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Poverty, Race and Power in Child Welfare
(Originally published June 2020)
NOTE: This commentary and those that follow will advance a social justice agenda for child welfare in the United States. The first Sounding Board will discuss "Poverty, Race and Power in Child Welfare." The second (July) SB will address reunification policy and practice and recommend revision of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA). The third SB (August) will offer a critique of "Mistaken Ideas and Effective Strategies in Social Justice."
This is one of few times in recent decades when a critical mass of practitioners, policymakers and advocates appear open to a reconsideration of child welfare policy and practice from a social justice perspective. There have been many child welfare reform initiatives in states and large cities during recent years, usually following high-profile child deaths. Some states have made persistent efforts to reduce the size of their foster care populations, often combined with efforts to reduce racial disproportionality in out-of-home care. However, there have only been infrequent attempts to ameliorate the effects of poverty and income inequality on child welfare or to reduce the extent to which child welfare agencies depend on coercion and legal structure in their interactions with parents on open cases.
The Goals of a Social Justice Agenda
Identify social and economic conditions, and policies and practices and that contribute to structural racism, i.e.," a system in which public policies, institutional practices and cultural representations and other norms work … to perpetuate racial group inequity, " (Racial Equity Tools), including poverty and income inequality.
Describe how the same strategies needed to combat structural racism will also dramatically improve the treatment of low-income White families, especially "dirt poor" White families.
Reformulate the relationship between public health and mental health agencies with child protection programs to improve family support services and reduce the use of coercive practices in child welfare agencies.
Change states' neglect statutes to make the delivery of poverty related services a central feature of CPS practice.
Advocate for a change in federal law that will de-emphasize the utilization of court structure in a large percentage of foster care placements.
Eliminate adoption financial incentives intended to increase adoptions; or offer similar reunification incentives to states.
Give birth parents with child welfare histories a larger role in review and oversight of agency practices.
Poverty and Race in Child Welfare
Poverty, income inequality and racial bigotry are thoroughly enmeshed in structural racism, but they are not the same. If racism in the U.S. was eliminated when racial minorities achieve higher income and/or political power, Black elected officials, college faculty, doctors, lawyers, etc. would not be subject to harassment at the hands of police. In White America, upper middle class status confers immunity from police harassment, or even rudeness; but not so in Black America where some police officers feel free to hassle or attack Blacks in all social classes for just about anything, e.g.," driving while Black". Nevertheless, families with open child welfare cases are overwhelmingly poor, often severely poor. A 2009 survey of several hundred parents with open child welfare cases in Washington State found that almost half (48%) had an annual income of less than $10,000, and one-fifth of parents had no income from welfare or work and did not live with a person whose annual income exceeded $20,000. Almost sixty percent of parents with children in foster care had an annual income less than $10,000! This is not just poor; it's severely poor, "dirt poor" in the language of the South. One quarter of all families in the U.S. investigated by CPS are severely poor. (see NSCAW II)
The severity of poverty has a large effect on rates of child maltreatment (as reflected in four National Incidence Studies) and is compounded when families live in neighborhoods or communities with concentrated poverty, i.e., 30-40% or more of families are poor as defined by the federal poverty standard. Poverty and neglect (especially chronic neglect) are strongly associated, so much so that some child welfare critics maintain that most alleged child neglect occurs due to poverty; or reflects nothing but poverty. I will discuss this half-truth in the August Sounding Board. However, for the purpose of this commentary, the important point is that a community's child poverty rate shapes its child welfare system. Roughly speaking, the higher a census tract's child poverty rate, the larger the percentage of screened-in CPS reports containing allegations of child neglect and the larger the percentage of child victims found to be neglected.
In the U.S., substantiated victims of neglect outnumber child victims of physical abuse by 4-1 and victims of sexual abuse by more than 10-1. Furthermore, child neglect has the most detrimental impact on infants and other young children. U.S. foster care systems have far higher rates of infant placement and placements of other preschool children than child welfare systems in Western European countries which have much lower child poverty rates.
Income Inequality and Race/Ethnicity
The poverty rate for African American women was 21.8% in 2018; Native American women's poverty rate was 22% and Hispanic women's poverty rate was 17.6 % in 2018 vs. 12.9% for White women and 7% for White men.
African Americans and Native Americans have rates of extreme poverty (15-16%) three times greater than the rate for White Americans (5%).
