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The Importance of Connections
Yaritza Sanchez is an Alumni of Citizen Schools Massachusetts. This is an excerpt from her blog, "Chile Through My Eyes."
I first got introduced to Citizen Schools as a 6th grader at the McCormack Middle School. Just like many students I was forced to enter by my parent who didn't want me to be home doing nothing after school. At first, I did not like it, but that was because I did not give it a chance. Once I started to make friends at the program, I did not mind being there. I continued the afterschool program until my 8th-grade year. By then I no longer had to be forced to attend. I loved everything about the program my friends and the team leaders. My classmates and the team leader had become like a family to me. Citizen Schools had opened my eyes to many opportunities there are for students.
Source: https://chilethroughmyeyes.blogspot.cl/
Tagged: chile, alumni, citizen schools
Alfredo Padilla
Celebrating Service
At Citizen Schools, we understand and deeply appreciate the patience, dedication, and generosity that it takes to be an educator. With the Thanksgiving holiday in mind, last Friday evening, our board member Karen Gordon, Senior Partner BCG, invited the entire New York regional team into her home for cocktails and conversation to show her appreciation for the mission of Citizen Schools and for our educators that work so tirelessly for our students' success.
Executive Director Nitzan Pelman began the evening with a moving address on the current educational and professional landscape and the moral imperative that we all share to change the futures of our students by helping them discover and realize their dreams.
Paige Legree, a current 9th grader and Citizen Schools alumna, charmed the entire room of guests when she told the story of her background and her Citizen Schools journey. Her lighthearted approach to talking about her serious transition from apathy to determination for her future was truly inspiring and had the room lit up with smiles. Watch Paige's speech here, or read it below.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIB-cEplvLk&feature=youtu.be
Teaching Fellows, Sara Osias and Peter Doherty, both shared stories with the group about the outstanding improvement, academically and behaviorally, that they've seen in two of their students this year in comparison to last year.
We rounded out the night getting to know our gracious host and her family in a "fireside chat." Quioni Phillips, a Teaching Associate at Global Tech Prep, lead the interview with Karen that helped us all learn more about her background at Boston Consulting Group and her passion for Citizen Schools and working to close the achievement and opportunity gaps in New York City public schools. Citizen Schools New York is so grateful to have incredible people like Karen supporting our cause and our amazing educators.
Read Paige's speech below:
Hi, my name is Paige Legree and I'm a 9th grader at Manhattan Center High School. You're probably wondering why I'm here because Citizen Schools only works with middle school kids and I am currently a 9th grader. But I was lucky enough to attend Citizen Schools during middle school and learned a lot about what I want to do in the future from the apprenticeships I took.
When I was thinking about how to explain to you what Citizen Schools is, I decided the best way would be to tell you a little bit about my own story. I live in the projects in a neighborhood called East Harlem. It's a tough place and I see a lot of negative things in my environment. To me, these negative things seem like a "cancer" (as you'll see later, I really like metaphors!). It gets really hard to focus on what's important like school, family, and doing the right thing when I see groups of kids just hanging out, skipping school, seemingly having fun, and doing things that make me feel really nervous. I walk quickly from home to school every day and spend as little time as possible in between.
You may not know this, but in New York City only a little more than half of students graduate high school, and in neighborhoods like mine, it's only 30 to 40 percent. Pretty sad. School is like a safe haven for me, but it didn't always feel like that.
Back in 7th grade, I started to struggle a lot. I felt sad all the time, became anti-social, and school really didn't matter to me anymore. My grades started to slip and I remember thinking about my future and it seemed really hopeless; it was like one day I could see the clear path to where I wanted to be and then the next I was completely lost (see I told you I liked metaphors!).
When I look back at it, I see how much my environment was seeping into me, but at the time I didn't realize the "cancer" was effecting my mind, my academics, and my future. Now I realize that I was on the same track as the kids on the corner, and I have to admit that I might not have have stayed in school.
Luckily, I had Citizen Schools teachers, like Mr. Crockett who is just as stubborn as me, and helped me get back on track. Everyday he'd take the time to talk to me, ask me what was on my mind and then eventually, he'd get me to do work. At the beginning of each semester we had something called Apprenticeship Fairs, where we'd get to apply for the apprenticeships we wanted to take.
I was really interested in a photography apprenticeship, but Mr. Crockett told me I had to get my grades up in order to get in (which I found out later wasn't even true, but I guess that's what you call a white lie). That was enough though! I started to apply myself and aced all my tests the next week! I call this time in my life my metamorphosis – I learned that if I apply myself I can have awesome opportunities and for the first time in a long while I actually understood why school is important to my future.
In Citizen Schools I took a lot of really cool apprenticeships – I learned about things I hadn't been exposed to before and even got to visit Google's headquarters! In my photography apprenticeship I was able to be hands on with professional camera equipment and visit NBC studios – things I never imagined experiencing in my life. One concept that I will always remember from that apprenticeship is called "zooming out." Zooming out means that sometimes you need to take a step back and look at a problem from another angle or see the big picture. I actually apply this to daily life, like in school when I'm taking a test and I panic about not knowing the answers. I try to zoom out, wait a moment, and generally I realize that I do have a solution.
In my Spoken Word apprenticeship we learned about poetry and deep complex literary elements, like metaphors. It was so much fun and I found out that I love creative language. In my high school classes, no one seems to know about metaphors or literary elements, so I feel like I'm really ahead of the class. When kids asked how I know about these things, I told them about apprenticeships and they said "Why didn't we get apprenticeships in middle school?!" I wish they all had.
To be honest with you, at first I thought Citizen Schools was just an unnecessary after-school program that cut me off from all the TV programs I like to watch. But I couldn't help seeing that the teachers, volunteers, and apprenticeships were really special. We learned creative ways to study, complete homework, and started to understand why learning matters now and in the future. If you ask me now, I'll tell you that Citizen Schools has helped me become the driven, sharp, and ambitious student that I am today.
Citizen Schools was definitely necessary – what else can I say? It's just awesome! I'm proud to tell you that I have a clear vision for my future now. When I graduate High School (not if!) I hope to attend Columbia University, and major in journalism and study abroad in Italy or France. I'm really excited about what's ahead of me. I want to thank all of the people at Citizen Schools that have given me these incredible opportunities and thank you for inviting me to share my story tonight.
Tagged: alumni, board, New York, student alumni
Whitney Buckley
What Happens After Middle School? A Student Alumni Success Story
Mavelin Godinez is a Citizen Schools North Carolina alumna from Eastway Middle School who will be starting her freshman year at Queens University in Charlotte this fall. When Godinez learned in January that she was accepted to Queens, her first-choice college, she was thrilled. She attributes the accomplishment to her relationship with Eastway Campus Director and former Citizen Schools Teaching Fellow, Melissa Verea.
Godinez was enrolled in Citizen Schools during her 7th and 8th grade years at Eastway Middle School. She recalls being shy and quiet in her classes and in Citizen Schools. Middle school wasn't an easy time for her and her family. Her mother had recently re-married and given birth to a baby girl while also battling with depression. With so much going on at home, Godinez was happy to have a place to go after school.
