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Parenthood, superheroes and geopolitics collide in an entertaining new thriller
Interview by Matthew Jackson
British author Nick Harkaway is known for his ability to fearlessly blend genres in novels like The Gone-Away World. In his third novel, Tigerman, he mixes parenting, superheroes and geopolitics in the story of Lester Ferris, a British Army sergeant sent to a remote island outpost on what is supposed to be a simple assignment. But Lester refuses to ignore the shady goings-on in Mancreau, and his growing relationship with a native street kid complicates things further. We asked Harkaway a few questions about superheroes and being a dad.
Tigerman is not a typical superhero story, but it does feature some of the classic superhero tropes, as well as a boy who's obsessed with comic books. Have comic books always been part of your reading life?
Not always—I came to them comparatively late. I vaguely remember reading some 2000AD before then, but I never really followed comics until I saw Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen around the time I was 18. But I don't think I was really into comics until my 20s, when a couple of my friends started feeding me the weird and alarming stuff Grant Morrison was doing, and then someone gave me some Warren Ellis . . . it all flows from there. I love shiny, fun things, but what I really love is shiny fun things that also turn out to be brilliantly clever and intelligent. That's the brass ring. (I must look that up. I don't know what it means.) (I just have. That's really interesting.)
"Superheroes are for the most part inherently conservative. All they want to do is fix the status quo, which when you think about it is shocking."
You've described the island of Mancreu as a kind of modern Casablanca, a place where secrets and dark deeds can be conveniently dumped. Why do you think a place like Mancreu worked better for you than, say, a crime-ridden metropolis like Batman's Gotham City?
Well, first up: the superhero notion isn't the only or even necessarily the primary one I'm working with in the book. This is a thriller with themes of parenthood, and it so happens that one of the things the main character does is put on a supersuit. But he can't fly or whatever, he's just a guy trying to do the right thing in a situation that's completely insane. Gotham City, in the Batman story, is a freakishly dangerous place full of lunatics. Lester's solution in Gotham would not be Batman's, because he would see immediately that whatever is wrong with it is completely unfixable. Batman is in this losing battle to make it less hellish, but it is never, ever going to be Metropolis no matter how much money Bruce Wayne pours into it.
Mancreu isn't like that. There's nothing inherently dysfunctional about it. In fact if it hadn't been abused and broken by people who didn't care about it, it would basically be a really nice place. So Lester is not in a war, which is important because he understands war. He's trying to win the peace—and that, as we're all painfully aware right now, is much harder.
I couldn't help but notice that the first comic book mentioned by name in Tigerman is Warren Ellis' Planetary, a book that filters a lot of complex cultural ideas through a superhero aesthetic. Tigerman does a similar kind of filtering, in a way. Did you draw on any particular comic book inspirations, while writing this book?
I love Planetary. I just think it's brilliant. I also love the original Authority run, which is part of where I got the idea that superheroes are for the most part inherently conservative. All they want to do is fix the status quo, which when you think about it is shocking. The Justice League can beat cosmic bad guys, figure out how Sporflompty Zigguratifiers can save the planet from death rays, but they can't fix corporate malfeasance because, what, it's beneath them? (I mean, the real reason is that superheroes basically came of age when we were in a war mentality, they fight enemies you can punch. But increasingly we realize that punching people doesn't really solve anything. They wake up angry, as you would.)
Aaaanyway. I tend to believe that all pop culture either plays with or exemplifies whatever is going on in society. If it's completely unselfconscious, you see reflections of whatever people are scared of as the villain—others of some sort, but what sort? Invasion of the Bodysnatchers comes out of the1950s. In the 1980s you had these huge world-ending threats. After 9/11 you get all these stories about infiltration and destruction. So you don't have to filter: the whole system of pop is a filter, a distillate. The stuff that is conscious, like Ellis's work, is like an elixir, and it's amazing. The stuff that is—to my taste, anyway—basically not very good, is still interesting.
But I didn't really lean on anything in particular while I was writing this. I'm a magpie, which I think is what most authors are. Part of the original inspiration was Chabon's book, The Final Solution, which was itself a Sherlock Holmes riff. But then obviously there was a big Batman thing happening, and a lot of people have picked up on Graham Greene, which I didn't really think of but now I think "oh, right, of course." And Casablanca. And . . . it just goes on and on.
"I tend to believe that all pop culture either plays with or exemplifies whatever is going on in society."
I read that the idea for Tigerman hit you in 2010, but other writing projects and becoming a father meant that you didn't finish the book until three years later. How did it evolve from that initial concept?
Oh, it changed but it stayed the same. The big change was that I took out this totally stupid twist I had in it. Everyone hated it, and I was like: "But the twist completely changes everything!" And then I realized that, hey: yes, it did, and I didn't want any of those things to change. Those were the things I needed to have stay the same and everything else could change. I've actually just had the same thing with the book I'm writing now. I was completely screwed, I couldn't make it work, and suddenly it's like: oh, if I turn the whole thing on its head but leave the important stuff right way up, now everything feels as if I meant it that way." It's writing. It's just how you live.
You've said that the book is, despite all the other ideas being explored in it, at its heart a story about fatherhood, and you were coming into your own role as a father while writing it. How much did your own attitudes about being a parent transfer over to Lester?
Everything. Everything everything. Lester is driven by love. That's his heart. He wants to love and be loved and he's somehow missed out, and here, in this totally messed up place, he's got the shot and he doesn't know how to take it.