African American families are much more likely than White families to live in neighborhoods and communities with concentrated poverty (as much as 14 times more likely).
The median White family had 41 times more wealth ($146,984) than the median Black family ($3,557) in 2018.
"The median Black family saw their wealth drop by more than half after adjusting for inflation from 1983-2016 vs. a 33% increase for the median White household." (Income Inequality.org)
Effects of Extreme Income Inequality
Low income African Americans live 10-20 years less on average than upper middle-class Whites.
African Americans and Native Americans have higher rates of homelessness than White adults.
Severely poor families have higher rates of food insecurity and experiences of hunger (see $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America by Edin and Shaefer). These authors make clear that it is still possible for children in the U.S. to gradually starve.
Severely poor parents have much higher rates of mood disorders, i.e., depression, anxiety and PTSD, and interpersonal violence than middle class Americans.
Severely poor families have higher rates of child maltreatment, especially child neglect and higher rates of family disruption. I will address the mistaken idea that racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. have similar rates of child maltreatment regardless of economic differences in the August Sounding Board. This cannot be true if poverty has a large causal influence on child maltreatment rates. The belief of many advocates that racial disproportionality in child welfare systems is primarily due to racial bias in child welfare decision making is mostly (but not wholly) false. Differences in poverty rates is the main proximate cause of racial disproportionality in child welfare. However, the disproportionate percentage of African American youth among 'long stayers' in foster care and among youth placed in hotels, out of state facilities and other unsafe placements is (in part) a reflection of institutional racism. Indifference to bad outcomes for African American and Native American youth is a key indicator of racial bias in child welfare systems.
The extreme income inequality that has developed in the U.S. in recent decades does more than lead to socially unjust outcomes in health and mortality, education, juvenile justice, and child welfare; social inequities of this magnitude embody social injustice. No social justice agenda that ignores these inequities can ever be effective in combating structural racism in American institutions, a reality that has already become obvious in education reform but does not seem as obvious to some proponents of anti-racism child welfare reform.
A Social Justice Agenda that Begins with Poverty Reduction
Set a national goal of reducing child poverty by half within a decade. I will discuss strategies for achieving a large reduction in child poverty rates in the August Sounding Board. This country has many outstanding poverty scholars who have developed a range of strategies for poverty reduction; and some have costed out their proposals. The main challenge to poverty reduction is not a lack of good ideas; it's a lack of political will. For several decades, the country's political system has engaged in a reverse Robin Hood scenario (see Case and Deacon's Deaths of Despair) in which the wealthiest Americans have used their political influence to take from low and middle income families to increase their already fabulous fortunes.
Some people question whether this country can afford another war on poverty. This question is no longer credible after a bitterly divided Congress passed $3.5 trillion dollars in pandemic assistance by large majorities within a few weeks. This country is wealthy enough to achieve ambitious goals when most citizens believe that action is necessary. Reducing poverty by half in a decade is only prohibitively expensive for persons who view poverty reduction as a low priority.
Eliminate severe poverty, i.e., annual incomes less than half the federal poverty standard, i.e., $11,000-$12,000 depending on size of household. There is no programmatic workaround for parents who must struggle to survive, a reality which partially explains the repeated failure of homelessness initiatives in Seattle, the Bay area and Los Angeles. It is not true that food stamps and other benefits are as "good as cash", an argument Edin and Shaefer demolished in $2 a day.
Revise states' neglect statutes to require that child welfare caseworkers assist parents (on open cases) who cannot meet their children's basic needs due to poverty in connecting with community agencies which can help them or, if there is no such agency, provide funding to meet children's basic needs. This one statutory change, if implemented in good faith, would transform the reputation of CPS with low income families from a coercive threat to a source of urgently needed support.
Increase poverty-related services, including housing support, to families on open cases. As obvious as this seems, some state child welfare systems have few or no poverty related services; or offer concrete services of no more than few hundred dollars on a one-time basis. Any state which has differential response as part of its child protection system; but is unable to provide $1,000-$2,000 per family on open cases is wasting its investment in differential response.
