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John Marlam
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Ancient civilizations are part of the social studies curriculum in middle school.
Kingfisher Knowledge Mummies
explores ancient and not so ancient cultures and civilizations; examines the traditions and beliefs of these cultures; and helps students appreciate how these peoples cared for their dead. It goes beyond social studies to show how present-day scientists use scientific methods to reveal the secrets of the past and allow the dead to "speak" from the grave.
also gives your class a chance to practice and increase nonfiction reading skills.
Reading Comprehension
Give your students time to read the book on their own or in small groups. To get a sense of their understanding and how much they are learning and retaining, use the chapter summaries to open discussions. It is easy to turn the straightforward review sentences in these summaries into questions to pose to your students. For example:
Chapter 1, page 30, "Two Ways to Make a Mummy": Ask students to define just what a mummy is. Are the only mummies of people? How are natural mummies made?
Chapter 2, page 46, "Egypt, the Land of Mummies": Ask students to articulate the reasons that the Egyptians mummified their dead.
Chapter 3, page 46, "Mummy World": Have your students debate the question "Who are the rightful owners of mummies?"
Chapter 4, page 59, "Mummies Today": Ask students to talk about what scientists hope to learn from studying mummies and how they use scientific instrumentation.
Language Arts:
Uses reading skill and strategies to understand a variety of informational texts.
Summarizes and paraphrases information in texts.
Draws conclusions and makes inferences based on explicit and implicit texts.
Uses new information to adjust and extend personal knowledge base.
Language Arts
Report Writing
Give each student two copies of the Mummy Report Form shown below. They should use the forms to describe two different mummies they have read about in the book. The completed forms will serve as outlines for reports. (Students may not be able to fill in every field for each mummy.)
Students should meet in groups to evaluate each other's writing and aid in the revision process.
Mummy Report Form
I. Mummy's civilization:
II. Name of mummy:
III. Date of mummy:
IV. Method of mummification:
V. Mummy's appearance (describe wrappings, clothing, hair, face, items buried with it, etc.):
VI. Condition of the mummy (intact or partial condition, damages, pre-mummification injuries):
VII. How the mummified body died:
VIII. Location of mummy now:
IX. Scientific tests performed:
X. Conclusions:
(Adapted from
How to Make a Mummy Talk
© James M. Deem. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.)
Language Arts:
Uses an outline as a prewriting activity.
Uses a variety of strategies to revise written work.
Evaluates others' writing.
Analyzes the influence that specific ideas and beliefs had on a period of time.
Creative Writing
Almost all of the pictures and illustrations in
can be used as the basis for a creative writing exercise. For example, examine the pictures of Tollund Man on pages 31, 32, and 33. Here lies the mummified body of a man who was hung 2,100 years ago. What is his story? What was his life like? What might he have done that caused his community to take his life? Was he a criminal or a victim of criminals? Your students can write stories, articles, and/or plays about this man and his life and death.
Your students can do the same for the illustrations on pages 18 and 19, 26 and 27, 34 and 35, 40 and 41, and 42 and 43. The class's work can be bound together and presented as a new book entitled
The Stories Behind the Stories in
Language Arts:
Uses content, style, and structure appropriate for specific audiences.
Writes narrative accounts, such as short stories.
Writes in response to literature.
Uses a range of strategies to interpret visual media.
Look at the picture on page 18. It shows an embalmer wearing the mask of the jackal-headed god Anubis as he works to mummify a dead body. Notice the pictograms on the side of the picture. These are hieroglyphics. We could imagine that these hieroglyphics tell the story of this Egyptian's life and death.
Brainstorm with your class and create your own hieroglyphs. They can represent objects or ideas or depict events. Display your students' hieroglyphs on a chart and constantly add new ones. Have them create scrolls that tell family histories, using only the hieroglyphs from the chart.
Visual Arts:
Knows how visual, spatial, and temporal concepts integrate with content to communicate intended meaning in one's artwork.
Knows different subjects, themes, and symbols that convey intended meanings in artwork.
Language Arts:
Prewriting: brainstorming.
Writes narrative accounts.
Ethics and Values
Studying the remains of past civilizations presents an ethical and moral dilemma. Is our quest for knowledge more important than the respect owed to the dead of previous civilizations?
Read to your class the selections "Mummies are time travelers" on page 9 and "Mummies of Australia and respect for ancestors" on page 43. Have a discussion with your class about this dilemma. Include the following questions:
Does the goal of gaining scientific knowledge justify the means scientists employ to study mummified remains?
Did the Australian museums do the right thing in removing the mummies of indigenous peoples from display, thus depriving their scientists the opportunity to learn more about the original inhabitants of their country?
Would the Australians have acted differently if there weren't any descendants of the original inhabitants alive today?
Analyzes the influence that specific ideas and beliefs have on a period of history.
Analyzes the effect that specific decisions have on a period of history.
Understands the ethics associated with scientific study.
Language Arts:
Uses reading skills and strategies to understand and interpret a variety of informational texts.
The early Egyptians recognized that the mummification process required removing all the water from the body. Besides draining the blood from the body, they used a chemical salt found in the desert as a desiccant to remove the remaining moisture from the body's tissues. (A desiccant is a substance that helps remove water from things.) They probably had to experiment with various desiccating salts until they came up with the mixture that worked the best. Several desiccants can be found around the house, and your students can experiment with them to "mummify" an apple and then decide which works best. Depending on your resources, you can do this as a whole class activity or the students can work in research teams.