I was much luckier than he is. I had it all in front of me and it was—is—great. But I know exactly how that sense of bewilderment feels, because there was a moment in my life where I just had no idea how I was going to get from there to here. And then suddenly there was this amazing woman who is now my wife, and everything was obvious again. But parenthood: there is no one who knows what that will be until they do it, in whatever way. If you adopt, if you foster, whatever, you are a parent. I'm not being all essentialisty exclusivy here. I'm just saying it is a thing that, until you take it on, you don't know what kind of lunatic it will make you. Because it will make you some kind of lunatic or you are not doing it right. It could completely make you into a person who dresses up and fights crime because your kids need you to do that. Of course it could. Have you seen the insane things people do for their kids? That Liam Neeson movie? Taken? That's a documentary about the emotions of parenthood. It's like: there is a threat?! IT MUST BE DESTROYED. WITH FLAMES.
The boy is a fascinating character, in part because he's an intriguing combination of very openly exuberant and a little mysterious. How, if at all, did your own children influence the character?
Not at all! Because they're not there yet. The boy, like the sergeant and all the others, he's mostly me through a filter. It's the tie between them that I borrowed from my sense of being a dad.
If circumstance forced you to become a superhero vigilante, who do you think you'd become? Would you pick a pre-established character or dream up your own persona?
I'd have to make something up. I cannot think of anything worse than being a writer occupying someone else's character in real life because you didn't have the confidence to make up your own crazy identity. But actually I'd be different from most of the characters you see. I'd be the guy who shows up and does something really unrelated at the very beginning, like drop a piece of paper on the bar, and when the whole thing is in full-bore showdown with everyone ready to fight, someone's going to pick up that piece of paper and written on it is the exact right thing to change what's going on for the better.
Which I realize is impossible, but it's what I've got right now. I don't want to think about what I'd become in real life, because that involves thinking about whatever appalling trauma would put me there.
It's been 76 years since Superman first appeared, and everyone's got their own theory about why superheroes continue to endure. What's yours, and did it change at all during the writing of Tigerman?
I think I got to say it all in the book. Superman is faith and hope. He derives from the same American pop culture pot as the cowboy, the virtuous one. He comes, he saves you, he goes. He doesn't become the government. He doesn't make rules. He just operates on a personal basis. Capra's movies have a lot about this—that's one half of the U.S. self-perception, if you like, the other half being rule-driven and codified. If you're missing the heart, you go to the heartlands—where Superman comes from. A character like Batman is the other guy, the one who was shot a bunch of times and came back. He's about self-reliance: there's always enough left in you to claw your way back. It's dustbowl stuff, and it's universal.
What are you reading lately?
My list of to-reads is endless. I carry some stuff around with me—Borges, Lem, some other things. I'm mostly writing, though, and I find it can get in the way.
What are you writing now?
Ahhhh, well. That would be telling. But let's say it's got six main characters, alchemy, semiotics, time travel and Greek politics.
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Gutsy Call To Cap Fourth Quarter Comeback Sees Team Stars & Stripes NCAA D-III Select Team Win Seventh Annual Tazón de Estrellas In Mexico
Two Point Conversion Seals Dramatic 15-14 Victory Over CONADEIP All-Stars
Less than 24 hours after arriving in Mexico, Team Stars & Stripes ran a two-point play on the first day of practice, Matt McDaniels tossing a pass to fellow quarterback Brady Huber in the end zone.
On Saturday that same play won the seventh annual Tazón de Estrellas at the Margarita Astiazrán de Fimbres Stadium in Baja.
Trailing by 14 points, a fourth quarter comeback looked improbable for the Americans, though not impossible since forays into Mexican territory had proven threatening if not fruitful.
Team Stars & Stripes, still reeling from what appeared to be a costly turnover with the clock ticking down, rebounded when Huber (Illinois College) hit Josh Peach (Grove City College) and then George Vidas (Lake Forest College) for touchdowns on consecutive possessions to dramatically trail by only a point with 24 seconds to play.
The hosts expected another kick between the uprights to force overtime, but then head coach Don DeWaard (Central College) made a gutsy call to go for glory; the do or die two-point play that had worked on the CETYS University practice field on Monday.
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The American defense still had to hold and limit CONADEIP to a potential game-winning field goal from 51 yards out, but like an earlier attempt, the ball fell well short of the goalposts off the boot of Luis Meza. Cue victory celebrations on the visiting sideline.
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Huber ended the day with 21 of 30 pass attempts completed for 255 yards and 2 touchdowns, with his chief targets Sanders (8-86), Peach (7-114-1) and Vidas (4-24-1). Linebacker Dylan Zerki (Kalamazoo College) led the defense with nine tackles, followed by cornerback Pat Clark (Lake Forest) and defensive back Quincy Marting (Washington University), who each posted eight. Clark also had a sack, while defensive end Brandon Stiers (Augustana College) had two and 2.5 tackles for a loss.
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Huber was flushed from the pocket on the crucial play, but retained his composure as he identified Vidas as his prime target in the end zone for a touchdown that capped a thrilling 9-play, 87-yard drive. 14-13 to the hosts, read the scoreboard.
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Team Stars & Stripes now lead the Tazón de Estrellas series 4-3.
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Q: How can I connect to wi-fi with this old laptop? I recently got an old Dell Latitude-D610 laptop that was running Windows XP, I think, so I completely deleted XP and put Ubuntu on. Before I put Ubuntu on, the wi-fi was working just fine, but now it isn't. In the settings under 'additional drivers' it says "no proprietary drivers are in use on this system" or something like that, and I think that's the problem. I've looked around on this forum and on other places about what to do, and several things said to input the following command:
$ lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4