Power, Caste and Child Welfare
Extreme income inequality in this country has gradually changed social classes into castes organized around educational achievement. Class differences become caste divisions when incomes and education are so unequal that members of different castes occupy different social and cultural worlds and have fundamentally different rights and opportunities, e.g., access to high quality medical and dental care or higher education. This country's caste system is peculiar in that it retains vestiges of the Jim Crow era in which caste was based on skin color and racial identity, while aiming to be a meritocracy based on educational achievement. The U.S. has three castes: (1) persons with a B.A. or advanced degree (about one-third of adults, 25 and older), and persons with exceptional athletic ability or creative achievements
(2) semi-educated adults with some community college or technical training who have challenging middle income jobs (3) adults with no more than a high school degree who are stuck in the low wage economy or are chronically unemployed. Large differences in practically every facet of life and in health and mortality outcomes have developed between adults with BA degrees and adults without BA degrees. (see Deaths of Despair)
Cultural differences among Whites have been explored at length in Coming Apart: The State of White America: 1960-2010 by Charles Murray and Tightrope: Americans Reach for Hope by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Caste systems have several common features wherever they occur: (a) an upper caste will find it challenging to appreciate the humanity of lower caste persons. European and Russian aristocrats did not believe that peasants, farmers, shopkeepers or educated non-aristocrats were their equals; they took their superiority (based on genetics, family ties and military prowess) for granted. Winners in a meritocracy are likely to assume their excellence has been demonstrated by educational achievement; (b) it is easy for an upper caste to utilize coercive methods with lower caste individuals, often without much reflection. Any challenge to the prerogatives of caste is quickly met with force or coercion; and it's easy to default to orders and legal mandates when cooperative approaches are met with resistance by lower caste individuals ; (c) members of an upper caste will often assume that a child from the lowest caste would be better off raised in their family, given the increase in opportunities and privileges; (d) regardless of political beliefs and social values, it will be difficult for an upper caste person to share power with someone from a lower caste. Power sharing between upper caste and lower caste individuals tends to be token, temporary and unsettling.
Boundaries between castes in the U.S. have become better defined in recent decades; and the three castes are becoming more internally differentiated. Graduates from any old four-year college, or for-profit university, are not part of the same social and cultural worlds as graduates of elite universities, or persons with advanced degrees, or the wealthiest Americans, and do not have the same opportunities for social advancement.
Perhaps it goes without saying that a socially just caste system is an oxymoron; the best that can be hoped for in a caste system is to reduce the use of injurious practices. When the underlying rules of caste (often barely conscious or unconscious) are combined with implicit and explicit racial biases left over from the Jim Crow era, some (but not all) child welfare caseworkers are likely to be too quick to use coercion in working with low income Black and Native American families when partnerships with parents would be more effective. Furthermore, federal law requires the use of legal structure rather than voluntary placement agreements after a few months of foster care placement, a policy preference that should be reversed for children in foster care older than 3 at entry into care.
In addition, just as police have been unwisely delegated social work functions with homeless and or mentally ill persons, CPS caseworkers have been given too much responsibility for intervention in the lives of troubled families. Policymakers and advocates should adopt the guideline: a CPS investigation/assessment shall never be the first or only offer of services to a family except when a child has been severely abused or neglected. Child welfare reform must include the building (or rebuilding) of public health and mental health systems, which require the resources to reach out to families with an offer of voluntary services before a CPS report leads to an investigation.
Finally, public agencies need to make concerted efforts to utilize and compensate parents with child welfare histories in an advisory and oversight role and in mentoring parents with open cases. This can only occur with inspired leadership as consulting with parents regarding policy and practice is dissonant with the logic of caste; and is likely to meet strong internal resistance in child welfare agencies.
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More than 16 migrants died trying to cross the border
More than 60 people have been injured after attempting to cross to the U.S. illegally
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The consul said the border wall had represented a danger to undocumented people trying to cross illegally, but the wall does not stop migration at the border.
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P. Alpini de medicina aegyptiorum. Libri quator. & Iacobi Bontii in Indiis Archiatri, de medicina indorum. Ediotio ultima.
Paris: Gulielmi Pele, 1646. Two works in one. 4to. [xii], 150, [25]; 39, [1] ff. Title in red and black, decorative woodcut on dedication, 3 full-page plates and 2 text illustrations. Nineteenth century boards, re-backed; interior is lightly toned throughout, with occasional spots and a small tear in the lower.....	More
ASTRUC, Jean
Traite des maladies veneriennes: ou, apres avoir explique l'origine, la propagation, & la communication de ces maladies en general, on decrit la nature, les causes, & la curation de chacume en particulier....
