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The worst argument for open borders ever made?
By gcallah - March 22, 2015
Jason Brennan links to a new paper. I have only
read Brennan's summary, so the paper may be much better than he depicts it (more
on that later), but anyway, here is how he summarizes its argument:
"Freiman says to readers
(again, a paraphrase, not a real quotation): 'Okay, so you believe it's
permissible to prohibit foreigners from moving to your country (even when
there's someone who wants to hire them or let them lease a house), but it's not
permissible to deport current citizens. Fine. Give me some feature F that
citizens have, which non-citizens lack, that plausibly explains why it's
permissible to exclude one but not to deport the other. Or give me some feature
G that non-citizens have, but citizens lack, that explains why it's permissible
to exclude foreigners but not deport citizens. Let's confine ourselves to cases
where the harm done to the foreigner by excluding him is equal to the harm done
to the citizen by deporting her. And, no, you can't just say F = is a citizen
or is a member of the social contract, or that G = is a foreigner or is not a
member of the social contract, because that's the very thing we're asking
about. What is it about natively-born people that they count as having certain
rights while foreign-born people don't?'"
This is a remarkable
argument. Firstly, it demands that we ignore the only relevant difference
between citizens and non-citizens: "And, no, you can't just say F = is a
citizen or is a member of the social contract, or that G = is a foreigner or is
not a member of the social contract, because that's the very thing we're asking
about."
Or, to paraphrase:
"OK, so let me first
ban from consideration the very reason that one of these things is permissible
and the other not, and then see what those who want to make this distinction
have left to say!"
Secondly, the argument
fallaciously calls both failing to allow someone to move to one's country and
kicking someone out of it as "harm": But no, the first is simply not acting to
improve someone's condition, while only in the second case is there harm being
done. To make this easier to see: If I throw my own young child out of my
house, I am harming her, since I have an obligation to house my child. But in
no way am I "harming" the millions of homeless children in the world but not
allowing all of them to come live with me: I am under no obligation to house
them.
Freiman shows up in
Brennan's comment section to dispel the hope that perhaps his paper is better
than Brennan's summary, writing: "what you don't want to say is that
citizens are morally special simply because they fall on one side of a line
(the border) rather than another"
The very phrasing
"simply because they fall on one side of a line (the border) rather than
another" essentially contains Freiman's whole argument. He begins by
denying that a nation is or should be any sort of community whose members have
special obligations to each other that they do not have to others simply by the
way he characterizes the relationship, and at the end he "reaches"
the conclusion that a nation is not any sort of community whose members have
special obligations to each other that they do not have to others. It is like
the joke recipe for sausage: to make a sausage, start with some sausage...
Then Freiman continues to
dig in deeper: "Think of it this way: suppose I am on a sidewalk and draw
a line with a piece of chalk. I then proceed to step across that line. Has my
moral status changed?" Well, yes, if we "think" of a political
community in this brain-addled way, we will reach very bad conclusions. Of
course, the analogy breaks apart on the very point where the similarity
supposedly lies: I don't cease being a member of the American political
community simply because I am in Montreal for a weekend, nor does a Canadian
cease to be Canadian if she drives to the Adirondacks. By analogy, if we define
a "family" simply as "some people who happen to live on the same
side of a house wall," then we will not find any reason I might have a
greater obligation to care for my sick son than for a sick child in California.
It is a fact of earthly
existence, easily confirmed by a survey of our world, that every living entity,
whether we count them as individuals or groups (and recent biology has shown
that it is often hard to say which is which), must have some boundary where it
controls what passes through. Our immune systems are a perfect example of this,
or ant colonies that prevent incursions of "foreign" ants, or private business
firms, that certainly do not permit just anyone to wander around in their
offices, answering customer calls and placing orders for new computers.
On Facebook a friend
brought up the fact that many churches may feel an obligation to admit some
categories of outsiders as a counter-argument this proposition. But this
actually illustrates my point: a church may have obligations to admit some
people (and so may a political community, e.g. children of members) but also must have a right to exclude some from
membership (Satanists, for instance), or it will simply cease to exist as a
separate entity. His argument that a church has an obligation to admit certain
supplicants implies that it has a
right to admit or not: otherwise, no one would need to make an argument that people
fitting description X or Y ought to be admitted: they would just be in
automatically!
So, similarly, if one
argues that the US ought to admit, say, Vietnamese refugees, given our role in
destroying their country (an argument I would be very sympathetic to, by the
way) presupposes that our political community has the right to decide who can
join, and we are attempting to persuade our fellows that in this case, it
should use that right by saying "yes." This request for
"symmetry" in approaching those inside some group and those outside
is fabricated just to create a "trap" (Brennan's characterization of Freiman's
argument) for those who will not agree to open borders: I can't think of a
single important relationship in human life where we regard kicking someone out
of the relationship as lightly as we do not letting them in in the first place.
If we don't want to marry someone, we can simply tell them, "I am not
interested." But if we are going to leave a marriage, decency (and perhaps
the law as well) demands a little more than that. And it is not necessary for
us to calculate if the "harm" done to the suitor we turned down: there is no
harm, as we have no obligation to marry anyone. We can decide not to have
children simply because we don't want children, but once we have them, we
cannot just send them out to live in the woods because we have changed our
minds. There are many cats roaming the streets of New York City that I have
