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Of Minarets and Massacres
By Carlin Romano, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 8 December, 2009
Carlin Romano is a critic-at-large of The Chronicle of Higher Education. He was in 2009 a general assignment reporter for The Philadelphia
Inquirer. In 2006, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, cited for "bringing new vitality to the classic essay across a formidable array of topics." He worked for many years as a book critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He has taught courses in media theory at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania. At Bennington College he taught philosophy and was involved in a controversy there,and has lectured at other colleges. – Wikipedia
The surprise Swiss vote last month to ban new minarets triggered the expected gnashing of teeth from those who believe Islam, the least tolerant of faiths when administered by autocrats and absolute monarchs, should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
"It is an expression of intolerance, and I detest intolerance," commented French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. "I hope the Swiss will reverse this decision quickly." Commenters expressed similar thoughts on blogs—"Deeply ashamed to be Swiss," wrote Stephanie of Zurich—while voices sympathetic to the vote also quickly flooded the blogosphere. "Google 'Archdiocese of Mecca,'" one poster from Arizona acidly suggested.
Forgive me if I, too, do not weep that 57.5 percent of the Swiss, now hosts to a largely moderate Muslim population of Turks and former Yugoslavs, want to keep their country a quiet car among nations. I am still busy weeping for the Armenians, the first people in their corner of the world to officially adopt Christianity, almost eliminated from history due to regular massacres by the Muslim Turks among whom they lived for centuries.
Is bringing in the Armenian genocide too big a stretch when contemplating an electoral act about urban design rather than a state policy to implement ethnic cleansing? After all, the ban doesn't involve violence (so far), or suppression of religious worship (mosques remain OK). What is the appropriate context when reflecting on such a ban?
One little-pondered aspect of Web commentary on the news these days is how it has tremendously widened the spectrum of "context" in intellectual debate. Examine remarks on the minaret ban and it's easy to feel that no one short of a walking encyclopedia could properly tackle the subject.
What about the Crusades? The Inquisition? America's genocide of Native Americans? Church bells and belfries? Jordanian denial of citizenship to Jews? Nineteenth-century European colonialism in the Mideast? Islamic discrimination against gays, Jews, women, Christians? Serb persecution of Muslims in Bosnia? The Battles of Tours (732) and Lepanto (1571)? Wahhabi fundamentalism? Swiss collaboration with the Nazis? Swiss protection of Jews from the Nazis? It's enough to make one's head swim.
Perhaps we'll all need "Advanced Context" as a required liberal-arts course once the anarchy of cybercommentary takes over all intellectual debate. Allow me, then, in this amorphous, pluralistic environment, to return to the Armenians. Because it may well be that persuading people about appropriate context in large moral matters can't be done a priori, but only, so to speak, pragmatically—you juxtapose the context you think relevant with the issue at hand, and see whether it makes a difference to what anyone thinks. It may also be, in moral matters involving tolerance, that proper context can be sought by connecting it with a concrete, powerful notion in everyday life: apology.
It's an unfortunate modern truism that all genocides aren't equal in their impact. As Richard Bernstein noted recently in the International Herald Tribune, the just-finished trial of a key Khmer Rouge figure in Cambodia stirred little attention in America. Yet the morally impoverished reaction over decades to the Turkish government's massacre of up to 1.5 million Armenians that began in 1915—bookended by earlier and later massacres that killed hundreds of thousands—still stands apart because it once stood as the best-known genocide in modern history.
As early as 1895, The New York Times ran a report headlined, "Another Armenian Holocaust." In 1915, the Times ran multiple reports with such headlines as, "Wholesale Massacres of Armenians by Turks" and "800,000 Armenians Counted Destroyed." In 1918, Theodore Roosevelt declared that "the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and failure to act against Turkey is to condone it." British Prime Minister David Lloyd George decried the Ottoman state as "this inhuman Empire." Raphael Lemkin, the Polish lawyer who coined the term "genocide" in helping to establish the United Nations Convention on that crime, first used the term in regard to the slaughter of the Armenians.
Thankfully, the quality and extent of scholarship about the Armenian genocide continues to grow, though it still falls short of that on the Holocaust. Last spring saw the momentous, long-overdue publication by Peter Balakian, the American conscience of the Armenian genocide, of his great-uncle Grigoris Balakian's Armenian Golgotha (Alfred A. Knopf), an immensely moving, harrowing memoir that instantly takes its place as a classic alongside Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and Elie Wiesel's Night. This fall brought Michael Bobelian's resourcefully reported Children of Armenia (Simon & Schuster), which focuses not on the genocide itself but the disgraceful history of how the U.S. government, which once trumpeted Armenian demands for justice, has repeatedly sold Armenians down the river for cold-war solidarity, oil contracts, and strategic cooperation from Turkey.
Precisely because the Armenian genocide remains unfamiliar to many, it's necessary to at least sketch what happened.
In 1908, the original Young Turks, officially the Committee of Union and Progress, or CUP, began their takeover of the collapsing Ottoman Empire by forcing Sultan Abdul Hamid II to re-establish the empire's constitution, leading many to see the CUP as a reformist movement. The supporters of the Sultan, who himself saw Armenians as "degenerate" infidels, fought back, spurring massacres of Armenians in 1909, before the CUP deposed him. But as the Ottoman Empire lost most of its European territory during the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, and Muslim refugees flooded into what is now Turkey, anti-Christian sentiment and Turkish nationalism both intensified.
In 1913, three extreme nationalists among CUP leaders who would become the architects of the Armenian genocide—Ismail Enver, Ahmed Jemal, and Mehmed Talaat—staged a coup that gave them complete government control. As World War I ensued, the CUP leaders, in a military alliance with Germany, increasingly bristled at the 1914 Armenian Reform Agreement that granted European powers the right to inspect the empire's treatment of Armenians.
In response, Talaat and his colleagues formulated a policy of eliminating the empire's Armenians once and for all—a policy postwar evidence showed he expressed directly to Germany's ambassador, Hans Freiherr von Wangenheim. In November 1914, the Sheik-Ul-Islam of Constantinople issued a jihad against Christians, and the looting of Armenian and Greek businesses in Western Turkey—a kind of Ionian Kristallnacht—began. In 1915, the CUP arranged for the release of some 30,000 criminals from Ottoman prisons to form chetes (mobile killing units) that would become the storm troopers of the genocide.
In April 1915, the deportations, executions, and rapes of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire began. On April 24, the day on which the Armenian genocide is memorialized worldwide, the CUP arrested some 250 of Constantinople's Armenian leaders and intellectuals, including Grigoris Balakian, and imprisoned them in the east—most would subsequently be killed. (When Lenin exiled many of Russia's leading intellectuals in 1922, he explicitly contrasted his generous decision in letting them live with how the Ottomans treated the Armenians.)
That year, 1915, saw the awful crescendo of the genocide as the CUP government forcibly deported Armenians eastward, tortured, massacred, and starved them on death marches, confiscated their property, killed almost all of the arrested 250 leaders, and resettled Muslim refugees on Armenian land. The United States knew all about it as Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, a hero of the era who eventually lost his position for trying to protect the Armenians, reported to Washington that "a campaign of race extermination is in progress under a pretext of reprisal against rebellion."
By August, U.S. diplomats estimated that more than a million Armenians had been killed. In 1916, Interior Minister Talaat ordered the massacre of Armenian refugees still surviving in the desert town of Der Zor, which came to be known as the Auschwitz of the genocide. It is now believed the Turks slaughtered up to 400,000 Armenians there. Grigoris Balakian's memoir, like other accounts, achingly details the astonishing, grisly savagery of the killings—the beheadings, disembowelments, and mutilations to which Armenian men, women, and children were subjected. He also acknowledges the existence of righteous Turks who saved Armenians. Indeed, Taner Akçam, the brave Turkish historian whose A Shameful Act (Metropolitan Books, 2006) is a monument in this field, dedicated his book to Haji Halil, a courageous Turk who, at the risk of being hanged, protected eight members of an Armenian family by hiding them in his home.
After World War I ended, when the victorious Allies set out to dismember the Ottoman Empire, it looked for a few years as if Armenians, like Jews after World War II, might see justice done by international powers and institutions. The three chief perpetrators of the genocide—Enver, Jamal and Talaat—fled Constantinople for safety abroad. The American King-Crane Commission, and a fact-finding mission led by General James Harbord, confirmed the extermination. For a brief period in 1919-20, Ottoman courts, under pressure from the British, prosecuted some of the perpetrators and sentenced the CUP leaders to death in absentia. (Armenians seeking revenge assassinated Talaat and Jamal, who had escaped arrest, within the next few years.) The prosecutions produced hundreds of pages of evidence that remain key to showing the genocide issued from official government policy.
But then, as Bobelian relates, the Armenian struggle for justice derailed. President Wilson's push to expand the tiny 900-day Armenian Republic that emerged from World War I along borders that would be promised in the 1920 Treaty of Sèvres, collapsed when he suffered a stroke in 1919 and Mustapha Kemal (later "Atatürk") forcibly began the establishment of the future nation of Turkey. (Kemal recaptured lands meant for Armenia as European powers dithered.) In 1921, Turkey and the Soviet Union divided historic Armenian lands among themselves. A truncated Armenia survived only as Soviet Armenia. After Kemal drove the Greek Army out of Turkey in 1922, getting in one more Turkish massacre of Armenians and Greeks in Smyrna (now Izmir), the European powers signed the shameful 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, recognizing the Republic of Turkey as the successor to the Ottoman Empire without even mentioning Armenia.
Bobelian ably covers the sorry story from then to the present. Repeated efforts by Armenian activists to enlist world powers in support of Armenian claims fell on deaf ears. After World War II, U.S. cold-war aims drove an almost 180-degree turn in U.S.-Armenian policy from Wilson's idealism, dictating a realpolitik alliance with Turkey against the Soviet Union. Bobelian thoroughly reports how Turkey has continued to obstruct Congressional resolutions and any serious U.S. or world action to hold it responsible for its virtual annihilation of the Armenians.
On the eve of Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's visit to the White House on December 7, the AP reported: "Breaking a campaign pledge, Obama has refrained from referring to the [1915] killings as genocide, a term widely viewed by genocide scholars as an accurate description." The same week, The New York Times reported that "Ottomania," or nostalgia for the Ottoman Empire, is a hot new trend in Turkey.
Now let's talk again about voting against two new minarets in Switzerland.
The Swiss vote is a signal rather than an endorsement of intolerance. The Swiss, while facing only a sort of creeping, minor Islamicization of their society—requests for girls to be excused from swimming classes, or separate cemeteries of the sort Swiss Jews already have—are aware of the gargantuan intolerance shown by some Muslim societies against minority Christians. While they may not seriously fear such a consequence, many of them plainly want to draw a line in the sand and say: We will not become a Muslim-dominated society, and we will stop that process early.
Swiss Muslims may protest that it is unfair to burden them with the worst sins of fellow Muslims. But isn't that sociological fix the precise reason groups of believers historically split off from their brethren, forming sects or new religions? So long as Muslims anywhere keep their place in the House of Islam everywhere, they bear some responsibility for the actions of their fellow believers. That's particularly so when they don't powerfully denounce evil acts, or acknowledge the fear and hostility such acts evoke. That is where apology comes in.
The explosion of Net criticism of the Swiss for their vote recalls the last major moment in which the cry for Christian apology to Muslims rose up alongside the usual silence about the need for Muslim apology. That was Pope Benedict XVI's bizarre magical military tour of Turkey in 2006, protected by helicopters overhead and Turkish SWAT teams deployed on every flank in case someone decided to nail him on his first visit to a Muslim land. The pope, who has his own problems in regard to personal and institutional behavior in World War II, had, after all, said unkind things about Islam.
There he was in the NATO republic whose foremost motto remains: Those who forget the past sometimes don't want anyone to remember it, thank you very much. One might recall, in this regard, the remark famously attributed to Hitler, speaking to his generals, eight days before invading Poland in 1939: "Who, today, speaks of the annihilation of the Armenians?" Benedict played along. He largely kept quiet about arriving in a land whose predecessor state, the Ottoman Empire—many of whose leaders became central figures in the Turkish Republic—committed the largest genocide in history against Christians. To this day, the Turks have never apologized, never offered a lira of reparation, never returned stolen property or land. Turkish newspapers, astonishingly, kept asking whether the pope would offer yet another, fuller apology for his remarks on Islam. News reports from elsewhere kept mentioning that Turkey was "99-percent Muslim." They didn't say why.
By contrast, how intolerant is it to deny a religion a minor aspect of its ritual behavior, as the Swiss are doing by banning minarets? How intolerant is it not to apologize? Whether we owe tolerance to the intolerant is one of the great logical challenges within ethical theory. Simply declaring that we do, as so many commenters on the minaret vote urge, fails to convince if one believes tolerance, like some other ethical duties, arises out of implicit or explicit social contract, and should be reciprocal.
I, for one, find that context, apology, and intolerance matter in the following way. If you steep yourself in the atrocities of the Armenian genocide, not to mention the many intolerances exhibited by majority-Muslim societies toward Christians, Jews, women, gays, and other non-Muslims, one's conclusion is not an absolutist moral judgment, but a decision on who owes a greater apology to whom, a decision on how to allocate one's moral energy.
The day that Turkey apologizes and pays reparations for the Armenian genocide, that Saudi Arabia permits the building of churches and synagogues, that the Arab world thinks the homeland principles it applies to the Arabs of Palestine also apply to the Armenians of Turkey—on that day, I will find time to commiserate with the generally kind and hard-working Muslims of Switzerland.
Carlin Romano, critic at large for The Chronicle Review, teaches philosophy and media theory at the University of Pennsylvania.
Romano's essay is sophmoric and misguided. It's disappointing to find it on this website. How can the Armenian genocide condone more prejudice?
Ruth Elkin
Fantastic Essay!
I think that Professor Romano makes a tremendous amount of sense. "Sophomoric and misguided"??? Please. As he states, it is a matter of degree. While we are busy getting all wrought up over comparatively trivial matters, we are losing our perspective, and losing sight of the larger injustices that exist in this world. This essay is one of the most clearly articulated and logical pieces that I have ever read on this subject, and I think that the author has incredible intellect. I intend on showing this article to anyone who attempts to utilize a hypocritical double-standard with regard to "prejudice against Islam".
Wayne Berberian,MD,MBA
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The club's Lithuanian language classes ceased after several years when most of its original students reached their desired level of language proficiency and the number of new students declined. As a result, the Lithuanian Language and Culture Club under the leadership of Jaunutis Burbulis concentrated upon increasing the club's mission in working for and supporting all things related to Lithuanian culture, history, and traditions. Initially, the club emphasized arranging and transporting needy retired Lithuanians to attend religious services at St. Alphonsus Church and helping make arrangements for Lithuanian university exchange student living accommodations, and hosting and assisting Lithuanian government officials during their visits to Baltimore. One of the club's notable accomplishment was the preparation and showing for many years of an outstanding Lithuanian Festival remembrance photograph slide program chronicling in support of the Baltimore Lithuanian Festival Committee.
With Burbulis' unexpected early demise, the current club President Judith Baker and Vice President Gintaras Bujanauskas have continued the club's emphasis on assisting Lithuanian government and student visitors to the community. In addition, the club is now directly involved in Lithuanian Hall social activities and the preservation and research of the Baltimore Lithuanian community history through the support of the Baltimore Lithuanian Museum and Lithuanian National Library.
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Description A section of a coal country in Somersetshire about 20 miles from south-east to north-west; A section of the same country from north-east to south-west on the drift or level of the coal & at right angles with the former.
Relation-Is part of Is part of: John Strachy. An Account of the Strata in Coal Mines &c. In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, v. 33, no. 391, 1725. P. 395-398.


