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001. flash based documentation doesn't work. the left hand menu that Should be there does NOT render, rendering the flash based docs, worthless. I'm using Safari with the latest flash player (v. 9 i think, downloaded in the week of 7/24/06) and I have tried it with firefox as well.
002. in modeler, the mouse cursor is NOT tracked properly in viewports. most typically Modeler misses the mouse release event, leading to all kinds of hijinks.
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Interesting. Does this happen all of the time there, or only occasionally?
I'll be looking into ScreamerNet shortly. Right now I'm focused on Hub issues, but I'd like to know if other users are having problems with this (ScreamerNet) as well.
Yes, BeeVee's suggestion is best for this documentation issue. Frankly, this is a very non-Mac-like behavior, and I'm looking into alternatives for the dot upgrade.
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If you are aware of any widows within your Lodge, Chapter or our Group, who are not members, please put them in touch with the Ladies Luncheon Club.
Likewise, please make your wives and partners aware of this beneficial social opportunity.
The Ladies Luncheon Club Meetings are on the first Friday of October, December, February, April and May between 12 Noon and 3 PM at Hope Street.
There will be an evaluation of the scheme in June 2018.
Our Craft Vice Chairman, Dave Johnson will be the Group Champion and the liaison between the Ladies Luncheon Club and WLFC.
To ensure the future of this important aspect of the Liverpool Masonic Group, please identify Lodge widows who may benefit from membership and highlight its existence to your wives and partners to ensure its future continuity.
Further information about membership can be obtained from Carol (0151 521 3871), Dave or myself.


