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Q: Can't access resources in application level I have defined an Application.Resource in the App.xaml file of the project,
<Application.Resources>
    <resx:LocalizedStrings xmlns:resx="clr-namespace:Workshop" x:Key="LocalizedStrings"/>
</Application.Resources>

and this is the LocalizedStrings class
public class LocalizedStrings
{
    private static AppResources _localizedResources = new AppResources();

    public AppResources LocalizedResources { get { return _localizedResources; } }
}

and in the Window level when I try to use this resource it fails
<Label Content="{Binding Path=LocalizedResources.Title, Source={StaticResource LocalizedStrings}}" />

It throws and exception: Additional information: 'Provide value on 'System.Windows.StaticResourceExtension' threw an exception.' Line number '20' and line position '28'.
I need to mention that this is a desktop application written in c# and when I use the resource in window level it works fine. I don't know what the problem is?


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January 10, 2008 February 6, 2020 Grim D. Reaper #grmdrpr
Review: 'Harry Potter and The Order of the Phoenix'
Both the worst book to film adaptation to date as well as twenty minutes too short.
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) returns to Hogwart's School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his fifth year. Joined by his friends Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint), Harry finds himself the target of the Ministry of Magic for daring to proclaim to the world that Lord Voldemorte (Ralph Fiennes) has returned. A secret group called the Order of the Phoenix knows the truth and is working against You-Know-Who, but when the Ministry accuses Headmaster Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) of using the Voldemorte rumor to undermine the Ministry for his own gains, the wicked Dolores Umbridge (Imelda Staunton) is installed at Hogwarts to "restore order" to the school, mostly in the form of capital punishment. Can Harry and the entire fifth year class survive knowing that Hogwarts may no longer be safe against He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named?
The effects keep getting better as the story keeps getting darker for Harry Potter and company. But unlike the previous film, The Goblet of Fire, which was expertly edited from the book that inspired it with only small changes to the story, too much seems to be missing from the final cut of The Order of the Phoenix. While it's true that I am comparing the book to the film, the problem is that I would have no clue about too many very important things if hadn't read the books.
There are three particular problems in the film that stand out in my mind. The first is the character of Cho Chang, whom Harry started seeing after her boyfriend was killed at the end of the last film; rather than deal with the relationship, an abrupt change from the original story and the logical follow through is presented to gloss over the entire affair (nor is it ever addressed again for the rest of the film). The second is the entire pacing of the film; instead of transitioning from scene to scene to show the passing of time throughout the school year, Phoenix is edited like a highlight reel from a miniseries rather than a complete story, skipping carelessly from this to that with little thought as to when. Finally, in an apparent effort to craft the most special-effects filled ending of the series to date, the carefully thought-out logic to how and why magic works in the Potter universe is thrown out; characters move at super speed one moment and ridiculously slow to act the next, a door kills people who step though it for no apparent reason, and the good guys are either not paying attention or are using the kids for bait for no logical reason.
True, this is nitpicking, but outside of the James Bond series, film franchises aren't usually as richly imagined that go on for seven (planned) installments, and considering that each film spends $150 million minimum, it's a lot to gamble on. Perhaps the current director or editor wasn't sure what to do with the sudden doubling of the cast, or perhaps changes were made to the adapted screenplay as the film progressed. Whatever the case, the DVD apparently includes an extra footage and cut scenes, which is even more interesting considering that this was the shortest Potter film on record.
Make no mistake; this Harry Potter film is still a good movie. The inclusion of "Looney" Luna Lovegood (Evanna Lynch) was an especially welcome change to the traditional group dynamic, and Lynch stole practically every scene she was in. Only true fans of the books will notice many of these shortcomings, but I must hope that this was a fluke or misstep, not a sign of things to come. With two more films in the works and the final fate of all J.K. Rawlings beloved characters already in print, it would be sad to see such a great beginning squandered for the sake of a few flashy effects rather than the story that was previously the star. And yes, I'll cast my vote here to let Guillermo Del Toro direct the final Harry Potter film!
(a three skull recommendation out of four)
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Rita's new Twizzlers flavor is here.
There's nothing better on a summer afternoon—or fall morning or spring night, it really doesn't matter—than a Cherry water ice from Rita's. It is one of my all-time favorite snacks and I will go to the grave on that. (I would also like to go to my grave buried in a vat of Cherry water ice, if the law allows.) The actual cherry flavoring is just about the perfect artificial flavor and the chunks of real cherries are always a delightful surprise.
Over the years, I have watched Rita's go from a somewhat-small local brand of water ice shops to the juggernaut it's become, with over 600 stores in 33 states and several other countries. Just like its locations have expanded, so has its menu. You can now get everything from Stuffed Blendinis to frozen custard cakes. The water ice flavors—now called "Italian ice," which I refuse to say 'cause we all know what it's called—have expanded at a quick clip as well. There's Florida Orange, Guava, Chocolate Chocolate Chip, even Peanut Butter & Jelly. Yet still, regular old Cherry is my favorite and if that's wrong, I don't want to be right.
Every once in awhile, the chain will partner with another company to create a water ice flavor based on another product. There have been flavors based on Swedish Fish, Sour Patch Kids, Peeps, even a Phillies Phlavor, which we previously reviewed. Later on this year, they will also unveil a collaboration with Hawaiian Punch.
Their most recent team-up is with Twizzlers to create a flavor—(get this!)—that tastes like Twizzlers. The classic red strawberry Twizzlers twists to be exact.
Rita's new Twizzlers Italian Ice.
It's an interesting choice. No doubt Twizzlers are the most famous licorice on the planet, slightly above generic black licorice which is only famous because nobody likes it. Despite their long and storied history, Twizzlers are still a big-selling candy and movie theater staple. There are many different variations and flavors, even ones based on Florida in the Flavors of America candy line. Coincidentally, this is Rita's first flavor collaboration with Hershey's, which owns the Twizzlers brand.
The Twizzlers ice is a similar red shade to the candy but also to many of Rita's flavors. The first thing I noticed is the change of texture between the original. Licorice is hard and chewy, while water ice is soft and almost unchewable. This is the kind of raw expertise that you can only get from a snack scholar such as myself.
This is the kind of raw expertise that you can only get from a snack scholar such as myself."
When it came to taste, they pretty much nailed the flavor of strawberry Twizzlers. There's a dull sweetness to the original that's never overwhelming, and the water ice version has that down to a 'T'. It's close enough that it tastes like they actually froze and chopped up the twists. Unfortunately, there weren't any bits of diced Twizzlers like cherries in the Cherry water ice, but maybe it'd be too much of a mess with the stickiness of the licorice.
It's close enough that it tastes like they actually froze and chopped up the twists."
This is definitely a more subtle flavor than others on the menu, including Rita's regular Strawberry flavor. This is strictly for fans of Twizzlers. If you really love Twizzlers, you could get one of the twists and bite the ends off so you can use it like a straw. I think that'll work.
Verdict: Perhaps not as satisfying for non-Twizzler fans, if you enjoy the candy, this flavor won't let you down.


