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What is Bankruptcy?
When dealing with massive amounts of debt, many people view bankruptcy as a last ditch effort to rid themselves of their financial burdens. This is because of the amount of work involved with a bankruptcy and the affect it will have on your financial standing. Filing for bankruptcy has taken on the general feel of giving up. However, while bankruptcy is viewed mostly in a negative light, it does hold benefits worthy of being a valid and feasible form of debt relief. Here is a breakdown of what bankruptcy is and how it affects you.
Types of Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy has many different forms. Those who file for bankruptcy do so under a certain chapter. While there are multiple chapters for various situations (like for businesses and for farmers), there are two chapters of bankruptcy most individuals will file for: chapter 7 and chapter 13. While both of these forms of bankruptcy work towards getting you out of debt, they work in very ways.
Chapter 7 is often referred to as the "liquidation" bankruptcy. Liquidation is used to help pay off what you owe to your creditors. Though there are stipulations to what can be liquidated, generally speaking one has the ability to lose much of what they owe. The stipulations come into play when determining whether the liquidation of certain assets would either cause financial hardship or would not contribute substantially to what needs to be paid off.
Chapter 13 is often referred to as the "restructuring" bankruptcy. In this chapter, your debts are restructured to make payments easier to complete. By filing for chapter 13 instead of chapter 7, you can avoid having crucial assets liquidated. While a part of a chapter 13 bankruptcy, you'll be required to make payments as per a payment planned agreed upon in court. Failing to follow through with this plan could lead to negative consequences.
Which Chapter is Right for You?
Each chapter of bankruptcy has its own distinct advantages and drawbacks. The main factor that decides what you're able to file for is your income. If you have the ability to make payments on your debts to a certain amount, you might be more suited towards filing for chapter 13. If you can prove that making payments on your existing debts would cause you certain and immediate hardship, you might have to file for chapter 7.
While financial standing can influence what chapter of bankruptcy you file, other factors can play a role as well. As mentioned earlier, filing for chapter 7 bankruptcy can result in the liquidation of multiple assets (including, but not limited to, your car and house). In order to avoid this scenario, a chapter 13 bankruptcy can be filed. However, in this case you must prove that you're able to maintain the payment schedule of the bankruptcy.
For many, bankruptcy can be a way to wipe their financial slate clean. Each method of bankruptcy can lead to the same ultimate result: regaining control over your finances. The benefit in each method resides in the financial standing of the individual filing for bankruptcy. Most of your unsecured debt can be wiped away or restructured for an easier payment, granting you the ability to catch up on missed payments or eliminate whole debts altogether.
Detriments to Bankruptcy
Having your unsecured debts wiped away sounds like a wonderful thing, and bankruptcy has the power to do that. However, there are drawbacks. These drawbacks are some of the reasons many view filing as a last resort. While the benefits to filing can be great, the negatives can be even greater, often deterring many from going down this path .
Filing for bankruptcy will put a negative mark on your credit record for a minimum of 7 years. In this time frame it can be difficult to do anything credit related (like open a new credit card or get accepted for a loan). Other forms of debt relief avoid putting such glaring marks on your credit report. This can be a big hindrance for any long term financial plans as well as personal goals. A bankruptcy can limit the types of jobs you can apply to and can generally be an embarrassing situation to go through.
Each chapter has its own detriments when considering whether or not to file. While chapter 7 has the ability to discharge debts in as little as three months after filing, it also puts your belongings at risk to be sold. It also doesn't have the benefit of catching you up on secured payments (like auto and home payments). Chapter 13 has you pay back your debts to a certain extent. In this manner, debts aren't always quickly resolved and you might end up paying for 3-5 years.
Bankruptcy can be the saving grace for many who deal with debt. Though the option is tempting, there are many other options available to achieve debt relief. Before deciding on a course of action, consider a free consultation from a debt relief specialist at Guardian Debt Relief. Our specialists are well versed in multiple forms of debt relief and can answer any of your debt relief related questions. Bankruptcy is big step, and there may be other solutions to your debt issues without taking that leap. While our consultation is free, the information you'll gain will last a lifetime. Take the first step and contact Guardian Debt Relief today.


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Important steps have already been taken in OECD countries to combat gender inequality but significant disparities remain in educational and occupational choices. The OECD Gender Initiative monitors the progress made on gender equality, through data and analysis, and provides best practices for achieving greater equality (see our flyer). Our work includes the following areas:
- PISA In Focus Why don't more girls choose to pursue a science career? (February 2019)
- The gender gaps in educational outcomes in Norway (2018) reviews gender disparities in school, with an emphasis on the underachievement of boys
- Education at a Glance 2018 contains a wide range of indicators on gender differences in education
Employment and work-life balance
With the ILO and UN Women, the OECD established the Equal Pay International Coalition (EPIC) to help achieve SDG target 8.5 focusing on equal pay between men and women for work of equal value. A technical meeting promoting better indicators, data and policy tools will be held in Reykjavik, April 2019
- The OECD Family Database provides a wealth of gender-relevant data on families, children, employment and work-life balance. Recently updated indicators (2019) include Use of Childbirth-related Leave Benefits, which contains cross-national data on fathers' use of paid paternity leave and gender differences in the use of paid parental leave
- A top-level overview of OECD time-use data is now available on OECD.Stat
- Good Jobs for All in a Changing World of Work (2018) prepared in the context of the OECD Jobs Strategy includes a chapter on Enhancing the prospects of disadvantaged workers in the labour market
- The OECD Employment Outlook 2018 includes a chapter on Barriers to Women's career progression: Starting close, growing apart: Why the gender gap in labour income widens over the working life.
- The OECD Economic Surveys of Countries include thematic chapters that are sometimes devoted to Gender issues. For example, the 2018 Survey of Canada considers increasing inclusiveness for women, youth and seniors
- Is the Last Mile the Longest? Economic Gains from Gender Equality in Nordic Countries evidences the economic case for gender equality: It assesses past gains of increased gender equality in Nordic labour markets and considers how much more could be gained from closing gender gaps still further.
