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Devex Features Article on IRI's Women's Leadership Index
Why data is key to gender parity in politics
Devex
By Michelle Bekkering and Matthew Baker
Gender equality has become a crosscutting goal in development work, but achieving gender equity relies on having the right data to measure our progress toward that goal. At the rate things are moving, it will likely take another 50 years to achieve gender parity in the political sphere.
Closing the gender data gap is a critically undervalued tool in ensuring that development work geared toward more inclusive societies is real, substantive and sustainable. However, in general, this data remains mostly unmined. Nowhere is the impact of this paucity of data clearer than in the political realm.
What we do know paints a stark picture: Although the world's population has nearly closed the gender gap in health outcomes and educational attainment, only 23 percent of the gap in the political sphere has been closed, according to the World Economic Forum's 2016 Global Gender Gap Index.
In 1955, women comprised just 3 percent of parliamentarians worldwide; 60 years later, that figure is nearly 23 percent. In 1999, women occupied less than 9 percent of all ministerial positions in the executive branch; today, women represent 17 percent of worldwide ministerial positions, according to the Inter-Parliamentary Union. However, the most readily available data on women's political representation — when constituting the number of women occupying seats in the national legislature, leading executive ministries or serving as heads of state — does not sufficiently capture the complexity of gender equality in politics and fails to represent the full scope of the disparity.
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In a new era of high-level advocates, pledged millions and trending Twitter hashtags, gender data seems to have "made it." Those who have been working in the once-shadowy field tell Devex it's time to take next steps. But first, five things to know about the gender data revolution.
This complexity extends to how we actually define women's political representation. In the political sense, the term "representation" doesn't capture the influence of women's political inclusion. This range is often described in political theory literature as falling into two categories: descriptive and substantive representation.
Descriptive representation describes the extent to which a representative resembles the group being represented and their needs, which may or may not be influenced by gender. Substantive representation, in contrast, denotes activities taken on behalf of the represented group: for example, when issues of priority to women are acted on or given equal weight in the political process.
This distinction is vital, as many indicators have often focused on what is easy to measure rather than on what is important to measure. However challenging this may be, it is imperative for development professionals to address the gender data gap in order to inform their work and ensure we are addressing the root causes of exclusion.
Understanding gender-based exclusion must begin with identifying the barriers to both descriptive and substantive representation. This distinction can be expanded to other areas too. When thinking about gender equality in economic issues, there is a difference between the labor participation rate of both genders that is analogous to descriptive representation and the difference in average wages analogous to substantive representation. It is only when we combine both of these types of data that we can truly understand the progress — or lack thereof — of our efforts.
In a first attempt at bringing together both these types of data, the Center for Applied Learning and Global Initiatives, in conjunction with Women's Democracy Network, conducted a pilot study of women's political leadership in 29 African countries: The Women's Leadership Index. Using a composite of four indicators, the index captures both descriptive and substantive representation within the legislative and executive branches of national government with two indicators representing completely new data. The results provide a more nuanced view of women's representation and influence and their correlation, enabling us to more accurately define "women's political leadership."
One of the chief benefits of having data that speaks to both the descriptive and substantive sides of representation is the ability to explore the relationship between these indicators on women's leadership. For instance, the study found a positive relationship between the percentage of women who lead ministries and the percentage of the national budget managed by women.
Beyond a snapshot of the performance of individual countries and the relationship between the data, this data can also enable the exploration of the role of other factors relevant to supporting women's political leadership. For example, countries studied in the index that are more democratic tended to perform better on executive influence, while less democratic countries tended to perform better on legislative influence. In addition, the index validated findings that suggest that the use of certain gender quotas can increase women's political leadership.
However, the index also revealed that countries that did not utilize certain types of quota actually tended to rank higher on the two indicators related to executive leadership. Data alone does not tell the whole story and ensuring that it is triangulated with other data can help shed light on what are the causes of exclusion as well as offer ideas about solutions.
Closing the gender data gap should be a top priority for development practitioners in order to provide a vital foundation from which to design and support successful interventions to finally achieve gender equality and to fully harness the potential of women and girls. While we don't want to wait 50 more years for political gender parity, we also want to ensure that when that glass ceiling is broken it is truly shattered, and does not reflect an illusion of equality because we have been measuring the wrong things all along.
Michelle Bekkering is the director for global initiatives and senior gender advisor at the International Republican Institute.
Matthew Baker is a senior applied learning specialist at the International Republican Institute.


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Anger in Turkey over game-changing Greek-French military alliance: "An empty dream"
by Athens Bureau
Spokesperson of the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Tanju Bilgiç, described in frustration Turkey's anger towards to the geopolitically changing Greek-French military alliance.
"Greece's maximalist maritime jurisdiction and airspace claims are against international law," he said, without referencing as per usual the specific law that Greece had violated.
"It is an empty dream to think that Greece can make us accept these claims, which are also questioned by the international community, by forming bilateral military alliances against Turkey, in a way that will harm the NATO Alliance," he said.
It is recalled that Turkey are in the process of acquiring a second S-400 missile defence system from Russia, to the complaints of NATO and threats of further sanctions from the U.S.
"Futile efforts will further increase our determination to protect both our own rights and the rights of [occupied Northern Cyprus] in the Aegean and Mediterranean," Bilgiç continued.
"Greece's policy of armament instead of cooperation, isolating and alienating Turkey will essentially harm itself and the EU, of which it is a member," he said, adding: "This is a problematic policy that threatens regional peace and stability."
Earlier this week, Greece and France signed a defence agreement in Paris.
The agreement provides for France's immediate military assistance to Greece and vice versa in the event of a third country attacking, even if that country is part of other alliances (such as Turkey, which is a member of NATO too).
At the same time, Greece will receive in record time, 3 + 1 Belhara frigates with full air defense equipment and anti-submarine warfare and capabilities to shoot down air targets at very long distances.
READ MORE: The France-Greece military and defence deal in detail.
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Q: Is $dv$ only approximate of $(dv/dx)dx$? I've tried to solve this problem:

If $V=2x^{3}$ what is the approximate percentage change in $V$ when
  $x$ changes by 2%?

My solution is:
Since $x$ changes by 2% then $dx=0.02x$. $\frac{dv}{dx} = 6x^{2}$.
I think that: $$dv=\frac{dv}{dx}dx$$
So $dv=6x^{2}*0.02x=0.12x$
So the percentage change in $V$ is $\frac{dV}{V}=\frac{0.12x}{2x^{3}}=0.06=6\%$
I believe that is correct.
However, the answer says that $$dv\approx \frac{dv}{dx}dx$$
Notice the approximate sign. I don't know why this should be an approximation. Could anyone explain where is the part we're approximating?
I tried to compare this to "normal" functions where e.g. if we have a value of $x$ and the gradient at this point we can estimate the value of $f(x)$ at for example $x=x+1$. But in this case they are infinitesimal values so $\frac{dv}{dx}$ shouldn't change, right?

A: The answer you cite is using the symbols $dV$ and $dx$ in two senses. What it means is something more like
$$\Delta V \approx \frac{dV}{dx} \Delta x$$
where $\Delta V$ is the change in $V$ as an ordinary real number. By definition
$$\frac{dV}{dx} = \lim_{\Delta x \to 0} \frac{\Delta V}{\Delta x}$$
and hence it must be the case that we can make $\displaystyle\frac{\Delta V}{\Delta x}$ as close as we like to $\displaystyle\frac{dV}{dx}$ by making $\Delta x$ sufficiently small.
Now, the percentage change is $\displaystyle \frac{\Delta x}{x}$ and $\displaystyle \frac{\Delta V}{V}$. For your problem at hand it is useful to write the relation $V = 2x^3$ as
$$\ln V = \ln(2x^3) = \ln 2 + 3\ln x$$
Useful, because when we now differentiate both sides with respect to $x$,
$$\frac 1V \frac{dV}{dx} = \frac 3x$$
or
$$\frac 1V \frac{\Delta V}{\Delta x} \approx \frac 3x \quad\text{ by the logic above }$$
and thus
$$\frac{\Delta V}{V} \approx 3\frac{\Delta x}{x} \, .$$
Hence as 2% change in $x$ is (approximately) equivalent to a 6% change in $V$.

