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The mother of Sarfaraz Shah. I bet she wonders why her son
was punished so brutally?
After approximately 32000 page views of this blog, the introduction of a new Blogger user interface, and a murdered man later, this is where we stand today.
Yesterday evening, a man was shot dead by one of the many dreaded law enforcement agencies of Pakistan aka the Sindh Rangers. Now I know how clichéd it sounds constantly reminding people that it is time to wake up from the stupor, lest we become a part of the madhouse and be treated like mad hounds but that has never made any difference. And well to be honest, I don't expect this to make any bit of a difference either.
Yesterday evening, before I had heard, seen or known anything about the 19 year old kid named Sarfaraz Shah murdered in cold blood by the Rangers, I was mulling over the fact about how the police is perhaps the most hated, reviled and abhorred institution in this entire country. Apparently the paramilitary which comes under the direct control of the military is fast catching up.
Remember the incident involving the Punjab Rangers by the way? The one in which the son of the DG Rangers Punjab parked his car in a no parking zone and when the traffic warden came to serve a ticket to him, he called up his goons who thrashed the warden and then locked him up in the Rangers HQ? Is it a problem individuals or is this indicative of a major problem with the mindset of the entire military? The latter seems to be true, but only God knows what's the truth.
I saw Javed Hashmi of the PML-N cry on TV today. I could see how this incident had hurt him. How this incident has hurt a lot of people. This incident reminded me of the Sialkot incident in which two brothers, Mughees and Muneeb Butt were beaten mercilessly for 4 hours before they succumbed to the callous, despicable violence and after which they were paraded around the town on the back of a tractor trolley with a police escort. Back then my blood boiled with rage. In fact, if it wasn't for my young age (probably) or God's mercy (definitely) I would've had a heart attack. But today? I just mourned. I was angry yes, but my anger was morbid. My anger was more of a desperation. I mourned the death of sanity in Pakistan. However, I simply could not open my arms and welcome the barbarity that has engulfed my beautiful, ruined country.
But getting back to Sarfaraz Shah. He was a 19 year old kid. He was a petty thief. He stole a mobile telephone from someone. His admission of guilt can be heard loud and clear in the video of his murder. You would imagine that when a thief admits his guilt, he would be hand cuffed and handed over to the police because civilians or paramilitary troops for that matter, cannot become judge, jury and executioner. But I forgot. From the people who brought you the Sialkot murder, this was totally expected. It was stupid of me to have assumed otherwise. It is strange how short our memories are. Even a whole year hasn't passed since the murders of Mughees and Muneeb Butt (whose murderers still walk outside of prison by the way) that we have a repeat episode. Only the cast is different this time. In the Sialkot case, the police had stood idly by. In this case, they were the mob themselves.
So what exactly went wrong? Sarfaraz Shah was caught by a plain clothes member of the law enforcement agencies (allegedly) and then thrust towards a van of the Sindh Rangers which had appeared there apparently on the call of the apprehender. While Sarfaraz Shah stood besides the van, he admitted his guilt. Then he gets an automatic rifle thrust into his face with the superior of the Rangers saying "Shoot him! Shoot him!" Sarfaraz Shah panics, raises his palms in supplication and moves towards the person who is thrusting the gun in his face, begging him not to shoot. He touches the barrel of the gun and begs for mercy, at which point another Rangers man grabs him and pushes him backward. Sarfaraz Shah still has his hands in the air, raised, begging for mercy when the Rangers man shoots him. One bullet pierces his hand and hits his leg. Then he fires again. In to his leg.
Sarfaraz Shah is then heard moaning and begging the Rangers' personnel to take him to the hospital. But he forgot that he was dealing with incorrigible wild, rabid dogs. Who know nothing of humanity or mercy.
The purpose of telling you all this narrative is so that I don't have to post the video here. We've seen enough blood being spilled to merit another one.
All I can say now is this: May Allah have mercy on us. May Allah have just a teeny weeny little bit of mercy on us. Please say Aameen. Please do.
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JULY 19, 2017: THE SEVEN RAVENS PROJECT presents a brief work-in-progress excerpt at the National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene's Immigration Arts Summit closing concert in Battery Park. We appear in this documentary video at 2:37.
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A Fight To The Finish On World Mosquito Day
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19/08/2016 10:46am BST | Updated August 19, 2017
As the Rio Olympics draw to a close, tomorrow's World Mosquito Day provides a timely reminder of the deadly threat posed to humans by mosquitoes. From the Zika virus risks faced by those in attendance in Rio, to yellow fever, West Nile virus, chikungunya and encephalitis - mosquitoes spread all manner of debilitating and deadly diseases. Mosquitoes cause around 536,000 deaths every year - far more than lions, sharks, snakes or even human beings.
At Malaria No More UK, our fight is against the biggest mosquito-borne killer of them all - malaria. The World Health Organization estimates malaria killed almost half a million people in 2015. Seventy percent of those were children under five years old. Just this week we've learned the sad news that British TV presenter, Charlie Webster - who is covering the Olympic Games in Rio - is fighting for her life after contracting malaria.
The statistics are shocking and there's still a long, hard road to end malaria, but progress has been made in the fight against this killer disease. An extraordinary 60% reduction in deaths from malaria since 2000 has saved 5.9 million children's lives. But history has shown that if we don't keep up the intensity of the fight, malaria will come back with a vengeance. We just cannot let that happen - particularly when there are such simple and effective tools available to fight back against this tiny but deadly foe - life-saving treatment costing less than £1, bed nets protecting families costing £5 to buy, deliver and hang.
At Malaria No More UK we're fortunate to have some inspiring partners in our fight against malaria. Soul star and Malaria No More UK Special Ambassador, Aloe Blacc, has just recorded a powerful new song which will be available on iTunes and will help to spread the word about this killer disease. Filmed on a recent trip to Kenya where he saw first-hand the impact of malaria, the video tells a story of heartbreak and hope, and how simple it is to save a life from malaria with the right tools and education.
We're also thrilled to be marking one year working with one of our corporate partners, 1897 Quinine Gin. The gin was launched last World Mosquito Day, and commemorates British Doctor Sir Ronald Ross's discovery in 1897 that mosquitoes transmit malaria between humans. This laid the foundations for scientists across the world to better understand the deadly role of mosquitoes in transmitting the disease. Five pounds from every bottle of 1897 Quinine Gin sold is being donated towards our lifesaving work.