- Building on the Making Trade Work for All framework, OECD will begin work to better understand the role that domestic policies and investments play in determining outcomes and opportunities of trade for women; analysis will also explore the scope for international economic co-operation in trade policy to promote gender equality
- The Missing Entrepreneurs 2019 will be launched in Fall 2019. This will be the fifth report in the series that examines how public policies support job creation, economic growth and social inclusion by addressing obstacles to business creation by people from groups that are under-represented in entrepreneurship, such as women
- The Highlights of Entrepreneurship at a Glance 2018 presents new findings on gender differences in the motivations to set up a business and novel data on the sources of funding for male and female entrepreneurs
- Now available via OECD.Stat is the Future of Business Survey database, which contains key indicators on female- and male-owned businesses. The survey is carried out jointly by Facebook, the OECD and the World Bank
- In October 2018, the OECD and European Commission launched The Better Entrepreneurship Policy Tool, which supports policy makers and other stakeholders in the design and implementation of tailored entrepreneurship policies and programmes for women and other target groups (e.g. youth), and social entrepreneurship support
- In June 2018, the Centre for Entrepreneurship released a Policy Brief on Women's Entrepreneurship, presenting data on women's entrepreneurship activities and barriers to business creation
- The OECD SME Ministerial Conference in Mexico City (22-23 February 2018), included the OECD-INADEM workshop on women entrepreneurs attended by the OECD Secretary General and Ministers
- During the 2018 Forum for Local Development Practitioners, Entrepreneurs and Social Innovators in Portugal, the OECD organised a workshop on women's entrepreneurship in the digital economy. The workshop provided local practitioners with examples of public policies and private-sector initiatives which can contribute to fostering women entrepreneurship
Public governance
- 2019: the release of Fast forward to gender equality: Mainstreaming, Implementation and Leadership (Baseline Report of the 2015 OECD Recommendation on Gender Equality in Public Life), which assesses how governments pursue gender mainstreaming and advance gender equality goals, and also looks at gender equality ilegislature, judiciary and the executive
- Following up on Gender for Sustainable Development: an Integrated Policy Agenda (March 2018), the OECD launched a "Gender Policy Platform: Accelerating Mainstreaming through SDGs". The first deliverables include a report on Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development and Gender Equality and an event on Gender Equality and Sustainable Infrastructure
- In spring 2019, the OECD will release Towards Good Governance Guidelines for Gender Budgeting , which outlines how a gender perspective can be embedded into Public Financial Management (PFM) frameworks to help deliver gender equality objectives
- The OECD launched the Toolkit for Mainstreaming and Implementing Gender Equality (both online platform & Brochure) in March 2018
- Gender Equality in Canada: Mainstreaming, Governance and Budgeting was released on the margins of the G7 Finance Ministerial on June 2018, under the Presidency of Canada. It includes a roadmap to help develop a "best practice" approach to gender-based analysis and budgeting in Canada
OECD Regional Initiatives on Governance and Competitiveness
- In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, the MENA-OECD Initiative on Governance and Competitiveness for Development supports women's political and economic empowerment. The platform supports many MENA countries in promoting gender equality and building gender-sensitive parliaments and public administrations
- Through its regional and country projects, the OECD supports the efforts of MENA countries to maximise women's integration in public and political life, prevent and tackle violence against women, and boost whole-of-government institutional capacities to address key challenges to gender equality
- The MENA-OECD Women's Economic Empowerment Forum (WEEF) aims to contribute to empowering women, thereby helping to create more resilient and inclusive societies. In fall 2019 it will release a follow-up study to the 2017 report report on the impact of legal frameworks in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia
- In the context of the MENA-OECD Working Group on Corporate Governance the April 2019 publication on Corporate Governance in MENA: Building a Framework for Competitiveness and Growth will report on Improving Gender Balance in Corporate Leadership
- The OECD Southeast Asia Gender Initiative supports gender equality in education, employment and entrepreneurship in the region through research and capacity building. Strengthening Women's Entrepreneurship in ASEAN assesses the landscape for women's entrepreneurship in the region and offers concrete recommendations to unleash the potential of women in business
- During 2018 OECD Eurasia Week , H.E. Dr Abdullah Abdullah, Chief Executive of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, delivered the key note speech on Shaping the Future through Better Policies for Gender Equality. Participants from Eurasia countries discussed ways to overcome barriers to women's economic participation in their economies
Corporate Governance
- The 2019 edition of the OECD Corporate Governance Factbook will include new data on women on boards and in senior management, including on the requirement to disclose statistics on gender composition, quotas/targets for achieving gender balance on boards, and sanctions or penalties for non-compliance with mandatory quotas
- The OECD and FAO are leading a project on responsible supply chains in agriculture and released a baseline report in 2018. The report found that 78% of companies covered have committed to eliminating discrimination against women and 90% verify compliance, but the level of verification diminishes along the supply chain
- The GENDERNET - OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Network on Gender Equality - is the international forum for gender experts from DAC development co-operation agencies and foreign ministries
- The OECD publish annual data and analysis on financing in support of gender equality and women's empowerment from DAC donors and also look at resource flows beyond ODA, including private development flows and funding by non-DAC donors
- The Policy Dialogue on Women's Economic Empowerment provides guidance on how to recognize, reduce and redistribute women's unpaid care and domestic work and allow women in developing countries to access economic opportunities
- Strengthening gender equality and women's empowerment in fragile and conflict-affected situations is critical for achieving sustainable peace and the Sustainable Development Goals
- The monitoring data on the sustainable development goal indicator 5c1 track allocations for gender equality and women's empowerment. The methodology was developed by UN Women, UNDP and the OECD, through the Global Partnership for Effective Development Co-operation
- The OECD Development Centre's Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) 2019 globally measures discrimination against women in social institutions (formal and informal laws, social norms, and practices), across four broad themes: discrimination in the family, restricted physical integrity, restricted access to productive and financial resources and restricted civil liberties
- 2018/19 SIGI publications include: Gender Inequality in West African Social Institutions (March 2018), the Burkina Faso SIGI country study (January 2018), the SIGI 2019 Gobal Report Transforming Challenges into Opportunities (March 2019) and the SIGI Regional Report for Eurasia (April 2019)
- Wikigender now includes a new strong focus on the SDGs, gender statistics and leading trends in gender and development. The online collaborative platform is available in English and French, and will be available in Spanish from March 2019 onwards
Financial Education
The G20/OECD INFE Policy Guidance on Digitalisation and Financial Literacy discusses the role of digital financial services in closing financial inclusion gaps between men and women in developing economies.
- Health at a Glance presents a wide range of indicators on gender differences in health, including in life expectancy, specific causes of death (including cardiovascular diseases and cancer), self-reported health status, smoking and obesity. Health at a Glance: Europe and Health at a Glance: Asia/Pacific are also available.
- Women are overrepresented in care sector jobs that pay low salaries and are physically demanding. Women providing intensive care at home may well suffer mental health problems and are unlikely to find full-time jobs. A forthcoming 2019 OECD publication explores these issues and options to better support elderly care workers.