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Hala Halim is an associate professor of Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies at New York University. She is the author of Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive (Fordham University Press, 2013), which received an Honorable Mention from the American Comparative Literature Association for the Harry Levin Prize for Best First Book in Comparative Literature. Her translation of a novel by Mohamed El-Bisatie, Clamor of the Lake, won an Egyptian State Incentive Award. Halim's recent publications include the essay "Scope for Comparatism: Internationalist and Surrealist Resonances in Idwar al-Kharrat's Resistant Literary Modernity," in Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought: Essays in Honor of Everett K. Rowson, edited by Joseph E. Lowry and Shawkat M. Toorawa (Leiden: Brill, 2017).
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If the received critical wisdom dates the birth of postcolonial theory to 1978 with the publication in New York of Edward Said's Orientalism, it is high time that a "pre-postcolonial" be recuperated and critically assessed.[1] I would argue that 1955, when Indonesia hosted the Asian-African Conference (or the Bandung Conference), launches the postcolonial avant la lettre. Preceded as it was by several anticolonial assemblies, Bandung was a watershed: it brought face-to-face, and on non-Western grounds, the leaders of newly independent countries, including Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and India's Jawaharlal Nehru, to promote self-determination, anti-imperialism, world peace, and resistance to racism. The line of descent from Bandung — involving a series of interrelated, mostly overlapping movements, associations, conferences and cultural projects — was decidedly Third-Worldist and anti-Eurocentric (for an account in a political key see Prashad 2007).
One signal trajectory in that lineage, particularly for this antecedent postcolonialism, was the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organization (AAPSO), which came to be based in Cairo where it held its first conference in 1957-58. This event led to the conference of Afro-Asian Writers in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1958, which passed the resolution to establish a Permanent Bureau of Afro-Asian Writers. The latter was first based in Colombo and then relocated to Cairo in the 1960s (Sa'd al-Din 2004). A principal contribution of the Afro-Asian Writers' Association (AAWA) was the issuing, starting in 1968, of a trilingual quarterly journal — until the late 1970s, the Arabic edition was printed in Cairo, the English and French in the German Democratic Republic — later to acquire the name Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings (see figs. 1, 2, and 3). Available to writers' unions and through subscription to libraries, Lotus was also sold in some bookstores in African and Asian countries, according to Nehad Salem, a translator who formerly worked for AAPSO and contributed to the journal (Salem 2017). In the aftermath of the Arab boycott of Egypt following President Anwar Sadat's Peace Treaty with Israel and the assassination of Youssef El-Sebai, secretary-general of AAWA and editor-in-chief of the journal, Lotus moved to Beirut. It would eventually relocate to Tunisia, sometime after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. In the early 1990s, it was discontinued in part because of the dissolution of the USSR, which had provided much of the funding in the Tunis phase. The Lotus Prize was awarded to such writers as Chinua Achebe, Mahmoud Darwish, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Alex La Guma, Ghassan Kanafani, Agostinho Neto, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and Kateb Yacine, several being involved in AAWA or whose work had appeared in the journal (for the Cold War context of the award, see Halim 2012, 569-571).
Fig. 1 Cover of Afro-Asian Writings, Arabic edition, vol. 1, issue 1, March 1968
Fig. 2 Cover of Lotus, French edition, vol. 2, issue 6, October 1970 Fig. 3 Cover of Lotus, Arabic edition, vol. 3, issue 9, July 1971
As I argue at greater length elsewhere, Lotus instantiated the potential, albeit not fully fulfilled, of what today we would call Global South comparatism (Halim 2012). It represented this potential not only by dint of its contributors, but by virtue of the journal's bypassing the Metropole as a forum for literary interchange between postcolonial, Third World intellectuals.
Translation, as practice and as theoretical inquiry, was central to this endeavor. Of the journal's three languages, only Arabic, with a large African and Asian readership, is a language indigenous to the Third World; in some cases, however, a text may have been originally written in a fourth language, e.g.: Japanese, and then translated into English or French and from that into the two other languages. Already a demanding translational production, issuing Lotus in another Third World language was not to be. Beyond standard postcolonial debates on language politics, Lotus hosted interventions on the question of direct translations between African and Asian languages that would dispense with relay via European languages (Saber 1970 and Singh 1974; Halim 2012, 570-75). Various articles in the "Studies" section, in my view, perform regards croisés, or intersecting gazes; i.e.: a text by an intellectual from a given African or Asian country addressing another country's culture(s), sometimes with comparatist references (Iyengar 1972; Halim 2012, 577-78).
It should be conceded that Lotus pushed against a strictly Afro-Asian geographical ambit, printing texts from other parts of the Third World or by members of groups in the North with affinities to its project, such as African Americans. However, such inclusions were not systematic. Despite the journal's avowed Third-Worldism and attunement to internationalism, the representation per se on Lotus' pages did not attain to a full-fledged Global South scope or tricontinentalism, whether specifically with reference to the context of the Tricontinental, or First Solidarity Conference of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America held in Havana in 1966 in which AAPSO participated — construed by Robert J. C. Young as "the founding moment of postcolonial history" — or broadly speaking (Young 2001, 5; Lee 2010; Halim 2012, 581-82). This limitation was in part a function of an Egyptian-Soviet alliance, with the larger Cold War context adversely affecting and eventually derailing the Afro-Asian project. Another shortcoming was that the journal did not make room for autocritique or address the internal failings of the Afro-Asian nation-states.
One fruitful avenue for future research in the pages of Lotus that I would propose is the thematics of solidarity evinced in the literary texts published by the journal, which was inscribed in the moment of liberation movements and "commitment"; indeed it served as a forum for a signal intervention on "resistance literature" by the Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani's work on the subject (Halim 2012, 572). For historically-oriented research, Lotus is also a valuable resource of AAWA "grey literature," and by extension discourses at play within Third-Worldism, not least because selections of the association's conference proceedings, otherwise not readily available, were printed in the journal.
For years after its bureau moved back to Cairo, AAWA mooted the idea of relaunching the journal: in 2006 it held an international meeting in preparation for reviving both Lotus and the association, the latter to be reconceptualized as an association for the Global South that would include Latin America (Labib 2011; Halim 2012, 566). Lack of funding, as well as issues with offices, caused delays. It was not until winter 2016 that AAWA revived Lotus, a second issue having been published in 2017 (see figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7).
Fig. 4 Relaunched Lotus, Arabic cover, issue no. 1, 2016 Fig. 5 Relaunched Lotus, English cover, issue no. 1, 2016
In design, format and content, the relaunched Lotus does not forcefully affiliate itself to its predecessor. Granted, one article cites canonical postcolonial writers such as Ngugi wa Thiong'o and Chinua Achebe in relation to history and tradition in African literature (O'Okwemba 2016); another, titled "The Role of the African-Asian Writers in a Globalized World," harks back to such Third-Worldist icons as Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, and Che Guevara (Hamadto 2016); an academic essay critiques the persistent tendency to compare Arabic with European literatures and makes a case for comparative work between Arabic and sub-Saharan literatures, specifically with attention to epics and sagas (Abu al-Layl 2016); and a section titled "The Lotus archive" in the second issue carries an Arabic piece reprinted from a 1989 issue of Lotus. As with the old journal, the second issue has a dossier devoted to the literary culture of a particular country, in this case Chad. One marked difference from the old version of the journal in its Cairo-based period, however, is that texts in the three languages — Arabic, English and French — are all published between the covers of the same issue, with no translations of texts in a given language into the other two.
The reissued Lotus emerges, of course, in a rather different world; and the editorials vacillate somewhat in stating the journal's mission. The editorial to the first issue positions cultural interaction as an antidote to "religious terrorism," an "international problem that faces modern human civilization," positing that the journal "constitutes a bridge" which facilitates "encounter and understanding" leading to "integration under the broad umbrella of tolerance, fraternity and peace," the old lexicon of "solidarity" notably bracketed (Salmawy 2016).[2]
By contrast, the second editorial addresses the single most important — and salutary — change in the relaunched Lotus, announced on the cover itself: AAWA now renamed the Writers' Union of Africa, Asia, and Latin America (WUAALA). The editorial appeals to the similar economic and political preoccupations of the three continents and what it identifies as the support by and large offered by their states to peoples' rights to "freedom and independence," as well their resistance to the exploitation of resources by "world powers." Such common preoccupations "were translated into both temporary and permanent alliances that played important roles at certain stages" — presumably an allusion to the Tricontinental, among others — "but what is more important is that [the three continents] drew their cultures from similar sources." Hence, WUAALA, in its attunement to the interrelations "of the nations of the South," is including "unions of Latin American writers" in order to construct a "buffer," a strong "cultural line of defense" against "any infiltrating attempts that aim to erase the identities of our countries" (Salmawy 2017a).[3] It was at the behest of writers from Latin America — who foregrounded common colonial histories and "Third World preoccupations" — that the continent came to be included, the 42 union members of the revamped WUAALA now including two Latin American ones, from Cuba and Colombia (Salmawy 2017b).[4]
Despite this gesture of inclusiveness, the revamped Lotus, in contrast to its predecessor, thus far appears to lack any specific ideological orientation or conceptual coherence. "We are not promoting a definite ideology," posits Mohamed Salmawy, writer, secretary-general of WUAALA and editor-in-chief of the revamped journal. Lotus "is a platform where we are giving voice to Third World writers to express being the conscience of their nations" — an echo of littérature engagée — "and invariably it is different from what is being propagated officially in... globalization." Most texts published are solicited through a call to member unions, and assessed "only from the literary point of view." Distribution takes place at WUAALA conferences and the issues are posted on Lotus' Facebook page. Unlike the old AAWA, which "in the heyday of independence, solidarity and non-alignment" received "a lot of financial aid," the union no longer "gets as much generosity.... now we have to fight our battle alone. It's a different situation, but perhaps it gives us more independence because we are not influenced." The funding, currently from the subscriptions of member unions, allows for only one annual issue of the journal. Among WUAALA's plans are reestablishing the Lotus prize, to be awarded once every three years on account of limited funds, and including in the journal translations into Arabic of selected texts published in the English section and vice versa (Salmawy 2017b).
Only time will tell how inclusively tricontinental the new Lotus will be. However, as a historical bridge from the post-Bandung era, the journal provides a case study for reflecting on the vicissitudes of the relationship between the Third World and the Global South.
Abu al-Layl, Khalid. 2016. "Al-Malahim al-Afriqiyya wa-l-Tarikh al-Ijtima'i." Lotus 1: 13-27.
Facebook page: "Lotus Magazine-Writers Union of Africa, Asia and Latin America."
Guzmán, Jairo. 2016. "My Love and my Vertigo." Lotus 1: 22.
Halim, Hala. 2012. "Lotus, the Afro-Asian Nexus, and Global South Comparatism." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 32 (3): 563-83.
Hamadto, Elfatih. 2016. "The Role of the African-Asian Writers in a Globalized World." Lotus 1: 8-9.
Iyengar, Srinivasa K. R. 1972. "The Tormented Tree: The Agony of the African Writer." Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings 12: 10–21.
Labib, Fakhi. Interview by the author. 9 October 2011. Cairo, Egypt.
Lee, Christopher. 2010. "Tricontinentalism in Question: The Cold War Politics of Alex La Guma and the African National Congress." Making a World After Empire: The Bandung Movement and Its Political Afterlife, edited by Christopher Lee, 266-86. Athens: Ohio University Press.
O'Okwemba, Khiango. 2016. "The Sense of History and Tradition in African Literature." Lotus 1: 4-5.
Pérez, Omar. 2016. "It's not Our Fault." Lotus 1: 21.
Prashad, Vijay. 2007. The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World. New York: The New Press.
Saber, Mohei-El-Din. 1970. "The Role of Translation for Rapprochement between the Afro-Asian Peoples." Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings 5: 10-15.
Sa'd al-Din, Mursi [Saad El-Din, Mursi]. 2004. "Ma' Kuttab Asiya wa Ifriqiya." Al-Ahram. 22 June 2004.
Salem, Nehad. Interview by the author. 24 July 2017. Sixth of October City, Egypt.
Salloum, Habib. 2016. "Arabs Making their Mark in Latin America: Generations of Immigrants in Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico." Lotus 1: 6-7.
Salmawy, Mohamed. 2016. "Fi Darurat Talaqi al-Thaqafat." Lotus 1: 4-5.
Salmawy, Mohamed. 2017a. "Al-Thaqafa Ha'it al-Sadd Amam Muhawalat Mahw al-Huwiyya." Lotus 2: 4-5.
---b. Interview by the author. 31 August 2017. Cairo, Egypt.
Singh, Attar. 1974. "Problems of Translation of Afro-Asian Literature." Lotus: Afro-Asian Writings 21: 30-35.
Young, Robert J. C. 2001. Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. Malden, MA: Blackwell.
[1] Portions of this article are drawn from Halim 2012. I wish to acknowledge the help I received from Randa Barakat, Managing Editor of Lotus, in the course of my research on the relaunched journal.
[2] Translation mine from the Arabic. The editorial to the 2016 issue is published only in the Arabic section.
[3] Translation mine from the Arabic. The editorial to the 2017 issue is also available in the French section, albeit not in the English one.
[4] The inclusion of Latin America is not reflected in the contents of the 2017 issue of Lotus, perhaps because it took place while the journal was in production. However, the English section of the 2016 issue includes at least three relevant texts: a poem from Cuba titled "It's not Our Fault" (Pérez 2016); a poem from Colombia titled "My Love and my Vertigo" (Guzmán 2016); and an article titled "Arabs Making their Mark in Latin America: Generations of Immigrants in Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico" (Salloum 2016).
Published: November 22, 2017; Updated: March 3, 2019
How to Cite:
Halim, Hala. November 22, 2017. "Afro-Asian Third-Worldism into Global South: The Case of Lotus Journal." Global South Studies: A Collective Publication with The Global South. Accessed date.