The next great bend in the river of the malaria fight in now upon us. On 16 September the Canadian Government will host the Fifth Replenishment Conference of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. This will bring global leaders together, joining forces to commit sufficient funding to meet the Sustainable Development Goals' objective of ending the epidemics of three of the world's most devastating diseases by 2030. The new UK Government, yet to confirm its contribution, has an opportunity to demonstrate the UK's proud global leadership of this fight. A fully funded Global Fund has the potential to save eight million lives over the next three years, and will show the world's commitment to ending malaria for good.
So as we celebrate all our magnificent Olympic winners - including Malaria No More UK's Leadership Council member, Andy Murray - we still need your support to win the fight against the world's most wanted killer. Join us this World Mosquito Day to end malaria for good.
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… Georgia's "Exact Match" legislation that has alleged into catechism the appropriate to vote of added than 50,000 registered voters is unreasonable, creates an accidental accountability and amounts to aborigine suppression.
And now, an American Accessible Media abode says added than bisected a actor bodies were removed from Georgia's aborigine rolls aftermost summer with 107,000 of those actuality removed artlessly because they had not voted in contempo elections. That cardinal is in accession to the Exact Bout administration that questions the angary of tens of bags of registered voters.
Exact Bout agency there can be no variations on aborigine allotment forms, alike slight differences amid your driver's authorization and allotment form. At atomic three lawsuits accept been filed accusing Secretary of Accompaniment Brian Kemp and the accompaniment of Georgia of suppressing aborigine turnout, abnormally amid atramentous Georgians. The irony, of course, is Kemp is allurement voters to accomplish him Georgia's aing governor.
We accept Kemp should affair a able account administering acclamation commissioners and poll workers to use accepted faculty during aboriginal voting and on Acclamation Day — acumen that slight variations are not aborigine fraud. Do not abjure accurately registered voters their basal appropriate to vote because of some accessory aberration on their registration.
It does not bulk if you are Republican, Democrat, Libertarian or absolutely independent, anybody should appetite accurately registered voters to accept their choir heard in every election. That is capitalism in action.
At affair is this Exact Bout law actuality carefully interpreted and activated by Kemp's secretary of accompaniment office, calling into catechism the aborigine allotment of 53,000 people, the all-inclusive majority of them black.
To be clear, the allotment admonition is not new. The arrangement was acclimated in antecedent elections aback Kemp was not on the ballot. Kemp active the convenance until it was challenged in court. Afterwards the cloister challenge, accompaniment assembly afflicted acclamation law to acquiesce for Exact Match.
So, to be fair, the convenance is not some unilateral activity by Kemp. The Georgia General Assembly, controlled by a Republican majority, anesthetized the bill and Gov. Nathan Deal active it. The Secretary of State's appointment oversees elections and several groups alleged on Kemp to footfall bottomward aback he appear his bid for governor.
Despite the actuality 53,000 aborigine allotment forms are beneath a billow because claimed advice on Social Aegis cards may not be an exact bout with driver's licenses, Kemp has said it does not beggarly the afflicted bodies cannot vote. The secretary of accompaniment argues the cachet of aborigine registrations is still "pending" and those bodies can vote by assuming able identification at the polling abode or aback requesting absentee ballots. The ambition seems to be to basis out aborigine fraud. However, there is no affirmation of boundless aborigine artifice in Georgia. No reliable studies accept accustomed that aborigine artifice has risen to the levels that it could change the aftereffect of elections anywhere in the nation.
So, it begs the question: Why go over allotment forms with a fine-tooth adjust attractive for slight misspellings, abbreviated forms of accustomed names (eg. John instead of Jonathan or Jim instead of James), absent hyphens or confused digits in a artery address? Such baby irregularities do not bulk to artifice and should never disqualify a aborigine from voting in an election.
Shouldn't we do aggregate we can to animate aborigine allotment and turnout? It is estimated 7 actor bodies could vote in this hotly contested governor's race. Still, aborigine assembly in Georgia is consistently beneath civic averages. Assembly amid boyhood communities historically has lagged far behind, so creating addition barrier — a bandage for bodies of blush to jump through in adjustment to casting their ballots — is wrong.
Whether racially or politically motivated, any barriers placed on accepted aborigine accord are not aloof an advance on bodies of blush or an opposing political party, it is an advance on democracy. We do not appetite bodies who are not accurately registered to vote in Georgia elections. We do appetite all registered voters to accept according opportunity. Voters should analysis their cachet at www.mvp.sos.ga.gov. Those with registrations on authority will see a bulletin to acquaintance their bounded canton acclamation office.
Kemp has said it is up to bounded acclamation admiral in anniversary canton to actuate who can and who cannot vote at the polling places. We booty him at his chat and animate all registered voters, including anyone whose name is on the account of 53,000, to appearance up to vote. We animate poll workers to use accepted sense, be reasonable and fair to anybody who shows up to exercise their appropriate and advantage to vote. Then, let us apperceive aback addition at your belt or the elections appointment tells you that you cannot casting a ballot.
Go vote. Everyone, go vote.
Regardless, abounding Savannah-area voters will counterbalance in on the Sunday aboriginal alarm for booze at the acclamation box amid now and acclamation day, Nov. 6.
Voters in unincorporated Chatham County, Savannah, Tybee Island, Richmond Hill and Statesboro will adjudge whether or not to cycle aback the Sunday alpha time for restaurants to serve alcoholic beverages from 12:30 p.m. to 11 a.m.
If approved, the new hours would booty aftereffect Nov. 18.
In May, Gov. Nathan Deal active Senate Bill 17, which gives bounded municipalities that already accept Sunday booze sales the advantage to vote to activate Sunday on-premise booze burning sales at 11 a.m., rather than 12:30 p.m.
There's a lot added than aloof mimosas at stake.
The Georgia Restaurant Association letters that this one change in booze sales could accomplish an added $25,000 a year for anniversary restaurant. The advancement alignment estimates that Georgia has about 4,000 restaurants that could account from casual the alleged Brunch Bill, acquiescent an estimated $100 actor in added revenue. That translates into $11 actor added in accompaniment taxes.
