Bullish Global, which plans to release a crypto exchange later this year.
A press release on Tuesday described Bullish Global's crypto exchange as a "blockchain-based cryptocurrency exchange designed to combine the performance, user privacy, and compliance offered by central order book technology with the vertically integrated user benefits of decentralized finance (DeFi) market architecture."
The cryptocurrency exchange is set to launch this year and use the EOSIO and EOS Public Blockchain, the release said.
Alan Howard, the British billionaire hedge-fund manager and a Bullish Global investor, said Bullish would focus on "bridging the gap between digital assets and institutional actors," adding that it would "shape the future of the financial sector as we witness greater mainstream adoption of digital currencies."
"I am excited about being involved with Bullish's mission to give its users more value-added control over their financial future," he added.
The release said Bullish would provide institutional and retail investors services in market-making, lending, and portfolio management in a decentralized finance (DeFi) app without using banks as middlemen.
Bullish has received over $10 billion in cash and digital-asset backing from Block.one and the likes of Thiel Capital, Founders Fund, Howard, Louis Bacon, Richard Li, Christian Angermayer, Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Digital, and the Japanese investment bank Nomura.
Block.one's initial funding included 164,000 bitcoins, valued at about $9.7 billion; $100 million in cash; and 20 million EOS tokens. An additional funding round raised $300 million, the release said.
Thiel, Howard, Li, and Angermayer will also serve as senior advisors to the company as a part of the deal.
Read more: Fundstrat's head of digital assets research walks us through his $100,000 and $10,500 year-end price targets for bitcoin and ether - and shares the 8 tokens he's bullish on
"Bullish's balance sheet is strong, and its vertical integration offers stability and liquidity to the cryptocurrency space," Thiel said in the release. "I'm happy to join Bullish as an investor and advisor as it gets started on a long and fruitful journey."
Novogratz said he was excited about what Bullish could bring to the crypto space. "Bullish's sheer size and scale combined with Block.one's experience in high-performance blockchain engineering will make Bullish a formidable player from day one," he said.
Block.one has faced headwinds since netting $4 billion from an initial coin offering in 2018.
The company paid a $24 million settlement to the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2019 to resolve allegations of conducting an unregistered ICO.
Bloomberg said a recent report from Electric Capital described declining developer interest in Block.one's platform.
Correction: An earlier version of this article referred to Bullish Global as a cryptocurrency exchange. Bullish Global is a subsidiary of Block.one and Bullish is the firm's cryptocurrency exchange.
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I finally got on Ask's list of writers that they send out requests for queries to. I was so excited. But now the editor who maintains that list has emailed that she has resigned, and to "see the website" for information on submissions and queries. So I guess that means I'm back to square one? The website still just says for science writers to send writing samples to "editor."
Is something going on at Carus? I had some things published with their bug mags about 8 years ago, then took a hiatus, and now I"m writing again. I haven't had any success this round. Actually, it's not even that. I sent stuff to them about 8 months ago that they still haven't responded to. Is anybody having success with them? Are they having problems?
I'm not sure about Ask, but the Cricket Group has moved its editorial offices from Peru, IL to Chicago during your time away, and gone through some major editorial staff changes. According to reported response times here on the board, it appears they are moving pretty slowly right now, but are still accepting manuscripts and encourage submissions. The new individual mag websites are expected to be up and running the end of this month, so perhaps we'll know more at that time.
I received the same (disappointing) e-mail. Just when you get to know someone and enjoy working with them, things change. I was wondering the same thing, if we would need to reestablish ourselves with a new editor and/or submit resumes and writing samples again. I'm hoping they will just send out future notices using the "old" author e-mail list.
ha! Yeah, I'm a too! Maybe I'll just bite the bullet and do it tomorrow.


