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1 Budhism - System of Pali Texts on Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:54 pm
Buddhist teachings and stories have been conveyed through the strength of oral traditions and the care of (palm leaf) manuscripts. The name of the Buddhist canon, the Tipitaka or "Three Baskets," presumably comes from an early filing system: Putting the three parts of the canon into separate baskets. One was reserved for the rules or discipline (vinaya), one for the reported teachings and sermons (sutta), and one for the psychological details of the teachings (abhidhamma). While ideally monks should be well versed in all three of these dimensions, Buddhist tradition and subsequent curricula for monks focused on certain parts of the canon over others. Observers are often left to wonder which basket holds the most weight.
Vin DN MN SN AN KN
Khp Dhp Ud Iti Sn Vv Pv Thag Thig Nm Miln
The Tipitaka (Pali ti, "three," + pitaka, "baskets"), or Pali canon, is the collection of primary Pali language texts which form the doctrinal foundation of Theravada Buddhism. The Tipitaka and the paracanonical Pali texts (commentaries, chronicles, etc.) together constitute the complete body of classical Theravada texts.
The Pali canon is a vast body of literature: in English translation the texts add up to thousands of printed pages. Most (but not all) of the Canon has already been published in English over the years. Although only a small fraction of these texts are available on this website, this collection can be a good place to start.
The three divisions of the Tipitaka are:
Vinaya Pitaka
The collection of texts concerning the rules of conduct governing the daily affairs within the Sangha — the community of bhikkhus (ordained monks) and bhikkhunis (ordained nuns). Far more than merely a list of rules, the Vinaya Pitaka also includes the stories behind the origin of each rule, providing a detailed account of the Buddha's solution to the question of how to maintain communal harmony within a large and diverse spiritual community.
Sutta Pitaka
The collection of suttas, or discourses, attributed to the Buddha and a few of his closest disciples, containing all the central teachings of Theravada Buddhism. (More than one thousand sutta translations are available on this website.) The suttas are divided among five nikayas (collections):
Digha Nikaya — the "long collection"
Majjhima Nikaya — the "middle-length collection"
Samyutta Nikaya — the "grouped collection"
Anguttara Nikaya — the "further-factored collection"
Khuddaka Nikaya — the "collection of little texts":
Khuddakapatha
Itivuttaka
Sutta Nipata
Vimanavatthu
Petavatthu
Theragatha
Therigatha
Niddesa
Patisambhidamagga
Apadana
Buddhavamsa
Cariyapitaka
Nettippakarana (included only in the Burmese edition of the Tipitaka)
Petakopadesa ( " " )
Milindapañha ( " " )
Abhidhamma Pitaka
The collection of texts in which the underlying doctrinal principles presented in the Sutta Pitaka are reworked and reorganized into a systematic framework that can be applied to an investigation into the nature of mind and matter.
2 Vinaya Pitaka The Basket of the Discipline on Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:59 pm
he Vinaya Pitaka, the first division of the Tipitaka, is the textual framework upon which the monastic community (Sangha) is built. It includes not only the rules governing the life of every Theravada bhikkhu (monk) and bhikkhuni (nun), but also a host of procedures and conventions of etiquette that support harmonious relations, both among the monastics themselves, and between the monastics and their lay supporters, upon whom they depend for all their material needs.
When the Buddha first established the Sangha, the community initially lived in harmony without any codified rules of conduct. As the Sangha gradually grew in number and evolved into a more complex society, occasions inevitably arose when a member would act in an unskillful way. Whenever one of these cases was brought to the Buddha's attention, he would lay down a rule establishing a suitable punishment for the offense, as a deterrent to future misconduct. The Buddha's standard reprimand was itself a powerful corrective:
It is not fit, foolish man, it is not becoming, it is not proper, it is unworthy of a recluse, it is not lawful, it ought not to be done. How could you, foolish man, having gone forth under this Dhamma and Discipline which are well-taught, [commit such and such offense]?... It is not, foolish man, for the benefit of un-believers, nor for the increase in the number of believers, but, foolish man, it is to the detriment of both unbelievers and believers, and it causes wavering in some.
— The Book of the Discipline, Part I, by I.B. Horner (London: Pali Text Society, 1982), pp. 36-37.
The monastic tradition and the rules upon which it is built are sometimes naïvely criticized — particularly here in the West — as irrelevant to the "modern" practice of Buddhism. Some see the Vinaya as a throwback to an archaic patriarchy, based on a hodge-podge of ancient rules and customs — quaint cultural relics that only obscure the essence of "true" Buddhist practice. This misguided view overlooks one crucial fact: it is thanks to the unbroken lineage of monastics who have consistently upheld and protected the rules of the Vinaya for almost 2,600 years that we find ourselves today with the luxury of receiving the priceless teachings of Dhamma. Were it not for the Vinaya, and for those who continue to keep it alive to this day, there would be no Buddhism.
It helps to keep in mind that the name the Buddha gave to the spiritual path he taught was "Dhamma-vinaya" — the Doctrine (Dhamma) and Discipline (Vinaya) — suggesting an integrated body of wisdom and ethical training. The Vinaya is thus an indispensable facet and foundation of all the Buddha's teachings, inseparable from the Dhamma, and worthy of study by all followers — lay and ordained, alike. Lay practitioners will find in the Vinaya Pitaka many valuable lessons concerning human nature, guidance on how to establish and maintain a harmonious community or organization, and many profound teachings of the Dhamma itself. But its greatest value, perhaps, lies in its power to inspire the layperson to consider the extraordinary possibilities presented by a life of true renunciation, a life lived fully in tune with the Dhamma.
3 Sutta Pitaka The Basket of Suttas on Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:02 pm
The Sutta Pitaka, the second division of the Tipitaka, consists of more than 10,000 suttas (discourses) delivered by the Buddha and his close disciples during and shortly after the Buddha's forty-five year teaching career, as well as many additional verses by other members of the Sangha.
The suttas are grouped into five nikayas, or collections:
Digha Nikaya
The "Long" Discourses (Pali digha = "long") consists of 34 suttas, including the longest ones in the Canon. The subject matter of these suttas ranges widely, from colorful folkloric accounts of the beings inhabiting the deva worlds (DN 20) to down-to-earth practical meditation instructions (DN 22), and everything in between. Recent scholarship suggests that a distinguishing trait of the Digha Nikaya may be that it was "intended for the purpose of propaganda, to attract converts to the new religion." [1]
Majjhima Nikaya
The "Middle-length" Discourses (Pali majjhima = "middle") consists of 152 suttas of varying length. These range from some of the most profound and difficult suttas in the Canon (e.g., MN 1) to engaging stories full of human pathos and drama that illustrate important principles of the law of kamma (e.g., MN 57, MN 86).
Samyutta Nikaya
The "Grouped" Discourses (Pali samyutta = "group" or "collection") consists of 2,889 relatively short suttas grouped together by theme into 56 samyuttas.
