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Confidence and consistency are key as Team Bath Netball start 2018 Superleague season with Northumbria trip
The wait is finally over – the 2018 Vitality Netball Superleague season is here and Team Bath Netball are raring to go as they set their sights on a record sixth national title.
Confidence is high in the camp ahead of Saturday's trip to Team Northumbria (6pm) after a productive pre-season campaign which included reaching the inaugural British Fast5 All-Stars final, matches against New Zealand and Wales, and victory in a sell-out home tri-tournament broadcast live to a global audience by BBC Sport.
England attacker Kadeen Corbin has returned to the Blue and Gold, while rising stars Sophie Drakeford-Lewis, Tash Pavelin and Abi Robson also come into a squad that features ten players who helped Team Bath finish fourth overall last season.
That appearance in the Final Four came after a stunning run of seven successive wins in the second half of the season and Team Bath Netball Head Coach Jess Thirlby is looking for more consistency this time round.
"There are definite learnings from last year, one of them being we have to start the season stronger," she said.
"The major positive from last season was that the players showed they have a never-say-die attitude, and that bodes really well having retained a high percentage of the squad, but we need to find more consistency.
"There is no hiding place in this league and for any team to make the top four, they will have to put out match-winning performances and prevent those dips in form."
That view was backed by Layla Guscoth, whose outstanding defensive performances during 2017 led to her being voted into the Superleague Team of the Season by her peers.
"Last year we had some performances that were great and showed we definitely could have finished higher but we were too inconsistent, so that is something we can improve on," she said. "It's a challenge but we have been pushing each other to try and get better and want better.
"All of the teams are looking in better shape than last year and I think it's going to be a really exciting season but I genuinely believe we can win the league.
"I think we have the team that can do it. We've got some great new additions – Kadeen Corbin, for example, is someone who can win you a game – and we have a nice vibe in the squad. We definitely want to make the play-offs at least and once you do that, it is anyone's game."
Team Bath will travel up to Newcastle on Friday for the following day's match at Sports Central and Thirlby believes that chance to spend time together could work to her team's advantage so early in the season.
"It will be good to get out on the road as a group and get everyone together for an overnight stay," she said.
"Northumbria away is never an easy fixture but we have done our homework. We are going to have to really work hard for the full 60 minutes and it's going to be a good challenge for us."
A trip across the Severn Bridge to face Celtic Dragons follows on Monday, February 19, before Team Bath have three home matches on back-to-back Fridays – against Surrey Storm on February 23, UWS Sirens on March 2 and Manchester Thunder on March 9.
Tickets for all three matches are on sale now and Guscoth says packed houses at the Team Bath Arena could make all the difference.
"I'm probably biased but we definitely have the best crowd," she said. "It is so deafening when it is a full house and I can think of key games, like when we beat Wasps last season, where it was the crowd that carried us forward."
Click here to purchase tickets and see the fixture list in full.
Team Bath Netball are sponsored by Sitec and supported by partners Mogers Drewett, Investigo and Netball South West. Centurion Chartered Financial Planners are supporting the team's performance analysis capabilities, Viper 10 are their Sportswear Supplier and Skins provide the team with compression wear.
Click here to listen to Layla Guscoth's interview with BBC Bristol Sport (from 27:30).


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» Historical Chronicles: Giants inhabited the land before us
Historical Chronicles: Giants inhabited the land before us
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The historical chronicles of the XIX century often present reports of skeletons of unusually large sizes from various parts of the world.
In the year 1821 in Tennessee, USA, the remains of human skeletons were discovered in the stones of ancient walls. The skeletons were a staggering 215 centimeters in height. In 1883 in Utah during an excavation several graves were discovered of natives reaching to 195 centimeters in height although, the average height was in fact 130 centimeters or less.
During 1899 in the Ruhr area of Germany, fossilized skeletons of people were discovered, the heights ranged from 210 to 240 centimeters.
1930 in Australia local miners discovered large footprints of human steps, judging by them anthropologists calculated the average height of the person was to be 365 centimeters!
China has also presented evidence of the existence of giants. Throughout the country fragments of teeth and jaws belonging to humans of a height of 3 to 3.5 meter and a weight of up to 400 pounds have been recovered!
A huge human jaw and long teeth of 5 inches were discovered by a farmer Stephen Walker in 1971 from Queensland.
In one of the oldest books entitled "History and Antiquity", located in the library of Oxford University, described a report on the discovery of a giant skeleton, made during the Middle Ages. "Giants were found buried in the ground 4 meters in depth and in full military attire. The length of the skeleton was 4.5 yards (4 m) and his teeth 6.5 inches (17 cm)''.
In 1936 the German paleontologist and anthropologist Larson Cole discovered the skeletons of giant people on the shore of Lake Eliza in Central Africa. 12 men buried in a mass grave, to have reached 375 centimeters height.
During in an excavation in Poland, excavators discovered evidence that during the World War II there were those 3 times bigger than the average modern man, uncovering fossilized skulls of up to 55 centimeters in height.
In South Africa's diamond mines in 1950 was a discovery of fragments from a huge skull measuring 45 centimeters in height. Over the brow two strange protrusions were discovered resembling horns. According to anthropologists investigating the discovery of the skull, it dated back to nine million years ago!
False Historical Facts!
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I would love some references for these different claims. Thanks!
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Interesting article...but for sake of continuity and clarity, it would be helpful if all measurements were in the same unit of measure. This article goes from cm (which you usually only use if it is something relatively small) to inches to yards and meters.
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Q: Cache that can purge unused objects by demand I need to create a cache, that could save some objects, but then, at some point when I have memory warning or simply user wants it, I would like to purge all instances that are used only in the cache at the moment.
In other words: I need to deinit objects with ARC count == 1. The problem is that based on my googling of this project, it is not possible in pure Swift to get the retain count of an object.
From my experience I see that it is not possible by default in Swift. In objective-c I was using Proxy object, that was returned from cache, it had such overriden methods:
    // Forward class checks for assertions.
-(BOOL)isKindOfClass:(Class)aClass {return [_target isKindOfClass:aClass];}

- (id)forwardingTargetForSelector:(SEL)aSelector
{
    return(_target);
}

But is of course not applicable to Swift ideology.
One thought that I have is to base my cache on array of WeakBoxes, but this way unused objects will be deallocated when they become unused and that doesnt meet my requirements.
Can somebody guide me to some Swift possibilities, that I'm not aware of, to achieve such thing?

