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Henry George and Distributism.Henry Law - 1993 - The Chesterton Review 19 (1):135-138.details
Greek Theorists of Music in Arabic Translation.Henry George Farmer - 1930 - Isis 13 (2):325-333.details
Henry George, Private Property and The American Origins of Rerum Novarum.Leonard P. Liggio - 2003 - Journal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 13 (2).details
Rerum Novarum, the papal encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, has had a major impact on Catholic thinking. Issued in 1891 it immediately received much public attention. This was especially the case in the United States where it was seen as the response re-affirming the sanctity of private property long sought by the American bishops in the public debates with Henry George and his supporters. George was a central public figure in the United States, England and Ireland, whose (...) speeches and writings supported free market ideas, especially free trade. But, George's main idea was that the sole tax should be a singletax on land values.His justification seemed to place the sanctity of private property in doubt. Since some Catholics were strong supporters of George, the Catholic bishops were anxious that the Pope clearly state the morality of private property. Rather than condemn the writings of George directly, Leo XIII prefered to reaffirm the sanctity of private property in a positive form. The American origins of Rerum Novarum had not been appropriately recognized.Rerum Novarum, l'encyclique papale de Léon XIII, a eu un impact majeur sur la pensée catholique. Publiée en 1891 elle reçut immédiatement une très grande attention. Ce fut spécialement le cas aux Etats-Unis où elle fut prise comme une réponse réaffirmant le caractère sacré de la propriété privée longtemps recherchée par les évêques Américains dans leurs débats publics avec Henry George et ses partisans. George était un personnage public central aux Etats-Unis, en Angleterre et en Irlande, dont les discours et les écrits étaient en faveur des idées du libre marché et notamment celles qui concernent l'échange libre. Mais, l'idée majeure de George était que le seul impôt qui devait exister était celui sur la valeur des terrains.Sa justification semblait émettre des doutes à l'égard du caractère sacré de la propriété privée. Alors que quelques Catholiques étaient de forts partisans de George, les évêques catholiques tenaient beaucoup à ce que le Pape se positionne clairement sur la moralité de la propriété privée. Plutôt que de condamner directement les écrits de George, Léon XIII préféra réaffirmer le caractère sacré de la propriété privée de manière positive. Les origines américaines de Rerum Novarum n'ont pas été reconnues à leur juste valeur. (shrink)
"Ghosts". An Excursus on Arabic Musical Bibliographies.Henry George Farmer - 1946 - Isis 36 (2):123-130.details
The Philosophy of Henry George. By Frank H. Knight.George R. Geiger - 1933 - Ethics 44:162.details
A Greek-English Lexicon. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones, Roderick McKenzie.George Sarton - 1926 - Isis 8 (1):200-202.details
Coke, Henry George.-The Domain of Belief. [REVIEW]N. P. Crichton - 1911 - Mind 20:280.details
The Letters of George Henry Lewes.George Henry Lewes & William Baker - 1995details
Inscriptions From the Coptite Nome. Dynasties VI-XI.John A. Wilson & Henry George Fischer - 1967 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 87 (3):348.details
Al-Fārābī's Arabic-Latin Writings on Music by Henry George Farmer. [REVIEW]George Sarton - 1935 - Isis 24:132-134.details
History of Science in General Philosophy of Science
Al-Fārābī's Arabic-Latin Writings on Music. Henry George Farmer.George Sarton - 1935 - Isis 24 (1):132-134.details
A Greek-English Lexicon By Henry George Liddell; Robert Scott; Henry Stuart Jones; Roderick Mckenzie. [REVIEW]George Sarton - 1926 - Isis 8:200-202.details
A History Of Arabian Music To The Xiiith Century By Henry George Farmer. [REVIEW]George Sarton - 1930 - Isis 13:375-376.details
Clues for the Arabian Influence on European Musical Theory by Henry George Farmer. [REVIEW]George Sarton - 1926 - Isis 8:508-511.details
The Organ of the Ancients by Henry George Farmer. [REVIEW]George Sarton - 1932 - Isis 17:278-282.details
The History of Philosophy Fom Thales to Comte.George Henry Lewes - 1867 - Longmans.details
Auguste Comte in 19th Century Philosophy
The Philosophy of Henry George.Harry Gunnison Brown - 1934 - Philosophical Review 43 (2):215-217.details
The Philosophy of Henry George.Frank H. Knight - 1933 - International Journal of Ethics 44 (1):162-165.details
Life of Henry David Thoreau.Henry Salt, George Hendrick, Willene Hendrick & Fritz Oehlschlaeger (eds.) - 2000 - University of Illinois Press.details
With the help of American friends, he revised the book and published it anew six years later. The present volume is the third version of the biography, completed in 1908 but never published in Salt's lifetime.
19th Century American Philosophy in 19th Century Philosophy
19th Century American Philosophy, Misc in 19th Century Philosophy
Henri Bergson.Georg Simmel - 2017 - Digithum (20).details
Henri Bergson in 20th Century Philosophy
A Greek-English Lexicon.C. W. E. Miller, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, Henry Stuart Jones & Roderick McKenzie - 1925 - American Journal of Philology 46 (3):288.details
Book Review:The Philosophy of Henry George. George R. Geiger. [REVIEW]Frank H. Knight - 1933 - Ethics 44 (1):162-.details
Historical Facts for the Arabian Musical Influence by Henry George Farmer. [REVIEW]D. Macdonald - 1931 - Isis 15:370-372.details
Historical Facts for the Arabian Musical Influence. Henry George Farmer.D. B. Macdonald - 1931 - Isis 15 (2):370-372.details
Philosophy of Music in Aesthetics
Greek-English Lexicon Compiled by Henry George Liddell and Robert Scott9, Part 10.J. Johnson - 1940 - Classical World: A Quarterly Journal on Antiquity 34:86-87.details
The Four Principles of Phenomenology.Michel Henry, Joseph Rivera & George E. Faithful - 2015 - Continental Philosophy Review 48 (1):1-21.details
This article, published originally in French just after the 1989 release of Jean-Luc Marion's book Reduction and Givenness, consists of a sustained critical study of the manner in which Marion advances from the basic principles of phenomenology. Henry outlines briefly three principles, "so much appearance, so much being," "the principle of principles" of Ideas I, "to the things themselves!" before entering into a lengthy dialogue with Marion's proposal of a fourth principle: "so much reduction, so much givenness." Henry (...) submits each principle to critique, highlighting that they contain confusing premises. Henry is appreciative of Marion's capacity to root the appearing of phenomena in givenness, but he ultimately finds problematic the gap between the call and response that is a fundamental structure of Marion's fourth principle. Henry, in contrast, develops his own theme of pure givenness, expressed in the form of subjectivity he calls auto-affection, in the final pages of the article. (shrink)
Edmund Husserl in Continental Philosophy
A Biographical History of Philosophy.George Henry Lewes & John Lubbock - 1900 - Cambridge University Press.details
The philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes published this work in two volumes in 1845–6. This is a reissue of an 1892 printing, which brought the volumes into one book. Lewes wrote widely on literature, science and philosophy, and was also the long-term intimate companion of George Eliot. This book is a narrative history, rather than an encyclopedia, of key philosophers. It is, therefore, a partial and personal study instead of an exhaustive textbook. The first volume concentrates (...) solely on Greek philosophy, beginning with the Pre-Socratics and ending with the Neo-Platonists. The second volume jumps to Francis Bacon, concentrating on British, German and French philosophy, and addressing, among others, Spinoza, Locke, Hume and Kant, and ending with Auguste Comte. Containing both historical anecdotes and pithy analyses of ideas, this book reflects the expertise and intellectual sympathies of a Victorian polymath. (shrink)
British Philosophy in European Philosophy
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Book Review:The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII. Henry George. [REVIEW]D. G. Ritchie - 1892 - Ethics 2 (4):522-.details
The Theory of Meaning. Ed. By G. H. R. Parkinson. (Repr.).George Henry Radcliff Parkinson - 1968 - London: Oxford University Press.details
The Duke of Argyll and Henry George : Land Ownership and Governance.Warren J. Samuels, Kirk D. Johnson & Marianne Johnson - 2007 - In The Legal-Economic Nexus. Routledge.details
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Book Review: Witness to the Truth, by Edith Hamilton. W. W. Norton & Co., New, York, 1948. 230 Pp. $3.00; Christ's Object in Life, by John C. Lincoln. Henry George School, New York, 1948. 134 Pp. $1.50. [REVIEW]Samuel A. Gartledge - 1949 - Interpretation 3 (3):381-382.details
The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII.Henry George.D. G. Ritchie - 1892 - International Journal of Ethics 2 (4):522-523.details
The Works of James Gillray From the Original Plates, with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected.James Gillray, Thomas Wright, R. H. Evans, Henry George Bohn & Charles Whiting - 1847 - Printed for Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, by Charles Whiting.details
Philosophy of Specific Arts in Aesthetics
Philosophy and Educational Development.Henry David Aiken & George Barnett - 1966 - George G. Harrap.details
Philosophy of Education, Misc in Philosophy of Social Science
Philosophy of Teaching in Philosophy of Social Science
George Henry Lewes.R. E. Ockenden - 1940 - Isis 32 (1):70-86.details
Consciousness and Unconsciousness.Lewes George Henry - 1877 - Mind 2 (6):156-167.details
Unconscious States in Philosophy of Mind
Unconscious and Conscious Processes in Philosophy of Cognitive Science
Comte's Philosophy of the Sciences.George Henry Lewes - 1996 - Bell.details
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Howell D. Chickering Jr., Ed. And Trans., Beowulf. A Dual-Language Edition. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press, 1977. Paper. Pp. Xiii, 390. $4.95. T. A. Shippey, Beowulf. London: Edward Arnold, 1978. Pp. 64. £3.95 ; £1.95 . Henry Sweet, A Second Anglo-Saxon Reader: Archaic and Dialectal. Second Edition, Revised by T. F. Hoad. Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1978. Pp. Xii, 237. $18.50 ; £4.95 . First Published in 1887. George Clark.George Clark - 1980 - Speculum 55 (4):779-783.details
Isaiah Berlin's Early Political Thought.Joshua L. Cherniss, George Crowder & Henry Hardy - 2007 - In George Crowder & Henry Hardy (eds.), The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin. Prometheus Books.details
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Mr George Eliot a Biography of George Henry Lewes.David Williams - 1983details
Henri Berr (1863-1954) la Synthese De?Histoire Et?Histotre la Science.George Sarton - 1956 - Centaurus 4 (3):185-197.details
Aristotle: A Chapter From the History of Science, Including Analyses of Aristotle's Scientific Writings.George Henry Lewes - 1864 - Smith, Elder & Co.details
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George Henry Lewes, George Eliot, and Vico: The Shaping of a Modern Creed.Felicia Bonaparte - 1984 - New Vico Studies 2:93-102.details
Giovanni Battista Vico in 17th/18th Century Philosophy
Georges Chantraine, Marie-Gabrielle Lemaire, Henri de Lubac, T. IV, Concile Et Après-Concile.Jean-Pierre Wagner - 2014 - Revue des Sciences Religieuses 88:126-129.details
JME Referees in 1996.Henry Alexander, Marvin Berkowitz, Larry Blum, Deanne Bogdan, Brenda Jo Bredemeier, Lyn Mikel Brown, Don Cochrane, Jerrold Coombs, Lorna Crossman & George Dei - 1997 - Journal of Moral Education 26 (2):243.details
Professional Ethics in Applied Ethics
Georges Chantraine, Henri de Lubac, tome 1, De la naissance à la démobilisation (1896-1919). Paris, Éd. du Cerf, 2007,746 p. [REVIEW]Jean-Pierre Wagner - 2008 - Revue des Sciences Religieuses 82:419-435.details
Le P. Georges Chantraine s'est lancé dans une impressionnante biographie consacrée à Henri de Lubac. Impressionnante par son ampleur, puisque quatre tomes sont annoncés ! Le premier vient d'être publié, il compte plus de 700 pages. La masse des documents consultés est considérable : toutes les archives du cardinal, bien sûr, mais aussi les documents familiaux, les lettres et les cartes adressées par le jeune Henri à sa famille. Le résultat impressionne encore plus par la mise en perspective..
Two Interviews.George Henry Moulds - 1972 - Journal of Social Philosophy 3 (1):18-19.details