During her time with Citizen Schools, the staff nominated Godinez for a mission trip to Cape Town, South Africa. When the Citizen Schools staff handed her the application and told her about the nomination she was shocked. She said, "It was the best trip I ever took. I was the only one from Eastway to be accepted. I was the quietest one and I didn't even know the staff noticed me. It showed me they actually cared."
The staff did care, and they still do. Godinez still stays in touch with Melissa Verea and her 8th grade Team Leader, Angel Johnson. Verea and Johnson are still part of her life even though she graduated from Citizen Schools at Eastway four years ago. Verea even accompanied her to an information session at Queens University when she was accepted and takes her out to lunch for her birthday every year. "I get very attached to people. The staff was my favorite part about Citizen Schools. I'm happy I still get to see them!" Godinez said.
Mavelin Godinez is the first member of her family to go to college in America. Her parents didn't pursue higher education and her older brothers and sisters moved home to Guatemala. Godinez plans to major in chemistry at Queens University and is enrolled in the pre-med track. Her family is extremely proud of her.
Godinez has a bright future before her, and she is eager to start the next chapter of her life. When asked why she wanted to go to Queens University she said, "Because Ms. Melissa went there and she always talked about it. It made me want to go too."
Melissa Verea is a positive and caring role model to Godinez and to all of the other Citizen Schools students at Eastway Middle School. Encouragement, support and love go a long way for a middle school student. In Godinez's case it took her all the way to college and one step closer to reaching her lifelong dream of becoming a pediatric surgeon. Her advice to current and future Citizen Schools students is simple: "Get to know the Citizen Schools staff and let them get to know you. It makes all the difference."
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Risk Managers, Physicians, and Disclosure of Harmful Medical Errors
Publisher: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations
Publication: The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
Author(s): Loren DJ, Garbutt J, Dunagan WC, Bommarito KM, Ebers AG, Levinson W, Waterman AD, Fraser VJ, Summy EA, and Gallagher TH
Physicians are encouraged to disclose medical errors to patients, which often requires close collaboration between physicians and risk managers. An anonymous national survey of 2,988 health care facility-based risk managers was conducted between November 2004 and March 2005, and results were compared with those of a previous survey (conducted between July 2003 and March 2004) of 1,311 medical physicians in Washington and Missouri. Both surveys included an error disclosure scenario for an obvious and a less obvious error with scripted response options.
More risk managers than physicians were aware that an error-reporting system was present at their hospital (81% versus 39%) and believed that mechanisms to inform physicians about errors in their hospital were adequate (51% versus 17%). More risk managers than physicians strongly agreed that serious errors should be disclosed to patients (70% versus 49%). Across both error scenarios, risk managers were more likely than physicians to definitely recommend that the error be disclosed (76% versus 50%) and to provide full details about how the error would be prevented in the future (62% versus 51%). However, physicians were more likely than risk managers to provide a full apology recognizing the harm caused by the error (39% versus 21%).
Risk managers have more favorable attitudes about disclosing errors to patients compared with physicians but are less supportive of providing a full apology. These differences may create conflicts between risk managers and physicians regarding disclosure. Health care institutions should promote greater collaboration between these two key participants in disclosure conversations.
Risk Managers, Physicians, and Disclosure of Harmful Medical Errors (PDF)

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August 30, 2011 John Scalzi11 Comments
Goofy video. Pretty good song. From these guys.
The Big Idea: Marie Brennan
August 30, 2011 John Scalzi7 Comments
We've all heard the expression "good things come to those who wait." Is it true? Perhaps not always or in all cases, but with her new novel With Fate Conspire, author Marie Brennan found that there might be some advantages to have some time between when one thinks of an interesting story idea, and when one finally sits down to bring it into the world. Find out how she who hesitated was not, in fact, lost.
MARIE BRENNAN:
This would be a very different book if I'd started writing it in 2007, like I originally intended.
Midnight Never Come (which had its own Big Idea feature here a few years ago) was supposed to be stand-alone. During an interview for that book, though, somebody asked me what a faerie mirror of Queen Victoria would have been like. My take was that she wouldn't have had one — but that got me thinking about the fact that her reign saw the beginning of the London Underground. Which is, y'know, under ground. Which also happens to be where my faeries live.
And they don't much like iron.
Writers being sadists, I knew at once that I had a sequel in my hands — albeit one taking place nearly three centuries later. I soon came up with ideas for a pair of books in between, too, one each century. My thought was that I would do the Victorian book first, then backtrack for those two. But after a few months researching nineteenth-century London, I realized a bite that big would take more chewing than I could give it just then, so I postponed it and took the series in chronological order. (This resulted in me biting off and attempting to chew the English Civil War instead, which was not any easier. But that's neither here nor there.)
The delay didn't change the Big Idea of the book; it's still about the Underground and the threat it poses to the faeries of London. But taking things in order means that conflict ended up with a foundation it would have otherwise lacked. To borrow a metaphor that I think originated with Jo Walton, now there's a spear behind the spearpoint. Some of the fae have spent three books and three hundred years in London; they can't surrender that easily. We've also seen change creep over their world, as mortal society shifts around them; the fact that they've survived all of that makes the seriousness of this threat all the more real.
And one thing I didn't foresee, when I first thought this up: the foundation laid in the previous book, A Star Shall Fall. That one takes place during the Enlightenment, and brings faerie magic up against mortal science. Usually those two things are treated as being antithetical to one another — which goes hand-in-hand with the standard narrative of "oh, alas, magic is going out of the world; woe, technology has driven the faeries away." That's a very Victorian narrative, so I couldn't exactly ignore it . . . but I could have an argument with it. The fae of the Onyx Court worked out a kind of "faerie science" in the eighteenth century, and now, in this book, they use it to fight against the dangers that are trying to force them from their home.
I wouldn't have had that if I'd taken the series out of order. I wouldn't have had a lot of the elements that fed into this book; each novel's plot essentially stands on its own, but there's a natural accumulation of details that make this book — which is the conclusion of the series, at least for now — the sum of the things that went before. The Big Idea got bigger, because it had more time to grow.
So in the end, I'm glad I waited.
With Fate Conspire: Amazon|Barnes & Noble|Indiebound|Powell's
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Join us on this 15 day tour to experience Argentina in depth. The journey starts in Argentina's vibrant cosmopolitan city of Buenos Aires, where you will enjoy a passionate tango show and delicious dinner. Continue to El Calafate to discover the Southern Patagonian Ice Fields and see the famous Perito Moreno Glacier. Visit Bariloche, a picturesque lakeside town surrounded by mountains and forests, and wander around the historical city of Salta, known as ''Salta la Linda''. Take a short flight to Iguazu Falls to witness the roaring waterfalls from both t he Argentinean and Brazilian side before heading back home.
On arrival into Buenos Aires you will be met and transferred to your hotel.
Buenos Aires, Argentina's elegant, historic and cosmopolitan capital, is known as the "Paris of the South" due to its European atmosphere with glamorous avenues lined with fashionable shops and Parisian-style restaurants and cafes.