failed to adopt, and without moral censure, but if I turn the cat I do have out
onto the street, I have earned both blame and legal penalties. Nowhere else do
we find this "symmetry" that is being demanded of political communities.
djf 6:35 PM
That the open-borders types resort to bogus moral arguments like this is an implicit admission that open borders are against the interests of the majority of the existing citizenry in developed countries. After all, if they could argue to the public that open borders will be good for you and your kids, presumably they would make that argument. And, I suppose, it's nice that they're not lying about what's in the audience's personal interests anymore; they're just fabricating a phony moral obligation to throw away one's children's future to benefit people from a foreign country to whom we owe nothing. Even ordinary people ought to be sophisticated enough to see through this. Sadly, this may not be the case.
Josiah Neeley 7:04 PM
'Borders are just imaginary lines of no moral significance' is an odd line for a believer in private property to take.
Yes: I think I said something like this in Brennan's comment section.
Samson Corwell 1:20 AM
His argument that a church has an obligation to admit certain supplicants implies that it has a right to admit or not: otherwise, no one would need to make an argument that people fitting description X or Y ought to be admitted: they would just be in automatically!
This doesn't make sense. They are arguing against the idea that a political entity should be allowed to refuse entry to people. This may assume that it can to begin with, but this hardly seems relevant since that is what they are attacking.
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By Metro US Posted on April 22, 2022
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(Reuters) – Multinational companies that announced their exit from Russia, or suspension of activities there, after its invasion of Ukraine have started to calculate losses associated with their decisions.
Below is an alphabetical list of firms that have provided cost estimates related to their temporary or permanent halt of business in Russia:
The Belgian brewer announced on April 22 it would sell its non-controlling stake in its Russian joint venture AB InBev Efes. The divestiture will result in a $1.1 billion impairment charge in the first quarter. The joint venture has 11 breweries in Russia and three in Ukraine.
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HEINEKEN NV
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The French bank said it would quit Russia and write off 3.1 billion euros ($3.35 billion) from selling its Rosbank unit to Interros Capital. The amount comprises a 2 billion-euro hit on Rosbank's book value and the rest linked to the reversal of rouble conversion reserves.
The Swedish bearings and seal maker said on April 22 it will cease all operations in Russia and plans to divest its Russian business in a controlled manner. The decision triggers a write-down of about 500 million Swedish crowns ($52.70 million) in the second quarter. Russian sales accounted for about 2% of the group's total sales in 2021.
TJX
The U.S.-based fashion retailer TJX said it would sell its 25% stake in the Russian low-cost apparel shop chain Familia. The stake was valued at $186 million at the end of January, lower than the $225 million TJX paid for it in 2019. TJX said it might need to record an impairment due to the divestiture if the fair value of the Familia investment declines below its carrying value on the balance sheet.
The Swedish truck maker said on April 8 it had set aside provisions worth $423 million after suspending activities in Russia that amounted to 3% of group sales.
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About The Ella Jordan Home
The Ella L. Jordan Home
~ A Historical Place
Mrs. Ella L. Jordan founded the City of Pensacola's Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, Inc. She was a devoted club worker, community leader, educator, political activist, and a dedicated woman who worked for the betterment of the Pensacola community.
Mrs. Jordan dedicated her life to the Club's works and community activities. Her home, originally built in the 1890's, served as an important social and educational institution for the African-American community for several years; it also served as the Federation's Club Home.
In addition to serving as a club house, the Ella Jordan Home was a hub for social and cultural gatherings, including significant assemblies. The Club and the Home provided a way for African-American women in segregated Pensacola to identify and meet the needs of their community. The Ella L. Jordan Home is historically significant because of the activities of the Pensacola Federation of Colored Women's Clubs.
Now, closing in on its 125th birthday, this historical landmark is in need of restoration to continue the legacy and life-long commitment of Mrs. Ella Jordan, the Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, and to give hope to a new generation. The Mother Wit Institute, Inc., whose many members benefited from the cultural and educational programs offered by the Federation, is asking the Pensacola community to help support the revitalization of this historical community building.
Share your photos and stories on the Ella Jordan Home Facebook page!
Share this blog post and the Facebook page with your friends and family!
Once funds are raised, share your time to help renovate the Ella Jordan Home!
The Community Saving the "Ella L. Jordan Home" is working with the Pensacola community and the Mother Wit Institute, Inc., to raise funds for the restoration of the Pensacola Federation of Colored Women's Club Home. Support the revitalization of this historic community building in downtown Pensacola so it may continue to serve the community as it once did. Make Your Pledge of Support Today!
For more information about what you can do to support the Ella L. Jordan Home revitalization efforts email EllaJordanHome@gmail.com.
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Jane Hermann said:
If you have not done so, you should contact Nicole Curtis from "Rehab Addict" on HGTV. She may want to get in on this project. I imagine you can google it to get her contact info. On past episodes she has helped with community restoration, often teaming up with local celebrities and sports figures.
By the way I am Janet Pilcher's cousin. I hope I can help some how on this project.
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package ru.dionisius;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;
import ru.dionisius.controls.IMoveController;
import ru.dionisius.controls.MoveController;
import ru.dionisius.controls.OcuppiedCellException;
import ru.dionisius.model.Board;
import ru.dionisius.model.IBoard;
import ru.dionisius.model.Value;

