Our computing conference held in conjunction with CAS Regional Centre for Yorkshire and Humber, will prove to be one of our most exciting and informative events yet. With leading names in computing, we guarantee that there is something for every teacher at every phase.
Miles Berry is one of the leading lights at CAS, and is an internationally respected authority on computing education, especially in the primary sector. His keynote and workshop sessions will examine how computing can link to, and underpin, mathematics skills and understanding.
Chris Sharples, a regular presenter at the BETT show, has a wealth of experience and guidance relating to digital leaders. The digital leader scheme involves training students to support teachers, and other students, with technology issues. At Chris' secondary school they get involved in helping others learn computing and have taken ownership of the excellent Raspberry Pi lab.
Catherine Elliott is a CAS #include committee member, and is a leading exponent of computing education for students with special educational needs. She has worked in support of special schools and mainstream primary and secondary schools across Sheffield and beyond, and is passionate about creating accessible and appropriate learning opportunities – the subject of her session.
Sue Finnigan is a highly experienced e-safety consultant, working on behalf of CEOP and safeguarding teams in South Yorkshire. She is the co-author of an innovative program of study that integrates e-safeguarding into computing, PSHE and more.
The team at Yorkshire and Humber CAS are working hard to support computing teachers across the region. Based within the University of York, they bring a wealth of subject knowledge and a detailed understanding of teachers' needs. Expect fun, insightful sessions delivering a mixed bag of classroom resources and teaching approaches.
Book now and don't miss your chance to develop new teaching and learning strategies as well as building a network of support with other attendees, and gain access to a wide range of resources and CPD.


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Industry legend and AQHA Past President Robert Norris passed away on November 3, 2019.
Norris was inducted into the American Quarter Horse Hall of Fame in 1996.
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AQHA has learned of the death of AQHA Past President Robert Norris of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Norris, who was 90, died November 3. This obituary will be updated when funeral details become available.
He is survived by two daughters and two sons. His wife, Jane Norris, died in 2016.
Norris was the founder of the AQHA Ranching Heritage Breeder T-Cross Ranch.
He was known as the Marlboro Man for 13 years and later played the important role of an AQHA president.
Norris became an AQHA director in 1966 and served on both the youth activities and Hall of Fame committees. He became a member of the AQHA Executive Committee in 1978. He also had an interest in the National Western Heritage & Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, where he served as president of the trustees and vice president of the board of directors.
In 1982, Norris became AQHA president. During his term, much of his time was spent on matters related to planning for the new headquarters building in Amarillo, which had been approved the previous year. By summer, the architect had preliminary plans ready, along with a revised cost of $4,918,000. Final drawings and specifications were to be ready in December, with contracts to be let in January 1983. On February 28, 1983, Norris and the executive committee members, along with Ronnie Blackwell and Amarillo's mayor, Rick Klein, broke ground for the new building.
Norris grew up on his family's farm in St. Charles, Illinois. After studying animal husbandry at the University of Kentucky, he became the farm manager of the family business. One day several years later, after inhaling shovelfuls of corn dust and standing knee-deep in the water of the corn grinder, Norris decided that farmer's duds just were not the right fit for him anymore. He and his wife, Jane, took off for the West.
They originally bought a small ranch at Fort Collins, Colorado, but expanded to a bigger spread near Guffey, Colorado, not too long after. While Norris was at Guffey, commercial photographers visited the ranch to shoot some cowboy photos for a Marlboro cigarette ad campaign. They took about 2,000 pictures that day, and a few months later, Norris found himself on the back cover of Life magazine.
He did not look any different that day than he did the day before or the day after. The cowboy clothes he had donned after moving out West fit his personality like the corner pieces of a puzzle; suddenly his whole life had a frame.
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Idaho's governor is allowing his doctrinaire Libertarian obsession for "smaller government" to get in the way of common sense.
Despite a $75 million state budget surplus, Gov. "Butch" Otter wants to cut $1.5 million from family and early childhood programs designed to assist parents in providing a healthful environment for children in their pre-school years. He might even cut another $1 million in federal funds earmarked for state Head Start.
Make note: Otter did not condemn the programs as ineffective, wasteful or irrelevant. His aides cited Otter's obsession with reducing the size and costs of state government, even as fast-growing Idaho's population leaped 13 percent between 2000 and 2006 to a new high of 1,466,465 and as the Hispanic community soared by 36 percent, now representing 9.5 percent of the state's population.
Much of this growth is due to a high birth rate. Many of these children are born into low-income families that are in special need of supervisory programs to give children a decent start.
The cuts Otter suggests are brutal. With the state budget at $2.7 billion, a $1.5 million trim in services represents an almost undetectable .0005 percent savings.
Meanwhile, Gov. Otter has proposed a new 242-bed prison. Penal sociologists long ago concluded that criminal careers often begin when children are deprived of healthful, caring early years.
If Gov. Otter's fixation for stinginess with family programs results in even a few deprived children becoming lifelong criminals, the costs of prosecution and long-term imprisonment would far exceed any "savings" the bean-counting governor fancies. This is the wrong place and wrong time to count beans.


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Statement: Ashura 1439 AH
The new Islamic year has begun. It is 1439 years since the Prophet Muhammad, pbuh, emigrated with the beleaguered Muslims from Makkah, which was then a city of oppressors, to Medina, which was a safe haven. When we remember the Hijra, we must remember that Muslims fled from oppression.
The new year is not a happy occasion among Muslims. It is a time for remembrance, for mourning, for rejuvenating our commitment against oppression and oppressors (zalimun), and our devotion to Muhammad, Fatimah, Ali, Hassan and Hussain (alayhimu salam). It is the moment to remember the durood and what it stands for: we pray for blessings upon the Prophet and his aal, his family.