Paris: Guillaume Cavelier, 1764. 4 vols. 8vo. cxvii, [i], 316; iv, 380; iv, 360 (i.e. 399); vi, 384 pp. Contemporary calf, covers somewhat worn, especially Volume three. Book. cxvii, [i], 316; iv, 380; iv, 360 (i.e. 399); vi, 384 pp. Contemporary calf, covers somewhat worn, especially Volume three. Bookplate of.....	More
[ASTRUC]. CHAPMAN, Samuel
A treatise on the venereal disease....
London: W. Owen, 1770. 8vo. xxv, [3], 490, [10] pp. Contemporary full calf. Joints weak, spine rubbed. Second edition, much expanded from Chapman's 1755 translation of Astruc's De morbis veneris, Books II-IV. Astruc (1685-1766), a professor of anatomy in Paris, was an eminent historian of syphilis who utilized pathological anatomy..... More
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FOURNIER, Alfred
Recherches sur la contagion du chancre.
Paris: Adrien Delahaye, 1857. 8vo. [vii], 110 pp. FIRST EDITION. Original printed wrappers; interior somewhat foxed, heavier on the preliminary and last leaves. From the library of Louis A. Duhring. First edition of Fournier's first printed treatise, the first of a number of important clinical works on the subject. Fournier..... More
HENSHAW, Sarah Edwards
Our Branch and its Tributaries. Being a History of the Work of the Northwestern Sanitary Commission and its Auxiliaries, during the War of the Rebellion.
Chicago: Alfred L. Sewell, 1868. 8vo. 432 pp. FIRST EDITION. Green publisher's cloth, seal of the Sanitary Commission in gilt to front cover. Aside from some light age toning, a very good copy. First edition. A complete, comprehensive, and entertaining narrative about the Sanitary Commission, a society which had four..... More
HOSACK, David
Observations on the peripneumonia typhodes, now prevailing in several districts of the United States.
New York: C.S. Van Winkle, 1813. 8vo. FIRST EDITION. Disbound, some staining and soiling; uncut and unopened. FIRST EDITION. Austin, 973.	More
NEWBERRY, J.S.
The U.S. Sanitary Commission in the Valley of the Mississippi during the War of the Rebellion 1861-1866. Final Report.
Cleveland: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., 1871. 8vo. 543 pp. FIRST EDITION. Green library cloth, ex-libiris markings. Inscribed by the author on title. First edition.	More
ROSCOE, William [TANSILLO, Luigi]
The Nurse, A Poem translated from the Italian
Liverpool: J.McCreery for Cadell and Davis, 1798. 4to. 14, 67, [1], 12 pp. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH FROM THE ITALIAN. Engraved folding frontispiece portrait of Lorenzo de Medici. A fine copy in recent boards. First edition of Roscoe's translation. Roscoe (1753-1831), a charismatic figure, was a pioneer in the study..... More
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TISSOT, Simon-Auguste-Andre-David
Lettre a Monsieur Hirzel . . . sur quelques critiques de M. De Haen. (b/w) Lettre a Monsieur De Haen. . . en reponse a ses questions sur l'inoculation. (b/w) Lettre a Monsieur Zimmerman . . . sur l'epidemie courante. (b/w) Seconde lettre a Monsieur Zimmerman . . . sur l'epidemie de 1766.
Lausanne: Chez François Grasset, 1765; 1765; 1765; 1766. 4 works in one. 8vo. [ii], 144; [ii], 142; 122; [ii], 50 pp. Four volumes in one. Contemporary half-calf and marbled boards. Four of Tissot's famous letters detailing his observations on the existing medical practices of the day. These noteworthy discussions include..... More
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PROVIDENCE – Anticipated rip currents and high surf generated by Hurricane Florence led the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (DEM) to issue an advisory warning the public to use caution along shoreline this weekend.
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Storm-generated waves attract onlookers. DEM urges the public to stay safe by remaining far away from areas where waves might splash over. Individual waves may be more than twice the average wave height and can easily sweep a person into the water from what seems to be a safe viewing area. In addition, swells entering some inlets and harbor entrances could cause difficult navigation for operators of small craft.