So I did, and it returns this:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit   Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
03:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)

I successfully connected to the Internet by sharing my PC's connection through an Ethernet cable, but I've tried many things suggested in these forums and none of them are working. So please, PLEASE do not mark this question as a duplicate, as I've tried almost everything in questions that are indeed very similar to this one, but nothing's working.
Also, I'm not that great at Ubuntu, so if you tell me to do something, please say exactly where it is or how to do it.
Thanks in advance :D

A: Please get a temporary wired ethernet connection and open a terminal and do:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree

Detach the ethernet, reboot and your wireless should be working. If it is not working, run and post: sudo modprobe b43 && dmesg | grep b43

A: OH MY GOD, IT'S WORKING!
So all I did was
sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
and apparently that was holding me back, because it's working perfectly now! Honestly, you don't know how relieved I am...
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Chung earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University in 1981, followed by a master's degree in the same subject in 1983. She subsequently graduated in 1991 from Texas Tech University with a doctorate, and accepted a faculty position at NCKU in 1996. Chung was elevated to a distinguished professorship in 2005. In 2008, Chung was elected a fellow of the IEEE. Chung was a founding member of Women in Circuits and Systems in 2008, a subcommittee sanctioned by the board of governors of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, and served as its founding chair until 2009.

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With years of experience in addictions, trauma and co-dependency treatment, Andrea Taylor manages the new five-day Trauma Programme at The Priory Hospital North London
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Our team at North London has introduced a new five-day Trauma Programme to help patients to understand how their early childhood issues have potentially fuelled various addictions, mental health issues, eating disorders, and relationship issues in their adult lives.
A recent study into the link between childhood trauma and adult psychosis in the UK found that approximately 60% of respondents reported that they had experienced childhood trauma (Reeder, et al, 2017). As such, it is so important that we help patients to explore what can often be 'root-causes' of adult dysfunctional behaviour, as part of our holistic trauma programme.
The goal of our five-day Trauma Programme is to help people to 'break-free' from their dysfunctional behaviours that have been deep-rooted from a young age.
Another study into The Effects of Childhood and Stress on Health Across the Lifespan, has shown that, at an appropriate level, stress can help children to develop the skills that they need to effectively cope and adapt throughout life. However, during these early stages of development, it is important that children receive support from their parents or caregivers so that they learn how to respond to stress in a healthy manner. Without this support, prolonged periods of stress during childhood can impact a person's nervous and immune systems, and can lead to alcoholism, depression, eating disorders, heart disease, and other chronic diseases (Middlebrooks and Audage, 2008).
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Gestalt therapy (gestalt helps people to focus on their immediate thoughts, feelings and behaviours and to better understand the way they relate to others, The Gestalt Centre)
Transactional analysis therapy
Rational emotive therapy
By using educational and experiential processes, we are able to help patients to identify and address their childhood trauma and family-of-origin issues. Once we can identify these issues, we then work with patients to explore ways to deal with the emotions that accompany their past traumatic events, and how to resolve the resulting grief and distress.
The programme model examines the five core symptoms of co-dependent patterns:
Moderation/containment
Shame - the relationship pollutant
Family and social norms experienced in childhood that are deemed as being 'less than nurturing', can lead to feelings of shame. Children carry this shame with them, from their initial core-relationship with their parents or carers, to other subsequent relationships with themselves and with others. The shame effectively acts as a 'relationship pollutant'.
In the five-day Trauma Programme, therapists act as an advocate to help patients to acknowledge their reality and start to release some of their repressed shame. This is done through our re-parenting process, which includes teaching effective boundaries, self-esteem and moderation.
The treatment can have a significant effect on reducing depression, and crucially, helps to prevent relapse.
We require patients to complete a minimum of three therapy sessions, which can be done either before or after the programme, to help prevent relapse and promote long-term change.
The aim is for patients to complete the programme with an understanding of the unhealthy coping behaviours (such as addiction) and damage that they have inherited from their childhood trauma and to learn how to create healthy relationships with others and to have a better understanding of themselves.
Who is it aimed at?
The five-day Trauma Programme is designed to help anyone with co-dependency or attachment disorders and is, therefore, not limited to addiction patients.
The five-day Trauma Programme includes:
Lectures of co-dependency, abuse, love addiction and boundaries
Debrief sessions where patients explore their family-of-origin issues
Shame reduction workshops
From January 2018 our five-day Trauma Programme will include a free aftercare group, which will be offered to graduates on a weekly basis, for one year.
What participants have said:
"I cannot put into words the profound impact that doing the trauma week had on me. I became aware of how my family situation moulded my way of coping, which worked for me then, but no longer served me. I felt a sense of freedom from the week, and I gained some good friends. I went away with a set of tools and support that has helped to improve my relationship with myself and my family."
"I found the trauma week to be like an out-of-body experience and afterwards I felt physically, mentally and emotionally three stone lighter. I went to places that I never thought I could go to."
"The programme enabled me to release myself from my past and allow me to move on and start a foundation for a new life. It was actually quite massive; it was a life-changing experience that I would recommend to anyone."
This page was reviewed by Andrea Taylor (MBacp, MSc, FDap Accred), Addictions Therapy Manager The Priory Hospital North London
For details of how Priory can provide you with assistance regarding addiction treatment and rehabilitation, please call 0800 144 8969 or click here to book a FREE ADDICTION ASSESSMENT. For professionals looking to make a referral, please click here


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module DocumentCloud
  module API
    module Entities
      include DocumentCloud::API::Utils
      DOCUMENT_PATH = "/documents"
      ENTITIES_PATH = "/entities.json"

      # Fetch document entities
      #
      # @param id [String] The document id
      # @returns [Hash] The fetched document entities
      def entities(id)
        parse_json(get(entities_path(id)))[:entities]
      end

      private

        def entities_path(document_id)
          "#{DOCUMENT_PATH}/#{document_id.to_i}/#{ENTITIES_PATH}"
        end

    end
  end
end

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Q: How to loop through functions in Swift? I know that's likely a stupid question, but I'm trying for several hours already and can't do it. So, I'm making a simple game. I have 4 functions for death of my hero. Each of them is performing a different animation so I want program to know who exactly killed a hero. My logic is to put that functions into the array but Xcode tells me that I have a "missing argument for parameter #1 in call". I ignored that and tried to make a switch statement. But every 'case' has an error that tells me that it's expecting a pattern. Here is my code:
func didBeginContact(contact: SKPhysicsContact) {
    dead()
}

var deathArray:Array = [eatenByMouse(), eatenByCat(), eatenByHamster(), eatenByRabbit()]

func dead() {
    switch deathArray {
    case :
        eatenByMouse()
    case:
        eatenByCat()
    case:
        eatenByHamster()
    case:
        eatenByRabbit()
    default:
        cookie
    }

}

It's probably an extremely simple problem but I'm new to this and don't know what to do.
I think it's a good idea to post more related samples of my code. I think, my problem could be in collisions. So I have a ColliderType:
enum ColliderType:UInt32 {
    case Cookie = 1
    case Rabbit = 2
    case Mouse = 3
    case Hamster = 4
    case Cat = 5
}

Then I'm making a physic bodies for hero and enemies:
    self.cookie.physicsBody = SKPhysicsBody(circleOfRadius: CGFloat(self.cookie.size.width / 2))
self.cookie.physicsBody?.affectedByGravity = false
self.cookie.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask = ColliderType.Cookie.rawValue
self.cookie.physicsBody?.collisionBitMask = ColliderType.Mouse.rawValue
self.cookie.physicsBody?.contactTestBitMask = ColliderType.Mouse.rawValue

self.mouse.physicsBody = SKPhysicsBody(rectangleOfSize: self.mouse.size)
self.mouse.physicsBody?.dynamic = false
self.mouse.physicsBody?.categoryBitMask = ColliderType.Mouse.rawValue
self.mouse.physicsBody?.contactTestBitMask = ColliderType.Cookie.rawValue
self.mouse.physicsBody?.collisionBitMask = ColliderType.Cookie.rawValue

Sample of eatenByMouse() function:
func eatenByMouse() {
    self.groundSpeed = 0
    self.cookie.hidden = true
 let animateAction = SKAction.animateWithTextures(self.mouseArray, timePerFrame: 0.1)
    self.mouse.runAction(animateAction)
}

I hope it will clear something maybe.
It seems to be so easy problem, I'm ashamed that I don't understand it.

