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Fisher-Price Announces Virtual Toy Museum & It's a Nostalgia Bomb
Fisher-Price has opened the virtual doors to their new toy museum, on Instagram.
The toymaker is celebrating its 90th year with a virtual look back on some of its most iconic toys.
The collection is viewable on Instagram and takes you through 90 years of childhood memories. I was blown away by how many toys I remembered, and just how old they were.
I remember playing with this at my grandmother's house, which means it must have been given to my dad, who was born in the 1940s.
The iconic Little People are also well represented.
And I was so excited to see my favorite Fisher-Price toy from when I was a kid - the tape recorder! I used to run around and interview my family with it. It's no wonder I grew up to have the job I do.
Like any good museum, of course there's a gift shop! The virtual gift shop offers apparel, accessories and housewares featuring vintage Fisher-Price imagery, including Little People figures, Doctor Doodle and the Space Blazer.

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David Van Deusen/Green Mountain Anarchist Collective
On the Question of Violence and Nonviolence As a Tactic and Strategy Within the Social Protest Movement
An Anarchist Perspective
Pacifism as Foreign to the Poor and Working Classes
"Let us remember that every great step forward in history has not come into fruition until it has first been baptized in blood."
- Mikhail Bakunin
Militancy and direct action are not only necessary tactical tools for the anarchist left, but, when correctly implemented, they are also the facilitators of inspiration and motivation for both those involved with the act in question and those who observe the act in question. It is such activity that helps draw numbers into the movement by creating an outlet for the venting of frustration and alienation. In short, militancy and direct action, by challenging the entrenched power of the wealthy ruling class and state, fosters a sense of empowerment upon those who partake, while also furthering creative aspirations by hinting at what a revolution toward a non-oppressive society might feel like.
Of course, militancy and direct action do not carry the inherent qualification of being violent or nonviolent in and of themselves. The slashing of management's car tires during a labor dispute, as well as erecting of barricades and subsequent rioting against the forces of the State during a pro-working class demonstration are both clearly militant actions, but so too is a non-violent workers' factory occupation during a strike as well as occupying major city intersections and shutting down of financial districts during a protest against neoliberalism.
Clearly there are many circumstances in which non-violent tactics are not only advisable, but also the only effective course possible. Furthermore, tactical nonviolence is always the preferred course of action when its outcome can bring about the desired objective and subjective results more effectively or as effectively as a violent act. Such practices should be encouraged and taught throughout the anarchist and leftist movement generally in order to maintain a moral superiority over the forces of capital and the state, who of course practices both overt and covert violence with little discrimination on a consistent basis. This commitment to nonviolence is fundamentally based on pragmatism and revolutionary ethics, while finding its material existence through the implementation of tactics. However, nonviolence should, under no circumstances, be understood as a strategy in and of itself. When nonviolence is used as a strategy it transcends its existence as a descriptive term and defines itself as an idea, a noun, as "pacifism"; it becomes an ideology.
When nonviolence is used correctly, as a tactic, it is a most useful tool in the popular struggle. The reason for this is because such a display of resistance is indicative of an underlying threat of violence. For if people are willing to put themselves on the line for the sake of liberty, and if these people are willing to risk bodily harm in such an action, it displays a level of commitment, which, if turned in a violent manner, could manifest itself in the form of a future insurrection; an insurrection where if critical mass is attained could threaten the foundation of state power; that of the ruling class and the underlying anti-culture.
Ironically the victories of the Civil Rights Movement in the South during the 1950's and '60's owes a lot to the inherent threat of violence. In this case, the southern leadership, embodied in Martin Luther King Jr., expounded upon the need for nonviolence to be utilized as a strategy. However, this movement did not take place in a vacuum. Parallel to the happenings in the South, a movement for black liberation was being launched in the North, and elsewhere, as embodied in the Nation of Islam, later in an autonomous Malcolm X, and then in the Black Panther Party (BPP), and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, SNCC, a group which formally rejected strategic nonviolence while under the leadership of Stokely Carmichael. This aspect of the movement displayed signs of extreme militancy and was not pacifistic in rhetoric or in character. To the government this represented the logical alternative to which the movement as a whole would turn if certain terms were not ceded to the pacifistic element in the South. The much trumpeted success of the Southern Civil Rights Movement's pacifistic strategy has, despite itself, much to thank to the threat of violence
In the following essay, I will elaborate on the above theme. First, I will discuss situations where political violence in not only necessary, but ethically justifiable. Second, I will discuss the natural disjunction between strategic nonviolence and the poor and working classes, and finally, I will discuss the contemporary bourgeois roots of pacifism as an ideology of the status quo.
When Violence is Necessary
The fact is that there are times when the only way to effectively advance a movement is through the use of violence. Sometimes, this necessity is clearly in reaction to particular act of state violence, other times it is due to more general circumstances. Either way, justifiable acts of leftist/working class violence are always fundamentally an act of self-defense insofar as the very institutions of the capitalist state inherently constitute continuing physical and psychological violence against the great mass of its people.
"Once the State moves to consolidate its own power, peace has already been broken."
- Che Guevara
More concretely, violence can be understood as absolutely necessary during certain phases of popular struggle.
This occurs when:
1. Nonviolent options have been explored yet no ostensible victory has been reached.
In the face of exploitation and oppression, inaction is akin to no action, and hence is tacit acceptance and support of those evils. In addition, the continued implementation of proven ineffectual tactics in the face of these evils must be considered akin to inaction, in that ineffectual tactics translates into the same end result; continued exploitation and oppression of the poor and working class by the hands of the ruling class, bourgeoisie and their lackeys. Thus, it would follow that there may arise circumstances, after the exploration of peaceful options, where the only ethical course available to a movement, or individual, is of a violent kind.
2. Whenever State oppression becomes violent, to the point where the movement itself or large segments of the population or the premises on which the people subsist are threatened with liquidation.
The physical self-defense of a people, a movement, or the premises upon which they subsist, is a self-evident right, obvious in the natural world. To claim otherwise is to deny the bravery, justness and dignity of Sitting Bull and the Lakota of the 1870's, the Jews of Warsaw during the Nazi occupation of the 1940's, the Cuban's defense at the Bay of Pigs in the early 1960's, the man who vanquishes the would-be murderer of his child, and the woman who manages to physically fight off a would-be rapist. To allow for otherwise is nothing but a neurotic self-denying tendency and an unnatural will to suicide.