A: Let $x' = x+0.02x$, then $V' = 2(x+0.02x)^3 = 2(1.02x)^3$.
The percentage change in $V$ is
$$\begin{align*}
\frac{V' - V}{V}&= \frac{2(1.02x)^3-2x^3}{2x^3}\\
&= 1.02^3-1\\
&= 6.1208\%
\end{align*}$$
For a negative $2\%$ change in $x$, the percentage change in $V$ is similar:
$$\frac{V'-V}V = 0.98^3-1 = -5.8808\%$$

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Dec. 12 - Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are spying on ant colonies, conducting research that could one day lead to the development of ant-like robots that work together as a team. But first, the scientists want to know how the ants organize themselves to build their complex subterranean nests, and they're using old and new technologies to find out. Ben Gruber reports.
How do you keep track of one ant amongst an army of a million? Researcher Daria Monaenkova's preferred method is to paint them. She says it's painstaking work. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DARIA MONAENKOVA, RESEARCHER, GEORGIA TECH, SAYING: "It's, I would say, an art. The ants are hydrophobic and it is impossible to paint them with regular markers so we used oil based paints and we put the little dots on their abdomen." And when the paint dries, the ants are returned to their colony, where Dan Goldman follows their every move. He wants to know how the ants work together to create the complex subterranean structures that house and protect ant colonies all over the world. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAN GOLDMAN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS, GEORGIA TECH, SAYING: "These animals can dig complicated nests which the colony lives and grows and reproduces in more or less any kind of soil, from sandy soils to clay-like soils and they do it rapidly and effectively and we want to understand how they do it so well." To accomplish this, Goldman and his team are using high speed cameras and CT scans to follow the ants' progression as they dig their nests. They adjust soil types and moisture content over several experiments in the lab, to gauge how well the ants adapt to the different environments. Goldman says the ants are full of surprises. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAN GOLDMAN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS, GEORGIA TECH, SAYING: "We figured the ants would go in with their mandibles, their little jaws and they would grab a grain of soil or a pellet of soil and just pull it out, yank it out of the ground and deposit at the surface. Turns out it is much more complicated than that." And , in a first for science, the researchers have documented how fire ants use their antennae as tools for digging. They were previously thought to be used exclusively as sensory organs. They also observed that no matter the soil type, the ants always dig their tunnels at the same width. Goldman says the big question now is to figure out how hundreds of thousands of ants work together to dig these sprawling, complex tunnels so efficiently. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DAN GOLDMAN, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS, GEORGIA TECH, SAYING: "We are interested in ants as an example of an organism that collectively, in other words in a group or a large number of organisms, and socially create a structure which would be impossible for an individual to create." And why is it so important to learn how to dig from ants? Daria Monaenkova says the answer will become obvious in decades to come. (SOUNDBITE) (English) DARIA MONAENKOVA, RESEARCHER, GEORGIA TECH, SAYING: "In the very far future you do not have to drill the hole through the ground. But instead you can send little robots." Little robots that can explore the subterranean environment on Mars and planets beyond, co-operating as they burrow for secrets hidden beneath the surface.


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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2021 Article IV Consultation with Moldova
WASHINGTON, DC: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation [1] with the Republic of Moldova on December 20, 2021. The Board also approved the authorities' requests for arrangements under the Extended Fund Facility (EFF) and the Extended Credit Facility (ECF). A related press release was issued separately.
The economy is recovering after a sharp economic downturn in 2020 that was due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a drought. Real GDP growth is projected to rebound by 7.5 percent in 2021 driven by buoyant domestic demand, supported by robust credit and wage growth as well as strong remittance inflows. Inflation accelerated, driven by the recovery in demand and surging energy and food prices. The fiscal deficit is projected to reach 5 percent of GDP in 2021 owing to higher crisis-related spending. Public debt has edged up to 34 percent of GDP and the external position has deteriorated due to rising global commodity prices and the pickup in domestic economic activity.
The hard-earned progress in ensuring shareholder transparency, fit-and-proper ownership, and strong governance in Moldovan banks has boosted the resilience of the financial sector in the face of the ongoing crisis. Steps to safeguard the independence, financial autonomy, and strong governance of the National Bank of Moldova have promoted macro-financial stability, while recent improvements to financial integrity have helped safeguard the financial sector against illicit financial flows.
Despite significant progress, broad governance and structural weaknesses continue to impede sustained improvement in the living standard of Moldovan citizens. Rule of law and anti-corruption frameworks remain weak. Public spending is inefficient and poorly targeted, with low-quality and inaccessible infrastructure. High emigration, particularly among the better-educated Moldovans, continues to hold back human capital accumulation. A weak business environment constrains private investment and productivity.
Downside risks continue to beset the outlook. External risks include a more severe or protracted fallout from the global energy crisis, a weaker than anticipated global recovery, and spillovers from geopolitical tensions that could have negative spillovers for trade, capital, and remittance flows, and complicate prudent policymaking. Domestically, risks include new waves of Covid-19 infections and scarring of balance sheets from renewed unemployment and business closures. Moreover, a re-emergence of political instability, pushback from vested interests, or reform fatigue could hurt confidence, limit external financing options, and exacerbate the loss of professional expertise from key governmental bodies, further degrading Moldova's already weak implementation capacity.
Executive Board Assessment [2]
The Executive Directors welcomed the strong commitment of the new authorities to tackle long-standing governance vulnerabilities and leverage broad support from international partners to advance development objectives. Noting the challenging economic environment, precipitated by the 2020 drought, the pandemic, and the energy crisis, Directors urged the authorities to build on the hard-won gains from the previous Fund arrangement and undertake the needed reforms to sustain the post-pandemic recovery, address pressing developmental needs, and strengthen Moldova's governance and institutional frameworks.
Directors agreed with the need for a sound policy mix to support the recovery and the development agenda, while ensuring fiscal and debt sustainability. They welcomed the new budget with targeted support on the healthcare system, social assistance programs, and business activity, as well as measures undertaken to address the energy crisis. Directors also stressed that the under-execution of approved Covid-related crisis measures emphasizes the need to address longstanding capacity constraints and called for continued CD support by international partners.
As the recovery takes hold, efforts should focus at improving domestic revenue mobilization, increasing public spending efficiency, decisively addressing fiscal risks emanating from state-owned enterprises, and continuing efforts to improve budget quality and transparency. Such measures would be vital to ensure fiscal and debt sustainability and achieve the development agenda.
Noting that the inflation targeting regime remains appropriate, Directors encouraged the National Bank of Moldova (NBM) to continue to act proactively to ensure inflation expectations are firmly anchored. They also emphasized the need to step up efforts to improve the NBM's policy credibility and effectiveness, strengthen the monetary transmission mechanism, and continue promoting exchange rate flexibility to address Moldova's vulnerability to external shocks. Directors also called for decisive actions to respond to significant vulnerabilities in the non-bank financial sector, strengthen the AML/CFT regime and follow up on the recommendations of the latest MONEYVAL report. Decisive progress on asset recovery is particularly important.
Directors commended continued efforts by the authorities to strengthen the National Bank's independence, governance, transparency, and accountability as well as the authorities' plans to bolster the financial sector supervisory, financial crisis management, and macroprudential frameworks in line with the recommendations in the 2021 Financial Sector Stability Review.
Directors underscored that decisive program implementation of structural reforms to enhance governance and address longstanding and widespread institutional vulnerabilities remains critical. In addition to continued efforts to address weaknesses in fiscal and central bank governance and in financial sector oversight, Directors called for reforms in market regulation, especially in the energy sector, rule of law, and anti-corruption. Such measures would foster inclusive, private sector-led and sustainable growth and accelerate Moldova's income convergence with its European peers.
[1] Under Article IV of the IMF's Articles of Agreement, the IMF holds bilateral discussions with members, usually every year. A staff team visits the country, collects economic and financial information, and discusses with officials the country's economic developments and policies. On return to headquarters, the staff prepares a report, which forms the basis for discussion by the Executive Board.
[2] At the conclusion of the discussion, the Managing Director, as Chairman of the Board, summarizes the views of Executive Directors, and this summary is transmitted to the country's authorities. An explanation of any qualifiers used in summings up can be found here: http://www.IMF.org/external/np/sec/misc/qualifiers.htm .
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Moldova: Selected Economic Indicators, 2017–2022 (concluded)
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Sources: Moldovan authorities; and IMF staff estimates.
1/ Data exclude Transnistria.
2/ Balance of Payments (BOP) classification is revised in line with the Sixth Balance of Payments Manual.
3/ Includes SDR allocation in 2021 (about US$236 million).
4/ Includes private and public and publicly guaranteed debt.
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On Tuesday we celebrate the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord also called Candlemas. The name Candlemas arises because there is the opportunity to have candles blessed at the start of the Mass. The light of a candle reminds us of the true Light, Christ Our Saviour. The association between the light of candles and Candlemas is found in the Gospel report of the Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (Luke 2). The devout man Simeon holds the Infant Jesus in his arms and declares Him to be a, 'light to enlighten the pagans'. May Christ, the Light of the world, continue to shed light in our lives this 2016.


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Beginning Quantitative Research
Malcolm Williams - Cardiff University, UK
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The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit
Evaluation | Quantitative/Statistical Research | Research Methods
This concise text provides a clear and digestible introduction to completing quantitative research. Taking you step-by-step through the process of completing your quantitative research project, it offers guidance on:
· Formulating your research question
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Part of The SAGE Quantitative Research Kit, this book will give you the know-how and confidence needed to succeed on your quantitative research journey.
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Malcolm Williams
Malcolm Williams is Professor and Codirector of the Cardiff Q-Step Centre for Quantitative Methods pedagogy. Until July 2014, he was the Director of the School of Social Sciences, at Cardiff, and prior to this Professor of Social Research Methodology at Plymouth University. He is the author/editor of nine books and over a hundred articles/chapters. His primary research interest has been around methodological and philosophical issues in social research, particularly objectivity, probability, causality, and representation. His most recent book Key Concepts in the Philosophy of Social Research was published by SAGE in 2017. His past empirical... More About Author
Richard D. Wiggins
Richard D. Wiggins is an Emeritus Professor in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, which is part of the newly formed UCL Social Research Institute. He joined the Institute of Education, University of London as Chair of Quantitative Social Science in 2007 and Head of the Department Quantitative Social Science. From 2011 until 2013 he was Director of Methodology in the Centre for Longitudinal Studies, thereafter returning to his work as a researcher, doctoral supervisor and teacher. Prior to joining the Institute he ran a successful Master's programme in Social Research Methods and Statistics at City University, London. His early career... More About Author
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W.P. Vogt was an Emeritus Professor of Research Methods and Evaluation at Illinois State University, where he won both teaching and research awards. He specialized in methodological choice and program evaluation and was particularly interested in ways to integrate multiple methods. His other books include: Tolerance & Education: Learning to Live with Diversity and Difference (Sage Publications, 1998); Quantitative Research Methods for Professionals (Allyn & Bacon, 2007); Education Programs for Improving Intergroup Relations (coedited with Walter Stephan, Teachers College Press, 2004). He was also editor of four 4-volume sets... More About Author
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Q: What happened to this character in MCU Spider-Man's life? In Spider-Man: No Way Home, the character of

 Aunt May

takes on a role generally filled in Spider-Man stories by

 Uncle Ben. They push Peter to do the right thing, teach him a lesson about great power and great responsibility, and ultimately die as a direct result of a selfish decision made by Peter.