A: On line 5, you're defining your array of functions:
[ eatenByMouse(), eatenByCat(), ... ]

Those expressions with the () syntax actually invoke the function and resolve to it's return value. Try by just using the function names but not invoking them.
[ eatenByMouse, eatenByCat, ... ]

A: I'm assuming you can determine the type of death in didBeginContact. So you need to determine the index for the type of death here and then pass that to the death function so it can find the function reference and execute it.
If your death type functions take arguments or return a different result you will need to change the type of the array accordingly.
func didBeginContact(contact: SKPhysicsContact) {
    // You will need to determine this index based on the type of contact/death.
    var deathIndex:Int = 0 // Index of the type of death (e.g. eatenByMouse in this case)

    dead(deathIndex)
}

var deathArray:Array<() -> ()> = [eatenByMouse, eatenByCat, eatenByHamster, eatenByRabbit]

func dead(deathIndex: Int) {
   deathArray[deathIndex]()
}


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100 Things To Do Before You Die #010 Soak Up the Spectacular Flinders Ranges
— Flinders Ranges —
Hot Air balooning over Wilpena Pound. Image courtesy of Rawnsley Park Station.
Where is it? You'll find the foot of the Flinders Ranges approximately 200km north-west of Adelaide, SA.
This truly is a spectacular destination. We bang on about the Flinders Ranges a fair bit in the office – particularly Wilpena Pound, the vast natural amphitheatre that's the backdrop for Rawnsley Park and Arkaba Station – so we're glad our panel rated it as highly as we do.
"To many, the Flinders Ranges represent the essence of The Outback of Australia. The great natural feature of Wilpena Pound, an enormous circle of rock walls, is at the heart of the range and is a must-see destination." Bill Peach
Wilpena Pound: Australia's unknown icon
How can something as marvellously grand as the Flinders Ranges' Wilpena Pound fly under th... READ MORE
We're cheating by making this one thing to do before you die: it's really three, because there are three distinct regions in the Flinders – the Northern, Southern and Central Ranges. The entire Flinders Ranges is home to excellent cycling and walking tracks (such as the 900km Mawson Trail and Heysen Trail), as well as great food and wine trails.
The Central Flinders Ranges are home to the aforementioned Wilpena Pound, excellent four-wheel-driving and ancient rock art in the Yourambulla Caves. You'll also find the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Gardens here, which are worth visiting for their sculptural eremophilia garden and Flinders Ranges backdrop.
The Northern Flinders Ranges are as outback as it gets, with some startlingly rugged and challenging 4WD trails. It can get pretty hairy here, but if you're the adventurous type, this is the place to test your mettle.
While you're here, be sure to explore the Aboriginal Dreaming Trail – a two-day, self-drive tour that takes you through Aboriginal communities.
Take in the starry, starry nights in Arkaroola
Arkaba Station Walk: fresh steps through the Flinders
Outback Travel Guide – Explore the Flinders Ranges
Outback Travel Guide – Air Safari over the Outback