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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Junior forward C.J. Smith (Des Moines, Iowa) scored a game-high two goals to lead the No. 7 UMass Lowell Hockey team to a 4-0 victory and a series sweep against Colorado College in non-conference play on Saturday night at the Broadmoor World Arena in the series finale.
With the win, UMass Lowell improves to 2-0-2 and the Tigers drop to 1-3-0 overall.
Senior defenseman Dylan Zink (Madison, Wis.) extended UMass Lowell's lead to 3-0 with second tally of the season with just 5:33 left in the second period. Freshman Mattias Goransson added his third of the year to give the River Hawks a 4-0 lead on an extra attacker goal at 16:45 of the middle stanza.
Smith scored goals at 2:14 and 15:45 to give the River Hawks 2-0 lead at the end of the first period. It marked Smith's seventh career two-goal game as a River Hawk. UMass Lowell held a 10-9 shot advantage at the end of the opening period.
Freshman goaltender Tyler Wall (Leamington, Ont.) made his second career start for the River Hawks, posting 29 saves in his first career shutout and second career win, which included 11 saves in the second frame. Alex Leclerc posted 13 stops for the Tigers in the losing effort in the first 40 minutes and was relieved by Derek Shatzer stopping nine shots in the third period.
UMass Lowell finished the night 2-for-6 on the power play and a perfect 6-for-6 on the penalty kill.
Senior forward Evan Campbell (Port Coquitlam, B.C.) led the River Hawks in the faceoff circle, winning 9 of 12 faceoffs (75%) in the win vs. the Tigers.
UMass Lowell returns to action on Friday, October 21st against ECAC foe St. Lawrence on Homecoming Weekend. Game time from the Tsongas Center is 7:15 p.m.