Digital Transformation and Science
- Working with the G20, the OECD 2018 report Bridging the digital gender divide: include, upskill, innovate illustrates the extent of the issue and discusses upskilling measures and innovative approaches that can help address the digital gender divide
- As part of its contribution to the UN EQUALS partnership for digital gender equality, the OECD has provided fresh analysis of the gender wage gap in the digital era and the role of skills
- Deepening the evidence base on the role of women in the digital transformation is essential for developing better policies. The OECD's 2019 Measuring the Digital Transformation report presents the gender dimension across a number of key indicators
- The under-representation of women in certain areas of science, technology and innovation (STI) has long been a concern. The OECD-European Commission STIP Compass portal presents qualitative and quantitative data on national trends in STI policy, including initiatives directed at gender equality
- The OECD Nuclear Energy Agency held two international Mentoring Workshops in STEM areas in 2018 in Tokyo, Japan, and Ávila, Spain, to motivate young female students to explore science and engineering careers, and to suggest ways to overcome any barriers that they may face along the way
Transport safety and security are key factors in determining women's mobility preferences and choices, notably in urban areas where more women than men use public transport and heavily depend on it as shown by the ITF's Compendium on Women's Safety and Security: A Public Transport Priority
The ITF study of eight European and Asian cities - Understanding Urban Travel Behaviour by Gender for Efficient and Equitable Transport Policies - highlights that women travel shorter trips on average than men, use public transport more and travel more during off-peak hours
The OECD Better Life Index integrates information on gender inequality across its twelve domains of well-being
A dataviz on well-being inequalities explores how well-being is shared among people in OECD countries along different fault lines, including between men and women
- A Statistical Insights on "How's Life for Women in the Digital Age?" will provide a comprehensive description of how the digital transformation is impacting women and men's lives and their well-being (February 2019, forthcoming)
Violence against Women
- OECD countries are making violence against women a gender equality priority. Cross-national information and data on violence against women in 180 countries is part of the 2019 Social Institutions and Gender Index - SIGI 2019
- The OECD is a partner in the Call to Action on Protection from Gender-Based Violence in Emergencies. This multi-stakeholder initiative aims to drive change and foster accountability in policies, systems and mechanisms, to mitigate gender-based violence risks against women and girls in settings of humanitarian crisis
- The OECD is leading work is focussed on strengthening public and justice sector capacities to tackle gender-based violence and to achieve equal access to justice for all (Riga, 2018)
- The OECD supported the One Safe Place for Hope and Empowerment conference on violence against women (Paris, 2018. The event brought together government and community actors to advance a multidisciplinary approach to supporting the complex needs of women and their families who are victims of domestic violence
- The OECD is providing implementation support to Colombia to enhance women's political participation at local level, and improve access to justice, namely for women victims of violence from rural and indigenous backgrounds. The project is supported by the Swedish International Development Agency with a final report due in 2020
- The OECD will be hosting a High-Level Policy Dialogue on Violence Against Women in January 2020. The event will bring together experts form government and public services, academia, the private sector international organisations and civil society to discuss violence against women and gender-based violence from a multi-disciplinary perspective

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Recently a penniless 17-year-old Russian boy conjured up a computer program that resulted in 70 million Target customers having their credit and debit card information as well as other personal information winding up in the hands of international cyber criminals.
In other news, our gifted president spends millions of dollars devising a scheme requiring all of us to submit our health and other personal information to a website used by a government which is not only inept and inefficient but self-serving.
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About This Series – Earlier this week, a copy of Dr. Eric Shmidt's and Jared Cohen's book, The New Digital Age: Transforming nations, businesses and our lives arrived on my desk. You can read my notes on this book.
In this blog entry, I explore Chapter 3 – The Future of States, then offer reflections.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 – Our Future Selves
- Chapter 2 – The Future of Identity, Citizenship and reporting
- Chapter 3 – The Future of States
- Chapter 4 – The Future of Revolution
- Chapter 5 – The Future of Terrorism
- Chapter 6 – The Future of Conflict, Combat and Intervention
- Chapter 7 – The Future of Reconstruction
Over the next few days, I'll be reading the book and sharing my notes on what jumps out at me and my quick reflections.
My Notes
- Empowerment for people comes from what they have access to, while states can derive power from their position as gatekeeper (control over physical infrastructure required by connectivity).
- The Internet could ultimately be seen as the realization of the classic international-relations theory of an anarchic, leaderless world.
- The impulse to project laws from the physical world into the virtual one is a fundamentally naive notion…
- The most sophisticated censorship states invest a great deal of resources to build filtering systems, then punish violators.
- China, Turkey, Germany are listed as models of Internet censorship–the bad kind of model.
- The authors predict that states will attempt to engage in "collective editing" through the use of nationalized Internets.
- Internet asylum seeker – a dissident who can't live freely under an autocratic Internet and is refused access to other states' internets will choose to seek physical asylum in another country to gain virtual freedom on its Internet.
- "National intranet:" Countries might create their own walled gardens for internal content that separates its people from the rest of the world,giving them complete control over the contents and what people can access.
- Declaring virtual statehood would become an act of treason…the concept of virtual institutions alone could breathe new life into secessionist groups that have tried and failed to produce concrete outcomes through violent means…one example includes the suggestion that if the Texas secession movement rallied together to launch a virtual Republic of Texas.
- In the future, superpowers will look to create their spheres of online influence around specific protocols and products, so that their technologies form the backbone of a particular society and their client states come to rely on certain critical infrastructure that the superpower alone builds, services and controls.
Response: Reminds me of China and other countries expelling Microsoft Windows and switch to a copy of GNU/Linux that they've customized for use in their country.
- One neglected or unprotected device on the network can become the attacker's base and then compromise the whole system.
- "What we observed in cybersecurity is that we needed to create the equivalent of an adaptive immune system in computer security architecture."
- States will long for the days when they only had to think about foreign and domestic policies in the physical world.
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Do not slip into writing for the mind and the mind alone. In other words, do not play merely upon our ability to reason. And do not focus only on visuals. Write for the whole person. Write for the body. Or try to.Read the whole thing. Only an arrogant man would assume his experience is representative, but I bet there are a few other than me who default to visual mode when time comes to pen a scrap of scenery. Ruminate a bit on the striking parts of your personal history and see if the wisdom of Wilson's advice doesn't come through. I think back on the summer I started dating the woman who became my wife, a summer spent studying literature in the U.K. I recall the scent of roses in Queen Mary's Garden and the sweet tang of cognac-filled chocolates, the rambunctious bleating of sheep in the Lake District and the smoothness of her skin the first time I held her hand. There's so much more to what happened than simply the sights. Shouldn't there be more to our writing, too?