Anguttara Nikaya
The "Further-factored" Discourses (Pali anga = "factor" + uttara = "beyond," "further") consists of several thousand short suttas, grouped together into eleven nipatas according to the number of items of Dhamma covered in each sutta. For example, the Eka-nipata ("Book of the Ones") contains suttas about a single item of Dhamma; the Duka-nipata ("Book of the Twos") contains suttas dealing with two items of Dhamma, and so on.
Khuddaka Nikaya
The "Division of Short Books" (Pali khudda = "smaller," "lesser"), consisting of fifteen books (eighteen in the Burmese edition):
Khuddakapatha — The Short Passages
Dhammapada — The Path of Dhamma
Udana — Exclamations
Itivuttaka — The Thus-saids
Sutta Nipata — The Sutta Collection
Vimanavatthu — Stories of the Celestial Mansions
Petavatthu — Stories of the Hungry Ghosts
Theragatha — Verses of the Elder Monks
Therigatha — Verses of the Elder Nuns
Jataka — Birth Stories
Niddesa — Exposition
Patisambhidamagga — Path of Discrimination
Apadana — Stories
Buddhavamsa — History of the Buddhas
Cariyapitaka — Basket of Conduct
Nettippakarana (Burmese Tipitaka only)
Petakopadesa (Burmese Tipitaka only)
Milindapañha — Questions of Milinda (Burmese Tipitaka only)
4 Abhidhamma Pitaka The Basket of Abhidhamma on Thu Jul 26, 2012 8:06 pm
The seven books of the Abhidhamma Pitaka, the third division of the Tipitaka, offer an extraordinarily detailed analysis of the basic natural principles that govern mental and physical processes. Whereas the Sutta and Vinaya Pitakas lay out the practical aspects of the Buddhist path to Awakening, the Abhidhamma Pitaka provides a theoretical framework to explain the causal underpinnings of that very path. In Abhidhamma philosophy the familiar psycho-physical universe (our world of "trees" and "rocks," "I" and "you") is distilled to its essence: an intricate web of impersonal phenomena and processes unfolding at an inconceivably rapid pace from moment to moment, according to precisely defined natural laws.
According to tradition, the essence of the Abhidhamma was formulated by the Buddha during the fourth week after his Enlightenment.[1] Seven years later he is said to have spent three consecutive months preaching it in its entirety in one of the deva realms, before an audience of thousands of devas (including his late mother, the former Queen Maya), each day briefly commuting back to the human realm to convey to Ven. Sariputta the essence of what he had just taught.[2] Sariputta mastered the Abhidhamma and codified it into roughly its present form. Although parts of the Abhidhamma were recited at the earlier Buddhist Councils, it wasn't until the Third Council (ca. 250 BCE) that it became fixed into its present form as the third and final Pitaka of the canon.[3]
Despite its relatively late entrance into the Canon, the Abhidhamma stands as an essential pillar of classical Theravada Buddhist thought. Its significance does, however, vary considerably across regional and cultural boundaries. In Thai Buddhism, for example, the Abhidhamma (and, for that matter, many of the Commentaries as well) play a relatively minor role in Buddhist doctrine and practice. In Sri Lanka and Myanmar (Burma), however, they hold the same venerated status as the Vinaya and Sutta Pitakas themselves. The modern Burmese approach to the teaching and practice of Satipatthana meditation, in particular, relies heavily on an Abhidhammic interpretation of meditative experience. Regardless of the Abhidhamma's position on the shelf of Buddhist canonical texts, the astonishing detail with which it methodically constructs a quasi-scientific model of mind (enough, by far, to make a modern systems theorist or cognitive scientist gasp in awe), insures its place in history as a monumental feat of intellectual genius.
The seven books
The Abhidhamma Pitaka is divided into seven books, although it is the first (Dhammasangani) and last (Patthana) that together lay out the essence of Abhidhamma philosophy. The seven books are:
I. Dhammasangani ("Enumeration of Phenomena").
This book enumerates all the paramattha dhamma (ultimate realities) to be found in the world. According to one such enumeration these amount to:
52 cetasikas (mental factors), which, arising together in various combination, give rise to any one of...
...89 different possible cittas (states of consciousness)
4 primary physical elements, and 23 physical phenomena derived from them
II. Vibhanga ("The Book of Treatises").
This book continues the analysis of the Dhammasangani, here in the form of a catechism.
III. Dhatukatha ("Discussion with Reference to the Elements").
A reiteration of the foregoing, in the form of questions and answers.
IV. Puggalapaññatti ("Description of Individuals").
Somewhat out of place in the Abhidhamma Pitaka, this book contains descriptions of a number of personality-types.
V. Kathavatthu ("Points of Controversy").
Another odd inclusion in the Abhidhamma, this book contains questions and answers that were compiled by Moggaliputta Tissa in the 3rd century BCE, in order to help clarify points of controversy that existed between the various "Hinayana" schools of Buddhism at the time.
VI. Yamaka ("The Book of Pairs").
This book is a logical analysis of many concepts presented in the earlier books. In the words of Mrs. Rhys Davids, an eminent 20th century Pali scholar, the ten chapters of the Yamaka amount to little more than "ten valleys of dry bones."
VII. Patthana ("The Book of Relations").
This book, by far the longest single volume in the Tipitaka (over 6,000 pages in the Siamese edition), describes the 24 paccayas, or laws of conditionality, through which the dhammas interact. These laws, when applied in every possible permutation with the dhammas described in the Dhammasangani, give rise to all knowable experience.
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Kudos to Titus for writing a powerful, yet easy to use testing tool.
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by MGP · September 2, 2008
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Nothing will, from Pumpkinhead."
Despite the title, this 1988 film is not about a serial killer who wears a pumpkin on his head. That would be dumb. Rather, it is an interesting take on both the revenge and teen slasher sub-genres, and with one lovable denizen of Hell on center stage.
Our story begins with Ed Harley (Lance Henriksen), rural storekeeper and really great dad to his young son, Billy. They really seem to be best pals from the various exchanges between them. One would say that each is all the other really has in the world and you gain a real sense of connection between them. Well, just as you're getting rather attached to this adorable pairing, little Billy is inadvertently killed by a reckless motorcyclist, while the accidental killer's teen pals look on in horror. When Dad returns to discover his dead son, it's a real tug on the heartstrings, let me tell you.
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Yes, Pumpkinhead really steals the show with his charm and personality. It especially shows in his handiwork, the way he deals out justice. One might even call it style. In fact, I just did. Oh, you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll cheer like a deranged sports fanatic. Hail Pumpkinhead!
Pumpkinhead was directed by the late Stan Winston, a man otherwise known as a top Oscar-winning special effects artist for movies including the Alien franchise, Terminator, Predator, Edward Scissorhands, and others. This is Winston's directorial debut and, oddly enough, doesn't contain any of his own SFX work. The movie didn't do well at the box office, but it made up for all of that by becoming a complete cult classic. Having now seen it, I understand why. Rent it today!