Those events in NWH beg the question, what happened to the latter They-Who-Shall-Remain-Behind-A-Spoiler-Tag? How has MCU Peter been Spider-Manning up until now, if he seemingly hadn't yet gone through the bit of character development usually brought on by that character?

A: According to the producer of Homecoming Eric Carroll, Ben Parker absolutely exists in the MCU. He died, leaving May to raise Peter alone.

"They talk about that, absolutely. It's not… it's not a huge thing
that I want to go into too much, but there is an acknowledgment that
there was a Ben."
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Uncle Ben's Role Revealed

They weren't keen to reference Peter's origin story, for fear of making the film depressing, but they do acknowledge him.

"I mean, we're implying he's dead. We have not at all, again, gone
into trying to change his origin story as far as I have been
envisioning it. But we, just again, we thought that to keep this fun,
light tone, as soon as they have to have their, like, 'Let's remember
our dearly departed father figure' – it derails that a little. And
again, what we're trying to tell is this sort of fun story of the kid
who is doing all the wrong things for the right reasons. And once you
do that, it stops becoming a sort of sun movie about a kid trying to
be a kid. He's mourning the loss of a parent."

It's worthy of note that Ben Parker is an essential (in fact contractual) part of Peter's back-story, as agreed with Marvel

*

*His full name is Peter Benjamin Parker.

*He is Caucasian and heterosexual.

*His parents become absent from his life during his childhood.

*From the time his parents become absent he is raised by Aunt May and Uncle Ben in New York City

A: The specific facts regarding the MCU version of Uncle Ben, and any part he might've played in Peter's decision to become a hero, have yet to be revealed
Eric Carroll, a co-producer on Spider-Man: Homecoming, said there was a Ben, whose death was implied, and they hadn't gone into trying to change his origin story, as far as Carroll had envisioned it.

ERIC CARROLL: They talk about that, absolutely. It's not… it's not a huge thing that I want to go into too much, but there is an acknowledgment that there was a Ben.
[...]
I mean, we're implying he's dead. We have not at all, again, gone into trying to change his origin story as far as I have been envisioning it. But we, just again, we thought that to keep this fun, light tone, as soon as they have to have their, like, 'Let's remember our dearly departed father figure' – it derails that a little. And again, what we're trying to tell is this sort of fun story of the kid who is doing all the wrong things for the right reasons. And once you do that, it stops becoming a sort of sun movie about a kid trying to be a kid. He's mourning the loss of a parent.
Spider-Man: Homecoming - Uncle Ben's Role Revealed

John Francis Daley, one of the writers on Spider-Man: Homecoming, said there was going to be a scene in that film where they acknowledged Uncle Ben and his death, but they ultimately decided not to include it.

We did talk about there being a scene where [May] references him directly. It was when [Peter] was getting ready for homecoming and the wardrobe she was giving Peter was all Uncle Ben's clothes. It was a nice moment, but we also knew that it veered away from his arc. If you're going to talk about someone's death, you don't want it to be a throwaway.
Spider-Man: Homecoming writers answer some burning questions

When asked about Uncle Ben's existence around the time of Spider-Man: Homecoming's release in 2017, the director of all three MCU Spider-Man films, Jon Watts, said he thought that Peter had an Uncle Ben, but seemed unsure, and mentioned that they didn't really talk about him much.

MATT SINGER: Speaking of cans of worms you guys opened, I'm going to ask you something I also asked to Kevin Feige and see if you have the same answer: Does this Spider-Man have an Uncle Ben? Or did he have an Uncle Ben?
JON WATTS: Uh, yeah. I think so. I mean, again, we don't get into such depth in this movie. It's not something we really talked about that much.
MATT SINGER: Hm, all right.
JON WATTS: Yeah, I'm curious. Yeah, there's nothing specifically referencing him.
MATT SINGER: He's certainly not mentioned by name.
JON WATTS: I wonder.
MATT SINGER: I would think you would know, you made the movie!
JON WATTS: I know, you would think.
Jon Watts on 'Spider-Man: Homecoming' and Whether His Spider-Man Has an Uncle Ben

When asked the same question again around the time of Spider-Man: Far From Home's release in 2019, Watts initially said that there was "definitely" an Uncle Ben, but then appeared to backpedal somewhat, stating that "we don't know" and that "We never specifically say anything about him [...] whether or not he's around or not". He also said "Everything's on the table", suggesting that they were keeping their options open.

Now Spidey is back in Far From Home and so is Watts. Once again, Uncle Ben does not appear. Apart from a single shot that makes an oblique reference to him, there's no mention of him either. So when I got to interview Watts again, I decided would ask him the exact same question again: Did Tom Holland's Peter Parker have an Uncle Ben? This time, Watts gave me a much more concrete, much more detailed answer.
"Yes. Definitely. Did you notice his initials on Peter's suitcase?"
[...]
I had, because I am an incredibly large dork. But I wanted to know why Watts was so reticent about Uncle Ben the first time around and so assured this time, so I asked if anything had changed between Homecoming and Far From Home.
"We knew we weren't going to tell an origin story, so we just avoided talking about that in too much detail," Watts explained. "I didn't want to reveal too much. It was a lot more sensitive of an issue to not be doing an origin story when we were talking about Homecoming ... back then, people were saying 'Why are you making another Spider-Man movie?' The focus was on showing people things that they had never seen before, not retelling that origin."
[...]
So Uncle Ben definitely existed in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But Watts was quick to add a little unsolicited ambiguity into the equation. When I noted that he is now willing to say "Yes, Uncle Ben did exist in the MCU," he replied "Yeah. I mean, we don't know," and then he took a long pause before adding "We never specifically say anything about him. So whether or not he's around or not."
My response to that comment was probably best described as stunned silence. I didn't ask a follow-up so much as I let out a confused "Huhhhhhh" as I pondered the possibility that Watts seemed to be implying: That Uncle Ben might not be dead in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. At that point, Watts added "Yeah. Everything's on the table, is how I like to say it."
Does the MCU's Spider-Man Have an Uncle Ben? Jon Watts Says Yes

According to Kevin Feige, they wanted audience to fill in the blanks themselves, but haven't revealed the specific facts.

KEVIN FEIGE: The truth is, we want audiences to bring their own... let them fill in those blanks right now. They've seen the other films. They've read comics. They can fill that in. That was a very purposeful decision we made to not retread that ground. There are little things that are said here and there that people can read into. What the specific facts are in the past, we don't... we haven't revealed yet.
The Real Reason Marvel's Spider-Man Movie Doesn't Include Uncle Ben

In another interview, Feige made similar remarks, but was even more non-committal, again suggesting that they were keeping their options open.

MATT SINGER: Does this Spider-Man have an Uncle Ben? Or had an Uncle Ben?
KEVIN FEIGE: I love that you asked the question that way. [long pause] The answer is we allow the audience to bring in what they know about Spider-Man and plug it in themselves. What really happened, how it really happened? He got bit by a spider, he was talking to Ned about it. "Spider's dead, Ned." He tries to start to tell the story to Tony Stark in Civil War.
MATT SINGER: Right, and Tony shuts him down.
KEVIN FEIGE: So I do think there is some intriguing stuff for us to play with in future movies about what really happened — are we taking those things for granted? What did happen there?
Kevin Feige on 'Spider-Man: Homecoming,' Miles Morales, and Spidey's Future in the MCU

In fact, none of the MCU movies strictly confirm that Peter had an Uncle Ben, what happened to him (if he did exist in the MCU), or what if any role he might've had in Peter choosing to become a hero.
The closest we got to a confirmation of Ben's existence in the MCU movies was a shot of Peter packing a suitcase in Spider-Man: Far From Home, with the initials 'BFP' on it.

And the closest we got to confirmation that Ben might have died, and that his death might have been instrumental in Peter's decision to become a hero, was the following exchange between Peter and Tony Stark in Captain America: Civil War.