The law, if accustomed by voters, will not affect booze sales at retail stores, which will still activate no beforehand than 12:30 p.m. on Sundays.
Karen Bremer, CEO of the Georgia Restaurant Association, has said that the Brunch Bill will advice akin the arena acreage with state-owned accessories and clandestine clubs that are already accustomed to serve afore 12:30 p.m. and will advice the Peach Accompaniment attempt with added states that can already advertise booze afore 12:30 p.m.
The charge to abutment beforehand booze auction alpha times is angry to the growing acceptance of brunch in Georgia, which generally combines a affable breakfast with hangover-friendly cocktails.
Over the accomplished decade, Georgia has become an added forward-thinking and business-friendly state. Casual the Brunch Bill is addition analytic footfall in authoritative our bounded abridgement added competitive, acceptance restaurants to accommodated the alteration needs of citizens.
Georgia is one of the best-run states in the nation, if not the best.
The accompaniment account is on time and added than balanced, alike afterwards hundreds of millions invested in aloof the Augusta area's college apprenticeship and cyber revolution, and alike afterwards absolutely allotment K-12 apprenticeship for the aboriginal time in memory. Our anchorage in Savannah is actuality dredged to deepen our already across-the-board role in all-embracing trade. We're acceptable a apple baton not aloof in peanuts, peaches and pines, but in health, banking and cyber technologies. Ours is the eighth-most crawling state, and was sixth in the nation in absolute citizenry advance from 2016 to 2017. Our home has been voted the best accompaniment in the nation to do business by Site Selection Magazine bristles years running.
The Democratic gubernatorial antagonism of Stacey Abrams, in short, is a arguable band-aid in chase of a absent problem.
We don't charge a aitionist about-face in the state's course. Far from it. Yet, that's what we may get if voters don't get out and abutment Brian Kemp for governor.
Kemp is so down-home and personable and makes you feel so adequate that, sitting there in a checkerboard shirt and jeans, it feels as if he's a adjacency handyman assessing what to do with your house. And, in fact, he has a accomplishments in construction. In reality, the approachable secretary of accompaniment is a awfully accomplished baton with appreciably ample acquaintance in the aldermanic and controlling branches of government and in the clandestine area as a businessman. And he's talking about architecture on the admirable bequest of Gov. Nathan Deal.
Kemp has commissioned a absolute abstraction of what the state's aing voting machines should attending like. He's proposed a Commission on Behavioral Bloom "to abode the accompaniment and civic botheration of brainy bloom and actuality corruption – including issues like academy security, boyhood suicide, and PTSD amidst veterans." He's appear out with a bloom affliction plan that leverages the alarming ability of the chargeless market.
But Kemp's signature affairs are for accessible assurance reform, a affectionate of bookend to Deal's bent amends reform. Kemp promises to "deport bent aliens and drove artery gangs," adage his accomplishment to "stop and annihilate gangs" will absorb adopting accessible awareness, allotment the Bent Artery Gang Database, acknowledging the advocate general's appointment and acceptable bounded law administration efforts.
We appetite you to vote for Brian Kemp for governor.
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Stopping the summer slide: Baltimore County libraries offer downtime reading program
August 21, 2019	• Filed under News, Press Coverage Highlights
By LIBSOLOMON| TOWSON TIMES | JUN 18, 2019
When Gia Bastien, of Towson, was a child growing up in a rural area of Maine, her parents, trying to protect their African American daughter in an overwhelmingly white state, pulled her out of school in the fourth grade.
Bastien, who now lives in Loch Raven Village, said she struggled for years to catch up on what she had missed, especially in reading and literacy skills. She succeeded; she graduated just a few weeks ago from the Community College of Baltimore County and will be attending Morgan State University on a full scholarship in the fall. Despite her success, Bastien said she wants something better for her three sons.
"I don't want to see my children struggle," she said. So, for the past three years when school ended, Bastien has taken her children to the Towson library and has them sign up for the Summer Reading Challenge.
"In my household, reading is definitely important," Bastien said.
The Summer Reading Challenge is a countywide program in which kids can earn prizes by reading books and participating in activities throughout the summer. Conni Strittmatter, youth and family engagement manager for the Baltimore County Public Library system, said the program is designed as something of an academic bridge.
"We believe that we serve a role in the community to help fill in the gap of summer when it comes to learning for the kids in the county," Strittmatter said. "Our summer reading challenge encourages children to read, experience and to share throughout the summer."
Children, particularly those from low-income families and minority groups, often experience what some call a "summer slide," said Aaron Philip Dworkin, the new CEO of the Baltimore-based National Summer Learning Association.
Retired Johns Hopkins University sociologist Karl Alexander did some of the first research on summer learning loss, following Baltimore students from early school years in the 1980s through adulthood. His team found that by the end of fifth grade, middle-class students often were ahead of grade level in reading comprehension, while more disadvantaged students tended to be years behind.
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Cropin, which describes itself as the global agritech pioneer that has built the world's first industry cloud for agriculture, says it has secured 1.130 billion rupees (about US$13.8 million) in funding from new investors Google and JSR Corporation, as well as existing investors ABC Impact and Chiratae Ventures.
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Later, the ovule produces the hormone GA which causes the cells of the carpel to expand to achieve full fruit size.
Finally, the "mother" plant produces the hormone AbA which causes the embryo to go dormant inside the ovule that has become a seed.
Now that the fruit has grown to full size, we can now classify it. Indeed the classification of fruits can assist us in the identification of plant species.
Note: any one fruit can be classified in each of the three schemes. Try to classify some common fruits at the supermarket, in a salad bar, in your refrigerator, or in the cafeteria using all three schemes for each fruit.


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Amazon spent $1.7 billion on video and music in Q1
The retail giant's spending puts it in a class with rivals like Netflix and HBO
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Amazon.com Inc. said it spent $1.7 billion on video and music content during the first quarter of this year, the first time the technology and retail giant has itemized the growing cost of providing streaming services to consumers.
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Seattle company said it spent $1.5 billion on video and music during the same period in 2018. That sum includes the cost of licensing content and producing original filmed and musical offerings, as well as other costs associated with digital subscription services and rented content.