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Unity Games, Electric Eggplant, and HRG have announced that their highly popular iOS title Rube Works: The Official Rube Goldberg Invention Game for iPhone and iPad has received a major content update. Now players can continue to use their puzzle-solving powers through nine free, new levels and Rube Works is now on sale for $0.99 until the end of 2013. The new levels include three challenges based on the works of Rube Goldberg, along with six others created by renowned Rube Goldberg experts — Joseph Herscher and two-time Guinness world record holder Zach Umperovitch. With this new update, the total level count now comes in at 18 as well.
Interested? You can download Rube Works: The Official Rube Goldberg Invention Game on the App Store for $0.99 by clicking here.
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Paddington review – bear baits Ukip with fluffy immigrant tale
3 / 5 stars 3 out of 5 stars.
Antique conceit meets high-concept story in Paul King's big-screen adaptation of the Michael Bond classic
Xan Brooks
@XanBrooks
Wed 19 Nov 2014 08.40 EST Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 14.58 EST
'In London, nobody's alike' … Paddington bears up to the realities of Notting Hill life. Photograph: Allstar/StudioCanal
There is no Englishman more purely, endearingly English than the Englishman from overseas. For these outmoded vessels of British colonialism, high tea falls around six o'clock and Christmas simply isn't Christmas without the Queen's speech at 3pm GMT. It makes no difference whether the Englishman in question is sipping pink gin out in Kuala Lumpur, marooned on an Antigua veranda or perched in the trees down in Darkest Peru. Nor does it much matter if the man is really a man.
Paddington, directed by Paul King from the original Michael Bond stories, spins the tale of a small bear (voiced very ably by Ben Whishaw) weaned on marmalade jars and idealised notions of England. The film is as warm as an eiderdown and as fluffy as its feathers. Cast out of his forest home, Paddington hops a cargo ship and comes to London, where his decorous dreams bump up against modern reality (or at least an airbrushed facsimile of modern reality). England, it transpires, is not quite what he envisaged. "Hardly anyone wears a hat or says hello."
And yet London is a melting-pot; it thrives on immigration. On his first night in the city, Paddington finds himself adopted by a loving, dysfunctional family (headed by Hugh Bonneville and Sally Hawkins) who live in a vast, pastel-coloured Notting Hill home. The bear rekindles the family's dampened notions of tolerance and decency. They, in turn, ride to his aid when he is targeted by a cantankerous neighbour (Peter Capaldi) and a vampish vivisectionist (Nicole Kidman, gleefully channelling the spirit of Cruella De Vil). Along the way, Paddington's English odyssey drags him from the station to moneyed W10 and finally a mile down south, to a frantic climactic showdown inside the Natural History Museum. Sadly, we never get to see what he makes of the regions.
Full credit to the film-makers, who manage to map their digital bear against his human co-stars and marry Bond's antique conceit to a high-concept story. Paddington runs gamely through a heightened, picture-book London, stumbling on occasion through a mess of caffeinated, slapstick set-pieces, but keeping its head as it spirits us along for the ride. Is it a problem that the film's tone amounts to a cherry-picked jumble of second-hand elements (the script raids 101 Dalmatians, while the stylised tableaux tip a hat to Wes Anderson)? Possibly not; it only chimes with the message of inclusivity. The city, after all, is nourished by square pegs and imports and foreign ingredients given a local spin. "In London nobody's alike," concludes Paddington. "Which means that everyone fits in."
This, presumably, applies to Jim Broadbent's white-haired antique dealer, who came to the UK on the Kindertransport, and to the beaming Afro-Caribbean musicians who play outside on the street. But it also, of course, applies to Paddington himself, another modern-day migrant in search of a new life. Paddington stows away on a ship in order to access the UK. He is then housed and fed by British taxpayers. So far as I could tell, he has no intention of finding a job for himself. But so what, who cares? He adds to the mix; we are lucky to have him. And his story is so gently affirming, it might just melt the heart of a Ukip MEP.
• Paddington given PG rating
Jim Broadbent – the actor who rejected an OBE. And Only Fools and Horses
Although he's obviously fond of turning things down, Jim Broadbent is rarely off the screen, with two new films – Paddington and Get Santa – coming soon. But what makes him really happy is sculpting funny little wooden people ...
Le Week-end – review
Lindsay Duncan and Jim Broadbent shine in Roger Michell and Hanif Kureishi's melancholy romantic comedy, writes Mark Kermode
Jim Broadbent: the nation's favourite character actor
It's been a long climb to the top, but character actor Jim Broadbent is now at the top of his game
The film that changed my life: Jim Broadbent
Jim Broadbent couldn't believe his ears when he first saw MASH
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Bereta represent the embodiment of the new wave of modern brewers: young beer aficionados turned homebrewers, turned gypsy brewers, then finally turned fully fledged brewers, with their own brewery. The story kicked off back in 2014, the result of an off chance meeting between two guys who were really into their beers. Over 100 batches of home garage brewing and various recipes later, they decided it was time to pull out the big guns, and headed down to Bucharest to try their luck. It was in June 2016 that they were given free reign over the mash tuns and fermenting vessels at Ground Zero and thus became the first gypsy brewers (i.e. brewers without a brewery) in Romania. Since then, they've also worked with Hop Hooligans and Wicked Barrel to produce a variety of interesting, and on occasion, ground breaking beers.
The lads describe their beers as 'social lubricant', and if there's one thing that truly defines their styles, it's the use of hops. Dank, fruity, resinous, bitter hop bombs; throw in a bit of oats and they've got themselves a recipe for success. In fact, Juicebag, their first New England IPA, took home the RateBeer award for the Best Beer in Romania in 2016. Set on bigger things, the lads also kicked off the IPA revolution in Romania back in October 2016, when they released Citro, the country's first New England style Pale Ale. And because staying consistent is quite a feat for most craft breweries, they decided that they might as well grab the 2017 RateBeer award for the Best Beer in Romania. Which they did, after a brief detour through the dark realms of Imperial Stouts and a very lucrative collaboration with Wicked Barrel.
In March 2018, they decided it was time to bring their wandering ways to an end, as well as let Ground Zero catch their breath, after pestering them for two years with their gypsy brewing shenanigans. And as a parting gift, they did one last take (well, technically two) of their highly praised collaboration with Wicked Barrel, launching a limited edition (500 bottles only) of the Black Pot Imperial Stout, as well as a Bourbon chips and vanilla rendition of the same recipe.
Not long after, in June of 2018, they not only got their authorizations and started producing beers in their own brewery, but also decided that everyone should be invited to their launch party. And what better way to do that than by organizing Timişoara's first craft beer festival, which they did by partnering up with local pub and beer shop Bibliotheka.
Always true to remembering their own humble beginnings, in October of 2018 they launched their Bereta Brewing Community program, which provided homebrewers in Romania with a tremendous opportunity: making their beer in an actual brewery. The winners have all been dutifully announced, and the 5 lucky winners are due to have their beers officially released between January and May.