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Enigma's work is all about 'the experience' to deeply engage and enthuse visitors, and museums are a well-established part of our business. Using all our skills and knowledge from the design, branding and exhibitions fields, our specialist divisions combine to create clever interactive mixes of rides, images, lighting, graphics and audio-visuals to stimulate and entrance, encouraging learning and sharing information. We create multi-sensory showpieces that both nod to a glorious past and give a glimpse into an exciting future.


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One of the most distinguished coaching careers in National Football League history officially concluded when Dick Vermeil announced his retirement from professional football in 2006. Vermeil spent 15 seasons as an NFL head coach and was a member of the league's coaching fraternity for 19 seasons. In addition, Vermeil has had a prestigious career as a football broadcaster, analyzing both NFL and college games. In 2006, he was portrayed on the big screen by Greg Kinnear in the film Invincible.
Vermeil's lengthy and illustrious career has many highlights. After coaching at the high-school level, he secured his first NCAA Division 1 position in 1965 at Stanford University. In 1974, he was named head coach of UCLA, leading the Bruins to a Rose Bowl Championship. Soon thereafter in 1976, he joined the downtrodden Philadelphia Eagles, discovering an unlikely football star in walk-on legend Vince Papale and guiding the team to multiple playoffs and a 1980 NFC Championship.
In 1983, after his first retirement from coaching, Vermeil took to a different kind of sideline---the broadcasting booth, serving as an NFL and college football analyst for CBS and ABC. After a 14-year NFL coaching hiatus, he returned in 1997 to coach the St. Louis Rams, leading to the franchise's first Super Bowl victory in 1999. Later he was named head coach for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Since his "retirement" from the Chiefs, Vermeil has acted as color commentator for ESPN and the NFL Network. Over the years, he and his wife have been actively involved in in numerous charitable efforts, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for organizations that help families and youth, as well as disadvantaged and differently-abled people.
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With one of the most distinguished coaching careers in National Football League history, Dick Vermeil is well-versed in what it takes to be an effective leader and what it takes to win on and off the field. Vermeil captivates audiences with behind-the-scenes stories and inspiring life lessons as he discusses the common-sense leadership principles that he learned and continually refined over his 15 seasons as an NFL head coach.
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1st Semester 2020/21: Evolutionary origins of compositionality
Marieke Schouwstra
Compositionality is often described at one of the key properties of human language. We will focus on the evolutionary origins of this property, and discuss questions around three central themes:
Compositionality: definition and uniqueness
- How do we best define compositionality?
- Do we find aspects of compositionality in animal communication?
- Is compositionality restricted to language?
- Is human language compositional at all?
Evolutionary trajectory: theories and models
- Should we look for the origins of compositionality in the biological or the cultural domain?
- What could the evolutionary trajectory of the emergence of compositionality look like?
Evolutionary trajectory: empirical data
- What can emerging sign languages tell us about the emergence of compositionality?
- How can we investigate emerging compositionality in the lab?
There will be 3 introductory lectures, one on each of the three sub-topics. In each of the remaining classes, a student will give a class presentation on one of the questions mentioned above, followed by a discussion session. A list of articles will be made available; suggestions are welcome. We will end the project with a website which presents short papers by each of the students, and the way in which they relate to each other.
an interest in the topic, and willingness to look at it from many different viewpoints.
There will be a class presentation, and a short essay. Participation, both in the sense of being online during class, and in the sense of actively contributing to the discussion, will be taken into account.
Brighton, H. (2005). Compositionality, linguistic evolution, and induction by minimum description length.
Cavicchio, F., Dachkovsky, S., Leemor, L., Shamay-Tsoory, S., & Sandler, W. (2018). Compositionality in the language of emotion. PloS one, 13(8), e0201970.
Dachkovsky, S., Stamp, R., & Sandler, W. (2018). Constructing complexity in a young sign language. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 2202.
Goldberg, A. E. (2015). Compositionality. In The Routledge handbook of semantics (pp. 419-433). Taylor and Francis Inc..
Janssen, T. M., & Partee, B. H. (1997). Compositionality. In Handbook of logic and language (pp. 417-473). North-Holland.
Kirby, S., Tamariz, M., Cornish, H., & Smith, K. (2015). Compression and communication in the cultural evolution of linguistic structure. Cognition, 141, 87-102.
