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'Drowning in Holy Water' wins awards at Stockholm festival
TEHRAN.(HONARONLINE) -"Drowning in Holy Water" has won the Best Feature Award at the SAMA International Film Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.
A co-production between Iran and Afghanistan, 'Drowning in Holy Water,' directed by Tehran-based Afghan filmmaker Navid Mahmoudi, received the Best Feature Award at the SAMA International Film Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.
Actors Ali Shadman, Neda Jebraeili, Matin Heidarnia and Sadaf Asgari star in the film.
"'Drowning in Holy Water' is a powerful story of desperation and desire, told honestly with outstanding cinematography and performance," the statement of the jury about the film reads.
Films from India, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan also participated in the event.
It is about Rona and Hamed, two young Afghans who are in love with each other. Searching for a better life, they have decided to immigrate to Europe but they have to make a big decision to make it happen, a decision that relates to their religion and beliefs.
Produced by Jamshid Mahmoudi, the film has previously been screened at the Iranian Film Festival Cologne (Visions of Iran) in Germany and won the Kim Jiseok Award at the 25th Busan International Film Festival.
Nelofer Pazira, Italo Spinelli, Mohammad Hassan Nazeri, Sergey Anashkin, and Jaanis Valk were among the jury members of the Swedish festival.
Source: Iran Daily
Keywords: 'Drowning in Holy Water' SAMA International Film Festival


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Q: sound problem (Ubuntu 18.04): no sound after suspend I have a sound problem (running Ubuntu 18.04 on an Acer Swift 1). After booting, the sound works perfectly fine at first (both via speakers and headphones). But if I suspend and then come back later, the sound is automatically set to headphones (although they are not plugged in) and in the settings there is no other option available. However, if I actually plug in my headphones, there is no sound either.
Sometimes it helps to shut the display and reopen it while the sound is "playing" but that doesn't always work.
I already sent it in to Acer but they said it's not their problem because I'm using Ubuntu...
Any ideas about what's the problem and how to fix it?
(And sorry, if the explanation is a bit long-winded, I'm not that used to English IT-lingo. Hope the problem's still clear though. Otherwise just ask ;-)).
edit #1:

*

*Pulse Audio shows both speakers and headphones as output devices, but it also says that I have headphones plugged in (which I have not) and that the speakers are unavailable...

*I tried this suggestion (https://askubuntu.com/a/78179/307184), but as soon as I select the simultaneous output option, there is no sound (neither via speakers nor headphones).
edit #2:
Apparently somebody else experienced the same problem (No sound after suspend). So upon suggestion here's my system setup information:
sudo lspci -v gives:
00:0e.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 3198 (rev 03) (prog-if 80)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 126a
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 134
    Memory at a1114000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Memory at a1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [80] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
    Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
    Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
    Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl

after waking up from suspend it says (there's only one number different in the third line, don't know what that means):
00:0e.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 3198 (rev 03) (prog-if 80)
    Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 126a
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 25
    Memory at a1114000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Memory at a1000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [80] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
    Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
    Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
    Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_skl

aplay -l gives (same after booting and waking up from suspend):
**** Liste der Hardware-Geräte (PLAYBACK) ****
Karte 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], Gerät 0: ALC256 Analog [ALC256 Analog]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], Gerät 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], Gerät 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], Gerät 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], Gerät 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0
Karte 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], Gerät 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Sub-Geräte: 1/1
  Sub-Gerät #0: subdevice #0

pactl list short sinks gives (also same after booting and waking up from suspend):
0   alsa_output.pci-0000_00_0e.0.analog-stereo  module-alsa-card.c  s16le 2ch 44100Hz   SUSPENDED
1   combined    module-combine-sink.c   s16le 2ch 44100Hz   SUSPENDED

A: Edit: July 18, 2019
Question has been revised with new information:

after waking up from suspend it says (there's only one number
different in the third line, don't know what that means):

The third line has changed from IRQ 134 to IRQ 25.
IRQ stands for Interrupt Request. It's basically a telephone number where the device calls the CPU (Central Processing Unit) to have work done. Because the telephone number has changed between suspend and resume the sound card can't call the CPU to get work done.

Here's a script I used a few years ago /lib/systemd/system-sleep/sound:
#!/bin/sh

# NAME: sound
# PATH: /lib/systemd/system-sleep
# CALL: Called from SystemD automatically

# DESC: PulseAudo 8 sets sound to laptop when going to sleep.
#       This script sets sound back to TV.

# DATE: Sep 23 2016. Modified: Oct 28, 2018.

# NOTE: Test psmouse for askubuntu.com "Touchpad not working after suspending laptop"

# Aug 5, 2018  -    Turn off executition bit. As per AU turn off automatic switching:
# https://askubuntu.com/questions/1061414/how-to-disable-pulseaudio-automatic-device-switch/1061578#1061578
#                   Turn execution bit back on as there is no sound at all.
case $1/$2 in
  pre/*)
    echo "$0: Going to $2..."
    # Place your pre suspend commands here, or `exit 0` if no pre suspend action required
    #    modprobe -r psmouse
    sleep 1
    ;;
  post/*)
    echo "$0: Waking up from $2..."
    # Place your post suspend (resume) commands here, or `exit 0` if no post suspend action required
    sleep 2
    # modprobe psmouse
    export PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH="/run/user/1000/pulse/"
    sudo -u UserName -E pacmd set-card-profile 0 output:hdmi-stereo
    ;;
esac

*

*change UserName to your user name.

*change hdmi-stereo to your output name. See Configure pulseaudio output via command line  for pacmd list-cards

*make script executable with sudo chmod a+x /lib/systemd/system-sleep/sound
Note my new system doesn't need to use this script anymore. Not sure if it will work in your case but it might.

A: This question is duplicate on many questions with similiar like
"no sound on my machine - what to do ?".
There was often simple solution working out like installing these two packages :

sudo apt install amarok rhythmbox

or

sudo apt install --reinstall amarok rhythmbox

Then additionally drivers are added for soundcard.
Perhaps you should reboot your machine then in the end :