A: You do not need to mess with the retain count of the object.  Your cache can just hold a strong reference.  This guarantees that the retain count is always at least one.  When you get a memory warning you just loop through every pointer in the cache and set it to nil.  Assuming no one else has a strong reference this decrements the reference count to zero and the object immediately calls deinit and goes out of memory.  If you really really want the object to go out of memory when the cache does a purge, make sure only the cache has a strong reference to the items being held and that everyone else takes a weak reference.  I have a lazily loaded array of ViewControllers that does something similar:
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Survey: What British Muslims Really Think
April, 17, 2016 by nicedeb
Trevor Phillips, former head of Britain's Equality and Human Rights Commission, is the man responsible for the insufferable term, "Islamophobia" which made its debut in a report he commissioned twenty years ago. Now, he's the man behind a 615 page survey of British Muslims that was made into the documentary, "What British Muslims Really Think," which aired on April 13.
Among the shocking discoveries:
More than 100,000 British Muslims sympathize with suicide bombers and people who commit other terrorist acts.
Moreover, only one in three British Muslims (34%) would contact the police if they believed that somebody close to them had become involved with jihadists.
In addition, 23% of British Muslims said Islamic Sharia law should replace British law in areas with large Muslim populations.
Phillips wrote that the poll reveals "the unacknowledged creation of a nation within the nation, with its own geography, its own values and its own very separate future." He added: "I thought Europe's Muslims would gradually blend into the landscape. I should have known better."
Phillips was referring to his role in commissioning the 1997 report, "Islamophobia: A Challenge for Us All." Also known as the Runnymede Report, the document popularized the term "Islamophobia" in Britain and had a singular role in silencing criticism of mass immigration from the Muslim world. Twenty years later, Phillips now concedes that he has had a change of heart.
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Carlos says:	 April, 22, 2016 at 6:06 pm
The Law of Unintended Consequences has been spendidly confirmed with this pinhead's report of 20 years ago and his new book.
I wonder how long it will be before even a small modicum of "true believers in the goodness of mankind" (a.k.a., "progressives") will understand that the "radical Islamists" are in fact the true followers of the faith, and (to borrow a phrase I grew up with in the age of the dinosaurs) the rest are simply "jack Muslims" not really committed to their faith, just playing along to get along.
Islam is no more a religion of peace than the "noble savage" exemplified best in "The Last of the Mohicans" was real. They (true Muslim believers and "Native" Americans) are/were no more peaceful than the worst mankind has been able to come up with, especially western civilization, including Hitler, the southeast Asian butchers and yes, Uncle Joe.
It would be nice if somewhere, sometime, some academic would think with his/her mind, not with his/her "fantasy heart" stuck up an unmentionable portion of his/her anatomy. Their fantasy solutions to mankind's myriad of problems is killing us all.
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Demarziella metallica är en skalbaggsart som beskrevs av Carter 1936. Demarziella metallica ingår i släktet Demarziella och familjen bladhorningar. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Oh no, Drew thought, feeling very very unsure of what to do.
"You don't know what to do." he mocked him.
"Yes I do!" his old pal protested.
Of a man finishing a story, getting a visit, and improvising a new adventure.
His ears rang loudly, and above it all, above all the pain, it screamed.
It's grey and purple, grey and purple.
Most of the time, it's just some grey and a whole lot of purple.
Moving her hands and feet as they recoil and shoot, recoil and shoot.
Joey laughs at Disney's amazement.
He smiles wide, the Skull Kid, and there's tears in his big eyes, tears like the amber pieces sorrounding his little party.
Of Joey making several mistakes and paying the price for them.
A Welsh concept of longing for home. To some, it implies the meaning of missing a time, an era, or a person. It is associated with the bittersweet memory of missing something or someone, while being grateful of that/ their existence.
Esther misses a brother she doesn't remember having.
Joy and Magenta get a surprise.
But all of him was destitute.
Johan's hands get quite full when he decides to babysit for a bunch of artists in the making.


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Шепелёво — деревня в Марёвском муниципальном районе Новгородской области, входит в состав Молвотицкого сельского поселения.

География
Деревня расположена на реке Рудинка (приток Котовки), на Валдайской возвышенности, восточнее административного центра сельского поселения — села Молвотицы.

История
В списке населённых мест Демянского уезда Новгородской губернии за 1909 год деревня Шепелево (Поддубье, Усадьбище, Щепелево) и выселки Шепелево, что указаны на земле Мокшенского сельского общества, усадьба Панафиндиных — Шепелево, а также посёлок Т. Маркова — Шепелево были на территории Польской волости; число жителей: в деревне — 155, на выселках — 7, в посёлке — 14, в усадьбе − 6; в деревне тогда была часовня, а на выселках — водяная мельница. По постановлению ВЦИК от 3 апреля 1924 года Польская волость была упразднена, а Шепелево вошла в состав Молвотицкой волости. Население деревни Шепелево по переписи населения 1926 года — 222 человека. Затем, с августа 1927 года, деревня Шепелево в составе Линьевского сельсовета новообразованного Молвотицкого района новообразованного Новгородского округа в составе переименованной из Северо-Западной в Ленинградскую области. По постановлению ЦИК и СНК СССР от 23 июля 1930 года Новгородский округ был упразднён, а район перешёл в прямое подчинение Леноблисполкому. Германская оккупация: в конце 1941 года — в начале 1942 года, освобождена деревня в ходе Торопецко-Холмской наступательной операции. Указом Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 19 февраля 1944 года райцентр Молвотицкого района был перенесён из села Молвотицы в село Марёво. Указом Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 5 июля 1944 года была образована Новгородская область и Молвотицкий район вошёл в её состав.

Решением Новгородского облисполкома № 345 от 12 апреля 1961 года центр Линьевского (Линского) сельсовета был перенесён из деревни Поля в деревню Горное, а Линьевский (Линский) сельсовет был переименован в Горный, затем решением Новгородского облисполкома № 692 от 4 августа 1961 года деревня Шепелево, в числе прочих, из Горного сельсовета была передана в состав Молвотицкого сельсовета.

Во время неудавшейся всесоюзной реформы по делению на сельские и промышленные районы и парторганизации, в соответствии с решениями ноябрьского (1962 года) пленума ЦК КПСС «о перестройке партийного руководства народным хозяйством» с 10 декабря 1962 года был образован крупный Демянский сельский район, а административный Молвотицкий район 1 февраля 1963 года был упразднён. Молвотицкий сельсовет тогда вошёл в состав Демянского сельского района. Пленум ЦК КПСС, состоявшийся 16 ноября 1964 года восстановил прежний принцип партийного руководства народным хозяйством, после чего Указом Верховного Совета РСФСР от 12 января 1965 года сельские районы были преобразованы вновь в административные районы и решением Новгородского облисполкома № 6 от 14 января 1965 года Молвотицкий сельсовет и деревня в Демянском районе. Решением Новгородского облисполкома № 439 от 27 августа 1965 года деревня Шепелёво, в числе прочих, из Молвотицкого сельсовета была перечислена в состав Горного сельсовета. В соответствие решению Новгородского облисполкома № 706 от 31 декабря 1966 года Горный сельсовет и деревня из Демянского района были переданы во вновь созданный Марёвский район.

После прекращения деятельности Горного сельского Совета в начале 1990-х стала действовать Администрация Горного сельсовета, которая была упразднена в начале 2006 года и деревня Шепелёво, по результатам муниципальной реформы входила в состав муниципального образования — Горное сельское поселение Марёвского муниципального района (местное самоуправление), по административно-территориальному устройству была подчинена администрации Горного сельского поселения Марёвского района. С 12 апреля 2010 года после упразднения Горного сельского поселения Шепелёво в составе Молвотицкого сельского поселения.

Население

Национальный состав
По переписи населения 2002 года, в деревне Шепелёво проживали 8 человек (все русские)

Инфраструктура
В деревне одна улица — Берёзовая.