When we say something was vivid, we mean that we felt it. We tasted it, heard it, saw it, smelt (or smelted) it. We have five senses (at least). Access them. Access your readers' sensual memories (and you know what I don't mean). Make your characters all the way human and put us all the way in their shoes. Then we can tell if those shoes are hot and moist, too tight, or too loose. We can tell if the ground is rough and hard or sponge-turfy.
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Teachers and leaders joined union representatives at a day-long event in London to discuss the future of education as the campaigns for the general election begin to heat up.
A conference of about 100 teachers and union members last weekend called for education to be brought to the top of the agenda in the run-up to this May's general election.
Hosted on Saturday by the South East Regional Trades Union Congress (SERTUC), the event –"An even better state education for all in schools: equity and equality in education" – drew speakers from across the debate, although with a strong anti-academies and free school message as the Anti Academies Alliance was an
event partner.
Discussions centred around the education select committee's report, published last month, which said there was no evidence, yet, that academies improved educational outcomes for their pupils, and around reports from the Public Accounts Committee and National Audit Office that raised questions about financial conduct in the academy system.
Teaching unions such as the NUT, NASUWT and ATL took part, as well as Unison and Unite.
Linda Norrby from the Swedish teachers' union Lärarförbundet also joined the sessions to discuss problems arising from the introduction of its "free schools".
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So, I have 2x MediaSonic Proboxs with 3x hard drives in each one.
I'm not sure if the issue is with the Fans of the ProBox or the Hard Drives themselves. Something is making a fan-like noise. I'm thinking it's both.
When I have the ProBoxs hooked up to my Gigabyte Brix Mini PC, the ProBox fans or the hard drives don't run all the time. The only time the fans or the hard drives run is if they are accessed, say by clicking on one of the drives in Windows explorer, I will hear the drives spin up, and eventually the fan kicks in. And then about 10 or 20 minutes later, the drives go completely silent agian.
When I connect the ProBoxs to my Dell Latitude however, the fans and the drives are constantly running.
Why would my Brix let the drives/ProBoxs go quiet, but the Latitude always has them active?
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Gaming on a Mac
TLDR: Simply Just DON'T bother. When It comes to 'real' gaming.
Gaming on a Mac
I don't own a mac, but I have used plenty of them. Mac OS's do not have the gamer in mind at all as their primary consumer are creatives. Unless you like flash games or very simplistic games that can run on just about anything and in a browser, but I personally would not consider that gaming on a mac.
Basic macs have more than enough processing power with an i7 processor. They just simply lack a compatible OS for games, as most games run on windows computers. When developers develop a game, they usually go towards the larger market. This happens to be Windows, but they are also growing the Linux library.
Why not port it to macOS?
Well without getting technical Mac is more difficult and expensive to port to. Which makes it not really worth doing financially, and for such a small market use. The market being that of Mac owners who want to game. Macs have solidified their product commercially for easy use creating things. I say commercially because I can do everything on a Mac that I can do on a PC, but for a fraction of the cost. Anyways most of the Mac users bought their Mac for content creations, or as a status symbol.
But can I make my Mac game?
Sure you can. Financially it wouldn't make any sense to. Plus, the process of putting windows on the Mac or dual booting the mac will take up a lot of your time. If you are on a Macbook Pro then you would need to add an external graphics card on top of adding Windows on it. From my point of view, it just seems like a waste of time and money. Maybe worth it if you are loaded, but even then I'd just buy a bad ass gaming PC.
Links that will help you venture into Gaming on a mac
Ultimately you can do whatever the hell you want to do, this is simply just my suggestion. Buying an actual gaming PC makes more sense to me. This is just my opinion as I don't really care for Macs or macOS. I can use it and navigate through it without any problems, the command and option key barely throw me off. I just do not see any benefits of having an overpriced luxury product that can't game at least occasionally on a low frame rate without too much modification.


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Scientific Research
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World System Analysis of Biomedical Hegemony ()
This paper
deals with research findings regarding traditional and modern biomedical healthcare
systems prevailing in the Village Zandra, District Ziarat in the province of Balochistan.
An effort has been made to find out the medical system working in the village which
included both beliefs and perceptions related to health and illness and also the
activities which natives have adopted or developed to maintain and restore their
health. Initially the natives were using traditional and spiritual healing systems,
but now, as their economic condition and literacy rate are improving, they are more
inclined towards the modern methods of treatment. During the last 3 decades, few
changes have been witnessed. Shift from subsistence to market economy has increased
the use of allopathic medicines due to the fact that the natives have started opting
for secondary sources of income. Besides, researcher endeavored to explore the shift
from traditional to modern healthcare and the disparity between natives' health
related beliefs and practices. The impact of these changes has been analyzed in
light of world system theory at micro level. The data presented in this paper have
been collected by using qualitative anthropological research techniques.
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BEN RUNKLE2017 Spirits of Mexico Chef
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The Vampyr Delayer
Garlic, wooden stakes, the sun -- these are all things that vampires must avoid. For one specific vampire, "fall release dates" can be added to the list.
Dontnod Entertainment's Vampyr has been pushed back from late 2017 to spring 2018. In a press release from publisher Focus Home Interactive, Dontnod CEO Oskar Guilbert says that a now-resolved technical issue is the reason for the delay. While the hiccup shifted the schedule, there's now extra time at the end of the development cycle for additional "polishing and balancing."
And that's perfectly okay! The commonplace mindset about delays in recent years is something akin to "they're fine if it means the video game is better off for it." Besides, it has been nearly three years since we first heard about Vampyr, so what's another few months? Vampires live for like a thousand years so it makes sense that they move at a little slower pace.
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|I am currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. I work in the Perception and Robotics Group (PRG) lab in the Department of Computer Science under the guidance of Prof. Yiannis Aloimonos, Dr. Cornelia Fermuller, and Dr. Ge Gao and in the Culture Lab in the Department of Psychology under the guidance of Dr. Michelle Gelfand. My research is the area of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence focusing on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). I work in the Drone lab and the Humanoid lab to build "better" robots that are intuitive, efficient, and explainable.
Today, the interaction between robots and humans is like a chess game – each player waiting for their turns. Robots of the future will need to be better than that. So they need to be fluid in interaction, predict rather just observe, take initiatives rather than simply follow commands, be humanly interpretable rather than a magical black box, understand the group and personal preferences, and most importantly be likable. My primary research interest is in answering the questions of how can we build a system for robots so that robots and humans can interact with each other naturally as humans do amongst ourselves.