sudo reboot

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Not done yet: Belmont's Maura Muensterman excited about sixth year of eligibility
Belmont redshirt junior Maura Muensterman is back home for this week's OVC Championships.
Not done yet: Belmont's Maura Muensterman excited about sixth year of eligibility Belmont redshirt junior Maura Muensterman is back home for this week's OVC Championships. Check out this story on courierpress.com: https://www.courierpress.com/story/sports/college/2019/03/06/belmonts-maura-muensterman-excited-sixth-year-eligibility/3066128002/
Chad Lindskog, Evansville Courier & Press Published 4:48 p.m. CT March 6, 2019 | Updated 10:56 a.m. CT March 7, 2019
Gallery: Belmont women take on SEMO in OVC first round
The Belmont Bruins pump themselves up on the court before taking on the Southeast Missouri Redhawks during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-65. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Maura Muensterman (31) receives high-fives from the coaching staff as her team leaves the court to prepare for the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament against the Southeast Missouri Redhawks at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Maura Muensterman (31), left, is met with cheers from her teammates as she is announced as a starter in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament first round game against the Southeast Missouri Redhawks at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Darby Maggard (33), Maura Muensterman (31) and Maddie Wright (55) laugh as they wait to be announced as starters against the Southeast Missouri Redhawks in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-65. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Southeast Missouri's Dolapo Balogun (4) sets a screen on Belmont's Maura Muensterman (31) as Southeast Missouri's Tesia Thompson (24) drives down the court during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-65. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Patrick Ring, a member of Belmont University's Bruin Blast pep band, plays music during the women's basketball team game against the Southeast Missouri Redhawks in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-65. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Southeast Missouri's Jocelyn Taylor (23) grabs the rebound after a shot attempt by Belmont's Ellie Harmeyer (30) during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-65. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Darby Maggard (33) reacts to making a three-pointer during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament against the Southeast Missouri Redhawks at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-65. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Maura Muensterman (31) snatches the rebound before Southeast Missouri's Adrianna Murphy (3) can grab it during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-65. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Sue Parsons, center, cheers along with other Belmont Bruins fans as the women's team defeats the Southeast Missouri Redhawks in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins came back in the fourth quarter to defeat the Redhawks, 74-65. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Maddie Wright (55) goes up for a layup during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament against the Southeast Missouri Redhawks at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Southeast Missouri's Dolapo Balogun (4) guards Belmont's Ellie Harmeyer (30) during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Paris Lawson (21), Hannah Harmeyer (34) and Belmont's Maddie Cook (22) cheer for their team during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament against the Southeast Missouri Redhawks at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Maura Muensterman (31) attempts to make herself open for a pass during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Conley Chinn (20) and Belmont's Jenny Roy (24) double team Southeast Missouri's Tesia Thompson (24) after she grabbed the rebound during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont Head Coach Bart Brooks talks to his team as they take on the Southeast Missouri Redhawks during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Southeast Missouri's Dolapo Balogun (4) dribbles around Belmont's Jenny Roy (24) during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Southeast Missouri's Adrianna Murphy (3) takes a shot during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament against the Belmont Bruins at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Southeast Missouri Head Coach Rekha Patterson talks to her team as they take on the Belmont Bruins during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Southeast Missouri's Tesia Thompson (24) dribbles around Belmont's Jenny Roy (24) during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Southeast Missouri's Jocelyn Taylor (23) and Belmont's Ellie Harmeyer (30) fight for a rebound during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Southeast Missouri's Tesia Thompson (24) drives to the net as Belmont's Maura Muensterman (31) and Belmont's Darby Maggard (33) guard her during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
The Southeast Missouri Redhawks cheers for their team during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament against the Belmont Bruins at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Trey Brooks, 4, rests on his mother Charlene Brooks, a former pro basketball player, as she helps his brother Tyler, 1, drink water while watching the Belmont Bruins take on the Southeast Missouri Redhawks in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Bart Brooks, their father and husband, is the head coach for the Bruins. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Ellie Harmeyer (30) goes up for a layup against the Southeast Missouri Redhawks in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-66. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
Belmont's Maura Muensterman (31) answers questions from local media after her team's 74-65 victory over the Southeast Missouri Redhawks during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Muensterman is an Evansville native who played basketball for Mater Dei High School. SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS
EVANSVILLE — Belmont women's basketball coach Bart Brooks pulled aside Maura Muensterman near the start of this season to discuss her role.
Muensterman led Mater Dei to Class 2A girls' basketball state championships in 2012 and '13 and a runner-up finish in '14. She's a proven knockdown shooter from 3-point range, someone who can change a game by simply getting hot. She's also remained healthy for more than a year after sustaining numerous illnesses and injuries as well as a transfer.
Brooks, however, wanted to emphasize her all-around game. Everyone has nights when shots don't fall. He urged his redshirt junior guard to play well enough that the Bruins need her on the floor whether she's scoring or not.
"She is an incredibly valuable part of our team – much more than what you see on the basketball court," Brooks said Wednesday following Belmont's 74-65 win over Southeast Missouri in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference tournament.
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Wednesday was a prime example for why Muensterman has seen a career-high in minutes and started 28 of the Bruins' 30 games. She only scored four points on 2 of 6 shooting in the first-round win, but she grabbed four rebounds and played strong defense.
"I thought she had a – I'll probably watch the film and maybe think differently, so I should check myself here – but I thought she had a brilliantly intelligent defensive game tonight," Brooks added, lightly.
She held the Redhawks' leading scorer this season, Tesia Thompson, to 10 points on 9 of 19 shooting. Muensterman's plus-minus was nine, meaning Belmont was nine points better than Southeast Missouri when she was on the floor.
"I didn't necessarily fill the stat sheet, but I felt really good out there and I felt confident," she said.
Belmont's Darby Maggard (33), Maura Muensterman (31) and Maddie Wright (55) laugh as they wait to be announced as starters against the Southeast Missouri Redhawks in the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. The Bruins defeated the Redhawks, 74-65. (Photo: SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS)
Top-seeded Belmont (24-6) advances to play either No. 4 Tennessee Tech or No. 5 Austin Peay at 1 p.m. Friday in Ford Center. The Bruins are three-time OVC Tournament defending champions.