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"""Tests for ansible_compat.config submodule."""
import copy
import subprocess

import pytest
from _pytest.monkeypatch import MonkeyPatch
from packaging.version import Version

from ansible_compat.config import (
    AnsibleConfig,
    ansible_collections_path,
    ansible_version,
    parse_ansible_version,
)
from ansible_compat.errors import InvalidPrerequisiteError, MissingAnsibleError

def test_config() -> None:
    """Checks that config vars are loaded with their expected type."""
    config = AnsibleConfig()
    assert isinstance(config.ACTION_WARNINGS, bool)
    assert isinstance(config.CACHE_PLUGIN_PREFIX, str)
    assert isinstance(config.CONNECTION_FACTS_MODULES, dict)
    assert config.ANSIBLE_COW_PATH is None
    assert isinstance(config.NETWORK_GROUP_MODULES, list)
    assert isinstance(config.DEFAULT_GATHER_TIMEOUT, (int, type(None)))

    # check lowercase and older name aliasing
    assert isinstance(config.collections_paths, list)
    assert isinstance(config.collections_path, list)
    assert config.collections_paths == config.collections_path

    with pytest.raises(AttributeError):
        print(config.THIS_DOES_NOT_EXIST)

def test_config_with_dump() -> None:
    """Tests that config can parse given dumps."""
    config = AnsibleConfig(config_dump="ACTION_WARNINGS(default) = True")
    assert config.ACTION_WARNINGS is True

def test_config_copy() -> None:
    """Checks ability to use copy/deepcopy."""
    config = AnsibleConfig()
    new_config = copy.copy(config)
    assert isinstance(new_config, AnsibleConfig)
    assert new_config is not config
    # deepcopy testing
    new_config = copy.deepcopy(config)
    assert isinstance(new_config, AnsibleConfig)
    assert new_config is not config

def test_ansible_collections_path_210(monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> None:
    """Checks that ansible_collections_path works as expected correctly."""
    monkeypatch.setenv("ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS", "foo")
    monkeypatch.delenv("ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH", False)
    assert ansible_collections_path() == "ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS"
    monkeypatch.delenv("ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS", False)
    monkeypatch.setattr(
        "ansible_compat.config.ansible_version", lambda x="2.10.0": Version(x)
    )
    assert ansible_collections_path() == "ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH"

def test_ansible_collections_path_29(monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> None:
    """Checks that ansible_collections_path works as expected correctly."""
    monkeypatch.delenv("ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS", False)
    monkeypatch.setenv("ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH", "foo")
    assert ansible_collections_path() == "ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH"
    monkeypatch.delenv("ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATH", False)
    monkeypatch.setattr(
        "ansible_compat.config.ansible_version", lambda x="2.9.0": Version(x)
    )
    assert ansible_collections_path() == "ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS"

def test_parse_ansible_version_fail() -> None:
    """Checks that parse_ansible_version raises an error on invalid input."""
    with pytest.raises(
        InvalidPrerequisiteError, match="Unable to parse ansible cli version"
    ):
        parse_ansible_version("foo")

def test_ansible_version_missing(monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> None:
    """Validate ansible_version behavior when ansible is missing."""
    monkeypatch.setattr(
        "subprocess.run",
        lambda *args, **kwargs: subprocess.CompletedProcess(args=[], returncode=1),
    )
    with pytest.raises(
        MissingAnsibleError,
        match="Unable to find a working copy of ansible executable.",
    ):
        # bypassing lru cache
        ansible_version.__wrapped__()