Amazon offers customers access to streaming video and music through its paid Prime membership program, as well as other standalone subscription options. Earlier this month the company launched an ad-supported streaming-music service.
Amazon's spending compares with rivals like Netflix Inc. and HBO. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates Netflix will spend about $15.1 billion on content this year, including $3 billion during the first three months of 2019.
AT&T Inc.'s HBO spent about $2.2 billion on programming in 2017. The telecom and entertainment giant plans to boost that budget by 50 percent this year.


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TEAM EFFORT REWARDED WITH BRANDS PODIUM
Following their success at Donington Park in the opening rounds of the GT Cup, RAW Motorsports Steve Burgess and Ben Dimmack were looking for a repeat as they visited Brands Hatch last weekend in their Radical RXC.
After the mornings qualifying they were sixth quickest overall, but more importantly second in class, only 0.279 secs off the class pole position.
After Dimmack had some lappery in the earlier free practice, it was Burgess that set the qualifying time. "It was my first time on the Brands Hatch GP circuit for three years, and all was ok. It just took me a few laps to get up to speed," he said.
From lights out for the first 50 minute race, Burgess was flying, and was quickly into fourth place on the opening lap, leading their class.
With cars off the safety car was soon in action too, but having been under slight pressure from John Dhillon's Lamborghini, from the green flag, Burgess left his rival to go clear.
Only three full British GT spec were ahead and when Richard Neary's Mercedes retired after eight laps, Burgess was then into third overall.
"It was going well, almost too well. I had good pace, but the tyres just started to go off. So I was determined to pull a gap before the pit stop window," he explained.
He was the first to pit, still in a clear third. The stop went well and Dimmack headed down the pit lane to rejoin. "I didn't even get as far as the end of the pit lane," he added, after a broken driveshaft brought them a premature end to a very promising race.
There was about a three hour gap to repair the car before the second race, but the parts had to be sourced, which meant a mercy dash to the Radical factory.
The pit crew had the car stripped and ready for the new part. It arrived as the cars were already on the grid, "it was a blur of spanners and we missed getting onto the grid by seconds," said crew chief Tim Shaw, so Burgess started the race, but from the pit lane.
With over 40 cars on the grid, it was far from easy, but he had already made six places by the end of the opening lap.
On lap four he picked off the class rival Ferrari of Paul Bailey and was into the top 20 and six laps later was chasing John Seale's Lamborghini for second in class.
Hopes of further progress were then thwarted by a safety car period, quickly followed by the pit stop window. "It was interesting working my way through from the back, but then I was stuck behind Seale and the safety didn't help," said Burgess.
Once the stops had been completed, Dimmack was in 10th place, lying second in class behind Richard Chamberlain's Porsche.
Gradually Abbie Eaton in the Seale Lamborghini began to close and with only time for five laps left on the clock, she was through to snatch 10th overall and second in class, from the Radical duo.
"We did what we could and I enjoyed it," said Dimmack after settling in 11th overall and second in class, from 43 starters.
"A great all round team effort," Burgess added, which no one could disagree with.
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Mitsubishi plans to show a concept plug-in hybrid at the Tokyo Auto Show. Tags: phev mitsubishi plug-in hybrid Larger and more upmarket than the all-electric iMiev scheduled to be sold in Japan shortly, there no information yet on what flavor hybrid Mitsubishi will employ. Production is at least three years away. Source: autocar.co.uk].
Here is the headline and the lead: Plug-in cars could actually increase air pollution By James R. Healey , USA TODAY The expected introduction of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles could cut U.S. 26) could lead to misperceptions about the environmental benefits of plug-in hybrid vehicles.
Troska said it will be a plug-in hybrid and a battery-electric vehicle. China Electric (Battery) Plug-insAt Auto Shanghai 2019, Mercedes-Benz is premiering the close-to-production show car Concept GLB and the Mercedes-AMG A 35 L 4MATIC developed exclusively for China.
W e've had the people in our shop go over the new energy bill with an eye for Plug Ins and electric transportation in general. SEC 132 Domestic Manufacturing Conversion Grant Program Grants to auto makers, suppliers, component manufacturers to encourage PHEVs, EVs, and advanced diesels.
A new study shows that Plug-ins can both reduce driving expenses and vehicle emissions. The study found that PHEVs may result in a reduction of the overall expense of owning a vehicle and, with the help of smart-grid technologies, eliminate harmful vehicle emissions by up to 50 percent.
T he Department of Energy is moving forward to develop advanced batteries for PHEV s. DOE to Provide up to $14 Million to Develop Advanced Batteries for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Join Plug In Partners today.
Leveraging GM's proven EREV technology as shown in the Chevy Volt and the Cadillac CT6 Plug-In, the Velite 5 also offers advanced connectivity and safety technologies. The all-new BMW X1 xDrive 25Le is the first plug-in hybrid car in the premium compact SUV segment in China.
The compact Sports Activity Vehicle (SAV) developed exclusively for the Chinese automotive market with extended wheelbase and plug-in drive now achieves an electrically powered range of up to 110 kilometers (68 miles) due to its new battery technology. The plug-in hybrid system of the new BMW X1 xDrive25Le comprises a 1.5-liter 3-cylinder gasoline engine with BMW TwinPower Turbo Technology driving the front wheels, with an electric motor that delivers its power to the rear wheels.
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There has never been a shortage of stories in the press denigrating plug-in electric cars. The press release headline blares: "PLUG-IN HYBRID VEHICLE COSTS LIKELY TO REMAIN HIGH, BENEFITS MODEST FOR DECADES." The report highlights battery cost in 2010 leading to a $18,000 premium for some initial PHEVs, and suggests no lower cost is unlikely to be achieved with economies of scale. CNN picked up the story questioning whether plug-ins pencil out for consumers.
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Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers will return as title sponsor of Detroit City FC for its third straight season, the Detroit soccer team announced Monday.
The auto dealer group's logo will be donned on the front of City's home and away jerseys. MCDC is the marketing association of 38 Chevrolet dealerships in southeastern Michigan. The team will reveal its 2017 jerseys and other major sponsors at its third annual Soccer Prom. Details of the event will be announced at a later date.