Today you have the option of exploring Buenos Aires by regular bus or for the more adventurous, by bicycle (please advise your preference at the time of booking). You will visit many of the highlights that Buenos Aires has to offer including San Telmo, Plaza de Mayo, La Boca, the old docks etc.
Afternoon is at leisure before your evening Dinner & Tango show.
Today is free to enjoy the sights and sounds of this world famous city.
We have a great selection of optional day tours. Please ask for more details.
Transfer from your hotel to the airport for your onward flight to El Calafate (Flight Included). Upon arrival in to El Calafate you will be met & transferred to your hotel.
The town is near the edge of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field and one of the gateways to World Heritage listed Parque Nacional Los Glaciers.
Enjoy a full day visit to incredible Perito Moreno Glacier where your senses will be assaulted as you witness the spectacle of ice crashing from the glacier-face into the waters below. This incredible experience.
Includes National Park entrance fees and additional 1 hour navigation to the south wall.
Navigate lake Argentino and see the Upsala and Spegazzini Glaciers. Departing the pier at around 09hs after a safety briefing, the boat heads northwest along the northern arm of Lake Argentino towards the Upsala Canal, where there is a spectacular wall of ice and fantastic panoramic views of the Upsala Glacier. Then the boat turns south down the Spegazzini Canal, from where the Seco Glacier can be seen en route to the Spegazzini Glacier, the highest in the Glacier National Park. The boat moors back at Puerto Bandera at 14hs and drop of at the hotel is at about 15hs.
Essential Info: Pick up at central hotels from 07.30hs, everyday (weather allowing).
Today we will transfer you to the airport for your onward flight to Bariloche (Flight Included). Upon arrival in to Bariloche, you will be transferred to your hotel.
San Carlos de Bariloche lies on the southern shores of Lake Nahuel Huapi in the foothills of the Andes surrounded by mountains and forests. Its location is stunning, surrounded by the Nahuel Huapi National Park, the oldest National Park in Argentina.
We leave the city behind to take in the breath taking views offered by Llao Llao Peninsula's short circuit. Home to a number of protected species as well as the iconic Llao Llao Hotel, the peninsula is nothing short of spectacular. We begin on the southern shore of the famous Lake Nahuel Huapi before heading to Mt Campanario where we take a 10 minute chairlift ride to the top of the mountain.
With an abundance of forests, mountains and lakes, today is picture postcard perfect and with numerous stops along the way we will ensure that you have ample opportunity to capture these unforgettable sights.
Includes transfers from Central Hotels & chairlift.
The most traditional boat trip in the Nahuel Huapi National Park. Visit the world famous and unique Arrayanes forest. Setting sail from Puerto Pañuelo, you will arrive at the Quetrihue Peninsula after an hour. Here you can admire the magnificence of the unique Arrayanes forest and, walking along a decked path, you will be able to see many different species. Next you will set sail to Victoria Island, arriving at Puerto Anchorena after about 40 minutes. This shared tour includes the entrance fee to Nahuel Huapi National Park, pier tax and return shared transfers from your hotel to Puerto Panuelo.
Today you will be transferred to Bariloche Airport for your flight to Salta (Flight Included) Upon arrival in to Salta you will be met and transferred to your hotel.
Known as ''Salta la Linda'' (Salta the Pretty), Salta is a provincial capital in the mountainous north western part of Argentina. Founded in 1582, it is known for its Spanish colonial architecture and cobblestone streets as well as its Andean heritage.
We set out from Salta travelling south to El Carril and entering the Laurel and Escoipe Gorges. From here we head up the Cuesta del Obispo, enjoying stunning views of the Enchanted Valley below before reaching the Mill Stone. At 3,384 meters, this is the highest point of the trip. From here we cross the Los Cardones National Park, named after the cactus plants that grow here before stopping at the charming mountain town of Cachi.
We continue along Route 40 to arrive in the sleepy town of Cafayate where we spend the night.
We begin this morning with a tour of Cafayate before boarding the bus for our return journey. This time we follow Route 68 traversing the Quebrada de las Conchas (Valley of Shells), where erosion caused by wind and water has carved various recognisable shapes out of the bright red rock.
The spectacular Iguazu Falls that straddle the Argentine-Brazil border, are made up of 275 individual waterfalls lining a 2.7km wide horseshoe-shaped gorge.
In the early morning we will visit the Iguazu Falls on the Argentinian side. We will ride the Rainforest Ecological train and then explore panoramic views from above and below the waterfalls. We will visit the Devils Falls, which is said to be one of the most spectacular falls and you have the option of taking a boat ride under the Falls (additional costs apply. Payable locally). National Park fees included.
Today we see the falls from the Brazilian side of the border. After arriving at the visitor center, we board buses for a tour of the park. Equipped with panoramic windows, the buses are designed to maximize your views of the falls, while the walkways and steps allow you to get up close to the spray.
*Optional - Add on a visit to the Bird Park, or why not book an amazing helicopter flight over the falls. Additional costs apply. Please ask for more details.
Included Copy 7 International flights are NOT included. However can be added. Please ask for more details.


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Models strutting their stuff during a fashion show is a wonderful sight to behold – gorgeous women emanating youthful vitality, dressed in the most fabulous clothing styles, sashaying down the runway, enjoying the music and the appreciative applause.
From your seat with the rest of the audience, you wouldn't be able to tell what models deal with behind the scenes – things like jet lag and stressful travels to and from one event after another. Why? Because their skin remains radiant even without makeup.
To some degree, a model's gorgeous skin can be attributed to genetics, but these women also have easy access to the advice and care of some of the world's best beauty professionals. It's all about subscribing to proven effective skin care secrets.
To become a highly sought-out model – or simply to achieve supermodel skin – it pays to apply these remarkable beauty habits to keep blemishes away and get that youthful glow.
When it comes to keeping your skin healthy and glowing, balance is the key. You cannot just strip oils from your skin without giving it back all the essential nutrients it needs. For instance, you can use a charcoal mask to clean out your pores, and then follow it up with a cucumber mask as this helps replenish the moisture that your skin is still craving.
When your skin breaks out, tea tree oil has the ability to get deep into your skin and clean your pores out. This is also antibacterial. World-renowned models claim that a tea tree oil toner works wonders.
As a model, wearing makeup is non-negotiable. This can cause your skin to thirst for healthy moisture.Even if your skin is oily, always make sure that your skin remains well-hydrated. After taking off their makeup at the end of every show or photo shoot, models know how vital it is to keep skin moisturized with the right moisturizer for their skin type.
Going natural and makeup-free at home can undo some of the damage that all the different kinds of products and ingredients can do to your skin.For instance, you can make a mask using honey and avocado; this can help keep your skin bright and moisturized. You can also purchase and use natural and organic beauty products if you do not have time to create a restorative treatment yourself at home.
After long days, weeks of or months spent walking down the runways, pro models make sure to let their skin rest and breathe during their downtime.Because a lot of gunk can get stuck in your pores after all the heavy makeup it receives (as expected in every fashion show), give yourself a deep clean with a facial steam.Get a bowl of hot water and add some mint tea in it. Then, place a towel over your head while putting your face over the bowl. You will feel every inch of your skin getting effectively cleared out after!