Zwölf Bücher Vom Berg- Und Hüttenwesen in Denen Die Ämter, Instrumente, Maschinen Und Alle Dinge, Die Zum Bergund Hüttenwesen Gehören, Nicht Nur Aufs Deutlichste Beschrieben, Sondern Auch Durch Abbildungen, Die Am Gehörigen Orte Eingefügt Sind, Unter Angabe der Lateinischen Und Deutschen Bezeichnungen Aufs Klarste Vor Augen Gestellt Werden by Georg Agricola; Carl Schiffner; Ernst Darmstaedter; Paul Knauth; Wilhelm Pieper; Friedrich Schumacher; Victor Tafel; Emil Treptow; Erich Wandhoff; De Re Metallica by Georgius Agricola; Herbert Clark Hoover; Lou Henry Hoover.George Sarton - 1929 - Isis 13:113-116.details
Zwölf Bücher vom Berg- und Hüttenwesen in denen die Ämter, Instrumente, Maschinen und alle Dinge, die zum Bergund Hüttenwesen gehören, nicht nur aufs deutlichste beschrieben, sondern auch durch Abbildungen, die am gehörigen Orte eingefügt sind, unter Angabe der lateinischen und deutschen Bezeichnungen aufs klarste vor Augen gestellt werden. Georg Agricola, Carl Schiffner, Ernst Darmstaedter, Paul Knauth, Wilhelm Pieper, Friedrich Schumacher, Victor Tafel, Emil Treptow, Erich WandhoffDe re metallica. Georgius Agricola, Herbert Clark Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover.George Sarton - 1929 - Isis 13 (1):113-116.details
The One and the Many: Reading Isaiah Berlin.George Crowder & Henry Hardy (eds.) - 2007 - Prometheus Books.details
Isaiah Berlin is widely acknowledged as a major figure in twentieth-century political philosophy and the history of ideas. His famous Oxford inaugural lecture, Two Concepts of Liberty, especially the last, crucial, section, entitled The One and the Many, has provoked a vast secondary literature. So it is surprising that until now there has been no substantial critical reader dedicated to his work.Editors George Crowder and Henry Hardy have admirably filled this need with this stimulating new volume, which provides (...) a systematic and comprehensive treatment of the main aspects of Berlin's work. The essays (all but two of which are newly commissioned) critically examine Berlin's work across its whole range, including his treatment of Marx, Russian thinkers, Jewish themes, liberty, pluralism, the Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment, nationalism, history, and religion.The contributors are: Jonathan Allen (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign); Shlomo Avineri (Hebrew University, Jerusalem); Terrell Carver (University of Bristol); Joshua L. Cherniss (Harvard and Oxford Universities); George Crowder (Flinders University); William A. Galston (University of Maryland); Graeme Garrard (Cardiff University); Ryan Hanley (Marquette University); Henry Hardy (Oxford University); Michael Jinkins (Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary); David Miller (Oxford University); Mario Ricciardi (University of Milan); and Andrzej Walicki (University of Notre Dame).Complete with a valuable bibliography, this outstanding collection of recent scholarship on a seminal thinker shows the continuing relevance and importance of Berlin's many contributions to the understanding of our contemporary predicament.George Crowder (Adelaide, Australia), associate professor in the School of Political and International Studies at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, is the author of Classical Anarchism, Liberalism and Value Pluralism and Isaiah Berlin: Liberty and Pluralism.Henry Hardy (Oxford, England), a Fellow of Wolfson College (Oxford, England), Isaiah Berlin's editor, and one of his literary trustees, has edited or co-edited 17 books by Isaiah Berlin, most recently Political Ideas in the Romantic Age, Flourishing: Letters 1928-1946, and The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture under Communism. He is currently working with Jennifer Holmes on an edition of Berlin's letters. (shrink)
20th Century British Philosophy in European Philosophy
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The refugee crisis is a battle for the soul of Europe
Laurie Penny reports from a refugee centre in Berlin.
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It's not just a question of numbers. Not any more. This week, EU ministers are hammering out an agreement on the "refugee crisis", but the more that world media outlets speak of 500 people arriving in Berlin in a day, or Germany taking 800,000 people this year, or four million people fleeing Syria with nothing, the more those figures blur into a faceless mass of humanity in the imagination for those of us lucky enough to wake every morning clean and safe in our own homes.
This is the reason journalists like to tell individual stories when we report. It's actually easier to get you to feel something for one stranger than it is for a thousand.
For example: if I tell you that I'm standing outside the Department of Health and Social Affairs, known as the LaGeSo, in Berlin in a chill September drizzle, listening to a young man, a boy really, tell me how he fled forced conscription in Syria, how the boat carrying him to Greece capsized and he had to swim to shore, you might feel something. If I tell you that his name is Omar, that he left his family behind to come to Germany with nothing and sleep on the street, you might feel something.
But if I tell you that a thousand people just like him are waiting in a pounding summer rainstorm for the basic papers they need to build a new life, you are unlikely to feel a thousand times as much compassion. That's not your fault. The human heart can't take it. If we were able to scale up our emotional responses to suffering so easily, the strongest of us would shatter. Of all the hurdles that Europe faces when it considers its response to the 500,000 migrants who have crossed its borders this year alone, with more on the way, this is one of the hardest.
News outlets are calling it the biggest humanitarian disaster Europe has seen since the Second World War. Nobody knows how many refugees are coming to Europe. Nobody knows exactly how many families have been forced to flee their homes in Middle Eastern nations torn apart by war and social breakdown. But we know that it's a lot of people. The four to six million souls who have escaped Syria are just the start. The coming decade will see millions more seeking sanctuary in the global north from climate change and political persecution. How can the citizens of the developed world muster the moral and logistical resources to shelter them? How will any of us face ourselves in the mirror if we fail?
I meet Omar at the LaGeSo just before the storm starts in earnest. It took him a month to cross Europe. "Train, bus, walking, swimming," he says. "But the ship, the plastic ship…everyday a person died by the ship. The ship bumps. Before the Greek beach I swam for a kilometre. I was lucky. In Syria, there is nothing for you, unless you become a soldier." Omar's story takes a while to confirm because, even though English is at least his third language, he won't stop cracking the sort of jokes that only sound funny when you've just been through hell. "I'm happy to be in Germany," he says, "but I prefer Holland. The women there are all beautiful, like models."
I laugh because it's the one thing I can actually give him, and he puts his arm around me and squeezes, without permission. For a second, I catch a glimpse of the soldier Omar might have become had he not managed to escape – all this brash, terrified swagger twisted into violence.
Omar was facing a choice between conscription and death. Now, weeks after he arrived in Germany, he's organising warm coats and handing out bottled water to the new arrivals. The LaGeSo is the processing point for hundreds of refugees who turn up in Berlin daily with nothing but the dirty clothes they're walking in and a simple question for the governments of the cosy west: can we live?
For most of northern Europe, the so-called refugee crisis is a moral and ethical one. Progressives have condemned the use of the term "crisis" as scaremongering by states approaching the arrival of needy people from the middle east as a cultural problem. The true crisis, however, is logistical. The truth is that Europe would more than able to cope with an extra six million people even if it weren't facing the demographic time bomb of a rapidly ageing population. Without migration Europe would be facing negative population growth – more deaths than births – in the next decade. But right now, hundreds of thousands of people are showing up, and they need more than words of welcome: they need food, and shelter, and documents, and a place to stay; they need translators and teachers and work and money to live on while they look for that work; they need help to learn the language and integrate into the communities that have taken them in; they have come with nothing, and now they need everything, from tampons to trauma counselling.
This year, Germany expects to take in 800,000 refugees. Getting here from Syria is dangerous, but less dangerous than staying in Syria, so the people keep coming, on foot and by train and by boat, hoping against hope for a safe place to land. Many of them came through Hungary, but now that the borders are closed, they come through Croatia. They face resistance at every border, in every nation, as Europe struggles to develop a united policy on refugees. In Berlin, they land at the LaGeSo.
The doors of the LaGeSo itself, a squat, stern concrete building in the upmarket district of Moabit with a concertina queue of wet, weary people waiting outside, remain shut. In the complex of tents and outhouses around the department, hundreds of hungry, anxious people are being offered food, clothing and help processing their asylum claims – but crucially, not by the government.
"The government here, they failed. We have people sitting on the ground here with nothing. They expect 4,500 refugees a month. Where can we put them?"
For the governments of Europe, this is a political question. For Christiane Beckmann, it's a practical one. A month ago, the 49-year-old German office worker began helping Syrians arriving in Berlin to find food, medicine and a place to sleep. Now she's in charge of a hundred local volunteers, she hasn't had a day off in months, and the people keep coming.
When we ask what it is that makes Germany different when it comes to its attitude to refugees, we should not confine ourselves to what the government is doing. The German state makes a show of welcome – but it has just reversed its decision to fast-track asylum applications through its border with Hungary and closed that border down, imperilling the entire principle of the free movement in the Schengen area in the process. The German state has committed itself to welcoming hundreds of thousands of needy people in principle, but in practice, the infrastructure on the ground is not quite there yet.
Beckmann's organisation, Moabit Hilft, started as a group of five or six neighbours with free time to help refugees in the area. "We started to call out for help, for people to support us. It started with neighbours taking care of refugees here. There's a building where the refugees live. … You can't leave them on their own. We need to help them get in touch. Help them get the paper work done, learn German, help support the women. We made a whole infrastructure here," says Beckmann.
Once the call went out, things started happening quickly. "We had medical care, we had food. We had all the donations like clothing. We had the sanitary for women and babies, pampers and lotions – I mean the babies here, they had their diapers on for a couple of days. The butt was dried, red. They had nothing. There was…I mean, shampoo, toothpaste….simple, simple stuff."
States are designed to cope with demographics, but they can only do it in cold blood. It may be that just one thing can respond appropriately, with empathy and pragmatism, to a large, loosely organised, fast-moving group of people in need, and that thing is: another large, fast-moving group of people. In other words, a network.
After three weeks, the LaGeSo now has an emergency medical centre, a store-room and a dining hall; a clothes bank and a relief room and an area for nursing mothers. "Many Arab women won't breastfeed the babies in public," says Christiane. "The milk stops. It was a problem."
Now the problem is being solved. Donations are just the start. It's not enough simply to give. The supplies have to be distributed, the people organised. And that's where German efficiency really kicks into gear.
The storm is gathering, but as soon as it started, volunteers mobilised to get the children warmer clothes from the stores; within five minutes, a man with a shaved head is handing out plastic ponchos. Even Christiane isn't sure where he came from. "It's good, but it's causing a rush," she says, as we shelter together under her orange umbrella, watching the clamour for raincoats, which is only slightly chaotic. Soon I'm unable to pick out a single child who isn't wrapped in a disposable mac.