Each team will need:
Two apples
Eight 12oz. disposable plastic cups
Tray to hold the cups
Measuring cup
Plastic tablespoon
12 oz. kosher salt
12 oz. baking soda
12 oz. washing soda or Epsom salts
Mixing bowl
Labels and a marking pen
Small brush
Accurate scale
Graph paper
Create eight labels like the one below and affix one to each cup.
Sample label:
Cup #
Salt Mixture
Starting Weight (gr.):
Ending Weight: (gr.):
Cut the two apples into quarters so that there are eight slices about the same size.
Weigh a slice and record its starting weight on a label and place the slice in one of the cups.
Repeat this procedure for each slice so that each cup is labeled and has an apple slice in it.
Add ½ cup kosher salt to cup #1. Make sure that the apple slice is completely covered. Write the words "kosher salt" on the label. In cup #2 cover the apple slice with ½ cup baking soda and write "baking soda" on the label. For cup #3, cover the apple slice with ½ cup Epsom salts and label the cup "Epsom salts."
Into cup #4, place a mixture of 50% kosher salt and 50% baking soda; cup #5, 50% baking soda and 50% Epsom salts; cup #6, 50% Epsom salts and 50% kosher salt. Make sure each slice is covered completely and each cup is labeled correctly.
Make a mixture of 1/3 kosher salt, 1/3 Epsom salts, and 1/3 baking soda, and fill cup #7 with ½ cup of the mixture. Label cup #8, with no desiccant as the control.
Place the cups on the tray and place on a shelf out of direct sunlight.
After seven days, remove each apple slice from its cup with the tongs. Use the brush carefully remove as much of the salt as you can. Weigh the slice and record the ending weight.
Compare the starting weight and the ending weight. Calculate the percentage of water lost by each slice. Compare the percentages of weight lost to determine which desiccant removed the most water.
(Calculate the percentage of water lost using the following formula:
% water loss = change in mass/starting mass x 100.)
All of the data can be recorded on the following chart:
Starting mass (gr.)
Ending mass(gr.)
Change in mass(gr.)
% water loss
kosher salt
baking soda
Epsom salts
50% kosher salt
50% baking soda
50% baking soda
50% Epsom salts
50% Epsom salts
50% kosher salt
1/3 kosher salt
1/3 baking soda
1/3 Epsom salts
Discussion Questions:
Which desiccant worked best?
Why was it necessary to have a control?
Why were the apple slices handled with tongs?
Where did the lost water go? How could you prove it?
How did the apple slices look at the start of the experiment and at the end?
Would the results be any different if the apple was completely peeled, or if it was whole? How could you find out?
Would the results be different if a different fruit was used? How could you find out?
Understands the nature of scientific explanations.
Knows that investigations involve systematic observation; carefully collected, relevant evidence; logical reasoning; and some imagination in developing hypotheses and explanations.
Designs and constructs a scientific investigation.
Understands that there may be more than one way to interpret a set of findings.
The modern-day equivalent of mummification is cryogenics. Discuss with your class what cryogenics is and how its purpose is different from mummification. Ask students to talk about whether they would want their bodies to be mummified, frozen cryogenically, or left alone to let nature take its course?
A mummy was often buried with important items from his life or things she might need for her afterlife. If modern people were to be buried with important, valuable, or treasured items, what would they be?
Refer to chapter 4, pages 50 and 51, "Mummy Mania": Why have mummies so captured our imaginations?
Language Arts/Listening and Speaking:
Participates in group discussion.
Asks question to seek clarification of ideas.
Uses level-appropriate vocabulary in speech.
Makes oral presentations.
Plays a variety of roles in group discussion.
Understands the historical perspective.
Cooperative learning:
Contributes to the overall effort of the group.
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Hope: Entertainer of the Century
Richard Zoglin
Simon & Schuster, 2014
576 pp., 30.00
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My initial reaction to the claim in the subtitle of this celebrity biography was incredulity, but Richard Zoglin has convinced me that Bob Hope (1903-2003) can fittingly be referred to as the most successful entertainer of the 20th century. This place of preeminence is secured by the heights of popularity that he achieved, the number of decades during which his star power continued to shine so brightly, and his triumphing in seemingly every possible form of mass entertainment.
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Hope eventually became the most successful live performer going, often setting all-time attendance records for the cities he visited. He had a regular newspaper column, and his I Never Left Home—believe it or not—was the bestselling nonfiction book of 1944. A cultural ambassador during the Cold War, he did historic shows in Russia and China. (During the Iran hostage crisis, he seriously proposed doing his 1980 Christmas special from Tehran.) Hope was considered the greatest emcee in the business—hosting the Academy Awards an astonishing 19 times—and, to bury the lede, he was "the most popular comedian in American history."
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What Do Berlusconi and 9/11 Tell Us About Government 2.0?
by Andrea Di Maio | December 20, 2009 | 4 Comments
On December 13 2009 the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was injured in Milan (Italy) by a mentally disturbed individual who hit him with a statuette. Shortly afterwards Facebook and other social media have been stormed by discussions to support Berlusconi as well as his attacker, including some conspiracy theories claiming that the whole attack was staged. This caused some politicians to ask for stricter regulations to prevent social media from hosting subversive activities.
On September 11 2001 a series of terrorist attacks in the US killed almost 3,000 people. Conspiracy theorists have been posting videos on YouTube as well as writing books, and they have received responses on YouTube and in writing. I have not read anything about the US government willing to shut down social media or prosecute conspiracy theorists, although the size and relevance of the two events is not even comparable.
In my research about how governments should use technology to better engage with their citizens, I have often said that it is essential for them to reach out to existing social networks and engage in conversations, since there is little hope to control social media.