Included in the sponsorship are livestreams of eight regular season home games at Keyworth Stadium at detcityfc.com, viewership of which the team says it expects to grow from 3,000 viewers per game last season.
The broadcast will include seven National Premier Soccer League Great Lakes Division matches and one friendly against Glenotoran FC of the Northern Ireland Football League on May 27, in tribute to the defunct Detroit Cougars. A schedule of the 2017 season can be found here.
"The May 27th match vs. Glentoran FC is a special international friendly commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Detroit Cougars, Detroit's first professional soccer team," Detroit City FC media director Lindsey Pehrson said in an email. "The Cougars team was actually represented by Glentoran; because the league was just forming in 1967, foreign professional teams were brought over to play as American teams."
The Chevy dealers group will also sponsor several summer youth clinics hosted by City throughout the region for children ages six through 12, according to a news release. The clinics will cost $30, but is free for participants with a coupon, which will be available at any local Metro Detroit Chevy Dealers location in early May. More details about the clinics will be released in upcoming weeks.
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There are many ways to look at the impact of any disease, such as the patient experience, the public health impact, and the related healthcare costs, to name a few. In this blog post, we'll take a look at the some of the statistics related to diabetic retinopathy (DR) – numbers that challenge physicians, the healthcare system as a whole, and patients to consider how to prevent, detect, and treat this eye disease that can blind.
We can't talk about DR without talking about diabetes – the underlying cause of DR. According to the American Diabetes Association, 1.5 million Americans are diagnosed with diabetes every year, and this chronic disease is estimated to affect over 30 million Americans (or 9.4% of the population). People with diabetes are at risk of serious and debilitating macrovascular and microvascular complications, including DR. The good news… 90% of diabetes-related blindness is preventable. The onset and progression of DR can be prevented or slowed with optimal management of blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol. In addition, treatments are available to limit the vision loss due to DR. However, because DR in its early stages can be asymptomatic, detection via screening and timely treatment are essential. The bad news… despite recommendations from the ADA for regular retinal screening, many people with diabetes are not screened. The imperative for more widespread screening for DR is best illustrated by the stark statistics on DR in the US: In 2014, a study estimated the prevalence of DR to be ~8,100,00 and projected this number to rise to ~11,000,000 in 2032 and to ~13,200,00 in 2050.
Millions of individual Americans and their families already are or will be affected by varying degrees of vision loss due to DR. Importantly, vision loss is associated with other health issues such as depression, falls, cognitive decline, and premature death. And, of course, vision loss impedes people's ability to perform daily tasks such as driving, reading, and traveling, all of which negatively impact their quality of life and productivity. Society as a whole is also affected, as the cost of diabetes in 2017 was estimated by one study to be $327 billion, including $237 billion in direct medical costs and $90 billion in reduced productivity. This same study estimated the contribution of condition-specific complications of diabetes (e.g., cardiovascular, renal, ophthalmic, etc.) expenditures to total U.S. healthcare expenditures, and found that 25% of expenses were attributable to ophthalmic conditions.
Tackling the human and financial impact of DR will require strategies to prevent diabetes and to help people with diabetes better manage their disease to prevent DR. In addition, innovative screening strategies must be implemented to ensure that more people with diabetes have their eyes screened at appropriate intervals in order to detect DR and treat it before it causes irreversible vision loss.
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Биричево — деревня в Великоустюгском районе Вологодской области.

География
Входит в состав Усть-Алексеевского сельского поселения, с точки зрения административно-территориального деления — в Усть-Алексеевский сельсовет.

Расстояние по автодороге до областного центра Вологды - 282 км по трассам E115 и M8, районного центра Великого Устюга — 58 км, до центра муниципального образования Усть-Алексеево — 6 км. Ближайшие населённые пункты — Пожарово, Юшково, Антоново.

История
В начале XVII века деревня носила три названия: Бородина, Биричево и Степурино. Относилась к числу «черных» деревень. С течением времени возобладало второе название Биричево. Восходит оно к мужскому личному имени-прозвищу Бирич, в основе которого лежит тюркское слово бирич – "должностное лицо, в обязанности которого входило объявлять различные указы и распоряжения, глашатай". Фамилия Биричевский – одна из распространенных в Великоустюгском районе.

Население
По переписи 2002 года население — 66 человек (36 мужчин, 30 женщин). Преобладающая национальность — русские (98 %).

Известные жители
В Биричево расположен дом — памятник архитектуры, в котором родился и жил Герой Советского Союза младший сержант Пётр Михайлович Норицын.

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Hope for Fragile Babies
Lauren Hirschmann, 13, is a typical teen. You'd never know that when she was born, she spent 96 days in Saint Barnabas Medical Center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), fighting for her life.
Lauren Hirschmann, 13, is a typical teen. She gets good grades and is active in school plays and sports. You'd never know that when she was born, she weighed just 1 lb., 10 oz., and spent 96 days in Saint Barnabas Medical Center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), fighting for her life.
Sadly, her twin brother, Matthew, "wasn't ready" when the two were born at just 25 weeks' gestation, says Hayley Hirschmann, their mom. He died several hours after birth. But Lauren was able to overcome "typical preemie problems," Hirschmann says, including feeding difficulties and eye ailments that eventually needed surgery. "Since then, Lauren's health has been really fantastic," she says. "She didn't even need glasses until this year."
That happy outcome is the result of the expertise and skill of the Saint Barnabas NICU staff, says Hirschmann, 45, a clinical psychologist, who lives in Livingston with her husband, Jonathan, 46, a marketing specialist, Lauren and their other daughter, Jessica, 12. They were so grateful that they organized a fundraising event called the Miracle Walk to thank the staff in honor of Lauren and in memory of her brother. "We wanted to give something back to these incredible people and this incredible place," she says. And give back they have—13 Miracle Walk events have so far raised about $4.4 million.
How Technology Helps
That money is much needed, explains Shyan Sun, M.D., medical director of the NICU. State-of-the-art technology can make the difference between a successful outcome and failure. "All of these new technologies are very expensive," Dr. Sun says. "The funds from the Miracle Walk help us acquire some of this super high-tech equipment so we can provide gentle care for our most fragile babies."