So, in Muharram 1439, we at the O Collective renew our commitment against oppression. We remind each other that what happened to Aal-e-Muhammad is happening still to their devotees, the Shi'a. There is still a genocide of Shi'a Muslims going on in Pakistan. The Hazaras of Balochistan are still being disappeared and murdered; Shi'i professionals are still being shot dead as they drive their children home from schools; discrimination against non-Sunnis is rife. Shi'i Muslims suffer and Shi'i Muslims persist—in the name of Hussain, Hassan, Ali, Fatima and Muhammad, upon whom be peace.
Muharram is for remembrance, for mourning and for renewal. It is not happy. We do not wish each other Happy New Year, and we find the rise in this habit problematic and disrespectful. We hope that fellow Muslims of all paths will be more attentive to the reality that we begin our year in thoughtfulness, solemnity, grief, mourning and renewal. Joy will come later, inshallah, when we see the fruits of our labour against injustice.
As O, we recognize that we fall back on a default Sunni Islam because that is the dominant path in Pakistan and because most of us are from Sunni families. So we ask you now, with humility: fellow Muslims from other paths, tell us what you need. Tell us how we may serve your needs better. Join us and lead us. Join us so we can all come to each other's aid and help each other along the many paths to Allah.
Labayk Ya Hussain.
Bangladesh: Statement of Apology and Solidarity
Forty-four years ago, atrocities of gigantic proportions and irreversible pain were committed against the people of now-Bangladesh by the Pakistani establishment. West Pakistan committed systematic genocide of the Bengali people, espousing colonial extermination policies. This is unpardonable. We are the O Collective, a group of queer Pakistanis, and we acknowledge the atrocities committed in our name against the people of Bangladesh. We acknowledge that December 16, 1971, marks the end of a dark time, where Bangladesh was freed from the oppressive and murdering forces of a would-be colonizing state apparatus. We, in our struggle against homophobia and transphobia, recognize that we must also struggle with our past, our culpability and the ringing silence of our history books on the brutalization, rape and murder of Bengali people, people we claimed were our fellow country-people. We stand in shame for what was done to the people of Bangladesh and, for what it's worth, here, now, we unreservedly apologize for these atrocities. The O Collective calls on all defenders of human dignity in Pakistan to confront this history and hold the state of Pakistan accountable for the Bengali genocide of 1971. We call on all Pakistanis to take a hard look at ourselves on this day. December 16 has acquired a new and horrible significance since the massacre of the students of the Army Public School in Peshawar in 2014. Today, as we remember and memorialize, all across Pakistani television and print media, and in banners along Pakistani city roads, the children brutally and callously murdered a year ago today, we must remember that violence begets violence, war begets war, and that participation in the cynical global politics of control and devastation will only lead us to further death – more children will die, more graves will be dug, more lives will be destroyed. Today, we, the O Collective, mourn the dead of APS, and all the children murdered by the War on Terror. Today, we remember the dead that are not memorialized by the state, but have died nonetheless as a result of the same geopolitics. And today we remember what we have been taught to forget: the raped, the brutalized, the dead of Bangladesh, killed in our name. We must give voice to the truth. The brutalities of nationalism can only be overcome by a rainbow of solidarity which transcends the otherwise impassable borders. We stand in solidarity with our queer friends in Bangladesh and offer this small act of rectification. It is insufficient, we know. But if you will have us, we stand with you, fellow queers in a brutal and violent world.
Report: Violence Through the Lens of LBT people
In June of 2014, O concluded a 3-year research project on violence experienced by lesbian and bisexual cisgender women and transgender people in Pakistan. This was conducted in partnership with OutRight Action International (then known as IGLHRC) and four other country partners in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Philippines and Japan. Our findings are here in the Pakistan chapter, in English and Urdu, along with the full report.
You can see the full website for the project here – Violence: Through the Lens of Lesbians, Bisexual Women and Transgender People in Asia.
Advocacy: Mental Health Professionals
All through 2009 and well into 2010, members of O met with medical and mental health professionals in Lahore to discuss the treatment of queer people in need of their assistance. We asked them their current protocol for treating queer people who come to them and learned a number of things.
Firstly, we learned that, most often, the protocol among mental health professionals is to take refuge in common Islamic prohibitions against fornication and homosexuality. Psychiatrists and psychologists advise abstinence and prayer because, despite what the DSM says, they believe that homosexuality is an aberration and a sin. This has left their clients feeling further insecurity, self-blame and hopeless. Often queer people never return for a second appointment because, rather than getting care, they receive blame, guilt and a confirmation of all their insecurities.
We also learned that part of the problem with the psychological care provided is that mental health professionals worry about backlash from their clients' families. Many times, queer people are brought in by their parents, who believe their children's attraction to the same sex is a psychological problem. Psychologists and psychiatrists follow the family's lead in suggesting religious and behavioural "cures" for queerness. Thus, mental health service providers often worry as much or more about their own continuing practice and safety as they do about the health of their clients.
Some of the practitioners had, however, attempted to go beyond Islamic provisions and family pressures to understand their clients' dilemmas and be supportive of their own actualisation. They reported that their clients' families and religious convictions were the biggest challenges queer people faced. While family pressure was something that psychologists felt able to counsel their clients on, the problem with religious prohibitions and convictions was a barrier they were unable to surmount.
After several exploratory meetings, O members put together a presentation that explained the meanings of the various terms in LGBTQ, the most recent understandings in psychiatry on how to treat queer people, particularly emphasising the cruelty and inefficacy of reparative therapy. We also led a discussion about how we had coped with our own family and religious pressures, brainstorming ways in which they could change their approaches.
What is Homosexuality?
This is perhaps the first question an individual questioning or perturbed by their sexual orientation might ask. The question or frustration may begin as a noticeable lack of interest in the opposite gender along with either a subtle or an overt interest in member(s) of the same gender.
Being homosexual is simply persistent or recurring sexual, affectional and/or romantic attraction on a long-term basis for member(s) of the same gender as oneself. Physical, sexual acts may or may not accompany that attraction. You can be celibate and still know your sexual orientation-–be it lesbian, gay or bisexual.
But physical/sexual acts between members of the same gender do not make the involved individuals necessarily homosexual, or lesbian, gay, bisexual, etc.