Chaikin Money Flow Explained with Trading Strategy & Examples.
Throughout our site in both tutorial and screener, if we have given maximum emphasis on a parameter after price then it is volume. Other indicators give leads but it is volume which gives stamp of approval to signal. Because of this reason various volume based indicators emerged and some of the prominent ones are Money Flow Index(MFI), On Balance Volume(OBV), Accumulation Distribution Index (ADI) and Chaikin Money Flow(CMF).
Chaikin Money Flow or CMF was developed by Mark Chaikin. His other significant contribution to technical analysis was Accumulation Distribution Line (ADL).
Greater details of price volume correlation include Volume precedes price, rising Volume in uptrend and price volume divergence is explained here. We recommend to read it together with CMF to have deeper understanding as some of the terms used in current article, is well explained there.
CMF is an indicator that tries to measure buying pressure versus selling pressure. Unlike OBV, it is much simpler to interpret as its value oscillates in positive or negative territory. Positive value signals Money flowing in or accumulation while negative value means money moving out of the stock. Value of CMF is calculated based on last n trading session typically 20 or 21, because of this it reflect most recent change in stock movement.
Though TopStockResearch uses 21 days period, Usage of 20 days period is also common among tech Analyst.
1. It is important to highlight that just relying on CMF movement from negative territory to positive territory is itself not a complete signal. In choppy market you may get many such false signals.
2. Rather than absolute value, duration of +ve territory tells better about accumulation.
3. Momentum of CMF tells more than simply higher value.
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2.Gaps: CMF value gets unreliable when there are big gaps.


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Taking Lives grossed an estimated $3m and 547,000 admissions from1,967 screens in 39 territories through Warner Bros Pictures International atthe weekend, raising its international cumulative total to $18.2m.
The thriller opened in theUK on $575,000 on 258 screens, which by comparison was roughly 52% better thanthe opening of High Crimes inlate 2002.
Taking Lives opened second in Holland on $247,000 on 49,approximately the same as the opening of Kiss The Girls in 1998 and 31% better than Along Came A Spider in 2001.
The romantic comedy Something'sGotta Give added $1.1m with 248,000admissions from 970 screens in 46 territories, raising its internationalrunning total to $136.9m.