Oña, L. S., Sandler, W., & Liebal, K. (2019). A stepping stone to compositionality in chimpanzee communication. PeerJ, 7, e7623.
Raviv, L., & Arnon, I. (2018). Systematicity, but not compositionality: Examining the emergence of linguistic structure in children and adults using iterated learning. Cognition, 181, 160-173.
Senghas, A., Kita, S., & Özyürek, A. (2004). Children creating core properties of language: Evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. Science, 305(5691), 1779-1782.
Smith, K., & Kirby, S. (2012). Compositionality and linguistic evolution. In The Oxford handbook of compositionality.
Szabó, Z.G., Compositionality. In The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2020 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/compositionality/>.
Townsend, S. W., Engesser, S., Stoll, S., Zuberbühler, K., & Bickel, B. (2018). Compositionality in animals and humans. PLoS Biology, 16(8), e2006425.
Verhoef, T., de Boer, B., & Kirby, S. (2012). Holistic or synthetic protolanguage: Evidence from iterated learning of whistled signals. In The evolution of language (pp. 368-375).
Wray, A. (1998). Protolanguage as a holistic system for social interaction. Language & communication, 18(1), 47-67.


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Walter Chaffe (Dunsford, Devon, 2 d'abril de 1870 – Plaistow, Londres, 22 d'abril de 1918) va ser un esportista anglès que va competir a principis del . Especialista en el joc d'estirar la corda, guanyà dues medalles en aquesta competició en dues participacions en els Jocs Olímpics.

El 1908 va prendre part en els Jocs Olímpics de Londres, on guanyà la medalla de bronze en la prova del joc d'estirar la corda formant part de l'equip Metropolitan Police "K" Division.

El 1912 guanyà una nova medalla, en aquesta ocasió de plata, en la mateixa prova a Estocolm.

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Jugadors d'estirar la corda anglesos
Medallistes britànics als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1908
Medallistes britànics als Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1912
Persones de Devon
Morts a Anglaterra

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Music: Bruno Mars - 24K Magic
Bruno Mars - 24K Magic
by: Bruno Mars
Earlier this week, Bruno Mars announced a new single called "24K Magic" and revealed his new album is done. Turns out, the album is also called 24K Magic, and now the 30-year-old singer/songwriter officially drops the lead single. A follow-up to Bruno's 2012 multi-platinum sophomore LP Unorthodox Jukebox, 24K Magic is set to hit stores on November 18.
The nine-track album can be pre-ordered right now on iTunes, as the title track can be downloaded instantly.
Listen to 24K Magic below.
Other songs by Bruno Mars
That's What I Like (Remix) (feat. Gucci Mane)
Finesse (Remix) (feat. Cardi B)
Please Me
by: Cardi B & Bruno Mars
by: Ed Sheeran, Chris Stapleton & Bruno Mars
All songs by "Bruno Mars"
Artiste(s): Bruno Mars
Cardi B & Bruno Mars - Please Me
Bruno Mars - That's What I Like (Remix) (feat. Gucci Mane)
Bruno Mars - Finesse (Remix) (feat. Cardi B)
Ed Sheeran, Chris Stapleton & Bruno Mars - BLOW
Mark Ronson - Uptown Funk (feat. Bruno Mars)
Gucci Mane - Wake Up in the Sky (feat. Bruno Mars & Kodak Black)
R2Bees - Straight From Mars (feat. Wizkid)
Dumbo 2019 1
Heist Movies 1
Point Blank 2019 1
Blonde Sex 12
Warrior S02e03 58
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Ultimate Justice 3
When They See Us 597
Beast Of No Nation 2
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Q: Python curses - hide user input I am developing one app in python curses. I am using getch() method to get pressed keys.
But I can see pressed keys on screen. I can move cursor whenever I want, but after cursor I can see what user typed.
Of course, I can erase and redraw the whole screen after every pressed key, but it's blinking - that's distrubing.
Any idea how to get rid of these pressed keys? Thank you

A: Initialize the curses class in the following way, it will solve the problem.
class curses_screen:
    def __enter__(self):
        self.stdscr = curses.initscr()
        curses.cbreak()
        curses.noecho()
        self.stdscr.keypad(1)
        SCREEN_HEIGHT, SCREEN_WIDTH = self.stdscr.getmaxyx()
        return self.stdscr
    def __exit__(self,a,b,c):
        curses.nocbreak()
        self.stdscr.keypad(0)
        curses.echo()
        curses.endwin()

with curses_screen() as stdscr:
    """
    Execution code plush getch code here
    """

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The Probing Vegetation Conference held on 4th and 5th of July in Antwerp.