A boy in a dirty brown hoodie is standing shyly beside our umbrella, getting wet. He approaches tentatively when Christiane motions for him to come under our canopy. There's plenty of room.
"English?" asks the boy quietly. "Arabic?" He digs in his pocket to show me a piece of paper with his name on it; he owns this, a fistful of Euros and the clothes he is standing in. In the tents, everyone wants to know where they're supposed to go next. The trouble is that many of the instructions are in German, which not all the refugees speak. I have about as much German as this kid has English, so we communicate in single words and impromptu sign language: he is Abu, he is 18, he is alone, and he doesn't know where he's supposed to go.
Christiane switches into Mother Hen mode. It takes her minutes to locate a volunteer translator. Abu is taken by the hand and sorted out with a dry place to stand whilst someone works out what his documents actually say.
"If there's someone on the street bleeding, I help," she says. "If there's a pregnant woman in the street, she doesn't feel good, I help. It doesn't matter. What if those 4,500 people would be Germans? Wouldn't we help? What's the difference? They come from a war. We're just born here. We're just lucky. There's nothing else. I could have been born in Syria."
The people arriving at the LaGeSo have been humiliated twice: once by the desperate indignity of war, and a second time by the pride of Europe, which has obliged them to arrive here dirty, cold and frightened, as second-class citizens, sleeping on the streets if they must. On 17 September, just after Germany closed its Hungarian border, refugees who had been braving the elements at the LaGeSo for three weeks got tired of waiting. Two hundred people staged a protest, chanting "we want justice" as the police pushed them back.
German bureaucracy will not be hurried. Perhaps this is a sort of hazing ritual to see who can really cut it as a German citizen: just how long are you prepared to wait for someone to fill in the right form?
A child waits outside LaGeSo on 18 September. Photo: Getty/John MacDougall
This is a disaster zone, right in the centre of the capital of the largest economy in Europe. Germany has crisis relief charities, but the crises they are used to handling have all been overseas until now. Germany doesn't have a serious equivalent of the US's FEMA, or any other state disaster response organisation. Why would it? There are no earthquakes here, no wildfires, no typhoons to prepare for. But the storm battering Europe is a human one, in part of its own making, but nobody wants to take on that responsibility. Particularly not if their jobs depend on public opinion.
"It's impossible not to fail here," says Beckmann. "The charities know it. So they turn us down."
In Berlin, networks have stepped in where the state has failed by choice and individuals fail by definition to cope with this new humanitarian crisis. It took the state three solid weeks to organise food and bathrooms for the people waiting outside in forty-degree heat – but every day for a month, a local Muslim youth group has shown up at dinner time with a van full of seven hundred hot meals, all sourced and funded via donations sourced online. They arrive just before the buses are leaving to take those who have been processed for a few hours' sleep in makeshift accommodation.
The volunteers have a system in place for ensuring that everyone gets fed and nobody takes too much: within minutes, the meals are stacked in shopping trolleys and teams wheel them off to different parts of the relief centre. A woman in full burqa and an enormous jolly white man in a pink jacket and sparkly stud earrings pair up to push a cart laden with rice, beans and chicken towards the hospital area.
In the food hall, parents with faces drawn with exhaustion are chasing small children who still have energy to toddle through the bushes after three weeks of perilous travel. The rain is coming down hard; the whole place smells of mud and wet tarmac, and the people are packing into the tent. The volunteers hardly have time to speak to me, but they're constantly apologising for how disorganised everything is. This is an extremely German response to a crisis: what's happening at the LaGeSo is the slickest feat of spontaneous social organisation I've ever witnessed.
But there's not enough food.
The volunteers have brought seven hundred hot boxed meals, but it's not enough. Over a thousand hungry people are gathering into some sort of line, trying as hard as possible not to shove and scramble for the meals of boxed rice, beans and chicken.
The people here are not rude, or pushy, or demanding. They are simply cold, and hungry, and exhausted, and struggling visibly not to beg for the things they need. I'm sheltering from the rain outside the volunteer center, which also serves as the makeshift storeroom, when an eleven-year-old girl in a transparent plastic poncho steps right up to me with her finger extended, pointing at my face. She giggles and pokes herself in the nose and I see what she's saying - I have a nose stud. She has a nose-stud, too. Hers is red and mine is blue. This connection established, we shake hands like grown-ups: never mind the language gap, the age difference, the fact that she has just crossed thousands of miles fleeing a war which has killed ten thousand children: we are fellow members of a worldwide club of girls with nose-studs.
"Jacqueline," she says, flashing a gap-toothed grin and pointing at herself.
Not everyone in Germany is pleased to see little girls like her. There have been arson attacks on refugee centres, street protests in Dresden, and even the LaGeSo has hosted small historical re-enactments of a much darker time in Berlin's history, as clutches of Neo-Nazis waved signs outside the gates. But unlike elsewhere in Europe, they're far outnumbered by the tsunami of support.
The phrase repeated on jackets and posters and pamphlets, the phrase spray-painted in foot high letters all over Berlin is "refugees welcome". Those words, in English. It is a political statement, and a global one. Refugees who speak almost no English know what those words mean. And as for the Nazis, the local anarchists chased them away.
Hundreds of features have now been written about the refugee crisis in Europe. Journalists like myself with papers that allow us to move freely between borders have interviewed thousands of Syrian and Afghan families, and the world is now well aware of the dangers involved in the journeys they make to relative safety in the West: the perilous boat crossings, in which 2,500 people have drowned in 2015 alone. The route-marches through the roasting southern European countryside, boiling in the daytime, freezing at night, soaking in rainstorms, carrying your children and everything you own.
What's less clear, after all this time, is why, exactly, it has to be like this. Why is Europe making people who have already been through hell go through it again?
There is only one reason that people are suffering and dying at Europe's borders. The reason is the borders themselves. It should not have to be this hard to get to Germany from the Middle East. It's a journey that takes about two and a half hours by plane, as opposed to a month on foot, in the sweltering summer heat. Given the right papers and a basic amount of help at the border, the children of Syrian and Afghanistan and Eritrea could be starting new lives in less than a day.
There is no logical reason for half a million people to be toiling their way across southern Europe, watching their children drown in the Mediterranean, or choking on teargas at the Hungarian border. All any rich nation has to do is provide the papers and allow people to buy plane tickets instead of giving their life savings to people smugglers.
The solution is to give the people papers, provide them with safe transport, and let them through. There is no reason that no government in the world has yet seriously considered it, because what's at stake is politics: the position that Europe is a fortress and those wishing to enter must do so on their knees, begging. What's at stake is pride: the pride of Western nations wishing to make it as difficult as possible for even the most desperate to slog their way to safety. What's at stake is principle: the principle that the West will not, cannot help the victims of war and despotism climate change who will surely keep coming if it looks even remotely easier than living another day in Aleppo, or Kabul, or Baghdad. We can be compassionate, but not enough to create that dreaded 'pull factor'. Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande urged the EU told this month that there must be a bar for real need: "those who don't require protection have to be consistently sent back right out of the reception centres". I'd like to see them explain to the hungry, exhausted people waiting outside the LaGeSo exactly how they're going to decide who is needy enough not to be sent back to Syria, or Eritrea, or Afghanistan.
There are limits to the human imagination. We find it hard to hold scale and suffering in our minds at once. One Omar, one Abu, one Jacqueline, that's comprehensible. Ten thousand children like Jacqueline murdered in Syria, six million people like Omars on the road, lost and hungry and homeless and in need, that's incomprehensible. Individually, our hearts won't handle it. But together, we have a human duty to try.
It isn't just about numbers, but sometimes numbers do matter. The influx of people from Syria, Iraq and other countries ravaged by war and despotism is not quite like the Jewish refugee crisis of the 1930s, but that's only because when you get down to it, nothing is quite like anything else. Commentators have been tiptoeing around the eerie historical connotations of this new test for Europe, right down to the number of people who have been made refugees by the Syrian war, which many estimate at six million. That's a figure that brings up a lot of feelings for Europeans, and particularly for Germans.
What if today's politicians were given the chance to go back in time and decide how many Jews to save from the Nazis? How many would they decide was politically convenient? Ten thousand? Twenty? The British government has offered to shelter twenty thousand Syrian refugees, just as it offered to shelter a few thousand Jews in the 1930s. It isn't enough.
Some years ago, on my daily commute through Liverpool Street Station, I walked past a small statue of a girl and boy clutching suitcases. The statue commemorates the children of the Kindertransport, Jewish refugees who were taken in by the British state in the 1930s. Britain likes to congratulate itself today on its generosity in taking in tens of thousands of boys and girls.
We prefer to forget that the project was called the "Kindertransport" only because the state refused to shelter their parents. It was felt that the voting public would not appreciate tens of thousands of adult Jews, so those people were abandoned to torture and murder. Most of the children of the Kindertransport never saw their parents again.
As rain pounds the LaGeSo, eleven-year-old Jacqueline waits outside the storeroom for what she came for. Her mother sent her to ask, please, for some body wash. Jacqueline crossed Europe with her mother. She doesn't answer when I ask her where her father is.
A volunteer comes out with two bottles of cheap shampoo. Jacqueline accepts them with a smile, looks at the bottles, and hands them back politely. Jacqueline's mother didn't ask for shampoo. She asked for body wash, and while it is perfectly possible to wash your body with shampoo, these small things do not matter any less when you have just walked hundreds of miles across Europe and are living in a strange hostel in a foreign country and you don't speak the language and you're only eleven years old. In fact, they matter a lot more.
Jacqueline's mother has asked for body wash, and so Jacqueline will wait patiently until the nice lady brings her some. Until the state of Germany decides that she deserves a safe place to stay, Jacqueline has nothing to do but wait. She touches her nose-stud again, and grins at me.
It is not a question of numbers. It is a question of justice. It is a question of what is owed to those who have been made homeless and desperate by war and climate change. When a stranger is suffocating at your feet, you do not help them because you are a good person, or because it is politically expedient to do so: you help them because to do otherwise is morally repugnant. In the 1930s, the question that preoccupied the democratic West was surely "how many should we let in?". In hindsight, we ask the same question that will be asked of notionally democratic governments in another seventy years – "how many did you let die?"
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Laurie Penny is a contributing editor to the New Statesman. She is the author of five books, most recently Unspeakable Things .