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Because healthcare is highly regulated and responsible for handling people's most sensitive information, you'd be forgiven if you believe the industry does a better job of protecting its data from hackers than other sectors. Unfortunately, it doesn't. In fact, the truth is probably more alarming than you could have imagined.
Respondents to the 2014 PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) US State of Cybercrime Survey reported that the unintentional exposure of private or sensitive data in healthcare was the highest of any industry. In fact, it was much, much higher. The theft of personal information was 83 percent more common in hospitals and other health systems than in any of the other industries surveyed, which included banking and finance, government, information/telecom, and insurance.
Ninety percent of the healthcare respondents in a 2014 Ponemon Institute survey had at least one data breach in the previous two years. Thirty-eight percent reported five or more incidents. Last year, Community Health Systems, which operates 206 hospitals across the US, suffered a breach that resulted in the theft of data from 4.5 million patients. The stolen information included names, Social Security numbers, physical addresses, and telephone numbers.
The reason cited for most of the healthcare breaches was "insider negligence." That negligence may include everything from insufficient passwords—those that don't contain enough letters, numbers, and symbols or aren't long enough—to employee theft. In fact, it's estimated that "malicious insiders" are responsible for one quarter of all hospital data breaches, 92 percent of which go undetected. With these staggering statistics, you may start to think it may take something faster than a speeding bullet or more powerful than a locomotive to stop these cybercriminals.
Monitor and audit staff. The lack of security awareness among your employees is your biggest risk and the hardest to remediate. Coady advises healthcare CIOs to implement controls that manage staff identity and data access; for instance, providing users with different access rights depending on their position in the hospital. He also suggests organizations perform biannual audits to make sure everyone in the system has the correct access. CIOs need to implement a plan to educate and re-educate their employees on HIPPA regulations.
Inoculate your data. With the rapid implementation of EHRs, hospitals have had to deal with a literal data overload in recent years. Patients often cite privacy as one of their main concerns when it comes to digitized health records, so there's no excuse for hospitals not to know where—and on which servers—valuable information is stored. Also, insist on encryption of data on all portable devices. From 2009 to present, the loss or theft of unencrypted portable devices have made up over a third of the all large breach incidents and impacted over 50 percent of all health records put at risk.
Perform penetration tests. In an article for Hospitals & Health Networks, the trade publication of the American Hospital Association, Linda Fletcher, an information security officer with Indiana-based Franciscan Alliance, suggests hospitals employ a proactive strategy of hiring so-called "white hat hackers" to test system vulnerabilities "before bad actors wreak havoc." According to a 2014 report by the Pew Research Center, cyber-attacks on countries and corporations are likely to increase in the next decade.
Scrutinize vendors. Third-party vendors with access to hospital data can often simply "walk away" with valuable information if you're not paying attention. In an article for Becker's Health IT and CIO Review, Alison Brunelle, a cyber-risk specialist at Deloitte & Touche, says hospitals should be "very explicit when it comes to drafting business associate contracts." Not only should outside vendors be held to the same high standards as employees, she says, hospitals should reserve and exercise the right to audit them as well.
At the end of the day, your ultimate goal is to create a culture of breach-prevention within the organization. Once this belief is established, employees will begin to view data security as their responsibility; not just another useless organizational policy. Fortunately, more and more healthcare CIOs are getting the message about the importance of securing sensitive data. Although the 38 percent of hospitals in the aforementioned Ponemon report with five or more breaches may sound frightening, the number was down from 45 percent in the previous survey. While fending off cybercriminals may seem like a task reserved only for a superhuman caped crusader, a little due diligence can actually go a long way toward protecting your data—and your business.


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TCF's Distance Learning & Support Programme
TCF designed and launched its Distance Learning and Support Programme in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
With no access to digital tools to receive an education online, we ensured that our students stay connected with the culture of formal learning during school closures, enhance their functional literacy and numeracy skills while at home and follow a sense of routine and discipline to manage the emotional impact of the pandemic.
Ilm Ka Aangan TV Show
Teaching quality lessons to children on TV
In April 2020, TCF made its first foray in TV-based edutainment in collaboration with Pakistan Television's Tele-school and Federal Ministry of Education. This 45-minute long TV Show, Ilm Ka Aangan, ran for 18 weeks and engaged children across Pakistan through theme-based videos, activities, storytelling sessions, physical exercise segments and much more.
The show was designed on TCF's play-based early childhood education model.
It focused on basic literacy, numeracy and socio-emotional wellbeing.
18+ high-quality narrations of Urdu stories were done by veteran actor, Sania Saeed who narrated them as Kahani Aunty.
6 million+ viewers tuned in every week across 4 national channels to watch the show.
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Making great learning material for children
TCF began publishing an edutainment magazine, Ilm Ka Aangan, for primary and secondary school learners separately. Each issue featured a variety of fun exercises including math quizzes, riddles, DIY activities, reading comprehension, stories and much more. Copies of the magazine were collected fortnightly by TCF students or parents from school campuses across our network. TCF is continuing to offer this magazine to students for the next two to three years.
Every issue of the Ilm ka Aangan magazine is being reviewed and edited by Salim Mughal sahab, Ex Editor-in-Chief of the most famous Hamdard Naunehal magazine started for children in Pakistan 1953.
182,000+ copies of each issue are being distributed in Urdu and Sindhi languages.
It is separately being ordered by 96+ branches of 21 other low-cost school systems as well.
Read Ilm Ka Aangan Magazine
Ilm Ujala
Connecting community through tutoring
TCF has launched Ilm Ujala, an initiative that focuses on mobilising local volunteers to play an active part in students' learning process during and in the post-pandemic period. Schools are reopening in Pakistan. However, students will be attending school on a rotational basis to maintain social distancing. This will prevent our children from getting sufficient learning time in schools. Hence, our Ilm Ujala volunteers will enable learning for TCF students in their communities, supporting them in their education and reducing the learning gaps exacerbated by the crisis.
A typical Ilm Ujala group comprises of 5 to 7 learners and a tutor.
Volunteer tutor (TCF teacher, alumni or any other member of the community) identifies a community space and take responsibility of tutoring a group assigned by a TCF school principal.
There is a particular focus on learning topics essential for grade progression.
More than 2,500 volunteer tutors are now a part of the Ilm Ujala programme.
As we welcome our children back into the classroom, we are ensuring that our operations are aligned with public health and safety guidelines on COVID-19 to protect our staff and students.
Read about TCF's Safe School Reopening


Ladies and gentlemen, today we are going to talk about Sony VAIO VPC-EA33FX/B, which is a 14-inch laptop equipped with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core i3-370M dual-core processor, 4GB DDR3 RAM, and 500GB SATA hard drive (5400 RPM). It sports a 14-inch LED-backlit display (1366 x 768), Intel HD Graphics, MOTION EYE webcam and microphone, 8x multi-format DVD drive, Built-in stereo speakers, HDMI port, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth v2.1, and 6-cell Lithium-Ion battery. The laptop is running on Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit) operating system. Needless to say, such a configuration is good enough for our daily use, people are very satisfied with it.
As a 14″ notebook PC, the Sony VAIO VPC-EA33FX/B is great for most kind of uses, it can handle all your tasks very fluently. It's great for watching movies, the extra-wide, theater inspired 15.5-inch display with a native 720p HD resolution provides deeper blacks, brighter whites, true-to-life color and razor-sharp detail from almost any angle. You can also make your own using the dual-layer DVD±RW drive (with CD burning capabilities), and with the HDMI audio/video output you can connect the VAIO EA to a compatible HDTV to display your creations to a larger audience via a single cable.
What's more, its built-in 1.3-megapixel webcam (with integrated microphone) lets you join in on video conferences as well as make long-distance VoIP calls. The laptop also includes Wireless-N Wi-Fi networking, which will connect to draft 802.11n routers and offers compatibility with 802.11b/g networks as well. So I'm pretty sure you guys will love this Sony EA series laptop too.
The Sony VAIO VPC-EA33FX/B laptop delivers loads of wonderful features, let's take a look.
2.4 GHz Intel Core i3-370M dual-core processor for a fast, responsive PC experience (3 MB L3 cache). Intel's Hyper-Threading Technology enables each core of your processor to work on two tasks at the same time, delivering the performance you need for smart multitasking.
Intel HD Graphics for an advanced video engine that delivers smooth, high-quality HD video playback, and excellent 3D capabilities with support for Microsoft DirectX 10 games–an ideal graphics solution for everyday computing.
8x multi-format DVD drive supports reading/writing of CD-R/RW, DVD±R, DVD±RW, DVD±R DL, and DVD-RAM.
4 total USB ports with 1 eSATA/USB combo port that enables you to connect to compatible external hard drives for lightning fast transfers of large multimedia files–up to 5 times faster than via a standard USB port.
HDMI port for connecting to a compatible HDTV or home theater receiver for uncompressed digital audio and video via a single cable.
Intel Wireless Display capabilities, enables you to easily stream videos, photos and music from your hard drive, home network, or the internet straight to your HDTV–easily and wirelessly.
Wireless-N Wi-Fi (802.11b/g/n) for ultra-fast connectivity to home and business networks.
Bluetooth 2.1 connectivity enables you to communicate and synchronize with Bluetooth-enabled peripherals such as printers, mice, and cell phones as well as enjoy wireless stereo music streaming (thanks to its embedded A2DP profile).
Of course, these are just the main features this Sony EA laptop offers, you'll be exploring more cool features when you get the laptop.
You see, this is definitely a very reasonable price for such a cool laptop, people are very glad to accept it.
Well, what do you think about the Sony VAIO VPC-EA33FX/B 14-Inch Laptop?