That means Muensterman gets to enjoy another early-March trip back home. The Bruins will practice at Mater Dei High School and eat a meal at her parents' house.
"I'm really thankful to be here and I'm so proud of being from Indiana, especially how the state embraces basketball," Muensterman said. "So, to be home and it be the most exciting part of the year is really special."
These final few weeks are bittersweet for her, in particular. She and the Bruins' four seniors were part of the same recruiting class in 2015 when Muensterman transferred from Indiana. They've spent basically every moment since then together.
Except, she will be back next year without them. The 6-foot Muensterman in late November was granted a sixth year of eligibility by the NCAA after successfully petitioning the NCAA for an extension.
"It's been a really, really special year," she said. "Knowing I have another year is exciting and awesome, but we have a lot to do this year and I've stayed focused."
Belmont's Maura Muensterman (31) answers questions from local media after her team's 74-65 victory over the Southeast Missouri Redhawks during the first round of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament at Ford Center in Evansville, Ind., Wednesday, March 6, 2019. Muensterman is an Evansville native who played basketball for Mater Dei High School. (Photo: SAM OWENS/ COURIER & PRESS)
Muensterman sat out the 2015-16 season to NCAA transfer rules. She then missed all but the first three games of the following year because of injuries, which is why the NCAA granted her medical hardship eligibility waiver.
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Next season will mark her fifth year at Belmont, her sixth in college.
"I don't know if I would still be playing if it weren't for Belmont," Muensterman said. "It's a really, really special place and I've known that since the first time I was there ... I'm really grateful and blessed with the opportunity they've given me."
She said she cherishes these opportunities this week to play in front of friends and family who've supported her all these years.
The Bruins cherish her, too, no matter her final stat lines.
"Her teammates know how much she did on the floor for us today," Brooks said. "Beyond that, she's an unbelievable human being and we're blessed she's part of our program.
"We are better with Maura."
Contact Courier & Press columnist Chad Lindskog by email, clindskog@gannett.com, or on Twitter: @chadlindskog.
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Thank you for your benevolent house review.
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Elifar aims to help improve the quality of life mainly of profoundly disabled children and young adults, whether living at home or in residential care, but they might also consider applications from children and adults of all ages with any form of physical or learning disability. They fund the purchase of a wide range of specialised equipment, therapies and respite, which would otherwise be unavailable because of a lack of funds or because there is no statutory provision.
The Engage Foundation aims to give funding to community projects nominated by their customers, as well as giving financial aid to customers in need in the form of Personal Grants. The Personal Grants can include applications from parents needing help to pay for equipment for disabled children.
Family Action has small grants available for medical treatment, services, facilities or equipment (including communication aids) for those who are sick or physically disabled. Supporting evidence is required from a relevant professional. There is also a general grants program which can meet needs such as clothing, fuel bills and household needs such as beds, cookers and washing machines. In addition to providing general grants, Family Action also provide grants for educational needs, particularly for the additional costs associated with education such as travel, books and equipment. Assistance is primarily targeted at families and individuals on low incomes, particularly those living on benefits. Funds are not available for items covered by statutory funding.
Family Fund provides grants for families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people aged 0-18. They provide grants for a wide range of items, such as washing machines, sensory toys, family breaks, bedding, tablets, furniture, outdoor play equipment, clothing and computers.
Independence at Home provide grants for people with a disability or long-term illness towards the cost of adaptations, equipment or other things to help you to manage at home. The grant must go towards an item to assist a child to live at home. Independence at home cannot provide grants when the item may be provided through public funds. Applications must be supported by a professional involved in the child's care, usually an occupational therapist or a social worker.
The Joseph Patrick Trust (JPT) is the welfare trust of the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign. The trust provides financial support towards specialist equipment to help promote mobility and independence for people with muscular dystrophy, or a related muscle disease. For example, powered wheelchairs, adapted computers and electric beds. The grants cover pieces of equipment that the health and social services do not provide, but which are still vital for maintaining independence and quality of life.
Lifeline 4 kids provides essential equipment to help improve the quality of life for children (0-18 years) with disabilities and special needs. For the individual child they provide the full spectrum of specialised equipment such as electric wheelchairs, mobility aids and varying items including specialised computers. They are also one of the only UK charities prepared to help a special needs child from a low-income family with essential smaller items such as shoes, clothing, bedding and specialist toys.
Newlife provides grants for equipment for disabled children. The equipment applied for must be essential and disability relevant. The equipment can vary from a wheelchair or a bed through to a communication aid and therapy equipment shed, they have also funded equipment such as replacement clothing and braille machines. Newlife do not fund adaptations and fixtures to homes. All applications need to be supported by professionals who can specify the particular type of equipment needed in the interest of the children's welfare, safety and benefit. The grants are open to benefit all seriously disabled and terminally ill children that are permanently resident in the UK and who are 18 years or under. Newlife don't means test, but due to limited funds they do take a view of the whole circumstances of the family.
The Nihill Armstrong Trust is a small charity that provides children (up to and including 18 years of age) with cerebral palsy with essential pieces of equipment, communication aids or specific services that their local authority does not provide. The grants are for equipment items under £ 2000 and the application must be supported by the child's doctor, school, social worker, health visitor, speech, occupational therapist or physiotherapist.
React is a charity working to improve the quality of life for financially disadvantaged children with life-limiting illnesses living in the UK. They supply a wide range of equipment from specialist wheelchairs, beds, baths, and mobility aids, to essential everyday items like washing machines and tumble dryers.
Strongbones have funds available to donate towards arthritis, scoliosis, brittle bone disease and all other conditions of the bone. To be eligible the child must be under 18 years of age, and suffer from one of these ailments. They provide grants for medical equipment, computers/software, toys, sensory equipment, short breaks away, days out and proven household bills. Grants are normally £ 250 per child, but this figure is open to discussion depending on the child's circumstances.
The Variety Club works to help improve the lives of sick, disabled and disadvantaged children and young people up to the age of 19 years across the UK, providing basic items that will improve the lives of individual children. Each year they donate electric wheelchairs, specialist beds, car seats, sensory equipment, standing frames and many other items that can change the life of a child in need.
Whizz-Kidz provides essential mobility equipment - powered or manual wheelchairs and recreational equipment such as trikes - that are customised to meet individual children's needs. The service ensures children get the right mobility equipment, advice and training at the right time. The wheelchair training programme includes improving the use of your wheelchair, new wheelchair skills and road safety awareness.