Примечания

Населённые пункты Марёвского района


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Sara Holdren wins 2016-17 George Jean Nathan Award
Sara Holdren
In a theatrical season marked by debate over the representation of women onstage and off, and by controversy surrounding male critics' assessments of women's stage artistry, Sara Holdren has emerged as a powerful and uncompromising new critical voice in the theater. Her debut review essay, "The Revolution Will Not Be Hashtagged: A Misguided 'Joan of Arc' at the Public Theatre," published in the online journal Culturebot in April 2017, provided an impassioned and razor-sharp critique so articulate and compelling that New York magazine soon thereafter appointed her its new theater critic.
The essay inspired the selection committee of the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism to select Holdren as the 2016-17 winner. The Nathan Award committee comprises the heads of the English departments of Cornell, Princeton and Yale universities and is administered by Cornell's Department of English.
In selecting the piece for the Nathan Award, the prize committee "applauds Holdren's vigorous and informed prose – writing that is at once personally engaged and professionally astute. Setting a high bar artistically and politically, she challenges theater artists and audiences alike to question facile creative choices and to think deeply about the relationship between art and our contemporary cultural moment." An experienced director as well, Holdren has thrown down a gauntlet to her colleagues, issuing a heartfelt call for "messy, complex, rigorous work, work born of a multiplicity of perspectives and centering a variety of profoundly drawn characters, work whose politics is not a badge to be sported or a hashtag to be applied."
Brooklyn-based Holdren is also a teacher and theater critic for Vulture.com. She is artistic director of Tiltyard, a company dedicated to ensemble-driven riffs on classic texts. Recent directing projects include "MIDSUMMER," "Deer and the Lovers" by Emily Zemba, "The Zero Scenario" by Ryan Campbell and "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov. In 2015 she served as artistic director of the Yale Summer Cabaret, where she directed the original production of "MIDSUMMER" (which she co-adapted from the works of Shakespeare) and Sarah Ruhl's adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando." Holdren has taught classes in the Stanislavsky-based acting technique Analysis Through Action at Primary Stages and the New School. She is a 2016 Drama League fellow and a graduate of Yale University (B.A., theater studies) and Yale School of Drama (MFA, directing).
The Nathan Award was endowed by George Jean Nathan (1882-1958), a prominent theater critic who published 34 books on the theater and co-edited (with H.L. Mencken) two influential magazines, The Smart Set and The American Mercury. Nathan graduated from Cornell in 1904; as a student, he served as editor of The Cornell Daily Sun and the humor magazine The Cornell Widow.
Previous winners include Jill Dolan, Randy Gener, Alisa Solomon, Charles Isherwood, Elinor Fuchs, Hilton Als, Cornell professor H. Scott McMillin, and last year's winner, Shonni Enelow.


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Defining the Economic Impact of WeWork
As part of an initiative to shape the future of work and cities, WeWork was interested in demonstrating how the WeWork community creates an economic ripple effect for people, businesses, neighborhoods, and cities.
To quantify the economic benefits of WeWork to a range of stakeholders interested the company's growth, HR&A developed the first detailed economic and fiscal impact analysis of WeWork communities in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. The analysis focused on WeWork's value-add to each partner and its crucial role in growing each city's innovation economy, small business sector, and entrepreneurial community. HR&A built on this by assessing neighborhood-level demographics and market trends, and creating illustrative profiles of WeWork's members. Finally, HR&A developed projections to estimate how WeWork's expansion could impact other cities across the U.S.
Our study found that WeWork would be among the largest private-sector employers in New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago, supporting 50,000 jobs across the three cities. For each member, one additional job is created somewhere else where in the city, in total representing nearly 1% of each city's workforce. Findings will be incorporated into WeWork's Future of Work initiative and will continue to support outreach to policymakers as WeWork expands across the country.
HR&A assessed WeWork's economic impact and found the company would support 50,000 jobs across three cities.


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Q: Change Iris color picker Value on click I'm using Iris color picker http://automattic.github.io/Iris/
And I need when the user click on button the color picker change to red automatically
The problem I'm facing is the input Value Changed but the color picker still on the old color
Here is my code in action jsfiddle http://jsfiddle.net/Jim_Toth/38ZAX/
jQuery(document).ready(function($){
    $('#color-picker').iris({
        hide: false,
        palettes: true
    });
});

$( "button" ).click(function() {
  $('#color-picker').val('#f33939');
});

A: You need to use
$('#color-picker').iris('color', '#f33939');

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> 1815 > 236.050 (200 Pieces Limited Edition)
236.050 (200 Pieces Limited Edition)
18k Honey Gold
Lange has revealed a limited edition 1815 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the brand's founder F.A.Lange, now with a silver dial – but in Lange's proprietary honey gold.
Honey Gold is a proprietary alloy with a very soft honey tone, in between the colour of the untreated German silver used for the movements and the bright and warm tone of yellow gold. It is softer, classier and more discreet – and more exclusive as only available on certain editions of A. Lange and Sohne watches. Together with this case (that is still measuring a reasonable 40mm), the dial is also exclusive and features a slightly grained surface – the dial is made of solid silver and is silvery-white colored.
The dial of the A. Lange and Sohne 1815 Anniversary of F.A. Lange is inspired by silvery dials of historic observation watches and marine chronometers. It features a railroad minute track and large Arabic numeral for each hour. The hands, with their typically Lange shape, match the soft honey tone of the gold case. The display of the 1815 is simple: hours and minutes on the central axis and the second in a subsidiary dial at 6. As said, traditional and almost conservative, but so desirable.
Under the dial ticks the Lange manufacture calibre L051.1, a manually wound movement, with a large diameter that fills the case. It includes the typically German three-quarter plate made of untreated German silver (that is actually not made of silver), the hand-engraved balance cock, the classic screw balance, the precision beat-adjustment system with lateral set screw and whiplash spring, and five gold chatons that are secured with thermally blued steel screws. It has a power reserve of 55 hours, with two barrels.
Like its black dial sibling, the A. Lange and Sohne 1815 Anniversary of F.A. Lange in Honey Gold will be limited to 200 pieces.


You have decided that you need a website for your small business and now you have everyone who can spell web approaching you to develop your website. Some are graphic designers, others are IT developers, and are even others picked this up as a hobby and turned it into a business. As you weed through the fog, you find some that are truly full service web development houses. The problem is that the average small business owner will go for door number one or two because the price appears to be better. The truth is, that can truly be a mirage. With a website today, you truly get what you pay for, because there is much more to a website than a pretty graphic or well developed form with a backend database. So before you think about saving a buck and going with your friend that develops websites on the weekend, or the graphic design house around the corner that created a great brochure for you last year, think again.
If you were to select an accountant for your small business, you would research their specialities, look at their designation, find out about their background and if they have a proven track record with clients. All of this seems to fall by the way side when choosing a firm to develop a website that truly represents your business online. Think of it this way before you act. Since most customers research companies they buy from online before making a business decision, do you want the first impression of your company to be made from the website you got for less than a thousand dollars from your neighbor with the revolving picture that is irritating and keeps search engines from optimizing your site?
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\section{Introduction}

In operator algebra it is common practice to think of a C*-algebra as representing a noncommutative
analogue of a topological space, and to think of a W*-algebra as representing a noncommutative
analogue of a measurable space.
What would it mean to make precise the notion of a C*-algebra $A$ as a `noncommutative ring of
continuous functions'? The present article explores the idea that one should first embed $A$ in an
appropriate noncommutative algebra of `bounded functions on the underlying quantum set of the
spectrum of $A$', just like any topological space embeds in a discrete one~\cite{akemann, gileskummer}.
It is tempting to demand that such a `noncommutative function ring' be an atomic W*-algebra, but
we work more generally under the mere assumption that they be AW*-algebras.

Write $\cat{Cstar}$ for the category of unital C*-algebras with unital $*$-homomorphisms, and
$\cat{AWstar}$ for the category of AW*-algebras with unital $*$-homomorphisms
whose restriction to the projection lattices preserve arbitrary least upper bounds.\footnote{See~\cite[Lemma~2.2]{heunenreyes:activelattice} for further characterizations of these
morphisms.} The discussion above leads naturally to the following notion, in keeping with the programme
of taking commutative subalgebras seriously~\cite{heunen:faces,reyes:obstructing,bergheunen:extending,reyes:sheaves,vdbergheunen:colim}, that has recently been successful~\cite{heunenlandsmanspitters:topos,hamhalter:ordered,heunenreyes:activelattice,hamhalter:dye}.

\begin{definition*}
	A \emph{discretization} of a unital C*-algebra $A$ is a unital $*$-homomorphism $\phi \colon A \to M$ to an AW*-algebra $M$ whose restriction to each commutative unital C*-subalgebra $C \cong C(X)$ factors through the natural inclusion $C(X) \to \ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(X)$ via a morphism $\ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(X) \dashrightarrow M$ in $\cat{AWstar}$, so that the following diagram commutes.
	\[\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=3,yscale=1]
	  \node (tl) at (0,1) {$A$};
	  \node (tr) at (1,1) {$M$};
	  \node (bl) at (0,0) {$C(X)$};
	  \node (br) at (1,0) {$\ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(X)$};
	  \draw[->] (tl) to node[above] {$\phi$} (tr);
	  \draw[right hook->] (bl) to (br);
	  \draw[left hook->] (bl) to (tl);
	  \draw[->,dashed] (br) to (tr);
	\end{tikzpicture}\]
\end{definition*}

This short note proves that this construction degenerates in prototypical cases.

\begin{theorem*}
  If $\phi \colon B(H) \to M$ is a discretization for a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $H$, then $M=0$.
\end{theorem*}

For W*-algebras $M$, this obstruction concretely means that
$B(H)$ has no nontrivial representation on a Hilbert space such that every (maximal) commutative
$*$-subalgebra has a basis of simultaneous eigenvectors.