I am pretty sure that law enforcement authorities and secret services everywhere in the world do spend time infiltrating social networks that may support or point to terrorist and other illegal activities: this is their job and I would be surprised if they did not.
On the other hand, I would hope that other parts of government would engage with social networks to establish or continue a dialogue, to understand what are the deep reasons why decent people express support for despicable actions, gather information about what people want and get inspiration about how to bridge that gap.
But in a country where the immediate reaction by government and some of the opposition is to put social media on a tight leash, there is little hope that the conditions for real and productive engagement will ever be established.
Once again, old Europe should learn what democracy means from our overseas friends and distant relatives: the first amendment may turn to be the most critical success factor for open government and government 2.0.
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IMHO the difference lies less in politics or govermental attitude and more in the different role still played by the Web/Internet in the US and the Italian culture.
In mainstream Italian sentiment and culture, a substantial separation is felt between the online and the brick-and-mortar worlds (the latter is often referred to as "real", as if the Web wasn't real too!).
In the US, most people (politicians included of course) are used to think of Web phenomena as mere reflections of society per se, not as "another world's".
P.S.: That said, I'm nearly sure that similar censorial proposals were made in the US in 2001-2002..
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Conversion, Ram Janmabhoomi top agenda at VHP's sammelan
Controversial right-wing leader Pravin Togadiya, Yogi Adityanath and Ashok Singhal to attend the Sammelan at MMRDA ground
Close on the heels of the controversial Bajrang Dal exercise in Agra where 57 Muslim families were 'converted' to Hinduism, the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) claimed to have "brought nearly seven lakh people back into Hinduism" till date under the 'Ghar Wapsi' programme." The party added that the converts included four lakh Christians and three lakh Muslims.
Preparations for VHP's Hindu Maha Sammelan at the Bandra Kurla Complex's MMRDA ground
Speaking to sunday mid-day on the eve of the VHP's Hindu Maha Sammelan at the Bandra Kurla Complex's MMRDA ground (which will be attended by controversial right-wing leader Pravin Togadiya, Yogi Adityanath Ashok Singhal and others), Venkatesh Apdeo, central minister of the VHP, claimed that in Mumbai alone, nearly 5,000 families have converted to Hinduism.
"In India, 99 per cent Christians and Muslims are of Hindu origin. Those who believe that their forefathers are Hindus approach us and most of them are Muslim women. This 'Ghar Wapsi' programme has been in existence for the last 20 years and many people have joined us. The media and 'seculars' weren't aware of this, so for them, this is new," said Apdeo.
The party also explained that at the Sammelan, conversion would remain their top agenda, followed by other issues such as Ram Janmabhoomi and gau-hatya or the slaughter of cows. After presenting a report to the central government, the party will ask it to formulate a law that will allow the construction of a temple at Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya.
The VHP will also thank the Devendra Fadnavis government, as its minister Sudhir Mungantiwar asked the President to pass a law against cow slaughter. When this reporter questioned Apdeo about the VHP's severe restrictions on girls' choice of clothing, he claimed, "We aren't against people wearing any type of clothes. But girls shouldn't wear tight clothes and our culture doesn't permit nudity."
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Western blot analysis of extracts from 293 cells using 4E-BP1 Antibody #9644 (lower) and Phospho-4E-BP1 (Ser65) Antibody #9451 (upper). The cells were starved for 24 hours in serum-free medium and underwent a 1 hour amino acid deprivation. Amino acids were replenished for 1 hour. Cells were then either untreated (-) or treated with 100 nM insulin (+) for 30 minutes.
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Supplied in 10 mM sodium HEPES (pH 7.5), 150 mM NaCl, 100 µg/ml BSA and 50% glycerol. Store at –20°C. Do not aliquot the antibody.
For western blots, incubate membrane with diluted primary antibody in 5% w/v BSA, 1X TBS, 0.1% Tween® 20 at 4°C with gentle shaking, overnight.
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Protocol Id: 10
This protocol is intended for immunoprecipitation of native proteins utilizing Protein A agarose beads for analysis by western immunoblot or kinase activity.
NOTE: Prepare solutions with reverse osmosis deionized (RODI) or equivalent grade water.
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New commandment at our house--enforced by the manufacturer's design: Thou shalt not put anything on top of the washer or dryer--'cuz if you do, it will slide right off! Reminds me of those German toilet paper roll hangers--where there's a metal plate enforcing the rule that the toilet paper must unroll from the top toward the front!
Obviously too cold and windy for breakfast outside this morning--so I improvised and had coffee and the last of Sweet Teen's scones at my 66--same view, but a lot warmer!


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Our modern culture is literally teaching 'mental illness' to children in our schools.
Do the 'issues' of our modern age manifest themselves in a cultural vacuum? I think not – by the time I was 7 years old, insanity as a behavioural model was clearly represented to me repeatedly. As these perverse understandings of such purportedly inescapable and uncontrollable behavioural models are forcefully disseminated throughout our culture, kids and teenagers inevitably adopt and attach them to feelings of insecurity, stress, or identity issues.
Identity being key here – because the underlying assumptions represented by the Politically Correct secular teachings that dominate our learning, medical, and even entertainment institutions impose an effective belief system of chemical determinism among the general population.
Thus, even the slightest, most common and understandable inconsistency of the self can immediately trigger a cascading tsunami of doubt and internal fear that such 'inappropriate' thoughts and feelings indicate the onset of genetically triggered, physiologically based, unstoppable and uncontrollable mental dysfunction, or so called 'mental illness'.