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Under the line management of the Manager, Talent Acquisition, and with a dotted line to the ICRC Head of HR Marketing in Geneva, the Talent Sourcing Specialist is responsible for sourcing and cultivating the future talent pool in Canada for future missions with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Canadian Red Cross (CRC). This will be done through reaching out to potential talent pools and jointly brand the ICRC as well as CRC as attractive employers of choice.
"All marketing activities undertaken by the Talent Sourcing Specialist are guided by the ICRC and both organizations' Fundamental Principles, Mission, Vision, Strategic directions and specific identification of ICRC needs, the approach and scope of action. The Talent Sourcing Specialist is part of an ICRC peer network that includes similar positions in London, Beirut, Moscow, Delhi, Dakar, Brussels, Manilla, Sao Paolo and Beijing. A regular exchange of communication and alignment of approaches and tools forms part of this function."
The main focus is on relevant associations, social networks, diaspora, academic circles, schools and universities. Branding activities in such places may include conducting campaigns for specific positions, all in line with the geographical, linguistic and operational priorities set by the ICRC and, depending on the emergency level, with a short, mid, or long-term perspective and in direct relation with the respective regional strategic frameworks of the ICRC.
ICRC and CRC HR colleagues, analyses and creates projections of talent requirements. Develop talent market analysis, sourcing projections with responsive strategy and plans to ensure current and future targets are met.
Researches and evaluates existing and potential sourcing channels (e.g., associations, job boards, career fairs, conferences, social media, strategic networking), and recommends new sources for active and passive talent acquisition, depending on local environment analysis.
Conducts ongoing research and analysis to keep abreast of labour market conditions, organizational changes and updates strategies and plans as outlooks evolve.
Monitors and supports planning of recruitment budgets, including annual forecasting.
In coordination with CRC provincial focal points, identifies, pursues, cultivates and nurtures relationships with communities and educational entities in specific provinces in Canada that are seen as potentially interesting, thereby promoting the ICRC and the Movement as an attractive employer.
Liaises with CRC provincial focal points to discussion and share the annual and any update to the HR Marketing plan so they participate, comment/provide inputs and identify existing relationships.
Develops approaches and tools to carry out talent sourcing at relevant events (e.g., conferences, career fairs); where required personally attends and presents at these events.
Develops and executes innovative activities on social media to source various pools of candidates. Works with ICRC and CRC Public Affairs to review sources and branding/internal guidelines.
Generates a pipeline of candidates to meet ICRC needs. Upon request from the ICRC holds pre-selection interviews and organizes assessment centers.
Coaches suitable candidates and introduces them to the recruitment procedures.
Contributes to the maintenance of the CRC Applicant Tracking System and the ICRC HRIS "HR Space".
Uses CRC Project Information Management System (PIMS) to track status and manage information related to all external stakeholders in Canada.
Tracks progress against sourcing strategy and plans and provides regular reports to ICRC and CRC.
Carries out requested reporting, evaluation and process improvement work regarding the CRC & ICRC partnership relationship for the Project oversight management team.
Produces and send monthly report to CRC provincial focal points to update on status against planned outreach activities.
Maintains regular contact with peers in ICRC's global HRM network, participating in team meetings and discussions, ensuring alignment in approaches and use of ICRC tools.
Mentors colleagues on sourcing processes and systems for back up purposes.
Fosters team work through a professional exchange of experiences and expertise that can be transferred to other areas of work.
Follows all CRC's policies and procedures required to maintain a healthy and safe working environment.
Ensures sharing and dissemination of programme related materials to all concerned actors in the team and with the CRC.
Provides back-up to colleagues as required.
Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or equivalent.
Have a not for profit experience abroad, ideally with the ICRC or CRC.
Have a professional regional network in the recruitment sector.
Experience of reporting within a matrix managed environment with multiple management stakeholders would be an asset.
Excellent command of English and French (oral and written) is essential. Command of any additional language including Spanish Arabic, Russian.
Excellent communication and networking skills (proven ability to take initiative and build strong and productive personal relationships).
Self-learner, high degree of autonomy and proven organizational skills.
The majority of the work is performed in typical office environment.
Ability to work non-traditional hours on short notice.
Travel within Canada and internationally including to difficult/restricted locations may be required.
Please note that there is no relocation package for this position. Only candidates that are legally authorised to work in Canada will be given consideration.
This position requires a successful Canadian criminal record, vulnerable sector and reference check.
The Canadian Red Cross is committed to employment equity, welcomes diversity in the workplace and encourages applications from all qualified applicants.
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Nashik: Charred body of medical officer found in her car
The charred body of a 38-year-old medical officer working with the Nashik Municipal Hospital was found inside her car late on Tuesday near Khed Bhairav village in Nashik Rural. The police said the private vehicle of the medical officer, identified as Suvarna Vaze, was also gutted.
The Wadivarhe police registered a case of accidental death and is awaiting the post-mortem report. Police inspector Anil Pawar said, "At around 11 pm on Tuesday, we received information that a burnt vehicle was found near Khed Bhairav village. We went to the spot and found that a person was also trapped inside the car."
Cops said that as the registration number of the vehicle also got burnt, they checked the chassis number of the Maruti Ritz car. "We got the registration number from the Regional Transport Office using the chassis number, after which we reached the (owner's) house in Igatpuri and came to know that they had shifted to Ambad in Nashik city. A missing report was by then lodged by her husband Sandeep at Ambad police station," the inspector said.
Sandeep, who is a civil engineer and works as a contractor, was taken to the spot where he identified the body. His statement revealed that Suvarna usually reached home by 9 pm, but on Tuesday she called him in the evening. He disconnected the call as he was busy, following which she messaged him saying that she would be late.
Suvarna, however, did not reach home by 11 pm and as her phone was switched off, Sandeep informed her parents and checked with the hospital authorities. When they informed him that she had left the hospital by 8.30 pm, he approached Ambad police.
"Even as the Ambad police was looking for her, we reached their home," added Pawar. A forensic team visited the spot and collected samples. The post-mortem was also conducted.
"We have so far registered the matter as ADR (accidental death report). Once we get the post-mortem report or if the forensic team indicates that she may have been killed… we will register a case of murder," the inspector said.
The couple have a son and a daughter.
Maharashtra: Fire in pantry car of Gandhidham-Puri Express, passengers safe | Mumbai News