Consequently, discretization cannot be made into a faithful functor.

\begin{corollary*}
  Let a functor $F \colon \cat{Cstar} \to \cat{AWstar}$ have natural unital $*$-homo\-morphisms
   $\eta_A \colon A \to F(A)$.
  Suppose there are isomorphisms $F(C(X)) \cong \ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(X)$ for each compact Hausdorff space $X$ that
  turn $\eta_{C(X)}$ into the inclusion $C(X) \to \ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(X)$.
  If a unital C*-algebra $A$ has a unital $*$-homomorphism $\alpha \colon B(K) \to A$ for an
  infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $K$, then $F(A)=0$.
\end{corollary*}

As the proof of the Theorem relies on the use of annihilating projections and on the Archimedean
property of the partial ordering of positive elements in the discretizing AW*-algebra $M$,
it is intriguing to note that this does not rule out faithful functors $F$ as above from $\cat{Cstar}$ to the
category $\cat{Cstar}$ or to the category of Baer $*$-rings with
$*$-homomorphisms that restrict to complete orthomorphisms on projection lattices.
A rather different approach to the problem of extending the embeddings $C(X) \hookrightarrow \ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(X)$
to noncommutative C*-algebras has recently appeared in~\cite{kornell:vstar}.
We also remark that since the identity functor discretizes all finite-dimensional C*-algebras, this truly
infinite-dimensional obstruction is independent of the Kochen--Specker theorem, a key ingredient
in some previous spectral obstruction results~\cite{reyes:obstructing, bergheunen:extending}.

The rest of this note proves the Theorem and its Corollary.

\section{Proof}

\begin{notation*}
  Fix a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space $H=L^2[0,1]$, and consider its algebra $B(H)$ of bounded operators. Write $D$ for the discrete maximal abelian \mbox{$*$-subalgebra} generated as a W*-algebra by the projections $q_n$ onto the Fourier basis vectors $e_n = \exp(2\pi i n-)$ for $n \in \mathbb{Z}$. There is a canonical conditional expectation $E \colon B(H) \to D$ that sends $f \in B(H)$ to its diagonal part $\sum q_n f q_n$.
\end{notation*}

The main results rely upon the following mild strengthening of the recent solution of the Kadison--Singer problem~\cite{marcusspielmansrivastava:kadisonsinger}.

\begin{lemma}\label{lem:kadisonsinger}
  Let $A$ be any unital C*-algebra, and $\psi_0 \colon D \to \mathbb{C}$ a pure state of $D$.
  The map $\psi_0 \cdot 1_A \colon D \to A$ given by $f \mapsto \psi_0(f) \cdot 1_A$ extends uniquely to a unital completely positive map $\psi \colon B(H) \to A$ given by $f \mapsto \psi_0(E(f)) \cdot 1_A$.
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
  We employ a standard reduction of the unique extension problem to Anderson's paving conjecture, as outlined, for instance, in~\cite{paulsenraghupathi:paving}.

  The extension $\psi_0 \circ E$ is well known to be a pure state, proving existence. For uniqueness, let $\psi \colon B(H) \to A$ be any unital completely positive map extending $\psi_0 \cdot 1_A$.
  It suffices to show that $\psi = \psi \circ E$, as then $E(f) \in D$ for $f \in B(H)$ implies $\psi(f) = \psi(E(f)) = \psi_0(E(f)) \cdot 1_A$ as desired.
  As $f$ is a linear combination of two self-adjoint elements, we may further assume that $f = f^* \in B(H)$.
  Replacing $f$ with $f - E(f)$, we reduce to showing $\psi(f)=0$ when $f = f^*$ and $E(f) = 0$.
  To this end, let $\varepsilon > 0$.
  By Anderson's paving conjecture, established in~\cite[1.3]{marcusspielmansrivastava:kadisonsinger}, there exist projections $p_1, \dots, p_n \in D$ with $\sum p_i = 1$ and $\|p_i f p_i\| \leq \varepsilon \|g\|$ for all $i$.
  As $\psi|_D = \psi_0$ is a pure state, up to reordering indices we have $\psi(p_1) = 1$ and
  $\psi(p_i) = 0$ for $i > 1$.

  By the Schwarz inequality for 2-positive maps~\cite[Exercise~3.4]{paulsen:completelybounded}, for all
  $i > 1$ we have $\|\psi(p_i f) \|^2 \leq \|\psi(p_i p_i^*)\| \cdot \| \psi(f^* f)\| = 0$ since $\psi(p_i p_i^*)
  = \psi(p_i) = 0$. Thus $\psi(p_i f) = 0$ for all $i > 1$, making $\psi(f) = \sum_{i=1}^n \psi(p_i f) = \psi(p_1 f)$.
  A symmetric argument replacing $f$ with $p_1 f$ yields $\psi(f) =  \psi(p_1f) = \psi(p_1 f p_1)$.
  Unitality of $\psi$ furthermore gives $\|\psi\|=1$~\cite[Corollary~2.8]{paulsen:completelybounded}, so that
  \[
    \|\psi(f)\| = \|\psi(p_1 f p_1)\| \leq \| p_1 f p_1 \| \leq \varepsilon \|f\|.
  \]
  As $\varepsilon$ was arbitrary, we deduce that $\psi(f) = 0$ as desired.
\end{proof}

Note that Lemma~\ref{lem:kadisonsinger} still holds with $\psi$ merely 2-positive.
Next we consider the continuous maximal abelian *-subalgebra $C=\ensuremath{L^\infty}[0,1]$ of $B(H)$.

\begin{lemma}\label{lem:fourier}
  Let $\psi \colon B(H) \to \mathbb{C}$ be the unique extension of a pure state of $D$.
  The restriction of $\psi$ to $C$ is the state given by integration (against the Lebesgue measure).
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
  Each $f \in C$ has diagonal part $E(f) = \int_0^1 f(x)\, \mathrm{d}x$ because
  \begin{align*}
    \inprod{f e_n}{e_n}
    & = \inprod{f \cdot \exp(2 \pi in-)}{\exp(2 \pi in-)} \\
    & = \int_0^1 f(x) \cdot e^{2 \pi inx} \cdot \overline{e^{2 \pi inx}} \, \mathrm{d}x \\

    & = \int_0^1 f(x) \, \mathrm{d}x.
  \end{align*}
  Because we assumed that $\psi$ is a pure state of $D$, we have $\psi = \psi \circ E$ as in Lemma~\ref{lem:kadisonsinger}.
  Hence $\psi(f) = \psi(E(f)) = \psi( \int_0^1 f(x)\,\mathrm{d}x) = \int_0^1 f(x)\,\mathrm{d}x$.
\end{proof}

To prove the Theorem, recall that for an orthogonal set of projections $\{p_i\}$ in an AW*-algebra,
$\sum p_i$ denotes their least upper bound in the lattice of projections.