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Interview with Dana Ullman: What is the state of scientific research on homeopathy? New edition of a Ullman book with an overview of 300+ clinical studies
28/01/2019 Christian J. Becker Uncategorized
It is not easy to keep track of the research work on homeopathy. There are hardly any books on the subject. All the more reason for a book that describes the current state of research to stand out: it summarizes the most important 300 studies on 100 diseases. The US-American homeopath, author (several books also in German) and speaker Dana Ullman (here a link to a video) has written it: "Evidence Based Homeopathic Family Medicine (587 pages). The book is an ebook and is updated by Dana Ullman every three months with new studies. The latest edition is from January 2019.
When I discovered that Dana was being insulted by sceptics like Edzard Ernst and Dana signed the petition pro homeopathy at change.org (Link), I contacted him and interviewed him about his book.
Here's our interview we did on January 27th by e-mail:
Christian Becker: Could you briefly introduce yourself to the readers in Germany .
Dana Ullman: I was introduced to homeopathic medicine when I was a student at UC Berkeley and was immediately smitten. I appreciated its art, its science, and its history. Because I found that 19th century homeopathic books were not speaking adequately well to people in the 20th century, I felt compelled to update its language and to increase its user-friendly applications. In the past several decades, I've written 10 books (two of which contain a Foreword by the Physician to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, several of which were published in German and a half-dozen other languages) and I've co-published 40 books on homeopathy by my colleagues (co-published with North Atlantic Books which are now distributed worldwide by the leading publisher, Random House/Penguin, and include books by Edward Whitmont, MD, Phillip Bailey, MD, Paul Herscu, ND, Harris Coulter, PhD, Richard Moskowitz, MD, Donald Hamilton, DVM). I have also authored chapters on homeopathy in four medical textbooks, including two published by Oxford University).
Christian Becker: As a homeopath and book author you have a lot of contact to people who use homeopathy for themselves. What are some highlights, what people tell them about it?
Dana Ullman: I have met literally hundreds of people who've told me that they keep one of my books by their bedside and that they have used my books to treat their children. Even recently, I've had many people tell me that they grew up with their parents (usually their mother) who prescribed homeopathic medicines based on my books and that they are now using my books to treat their own children. It is also heartwarming to hear stories of "miracles" from homeopathic treatment when people tell me that they previously had one or another serious illness and getting professional homeopathic treatment led to a profound healing experience.
Christian Becker: In your book for parents you also focus on the presentation of studies on homeopathy. How important are studies for your readers, what is their impression?
Dana Ullman: Actually, my ebook, "Evidence Based Homeopathic Family Medicine," is not simply for parents. It is for everybody. Further, it is also invaluable to health and medical professionals because it not only provides specific and practical advice on how to use homeopathic medicines to treat people who experience 100 or so common ailments, but it also provides reference to, descriptions of, and links to over 300 clinical studies published in peer-review medical journals.
The average appreciator of homeopathy does not necessarily need scientific evidence to prove that homeopathy works, they already KNOW that! However, knowing about scientific evidence is invaluable to show to people who are less familiar with homeopathy and who have not yet had personal experiences with it. Sometimes these people who are unfamiliar or even skeptical of homeopathy can be a spouse, a parent, an in-law, a relative, a neighbor, a fellow parent, a co-worker, or even one's conventional physician. At present, there is a total myth (even a lie!) that is commonly asserted in the media that claims that "there is no scientific evidence that homeopathy works." However, my ebook provides solid and compelling and even detailed evidence that homeopathic medicines are effective in providing tangible and relevant benefits to people suffering from a wide variety of acute and chronic illnesses.
Christian Becker: Why don't you briefly introduce us to your book for parents and how readers benefit from it – and how it differs from other books for this target group?
Dana Ullman: My ebook is totally unique in homeopathic literature because it provides a modern, even futuristic, explanation for what homeopathy is, along with compelling descriptions for different theories that explain how homeopathic nanodoses can have significant benefits on a person's health. Few people seem to know or appreciate the fact that our human body's hormones and cell-signaling systems operate at extreme nanodoses. Homeopaths do not say that nanodoses of just "anything" will be beneficial. Quite the contrary, homeopaths assert that nanodoses will only have a beneficial effect if and when the overall syndrome of symptoms that the sick person is experiencing are prescribed a nanodose of a medicine which is known to cause the similar syndrome of symptoms when exposed to overdoses of this same medicinal agent.
Ultimately, this ebook has over 100 chapters on various acute and chronic diseases, though there are no recommended homeopathic medicines to use for 15 to 20 of these conditions because these conditions are too severe and/or too complex for self-care (and therefore require the treatment by a professional homeopath). The remaining 80 to 85 conditions provide differential descriptions of some of the leading homeopathic medicines to consider, along with a detailed description of their individualizing symptoms, as well as a highlighting of certain homeopathic medicines that are most commonly indicated for a specific ailment.
Of special and unique value is the information provided on the 300+ clinical studies published in peer-review medical journals.
This ebook is of special value to practicing homeopaths because they can print out the chapter of a condition of their patient so that the patient can show their spouse or their parents or their doctor or other concerned parties. Sharing this information often leads to increased compliance by patient as well as increased referrals from each patient's network. Practicing homeopaths can use this ebook to help grow their practice. Further, homeopaths and other advocates of homeopathy can use this ebook to write articles or blogs that reference the research provided so that they can help correct the great amount of misinformation that people have about homeopathy and its scientific basis.
I hope that the above answers are helpful to you.
Christian Becker: Oh yes, your answers will help very much. Thank you so much for the interview and all the best to you.
INFORMATION ABOUT THE EBOOK
Titel: Evidence Based Homeopathic Family Medicine
Autor: DANA ULLMAN, MPH, CCH
Description of the book by Dana Ullman: "This eBook is a user-friendly guidebook to learning what homeopathic medicine has to offer in the treatment of 100+ common ailments…along with reference to, descriptions of, and links to over 300 clinical studies on homeopathic medicine that have been published in peer-review medical journals! Whether you wish to learn how to use the common remedies in a homeopathic medicine kit or wish to learn about the scientific evidence for homeopathy, you will want to get this eBook!
Distinct from other online resources that simply provide a long list of references to homeopathic research, this eBook provides description, summary, and analysis of this research…plus it teaches you what are some of the most commonly used homeopathic medicines for these common ailments along with other homeopathic medicines to consider, with descriptive summaries of the specific indications for each remedy.
FREE SAMPLE (Link pdf) from Dana Ullman: See the entire table of contents of our eBook, plus sample chapters in the list of ailments that begin with the letter "A": AIDS, Allergies, Anger, Anxiety, Arthritis, Asthma. (If you don't have Adobe's Acrobat Reader, you can download a FREE copy here for PCs or here for MACS)
Dana Ullman: This eBook is the most up-to-date and comprehensive resources to "evidence based homeopathic family medicine."
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The ebook price includes a two-year subscription – with updating of the book all three months with new studies.
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Vorheriger Beitrag:Wie G-BA das Treffen von Vors. Hecken und Lobbyistin Grams verteidigt: hier der offizielle Brief des G-BA vom 23.1. als Antwort auf Foto und Anfrage im Watchblog / warum die dritte Person auf dem Foto wichtig ist / exklusiv nur für Globuli-Club-Mitglieder
Nächster Beitrag:Größte Stellungnahme pro Homöopathie von Fachleuten: 47 Wissenschaftler, Ärzte und Institutionen rufen Politik zum Erhalt der Therapierichtung auf / Artikel in Fachzeitschrift von Prof. E. Matthiesen
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Bill Bryson's beauty
Unspoilt land is valuable, but not priceless
ALL of England should be a national park, says Bill Bryson, an author who takes office this week as president of a pressure group called the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). "It is preposterous really to say that some parts [of England] are better or more important than others," Mr Bryson argues. "It's all lovely."
Perhaps Mr Bryson has not seen some of the less prepossessing parts of south London or the Fens―or he is trying to curry favour with any members unhappy to see an American take the reins of such a venerable English organisation. But his zeal does serve to illustrate the loose way in which activists and governments alike sometimes think about the costs and benefits of conservation.
Protection, in the CPRE's view, seems to involve contradictory things. There should not be more people in the countryside―at least, not if their presence necessitates the construction of more buildings or roads. But there should always be at least as many post offices, and buses, to serve those who live there already.
Urbanites, whose services come more cheaply, might reasonably object to being told in the same breath that they should cross-subsidise their country cousins, while staying put in their own, ever-more-crowded cities, so as to preserve the character of rural England. If there is not yet a Campaign to Protect Urban England, it is only a matter of time.
Bill Bryson, protective president
When it comes to the countryside under preservation, the CPRE seems as strongly attached to man-made landscapes of small fields and hedgerows as it is to wild forests and mountains. Admittedly, either is prettier than suburban housing developments or shopping malls. But if prettiness is the aim, there are lots of areas of rural England that could use the services of a good landscape gardener. And if the aim is an England in anything like its pristine state, farming has to go; there will need to be a mass slaughter of grey squirrels; and all the grassy downlands face forced reforestation―which will bring extra benefits in terms of carbon sequestration.
Conservationists, of course, are not the only ones with slightly woolly ideas about the countryside. In America, George Bush's federal government has got environmentalists up in arms by cancelling a policy known as the "roadless rule", which blocked the construction of new roads at taxpayers' expense in large areas of state-owned land. The idea was to protect expanses of land in the hands of America's Forest Service from logging and development. The measure was helping to save money, as well as trees, since the Forest Service spends more administering timber sales than it makes from them, even before the extra expense of building more roads is added to its budget. But the Bush administration is so sure that trees exist to be felled, that it is willing to lose more money to bring that about.
A much better policy, taxpayer advocates argue, would be to put a value on each potential use of Forest Service land, and then plump for the use that extracts the most benefit. If, on that basis, wilderness areas are worth more as destinations for ecotourism and adventure sports than as logging tracts, or vice versa, then so be it.
The "vice versa" gives many conservationists trouble, however. In some cases the worth of the land as brute timber may indeed exceed that of any other use to which it might be put.
The equivalent holds for rural land in Britain. Even if you take into account all the intangible benefits of preserving of the countryside, then at some point, in some places, the value of development is likely to exceed that of conservation. Mr Bryson's desire for a nationwide national park may be more appealing, but no more logical, than Mr Bush's tolerance of logging at any cost.
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Blotting and dilution – either using water, or in the case of ink or paint then alcohol to weaken the substance.
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Female Freedom Fighters Of India Essays
Struggle of Indian Women During Revolution
Kamala Nehru- She is Jawaharlal Nehru's wife and gave full support to her husband in his desire to work actively for the freedom struggle. She was a great fighter and took parts in many of the freedom movement .She was arrested in 1932 and sentenced to one year's rigorous imprisonment.