Guysssss we close on our house TOMORROW! I am giddy with excitement and also nervous/scared/sad to leave our current home. But, living in transition like this is super annoying, and it feels so strange to have one foot in and one foot out the door for both houses. We're ready to move forward and get going with this new adventure! For the last few weeks we've been living under mountains of boxes, which is only adding to our readiness to get this move over with.
I thought back on my moving experiences over the last decade of my life, and I realized I have moved in and out of homes seventeen times since 2008. Some of those are moving into and out of college dorms, but I'm counting them because they definitely required the work of moving. Moving so many times (and helping my clients move all the time) has helped me learn a few tricks to make the process a little more bearable! I thought some of you may find it helpful to hear the tips and tricks I've learned along the way. My husband calls me a "moving wizard," so I must be doing something right!
1. As soon as you know you're moving, start packing. Start with the stuff you know you won't need like out of season clothes, extra sheets, or random kitchen stuff you store out of sight. Most people don't move without at least a few weeks notice, so spreading out the monotony of packing over a few weeks or months makes it a lot more bearable than having to do it all at once. If you are selling your home to move, your Realtor will talk to you about staging anyway, which is a great way to get a head start on packing. Pack away family photos, books, things you don't *need* to live there.Yes, your house will look and feel empty, and yes it will be weird, but I promise that simplifying your space will help you sell faster, and make your move easier. You may end up realizing you don't even want some of those things anymore to begin with!
2. Move anything fragile or difficult to pack by yourself. This mostly applies to people moving locally, but I've learned that most movers charge an hourly rate. Packing up small, breakable items is super time consuming, and laborious. If you can safely, but casually pack up your wine glasses, lamp shades, picture frames, etc. and take them over to your new house in a few car loads, you will save time and money by eliminating mover's tasks and have more control over your stuff. I don't know how many times I wrote "FRAGILE" on a box and watched someone stack 5 boxes on top of it before I decided I wasn't doing that anymore.
This is our pile of "unpackables." These are the things I've found so far that either obnoxious to pack, or easy to transport and not worth the risk of being broken (like our collection of meaningful Christmas ornaments!). These will get loaded into my car on closing day and dropped in the house to be sorted later.
3. Buy some clear, plastic containers instead of all cardboard boxes. I have a set about 15 plastic bins of different sizes that I have used over the years for moves. When they're not being used for moving, they're just stored in our basement, and take up 2 feet of space since they stack. They've been an awesome investment and have helped me simplify moves in the past because I don't have to source eleventyseventhousand boxes to pack up. I recommend these from Target! They're easy to grip and stack nicely.
4. When you do need cardboard boxes, check your neighborhood list serv! I got a full car load of free moving boxes twice for this move. One load was from friends that had recently moved and saved their broken down boxes, and the other was from a posting on Facebook marketplace. A couple down the road had just moved in, and had a house load of paper and broken down boxes free to the first person who picked them up. We've spent zero dollars on boxes, which is awesome, because those can get really expensive, and we plan to pay it forward and offer them up on our listserv when we're done with them too! Recycling works, y'all!
5. Gather your boxes in one area. Since movers are hourly, one of the best ways to speed up and simplify a move is to coral your boxes in a central location (or a few on each floor) so they can grab a few boxes at a time and load them. I have had movers thank me for making their jobs easier by doing this, because it saves them trips back and forth, and thus saves me money! Remember with moving, time = money. I also group all of my "Fragile" labeled boxes in one location. That way I can say "everything in this corner is fragile" and they will load them last into the truck.
6. Color code your boxes by room/floor. One of the easiest ways to make a move go faster is to create a system. I purchased this tape set from Amazon, and have been using it to label all of our boxes. When the movers come, I'll give the foreman a "key" so he knows what color tape corresponds to which room. I will have also put a piece of the corresponding tape on the door frame of each room in the new house. This saves ALL of us time and mental exhaustion when they get to the new house. Instead of having to say "where does this go?" and I have to read the box contents, think, and decide, I've already given it thought when I packed the box. The foreman can read his key and tell the movers upstairs, downstairs, or garage, and then the rooms are labeled as well!
7. Be nice to your movers. These guys are doing hard work that I'm quite sure you don't want to do yourself. Offer them water, buy some canned sodas ahead of time, make sure they know you appreciate and respect what they're doing. Buy pizza or subs for them at the end of the day. Have cash for tips. I always give a $10-$20 tip per person depending of the difficulty of the move, and I think it's well worth it. If they know you're going to take care of them, they may take better care of your stuff.
The buyers of our current house generously gave us 3 weeks to move out after closing since we start re-doing our floors at the new house tomorrow (eeeee!! it's happening!!), so the movers don't come until the end of the month, but we've already begun the process of packing some breakable things and taking them over by hand. Here's hoping moving day is as smooth and easy as they have been in the past!
If you're local to Durham, I cannot recommend Trosa movers enough. They are organized, efficient, affordable, hard working, and do awesome things for our community here in Durham. I refer most of my clients to Trosa and am using them personally. I love what they do, so if you want to read more about the Trosa organization, you can find info on their site here!
Here's hoping these tips help you simplify your next move!