\begin{proof}[Proof of Theorem]
  Write $C \cong C(X)$ and $D \cong C(Y)$ for compact Hausdorff spaces $X$ and $Y$. The
  discretization $\phi \colon B(H) \to M$ is accompanied by the following commutative
  diagram, where $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are morphisms in $\cat{AWstar}$.
  \[\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=3]
    \node at (-.56,1) {$C = \ensuremath{L^\infty}[0,1] \cong$};
    \node at (-.52,-1) {$D = \ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(\mathbb{Z}) \cong$};
    \node (tl) at (0,1) {$C(X)$};
    \node (l) at (0,0) {$B(H)$};
    \node (bl) at (0,-1) {$C(Y)$};
    \node (tr) at (1,1) {$\ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(X)$};
    \node (r) at (1,0) {$M$};
    \node (br) at (1,-1) {$\ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(Y)$};
    \draw[->] (tl) to (tr);
    \draw[->] (bl) to (br);
    \draw[->] (l) to node[above] {$\phi$} (r);
    \draw[right hook->] (tl) to (l);
    \draw[left hook->] (bl) to (l);
    \draw[->, dashed] (tr) to node[right] {$\alpha$} (r);
    \draw[->, dashed] (br) to node[right] {$\beta$} (r);
  \end{tikzpicture}\]
  The atomic projections $\delta_x \in \ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(X)$ for $x \in X$ and $\delta_y \in \ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(Y)$ for
  $y \in Y$ have respective images $p_x = \alpha(\delta_x) \in M$ and $q_y = \beta(\delta_y) \in M$.
  For each $y$, the map $\psi \colon B(H) \to q_y M q_y$ given by $\psi(f) = q_y \phi(f) q_y$ is
  completely positive and unital (where $q_y$ is the unit of $q_y M q_y$). Its restriction to
  $D$ is of the following form, where we consider $f \in D$ as an element of
  the function algebra $C(Y) \subseteq \ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(Y)$:
  \[
  \psi(f) = q_y \phi(f) q_y = \beta(\delta_y f \delta_y) = \beta(f(y) \delta_y) = f(y) q_y.
  \]
  Thus there is a pure state $\psi_0$ on $D$ with $\psi|_D = \psi_0 \cdot q_y$. It follows from
  Lemma~\ref{lem:kadisonsinger} that $\psi = (\psi_0 \circ E) \cdot q_y$.
  For $t \in [0,1]$, write $e_t = \phi(\chi_{[0,t]})$ for the image of the characteristic function
  $\chi_{[0,t]} \in C$. Lemma~\ref{lem:fourier} implies $\psi(\chi_{[0,t]}) = \left( \int_0^1 \chi_{[0,t]}(x)\,\mathrm{d}x \right) \cdot q_y = t q_y$, so
  \[
    q_y e_t q_y = q_y \phi(\chi_{[0,t]}) q_y = \psi(\chi_{[0,t]}) = t q_y
  \]
  for all $y \in Y$ and all $t \in [0,1]$.

  Considering each projection $\chi_{[0,t]}$ as an element of $C(X)$, fix clopen sets $K_t \subseteq X$
  such that $\chi_{[0,t]} = \sum_{x \in K_t} \delta_x$.
  Then $e_t = \phi(\chi_{[0,t]}) = \sum_{x \in K_t} p_x$ in $M$. Fix $n \in \mathbb{N}$, and set
  $J_i = K_{i/n} \setminus K_{(i-1)/n} \subseteq Y$. Note that $K_1 = X$, so that these $J_i$ partition
  $X$ into a
  disjoint union of $n$ clopen sets. By construction,
  \[
    \sum_{x \in J_i} p_x
    \;=\; \sum_{x \in K_{i/n}} p_x - \sum_{x \in K_{(i-1)/n}} p_x \\
    \;=\; e_{i/n} - e_{(i-1)/n}.
  \]
  Now fix $x \in X$. Then $x \in J_i$ for some $i$, and $p_x \leq e_{i/n} - e_{(i-1)/n}$ as above.
  Thus
  \[
    q_y p_x q_y
    \;\leq\; q_y (e_{i/n} - e_{(i-1)/n}) q_y \\

    \;=\; \tfrac{i}{n} \, q_y - \tfrac{i-1}{n} \, q_y \\
    \;=\; \tfrac{1}{n} \, q_y.
  \]
  As $n$ was arbitrary, we find that $q_y p_x q_y = 0$.
  Now $(p_x q_y)^* (p_x q_y) = q_y p_x q_y = 0$ gives $p_x q_y = 0$ for all $y \in Y$. Thus $p_x$ is
  orthogonal to $\sum q_y = 1$ in $M$, whence $p_x = 0$ for all $x \in X$. It follows that
  $1 = \sum p_x = 0$ in $M$, and so $M = 0$.
\end{proof}

\begin{remark*}
We thank an anonymous referee for noticing that our arguments prevail without the full force of Kadison--Singer. This may be done as follows. Identifying the algebra
$C(\mathbb{T})$ of continuous functions on the unit circle $\mathbb{T}$ with the subalgebra $\{f \mid f(0) = f(1)\}
\subseteq C[0,1]$, it is known that $C(\mathbb{T})$ satisfies paving with respect to $D$.
(Indeed, the algebra of Fourier polynomials---or more generally, the Wiener algebra $A(\mathbb{T})$---is a
dense subalgebra of $C(\mathbb{T})$ and lies in the algebra $M_0 \subseteq B(H)$ of operators that
are $l_1$-bounded in the sense of Tanbay~\cite{tanbay:extensions} with respect to the Fourier basis
$\{e_n \mid n \in \mathbb{Z}\}$. Thus $C(\mathbb{T})$ lies in the norm closure $M$ of $M_0$,
and~\cite{tanbay:extensions} shows that all operators in $M$ can be paved with respect to $D$.)
An argument as in Lemma~\ref{lem:kadisonsinger} shows that the completely positive map $\psi$
in the proof of the Theorem is uniquely determined on $C(\mathbb{T})$, and a computation as in
Lemma~\ref{lem:fourier} shows that this extension is the state corresponding to the arclength measure
on $\mathbb{T}$. The Theorem may now be proved in essentially the same manner, replacing
 $C$ with $C(\mathbb{T})$.
\end{remark*}

The proof of the Corollary uses stability of discretizations in the following sense.

\begin{lemma}\label{lem:stable}
If $\phi \colon B \to M$ is a discretization, $\alpha \colon A \to B$ is a morphism in $\cat{Cstar}$, and $\beta \colon M \to N$ is a morphism in $\cat{AWstar}$, then $\beta \circ \phi \circ \alpha$ discretizes $A$.
\end{lemma}
\begin{proof}
  If $C(X) \subseteq A$ is a commutative C*-subalgebra, so is $C(Y) \cong \alpha[C(X)] \subseteq B$, making the top squares of the following diagram commute (where $\widehat{\alpha} \colon Y \to X$ is the  continuous function corresponding to $\alpha$ via Gelfand duality).
  \[\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=3,yscale=1]
    \node (A) at (0,1) {$A$};
    \node (B) at (1,1) {$B$};
    \node (M) at (2,1) {$M$};
    \node (N) at (3,1) {$N$};
    \node (C) at (0,0) {$C(X)$};
    \node (D) at (1,0) {$C(Y)$};
    \node (l1) at (2,0) {$\ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(Y)$};
    \node (l2) at (1,-1) {$\ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(X)$};
    \draw[->] (A) to node[above] {$\alpha$} (B);
    \draw[->] (B) to node[above] {$\phi$} (M);
    \draw[->, dashed] (M) to node[above] {$\beta$} (N);
    \draw[left hook->] (C) to (A);
    \draw[left hook->] (D) to (B);
    \draw[->] (C) to node[above] {$C(\widehat{\alpha})$} (D);
    \draw[right hook->] (D) to node[above] {$\eta_{C(Y)}$} (l1);
    \draw[->, dashed] (l1) to (M);
    \draw[right hook->] (C.-60) to node[below=1mm] {$\eta_{C(X)}$} (l2);
    \draw[->, dashed] (l2) to node[below=1mm] {$\ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(\widehat{\alpha})$} (l1);
  \end{tikzpicture}\]
  The bottom triangle commutes by naturality of $\eta$.
  As all dashed arrows are morphisms in $\cat{AWstar}$, so is their composite.
\end{proof}