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Will Contests | Carla Regstad, P.L.L.C.
When a will is contested, the case proceeds similarly to that of a case going through the civil litigation process. A scheduling conference will be scheduled by the court to determine when the written response is due, and at this time the court will order the parties to submit a stipulated scheduling order, which will include the deadline for initial discovery; the deadline for the disclosure of witnesses, both expert and non-expert; the deadline for discovery requests including Interrogatories, Request for Admissions, and Request for Production, Inspection, and Copying of Documents and Tangible Things; the date by which discovery is to be concluded; and the date all pretrial motions must be filed, among many other issues. At some point in the process, typically at or near the conclusion of discovery, the court will order the parties to participate in mediation in the hopes they will come to a settlement, thus avoiding a trial. The scheduling order is a road map of the litigation, and there are likely to be detours along the way.
There are a number of reasons a will may be contested, including an invalid will, insanity, revocation, undue influence, fraud, or forgery.
Pursuant to statute, there are a number of formalities that must be followed for a will to be properly executed and, therefore, valid. For example, a will must be in writing, signed by the testator or by someone at the testator's direction, and signed by at least two witnesses. But even if the document does not meet all the requirements, it may still qualify as a holographic will, which Arizona law recognizes. The contestant may also attack the testator's testamentary intent.
A will is not valid where the testator was insane when he or she created the will. The contestant must show, by a preponderance of the evidence, that the testator was not of sound mind when he or she executed the will.
A will may be revoked by the testator executing a later will that includes language that expressly revokes all prior wills or contains inconsistent terms from the prior wills. A will can also be revoked by performing a revocatory act with the intent that the will be revoked, such as burning, tearing, or otherwise destroying the will or any part of it. Finally, a will is presumed to be revoked if the will was last seen in the testator's possession and cannot be found.
A presumption of undue influence arises if the testator and the influencer have a fiduciary or confidential relationship between them, the influencer was actively involved in the preparation of the testator's will, and the influencer is a beneficiary under the new will. Arizona courts have held that, if any element of the presumption is absent, a question of fact may still arise about undue influence if all of the following factors exist: the person exerting undue influence had a disposition to exercise undue influence, the person had an opportunity to exercise undue influence, some influence was exerted, and the will seems to be the result of the influence.
With respect to fraud in a will contest, Arizona courts have recognized fraud as any trick, deception, or artifice by which the testator is so circumvented, cheated, or deceived as to fall into error respecting the disposition of his property. Regarding forgery, while it is helpful to prove the signature on the will is not that of the testator, pursuant to Arizona law it is possible for a testator to have a third party sign for the testator in the testator's conscious presence. The fact that the signature is not that of the testator alone should not be dispositive of the question of forgery.