TONY STARK: Why you doing this? I gotta know, what's your MO? What gets you outta that twin bed in the morning?
PETER PARKER: Because... because I've been me my whole life, and I've had these powers for six months.
TONY STARK: Mmm-hmm.
PETER PARKER: I read books, I build computers. Yeah, I would love to play football, but I couldn't then, so I shouldn't now.
TONY STARK: Sure, because you're different.
PETER PARKER: Exactly. But I can't tell anybody that, so I'm not. When you can do the things that I can, but you don't... and then the bad things happen... they happen because of you.
TONY STARK: So you wanna look out for the little guy, you wanna do your part? Make the world a better place, all that, right?
PETER PARKER: Yeah, yeah, yeah, just looking out for the little guy. That's what it is.
Captain America: Civil War (2016)

Uncle Ben was finally mentioned by name in an episode of What If...?, and his death was strongly implied.

HOPE VAN DYNE: Oh, kid. How do you do it?
PETER PARKER: See all these movies? AV club.
HOPE VAN DYNE: No. No, how do you stay so... upbeat? After everything.
PETER PARKER: Practice, I guess. My mom, dad, Uncle Ben, Mr. Stark. Now Happy. I've... I've lost a lot. But my Aunt May says... used to say, that if we don't keep smiling when they can't, then we might as well just be gone, too. And... well, they'd want us to keep going.
What If...? - S01E05 - "What If... Zombies?!"

Given everything above, it appears that the MCU version of Peter almost certainly did have an Uncle Ben, who probably passed away at some point. But we have no real confirmation that he played a pivotal role in Peter's decision to become a hero, and even his death isn't strictly confirmed.

A: The problem with Spider-Man No Way Home is that he DID have the Uncle Ben death character development (implicitly anyway).  Spider-Man did not need it again.   At the time that movie came out they opted not to do origins because everyone knows it.  Just like everyone knows Batman's origin.  MCU Spider-Man did the classic poor kid, dead uncle stuff - it was just off-screen.  Personally it seems like a huge step backwards to teach him a lesson again by making him now directly responsible for more death for a frivolous reason that spiraled out of control, and taking everything away from him.  Thinking about it the real world reason seems likely to be keeping Spider-Man out of MCU crossovers going forward.
Captain America Civil War
Peter Parker talking to Tony Stark
"When you can do the things that I can, but you don't, and then the bad things happen, they happen because of you."


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The crucial choice to cultivate the land
Agriculture gave us cities and pyramids but it can also lead to poorer health. Why did humans choose to go down this road?
Keywords: Evolution, Health risk, History
By: Asle Rønning
Agriculture formed the basis for modern society. This satellite photo of farmland in north-west Germany graphically shows the property structure established during the Middle Ages. (Photo: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS and ASTER Science Team)
Around 10,000 years ago humans started cultivating the soil. They abandoned the free life as hunters, fishermen and gatherers and started growing cereals in the Middle East, maize in Mexico, rice in Asia and tubers such as cassavas and yams in the tropics.
We tamed wild animals and eventually befriended sheep, pigs, horses, llamas, water buffaloes and camels.
Archaeological studies indicate that the transition to agriculture gave us poorer health and shortened live expectancies. It could also have originated class distinctions and exploitation.
Difficult to understand
Why did our ancient ancestors choose such a life? After decades of debating that question, researchers are further than ever from resolving the issue.
Knut Andreas Bergsvik is an associate professor at the University of Bergen and one of the subjects he has studied is the transition to agriculture in Scandinavia.
Bergsvik says the issue of why people opted for agriculture is a key question but no generally accepted answer has been found.
"New books and studies on this topic are being published constantly. But the reason for the changeover is hard to fathom," he says.
Agriculture was the basis for pyramids and cathedrals
Conceive of a world without cathedrals, pyramids and the Great Wall of China. Without cities, countries, written languages or modern technology. Agriculture was the basis for them all.
If humans hadn't started cultivating the soil and domesticating animals our entire history would have taken another route.
Researchers are constantly making new discoveries showing that the origin of agriculture has been a global process. People all over the world have participated.
Scene from an Egyptian tomb dated from the 15th century BCE, showing an agricultural economy, division of labour and a power hierarchy. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Best known is the cradle of agriculture in the Middle East and the region between the Mediterranean Sea and today's Iraq, which is called the Fertile Crescent. This is where most species used in European agriculture have their origins.
But agriculture was also developed in China, New Guinea, Africa north of the equator, India, Mexico and South and North America more or less independently of each other in the course of 10,000 years. Agriculture spread from its birthplaces across the continents.
Farming emerged simultaneously
After Homo sapiens had lived as a hunter, fisherman and gatherer for at least 100,000 years, agriculture emerged independently in several regions of the globe.
The concurrence in time for this transition has inspired attempts to find a single global explanation model. It's been pointed out that the climate following the last Ice Age became more stable and more hospitable to agriculture.
Core samples taken from the Greenland Ice Shelf also indicate a higher CO2 level in the atmosphere, which would have been beneficial for cultivating grain and other plants.
Overpopulation brought change?
Others have asserted that the Earth was simply full. The number of people on the planet had increased during earlier stages of the Stone Age. Ecological niches had been exploited to the maximum and an imbalance between the population and available resources made it necessary in certain areas to find a new way of procuring enough food.
The problem with this explanation is that it hasn't been backed up by any archaeological discoveries. Perhaps it never will be.
This is because it's hard for archaeologists to find reliable data for calculating populations in the various areas and determine whether they encountered shortages in wild natural resources.
Beer and meat for allies
Some think the data could point in the opposite direction – that the regions where agriculture was developed had abundant resources. In other words, that agriculture came about in societies that had a surplus, rather than societies that were hard up, and populations were attracted to certain prime aspects of agriculture.
Perhaps cultural and political factors were the key motivation? One possible explanation for the origin of agriculture is that it provided a surplus of food that could be used for partying.
Archaeologist Knut Andreas Bergsvik of the University of Bergen. (Photo: Lars Holger Ursin/UiB)
"In hunter-gatherer societies where is everyone is essentially on the same level, more ambitious individuals don't have that much opportunity to rise above others. A path to status would be to have a sufficient surplus of food to stage large feasts," says Bergsvik.
Agriculture provides these opportunities because you can raise and fatten a pig or harvest grain and make beer.
Staging parties helps cement alliances and establish dependent relationships.
"It means you can save up food and divvy it out to those you want to have on your side. The main point in such giving is to link people to you. This is a worldwide social phenomenon. In Norwegian we still talk about 'giving a party'," says Bergsvik.
The start of social strata
On one hand it's conceivable that parties – perhaps with a religious connotation – are a continuation of an important theme in hunter-gatherer cultures: Sharing your catch after a successful hunt, fishing trip or forage.
On the other hand feasts were something wholly new, an opportunity to gain status in a society and be what anthropologists call big men. This could have been the start of social strata among humans.
The Middle East is the early agricultural development region that has been investigated the most by archaeologists. Findings from this area support the theory of cultural factors being salient to the transition to agriculture.
Bergsvik thinks that external pressures and the attractive power of agriculture could have both played a role in its emergence.
He points out that identical explanations are not required to clarify why it originated in certain regions and why it was later spread outside these regions.
Detrimental to health
Many believe that agriculture had its costs in the form of declining health. It could have been ill advised to relinquish a permanent low-carb cure consisting of wild game, fish and roots from the forest.
Biologist Iver Mysterud at the University of Oslo. (Photo: Asle Rønning)
Biologist Iver Mysterud at the University of Oslo thinks it's evident that the initiation of agriculture was detrimental to health.
He's concerned about human beings from an evolutionary perspective and thinks we couldn't have been adapted to the new agricultural plant diet.
In our part of the world this comprised of a much more intense utilisation of cereals than previously. Mysterud points out that a diet based on cereal plants: grains, rice and corn is essentially different from what we and our ancestors have evolved to eat.
"We had two million years of hunting and gathering behind us. That is the way we survived longest and the majority of us are best adjusted to that diet," says Mysterud.
Still paying the consequences
Mysterud thinks we are still suffering the negative consequences of the new agricultural diet and that we have yet to become genetically adapted to these new foods.
He is particularly concerned about cereals and says cereal products lack nutrition and their nutrients are not easily accessed by our bodies – they lack bio-accessibility. Cereals also contain anti-grazing compounds which they have evolved as a defence against wild herbivores. Some of these are toxins that can trigger negative reactions in humans.
Storage of cereals represents another danger from moulds, especially during rainy years in societies lacking modern storage facilities.
"The prehistoric diet was low-carb. From a long-term historical perspective the cereal-based diet is new and it should be studied in relationship to how well we tolerate it," says Mysterud, who is also one of the editorial staff and a writer about health and nutrition for the health magazine Vitenskap & Fornuft (Science & Reason).
A portion of the population is allergic to gluten, which is found in wheat and several other cereals. Mysterud thinks this might be just the tip of the iceberg and that many of the ailments people encounter in modern society might stem from their body's intolerance to cereals and flour.
The tale of graves
Archaeologists who have studied the skeletons from graves dating back to the dawn of agriculture haven't provided any definitive results, but many agree with Mysterud that agriculture appears to have led to poorer health and reduced lifespans.
Could modern agricultural products be giving us health problems because we are not genetically adapted to them? (Photo: iStockphoto)
Solid evidence is missing but malnutrition and vulnerability when crops failed could be the cause.
Deficient health can in many cases be detected by premature deaths, poorer dental health and infections that have left their skeletal marks.
Agriculture can have led to greater workloads, more physical wear and less relaxation time for individuals, but there are too many uncertain factors to make a reliable estimate of average working hours 10,000 years ago.
Farmers had more children
The risk of infectious diseases mounted because people started living closer together with domesticated animals like pigs and cows. The storage of food also attracted disease spreaders such as mice and rats.
These negative effects of agriculture might not have been so evident in an early phase of the transition from the old way of life. Perhaps humans didn't make the connection or the negative effects came later.
Intrinsic to the issue of reduced health is the matter of a population increase. Agriculture can have been so successful on the short term that it upset natural checks and balances. Studies indicate that women in agricultural societies had more children than women in hunter-gatherer societies.
Families with a permanent dwelling probably had more children than their nomadic sisters. A new diet that included milk from livestock as well as porridge could have shortened the period of breast-feeding infants.
Agriculture could thus have led to health deterioration for the individual but still brought about a population increase.
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On the second nine, he birdied the fourth, sixth, seventh and the closing ninth but with a bogey in between on eighth. It was clear Jeev was trying to be aggressive to get into a good position at tied 12th early.
The other Indian, Shiv Kapur, also starting on 10th had just two birdies, one on 12th and another on closing ninth and one bogey on 14th. Kapur was tied 42nd.
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'2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up. I am sure 2017 will be the year the people of continental Europe wake up,' she says at meeting of right-wing leaders.
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen urged European voters to follow the example of Americans and the British and "wake up" in 2017, at a meeting of right-wing leaders aiming to oust established parties in elections this year.
Le Pen told several hundred supporters in the German city of Koblenz that Britons' vote last year to leave the European Union would set in train a "domino effect".
A day after U.S. President Donald Trump took office, Le Pen said his inauguration speech included "accents in common" with the message on reclaiming national sovereignty proclaimed by the far-right leaders meeting in Koblenz.
"2016 was the year the Anglo-Saxon world woke up. I am sure 2017 will be the year the people of continental Europe wake up," she said to loud applause on Saturday.
Le Pen, head of the anti-European Union, anti-immigrant National Front (FN) and seen by pollsters as highly likely to make a two-person runoff vote for the French presidency in May, has marked out Europe as a major plank in her program.
"The key factor that is going to set in course all the dominos of Europe is Brexit," Le Pen said. "A sovereign people chose ... to decide its destiny itself."
Of Trump, she added: "His position on Europe is clear: he does not support a system of oppression of peoples."
In a joint interview with the Times of London and the German newspaper Bild published on Monday, Trump said the EU had become "a vehicle for Germany" and predicted that more EU member states would vote to leave the bloc, as Britain did last June.
Le Pen said if elected she would ask the EU to return sovereign powers to France and hold a referendum on the outcome of negotiations she expected to follow. If the EU rejected her demands, she said: "I will suggest to the French people: exit!"
The far-right leaders met under the slogan "Freedom for Europe" with the aim of strengthening ties between their parties, whose nationalist tendencies have hampered close collaboration in the past.
"Together with the parties represented here, we want a subsidiary Europe of free Fatherlands," said Frauke Petry, leader of Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD).
Several leading German media were barred from the Koblenz meeting, which was organized by the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF), the smallest group in the European Parliament.
In the Netherlands, Wilders is leading in all major polls before national parliamentary elections on March 15. Hailing Trump's election, Wilders told the meeting: "Yesterday, a free America, today Koblenz, and tomorrow a new Europe."
"The genie will not go back into the bottle," he added.
Sigmar Gabriel, the leader of Germany's Social Democrats, junior partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition, joined a protest outside the venue. Police said the demonstration was peaceful and about 5,000 people took part.