The next morning Bolos was back at work, crouching beside her husband in a sweltering greenhouse, tending and harvesting the produce that has helped make Italy the biggest grower and exporter of fruit and vegetables in Europe. The province of Ragusa is the third-largest producer of vegetables in Europe.
During her time on the farm, Bolos says, workers were given scarcely habitable accommodation, fed cat food for their evening meal and were refused medical treatment. At night, Bolos and the other female Romanian workers became entertainment for the farmer and his friends, repeatedly raped and abused over many years.
"When I came here I thought I was coming to a hard but decent job in another European country, but we ended up as slaves," she says.
Hidden among fields of flapping white plastic tents across Ragusa province, 5,000 Romanian women like Bolos are working as seasonal agricultural workers. Their treatment is a growing human rights scandal, being perpetrated with almost complete impunity.
An Italian migrant rights organisation, the Proxyma Association, estimates that more than half of all Romanian women working in the greenhouses are forced into sexual relations with their employers. Almost all of them work in conditions of forced labour and severe exploitation.
Police say they believe that up to 7,500 women, the majority of whom are Romanian, are living in slavery on farms across the region. Guido Volpe, a commander in the carabinieri military police in Sicily, told the Observer that Ragusa was the centre of exploitation on the island.
Many of the Romanian women leave children and dependent families at home and feel forced into making the desperate choices that have carved deep lines of grief into Bolos's face.
The Observer spoke to 10 Romanian women working on farms in Ragusa. All detailed routine sexual assault and exploitation, including working 12-hour days in extreme heat with no water, non-payment of wages and being forced to live in degrading and unsanitary conditions in isolated outbuildings. Their working days often include physical violence, being threatened with weapons and being blackmailed with threats to their children and family.
Migrant workers arriving at the bus station in the town of Vittoria.
Professor Alessandra Sciurba from the University of Palermo co-wrote a report in 2015 that documented the abuse that Romanian women in Sicily were facing. She says conditions are worse now.
Prosecutor Valentina Botti is pursuing multiple charges of sexual assault and labour exploitation against farmers. She says that the abuse of Romanian women is a "huge phenomenon".
"Kidnapping, sexual assault and keeping people in slavery are three major crimes we have detailed in our investigations to date," she says.
Eliza, a 45-year-old Romanian women, told the Observer that she felt she had no choice when her new employer pulled her into a shed on her first day at work.
The huge rise in the number of Romanian women seeking abortions in Sicily is also alarming medical professionals and human rights groups. According to Proxyma, while Romanian women make up only 4% of the female population of Ragusa province, they account for 20% of registered abortions.
Working conditions are in some cases highly dangerous. One young Romanian woman told us that she became sick when she was forced to handle and work with agricultural chemicals without protective clothing. "I had to handle foods covered in pesticides and it made me really sick. I was coughing and I couldn't breathe," she says.
Those who did report their abuse to the authorities said they then often found themselves unable to find work elsewhere.
Eventually, Nicoleta Bolos's nightly ordeals proved too much. She fled the farm and her husband but was left without work and unable to send money home to her two young children in Romania. By the time her friends had raised enough money for her bus ticket home, she had lost legal custody of both children. They are now living with her ex-husband's uncle and she has not been allowed any contact since. Yet despite the abuse, she returned to work in Ragusa, taking the 50-hour bus journey from Botosani, in Romania, back to Sicily and the greenhouses.
Opportunities for casual farm work in Ragusa are abundant. In recent years, Italian exports of fresh fruit and vegetables have grown and are now worth some €366m a year. Much of this produce is grown in the 5,000 farms across Ragusa province.
Italian agriculture has for many years been heavily reliant on migrant labour. One farming group, Coldiretti, estimates that about 120,000 migrants are working in the sector in southern Italy.
After years of damaging allegations of exploitation and a resulting clampdown by the Italian government, Sicilian farmers who once filled their greenhouses with undocumented migrants and refugees arriving by boat have turned to migrant workers from within the EU.
The number of Romanian women travelling to work in Sicily has increased hugely over the past decade. According to official figures, only 36 Romanian women were working in Ragusa province in 2006, rising to more than 5,000 this year. Romanians overtook Tunisians this year as the largest group working in Ragusa's fields.
Gianfranco Cunsolo, president of Coldiretti in Ragusa, says he has no choice but to pay low wages.
"The exploitation of workers in Ragusa is also the consequence of EU policies," he says. "I don't want to justify the actions of farmers and greenhouse owners who pay low wages to migrant workers, but these people often don't feel they have any alternative if they are to compete with other European markets.
Under Italian law, farm owners must provide seasonal workers with official contracts and a daily wage of €56 for an eight-hour day. Yet Romanian women arriving in Sicily often find a more brutal reality.
"Romanian women are paid three times less than the wage required by law, and most of them don't have legal contracts," says Scifo. Many of the women interviewed by the Observer say they are rarely paid more than €20 a day.
Yet there is little political or economic incentive for the authorities to take action and end the abuse. Although the police say they have dozens of open cases and ongoing prosecutions, only one farmer has so far been charged and convicted of abusing Romanian women.
Nicoleta Bolos and family in their accommodation inside one of the warehouses on the farm.
Attempts to raise the issue in the Italian parliament have floundered. In 2015, MP Marisa Nicchi launched a parliamentary inquiry into slavery among Romanian workers in Ragusa and asked the prime minister to launch an investigation.
In Ragusa, local politicians say that they are trying to provide services to Romanian workers facing abuse. Giovanni Moscato, who last June became mayor of Vittoria, a town in the west of Ragusa province, said the exploitation was persisting because too many economic interests were being served at present, but that the city was opening a hostel to shelter Romanian women fleeing violent employers.
Since returning to Italy, Nicoleta Bolos has met a Romanian man and had two other children. She reported her previous employer to the police, and the man was charged with labour exploitation but his case has yet to come to trial.
Now, she says, she is sick of the abuse. She has decided to go public with her story in an attempt to get justice for herself and other Romanian women caught in a web of exploitation and impunity. Holding her baby and sitting on a cracked plastic chair, she gestures at their home. The walls are wet with damp and there is no heating or running water.
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Lessons from the frontline: how to stop the spread of COVID-19
By Mia Hunt on 26/03/2020
Countries like China, South Korea, Taiwan and Singapore have managed to slow the spread of infection and have either maintained, or are starting to get back to, normal life. (Photo by Nicolò Lazzati via flickr).
Countries have adopted very different approaches to combating coronavirus – and had wildly different results. Mia Hunt explains how some Far Eastern countries have successfully prevented its spread, and identifies the errors that led Italy to disaster
In 2015, former Microsoft chief Bill Gates gave a TED talk entitled 'The next outbreak? We're not ready'. In it, he predicted with sobering accuracy the world's current predicament. And many western countries clearly weren't remotely ready: in Italy, Spain and the UK infections and deaths are spiralling, while movement controls bring economies to a standstill. But some Far Eastern nations have managed to control the virus's spread while maintaining people's ability to travel and work. Countries that have yet to suffer widespread infections still have time to save their economies and people's freedoms – but only if they act quickly to replicate the strategies that have proved so effective overseas.
At last count, 172 countries had confirmed coronavirus cases. The outbreak started in the city of Wuhan, China, in December. The Chinese government and Wuhan officials have been heavily criticised for initially covering up the virus, silencing medics and denying reports of a new virus. The delay has had huge costs: a study published in March indicated that if Chinese authorities had acted three weeks earlier to impose controls, the number of Chinese coronavirus cases could have been reduced by 95%. Had they acted just one week later, the study found, the number of victims would have tripled.
China: cover-up then shut-down
However, when China did act, it did so robustly. On 23 January, six weeks after the first cases were discovered, Wuhan and three other cities – with a combined population of 58 million – were put into lockdown and movement out of the area barred. By that date, the country had recorded 800 infections and 25 deaths.
Within the quarantine area, movement was tightly controlled while the government acted to trace and isolate infected people. Those identified in testing – some of it involving house to house searches – were ordered to remain in their homes, supplied by daily visits by heavily-protected workers. And their isolation was carefully policed, with measures including stationing guards outside apartment buildings; encouraging residents to monitor each other's activities; having people scan QR codes to prove they had not broken isolation rules; using tracking apps and data from state-owned telecoms firms; and arresting people for minor infringements.
Not all of these measures could be comfortably replicated in democracies (though western governments are rapidly taking powers to replicate many of them), but the lockdown and isolation measures have proved successful in halting the virus's spread. Three months after one of the earliest known patients began feeling ill on 10 December 2019, China reported that the number of new cases had dropped to almost zero.
South Korea: stumble and recovery
South Korea is the only other badly hit country to have flattened the curve of new infections. On 29 February, the country recorded 909 new cases. But within a week, the number of new cases had halved. It halved again over the next four days, and then within a single day.
As in China, mass testing to identify those infected – whether or not they displayed symptoms – was key to success. The country has conducted over 300,000 coronavirus tests: far more than any other country, and 40 times more than the US on a per-capita basis. Not only did this enable it to isolate and treat scores of people soon after they were infected – segregating mild cases in special centres, to prevent hospitals being overwhelmed – it also helped to impress the seriousness of the situation on the nation. Infected people were ordered to isolate themselves, downloading an app to track their movements; violations attract fines of up to US$2,500.
"South Korea banked on people changing their behaviour as a result of massive testing," Michael Mina, assistant professor at the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard University told Wired. "And that has shown pretty extraordinary benefit to curbing an epidemic that was really roaring."
The US and South Korea have opened drive-through testing hubs. (Photo by Airman 1st Class Brooke Moeder/US Air Force).
The government acted fast to increase its testing capacity. Just one week after the country's first citizen was diagnosed in late January, government officials met with representatives from several medical companies. They urged the companies to begin developing coronavirus test kits for mass production: it is now manufacturing 10,000 kits a day and, according to The New York Times, officials say they are in talks with 17 foreign governments about exporting them.
In total, South Korea has opened 600 testing centres – 50 of them drive-throughs. In an interview with the BBC the country's foreign minister, Kang Kyung-wha, said mass testing had played a crucial role in keeping its fatality rate down. And testing was supported with other measures, including the use of thermal cameras and remote thermometers in offices, hotels and restaurants to identify people with fevers. In combination, the measures allowed authorities to pinpoint and deal with pockets of infection without the need to limit people's movement en masse.
South Korea: clear public messaging
Equally importantly, South Korea has been relentless – and very clear – in its public messaging. Visitors from abroad are required to download an app that guides them through self-checks for symptoms; citizens' mobile phones receive emergency alerts whenever new cases are discovered in their districts; and websites and apps provide detailed timelines of infected people's movements, allowing others who may have been exposed to get tested.
Meanwhile, television broadcasts and train station announcements remind people to practice social distancing and disseminate other important information.
The New York Times reported that polls show majority approval for the government's efforts and that confidence is high, panic low, and hoarding unusual. "Public trust has resulted in a very high level of civic awareness and voluntary cooperation that strengthens our collective effort," Lee Tae-ho, South Korea's vice minister of foreign affairs, told reporters earlier this month.
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has hailed South Korea as demonstrating that containing the virus "can be done", and urged countries to "apply the lessons learned in Korea and elsewhere".
Taiwan: prevent entry
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore also acted early and fast – and have managed to keep a lid on infections. In all three countries, cases have not exceeded more than a few hundred cases and deaths remain in single digits.
Taiwan – which is only 81 miles from mainland China – managed to delay its first case until just 10 days before the virus reached Italy. The government started tracing and testing passengers from Wuhan as soon as China warned of a new type of pneumonia in the city in December. "Suspected cases were screened for 26 viruses, including SARS and MERS," according to a Stanford Health Policy report. "Passengers displaying symptoms were quarantined at home and assessed whether medical attention at a hospital was necessary."
Governments which don't act swiftly are in danger of overwhelming healthcare services. (Image courtesy: The Kremlin).
Determined to understand what they were up against, Taiwanese officials went on a fact-finding mission to China. By late January, the government had established the Central Epidemic Command Center, centralising policy measures to protect public health. Business Insider reported that 124 safety protocols were then introduced, including banning flights from Wuhan; introducing social distancing and contact-tracing protocols; and deploying public-health infrastructure, data analytics, affordable healthcare, and extensive educational outreach in the fight against the virus.
Singapore: detective work
As in other Far East countries, Singapore has kept coronavirus in check through aggressive testing methods, intensive tracing of carriers and clear public messaging. Throughout, schools have remained open and businesses operational.
As in Taiwan, Singapore increased security at its borders as soon as news of the virus emerged from China. Meanwhile it mobilised scientists to start developing testing kits, which were later deployed in a mass testing drive. And it set up a dedicated 6,000-strong team who use CCTV footage and interviews to meticulously track down the contacts of confirmed cases. More recently, the Singapore government launched the TraceTogether app: this tracks people's movements, enabling the government to identify anyone who's spent more than 30 minutes in the company of someone later diagnosed with the virus.
All those who may have been exposed are then contacted and told to self-isolate until they can be tested and cleared. Those in isolation are contacted several times a day, and required to send photographic evidence of their exact location. Stiff fines or even jail terms await those who break the rules.
Singapore has now identified 683 cases, and suffered just two deaths.
Italy: delay – then total lockdown
In stark contrast, Italy – which reported its first cases a week after Singapore – has now suffered more than 74,000 cases and 5,500 deaths. The country has now imposed some of the toughest measures in the world, allowing people out of their homes only for solitary exercise, grocery shopping or medical treatment; violators face fines of up to US$3,200 or three-month jail terms. But during February officials played down the seriousness of the situation, and failed to introduce widespread testing and tracing measures.