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Roznovak's Services provides professional air conditioning system installation services in Austin, TX and the surrounding areas.
Whether you are investing in your first air conditioner or you need a replacement system installed, you need to know that it will be ready for action before the most brutal of the summer heat arrives in town. That is why we suggest that you schedule your air conditioner installation prior to the onset of the cooling season. That way you will be ready for action when the hottest stretch of the year is underway.
Trust us, we understand and appreciate the DIY enthusiasm that so many homeowners have. Just keep in mind that not every job, no matter how handy you may be, is DIY appropriate. Your AC installation in Austin, TX, for instance, certainly is not. Not only do you risk personal injury, poor efficiency levels, and damage to your system and your property if you attempt your own AC installation, but you may also void warranties on the system. This means that you will be footing the bill for any resulting issues. When you let a trained professional handle your AC installation, you won't have to worry about such problems.
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Post-Brexit trade deals 'may lower UK animal welfare standards'
(c) Sky News 2017: Post-Brexit trade deals 'may lower UK animal welfare standards'
Sky News 25 July 2017
The row over chlorinated chicken is set to intensify with a warning that cheap imported food could threaten farm animal welfare standards after Brexit.
The claim, from a powerful House of Lords committee, follows criticism of Liam Fox's controversial plans to allow chlorine-washed chicken from the US into the UK .
The International Trade Secretary, visiting Washington to negotiate a US-UK trade deal, has accused the British media of being "obsessed with chlorine-washed chickens".
But peers claim a post-Brexit increase in imports from countries operating lower farm animal welfare standards could put UK producers at a competitive disadvantage.
The warning comes from the House of Lords' EU energy and environment sub-committee in a report on the impact of Brexit on farm animal welfare.
:: Why Fox's chicken plan could ruffle feathers
"The UK has some of the highest farm animal welfare standards in the world and UK producers are rightly proud of those," said the sub-committee chairman and Liberal Democrat peer Lord Teverson.
"We see no reason why Brexit should diminish those, as long as the Government is aware of the challenges ahead and acts accordingly.
"We heard evidence of undeniable concern that opening up the UK market to free global trade poses a number of issues.
"The Government may find it hard to reconcile its free trade ambitions with its commendable desire for preserving high farm animal welfare standards.
"We heard overwhelming support for farm animal welfare standards to be maintained or improved.
"To help achieve that, we urge the Government to secure the inclusion of high farm animal welfare standards in any free trade agreements it negotiates after Brexit.
"Whilst Brexit provides the UK with the unique opportunity to review and potentially improve farm animal welfare standards, the Government will need to consider the effect of increasing standards on the competitiveness of UK producers as well the future trading relationship with the EU."
The report follows criticism of Dr Fox from Cabinet colleagues, opposition MPs (BSE: MPSLTD.BO - news) and environmentalists for pursuing a trade deal with the US which would include agriculture.
That would potentially mean cheap imports into the UK of chlorine-washed chicken, which is currently banned by the EU but is considerably cheaper than European-produced chicken.
During his Washington visit, Dr Fox was clearly irritated when he was asked in a post-speech Q&A if he would feel comfortable eating a chlorinated chicken.
"The British media are obsessed with chlorine-washed chickens, a detail of the very end stage of one sector of a potential free trade agreement," he said.
Dr Fox is reported to have said the Americans have been eating chlorinated chicken perfectly safely for years and that a meaningful trade deal must include agriculture.
But new Environment Secretary Michael Gove, who last week promised to deliver a "green Brexit", has insisted that British food standards should not be downgraded in any way.
And Mr Gove's predecessor, Leader of the Commons Andrea Leadsom, says poor quality imports could damage British farming.
Dr Fox was also ridiculed by Labour's shadow international trade secretary, Barry Gardiner.
"This just goes to show that you should never trust a Fox in your hen coop," said Mr Gardiner.
And James McGrory, executive director of the pro-Remain campaign group Open Britain, said it was time for Dr Fox to devour a chlorine-washed chicken
"If the International Trade Secretary wants the public to trust him, he needs to take the opportunity while he's in the US and devour a chlorine-washed chicken live on camera," said Mr McGrory.
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Fatal Car Accidents Spike on July 4th
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The Fourth of July Holiday is the worst time of the year for fatal car accidents, according to a study done by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The spike in road deaths on not only July 4th, but also on the 3rd and 5th, as well, likely comes from both drunk drivers and from motorcyclists, who are far less protected in a crash than people in cars.
Fatal Car Accidents Spike During July 4th Holiday
The 2016 study done by the IIHS looked at data collected by the federal Fatality Analysis Reporting System, an annual report on fatal car accidents in the U.S. The IIHS study then focused on when fatal car crashes happened from the five most recent years the data was made available – 2010 through 2014 – and averaged the numbers of deaths on any given day over that span.
The results of the study show that July 4th is the worst day for fatal car accidents in the country. Between 2010 and 2014, a total of 592 people died on the roads of the U.S. on July 4th. At an average of 118.4 deaths per year, this was 28 more fatalities than on a normal day. The only other day of the year that comes close to matching Independence Day's death toll is New Year's Day, which saw 591 fatalities over that time period. However, unlike January 1st, the days before and after July 4th are also dangerous, as well. The study found that, on July 5th, a total of 539 people were killed in car accidents, making July 5th the sixth most dangerous day to drive. July 3rd was only just outside of the ten worst days, with 533 road fatalities.
Based on the results of the study, on average, 332.8 people die over this three day period in car accidents, every year.
Alcohol and Motorcycles Contribute to the Increase
The IIHS study found that two of the leading factors behind the increase in the number of fatal accidents were alcohol and motorcycles.
According to the study, July 4th was second, behind only January 1st, for road fatalities in crashes involving at least one person with a blood alcohol content over the legal limit. On Independence Day, 47% of the road fatalities came from crashes where someone was drunk, well over the daily average of 35%.
However, unlike on New Year's, motorcycles increase the number of road deaths on July 4th, as well. More bikers are killed on July 4th than any other day of the year, with an average of 25.8 motorcyclists dying on Independence Day every year. This is more than double the daily average of 12.1. The increase comes from the fact that Independence Day happens in the summer months, when bikers on out on the roads, and from the fact that motorcyclists are far less protected in a crash than car occupants.
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Danbo and Big Danbo wanted to be involved in this week's Toybox 52 picture because they said they fitted the theme perfectly – it's Square. Since they have square heads, I guess they're right! They also suggested a game of Hop Scotch – more squares for you.
Danbo and Big Danbo enjoyed a little walk around the One World Garden at Hylands Park today. They were particularly surprised to find a plant with such vibrant purple berries on it and insisted I went over to have a look – they do know how I love purple!
Little Danbo gets a bit fed up with being upstaged by Big Danbo in pictures because he's nearly twice the size.
So today, little Danbo got his revenge by making Big Danbo stand a long way off by the Dolphins fountain while he stood right next to the camera.
I had to get down low to get the right effect – a great shot for this week's theme, Forced Perspective.
Today we went to London. Danbo and Big Danbo stowed away in my bag and enjoyed spending time with their Domo buddy Timmy, who lives with my friend Paola. We visited a museum and then went for a big slice of cake and a chat. Timmy was very keen to dive in, but at least the Danbos had a little more restraint!


At the beginning of The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy paints the horrifying image of the Huai River, a body of water running murky and thick with "garbage, yellow foam, and dead fish." The Huai has essentially become a trashcan for the factories operating nearby, a place to easily dispose of chemicals, dye, and miscellaneous waste. Despite its status as the fourth most polluted river system in China, upwards of 150 million Chinese citizens are dependent on Huai River as their water supply. In this river, Economy argues, lies the central paradox of the Chinese environmental approach as a whole – while economic and industrial prosperity can bring reform and environmental protection, the industry itself is contributing to China's already problematic levels of pollution and contamination.
Economy breaks down her book into eight sections, layering the history and context of the Chinese individual's relationship with nature atop the government's mentality of "first development, then environment," before delving in to the problems and possible outcomes of the environmental state. In particular, chapter two, which discussed the major religions of China and their bond with nature, was one of the book's highpoints, as it provided a rich insight into the importance of protecting these natural bodies of water and land.
Elizabeth C. Economy's The River Runs Black is a must-read for those looking for a comprehensive history and analysis of China's environmental situation. Additionally, those interested in globalized economy and the environmental future of the world should also invest in this book, as Economy discusses the influence of China's situation on the world. As a whole, The River Runs Black is well-written and well-structured with information that substantiates the relevance and significance of environmental reform in China.


Right before the sun finally sinks over the horizon, the most dramatic colors appear. Like magic, golden light shimmers across the lake water.
I'm hurrying to capture everything I can in photos and notes before the storm comes. I can almost hear the rain of the brief summer storm. I can certainly see the lightning in the not so distant clouds.
Summer storms make the most beautiful paintings. All that energy and light, and the brief respite from the summer heat. We welcome summer storms here in the South.
This beautiful moment before sunset is magical.