Special guest, Fred Dailey, joins David and Garin as they look through this month's Previews (#343 for June 2017). Tune in to find out what caught their eye and keep listening to hear about a chance to win our very first listener prize give-away, courtesy of Comics Exchange on Chapman Highway!
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Maimuna Adam (Maputo, 1984) é uma artista visual moçambicana, utilizando uma técnica mista baseada em pintura, esculturas de livros, e vídeo-arte. Na sua obra, explora a sua narrativa pessoal e histórica e os conceitos de migração, memória, identidade, pondo em relação imagens e objectos.

Biografia
Maimuna Adam nasceu em 1984, em Maputo, Moçambique. Depois de ter passado a infância entre Gotemburgo e Maputo, estudou em Mbabane e Pretória.

Vive e trabalha no Reino Unido.

Percurso
Licenciou-se em 2008, em Belas Artes na Universidade de Pretória (África do Sul).

Em 2009 juntou-se ao primeiro grupo de formadores do departamento de Artes Visuais do Instituto Superior de Artes e Cultura em Machava, com o qual colaborou até 2012. Participou no projecto Ocupações Temporárias 20.10 - com a instalação de desenhos a carvão e o vídeo Papel na primeira loja da livraria Minerva Central, em Maputo.

Foi uma das participantes da VI Bienal de São Tomé e Príncipe em Outubro de 2011. Em 2012, para a Bienal MUVART'12 em Maputo, colaborou com a artista Cornelia Enderlein em Entre ali e aqui no Instituto Cultural Moçambique-Alemanha (ICMA).

Em 2014 ganhou uma bolsa de estudo para uma residência de curadoria de 4 meses em IWALEWAHAUS na Universidade de Bayreuth (Alemanha), atribuída pela Alexander Rave Foundation/IFA. Em 2017 foi convidada a fazer parte a residência artística 180º Artists of the South (180º Artistas ao Sul) no HANGAR - Centro de Investigação Artística em Lisboa, com o financiamento da Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Em 2019, foi tutora, ao lado de Ângela Ferreira na UPCycles 2019, de uma residência para PALOP financiada pela Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, organizada pela Associação Amigos do Museu do Cinema em Moçambique (AAMCM).

Tem participado em diversas exposições colectivas e residências artísticas em locais como: Museu de Arte de Pretória (África do Sul), Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado (Portugal) e no Museu Nacional de Arte moçambicano.

Maimuna é membro da Associação Kulungwana sedeada em Maputo, onde participa e colabora com periodicidade em exibições e workshops. Nas suas obras recorre a materiais diversos como café, papel de fibra de banana, carvão, tinta acrílica, objectos e livros encontrados.

Prémios e reconhecimento

 2012: vencedora na competição de vídeo-arte organizada pela Fundação PLMJ, em Lisboa
 2009: prémio menção honrosa com o vídeo A Cortina na Bienal TDM'09, Museu Nacional de Arte de Maputo

Obra
Exposições Individual (Moçambique)

 2014 - ¡Toma!, ICMA - Instituto Cultural Moçambique Alemanha, Maputo

 2013 - Bon Voyage, Galeria "Sala de Espera", Associação Kulungwana, MaputoExposições colectivas

Exposição individual (Internacional)

 2015: Família, Bayreuth International Graduate School of African Studies (BIGSAS), Bayreuth.

Exposições colectivas (Nacional e Internacional)

 2015: Rastros, Museu Capixaba do Negro (MUCANE), Vitória, Espírito Santo.

 2015: As Margens dos Mares, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo.

 2015: Odyssées Africaines, BRASS Centre Culturel de Forest, Bruxelas.

 2015: Colecção Crescente, Galeria "Sala de Espera", Associação Kulungwana, Maputo.

 2014 - Boda Boda Lounge Project em vários espaços

 2014 - Processos II, Galeria "Sala de Espera", Associação Kulungwana, Maputo

 2013 - !Kauru: Africa imagined, Museu de Arte de Pretoria

 2013 - hetero q.b., Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisboa

 2013 - Ocupações Temporárias – Documentos, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa

 2013 - Colecção Crescente, Kulungwana, Maputo

 2013 - Viver neste mundo, Mediateca BCI – Espaço Joaquim Chissano, Maputo

 2012 - 100 Obras, 10 Anos: Uma Selecção da Colecção da Fundação PLMJ, Fundação Arpad Szenes - Vieira da Silva, Lisboa

 2012 - _tribune video, École Superieure d'Art de La Réunion, Le Port

 2012 - Entre ali e aqui, MUVART EXPO'12 Bienal de Arte Contemporânea, ICMA-Goethe Zentrum, Maputo

 2012 - Colecção Crescente, Kulungwana, Maputo

 2012 - Africa meets Europe, Atelier Matesh, Breda

 2012 - César Schofield Cardoso, Maimuna Adam, René Tavares. Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisboa

 2012 - VI Bienal de São Tomé e Príncipe, Museu da Cidade, Lisboa

 2011 - VI Bienal de Arte e Cultura, CACAU, São Tomé e Príncipe

 2011 - Dockanema 6, sessão de Video Arte/Fundação PLMJ

 2011 - Bienal TDM 2011, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo

 2010 - MUVART EXPO'10Bienal de Arte Contemporânea, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo

 2010 - Mulheres e Fronteiras, Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano

 2010 - Odeio/Amo o futebol, Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano

 2010 - Ocupações Temporárias 20.10, Livraria Minerva Central, Maputo

 2009 - Bienal TDM'09, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo

 2008 - MUVART EXPO'08 Bienal de Arte Contemporânea, Museu Nacional de Arte, Maputo