B&TB is a North Carolina-based indie-pop duo using analog synths to create perky, warm, smile-inducing tunes reminiscent of Mates of States' electronic side. Tracy Shedd's vocals lead the way, as her forthright tenor slides smoothly along the bed of pad synths, drum machines, and good vibes.
The digital 45 they're releasing today contains twelve minutes of work in two tunes. The gently tumbling vocal melodies of "Straight and Narrow" and the more dusky, terse minor key action of "Jimmy's Jam." Both tunes are the sort to make me lean my chair back, close my eyes, and take a mental trip. The fact that the two tunes go different places in my mind is a bonus–both are strong examples of the sort of veteran, polished, easily-lovable work that the members of Band and the Beat are putting out early in their career.
You can check out a video for the digital 45 below!
They are playing quite a few shows right now, too.
2. "Petrol Station" – Sorcha Richardson. Right when I think that I can't take one more downtempo electro-pop tune, Sorcha Richardson renews my faith in the genre. This is slinky, groove-laden, and funky in all the best senses of those terms. Her vocals are just so smooth.
3. "Outro (Entry Code, Dial Tone)" – Heart/Dancer. Warm, refreshing, and intimate electro pop; the male/female vocals remind of Chairlift or Mates of State.
4. "Everything" – Wall of Trophies. Brittany Jean and Will Copps return as Wall of Trophies, showing off their particular skills: whirlwinds of artsy electronic/acoustic sound marshaled by Jean's acrobatic vocals and passionate delivery. The sonic conclusion at the end of the tune will raise your eyebrows.
5. "Surrender" – Briana Marela. Somewhere between the intimate voice morphing of Imogen Heap and the cinematic vocal loops of Julianna Barwick lies Briana Marela. "Surrender" is a burbling electro/acoustic track that relies on complex beats, layers of sounds, and delicate/feathery melodies.
6. "Ready 2 Wear" – Loveskills. What would dance music sound like if there were no drum machines or synths? That's the question Loveskills admirably tackles here, creating a bouncy, infectious track out of piano, finger snaps, strings, and intriguing vocals. This is a great pop song.
7. "Wavering Down" – Kasey Keller Big Band. Starts off as an abstract, outsider electronic piece, ends in a bit of a hooky electro jam–all in under 90 seconds.
It appears that I can't get enough of guy/girl duos. Venna, Jenny and Tyler, Destroy Nate Allen!, Matt and Kim, and Mates of State are some of my favorite bands that I've covered here at Independent Clauses, and each fall into the aforementioned category. You can add The Gray Havens to that list, as their EP Where Eyes Don't Go has swept me off my feet.
The duo fits somewhere between Mates of State's piano-heavy indie-pop and Jenny and Tyler's pop-folk. Dave and Licia Radford combine ukulele, piano and acoustic guitar to create pop songs with folk instrumentation that are near-impossible to wrest from my brain. From the perky, Weepies-esque strum and clap of "Let's Get Married" to the orchestrated sweep of "Where It Goes" and "Music from a Garden," The Gray Havens show their melodic talents in diverse ways. Dave Radford is the primary vocalist, and his smooth voice fits perfectly in the genre; his rhythmic and tonal flair in delivering the melodies is one of the most engaging elements of their sound. Although featured less, Licia Radford's soprano voice is charming as well ("Let's Get Married").
The duo has more than just pretty melodies up their sleeves. "Silver" incorporates a horn section and accordion, which are both sure-fire ways to get me on board with your tune. While "Silver" is the most triumphantly catchy tune of the bunch (due to the horns and some great background vocals), the most unique tune is "Train Station," which actually mocks up the sound of a train moving with guitar rhythms and percussion. But even with their arrangement skills, the simple "Let's Get Married" is the tune that I keep humming to myself. It's just wonderful.
If you're into precise, upbeat indie-pop with an acoustic bent, you need to check out The Gray Havens' Where Eyes Don't Go. Their infectious melodies and creative songwriting touches make for a very engaging listen. Expect to hear much more from this duo in the future.
Independent Clauses is but one man at the moment, and that means that it's impossible for me to cover everything that comes through the front doors. Some notable music flies under the radar for lack of time. To remedy these oversights, I've created two shout-out lists. Today's is for the more pop-oriented stuff, while tomorrow's is for indie-rock and singer/songwriter.
Alex and the XO's – North to the Future Here's some fun ukulele-fronted pop-rock with a female vocalist. Don't confuse this for an Ingrid Michaelson copy: there's a lot of crunch in these pop-rock tunes alongside the ukulele strum.
Coed Pageant – The Seasons EPs Vol. 4: The Fallout. Boy/girl pop that goes for the grand sweep instead of the intimate coo. If Mates of State thought that their loudest arrangement could use a couple more instruments for scope, they might end up in this arena.
Hostage Calm – Please Remain Calm. Gonna throw my hat in here with the rest of the punk world: this one is pretty stellar. I'm a huge Menzingers fan, and this pushes all the same buttons lyrically and musically (only with a bit less gruffness).
Nora and One Left – Bicycle. Enthusiastic, girl-fronted indie-pop that occasionally includes accordion.
The World Record – Freeway Special. Similar to Fountains of Wayne, TWR goes to great lengths and many sub-genres in search of the perfect pop song. And check that sweet album art.
Wise Girl – Wise Girl EP. Straight-up power-pop with a great female vocalist. Turn it up loud.