import static org.hamcrest.core.Is.is;
import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;

/**
 * Created by Dionisius on 27.01.2017.
 */
public class MoveControllerTest {
    /**
     *
     */
    private IBoard board;
    /**
     *
     */
    private IMoveController moveController;
    /**
     *
     */
    private int ruleRange = 5;
    /**
     *
     */
    private int sizeX = 5;
    /**
     *
     */
    private int sizeY = 5;
    /**
     *
     */
    private final int coordinateX = 2;
    /**
     *
     */
    private final int coordinateY = 2;
    /**
     *
     */
    private Value expectedValue;
    /**
     *
     */
    private Value resultValue;
    /**
     *
     */
    private int result;
    /**
     *
     */
    private int expected;
    /**
     * Initiates initial values for tests.
     */
    @Before
    public void init() {
        this.board = new Board(this.sizeX, this.sizeY);
        this.moveController = new MoveController(this.board, this.ruleRange, true);
    }
    /**
     * Tests if number of empty cells on new board is equal this board size.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenNewBoardThenGetEmptyCellsIsBoardSize() throws Exception {
        this.result = this.moveController.getEmptyCells();
        this.expected = this.moveController.getBoard().getBoard().length
                * this.moveController.getBoard().getBoard()[0].length;
        assertThat(this.result, is(this.expected));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if empty cells number is decreased by two after two cells are marked.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenTwoMarksAreOnBoardThenGetEmptyCellsIsBoardSizeMinusTwoCells() throws Exception {
        this.moveController.playerMove(this.coordinateX, this.coordinateY);
        this.moveController.playerMove(0, 1);
        this.result = this.moveController.getEmptyCells();
        this.expected = this.moveController.getBoard().getBoard().length
                * this.moveController.getBoard().getBoard()[0].length - 2;
        assertThat(this.result, is(this.expected));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if isComputerFirstMove() returns true when computer starts the game.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenComputerFirstMoveThenIsComputerFirstMoveIsTrue() throws Exception {
        boolean expectedValue = true;
        boolean result = this.moveController.isComputerFirstMove();
        assertThat(result, is(expectedValue));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if isComputerFirstMove() returns false when computer does not controllers the game.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenComputerIsNotFirstMoveThenIsComputerFirstMoveIsFalse() throws Exception {
        boolean expectedValue = false;
        IMoveController mc = new MoveController(this.board, 5, false);
        boolean result = mc.isComputerFirstMove();
        assertThat(result, is(expectedValue));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if computer marks central cell when it starts the game.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenComputerFirstMoveThenItMarksCentralCell() throws Exception {
        this.expectedValue = Value.X;
        this.moveController.computerMove();
        this.resultValue = this.moveController.getBoard().getBoard()[2][2];
        assertThat(this.resultValue, is(this.expectedValue));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if computer marks first empty cell when it does not controllers the game.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenComputerMoveIsNotFirstThenItMarksFirstEmptyCell() throws Exception {
        this.moveController.playerMove(this.coordinateX, this.coordinateY);
        this.expectedValue = Value.X;
        this.moveController.computerMove();
        this.resultValue = this.moveController.getBoard().getBoard()[0][0];
        assertThat(this.resultValue, is(this.expectedValue));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if OcuppiedCellException throws when user try to mark occupied cell.
     */
    @Test (expected = OcuppiedCellException.class)
    public void whenPlayerMoveAndCellIsOccupiedThenThrowsOccupiedCellException() throws Exception {
        this.moveController.playerMove(this.coordinateX, this.coordinateY);
        this.moveController.playerMove(this.coordinateX, this.coordinateY);
    }
    /**
     * Tests if specified cell is marked by user's mark after user marked this cell.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenPlayerMoveThenCellIsOccupiedByPlayersMark() throws Exception {
        this.moveController.playerMove(this.coordinateX, this.coordinateY);
        this.expectedValue = Value.O;
        this.resultValue = this.moveController.getBoard().getBoard()[this.coordinateX][this.coordinateY];
        assertThat(this.resultValue, is(this.expectedValue));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if there is no winner when game is not over.
     */
    @Test
    public void getTheWinner() throws Exception {
        this.moveController.playerMove(this.coordinateX, this.coordinateY);
        String expectedValue = null;
        String resultValue = this.moveController.getTheWinner();
        assertThat(resultValue, is(expectedValue));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if computer is won when it sets ruleRange number of it's marks in horizontal range.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenComputerHorizontalRangeWonThenComputerIsWon() throws Exception {
        String expectedValue = "Computer";
        for (int i = 0; i < this.ruleRange; i++) {
            this.moveController.computerMove();
        }
        String resultValue = this.moveController.getTheWinner();
        assertThat(resultValue, is(this.expectedValue));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if player is won when he sets ruleRange number of it's marks in vertical range.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenPlayerVerticalRangeWonThenPlayerIsWon() throws Exception {
        String expectedValue = "Player";
        for (int i = 0; i < this.ruleRange; i++) {
            this.moveController.playerMove(this.coordinateX, i);
        }
        String resultValue = this.moveController.getTheWinner();
        assertThat(resultValue, is(expectedValue));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if player is won when he sets ruleRange number of it's marks in obliquely right range.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenPlayerObliquelyRightWonThenPlayerIsWon() throws Exception {
        String expectedValue = "Player";
        int x = 0;
        int y = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < this.ruleRange; i++) {
            this.moveController.playerMove(x, y);
            x++;
            y++;
        }
        String resultValue = this.moveController.getTheWinner();
        assertThat(resultValue, is(expectedValue));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if player is won when he sets ruleRange number of it's marks in obliquely left range.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenPlayerObliquelyLeftWonThenPlayerIsWon() throws Exception {
        String expectedValue = "Player";
        int x = 0;
        int y = this.moveController.getBoard().getRangeY();
        for (int i = 0; i < this.ruleRange; i++) {
            this.moveController.playerMove(x, y);
            x++;
            y--;
        }
        String resultValue = this.moveController.getTheWinner();
        assertThat(resultValue, is(expectedValue));
    }
    /**
     * Tests if there is tie when it is tie.
     */
    @Test
    public void whenTieThenTie() throws Exception {
        String expectedValue = "Tie";
        IBoard newBoard = new Board();
        IMoveController mc = new MoveController(newBoard, 3, true);
        mc.computerMove();
        mc.playerMove(0, 0);
        mc.computerMove();
        mc.playerMove(0, 2);
        mc.computerMove();
        mc.playerMove(1, 2);
        mc.computerMove();
        mc.playerMove(2, 1);
        mc.computerMove();
        String resultValue = mc.getTheWinner();
        assertThat(resultValue, is(expectedValue));
    }
}