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Yesterday was my monthly visit to Milton Keynes to see my children, the last time before Christmas and two days before the eldest turns teen. Tomorrow, my son will be legally allowed to have social media accounts, and become a part of humanity's existential crisis, recorded for future historians. Today could be his last day of relative innocence. Farewell son, see you around…
I wrote recently of a girl I'd created in a short story, who'd found herself helping many others, while also having issues of her own. She was frustrated, because while she worked tirelessly and quietly with no recognition, others sought to claim credit for her actions. In that story, she doesn't find a way out, but one finds her, as everything links up at the end. Sometimes, it can simply be someone walking into a life.
There's a story out tomorrow, which will only be on this blog and then adapted for The Unfinished Literary Agency, my forthcoming second anthology. It's also about a girl, who's looking for something her son once wrote, but which he largely forgot about. My own son wrote part of a story some time ago, then gave it to me and we planned to finish it together. The life of the pre-teen has many distractions, just as his teenage years will, so the story was forgotten. But the original purpose of The Unfinished Literary Agency was to write the stories of others, which they themselves couldn't. So it seemed fitting that I should finish the story, in which a mother looks for something her son started, to find out what became of it.
If my own mum were to look for things I'd written, she'd be somewhat spoiled for choice. Unlike a lot of the family history I'm writing for my other book, my stories are already out there. And in a family link-up, it was my own son who pointed something out to me yesterday.
The odd vanity search aside, I rarely search for myself online (inside, all the time, but not online). When I do, it's just to see what people are searching for, besides the obvious (the search terms are varied: LGBTQI, animal sentience, steam punk, psychological writing, atheism, the human condition…). I don't bother with outdated 'Search Engine Optimisation', nor any AdWords, preferring the natural order of Google to take care of things.
I didn't need to be writing for long, before a simple search for my name (omitting the writer bit) more or less filled Google's first page of results, simply because of all those who share my name, I'm the most prolific (I do write a lot). In any case, I'm usually logged on to my own Google account, so I see a slightly different screen to the public offering. So I was pleasantly surprised when my eldest pointed this out:
Apparently, Google has given me a box. Google thinks that anyone searching for my name will most likely be looking for me, so they've given me a box, which says I'm an author. I rarely call myself that (I prefer 'Writer'), but if that's what Google says, I'm pleased I've been given a box. So that was nice.
Whatever my children end up as, they've been encouraged to be the best that they can, at that which they enjoy the most, and which gives the most back. They'll have many shepherds through their years and they'll guide and inspire others, sometimes without knowing it, in their real and online worlds.
Like the girl in my story, I haven't found a way, but one found me. It was other people, and in life just as on Google. Sometimes, you realise they were always there. Sometimes, you remember:
"Let's run!"
"Because one day we won't be able to."
Farewell boy, see you around young man.


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December 18, 2008
The good news about the Obama leadership team is that it is composed of seasoned hands*, ready to take over on January 20—or even before; conditions are worsening at a pace that is pulling the Obama team into the policymaking process as almost a fourth branch of government. This would seem to augur well for the kind of emergency action that will leave no time for settling in. It also aligns well with the calm-and-in-control image Obama has sought to project throughout the campaign and since the election. It was a critical element in winning the election, contrasting as it did with the McCain campaign's frantic play-calling, and it is already a critical element in Obama's effort to reassure an economy, a nation and a world that often seems on the verge of panic.
So if there's a God in heaven, Obama's team of seasoned and steady public servants will pull the economy out of the nosedive it's now in.
Then what? The flash fires that the crisis managers in the Bush and Obama administrations are trying to extinguish are not so much fundamental problems as they are the manifestations of the deeper, more systemic problems that we have allowed to develop. Former Dallas Cowboys coach Tom Landry—if I may switch metaphors here—was often asked, after losing a close game, whether this or that erroneously-called penalty had cost the Cowboys the game. "The penalty didn't cost us the game," Landry would reply. "We cost ourselves the game, by having so small a lead that that a penalty could turn a lead into a loss."
So, too, with many aspects of our jury-rigged infrastructure of economic policymaking and regulation, patched and reinforced over the years in response to the transitory exigencies, but now hopelessly out of sync with the US and the world in the 21st century. Is the team of establishmentarians Obama is putting in place equipped to devise creative long-term solutions to underlying problems of which the current crisis is only the most visible part? Problems like:
Social Security
Debate over Social Security has remained stubbornly narrow: raise taxes or cut (or postpone) benefits. But the program is more than seventy years old. When it was passed, not only did few people work past 65, few people lived past 65. As a result, the number of people paying into the system was many times the number receiving benefits. All that has changed. People live much longer. Many can—and many need to—work much longer. The careers of others are cut short before retirement age but past the age at which employers are willing to hire new workers. We still need something to provide at least a modest income for those who are, as labor leader Walter Reuther put it, "too old to work and too young to die." But does a one-retirement-age-fits-all program still make sense? Can we still afford to pay benefits to people who don't need them while withholding them from those who do need them but are too young or made too little? Is this still the right kind of program, in other words, for today's realities?
Our locally-controlled, free-and-compulsory-through-high-school system of education dates back over a century, to a time when people often lived out their lives near where they were born and grew up, and when a high school degree was enough to get a job on whose wages a family could live. Our school-year schedule dates back even further, to a time when families needed children at home during the summer to get in the crops. Those days are long past. Almost every family-supporting job requires at least an undergraduate degree—but college has become so expensive that few can afford it without incurring crippling debt. The labor market is national and international but schools are still local. Studies show that much of what is learned from September through May is forgotten from June through August. Do mass-production schools prepare people for an information-and-idea-based workplace? Should college be compulsory, the way high school is? Does our nineteenth century educational system still work for a 21st century nation and world?
A gaggle of programs, practices and policies—labor laws, health insurance and unemployment compensation, to name three—are based on an industrial economy that has long since passed into history. The economy was dominated by major industries facing little or no competition at home or abroad. The path of least resistance was to pass the cost of negotiated pay raises, health insurance policies and pensions along to consumers. To spend an entire career in one industry, even at one company, and then retire on a pension, was a reasonable aspiration. Now it's not. Can we adapt industry and industrial relations to 21st century economic realties without reverting back to the pre-union–i.e. pre-employment-health benefits, pre-paid-vacation, pre-sick-leave—days?
The International Economy
The international economic modalities under which we live, like Bretton Woods and the World Trade Organization, have their roots in the period after World War II and during the Cold War. How many now recall that the "third world" designation for underdeveloped and developing economies arose from a division of the countries of the world into a prosperous First World—the US and Western Europe; a militarily powerful but economically tubercular Second World of Communist countries; and a poverty-stricken Third World? Today we face serious competition from Second World countries like China and Third World countries like India. At the same time, however, the modern industries and sleek downtowns of Chinese and Indian cities coexist with a grinding poverty that has no equal in the west, a poverty that is at least decades, perhaps more, from being eliminated. How long can that coexistence remain peaceful, and what are the implications for us if it does not? Can the Bretton Woods and WTO regimes accommodate competition between modern industrial economies and erstwhile Second and Third World countries?