Role of Women in Indian's Struggle for Freedom
When most of the men freedom fighters were in prison the women came forward and took charge of the struggle. Rani Lakshmi bai was one of the leading warriors of India's freedom struggle who laid an outstanding influence on the succeeding women freedom fighters.
Independence day Essay
It is our duty as the sons and daughters of India to eradicate such insane social evils from our society and make it a better place to live in enjoying their rights to freedom and prosperity. A day so special in the history of India that wouldn't fail to remind us of the heroic deeds of not just our freedom fighters but the citizens of India.
Who can forget how the freedom movement shaped up in presence of great leaders like Mahatma Gandhi who followed the path of Ahimsa and inspired many people to walk on the same. It was today on 15th August that India woke up with Freedom way back in 1947 which is one of the biggest achievement for us.
Indian Independence Movement
It was today on 15th August that India woke up with Freedom way back in 1947 which is one of the biggest achievement for us. We definitely had lot to lose and we can never forget how much valuable gift Independence Day is for us from our ancestors who fought for the freedom and also from those almighty freedom fighters like Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Su...
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Essay
It was a Sri Lankan Tamil nation diaspora named Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) with female fighters who wanted to overcome social and cultural norms. I cited this to compare the LTTE women fighters with the international fighters and women.
The Role of lawyers in india's freedom struggle
Besides fighting cases in the law courts for the extremists who would regularly invite prosecution against themselves, most lawyers formed a group of moderate freedom fighters. The purpose that such court trials served was that they gave the freedom fighters an opportunity to come in contact with the media.
Ballpoint Pen and Pens
The successful use of these ball point pens in Britain made the pen reach India. In those days, Imperialism meant that all local Indian industries were destroyed and India served as a supplier of raw materials for the factories in Britain and also served as a market for the finished goods.
Feminism in Indian English Literature
Lastly, Self-discovery is a phase, where search for identity was the main aim of the writers to project in their writings, as they experienced freedom from self-dependency. Many reformers during the British rule also worked for the upliftement of the women, and some of the freedom fighters included women in forefront like Bhikaji Cama, Dr Annie Besa...
Children's Day Speech for School Assembly
It was the period of Mahatma Gandhi who leaded the whole freedom struggle. Finally India got its freedom on 15th August, 1947.
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I am going to speak about the great Indian freedom fighter 'Kappalottiya Tamilian' V. O. Chidambaram Pillai. His shipping company was not only a commercial venture, it was also the first comprehensive shipping service set up by an Indian in British India.
How Has the Personification of India and the Indian Woman Been Reflected in the Various Paintings of Mother India? Essay
Images of Gandhi being held by Mother India, Mother India surrounded by freedom fighters, Subhash Chandra Bose cutting off his head and offering it to the Mother on a platter. The title Mother India immediately situates the film within the discourse of the Freedom Movement, and the film is seen to be as much about nationhood as womanhood.
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And the freedom also came as victory just after sunset same as the previous one at 6:30pm of December 16, 1971. The author is a pioneer freedom fighter, and as commander of Sector No.
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Sarojini Naidu holds pride of place among women freedom fighters of India. She was India's first and only female prime minister.
The Revolt of 1857
Although the English East India Company no longer ruled over India, the country was still under British governance. Thirdly, the people united in their hatred and distaste for the British rule, and this was the spark for future freedom fighters to emerge.
The Film: "Gandhi" Essay
The general review of the movie is very positive as it depicts the struggles for Freedom which ends victorious. It is depicted how Gandhi gains a lot of attention from the Britain Empire, who face immense pressure, and finally grant India its Independence.
Bhagat Singh, Indian Freedom Fighter Essay
Bhagat Singh was one of the most well known Indian freedom fighters and Indian revolutionaries and who contributed significantly in the Indian Freedom Struggle against the British. Bhagat Singh actively participated with a great hope that this movement would bring freedom to the country.
Republic Day Celebration In India Essay
India had become the home of millions living together with peace and harmony. Let us strive forward and stand united for the good cause of the development of our nation.
Speech on the independence day of India
It was a time where the whole nation came forward to sacrifice every strand of strength it had to pay for its freedom. We have a freedom to defend , and a tale of selfless heroism of our freedom fighters to tell.
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United States – India Civil Nuclear Ties: India enjoys strong civilian nuclear ties with the United States beginning with the approval of an agreement by the U.S. Congress in 2008 to facilitate nuclear cooperation between the two countries. Pakistan's long history of hostilities with India, the nuclear arms race between Pakistan and India, along wit...
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Consequently, the spinning wheel was later incorporated into the flag of india. Clincher: I hope I made you learn bit about a great Indian freedom fighter who made India.
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Netaji as he was called was a very prominent figure in the Indian freedom struggle. As well as being a freedom fighter, he was also a patriotic poet and wrote in Hindi and Urdu using the pen names Ram, Agyat and Bismil.
His writings and speeches reflected his patriotism and thirst for a free India. When he grew up, he opened a small school called Brahmacharya Ashram, in Shantineketan, based on the Gurukuls of ancient India.
Religion and Conflicts: The Future of Kashmir Essay
"India revises Kashmir death toll to 47,000." In 1948, Mahatma Gandhi, a freedom fighter for Indian nationalism, was terrified at the possibility of war, and delivered a famous speech at a prayer meeting, as he said, "Pakistan is being requested to get out of Kashmir and to arrive at a settlement with India over the question through bilateral negoti...
The Caste System in India Has Developed Over Many Generations
In 1947 Mahatma Gandhi one of the freedom fighters, fought for the rights for Harijans gave them the same rights as the other caste systems. Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook – India March 2009 .
Histroy of Press
← Independent India through its constitution Article 19 (1) (a) gave freedom for press. The Times of India, Pioneer, Madras mail, The Hindu, The Statesman, Swadesamitran and many other papers were started by freedom fighters.
Geopolitical Position Of Pakistan History Essay
The people are waiting for United Nations to take action for their right of freedom. As a result of which, the freedom fighters overcame and Pakistan was divided.
India vs China Essay
Though urban areas strike a balance in the ratio of education for male to female; rural counterparts couldn't fare well because of its infrastructural and social problems. The one child per family policy is about to savor negative implications by large in future, through having more male births to continue their family and to maintain income levels,...
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Letters: Can anyone explain why our postal service is getting worse?
Is Britain's postal service in decline?
I'M aware that, in the grand ghastly scheme of things these days, not receiving Christmas cards from family and friends to most people is of no great importance and nothing really to get upset about, but as I have been a widow for more than 10 years and live alone. these little things just make a bad situation seem worse still.
Four of my long-term friends from North and South Lanarkshire posted Christmas cards to me around two weeks ago. My sister and niece in Canada mailed theirs at the beginning of December and my son, who lives in Baden Wurtemberg in Germany, posted his on December 8. I have, as yet, received none of them. My son also ordered, on the same date, a present online to be delivered to me and was told it was guaranteed to be received before the 24th. The company has now told him it cannot honour its original guarantee.
I haven't been able to meet my old friends for months now as we are sticking to the rules and I'm missing contact with them of any kind other than a WhatsApp group but, and I can't explain why, receiving a written note from them seems more personal. Maybe I'm just old fashioned. My son and his girlfriend are of course also unable to come home for Christmas as they had planned. I do feel very grateful and lucky for the friends I have made here since moving more than two years ago and to my daughter, her husband and my granddaughter who now live nearby.
We have an excellent regular postman in our street who knows nearly everyone so I'm certain the fault is not his. but as the costs of postage rise but the service worsens you have to wonder who is responsible?
I'd be interested to hear of any other of your readers had experienced similar problems.
Happy Christmas to all anyway.
Margaret Thomson, Bo'ness.
STURGEON IS SUCH A CARD
NO doubt along with several hundred thousand other Scots on Monday (December 21), I received a "Season's Greetings" card from the Scottish Government. Unfortunately, as the rules it gives for meetings from December 23-27 were cancelled last Saturday, it was out-of-date on receipt, though still in part valid.
But worse, it inevitably includes a signed missive from the First Minister, thanking me for "all that you have done over the past 9 months to keep yourself and others safe" and saying "I am hugely appreciative of all your sacrifices" – on both of which she writes from a position of total ignorance.
Finally, typically putting herself in the forefront, she writes: "I and the Scottish Government Shielding team wish you…..". Was she not taught at school that courtesy requires us to place the other party first in such sentences?
John Birkett, St Andrews.
REPLACE SENTIMENTALITY WITH COMPASSION
EVERY day we hear of the gross inequalities which blight our humanity and which ought to challenge us to question our attitudes towards our fellow human beings. In this context may I suggest that Christmas is the time to ask ourselves what is the real significance of the man born two millennia ago in Palestine?
Jesus reveals to us that what makes us truly human is a radical love for all others without exception. He was empowered by his closeness to his God, a God who is Love, a Love which is so radical, so all-encompassing that it must influence every aspect of the lives of those who take Jesus and his God seriously: personal, communal and political, politics being the only way to remove the structural injustices which are at the root of the aforementioned inequalities.
My conclusion? It is time to eliminate both consumerism and sentimentality from Christmas and replace them with a compassion for and solidarity with those who are oppressed and voiceless, who experience poverty, hunger, violence, rejection and abuse because they are different.
John Milne, Uddingston.
MISSING A HOLIDAY IS NO TRAGEDY
IS Rosemary Goring ("Spending Christmas away from Florence is like waking up to no gifts under the tree", The Herald, December 23) living on a different planet to the rest of us? At a time when the nation is facing the probability of another lockdown which will plunge retail, tourism, hospitality, the arts, and countless individuals into financial meltdown, she shares her desolation about being unable to spend Christmas in Florence.
The day after reports reveal alarming statistics concerning the rise in homelessness due to Covid-19, Ms Goring is devastated at not being able to go to Edinburgh to see the festive lights. While the Salvation Army and a legion of volunteers take food to thousands of lorry drivers trapped in Dover, she regales us with tales of "wolfing down cannoli, panettone and chou pastries" and having the perfect Christmas Eve dinner blighted by American students.
Am I missing something? Is this satire? Enough of this self-indulgent whining from a journalist who equates misery with the cancellation of a holiday. Go and spend Christmas Day in a homeless shelter, Ms Goring, or a food bank, and experience the real world. Then write about that.
Grace Barnes, Lerwick.
LET'S BRUSH UP ON THE SPROUTS
I AM obliged to Alan Susskind (Letters, December 22) for advising that Brussels sprouts are great for the libido, and would be grateful for further advice regarding the dosage and how often.
I admit to previous disappointment with similar claims for oysters when once I splashed out on six and found that two of them didn't work.
R Russell Smith, Largs.