The council is preparing to submit bids for the Future High Street Fund that saw £675m allocated to shopping districts nationwide in the autumn Budget last year.
If successful both Commercial Road and Fratton Road in the city would benefit from £25m each that could be spent on public transport to and from the areas, hosting events such as markets, filling vacant shops and encouraging business diversification.
The rules of the funding stipulate that only two locations can be put forward at one time. Commercial Road and Fratton Road were chosen because of their high percentages of empty shops and poor air quality.
For the council's head of regeneration, Councillor Ben Dowling, it was an exciting opportunity. 'I'm delighted we are preparing bids for both of these high streets,' he said.
It comes after recent shock closure announcements for beloved Portsmouth shops including Knight and Lee in Palmerston Road and U Need Us in Arundel Street.
Tory Councillor Luke Stubbs originally brought the notice of motion to bid for the high street fund at full council in November last year. He felt the cash would benefit retail in the city as long as local land owners and shop owners were consulted.
He said: 'Any successful bid is going to need to be made in connection with land owners and shop owners so as long as that is done properly.
'The important thing is it is just impossible for a local authority to save the high street on its own. They need to work collectively with people who know the high streets best.
'I do think that something like a market in Commercial Road would increase footfall but I'm not sure about how Fratton Road should be handled. It's a busy road for cars.
The council has started talking to businesses and community stakeholders to see what ideas they have. Bids for other areas in the city such as Southsea are planned for future rounds of the fund.
The cash cannot be used for retail sites such as Gunwharf Quays or Ocean Retail Park.
Last year The News launched the Love Your High Street campaign to shine a light on local high streets that have more individuality than chain stores, and also help to provide local jobs and prosperity.