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This is a primary of its sort nationwide survey carried out in 15 feminine prisons in eight Brazilian states between 2014 and 2015. The sample consisted of 1327 girls in closed or semi-open prison regimes. Data assortment used Audio Computer-Assisted Self-Interviewing . The examine was submitted to the Research Ethics Committee of the Federal University of Ceará, under CEP protocol No. 1,024,053. In Latin America, a survey performed in 12 international locations discovered that between 25% and 50% of ladies had been topic to violence by their companion.
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From embracing physique hair and pure curls to honoring agriculture and indigenous rituals, Brazilian girls are debunking the commonest stereotypes and showing simply how much magnificence is rooted of their rich history.
At main tourist locations like Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, sexual exploitation, trafficking of women and youngster prostitution are pressing problems.
This means that the feminine labor force had a possible to increase by nearly 9% with out the necessity for inhabitants progress.
They love sporting gold and silver jewelry since their early teens.
She later helped to create the Borel Community Radio and, from there, moved on to the Rio Social Agenda alongside [the world renowned anti-hunger] activistHerbert "Betinho" de Souza.
Each day she seeks to resume herself and work within the direction of the future that the favela signifies.
She reminded us that today when a girl is born, she doesn't simply hear that she must cook, but also that she must research.
When Mãe Aparecida begins speaking, your only want is to spend hours listening to the wise words of somebody who truly knows the rationale for his or her presence in this world. A daughter of Xangô and Oshunof the Efon nation (one of the branches of Candomblé), she runs the House of Ile De Xango Ayra.
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When ladies labored beforehand, that they had labored as home servants and were the solely real supply of income for his or her families. Most have been mothers, with 39% having children lower than 10 years old, now within the care of others. Prisons were crowded, with more than 2/3rds of the inmates sharing a cell with 6 or extra inmates. Services were present, however women had not had a cervical most cancers screening throughout the past three years and breast most cancers screening was not carried out. A Black, bisexual girl raised in Rio de Janeiro's Maré favela, Marielle Franco campaigned against gender violence, police brutality, militarization and for reproductive rights as an activist and city council member. She was killed by unknown assailants in March 2018 in an attack that prompted mass protests throughout Brazil and the world. It's believed her murder might be linked to her work denouncing police violence within the favelas and paramilitary teams made up of retired and off-duty police.
With #MeuAmigoSecreto – #MyAnonymousFriend – ladies documented misogyny on the streets and at work. Tagging #MeuQueridoProfessor – #MyDearTeacher – college college students outed sexism within the classroom.
The home of worship often known as Casa Branca do Engenho Velho would help unfold Candomblé all through Brazil as priestesses initiated there opened their very own temples. It is believed that Nassô and her fellow co-founders Iyá Adetá and Iyá Acalá were priestesses from the cities of Ketu and Oyo, positioned in present-day Nigeria. Some research signifies Nassô eventually returned to Africa to research the cult of Orishas, whereas others say she fled persecution from the Malê slave revolt, by which her son was implicated. More than 150 years later, the Candomblé house nonetheless stands in Salvador, Bahia. A clear-eyed depiction of life under slavery, the novel is written from the perspective of a younger African girl who is kidnapped from her hometown and subjected to a lifetime of cruelty. Born in 1792, Quitéria never attended school, however she realized to journey horses, hunt and function firearms within the Bahia farm where she grew up.
Regardless of cultural differences, Brazilian women are curious, friendly, and cheerful. Their love for having enjoyable goes past cool drinks, good food, and evening walks on the seashore. Brazilian girls respect fascinating men with whom they'll talk and be taught new things to open new perspectives.
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These petitions, although well-received by the Father, had been ultimately denied by the Portuguese royalty. As in the relaxation of Latin America, the hole in labor force participation between women and men has changed little over the past decade in Brazil. The report states that since 2005, Brazilian women's labor pressure participation rose only one percentage point. Afro-Brazilian ladies earn lower than white women and men with the identical level of training. On average, Afro-Brazilian women brailian women earn 7.7 reales (US$ 2.50) per hour in comparison with 12.5 reales (US$ four.02) for white ladies and 15.6 reales (US$ 5) for white males. Afro-Brazilian women who accomplished secondary schooling earn half the wage of white males with the same stage of education. Despite rising feminine illustration in authorities and strides toward female-centered legislation in the nation — Brazil continues to have one of many highest charges of femicide on the planet.
She holds Master degrees in Print Journalism and in Broadcast Journalism from Boston University. Her newest publications are "A Ditadura como eu lembro" in Caminhando e Contando. According to theBrazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics2010 census, 7.6% of individuals surveyed recognized as Black, and 43.1% identified as combined race. « We all communicate this common language of loving ourselves and taking good care of ourselves, » Pierotti says. « But there's so much range, and it's necessary to honor that. » It's why Pierotti and Sol de Janeiro goal to be genuine in advertising and brand imagery by using real women with completely different hair textures, complexions, and body types. « On the streets and seashores of Brazil, you'll see so many alternative people, » she says.
The final responsibility, of course, isn't on us; it's on the abusers. But at least we wouldn't have to steer these completely stiffened, suffocated lives. Sorry, a shareable link isn't presently out there for this article. PFA substantially labored on conception and design of the examine, evaluation and interpretation of data, and writing of the manuscript. LRFSK was liable for the conception and design of the study. GWR, DWS, RJPN, PNCP, MTGG, LFA, ML, AZS and CK substantially contributed to evaluation and interpretation of knowledge.
Renowned for her fitness regime and well-toned physique, Chrysti Ane enjoys a considerable fan following on social media platforms, similar to Instagram. Born to an English mom and a Brazilian father, actor Jennifer O'Neill had begun modeling at 15. She had tried suicide at 14 and had later obtained married 9 instances to eight men. The Brazilian magnificence went from being a waitress to the model ambassador of a Macy's assortment.
Lidia represents the BWG in IWCC and truthful wage marketing campaign conferences. « Here, it is not only about where you came from, it's the means in which you look, so when you look white, you'll be treated as white, even in case your dad and mom are Black, » Riberio said. While Sobral says that there's plenty of work to be carried out, embracing natural hair is a small, radical step in the best course.
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the treaty in the same year. The treaty aimed to behave as a bill of rights, an international baseline of privileges that must be afforded to all girls — focusing on protection against discrimination. Despite this constructive first step four many years in the past, rights violations against women continue in Brazil.
As lengthy as these cultural, social, and institutional oppressive constructions exist, it is exhausting to envision a time where women and men will be capable of work and coexist in true equality in Brazil. In addition to heads of household, mothers or grandmothers who spend hours caring for relations, women have been extremely engaged in the labor market. According to PNADC knowledge for 2016, there have been 86.9 million Brazilian girls over 14 years of age. Of these women, forty five.2 million have been a part of the labor pressure (52.0% of the total). Of this group, 86.9%, or 39.three million girls, had been employed and thirteen.1%, or 5.9 million girls, had been unemployed. Of the forty one.7 million ladies out of the workforce, it is price noting that there were 4 million individuals who might doubtlessly belong to the workforce.
Having grown up in the Baixada Fluminense, she remembers her childhood with affection. I did." She says this as a outcome of she is usually seen as a lady from the favela because of her musical influences and type of speech. Those days, she was often known as the kid with "the hair" and with strange pursuits as a outcome of her different way of thinking. But none of this affected her; on the contrary, since her childhood, she has been fascinated by being completely different. The girl who wore braces in her college days now has an attractive smile.
Brazil's topmost style brand Dudalina owes much of its fame and popularity to Sonia Hess, a Brazilian entrepreneur who turned the family-owned model into a serious trend home. So whereas the boys rose to the top of the rankings, Brazil's greatest female surfers were on national TV stations instead of the world stage—with the exception, of course, of Silvana Lima. Gradually, brands began sponsoring girls for attributes other than their skill on a surfboard. Combine that with a non-existent contest scene and you have a situation in which women who focused on profitable occasions could be left behind. The end of women's competitions in Brazil coincided with the surf industry's new strategy to marketing.