But why would it be 'abnormal' to think about having an eating disorder – or even stabbing, fucking, and/or shooting your classmates or fellow employees, for that matter? Why would it be strange for someone at the wrong end of a power equation to harbour thoughts of violence against those they effectively suffer the threat or reality of violence from? Claiming surprise and shock, and proposing illustrious theories of the allegedly 'mysterious' origins of such behaviour is either wholly dishonest and corrupt, or displays patent stupidity and incompetence on the part of the 'thought leaders' who would so cynically or blindly make such suggestions.
I challenge anyone to show me someone who has exhibited such pathological thought patterns or behaviour without being first exposed to the idea that such phenomena exist as a clear and uncontrollable, 'genetically' predetermined potentiality of the human experience.
Author Robert Whitaker calls it 'Chemical Reductionism'. Famed Psychiatrist Dr. Thomas Szasz takes extreme issue with such dangerous nonsense, stating simply : "There are no causes for human behaviour – only reasons."
Massive efforts plainly are being undertaken to inform the general public that fundamental control of the self exists by definition beyond their reach, awareness, understanding and control – and places this power in a force only understood by the 'new priests' of our day i.e. 'doctors' or 'psychiatrists'. This is both a belief system worthy of a Jonestown cult, and a clear recipe for madness and mental collapse amongst the general population.
The industry that has grown up around alleged physiologically based 'mental illness' seeks new patients who are as young as possible, because it is clearly 'understood' and preached by this discipline that most people who enter the mental health system require medication for LIFE. Thus, the younger the new patient, the more profits are maximized. This is a business model, and nothing else – and based entirely on phony, fraudulent science, it threatens to plunge our culture into a disintegration that could only be described as Satanic in nature and scope – if it is not doing so already.


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I hate fashion and I hate magazines but if kids are going to be reading this crap I guess that's a plus
I like thinking about clothing from a radical perspective (especially wrt gender things I think it's important) and I'm not sure magazines are necessarily problematic.
they are essentially 1 huge ad how is that not a bad thing? especially when giving it to kids
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We are currently on our annual Cornwall windsurfing wave adventure courses!
We kicked off at Stithians Lake with a great Windwise Skills Training Session fabulous work ethic, decent breeze, great crew, hot coffee, warm showers and some of the best inland windsurfing in the country! After that we headed to Daymer, but due to the unusual Easterly breezes we ended up dong most of our sailing at Bigbury, which is all part of the adventure to try new places! We had a mix of flat water skills and some sweet waves for first time wave sailors! In the lat few days, we've biked, WindSUPed, Skills Trained, rode waves, drunk great more coffee, had Rick Steins Fish & Chips and a few pints of Doombar!
Simon's courses never fail to push me and get me through a plateau! This time I got my first ever planing exit from a gybe! K.M
Windsurfing, WindSUPing, Surfing, Biking, Swimming Pools, Jacuzzi's, 5 Star Accommodation, Pasties, Coffee, Big Bike rides and much more...it has to be Gwithian!
Our last adventure trip was based from the stunning accommodation at Gwel an Mor on the North coast of Cornwall near Portreath. So we had to struggle with stunning lodges, swimming pool, spa, gym, tennis and hot tubs! As for the windsurfing, we had a real mix of conditions and sailed Marazion, Gwithian and then finished up with a sweet super clean waves in Bigbury. The ethos of all our Windwise Adventure Trips is to windsurf as much as possible and fill in the down time with other activities such as WindSUPing, surfing, biking and enjoying all that Cornwall has to offer. I don't think we stopped for four days, including Windwise skills sessions, upwind coffee run off St. Michaels Mount, some blasting and loads of great float and ride sessions with super clean surf. Off the water we hit the pasties and made a stunning 28 mile North-South-North bike ride across Cornwall. To end each day we could relax in the luxury lodges with pool, saunas, gym and hot tubs, not a bad way to recover from a day on the water! Like the Daymer trip is was a great fun four days and continues our quest to mix great windsurfing with great people and places!
A massive thanks to everyone who joined our Windwise Cornwall Adventure Trips and for making them such great fun both on and off the water!
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Indian Postal Jobs | GDS Recruitment 2018 in M.P. Postal Circle | 2411 Gramin Dak Sevak Vacancies: Indian Postal Department has given an employment notification for Gramin Dak Sevak in Madhya Pradesh Postal Circle. Online applications are invited from the 10th Pass eligible candidates for Postal GDS Recruitment. The candidates can apply for the mentioned post until 19th February 2018. Recruitment Advertisement No. ESTT/1-110/GDS. Details of Post, Eligibility Criteria, Age Limit, and other related information are given below:
Postal GDS Recruitment in M.P. Postal Circle
Name of the Post: Gramin Dak Sevak
Vacancy: 2411(UR=918, OBC=358, SC=392, ST=647, PH-HH=35, PH-OH=34, PH-VH=27).
Required Qualification: The candidates must have a 10th Standard qualification from a recognized Board/Institute. Also, the candidates should have Computer knowledge and basic computer training certificate for at least 60 days from a recognized Computer Training Institute.
Age Limit: The minimum and maximum age of the applicants should be between 18 to 40 years as on 19th January 2018. Upper age limit will be relaxable by 5 years for SC/ST and by 3 years for OBC candidates.
Application Fee: Applicants are required to pay an application fee amounting to Rs.100/- through online at any identified Post Office in MP Postal Circle. SC/ST/Women candidates are not required to pay any application fee for the Gramin Dak Sevak post.
Selection Process: Selection will be made on the basis of Merit.