No time in our past seems as similar to our current dilemma as the New Deal. But the precedent is more complicated than it may seem. Unemployment and other aspects of the Depression were slow to yield to New Deal measures. In 1937, four years after taking office, and almost a decade after the stock market crash, FDR still saw "one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished." But as Russell Baker told me in an interview for a TV segment on the Depression, the freshet of New Deal action did give people the reassuring feeling that, finally, after four years of Hooverian paralysis, something was being done. And although unemployment didn't go down until World War II, programs like the Works Progress Administration, the National Recovery Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps provided a measure of short-term relief. And the jaunty confidence that Roosevelt exuded kept the whole thing afloat.
So the reason we look back at the New Deal so fondly is not that it put a quick end to the Depression, but that it transformed many of the underlying economic conditions and institutions whose failure had caused so much misery. In fact, it was the genius of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal to come up with solutions that took advantage of the nation's desperation to push through badly-needed measures with long-lasting implications—the minimum wage, Social Security, the Wagner labor relations act, and the Securities and Exchange Commission, to name just a few—that Congress would have balked at in normal times.
Obama will not face in 2009 what FDR faced in 1933—a Depression already in its fourth year, 25% unemployment, bread lines, thousands of banks collapsing. Neither, however, will he bring to his challenges what FDR brought to those of his time. Obama is only four years out of the Illinois State Senate. Roosevelt had been a state senator as well. But although he was only four years older than Obama when he was sworn in as president, FDR had already served seven years in Washington as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, two of them during World War I, and two terms as governor of New York during the Depression. He had run an unsuccessful statewide campaign for the US Senate, and an unsuccessful national campaign for Vice President.
Beneath Roosevelt, however, in cabinet and sub-cabinet positions and "Brains Trust" advisers, were a corps of men and women, many of whom had no previous high-level federal experience whatever. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau had been a state and federal agricultural and conservation official. Labor Secretary Frances Perkins had worked for Roosevelt in New York, as had top aide Louis Howe. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes was a newspaper reporter and Chicago political activist. Agriculture Secretary Henry Wallace had been an agricultural journalist and agribusinessman. Members of FDR's influential "Brains Trust,"—men like Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy Tugwell, and A.A. Berle—had been university professors.
Some of Obama's new hires, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, for example, seem reminiscent of FDR's model. But by and large, the work-in-progress Obama administration looks like an inversion of the New Deal: a supremely confident but lightly experienced chief presiding over a cadre of officials who are not only deeply experienced in crafting and executing policy at the highest levels but who previously, in some cases, held almost the very same jobs to which they now return.
The dogmas of the past are inadequate to the present, Obama's favorite president and fellow Illinoisan told Congress 146 years ago this month. "As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country."
Can old dogs like Lawrence Summers, Paul Volcker and Rahm Emanuel, men who made their bones triangulating and tweaking policies and institutions whose reasons for existence date back as much as a century, learn the new tricks that the new realities demand? Will there gather, at the Under-, Deputy, and Assistant Secretarial levels and within the White House staff, the creative yet pragmatic thinkers and doers who can think and act anew?
And will the new president be able to lead and manage them as Roosevelt did just halfway between Lincoln's time and ours?


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Lenore (Rossetti)
Bürger's Lenore
Translated from the German
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Prefatory Note
This translation of Bürger's celebrated ballad was made by Dante Gabriel Rossetti in or about June 1844: he used at that date the signature "Gabriel Charles Rossetti." On May 12th of that year he had attained the age of sixteen. When he wrote it he supposed it to be a spirited and a good translation: I supposed the same, and continued to be extremely familiar with it for some years ensuing. After a certain space of time my brother neglected the performance, and it dropped entirely out of his thoughts. I heard no more of it, and probably never, after 1850 or some such date, set eyes upon any manuscript or any portion of it. No such manuscript was in my brother's possession at the date of his death, April 1882.
At last one of the few copies which in 1844 he made of the translation has turned up. It was included in a sale held by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson, and Hodge, on November 26th, 1899, and was there bought by Mr. Gilbert I. Ellis. On its being shown to me, I adhered to the opinion of my boyhood—that it is a good rendering, far rather than a bad one. I think it perfectly worthy of publication.
This appears to be the first translation (of any sort of importance) that Dante Rossetti ever undertook. In 1842 he had begun the study of German under Dr. Adolf Heimann, of University College, London,—a most kind friend as well as excellent instructor. My brother learned the language pretty well, but not so as to have an absolute and ready mastery over it. No doubt Dr. Heimann must have coached him up to some extent when his juvenile ambition pointed to Lenore. Soon afterwards he translated the Arme Heinrich of Hartmann von Aue—published in 1886 (in his Collected Works) as Henry the Leper; and I need not scruple to say that he made a capital thing of it. In October 1845 he began a version of the Nibelungenlied. It has perished, much to my regret; but, after the unforeseen resuscitation of Lenore, who knows but that the Nibelungenlied (only a few of the opening chaunts were translated) may also reappear? It is rather noticeable that these first essays in verse-translation should all have been from the German—a language which Rossetti never knew thoroughly, which, after early youth was past, he did not in any way keep up, and which he may be said to have all but wholly forgotten in course of time. His translations from the Italian—which he knew very well, and from the most childish years—began probably in 1845, not earlier than the period when he ventured upon the Nibelungenlied.
In his preface to the volume The Early Italian Poets (1861) Dante Rossetti explained his general views as to what are the obligations incumbent upon a translator. They amount to this: that a translator ought to be faithful, but is not bound down to being literal; he is compelled to make various mutual concessions between meaning and rhythm or rhyme; and in especial he must not turn a good poem into a bad one. In his version of Lenore he has conformed very fairly to these rules. Literal it most certainly is not, but it is moderately faithful. He allows himself (contrary to his original) the latitude of leaving lines 1 and 3 in each stanza unrhymed and of lengthening lines 7 and 8 from three feet to four. I myself regard this latter change as a decided improvement to the ear: but my opinion is not much to the point. The most salient modification, however, is in general tone. The Lenore of Bürger is, notwithstanding its startling and grisly theme, noticeably simple in treatment: Rossetti has largely reinforced it on the picturesque or romantic side. It may perhaps have been by mere inadvertence that he turns the religious atmosphere of the poem, which is manifestly Protestant, into Roman Catholic: thus, for instance, a "Vaterunser" becomes an "Ave Marie." But, if this was inadvertence, it testifies all the more strongly to the romantic impulse in his mind. In stanza 15 the translator is wrong in indicating that midnight is already past, for the clock afterwards strikes eleven; and in stanza 17 the ghostly bridegroom, in saying "zur Wette," only means "I wager you," and not "'Tis for a wager I bear thee away."