Although some may say that icing your face is not a pleasant way to care for your skin, there are models and skin experts who swear by it. Icing your face at night will help blood to circulate better and faster. This will also tighten your skin.All you have to do is splash your face with icy water or wrap some ice in a cloth to de-puff quickly.
Walking in heels for weeks straight is super tiring. This is also a sure way to arrive at Blister City.As such, treating your feet to some nourishing and healing ingredients like olive oil, coconut oil, and shea butter can ensure that your feet stay healthy and you are as comfortable as possible each time you walk down the runway (or anywhere at all).
If you have puffy eyes from working long hours just like models do at fashion shows, you can apply eye cream or give yourself an under-eye massage using your fingers. Press on the orbital bone gently with your ring fingers, moving from the inner to the outer corner of your eyes. Repeat this at least three times.A facial massage will stimulate circulation, reduce inflammation and minimize fine lines. If you have more spare time, you can get more benefits from facial yoga.
Finally, cleaning your skin from the inside means consuming foods and beverages that help purify your body internally. Drinking a glass of freshly squeezed lemon juice when you wake up, for instance, can help flush out toxins and bacteria from your small intestine that may be causing your acne.Keeping your skin healthy may seem like a daunting task but it certainly does not have to be. Never forget to let your skin rest and give it the pampering it deserves after several days of wearing makeup and working the runway. Model or not, it pays to try these beauty secrets to achieve healthy, glowing skin now!
Jessicka Bell co-founded the AgenC, one of the leading model/talent agencies in the Middle East, in 2014. After just three years in the market, the AgenC now works with most (if not all) of the heavy hitters in media and fashion, as well as represents over 1,000 talents ranging from international models through to cast, kids, creatives, and photographers.


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Coronavirus US: America facing 'most difficult' public health crisis in history
America is facing the worst public health crisis in history the nation's top heath expert has warned, after recording its worst daily death toll of the pandemic.
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news.com.auDecember 4, 20201:54pm
The holiday season could be make-or-break as the US continues to grapple with conflicting strategies in the fight to slow the spread of COVID-19....
The holiday season could be make-or-break as the US continues to grapple with conflicting strategies in the fight to slow the spread of COVID-19.
As the United States plunges into winter and the holiday season, it faces the most difficult public health crisis in its history, the nation's top health expert has warned, having recorded its single worst daily death toll since the pandemic began.
Director of the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, predicted the nation's total deaths could jump from 273,000 to 450,000 by February — reporting at least 2760 in the last 24 hours and some 200,000 new COVID-19 infections.
"The reality is, December and January and February are going to be rough times," Dr Redfield said.
"I actually believe they're going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation.
"We're in that range potentially now, starting to see 1500 to 2000 to 2500 deaths a day from this virus. The mortality concerns are real, and I do think, unfortunately, because we see February, we could be close to 450,000 Americans that have died from this virus."
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The daily death toll hasn't hit a peak this high since April 15, when 2752 fatalities were recorded.
The total death toll now stands at more than 273,000, while infections are roughly 78,000 away from topping 14 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University — the highest in any country around the world.
Hospitalisations from the virus also topped 100,000 on Wednesday for the first time — more than double the number at the beginning of November — a clear indicator of what's to come, experts told The New York Times.
"If you tell me the hospitalisations are up this week, I'll tell you that several weeks down the road, the deaths will be up," emergency medicine physician at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dr Jeremy Faust, told The Times.
Dean of Brown University's School of Public Health, Dr Ashish Jha, said the US is yet to encounter the fallout of the Thanksgiving holiday – when pleas from health officials and state governments to remain at home and avoid travel fell on deaf ears.
"This is a much worse situation," Dr Jha told the publication.
"Summer is not going to bail us out. Things are not shut down."
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It's not the first time that Dr Redfield has sounded the alarm over a devastating surge of infections during America's colder months, first predicting in April that the subsequent virus waves could be worse than the first.
The only way the US can pull itself out of this hole, he said at the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation event, is for Americans to step up and take greater precautions in the months ahead.
"It's not a fait accompli. We're not defenceless," he said.
"The truth is that mitigation works. But it's not going to work if half of us do what we need to do. Probably not even if three-quarters do."
What is needed to get all residents on board, he said in his address, is "clear, unified, reinforced messaging".
"The fact that we were still arguing in the summer about whether masks work was a problem. The time for debating whether or not masks work or not is over (even though) we clearly have scientific evidence," Dr Redfield said.
RELATED: Map shows virus spreading like wildfire
The warning comes amid more pleas for people to avoid travel for Christmas, with the CDC's Dr Henry Walke, who oversees day-to-day management of pandemic response for the agency, saying that the "best thing for Americans to do during the holiday season is to stay at home and not travel".
Chief of the travellers branch at the CDC, Dr Cindy Friedman, reiterated the message, adding that even a small percentage of infected travellers could "translate into hundreds of thousands of additional infections".
"Travel is a door-to-door experience that can spread the virus during the journey and into communities where travellers visit or live," she said, asking Americans to "think about the safest option for them and their families".
"We know it's a hard decision, and people need time to prepare and have discussions with family and friends and to make these decisions.
"Our recommendations are trying to give them the tools they need to make these tough choices."
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Organizations are spending vast sums protecting their digital assets, still hardly a week goes by without news of a major security breach. Attacks are larger, more complex and targeted. Sought-after digital assets include intellectual property (IP), and customer and financial data. The average financial impact of each breach is increasing and it's becoming harder to keep these attacks out of the news. The bottom line is the consequences for organizations can be devastating in terms of loss of revenue and reputation.


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Privacy protections should mostly be left to legislatures.
In its closing act for 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court tried to resolve an issue that is bound to tie us in knots for the next half-century: How do we protect privacy in the face of the new electronic technologies? In Carpenter v. United States the Court held, by a 5–4 vote, that police need a warrant to obtain cell-phone-generated location information from phone-service providers.
For law enforcement this is a big loss. It means that investigations using cell-phone technology are going to be severely limited — though how limited is anyone's guess at this point. And for privacy, the win is uncertain. Not only is Fourth Amendment law now muddled, but since the amendment limits intrusions only by agents of government, there is no impact at all on the biggest threats to privacy — from Google, Amazon, Facebook, and a host of other private companies.
How would Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, fit into this scenario? Hard to say. As a member of the federal D.C. Circuit he mainly dealt with administrative-law issues generated by government agencies, not Fourth Amendment cases involving street criminals. And when he did resolve Fourth Amendment issues, he had to pretty much follow Supreme Court precedent, not strike out on his own. Still, Kavanaugh, like all federal appeals-court judges, found subtle ways to express his views, and this gives us some insight into his forthcoming Supreme Court performance.
We can tease out some of Kavanaugh's views on the Fourth Amendment from two cases in which he expressed positions different from those of his fellow jurists. In one, United States v. Jones (2010) — in which police had attached a GPS tracker to a man's car and monitored the vehicle for four weeks — Kavanaugh repudiated an expansion of Fourth Amendment protection suggested by his colleagues, namely that the law should be more protective when the government engages in long-term data gathering. Precedent supported his position at the time, but the fact that he took pains to reject a time limit on police surveillance is telling.