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'Crash Landing on You' is the Hidden Netflix Gem That Will Keep Your Swoon-y 'Bridgerton' High
By Meghan O'Keefe Twitter @megsokay Jan 11, 2021 at 1:48pm	 602 Shares
When I was growing up, my mother would wistfully tell me about how in the year before I was born, a mini-series called The Thorn Birds captured everyone in America's imagination like nothing before. The mini-series told the story of a forbidden love between a handsome priest and a spirited Kiwi girl named Meghann (whom I was most likely named after, no matter what my mom says).
I was often jealous of my mom for getting to be swept away in real-time by a melodramatic forbidden romance, but no more. That's because I've become addicted to a Korean miniseries on Netflix called Crash Landing on You, which elicits swoons, squees, and screams from me like no other show I've ever seen before. The series tells the story of the only more forbidden love than that between priest and parishioner: a romance between a South Korean heiress and a North Korean officer. Crash Landing on You is an epic romance full of wit, heart, and danger, and it's captured the imagination of my friends in the same way my mom's generation obsessed over The Thorn Birds back in the day.
Crash Landing on You originally debuted in late 2019 — which means, yes, I am very late to it — but continues to be one of the best escapist binge-watches on Netflix. The series follows the glamorous Yoon Se-ri (Son Ye-jin), the daughter of a major Korean business clan and a self-made beauty industry titan. Se-ri has been on the outs with her cutthroat family for years, but after her father is released from jail for committing a white collar crime, she is coaxed back to the family manse for dinner. Her father shocks everyone by declaring the smart and successful Se-ri as his heir, and not either of her older brothers. For her "victory lap," Se-ri decides to test a new paragliding suit for her company herself. The only problem? A wacky storm strikes blowing Yoon Se-ri over the DMZ and straight into the arms of a handsome North Korean officer, Captain Ri Jeong-Hyeok (Hyun Bin).
Captain Ri Jeong-Hyeok is as far from a North Korean boogeyman as you can imagine. Rather than hurt or report Yoon Se-ri, the outrageously beautiful Captain Ri reluctantly accepts it as his mission to protect and hide the haughty Southerner. Jeong-Hyeok isn't just a border captain, but the son of a high-ranking North Korean official, gifting him some measure of immunity within his harsh, totalitarian society. He's also a frustrated piano prodigy who briefly escaped the yoke of North Korean culture to study in Switzerland (which is a whole other bizarre and romantic angle to the show's already impossible dream of a concept). Sensitive, loyal, and imbued with the kind of superhuman fighting ability of an Avenger, Captain Ri Jeong-Hyeok is the ideal protector for a woman like Se-ri.
Naturally, the two begrudgingly forge first a friendship and then a flirtation and then they fall in love. Of course, there are roadblocks to their romance, starting with the fact that their nations are at war and ending with the reality that Jeong-Hyeok is already engaged to a beautiful North Korean department store heiress. There's a subplot involving a corrupt North Korean officer responsible for the murder of Jeong-Hyeok's noble older brother, a South Korean swindler who winds up in said villain's care after ripping off Se-ri's brother, and a whole mess of small town gossip. Crash Landing on You plays with all these elements and serves up an engrossing tale of star-crossed lovers who are constantly as tested by their conflicting feelings as much as they are by the larger geo-political conflict directing their lives.
All About 'Crash Landing On You's Lead Actors, Hyun Bin and Son Ye-Jin
Will 'Crash Landing On You' Get a Season 2?
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As implausible as Crash Landing on You's set-up sounds, it works thanks to the chemistry of its two gorgeous leads, Son Ye-jin and Hyun Bin. You don't need subtitles to understand each and every spark of attraction that flickers across their faces. As they fall harder for each other, the show's pull on your heart only gets stronger, until you find yourself squealing at the most melodramatic needle drops and impossible coincidences. How good is Son and Hyun's chemistry? Well, the two recently made international headlines confirming they fell in love in real life and are still going strong.
Crash Landing on You is a show unlike anything you've ever seen. It has insane action sequences, glorious montages of wealth porn, unblinking looks at the impoverished lives of everyday North Koreans, and one of the most heart-wrenching love stories in ages. With 16 90-minute-long episodes, it's truly a feast to be savored and the perfect antidote to the winter quarantine blues.
Maybe it's not entirely precise to compare Crash Landing on You to 1983's The Thorn Birds, but the Korean show is the first mini-series that's gotten me to wistfully stare off into the distance (of my one-bedroom apartment) and sigh about two star-crossed lovers.
Watch Crash Landing on You on Netflix