As the situation worsened, they took a piecemeal approach to lockdown – isolating towns, then regions, before barring movement throughout the country. Forewarned that northern cities would be entering lockdown, many people fled south – carrying the virus with them. And while the president of the Veneto region ordered blanket testing, central government said it was a drain on resources. By the time the whole country went into lockdown on 9 March, 7,375 people had tested positive and 366 had died.
"If we had shut everything in the beginning, for two weeks, probably now we would be celebrating victory," Attilio Fontana, president of the worst-affected Lombardy region, is reported as saying.
"Now we are running after it," Sandra Zampa, the under secretary at the country's Ministry of Health, told the The New York Times. Her assessment is that the country looked at the example of China not as a practical warning, but as a "science fiction movie that had nothing to do with us". And when the virus exploded, Europe, she said, "looked at us the same way we looked at China".
Italian PM Giuseppe Conte at an emergency coronavirus meeting on 23 February. (Image courtesy: Dipartimento Protezione Civile via flickr).
Although Italy was the first country in Europe to block flights coming in and out of China, prime minister Giuseppe Conte is understood to have ignored an earlier plea by officials to quarantine schoolchildren in the northern regions who, some being from Chinese immigrant families, were returning from holidays in China. Later, calls for tougher national measures by healthcare officials were also ignored. And senior politicians sent out mixed messages: the foreign minister was disparaging about media coverage highlighting the threat of contagion; Milan's mayor publicised the 'Milan Doesn't Stop' campaign, encouraging residents to continue living as normal; and Nicola Zingaretti, leader of the country's governing Democratic Party and president of the Lazio region, posted a photo of himself clinking glasses for "an aperitivo in Milan" and urged people not to change their habits.
The mixed messages, lack of concerted testing and late, staged lock-down measures allowed the virus to overwhelm health services, leading to very high death rates among new patients.
The UK: following Italy's path?
In the UK, the government's messages were initially confused – apparently due to tensions between prime minister Boris Johnson's aides and the government's scientific and medical advisers. While Johnson advised people to begin 'social distancing', working from home and avoiding social events, newspapers were being briefed that the government might allow enough people to become infected to create a 'herd immunity'. And Johnson himself was plainly uncomfortable with heavy-handed measures, acknowledging that ordering pubs and restaurants to close was an infringement on the "inalienable free-born right of people born in England to go to the pub".
UK PM Boris Johnson announces tougher restrictions as he addresses the nation from Downing Street on 23 March. (Photo by Andrew Parsons/No 10 Downing Street via flickr).
But as the number of infections rose and further evidence emerged of the likely death rates if hospital services were overwhelmed, the advice was strengthened. On 16 March, Johnson advised against going to the pub; a week later, he introduced lockdown. By then, 6,650 had tested positive for coronavirus and 335 people had died – numbers that are close to Italy's at the point lockdown was imposed.
Neither Italy nor the UK adopted mass testing or made concrete efforts to trace people who might have been infected. And the UK still looks very slow on the medical front: even NHS workers are not being routinely tested, and health services are short of protective equipment, respirators and hospital beds. Already, some parts of the NHS are being overwhelmed: when one London hospital trust ran out of intensive care beds, it saw 21 deaths in four days. It has been reported that intensive care doctors and nurses are receiving training on who to prioritise – and therefore, effectively, who to allow to die – in cases where hospital beds and life-saving equipment are not available for all patients. The next few days will decide whether the UK acted quickly enough to avoid Italy's fate.
Learn the lessons
Italy's experience represents a warning to countries that still have time to contain the contagion. Though some measures – such as the tracking apps which have helped identify infected people in the Far East – would raise concerns about freedom and privacy in many countries, the lockdowns in place across vast swathes of Europe leave people with far less personal freedom than that enjoyed by Taiwanese and Singaporeans today. And there are less controversial measures that can be put in place everywhere: the preparation and expansion of health services; widespread testing and tracing; social distancing and personal quarantine measures; and clear messaging. Together, these actions have prevented infections spiralling out of control in Far Eastern nations, avoiding both high death rates and general lockdowns.
As Bill Gates warned, much of the world was not ready for the arrival of COVID-19. But some countries responded rapidly and effectively to protect their citizens – and others, where infection rates remain low, still have the chance to do so. The governments which have failed to react well, leading to huge personal and economic harm, will soon have to explain to their citizens why they got it so wrong. It is not too late for those as yet relatively unharmed to ensure that, when the time comes, they have a happier story to tell.
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About Mia Hunt
Mia is a journalist and editor with a background in covering commercial property, having been market reports and supplements editor at trade title Property Week and deputy editor of Shopping Centre magazine, now known as Retail Destination. She has also undertaken freelance work for several publications including the preview magazine of international trade show, MAPIC, and TES Global (formerly the Times Educational Supplement) and has produced a white paper on energy efficiency in business for E.ON. Between 2014 and 2016, she was a member of the Revo Customer Experience Committee and an ACE Awards judge. Mia graduated from Kingston University with a first-class degree in journalism and was part of the team that produced The River newspaper, which won Publication of the Year at the Guardian Student Media Awards in 2010.
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5 Times On 'Sesame Street' Where Big Bird Incorrectly Explained To A Kid That Each Of The Pink Rings Around His Legs Represents 100 Years That He's Been Alive
Big Bird has long been educating kids on some of life's most important lessons, but that doesn't mean everything he says is always a grand slam. Here are five times on Sesame Street where Big Bird incorrectly explained to a kid that each of the pink rings around his legs represents 100 years that he's been alive.
1. The time Big Bird called an audible mid-episode by changing the Word of the Day from 'sharing' to 'quasi-eternal'
Everything was par for the course on the April 9, 1998 episode of Sesame Street until it came time for the daily Word Of The Day segment. Just as Bert and Ernie were finishing up a staged argument over which one of them could use their toaster, which was just meant as a way to get into the definition of "sharing," Big Bird interrupted with something he figured was far more important:
"Wait, hold on, no one cares about what you two are doing," Big Bird suddenly blurted out as he walked into frame to stand in front of Bert and Ernie and face the group of onlooking kids. "You are boring everyone to tears, and in any event, I have something far more important to say that I just remembered. I'm going with my gut right now and am deciding that today's Word Of The Day is now "quasi-eternal," which means to basically live forever but not quite. One great example of "quasi-eternal" is me. I don't think I ever told you guys this, but each of the pink rings circling my fleshy orange legs represents 100 years that I've been alive. There are now eight rings in total, which means I'm 800 years old. To all of you, I must surely seem like I've been around forever, but I'm actually just very old. That makes me quasi-eternal, like an alien or an ocean. Every night, I pray to understand what I'm meant to do with the extra time I've been given, but no god ever hears me."
All the surrounding kids and Muppets stared quietly at Big Bird during his long, wildly incorrect speech until he finally petered out while proudly talking about how he's older than the atomic bomb, at which point Elmo kind of laughed and said, "You're funny, Big Bird," which got everyone laughing little. After that Big Bird just blankly stared down at the ground for the rest of the episode, seeming like he was pretty deep in thought.
2. The time Big Bird argued against Elmo's lesson about the importance of oral hygiene by saying that he's never once cleaned his mouth and has lived for almost 1,000 years
It didn't take long for Big Bird to once again fire off his insanely incorrect explanation about his age. The very next day, on April 10, 1998, right as Elmo was about to throw to an animated segment about the importance of going to the dentist, a clearly stewing Big Bird angrily interrupted Elmo to talk about the pink rings around his legs:
"You were out of line yesterday, you little bug," Big Bird barked at Elmo as he was wrapping up a short little song about mouthwash. It was clear that Big Bird had spent basically all of his time since yesterday's episode thinking about what retort he was going to shout at Elmo. "When I was explaining how each of my pink rings represents 100 years I've been alive, you said I was being funny, but I wasn't being funny. It's true. You can read me like a turtle or a tree stump. One ring equals 100 years. I was here before the buildings. I was here before the telescope. I was here before Paris. I was here before you and your weird little hamster-man ancestors. I could snap you like a twig, you little worm."
Then Big Bird turned to the kids who were watching this spectacle in stunned silence. "Kids, don't listen to this weak little worm, this snail. You don't have to brush your teeth. You don't have to go to the dentist. Take me as an example. According to the pink rings on my legs, I'm 800 years old, and I've never once brushed my teeth. It's boring and lonely because you almost always have to do it while you're alone, so I just don't. If you never go to the dentist, you can live just as long as me. If you don't wash out your mouth, you'll never put your parents through the hardship of your death, because you'll outlive them by hundreds of years. Listen to me."
Having said his final piece on the matter for the time being, Big Bird then walked past Elmo, did a quick a fake punch wind-up in the confused Muppet's face that made him flinch like crazy, and then laughed and muttered, "Exactly," before walking offstage. The rest of the episode was pretty tense from then on out.
3. The time Jack Black made a guest appearance to help Grover teach a lesson about octagons and Big Bird interrupted to ask Jack Black if he'd instead like to teach the kids how Big Bird could possibly be centuries old
Jack Black and Grover were midway through a perfectly fine segment about octagons having eight sides and eight points during an episode on March 20, 2005 when Big Bird somehow got it in his head that Jack Black was annoyed by how easy the lesson was and wanted to teach the kids something more challenging:
"This is obviously child's play for Jack Black," Big Bird piped up while walking into frame. "Everyone here knows what an octagon is, and if you don't, you should turn yourself into your guidance counselor right now because there is something wrong with you. I think Jack Black would enjoy himself more with a more challenging lesson, so here is a new one that he could try taking a crack at: Each of the pink rings around my legs represents 100 years that I've been alive, which currently marks me at 800 years old. I am older than democracy itself. I cut my teeth with Genghis Khan. But how can that be? The answer lies in my size. I'm so large, basically the size of a golf cart up on its hind wheels, that time affects my body more slowly, basically the opposite of how tiny bugs' life spans can sometimes only be a few days. But how much longer can I live? Why do I experience time this way but other giants, say, Shaquille O'Neal or any run-of-the-mill bar bouncer, do not? These are questions I'll throw to Jack Black to answer."
Along with everyone else, Jack Black was pretty taken aback by all of the absolute nonsense Big Bird had spewed, and ended up just kind of riffing on buzzwords like "gravity" and "space-time" and "life span" for a few minutes while Big Bird stared super seriously at him, all until a commercial break finally came and he got to go home.
4. The time the kids were all talking about their favorite family holiday traditions and Big Bird explained that he doesn't have any because by the time he knew his parents, they were each 3,000 years old and spent all their time begging to be put down
The kids were all taking turns happily talking about their favorite parts of the holidays in a 2008 episode when Big Bird brought the mood down in a pretty big way. When it was his turn to talk about his favorite family Christmas tradition, he incorrectly explained that regardless of the time of year, the only thing his parents ever liked to do was beg to be euthanized because they were 3,000 years old:
"All of your holiday traditions sound great, everybody," Big Bird excitedly said to the group of smiling kids sitting around a Sesame Street stoop. "I wish me and my folks did stuff like that, but we didn't. By the time I knew my parents, they were each pushing 3,000 years old and were more insane than I could put into words. My mom and dad had so many pink rings around their legs that they looked more like sour, wet hot dogs than legs. As far as spending time together, the only thing we ever did as a family was, every so often, one of them would grab me by the collar and say, "You gotta pull your weight around here by killing your parents. The longer we are on the Earth, the faster we perceive time. The last 600 years have felt like they've gone by in 10 minutes, and it's snapped our minds like a Slim Jim. Put us to sleep humanely, inhumanely, we don't care. If you're not going to kill us then at least call the government to come pick us up and imprison us in a lab. They can poke and prod at us as much as they'd like, so long as when they're done they do the right thing by leaving us baking in a hot car until the vultures are clawing at the doors and windows to get inside and eat whatever miserable pile of flesh and feathers is left of us."
By the time Big Bird had finished his 100% incorrect recounting of his childhood, the vibe on the stoop had obviously changed pretty drastically. The kids had lost their enthusiasm for talking about Christmas and Hanukkah, and instead quietly mumbled stuff like, "Sorry to hear that, Big Bird," and, "Bummer, man," all while Big Bird looked around and nodded and smiled like an absolute imbecile until the Count came and kicked off some new segment about the number seven that no one was in the mood for.
5. The time Big Bird lashed out at the kids for not appreciating sterilized cookware enough and incorrectly explained that his brothers and sisters, who all died of dysentery in the 1400s, would've killed to have clean food
Big Bird wasn't even on camera when he incorrectly explained that each of the pink rings around his legs represents 100 years that he's been alive for the fifth time in Sesame Street history. During an episode in 2013, while Gordon was handing out some cupcakes he'd baked to the kids hanging outside of his 123 Sesame Street brownstone, Bird Bird's shouting, non-mic'd voice could be heard echoing in from somewhere off screen:
"You kids have no idea how lucky you are," Big Bird angrily shouted from some undisclosed location, leaving the kids and Gordon to confusedly look around to see if he was watching them from somewhere or what. "You all just eat your cupcakes without thinking for a second that they might be a filthy, contaminated death sentence. You have the luxury of assuming your food is fine. Well, guess what, my dozens of brothers and sisters would've loved to eat sterilized food, too, but they couldn't. When we were all alive together in the 1400s, with only a few pink rings around each of our legs—each representing 100 years we'd been alive—we didn't have sterilized cookware. We didn't know what sterilized even meant. We ate whatever we saw—plants, bugs, smaller birds and dogs, ocean water, leather, you name it—without even thinking about it, and the lack of sanitation killed my siblings. One by one, the diarrhea came shooting out of their bodies like hot fireworks until they were murdered by it, dying as they crouched in private behind some bush or a dirt mound they had built to hide themselves, leaving a big gross mess behind for me to deal with. I was the only one who survived, just to watch you all eat your cupcakes centuries later, totally taking clean food for granted. Makes me sick."
It was then that Gordon finally spoke up to say, "Big Bird, you know none of that is true, right? Why are you lying?" but Big Bird just kept on talking over him from wherever he was offstage, repeating over and over, "Can you let me finish? Let me finish! I'm talking, thanks, you can wait until I'm finished." Gordon eventually just sighed and shrugged and let Big Bird's idiotic rant continue until a commercial break finally cut him off.