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Drugs, guns seized from west Ocala residence
Austin L. Miller @almillerosb
Oct 10, 2019 at 9:16 PM Oct 11, 2019 at 11:33 AM
OCALA — Unified Drug Enforcement Strike Team agents arrested two people and seized guns and drugs Thursday from a west Ocala residence that officials said was a sore spot for the community.
With the assistance of the Ocala Police Department's SWAT Team, the Strike Team went to the residence at 1848 NW First St.
Authorities said when they arrived, they detained a man in the yard. Willie Earl Price, 56, of an unknown address, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
Agents also detained a woman who was in a vehicle parked at the home. The woman's nephews, ages 6 and 5, were in the vehicle, officials said.
Drug officials said the woman, Traniece Vasquez, 31, lives at the home. She was charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana. The children were taken from the vehicle and given to a family member.
Agents said they've received complaints from residents in the area about drug sales from the residence.
The agents began an investigation and began to make undercover drug buys from the brick home. They raided the home Thursday after gathering enough evidence to obtain a search warrant.
Agents recovered 18 grams of powder cocaine, three grams of crack cocaine, two grams of marijuana and four unknown type pills. The drugs were found on a table that officials said was used for packaging and distributing the illegal narcotics. Near the table was a rack that had three handguns, a 9mm, a Smith & Wesson 9mm and a Glock .22 40-caliber firearm.
Officials said two of the handguns had been stolen.
Code enforcement officials condemned the home after the raid.
Contact Austin L. Miller at 867-4118, austin.miller@starbanner.com or @almillerosb.