Microsoft Access and big data can be utilized together in the upcoming years.
Big data may be changing some older tools in some interesting ways. Microsoft Access is a prime example.
Microsoft first released the application nearly 25 years ago, but it has changed considerably over time.
According to many experts, big data will drive it in a new direction over the next couple of years. Here are some ways that Microsoft Access and big data can be utilized together in the upcoming years.
Microsoft Access is Already Available. Big Data Scientists Don't Need to Reinvent the Wheel.
A couple of years ago, Gigaom's Andrew Brust stated that big data needs a tool like Microsoft Access. He said that brands are seeking more self-service solutions for big data and a product like Microsoft Access would be its salvation.
Brust seems to underestimate the viability of Microsoft Access as a big data solution in its own right. While a more versatile application may be necessary for many applications, Microsoft Access is already a sufficient tool.
New features may need to be added to make it a truly viable solution. However, there are already many reasons to use Microsoft Access to process and query large amounts of data.
One of the benefits of Microsoft Access is that it can easily be connected to an SQL server. If you have never connected Access data to an SQL server before, you should follow the steps outlined in this article. The author points out that they can save you over a day's worth of unnecessary work.
You should also understand the basics of using search functions to handle data queries. IF queries are surprisingly effective.
Microsoft Access already has many features that big data scientists can use. However, additional functionality is needed.
One of the biggest changes is that Microsoft Access needs to be able to connect to cloud applications, such as Google Drive.
A future version of Microsoft Access must also include more query options and custom programming capabilities. You can already use VBA to handle many big data tasks. Many experts have highlighted the benefits of using VBA with Microsoft Excel to solve big data problems. However, Greg B Watson states that Access can actually be a better alternative for many big data VBA applications.
"Like MS Access, a physical Excel file can become very fragmented if a large number of rows are added and/or deleted multiple times. Unlike MS Access, Excel has no "compact and repair" function to merge the fragments. At some point, if an Excel file becomes too fragmented, it stops working.
Demand for big data capabilities is growing at an unprecedented pace. Unfortunately, many experts are struggling to roll out solutions that meet their needs. The good news is that many existing solutions already provide the functionality many people need.
Microsoft Access is already setup to handle many big data applications, especially if you use the right querying tools and are able to connect it to a SQL server. However, future Microsoft Access tools should be even more useful, since Microsoft is likely to introduce new features for big data applications.