How To Apply: Interested and eligible candidates can apply online for Postal GDS Recruitment in Madhya Pradesh Postal Circle. The online application link is available on the India Post website at www.apost.in/gdsonline. The candidates who are desired to apply online will have to register their name in the India Post portal through the above website with a basic detail to obtain the Registration Number. The candidates who have already registered once in the portal need not register again. At the time of registration, the candidate should have the following necessary data.
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Like most book lovers, I've piles of unread books. I continuously keep adding to it by buying new books. Realistically, unless I retire and read full time, it seems unlikely that I will be able to read all the books I own in a decade. But we are not going to talk about the book buying…that's a whole separate issue. What I have been pondering is what makes us pick up one book over another, why I start reading a certain book as soon as it arrives in the post, or even on the way home from the bookstore, whereas others must await their turn for months, years, or even decades? One thing is for certain, there is no logic behind it as far as provable logic goes. So what drives these decision?
This particular pondering started because I just picked out my "Vintage" collection, which I bought almost to the day five years ago. For five years these books have sat on my shelf, looking gorgeous, but I've ignored them as I selected other things to read. Oh I have admired them, I have considered reading them, but they never quite made it out of their spot and into my hands. I don't know why. Just as I don't know why today this is the collection I was drawn to.
There are other books for me to read. In fact, it would make more sense to start reading a second book in The Liveship Traders trilogy, because I recently finished the first book. It would make more sense to finish reading Rousseau's Confessions that I'm in the middle of. There are a lot of other books that, logically, I should be reading right now. But instead, I took out my collection, intending to read a book by Maugham, and instead started reading The Easter Parade by Richard Yates. I've never read anything by Richard Yates. In fact, even among this collection, I should be and am more drawn to Isherwood – whose journals I enjoy – and Maugham, due to his reputation. Yet, they must wait some more.
I believe that books are like people. Sometimes we meet the right person at the right time and everything falls into place. At other times, the people are right but the timing is wrong and things don't work out so well. This happens with books too. A right book read at the right time has the power to transform lives. It can offer support, comfort, hope, understanding, a really good cry, fuel dreams, energize, deepen emotional understanding, educate and make you think. The right book at the right time can be a miracle, often a mini miracle, but sometimes a mega miracle. So that's why when books draw me to them, I listen. When I feel the urge to read something in particular, against all logic, I read it. The stuff that needs to be read will be read somehow. But books that your heart/soul tells you to read…that's where magic may happen. Sometimes, signals get crossed and it's just an ordinary book. But sometimes, it's another alleyway, exploring uncharted territories inside one's own soul.


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The Council vision reflects the belief of the elected members - from rebuild to regeneration, Christchurch will be different and requires fresh thinking, and being brave and adventurous enough to take full advantage of the opportunities this provides.
Open to new ideas, new people and new ways of doing things – a city where anything is possible.
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Researchers at the University of Texas in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have recently used silicene, a two-dimensional allotrope of silicon, to make a transistor. Transistors are used to amplify electrical signals, so the development of transistors with silicene promises not only smaller and dramatically faster computer chips, but a new epoch for electronics. Because silicene is so thin (one atom thick), scientists had to work with material at an infinitesimal level. The researches were also faced with another challenge. Silicene is unstable when exposed to oxygen, so experiments would see adverse reactions if they were performed in the open air.
Nonetheless, Deji Akinwande, an assistant professor at UT Austin and his team joined up with Alessandro Molle, who works for the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems in Italy. Together they developed a new way to create a transistor in a limited oxygen environment and it was a success. Although there is still a great deal more work to be done, Akinwande is impressed so far. He says, "The major breakthrough here is the efficient low-temperature manufacturing and fabrication of silicene devices for the first time."
Essentially the researchers made a silicene sandwich. Inside a vacuum chamber, after the vapor of silicon atoms was condensed onto a piece of silver, a layer of silicene was formed. Then, they topped the silicene with an extremely thin layer of alumina. With the protection of these layers the silicene could be safely transferred to an oxidized-silicon substrate. After some etching in the silver, the team was left with two metal electrodes and a ribbon of silicene between them. The next step of course is to keep experimenting and hopefully soon these transistors made with silicene will be used to give the world access to faster computing.
Not long ago, man-made silicene was only a theory, but there was speculation that it this idea could be realized. Molle, his co-workers in Italy, and other researchers have spent a number of years researching and developing the silicene nanosheets that were used in the creation of the transistor. Much of the research on silicon started with carbon. Carbon, in many ways, is easier to work with than silicon. The basic idea for silicene actually came from graphene, which is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon. Science and technology have always been stair-step fields. That is, researchers have always used the ideas of previous researchers as a foothold and a building block to develop and produce new ideas.
If the transistors made with silicene are eventually developed into computer chips and faster electronics are made, many fields of science will benefit. Maybe one of them will be health care. A DNA transistor was used in helping map the human genome and implanted computer chips can be utilized for storing medical records, just think how much silicene transistors could help in spurring research within biology and genetics. Computer chips are also used in cars, cellphones, digital home appliances, and entertainment electronics. If developments with silicene transistors proceed, the world could see almost everything move a little faster.
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It's a fuzzy old world!
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I like this picture. It reminds me of Spirograph from when I was a kid. It's pretty complex too but still nowhere near conveying the sheer complexity of a "typical" complex business system…even a relatively small one!
"Why not?" I hear you cry. Well, let me attempt to, briefly, explain.
Visualise each red dot as an activity or process undertaken within the business or, indeed, as a series of key participants in the company's supply chain. Look at all the interconnections
Even when a business decision is pretty clear cut, from the assessment of the known facts – quantitative and qualitative – and the outcome is yes or no, that doesn't tell us about how much, when, who, what else is affected by the decision or to what extent..