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Q: How to add relationships for additional columns in pivot table in Laravel and Eloquent? I have 3 tables:
users
-id
-name

relation_types
-id
-type

user_relation
-user1_id
-user2_id
-relation_type_id

In User model I have:
public function relatedParties()
    {
        return $this->belongsToMany('App\User', 'user_relation', 'user1_id', 'user2_id')->withPivot('relation_type_id');
    }

I can get the relation_type_id by App\User::find(1)->relatedParties[0]->pivot->relation_type_id.
In order to get relation type instead of id, I added this relationship in the model of user_relation table
public function type()
    {
        return $this->belongsTo('App\RelationType', 'relation_type_id');
    }

but App\User::find(1)->relatedParties[0]->pivot->type returns null
Any thoughts would be appreciated.

A: You can use Nested Eager Loading
$user=User::with('relatedParties','relatedParties.type')->first();
foreach($user->relatedParties as $relatedParty)
{
   foreach($relatedParty->type as $type)
   {
         print_r($type->type);
   }
}

A: You can't access type from pivot table because type is not a column in the proviot table. so your code for access type is giving null for acessing type.
App\User::find(1)->relatedParties[0]->pivot->type

Again relationship in user_relation table is between relation_types, user_relation table which can not be called in the realtion of users,user_relation.
To get the type of "relation_type_id" just simply get the type from relation_types table as written below.
$relationTypeId = \App\User::find(3)->relatedParties[0]->pivot->relation_type_id;
$rtype = \App\RelationType::find($relationTypeId)->pluck('type');
echo $rtype;

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Opis

Nosilci
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Part of our pet-friendly fleet, the Roller Team Zefiro 696 is perfect for bringing the whole family away with you, and you won't have to pay out for expensive kennel fees. To the rear is a luxurious raised bed, separated from the main living area by the washroom doors to create a private en-suite. The shower is completely separate and allows for the opposing washroom to be used at the same time, reducing the queue in the mornings! At the other end of the vehicle is a drop down double which can be folded away when not in use. Wherever you travel in your hire motorhome, whether it is across the Highlands or through cities, you can be sure of a luxury break with your loved ones.
If you are interested in hiring this vehicle for your next motorhome hire holiday in the Highlands or for a short city break, head over to our booking form and select the dates you would like to view availability for. Our popular Roller Team hire motorhomes are often booked months in advance, so enquire today to avoid disappointment.
For both family holidays or couple's breaks, we offer both motorhome and campervan hire, with pet-friendly options. Taking your beloved dog along with you means no high kennel fees and you also get to enjoy long walks with your best-friend. To find out about availability why not fill in our online enquiry form and we will get back to you within 48 hours.
A £10 per night per pet surcharge is added to the rental for pets. This is due to the extra cleaning required after the vehicle is returned ready for re-hire.
Hiring a motorhome to travel around Scotland allows you to travel your own way. You can see Aberdeen one day and Dundee the next. Whether you are a Scotland local or visiting for the week, we guarantee you still have plenty of the country to see.
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Hi! When I load my session, with Drum Machine playing Samplers, on first trigger for each sample (pad or click on drum machine), I have no sound. Then it's ok. I see timeline moving in Sampler. Since I'll use many sample in this session, it becomes boring to play all once before performing, no? thank you for your help!
Hi, I've noticed the same and this seems to happen for some reason if the sample is set to "shot" instead of AHDSR. Maybe it's a bug. I'll report it the current beta group.


PBS recently launched, Off Book a web-only series from PBS Arts that expands the definition of art. Check out this short film below, which focuses on the relevance of typography, featuring famous typeface designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones, graphic designers Paula Scher and Eddie Opara and infographic designers Julia Vakser and Deroy Peraza (in less than seven minutes!).
For more great web videos, check out FIDMDigitalArts.com's two series Take 5 and In the Lab.


Embrace your Baltimore Ravens fandom with this one-of-a-kind 13" x 13" Waffle towel from WinCraft!
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Sander Hollanders (born 13 September 2001) is a Dutch basketball player who plays for BAL in the Dutch Basketball League (DBL). Standing at , he plays as shooting guard. He also plays for the Netherlands national team.

Career

BAL
Born in Kerkrade, Hollanders is a product of the Basketball Academie Limburg (BAL) youth academy. He made his debut in the Dutch Basketball League (DBL) in the 2017–18 season. In January 2020, Hollanders signed an extension with BAL until 2023.

In the 2020–21 season, Hollanders had his breakout season as he averaged 14.5 points per game and also won the Kees Akerboom Trophy after making 77 three-point field goals. On 7 February, he scored a career-high 28 points in a 81–58 win over Aris Leeuwarden. On 2 May 2021, he won the 2021 DBL Cup with his team after beating Yoast United in the final. Hollanders scored 17 points in the championship game.

On 30 April 2022, Hollanders won the Dutch Rising Player of the Year award for the 2021–22 season.

Donar
On 29 June 2022, Hollanders signed a two-year contract with Donar.

National team career
Hollanders played with the Netherlands Under-18 team at the 2019 FIBA U18 European Championship.

On 25 February 2023, Hollanders made his debut for the Netherlands senior team in a home game against Georgia.