When I was growing up among farms and gardens, I loved clover and dandelions. When I asked what they were, Granny would tell me they were weeds…with a look on her face that let me know they came straight from hell!
I loved those weeds though. They provided hours of fun. I made them into soup for my dolls. I fashioned necklaces, bracelets and even a crown or two. It also may be a little known fact that if you rub a dandelion on your knee, you will find out if that special someone loves you or not. The best part was I was allowed to pick as many weeds as I wanted!
Weeds are remarkable in other ways as well. They can grow in the most unexpected places, right?! Out of the crack in a sidewalk or between the bricks in your paver patio. Sometimes they show up right in the middle of your newly treated green yard or among your prize roses. Granny never really appreciated that. She could accept a thorn but show her a thistle and look out!
As I walked today I was drawn to the weeds. I saw my beloved clover calling me to create. I noticed the local protected prairie garden full of beautiful weeds short and tall. They were as beautiful to me as the manicured gardens I passed by.
When I walk I pray. Today I focused on the young men I will meet in my teaching assignment and in the new ministry. I have always taught students with emotional, learning, and behavioral disabilities. There have been girls in my classes but boys take up most of the seats. I have taught boys who are white, Latino, African-American and now Native Americans who are mostly Dine' or Navajo.
I pray today because last summer young Native boys far out in the deserts of Arizona had no interest in connecting with us. They sat huddled in broken down cars with their bandanas tight on their foreheads looking fierce. I recognized the blank stares. The dare to penetrate their fortress of anger. It is one thing to offer them a water in the desert and another thing to offer them education in a middle school.
How will I convince these hardened hearts to find hope and healing with education. Their desires are often to be sheep herders, rodeo riders or artists. They want to stay among their people. Schools and governments often train for occupations that take you away from your people. How can they catch a vision to have a productive life and strengthen their communities? What am I really going to teach this year?
I am sure the gardeners among our readers will think about metaphors for weeds that are different from mine. All the stories are important. All the gardens are under the same sun. I am choosing the weeds to tend, however. I want them to know how valuable they are to those of us who are looking to see if we are special to Someone.
We have had numerous blessings over us during this journey. All of them mean so much. One such blessing was from Ginger's Aunt Anita. In the blessing she said, "Order their steps, Lord." We wondered at that because we feel like we are surrendering to His will now. We are finally "getting it!" But this phrase holds caution and discernment. Yes, we must abandon all to him but we must follow His directions. There is order to Plan.
One place we saw this today was in regards to our non-profit. The paperwork and our dedication to the Native People was submitted last year! No word from IRS all this time. Derek would call and they would just say it was still being processed. We talked to the lawyer we paid for help and he would say everything is ok if it wasn't returned. We tried not to worry but the time of moving is coming quickly! We need the status to accept donations and more importantly to give in ministry in a larger way.
We continue to order our steps according to God's will for us. The house is for sale but only two showings. God is in control. Katie not sure she will go with us. God is in control. No idea where we will live. God is in control. A very different job for Ginger. God is in control.
We are so excited! God is in control!!
Well Friends we have much to share. It took many months for us to process once we got home last summer. We knew God was calling us to the Navajo and Hopi but the magnitude of the calling was overwhelming. We have wrestled with God and each other and finally arrived at this…we are moving!
The house goes up for sale May 12.
Ginger resigned from her job.
When are we going back? Five simple words wreaked havoc in the Sanders' household. At the basic level, there are money concerns. At the deepest level, there are real spiritual questions to be answered. God is calling us. There is no doubt. Why aren't we writing this from the desert sands of the reservations then? Fear. Pure fear.
What will happen to our jobs? How will our adult children cope? What about all our stuff? What's the plan? Where's our paperwork from IRS for the 501″c3″? These questions come up and make us doubt and argue with one another. We have had moments where we don't even know if the marriage can handle the big ramifications. I am not even mentioning the doubts about our ministry being accepted or how to prepare without making our own ministry agendas. Tough conversations that go late into the night.
But God is always full of grace and love. He has gently reminded us to live in His Presence and trust in His Ways. Each day He helps us surrender over our idols and agendas. We are slowly building our faith muscles. We find ourselves saying, "when" rather than "if." We are still waiting to hear the next steps, but we are sure there is a revival stirring in the First Peoples. We are excited to be part of it.
As we drove up to the two run down homes and a very run down hogan, I noticed them. Eight to ten of them. Running, playing and eyeing us with curiosity. Kids! We stepped out of the Ford Expedition and were instantly surrounded by smiling faces. Young adult faces who recognized their friend, Paul.
One went to get Mary, the old grandmother, from the house. We all stood awkwardly as Paul hugged and shook hands with those he had loved so long ago. They had families of their own now and proudly told them about their lives. They remembered Roger too and asked about his wife.
They explained that they were all here because an uncle had died. The funeral would be tomorrow. The family was mourning inside one of the houses. We apologized for being here at this time but they were so hospitable. They kept saying how glad they were to have us there.
I shook hands with the adults but there wasn't a lot of warmth. The people of Dine need to get to know a person. Relationship is very important. They didn't trust me and that is okay. I was honored that Mary asked all of us to pray for her. She doesn't speak English and could only nod at us and touch our arms in thanks.
Derek and I have found that food brings people together. Not just eating food but also talking about food. We noticed a woman making fry bread over an open fire. It was a hot day and she was working hard. We love us some fry bread so we went over to ask her about it. She was so proud of her work. She told us in broken English that she is a family friend and she was cooking for them to have food tonight as they mourned. She offered us some and I wanted to refuse knowing it was a long, hot job and that the family would need it. This would have been very disrespectful! Never refuse food offered to you by Native People. It is an insult. No matter how destitute the situation looks or how full your own tummy is, do not refuse the food!
While I was enjoying the best fry bread in Arizona, one of the girls came up to talk to me. Her name is Ariella. She is in first grade this year and has no front teeth. She and I bonded in a heartbeat. She had many questions for me.
Ariella helped me pass out juice boxes I had brought to the other kids. That opens up conversation really quick! Kids came out of nowhere! I was in the word prophesied to me. I was told we would go for the children. One little girl who was a bit pudgy and round-faced had a ready smile for me every time I looked at her. She would offer me whatever was in her grubby hands at the time…a puppy, a drink of her juice box, more fry bread. Our hearts were filled with love as we were embraced by these precious ones.
Paul let us know that the family who was mourning invited us in to eat. We had just finished a huge meal an hour ago in Chinle! Plus, I didn't want to take food from a grieving family. Remember our rule, however, no food refusal. Next lesson learned was even more difficult for me. The custom is for guests to eat first and alone at the table. These people didn't know us and were giving us the first portions (5 portions at that!) without a bat of the eye! I wasn't hungry and my heart ached as I listened to the wailing in the next room over the deceased. My custom is giving. I should be giving to them, not receiving. Heather kept me straight on my manners and I swallowed most of it. During the meal, my chubby friend came in and offered me the juicy meat in her hand. I asked her what it was? "Lamb," she replied. "We just slaughtered it this morning." I felt the blood drain from my body and felt a little dizzy. I could not refuse so I ate it. It was the moistest, tastiest morsel I have ever had. For real! She told me it was from the head and I was able to joke with her that maybe it was brains and making me smarter. There was that smile again!
Derek said he loved seeing my new friend, Ariella, come in and just stand beside me until I put my arm around her as I ate. He could see the glow from us both as God's plan evolved. I loved seeing Derek with the grandmothers. He would stoop down to hear their broken words and they would grasp his tan arm to steady themselves. It was finally happening.
It has been awhile since we posted. Much has happened causing us to pause and reflect. We also left the reservation on July 28 to go to Santa Fe to rest and ready ourselves for the journey home.
On the weekend of July 26-28 we traveled with Paul Lucero, Heather Atkinson and Roger McKinney to the Navajo Nation and specifically to Burnt Corn. Paul and Roger had done ministry years ago in this area near Pinon. Remember Pinon? The place where we felt very unwelcome? We felt good about this journey as we had an exceptional time of worship and spiritual renewal at Aztec Ruins the night before. This sacred time will not be posted as it was very intimate. Maybe in the future we will share some details but for now it is in our hearts alone.
We also felt good about the journey because Paul and Roger knew where they were going! We took a normal, paved road out towards Pinon. Looking out at nothing, Roger suddenly says, "This might be it. Did anyone see the tire?" Even if I had seen a tire, there was no rode by it. "When I talked to Lorraine she told me to look for the tire." He circled around and sure enough there was an upright tire by the side of a dirt road that read, "Burnt Corn." We started down the red dirt road towards… nothing. I just knew from past Rez driving that we would end up somewhere after all the bumps and turns.
Finally after moving around a large, washed out piece of road, Roger said, "I think that house over there is it." He really can remember things because I wasn't even sure it was a house! There was structure of some sort but we needed to get closer to find out. We drove into what some might call a driveway and asked two kids if they new Lorraine, our contact from over 20 years ago! Yes they did. But she wasn't here. She was in Gallup! How about Mary? Did they know Mary? No. Paul asked the poor kids to go get their grandmother who we could see closer to the house. This is how you find people on the Rez…just keep asking.
The grandmother (who spoke English; yeah!) said she knew Mary and she was over "that way." Oh, yeah, over there where some other structures were with the horses and dogs. Everybody was over there because there would be a funeral tomorrow. What?! Yes, we were going to acquaint ourselves with these people over a funeral.