3. Violence must be understood as a looming fact once the critical mass necessary to seriously challenge a ruling class and state power is domestically reached.
To believe that the state will voluntarily relinquish its power in the face of a moral challenge is as childish and absurd as it is dangerous. History, without exception, has shown that a parent state will react to any legitimate or perceived threat to its domestic power with a ruthless violent suppression of the threat. If that means the murder of large sections of its own population, so be it. Pacifism in the face of such repression translates into no more than the eradication of the insurrectional movement through the means of murder to the sum of absolute death. Once the state finds itself backed into the proverbial corner, it can be expected to act by animalistic instinct; in short, it will fight for its life and will not relinquish until either itself or all of its foes are dead. Let us not forget the 30,000 fallen heroes of the Paris Commune whose blood will forever stain the consciousness of modern France.
Some would argue that the above claim is proven false by the historical fact of Mahatma Gandhi's pacifistic movement; a movement which did succeed in liberating India from direct British imperial rule. However, such a line of argument does not apply in this case, as that particular case did not occur inside a primary capitalist nation. Rather it occurred on the edges of a crumbling empire. The response of the British government would have differed radically if the movement had occurred inside one of its perceived, primary domestic provinces, or if it were a general domestic movement against the state apparatus itself. The former of which is born out in the fact that the present situation in Northern Ireland has its contemporary roots in the 1960's nonviolent Catholic Civil Rights Movement.
Therefore, if the goal of the anarchists and the left generally is not self-eradication through a violent counter reaction and the subsequent consolidation of oppressive forces, it will recognize nonviolence for what it is; a tactic, not a strategy.
Pacifism as Foreign to the Poor and Working Classes
One must also question the ability of a nonviolent movement to generate the critical mass necessary to substantially challenge the entrenched fundamental power structure of the nation/state. Since the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, pacifism has failed to attract any significant numbers outside of the upper middle and wealthy classes. The reason for such failure is that pacifism does not commonly attract members of the working and sub-working class because it bears no resemblance to their experience of reality or their values and shared history of struggle.
If one's goal is to aid in the building of a serious revolutionary movement, one must be sure that movement is inclusive to those classes that inherently possess revolutionary potential. Thus, it is necessary to construct a movement which is empirically relevant to poor and working class reality. This not only means agitation on their behalf, but also utilizing a strategy which is consistent with the developing/potential class consciousness of such a constituency. If a movement fails to do such, it will fail to draw the necessary critical mass from those classes and in turn will fail to achieve its supposed goals. Furthermore, such failures are probably indicative of the co-option of that movement by ideological prejudices imported from the bourgeoisie; most likely in the form of upper-middle class activists present in the left. Nonviolence, as a strategy is a perfect example of such counterproductive prejudices.
I have often heard discussions among upper-middle class activists about the need to stay away from violent confrontations with the state at demonstrations in order to "not turn people off". The fact is the only people who are likely to be automatically turned off by legitimate acts of self-defense are upper middle class and wealthy types who will most likely never be won over to the side of revolution anyway. On the other hand, it is common that folk from within the poor and working classes are inspired by the direct and unobstructed confrontations with the forces of the status quo. These communities appreciate the honesty, dignity, and bravery that popular self-defense demands. These are the future agents of revolution and they are not as easily turned away by the truth that real struggle entails. Violent self-defense on behalf of, and through a constituency emanating from their class, is a more pure expression of their collective frustrations brought on from alienation and made objective through their continuing poverty or sense of slavery through accumulated debt.
To further illustrate this all one has to do is look at the various strikes, demonstrations, protests, riots, etc., of the past two years to see how those from within the poor and working classes have conducted themselves when confronted with state violence and restraint. Here we can observe the violent uprising of the poor and working class black folk within Cincinnati (April 2001), the anti-capitalist riots of the Quebecois youth A20 (anti-FTAA demo, Quebec City, April 2001), the numerous Black Bloc anti-capitalist actions throughout North America and Europe (Seattle, 1999, through Genoa, 2001) the armed peasant uprisings from Bolivia to Nepal, the massive militant protests of the Argentine working class against the neoliberal policies of the capitalist government (summer, 2001), the violent union strikes within South Korea, as well as countless other examples of poor and working class resistance the world over.
Compare these developing mass movements composed of persons squarely within the more oppressed economic classes to the relatively impotent and groundless protests of strictly nonviolent upper middle class "reformers". Two decades of liberal dominance within the left, from the late 1970's through the later 1990's, resulted in little or no tangible victories, and often resulted in isolating left wing politics from its supposed mass working class base. These liberals, democratic socialists, non-government organizations (NGO's), etc., failed to deliver a mass movement of an oppressed constituency. All they did manage to deliver was countless boring protests, which rarely even received media coverage of any kind, and Walter Mondale, as the losing alternative to Ronald Reagan in the 1984 U.S. Presidential election.
The basic fact is, the strategy of nonviolence is foreign to the poor and working classes, and any grouping which places such an ideology ahead of the real desires and inclinations of the masses of exploited people will inevitably remain marginalized, isolated, and ineffectual. Here they become no more than the would-be mediators of continuing alienation and oppression, if only with a dash more of welfare programs and workplace safety boards.
Pacifism is foreign to the social reality of the workers. For example, few of us who grew up without the privilege of gross excess capital did so without learning the value of knowing how to fight. Unequivocal nonviolence in grade school would have earned us the same thing it does in the political arena; further bullying, further oppression. An early lesson for many of us was the effectiveness of "standing up to the bully." Such an act always carried with it the threat of violence, if not the implementation of violence. To take such a stand without such a commitment would have resulted in nothing more than a black eye. It is from this early age that the more oppressed classes learn the value of violence as a tool of liberation.
Historically, violence has proven to be politically relevant through union struggles and neighborhood fights against the exploitation of the poor and working class. The history of the labor struggle is a history of blood, death, and dignity. From the Pinkertons to the scabs, to the police, army, and National Guard; from lynching to fire bombings the U.S. Government, acting as the political ram of the ruling class, more often than not has forced the working class to defend itself through its only proven weapons; class-conscious organization and self-defense, when need be, through violence. This is a historical fact that is apparent in the social underpinnings of working class community, if not always consciously remembered by its inheritors.