The new machines include noninvasive continuous monitoring technology, which has replaced frequent blood drawings and reduced the need for frequent blood transfusions. "Today, oxygen and carbon dioxide levels are continuously and painlessly monitored through a sensor on the skin, and as a result oxygen toxicity and eye damage are significantly reduced," Dr. Sun says.
Other cutting-edge advancements include sophisticated ventilation equipment and the use of nitric oxide gas. "This gas can open up collapsed blood vessels in the lungs to improve blood flow for adequate ventilation," he says. "These new modes of ventilation aim to reduce ventilator-induced lung injuries. Together, they have saved many, many lives."
Top Staff, Top Results
The Saint Narnabas NICU is one of the most highly rated units in the country, according to the Vermont Oxford Neonatal Network, which compiled data on more than 950 NICUs from 25 countries. "Our survival rate for extremely low gestational age and birth-weight babies is among the best in the country," Dr. Sun says. "During the past four years, 76 percent of babies born at 23 weeks at Saint Barnabas Medical Center survived to be discharged home as compared with the Vermont Oxford Network rate of 40 percent. Our long-term severe disability rate is also lower."
That success is due in part to having neonatologists available around the clock, every day of the year. "The time with the highest risk of death is in the first hour of human life," says Dr. Sun. "Also, babies face tougher survival odds if they're born at night or on weekends or holidays. Research shows that the early neonatal death rate (within the first seven days of life) is 40 percent lower in a hospital with a neonatologist available in-house at all times than in one with a neonatologist on call from home at night and on the weekend."
At Saint Barnabas, all high-risk births are given meticulous attention. "We provide a neonatal resuscitation and stabilization team consisting of one neonatologist, at least one NICU nurse and one respiratory therapist for all high-risk deliveries and c-sections—one team for a single birth, two teams for twin deliveries and three teams for triplets," Dr. Sun says.
As a regional perinatal center, the Saint Barnabas NICU has 56 beds and admits 90 to 100 babies a month. The NICU staff comprises 12 neonatologists, three pediatric surgeons, three pediatric cardiologists, 130 nicu registered nurses, a team of neonatal respiratory therapists, onsite neonatal pharmacists, neonatal occupational and physical therapists and numerous pediatric subspecialists.
For all the complexity of the work, the medical and health care professionals treat everyone like family, says Hirschmann. That makes the Miracle Walk more than just a fundraiser to those whose lives have been touched by the NICU. "It's like a reunion," she says. "The nurses man the food tents and tables, and the parents show off their kids and grandkids. It's an amazing, feel-good day."
It feels good for her family as well. "Every single year, families tell us, 'we don't know how to thank you for starting this. We wanted to do something to give back, and now all we have to do is form a team and come out to walk,'" says Hirschmann. "So many families leave this unit so grateful. We want to let the staff know that we are so appreciative, because we wouldn't have our families without them." —David Levine


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In the debut episode of the Next System Podcast, host Adam Simpson sits down with the co-chairs of the Next System Project, Gar Alperovitz and Gus Speth. The co-chairs discuss what NSP means to them in the context of the unique historical moment that the United States and indeed the world currently finds itself.
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Adam Simpson: Welcome to the debut episode of The Next System podcast. I'm your host, Adam Simpson. In this series, we'll be investigating a wide range of issues, like economic democracy, quantitative easing for the planet, and much, much more.
In our debut episode, however, I'm joined by the co-chairs of the Next System Project, James Gustave Speth and Gar Alperovitz. Just some brief introductions: Gus is a law professor at the University of Vermont with a history of environmental activism that dates back to his time working with the Carter administration as the Chair of the US Council on Environmental Quality. Gar is the co-founder of the Democracy Collaborative as well as a highly accomplished economist, historian, and activist with a new book available called Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth.
So, with that, Gus and Gar, welcome to The Next System Podcast.
Gar Alperovitz: Yes, happy to be here.
Adam: I'm glad to have you here.
I'm a political economist and an historian, and I often say, 'historically, systems come and go.' They are not things that last forever.
Adam: So, Gar, as I understand it, the Next System Project is something you knew you wanted to do in about 2012, and later brought Gus into the project in August 2013. I was wondering what, in your mind, the Next System Project meant to you, and how did you come about designing this idea in your mind?
Gar: Well, it seemed that all along the question was the systemic challenge and whether we'd be able to legitimate a discussion about the need to change the system that wasn't rhetorical. I tested the idea against some presidents and ex-presidents of the Political Science Association, American Sociological Association, and the Academy of Management—and surprisingly, they all agreed that it's time for this debate. So that's how it began to take form. We raised some additional start-up money, and Joe Guinan was hired as Executive Director. Gus and I were working on the New Economics Coalition together. We both were on the starting board of that.
And I think it was at a retreat where Gus and I were chatting about this, and I knew Gus had written a book basically on how to change the system in one form or another, and I kind of thought, "Oh, if Gus would come play, we'd really have an interesting way to take this forward." With me on the economics side and Gus on the ecological and environmental side, we might be able to broaden this project into a real legitimator. And the goal has been to start a debate, not to push our particular views, but to legitimate the debate, and I think that's been particularly spectacular in the series that Gus has been managing detailing alternative systemic models.
Adam: And Gus, what was your initial reaction when Gar pitched you the idea of the Next System Project?
Gus: I think my initial reaction is, "Oh my God, what am I getting into?" But, as Gar reminds me, I signed up quickly because I had thought about a project that was focused around that theme, but when Gar mentioned it, it seemed like the perfect way to spend the next three or four years of my life, and it's been very fulfilling. I've had a wonderful time working on these issues, and I think I came to these issues through sort of the environmental door. You could come to them from a dozen different doors, but mine was in seeing that the system we were trying to make progress working within was at war with us, and if we really wanted to make sustained progress on environmental issues, we had to step outside of the system and start trying to change it.
Gar: The other piece that's important is that we had really run out of 20th century ideas. The socialist model, so far as we knew it, was falling apart right before your eyes, and the corporate model was falling apart, so either we could actually get serious developing and debating what makes sense or get stuck in the old paradigms.
Adam: And when we talk about "systemic challenges and systemic crises," how do you define what amounts to a systemic crisis?