"Homosexuality is akin to bestiality, prostitution and incest." →
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Bard Urological Division marks 100th anniversary
In celebration of its 100th anniversary, this week Bard Urological Division treated its employees to a week of special activities designed to reward them for their hard work and to highlight C.R. Bard's long and rich history.
Employing roughly 800 people in Covington, C.R. Bard is one of Newton County's top employers. Founded in 1907 by Charles Russell Bard when he began investigating urological discomfort, C.R. Bard made its mark in 1934 when it first began marketing the Foley catheter, which is still widely used today.
Bard Urological Division came to Covington in the late 1950's. C.R. Bard Urological is responsible for marketing, accounting and research and development for C.R. Bard.
According to Ronda Reeves, senior HR representative for Bard Urological, each division of the company is celebrating Bard's 100th year celebration differently.
On Wednesday, employees were served a barbecue lunch. On Thursday all 139 Bard Urological Division employees received a book of the history of the company and a special edition Bard clock from three of the division's longest tenured employees.
Friday's activities featured a dunking booth, staffed by members of Bard Urological's Board of Directors. For $2, employees were able to purchase the chance to get the boss all wet. Proceeds from the booth will to Mary Beth's Place, a playground to be built in the Covington YMCA's new outdoor sports facility in honor of Mary Beth Malcolm.
Mark Downey, president of Bard Urological Division said that the company's four core values of quality, integrity, service and innovation are what has brought C.R. Bard to its 100th year.
"It's a tribute to the diligence of those individuals who carved the path to today," Downey said of the company's long history. "And it's a guide for are employees as we move into the next 100 years."
Added Geoff Gerks, vice president of human resources for Bard Urological, "Bard is a very stable company with a lot of opportunities."
According to Gerks, just knowing that if he should ever be in need of the medical equipment that C.R. Bard manufactures gives him some peace of mind because he is so confident in the high quality of Bard's products.
Since C.R. Bard came to Covington, the company has developed a reputation as a great place to work with ample benefits for employees.
"It's a great company. There's a lot of long time employees," said Bard Urolgical's former Vice President of quality insurance Wayne Williamson, who though newly retired, was on hand Wednesday to enjoy some barbecue.
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Sarah Rowe and Marweza Dehqan, fifth grade students at Langley Elementary School, were selected to lead the Pledge of Allegiance and give the opening at the March 27, School Board meeting. They read the poem Happy Dreamer by Peter Reynolds.
Sarah enjoys riding her bike, swimming, reading, drawing, and writing short stories. She also likes learning about history and animals.
Marweza enjoys drawing, soccer, and history.
Both students' families, as well as administrators and staff from their school, joined them at the meeting.


Two hunters are out on a long day in the forest, when one of them has to take a dump. "Go in the bushes," says the other hunter. "But what'll I use to wipe with?" "Use a dollar bill. That's what I do." So the other hunter goes into the bushes, and comes back with crap all over his hands. "What happened?" asks his friend. "I didn't have a dollar bill so I used four quarters."
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He was their best friend, so you can imagine that is something they have to mourn over, she said.The other toys do the same as they realize that they are now facing death, and Buzz reaches his other arm out to take Woody's hand.In the meantime, Marvel fans will have WandaVision to keep them company in 2020.This week, we marked two 3,000-plus days of recorded COVID-19 fatalities, with no reason to think we've yet reached the peak.Also Read: 'The Falcon And The Winter Soldier' Release On Disney Plus Shifted To 2021?.The Texas brief was not signed by the state's solicitor general, Kyle Hawkins.But the pandemic has also closed down production worldwide, which left big question marks hanging over the release of some of Disney Plus' original shows, particularly the Marvel original series.In 2017, he was arrested in Savannah, Georgia for public intoxication, disorderly conduct and obstruction with camera footage showing the actor making racial remarks to a police officer, during his arrest, which he later apologized for, citing his alcohol addiction.
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GamesRadar+'s Entertainment Writer.The problem is Anthony (Dornan) seems to have inherited a family curse, and remains oblivious to his beautiful admirer.Emily Van Camp also returns as Sharon Carter, though she unfortunately doesn't appear in the promo.Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2020.Namely, Daniel Bruhl's Baron Zemo, who's briefly glimpsed in this trailer.Jack Harlow's single Whats Poppin (solo or remix featuring DaBaby, Tory Lanez, and Lil Wayne) reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and on the US R&B/Hip-Hop chart.The upcoming series, which stars Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan, was originally supposed to debut in the fall, but it was delayed along with everything else.After all, Baron Zemo is back as a villain for the Disney+ series, and we know he'll be causing all sorts of mayhem for Sam and Bucky.Lil Baby 3.Now, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will come out next year, and the release plans for the others are unclear.I recorded the hook really quickly, almost just as a careless idea.
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Planned filming in Puerto Rico was interrupted by earthquakes in mid-January, 2020, and it remained unknown if the site would be returned to for filming.For his part, Evans has refused to take any credit for the response to his costume, telling Extra TV, "Oh yeah, well, you know.In February 2020, it was reported by Deadline that Carl Lumbly (Alias) had joined the cast in an unknown role."I've always known who I am, but it's just kind of discovering who I was in adult crisis.Whatever the case may be, Sam could suit up as Captain America before the credits roll on the Disney+ series.The acclaimed cast will now contend for Golden Globes, SAG Awards and Oscars as a feature film.Check out the spot above.— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) December 11, 2020.The six-part series features the return of Mackie as Wilson, Sebastian Stan as Bucky Barnes (or the Winter Soldier), Daniel Brühl as Baron Zemo, Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter, and Georges St-Pierre as Batroc the Leaper.Kirby was urging them to continue negotiating over a coronavirus relief bill and specifically, the Payroll Support Program, which had been supporting airline employees.