In addition, the more advanced elements of the poor and working class has, for 150 years, been exposed to and has autonomously developed ideologies of liberations which not only map the current state of affairs and predict future trends, but also prescribe the justified use of violence as a necessary element of their own liberation. In turn, these ideologies, although often greatly flawed, have been a consistent traveler through the trials and tribulations of these workers since the dawn of the industrial age. When successes were found, these ideologies were also present. Although it is true that much leftist ideology is becoming a dinosaur of the past within primary capitalist nations (i.e. those espousing the various forms of authoritarian communism) it must be recognized that in and of itself it has been responsible for its own transcendence. It is part of the common history of struggle and even with its passing it reserves a place of prestige within the social unconscious of the past and present revolutionary struggle. You tell me how willing the more self-conscious elements of the poor and working classes are to deny this history.
Of course, violence should not be canonized. These same communities implement violence upon themselves in a destructive manner as well. Domestic violence, murder, and armed robbery of members of their own class is a reality in many poor and working class neighborhoods. But, these forms of internal violence can be attributed to alienation as experienced in an oppressive society. Thus, crime rates have historically plummeted in such neighborhoods during times of class autonomy (i.e. Paris 1871, Petrograd 1917-1921, Barcelona 1936-39). Of course, we should condemn such negative forms of violence and work toward their eradication, but we should do so without throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Violence, both of a positive and negative sort, is an element of poor and working class culture. Violence is also a proven tool of liberation in poor and working class ghettos, both in relation to the personal and the political. And finally this reality is further validated by ongoing world events and historical fact.
Nonviolence as a philosophic universal must be understood as the negation of the existence of the poor and working classes. And no, I do not solely mean their existence as an oppressed element; I mean their existence as a class which possesses a self-defined dignity through their ongoing struggle against alienation and exploitation.
Ideological nonviolence is the negation of their shared history of struggle. It denies their dreams of freedom by its sheer absurdity and stifles certain forms of their self-expression through its totalitarian and insanely idealistic demands. In a word, strategic nonviolence is the negation of class consciousness; it is irrelevant at best and slavery at worst. In itself, it represents the conscious and/or unconscious attempt of the more privileged classes to sterilize the revolutionary threat forever posed by a confident, self-conscious, and truly revolutionary working class.
Once again, it is conceivable that some would argue the contrary by pointing to poor and working class involvement in the nonviolent movement in Gandhi's India and/or Martin Luther King Jr.'s Civil Rights Movement. However, the extent to which non-violence was accepted as a strategy by these classes is born out in the events which followed the initial successes of these respective movements. In India the same elements that partook in nonviolent actions quickly, and regrettably, fractioned off into two camps; the Hindu on the one hand and the Muslim on the other. Not long after, these factions had no qualms about mobilizing to fight successive wars against one another. Let us remember that both these factions today possess nuclear weapons, which are aimed at one another. In the southern U.S. many of the same persons who marched with King also adopted a decidedly non-pacifistic strategy in the later days of SNCC, the formation of BPP chapters, and the Black Liberation Army cells throughout the region. In addition, let us not forget the riots which occurred upon the news of King's assassination, turning the black ghettos across the U.S. into a virtual war zone. In the final analysis, both of these pacifistic movements must be recognized as only being such in the minds of their respected leadership. The masses of poor and working class people, which gave these movements their strength, never internalized nonviolence as a strategy; rather nonviolence was no more than a particular tactic to be used as long as its utility bore itself out.
Psychological Roots of Pacifism as a Bourgeois Ideology
So, if pacifism bears no resemblance to poor and working class reality and has no historical or sound philosophical base, what can its existence, as a strategy, be attributed to? The answer is: the deformed ideology of the progressive element of the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie - in other words that of the classes composing the higher and lower levels of the wealthy privileged classes.
It is true that many individuals from these classes have become legitimate and outstanding revolutionaries through the process of becoming radicalized and declassed; Mikhail Bakunin, Karl Marx and Che Guevara to name but a few. And of course, there are many such individuals in our movement today. But, it is also true that many bourgeois elements present in the left still cling to their class privileges and prejudices as if a gilded crutch. They are oddballs in that they are bourgeois yet are driven by a self-loathing as facilitated by class guilt. On the one hand they wish to rectify the ills they feel responsible for, and on the other they are too unimaginative and weak of constitution to cleave themselves from their class privileges and the relative security that entails. Hence, they cling to the only political strategy which can, in their minds, both absolve them from their materials sins and maintain the status quo of their class security; in a word, they become pacifists. In this move they reject the dialectical materialism of both anarchism and communism by subjecting themselves to an idea at the expense of concrete experience.
Pacifism lacks any sound material bases. A quick observation of nature will tell you that the natural world is not without violence and human beings are not outside the natural world. Life is violent. Everything from the eruption of a volcano, to the lion's killing of her prey, to human ingestion of a vegan meal, possesses a degree of violence. Think of all the weeds that were killed in the production of that tomato, or of all the living microorganisms that our body necessarily destroys through ingestion, or through the very act of breathing; that is violence.
Like the eighteenth century French philosopher Rene Descartes, these charlatans reject the fact of the body for the phantom of the mind. They create the idea of unconditional nonviolence and enslave themselves to it; instinct, lived experience, historical fact, be damned. Through their ideology they become the same beasts of dualism that have tethered the human race from Plato to Catholicism.
Pacifism is fundamentally at odds with anarchism in its view of the state. Pacifism functions by the maxim that the tacit and active perpetrators of oppression (i.e. the state through the ruling class) possess an inherent ability to rectify themselves if the true appalling nature of that oppression is unmasked to them. Hence, it is also assumed that the ruling class possesses the ability to make such an observation and that it will display the desire to make such change. Anarchism contends that the very existence of a state apparatus insures the continuing oppression of the exploited classes. This is due to the inherent tendency of power to corrupt those who possess it; and those who possess power seek to consolidate that power. The state apparatus tends to safeguard itself from such possibilities through the creation of bureaucratic institutions which entail a codified dogma specifically designed to maintain the status quo. With this development class oppression becomes an irreversible fact, within the statist paradigm, even in the unthinkable unlikelihood that large elements of the ruling class were to desire its radical reforming. In this sense the state is a self-propelling evil that is no more capable of eradicating class oppression than it is of eradicating itself; Frankenstein's monster resurrected. Therefore, pacifism is fundamentally at odds with anarchism. Either the state is potentially a vehicle for liberation, or it is an institution of slavery. Plain and simple.