Less meaningful, perhaps, is that Kavanaugh alone raised a privacy issue in Jones that the Supreme Court took up two years later. He unsuccessfully urged his appeals-court colleagues to decide whether merely affixing a GPS device to a car, as opposed to actually tracking the vehicle, violated the Fourth Amendment and therefore required a warrant. When the case made it to the nation's highest court, Justice Antonin Scalia relied on this very idea in his majority opinion. Since Kavanaugh did not express any opinion as to how the issue should be resolved, however, this incident is more a tribute to his appellate-court skills than a predictor of his Fourth Amendment views.
A second Kavanaugh opinion, in Klayman v. Obama (2015), involved the National Security Agency's controversial "metadata" collection — the massive gathering of dialed numbers along with the time and length of calls (but notably, not the content of the phone conversations). Kavanaugh aligned with his fellow jurists, who denied a requested rehearing of the case, but once again he went out of his way to carve out an independent position.
Part of his stance — that data obtained from a third party, such as a telecommunications provider, is not entitled to Fourth Amendment protection — was settled law at the time. (More on this in a bit.) However, Kavanaugh offered a second observation in Klayman — a more aggressive pro-law-enforcement position that may be more revealing of his deep-seated Fourth Amendment views. Even if the Fourth Amendment did apply to phone-data acquisition, he argued, investigators wouldn't need advance judicial approval (a warrant) where the data collection was for national-security purposes. Relying on another Fourth Amendment rule with imprecise boundaries, the so-called "special needs" doctrine, Kavanaugh reasoned that the "special need" of protecting against terrorist attack outweighed the privacy concerns. This was especially true, he thought, because the government hadn't eavesdropped on conversations, minimizing the invasion of privacy.
At first blush the Carpenter ruling seems inconsistent with Kavanaugh's position on this issue, as it applied Fourth Amendment protections even though there was no interception of conversations. On the other hand, the government's interests were not nearly as strong in Carpenter, since ordinary law enforcement, not national-security interests, was involved. Whether Kavanaugh would push for an expansive special-needs doctrine (and concomitantly a weaker Fourth Amendment) in typical law-enforcement cases is unclear. It could be that national security is his real soft spot.
In short, Kavanaugh's views on long-term surveillance and non-conversational eavesdropping suggest that he will not be one to expand Fourth Amendment protections. In the NSA case he urged a legislative and executive solution rather than a judicial one — a position similar to Justice Samuel Alito's sensible views in Carpenter, but one unlikely to win ACLU applause.
Turning to the details of the Carpenter decision, the facts illustrate the hardship it will create for police — and the difficulties it will create for future courts.
Over a four-month period Timothy Carpenter organized bands of robbers that held up nine Radio Shack and T-Mobile stores in Michigan and Ohio. Following initial arrests, one of the suspects gave police the names and cell-phone numbers of 15 accomplices, including Carpenter. Prosecutors then went to a federal magistrate to obtain records of Carpenter's location from his cell-phone provider so they could match up his whereabouts with the dates, times, and locations of the robberies.
Congress had created a law just for this purpose, the Stored Communications Act. In accordance with this law the prosecutors had to present "reasonable grounds to believe" that the records they sought were "relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation." This would win them a subpoena — a court order directing the possessor of documents to produce them. They did not need a warrant, which requires a showing of "probable cause" and is executed by government agents.
Why would Congress think this? Because the Supreme Court had more or less explicitly said so, in cases dating back to the 1970s.
The records involved are known as cell-site location information (CSLI). Your smartphone is continually seeking the nearest cell-phone antenna. Every time it connects to one it generates a time-stamped record that is collected and stored by the wireless carrier for various business purposes. The CSLI provides the location of the phone, but it is only an approximate location, since the antenna's signal can extend for miles. Nevertheless, it's easy to see how this information could help the police catch someone whose phone just happened to be located in the area of multiple robberies — four of them in Carpenter's case. In fact, according to the prosecutors, the data seemed to have clinched the case. Carpenter was convicted of federal robbery and gun crimes and sentenced to 100 years in prison.
It's crucial to understand why the Stored Communications Act didn't require a warrant. Congress didn't think the Fourth Amendment applied to this situation because the phone records don't belong to the phone user; they belong to the wireless company. The phone user (so Congress believed) has no privacy interest in these records: He didn't create them, possess them, use them, or store them. Had the police sought to examine the contents of Carpenter's phone, it would have been a different story, since the content on a phone is simply a modern version of the "papers and effects" protected by the very words of the Fourth Amendment. But for information generated by a cell phone and stored by the phone company, Congress thought a mere subpoena sufficed.
This standard was nebulous; it empowered the courts to determine which activities were protected and which not. And in doing so, the Supreme Court carved out exceptions for certain data that — while many people would consider them private — were created and kept by a third party for business purposes. In United States v. Miller (1976), the Court ruled that bank records containing sensitive information are not protected by the Fourth Amendment — meaning that investigators looking for criminal money laundering, for instance, can subpoena the records of every deposit the target ever made to a bank for years.
Given the rationales of Miller and Smith, relied on repeatedly in countless lower-court cases, the Carpenter outcome seemed a foregone conclusion. The location information was created by MetroPCS and Sprint, not Carpenter, and it was the corporate records that were searched. In fact, there wasn't even a search, just an order to surrender the data. And the information collected was akin to that at issue in Smith: basic data about the calls, not the actual content of the conversations. The lower courts so ruled, and the federal appeals court for the Sixth Circuit affirmed.
In light of the deeply revealing nature of CSLI, its depth, breadth, and comprehensive reach, and the inescapable and automatic nature of its collection, the fact that such information is gathered by a third party does not make it any less deserving of Fourth Amendment protection. The Government's acquisition of the cell-site records here was a search under that Amendment.
In addition to the problem of reconciling Carpenter with earlier decisions, there is the question of other forms of electronic surveillance. For instance, what about GPS monitoring, the technology for which is installed in cars as well as smartphones? Will police need a warrant to intercept those data (as opposed to physically installing a GPS device themselves, as in Jones)? In a 1983 case, United States v. Knotts, the Supreme Court said that there is no expectation of privacy for a person traveling in an automobile on public thoroughfares, and yet Carpenter points to an application of the Fourth Amendment to automobile-location monitoring just as with cell-phone-location monitoring — especially in places where driving is the norm and surveillance of driving patterns would be considered as intrusive as cell-phone surveillance.
And will the Fourth Amendment be applied to RFID, or Radio Frequency Identification, which emits signals from key fobs, identification cards, passports, and even some of the clothing we wear? What about cell-site simulators, which enable users, including law enforcement, to gather information from cell phones directly, thus bypassing the need to obtain records from phone companies? With cell-site simulators, which masquerade as cell towers, police could monitor an entire area or track particular phones, and potentially access voice, text, and other communications.
Then there are technologies we can expect to be developed in the future, not to mention technologies we haven't even dreamed of yet.