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The Effects of Advertisement
By Fraser Sherman Updated November 09, 2020
How Should a Company Change Its Advertising to Stand Out From the Crowd & Increase Its Sales?
What Is the Most Common Criticism of Advertising?
Negative Effects of False Advertising
Why Advertisements Are Good
How Does Advertising Affect Wants & Needs?
If nobody knows your products are the best in the business, you have little hope of succeeding. Advertising what you've got to people who might want it is how businesses stay in the black. The impact of advertisement on society has been controversial, but if it's done well, it can be great for your bottom line.
Good, carefully targeted advertising can attract customers to your business and boost your income. Advertising can also end up draining money from your company for very little gain in sales revenue, or even result in a net loss. It's important to think through your advertising plans.
Advertising Isn't New
The Encyclopedia Brittanica defines advertising as the methods used to bring "products, services, opinions or causes" to the public's attention, and generate a certain response. In the case of businesses, the desired response is giving consumers the urge to buy what you sell. In the medieval world and earlier, advertising could only be done by word of mouth. The development of printing made modern methods of advertising possible.
The MEWS Agency says some modern forms of advertising, such as billboards and posters, go back to 16th century Europe and transferred to colonial America. By the 19th century, some United States businesses had developed brand identities, well-known products whose very name packed an advertising punch. Newspaper advertising had become a thing, and so had advertising agencies.
In the 19th century agencies functioned primarily to buy space in newspapers for their clients. In the 20th century, that changed: Advertising agencies began writing copy, designing images and eventually crafting whole advertising campaigns for their clients. Originally newspaper-centric, advertising spread to radio, television and now the internet.
The Impact of Advertisement on Business
Effective advertising can be a big boost to your company branding and your sales success. However it comes at a price, often a steep one. It can also be frustratingly hard to measure the advertising effects on your sales: Does a $20,000 ad campaign generate more profits than expenses? Calculating the impact of advertising can become even harder when you're weighing the merits of Facebook ads vs. Amazon ads vs. putting up a billboard.
39 Celsius says spending the money can generate positive advertising effects for entrepreneurs, but you have to put thought into what you're doing. Many small businesses rush to buy advertising without any sort of plan and end up wasting their money. Even low-cost advertising is a waste if it doesn't generate more revenue than the campaign cost you. Treat advertising that doesn't work the same way you would treat an employee who doesn't earn their keep: Show it the door.
Planning your advertising includes figuring out how much you can afford to spend and how much you need to bring in as a return on your investment. For instance, a $1,000 advertising campaign that brings in $1,200 in sales revenue generates a better impact of advertisement than a $2,000 campaign that brings in $1,900 in sales revenue. It may take some trial and error before you figure out what works best for you.
Big companies that have established their brand can often increase sales simply by launching a new product with their name attached to it. If you're just starting out, part of your planning should be whether you want to emphasize branding as well as the benefits of your product or services, MEWS says. You can also advertise yourself by promoting your charitable donations or linking your brand with a cause, but as always, you have to watch the return on investment.
Advertising Effects: Good and Bad
If your advertising is effective, Sendian Creations says, you can see multiple positive impacts of advertising on your bottom line:
It makes people aware of your company, your brand and your products. If there's no awareness, there's no business. Even if you're well-known, you want to make consumers aware whenever you launch a new product.
Advertising can attract customers. Awareness is important, but it's not enough. Customers have to choose to visit your store or shop on your website. Advertising helps with that.
It distinguishes you from the competition. Whether you're competing on efficiency, price, prestige or convenience, advertising can help you stand out in your industry. Rather than just creating new customers, you may be able to win them away from your rivals.
Advertising can educate consumers. A landscaping company that sends out emails or posts videos with gardening advice gives valuable information and enhances its image at the same time.
Bad advertising, Amped says, will have negative effects on top of a poor return on investment.
If your advertising makes promises you can't live up to, that's going to hurt your brand. Even if you're not making outright fraudulent claims, writing checks your products can't cash will badly injure your reputation.
Advertising that unintentionally comes off racist or sexist can hurt your brand, too. 1950s ads sometimes showed husbands spanking their wives for not keeping the house clean enough. Anyone trying that today would be in for a world of negative feedback.
You have to know the demographic you want to reach. If you're marketing to teens, you need to advertise where teens will see it. If you advertise in media popular primarily with 40-somethings, you're flushing your money away.
Advertising Effects on Society
Not everyone sees the impact of advertising as a good thing. In the 1950s, Nurture Development says, people worried that advertising was something close to brainwashing, a method of manipulating people to buy stuff they didn't really want. It was more worrisome that ads often didn't focus on the rational merits of products but played upon people's insecurities and fears to get them to buy.
Worries about advertising harms haven't gone away. A 2018 paper says, for example, that ads portraying women as housewives, or purely as eye candy, can unintentionally promote negative stereotypes in the mind of consumers. Because the models in so many ads are beautiful — and then their photos are retouched — they can also create an artificially high standard of what normal women look like.
An article on Medium lists other negative advertising effects:
Advertising frequently distorts the truth about the products. Ads for prescription drugs, for instance, often create exaggerated views of the product's benefits while soft-pedaling the side effects.
Advertising can make potentially harmful practices, such as heavy drinking or driving at super-fast speeds, look glamorous and cool.
Advertising creates false needs or concerns in people's minds, then offers them a product to fix the non-existent problem.
The article pointed out that advertising does have positive benefits as well:
Advertising can give consumers information about products, helping them select the one that's right for them.
Many ads are fun to watch. Super Bowl commercials, for example, are entertainment in their own right.
Organizations can use advertising to promote charities or share valuable information.
Advertising is a multibillion-dollar industry. The money the industry pumps into newspapers, local TV stations and other media helps keep the media in the black.
MEWS Agency: The Impact of Advertising on Business
Encyclopedia Brittanica: Advertising
39 Celsius: Is Advertising Worth it? How To Calculate the ROI of Advertising.
Nurture Development: The 7 Tactics of Hidden Persuaders
Sendian Creations: 7 Benefits of Effective Advertisements For Your Business
Amped: Bad Advertising Effects
Research Gate: Effect of Women Representation in Advertising on Customers' Attitudes
Medium: Negative & Positive Effects of Advertising
Fraser Sherman has written about every aspect of business: how to start one, how to keep one in the black, the best business structure, the details of financial statements. He's also run a couple of small businesses of his own. He lives in Durham NC with his awesome wife and two wonderful dogs.
Advertising & Its Impact on Business
What Is Flattery Advertising?
The Truth About Advertisements and Airbrushing
Influence of Advertisement on Women & the Attitude Toward Cosmetics
Social Responsibility in Advertising
The Persuasion Techniques of Beauty Product Advertising
The Negative Effects of Women's Advertisements
The Best Colors for Advertising
The Advertisement of Harmful Products
1 Advertising & Its Impact on Business
2 What Is Flattery Advertising?
3 The Truth About Advertisements and Airbrushing
4 Influence of Advertisement on Women & the Attitude Toward Cosmetics