Bourgeois pacifists become modern ideologues of a confused status quo. They adhere to pseudo-rebellion, and in doing so they serve the function of bolstering the state through the implementation of a strategy that acts as an abstracted semblance of insurrection; a false, non-threatening insurrection squarely within the parameters of the predominant anti-culture. And here they defuse the revolutionary potential of any movement they touch by acting as the unconscious arm of the expanding anti-culture apparatus of false appearances and mundane stability. For as long as their strategy lacks any real potential to fundamentally challenge class bias and status quo; as long as such a strategy is devoid of the true ability to deconstruct the economic and cultural system that allows for the establishment of the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie; as long as this strategy takes on a language of righteous and pious revolution, these self-loathing activities of a physical comfort can go to sleep at night both feeling redeemed through their rebellion and secure in knowing their tacitly oppressive luxury will be there for them again, tomorrow.
What further makes these pacifists oddballs, is the fact that through their pseudo-revolutionary activity they incur an alienated relationship with the less analytical elements of their own class, who in their ignorance constitute the class majority. These elements mistakenly view them as class traitors. This is ironic because nothing could be further from the truth. These people stand fundamentally in solidarity with their roots. And, if their activity has any ostensible effect on the larger movement, it is to prolong the day of insurrection, not to expedite it.
If left to their own delusions they would not deserve such discussion, but they, like Christian missionaries, seek to spread their neurotic illusion to new populations; in this case the poor and working classes. And in doing so they have infiltrated the leftists and anarchist movements and even now threaten to rob it of its pressing relevance by divorcing it from its learned experience.
The poor and working classes are naturally not drawn to pacifism. If pacifism becomes the prime mode of operation for leftists and anarchists organizations, these organizations will cease to have any legitimate tie to their natural constituents. Although it would be ignorant to contend that such an ideology will fail to gain a certain degree of reluctant converts among naturally opposing classes. If such irrationalities never occurred in society, Italian and German fascism would never have manifested themselves with the power that they did. In short, aspects of the poor and working classes can be expected to adopt a self-denying ideology if that ideology claims to offer liberation and if that movement in which it is contained appears to be the most prominent in the field. This is not to say that the true movement will be abolished through such a scenario, any more so than it denies the ultimate historical relevance of dialectical materialism, it is only to say that it will prolong the day of reckoning by robbing the oppressed classes of their truly revolutionary organizations.
Perhaps the best way to have repelled Franco's fascist invasion of Spain in 1936 would have been for the C.N.T. and F.A.I. to hold a peaceful sit-in? Maybe Adolph Hitler would have reversed his genocidal policies and instead made strides towards a free society if enough Jews and gentiles would have peacefully marched in Berlin. If non-violence was the strategy of the Devil, he'd probably be ruling heaven right now… no.
In the end analysis, just as there is a place for tactical nonviolence, there is also a place for violence during certain phases of a popular movement. This can manifest as a tool of self-defense or as the midwife of state disembodiment. On the other hand, pacifism, as an ethical system of action, is nothing but an absurd dilution born out of resentment and fear and projected upon the struggles of the poor and working classes by oddball elements of the bourgeoisie. As long as such a strategy is allowed to occupy a prominent role among the ranks of the left, the left will equal the total sum of the socially inept ruling class.
In summation, nonviolence can be used in many circumstances as an effective tactic, but it is irrelevant, irresponsible, and utterly ridiculous to even consider it as a strategy. So yes, nonviolence should be utilized as a tactic where pertinent, and in turn pacifism, as an ideology and a strategy, must be purged from our movement.


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During September, Kmart said its campaign aims to rally young men to give back to their communities and can be digitally signed on the Protege Facebook Page. The campaign will live online through a website displaying the Pledge, along with videos and links to the brand's Facebook and Twitter pages. On Sept. 2, from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. EDT, Mason, Jr. and Branch will tweet live utilizing the hashtag #protegemvp, to discuss the Pledge and ways to give back.
In addition to the Pledge, Kmart will donate $1 for each eligible pair of Protege shoes purchased through Dec. 31 split equally between the Amateur Athletic Union of America (AAU) and Boys & Girls Clubs of America, with a minimum donation of $100,000 to each charity. Protege is also a sponsor of the Steve Harvey Mentoring Weekend, engaging over 100 African-American men each weekend.
"Since the launch of the Protege brand, our team has been committed to giving back to the communities we serve," said Nick Grayston, president of Kmart's footwear division. "And now through the Protege Movement, we have a great opportunity to help encourage young people to make a difference, and continue to support the message of giving back."


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Have you ever had one of those months? The water heater stops heating, the dishwasher stops washing, and your family ends up on a first-name basis with the nurse at urgent care. Then, as you're driving to work, giving yourself your best, "You can make it!" pep talk, you see smoke seeping out from under your hood.
Bad things happen to the best of us, and instead of conveniently spacing themselves out, they almost always come in waves. The important thing is to have a financial life preserver, in the form of an emergency cash fund, at the ready.
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Coming Up with Cash. If saving several months of income seems an unreasonable goal, don't despair. Start with a more modest target, such as saving $1,000. Build your savings at regular intervals, a bit at a time. It may help to treat the transaction like a bill you pay each month. Consider setting up an automatic monthly transfer to make self-discipline a matter of course. You may want to consider paying off any credit card debt before you begin saving.
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Where Do I Put It? An emergency fund should be easily accessible, which is why many people choose traditional bank savings accounts. Savings accounts typically offer modest rates of return. Certificates of Deposit may provide slightly higher returns than savings accounts, but your money will be locked away until the CD matures, which could be several months to several years.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insures bank accounts and certificates of deposit (CDs) up to $250,000 per depositor, per institution in principal and interest. CDs are time deposits offered by banks, thrift institutions, and credit unions. CDs offer a slightly higher return than a traditional bank savings account, but they also may require a higher amount of deposit. If you sell before the CD reaches maturity, you may be subject to penalties.2
Some individuals turn to money market accounts for their emergency savings. Money market funds are considered low-risk securities, but they're not backed by the federal government like CDs, so it is possible to lose money. Depending on your particular goals and the amount you have saved, some combination of lower-risk investments may be your best choice.2
Money held in money market funds is not insured or guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other government agency. Money market funds seek to preserve the value of your investment at $1.00 a share. However, it is possible to lose money by investing in a money market fund. Money market mutual funds are sold by prospectus.2
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Today we are hosting an interview with Ville Turjanmaa, the creator of the Menuet Operating System. Menuet is a new, 32-bit OS, it fits to a single floppy (along with 10 or so more applications that come as standard with the OS). It features protection for the memory and code, it has a GUI running at 16,7 million colors, sound at 44.1 khz stereo, easy of use and easy low level API. And the most important and notable feature? The whole OS was written in 100%, pure 32-bit x86 assembly code.1. You have wrote the whole OS in a x86 assembly. How much speed you think you gained by using asm-only when compared writting the source in C or C++?