Carpenter v. United States may have dragged the Fourth Amendment into the 21st century, but it probably will be decades before the courts clarify the law. In my view this is a good reason to leave regulation in this area to the state legislatures and Congress and the appropriate administrative agencies. They can easily modify the law to suit the circumstances, and they are in a better position to weigh privacy interests and law-enforcement needs. Recall that Judge Kavanaugh made a similar point in the NSA case. Once the courts constitutionalize an issue, it will take a Supreme Court majority to undo it, but the Court is loath to rapidly or frequently overturn precedent (which probably explains why Miller and Smith are still standing).
Legislation is much preferable to the development of an entirely new body of Fourth Amendment caselaw for many reasons, including the enormous complexity of the subject, the need to respond to rapidly changing technology, and the Fourth Amendment's limited scope. The Fourth Amendment restricts the conduct of the Federal Government and the States; it does not apply to private actors. But today, some of the greatest threats to individual privacy may come from powerful private companies that collect and sometimes misuse vast quantities of data about the lives of ordinary Americans.
As if to prove the point, California just passed a sweeping Internet-privacy law that applies to the private sector. The law, which is effective in 2020 but can readily be amended, broadens the definition of personal information and gives California consumers the right to prohibit the sale of personal data to third parties or opt out of sharing it altogether.
This law and any future legislation aimed at government data gathering will, I predict, do a much better job of protecting us from snoops as well as criminals than will the constitutional edicts issued by the nine robed solons sitting in their D.C. palace. Can Justice Kavanaugh extricate the Court from its Fourth Amendment mess? One can only hope.


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How do you solve a problem like Privacy Shield? US and EU policymakers kick off discussions
First Safe Harbor gone, now its replacement... Schrems the breaks!
Richard Speed Fri 14 Aug 2020 // 13:21 UTC
The long-running kerfuffle over the so-called Privacy Shield EU-US data protection agreement took another lurch this week after politicos announced plans to ponder an "enhancement" to the framework.
The joint statement from US Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross and European Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders comes in the wake of a July judgement by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Schrems II case that effectively took a hatchet to the framework, declaring it invalid.
The Privacy Shield enables the data of EU citizens to be sent to US companies for storage and processing, and has survived repeated reviews by the European Commission. Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems kicked off the long-running case (often referred to as 'Schrems II') complaining that once his data was in the US there were no legally enforceable EU-style protections to prevent US authorities having a nose around in it.
An axe age, a sword age, Privacy Shield is riven, but what might that mean for European businesses?
While last month's ruling did not strike down the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) used as opt-outs by many companies, it seems likely that they too will come under the gimlet gaze of the courts before long.
Which brings us back to what can be done to put Humpty back together again and what enhancements could be made to the Privacy Shield to keep the data, and the money, flowing.
Neil Brown, tech lawyer at decoded.legal, told The Register that attempting to patch up the agreement would "end up being a case of 'different wallpaper, same cracks'" and pointed out that while Section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and Executive Order 12333 remained in place, "it would be challenging, in my view, to come up with a 'Privacy Shield' arrangement which was not vulnerable to being struck down.
"Again."
Safe Harbour ruled INVALID: Facebook 'n' pals' data slurp at risk
What's all this about SCCs – are they good enough or not?
Bill Mew, founder and CEO at Crisis Team, has said SCCs could be on dodgy ground when it comes to FISA 702, since the Act applies to "electronic communication service providers" (ECSPs). "All the US cloud firms fall under FISA 702," he commented, which could have worrying implications for those outsourced to a US outfit, even if the server is located in the EU. Mew described the location of hosting as "irrelevant".
The US's Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (CLOUD) Act 2018 allows a US court to demand personal data held by a US company, anywhere in the world.
Decoded's Brown told The Register: "The court is clear that, in themselves, the SCCs remain valid."
However, he added: "To achieve a standard of protection which is 'essentially equivalent' to that of the GDPR, companies transferring personal data out of the EU will be expected to do more than simply sign them with the recipient: they need to investigate the laws of each recipient country, and determine that the combination of the SCCs, those laws, and any other measures which they can put in place, give sufficient protection.
"Fine, perhaps, in theory. Until there's a free, consolidated resource of all relevant laws for each country around the world – perhaps a job for the European data protection regulators? — this could be simply out of reach for companies without deep pockets.
"Clearly, each transfer will need its own assessment but, in terms of transfers to the USA, since Privacy Shield has been found to offer insufficient safeguards, one might question if SCCs alone are up to the job. Worse, given the laws which the CJEU felt were particularly problematic, I question what, if any, additional measures a company could use while still getting the benefit of the transfer?
"In practice, since the totality of the ICO's advice is 'take stock of the international transfers you make and react promptly as guidance and advice becomes available', and that it will take a 'risk-based and proportionate approach' to enforcement, one might forgive companies for assuming they need to do very little, if anything, for now."
Julie Brill, corporate vice president for Global Privacy and Regulatory Affairs and Chief Privacy Officer at Microsoft, insisted last month that the SCCs remained valid and that "our customers are already protected under SCCs" – even as Privacy Shield was struck down.
Brill also pointed out that Microsoft had gone as far as the US Supreme Court to challenge orders seeking access to data. Customers, however, would be forgiven for preferring something a little more legislative to depend on rather than the legal largesse of a cloud giant. As Brill observed: "We'll work collaboratively with governments and policymakers as they shape new approaches."
If the Privacy Shield arrangement is to be resurrected in a manner that could resist swatting by the courts, it would need a change in US law. "I suspect that the USA's appetite for doing this is unlikely," said Brown.
Or perhaps those in the EU could be given rights to challenge US surveillance programmes before US courts?
"It's possible, I guess, but seems unlikely."
While politicos ponder what "enhancements" might deal with the blow dealt to the Privacy Shield, companies would do well to take a long, hard look at the T&Cs of their providers or run the risk of being expensively caught out. ®
* Schrems I, for those who recall, was the case that killed off Safe Harbor, the data protection arrangement that Privacy Shield was supposed to replace.


Lenabell Bell (third from left) and Chaplin (far right) with other members of Chaplin's lab, 1972.
One of the great pioneers in research at Washington University School of Medicine was Lenabell McClelland Bell. Suffering from sickle cell anemia, she first came to Barnes Hospital in 1937 while pregnant with her first child. Sickle cell can create severe complications during pregnancy, however, Bell recovered and gave birth to a healthy girl. Periodic episodes of debilitating pain related to the disease – called "crisis events" – would bring her back to the hospital where she would become familiar with Carl V. Moore, MD, professor of medicine and head of the hematology unit.
Moore and his wife sometimes cared for Bell's infant daughter while she was hospitalized. Bell became an active participant in Moore's clinical teaching. Moore presented her case to students and trainees and she spoke with them about her experience of the disease. In the mid-1950s, a post-graduate trainee named Hugh Chaplin joined Moore's hematology group. Chaplin, a graduate of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, also became acquainted with Bell and she became a member of his laboratory group, working part-time as her health allowed.
At that time, transfusions of blood with normal red blood cells were the prevalent course of treatment for these crises. Unfortunately, repetitive transfusions were known to cause organ toxicity due to the increase of iron from the additional, normal red blood cells. Chaplin devised a method which he hoped would allow Bell and others with the disease to tolerate more transfusions without the toxic side-effects. The new method, called Partial Exchange Transfusion, would basically remove an equal amount of red blood cells from the patient while transfusing in the new cells.