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After the fallout of Avengers: Endgame, Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) team again to face new and returning threats.Watch: Owen Wilson Joins The MCU In First Loki Trailer.15, 20210.With that being said, the studio does like to keep fans on their toes.Daniel Bruhl and Emily VanCamp are reprising their roles as Helmut Zemo and Sharon Carter.Mulan and Black Widow were a given, but anything from the Marvel Studios TV wing was a mystery.The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is officially coming to Disney+ March, 2021.He was their best friend, so you can imagine that is something they have to mourn over, she said.After an earthquake halted production in Puerto Rico in January, the series.You can check out the interview with VanCamp above, thanks to the PJ Stock Instagram page.So if it makes sense for a story, they will do it, and if not, they won't, said Skogland.Check out the piece below! 🚨 EM PRIMEIRA MÃO! 🚨 A Zazzle abriu sua loja oficial de TFATWS e acabou confirmando a participação do vilão Flag-Smasher na série!.
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He isn't exactly a traditional antagonist, choosing to play the long game rather than face the Avengers out in the open."Their failure to abide by the rule of law casts a dark shadow of doubt over the outcome of the entire election.Agent, the United States government's more militaristic choice to replace Captain America after Steve Rogers stopped being one of Earth's mightiest heroes.That book was a joke.As for Russell, he's playing John Walker, a sort of neo-Captain America."I think they will eventually get back together," a source told People.Steve Rogers passed the shield on to Sam at the end of Endgame.I literally had a tough time watching it, because it brought up some of my own personal stuff about loss, change, moving on.If you've been anxiously awaiting any news about the delayed Marvel Studios The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Disney+ series, you're going to want to lean-in for this!."As a result, it is impossible for those states to determine their presidential Electors in line with the arbitrary deadline set forth via federal statute in 1948, and thus, the only deadline that matters is January 20, 2021.
'The Falcon And The Winter Soldier' Trailer Follows …
He's still known as the Falcon, though: I'm not Captain America.There, XR is destroyed.At some point, Bucky and Zemo will meet face to face, and somehow Batroc the Leaper is involved.There are more than 40 types of HPV, some of which can cause genital warts.Anthony Mackie and Sebastian Stan will reprise their roles ….The 20 Highest Grossing Indies of 2020 (A Running List).A second season of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier hasn't been officially confirmed, though reports have indicated online that the first season will be a limited series.He didn't reveal the features but teased there's some "great" ones.It's arriving in , and was just a few weeks shy of wrapping in March when it was forced to halt production in Prague as a result of COVID-19.Disney has shut down the production of all live-action projects, and it is unknown when the project will continue filming.The four states exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to justify ignoring federal and state election laws and unlawfully enacting last-minute changes, thus skewing the results of the 2020 General Election.Basically, this looks like Mission: Impossible meets the MCU.
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Technology is driving financial inclusion by enabling populations who have traditionally been excluded from formal financial services to gain access. All over the world, the use of mobile networks and micropayments is helping the underbanked in emerging and developed countries store and transfer money. Traditionally, the need for costly infrastructure and a highly developed regulatory environment has put bank services beyond the reach of millions. Now, technology is changing the equation. But how will this dramatic expansion of services to an underserved market influence the broader economy? Are there threats that might derail this revolution? And what is the next frontier of expanding financial access? Our panel of innovators will discuss how technology is making the world of finance a more inclusive place.


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50 years since LBJ's historic voting rights speech
March 19, 2015 - It was 50 years ago this week that President Johnson delivered an address to Congress calling for passage of the Voting Rights Act. The speech is regarded as the best of his administration -- and one of the finest pieces of presidential oratory in history.
Selma, behind the scenes
March 9, 2015 - Selma today is a struggling, majority-black city that embodies the conflicted legacy of the 1960s civil rights movement. Join us as we visit a whites-only country club, a Confederate memorial, an imperiled river, and a church that helped birth the Black Power movement.
From Selma to sorrow
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March 9, 2015 - Viola Liuzzo died for her convictions in the 1960s freedom movement, and is the only white woman honored on the Civil Rights Memorial. But few know her story -- and why authorities conspired to keep her from being known as a hero.
As the nation commemorates Selma march, auto parts workers there fight for their health
By Joe Atkins
March 9, 2015 - Workers at an auto parts plant in Selma, Alabama are protesting low wages and chemical exposures that they say are causing health problems ranging from asthma to cancer.
Selma and voting rights: Commemoration or legislation?
March 6, 2015 - The 1965 Selma march being commemorated this weekend in Alabama helped speed passage of the Voting Rights Act -- but the landmark law is now in its most precarious position in a half-century.
North Carolina's Moral Movement readies for mass march with week of protest actions
February 6, 2015 - The grassroots movement that's led to the arrest of more than 1,000 people in nonviolent protests against North Carolina's regressive political direction is getting ready to kick off another year of action with a week of daily events followed by a mass march through the state capital.
From Selma to Citizens United: The contested struggle for one person, one vote
January 16, 2015 - Next week the U.S. celebrates the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It also marks the fifth anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that ended campaign spending limits -- and the two occasions are more closely linked than many realize.
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March 8, 2012 - Nearly a year since Alabama passed the nation's toughest anti-immigrant law, community members say some immigrants are beginning to return.


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According to architectural critic Charles Jencks, modern architecture died forty one years ago, on March 16, 1972. That's the day that dynamite charges brought down the first of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing towers in St. Louis, Missouri. You've probably seen the pictures: a cloud of dust swirls out into the street while the tops of the buildings, still square, sag and tilt crazily. The photo captures rectilinear form giving way to dust and rubble: an iconic moment, an image that reminds us that entropy — the law of increasing disorder — haunts all our acts and works. In the distance you can make out another St. Louis icon, Eero Saarinen's Gateway Arch, that gleaming stainless steel monument to the city's role as mustering yard for the nation's western expansion.
Jencks was wrong about modern architecture. So are those who blamed the residents of Pruitt-Igoe for the buildings' decay and destruction. What brought those buildings down is a dynamic that's very familiar in our modern economies — a dynamic that the conceptual lens of ecological economics lets us understand very clearly.