The Women tells the story of a group of high society Manhattan womens' relationships with their men and with each other. In the opening credits, the main and supporting characters are introduced in a novel way: they are allocated an animal that personifies their character's personality traits, and we see (in order): the actor's name, their respective animal, and then their real face and their character's name.
The principal cast were not only extremely high profile stars, but in many cases 'Scarlett O'Hara wannabes': as just about every female star from MGM (and many other studios for that matter) had been tested for the Gone With the Wind lead.
First up we have a gentle deer, representing Norma Shearer as Mary Haines, whose husband is having an affair with the Joan Crawford's Crystal Allen, shown as a dangerous leopard. As third lead, Rosalind Russell, who would star in Five Star Film pick His Girl Friday the following year, as Mary's cousin Sylvia Fowler – represented as a black cat. The extensive supporting cast included Paulette Goddard (who was one of the Scarlett O'Hara serious front runners, and at the time - controversially - Charlie Chaplin's third wife) as a fox, 22-year old Joan Fontaine (a year before her Best Actress Oscar-winning role in Rebecca) as a lamb, and Margorie Main (of 'Ma Kettle' fame) as a horse.
In a move unique for the Golden Age of Hollywood, when so many male/female romantic movie star combinations were film headliners, this film had a 100% female cast (like the original play on which it was based). This included 130-odd speaking roles, all the extras, and even all the animals in the film. The success of The Women proved that women could carry a film. The cast (especially the principals) certainly had the star power to draw audiences.
The feminist merits of the film, however, have been debated – and opinions are quite divided. It's a complicated matter, and there are arguments for both sides: On one hand, there's the above-mentioned full female case cast, which included so many strong women characters who know what they want, and fight for it. There are also many moments of female solidarity and women supporting and looking out for each other. On the other hand, particular lines of dialogue could certainly be perceived as anti-feminist: such as when after Fontaine's Peggy decides to return home to her cheating husband, she exclaims (simultaneously gleefully and trance-like) to Mary, in relation to said husband: 'When I get back, I'll do everything John says'.
There's also debate as to whether or not The Women passes the Bechdel Test. It definitely exceeds the requirement of having a minimum of two women, and they certainly talk to each other (actually, for over two hours), but the question of whether The Women satisfies the third requirement is divisive. The film's tagline is in fact 'It's all about men', but it can be argued that some parts of some conversations aren't.
There's so much terrific dialogue in The Women. The mix of snappy writing, Cukor's deft direction and the wonderful timing skills of some very skilled actors makes for a delicious combination. Many large-cast scenes involve various characters either talking over each other or delivering such quick retorts that there's hardly a microscopic pause between lines. This rapid-fire delivery gives an added kick to scenes that were already engaging and full of vitality.
Some of the best lines come from Russell. Her Sylvia is quick-witted, cheeky and irreverent. When she's not taking an exercise session seriously and her exercise instructor chides '… posture. A lady always enters a room erect', Sylvia replies 'Most of my friends exit horizontally'.
Veteran comic actor Main is also a stand-out. There's something about her (often deliberately dry) delivery technique and comic timing that makes every line she says hilarious. Her dialogue was already well written, but her delivery skills take all her scenes to the next level.
Around forty-five minutes into this black-and-white film, there's a colour fashion parade that lasts for about six minutes. Though it does admittedly interrupt the momentum of the previously advancing plot, it's just so glorious in its own right that it does in fact add to the magnificence of the film. The gowns and other fashion pieces by acclaimed designer Adrian are simply stunning. And in vibrant Technicolor, that just pop!
Near the end of the first half of The Women, there's a fabulous showdown between Mary and Crystal. Representing the moral good/bad dichotomy, we see Crystal in a shiny and flashy leg-revealing dress, with her face lit in shadows, and Mary in a more demure long black evening gown, her face lit more brightly, appearing more open.
As the two women fight about Mary's husband / Crystal's lover, consummate actors Shearer and Crawford are both at their best. With less accomplished actors (and direction), Crystal could have come off as a one-note 'bad girl', and Mary could have been quite a bland character. Both performers bring a multi-dimensional depth to their characters – and they both pull off the perfect balance of forthrightness and restraint. If Mary and Crystal had succumbed to a catfight, the scene would have been less interesting. It's so compelling to watch the two characters hold it together, while they're clearly seething underneath. While making verbal digs at each other, they still keep to convention, and refer to each other as "Mrs Haines' and 'Miss Allen'.
The films most cutting and terrifically bitchy line is delivered by Crawford at the end of the scene. Just after Mary has looked Crystal's outfit up and down, and said 'May I suggest if you're dressing to please Stephen: not that one, he doesn't like such obvious effects', Crystal replies 'Thanks for the tip, but when anything I wear doesn't please Stephen, I take it off'.
To conclude, I'd like to encourage you to see The Women if you haven't yet had the pleasure of experiencing it. At time of writing, it's just over a month until the 75th anniversary of the films September 1st, 1939 release. What better time to enjoy an outstanding film that's stood the test of time so beautifully?
…. and please, I beg you: don't bother with the 2008 remake - it's an insult to the original, and really not worth your precious time.