References

External links
RealGM profile

2001 births
Living people
Basketball Academie Limburg players
Donar (basketball club) players
Dutch Basketball League players
Dutch men's basketball players
Shooting guards


Davido's hype man Special Spesh has apologized on social media after flaunting dollar bills on Instagram. Davido's hype man Special Spesh joined celebrities that flaunt their wealth on social media by showing off several wads of dollar notes. He shared several videos of the foreign currency of his Insta Story.
However, not long after showing off thus huge amount of money, Spesh also took to his Instagram handle to apologize for his childish behavior.
"EFCC GO FREEZE US!!!! IM NOT A FRAUDSTER!!!! GOD GAVE US A WAY!!! #30BG!
A hype man, in hip hop music and rapping, is a backup rapper and/or singer who supports the primary rappers with exclamations and interjections and who attempts to increase the audience's excitement with call-and-response chants.


Honda released the Acura Super Bowl 50 commercial starring the Acura NSX super sports car.
The Acura Super Bowl 50 ad does not need a celebrity, animals, socks or humor. It has the one of the hottest sports cars of 2016, the Acura NSX. Honda has released the 30 second Acura Super Bowl 50 commercial in full online.
The new Acura commercial is showing the NSX from breath taking perspectives and using different colors to as canvas for the lines of the highly anticipated new NSX. The soundtrack is Van Halen's "Runnin' With the Devil." That track matches the power of the NSX perfectly. The Acura spot is titled "What He Said." Watch the official Acura NSX Super Bow 50 ad below.
Acura says that the precision crafted performance is back, kicking and screaming, in the all-new 2017 Acura NSX. The 2017 NSX hybrid supercar features a V6 500hp petrol engine and three electric motors adding 73hp. The NSX is probably the supercar with the most high-tech on the market. This gadget one wheel is not going to fancy all sport car fans.
The new NSX has a base price $156,000. A fully tricked out NSX can reach $205,700. Customers can start configuring a 2017 Acura NSX starting Feb. 25 on the Acura NSX site.
"In our Acura commercial, we wanted to convey the excitement of the NSX to a big Super Bowl audience," said Jon Ikeda, vice president and general manager of Acura. "The high energy visuals are complemented by a big rock anthem, giving viewers just a taste of the emotion this new Acura supercar elicits."
Update: Honda released now an extended version of the Acura NSX Super Bowl 50 Ad that is 1 minute long. Watch below.


Cloud Central's Cyber Security solutions safeguard businesses from IT disasters, human error, and malicious activity. With Cloud Central defending your organisation, you are guaranteed business continuity with uninterrupted access to data on-site, in transit, and in the cloud.
Cybercriminals are continually developing new ways to access your systems and data, and too many businesses make their job too easy. Some organisations fail to take even the most basic security measures. It can take a cybercriminal a matter of minutes or even seconds to attack your systems and extract your most valuable asset – your business data. In fact, they have as much time as they need as it can take an organisation weeks or even months to uncover a security breach.
The 'Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2018' stated over four in ten businesses (43%) have experienced cybersecurity breaches or attacks in the last 12 months, which rises to seven in ten (72%) among large companies. Data breaches cost UK organisations an average of £2.48 million a year.
A successful cybersecurity approach has multiple layers of protection spread across your business computers, networks, programmes and data. Your people, your processes and your technology should all complement each other to ensure an adequate and effective defence against cybercriminals.
Data breaches cost UK organisations an average of £2.48 million a year.
Ponemon Institute's 2017 Cost of Data Breach Study.
Malicious software designed to extort money by blocking access to files or systems until a ransom is paid.
A type of software designed to gain access to or cause damage to a computer.
The practice of sending fraudulent emails that appear to come from reputable sources. They aim to steal sensitive data and is the most common type of cyber-attack.
This is a tactic that is used to trick you into revealing sensitive information and can be combined with any of the threats above.
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Lamborghini launched their new Lamborghini Huracán GT3 EVO car at the Nurburgring at the weekend, with a wealth of changes designed to see the car through the next three years of racing.
The list of changes to this year's car is extensive; a new roll cage, new and more efficient aero, a new power steering system, a new engine, and new suspension design to make it more comfortable for the gentleman driver, as well as elongate tyre life in the Endurance races.
The current Lamborghini Huracán GT3 has had a successful life thus far, winning titles, but the evolution is a major step forwards. Everything from moving the lower bar of the rollcage to allow easier access for the drivers during quick change overs to more headroom for the taller drivers has been considered for comfort. Mandatory foam has been added to the driver's door for driver safety, but the anti-intrusion panels have not been introduced; they are only for new cars.
Lamborghini may have delayed its GTE programme indefinitely, but it is still committed to GT racing and already has multiple customers, ready to race the car around the world.


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Game Abyss Avalon Code
Avalon Code
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Avalon Code plot, as well as the gameplay, revolves around the Book of Prophecy situated on the touch-sensitive lower screen of the Nintendo DS. In order to record a person, monster, plant, or weapon in its pages, the player performs a "Code Scan", which is done by striking the target to be recorded with the Book itself (mapped to the B button at all times). The story centers on a young peasant who has been plagued with prophetic nightmares for weeks prior to the beginning of the story. His or her latest dream, shown in the opening cinematic, features a mysterious voice which reveals not only that the protagonist's world has undergone countless reincarnations in the past and is fated to continue the cycle of correction, destruction, and rebirth until "true enlightenment" is achieved, but also that the main character him- or herself has been tasked by the Powers-That-Be to deem the people, places, and things of the current world worthy (or unworthy) of being carried over into the next after the fiery purge.
ESRB: E10+ - Everyone 10+
Publisher: Xseed Games
Developer: Matrix Software
Genres: Role-Playing Action-Adventure
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Destiny Links
Tales of the Tempest
Tales Of Hearts
Tales of Innocence
Legacy of Ys: Books I & II


Unusual and rare, here is a blue phantom multi-terminated crystal from Arkansas with twin phantom tips inside. 1-1/2x 2-5/8" tall, it has an uncommon 7h face plus an extra prism face - an 8h faced crystal! Two sides have a slight suede-like 'skin' from extra shale - and sand? - there is one small nick to its' backside and a pattern of record keepers on its' channel face.
There are doubly-terminated penetrators to 1-3/8" with phantoms and rainbows, too.


This is one subject I can relate to first hand as I had one of the first or earliest shops in the greater Sacramento (California) region. I had already been doing indoor shows and outdoor events up and down the West Coast for the previous 5 years prior to opening up a full time retail shop. I was the 4th shop to open within a 30 mile radius back in 1985… still a few years before the glut of card companies, the proliferation of "insert" cards and of course all the investors that got into the market for a quick turn around or payoff and ruined it for the die hard collector hobbyists.
By 1989 there were over 100 shops within that same 30 mile radius and within a couple of years, about the time of the first Gulf War back in 1991, about 90% of those were gone. I weathered it out as best I could, relocated and re-emerged with a variety of other pop culture collectibles to make up for lost revenue with cards. "Pogs" were just beginning to take hold but I knew those would be a passing fad.
I learned as time went on that one has to diversify with other "trendy" or "fad" items that are "hot" at the time. About the same I also pursued other favorite collectibles at this time including the emerging video game market, comic books, TV and movie memorabilia, records and music collectibles, die-cast cars such as Matchbox and Hot Wheels and non-sport cards. Gaming type cards were still a few years away but the foundation was laid with some early-issue Dungeon & Dragon cards as well as TSR cards.
Previously to opening up a retail store I had already spent a lot of time traveling on the road doing flea markets, swap meets, card shows, gift shows, antique & collector shows, mall shows, toy shows, county fairs, street fairs, community festivals, etc. from Vancouver, BC to San Diego, Tucson to Denver, including big cities and small town places in between throughout the western 11 states. I first started doing this around 1980 so I was already quite diversified.
Lots of memories were brought back by this article.


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Last Thursday, a car ran over two pedestrians just outside my office. It was in the center of one of the busiest tourist areas of the city.
The car was on top of the victims as the driver ran off into the crowds. Several people helped to lift the car off the victims and they were rushed to a nearby hospital. Miraculously, none of them sustained fatal injuries.
Unfortunately, the other part of me understands exactly why she did what she did. I am just like her in more ways than I would like to think. There are too many times where I would rather run from things that I did or said then face them. There are too many times when I don't want to stay and face my current reality. There are too many times when I think running is the answer.
It's the Jonah effect. Jonah was the infamous guy in the Old Testament who ran from God and ended up in the belly of a whale. He just couldn't do what God wanted him to do. He couldn't face the reality that God had for him.
Yet, when we accept our reality, we receive so much grace. Grace to live well. Grace to love well.
Running from my current reality will never work. Instead, as I run I forfeit the mercy and grace that is mine for the asking.
The hit and run driver was found. She faces far worse charges than she would have had she faced the reality of her actions. But my heart understands her motives far too well.
I think of this today as I face my current reality: Stop running. Stop avoiding. Face reality. Accept grace.