Referências

Ligações externas
Vimeo Oficial de Maimuna Adam

 Artigo escrito sobre o trabalho de Maimuna Adam escrito por Teresa Matos Pereira (2015)

Artistas plásticos de Moçambique
Pintura contemporânea
Mulheres artistas
Nascidos em 1984
Pintoras de Moçambique

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Google's Underwhelming Game Streaming Reveal Creates a Big Opening for Microsoft
As Microsoft preps a cloud gaming game service of its own, the details Google just shared for its upcoming Stadia service make it far from clear that the service will be a mass-market hit.
Updated Jun 9, 2019 10:00 AM EDT
Three months after announcing its upcoming Stadia cloud gaming service, Alphabet/Google (GOOGL - Get Report) shared a lot more details. And what was revealed was a little underwhelming.
Notably, although Google will be charging $10 per month for a Stadia Pro service that provides access to older games and discounts on other titles, consumers will still have to individually purchase most newer gaming titles. Thus while Google shared a solid list of Stadia games that will be available for purchase -- it includes titles such as Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Metro Exodus -- and promised more will arrive, it looks as if most of these titles won't be bundled with a Stadia Pro subscription.
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In addition, while Stadia will run within Google's Chrome browser on PCs and certain mobile devices (Pixel phones will be the first mobile devices to be supported), those looking to play on a TV set will have to buy not only a Stadia game controller that retails for $70, but also a Chromecast Ultra dongle that also sells for $70. A $130 "Founders Edition" bundle, which Google will initially require to use Stadia Pro when it launches in November, provides both of these devices along with three months of Stadia Pro and a copy of Activision's (ATVI - Get Report) Destiny 2, but will only ship in limited quantities.
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And given its hardware requirements, its lack of 4K gaming support and its dependence on a quality Internet connection, it's not a given that many gamers will want to buy titles via Stadia Base as opposed to buying games that can be run on their PCs or consoles.
All things considered, Microsoft, which is prepping a cloud gaming service codenamed Project xCloud, has to be pleased with what it saw. Microsoft has already disclosed that xCloud, which will enter public trials later this year, has "the technical capability to stream more than 3,500 games, without any changes or modifications required by a developer," and that the same should hold for another 1,900 games in development. The company has also promised the service will work across PCs, Xboxes and mobile devices, and will run across a dozen-plus Azure data center regions.
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I need some help on what direction to go with replacing the gearcase on my 08 E-Tec 225 with the L2 lower unit. It has around 350 hours on it. Rebuilding it will not work. For one, It has a bulge on the outside of it. The engine has always been garaged so it can't be freeze damage so it must have overheated to cause a bulge like that. I discovered the bulge while wiping it down after filing it up with fresh HPF Pro that I have changed religiously since I purchased the engine new. The used oil was not burnt. Two, BRP has superceeded the L2 with the heavy duty M2 gearcase so I don't think I could get a new L2 gearset. Anyway the housing is warped and they don't sell those anymore.. On the Evinrude website a new gearcase is $6089.25 not counting a conversion kit they reference plus installation. So, a new gearcase is out of the question. A new G2 would be nice. Maybe next year. What are my options?
If you have a good relationship with your dealer or a trained technician, they may be able to locate a good used gearcase for your motor. You can also scour the boating publications and look online for used or rebuilt items, but know the risk of buying used even when inspected. The M2 gearcase is very durable and would be the prudent choice in replacement.
Also check with your dealer for pricing on a factory rebuilt gearcase assembly. They are listed in the Evinrude Genuine Parts and Accessories Catalog that every dealer has.
After a long stare at my gearcase I realized I have an L1 lower unit. What is up with that? I thought 2008 225 HO motors came fitted with the L2? With only 350 hours and the care that I have taken it should not have failed.
It appears that the early production 2008 225HO models came with the L1 gearcase, F and M models. Later production engines for that year came with the L2 gearcases.
Will I need to replace the relief valve due to the higher pressures of the M2?
Pressure relief valve replacement is recommended and the new muffler system also. See your dealer as there are service bulletins about what is required for the changeover to M2. If you have a 30 psi water pressure gauge, you may need to upgrade it to a 60 psi model.
I had my dealer call BRP and they said the relief valve did not have to be replaced and said nothing about the muffler. I have a 45 PSI gage. I noticed the old screws were reused and I questioned the dealer since the conversion kit came with new fasteners. He said that the new screws would not work because they did not have the taper for the dowel lead in. Not sure what he meant by that. I will just have to take his word for it. I would have done the work myself except I did not want any issues when it comes to the warranty on the gearcase. I have not had a chance to run it yet. I don't mind paying to have the dealer work on it. It just makes me nervous.
Monitor your water pressure gauge. If it gets to 40 or so, it would be advisable to replace the pressure relief valve as the new one is made for the higher pressures. Just keep a close eye on your old one for any leakage or corrosion buildup. I was mistaken on the muffler replacement, that was a different campaign.


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Q: Show that $\sum_{k=0}^{n}\binom{n}{k}^2=\frac{n+1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{n}\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{k-1}$ Show that $\sum_{k=0}^{n}\binom{n}{k}^2=\frac{n+1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{n}\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{k-1}$
I came across this result
while trying to solve this:
inductive proof for $\binom{2n}{n}$
My proof is cumbersome,
so I hope that
someone can come up
with a more elegant proof.
Note:
I know that
$\sum_{k=0}^{n}\binom{n}{k}^2
=\binom{2n}{n}
$.

A: The fact that $$\sum_{k=0}^\infty {n \choose k}^2 = {2n \choose n}$$
has a combinatorial interpretation: to select $n$ items from $2n$, first take an arbitrary subset of the first $n$ items, and if this had cardinality $k$ select $n-k$ of the second $n$ items.
Similarly,
$$ {2n \choose n} = \sum_{k=1}^{n} {n+1 \choose k} {n-1 \choose n-k}$$
and
$$ {n+1 \choose k} {n-1 \choose n-k} = \frac{n+1}{n} {n \choose k}{n \choose k-1} $$

A: Vandermonde's Identity
$$
\begin{align}
\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}^{\large2}
&=\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{n-k}\\
&=\binom{2n}{n}
\end{align}
$$
and
$$
\begin{align}
\sum_{k=1}^n\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{k-1}
&=\sum_{k=1}^n\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{n-k+1}\\
&=\binom{2n}{n+1}\\
&=\frac{n}{n+1}\binom{2n}{n}
\end{align}
$$
which proves the result.

Another Approach Copied From This Answer
Lemma:
$$
\sum_{k=1}^n\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{k-1}=\frac{n}{n+1}\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}^2\tag{1}
$$
Proof:
Since $\binom{n}{k-1}=\frac{k}{n-k+1}\binom{n}{k}$, we have $\binom{n}{k}+\binom{n}{k-1}=\frac{n+1}{n-k+1}\binom{n}{k}$. Therefore,
$$
\frac{n-k+1}{n+1}\left[\binom{n}{k}+\binom{n}{k-1}\right]\binom{n}{k-1}=\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{k-1}\tag{2}
$$
Since $\binom{n}{k}=\frac{n-k+1}{k}\binom{n}{k-1}$, we have $\binom{n}{k}+\binom{n}{k-1}=\frac{n+1}{k}\binom{n}{k-1}$. Therefore,
$$
\frac{k}{n+1}\left[\binom{n}{k-1}+\binom{n}{k}\right]\binom{n}{k}=\binom{n}{k-1}\binom{n}{k}\tag{3}
$$
Adding $(2)$ and $(3)$ and cancelling yields
$$
\frac{n-k+1}{n+1}\binom{n}{k-1}^2+\frac{k}{n+1}\binom{n}{k}^2=\binom{n}{k-1}\binom{n}{k}\tag{4}
$$
Summing $(4)$ over $k$, and substituting $k\mapsto k+1$ in the leftmost sum, gives
$$
\frac{n}{n+1}\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}^2=\sum_{k=1}^n\binom{n}{k-1}\binom{n}{k}\tag{5}
$$
QED

A: Here we show the binomial identity from scratch without using Vandermonde's identity. It is convenient to use the coefficient of operator $[z^k]$ to denote the coefficient of $z^k$ in a series. This way we can write e.g.
 \begin{align*}
 [z^k](1+z)^n=\binom{n}{k}
 \end{align*}

We  obtain
  \begin{align*}
\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}^2&=\sum_{k=0}^\infty[z^k](1+z)^n[u^k](1+u)^n\tag{1}\\
&=[z^0](1+z)^n\sum_{k=0}^\infty z^{-k}[u^k](1+u)^n\tag{2}\\
&=[z^0](1+z)^n\left(1+\frac{1}{z}\right)^n\tag{3}\\
&=[z^n](1+z)^{2n}\\
&=\binom{2n}{n}
\end{align*}

Comment:

*

*In (1) we apply the coefficient of operator twice and set the upper limit of the series to $\infty$ without changing anything since we are adding zeros only.