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Do Not Forget the Writers of Afghanistan
Afghan Writers, Parwana Fayyez and Wahida Khorsand, celebrate the 100th anniversary of PEN and Human Rights Day in a warm-hearted online poetry event organised by Jeni Williams of Wales PEN Cymru.
The theme of World Human Rights Day 2021 is Equality – a theme that couldn't be more important as we watch in horror as rights and freedoms that we once took for granted are being crushed in country after country. The deliberate crushing of women, religious and ethnic minorities in Afghanistan is among the most glaring of all contraventions of Human Rights. Afghan writers, intellectuals and Human Rights activists are under continuous threat.
It is very timely therefore that, on the 100th birthday of the international organisation Poets Essayists and Novelists – known as PEN, Afghan writers got together online on 14th December to share poetry about their experiences evening.
PEN was established to support freedom of expression and communication: because writers dream of difference they are always the targets of such repressions. Wales PEN Cymru (the Welsh branch of PEN international) organised an online event to reach across borders and remember the writers of Afghanistan for Human Rights Day 2021.
The event was introduced by Dr Jeni Williams, the organiser who spoke eloquently about the link between human rights and PEN:
"PEN one of the very first Human Rights organisations and it seeks not only to foster compassionate links between individuals and to share their work to cross boundaries but, more than that, it is about the ability to support each other against persecution. Human Rights are always those of writers because writers are always subject to persecution, because they dream of difference. Anything that is different is loathed by autocrats."
Dr Jeni Williams
Jeni then introduced Parwana Fayyez, an Afghan poet, whose brilliant and moving collection of poems Forty Names was published by Carcanet Poetry in 2021. A powerful set of poems, that tell the stories of her family's multiple displacements across the world. They recount what they lost and what was found. They tell of what the family brought with them to various places and what they left behind. They convey a sense of interconnectedness between people, places and memories. Parwana read several poems at the event with great warmth and emotion and took us on a journey through her past memories and present-day thoughts as she alluded to her life's journey:
"As for someone who has travelled around the world, starting in Afghanistan, moving to Quetta, Pakistan, back to Afghanistan, onwards to Bangladesh, then to the US and finally to Cambridge, UK, I haven't yet managed to reach Wales yet but now I am determined to do so. Being here and reading and sharing my poetry with all of you such an honour. My first collection called 40 names was inspired by the title of a poem in the collection. It captures the sacrifices women have to make when they take their own decision to do something, and then how those decisions end up sometimes being forgotten. My poems are stories. They are what we have left as memories from childhood. I was lucky enough to study Creative Writing at Stanford University in California and to make sense of these memories and stories and to be able to write them as poetry. So, it's a pleasure to be reading for you."
Parwana Fayyez
Sewing Needles, by Parwana Fayyez
When the war started, my father took my mother on a journey,
a journey unwanted by either of them –
away from home and far from their city
Into exile, next to our little feet and hands,
my mother carried her box of sewing needles,
and her Butterfly sewing machine made in the USSR
Moving between rented rooms, fabric became a land familiar to her.
Opening her box and resting her sewing machine on the floor,
she made dresses of different colours and textures.
Kabul gave her velvet, in all colors –
She chose the colors of liver and ocean
burgundy and royal blue.
Pakistan gave her satin, in yellow an orange,
she preferred something
onion-colored.
India gave her cotton, in thick and thin
she selected something
in between.
One year, she learned to spin coarse wool.
And with the money she earned,
she bought silk.
She waited. I waited.
Until the hard skin on the tips of her fingers softened,
before she touched the silk
She then made dresses for her three daughters
Parwana, Shabnam and Gohar, in colors
pistachio, red-rose and sea green
Every stitch of her needle gave life.
to elegant styles of youth and an Afghan
mother's pride, even in exile.
To watch a video of Parwana reciting 'Sewing Needles' and two other poems during the event, click here.
Wahida Khorsand, a Human Rights activist and wonderful community organiser who worked alongside Jeni Williams on the Asylum-Seekers Womens Group, then read one of her poems – about the meaning of home.
Being at Home, by Wahida Khorsand
When I was a child my mother made our home warm and loving.
When I came home from school along the street
the smell of my mother's cooking met me outside
We had a wonderful house.
My father had a carpet business
and there were carpets everywhere.
We had carpets on the walls,
we had carpets in the hallway,
and carpets through the house.
We had carpets layered across one another on the floor,
we had carpets on a mattress,
even the pillows were covered in carpet.
There were too many for me then
but I look back and I see they were beautiful.
They were very fine carpets,
mainly red with small neat patterns,
and some with tiny flowers, birds and animals.
When I was 3 or 4, very young, my second sister married.
Her husband was very kind and caring
Like an older brother.
My sister and her husband had a home in a valley outside Kabul.
In the summer they lived there, and wintered in Kabul.
My best childhood memories are of going to stay with them.
I remember their garden was full of fruit –
apples, pears, cherries, grapes, and strawberries and so on.
There was a river with a small waterfall which ran through the garden
where I swam.
My mother never said no to me and I had no sense of danger.
I loved to swim and climb trees.
I would come in from the garden with my clothes torn and dirty
And my mother would wash them and repair them.
I was so close to my mother.
I was the youngest
When we went to Pakistan I was the only daughter who went with her
Along with my two brothers.
My father loved his work.
We had a good life and good houses.
He earned enough for his two families and two homes.
But then war came and fighting started.
One family was sent to Pakistan, and it was ours.
My brothers were older and they could work.
My father rented a shop there
To carry on his carpet business
And my uncle helped because they were still young.
I was 8 when we moved to Pakistan.
I was 16 when I got married and we went back to Kabul.
We lived there happily until my oldest son was 8
And then we had to come here.
My life has been divided into eights.
8 is a magic number in my life
My three boys were lovely
……My youngest was cute
……His face full of smiles
……Everyone loved him
……My middle boy was chatty.
……He loved singing
……And he talked to everyone.
……My eldest was older than his years.
……Responsible, kind and caring.
9 years ago my daughter was born
I was lonely, lost, without my own family,
The only thing that made me happy was my daughter.
She made me feel at home.
Last night we watched videos of when they were young.
The boys laughed so much.
They loved to see themselves so small
and my daughter loved seeing herself as a baby,
seeing her big brothers looking after her and loving her.
The videos caught the good times –
birthdays, Eid celebrations –
my sister coming on holidays,
going to the beach with friends.
Thanks to Parwana and Wahida for permission to reproduce their poems and to Jeni for organising the event.
Marie Gillespie
Peidiwch ag anghofio awduron Affganistan | Do Not Forget the Writers of Afghanistan – Wales PEN Cymru
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Discharge is een hardcore punk-band uit Stoke-on-Trent, Engeland, geformeerd in 1977. Ze zijn verantwoordelijk voor het ontwikkelen van het muziekgenre D-beat. Discharge behoorde tot de "UK 82" punk generatie, de tweede Engelse punkgolf.