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I poured these in lolly moulds and froze them as I always do that in the summer with the Alpro yogurts and thought I'd try with these two. I love the fruit yogurts frozen, but they do get quite icy because of the amount of water in them, these on the other hand came out like soft ice cream and they are utterly delicious!! they're so good I felt bad keeping it to myself, I want to tell everyone. I'll try with the vanilla and caramel flavours too to see how it comes out, but these I 100% recommend you freeze this summer and beyond!


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The weekend conditions certainly proved to be the best in recent times as the winds picked up at the start of the week. In saying this the next few days seem to be quite reasonable and hopefully there's more opportunity for local fishos to hit the water. The light tackle game fishing scene continues to roll along nicely with resident vessels Joe Joe and Saltaire producing several more small black marlin in the past week. Both vessels on one particular day saw over a dozen fish each and their conversion was 1 in 3 fish caught and tagged on the line.
There hasn't been a small black marlin season like this since the mid 90's and there is definitely a buzz around the game fishing fleet. The general feeling is this light tackle scene still has plenty of mojo left and there's no reason why there's could a few more weeks of sensational fishing. The game fishing troops are just rubbing their hands together as it is also now the time to target the bigger models which will arrive at any moment to breed on the continental shelf. It's happy days ahead for this part of the fishing fraternity.
On those calm glorious days of recent there was a lot of traffic on the water in pursuit of some reef fish. Reports on the ground indicated the fishing was generally positive with a variety of species making the esky. Despite the neapish tides which actually assisted fishing the deeper waters, the red fish returned to form in the name of coral trout to 5kg, large mouth nannygai to 8kg and even small mouth nannygai to 5kg. Add to this there were quite a few reef mangrove jack on the chew and at the 6kg mark they are a ferocious fish.
Tack onto this some big Spanish mackerel caught on the float and you've got yourself a wonderful haul of fish. There were a host of other species to value add including cobia, big stripeys, moses perch, gold spot trevally and spangled emperor. Skipper Steve Adamson of Dragon Lady said it was the best patch of fishing to be had in quite a few weeks as the currents weren't too fierce, the sharks stayed away and the weather was delightful. He finished by saying that the forecast for this coming weekend look positive and expects there'll be plenty of an array of boats chancing their luck on the outer reef.
Don't forget to tune into the locally produced Line Burner TV Series on Foxtel Channel 183. This Sunday Line Burner is being featured as a marathon running from 2.30pm-5.30pm showcasing the first 6 series. Other viewing times include: Thursday 8pm, Friday 5pm & 9.30pm, Saturday 10pm, Monday 8.30pm and Tuesday 5pm.