The guys are more than liberal with advice, so it's worth checking their Facebook page for their series of notes, which contain a lot of useful information for both homebrewers, potential gypsy brewers, as well as recipes and stories behind some of their own beers (notes are only available in Romanian).
Their range (both the gypsy and the newer stuff) is usually available in 330ml bottles, as well as draft in designated locations. Generally speaking, they make it to the online shelves at Berero Store soon after launch, but if you prefer to buy them offline, specialized shops and bars in Bucharest are a safe bet, as well as Beer's Point in Cluj, and various locations in their hometown, Timişoara.
Also, looking out for the beer bottles from their early days is advised, as some of them come with a short comic strip on the label, telling the story of the craft beer revolution as it unfolds (artistic licenses may apply).
Label design from their gypsy brewing days.
This page was last updated April 11 2019.


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Airb 'n' beware
A look at the liability insurance for Airbnb hosts and the legal perils of short-term rentals
Sophie Etemadi
Much like the faces and derrières of any Kardashian sister, the insurance coverage Airbnb provided to hosts was something strikingly different when the company first started out. Before 2015, Airbnb followed the Uber model when it came to sharing risk. Uber grew by placing risk on its drivers, asking them to push damage claims through their personal insurance companies. Uber knew full-well that most of its drivers' private insurance policies did not cover commercial activity.
In the same vein, Airbnb started out by providing hosts with "free $1 million liability coverage," but with a not so obvious catch – the company only provided hosts with "secondary coverage." As a secondary coverage provider, Airbnb wanted hosts to forward any claims for guests' injuries and deaths through the hosts' own insurance companies first. The problem with that coverage model was that a majority of homeowner's insurance policies included a "Business Pursuits Exclusion." In California, hosting one's property on Airbnb generally constitutes a business pursuit. While there is not a great deal of case law involving Airbnb on this specific issue, a few cases discussed later may provide some insight.
After going through the headache of filing claims with their homeowners' insurance companies and being denied coverage, hosts began to realize they were just another notch on Airbnb's plus-sized belt. Heeding the criticism, Airbnb took a long hard look at itself in the mirror and vowed to change its Lothario-like ways. The company decided to revamp its trampy image by providing primary insurance coverage to hosts. Thus, on January 15, 2015, the company launched its new and improved "Host Protection Insurance (HPI) program."
Host Protection Insurance (HPI)
This insurance is described as "coverage of up to $1million, per incident for Airbnb hosts in the U.S…if a guest is accidentally injured anywhere in a host's building or property during a stay." It may also cover other costly situations in which a guest accidentally causes damage to surrounding property, such as a water leak in a host's apartment causing damage to a neighboring apartment. For those who own property abroad and host it to strangers when unoccupied, the HPI program currently extends to hosts in Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
If Airbnb has honorably decided to provide all hosts with primary insurance coverage free of charge, then we should all host our homes without the slightest bit of worry, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, just like any of the Affordable Care Act replacements Congress has considered, the Host Protection Insurance Program still has major flaws.
Be wary of early arrivals and overstays
First and foremost, the coverage is limited to an actual stay. Thus, if a guest is injured during an early arrival or overstay, the host will likely not get coverage from Airbnb. Further, if the guest is a no-show and someone else arrives instead, the host will not be afforded coverage. With most hosts being out of secondary coverage via the exclusions in their homeowner's insurance policies, this means a host will be held personally liable for an injury that may have occurred mere hours after "check out" time.
Master policy limit of $10 million
Second, coverage is limited to $1 million per occurrence, $2 million per location, and $10 million annually for all insured locations in the United States. Therefore, when the master policy limit of $10 million is reached, no matter how early or late it may be during the policy year, there is no remaining coverage available for the rest of that year.
Airbnb coverage must be in excess of any other available coverage
Third, Airbnb's coverage must be in excess of any other available coverage, which means the host must submit the claim to his/her homeowner's insurance and the claim must be denied by that company before Airbnb will pay a dime.
Other key exclusions
Finally, Airbnb's Host Protection Insurance program lists other key exclusions:
(1) Intentional acts (of the host or any other insured party)
(2) Loss of earnings
(3) Personal and advertising injury
(4) Fungi or bacteria
(5) Chinese drywall
(6) Communicable diseases
(7) Acts of terrorism
(8) Product liability
(9) Pollution
(10) Asbestos, or lead or silica, and
(11) Insured vs. insured (i.e., host sues Airbnb or vice versa).
While I can't foretell the impact a Chinese drywall exclusion, I can certainly anticipate that a loss-of-earnings exclusion will reduce settlement amounts.
In the event the host is engaged in a business pursuit…
We will now turn the discussion towards the fight involved in classifying Airbnb as a non-business pursuit. Is there any merit to arguing that one's rarely hosted property means the exclusion shouldn't apply? What if a guest is injured the very first time a host hosted? Does it matter that the money a host earned from hosting on Airbnb accounts for a fraction of his/her income? Would it matter if the guest is injured on a portion of the host's property not intended for Airbnb guests? Would certain areas of the property be more foreseeable places for guests to wander off to than others?
Let's start with the relevant definitions. California Revenue and Taxation Code section 6013 defines "Business" as "any activity engaged in by any person or caused to be engaged in by him with the object of gain, benefit, or advantage, either direct or indirect."
California law has defined a business pursuit as a "regularly engaged in activity for the purpose of earning a profit" (Smyth v. USAA Property and Casualty Insurance Co. (1984) 152 Cal.App.3d 864, 869.) Despite the "regularly engaged" language included in the definition, California cases have established that an activity need not be full-time, primary, or even a major source of income in order to qualify as a business pursuit.
In Fire Insurance Exchange. v. Jiminez (1986) 184 Cal.App.3d 439, defendant and appellant, Manuel Jiminez purchased a dwelling package policy for his property. A dwelling package policy, also referred to as a landlord-package policy, is used to cover homes that are occupied by someone other than the owner, such as a tenant. This type of policy typically includes coverage for the home itself as well as liability coverage. What proved to be problematic for Mr. Jiminez was the fact that his property contained several structures. One structure was leased to his tenant, Santa Barbara Ceramic Designs, while the other was a commercial building he used for his own produce business.
When a lean-to porch attached to his commercial building became a nuisance, Jiminez decided to demolish it. Richard Metzger, the plaintiff in the underlying action, had asked for Jiminez's permission to salvage some of the roofing materials that were in the wreckage. Jiminez agreed. Metzger was injured during his salvaging efforts and subsequently filed a personal-injury claim.
Under the subheading of "EXCLUSIONS," Jiminez's dwelling package policy stated, "This insurance does not apply . . . to bodily injury or property damage arising out of business pursuits of any insured except activities therein which are ordinarily incident to non-business pursuits…" In addition, on the reverse side of the policy and in bold print, the policy stated "Business Property" and "Commercial Comprehensive Liability" are "Other Lines Offered."