But the long-term consequences of partial exchange would need to be tested. Bell volunteered. Chaplin considered Bell's role not simply as a patient but as a colleague in a joint research endeavor. Before beginning, they spent several weeks discussing all the risks and benefits, the long-range commitments by all parties, and the uncertainty of success. Bell and Chaplin worked together on the experimental trial, which lasted for over a decade.
Partial exchange transfusion remains an important method for making blood transfusions a safe treatment for sickle cell disease. Though the national median life expectancy for sufferers of sickle cell disease is 42–47 years, Bell lived to be 83, dying in 2000. Chaplin died in 2016.
Lenabell Bell and Hugh Chaplin, 1987.


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Ransomes Jaocobsen Sponsors Icelandic Greenkeepers Association Golf Day
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0 Ransomes Jaocobsen Sponsors Icelandic Greenkeepers Association Golf Day
Ransomes Jacobsen and their local distributor MHG of Reykjavik sponsored the Icelandic Greenkeepers Association's annual golf tournament, held at Golfklubbur Kidjaberg, 90 miles northwest of the island's capital. Ransomes Jacobsen is a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company.
Eighty two greenkeepers representing 65 courses in Iceland took part in the event at the 18-hole course, which is situated on the river Hvítá in a spectacular landscape of lakes and mountains.
Scott Forrest, Ransomes Jacobsen's North European Sales Manager, who hosted the event said,
"Over 70% of the courses in Iceland are maintained using Ransomes Jacobsen equipment. That's a testament to our distributor, MHG, who have been tremendously active in the country. The turnout was very impressive and it was great day's golfing in a truly spectacular setting capped off by a superb dinner and prize giving in the evening."
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Brother Sister Share 80's Anthem 'Space' + Video
Tāmaki Makaurau's electro-pop whiz kids Brother Sister channel their passion for the sound and style of 80's throwback culture with their latest single, 'Space', an uplifting blend of electro-driven synth pop, wrapped in iridescent wrapping paper and drop-kicked into the party.
A band of siblings, Brother Sister are an energetic trio that have shared the womb, and now the stage; featuring Dave Thomson (synth & lead vocals), Taz Thomson (bass and lead vocals) and Ben Thomson (drums).
Space is a synth-driven celebration, giving voice to all the introverts who might be struggling in this noisy, chaotic world, with an official video directed by Dave Thomson. The video pulls inspiration from Daft Punk's 'Da Funk', showing an introverted alien seeking to find his space by dancing down the main street of Auckland wearing headphones, breaking up with his girlfriend, and cruising in a 1980's Jag, before being picked up by a spaceship and finally returning home.
To celebrate the release of their single, Brother Sister will be performing at The Retro Event; an 80s themed market expo at the Barfoot and Thompson Stadium on the 3rd of December.
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Consumers should choose companies that pay workers well: Guest commentary
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PUBLISHED: April 8, 2016 at 7:21 pm | UPDATED: August 28, 2017 at 6:30 am
If you are like most Americans, you are worried about the historically high levels of economic inequality in this country. A recent New York Times poll found that two-thirds of respondents believe that the gap between rich and poor needs to be addressed now, and that income and wealth should be distributed more evenly. In a separate survey, nearly half of those polled by market firm GfK expect companies to provide good, living-wage jobs.
But when was the last time any of us used our buying power to express our concern about the decline of the middle class and the rise of the working poor? If you can't remember, don't feel bad — you are part of a majority of Americans who lack the time to actually stop and think about how voting with their wallets can impact the issue of economic fairness.
This is where campaigns that try to make that process easier come into play. Americans need to connect the dots between economic inequality, consumer behavior and the wages and benefits provided by major corporations. That's where the new "Buy Blue" campaign comes in starting today — a week of action where consumers pledge to support businesses that provide good blue-collar jobs, and avoid patronizing those that don't.
Aside from periodic boycotts of specific companies or products, corporate America has dodged any large-scale, coordinated consumer-led efforts to influence how it treats — and pays — its workers.
Consumers are already making a difference in other industries — with 59 percent of Americans preferring to purchase goods that are sustainably manufactured, some of the largest companies in the world have been forced to fundamentally alter their behavior in response to pressure from the public. In the process, entirely new markets have been created for products that reflect the values and desires of consumers. For example, Campbell's has embraced organic soup ingredients, while General Mills is now a leader in gluten-free products. Hershey and Coca-Cola ranked in the Top 10 of major corporations with regard to corporate sustainability and environmental impact.
"Buy Blue" is intended to help jump-start a national conversation around the connection between consumer buying power and corporate standards on wages and benefits. This conversation connecting ethical consumerism to better jobs is long overdue in a nation where average pay has stagnated for decades even as productivity, along with the cost of living, has risen. Americans have not only seen wages decline or fail to keep up — they have witnessed a massive erosion in pension plans and steep climbs in health care costs.
While activists have tried to address these bleak economic trends with a variety of legislative and grass-roots solutions, they have for the most part neglected to enlist the power of the consumer. In a country where consumer spending accounts for nearly 70 percent of gross national product, this can only be described as a huge missed opportunity.
Even small changes in consumer behavior could exert very significant economic pressure on companies, compelling them to alter their calculus about employee compensation and their own bottom line. By supporting companies that pay their workers well, consumers could make it bad business to offer low wages and benefits. Instead of a race to the bottom, corporations would have to engage in a race to the top, competing to show the public that they are paying more than lip service to ensuring the well-being of their employees and their local communities.
It will take broad, permanent changes in the way we use our buying power to make significant progress in combating economic disparity in this country. But if Americans flex their muscles on behalf of rebuilding the middle class and "Buy Blue," it could be the beginning of something big.
Cherri Senders is founder and publisher of Labor 411, a consumer guide to companies that treat their workers fairly. She can be contacted at cherri@sendersgroup.com.
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A comedy of the tragic life of someone who must live like the people around him despite his own preference. The Human Comedy is a comedy narrative of the tragic life of a person who finds himself doing as the Romans do unwillingly.
A couple's son, Parham disappears in the babysitter's house. Complications arise as the babysitter claims Parham hasn't been to their house.
Aslan's fiance Negar is going abroad the country illegally and without informing him at all. Now he is after a way to get a visa and go gets her back.
A group of youngsters are going to a villa in north of Tehran. But there their troubles little by little begin to appear.


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Political Novel Set in Jerusalem Ponders Politics, Identities
Christopher McCabe
Damascus Gate
Bby Robert Stone
Houghton Mifflin Co, 1997
Robert Stone was giving a talk at the New York Public Library in 1988 about the political novel, and he was disturbed by the notion, offered by William Gass, that art and morality do not mix. He was convinced that they do, and we can presume, based on his most recent novel, "Damascus Gate," that he still does 10 years later. The political novel, he believes, presents the opportunity to bring art and morality together as characters forfeit a preoccupation with the self and see their choices and decisions in the context of a larger, and more complex, universe.