Pruitt-Igoe was a federally funded urban renewal project comprised of thirty-three high-rise apartment buildings, eleven stories each, on a 57-acre plot. It represented the best design practices for high-density urban development when it was built. It had green space (a benefit of building up instead of out). It had community function rooms on the ground floors and every third floor (which is where the novel, skip-stop elevators went, encouraging residents to think of every three floors as a neighborhood, since they'd pass and meet in stairwells). Within the limits of Missouri law, it was desegregated. The Pruitt towers, named for a black WWII aviator from Missouri, were for blacks, and the Igoe towers, named for a white Congressman, were for whites. The whole complex was designed for mixed incomes. Some apartments were rented at market rates to middle class families; others were subsidized, with rent limited to a percentage of household income. (Under welfare rules, these apartments could not have telephones or televisions and were available only to families that did not have an able-bodied wage-earner in the household.)
New and ultra-modern when they were built in the early 1950s, after less than two decades' use the buildings had become a filthy, crime-infested, broken-windowed, high-rise slum, as bad as (and in many ways worse) than the housing they had been built to replace. In desperation the St. Louis Housing Authority consolidated the remaining tenants into a few buildings and demolished the others. The attempt at retrenchment failed. By 1976 the last remaining tenants had been relocated, the buildings razed, the site bulldozed. Today the acreage holds a couple of schools and the country's largest accidental urban forest.
What brought the towers down, says one conventional (and racist) narrative, was the behavior of its residents. Despite the plan for a mix of income groups and separate-but-close mingling of races, the towers soon held just low-income African Americans, and they were responsible for trashing the buildings. The architect, Minoru Yamasaki (who went on to design the World Trade Center Towers, which came down under very different circumstances) gave credence to this interpretation when he allowed, "I never thought people were that destructive." A slightly less racist version of this narrative notes that adolescent boys are always the prime perpetrators of vandalism, and that welfare regulations had the unintended effect of breaking up families, ensuring that quite a few adolescent males in the complex had no father figure at home. Vandalism and crime were the predictable result.
A different conventional narrative is told by some architectural critics, like Jencks, who find that the building themselves were at fault. The projects were too massive, too anonymous, too soulless to be successful in fostering neighborliness and a shared sense of pride in place. The public spaces of the complex, this theory says, became no-man's-lands that residents avoided and hurried through. With no one caring for them, they fell into disrepair and bred crime, vandalism, trash, brutality.
Neither of those narratives comes anywhere close to capturing the complex truth, which is that the Pruitt-Igoe towers were brought down by an unfortunate collision of factors. Federal funding paid for construction, but operating costs were the responsibility of the city. The intended occupancy rate would have enabled rental income to cover these. But the population of St. Louis was undergoing an historic change; it fell from 857,000 to 622,000 between 1950 and 1970. Some of this was a general postwar exodus to the suburbs, fuelled by cheap gas, Veterans Administration mortgages, and the assembly-line methods of suburban construction pioneered in Levittown. Some — a great part of it — was white flight. In 1954 the Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka decision mandated the desegregation of public schools, and two years later a Missouri court ordered desegregation of public housing in the city. Middle-class whites left St. Louis for the suburbs, where housing costs and racial discrimination in sales and rentals — "redlining" — would preserve segregated schools for decades to come. With its middle-income apartments emptying and being re-let to impoverished black families, the Housing Authority could no longer support Pruitt-Igoe's maintenance expenses.
The slum housing that Pruitt-Igoe replaced had become degraded and unhealthy for sound economic reasons. A slumlord maximizes his income stream by zeroing out maintenance costs, consuming the stored integrity of a building as income, and letting the building depreciate down to nothing. Tax law, which allows deductions for depreciation, makes this an even more lucrative strategy. Faced with an inadequate income stream, the public housing authority of St. Louis did what slumlords do: they reduced their budget gap by zeroing out maintenance expenses and sucking the integrity and usefulness out of their property.
The Pruitt-Igoe demolition offers a clear warning about resorting to the slumlord model (credit: St. Louis Post Dispatch).
As any businessman can tell you, if your operation can't afford routine maintenance of its productive assets, your operation is in deep trouble. What you've got then isn't a business plan but a plan to be a parasite.
Nature knows three kinds of parasites. One lives in a symbiotic relationship with its host, never diverting so much of the host's life-energy as to constitute a threat to its continued well-being. (You don't even notice the mites that live on your dead skin cells.) Another kind of parasite flourishes by consuming its host to death; like smallpox or the plague, it destroys what it feeds on and then jumps to another host. A third kind of parasite falls in between. It sucks a considerable amount of life from the host but doesn't actually kill it; it achieves a kind of equilibrium, imposing a degraded and diminished life on its host. Tapeworms fall into this category, along with some chronic diseases, such as leprosy, malaria, and tuberculosis. Call it the slumlord model: sustainable, under certain conditions.
Unlike the things humans build, ecosystems (and, by and large, individual organisms within them) are capable of a high degree of self-repair. Any act of maintenance involves resisting entropic decline in a system by importing matter, energy, and design intelligence into a system to restore a valued and orderly arrangement. Broken windows don't fix themselves. For that you need new glass and a glazier to install it. But damaged ecosystems do repair themselves, if they haven't been degraded beyond recovery: they use physical nutrients, solar throughput, and the design intelligence of evolution to maintain and deepen their systems of orderly relations.
In his 1952 classic Soil and Civilization, Edward Hyams pointed out that humans have always been parasites on their host ecosystems. We divert some of the resource-energy of those systems and channel it through our bodies and societies before exhausting it, degraded, back into the host. Many, even most hunter-gatherer tribes lived in symbiotic relationship with ecosystems, colonizing part of nature's food-energy flow but rarely threatening the integrity and continued life of the system as a whole. As agriculturalists, humans sometimes lived in balance with the soil community, never extracting more of its energy-fertility than the system could rebuild from annual solar inflow. But some agricultural societies mined their soil fertility, drawing it down faster than it could be replenished. They consumed the maintenance-energy of their host soils, and either jumped to another host or disappeared as their once-fertile land became sterile sand and gravel.