*In (2) we use the linearity of the coefficient of operator and apply the rule
$$[z^{p+q}]A(z)=[z^p]z^{-q}A(z)$$

*In (3) we use the substitution rule with $u:= \frac{1}{z}$
\begin{align*}
A(u)=\sum_{n=0}^\infty a_n u^n=\sum_{n=0}^\infty u^n [z^n]A(z)
\end{align*}

We obtain in the same way as above
  \begin{align*}
\frac{n+1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^n\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{k-1}
&=\frac{n+1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^n\frac{n}{k}\binom{n-1}{k-1}\binom{n}{k-1}\\
&=\sum_{k=0}^{n-1}\binom{n-1}{k}\binom{n+1}{k+1}\\
&=\sum_{k=0}^\infty[z^k](1+z)^{n-1}[u^{k+1}](1+u)^{n+1}\\
&=[z^0](1+z)^{n-1}\sum_{k=0}^\infty z^{-k}[u^k]\frac{(1+u)^{n+1}}{u}\\
&=[z^0](1+z)^{n-1}\frac{\left(1+\frac{1}{z}\right)^{n+1}}{\frac{1}{z}}\\
&=[z^n](1+z)^{2n}\\
&=\binom{2n}{n}
\end{align*}
  and the claim follows.

A: We can also use the integral representation of the binomial coefficient $$\dbinom{n}{k}=\frac{1}{2\pi i}\oint_{\left|z\right|=1}\frac{\left(1+z\right)^{n}}{z^{k+1}}dz
 $$ and so $$\begin{align}\frac{n+1}{n}\sum_{k=0}^{n}\dbinom{n}{k}\dbinom{n}{k-1}=
 & \frac{n+1}{2n\pi i}\oint_{\left|z\right|=1}\left(1+z\right)^{n}\sum_{k=0}^{n}\dbinom{n}{k}z^{-k}dz
  \\ =
  & \frac{n+1}{2n\pi i}\oint_{\left|z\right|=1}\left(1+z\right)^{n}\left(1+1/z\right)^{n}dz
 \\ =
 & \frac{n+1}{2n\pi i}\oint_{\left|z\right|=1}\frac{\left(1+z\right)^{2n}}{z^{n}}dz
 \\ =
 & \frac{n+1}{n}\dbinom{2n}{n-1}
  \\ =
 & \color{red}{\dbinom{2n}{n}}
 \end{align} $$ as wanted, since we have the recurrence $$\frac{m+1-l}{l}\dbinom{m}{l-1}=\dbinom{m}{l}.$$ Using this technique, it is quite simple to show that $$\sum_{k=0}^{n}\dbinom{n}{k}^{2}=\dbinom{2n}{n}.$$

A: I don't have a full answer, but I was thinking maybe this could be useful:
$2^{2n}=\left(\sum_{k=0}^n \binom{n}{k}\right)^2=\sum_{k=0}^n \binom{n}{k}^2+2e_2\left(  \binom{n}{j} \right)$ where $e_2\left(  x_j\right)$ is the elementary symmetric polynomial  on the $n$ symbols $x_j$ for $j=1,...,n$ So that $\sum_{k=0}^n \binom{n}{k}^2=2^{2n}-2e_2\left(  \binom{n}{j}\right)$
I will think about this some more to see if it leads anywhere.

A: Apply four equation:
$$\sum_{k=0}^\infty\binom{r}{k}\binom{s}{n-k}=\binom{r+s}{n}    [1]$$
and
$$\binom{n}{k}=\frac{n}{n-k}\binom{n-1}{k}    [2]$$
and
$$\binom{n}{k}=\binom{n}{n-k}    [3]$$
and (for k!= 0)
$$\binom{n}{k}=\frac{n}{k}\binom{n-1}{k-1}    [4]$$
Apply [1] and [2] we have:
$$\sum_{k=0}^{n}\binom{n}{k}^2 = \binom{n+n}{n}=\binom{2n}{n}$$
$$=\frac{2n}{2n-n}\binom{2n-1}{n}=2\binom{2n-1}{n}$$
Note that $\binom{n}{n+1}=0$, Apply [3] and [1] and [4] we have
$$\frac{n+1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{n}\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{k-1} = \frac{n+1}{n}\sum_{k=0}^{n+1}\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{n+1-k}$$
$$ = \frac{n+1}{n}\binom{n+n}{n+1}=\frac{n+1}{n}\binom{2n}{n+1} $$
$$ = \frac{n+1}{n}\frac{2n}{n+1}\binom{2n-1}{n} = 2\binom{2n-1}{n}$$
Conclusion:
$$\sum_{k=0}^{n}\binom{n}{k}^2=\frac{n+1}{n}\sum_{k=1}^{n}\binom{n}{k}\binom{n}{k-1} = 2\binom{2n-1}{n}$$

A: Elegant Proof
You have $2n$ students $n$ male, $n$ female. You want to construct a committee of $n$ students and you also want to make one of them president of the committee. You can do this in
$$
n{2n \choose n}
$$
different ways.

*

*Now say the number of male students are $k$. Then this is also equivalent to  choosing $k$ male and $n-k$ female students and making one of them president
$$
n \sum \limits_{k=0}^{n-1} {n \choose k} {n \choose n-k}
$$

*Now lets first choose the non-president $n-1$ committee members then choose the president from the remaining $n+1$ You can do this in
$$
(n+1) \sum \limits_{k=0}^{n} {n \choose k} {n \choose n-k+1}
$$
different ways. Hence we have
$$
n \sum \limits_{k=0}^{n} {n \choose k} {n \choose n-k} = (n+1) \sum \limits_{k=0}^{n} {n \choose k} {n \choose n-1-k}
$$
which is same as
$$
n \sum \limits_{k=0}^{n} {n \choose k}^2 = (n+1) \sum \limits_{k=0}^{n} {n \choose k} {n \choose k+1}
$$

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$\ds{\sum_{k = 0}^{n}{n \choose k}^{2} =
{n + 1 \over n}\sum_{k = 1}^{n}{n \choose k}{n \choose k - 1}:\ ?}$.

\begin{align}
&\color{#f00}{{n + 1 \over n}\sum_{k = 1}^{n}{n \choose k}{n \choose k - 1}} =
{n + 1 \over 2n}\sum_{k = 1}^{n}\braces{%
\bracks{{n \choose k} + {n \choose k - 1}}^{2} - {n \choose k}^{2} -
{n \choose k - 1}^{2}}
\\[5mm] = &\
{n + 1 \over 2n}\sum_{k = 1}^{n}{n + 1 \choose k}^{2} -
{n + 1 \over 2n}\sum_{k = 1}^{n}{n \choose k}^{2} -
{n + 1 \over 2n}\sum_{k = 1}^{n}{n \choose k - 1}^{2}
\quad\pars{\begin{array}{l}Pascal\ Triangle\ Identity\
\\ \mbox{in the first term}\end{array}}
\\[5mm] = &\
{n + 1 \over 2n}\bracks{-1 + \sum_{k = 0}^{n + 1}{n + 1 \choose k}^{2} - 1} -
{n + 1 \over 2n}\bracks{-1 + \sum_{k = 0}^{n}{n \choose k}^{2}} -
{n + 1 \over 2n}\bracks{\sum_{k = 0}^{n}{n \choose k}^{2} - 1}
\\[5mm] = &\
\color{#f00}{{n + 1 \over 2n}\sum_{k = 0}^{n + 1}{n + 1 \choose k}^{2} -
{n + 1 \over n}\sum_{k = 0}^{n}{n \choose k}^{2}}\label{1}\tag{1}
\end{align}

\begin{equation}
\mbox{We'll use the}\ well\ known\ identity\quad
\sum_{j = 0}^{m}{m \choose j}^{2} = {2m \choose m}\label{2}\tag{2}
\end{equation}

Expression \eqref{1} becomes:
\begin{align}
&\color{#f00}{{n + 1 \over n}\sum_{k = 1}^{n}{n \choose k}{n \choose k - 1}} =
{n + 1 \over 2n}{2n + 2 \choose n + 1} -
{n + 1 \over n}\sum_{k = 0}^{n}{n \choose k}^{2}
\\[5mm] = &\
{n + 1 \over 2n}\bracks{{\pars{2n + 2}\pars{2n + 1} \over
\pars{n + 1}\pars{n + 1}}{2n \choose n}} -
{n + 1 \over n}\sum_{k = 0}^{n}{n \choose k}^{2} =
{2n + 1 \over n}\ \overbrace{\sum_{k = 0}^{n}{n \choose k}^{2}}
^{\ds{\mbox{see}\ \eqref{2}}}\ -\
{n + 1 \over n}\sum_{k = 0}^{n}{n \choose k}^{2}
\\[5mm] = &\
\color{#f00}{\sum_{k = 0}^{n}{n \choose k}^{2}}
\end{align}