Tape is a psychosomatic spectacle that pushes the boundaries of friendship and discovers there is always more than one truth when it comes to the past. Filled with about as much psychological drama as one hour can handle, Stephen Belber's one-act play throws you in the deep end and doesn't apologise.
Set in a cheap motel room in Michigan, Tape examines the dramatic reunion of three high-school friends as they cross paths and reminisce about the seemingly unfortunate past. Vince is the drug-pushing truth-seeker with a broken heart; Jon, the moral filmmaker with an ostensibly immoral history; and Amy, the high-powered attorney with no time for games – well, mostly. When these high-school chums are reunited, their memories of the past collide as they struggle with that ever-illusive truth.
Stephen Belber deserves such supremely high praise for his hauntingly real dialogue and uncanny knack for saying just enough. In a play that is so well-paced and fraught with such naturalistic dialogue, the actors were set a difficult task and they smashed it all the way down Errol Street.
Adam Hetherington held Jon to the stern and initially unwavering brutality that he deserved and then fell so far into the character that his eventual unravelling was strikingly lifelike. Michael Mack, producer and lead actor as Vince, was fantastically unsettling – that's a good thing, I promise. He transitioned seamlessly from the witty-tongued best bud in to a hyper-anxious cokehead with a point to prove. As Amy, Hester Van Der Vyver was a understated comparison at first but grew in to a subtle, almost psychotic player in this emotionally destructive warzone.
This small cast reached in to the most deep-seated corners of their psyches and what came out of it was a truly enthralling performance with so much depth, it barely seemed like a play: rather, an eavesdrop on a vivid intimate conversation.
The only brief lapsing moment came during the fight scene; slightly clumsy wrestling proved a little too lumbering for the intimate space. However, there was a well-timed hint of comedic relief with a sort of pillow fight in the middle. But the actors and director, Jennifer Sarah Dean, should still be commended on the literal hard-hitting moments that were far too real to not leave a mark.
On entering the intimate, converted hotel room, the set seemed a little dated; however, as the play indicated, the realisation of cheap urban accommodation meant it couldn't have been more fitting or well put together by set designer Aline Brugel.
Tape's heaving hour of dramatic warfare doesn't spare a moment and will have you encapsulated in its intimate intensity for every second; it is a truly unique and powerful production with talent oozing from the walls.
A Midsummer Night's Dream was the first Shakespeare play I studied at school, and thus while it holds a special place in my heart, certain scenes are forever etched into my memory. As the Melbourne Shakespeare Company's production got underway, I was sceptical whether the blend of contemporary music and iambic pentameter were going to be a match. I needn't have worried, as the performance rolled steadily onwards, and the actors became more comfortable in their roles, I felt completely at ease with the way the story was being told; the audience was in safe hands.
For the uninitiated, the play entwines the stories of two groups; the Lovers: Hermia (Christina Forrest) and Lysander (Khrisraw Jones-Shukoor), Helena (Alisha Eddy) and Demetrius (Charlie Sturgeon); and the Players: Bottom (Johnathan Peck), Flute (John Reed), Quince (Ben Frank Adams), Snout (Ben Noel Adams), Snug (Nick Murphy) and Starvelling (Myles Tankle).
Hermia and Lysander are forbidden to wed, so flee Athens, hotly pursued by Helena and Demetrius. While fleeing they wander into a forest bewitched by faerie King Oberon (Steven Fleiner) and Queen Titania (Angela Lumicisi), with help from mischievous Puck (Paul Robertson). There's magic potions, asses heads and lots of shouting about love as the magical beings play with the lives of the mere mortals, meanwhile the players are rehearsing the play Pyramus and Thisbe to perform at Theseus (Karl Sarsfield) and Hippolyta's (Madi Lee) wedding. Confused yet? You should be.
As an ensemble the cast was great, I was initially wary of the players' boisterous gallivanting and gadding about, but by the end of their first proper scene together I couldn't wait for them to reappear. I was particular impressed by Johnathan Peck's unique and profoundly physical take on Bottom as a sympathetic but emotionally fragile simpleton, and I need a GIF of him performing the death scene from Pyramus and Thisbe to play on a loop at my funeral; I laughed so much I cried and am still laughing thinking about it now. Christina Forrest's Hermia was similarly energetic and gravity-defying, which helped prevent the inherently dialogue-heavy play from getting bogged down in its own trickery.
I enjoyed the silly playfulness that director Jennifer Sarah Dean has brought to the play, although moments of the Pyramus and Thisbe performance would benefit from tightening to avoid relying too heavily on slapstick. Designer Simon Bowland has done an excellent job with costumes and make-up (faeries looked suitably bedazzled), but it did look like Oberon had wandered out on stage in his dressing gown and slippers and didn't quite match the majesty of Titania – if this was a deliberate move then I'm afraid it was lost on me. Save for a few moments where the play sagged towards the end after all the frenetic activity, it was thoroughly good fun.
Beautifully nestled in Testing Grounds just behind the Arts Centre, City Road and the Southbank apartments provided a peculiarly complementary backdrop for this contemporary adaptation of a true classic.


The REROC Waste Forum resolved to undertake a recycling education campaign with the aim of reducing contamination in recycling bins. In March 2017 bin audits were conducted across 7 LGAs to collect information on contamination in the recycling bins. The results across the 500 bins showed that there was an average contamination rate of 13.5% per bin, this ranged from 6.2% to 24.5% across the 7 LGAs.
The project, Recycle Night? Recycle Right! has been developed to address the contamination problem by encouraging behavioural change through showing the connection between the waste and the people who handle it.
We believe that there was a disconnect that households were unaware that the waste they placed in their recycling bin was handled by real people. The project aims to address that disconnect. The project consists of a website www.recyclenight.org.au containing information on what can and cannot be recycled along with a TV, radio and social media campaign. The campaign tells the stories of the people who work at the MRFs that process recyclables in our Region. The campaign was launched in June 2017 and will run for at least the next 12 months.
Please visit the Recycle Night? Recycle Right website to view the TV ads and to find out further information on the project.