This is not unusual for Stone. During the previous four decades he has frequently taken his American characters out of their familiar backyard to places around the globe that are teeming with factions that are not easily understood nor readily classified. In "Dog Soldiers," he brought Vietnam home to the United States. In "Flag for Sunrise" he portrayed a fictional Central American nation shaped by Washington policy. In "Outerbridge Reach" a sailor, no longer with radio contact, drifts off into a hemisphere he does not understand. Stone's characters, whether at home or abroad, are tested to find the moral path, a path never clearly marked.
Now, in "Damascus Gate," he takes his readers to Israel, where an American journalist, Christopher Lucas, is trying to make sense of himself and the many competing worlds—political, historical and religious—that claim this sliver of land as their own. Lucas, raised in New York's Upper West Side, the illegitimate son of a Jewish professor and a mezzo-soprano Catholic mother, has found that the freelance article he usually contributes to U.S. publications is too formulaic to convey the complexity of this society because, as Stone writes, "It was hard to tell who anyone was and what they wanted because the emergency basis on which the state proceeded created constant improvisations and impersonations." Yet, as Lucas tries to come to grips with who he is, lapsed Catholic or undecided Jew, he investigates the "Jerusalem Syndrome," the many displays of religious fanaticism that wind their way from the Gaza to the Old City's four quarters.
As Lucas gathers information for his book, his relationships with several people unfold. Like characters in Stone's earlier novels, Lucas and others in "Damascus Gate" are accustomed to philosophical dialogues and/or drug-induced meditations. Though well-traveled and international in their perspective, these are people unsure of who they are or, worse, unaware of their extreme commitment to a new, dangerous idea with Americans appearing to be often the most gullible.
Lucas becomes attached to singer Sonia Barnes, a daughter of a New York interracial couple. Their relationship is complicated by her belief in a religious sect headed by Adam De Kuff, an heir to a New Orleans fortune, and Raziel Melker, a musician, heroin addict and son of a politically influential Michigan family. Psychiatrist Pinchas Obermann treats De Kuff and Melker and becomes Lucas's co-author on the religious mania book. Nuala Rice, a children's foundation worker, and Sylvia Chin, a U.S. foreign service staffer, are occasional sources for Lucas's stories. Though these characters meet, their lives rarely interconnect leaving a loneliness most apparent in Lucas as he follows the plan of religious fanatics to bomb Temple Mount.
The novel's many sub-plots involving the planned bombing—from drug and gun deals to Palestinians and Mossad agents—are secondary to Stone's greater mastery of the geographic and historic landscape. From the first chapter, his emphasis on the history that shadows the locals and tourists, émigrés and con artists alike, binds the novel together. Visiting Germans in the Old City are scrutinized by Lucas; he calculates how old they might have been by the end of World War II. When he contemplates the history of Josephus, he concludes that he could have been on either the Roman or Jewish side or both, reflecting his own present day religious ambivalence. The civic stance of a deceased parent, whether communist in Poland or Rosenberg supporter in Manhattan, is as important as a contemporary character's own political beliefs. A Shostakovich composition recalls Dresden and fascism, and there are memories of Fats Waller playing Bach at Notre-Dame in Paris before World War I, the latter causing a character to cry in 1990s Jerusalem.
Such historical counterpoints give way to occasional spurts of dramatic tension. A drive through Gaza in a United Nations minivan brings Lucas and his two companions through a quick succession of military checkpoints, cheering Muslim women, shots of tear gas, a gang hoisting a dead teenage boy above their heads, and soldiers firing rubber bullets at an advancing crowd. Later, Lucas is pursued by a wrathful crowd with lanterns and flashlights through alleys and spinach fields until he finds shelter within an al-Firuli enclave.
Mostly, though, the novel is reflective of Lucas "trying to project the maximum degree of complexity against a landscape whose inhabitants had neither the time not the inclination for much." His favored Jerusalem landmark is Damascus Gate, a name which must trigger for him, a former Columbia University religion major, the mystery and transforming journey of Paul's blinding conversion in the New Testament. But Lucas's affection for the Gate is not tethered to the past; instead, he attempts to comprehend what is occurring near its old wall today. When one character says to Lucas that what happens in Jerusalem touches the whole world's "inner life" as well, the reader concludes that Stone must feel the same. In his fictional "Damascus Gate," he has created a world that asks questions as complex as our current moral dilemmas. He does not offer a seductive answer, but has provided a poignant tale.
This article appeared in Al Jadid, Vol. 5, No. 26, Winter 1999.
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Businesses cheered the new Home Secretary's pledge to take "a fresh look" at the immigration system, potentially meaning more skilled workers could be allowed to move to the UK.
Sajid Javid pledged to review the visa system for skilled workers from outside the EU, and hinted students could be removed from the figures when counting annual migration figures.
Mr Javid said he is "working towards reducing net migration and bringing it to lower sustainable levels," but he refused to explicitly support the goal of reducing it to below 100,000 per year, a shift welcomed by businesses.
"The Home Secretary's commitment to taking a fresh look at the immigration rules will be cheered by employers all across the UK. The system as it stands is dysfunctional, expensive and a brake on growth," said Adam Marshall, director general of the British Chambers of Commerce.
"The Home Secretary should start by scrapping the nonsensical cap on skilled workers, which hamstrings both fast-growing firms and the public services. He should then act swiftly to combat the perception that the UK is closed for business - by stripping back the bureaucracy and costs that make it hard for firms to hire the best talent from around the world."
Timeline: 100k net migration target
This cap of 20,700 non-EU skilled workers per year operates by offering permits, sponsored by employers, in monthly tranches.
The limit has been hit in every single month of 2018. The points system used to allocate visas prioritises higher earners, so nobody earning below £50,000 has won a place.
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Eileen Burbidge, the Treasury's special envoy for fintech, said the Tier 2 visa scheme is "failing to keep pace with our industry's needs".
"Between December 2017 and March 2018 some 1,226 IT and tech sector professionals were turned down for visas, mostly because the number of people applying exceeded the monthly limit allowed to enter the UK," she said, writing in the Daily Telegraph.
"The fact that we have more skilled people wanting to contribute to the UK economy is a good thing. The fact that we refuse them visas because of an outdated cap is not."
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The latest net migration figures show the number of people moving to the UK outstripped those leaving by 244,000 in the year ending September 2017 - down from a high of more than 300,000 in 2015 and 2016, but firmly above levels seen in 2012 and 2013.
The inclusion of students when counting towards the net migration target has long been controversial, as their residency is largely temporary. In addition it has been argued it is counter-productive to teach students in the UK, then encourage them to leave after graduation instead of using their new skills and knowledge to work in Britain.
Mr Javid suggested he agrees that students should be removed from the net migration target, and "empathises" with suggestions that their inclusion is "unwelcoming".
"I empathise with that point, it is something I would like to look at again," he told the Andrew Marr show on BBC One.
Visas for doctors are particularly politically sensitive, as accusations swirl that the NHS has missed out on much-needed staff because of the immigration system.
The Home Secretary said a "fresh look" is needed to make sure the country can get the doctors it needs.
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