Ville Turjanmaa: Parts of Linux was rewritten in assembly and the speed gain was 10-40%. That will give an idea.
2. Are there plans to support multiprocessing systems (SMP)?
Ville Turjanmaa: Yes, and plans to take it even further.
3. What kind of filesystem is Menuet using at the moment? Any plans for porting or writting a 64-bit, journal fs?
Ville Turjanmaa: The current support is only for Fat12 and Fat32. And we're currently designing the directory tree for different file systems.
4. Will Menuet eventually be able to be installed in a hard disk partition? Has work started about such a feature?
Ville Turjanmaa: The current distribution fits to a single floppy and I plan to keep the basic OS functions that way. With floppy distribution practically anyone can easily try out Menuet without going through the trouble of partitioning their hard drive. But hard disk booting can be done if wanted. Its really not a big job.
5. While Menuet is written in asm and that is fine with most of us, a lot of programmers would like to have a higher level C or (preffered) C++ API, in order to port or program application for the OS easier. Are steps taken towards offering this higher level API and maybe a port of GCC?
Ville Turjanmaa: This is mainly a question of principle. Porting C programs to Menuet may solve things in the short run, but I am not so sure this would be the case in the long run.
However, basic tests have been made with C programs and everything looks ok.
6. Is Menuet fully optimized for the Penium/PII instructions, MMX and are the MTRRs turned on?
Ville Turjanmaa: We are now focusing in compatibility. So adding processor specific commands is not now at very high at the to-do list. But, because Menuet is distributed under the General Public Licence (GPL), people are quite free of doing what ever they want with the code.
7. Do you have plans to add to Menuet a full networking stack, like the one found on BSD or Linux?
Ville Turjanmaa: Yes, we are studying the tcp/ip protocol currently.
8. And speaking about unix, are there plans to add a Posix layer to the OS, so applications can be ported easier?
Ville Turjanmaa: Thats a very interesting question. If such a layer is implemented, the best way of starting would be writing a layer outside the os. The way Wine has done it for the Win32 API.
9. At the moment, Menuet is using a fixed font solution. Are there plans to add something like Freetype which enables TrueType font support?
Ville Turjanmaa: In general (not just font-wise), the GUI has a lot more to offer in the future, since Menuet has a basic design build on 16 Million colors. Something like Apple's Aqua, which looks very appealing.
10. Which hardware devices are top in your list that you want to support soon?
Ville Turjanmaa: Network, TV/radio etc
Menuet now supports user space driver functions and that will speed up driver development for any device. You don't have to touch the kernel anymore to get to your favourite device.
All driver development can be done inside Menuet using FASM, which has proven to be a very efficient assembler. In fact, there are plans on porting the kernel to FASM so no external compilers would be needed anymore.
11. Does Menuet have a mutlithreading and multitasking design? My understanding is that it is a realtime OS, which it may prove not the most elegant solution when it comes to a desktop OS (but a good solution when it comes to embedded devices). Also what about making the kernel more
modular than being strictly monolithic?
Ville Turjanmaa: Menuet has a real time multitasking design, which most of the time makes life easier. But since an application is quite free of doing whatever it wants to, there might be some problems when eg. accessing a banked screen area, such as Vesa 1.2.
For multithreading there is no support now. But a standard that would allow a basic application to send threads to other computers in the net via tcp/ip interests me a gread deal.
Ok, it's been done before, but only for scientifical goals, not as a basic function of application programming.
12. Which was the reason of starting writting Menuet? Please tell us a bit about the history of the OS and its future in general.
Ville Turjanmaa: I was curious if this could be done entirely in assembly. I've seen no assembly written graphical multitasking OSes for x86 processors before Menuet. So it was quite a challenge.
I just wanted an answer if this could be done. Now I have done so. 🙂
The main distribution will be fully in assembly. There are some plans on porting major C apps. Plans to make Menuet even easier to use and plans of taking advantage of the native 16 M color design. At this stage of development we have to take one step at a time. Menuet is still quite young, 1 year and 4 months 🙂


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Olives - Assortment - Belli Button
These are not the usual 'Made in China' belli-buttons. These were custom made in Istanbul to match the Kismet colors!
Recycled Mosaic Glass
12mm is 15/32" or slightly smaller than 1/2" in size. 6mm depth.
These glass tiles are sold in 3 different quantities:
- 2oz - (approximately 38 pieces)
- 4oz - (approximately 78 pieces)
- 8oz - (approximately 163 pieces)
UV and Frost resistant.
Can be used indoors and outdoors.
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Strapless Corset Lace Long Prom Dress With Slit,WQ122
Strapless Corset Lace Long Prom Dress With Slit,WQ122
Welcome to our store.This dress can be custom made. We will make the dress more beautiful for you.Service email: email@example.com.
Item Detail:1. Silhouette:Sheath
2. Hem-length:Sweep Train
3. Fabric:Lace
4. Neckline:Sweetheart
5. Sleeve:Sleeveless
6. Embellishment:Slit
7. Picture Color:Black/Lavender/Lilac/Royal Blue/Hot Pink(For custom color,please check Color Chart)
8. Back Details:Lace Up
9. Lining:Boned And Fully Lined
10. Build-in Bra: Yes
11. Size: Standard Size or Custom Size (Please refer to Size Guide)
DHL,TNT, UPS, Fedex etc.
All dresses will be shipped via express. Normally you will receive your order in 3-7 days after it was shipped.
We ship to all over the world. If you can not find your country when check out, please contact us.
Delivery Time = Tailoring Time + Shipping Time.
Standard delivery: Within 25 days
Rush delivery:
Within 20 days.
If you need the dress urgently.Please note us the date you need the dress, we will put your order on prior schedule and make sure you receive it on time.
For some complex styles that need much hand work, it may take few more days for processing.
1.Please leave the correct color number in the Order Note of your shopping cart.
2.If you are unable to zoom in to the pictures on mobile, please save them to your phone for closer look.
3.We have more colors for options. If you are unable to find the color you want, please contact us.