\begin{proof}[Proof of Corollary]
  Let $\gamma \colon C(X) \rightarrowtail A$ be the embedding of a commutative C*-subalgebra.
  The hypotheses ensure that the following diagram commutes, where $F(\gamma)$ is a morphism in $\cat{AWstar}$, making $\eta_A \colon A \to F(A)$ a discretization.
  \[\begin{tikzpicture}[xscale=3,yscale=1.25]
    \node (A) at (0,1) {$A$};
    \node (FA) at (1.5,1) {$F(A)$};
    \node (C) at (0,0) {$C(X)$};
    \node (l) at (1,0) {$\ensuremath{\ell^\infty}(X) \cong$};
    \node(FC) at (1.5,0) {$F(C(X))$};
    \draw[->] (A) to node[above] {$\eta_A$} (FA);
    \draw[->] (FC) to node[right] {$F(\gamma)$} (FA);
    \draw[>->] (C) to node[left] {$\gamma$} (A);
    \draw[right hook->] (C) to (l);
  \end{tikzpicture}\]

  Since $K$ is infinite-dimensional, it is unitarily isomorphic to $H \otimes K$, so $a \mapsto a \otimes 1$ is
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Soziologische Perspektiven auf die Corona-Krise – coronasoziologie.blog.wzb.eu
Transkript: Joseph Harris: The Politics of Coronavirus Response in South Africa
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Silvio Suckow
Welcome to the new edition of our podcast on sociallogical perspectives on the corona crisis.
My name is and I'm a research fellow at the Berlin social science center and I'm co-organizing the stitch to take.
On December 1 Joseph Harris gave a talk titled coronavirus response in South Africa.
Joseph Harris is an associate professor at Boston University. He conducts comparative historical research that lies at the intersection of sociology, political science, and global health.
His talk is about to diverse findings and comparing the handling of the corona virus pandemic globally with the focus on South Africa.
The role of Germany as well as various thought provoking ideas for supporting the global south.
We'll also be presented and now enjoy the talk by Joseph Harris.
Joseph Harris
I'm so thanks to Bay for the opportunity to share my work today on the coronavirus response in South Africa.
A bit of background about who I am I'm a sociologist from Boston University who read a book called Achieving Access about the politics of Universal Health coverage in.
Infectious disease response focusing on HIV Aids and Tyler and Brazil and South Africa
More recently, I've revisited some of that work in a book chapter on South Africa's coronavirus response. That's part of an edited volume on the comparative politics and policy of corona of COVID-19.
University michigan press and is actually free for download if you'd like to take a look at this chapter or others.
Then I have a blog that will be on the basically website as well. So, I'd like to start today by talking about
What made South Africa so vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic and hit it has been and hit hard,
Yeah and officially today 90 thousand people have died.
Of coronavirus in South Africa but excess deaths those that have occurred beyond what we would normally expect.
Expect number 273 thousand so most of these we could expect to be
Corona related and so the country has been hit enormously and impacted by coronavirus. And this is largely due to the fact that life in South Africa is incredibly precarious. People are deeply affected
By what we sociologist call the social determinants of health. South Africa has the largest HIV positive population in the world. 7.5000000 people about 20% of the population. TB is the leading cause of death there has one of the largest TB burdens in the world.
Multi drug resistant extra drug resistant to burgundy as well and so there's a large proportion of immunocompromised people there
And on top of that, more than half of South Africans live in poverty.
Unemployment officially hovers it right around 25% unofficially 50%
And those numbers are pre COVID and as you can imagine with shutdowns and people going out of work those numbers have got even higher during the pandemic.
It's an incredibly unequal society and a lot of this goes it's it's self to the legacies of apartheid the top 10%
Holds the hot 86% of the wealth and we have a private health system
There again reflects the history of apartheid where people with medical schemes who use the private health system medical schemes is the South African word for health insurance private health insurance serves 15% of the population but holds 70% of the ICU bets in the country
In that private health system receives the same amount of financing as the public health system that serves 85% of the population in so real
Two tiered system there and we can't forget that during the coronavirus rich countries 40 PPE and later vaccines
By late July 2020.
More than 13 thousand healthcare workers were infected and 100 had died of a lot of that is owed to insufficient.
PPE. And so with that context in mind let's talk a little bit about the features of the initial response there
The country introduced the strictest lockdown on the continent which included school closures,
A border closures prohibitions on large gatherings banning
People from high-risk countries from Edrick and this lockdown bot time for the country to prepare and it's stemmed the initial spread.
They also had severe social consequences unemployment went out even more. People went hungry.
And there were more than 230 thousand arrests and 12 people killed in enforcement actions trying to maintain the lockdown.
Now, there were some social innovations that happened in response to the initial coronavirus wave.
South Africa deployed more than 28 thousand community health workers going door to door and community screening more than 11 million people
Approximately 20% of the country's population and referred more than 70 thousand for testing
South Africa was also able to use an extensive lab PCR system testing system that had used for HIV to be redirected for testing for the coronavirus
Uneven roll out of social programs in this precarious environment we can imagine that that would be problematic.
A temporary employee employer release system that was set up to benefit the
Unemployed benefited just 20% of the target population if it was in place from the beginning of the crisis it would have reduced poverty
By as much as 40%.
But even more importantly there was a lack of continuity in terms of food programs and in particular when schools were shuttered that shutter preschool lunches and free school breakfast and this had big impacts on the population.
14 million people were said to be hungry before the coronavirus pandemic and increased and in fact people like Jeffrey Jeremy seeking in South Africa have noted
That the actual distribution of food went down during the coronavirus pandemic in relation to what it had normally been.
There were also consequences on access to anti-retrorrels by the pandemic and the lockdown at one point HIV viral load and TB testing were both down by as much as 50%.
In May alone and hot tank province 12 thousand TV in HIV patients did not collect their medication
And there was a growing number of excess deaths by mid September 2020.
Less than 16 thousand official COVID deaths have been recorded but there were more than 44 thousand excess deaths and corruption began to surface as the money began to flow.
Not only in provincial health authorities but also in golfing even the president's on spokeswoman
And so, lots of issues, some lessons, we're never learned, a food grant, to support people.
What was wowed down before again being reinstated reinstated.
A basic income grant about which discussions had started was never implemented and this was just in
There was an ab after this of course and then two more ways one driven by the beta strain and another driven by the delta strain before the current one that is beginning now which brings us to today. South Africa
In the news again with Elma Cron. So much of you many of you have heard about this already. I think probably everyone here. We we've heard about the first detected case being reported in Botswana. This was due.
Because of genomic sequencing that took place in South Africa it's now been found in 20 countries and growing and across
Course, we now know that Umber Crohn was in Netherlands a week before South Africa reported it. And this is concerning, right? Because we know in.
South Africa there's been rapid spread that strain his out competed other.
Strains of the virus that we don't yet know the degree to which I would crime
Has worse or or better hospital, hospitalization, and disease, severities, statistics, but there's also additional concern about its potential to escape vaccines due to mutations on which there are no
Where the 30 SG meditation. So, there's a lot we don't know yet. But it is here. And what I wanna,
Ask is is how should Germany approach this new challenge what can it do better to ensure the health of it's home people it also the world.
Well Akuma can be sent to Tanji and infectious disease physician verologist in global health expert in university says this was predictable.
If the virus has the opportunity to spread unshacked in the population that we're giving it multiple ways.
Hey which to evolve and adapt and more pointedly doctor Cecilia tomorrow says let's get this straight. Rich countries with whole life saving vaccines for most of the world
They watch millions of people die then they blame those who suffered most for the new Barrett's cannot get a clear picture into racism in colonialism
And that and so not understanding the importance of solidarity in this context is not only ridiculous but in fact,
Has disastrous consequences. And so, how could Germany support South Africa?
First we have to give great credit to the South African scientist who were the first two I did this new strain of crime
We can use surgical policy instruments rather than blanket travel bags to target new cases there's important research by people like Karen Repin and others that
Pointed to the effectiveness of things like 14 day quarantines without exemptions testing before and after arrived.
These are much more surgical targeted instruments than blanket bands. We can support South African pandemic relief programs. We know hunger
Hits South Africa hard.
We know unemployment has grown and we know people aren't getting access to the medicine that they need which can spur resistance
Germinate any other industrialized nations can help and we can get south African scientists three agents that they need Tulia.
Are they all over who's one of the important people who is part of the identification of.
Companies as soon we will run out of reagents as airplanes are not flying to South Africa
It will be evil if we cannot answer the questions the world needs about due to the travel ban and he went on to see later I will not accept charted flights with re agents as the travel ban is so damaging to work there are other ways to deal with that
I think we should take his concert seriously. Now.
It's not just a global health as german health german health is also global health and there are changes that germinate can make at home to support the world
Including vaccinating and boosting more people faster. On Monday, I was just at the mall. Waiting for over 3 hours to get my own books. There are quicker ways to do this. And better ways to do.
We can engage nurses at pharmacies in the delivery of vaccinations particularly boosters
Can open more sites particularly in at risk communities that suffer from poverty and other social determinants of health that make them more vulnerable.
You can expand access by increasing hours and days that sites are open.