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Project on Municipal Innovation
Disrupting Inequality
By Needham Hurst • March 11, 2014
Challenges of Today, Ideas for Tomorrow
Managing for the Soul of the City
The Fine Balance: A Dialogue on Regulatory Reform
Financing Downtown Redevelopment
5 ways City Governments and Philanthropy Can Partner to Disrupt Inequality
Structuring Innovation
TIFs and Redevelopment
Cities are at the forefront of efforts to disrupt inequality. In our current national economy of winners and losers, where only 4 percent of those in the bottom income quintile make it to the top quintile, creating opportunity is a pressing need. Faced with growing inequality, mayors and foundations are partnering to create innovative programs and performance-based funding models to transform cities into platforms of opportunity for all residents.
But how do cities and foundations work together effectively? What are the best models to spark innovative, disruptive programs? At the eleventh Project on Municipal Innovation Advisory Group, we heard from more than 30 leaders from America's largest and most creative cities about their experiences during our session, "Disrupting Inequality through City Government and Philanthropic Partnerships."
Here were our key takeaways:
Collaborations, not workarounds. Historically, foundations have funded nonprofits to fill gaps in city services. Inability to scale impact has been the major barrier to this model, resulting in cycles of defunding and organizational stagnation. But as foundations turn to cities to act as platforms for new programs, both sides are finding the perspectives of local government and foundations difficult to reconcile. Foundations take a long-run view, have an appetite for risk, and are informed and constrained by their guiding missions. Cities, by nature of election cycles and competing stakeholder demands, are much less insulated from risky ventures and short-run performance expectations. Any city-foundation joint venture requires an understanding of these competing interests.
Move beyond transactions by building long-term relationships. The default interaction between cities and foundations is frequently based on one-off transactions rather than building long-term partnerships. But big or small, transactions alone do not make it easy for cities and foundations to come together in an empathetic way. If there is no history of intentional partnership, the mismatched appetites for risk and stakeholder accountability mean that transaction-dependent relationships can often unravel when deal conditions do not meet expectations. Some strategies can help build long-run trust, like embedding highly skilled executives into agencies in crisis. For example, one foundation lent a executive to manage and improve performance at Baltimore's "B'More for Healthy Babies" program, a multifaceted initiative aimed at reducing the city's high infant mortality rate. Cities can also be intentional about partnering: Philadelphia's Community Action Agency transformed from a service provider to a coordinator, building a model focused on impact in the long run with philanthropic partners.
Use cities as platforms for experimentation and collective impact. Breaking down silos to build an ecosystem of poverty disrupters is tough business. Given the right authority and resources, special innovation engines within city government can serve as the convener and experimenter. Models like New York's Center for Economic Opportunity (CEO) or Philadelphia's Community Action Agency were founded to act in just such a role. In New York, Mayor Bloomberg gave CEO broad powers to launch experimental new programs in collaboration with foundations and city agencies, which allowed the city to bring together New York's diffuse constellation of philanthropic stakeholders in new ways.
Take risks, but be honest about efficacy. Disrupting poverty requires iterating through new and interesting approaches systematically. At CEO, launching new programs was not the hard part, the hard part was ending underperforming ones. Each initiative was contractually obligated to meet performance metrics. If a project did not, it was cut. CEO used MDRC, a non-profit, non-partisan research group to perform randomized trials on many of its new initiatives, but also closely tracked outcomes in-house and through regular reporting.
Scale and replicate through venture philanthropy. At CEO, successful programs and the evaluations studies were shared with cities with the aim of adapting them to new local conditions. New York's Center for Economic Empowerment, a non-profit financial literacy program, is a good example of a city initiative that leveraged venture philanthropy to scale nationally. Using a competitive grant process through Bloomberg Philanthropies, cities applied to host the program. Forty-eight cities applied for five Bloomberg funded spots, while an additional seven cities found other funds to host the expansion. But scaling exact replicas of a model isn't always effective: good scaling requires tailoring the model to new conditions. For example, as the Center for Economic Empowerment moved to Lansing, Michigan, they realized the Bloomberg's evaluation metrics for New York had to be tweaked because mortgage debt is such a bigger issue outside of New York's renter-driven market.
So how should cities undertake this intentional partnership with philanthropy? Our presenters had a few recommendations on how to get started:
Rethink how government money is spent (state, county, non-profit) and find ways to reallocate funds to incubate innovative programs.
Develop an ecosystem of poverty-disrupting partners to catalyze the implementation.
Start by connecting with philanthropic resources that are dedicated to local issues, like family foundations and regional funders.
Please read more about other session takeaways and challenges identified throughout the eleventh PMI Advisory Group convening by browsing our other entries here on Data-Smart City Solutions.
Needham Hurst
Needham Hurst is a joint MPP/MBA candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. He spent the last two years in New York City working for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the mayor's post-disaster housing task force. At HPD, Needham project managed the financing and rehabilitation of affordable and supportive housing projects. After graduating from Macalester College with a BA in Economics, he worked in Saint Paul, MN, as a foreclosure prevention community organizer. His research interests include housing strategies for vulnerable populations, smart infrastructure, and innovation in local government.
Cities, Data and the Future of Work