Biografie
Ze pakten de snelheid van bands als Motörhead en de punkinvloeden van Buzzcocks. Tevens werd Discharge gezien als essentiële voorlopers van het genre crust punk en hebben ze de eerste deur open gezet voor wat later ook wel grindcore genoemd zal worden.

In 1980 brachten ze drie belangrijke, trendsettende singles uit. Ze toerden met Killing Joke en The Exploited. In 1981 zag Why het levenslicht. Deze ep bracht veel positieve reacties in de punkscene en velen waren onder de indruk. In 1982 kwam hun debuut Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing uit, die nummer #2 haalde in de UK Indie Charts en nummer #40 in de UK Albums Chart.

Na 1982 nam Peter "Pooch" Purtill de rol van gitarist op zich. Hij bracht beduidend veel thrashmetal-invloeden in en dit zorgde in de jaren 90 voor meer metal-gerelateerde albums. De band heeft met zijn stijl en muzikale technieken duizenden andere hardcore punk en thrashmetal-bands beïnvloed, zoals Celtic Frost. In deze tijd trad Discharge regelmatig op met bands als Bad Brains, D.R.I. en Suicidal Tendencies. Hedendaags speelt Discharge nog steeds samen, ditmaal met Anthony "Rat" Martin, bekend van The Varukers en The Vile.

Bandleden
 Terence "Tezz" Roberts
 Tony "Bones" Roberts
 Roy "Rainy" Wainright
 Jeff "J.J." Janiak
 David "Proper" Caution

Ex-leden
 Anthony "Rat" Martin
 Terry "Tezz" Roberts
 Kelvin "Cal" Morris
 Andy Green
 Nick Bushell
 Stephen Brooks
 Peter "Pooch" Purtill
 Anthony Morgan
 Nigel Bamford
 Les "The Mole" Hunt
 Garry Maloney
 Dave "Bambi" Ellesmere
 Tony "Akko" Atkinson
 Nick Heymaker
 Dave Bridgwood

Discografie

Demo's
 1977 - '77 Demo

Singles
 1980 - Realities Of War
 1980 - Fight Back
 1980 - Decontrol
 1981 - Never Again
 1982 - State Violence State Control
 1983 - The Price Of Silence
 1984 - The More I See
 1985 - Ignorance
 2006 - Beginning Of The End

Ep's
 1981 - Why
 1983 - Warning
 2004 - Tour Edition EP

Studioalbums
 1982 - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
 1986 - Grave New World
 1991 - Massacre Divine
 1993 - Shootin' Up The World
 2002 - Discharge
 2009 - Disensitise
 2016 - End of Days

Livealbums
 1989 - Live At The City Garden, New Jersey
 1996 - Live - The Nightmare Continues

Compilatiealbums
 1984 - Never Again
 1992 - Protest and Survive 1980-1984
 1995 - The Clay Punk Singles Collection
 1997 - Vision Of War
 1999 - Discharge Anthology: Free Speech For The Dumb
 1999 - Hardcore Hits
 2002 - Decontrol: The Singles
 2004 - Society's Victims
 2008 - War is Hell

Beïnvloed door Discharge
Enkele bands die beïnvloed zijn door de muziek van Discharge:

 Anthrax
 Bolt Thrower (zie artikel)
 Metallica
 Sepultura

Externe links
  Discharge Officiële website

Britse metalband
Britse hardcoreband

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Snapshot: The ADCIRC Prediction System
Over the past several years, severe storm surges, flooding, and other life-threatening phenomena have affected coastal communities in myriad ways. When weather systems threaten the coast, emergency responders rely on high-precision storm modeling systems and real-time data to accurately predict hurricane activity and flooding threats, collaborate with each other, and make critical decisions that will protect the lives and property of millions of U.S. residents.
During the 2018 hurricane season, as Hurricanes Florence and Michael blew toward the Carolinas and the Florida panhandle, respectively, the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were using a suite of early warning technologies and storm modeling software to inform their operations and responses both before and after the hurricanes made landfall. This suite of tools, better known as the ADCIRC Prediction System (APS), played an integral role in accurately predicting the storm surges, flooding, wind and wave interactions, and speed of tides and currents associated with both Florence and Michael.
APS uses modeling technology with a 30-year track record of providing accurate representations of coastal water movement, flooding, and storm impacts. The system, developed and operated by the Coastal Resilience Center, a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence led by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partnership with Jackson State University in Mississippi, and funded by the DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T).
APS consists of three components: Advanced CIRCulation (ADCIRC) Storm Surge Model , a high-resolution, high-precision storm surge/coastal flood model; the ADCIRC Surge Guidance System, a software infrastructure that automates ADCIRC for operational deployments; and the Coastal Emergency Risks Assessment web portal, which makes model output readily available to end users.
"The ADCIRC Prediction System provides some of the most detailed and accurate storm surge and flooding information that is publicly available for the east and gulf coasts," said Dr. Rick Luettich, the leader of the APS development and operations team and the lead Principal Investigator at the DHS Coastal Resilience Center of Excellence. "APS provides important information assisting individuals who are tasked with making important decisions regarding evacuations, infrastructure assessment, and disaster recovery and mitigation planning, both before and after a storm has reached shore."
APS data has been used by both federal responders (e.g., USCG, FEMA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers), state emergency management offices and local community leaders to get ahead of storms and protect lives and property. This is especially true of the past nine years. During more recent storms such as Hurricanes Irma, Maria, Matthew, Gustav, and Ike, emergency response organizations planned and implemented evacuations, the placement of recovery resources, search and rescue operations, and damage assessments based on information from APS. Many of these federal organizations also rely on APS during the rest of the year to provide data for applications such as FEMA's National Flood Insurance Program, identification of flood zones, the design of levees and other protection measures, and predictions of how flooding may impact vulnerable regions in the future.
"When severe storms approach, the Coastal Resilience Center team works non-stop getting ADCIRC Prediction System information to those who need it to make crucial decisions," said DHS S&T Program Manager Eleanore Hajian. "As hurricanes approach the East and Gulf Coasts, their work helps save lives."
While APS has proven itself to be a crucial and versatile tool for real-time coastal flooding predictions, Luettich is already looking to the future to see how it can be improved.
"APS is a community-driven system with a wide-range of potential applications," Luettich explained. "Since its results are accessible to organizations ranging from multiple levels of government to academia to everyday citizens, we want to continue making it more accurate and useful to those who rely on it. Thanks to continued support and funding from DHS S&T, we are continuing to develop the APS capabilities, such as enhanced wind models, improved land surface representations, and better inclusion of precipitation-based flooding in the coastal zone."
To learn more about APS, visit their website or contact their program directly.
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HIV vaccine trial by Johnson & Johnson fails in Africa
By Timothy Oyomare
HIV vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson to demonstrate adequate protection in a clinical trial involving more than 2,600 young women in sub-Saharan Africa, has failed to be effective, the company and US health authorities have said.
Though the vaccine was found to be safe, with no serious side effects, its efficacy in preventing HIV infection was just over 25 percent.
As a result, the "Imbokodo" trial that began in 2017 will now be halted, and the participants, from Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe will be told whether they received the vaccine or placebo.
But the company will continue a parallel trial involving men who have sex with men and transgender individuals that is taking place in the Americas and Europe, where vaccine composition differs and so do the prevalent HIV strains.
In a statement, Paul Stoffels, chief scientific officer of J&J thanked the women who participated and the company's partners.
"While we are disappointed that the vaccine candidate did not provide a sufficient level of protection against HIV infection in the Imbokodo trial, the study will give us important scientific findings in the ongoing pursuit for a vaccine to prevent HIV," he said.
"We must apply the knowledge learned from the Imbokodo trial and continue our efforts to find a vaccine that will be protective against HIV," added Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases which co-funded the study.