Without dwelling further upon details, I will quote here stanza 27 of the German ballad, which the reader can compare with the translated stanza:—
"Wie flog, was rund der Mond beschien,
Wie flog es in die Ferne!
Wie flogen oben über hin
Der Himmel und die Sterne!
"Graut Liebchen audi! Der Mond scheint hell!
Hurrah! die Todten reiten schnell!
Graut Liebchcn auch vor Todten?"
"'O weh! Lass ruhn die Todten!'"
So far as I am aware, the first English rendering of Lenore appeared in the Monthly Magazine, done by William Taylor of Norwich, and entitled Ellenore. It takes the literary form of a modern-antique, and throws the period of the ballad back from the Seven Years' War to crusading times. Next, Sir Walter Scott, in 1796, published a version anonymously. He borrowed from his predecessor (not from Bürger) the well-known lines—
"Tramp tramp along the land they rode,
Splash splash along the sea—"
(only substituting the word "along" for "across"). Considering that, according to Scott's and Taylor's translations, the lovers are riding to Hungary, the second of these lines is just as reasonable as Shakespear's "Bohemia near the Sea"; for where does the sea come in any ride to Hungary? Scott's William and Helen, as he entitled it, can hardly be called a translation: it is a paraphrase, put into the ordinary English ballad-metre, and altering the period of the story in the same way that Taylor had done. Several passages here and there are however translated closely enough. This rendering by Scott—not any other rendering of the ballad—must have been highly familiar to Dante Rossetti several years before he undertook his own version. In 1796 a translation, Leonora, was published by W. R. Spencer, with engravings by Lady Diana Beauclerc. It is, I think, barely less faithful than Rossetti's version; the difference being that, while the latter exceeds in picturesque colouring, Spencer loads up the then accepted pomposities of "poetic diction." The metre is more distant than Rossetti's from the original; the rhyming being always alternate, and the lines always of four feet. On the whole it is a creditable performance. There are also translations by Pye, the Poet Laureate, and by J. T. Stanley, nearly contemporaneous with Spencer's. The Laureate was not extremely faithful to his original in substance, and not at all in metre; and I think his version hardly as good as the average of others. Stanley might pass muster tolerably enough, were it not that he has stupidly added to the ballad a long tag of his own, turning the whole affair into a dream. The famous designer Retzsch made a series of outlines to Lenore, published at Leipsic in 1840, with the text in German, and likewise in an English rendering by F. Shoberl. Of all the translations that I have seen, this is the faithfullest. The metre is correctly followed, and the diction comes as close as one could demand. Many lines however are very poor, from a poetic or literary point of view. What could be more miserable than
"What ho! the dead can nimbly fly—"
instead of
"Hurrah! die Todten reiten schnell"?
As will be seen, all the translations of which I have as yet spoken were produced before that of Dante Rossetti. The following two are of later date. In 1847 Mrs. Julia Margaret Cameron (the same lady, a valued friend of mine, who afterwards produced a considerable impression by her splendid pictorial-looking photographs) published an ornamental volume—her own rendering of Lenore, accompanied by steel-engravings after Maclise. Between the translation and the designs there is an odd discrepancy; for the former is correct to the date indicated by Bürger, whereas the latter are mediæval. Mrs. Cameron, in her preface, seems to suppose that her rendering is a strictly faithful one, but I can only say that she was mistaken: she does not stick close to the terms of her original, and she wholly discards its metre. In 1855 there was a translation by John Oxenford, a good German scholar: it is however rather an adaptation than a translation, being done to serve as the words for a cantata by G. A. Macfarren produced at a Birmingham Festival. There are yet other versions of Lenore, known to me little or not at all: the reader may perhaps opine that I have already mentioned quite enough.
Of all the translations with which I am acquainted, the best, I venture to think, is the one which Dante Rossetti wrote at the age of sixteen. I say it without hesitation, but with a full consciousness that the critical opinion expressed by a brother carries very little weight. Some of the other renderings—as Taylor's, Scott's, and Stanley's—are put out of count by arbitrary alterations: the remaining ones are less animated, less poetical, and mostly less faithful, than Rossetti's. It may be as well to state here that, as the Lenore was the first translation of any importance that he produced, so also was it the first favourable example of his powers as a verse-writer. His original ballad-poem of Sir Hugh the Heron, written mostly at the age of twelve, was not indeed worse than one would expect from so boyish a hand, but no human being who knows the meaning of the word "good" can apply that epithet to Sir Hugh the Heron; and another shorter ballad, William and Marie, which he composed at the age of about fourteen, is even inferior to its precursor. This William and Marie, as it happens, was sold at the same auction-sale in which Lenore was included: it fetched a price decidedly more than proportionate to its poetic deservings.
In 1844, when Rossetti translated Lenore, this poetic invention was known to English readers as well as almost any other foreign poem that could be named: I presume that it is a good deal less familiar to the present generation. I will therefore say a few words about the ballad and its author. Gottfried August Bürger, a very ill-starred specimen of the poetic race, was born on January 1st, 1748, son of a Lutheran minister, at Molmerswende in Halberstadt. He was fond of romantic solitude, and was anything but a strict moralist. His face is not an interesting one: fleshy, with round eyes, and, save the mouth, large features. A professorship at Göttingen, without fixed salary, formed his principal dependence. Lenore, published towards 1775, was the first poem of his to fix attention, which it effectually did; there was also the equally celebrated Wild Huntsman. Unlucky in most things, Bürger was specially unlucky in his marriages, three in number. Shortly after publishing Lenore, he married a Hanoverian lady named Leonhart, and then by his misdoing consigned her, as his spectral Wilhelm did Lenore, to an early grave. As soon as he was married to one Leonhart, he fell desperately in love with another, the younger sister whom he has celebrated under the name of Molly. The wife, worn out with troubles and mortifications, died in 1784. Bürger forthwith espoused his Molly; but she also soon died, in 1786, in childbed. (This is rather a curious parallel to the case of the thrice-wedded poet of England, Milton, whose second wife also expired in childbed.) Bürger was still willing to try his chance in the matrimonial lottery. Before his choice had been fixed he received a letter from Stuttgart, written by a young lady in cultivated and feeling language. She professed enthusiasm for his poetry, and willingness to bestow her hand upon him. The poet, after making some inquiry, was only too eager to assent, and he brought home his third bride. But the result was a woful failure. The lady became faithless to her husband, made his life a torment, and, in less than three years, had to be divorced. Bürger did not survive this break-up for long. He was very poor, he was harassed by a bitter critique written by Schiller, and everything seemed to go wrong with him. In June 1794 he died, aged only forty-six.