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Researchers from the University of Chicago found for those experiencing loneliness, there's a 26 per cent increase in likelihood of premature death, and it can make people "irritable, depressed and self-centred." (Illustration by Oliver Munday)
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11.12.2018 | Erica Lenti
Canadian workers are more isolated than ever. And a lonely workforce isn't just a public health concern, it's bad for business.
When Aristaea Clarkson decided in 2013 to leave a major accounting firm to start her own business, she thought she had covered all of the bases: the CPA had considered how the move would affect her finances, furnished a home office and planned how to build up her clientele. She felt she was ready.
But what Clarkson—like many remote workers—didn't take into account was how starved she would be for social engagement. In those first few tax seasons, she found herself working 80-hour weeks, spent almost entirely at her desk. She would emerge only to cook dinner and eat with her husband and kids, or for quick jaunts to the supermarket for groceries. Conversation was rare. That's why, when a repairman came to fix her air conditioning unit, Clarkson followed him around the house, making idle chit-chat—she was desperate to engage with someone, anyone. "I wasn't bored with my work," she says. "But when someone would come over, I realized I was so excited to talk to them."
It's a phenomenon some have dubbed "workplace loneliness." The term might seem ill-fitting—so many of us, after all, don't view work as a social event. But the way we work has changed: the latest survey from Statistics Canada, reported in 2010, pegs the number of people working from home at least part of the time at 1.7 million, and that doesn't include those who are self-employed like Clarkson. (More recent numbers aren't available.) Even at work, technology is reducing the amount of face-to-face time we have with each other, with many opting for chat on Google Hangouts or Slack in place of in-person meetings. Then there's the growing gig economy, emboldening freelancers to go it alone; even if they choose co-working spaces, there's little interaction with others.
Working at home meant little social interaction. When a repairman came, she trailed after him making idle chit chat.
These changes in workplace behaviour have a huge impact on our social engagement—they affect not just how good we are at our jobs but how well we feel overall.
Some say loneliness is emerging as a public health crisis. In February, researchers John and Stephanie Cacioppo from the University of Chicago tallied the effects: for those experiencing loneliness, there's a 26 per cent increase in likelihood of premature death, and it can make people "irritable, depressed and self-centred." Research from California State University, Sacramento also suggests that those who feel lonely at work often emotionally detach themselves from their employers and find their work less psychologically rewarding. Workplace loneliness, the researchers concluded, can have "a significant influence on employee work performance, both in direct tasks, as well as employee team member and team role effectiveness."
That's in part why, in May last year, corporate giant IBM—among one of the first to tout the benefits of telecommuting—asked thousands of its remote workers to return to their offices. Prior to that, Yahoo and Best Buy did the same. And Apple and Google won't even entertain the idea of working from home. When workers feel lonely, it can affect their productivity—and that's bad for business. Collaboration, these companies also suggest, begs for proximity. Or, as The Atlantic's Jerry Useem put it in his report on the IBM decision: "collaboration requires communication. And the communications technology offering the fastest, cheapest, and highest-bandwidth connection is—for the moment, anyway—still the office."
It's not that working from home is a totally broken system. There's still plenty arguing in its favour: these arrangements often get more out of employees—they wind up working for at least part of the time they would otherwise be commuting—and employers cut down on costly overhead. (And there's always the comfort of working in your pyjamas.) Anecdotally, Clarkson says she's never been happier working from home, even with those long work weeks alone. "I'm happy to be away from the workplace politics," she adds.
26 per cent—the increase in likelihood of premature death for those experiencing loneliness.
Like most good things, it seems the key is balance. A solution can't be found in extremes. Employers can't tear down cubicles and expect their workers to sit at communal benches and play nice in the sandbox. They also can't think that remote, often isolating work will make for better productivity, either.
Companies at the forefront of workplace innovation seem to be catching on: Michigan-based furniture company Steelcase recently redesigned its offices to contain both private, quiet spaces alongside an open-concept work environment. The combination, allowing workers a mix of both individual and collaborative workspace, provides the best of both worlds.