The trial court ruled that Jiminez did not have coverage since the motivation for the demolition of the porch structure was the nuisance it posed to the commercial building. The court further reasoned that getting rid of the nuisance to the commercial building would enhance the value of the property, which should be considered a business pursuit.
Jiminez appealed and argued that the "one-time decision" could not be construed as "regular activity." The appellate court found this focus to be too narrow and found the determining factor to be Jiminez's long history of owning the commercial building for profit. The court rejected this argument, finding that "…the presence of the profit motive carries considerable weight, and that the business engaged in need not be the sole occupation. In addition, the court found that part-time business activities should also be included under business pursuits exclusions." The court concluded that "since it occurred on Jiminez's commercial property, there is simply no [coverage]."
But, what if the area where the injury occurred had a dual purpose?
West American Insurance Company v. California Mutual Insurance Company (1987) 195 Cal.App.3d 314, may provide some insight. While this case was a fight between insurance companies on the applicability of an employment exception in one policy and a business pursuit exception in another, it nevertheless serves to establish that a business pursuit exception has been interpreted broadly. How broad? Broad enough that it would trump an employment exception.
In West, Mr. Clapham operated his cement and masonry business out of his Simi Valley, California home. Clapham's home was often used as a meeting point for jobsites and as a location to distribute paychecks. However, Clapham's home served another purpose — a place for employees to drink and gamble after paychecks were distributed from the home's den. Despite Clapham's good intentions, in true Scorsese mob epic style, a violent scuffle broke out at the card table. The lesson Clapham learned the hard way was that nothing was more dangerous than a rec room full of masons in Simi Valley.
The trial court found that the "business pursuit" exception did not apply because Clapham's home had both a business and social purpose and that the activity giving rise to the injury (the drinking and gambling) was not "wholly dependent" on Clapham's business pursuits.
The court determined that Clapham was certainly engaged in a business pursuit in providing his employees with beer and recreation since Clapham's own testimony revealed that doing so fostered better relations with his employees. The court found that a happy workforce served as a benefit to any business undertaking. The court held that "an employer's business pursuit logically includes any activity which arises from and is in the course of an employee's employment." (Id. at p. 324.)
With regard to the trial court's determination that the activity giving rise to the injury was not wholly dependent on Clapham's business pursuits, the appellate court disagreed. It found that even if Clapham's house gatherings were partially motivated by social interests, the result would be the same. According to the appellate court, "Nothing in the insurance policy requires that the business pursuit be wholly business related for the exception to apply" and that any reliance by either of the parties to litigation on "concurrent causation" doctrine was misapplied.
Concurrent causation doctrine provides for coverage when an injury is caused by a combination of an insured risk and an excluded risk. (State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Partridge (1973) 10 Cal.3d 94, 105.) The court reasoned that the situation in Clapham was different since Clapham's rec room activities had both a social and business nature while the injury resulting from that activity did not have "independent operating causes." Unfortunately for Clapham, his employees were the sole cause of the injuries.
Thus, it is clear that the business-pursuits exception has a history of being applied broadly. Odds are, if there's a conceivable benefit to an Airbnb host, it will be construed as a business pursuit. In addition, while one should always consider the specific language in a policy, more likely than not, a business pursuit exclusion will apply to an injury that occurs on account of something remotely business related unless there are independent operating causes of the injury.
AirBnFree – Squatting with class
It's 2017, and scammers' tastes are more refined than ever...just follow "Joannethescammer" on Instagram and see for yourself. While an Airbnb host may think he/she has the wherewithal to correctly peg a potential guest as a scammer, the reality is that even those with Mensa-level street smarts can be wrong.
What most hosts don't know is that Airbnb has the potential to be a platform for savvy swindlers to live a lavish lifestyle on the hosts' expense…and without having to front the trial costs. No one could agree with this sentiment more than Airbnb host, Cory Tschogl. The story of Tschogl's experience hosting on Airbnb grew popular in 2014 when screenshots of the texts she exchanged with her squatter, "Maksym," went viral. Receiving little help from Airbnb, Tschogl was forced to hire an attorney.
Tschogl used Airbnb to rent her 600-square-foot Palm Springs, California condo to a man named "Maksym." Maksym was to stay at Tschogl's condo for 44 days (May 25th through July 8th) for what he told Tschogl would be an "extended business trip." After his 44th day at Tschogl's condo, Maksym refused to leave and threatened to sue Tschogl. What made this stay problematic for Tschogl, besides Maksym's squatting, was that for long-term reservations, Airbnb bills on a monthly basis. Because of that, Tschogl only received an advance payment for 30 days. Tschogl eventually had to hire an attorney and spend thousands to evict Maksym.
Here's the play-by play-of how it all went down. After Maksym checked in, he called Tschogl and complained about the tap water and the gated entry to the condo complex. Maksym thereafter asked for a full refund. Wanting to get this guy off her hands, Tschogl agreed to a refund. Unfortunately, getting that money from Airbnb was another story. First, Tschogl had a tough time getting in contact with someone from Airbnb. Eventually, and as recourse, Airbnb sent Maksym an email asking him to leave. Maksym refused. Tschogl figured she would let Maksym stay for the duration of his reservation. However, on June 25th, when it came time to collect payment for the 30th day of his reservation, neither Airbnb nor Tschogl could collect any money from Maksym. On July 8th, the last day of Maksym's reservation, Tschogl sent the tenant an ultimatum via text message – he could vacate the property or stay without the utilities she had been providing.
Maksym sent a text message back threatening to sue Tschogl if she in fact turned the utilities off. According to Maksym, he was well within his rights on account of the fact that he was legally occupying the domicile. While it may come as a shock, Maksym was absolutely right. In California, once someone rents a property to someone for 30 days, that person is considered a tenant on a month-to-month lease. With Airbnb taking a hands-off approach at this point, Tschogl was left to evict the tenant – a process many of you know can take three to six months and can cost thousands of dollars in legal fees.
When pressed about their refusal to help hosts get squatters out, Airbnb responded that it was up to the hosts to know the laws of their state. While this situation seems all too preventable in the mind of an attorney (i.e., don't host someone for longer than 30 days), most Airbnb hosts are unaware of the pitfalls of providing extended stays. According to Tschogl, hosts should know that "collecting guest fees for 30-plus-day stays for only 30 days at a time equals no guarantee to the host of payment in full." Moreover, Airbnb's host guarantee does not cover rental and legal expenses incurred when a guest like Maksym refuses to leave.
Considering the average listing on Airbnb provides approximately $14,000 a year in gross income for the host before expenses, you may want to ask yourself what many have asked upon graduating from law school, "Was it really worth it?" If it is, do yourself a favor and purchase a business-insurance policy. For those interested in hosting their property or advising those who wish to be hosts, remember this: Don't host the property to anyone for more than thirty days.