Today, the bulk of humanity functions as hydrocarbon-fueled industrial parasites — life-suckers whose ambitions include not just food security and reproduction but the accumulation of great material wealth. To gratify those ambitions we've used the stored capital of the planet (a finite stock of fossil fuels) to increase the rate at which we suck the maintenance out of planetary ecosystems. We've become a slumlord species: we cash out nature's maintenance flows and spend our gains as income.
Symbiotic parasitism, which allows the host to flourish, is the only one of these roles that will give us an ecologically sustainable economy with a relatively high standard of living. The find-another-host strategy is clearly out: we've only got one planet, and we've built out to the edge of its capacity to hold us. The slumlord strategy won't work, either. The typical slumlord doesn't have to live in the slum that his self-interested behavior creates; his home is somewhere else. On a fully developed, fully occupied planet, there is no "somewhere else."
Once upon a time, when the world held fewer humans, it seemed that there was room in it for slumlord parasitism. Saarinen's Gateway Arch memorializes an epic transit, the opening of the American West, and it's fitting that you can see it on the distant horizon in those iconic pictures of the Pruitt-Igoe demolition. Whatever else it memorializes, the Arch also marks the transit of a parasitic species looking for a new host, migrating in search of fresh ecosystems whose stocks of capital and maintenance energy could be sucked down, cashed out and spent as current income.
Eventually some humans learned that we ought not to turn our own environmental neighborhood into a slum. Many developed nations passed laws — in the U.S. there was the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, the Water Pollution Control Act — to ensure that we didn't completely zero out the maintenance of the ecosystems that support us. But like slumlords comfortably housed in the suburbs, those in the industrialized countries continued to benefit from the draw-down of maintenance elsewhere in the system. Mostly we who live in the United States exported our damage to the undeveloped and less developed nations of the world, places willing to sacrifice natural capital and ecosystem integrity to the promise — not always fulfilled — of economic gain.
In St. Louis, slumlording depended on the existence of a class of renters who had no other choices: poverty and racism held African Americans in place, in housing that no one should have to endure. In the world at large, our slumlord practice is maintained by the dogmas of infinite-planet economics. We rely on the ideology of free trade, and the spurious argument that environmental quality is a luxury good, to tell the impoverished citizens of the world that if they're patient enough and smart enough, they will someday live as we do — as if a political economy in which 5% of the world's population uses 25% of the world's resource flow could be expanded to include everyone. But there is just enough material progress to make the dogmas seem accurate: thanks to frantic expansion of the matter-and-energy stream that humans suck out of the planet, and to a decline in the U.S. share of that stream as its middle class disappears, once-poor countries like China and India are developing their own middle class consumerist economies. Meanwhile, our planetary habitation is being damaged and degraded even more rapidly. To most of us, in most places it looks okay, but that's because we haven't been schooled in the understanding we need in order to see the damage. Our ecological ignorance allows us to ignore the fact that we're sucking the life-maintenance out of the planet.
The fate of the Pruitt-Igoe towers shows us the likely outcome of continuing to do that.
Eric Zencey is a Fellow of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont and also teaches in the Graduate Architecture and Urban Planning programs at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author most recently of Greening Vermont: The Search for a Sustainable State and The Other Road to Serfdom and the Path to Sustainable Democracy.
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Thank you, excellent analogy.
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This is a very eloquent piece of writing that displays common sense and ecological and evolutionary literacy. It astounds me that our society (including economists) remains with their heads stuck in the sand when these ideas seem to be so simple and basic, especially when they are so well articulated as this article is.
On a different note perhaps, Dr. Zencey might give Dr. Daly a tutorial on evolutionary theory.
Chuck Irvin says:
Point being there is infinite wisdom out there, such as this site and the quotes below, and we need to elevate those that place Earth and its species ahead of profits into positions of decision-making until we can 86 these odious hierarchical destructive paradigms in use today and replace them, via real education systems and not corporate indoctrination camps we nefariously refer to as "higher education", with consensus-decision making models. Most, if not, ALL contemporary man-made institutions need to be neutralized and eliminated. Having difficulty with this notion, well wrap your head around The Story of Stuff and you get the hint.
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As the cryptocurrency industry continues to struggle for any sort of traction, it is quickly becoming apparent there may be some permanent casualties when everything is said and done. There has been no sign of improvement for Bitcoin Cash, as its price continues to drift lower virtually every single day. The next battle ahead will see the Bitcoin Cash price retain $125 or fall below it in the coming hours.
Although Bitcoin Cash successfully celebrated its first birthday this year, things have never looked the same ever since. This altcoin is just another victim of the ongoing bear market, although its losses continue to pile up without improvement in sight. The most recent network protocol upgrade didn't help matters much either, as the value per BCH keeps drifting lower. After losing support at $200, $175 and $150, it now seems $125 will be the next hurdle.
In the past 24 hours, the Bitcoin Cash price lost another 10% in both USD and BTC value alike. That is never a positive sign by any means, yet it also goes to show this currency is currently struggling far more than others. Bitcoin is already regaining some lost value, and the top altcoins are following. BCH is for some reason not doing that, and risks being overtaken by Bitcoin SV in the coming weeks.
There is still some positive momentum regarding Bitcoin Cash, although it is not necessarily the news people are actively looking for. More specifically, the tweet below shows another artist is accepting Bitcoin Cash donations, although it remains to be seen how long this situation will remain in place. These small use cases show there is some merit to BCH, but it is not necessarily checking the right boxes right now.
The overall sentiment toward Bitcoin Cash is also shifting in a significant manner. As Bitcoin SV claims more and more hashrate – depending on the overall peaks and lows noted by Coin Dance – it is slowly becoming more apparent how BCH is struggling. Although there is still a long way to go until the project is considered a failure, it is evident this current trend may very well accelerate unless something major happens in the coming days and weeks.