Gar: Well, I think, my starting place is values: equality, democracy, liberty, ecological sustainability, and a peaceful world. Does the system that we are building and living in promote those values? And, if not, what would be a system that actually nurtured and supported and promoted those values look like, rather than always having to struggle to hold back the pressures in the wrong direction.
And then the next question is, what's the institutional design? It's like an architecture problem. If you stand back from it, what is the architecture that we're looking for to most produce these outcomes?
Gus: We had a poll come out during the recent 2016 election campaign that said that 70% of the American people thought that the economy was rigged against them. You know, that's a very small step from saying that the economic system is rigged against them, which is not a big step away from saying that the system in general is rigged against people. So we think there's a way to talk about these issues that could reach a very, very large audience. The audience is predisposed now to think in terms of the system being rigged against them. And then we were working away, and along comes the Pope and his encyclical, which seemed very supportive. And then along comes Bernie Sanders, and starts saying some of the things that we thought should be said. And so I think we have a base on which to reach a large audience.
Gar: And, I might add, along comes Mr. Trump, who I think is creating an openness amongst people who are not happy with what's happening and seeking an alternative that's not stale and decaying. The times are calling forward out of pain—something's wrong. And the question is, how do we get beyond rhetoric to begin to talk about where we go?
I work in paths. I'm a political economist and an historian, and I often say, 'historically, systems come and go.' They are not things that last forever. We have to get out of ourselves to recognize that, but as Gus was saying the times in this country have opened up. I'm from Wisconsin, I always think of these Iowa housewives who call themselves democratic socialists. When I was growing up, was a word that you couldn't use.
But whatever it's called, people seem to be open to talking about bigger things because of the pain levels and the failures and the climate problems and so there is a recognition that something's really wrong that we need to deal with.
There's questions of theory. What is it, if you don't like socialism, you don't like capitalism, you don't like communism, what is it and what's it look like and what's the design? …The other piece is, what's the process that gets us there?
Adam: It's interesting because you mention, you know, we're looking for alternatives, and in a lot of ways, part of Trump's narrative was that he was an alternative to someone who was an insider, like Clinton. And even now, we've seen some constituencies that he rode to power on seem to turn against even his diagnosis of the economy and his proposed solutions. If 70% are skeptical of the system, that's pretty bipartisan. That's a pretty good level of consistency. How do we shift that momentum toward not just defending against Trump's initiatives but also moving the process of change forward?
Gus: Well, I think that's happening around the country, in many, many locales, and people are experimenting. People are bringing the future into the present in their communities. I think we could play a role with others to help demonstrate that this phenomenon is occurring, that positive things are happening, that the alternative is being built. We could do more, I think, to help project a positive policy agenda that others could look at and make use of.
And I think that a lot of this is aimed at the 2018 political campaign, and then the next presidential election, and those efforts are going to have to have a positive message. It's one thing to sort of go out and campaign against Trump, and that in effect is what Hillary Clinton did, almost exclusively. But that's not going to win Congress back for the progressives, and they're going to have to have a positive message, and I would like to think that what we're doing can facilitate that.
The related piece where we try, at what level—partly, it's a question of what do you want? What makes sense? There's questions of theory. What is it, if you don't like socialism, you don't like capitalism, you don't like communism, what is it and what's it look like and what's the design? And what we're finding is that people are open to that question if you drop the rhetoric and talk about practicalities.
The other piece is, what's the process that gets us there? We've been kind of stuck in a two paradigm. It's either revolution with explosions as the only way to change the system, or elect this Congressman and he'll tinker around the edges. And I think there's a third route, and that's what's really interesting, which is building it as you go.
So, for instance, in Philadelphia and in Santa Fe now, they're setting up city banks, publicly-owned banks so that you can do community development with public banks. We're seeing worker-owned cooperatives developing illustrations of different ways to do business. We're seeing people developing land trusts to hold down housing inflation.
These are pieces of a puzzle, and one of the other things we've been doing is trying to develop lots and lots of these practicalities that can be built step by step. Reconstructions rather than explosions; a process that people can take on locally, and I think that's been missing in this dichotomy that's been there. The third way is really an important way to think about how you build the future.
And Bernie helps us with that as well. There's a Bernie group in Virginia that we've been talking to that wants to do a whole training program. All these things that are happening in different parts of the country. It's partly a problem with people not realizing how much is already being done that they could do, and part of the Next System Project is trying to just spread the word on what people are doing.
Gus: Complementary to that, it's a fair prediction that there will be ongoing string of crises and calamities—unfortunate though they may be—that will provide organizing and action platforms. We've had several in the recent past, and you can envision some unfortunately some really bad things happening on the climate front now, social conditions in the country could easily deteriorate even further, with things like the Trump budget, and we could find ourselves enmeshed in international crises of a variety of types, there could be another crisis in the financial system. Things haven't really changed there for the better, so I'm afraid that we also should be crisis ready. We should have our act together for how we respond when people are driven to become aware by external events.
Gar: I sometimes remind people that the United States government nationalized General Motors, Chrysler, AIG (the largest insurance company in the world), and several big banks in the last crisis—and under a conservative government. So, if you think about that, it's an extraordinary phenomenon that these big, big corporations were nationalized, how the politics afterward didn't know what to do with them except give them back at a good price to the original owners. But you know, we may find ways to have worker or community participation in ownership structures in cases where it's public money that's going in there. Crisis opportunities may offer some really interesting models that we could build at those moments. They do happen. They have happened regularly, and we haven't been ready with a positive answer.
Partly what we're trying to do is develop concrete responses as well as envision an architecture.
Adam: There strikes me to be a sort of continuity of systemic crisis here when we're talking about how there were people looking for an alternative, whether it was Bernie or Trump. People were looking for some way to escape what they viewed as "the establishment". I don't think anyone here will debate that Trump is not a good outcome, but what do you see as particularly new in terms of the crisis we're facing, and what seems to be rather ordinary about the kind of systemic crisis we're facing?
For example, I was recently having a conversation with Joe Guinan, the Executive Director of the Next System Project, and he reminded me that American workers hadn't had a raise in wages since virtually the 1970s. There's a continuity to the problems we're facing, and I'm wondering what you view as new and unique about this historical moment, and what seems to be "business as usual"?