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Exchange Of the Decade: Hilarity Ensues
See for yourself, per GMay in Comments: SWA CEO Caves
A quick note to our socialist would-be overlords:
When you think God died, and left you in charge of the universe, you better check your hole card, or you're going to be the bitch in that prison cell for a long, long time.
And if you think this isn't coming on a national scale, in about 0.2 seconds, you've got another think coming.
We aren't Australia.
Payback here is going to come with fishhooks on the tip of the spear, and rip you Vaxxholes a new @$$hole when it gets pulled out again.
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The Vaxx is now clearly and beyond rational argument nothing but a worthless hoax, with absolute risk of death or permanent disability. Requiring anyone to get it is tantamount to medically sanctioned torture on the order of the concentration camp medicine of Dr. Mengele, and deserves a robust kinetic response: shoot the motherf***ers requiring it in the face. Doubly so when half the Congressweasels and their staffs were getting HCQ and Ivermection protocol treatments rather than taking their chances with the medicine they mandated to the proles.
The blog's sincere condolences to anyone who took the Vaxx shots in good faith, but you've been well and truly had, and it gets worse for you from here on out.
Who should you be shouting at about that?
"Let's Go Brandon!"
Aesop at 7:18 AM
Bear Claw Chris Lapp October 13, 2021 at 10:44 AM
They said; https://youtu.be/334mBXSQgpo
We say; https://youtu.be/vQP-DW-HjHA
But again, you're cherry picking your data to try and make a political point.
Here's the current data as of today:
https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/update-on-local-covid-19-situation_13_October_2021
Of the cases in the last 28 days, only 1.1% required O2, 0.1% required ICU, and 0.2% died.
More importantly, the unvaccinated were vastly overrepresented in the number of people who were hospitalized or died. Despite the unvaxxed being only 15% of the population, they were more than half of the hospitalized census.
Most importantly, despite only representing 15% of the population of Singapore, the non-fully vaccinated represented 76% of the deaths in the last 28 days.
Look, I get you have a political/moral perspective that causes you to disagree with vaccine mandates. But the science is very clear that the vaccines work. Are they perfect? No - no vaccine is - but they're better than anything else we have.
By presenting incomplete misleading data, you're pumping a false propaganda line that helps nobody but friends of Vlad and Xi.
Aesop October 13, 2021 at 11:59 AM
@Anonymous Keyboard Commando 10:53:
Unfortunately for your narrative, the only people identified as vaxxed or unvaxxed in the referenced link were the pitifully few DEAD, which make up 0.1% of all cases. i.e. a total of 9 people, compared to 22,000 new cases, in a population that's 84% vaxxed, and the ICU/supplemental O2 cases, 0.2% & 1.1%, respectively, and where the split is identified as nearly 50:50.
Exactly none of those hospitalized overall were identified as vaxxed or unvaxxed.
So who is it again who's "cherry-picking data"?
So, if the vaxx "works", for any value of that term, tell the class how many cases they had of COVID in Singapore when the vaxx rate was 0%, say, a year ago, and compare and contrast that with today, with 84% vaccination.
I'll wait, while you fail to provide that information.
If you're going to link to something that you think makes your case, you should probably try reading it yourself before crying cock-a-doodle-doo, and you should definitely wait 3-4 weeks to see how many of those dead then, from infection now, are vaxxed or unvaxxed.
And go bandage your junk; it's bleeding where you trod upon it.
Mike Guenther October 13, 2021 at 1:44 PM
In Taiwan, COVID vaccination deaths surpassed actual COVID deaths.
Here's some interesting news.
https://medicaltrend.org/2021/10/10/taiwan-death-from-covid-19-vaccination-exceeds-death-from-covid-19/
Also in the news is information that a daily low dose aspirin can help mitigate COVID.
And just as fast, out is an article refuting the use of low dose aspirin by people over 60, to aid in stopping heart problems.
Everytime news about a less expensive treatment for COVID comes out, another news source comes out refuting that information.
All I gotta say is...Follow the money.
C October 13, 2021 at 1:44 PM
My SO was pressured by work into getting the vax. God help them if anything happens to her. Nobody else will be able to.
Sorry, you're still wrong.
Here's the data for the last 3 months showing, including the vaccinated rate among all hospitalized patients:
https://www.moh.gov.sg/docs/librariesprovider5/default-document-library/ceg_20211013_daily_report_on_covid-19.pdf
Until late August, fully vaccinated cases represented only about 25% of the total hospitalized population. Coinciding with the reopening of activities, the vaccinated hospitalized rate increased until now it's pretty consistently 60%.
What that number indicates is that roughly 60% of hospitalized patients who never required oxygen and were never admitted to the ICU were vaccinated. But who cares? Those are people who aren't very sick. Is your facility admitting anyone who doesn't have low sats? These are people who should be at home.
The numbers that really matter are the percentages of people who are actually meaningfully sick. By massive margins, it's the unvaxxed who are getting meaningfully sick and dying. Roughly 60% of the cases who required O2 were unvaxxed (despite being only 15% of the population), and again roughly 60% of the ICU cases are from the tiny unvaxxed population.
And of course, again, 75% of deaths came from the 15% of the population that was unvaxxed.
Year ago data is irrelevant to the current analysis, (a) because the much more virulent and transmissible Delta variant didn't exist, but more importantly, (b) Singapore was completely locked down, with foreign workers essentially locked in their dorms. The situation is far less restrictive now.
I would say that it must suck to know how poorly you actually understand this stuff, but it's clear that you have your head shoved so far up your own ass you have no idea just how clueless you are.
Virginia Granny October 14, 2021 at 10:20 AM
Yesterday, I spoke unto backdoor neighbor who (along with rest of her family) has been down with Covid for the past 2-3 weeks. None were hospitalized; none had lung issues, though a bit of "congestion" and sinus drip. Just very painful muscles and blinding headaches.
You know, I've been a working farmer for 50 years and I can't remember a single day that I didnt have muscle pain, headaches and various injuries, including broken bones, torn ligaments and muscles, and full-body osteo-arthritis and tendonitis. I've worked through pneumonia, bronchitis, and temps of 105+. Fifty years, with only 10 days off total for 2 C-Sections, a tubal ligation, and an ovario-hysterectomy (over a total period of 15 years).
I could have had Covid a dozen times and wouldn't have noticed. Same for the 40-something sons - getting tromped on by horses, pitching 50 lb. haybales and falling off recalcitrant tractors is not fun, but character-building.
My "Drink the Fauci Kool-Aid" GP warned me that I would End.Up.in.the.Hospital with Covid if I didnt get vaccinated. He was thoroughly insulted when I said that unless there was unstoppable bleeding (like a gunshot wound), broken bones sticking out, or I was totally unconscious and couldn't object, I was NOT GOING to the ER, Covid be damned.
BFYTW
Obviously, he doesn't have a lot of patients like me...and, at this point, I'm not entirely sure I still have a doctor! ;-)
I'll get over it.
Nice try, Fucktard, but no sale. Let me help you out:
What you said: Sorry, you're still wrong.
What you meant to say: Sorry, I was talking out of my ass, and nothing I claimed was in the page I referenced, so I shot a back azimuth, pulled my head out of my ass, and found the page that purports to document what I claimed with no proof whatsoever in my prior post. Sorry I spoke without any familiarity with what I misquoted.
What you said: Here's the data for the last 3 months showing, including the vaccinated rate among all hospitalized patients: https://www.moh.gov.sg/docs/librariesprovider5/default-document-library/ceg_20211013_daily_report_on_covid-19.pdf
No changes necessary. And hey, congrats on finally finding the page that actually shows what you claimed the other one did.
What you said: Until late August, fully vaccinated cases represented only about 25% of the total hospitalized population. Coinciding with the reopening of activities, the vaccinated hospitalized rate increased until now it's pretty consistently 60%. What that number indicates is that roughly 60% of hospitalized patients who never required oxygen and were never admitted to the ICU were vaccinated.
What you meant to say: Vaccination was largely a waste of time. As the rate of those vaccinated increased, so did the rate of the vaccinated admitted into hospitals, because the vaxx doesn't prevent infection, and it does a pretty shitty job even of preventing serious illness, which even looking at all cases in total only represents 1.4% of anyone, whereas 98.6% of cases requiring hospitalization are moderate at worst. Which is why hospitalizations increased right along with the vaxx rate, whereas an effective vaccine would have seen infections for the vaccinated dropping off the chart, instead of rising all along, among everyone.
What you said: But who cares?
What you meant to say: Here, let me move the goalposts, because after saying the unvaccinated were vastly more of those in hospital than the unvaccinated, it turns out I was wrong about that too; the vaccinated are the majority of those hospitalized as well, just as you noted. Let me now wave my hands and try openly bullshitting.
What you said: Those are people who aren't very sick.
What you meant to say:Look! A squirrel!
What you said: Is your facility admitting anyone who doesn't have low sats?
FOR THE RECORD, NO WE AREN'T, AND NEVER HAVE.
What you said: These are people who should be at home. The numbers that really matter are the percentages of people who are actually meaningfully sick.
What you meant to say: Here, let me go back to cherry-picking data, because the broad strokes I painted this in don't hold up to even cursory scrutiny; pardon me while I explain how I have a better handle on the data and proper medical treatment than do the combined medical training, experience, and judgement of the hundreds of medical doctors actually doing the work on the ground in Singapore, at the pointy end of things.
What you said: By massive margins, it's the unvaxxed who are getting meaningfully sick and dying. Roughly 60% of the cases who required O2 were unvaxxed (despite being only 15% of the population), and again roughly 60% of the ICU cases are from the tiny unvaxxed population. And of course, again, 75% of deaths came from the 15% of the population that was unvaxxed.
What you meant to say: Let me extrapolate wild conclusions from an infinitessimally small subset of all cases, where I seem to have a slight advantage at the moment, overlooking the fact that the reason most of the really sick are unvaxxed is that when they got sick weeks and months ago, 75% of the entire population of Singapore was unvaxxed. Oopsie, I forgot to mention that, didn't I?
Pay no attention to the fact that throwing out numbers like "75%" refers to a difference of only 3 cases out of 9, which is statistically referred to in the trade as a "rounding error", and functionally insignificant, with no conclusions capable of being drawn from a data set that could comfortably fit inside the same public men's room on any average day.
What you said: Year ago data is irrelevant to the current analysis, (a) because the much more virulent and transmissible Delta variant didn't exist, but more importantly, (b) Singapore was completely locked down, with foreign workers essentially locked in their dorms. The situation is far less restrictive now.
What you meant to say: Look, if you're going to point out that the virus has exploded commensurate with the exact worthless vaccinations that I'm pimping, I shall have to move the goalposts, point to "Delta variants" which no one in the civilized world is testing for to any degree measurable nor reported upon, because it isn't happening, and whose stated prevalence absent any objective data from anywhere is an article of faith akin to global warming and the existence of Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster; then I shall follow up by sticking my fingers in my ears, and singing Polly Wolly Doodle All The Day at the top of my lungs rather than face that reality. Stop bringing facts into a discussion that hurts my feelings, and which data set tends to make the whole vaxx idea look pretty shady from beginning to end.
What you said: I would say that it must suck to know how poorly you actually understand this stuff, but it's clear that you have your head shoved so far up your own ass you have no idea just how clueless you are.
What you meant to say: I have no other recourse at this point but to resort to "You're a poopyhead because you disagree with me, and those damned facts don't back up my recockulous assertions!" ad hominems, because the actual data, even from one country, don't show much improvement over doing nothing at all, with the added benefit that the unvaxxed have 99.99% fewer side effects, including death, and 100% fewer side effects such as stroke, heart attacks, myocarditis, pulmonary embolisms, stroke, blindness, or a few hundred other sequelae of the experimental gene therapies I'm shilling for with every fiber of my being, despite any evidence from my own lying eyes, and you can't make me admit that, no matter how many countries, like Israel, Australia, etc. show the exact same correlation between vaccination and disaster. Damn! Damn! Damn it all! Aiyee! I am undone!!!
Thanks for playing; we have some lovely parting gifts for you.
Mike Guenther October 14, 2021 at 12:26 PM
And to add insult to injury, Anonymous, in Waterford, Ireland, where over 99% of the population has been vaccinated, there is a huge surge in COVID cases.
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/covid-is-surging-in-waterford-ireland-where-99-7-percent-are-double-vaccinated/
I reckon the view from your current position is pretty shitty, if you catch my drift.
John Wilder October 14, 2021 at 8:53 PM
The bluff is being called.
Remove consent.


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