James Leopold, for example, is trying to drive a point home in this regard. He is confident the Bitcoin Cash price will hit an all-time low in BTC value fairly soon, and lose another rank in the market cap standings. There is also the "threat" of Bitmain going all-in on BCH and coming out less than victorious right now. A lot of aspects regarding this altcoin have yet to fall into place, but it is not looking overly promising right now.
I hope you learn the hard lessons of your misjudgments.
Although the current negative market sentiment isn't unique to Bitcoin Cash by any means, it is the only "top" altcoin to struggle this badly. That in itself is a telling sign, as its overall trading volume is also on the decline right now. Most of the volume is made up of people selling BCH, rather than buying, which seems to indicate more price pressure will materialize soon.


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You can say anything about California's governor but you cannot deny the guy's gotta head full of brilliant ideas.
In his most recent political -and economic- potential breakthrough, the Governator is proposing to pay the Mexican government to house the estimated 20,000 undocumented immigrants that are incarcerated in California. Why, it's simple!
Of course! Just imagine the world of possibilities: Mexican prisoners will get better food and hopefully better treatment (because they will be watched by their "own people") while Californians will get a better access to higher education. This, in turn, will create better educated people, so hopefully in the future they will not screw up when picking their elected officials.
This is a win-win situation, people!
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Twitter worker found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia and releasing private information in exchange for hundreds of thousands of dollars
Charles Igbinidu August 10, 2022 Technology Leave a comment
A former Twitter employee was found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia and releasing private user information of those who publicly criticized the country in exchange for large sums of money.
Ahmad Abouammo, 44, used his position as an engineer at Twitter to access confidential data about users, their email addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses that can disclose their location, prosecutors claimed.
He then passed that information on to an official linked to the Saudi royal family in exchange for a luxury watch and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
An 11-person jury found Abouammo guilty of being an illegal agent of a foreign government, money laundering, falsification of records and one count of wire fraud on Tuesday. He was found innocent on five other counts of wire fraud.
Abouammo remained free on Tuesday pending sentencing, despite concerns expressed by prosecutors that he might try to flee the country. He is scheduled to return to court Wednesday for a hearing.
The case marked the first time the kingdom, long linked to the US through its massive oil reserves and regional security arrangements, has been accused of spying in America.
Former Twitter employee Ahmad Abouammo was found guilty of spying for Saudi Arabia and releasing private user information of those who publicly criticized the country in exchange for large sums of money. He is pictured leaving Santa Rita jail in Dublin, California in Nov. 2019
Abouammo, a dual US and Lebanese citizen, worked for the social media platform from 2013 to 2015. He managed media partnerships with high-profile users in the Middle East and North Africa.
Prosecutors claimed the father-of-three was recruited into the spying scheme in 2014 by Bader Al-Asaker – also known as Bader Binasaker – an aide to then-Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
The pair met when Al-Asaker was touring Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco, California and forged a relationship shortly thereafter, The Wall Street Journal reported.
In December, approximately six months later, Abouammo met with Al-Asaker in London while on a work trip. After the trip he flew back to the US with a watch valued at more than $40,000, investigators claimed.
'That luxury watch—it was not free,' prosecutor Eric Cheng said during closing arguments last week. 'The kingdom had now secured its Twitter insider.'
Ahmad Abouammo, 44, was accused of using his position as an engineer at Twitter to access confidential data about users, their email addresses, phone numbers and IP addresses that can disclose their location
Abouammo was arrested in November 2019 and charged with 11 counts, including spying. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released from jail on bond
Prosecutors said that a week after the England trip Abouammo began accessing data from the anonymously run account 'mujtahidd.' Al-Asaker reportedly wanted the account suspended, but it still remains active today.
Cheng also argued that Abouammo took bribes of amounts close to triple his annual salary for almost a year:
'They paid for a mole,' he argued. 'We all know that that kind of money is not for nothing.'
'The evidence shows that, for a price and thinking no one was watching, the defendant sold his position to an insider of the crown prince,' US prosecutor Colin Sampson echoed in his final remarks to the jury.
Defense attorney Angela Chuang countered that while there certainly appeared to be a conspiracy to get revealing information about Saudi critics from Twitter, prosecutors failed to prove Abouammo was part of it.
She argued that her client was doing his job while employed at Twitter and that the US 'government hadn't proven beyond a reasonable doubt' that Abouammo was acting as a spy for Saudi Arabia.
Abouammo was recruited into the spying scheme in 2014 by Bader Al-Asaker (pictured), an aide to then-Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
The pair met when Al-Asaker was touring Twitter's headquarters in San Francisco (pictured)
The prosecution, however, pointed out that Abouammo received multiple payments of $100,000 each into a bank account in Lebanon that was created under his father's name. He then made wire transfers of $10,000 to a US account.
He also failed to report the watch or monetary payments to Twitter, violating company policy requiring workers to disclose any offerings worth more than $100.
Chuang agreed Abouammo should have reported Al-Asaker's gifts to his then-employer, but argued that 'misstep wasn't enough to convict him.'
'We just spent the last two weeks in a glorified HR investigation,' she told the court, adding that it was 'important to make the distinction between breaking federal law and violating workplace policies.'
Additionally, prosecutors alleged Abouammo had recruited his Twitter colleague, Ali Alzabarah, into the scheme and introduced him to Al-Asaker.
Ahmad Abouammo and wife Zeina Elassi-Abouammo are shown on her Facebook page in a photo posted June 22, 2022
Zeina Abouammo, second left, whose husband, US citizen Ahmad Abouammo, is accused of using his position at Twitter to spy on accounts, arrives for a detention hearing at US District Court, Western District of Washington in Seattle on November 8, 2019
Alzabarah, who worked in website maintenance, allegedly used his employee credentials to access email addresses, birth dates and other information about Twitter users who made posts criticizing the Saudi royal family.
Officials believe he provided the Saudi government with the personal information of more than 6,000 users in 2015, including at least 33 usernames for which Saudi law enforcement had submitted emergency disclosure requests to Twitter.