I joined the Theoretical Systems Biology Group at the Imperial College London as a postdoc with Michael Stumpf in autumn 2017. I previously worked as a postdoc at the University of Edinburgh where I also obtained my PhD in 2016 under the supervision of Ramon Grima and Guido Sanguinetti. I received my diploma in theoretical physics from the University of Heidelberg in 2013, where I wrote my thesis on Functional Renormalization Group methods in the group of Christof Wetterich.
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Round 3 of the British Supersport Championship was always going to be a challenging event for the Astro TTR pairing of Matt and Harry Truelove.
Less than two weeks after breaking his wrist in a crash at Brands Hatch, Harry was looking forward to testing his fitness on his rebuilt Yamaha R6, while just six days after undergoing surgery to alleviate arm pump issues, Matt intended to do the same.
Unfortunately for Harry it was not to be, and despite feeling up to the challenge, the BSB medical staff put his arm back into a plaster cast and instructed him to sit the weekend out. However Matt not only rode without hindrance but also looked positively rejuvenated.
Free practice one went well for Matt, and we thought we had made something of a breakthrough in the set-up of his bike. However the second free practice session proved that to be wrong and after making a few small changes we were slower than in the previous session. I was a little concerned and surprised that we hadn't moved forward, but I didn't feel I needed to be worried just yet. Once again though I was proved wrong and we had a pretty poor qualifying session on Sunday afternoon, with Matt finishing in 17th place – hardly an ideal starting position for race one in a few hours' time. After discussing things at length with Matt, we agreed that we needed to try something quite different if we were to move forward and give him the confidence that he lacked in the front of the bike.
I believe race one was the first time in the 2017 season that we really raced. By that I mean that Matt was able to set off after competitors ahead of him, reel them in and pass them when he got to them. It was great to watch from the pit wall while Matt moved through the field in front of him from 17th to 11th, lapping faster than the next three ahead of him, before the race was brought to a premature end by red flag coming out. The smile on Matt's face when he came into parc fermé said it all; we have indeed taken a significant step forward at last!
A lot of rain fell on Sunday night, and mixed conditions on track were the order of the day for the warm-up session, where Matt went out just for a couple of laps to check the bike in wet configuration. In race two Matt again came through the pack ahead of him, finishing in ninth place with the team's first top ten placing of the season. After coming through quite quickly, Matt was unable to break away from the following pack for several laps, but he went clear with a big gap in front of him. Not bad eight days after surgery for a condition that would have precluded him from completing full race distance!
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These days lots of controversy is generated over the latest Hindi movie – My name is Khan. I do not intend to write a review on it as I have not got the opportunity to watch it as yet. But going through the several reviews I could infer what the movies is all about. But to have a feeling of being a 'Khan' – a synonym for a muslim one does not have to go too far off to US or any other continent , such a feeling of alienation can be had even around us, in fact all around us in the so called democratic polity of our country.
I reproduce down below some of the concrete examples where a 'Khan' and that too if he is a worker is subject to second rate citizenry. A few days back I happened to be a participant in one of the seminars on migration organized by the CWDS at Delhi. Prof Dunu Roy while presenting his paper on migration and Urban population, I remember, concluded that the workers would be targeted to various kinds of harassment from their identity verification to their hutments and if the worker happens to be a 'Khan' the trouble would be more. Some of the participants contested these viewpoints citing the constitution of the country that provides equality in legal terms. But, as I came across the concrete realities in Shimla town and that too at a place where the democratic movement is not that weak as it is in other cities and towns of the country, I memorized the movie 'My name is Khan' and the agony of being a 'Khan'.
Abdul Sattar Ganai aged 52 years, permanent resident of village and Post Office Dooru, Tehsil and District Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir and presently residing in Jama Masjid , Lower Bazar Shimla was picked up by the Shimla police and kept in a lock up for more than 24 hours u/s 107, 151 of the Criminal Procedure court. Ganai had to pay a fees of Rs 1500 to the lawyer to bail him out . Crime! Just a preventive arrest for want of verification which is an ongoing process theses days in Shimla town . This is not an isolated example. There are hundreds of such migrant workers who are being harassed by the police for want of verification.
To listen and notice this journey of verification especially of a 'Khan' -a worker even Nandan Nilekani chairperson of the Unique identification project would feel embarrassed. The process started from 1990 after the militancy struck the chords in Kashmir.
1. In 1990 the first verification process started under the tutelage of the Municipal Corporation Shimla, where tokens were used to the workers the 'Khans'.
2. Not sufficient with that in 1993-94 the Labour Commissioner of J&K stationed at Shimla took the reins and started the process of identification by providing them with ID cards.
3. This verification did not last long and in 1996 the Shimla police started photo identity cards .The entries of 'Khans' were made in the police registers. This process continued for a short period and the worker-'Khan' was even asked to pay some bribe for that.
4. Then in 1998 the CID intervened and started preparing identity cards; the police station cards were made redundant. The intelligence was a factor attached hence CID was the issuing agency. Any Khan caught without an ID card would spend several days in the lock up.
5. Then came the more aggressive form of identification in 2005-06'. The finger prints of 'Khans' were taken by the police and a separate record maintained with the innovative new technology.
6. But this also did not dampen the spirit of our security agencies and in 2009 promulgated a new scheme where the 'Khans' and such other workers would get a 'bonafide honest' , 'integral', 'patriot' certificate from their respective police stations i.e. from Kashmir or UP or wherever the migrant worker is from.
It is indeed obnoxious as the ID cards issued by the police previously had the home addresses of the migrant workers and their antecedents were got verified by the respective police stations in their states. Even for passport verification the police does it on its own. But now 'assuming a new threat' the police have asked the 'Khans' to get the verification done all by them which is not only atrocious but untenable as well.
Never in the past any incident of terrorist activity has taken place in Shimla town. Despite that come 26th January and 15th August there would be a number of arrests of 'Khans' termed as just preventive ones. Despite such a rich background the migrant workers are a harassed lot, I wonder a situation in the absence of a democratic movement what would be the fate of 'Khan' and profoundly would have to endlessly utter a certification 'My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist'.
This is a guest post by Tikender Panwar, member secretariat CPI(M) and Dy. Mayor, Shimla. Tikender is based in Shimla and writes on social issues.
10 Responses to "My Name Is Khan! Misery of migrant 'Khans' in Himachal"
You are Khan. You are terrorist.
My Name is Khan and I am not terrorist.
It does not make any difference to anyone out there because they all are dumb and coward including me. the people need to understand that there is no religion on earth.
This author has very myopic knowldge of such workers. In heyday of terrorism in Punjab lot of terrorists were working in Himachal. One notable case was of a tailor in Hamirpur later nabbed by Punjab police who was wanted for dozen of murders. Also from another angle these people are treated very well compared to how any indian will be treated in their homeland of Kashmir. I hope authors like this can think out of talking points provided by their party politburo.
Brilliant piece Tiki…..You have hit the nail on the head….
this is a half baked story………….. only a comunist (of china loving ) can write like this……… i stay in shimla n nothing like this has ever happened….
आपकी शुभकामनाये मिली आभार आप से बहुत कुछ सीखने को मिलता है!
Its unfair to lable or brand anyone untill and unless proven guilty. But we live in dangerous times, caution is what the authorities seems to be exercising (which might be a taking a difficult route) but it is imperative.
Everyone has the right to express themselves and air their opinions. Author seem to have done a fair job in bringing the story to the fore.
Hi Tikender, a nice story indeed.
More than 25 years ago when I was just a kid of about 8/10 years, I used to live in Jakhu in Shimla. There was this Halwaai shop near Virbhadra Singh's residence. And there used to be a Khan (we knew him as Khan only) who used to live with the Halwaai, do some odd jobs for them and work as a coolie too. He was a jolly fellow, and had a nice humour.
Our gas agency was in Sanjauli – Durga Gas Agency. We were building up a house in Sanjauli and anticipating a shift in residence had booked gas in Sanjauli. Since Durga Gas Agency did not supply to Jakhu we had to take cylinders on our own to Sanjauli to get a refill. I remember once, we hired Khan and I accompanied him to Sanjauli to get a refill. We took the forest route. Those were the days when even IGMC road was deserted. The forest route was obviously scary. On our way, Khan narrated me many a stories. He told me how he ran away at the age of 15 from home. How he missed his Ammi. he was an old guy by that time. Must be 60 or above. In the jungle I had tremendous fear – what if the old man died under the burden of the cylinder. I would be homeless and one day would have to work as a coolie like Khan. However, we reached home safely. After that I grew a fondness for Khan. So whenever we met, I wished him Aslaam wale kum. and he would smile back at me and say – Waale kum Aslaam. I didn't know what it meant and whether it had any religious connotations. Childhood is innocent indeed. It was only when I grew up, I got more knowledge about the militancy factor in Kashmir.
It is this article that made me remember Khan today.
I'm not going it details of the good or bad about the Khans' plight in Shimla. Just remembering my friend. I'm not sure if Khan is alive today or not. May God bless him wherever he is.