You can offer vaccination for ages five through 11 at schools when those vaccinations are available
Now there are other things that we can do in schools and doing these things was really important because we know that Germany's school children are among the most vulnerable because ages five through 11 don't yet have vaccines
There's been uneven rollout I've had the filters which have been shown to be effective in cleaning out virus particles from the air
You can have more effective policy related to masking a week before.
The travel the fall vacation here in Berlin, the mash requirement was dropped.
And then people went travelling. You can only imagine. The consequences that that may have had.
You can keep free testing sites open even after the current wave events because this will not be the last wave and something Germany does quite well at enforcing masks and mask compliance you can continue to do that
And we're going to need to see a shift too.
Vaccinate hand test and mask rather than just these either rules. Another thing,
That Germany could do to strike that it's response globally is to open a new center
Add vase b or a new live niece institute altogether dedicated to global public health and basically may have some history in public health there was a long standing public health research group in the base of bay
There's two really tremendous research groups. Now, I'm global humanitarian medicine and global health governance. And so the basically would be a great place to do this. But now it's really the right time.
Germany has been trying to take up the mantle of leadership and global health it hosts the World Health Summit
The WHO has just chosen it as the new site the pandemic intelligence hub with Brexit you have.
Big funders like the gates foundation and welcome trust moving to Berlin
A new center or institute dedicated to global public health would add a lot to that you can give
Social science a bigger place in the conversation each night we see droston in the news verologist who's given Germany a great deal knowledge about the virus but social science can tell us a lot more about other dimensions of virus than just hits
Biology. We have to recognize that there's an uphill climb in Germany to do this with an emphasis on hard sciences and medicine rather than.
Public health institutions of public health are relatively new here there is a hierarchy cool educational system that
Gives cheers at directors great power and determining programs and of course patriarchy a recent,
Tweet ran around that suggested that just 28% of researchers in Germany are women and then that's on the lower end in all of Europe
But Germany has a chance to create something permanent that is woman lad and there's a lot of really highly visible internationally recognized experts that we see in the news every day like in a horseshiter Tina Henritter
This is a really exciting opportunity.
And then finally more broadly Germany can play its part they're trying to end the patent monopoly on him or an A maxi humanity's future just simply shouldn't be decided by two private companies.
That have already made millions. If you think about it, they haven't incentive actually to elongate the pandemic. It's your morning needs to be done.
Putting pressure on that. And of course promoting global solidarity, financing, and vaccine, access. I'll stop there. Thanks.
Thank you so much for your insightful presentation Joseph and I think what stands out from both presentations is some more of availability where the viewed residential state
Australia, Germany, South Africa, or globally, and how we deal with this, and so my first question to you is how has COVID affected,
The all registration relationship between the white and non white population and South Africa and is there any indication that violence has increased or other maybe quantitative data.
It's an interesting question. I would say that, you know, tensions in South Africa have been simmering for a long time related to a number of different issues. Obviously,
Apartheid is a is a big part of that and those legacies will will always be there, but.
We've seen a great deal of unpopularity in recent elections due to matters that hit close to home likes,
But we call service protests. Service delivery protests in South Africa. So people aren't getting the water that they need the electricity that they need to live and so we've seen the vote count of the ANC falling
Over subsequent elections over time and so that's a real flash point.
Another big flash point has been the recent indictment and imprisonment of past President Jacob Zumba
And from jail. He's essentially tried to
Stir a rust and so this has been another source of of of confrontation in the country and one that has created fractures even with in a usually sort of cohesive
African National Congress and so I would say that that the the color line is not the only line where fracture has happened but it is of course due to the legacy of part side one of many.
In a mayor ask you about the measures you propose for which countries to help developing countries and how would you
How do you imagine the coordination of this measurements because with the question is it should we go about the EU or is it about voluntary alliances of,
Some countries helping so how do you imagine it in a political way where.
Sure, I think in a biral lateral animal, have a role to play, and this week at the WHO, there's been negotiations and discussions over a
Pandemic treaty and your own Angela Merco has played an important role trying to.
Stir countries to make bigger commitments, right? To finance in the WHO, which only makes sense. During pandemic, and so
Hopefully we'll see concerted multilateral action not just internship getting people vaccines but in making commitments to health more generally but I think that you know.
Bilateral relations also play key role and as I said before there's much that Germany could offer for example South African support of its food relief programs and other really programs it's not always just about getting
Supply a vaccines to a place there are also sometimes bottlenecks and different issues that have to be dealt with in country and so that's one reason that I said you know food relief would be an area that it could play well.
In other nations as well.
And the pandemic also has lot to do with our hyper modern
Lifestyle and with all the practices that have merged in the last 200 years and I remember a catchy statistics from Ox Farm I guess from an Oxford study that for every dollar that goes down to the global staff.
$2 go back to the global roughly speaking so from all that developing help and so on so where do you see opportunities to change certain practices now
With the corona pandemic including global exploitation and neocolionism to not fall back to that you know ever reproducing
Schemes of we want to help but we only gain profits are not only but we we gain profits with the help.
Yeah, I mean, in our field right now, there's a enormous.
Decolonized global health movement and I think it's calling attention to a lot of really important inequalities and and power relations that.
Have been there for for decades and.
I've tried to undo so that and I think that there's a lot of work that we have to do obviously I think you know addressing the sort of inequality with relation to vaccine access as part of the story but it's also.
You know, pointed to buy a lot of the other things that have surfaced during this pandemic, right?
Some of the leading nations that we I think before before the pandemic had been looked to for health. I've really feel that, right? That the response.
Here I'd be the first to to mention the US the response had been a bismal
In the US and you know, people now question you know, what is the CDC to
And we're finding models in the response to the virus. In other countries. Particularly in in parts of the global south. For the first year,
Of the coronavirus Tyler the country I study in no very well had almost not recorded cases the WHO held it up,
As a model there was a lot that we could learn there.
In terms of the way that they like South Africa use community health workers in their response and the way that they try to connect to vulnerable migrants.
And so I think that.
Important part of what we can learn at this moment is appreciating the way that coronavirus has turned.
Are are understanding our assumptions upside down. I mean, Omo Chrome was discovered by the South African side.
Everyone can learn from that. So, so I would say that.
Learning from mothers a good it's a good key route how how do you you know from obviously you are comparing different countries and how do you see the management of the corona pandemic.
In South Africa may be compared to other countries who have your research maybe even countries that have similar,
Developing status.
In my book I compare talent Brazil in South Africa in their in politics of their struggled with HIV Aids.
And also show us for expanding access to health care and I think that there's a lot of good reasons to make comparisons to these countries they're all countries that grappled with Aids epidemic extremely high levels of inequality.
Going through democraization at that time and so the scope conditions are relatively similar and I think that.
Obviously, things have changed. Since that time, a time can no longer be called Democratic.
South Africa has seen some changes in leaders, Brazil, is.
HIV Aids, pandemic, and so.
There has been a real shift in these countries and we see Thailand do quite well for the first year of its pandemic and I think that there's still a lot we don't know about why.
It did well it had a lot of exposure to you know cases from.
Wuhan there's a lot of direct links to Wuhan in the airport there.
But strangely we didn't see a lot of spread early on in Thailand. So what accounts for that? Well Tyler had a lockdown as well. Obviously it has a universal health coverage system.
That has made people I think.
More comfortable to come forward when they need help it had a really great system of community health workers much like.
South Africa that it directed to help with screening and testing for the coronavirus.
Brazil really in my book the entire Brazil really did well with respected HIV Aids expanding access to healthcare but we see a real.
Backsliding that happened in a blame really falls on bolsonar shoulders there. I mean, it did have some important different.
Structural features that had to contain with like sound app it has a real biker in the.
Versus private health care systems there and resources could be directed more equitably but you had.
You know, governor is at the state levels that were really trying to get out ahead of the pandemic and do things to come back in lieu of a federal government response. And so,
You know I think that Balsinar is not taking the disease seriously it's a real factor in that story.
And many other people know that and so, you know, I would say that South Africa you know, South Africa has had its own response. It has had its own innovations in responding to headed some challenges but.
You know I think these comparisons are important because they draw out what is different and what has worked and what hasn't in these countries.
This was a talk given by Joseph Harris at i wanted to take a on December 1 we hope you were able to take away some ideas feel free to subscribe and share the.
Follow us on Twitter at at corners thanks for tuning in see you next time.