This can be (is in scientific circles!) described as fuzziness. Too many potential outcomes to even begin to calculate. Read more of this post


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The Delaware Division of Public Health wishes to alert the Delaware medical community about an important report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CDC's April 30 MMWR contains new Gonococcal Isolate Surveillance Project (GISP) data showing increases in resistance to fluoroquinolones (including Cipro) in the treatment of gonorrhea overall (1%), but especially concentrated among men who have sex with men (MSM) (5%). Surveillance data from Massachusetts and New York City shows resistant gonorrhea rates eight times higher among MSM than among heterosexual men.
Based on this new information, CDC is now recommending that fluoroquinolones no longer be used as the first-line treatment of gonorrhea among MSM. CDC is now recommending instead that the injectable antibiotic ceftriaxone (Rocephin) and Spectinomycin be used instead as the primary treatment in MSM. Another recommended drug, cefixime (Suprax), is also recommended but is currently only available in liquid form in the United States. Specific treatment recommendations can be obtained at: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5316a1.htm
Although the new recommendations only apply to MSM at this time, CDC will continue to monitor both heterosexuals and MSM and will make changes to the treatment recommendations as necessary.
Approximately 1128 cases of gonorrhea were reported to Delaware Division of Public Health in 2003. An estimated 52 of these are MSM. In light of this report, DPH is recommending that clinicians advise their patients about the importance of follow-up if symptoms persist, and be prepared to evaluate such cases by culture.
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We'll be back in 2014!
The Common Good team wishes all of our blog readers a blessed and restful Christmas!
We're going to be taking a break from blogging for a while (to put our feet up and enjoy the sunshine) but we will be back with fresh and inspiring content to kick off the New Year!
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"Catholic means universal. But religion, like politics, is always local. In the pages of The American Catholic Almanac, we can spend every day as a feast in the company of our homegrown communion of saints. It's time we learned to boast, as St. Paul did, of the amazing graces that God has given — liberally and locally. It's time we learned to appreciate what is ours." –Mike Aquilina, co-author of The Feasts
"What a joy it is to have The American Catholic Almanac in my home! This unique resource is a testament to the rich and diverse history of Catholicism in the United States. You can browse just a few entries at a time, or do as I did, and devour the entire book in just a few days, but one thing is certain: You will come away inspired and encouraged by the witness and courage of those who have gone before us in the history of our Church and our nation." –Danielle Bean, Catholic author and Editor-in-Chief, Catholic Digest
"My first thought after reading The American Catholic Almanac is, 'Why didn't someone think to write this decades ago!' The saints and sinners, heroes and villains–and a few in between–who helped create our America are brilliantly and concisely given their due. In these troubled times such examples illuminate a clear path forward for the Church Militant. As Father Francis Parater, one of the more obscure heroes brought to life in its pages declared, 'Since my childhood, I have wanted to die for God and my neighbor. Shall I have this grace?' It's long past time for us to regain such a burning desire for sacrifice, and to raise up a new generation of American Catholics that know both where they come from and the company they will join if they lovingly embrace self-denial, charity, and boldness in defense and promotion of the Faith." – Brian Brown, National Organization for Marriage
"If we don't know our history as a believing people, we invite the world to invent it for us, with little regard for the facts or our convictions. This is why The American Catholic Almanac is such a treasure. Vividly written, filled with engaging historical detail and organized into easy readings for every day of the year, this is a wonderful record of the American Catholic experience." –Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia
"The American Catholic Almanac is a fascinating and exciting read. Our country needs the witnesses of Catholics who have been extraordinary 'missionary disciples' of Jesus Christ. The American Catholic Almanac tells the stories of the men and women who have sought to know God, and to serve him, here in the United States. This book will inspire a generation to strive for heroic sanctity in Christ." –Bishop James Conley, Diocese of Lincoln, NE
"From prelates and politicians, to Annie Moore, the first Irish Catholic immigrant to set foot on the newly opened Ellis Island, you will find it all here in this lively story of the Catholics who transformed the United States. This engaging book will inspire all–both inside the Church and out. " –Anne Hendershott, Director of the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio
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"The American Catholic Almanac is a timely book. At a time when religious freedom is threatened, this book serves as a reminder of the great influence that Catholics have in the United States of America. The book is filled with stories of Americans who have helped shape our culture and politics. From the time Catholics arrived on these shores, they strove to be both Catholic and American. This delightful and informative book suggests how we might still do that today." –James Nicholson, American Ambassador to the Vatican
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The Chicago MDS Support Group is open to all MDS patients, their families and friends. The group generally meets the third Tuesday of the month 1:30-3pm. The group provides opportunities to exchange thoughts and ideas on dealing with MDS. Facilitated by Kim Jensen, LCSW, OSW-C and Bozena Vargo, R.N.
Northwest Community Hospital
800 W. Central Road
Radiation Oncology
(Lower level of the hospital)
For more information, call 847-618-4968 or visit us at nch.org/supportgroups.


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Upcoming New Courses
We will be putting on a new course 10-12 May and possibly on 24-26 May. This course will be the Kidnap Defense/E&E merged with the communication and encryption techniques described in my Unexpected Warfighter series ( Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 ).
Upon successful completion of this course you will have learned and demonstrated the techniques described in the series, as well as escaping from criminal custody, planning a safe route through a hostile urban setting, vanishing into a crowd, avoiding refugee lines of drift and many other life saving techniques. This course is a must for the business traveler, tourist or anyone working or living in a hazardous or unstable area.