After the latest and disappointing results in the mobile industry, LG retried reverse the situation to its advantage and reveals on its official website the imminent arrival of LG V20, along with some details about it. The South Korean manufacturer, newcomer of the partial failure that has led to the LG G5, whose sales have not reached the planned figures even minimally, ensures that the LG V20 represents a new standard for high-end smartphones and will have unique and advanced multimedia features.
The announcement of LG is the one shown in the picture below and completely devoid of images and gives us only a few small advances in what will be the new LG V20: the device will have a dual camera also dedicated to selfies and a dual screen, thus keeping intact the peculiar features of its predecessor. LG V10 also inherits a Hi-Fi 32-bit DAC system to provide users with high-quality audio, and will be presented next month with Android 7.0 Nougat on board.
We not yet know whether it will be exactly like the LG V10 in an improved version, but certainly the new model will be able to compete on equal terms with the top of the market, and perhaps a response to Galaxy Note 7, which will be presented officially tomorrow. The submission period for the LG V20 does not seem the most propitious since it will compete with the Samsung phablet, with the iPhone 7 and with the many innovations that will be presented during the IFA 2016, scheduled for late August and early September in Berlin.
The presence of the new version of the operating system by Google seems to be confirmed after the recent statement by Evan Blass (@evleaks), according to which Android Nougat should be released in August for Nexus devices (except, unfortunately, the Nexus 5). Although we have no official confirmation from Google, the release of the LG V20 with the new operating system already installed lends credence to this hypothesis, and if recent years have taught us anything, it is that we will likely see it during the summer or in any case before, when it was learned that the Nexus range will have two new smartphones on the market.
Therefore, we expect a late summer quite rich in news: starting tomorrow with the official announcement of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 and continue with waiting for the official announcement of Android 7.0 Nougat. The LG V20 is still a little further in time, but we are confident that this month we will have many opportunities to learn more details.


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Why Massachusetts Should Legalize Magic Mushrooms
With untapped clinical potential and a cleaned up image, psychedelics are the next frontier in legalization—and we're better poised than almost anywhere else to make the most of it.
By Spencer Buell·	 2/6/2020, 2:03 p.m.
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It wasn't all that long ago that legal pot in the good ol' "Just Say No" USA seemed like a fantasy. While it seemed rather absurd that you could go to jail for a drug that arguably caused minimal social harm, common sense didn't seem to make a dent in our drug policies. And then, slowly, things changed. Too slowly, if I'm being honest. But here we are, in a new era of legal weed. The sky didn't fall. The fabric of society hasn't been torn asunder (or not because of pot, anyway). Still, it's no time to kick back, reach for a pre-rolled joint, and bask in the triumph of sensible progress. Folks, it's time to talk about legalizing psychedelic mushrooms.
I know what you're thinking, but the idea is actually not as crazy as it sounds. In the past year alone, Denver, Oakland, and Santa Cruz have each voted to decriminalize natural psychedelics, including mushrooms. Washington D.C. this week took a major step toward a ballot question that would do the same. Chicago's City Council is also mulling a resolution, and Vermont lawmakers are now considering a statewide decriminalization bill. There's a movement happening, and Massachusetts is sitting on the sidelines. But as the nation's top medical research city that's already blazing new trails in the therapeutic use of drugs such as MDMA, we should really be the state leading the charge. It's time we got in the game.
The fact is, we're at a cultural and scientific inflection point, rapidly and radically reconsidering what we thought we knew about drugs such as psilocybin (the chemical that makes magic mushrooms magic), LSD, and even MDMA and Ketamine. While mainstream society over the past half-century has often dismissed them as the stuff of burnt-out hippies and party kids or condemned them as downright dangerous, both the medical establishment and Silicon Valley have begun to loudly advocate for their untapped and possibly revolutionary therapeutic potential. The medical benefits are becoming clearer by the day—clinical studies have shown that magic mushrooms did wonders for anxiety-stricken cancer patients, and Ketamine, once nicknamed "psychedelic heroin" has been approved for use in treating severe depression. Plus, soldiers with PTSD, victims of trauma, and people with autism hoping to improve their interpersonal skills can all take part in studies of the medical use of psychedelics that are happening as we speak. What's more, early studies show promising signs that psychedelic therapy can be effective at fighting the opioid crisis, which is claiming roughly 2,000 lives in Massachusetts each year. "I think it's a really a watershed moment right now," says Don Lattin, who's written books about psychedelics. "People are ready for it, and it's definitely happening."
Researchers at Harvard are already dipping their toes in the water, studying potential psychedelic treatments, specifically MDMA. These studies are already operating with approval from and under the watchful eye of the feds, but legalization would allow experts to do things like, say, put their findings to use in therapeutic settings. After all, if magic mushrooms have the power to make a significant difference in the lives of people who are suffering, or help people improve their lives by having meaningful experiences while taking the drugs—and there is every indication right now that they do—a path towards legally helping them seems worth pursuing. As a place with the research bona fides to lend that push real credibility, we're uniquely poised to lead the charge.
For skeptics wary of their home state turning into one non-stop Grateful Dead concert from Pittsfield to Provincetown, rest easy. For starters, psychedelic use is much less widespread than that of marijuana, so it's unlikely there would be a sufficient enough market to sustain a profitable legal mushroom industry. Instead, experts see a future in which the drugs are available to those who want them, in more clinical settings. After all, says Rick Doblin, the founder and executive director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, psychedelics need to be treated with more care than your average joint or pot brownie. He ultimately sees us moving toward a system in which people are given licenses to both administer and use the drugs in therapeutic settings, and which can be revoked for people ill-equipped to handle the powerful drugs. For now, though, he's encouraged by efforts to keep studying them. "I think that society is going to need a decade or so of really growing more comfortable with controlled medical use of psychedelics before they move to some sort of licensed legalization," he says. "But I think the decriminalization initiatives do make sense right away."
At the moment, the movement to legalize 'shrooms is just getting started here, and no one other than scientists have really stepped up to make a public push for it. Some veterans of the legal weed movement say it's too early to bother with. "We're struggling right now with even getting legal cannabis established in Massachusetts. There's still tremendous resistance at the local level and the state level," says Jim Borghesani, the onetime spokesman for the 2016 campaign to legalize marijuana in the state by ballot question. A member of an under-the-radar local group in favor of decriminalization that's just beginning to form told me they'd prefer to keep their powder dry for now. Still, momentum is building, and we will likely continue to hear more about this. When we do, we shouldn't be afraid. After all, if we're not the first state to do it, Vermont might be. And who wants that?
Spencer Buell	Staff Writer at Boston Magazine @spencerbuell
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