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Sorry to hear about the treadmill attacking you yesterday. I am sure your sore knee will be fine in a day or two and you will be back to riding your bike to work.
You didn't miss much today. This was the second day of Bike to Work Week. I broke out one of my vintage Bike to Work Day t-shirts. I have no idea what color this is. Coral? Salmon? Tomato soup?
The weather was bad. I had to wear arm and ear warmers for part of the ride to work. Until it warmed up, that is. Such a drag. On the way home, it was 80F. I had a cooling headwind off the river. Imagine that. It slowed me down a little. Ugh.
There were lots of people out and about. They looked like they were having fun. It made me long for the days when the trail was empty and I was bundled up against the cold. Introversion rocks, don't you think?
You would have hated the strong sun. My arms are so tan. I hate tan. I might even get some more freckles by Friday. I hate freckles too.
There was an osprey flying over my head in the morning. I mean what did he think he was doing? There were geese and ducks and puffy white clouds, too. Just north of Belle Haven Park there was a dude in a kayak with three fishing rods. Just sitting there soaking up the glistening morning sun.
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Art, music, and creative expression are lifelong sources of resilience, self-confidence, and happiness – so save the date for this fun-filled event.
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Live Music on Allen Street from 12:- 5pm too! Visit their Facebook page for the music schedule and details on the event.
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Socio-Political Issues
Tribalism or Self-Management:
the Next Step after Communism
We know that everything is controlled in a Communist State. Lenin or Stalin had more power over the Russian people than any Czar in the past ever exercised - even in his more tyrannical phase. A Czar, indeed, had great power, but individuals still retained many rights and privileges that he could not touch. Certainly they had less power than the citizens of an American or European democracy, but it was still quite significant.
Stalin and Lenin: tyrants more powerful than any Czar
Lenin or Stalin had an unparalleled, unheard-of power. Under their rule, for example, if a man wanted to travel from one city to another in Russia, he had to ask permission from the State police, explain the exact purpose of his travel, and get his passport duly rubberstamped.
If a man wanted to move from one neighborhood to another in a city - or even from one house to another in the same neighborhood - he needed permission from that same State police, who would determine if that move was in the interests of the State. Under that totalitarian regime, the State never considered the interests of the individual, only its own interests. For instance, it would check to see whether he was moving to an area that housed persons under suspicion of plotting against the State. If such were the case, the man could very easily be considered suspect of conspiracy against the State, for the simple fact of moving closer to someone he didn't even know existed.
These are just a few cases that happened regularly in daily life in Russia under Lenin, Stalin, Brezhnev or Gorbatchev.
Self-management, an ideal of Communism
After this phase in which the powers of the State were exaggerated to the maximum, the ideal of Communism is to reach another stage called self-management. I am not making this up. It was written in the most important document of the USSR. Indeed, the Soviet Constitution affirmed: "The supreme objective of the Soviet State is the construction of a classless communist society in which a socialist communist self-management will be able to develop" (1).
This Ecovillage adopts a tribal style of meeting
What does self-management mean? It refers to the process of government of each unit of society. In a factory, self-management means that all the workers are the owners of the factory. They decide what direction the factory should take, what products it should make and the price to be charged. Be it a country-village, a school or a university, each is directed by those who compose it, thus doing away with the notion of owners who are distinct from employees, professors from pupils, or masters from servants.
This system of communist self-management is meant to result in the dissolution of the State, which would be broken into many minuscule States, small groups of around 100 families where the people in it live and work under the direction of one chief, supposedly elected by the whole group. Each one of these units should operate as a tribe – this is, in actuality, its correct name. The communists call each of these cells soviets, we call them tribes. Tribes of white, yellow or black people, or mixed groups – whatever you want to imagine. In these tribes no one owns anything; the tribe is the sole proprietor of everything.
No woman belongs solely to any man, no man to any woman. It is complete sexual promiscuity. The children belong to the ensemble. The school directed by the tribe gives the children the formation it chooses. Each one has the obligation to perform the work to which he is assigned, and each has the right to the fruit of the labor of everyone else. No one has the right to have a small garden of vegetables, for example, to grow for himself the things he most enjoys. Everything he produces has to be taken to a common center to be distributed equally. What we have, then, is complete equality in a complete promiscuity – thus achieving complete Communism.
Religion and tribal life
This new phase of Communism corresponds to some of the deepest tendencies of the modern age. Let me list several:
The hippy movement and the revolt of the youth, abandoning society to live in urban or country tribes;
The exaltation of the life of Indians, being presented as a model everywhere today;
The ecological movement and its virtual war against any nobler aspect of civilization;
The Christian Base Communities that present a new face of the Church as well, in which the great institution of the Church is broken into small pieces that is supposed to give a renewed life to the ensemble.
Beyond Communism - green activists marching for freedom from all constraints
These tendencies are all heading toward the tribal life working in different ways for a communist self-managing society.
This self-management can be compared to a kind of religion. It promotes the idea that people receive divine inspiration from the gods who show them what to do. Receiving that general inspiration in a more concentrated form is a guru, who is able to interpret it and then to transmit it to the leader of the group of Indians. Therefore, the leader obeys the guru, shaman or witch doctor. The leader's authority is dissolved into a kind of spiritist authority of the guru, who interprets the messages the spirits send for the people.
In practice this apparently spontaneous network of groups is linked to a central government, which controls it. All the spiritist messages are transmitted to that central authority that supposedly takes them into consideration.
I believe that ultimately the power behind these "revelations" is a preternatural one, which tells the gurus and people what to do. In short, it is the Devil that is preparing his entrance onto the world scene to be adored as the one who inspires and controls everything.
Link with the green movement
Communists and ecologists unite for water rights in Dehli, above. A green-organized protest of natives against a dam project in the Amazon, below.
What is the relation between tribalism and the green movement?
Ecology uses as a pretext that it wants to create an environment favorable to man in order to prevent man from destroying nature either by ignorance or greed.
A factory that releases harmful gases in the air is, therefore, combated by the ecological movement since sooner or later those gases will be breathed by men, animals or plants. If that industry continues to release those gases, the ecologists affirm, it must be stopped. Or they say that a city needs open spaces and parks with trees and plants to provide cleaner air and a more healthful environment for its inhabitants.
On a more extensive scale, the green movement pretends that the Amazon is the green lung of the world. Therefore, to preserve the world's health, no one can touch the Amazon, even if a plantation were to proportionally replace the trees it cut.
We see that along with things that are reasonable like parks and clean air, other measures are clearly abusive and biased such as this intrusion on Brazilian sovereignty with regard to the Amazon. This unwarranted intrusion becomes more suspicious when the same ecological movement asserts that the only ones who can live there are the aborigines in their tribal life.
Therefore, the goal of ecology appears as being to promote the tribal life and present it as a model for civilized peoples like ourselves.
Class struggle against civilization
Wrapped in this green message is another one filled with poison: the European who came to the three Americas to colonize them were usurpers. They came to exploit the Indians who lived here and steal their land. So, the Portuguese, Spanish, English and French who came to our Continent in different phases of its history would be nothing more than bandits who should be ashamed for bringing civilization to these lands. Those white men – us – should make restitution for our crimes and return to our original countries. This is nonsense! How would it be possible, for example, for more than 150 million Brazilians to return to Portugal, which is too small to contain or support them?
The same green movement that began with a positive message to build parks and clean the air in our cities soon takes on a communist hue, preaching its hatred for the five centuries of culture and civilization we received from our ancestors. According to it, the Indians are the ones who are naturally good, their tribal lifestyle is perfect, and all of us - European white people - are the villains.
Media organs disseminate that the European colonization of the Americas was bad
Thus, the ultimate ideal of the green movement is to destroy our way of life, including the present day economic system of the three Americas, which is Capitalism, and to return to a tribal lifestyle. To achieve this goal, the ecological movement invents a series of lies – such as global warming is caused by the industrial emissions of CO2 – whose principal aim is to change the Western lifestyle and move it toward tribalism. I believe it is not necessary to demonstrate that the major media and most prestigious elites pretend to believe this myth and promote it as much as they can.
In passing, let me note that the Catholic evangelization of the three Americas and the preaching of the True Faith are included in this generalized hatred for what is considered the European usurpation. No account is taken of the fact that Our Lord Jesus Christ became known in these lands and a multitude of souls were saved and now enjoy eternal life in Heaven.
Curiously, today's progressivists are deaf to ecologist assaults against the Catholic Church. The Conciliar Church takes no offense against such accusations because not only do its Prelates support the green-red platform, but often they promote it overtly. See how the leaders of Liberation Theology quickly changed their red banners to green ones and became the shining stars of the ecological movement.
Our Lord Jesus Christ, who was both God and man and lived in Galilee 2000 years ago, is not as suitable for tribalism as the false idea that the gods live everywhere in the trees and animals.
This is the aim of the Revolution in its present day phase. It is what I call the Fourth Revolution in my book Revolution and Counter-Revolution.
Ecology and Pantheism
When we stop to analyze what is behind this new revolutionary fashion, we find a religious-philosophical concept of man and god. Indeed, the gods that the Indian thinks are living in a tree trunk, serpent or lizard, and that he represents on a totem pole to be adored by the tribe, are not individual gods. Those beings merely represent condensations of an impersonal divinity that is present in everything but at times appears concentrated in animals, trees, lakes or atmospheric phenomena: a wind that speaks or lighting that sends a message.
Each body of water or tree would be inhabited by a divinity
Even though an Indian would not give a philosophical explanation of his primitive idolatry, we can well do so. That universal divinity present everywhere is a crude version of Pantheism. The messages that are received or sent constitute a type of Spiritism. Often the presence of the Devil is very easy to unveil in those phenomena.
It is not difficult to realize that the ecological movement is pantheist when it pretends that every animal, plant or even mineral has rights and cannot be harmed or touched. It becomes a crime to kill this type of animal or that species of plant. The most profound reason for such rights is that every being is part of a whole that is divine and has in itself something of that divinity. They are speaking more and more every day about the rights of Mother Earth, as if the planet itself were a deity.
Therefore, we see that the green movement is leading toward tribalism, which in effect is pantheistic, with its doors wide open to occult communications with the preternatural, which is very close to Satanism.
A new form of society beyond Communism
When one rejects a personal God who is different from Creation, he does not have need for hierarchy in society, because the latter is reflection of the former. If everything is a part of god, if everything is divine, then equality becomes a religious commandment. Anyone who would pretend to be more than others would be a criminal, because he would be stealing from the others and concentrating in himself parts of divinity that should be equally distributed among all.
The only form of society that would be entirely consistent with this ecological pantheism is one with complete equality. This is not the equality of our modern democracies, which still retain different political bodies – the executive, legislative and judiciary – different social and economic classes, is served by police forces to maintain order and has military forces to impose its will both internally and externally. For the new tribalist mentality, this modern democracy is as detestable as the monarchies and aristocracies of old because it still maintains fundamental inequalities. The only acceptable regime is the tribe where everyone is equal and possesses nothing.
This ecological model of self-management wants to destroy the State, its political bodies and system, its economy, culture, customs and social habits. The ecological movement thus aims for a more extreme goal than Communism could achieve. It surpasses Communism as the more radical and anticipated fruit of the same process.
I have not yet heard of an International Green Movement – such as International Communism – that would control all the cells, but I would be very surprised if it did not exist.
I hope this explanation sheds light on the movement we are presently witnessing in all our countries and represents the avant garde of the Revolution today.
1.	Constitución – La Ley Fundamental de La Unión de las Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas, October 7, 1977, Moscow: Editorial Progreso, 1980, p 5.
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