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The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature. by Curtis White.
Look to Beauty, Not Technology, to Save the Planet.
Confronting the perils and promises of capitalism by looking through time and discovering our "Barbaric Heart."
'How can we keep faith in the idea of the United States, whose economy and government seem so thoroughly possessed by what White calls the Barbaric Heart?
An article very interesting and nicely written, with lots of beautiful phrases and quotes. Strong in it's analysis to the fundamentals. The solution proposed by the author as being "a logos of its own, that can contest the energies (and tyrannies) of the Barbaric Heart" seems right on track to me, because a true and thorough paradigm shift will be indespensible if we want to have next generations of our species a future on this planet.
However, if this solution would be restricted to the beauty, art etc., - though these may certainly inspire and delight, comfort and move us - that would seem somewhat weaker and meagre to me. For beauty, arts etc. have always been around since the start of manhood, and their value is not decidable but established by personal appreciation or taste that vary immensely among individuals or cultures, making it arbitrary in that respect - which is of course fine, this illustrates diversity and richness of life and experience - but the most magnificant achievements in the arts didn't signicantly change mind sets of peoples and their leaders to stop destroying life and nature (and fellow men) on the earth. I think it takes some huge steps to environmental responsibility for that. And for that, I think acknowledging of intrinsic value of all life forms and ecosystems is necessary - thus leave the 'bio-robot' model, the concept that is still leading main-stream 'civilization' on a dead-end techno-fetishist track to further zombification as shown in the Barbaric Heart. The crucial step is I see it to acknowledge subjective consciousness in its true miraculous and mysterious nature.
"The Barbaric Heart is a pure emptiness, an emptiness that doesn't know itself as empty. It is an emptiness that has turned upon itself. It is a mouth that chews. It is a permanent state of war against all others but also, most profoundly, against itself. One part violence, one part plunder, and eventual anguish and regret."
"This is the barbaric calculation: if you can prosper from violence, then you should go ahead and be violent. In short order the Barbaric Heart is led to conclude that in fact prosperity is dependent on violence. Therefore, you should be good at violence, for your own sake and the sake of your country.
That was Roman virtu [='virtus']. Which is a way of saying that the barbaric itself is a form of virtue, especially if you think that winning, surviving, triumphing, and accumulating great wealth are virtues, just as, in order, athletes, Darwinians, military commanders, and capitalists do. Ultimately, these types are all the same. The athlete, the soldier, and the businessman all want to "win," and by whatever means necessary.
[..] Tragic fate, for the Greeks, was the understanding that once you put a certain principle in motion, that principle would play itself out. Completely out. And so, as in Aeschylus's tragedies, humans pursue what they perceive to be their own interest only to become "the slave of their own destruction," an apt expression of our current situation on multiple fronts, economic, military and environmental."
The Barbaric Heart: Faith, Money, and the Crisis of Nature.
Pub. Date: September 2009, ISBN-13: 9780981709123, Sales Rank: 138,736, 189pp.
Curtis White is the author of the novels "Memories of My Father Watching TV" and "Requiem." A widely acclaimed essayist, his work appears regularly in "Context" and "Harper's." He is an English professor at Illinois State University and a board director at the award-winning Dalkey Archive Press.
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SCIT Tribal Member Elders from all districts can enjoy Elder's Breakfast at Andahwod on Wednesday, September 12th & Wednesday, September 26th from 9 am to 10 am.
Youth Council will meet on Wednesday, September 12th & Wednesday, September 26th from 5 pm – 6 pm in the Recreation Teen Lounge.
Ziibiwing Processing Center Sale takes place Thursday, September 13th & Friday, September 14th for SCIT Tribal Members – Thursday, September 20th & Friday, September 21st for SCIT Tribal Members and SCIT Associates – Thursday, September 27th & Friday, September 28th Open To The Public. Hours of all sales will be 9 am – 4 pm.
Anishinaabemowin & Sacred Fire Lunch will take place at 7th Generation on Thursday, September 13th & Thursday, September 27th from 12 pm – 1 pm.
Traditional Healer, Donnie Dowd, will be at Behavioral Health on Thursday, September 13th & Friday, September 14th from 9 am – 5:30 pm. Please call (989) 775-4850 for an appointment.
Saganing Day Trip to Bay City Historic City Hall will take place Friday, September 14th from 9 am – 1 pm. Call (989) 775-5810 for more information.
Tribal Observer October Issue Deadline will be Friday, September 14th by 5 pm.
Sweat Lodge will be held on Friday, September 14th from 5 pm – 11 pm at Behavioral Health.
Monarch Butterfly Celebration takes place at Ziibiwing on Saturday, September 15th from 1 pm – 5 pm.
"Screenagers" Documentary Screening and Discussion takes place at the Tribal Library Monday, September 17th from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm.
Saganing Bingo with Friends will be held Tuesday, September 18th from 10:30 am – 2 pm.
Canning 101 Pressure Canning Venison & Other Low Acidic Foods will be held in the Nimkee Kitchen Wednesday, September 19th from 12 pm – 1pm.
The Saginaw Chippewa/Isabella County FAN Board Meeting will be held Thursday, September 20th from 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm at the Ziibiwing Cultural Center.
The Saginaw Chippewa/Isabella County FAN Monthly Forum will be held Thursday, September 20th from 7 pm – 8:30 pm at the Ziibiwing Cultural Center.
Saganing End of Summer Cookout takes place Friday, September 21st from 1 pm – 2 pm.
SCIT Youth & Family Cedar Point Trip will take place Saturday, September 22nd. Bus will depart from the Tribal Gym. Email recreation@sagchip.org for more information.
Name That Tune takes place at Andahwod Tuesday, September 25th from 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm.
Cornhusk Doll Workshop will take place in Saganing on Wednesday, September 26th from 11 am – 1 pm.
Indian Corn Processing takes place Thursday, September 27th at 7th Generation from 6 pm – 8 pm.
Saganing "River of Time" Day Trip will be held Friday, September 28th from 10 am – 3 pm. Please call (989) 775-5810 for more information.
Tribal Operations and Related Offices will be closed Friday, September 28th in Observance of Michigan Indian Day.
New Spirit Meetings are held every Sunday at Behavioral Health 4 pm – 6 pm.
Bingo with Friends takes place the 2nd Monday of each month from 1 pm – 3 pm at Andahwod.
Women's Traditions is held at Behavioral Health on Mondays from 5 pm to 6:30 pm.
Euchre with Potluck takes place on Mondays from 6 pm – 8 pm at Andahwod.
Language Drop-In takes place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm. For more information call ALRD at (989) 775-4110.
Struggling or need support? Residential Treatment Center – Behavioral Health offers drop-in relapse prevention groups on Mondays from 5:30 pm to 7 pm and Fridays from 11:30 am to 1 pm.
Tobacco Ceremony and Eagle Wing Smudging takes place every Tuesday in the Behavioral Health Lodge from 8 am – 12 pm.
Native Farmer's Market takes place every Tuesday from 10 am – 2 pm on the corners of Broadway and Leaton Roads.
Anishinabe Ogitchedaw Veterans Society meets the first Tuesday of the month in the Seniors Room of Tribal Operations from 6 pm to 8:30 pm.
Narcotics Anonymous takes place every Tuesday in the Behavioral Health Lodge from 6 pm – 8 pm.
Anishinaabemowin Learning will be held every Tuesday & Thursday from 6 pm – 7 pm at the ALRD building. For more information call ALRD at (989) 775-4110.
Saganing now offers Auricular (Ear) Acupuncture every first and third Wednesday from 11 am – 4 pm. For more information please call (989) 775-4895.
Traditional Teachings take place every first and third Wednesday from 11 am – 4pm at the Saganing Tribal Center.
Lunch Bunch Anishinaabemowin is held on Wednesdays from 12 noon – 1 pm at the ALRD building. For more information call (989) 775-4110.
Saganing Talking Circle takes place every first and third Wednesday from 5 pm – 6pm. For more information call (989) 775-4850.
Enjoy Open Gym on Wednesdays at the Tribal Gym from 3 pm – 5 pm for youth ages 7 to 11 and 5 pm – 7 pm for ages 12 to 15.
The 7th Generation Talking Circle takes place on Thursdays from 3 pm to 5 pm at the Elijah Elk building on the corner of Remus and Shepherd Rds.
Auricular (Ear) Acupuncture takes place every Thursday from 4 pm – 6 pm at Behavioral Health on Shepherd Road.
Community Sewing Nights take place at 7th Generation every Thursday from 5 pm – 8 pm.
Drums Out takes place on Thursdays from 6 pm – 8 pm at 7th Generation's Blue House.
Active Parenting Now Classes are held on Fridays at Anishnaabeg Child and Family Services from 10:30 am – 12 pm.
The Tribal Clerk's Office is closed every Friday for walk in/desk services for Administrative Office Day.
For COFFEE WITH THE COMMUNITY to discuss Environmental issues call (989) 775-4162.
Nimkee now offers Wellness Coaching. Contact Jayme Green or Sally Van Cise for more information at (989) 775-4601.
Invasive Species Decontamination Kits are Free to the Tribal Community. Contact Planning at (989) 775-4162.
SCIT Employees and Tribal Members can walk anytime for Free at Morey Courts. For more information contact Toni Smith at (989) 775-5624.
Well and Septic Program available to IHS Service Area Tribal Members. Call (989) 775-4014 for questions.
Report Suspicious or Criminal Activity by calling the Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Police Hotline at (989) 775-4775.
Conservation Committee is currently seeking SCIT Members to fill all six seats for two year terms. Contact Planning at (989) 775-4014 for more information or send letters of interest to dseal@sagchip.org no later than Friday, October 26th by 3 pm.
Mt. Pleasant Indian Industrial Boarding School Committee vacancies are available. Call (989) 775-4096 for more information.
Sasiwaans ALRC Committee is seeking a youth representative (18 – 25 years of age) to fill one vacancy seat. For more information please call (989) 775-4126.
Construction Workers needed for Saganing Eagles Landing Casino Expansion. Please call Chip at (989) 775-0053 for details.