Sophie Etemadi is an associate at Cheong, Denove, Rowell and Bennett. Sophie's practice focuses on medical malpractice and personal injury. When she isn't appearing in court she enjoys performing stand-up comedy and doing improv at the Pack Theater in Los Angeles.
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Q: Importing scss file won't auto generate css, shows compilation error in output As an exercise for our course we are to import an scss file into another to auto generate a compiled css file for our html.
However when i input the following: @import "_nest.scss" ;
It does not seem to generate the css file, because of a compilation error.
The following error occurs in my output tab:
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I cannot seem to fix the error, however I try. I've included images of my folder structure, css link in html and what is inside of the SCSS files.
The most common error I occured online was naming the files .sass instead of .scss but that isn't the case for me.
Thanks in advance!
Folder structure
Html stylesheet link
Import code
first scss line of code in _nest.scss

A: You must exclude the '_' and the '.scss' extension. Also, start your path with './nest';
So your final code will look like this
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Efficient Drive Units, powerful batteries and intelligent on-board computers: Bosch eBike Systems has set standards from the very start. Both new and older Pedelecs can nonetheless be improved further with a variety of retrofitting options. Make the upgrade for even more riding pleasure and get even more from your eBike - epowered by Bosch.
You can retrofit your bike with Nyon if you're an owner of a Pedelec with a Bosch drive system from the model year 2014 onwards. The all-in-one on-board computer is available for all product lines of Bosch eBike Systems. You can purchase the Nyon retrofit kit from your specialist Bosch dealer. During the conversion, the on-site experts will gladly support you with advice and assistance and take care of both the correct assembly and update of your Bosch eBike System. Keep your eBike updated to the most current software.
Even longer tours without charging times are now possible with a second battery or a new PowerPack.
Do you often go on trips on eBikes or ride to work on the Pedelec? A second Bosch charging unit might be worthwhile. With the 2A Compact Charger, 4A Standard Charger and the new 6A Fast Charger, Bosch has developed three models that will charge your eBike quickly and reliably. The housings are designed without vents to protect the chargers from dirt and grime.
The battery needs the latest software version (MY19) for recharging at 6A. The charging current is limited to 4A for rechargeable batteries that use a software version prior to MY19. eBike charging is supported from hardware version MY18 (5-pin charging socket on the eBike). eBikes before MY18 can be retrofitted with the 5-pin charging socket. Rechargeable batteries that have been removed from the eBike will work independently with 6A. The charging current in PowerPack 300s and rechargeable batteries from the Classic + Line is limited to 4A.
Nothing is more irritating than connections that do not fit. Bosch eBike Systems offers an ideal solution to this problem with the Practical Adapter: Not only are the Active Line / Active Line Plus / Performance Line / Performance Line CX compatible with the chargers, even the Classic+ Line can easily be connected via the adapter without a problem.
The weather-proof COBI.Bike system turns Bosch eBikes into fully networked smart bikes – with networked services, fitness data, route tracking and more. Your smartphone is perfectly positioned and held securely in place – letting apps be used intuitively and simply at the tap of a thumb, while you stay focused on bike riding! COBI.Bike for eBikes with Bosch drive units is installed by plug and play: simply disconnect the Bosch display, plug in the COBI.Bike system, and use the functions via the existing Bosch control unit*.
The COBI.Bike system is compatible with the Bosch drive units Active Line, Active Line Plus, Performance, and Performance Line CX from 2014 onward. COBI.Bike reflects Bosch's reliable, proven service and quality standard. What's more, the system receives regular software updates, ensuring it's always compatible with the latest smartphones.
* Purion users must first switch to using the central display holder.
Would you like to test ride an eBike? Whether you're interested in purchasing an eBike or would like to get your current eBike serviced, qualified eBike dealers in your area ensure that you can enjoy undiluted eBike fun.


In the first episode of Cyborg Nation, Herr—who is also head of the Biomechatronics research group at MIT Media Lab—explains the power of biomimetic design for prosthetics. His "bionic limb" is designed to mirror how a calf muscle actually functions; sensors facilitate neural reflexes, so a user can make a mechanical body part move with a thought, as in full-bodied movement. As Herr imagines it, through bionic appendages, machines increasingly will become a part of us, both rehabilitating and enhancing our natural abilities.


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Angela Merkel coronavirus vaccination European Union Gergely Gulyás immunity certificate Ursula von der Leyen vaccine passport
Hungary to Only Accept Vaccine Certificates of Countries Which Reciprocate Authorization
Hungary has modified the agreement European Union member states made on January 27 regarding the authorization of a vaccine certificate, reports leftist daily Népszava. No longer will the type of vaccine used in inoculation be shown on Hungarian "vaccine passports." In defense of the government's decision, Minister of the Prime Minister's Office Gergely Gulyás has stated that the idea of there being any kind of official European Union decision around the new system of documentation is, as he puts it, "fake news."
According to their initial agreement, those vaccinated against the coronavirus would receive a certification recognized throughout the union.
Based off initial EU discussions, aside from necessary personal details, the document would be required to include the type of vaccine used, the name of its producer, the number of doses administered, and the time and place of vaccination.
Last week, member states agreed that work must be continued for the development of the "vaccine passport," and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen even stated that the digital system used to identify Europe's various documents could be put into effect within three months.
Hungary in Disagreement With the EU
Despite former agreements, the Hungarian government modified the certification the next day, deciding that the type of vaccine used will not be a required detail.
The government's decision is sure to cause complications in the development of the EU's certification system, possibly increasing the time required to complete its development.
Hungarian Vaccination Certificate Omits Information of Vaccine Type
The upcoming Hungarian vaccination certificate will not state the type of the given vaccine, according to an amendment to the relevant government decree issued on Saturday night. The new regulation amends a decree issued on February 12th by removing the words "type of vaccine" from the text. The reason for the change is not indicated […]Continue reading
Commissioner von der Leyen has announced that the commission is planning on making legal recommendations within a month for the creation of the digital document.
PMO Chief Calls EU Decisions Fake News
When ATV asked Minister of the Prime Minister's Office Gergely Gulyás about the European Commission requiring the type of vaccine to be included in the certificate, the minister said this information is "fake news."
Gulyás stated that the EU does not currently have an official, multilateral agreement on the specifics of the vaccine certificate.
He reminded the press of German chancellor Angela Merkel's statement that "national authorities will produce the certificate, which must be recognized everywhere throughout Europe."
Vaccines Not Licensed by EU Could Complicate Vaccine Passport Development
The European Council came together on Thursday to discuss the now widespread topic of an internationally recognized vaccine passport within the European Union. The task may prove complicated, since Hungary has begun using vaccines which are not recognized by the European Medicines Agency. While they have not come to an official decision, members agree that […]Continue reading
Adding to this, Gulyás said that countries must accept one another's certificates based on reciprocity, and that if they do not, "then on the basis of reciprocity Hungary will not accept the certificates of countries which do not accept those of Hungary."