Training will be held in the Pacific Northwest. Cost is discounted to $500 and, dependent on venue, we will offer a carbine and pistol skills workshop the day prior to the course for those that are interested. We will run you through several evaluation drills utilized by the special operations community and help you with your marksmanship and manipulation skills as needed - at no cost to attendees.
Please RSVP as soon as possible so we can keep the class size at a manageable level. You can find further details on the Courses page, or email me with any questions. This is the most popular course I teach and am only able to offer it once or twice a year - so don't miss out on this crucial skill-set.


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Tuckermanella coralligera
(W.A. Weber) Essl.
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Cetraria coralligera
(W.A. Weber) Hale,
Cetraria fendleri f. coralligera
W.A. Weber,
Tuckermannopsis coralligera
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Tuckermanopsis coralligera
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Stephen Sharnoff
Greater Sonoran Desert
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Nash, T.H., Ryan, B.D., Gries, C., Bungartz, F., (eds.) 2004. Lichen Flora of the Greater Sonoran Desert Region. Vol 2.
: foliose, up to 4 or 5 cm in diam., often +irregular, but sometimes orbicular
: rounded-crenate to somewhat elongate, 0.4-1 mm broad, flat to weakly concave, prostrate
upper surface
: olive brown to rather dark brown on edges, epruinose, usually moderately to strongly shiny on the lobe ends, isidiate
: laminal, globose to more often cylindrical and sparsely branched, 0.05-0.15 µm in diameter, occasionally bearing pycnidia (not at tip), sometimes becoming crowded and +continuous in older thallus parts
upper cortex
: paraplectenchymatous
: white
lower cortex
: paraplectenchymatous
lower surface
: tan to pale brown, dull; rhizines: sparse, simple, concolorous with the lower surface
: rare, up to 1 mm in diam.; margin: becoming isidiate
: ellipsoid to ovoid, 7-9 x 5-6.5 µm
: occasional, immersed to weakly emergent, black, submarginal or on the isidia
: bifusiform, 4-5 x 1 µm
Spot tests
: cortex and medulla all spot tests negative
Secondary metabolites
: 2-3 high Rf lichesterinic acid type fatty acids.
Substrate and ecology
: most common on wood, also on conifer bark
World distribution
: southwestern North America
Sonoran distribution
: Arizona, Sonora and Chihuahua.
: As an isidiate species, Tuckermanella coralligera stands out in the genus. Occasional specimens of T. fendleri are laciniate and/or papillate-foliolate and these might be mistaken for T. coralligera, but the papillae or folioles in T. fendleri are less regular than the isidia of T. coralligera and they bear pseudocyphellae.
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Below is a script of my first Toastmaster's Speech delivered on October 11, 2013 at Oryx Rotana Hotel during the first regular meeting of PICE-Qatar Toastmasters Club. In Toastmasters, the first speech project is called an Ice Breaker. It has an objective of introducing yourself to the group and conquering your fear of speaking in front of an audience. And yes, I successfully did it with a copy of my script in the lectern and within the time limit allowed. 🙂
Why am I here?
Mr. Toastmaster of the Day, fellow toastmasters and honored guests, a pleasant afternoon!
Before I prepared my speech, I did a scrupulous (it was the word of the day during the meeting, so I inserted it before I did the speech) research about the origin of Ice Breaker and I found out that in 17th century in the UK, there is an Ice Breaker ship. During winter, the sea water often freezes. So, before a ship could travel down to the trading port, a special ship called Ice Breaker went into the iced water to literally break the ice. Hence an ice breaker is needed for them to get down to business. Nowadays, ice breaker is a term use to establish a relaxed relationship in socially awkward situations.
Having said that and before I literally freeze here in front of you, I am here now to kick off my Toastmaster's journey.
I am Asuncion Lopez and everyone calls me Azon for short. I was born in the simple province of Bulacan. I graduated with a Civil Engineering degree but my work experiences diverted me to Quantity Surveying career.
It was never part of my dream to live and work out of our country. However, because my husband got a good job opportunity here in Qatar, it took a year for me to come up with a decision of joining him here in 2010. After another year I realized that coming back and forth the Philippines every other month with my son staying in the Philippines and my husband here in Qatar is not a very wise situation, so in 2011 we also decided to bring our son here with us.
After another year had passed and I again realized that I am already getting bored in Qatar for being a stay at home mom, doing the laundry, cooking and cleaning the house everyday. I was already tired of playing Farmville, chatting with all my facebook friends around the world. Therefore, I decided to get a job and on January 2012 I started working again as a Quantity Surveyor. This time, it was no longer in the busy streets of Ayala Avenue in Makati but in the desert land of the State of Qatar.
In last quarter of 2012, I started my studies on Adaptation Course through distance learning in my preparation for assessment of professional competence next year that would lead me to be a member of Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors in UK.
The first time I heard about Toastmasters was only early this year when Filcom International made a very short presentation in our QS organization because having a good presentation skill is also important to pass the assessment of RICS. I immediately became interested with Toastmaster however, our organization was not very eager to organize a Toastmaster club.
Toastmasters had crossed my way again when Filcom International made a Demo meeting for PICE at FCC where I was one of the attendees. I believe being a Toastmaster is really part of my destiny.
Now, I am here as a member and Club Secretary of PICE Qatar Toastmasters Club accepting the challenges to overcome my fear in public speaking and further develop my skills in communication and leadership.


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Transcend is a cutscene in Resident Evil: Revelations 2. It is playing during the Barry's segment of "Metamorphosis", the fourth level of the game.