Gar: The thing that strikes me is, we've had a dichotomy between reform and revolution. That's the way people have thought about change. Either we're going to get rolling improvements here decade by decade, or there's going to be a big collapse, some explosion. And I think we need to think of this as a time when neither of those happens, where pain levels grow, but the system doesn't collapse. It's very unusual, but it forces people to think, opens them to ideas, opens them to experimenting and developing the content of their politics. Can we set up a city-owned bank, as in Philadelphia? Can we do something with worker ownership? Can we do something for the next crisis?
We have time to develop ideas and programs and projects, whereas collapse doesn't give you that and reform remains superficial. It doesn't change the trend levels. We both worked in the government, at different levels. You get reforms that don't change the trend often. What we're looking for is big changes in trend. Outcomes of income distribution, climate change, et cetera where the trend changes.
Adam: Gus, I know you've written about non-reformist reforms as one approach to system change.
The idea that there is no alternative is pure bunk.
Gus: I think that we have seen a lot of that happen now in actions that look modest and small, and particularly about community developments, but are really putting models out there for long-term, big change. I think another area, is that we should be attending more to is indicators. We certainly need to move beyond GDP. There's a huge intellectual consensus that this is a wrongheaded measure for most of the things, and if we ever really got a system of national accounts and national metrics that measured things that people really cared about and wanted, you know, I think it would be, that would be the classic non-reformist reform because I think it would change things dramatically if every time the GDP number came out there was another number that came out with it that was a measure of sustainable human well-being. And studies suggest that it's hasn't grow for decades now, that it's going downhill in many respects.
So one thing to think about in terms of change, I think the general pattern would be that we will lose time in this interim of Trump, and as Gar was saying, the pains will increase in many ways. I think what that will do is set the stage for stronger action down the road, bigger actions down the road than were originally contemplated.
And one area that we have talked a lot about in the Next System Project is, what kind of climate actions are going to be needed after we waste critical years with doing nothing? And there are some fascinating, big idea proposals which would involve changing the system that will become far more plausible.
Gar: There's one area we really should spend more time on: the military and the interventionist tendency that occurs in the system. We have resisted these questions. The attempt to use bombing, or intervention with troops that seems to be recurrent for most of the post-war period—often without Congressional authority in many cases—or deception, as in the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, and the question of going into Iraq for nuclear weapons that didn't exist.
Opening the question of how we engage with war and peace and intervention is on our agenda. We know something about it, but we haven't concentrated our work on that, and I think we need to do more. As we're seeing right now, the president can use authority that he probably does not have without congressional authorization to launch strikes in different countries. It's been important in both Democratic and Republican administrations that this be reassessed.
Adam: I don't know far down this rabbit hole we want to go right now, but it seems to me that it does raise certain systemic issues. It seems very transparent that certain strikes may have had something to do with domestic concerns about this or that scandal that the president was involved in. It seems to me that our intervention in the world is very much tied to the way the government subsidizes certain businesses (notably, the defense industry) which isn't altogether separate from our work on economics and systems level changes.
Gar: One of the ways briefly to say it is that we have an expansionary system that has generated interests around the world, partly related to global expansion of corporations, in earlier times informally working with the governments we like, as in Egypt, that will or will not accept us. Don't oversimplify that. But I think the next system must develop systemic designs that aren't imperial. My introduction to this was to use nuclear weapons. I wrote a book about Hiroshima long ago, which drove me to some of these questions of how the system produces these kinds of outcomes.
Adam: And, for my final question, I want to ask about what you think it means to kind of view these crises from a systems level. I feel like a lot of the debates that go on in American politics tend to be: should this behavior be criminalized or not? Should we raise taxes or should we lower them? Almost parochial issues at times. Obviously, we're not blind to the effects of these issues, but what do you think it means, in your minds, to look at a problem at a systems level and try to come up with solutions at a systems level?
Gus: Well, one thing from my point of view, as someone with an environmental background, looking at our situation from a systems perspective utterly changes the environmental agenda, the definition of environmental issues, and the issues that environmentalists take on and become active about. Because if our environmental challenges are in fact artifacts of a system, we need to understand what aspects of the system are yielding these consistently negative results and change them. And, in fact, change the system.
And so you get into issues like the motivational structure and the nature of business enterprises. Our core values as a society, who determines investment, the course of investment decisions, who is making those decisions about where society is investing its resources, and on and on. And those are fundamental issues that are really at the root of our environmental problems today. Gaping inequalities, the corporatocracy and plutocracy in our political system, these require deep systemic changes if we're going to deal with our environmental challenges.
Gar: Both Gus and I come out of the progressive parts of the liberal movement, but I think another way to say it is if you see long trends, 10, 20, 30, 40-year trends where income distribution gets worse, climate gets worse, incarceration gets worse, particularly for Black and Hispanic Americans… Many, many trends that don't change or get worse, then you know there's something wrong with the politics that simply tries to poke around the edges. That is deep. It's in the architecture of the system, and that throws you back to the questions "what makes sense", and then "how do we take the first steps"?
It also throws you back on remembering systemic change is very common in world history. It's not unusual. We haven't experienced it in this very rich country, but the idea that somehow we might change the system, which is daunting at first, actually begins to be something you see historically. It happens all the time. I sometimes say it's as common as grass in world history, and it would be surprising if our country didn't find a way to address these painful trends in a way that goes beyond the traditional reforms that haven't been producing trend change. Which means, somehow, redesigning and building from the bottom up a different kind of system.
Gus: The idea that there is no alternative is pure bunk.
Adam: Well, I think that's a great place to close.
Adam: That's all the time we have today, but be on the look out for episodes with Gus and Gar one-on-one. We'll be talking with Gus about his individual perspective on system changes, discussing his latest work on what he calls "the joyful economy," and then speaking with Gar individually about his new book, Principles of a Pluralist Commonwealth. Give us a like, a share, leave us a review, and we'll see you next time on the Next System Podcast.


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Monale est une commune italienne de la province d'Asti dans la région Piémont en Italie.

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Communes limitrophes
Asti, Baldichieri d'Asti, Castellero, Cinaglio, Cortandone, Maretto, Villafranca d'Asti

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Commune dans la province d'Asti