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SWEET SASSY MOLASSY!
January 5, 2015 | By Eric Gould
ESPN's Stuart Scott passed away Sunday (1/4) after a long bout with cancer and testimonials to his breakthrough broadcasting style were many over this past weekend during the wild-card football playoffs. Starting on ESPN in 1993, Scott's pop culture references and his "Booyah!" catchphrase helped break open the usual vanilla sportscasting style that was the norm up to that point. SNL observed how natural it was for Scott – and how awkward for the more traditional sports guy trying to adapt to Scott's style – in this 1999 sketch featuring Ray Romano as the hapless new guy trying to keep up with Tim Meadows playing Scott. All Romano's character can devise are non sequiturs like "Get out the checkbook and pay Grandma for the rubdown!" and the third-rate exclamation, "Sweet Sassy Molassy!" What we take for granted today as familiar in sports voiceovers, Scott helped pave the way. -- Eric Gould


When does it make sense to use pulldata as opposed to lists in the Choices tab - is a list of ten thousand records acceptable for pulldata?
pulldata doesn't create list choices - it looks up data based on a previous entry. External Choice lists does offload the choices from eh choices worksheet (Cascading and external selects—Survey123 for ArcGIS | ArcGIS ). Yes, I would say once the list becomes more than a few hundred the external select should be used instead.
Thanks @James Tedrick. I figured out how the choice filter will be a workaround for my original plan to use external data. The search () feature would really be valuable with dynamic lists. During testing I also realized that multiple CSVs can be used with a survey. I see this very valuable too. But then at what point will the survey be efficient in terms of file sizes and publishing. I see the importance of load time but it would nice to also see the file size and the size threshold - which could be different based on network speed.


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Annual Foster5K run kicks off Foster Care Awareness Month
Los Altos Town Crier | April 5, 2022
By: Special to the Town Crier
The sixth annual Foster5K launches Foster Care Awareness Month in May. Participants in this year's virtual event can walk or run anytime they want May 1 to raise funds for the nonprofit Child Advocates of Silicon Valley.
Child Advocates and its Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program, a longtime recipient of the Town Crier Holiday Fund, support children in foster care.
Registration for the Foster5K includes a T-shirt, goody bag, raffle and prizes.
"I've always wanted to host the Foster5K in May," said Los Altos resident Debbie Crouse, Foster5K co-chairperson and Child Advocates board member. "I felt it was only appropriate to raise awareness during Foster Care Awareness Month. Everything aligned this year, and we were happily able to pull it off."
Crouse noted that children in foster care are overlooked by the broader community throughout the year.
"This is a population that has undergone severe trauma through no fault of their own," she said. "I choose to be on the board of Child Advocates and focus on awareness and fund-
raising because of the direct impact CASAs have on positive outcomes for children in foster care. The facts speak for themselves."
The Foster5K had its first run in Los Altos in spring 2017. Foster5K co-chairperson Joy Erf said she's proud they not only sustained the event through the pandemic, but also have long-standing committee members, participants and sponsors who were hard-hit economically themselves last year.
"This is not like other races," Erf said. "People are signing up because they want to help children in foster care. I cannot imagine my children making it through the pandemic without our family unit intact."
This year's lead sponsors include BMC Software, Andy Wong Real Estate, Curves of Los Altos, Dish Dash Restaurants, Silicon Valley Golf, Summit Financial Group and Timothy J. Miller, D.D.S.
In fiscal year 2021, Child Advocates served 849 foster children through its CASA Program, which recruits, trains and supports community members who are appointed with a court order by a judge to advocate for the best interests of a child in foster care.
For sponsorship information, email info@foster5k.org.
To register for the Foster5K, visit Foster5K.org.
For more information on Child Advocates, visit ChildAdvocatesSV.org.
View this article in Los Altos Town Crier.


The sensor I am working with is the Optris CT sensor and here is the list of commands attached which you'll find useful as it describes how it works.
Here is my code so far. I do not understand why this will not work.
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Debugging tools such as breakpoints can help you isolate the problem.
For example, set a breakpoint in SerialPort1_DataReceived to find out if the the port is receiving data.
If not, using a protocol analyzer or other tool to find out whether the sensor is sending anything would provide useful information.
If the program stops at the breakpoint in SerialPort1_DataReceived, you can examine the received data for problems.


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Mexiko deltog med 88 deltagare vid de olympiska sommarspelen 1948 i London. Totalt vann de två guldmedaljer, en silvermedalj och två bronsmedaljer.

Medaljer

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 Humberto Mariles Cortés - Ridsport, hoppning.
 Humberto Mariles Cortés, Rubén Uriza Castro och Alberto Valdes-Ramos - Ridsport, hoppning.

Silver
 Rubén Uriza Castro - Ridsport, hoppning.

Brons
 Humberto Mariles-Cortes, Raul Campero Nunez och Joaquin Solano Zagoya - Ridsport, fälttävlan.
 Joaquín Capilla - Simhopp, höga hopp.

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The men's football tournament at the 1990 Asian Games was held from 23 September to 6 October 1990 in Beijing, China.

Squads

Results

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Bronze medal match

Gold medal match

Goalscorers

Final standing

References

RSSSF

External links
Asian Football Results 1990

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Pakistanis rally to demand death for Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy
A Christian woman, Asia Bibi, has been on death row for years for saying to a group of Muslim women: "I'm not going to convert. I believe in my religion and in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for the sins of mankind. What did your Prophet Mohammed ever do to save mankind? And why should it be me that converts instead of you?"
Last Monday, Pakistan's Supreme Court heard her final appeal, but made no decision. Please pray that the decision, when made, is favorable to her, and that this long-suffering woman will soon be freed and allowed to join her family in a nation where she can practice her Christian religion in peace.
"Pakistanis rally to demand death for Christian woman facing execution for blasphemy (PHOTOS)," RT, October 13, 2018:
Several thousand protesters hit the streets of Pakistan calling for the Christian woman accused of insulting Islam be put to death. Asia Bibi would become the first person executed for blasphemy if her appeal fails.
The Pakistani city of Lahore was the center of Friday's protests, which were organized by the anti-blasphemy party Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP). Demonstrations also took place in a number of other cities across the country, including Karachi and Rawalpindi.
The rallies came after Pakistan's Supreme Court heard the final appeal of Bibi, a Christian laborer accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Mohammed in 2009 by Muslim women she was working with in a field.
According to Bibi's autobiography 'Blasphemy: A Memoir: Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water' the incident began when she went to retrieve a cup of water from a well during a hot day of fruit picking.
When a Muslim woman nearby saw her doing so she shouted, "Don't drink that water, it's haram (forbidden)!" She then turned to the other women in the field, telling them that Bibi had dirtied the water in the well by drinking from their cup.
"Now the water is unclear and we can't drink it! Because of her!" the woman said. Several women called Bibi a "filthy Christian" and told her to convert to Islam.
"I'm not going to convert. I believe in my religion and in Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for the sins of mankind. What did your Prophet Mohammed ever do to save mankind? And why should it be me that converts instead of you?" Bibi said.
At that point, one woman spat on her while another shoved her. Days later, she was accused of blasphemy….