Others are encouraging their peers to open up about their feelings of social isolation. Last year, Toronto graphic designer Marissa Korda started The Loneliness Project, a website where Canadians can share their experiences, in part to help break down the stigma of being lonely. The project goes beyond exploring just workplace loneliness, taking a deep dive into the world of social isolation. The idea is that talking about the problem is a first step in establishing that core balance—acknowledging that it must exist.
For telecommuters in particular, taking these steps may look a little different. It might mean working with a colleague or like-minded peer at a coffee shop, heading back to the office for a few days a week, or even participating in a group activity unrelated to work to get in those precious hours of human interaction.
Clarkson still hasn't quite figured out that balance. She phones up her accountant pals from the old firms when she's in a crunch or needs advice—or when she's craving a bit more social engagement. But the loneliness still creeps up. "It's a work in progress," she admits. "I think it always will be."
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David Broder is a historian of French and Italian communism. He is currently writing a book on the crisis of Italian democracy in the post-Cold War period.
One hundred years ago, the Third International inspired the creation of communist parties across Latin America. Yet only its demise would liberate them from stifling Russian control.
Socialists throughout history have understood that holding office is not the same thing as winning power. Working people can only entrench their victories through a fight to change the state itself.
Splitters from Labour want to create a new centrist force in British politics. The Social Democratic Party of the 1980s offers plenty of reason to hope they'll fail.
Italy's far-right Matteo Salvini faces charges for the kidnapping of 177 migrants. But the supposedly anti-establishment Five Star Movement can block the trial — and probably will.
Eric Hobsbawm's close engagement with the Italian Communist Party demonstrated the sharply political character of his work.
Governments want us to respect World War I veterans in an apolitical way. But we should not forget the thousands of veterans who returned home to fight for their rights.
Matteo Salvini's hard-right Lega used to want independence for Northern Italy. Today, the party is building a reactionary base in the South.
Liberals want to smear Jean-Luc Mélenchon as a xenophobe. In fact, they fear his potential to unite the oppressed.
Italy's Democratic Party wants to lead the resistance against the government's hard-right policies. Yet the party seems close to its death-knell.
The Genoa bridge collapse in Italy is an absolute disaster. It's also the result of privatization and austerity.
Arsène Tchakarian was the last surviving member of a Communist military unit in the French Resistance. Mainly Jews and immigrants, they risked everything to fight the Nazi occupation.
Bombed by the US Air Force at the height of World War II, Rome's San Lorenzo district symbolizes the resilience of a popular antifascism.
Domenico Losurdo was an acute critic of liberal hypocrisy and double standards in history writing.
Madeleine Albright's Fascism: A Warning is full of criticism of Trump — but it's silent on the swamp from which he emerged.
The collapse of the planned coalition government in Italy opens the way for a fresh breakthrough for Matteo Salvini's hard-right Lega.
Mao's Little Red Book united student radicals with Third World guerrillas.
Aldo Moro's murder on May 9, 1978 blocked the Italian Communists' route to government and ushered in an age of political fragmentation.
It's been a year since Emmanuel Macron was elected. His "start-up presidency" is a liberal dystopia.
Today marks the anniversary of Benito Mussolini's execution. But the legacy of his regime continues to linger in Italian politics.
After yesterday's Italian election, the old is dying and something superficially different but not altogether new has been born.


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Megan Sandel, John Cook, Ph.D., Ana Poblacion, Richard Sheward, Sharon Coleman, Janet Viveiros, Lisa Sturtevant, Ph.D.
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Past research from the Children's Health Watch has shown that homelessness, both pre-natal and post-natal has a detrimental impact on the health of children. Compared to children that have not experienced homelessness, children who experienced homelessness had higher rates of hospitalization, and the hospitalization risk was compounded for children who were homeless both prenatally and postnatally – this group was 41 percent more likely to have been hospitalized than children who were never homeless. In contrast, children who were homeless only in the postnatal period or only prenatally were 22 percent and 20 percent, respectively, more likely to have been hospitalized.