Please check our size chart below carefully and make sure the standard size you select fits you well.
By standard size, extra 2 inches (ca.5 cm) will be added to dress length (based on Shoulder to Floor) to allow for shoes.
We need the following sizes(in inches or cm): BUST=, WAIST=, HIPS=, HOLLOW TO FLOOR=, HEIGHT=
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The Working Party on Passive Safety (GRSP) is the subsidiary body of the World Forum for Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations (WP.29) that prepares regulatory proposals on passive safety to WP.29. This group of experts conducts research and analysis to develop passive safety requirements for vehicles.
GRSP convenes officially twice a year and entrusts informal groups with specific problems that need to be solved urgently or that require special expertise. More than 80 experts participate at the sessions of GRSP.
The Working Party is open to the governmental experts from any member country of the United Nations, and to any regional economic integration organization set up by member countries of the United Nations, and to experts of governmental organizations. Experts of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may participate in a consultative capacity. Final decisions are taken by Government representatives by vote at the World Forum WP.29 level.
The work of GRSP experts is transparent: All agendas, working documents and reports are openly accessible on this Internet website.
GRSP devised a new Regulation on Child Restraint Systems (CRS) introducing a new philosophy of restraining children on cars.
The regulation, adopted during WP 29's 158th session held in Geneva from 13-16 November 2012, will enter into force in mid-2013 (i.e. 6 months after adoption).
The main aim of the new child restraint system is to create a well-anchored seat like that of an adult, safeguarding children to the maximum degree possible in the event of a collision or of abrupt deceleration of the vehicle, by limiting the mobility of the child's body.
The new Regulation on CRS foresees four new sets of provisions;
- The introduction of a simplified classification, called " i -Size" which is based on the stature rather than the weight of the child, which was found to be more appropriate to ensure the best protection.
- The introduction of a side impact test procedure which will lead to a better protection of the child's head especially for younger children. Until today, there was no dynamic test requirement for lateral impacts.
- The mandatory rear-facing position of children is extended to 15 months, instead of 9 months in the current Regulation.
- The introduction of a "support leg" which connects the child seat with the vehicle in order to create a tight and secure position of the seat during any driving condition.
Insights of the new UN Regulations are provided in the following presentations: English - Spanish


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Assassin's Creed 3 - The Hidden Secrets pack now live for Season Pass holders
Assassin's Creed 3's first downloadable content pack, The Hidden Secrets, is now available for Season Pass owners on PC, PS3, and Xbox 360. The content will arrive on PSN in Europe tomorrow, December 5 for pass holders.
The Hidden Secrets adds three extra missions Lost Mayan Ruins, the Ghost of War and a Dangerous Secret.
Every successful mission is rewarded with in-game weapons, and the content includes two single-player costumes: the Captain of the Aquila uniform and a traditional Colonial Assassin outfit.
It also comes with two multiplayer characters: the Redcoat and the Sharpshooter
If you have yet to pick up the Season Pass, you can still purchase it for 2400 MS Points/ £23.99.
The pack will be available broadly on December 11 on PC and Xbox Live, and on December 13 for PSN. It will be made available at a later date for Wii U.


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Frequently Asked Questions
Here is a list of common questions that our clients ask us. If you need more information don't hesitate to get in touch with us.
Clean Rite Janitorial LLC will determine the price by first visiting your home and making a detailed plan for all tasks to be completed before offering a quotation. Every home is different and evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
The better question is when would you like us to come. Clean Rite Janitorial LLC is able to tailor our residential cleaning around your existing schedule, making it an easy and convenient solution.
We scale with the needs of our clients, so if you need us for a hospital, school, or other institution, we'll be able to craft the perfect janitorial package to suit your specifications.
Because we're dealing with a new building and often a great deal of dust and debris, we use a combination of professional equipment and advanced techniques specifically designed for a construction environment.
While we can't give a definitive answer without first investigating, we can say that many respiratory and coughing problems are a result of poor indoor air quality. Call us and a qualified team will inspect your workplace.


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Ergon GS2
The GS-grip combined with a compact 2-finger bar end made out of fiberglass reinforced composite, which offers more hand positions for increased comfort on long mountain bike rides. Additional rubber is used on the bar end improving the rider's grip during hand position changes. The exclusive German-produced rubber compound found in the grip and on the bar end enables precise steering and control, all while still maximizing optimized damping features. The grip provides ideal comfort over long distances through ultimate pressure distribution and ride-tuned flex.
- Carbon bar compatible
- Uses: mountain bike, marathon, XC
Since hand sizes vary from person to person, the GP Series and GS Series grips are offered in two sizes; Small and Large.
These sizes refer to the gripping circumference. The Large size is a thicker grip, and the Small is a thinner grip. Two size options offer better hand closure around the grip surface. These size differences have a direct impact on the overall handling of the bike, as well as comfort.
Solution: With an anatomically optimized design, Ergon grips offer 100% contact with the hand surface area, versus traditional round grips, that offer only 60% contact.
Solution: By correcting the hand position, the carpal tunnel nerve is relieved and pain is eliminated.
Part Numbers
Option | UPC | MPN |
Black / Small | 04260477060792 | 42410020 |
Black / Large | 04260477060815 | 42410025 |


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Personalised Player 3 Baby Vest, Baby Grow, Player 2, Gaming Dad, Future Gamer
Personalised Player 3 Baby Vest, Baby Grow, Player 2, Gaming Dad, Future Gamer
👕 Item Description
This cute handmade Bodysuit is a perfect for your exciting baby announcement or as a gift for a baby shower. Our Bodysuits are super soft cotton which is suitable for delicate baby skin.
📐 Item Details
- Material: 100% Cotton
- Neck: envelope neck
- Poppers: 2-3 nickel free poppers suitable for your baby's soft skin
✦ SHORT SLEEVED SIZES (ss) ✦
✦ LONG SLEEVED SIZES (ls) ✦
Bodysuit SIZES
- NewBorn: 3.4kg/50 cm height
- 0-3 months: 62cm height
- 3-6 months: 68 cm height
- 6-9 months: 74 cm height
- 9-12 months: 80 cm height
- 12-18 months: 86 cm height
- 18-24 months: 92 cm height
*Garment sizes are approximate and for guidance only.
📦 Production Time & Shipping
- We aim to dispatch orders within a few days from when order is placed.
- Uk Standard Delivery 2-4 working days.