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These 2 LBM Leaders Urge You to Take Steps Now to Blunt COVID-19's Economic Impact
One of the nation's leading LBM consultants and one of its most successful LBM industry owners are calling on dealers to take action now to protect their businesses against the coronavirus' health and economic perils.
The advice from Ruth Kellick-Grubbs, head of the Kellick and Associates consultancy, and Matt Ogden, a managing partner at Building Industry Partners, comes as economists and bankers predict the U.S. economy will plummet in the second quarter and put the U.S. into recession for the year. For instance, Goldman Sachs now forecasts a 24% drop in quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rates for the April-to-June period, while Morgan Stanley forecasts a 30% drop in the gross domestic product in the second quarter. The National Association of Home Builders' chief economist estimates that 40% of the nation's gross domestic product "is on pause or partial pause" and the unemployment rate will roughly double in the second quarter to nearly 7%.
Anecdotal reports from dealers nationwide suggest business was robust in January through mid-March, then ramped up even further as news about COVID-19 spread. But by March 19 and 20, there were signs of sales tapering off.
What should you do now?
Priority #1 Is Safety. Mitigate and Manage the Health Risk
Work Hard to Keep Coronavirus Out of Your Company The first case--even the first suspected case--requires you start sending home not just the worker with the virus but also notify all those who regularly interacted with that person. Those persons in turn might decide to leave. As a result, small companies could end up losing a significant percentage of their workforce.
The best way to keep that from happening is to follow health experts guidelines on keeping spaces sanitized and workers as far away apart as possible--working from home, preferably. That includes having at least one manager working remotely, Kellick says. That way, if you get sick, another leader can take over.
Follow CDC recommendations with vigor. Sanitize at least hourly cash registers, credit card terminals, time clocks, vending machines, coffee stations, clipboards, and phones. (Some dealers have stopped requiring customer signatures on credit card terminals.) Clean several times a day your trucks, forklifts, saws, and the like. Professional cleaning services offer sanitizing mist that they can come in and apply after hours.
Close your showrooms. Stop doing installed sales to existing homes; If you do installation work at new homes, keep in mind that most states still permit construction work; just continue if you use the social distance and hygiene protocols.
Enforce the six-foot distance rule enthusiastically in your sales areas, using tape or cones to help provide guides. Urge your customers to call in orders for pickup or delivery. And when you deliver goods, have the customer identify an area where the product is to be left, take a picture of what you've done, and arrange for the order to be paid by account or credit card. Push for similar contactless exchanges when receiving deliveries from vendors.
Priority #2: Mitigate the Economic Impact to Your Business
Stress-Test Your Finances, Then Act Accordingly Ogden is advising Building Industry Partners' companies to estimate the impact if monthly sales fall by one-quarter, one-half, and three-quarters of what they were last year. He also wants his companies to imagine what would happen if sales fall 90% from last year sometime in the next two months, stay there for two to three months, and then climb back to levels we saw in the Great Recession--say 50% to 75% of 2019's annual sales--for an extended period.
"Right now, federal, state and local government appear to be increasingly focusing on 'shelter-in-place' edicts, to slow the rate of contagion and stave off the catastrophic health impact that could otherwise result from healthcare system capacity overload," Ogden says. "These shelter-in-place program cases all seem to project peak infection rates occurring two-plus months' out from time the program is put in place, and then taking many weeks to reduce dramatically further. So it's reasonable to expect that once these edicts are in place, the resulting economic pause will sustain for months."
While many states that have issued stay-home orders have designed LBM businesses as
essential and thus able to remain open for business, even essential businesses "will be facing unprecedented economic pain and anxiety, and consumer demand for houses or any substantial project expenditures will nosedive substantially in the months ahead on our current economic course," Ogden adds. "Business owners and managers need to be preparing for this case."
"There is great disparity we're seeing right now in terms of levels of preparation LBM business owners are taking related to this crisis," Ogden continues. "It's very geographic-specific. In states where infections lag so far or governments haven't taken proactive social distancing action, dealers' sales have continued robustly, and business owners are not preparing for the potential economic tsunami that is headed their way. We are strongly encouraging all LBM dealers to be preparing downside cases, assuming that their market could face substantial disruption beginning in the weeks ahead."
One way to get started is to use the Stress Tester spreadsheet posted on Webb-Analytics.com. This spreadsheet, first developed by industry consultant Jim Enter, shows what could happen to a company's operating profit if sales decline 20%, 33%, or 50%. The sheet also makes it possible to manipulate certain numbers, such as payroll, occupancy, and administration expenses, to see how changes in those expenses will buoy or sink the overall profit.
Ogden says: "As incoming order and sales volume declines materialize, believe them and cut expenses to match to those top-line volume indicators. Unlike 'normal' market environments, do not expect top-line volumes will go back up, for quite some time, once they start declining. In order to survive if worst case scenarios materialize, believe the declines will persist until you have demonstrated multiple-week evidence that they are rising again."
Companies like California's Ganahl Lumber got through the Great Recession in part by doing something Ogden recommends: keep cutting the expenses at your business to reflect the new realities of revenue. Ganahl, for instance, decided that personnel costs couldn't be permitted to be above a certain percentage of revenue figure. When that happened, cuts were made.
Repeat to Yourself Regularly: Cash Is King
While you do the "what if" work, take action now to generate and preserve cash. "Do a cash-flow forecast with downward revised sales forecasts and act when and as necessary," Kellick advises."Watch A/R, negotiate A/P, encourage credit card transactions."Require 50% or full price on special orders, regardless of the client; that should help reduce cancellations. Freeze hiring and CapEx.
Get more stringent on credit requirements and focus actively on collections, Ogden says, because you can expect payments to deteriorate during a recession. "Paper sales" that cost money to fulfill, but in the end don't end up getting collected, are more harmful than no sales at all, he says. Meanwhile, "buy only what's necessary to run the business to your newly reduced projected sales levels, by managing your purchases and inventory levels closely, in line with your visibility on incoming sales volumes. And because cash will be king to your businesses' survival if extended economic pauses materialize, don't pay payables faster than they are due unless you have abundant cash resources on the sidelines to last downside cases--an economic pause followed by extended downturn."
"But managing down working capital doesn't help if the business bleeds cash by insufficiently right-sizing expenses with sales volume declines," Ogden says. "So first and foremost, businesses need to be proactively right-sizing their business expenses to enable the business to survive."
Managing, Leading, and Encouraging Employees
Kellick supports the move being made by dealers across the country to reduce their hours, particularly by closing on weekends if they are primarily a pro yard. "It's about conducting business safely and limiting exposure," Kellick says. In addition, "Divide up the facility into zones that employees don't cross in/out of." That restricts potential transmission of the virus. Consolidation of shipping into one or two locations also will help, Kellick says. Above all, preserve your ability to run the business.
Begin thinking about how best to help employees with their financial strains, but don't make blanket promises to support them for the duration of the pandemic; some experts think we won't see the other side of this until July or August. Ogden suggest you pay attention to the rescue packages coming out of Congress. Several programs from Washington, from unemployment benefits to business loans, could help ease the pain.
If you do have to reduce staff costs, remember there are ways besides issuing pink-slips to do that. They include renegotiating service contracts, renegotiating purchase contracts or terms, asking for voluntary layoffs, or instituting rolling layoffs.
Editor's Note: Building Industry Partners is an investor in Webb Analytics