In the report Housing as a Health Care Investment, researchers from Children's HealthWatch and the National Housing Conference estimate the costs of this increased hospitalization risk.
Major findings:
In 2014, an estimated 671,000 children age four or under had experienced homelessness either prenatally or postnatally.
The approximately 18,600 hospitalizations attributable to early childhood/prenatal homelessness in the United States cost more than $238 million annually.
55 percent of these hospitalization costs are for children less than 12 months of age.
In food-insecure families (those who report not having regular access to adequate food) with rental assistance during the prenatal period, infants were 43 less likely to be hospitalized compared with those in similar families that did not receive rental assistance.
While 21 percent of infants in food-insecure families without rental assistance had been hospitalized prior to their first birthday, just 14 percent of similar infants in families with rental assistance had been hospitalized.
The avoided hospitalizations among infants in food-insecure families with rental assistance generated health care cost savings of approximately $20 million in 2015.
Policy recommendations:
Expand rental assistance programs, which have been demonstrated to reduce family homelessness. This includes support for Housing Choice Vouchers and other federal, state, and local rental subsidies; capital subsidy programs for new affordable development; as well as programs for preserving existing affordable housing and redeveloping poor quality public housing developments.
Ensure sufficient family-sized units are available and accessible with voucher assistance. This may include project-basing vouchers to add larger apartments to new affordable housing.
Support families in using housing vouchers by improving their administration and prohibiting discrimination against families with vouchers.
Connect families to supportive services such as case management and other social service programs.
Make the case to prioritize homeless and at-risk families as a special population for comprehensive housing-inclusive health care plans, similar to chronically ill or homeless individuals.
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Hard Choices: How Moving On and Off Reservations Can Increase the Risk of Homelessness for American Indians
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The Spitzer Ice Legacy: Ice Evolution from Cores to Protostars
Öberg, Karin I. and Boogert, A. C. Adwin and Pontoppidan, Klaus M. and van den Broek, Saskia and van Dishoeck, Ewine F. and Bottinelli, Sandrine and Blake, Geoffrey A. and Evans, Neal J., II (2011) The Spitzer Ice Legacy: Ice Evolution from Cores to Protostars. Astrophysical Journal, 740 (2). p. 109. ISSN 0004-637X. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20111205-115715695
Ices regulate much of the chemistry during star formation and account for up to 80% of the available oxygen and carbon. In this paper, we use the Spitzer c2d Legacy ice survey, complimented with data sets on ices in cloud cores and high-mass protostars, to determine standard ice abundances and to present a coherent picture of the evolution of ices during low- and high-mass star formation. The median ice composition H_(2)O:CO:CO_2:CH_(3)OH:NH_3:CH_4:XCN is 100:29:29:3:5:5:0.3 and 100:13:13:4:5:2:0.6 toward low- and high-mass protostars, respectively, and 100:31:38:4:-:-:- in cloud cores. In the low-mass sample, the ice abundances with respect to H_(2)O of CH_4, NH_3, and the component of CO_2 mixed with H_(2)O typically vary by <25%, indicative of co-formation with H_(2)O. In contrast, some CO and CO_2 ice components, XCN, and CH3OH vary by factors 2-10 between the lower and upper quartile. The XCN band correlates with CO, consistent with its OCN– identification. The origin(s) of the different levels of ice abundance variations are constrained by comparing ice inventories toward different types of protostars and background stars, through ice mapping, analysis of cloud-to-cloud variations, and ice (anti-)correlations. Based on the analysis, the first ice formation phase is driven by hydrogenation of atoms, which results in an H_(2)O-dominated ice. At later prestellar times, CO freezes out and variations in CO freezeout levels and the subsequent CO-based chemistry can explain most of the observed ice abundance variations. The last important ice evolution stage is thermal and UV processing around protostars, resulting in CO desorption, ice segregation, and the formation of complex organic molecules. The distribution of cometary ice abundances is consistent with the idea that most cometary ices have a protostellar origin.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/740/2/109 DOI Article