If you have any questions feel free to contact us here or find us on Instagram @lemera.uk. You are our first priority so please don't hesitate :)
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You need clean air to breathe and so does your car, and a vehicle's air filters make that possible. The non-profit Car Care Council reminds car owners to have the engine and cabin air filters inspected and changed regularly to ensure vehicle longevity and interior comfort.
"Air filters are your vehicle's first line of defense against contaminants that reduce cabin air quality and negatively impact engine performance," said Rich White, executive director, Car Care Council.
"Community car care events held throughout the country reveal that nearly one out of five vehicles is in need of air filter replacement, so it's evident that motorists often overlook this simple, yet important service."
The vehicle's engine air filter traps dirt particles that can cause damage to engine cylinders, cylinder walls, pistons, piston rings and bearings, leading to the engine losing power. The air filter also plays a critical role in keeping pollutants from contaminating the airflow sensor on fuel-injected cars. A normal wear item that requires regular checks and replacement, air filters should be inspected at each oil change and replaced annually or when showing other signs of contamination.
The cabin air filter is responsible for cleaning the air entering the passenger compartment. Under normal circumstances, it helps trap pollen, bacteria, dust and exhaust gases that may find their way into a vehicle's heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system, compromising interior air quality and damaging the system.
A cabin air filter should not be cleaned and reinstalled. Instead, it should be replaced every 12,000 to 15,000 miles or per the owner's manual.


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Do you have custom programming needs? Red Transit Consultants offers custom development services with competitive pricing. We have expertise in .NET, VBA, AutoLISP, SQL, WinForms and WPF.
Do you have an app idea you want to get up on the Autodesk App Store but are not a developer? We offer assistance in developing your app idea and can help you get it published. We have expertise in .NET, VBA, AutoLISP, SQL, WinForms and WPF.
Red Transit Consultants, LLC offers custom personalized training and consulting in many areas including:
Training can be done through WebEx or in office presentations for individuals or large groups. If there is a specific topic you'd like to learn more on, let us know and we can work something out. Red Transit Consultants, LLC has experienced software certified designers that can guide you and/or your design team down the right path to ensure the best knowledge and practices are learned.
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If you have any needs in the realm of AutoCAD and the various products, don't hesitate to reach out. We have expertise in design and drafting, to standards and CAD Management on small scales to large scales, software training, and custom programming. Red Transit Consultants, LLC can meet every need you have in the realm of AutoCAD.
Do you need assistance in setting up your content libraries for CAD Standards? Let Red Transit Consultants, LLC help fulfill your needs in building your database of content for you.


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Numacare, LLC is licensed by the state of Florida to provide homemaker and companion services. Their HCS license number is 235377.
Numacare, LLC employs individuals to do household chores and provide companionship to the elderly and adults with disabilities. HCS providers cannot provide hands-on personal care, however, they can verbally prompt your loved one to bathe and get dressed. Homemakers and companions can perform tasks such as cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, and escorting your loved one to medical appointments and other outings. In addition, they are permitted to assist with combing or brushing hair, applying make-up, and polishing nails. This type of agency is ideal for a loved one who is independently mobile and is able to perform their own personal hygiene tasks.
Written by Clare Absher RN
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Jagalchi Fish Market
The largest fish market in South Korea is found in downtown Busan, next to the busy shopping area of Nampo-dong and adjacent to the Lotte Aqua Mall. That it occupies such a valuable, central location speaks to how important the fish trade has always been to the city.
The market is massive and seems to go on forever. Thousands of stands with what must be billions of fish compete with each other for customers, and there's no doubt who's in charge: the hardened, crafty women known as the Jagalchi Ajumas. "Ajuma" means "married woman", and these ladies conduct almost all the business at the market, whether that's the business of beheading a fish, prying open a clam, or haggling with a customer. Most likely, they could do all of these things simultaneously.
We were amazed during our visit; the Jagalchi Market is like an aquarium, with every sort of fish imaginable and some species I'd never seen before. Among countless others, I saw colorful shrimp the size of trout, blowfish, shark, sea urchins, monkfish, mollusks, and the slightly off-putting penis fish.
Of course, the big difference between this and an aquarium is that these fish are waiting to die. To be ripped apart in the most horrific ways imaginable and then consumed. I saw a group of eels who had been skinned alive, still squiggling around in their pail. There's enough material here to fuel a thousand gore flicks… just substitute "human" for "octopus". That's what was running through my head, as I watched a group of plucky octopuses working together to climb out of their bucket, only to be whacked in the head by their insidious Ajuma keeper. Soon, she would choose one to hack to pieces and then serve as a still-twitching meal. Hollywood, take note.
There are a few different sections of the Jagalchi market. We started in the outdoor zone, with a nice view over the port, and then moved into the Dry Fish area, where dried sardines, kelp and cod are sold in unbelievable volume. The centerpiece of the market, though, is the new Shindonga building, built in 2006. The exterior design features white winged shapes, creating the impression of giant seagulls descending onto the building. Inside are yet more stands and restaurants where you can eat sashimi; similar to the Millak sashimi hall we visited, but on a different scale.
We had a great time in Jagalchi — it's one of the absolute highlights of Busan.


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The top U.S. commander for the Middle East said Thursday that the United States will keep the current 2,500 troops in Iraq for the foreseeable future, and he warned that he expects increasing attacks on U.S. and Iraqi personnel by Iranian-backed militias determined to get American forces out.
Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie said in an interview with The Associated Press at the Pentagon that despite the shift by U.S. forces to a non-combat role in Iraq, they will still provide air support and other military aid for Iraq's fight against the Islamic State.
Noting that Iranian-backed militias want all Western forces out of Iraq, he said an ongoing uptick in violence may continue through December.
"They actually want all U.S. forces to leave, and all U.S. forces are not going to leave," he said, adding that as a result, "that may provoke a response as we get later into the end of the month."
The Iraqi government earlier Thursday announced the conclusion of talks on ending the U.S. combat mission against IS. U.S. forces have been largely in an advisory role for some time, so the announced transition changes little. The announcement reflects a July decision by the Biden administration to end the U.S. combat mission in Iraq by Dec. 31.
"We've drawn down from bases we didn't need, we've made it harder to get at us. But the Iraqis still want us to be there. They still want the presence, they still want the engagement," said McKenzie. "So as long as they want it, and we can mutually agree that's the case — we're going to be there."