This is a rich style of earthenware pottery by Jon and Barbara Mehr. Some pieces have red clay exposed with partial glazes in deep blue or green. Other pieces have mirror-like glazes in dark browns and black on porcelain, a style called "Tenmoku". All pieces are individually thrown on the potter's wheel in Northern California, are lead-free, and are totally watertight/functional.
These two vases are of similar shape, but with variation in size and flare opening we have two different effects. Blue vase on left stands 15 inches tall, 8 x 8 around. Green vase on right is 12-1/2 tall, 6-1/2 around.
Rich, elegant and graceful, this porcelain vase in Tenmoku finish is a flattened-round shape we call a paddle. Stands 15 inches tall, 10 x 6 around.
TENMOKU...white porcelain pottery with mirror-like glazes in dark red-brown drizzled from the top with black-brown. The style originates from a monastery in China, brought to Japan in 1228.
RED EARTHENWARE CLAY, richly colored, with glossy glazes drizzled in deep blue or forest green.
A graceful, long neck on this vase has the delicate curled handle accets to give it the grecian look. 12 inches tall, 6-1/2 inches round.
This classic vase shape has an extra wide flar on top, making it quite interesting. The black of the interior is as much a part of the piece as the outside glazing. Stands 12 inches tall, 6 x 6 around.
Read about what others think of Jon Mehr pottery! Instead of reviews for a specific product, this is a place to share about the designer line in general.


Hello Year Three of M-STEP!
Since 1970, students have been assessed using the Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP). These assessments were taken using paper and pencil and provided limited feedback to students. The Michigan Department of Education is now in the third year of a new assessment system, the Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP). This assessment program is online and provides faster results.
The M-STEP and MI-Access testing windows for Spring 2017 will span 7 weeks from April 10 – May 26, 2017.
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7 Ways to Resist Amazon from Raven Book Store's Danny Caine
by Danny Caine on April 8, 2021 in Author Profile, Resources
Danny Caine, owner of Raven Book Store in Lawrence, Kansas, compiled his thoughts about fighting Amazon into How to Resist Amazon and Why: The Fight for Local Economics, Data Privacy, Fair Labor, Independent Bookstores, and a People-Powered Future. This zine-turned-book is now available in audiobook form, published by Libro.fm Co-Founder and CEO Mark Pearson's publishing company, Pear Press. It is not exclusive to Libro.fm and will be available from other audiobook retailers and via libraries.
How to Resist Amazon and Why
By Danny Caine • Narrated by the author
Read on for a truncated excerpt from How to Resist Amazon and Why:
While purchasing a Margaret Atwood book from an independent bookstore instead of Amazon won't make much of a difference for Amazon, it could be the difference between a profitable day and an unprofitable day for the indie bookstore. If you're discouraged by how massive and impossible to avoid Amazon is, think instead of how to support your local small businesses in the face of Amazon's dominance. Gestures that feel small compared to Amazon's might will be huge for us. Don't vote against them, vote for small businesses.
Here are 7 ways you can resist Amazon today:
1. Shop local.
The most important way to resist Amazon is to take the money you would've spent in Bezos's empire and spend it instead at local, independently-owned small businesses. This has a tremendous effect on those businesses and your communities. Somewhere between 50 and 75 percent of money spent at local small businesses stays in your community, and the percentage for Amazon purchases can be much, much lower—sometimes as low as 0. But again, this is about more than money. A robust network of creative, responsive, community-oriented small businesses is anathema to Amazon's view of the world; in fact, it's the opposite of Amazon's global conquest.
2. Cancel your Prime subscription, or even better, your Amazon account.
Amazon Prime makes it easier for you to give money and data to Amazon. The free 1-day shipping is a tremendous incentive for people to click the purchase button. It's so tremendous that Amazon almost certainly loses money on many of these transactions. But what it loses in shipping costs it gains in data: Prime members not only share their purchasing, browsing, listening, and streaming data with the world's most valuable company, but they also pay to do it.
Even without a Prime account, Amazon can still mine your data, as long as you have an account that you use to make purchases. No account means no products and, more importantly, no data. Amazon doesn't want you to exist outside of their data-sucking system, so they've made deleting your account a multiple-hoops-to-jump-through process. Reaching an actual human is necessary, and reaching a human at Amazon is notoriously difficult.
To cancel your Amazon account, call (888) 280-4331 or use Amazon online chat. They'll probably try to make you rethink your decision. They probably won't make it easy. But remember, when they say their focus is "customer obsession," it's not obsession over your well-being, it's obsession over how to use your data to increase their profits.
3. Avoid Amazon-affiliated brands
Amazon has an ever-growing portfolio of subsidiaries and acquisitions. To resist Amazon, resist spending money at these Amazon-controlled or -owned companies as well:
In addition to Prime Original TV shows [like Good Omens, Jack Ryan, and Fleabag], several publishing imprints including Thomas & Mercer Publishing, Lake Union Publishing Company, and Little A Publishing are owned by Amazon.
4. Instead of Amazon-affiliated brands, use indie-friendly alternatives.
For used or rare books, use Alibris.com.
For audiobooks use Libro.fm.
For print books, shop direct from independent bookstores or use bookshop.org (available internationally too!), which donates a portion of sales to independent bookstores.
The StoryGraph is a new online book review database and could end up being a long-needed alternative to Goodreads.
For information about movies and actors, use Wikipedia.
Instead of a subscription to The Washington Post, consider subscribing to your local newspaper, which needs your help more than ever. Or, rely on publicly-funded news sources like NPR or PBS.
For organic groceries, shop at a local food co-op. Even better, become an co-op member, which also makes you a co-owner!
Buy shoes from a locally-owned independent shoe store, many of whom sell shoes online (in case there isn't one in your city or town).
In terms of streaming entertainment, things are a bit more complicated. Netflix is a competitor to Amazon Prime but relies on Amazon's AWS to manage its tremendous traffic. Disney Plus is also an alternative, but many may feel the same way about Disney that I feel about Amazon.
Consider your public library; many public libraries provide streaming alternatives for TV, movies, ebooks, and audiobooks for card members. I've been using Kanopy and Hoopla, both of which are free with my library card. Public libraries are one of the last great anti-capitalist spaces. To really resist Amazon and what they represent, form a good and loyal relationship with your public library.
5. You don't have to plug your house into Amazon's privacy-invading security network.
I've (hopefully) made the case that what Amazon wants most from you is your data. You are not their customer; you are their product. Much of this data comes from tracking browsing and purchasing habits of shoppers, which you can avoid by resisting shopping on Amazon. But even more of this data comes from people who voluntarily pay to place data-collecting devices inside their homes. They do this by purchasing Alexa-enabled devices and Ring security doorbells. One of the most important ways we can resist Amazon is by keeping them out of our homes.
6. Advocate.
When you spend money on something, the transaction is about more than you exchanging your money for some goods or service. That money is also a de facto endorsement of the business you're giving it to. By giving money to a business, like it or not, you're telling that business that you approve of the way they do things. One way to resist Amazon—other than, of course, not buying things from them—is to instead give money to businesses whose practices are better than Amazon.
A bit of research can help you find businesses with unionized workers, businesses with high wages, and businesses who work to reduce their impact on the environment. Traditional coalition-building and organizing against Amazon has ramped up in recent years, too. Athena is a coalition spearheaded by the Institute for Local Self Reliance aiming to curb Amazon's power and abuses. You don't even need to go to a meeting; even following groups like Athena on social media, or signing up for their email lists is a small step towards resisting Amazon.
7. Dream of a level playing field.
A world where Amazon plays by the rules is possible. A world where small businesses are robust, creative, and everywhere is possible. A world where large technology companies can be trusted with our data is possible. A world where one company no longer has a chokehold on the entire publishing industry is possible. A world where billionaires and their incredibly profitable companies pay their fair share of taxes is possible. Hell, a world without billionaires is possible. An Amazon-controlled future is not a given. Many things need to happen to create this future. Government action is necessary, but do not underestimate the power of collective individual action too.
Learn more about how you can resist Amazon in your day-to-day life with Danny Caine's How to Resist Amazon and Why.
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Danny Caine is the author of the poetry collections Continental Breakfast, El Dorado Freddy's, and Flavortown, plus the book How to Resist Amazon and Why. His writing has appeared in HAD, Barrelhouse, DIAGRAM, Lithub, and other places. In 2019, the Midwest Independent Booksellers Association awarded him the Midwest Bookseller of the Year award. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas where he owns the Raven Book Store. More at dannycaine.com.
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It's been a crazy weekend – an unusual week for that matter, with the holiday and extra adventures. Yesterday we were gone from 9 am to 11:30 pm, shopping and visiting friends on the Seattle side. Today we helped Ted get out the door. I had loads of laundry to do and I finally got the refrigerator space under control, after all the leftovers from Thanksgiving. The girls were pretty confused too, I think, from our variations in schedules all week long. I was feeling pretty worn out tonight, but after tidying the house and making a couple paper cards with my hands, I feel better. For me there's something about being creative that calms me.
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#ifndef MBED_OBJECTS_H
#define MBED_OBJECTS_H