Hungary Modifies its Vaccine Certificate
In Hungary, certifications of vaccination will no longer include the type of vaccine used, since the information is no longer legally required to be shared through the National eHealth Infrastructure (EESZT).
EESZT is a cloud-based interface connecting Hungary's health care providers, pharmacies, and general population. Its role is to share patient data in a secure manner, allowing for "accurate diagnostics and more precisely targeted therapy."
Hungary's vaccination certificate was put into circulation on March first and has not yet been recognized throughout the EU. Whether the union will accept the certificate lacking the type of vaccine used, or will call on Hungary to print new documentation is yet to be determined.
Regardless of the "plastic card" certificate, the official document which family doctors gave their patients after vaccination contains the type of vaccine used for their inoculation.
Certificates Being Used but Not Recognized
Despite certificates being brought into use around Europe, there is no certainty around exactly what EU-wide authorization will involve. So far, however, it seems that the type of vaccine used will be an important detail.
The requirement would be logical, given the growing disconnect in the use of vaccines throughout Europe. Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary have all authorized or are planning to authorize vaccines which the European Medicines Agency has not yet allowed in the EU.
Vaccine Certificate to Be Required for Hungary's Potential 2021 Festivals?
Every year thousands of people travel to the city of Zamárdi, on the southern shore of Lake Balaton, to attend some of Hungary's biggest festivals. As the festival season slowly approaches, organizers of Balaton Sound and Strand Festival once again begin their talks with the city's municipal government. One of the main takeaways of the […]Continue reading
The upcoming vaccine certificate debate between countries which license vaccines such as Sinopharm and Spuntik V, and those which remain true to the EU's authorization procedures will definitely be worthy of attention. These disagreements could have a significant impact on the EU's joint approach to the pandemic.
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Brexit referendum: Remain camp backs European Union of austerity and militarism
By Robert Stevens and Chris Marsden
The Remain campaign in the June 23 referendum on Britain's continued membership in the European Union is led by the Conservative government of Prime Minister David Cameron.
Support for a Remain vote, therefore, necessitates an endorsement of the renegotiation of the UK's terms of EU membership secured by Cameron last month. These centre on measures limiting in-work benefits for migrants and protecting the City of London from financial regulation.
For the dominant sections of Britain's financial and business elite, continued EU membership is vital to maintaining trade links within the world's largest single market. Their campaign for "membership of a reformed EU" translates into support for a Europe dominated by finance capital and dedicated to policies of austerity, militarism and war.
Britain Stronger in Europe (BSE), likely to be the officially designated Remain campaign group, stresses that EU membership is vital to the UK's economy. Some three to four million jobs are linked to trade with Europe, with 44 percent of all exports—worth £229 billion in 2014—going to Europe. Foreign Direct Investment in the UK from Europe averaged £24 billion a year over the last 10 years.
David Sainsbury, the Labour peer, supermarket heir and billionaire businessman, provided BSE's start-up funding. The group is headed by former Marks & Spencer boss Lord Stuart Rose, who currently chairs online grocery group Ocado. Co-treasurers are Roland Rudd, founder of public relations corporation Finsbury, and Sir Michael Rake, chairman of BT Group, former president of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), and former chairman of KPMG International.
BSE has lined up the main international financial and economic institutions to warn against a Brexit (British exit from the EU), with the G20 and the International Monetary Fund issuing statements supporting EU membership. The United States and the major European powers, which fear that a Brexit would precipitate the breakup of the EU, have all lent their support.
The heads of GlaxoSmithKline, Siemens, Vodafone and Virgin Group have endorsed a Remain vote, while the chairmen or chief executives of 36 FTSE 100 companies, including Burberry, BAE Systems, BP, Shell and EasyJet, wrote to the Times calling for support. The CBI, which represents 190,000 businesses across Britain, said that the "majority" of its members "want the UK to be in a reformed EU."
Other board members are drawn from all the main parliamentary parties, including Lord Cooper, a former director of strategy at Downing Street under Cameron, and Sir Danny Alexander, Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the treasury in the 2010-15 Conservative-led coalition.
The Tories and Lib-Dems are working hand-in-glove with the Blairite wing of the Labour Party. Former Labour prime ministers Blair and Gordon Brown sit alongside the only other surviving former Conservative prime minister, John Major. They are joined by Lord Peter Mandelson, Blair's closest adviser, and Stephen Kinnock, son of former Labour leader Neil Kinnock. The executive director of BSE is Will Straw, son of former foreign secretary Jack Straw.
Caroline Lucas, the former leader of the Green Party and its only MP, has offered her threadbare credentials as a political progressive to BSE.
The Remain campaign's propaganda also focuses on the importance of British defence capabilities as a member of NATO with the world's fifth largest military budget. One of the key members of the BSE's board is General Sir Peter Wall, who was chief of the general staff until September 2014.
Wall is a vocal advocate of confronting Russia and last year complained that UK defence cuts, including the 2010 defence review, "set a lower level of ambition for UK involvement in global security than ever before." He warned of "the state-on-state confrontation in Europe initiated by Russia" and urged "sustained reinvestment" in the military.
A joint article by Tory MP Nicholas Soames and Mandelson, published in the Daily Mail, stressed the need to confront Russia as a key argument in favour of EU membership. Soames is the grandson of former prime minister Winston Churchill. Mandelson is the grandson of Herbert Morrison, Labour home secretary in the wartime coalition led by Churchill.
Invoking World War Two to appeal for national unity, they stated, "Britain and our allies emerged victorious, but to do so, everyone, including politicians from opposing parties, had to pull in the same direction."
Calling on anti-communist sentiment, the two authors wrote of when "the Russians drew down the Iron Curtain on a broken and suffering Eastern Europe," and of how "When the Berlin Wall fell at the end of the 1980s, those countries and their great capitals—Warsaw, Prague, Berlin, Bucharest and Sofia—were released from the grip of a ruthless Soviet machine" and "stampeded to be a part of the European Union…"
A Remain vote is officially backed by the Labour Party and the Trades Union Congress, including Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. But given the overtly Tory agenda of Britain Stronger in Europe, they have not affiliated to it, fearing a repeat of the political damage that uniting with the Tories in the 2014 referendum on Scottish independence caused. Even so, Sir Brendan Barber, a former leader of the TUC from 2003 to 2012, who also served as a director on the Bank of England board, is a BSE board member.
Corbyn has stated that he will not personally share a platform with the Conservatives in the referendum campaign, which prompted denunciations from within the parliamentary Labour Party. But whether he sits alongside Cameron or not, he shares a common political platform thanks to his efforts to whitewash the EU and insist that it can be reformed in the interests of the working class.
Corbyn attempts to strike an oppositional pose by calling for "progressive reform in Europe." But he endorses anti-immigrant measures by complaining of "the undercutting of wage rates and industry-wide agreements through the exploitation of migrant workers." He echoes the criticism of the Tory right and UK Independence Party that "Cameron's much-heralded 'emergency brake' on in-work migrants' benefits will do nothing to cut inward migration to Britain."