He said he believes Islamic State militants will continue to be a threat in Iraq and that the group will "keep recreating itself, perhaps under a different name." The key, he said, will be to ensure that IS is not able to coalesce with other elements around the globe and become increasingly strong and dangerous.
America invaded Iraq in 2003, and at the peak point had more than 170,000 troops battling insurgents in the country and later working to train and advise Iraqi forces. All U.S. forces were withdrawn at the end of 2011, but just three years later, American troops were back to help Iraq beat back the Islamic State group, which had swept across the border from Syria to gain control of a large swath of the country.
The U.S. presence in Iraq has long been a flash point for Tehran, but tensions spiked after a January 2020 U.S. drone strike near the Baghdad airport killed a top Iranian general. In retaliation, Iran launched a barrage of missiles at al-Asad airbase, where U.S. troops were stationed. More than 100 service members suffered traumatic brain injuries in the blasts.
More recently, Iranian proxies are believed responsible for an assassination attempt last month on Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi. And officials have said they believe Iran was behind the October drone attack at the military outpost in southern Syria where American troops are based. No U.S. personnel were killed or injured in the attack.
"I think an attack to kill the prime minister is a pretty significant event," McKenzie said. "I think that's a signpost of the desperation that they're under right now."
McKenzie, who has headed U.S. Central Command for nearly three years and traveled extensively throughout the region, painted a picture that reflected the recent upheaval in Afghanistan, where U.S. troops departed at the end of August.
On Afghanistan, McKenzie said the al-Qaida extremist group has grown slightly since U.S. forces left and that the ruling Taliban leaders are divided about their 2020 pledge to break ties with the group. He said the departure of the U.S military and intelligence assets from the country has made it "very hard, not impossible" to ensure that neither al-Qaida nor the Islamic State group's Afghanistan affiliate can pose a threat to the United States.
Like the Taliban's long campaign to get Americans out of Afghanistan, Iran and its proxies have battled to get the U.S. out of Iraq and the broader Middle East.
"Iran still pursues a vision of ejecting us," he said. "And they see the principal battleground for that as being in Iraq. And I believe they are under the view that they can increase friction in Iraq to where we will leave."
Iran, he said, believes that campaign won't affect the nuclear negotiations that were long stalled but are now restarting. But, he said, "I think it's a dangerous position for the Iranians to maintain, because I think they're not going to be able to decouple those two things."
McKenzie said that as NATO begins to expand its presence in Iraq as planned, the U.S. will refine its force there. And the total U.S. force presence will depend on future agreements with Iraq's government.
The U.S. troops in Syria, currently numbering about 900, will continue to advise and assist Syrian rebel forces in the fight against IS, McKenzie said. He said it's not clear how much longer that will be necessary but said, "I think we are measurably closer than we were a couple of years ago. I still think we have a ways to go."
More broadly, McKenzie noted that the U.S. troop presence across the Middle East has significantly dropped since last year, when it peaked amid tensions with Iran, at as much as 80,000. The U.S. has identified China and Russia as the top national security threats, labeling China as America's "pacing challenge," and has looked to focus more effort and assets in the Pacific.
In its recent review of the positioning of U.S. forces around the world, the Pentagon said little about removing or repositioning troops in the Middle East. McKenzie and other top military leaders have long worried that the U.S. military is concentrated in too few locations in the Middle East and must disperse more to increase security.
"We think it is important to work with our partners in the region to present a more complex targeting problem to Iran," he said, adding that U.S. will look at other bases and opportunities to move troops around to achieve that goal.
McKenzie said he is particularly concerned by Iran's development of ballistic and cruise missiles as well as armed drones.
"And so those things are very concerning to me because they continue to develop them," he said. "And they show no signs of abating in their research in this field, and their fielding of new and increasingly lethal and capable weapons."


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Better support for women
If you've worked in global health, you've seen it happening: the steady trickle of smart, talented women out of the field. The 34-year-old fellow whose young marriage comes under strain from long stints in Cambodia. The junior faculty member who can't manage a pregnancy or a new baby in the least developed parts of the developing world. The assistant professor, who has already put family plans on hold for her career, struggling to conceive or follow a fertility treatment regimen while spending months away from home.
Women constitute more than 80 percent of medical students seriously considering global health careers. These problems seem small to them when they start out as first year medical students at a median age of 24. Four years later, however, women disproportionately abandon these aspirations, largely because of concerns about how to balance a global health career and family life. As they finish their residency training, they are in their early 30s. If they sub-specialize, they get uncomfortably close to 35 – the much-feared "advanced maternal age."
Where can they turn for advice? There are few female role models to inspire them. Less than 25 percent of leadership positions in global health at the 50 top US medical schools are held by women.
This is not unique to global health; there is dramatic attrition of women as you go up the career ladder in most fields of science. But women who dedicate their careers to improving healthcare in some of the poorest countries in the world face added challenges that their US-based colleagues mostly do not. The biggest of these is personal safety. More than one-in-four female trainees conducting international fieldwork have been sexually assaulted in the field, most often by their superiors. Once again, they have nowhere to turn. The mechanisms for reporting these incidents are inadequate or nonexistent in many research sites abroad.
During Sunday's Grammy Awards, President Obama asked all Americans to make a personal commitment to help keep women and men safe from sexual assault through the "It's on us" campaign. The pledge has four parts: (1) to recognize that non-consensual sex is sexual assault; (2) to identify situations in which sexual assault may occur; (3) to intervene in situations where consent has not been given; and (4) to create an environment in which sexual assault is unacceptable and survivors are supported. Nowhere is this message more urgent than in global health.
When conducting work in international settings, the usual support networks are absent. Your friends and family are thousands of miles away. The lack of fellow women makes solidarity – such an important asset in an environment where sexual harassment and assault are common – all but impossible. Even with supportive and understanding mentors, they are located on a different continent. A garbled Skype connection is not the optimal medium to discuss these sensitive issues.
These challenges are manageable. Targeted efforts to increase female leadership in business and politics have produced successes. [Barsh McKinsey 2012, UN Entity for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women 1995, Interparliamentary Union 2012]. A network of mentors, including both US and international female colleagues, could provide a woman with someone to turn to, no matter where she is in the world. We must develop pathways for those based abroad to report sexual harassment or health and safety issues – a process that their domestic colleagues may take for granted. We have identified the problem and now we must take action on a personal, institutional, and governmental level to support these women who work to improve the lives of those in need around the world. It's on us.