When Twitter asked Alzabarah why he was accessing the user data, he fled the country and submitted his resignation letter via email why traveling to Saudi Arabia.
Alzabarah and another man, Ahmed Almutairi, where both charged by the US Justice Department for their roles in the scheme. Alzabarah, a Saudi national, is being sought on a charge of failing to register in the US as an agent of a foreign government as required by federal law, according to an FBI statement.
Chuang contended in court that prosecutors were trying to punish Abouammo for Alzabarah's actions.
'As much as the government wishes that was Mr. Alzabarah sitting at the table right now, it is not,' Chuang told jurors. 'And that is on them, they let Mr. Alzabarah flee the country while he was under FBI surveillance.'
Almutairi is also believed to have returned to Saudi Arabia. The FBI has issued arrest warrants for both men.
Additionally, prosecutors alleged Abouammo had recruited his Twitter colleague, Ali Alzabarah (pictured), into the scheme and introduced him to Al-Asaker
Alzabarah and another man, Ahmed Almutairi (pictured), were both charged by the Justice Department with acting as illegal agents of a foreign government for their roles in the scheme
Abouammo was first interviewed by the FBI at his Seattle home in 2018. He was working as a social media consultant at the time after having been employed at Amazon for nearly three years.
Agents claim he 'lied' about his involvement with the scheme during the interview and provided them with a 'fake invoice' he had created 'just moments before.'
He was arrested in November 2019 and charged with 11 counts, including spying. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released from jail on bond.
His trial, which was held this summer, lasted about two weeks and featured testimony from current and former Twitter employees, FBI investigators and the defendant's sister. Abouammo did not testify in his trial.
His friends and family wrote letters depicting him as a 'loyal and responsible family man' who provided support to his niece when she needed surgery.
It took the jury nearly three days to come to the consensus that Abouammo was guilty of spying, jurors disclosed after reading their verdict.
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Have you ever had to live with people you didn't know? What was the most difficult part for you?
Like in the military, homeless shelter, prison, ship or other such situation?
Mr PantsFellDown
The difficult thing is if they make noise after you've gone to bed. Other than that, Mr Pants likes a fresh audience.
Definitely a disturbance! Most places have rules for keeping peace at night, but night terrors don't always follow the rules and you can't really fault a body for that!
beaker95
In my teenage years I went to prison for five years. I did not know any of the other convicts, but I had read about a few of the more notorious ones in the newspapers. 80% of guys on my Wing had committed murder and were serving life sentences, which in England meant between 10 and 20 years at their ages. The most difficult part was sensing when things were going to get violent and making sure I disappeared pretty smartish.
Ironically, I was locked up in a detention home on july fourth 1976 our country's major Bicentennial independence celebration. With murders, but definitely NOT comprable! I had run away from home at 15 trying to keep myself safe. I understand about learning to sense 'a disturbance in the force' so to speak as I grew up with Alcoholics.
What were you in for, Beaker?
In high school I was an exchange student and lived with a foreign family for 3 weeks. I became homesick.
No doubt! But how exciting!
ARTICFOX700
Went on 2 research projects, we were a team of 10 people, who only had one thing in common the study of the project. Trying to not insult them was the hardest Especially when I got the call to make dinner with a guy from Boston. I come from New York, everything I wanted to do he rejected luckily the leader of the project took over. Nothing against Boston but different ways of doing things were the toughest part with all of them.
Not sure I wanna go out with someone who doesn't know the difference between a party and a potty! Lol jk
Rick Myres
Thank you for the thumbs up. As I said before it would be nice if I could do that on a reply.
I was in work rehab from fall 1994 to spring 1995 after 1993 back surgery put me as disabled. I was in a housing for drug abusers and other criminal activity, plus mental patient behavior. The most difficult was to sleep there and clean up others people's messes there. I did however make some friends there before it was over.
ive stayed in homeless shelters before, i didnt like those cause i couldnt get no sleep there, ive also stayed in resorts before, i used to work in those places, i enjoyed the people there, i miss doing that, cant do it now cause of hip implants and a bad knee
I know what you mean I was on medication to help me sleep in the shelters.
AskingForaFriend
Stayed in a women's shelter at 23 for about 2 months. I'm an introvert and very private so it was hard to go through such an emotional and difficult time without having a place to be alone where I could break down. It was also hard to witness some of the other women being shitty parents. And my food was stolen often
I'm so sorry you had to go through that. I was in shelters for 2 years while my disability case was waiting for a court date, but I was older. At 23 I joined the Navy and lived with others in that environment. And at 15 I left home and was put in a detention center for a couple of weeks. But no one stole my food. And I never saw any children being abused there, but still so sad to see them there at all! But the shelter where I stayed that had children had surveillance. Some women were just out of prison. I saw many women cry for days upon arrival. (Like you said the only way to hide the tears was to cover themselves with their jacket) One woman got 'lost' two blocks from the shelter! And the streets were numbered, avenues going N. And S. Streets E. And W. Some so pitifully prepared for life on their own having been dependent all their lives! So sad! Sorry I rambled on so but I guess I needed to get it out and I think other people need to understand better the reality rather than the perceptions and stereotypes. Thank you for your answer.
Thanks for sharing, you seem like a genuinely nice person who has had many different life experiences
I'm a nice person who gets bitchy way too often these days. But I'm only human. And yes, I've lived a lot. Hopefully I can help someone else. Even if its just being here to listen.
Military. The most difficult is that I hate when people snore. It interrupts my snoring.
What was the most difficult "goodbye" that you've ever had to say?
What was the most difficult decision you've ever had to make?
Have you ever worried for someone you didn't know personally?
Have you ever had to live paycheck to paycheck?
Have you ever had someone you barely knew let people assume you were married?
Have you ever had conversations with people where you get tired of the subject so you just respond with some old phrase to make it sound like you were actually listening? Has anybody ever noticeably done this to you?
Have you ever called in sick because you just didn't want to get out of bed? (be honest)
What's the most beautiful part of you?
Have you ever had conversations with yourself?
What kind of people do you hate the most ?