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'A community on the rise': What to know about Endicott's $10M Downtown Revitalization award
To capitalize on manufacturing growth, the village is eyeing DRI projects that will create new food and entertainment opportunities, improve connectivity and increase mixed-use space
Chris Potter | Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
ENDICOTT — The third time was a charm for the Village of Endicott.
Twice a runner-up, on Wednesday Endicott took center stage and was awarded $10 million in funding from the fifth round of the Downtown Revitalization Initiative. Endicott was one of two Southern Tier region winners announced Wednesday, with the other $10 million on its way to Norwich.
The state's DRI program aims to boost local economies by transforming downtowns into vibrant neighborhoods.
"These revitalization investments are a core part of New York's efforts to build our economy back after the COVID-19 pandemic and ensure inclusive growth in every corner of the state," Gov. Kathy Hochul said.
Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Erik Kulleseid announced the award at the Endicott Welcome Center on Wednesday morning.
"New York's legacy communities like Endicott have great potential to support economic growth and job creation, promote livable neighborhoods, and offer quality housing while preserving local heritage," said Kulleseid.
Pamela Portland, Assistant Superintendent in the Union-Endicott Central School District, led the village's DRI presentation in October. It featured a vision for how a $10 million infusion could improve the village, as well as testimonials from local leaders, business owners and community members.
"The Village of Endicott is a community on the rise," Endicott Mayor Linda Jackson said Thursday. "The DRI funds will increase our momentum and expand our current investment bringing continued economic growth and transformation to our village."
What is the DRI?
The DRI program is managed by the Department of State. Previous winners in the Southern Tier included Elmira, Watkins Glen, Owego and Hornell. The DRI is designed to leverage state and local funding to transform downtown neighborhoods into "vibrant centers of activity that offer a high quality of life and attract redevelopment, businesses, jobs, and economic and housing diversity."
Regional Economic Development Councils select award winners annually after a competitive application process. The state doubled funding from $100 million to $200 million in 2021, allowing each Council to nominate two $10 million awardees or a single $20 million awardee.
Projects selected for funding through the DRI must contribute to transformative and catalytic downtown redevelopment.
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What made Endicott's proposal stand out?
Endicott has a long, proud manufacturing history. IBM once employed thousands in the village, creating prosperity that fueled a vibrant downtown on Washington Avenue and across Broome County.
After decades of decline, Endicott officials are hopeful the area is beginning a renaissance. The former IBM campus has a new owner planning to invest millions in repairs to the sprawling facility, which recently picked up two more tenants, Imperium3 and Ubiquity Solar, with aggressive hiring plans in 2021 and beyond.
Endicott plans to utilize the DRI to "create a synergistic and complementary relationship between the downtown area and the companies in the district by creating a downtown suited for 21st century jobs." Over $600 million has already been invested in the village over the last decade, with an additional $300 million in public and private investment expected over the next three years.
To capitalize on the growth in the Advanced Manufacturing I-District, the village is eyeing DRI projects that will create new food and entertainment opportunities, improve connectivity, and increase mixed-use space — in essence, making downtown more attractive to newcomers and longtime residents alike.
The DRI will be coupled with other, ongoing efforts to reimagine downtown. Endicott is currently finalizing a plan for $6 million in grant funding through the Greater Binghamton Fund for Washington Avenue revitalization. Jackson said that money "only went so far" and the array of projects was limited in scope. The DRI will open up greater possibilities, such as potential construction of a community ice rink on the Avenue.
"Endicott's persistence, along with their vision for downtown, has finally paid off with this wonderful news," said Assemblymember Donna Lupardo. "Endicott has reached an important turning point with new businesses bringing new energy to this once thriving hub."
Endicott will now be charged with developing a Strategic Investment Plan through a "bottom-up, community-based planning process that articulates a vision for the revitalization of its downtown and identifies a list of signature projects that have the potential to transform the downtown and leverage further private and public investments." The plan will be funded with $300,000 from the DRI.
The village will organize a Local Planning Committee made up of municipal representatives, community leaders and other stakeholders to lead the effort. The Department of State will help guide the process.
The Strategic Investment Plan will identify economic development, transportation housing, and community projects that fit the the community's vision for downtown, with preference to projects that are ready for implementation. The Local Planning Committee will make its recommendations to the state, which will then award DRI funds to projects that have the "greatest potential to jumpstart revitalization and realize the community's vision for the downtown."
"This kind of transformative investment is not an attempt to reclaim the past, when Endicott-Johnson and IBM helped build a thriving community, but an investment in a brighter future with more opportunities for the next generation of families and residents to help move this community forward," said State Senator Fred Akshar.
The Southern Tier's last DRI winner, Hornell, funded projects including a new public park, a new STEM Academy for youth, streetscape enhancements and renovations to downtown buildings, with many adding apartment units.
Housing has also been at the forefront in Endicott. The $22 million transformation of the Henry B. Endicott School building into 61 affordable apartments was completed this year, and the SEPP Group is planning to construct a three-story mixed-use building on Washington Avenue. A Broome County developer is also planning a 120-unit senior housing development on Skye Island Drive.
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