On second day, F. Baret, from INRA, presented the innovative methodology developed in ImagineS to retrieve the 300m biophysical variables (LAI, FAPAR, FCover) from PROBA-V data keeping their consistency with the current 1km SPOT/VGT products. He detailed the different steps of the algorithm and demonstrated the improvement of such approach on a series of test sites sampling the continental biomes.


There is only one logical reason why someone would utilize professional investment management—the risk-adjusted returns (net of all taxes and fees) will likely be higher than if the investments were self-managed. In fact, Vanguard recently published a research report indicating that long-term annual returns could potentially be 3% higher for investors who work with an investment advisor.
resources (access to software, analytical research, and expert analysis).
Even if you possess all of those attributes, the most important additional quality necessary to successfully invest is the ability to successfully control your emotions. In practice, most people lack the emotional disposition necessary to execute their planned strategy faithfully and without undue stress or anxiety no matter what is happening in the world.
The problem is simple. As human beings, our emotions frequently prevent us from exercising detached, rational judgment when making investment decisions. Our brains also tend to overemphasize the importance of recent events. Thus, when a bear market occurs, investors often worry about whether the good times will ever return again.
Behavioral scientists believe these actions are instinctive and thus hard-wired into our brains over countless generations. In a sense, when we experience a rapidly falling stock market, we experience the same fear and impulsive reaction as would a cave dweller who comes across a dangerous animal. This involuntary "fight or flight" response is naturally occurring and thus can rarely be overcome by rational thought. Worse for investors, this chemical reaction in our brains is increased when we see and hear others also beginning to panic.
As a result of these behaviors, investors as a group usually buy when the market is rising and sell when the market is falling. In other words, they sell "low" and buy "high"—exactly the opposite of what it takes to be a successful investor. This phenomenon is reinforced as financial news networks and televised "experts" consistently hype the latest investment fads or gloomy predictions (most of which is contradictory to the "advice" they had given weeks or months earlier).
Successful investing requires a dispassionate, disciplined strategy applied consistently over time. When the market is falling, this will require going against the "wisdom" hyped at the time by the financial media and, not only stay the course, but buy additional shares at discounted prices. Unfortunately, as behavioral science has shown, most human beings are not able to overcome their instincts and invest in such a fashion.
While the stock market has demonstrated an ability to persevere through many tumultuous events, one thing you can count on is that new storms are bound to blow in and create instability. Unless a financial advisor helps reinforce the logical proposition of staying true to a long-term financial plan based upon investment objectives and time horizon, most investors will let emotions guide their decisions during periods of market turmoil and sell their positions at the worst possible time and when it is most harmful to do so. This is especially true during retirement when anxiety regarding potential stock market losses increases tremendously.
Titanium Advisors can help you reach your retirement goals by consistently maintaining a diversified asset allocation strategy. We cannot accurately predict whether or not our strategy will outperform any other investment methodology over the short term. However, utilizing our disciplined approach, you should end up with far better results than if you tried to manage your investments alone.


SINGAPORE - Asian markets tumbled Monday as traders feared that President Donald Trump only reported progress in trade talks with China to score political points as the U.S. midterm elections draw near.
KEEPING SCORE: Japan's Nikkei 225 index fell 1.2 percent at 21,985.05 and South Korea's Kospi dropped 1.6 percent to 2,059.60. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index slipped 2.4 percent to 25,891.48. The Shanghai Composite index shed 1 percent to 2,649.21. The S&P ASX/200 in Australia fell 0.1 percent to 5,841.70. Shares fell in Taiwan and Singapore but rose in the Philippines.
New details and video have emerged from the close encounter between a Chinese warship and a US Navy destroyer in the South China Sea.
The transcript of the radio exchange obtained by the South China Morning Post from the British Ministry of Defense suggests that the Chinese naval vessel threatened the US destroyer, warning that it would "suffer consequences."
A Chinese warship threatened a US Navy destroyer during a tense showdown in the South China Sea in late September, according to new details of the encounter.