http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/740/2/109 Publisher Article
Öberg, Karin I. 0000-0001-8798-1347
Pontoppidan, Klaus M. 0000-0001-7552-1562
van Dishoeck, Ewine F. 0000-0001-7591-1907
Blake, Geoffrey A. 0000-0003-0787-1610
Evans, Neal J., II 0000-0001-5175-1777
© 2011 American Astronomical Society. Received 2011 April 14; accepted 2011 July 27; published 2011 October 4. Support for K.I.O. is provided by NASA through a Hubble Fellowship grant awarded by the Space Telescope Science Institute, which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., for NASA, under contract NAS 5-26555. Astrochemistry in Leiden is supported by a SPINOZA grant of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Support for this work, part of the Spitzer Space Telescope Legacy Science Program, was provided by NASA through contracts 1224608 and 1230779 issued by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under NASA contract 1407. The W. M. Keck Observatory is operated as a scientific partnership among the California Institute of Technology, the University of California, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. The authors recognize the cultural role and reverence that the summit of Mauna Kea has within the indigenous Hawaiian community. We are most fortunate to have the opportunity to conduct observations from this mountain. We acknowledge helpful comments from an anonymous referee.
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Subject Keywords:
astrochemistry; circumstellar matter; infrared: ISM; ISM: abundances; ISM: lines and bands; ISM: molecules; molecular processes; stars: formation
The Spitzer Ice Legacy: Ice Evolution from Cores to Protostars Karin I. Öberg et al. 2011 ApJ 740 109
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Coconut oil: Victoria's Secret?
Sales boom as model Miranda Kerr reveals daily dose of 'healthy fat' is key to her beauty
By Tamara Cohen
It was recently given a ringing endorsement by one of the world's most beautiful women. So it should perhaps come as no surprise that coconut oil - favourite beauty product of Miranda Kerr - is flying off the shelves.
`Nuts about coconut oil! Miranda Kerr says her healthy physique, glossy hair and blemish-free skin are thanks to daily doses of the healthy fat
Sales are said to have soared after the Australian model, wife of actor Orlando Bloom, revealed she is an avid user. In an interview last month she attributed her blemish-free skin and glossy hair to the miracle oil.
Miss Kerr, 28, who models for Victoria's Secret, and gave birth to the couple's first child Flynn in January, said: 'I will not go a day without coconut oil. I personally take four tablespoons per day, either on my salads, in my cooking or in my cups of green tea.'
Health food chain Holland & Barrett, which has 625 stores nationwide, reported sales had shot up by 50 per cent in the past year and that much of the demand was very recent. A £12.59 pot of the store's own-brand product was sold out on its website as they hurried to re-stock.
The oil contains fatty acids which are said to leave skin and hair smooth and shiny, and devotees have linked it with a host of other alleged health benefits, including weight loss, although these are highly disputed.
Extracted from the flesh of mature coconuts it can be drunk raw, used in cooking and baking or applied directly to the skin or hair as a moisturiser. Kate Butler, Holland & Barrett's nutritionist, said: 'The small molecular structure of coconut oil allows for easy absorption through the skin giving it a soft texture.
'This makes it an ideal ointment for the relief of dry, rough skin, and an effective after-sun lotion because it literally melts into your skin. It works wonderfully as a hair conditioner too.'
But experts, including the World Health Organization, have warned against drinking too much coconut oil as it contains high levels of saturated fat and calories - a 15g tablespoon contains around 135.
Professor Mike Gordon, a food chemist at Reading University, said: 'Coconut is 50 per cent made up of a fatty acid called lauric acid which if consumed to excess can contribute to increased risk of coronary heart disease. 'I would be very cautious about advising people to consume large amounts of coconut oil.'
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