#include "cmsis.h"
#include "PortNames.h"
#include "PeripheralNames.h"
#include "PinNames.h"
#include "stm32h7xx_ll_usart.h"
#include "stm32h7xx_ll_rtc.h"
#include "stm32h7xx_ll_tim.h"
#if defined(DUAL_CORE)
#include "stm32h7xx_ll_hsem.h"
#include "stm32h7xx_ll_rcc.h"
#include "stm32h7xx_ll_cortex.h"
#endif /* CONFIG_STM32H7_DUAL_CORE */
#include "stm32h7xx_ll_pwr.h"

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

struct gpio_irq_s {
    IRQn_Type irq_n;
    uint32_t irq_index;
    uint32_t event;
    PinName pin;
};

struct port_s {
    PortName port;
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struct trng_s {
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};

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    uint32_t period;
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    uint8_t channel;
    uint8_t inverted;
};

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    SPI_HandleTypeDef handle;
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    PinName pin_mosi;
    PinName pin_sclk;
    PinName pin_ssel;
#if DEVICE_SPI_ASYNCH
    uint32_t event;
    uint8_t transfer_type;
#endif
};

struct serial_s {
    UARTName uart;
    int index; // Used by irq
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    uint32_t databits;
    uint32_t stopbits;
    uint32_t parity;
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    PinName pin_rx;
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#endif
#if DEVICE_SERIAL_FC
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#endif
};

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    PinName sda;
    PinName scl;
    IRQn_Type event_i2cIRQ;
    IRQn_Type error_i2cIRQ;
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    volatile int pending_start;
#if DEVICE_I2CSLAVE
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#endif
#if DEVICE_I2C_ASYNCH
    uint32_t address;
    uint8_t stop;
    uint8_t available_events;
#endif
};

struct analogin_s {
    ADC_HandleTypeDef handle;
    PinName pin;
    uint8_t channel;
    uint8_t differential;
};

#define GPIO_IP_WITHOUT_BRR

#if defined(DUAL_CORE)
/* HW semaphore Complement ID list defined in hw_conf.h from STM32WB */
/* Index of the semaphore used to manage the entry Stop Mode procedure */
#define CFG_HW_STOP_MODE_SEMID                                  4
#define CFG_HW_STOP_MODE_MASK_SEMID                            (1 << CFG_HW_STOP_MODE_SEMID)

/* Index of the semaphore used to access the RCC */
#define CFG_HW_RCC_SEMID                                        3

/* Index of the semaphore used to access the FLASH */
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/* Index of the semaphore used to access the PKA */
#define CFG_HW_PKA_SEMID                                        1

/* Index of the semaphore used to access the RNG */
#define CFG_HW_RNG_SEMID                                        0

/* Index of the semaphore used to access GPIO */
#define CFG_HW_GPIO_SEMID                                       5

#define HSEM_TIMEOUT   0xFFFF
#endif /* DUAL_CORE */
#include "gpio_object.h"

struct dac_s {
    DACName dac;
    PinName pin;
    uint32_t channel;
    DAC_HandleTypeDef handle;
};

struct flash_s {
    /*  nothing to be stored for now */
    uint32_t dummy;
};

#if DEVICE_CAN
struct can_s {
    FDCAN_HandleTypeDef CanHandle;
    int index;
    int hz;
};
#endif

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#define __HAL_RCC_PWR_CLK_ENABLE()

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#define RCC_LPUART1CLKSOURCE_PCLK1  RCC_LPUART1CLKSOURCE_PLL2
#define RCC_LPUART1CLKSOURCE_SYSCLK RCC_LPUART1CLKSOURCE_D3PCLK1

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}
#endif

#endif