Anvil Media, Inc, a measurable marketing agency specializing in paid and organic search engine and social media marketing services expects to end 2017 with over 40 percent year-over-year revenue growth, thanks in part to an expanded digital marketing service mix that addresses the ever-changing digital marketing landscape.
"With a seventeen-year history in the world of search engine marketing, we've seen major shifts in how brands and consumers engage. Over the past year, we've invested deeply in helping our clients leverage the boom in voice search and product-centric searches on Amazon," stated Anvil Media President Kent Lewis.
Anvil formally launched a host of new and upgraded service offerings across the digital marketing mix. Below are five of the most unique and popular new services offered to Anvil clients.
Voice Search Optimization Strategy – With the rampant adoption of voice-activated searches across devices ranging from phones to Google Home and Amazon Alexa, there is an emerging opportunity to own a coveted position in search results, known as "Position 0." Anvil's new VSOS provides a foundational strategy to maximize your brand's organic visibility in voice searches at Position 0.
Amazon Shopping Audit and Plan (ASAP) – With more than half of all product searches beginning on Amazon, manufacturers, and retailers must have a strategic presence on Amazon. Anvil has your back, from foundational product fulfillment and pricing strategy to organic product page optimization and Amazon Marketing Services campaign development and management.
Competitive Intelligence Audit (CIA) – Develop informed digital strategies for 2018, based on Anvil's new comprehensive business intelligence audit of your competitors' online presence. Our clients select the number of competitors and we take it from there.
Content Marketing Audit & Plan – Anvil views content as the driving force behind successful digital marketing. Although not unique in this view, we have developed a model by which content marketing efforts are fully integrated and amplified via our new CMAP offering. This service is ideal for start-ups or companies that lack a cohesive content strategy, particularly online.
Conversion Rate Optimization Audit and Plan (CROAP) – The last mile can make or break your ability to generate online leads or sales cost-effectively. Anvil can help maximize your conversion rates site-wide to leverage your existing site visitors, before turning on the gas and increasing traffic.
The expanded service mix was driven by Anvil's new Executive Team, which includes three new members: Melanie Hughson, Director of Account Services, Erica Lewis, Operations Manager and Chrispin Kenney, Vice President. Chrispin is heading up Anvil's first geographic expansion efforts and heads up the new Madison, WI office. To ensure consistent quality and delivery of service and results, Anvil also expanded its team headcount by more than 30 percent.
"I'm excited to head up our Midwest and East Coast office. I've been in the digital world since 1993 and when it came to choosing a brand to bring East, Anvil was my first choice. I've watched Anvil grow and evolve the past five years and felt the timing was perfect to partner," stated Chrispin Kenney, Vice President.
Based on an in-depth analysis of the marketplace, Anvil expanded its industry vertical expertise beyond e-commerce, high-tech/software, higher education, hospitality, healthcare and financial services to include Automotive and senior care. Anvil also refreshed its Advisory Board for 2018, to ensure the company implements strategic initiatives and achieves its long-term goals.
Anvil's efforts to build one of the best agencies in the country was rewarded. Anvil was one of ten agencies to receive 'Best SEM Companies for September 2017' from FindBestSEO among other awards and recognition in 2017. The recognition and marketing efforts have also helped fuel new business. In the past quarter, Anvil added the following companies to its client roster in the past two months: 3Degrees, BuildingBits, ESS, Grafletics, Health and Safety Institute, Polaris Footwear and Vesta. If you feel your company would benefit from increased awareness and sales, contact Anvil to be added to this exclusive client list.
With headquarters in Portland, OR and an office in Madison, WI, Anvil is an award-winning measurable marketing firm that creatively solves business problems for purpose-driven companies. Anvil specializes in providing analytics, search engine optimization, paid media and social media marketing services.


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Fagus longipetiolata is a species of concern belonging in the species group "plants" and found in the following area(s): China, Vietnam.
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Opposition remains in disarray in Uttar Pradesh
May 15, 2017 DayAfter
With Uttar Pradesh in the BJP's firm grip, the opposition has still not come to terms with its rout in the assembly polls that catapulted Yogi Adityanath to power.
Ousted from power, the Samajwadi Party, which had its own share of woes before the election, is now seeing a war of words within, with rival camps locked in a bitter struggle for power.
While former Chief Minister and party President Akhilesh Yadav has indirectly hit out at his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, saying he knew well who was the "aasteen ke sanp" (back stabber), the latter responded with words like "nadaan" and "ahankaari" (naive, arrogant).
Akhilesh Yadav has expelled a party leader, Deepak Mishra, known to be a confidant of Shivpal Yadav. Mishra in turn accused the former Chief Minister and his aide Ram Gopal Yadav of humiliating the loyalists.
Mishra and others like him, now out of the party fold, have declared a war on the Samajwadi Party leadership. They have accused some leaders of amassing wealth and acquiring luxury sports utility vehicles even as the hardcore socialists still do with two-wheelers.
The situation is no different in the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) where supremo Mayawati has expelled former confidant Naseemuddin Siddiqui along with his "rising star" son Afzaal.
The move has triggered a quake in the party, already hit by a mutiny of sorts in the rank and file.
Siddiqui hurled serious charges against the four-time Chief Minister, alleging that she used to seek large amounts of money from party workers and even once branded Muslims "traitors".
He also accused Mayawati of not allowing him to even attend the funeral of his daughter years back and asked him to rather manage her election instead.
The former minister has released half-a-dozen damaging audio tapes suggesting that the Dalit leader was most of the time demanding money from party cadres.
Mayawati hit back in no time and called Siddiqui a "blackmailer" and an "extortionist" who had swindled a huge amount of party funds.
"He has the cheek to say he was a party loyalist. How can he be when he was secretly recording the conversations of the party president?" she asked.
Siddiqui alleged that Mayawati wanted to get a senior leader murdered — and pledged to furnish "proof" for this soon.
Former BSP leader and now a minister in the Adityanath government, Swami Prasad Maurya, said the sins of the Dalit diva were catching up with her.
While there is no rebellion in the Congress ranks, district presidents are unhappy about the alliance it forged with the Samajwadi Party in the assembly elections.
They accused the party high command of forcing the decision on them.
The Congress was the worst sufferer among the three parties in the assembly elections.
With the opposition bogged down by ugly bickering, the BJP government is having a field day.
There have been caste conflicts, stray incidents of communal violence, cow vigilantes thrashing people and soaring crime. But there is hardly any opposition to take on the government. As of now.
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"""
pytest source ordering plugin
from https://pagure.io/python-pytest-sourceorder/blob/master/f/pytest_sourceorder.py
"""

import inspect
import pytest

def get_lineno(func):
    unwrapped = inspect.unwrap(func)    # unwrap all decorators
    return unwrapped.__code__.co_firstlineno

def decorate_items(items):
    node_indexes = {}
    for index, item in enumerate(items):
        try:
            func = item.function
        except AttributeError:
            yield (index,), item
            continue

        key = (index,)
        for node in reversed(item.listchain()):
            # Find the corresponding class
            if isinstance(node, pytest.Class):
                cls = node.cls
            else:
                continue

            node_index = node_indexes.setdefault(node, index)
            # Find first occurence of the method in class hierarchy
            for i, parent_class in enumerate(reversed(cls.mro())):
                method = getattr(parent_class, func.__name__, None)
                if method:
                    # Sort methods as tuples (
                    #   position of the class in the inheritance chain,
                    #   position of the method within that class,
                    # )
                    key = (node_index, 0, i, get_lineno(method), index)
                    break
            else:
                # Weird case fallback
                # Method name not in any of the classes in MRO, run it last
                key = (node_index, 1, get_lineno(func), index)
            break

        yield key, item

def pytest_collection_modifyitems(session, config, items):
    items[:] = [item for key, item in sorted(decorate_items(items))]

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Advieh is used in many Persian recipes and its aroma will drive you mad. It is a very simple spice to make and store in your cabinet. Make sure to store in an air tight glass jar, not plastic.
Place all the spices in a coffee grinder and grind to a fine powder and then store in an airtight container. This spice will keep for 6 months to 1 year safely in your cabinet. Do not put in the refrigerator.