The J&J vaccine uses similar adenovirus technology to its Covid-19 vaccine, and was delivered with four vaccinations over a year.
A genetically modified cold virus delivers genetic cargo carrying instructions for the host to develop "mosaic immunogens" — molecules capable of inducing an immune response to a wide variety of HIV strains.
The last two doses also contained proteins that are found on the HIV virus itself, as well as a substance called an "adjuvant" that is meant to further spur the immune system.
The trial was analysed two years after the women, who were aged 18-35, received their first dose.
Researchers found that 63 participants who received the placebo and 51 who received the vaccine became infected with HIV, meaning the efficacy was 25.2 percent.
The participants were offered pre-exposure prophylaxis medication (PrEP) to help prevent HIV infection during the clinical trial.
The women who acquired HIV infection were directed to medical care and offered antiretroviral treatment.
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Excel Expert's Leila Gharani Facts- Wiki, Bio, Age, Ethnicity, Husband, Net Worth
Last Updated : December 30, 2021
Quick Info→ Age (2021): 43 Years Old Wife/Spouse: Christian Kogler
Who Is Leila Gharani?
Leila Gharani is a famous YouTube personality popularly recognized for uploading Excel tutorial-based videos on her channel.
Her self-titled channel, Leila Gharani, has over 1.3 million subscribers and views more than 100 million as of December 2021.
In addition, she is also the founder of the site XelPlus, an Excel resource website providing courses and tutorials.
Leila is a Microsoft Certified Excel Expert having 15 years of experience.
Moreover, she was awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the Excel Category in 2017.
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Short Biography: Birth, Age, Ethnicity
The Excel proficient, Gharani was born in Iran in 1978. To celebrate hitting one million subscribers, she did a Q&A video where she acknowledged a query regarding her age, stating that she is 43 years old.
However, she did not disclose her birthdate but gave away that she recently turned 43 as of August 2021.
Despite being in the YouTube community for at least five years, Leila has not shared much about her ethnicity and nationality with her audiences.
Leila Gharani's Family
The YouTuber's audiences might be intrigued to unveil the details about her childhood and family. Yet, Leila has not shared any critical information and has shielded her parent's identity to date.
It seems like she is guarding her parent's privacy against the online platform. However, Gharani had revealed that her family moved to Austria when she was 10 or 11 years old.
Her Education History
Before shifting to Austria, Leila attended her primary school in Tehran, Iran, after which she graduated high school from an International School in Austria.
For her undergraduate study, she attended Carleton University in 1996 and graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science degree in 1999.
In addition, she graduated as an Economics major and also received a medal for academic achievement.
Subsequently, Leila attended the University of Toronto, where she majored in Economics and graduated in 2000 with a Master's degree. Her specializations were in Econometrics and Statistical Analysis.
Early Life / Short Career
Leila started her professional life as a teaching assistant while attending the University of Toronto till her graduation. After which, she joined as an Economist for the Centre for the Study of Living Standards in Ottawa, where she worked for nine months.
After which, she moved to Vienna, Austria, and worked as a consultant for Frantschach till April 2002. Then, for almost a year and a half, she worked for Consulting Service (VBA, SAP) and was employed in Mondi Group as an Accounting Systems Experts for nearly four years.
Before founding her website, XelPlus, in January 201, she worked for Mondi AG for a year and Mondi Europe & International for nearly five years.
After garnering the experience for over five years, Leila started her website and YouTube channel. She provides Excel courses and tutorials to her audiences and has never looked back again.
Who Is Leila Gharani's Husband?
Leila has succeeded in managing perfect work-life boundaries. Granted that she has been in the online platform for over five years, she has successfully shielded her personal life.
Even her audiences were wary about her relationship, so when she revealed in her Q&A video that she had already tied the knot with her husband, Christian, it came as a surprise to her followers. In addition, she has been blissfully married to him for over 14 years.
Leila And Her Husband. (Source: Leila Gharani's YouTube)
The couple together has two children. Her first-born son is 13 years old, and her daughter is eight years old. Leila and her family are happily residing in Vienna, Austria.
It looks like Leila has been with good metabolism as she has perfectly maintained a healthy body. Yet, at the age of 43, she manages to look younger than her age with her brown eyes and sharp jawline.
Her caramel-dyed hair complimented her appearance flawlessly. In addition, she also has a cut on the right side of her nose, which her followers observed a lot.
How Much is Leila Gharani Net Worth?
Leila has disclosed in her video that she is living her life comfortably from her YouTube earnings.
She has accomplished massive success on the YouTube platform, from earning 70 cents to earning a decent income.
Moreover, her YouTube monetization capability is estimated to be around $27K to $54K per month.
Other Interesting Facts And Trivia About Leila Gharani:
Leila dreamt of becoming an astronaut and wanted to work for NASA in her childhood.
She trained with Microsoft and is a Certified Specialist Master in Microsoft Office.
Leila can fluently make a conversation in German and English.
She also volunteered for the Vienna Babies Club for almost five years as Steering Committee Member.
Her favorite Netflix is Breaking Bad and Stranger Things.
Leila is more of a cat person than a dog person.
Leila Gharani recently joined the Instagram platform on October 9, 2019, and has accumulated more than 20K followers as of December 2021.
Major Sources/ References
1. LinkedIn
2. YouTube
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