December 1899.
The original Manuscript of the youthful translator
has been strictly followed in the printing, as
regards of citing, punctuation, etc.
(Aged 16)
*** I have retained the German version of the heroine's name; thinking it more suited to the metre than the lengthy English word "Leonora,"—and by far less unpleasing to the ear than the stunted and ugly abbreviation, "Leonor."
Up rose Lenore as the red morn wore,
Printed by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.


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Pronounced the same as Noah, this is the acronym for the Natioal Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the national weather service. Mike found this amazing loop where you can see both Hurricane Bill and another circulating low pressure system up by the Great Lakes, as well as some system that is bringing weather across Mexico and Texas, whence it seems to interact with Bill's coattails. Very intriguing.
The general site is: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/ and the specific image that you might enjoy right now is the East Conus IR loop, or Eastern United States Infrared Loop: http://www.goes.noaa.gov/GSSLOOPS/ecir.html Because it is a loop, it takes a few moments to load, but it shows the cloud movement over most of the US and the nearby Atlantic. Quite dramatic, and it will help you to recognize that the weather in your backyard is part of something much larger.


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England's Six Nations prep underway
England's first Six Nations camp began overnight, with just over a month to go until the tournament begins.
Eddie Jones's men were hit with a handful of injuries after last weekend's Premiership rounds, but plenty of hopefuls will still have a chance to impress before the January 18 announcement of the Six Nations squad.
Charlie Ewels (hamstring), Piers Francis (concussion), Jonathan Joseph (dead leg), Jack Nowell (ankle) and Harry Williams (concussion) were all absent from the camp, while lock Courtney Lawes was already ruled out for personal reasons.
Giant London Irish wing Joe Cokanasiga and Bath's Henry Thomas have been called up as injury replacements.
England stars Maro Itoje and Billy Vunipola have been included in the squad, after lengthy injuries, in a boost to England's Six Nations hopes.
Jones said this two-day camp, in Brighton, was critical.
"This camp in Brighton is important for us to set the tone as a squad ahead of the Six Nations," he said.
"We will need to improve if we are to hunt down our opponents and beat them.
"This tournament will be exciting and challenging, as we know we will play against some very strong teams.
"Brighton will provide a great base to begin our preparations with players coming away with a clear plan for our opening match of the campaign against Italy."
England has won the past two Six Nations title, losing just one match in the process, to Ireland in 2017.
England opens its Six Nations campaign on Sunday February 4 against Italy, kicking off at 3pm local, Monday 1am AEDT.
England squad for Brighton camp
Mike Brown (Harlequins)
Danny Care (Harlequins)
Joe Cokanasiga (London Irish)
Nathan Earle (Saracens)
Owen Farrell (Saracens)
George Ford (Leicester Tigers)
Jonny May (Leicester Tigers)
Henry Slade (Exeter Chiefs)
Marcus Smith (Harlequins) *
Denny Solomona (Sale Sharks)
Ben Te'o (Worcester Warriors)
Anthony Watson (Bath Rugby)
Ben Youngs (Leicester Tigers)
Dan Cole (Leicester Tigers)
Tom Dunn (Bath Rugby)
Charlie Ewels (Bath Rugby)
Jamie George (Saracens)
Gary Graham (Newcastle Falcons)
Dylan Hartley (Northampton Saints)
James Haskell (Wasps)
Nick Isiekwe (Saracens)
Maro Itoje (Saracens)
Joe Launchbury (Wasps)
Joe Marler (Harlequins)
Zach Mercer (Bath Rugby) *
Beno Obano (Bath Rugby)
Chris Robshaw (Harlequins)
Sam Simmonds (Exeter Chiefs)
Kyle Sinckler (Harlequins)
Henry Thomas (Bath)
Billy Vunipola (Saracens)
Mako Vunipola (Saracens)
Six Nations 2018
Round one
Saturday February 3
Wales vs Scotland, Millennium Stadium, 2:15pm local, Sunday 1:15am AEDT
France vs Ireland, Stade de France, 4:45pm local, Sunday 2:45am AEDT
Sunday February 4
Italy vs England, Stadio Olimpico, 3pm local, Monday 1am AEDT
Round two
Saturday February 10
Ireland vs Italy, Aviva Stadium, 2:15om local, Sunday 1:15am AEDT
England vs Wales, Twickenham, 4:45pm local, Sunday 3:45am AEDT
Sunday February 11
Scotland vs France, Murrayfield Stadium, 3pm local, Monday 2am AEDT
Round three
Friday February 23
France vs Italy, Stade de France, 8pm local, Saturday 6am AEDT
Saturday February 24
Ireland vs Wales, Aviva Stadium, 2:15pm local, Sunday 1:15am AEDT
Scotland vs England, Murrayfield Stadium, 4:45pm local, Sunday 3:45am AEDT
Round four
Saturday March 10
Ireland vs Scotland, Aviva Stadium, 2:15pm local, Sunday 1:15am AEDT
France vs England, Stade de France, 4:45pm local, Sunday 3:45am AEDT
Sunday March 11
Wales vs Italy, Millennium Stadium, 3pm local, Monday 2am AEDT
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Saturday March 17
Italy vs Scotland, Stadio Olimpico, 12:30pm local, 10:30pm AEDT
England vs Ireland, Twickenham, 2:45pm local, Sunday 1:45am AEDT
Wales vs France, Millennium Stadium, 5pm local, Sunday 4am AEDT


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...we take away all the fun.
Check out this list from Radar of the Most Dangerous Toys. Ever. The writing is hilarious.
I think we had all of them. I sure remember lawn darts, and the Creepy Crawlers that you made over an open element. We used to make them with the kids next door. My mom wouldn't buy us that stuff, but Mrs. E. next door would, so we'd just go there. Parents are so dumb, sometimes...
I don't remember the Cabbage Patch dolls that chewed fingers off, but I worked retail during the first Cabbage Patch Nuttiness. I think the parents in that store were far more dangerous than anything on this list.
One of the best has to be the Atomic Energy Lab, from 1951. Seriously. Does this not explain some of the Why Johnny Can't Read problems? Or at least, Why Does Johnny Glow In The Dark?
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