No event more surely exposes the lie that the EU is either a progressive body or one that can be made progressive than the fate of Greece, which was targeted by the EU for austerity measures that destroyed the jobs, livelihoods and social conditions, including access to health care, of millions of workers and their families.
As such, it is treated as radioactive political material by everyone aligning with the Remain camp, especially Corbyn. Even when addressing the Party of European Socialists in the European Parliament last month, he spoke only of a general need to "work in a common way to address the negatives of the European Union from a progressive point of view" before urging closer cooperation with the United Left group. The latter formation includes Syriza, whose own pro-EU stance was integral to its betrayal of the struggle of the Greek working class against the "troika" of the EU, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund.
As the Socialist Equality Party's statement "For an active boycott of the Brexit referendum!" explains, "The SEP is irreconcilably hostile to the European Union, but our opposition is from the left, not the right. The EU is not an instrument for realising the genuine and necessary unification of Europe. It is a mechanism for the subjugation of the continent to the dictates of the financial markets and a forum in which competing states fight amongst themselves and conspire against the working class."
We call for a rejection of the Remain campaign in defence of the EU and of the Leave campaign dominated by far-right forces preaching nationalism and xenophobia, and for the working class to take up the perspective of a common struggle with their brothers and sisters across the continent for the United Socialist States of Europe.
For an active boycott of the Brexit referendum!
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The Lack of Recycling on Our Campus
Sophia Weis, Multimedia Editor|December 27, 2019
By Caleb Amory
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Every single day you produce about 4.6 pounds of trash and only one quarter of this trash is recycled– meaning the materials that belong in the recycling end up in trash cans. These materials include food scraps, paper, disposable plates and cups, cardboard and plastic water bottles. Elements like food scraps and paper can even be composted instead of being thrown in the trash. Today, in schools we only really see recycling bins in classrooms which aren't even used for recycling. Most of the time students just throw their trash in there regardless of the fact that a recycling bin is meant for recycling, not trash. Enforcing a new recycling plan at CHS would prove to be beneficial to help reduce our waste as well as help the environment.
Some state and nearby governments expect schools to reuse. When large groups of people recycle as a community they help to lessen fossil fuel usage and even help to raise nearby employment. Making it a requirement for schools to recycle would definitely make an impact and help with the environmental side of things. In addition, recycling saves energy by letting resources break down naturally instead of rotting away in a landfill. When these natural resources are put in the right places they end up coming full circle and benefitting our earth, which is what we want in the long run.
The earth cannot withstand the current rate of destruction going on. When we fail to reuse the resources we already have, we end up running out of resources. Luckily recycling is easy and there are many articles online on the basics of recycling. When we don't recycle we end up destroying natural habitats and then we as humans just start this chain reaction of one horrible thing after another happening to our planet.
On our campus, the CHS Green Club is working hard to take their ideas to principal Dr. Brockett and the school district. Green Club is trying to implement more recycling bins and to just be more conscious about recycling as a whole on our campus. Working with the administration and the school board is a great way to let ideas be heard. I think this generation learns better by doing rather than listening to a boring speech for hours so if we wanted to teach the students something, it would prove to be more beneficial to do something as a community rather than sit in the gym and listen to someone talk.
However, one challenge that I think is going to be a tremendous one to overcome is getting the student body on board. Teenagers don't really care about making sure they throw their trash in the correct bin which I think is one of the key parts in helping to reduce this lack of recycling. To start, students were never really motivated to recycle because personally I never see blue recycling bins out in the quad during lunch. By having the right trash cans and recycling cans around campus could encourage students to put their waste in the correct bins.
The only way we can try to increase recycling at CHS is by showing the students how to. For example, there are two water bottle filler stations, one in the counseling office and the other under the 6000 building, where students can fill up their reusable water bottles instead of buying plastic water bottles and just throwing them in the trash right after. It takes about 450 years for a plastic water bottle to decompose which is quite a long time for a little 16 oz piece of plastic to be sitting in a landfill. If students started implementing a reusable water bottle into their routine we could save a lot of plastic from being dumped into wastelands.
Encouraging students to carry out the 3 R's into their daily life may be a struggle at the start but as a community, if we all pitch in to help the environment we can really make a difference. In the past recycling has become a pretty global topic and of right now 94 percent of Americans support recycling and 74 percent say it should be a priority, but the national average recycling rate is only 34.7 percent which is quite a low number considering how many people support recycling.
One Response to "The Lack of Recycling on Our Campus"
Justine Alessi on January 13th, 2020 6:48 pm
This is a well written and provocative article. I think it should be available to all schools so students everywhere can participate in this great motivator to save our planet! Good job, Sophia Weis !!
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Marriott's luxury reaches the 'all-inclusive' of the Dominican Republic
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It will manage several Caribbean hotels between 2022 and 2025
The chain plans to incorporate more than 2,000 rooms
The Dominican Republic is part of the destinations in the Caribbean where Marriott has launched to manage hotels within the all-inclusive modality, and the chain recognized for its high luxury, launched a new platform dedicated to the hotel industry "all-inclusive," which is aimed at the holiday segment.
The hotel will manage several hotels in the Caribbean and Latin America that will make openings between 2022 and 2025. The investment for Marriott will represent more than 800 million dollars, and will take advantage of the seven brands that offer full service and luxury for the portfolio it will offer in the "all-inclusive" The brands of the chain will be: The Ritz-Carlton; Luxury Collection; Marriott Hotels; Westin Hotels; W Hotels; Autograph Collection; and Delta by Marriott.
"By expanding our portfolio with this new offer, we are opening a new way for travelers to explore our incredible brands, from Westin to W, through an all-inclusive lens," said Tina Edmundson, global brand manager at Marriott International, according to REPORTUR.
Marriott will also add more than 2,000 rooms between conversions of existing hotels and new resorts that are under construction, such as the Autograph Collection hotel in Punta Cana, with 650 rooms, which will open in 2022.
NIA, in the Riviera Nayarit (Mexico) of the Mexican investment fund Artha Capital, on a plot of 90 hectares where they will have four hotels with the brands: The Ritz-Carlton with 240 rooms and Westin Hotels with 400 rooms, opening in 2023.
Meanwhile, the 300-room Autograph Collection and 500-room Marriott Hotels will open in 2025, Travel Plus reported.
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In the village named after Polina Osipenko in the Khabarovsk Territory, they intend to "reanimate" the airport. This was announced by the head of the region Sergey Furgal during a working trip to the area.
In the near future, with the commission, the regional ministry of transport was instructed to inspect the runway and decide whether to repair it or rebuild it. According to the press service of the regional government, further the authorities intend to prepare a package of documents in order to pick up the airport in the subordination of the region.
The airport is located two kilometers from the district center. Its revival would make it possible to resolve issues not only with transport accessibility, but also with the provision of emergency medical care.
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