Barry Burton and Natalia Korda complete their journey throughout Alex Wesker's mansion and meet the crazed Overseer in her underground laboratory. In a furious attempt to destroy Natalia, Wesker injects the Uroboros virus into herself and mutates into a monstrosity. Barry, determined to protect Natalia, readies himself for battle.
Alex: "I can still destroy you. I have to destroy you!"
Barry: "Wesker!"
Alex: "Natalia."
Barry: "Oh no you didn't."
Alex: "I understand how you felt, Albert. It's not enough to live. I want to transcend!"
Barry: "Holy fuck..."
"You can't have her, She-Wesker!"
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Trick Tips: How to Kickflip with Chico Brenes
Chico Brenes, a legend among all skateboarders, lends us some time at Woodward West for this instructional "Trick Tips" video. Chico takes his time to break down the basics of one of the most essential of Skateboard tricks, The Kickflip. From feet placement to height of your pop, Chico explains it in a simple form in order for you to easily understand. Take a look at some of our other "How To" tutorials and make sure you bring it back to camp next summer.Filmed and Edited by Ricky FlipRegister For Camp Today!
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The Winners of the 5th Annual Friends of the Merril Short Story Contest!
The results have been tallied, and we are proud to announce the winners of the 5th Annual Friends of the Merril Short Story Contest!
1st Place:"The God Beast of Duolunduo" by Michael Reid (Burlington, ON)
Runner-Up: "The Hole in the Wall" by Andrew Leon Hudson (Madrid, Spain)
Runner-Up: "Changed" by Stacy Sinclair (Waterloo, ON)
Congratulations to the winners as well as the other finalists! We had a wonderful crop of stories this year and final competition was fierce. We hope to see more from all of you in the future!
Thanks to our judges, Hiromi Goto, Tanya Huff, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia as well as our SWAMPED first readers, Claire Humphrey, Kelsi Morris, and Adam Shaftoe! Thanks also to our sponsors, Innsmouth Free Press and Laksa Media, the board of the Friends of the Merril Collection, and of course Lorna Toolis and the staff of the Collection.
You are all welcome to join us in celebrating the Merril & the winners of this year's contest at the Friends of the Merril Annual General Meeting this Thursday, January 28th at 7pm. Have a look at the Facebook event for more details! Members and guests are all welcome.
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Both of these things made me pondering about the future of StarFire (which is at the moment a floating point of uncertainty for multiple reasons that I will not tell in all detail now). I am considering completely recoding it and make it a shining star in the indie game scene as it was supposed to be from the start.
The aspects I reflected upon are as follows:
- Game architecture. StarFire was created to be modular. The development of it was slowed down a lot because of this additional focus on modularity. Another reason was the fact I wasn't very experienced with some parts of coding. A stark contrast to CamoTanks/CamoTactics, which is a game built on the fly (using extracted/abstracted code from the StarFire libs) and thus made huge progress in just a little less than a month.
Besides this, the game completely lacked a decent specification. This is part of the reason why I still am not entirely sure what to do with it. I roughly know what the player should be able to do in StarFire, but am not entirely sure how it can be implemented or whether it can be implemented at all. In some aspects, SpaceEngineers is very close to what StarFire is going to be. Due to this fact it's a perfect playground figuring out what game mechanics are fun (or how they need to be in order to be fun), before even prototyping them. (I should add that the idea for StarFire was born before I even knew about SpaceEngineers). Like this I think I'm slowly getting a feeling what's best for StarFire and the content I want to display with it. And this is a good thing.
- Game design. After playing Space Engineers some game mechanic parts I first wanted to add to StarFire now seem a bit unhandy/not fun enough in practice. This especially applies to gathering resources and crafting/production. On the other hand, some other game mechanics such as voxels I first didn't want to implement now seem more interesting and feasible.
I have played other voxel based games, such as 7 Days To Die or Minecraft, and despite them using voxel engines they are completely different. First off, Space Engineers, 7 Days To Die and Minecraft differ greatly in the atmosphere and experiences they produce. You will find yourself sneaking around and avoid zombies in 7DTD and run like a pansy once they spotted you; in Minecraft, you'll explore caves, enjoy farming, animal slaughtering and breeding (...this sort of sounds weird but let's just leave it at that). In SpaceEngineers, you will spend hours mining asteroids and creating spacecraft accompanied with epic orchestral music.
There are no Zombies going to tear down your house in Minecraft, there is not a chance you could tame a dog, farm, or get your house blown up in SpaceEngineers, there's no way you could build a functioning spacecraft in Minecraft with all the fancy space stuff around it.
Long story short: even using the same technology, the results can be astoundingly different.
- Workflow management. Dealing with Enterprise Architect made me realize that StarFire still had multiple architecture flaws that existed from the start. The code itself wasn't a downright mess, it was actually pretty clean and well-documented (considering I'm a bit chaotic), however, in some cases it was very inefficient. This was due to the fact I coded very "light-hearted" without any workflow tools such as an class/workflow diagram, except a TODO list and the occasional but lax diagram/sketch to depict more complex mechanisms. I made these sketches on paper, but I usually never looked at them ever again.
Sometimes I missed out a flawful architecture in one subsystem because it wasn't depicted with the entire system and all other subsystems (just a small parts of it); as a consequence, I had to invest time coding on both systems adapting them to each other in order to work. That partially also involved recoding large parts of the system. Very ineffective!
I will continue my research, keep on coding smaller games; and when I feel it's time, recode StarFire to bring it to its fullest glory!


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The Republican alternative to replace Obamacare will face it's first test Thursday.
The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on the new American Health Care Act (AHCA) to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
On Wednesday, Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley addressed a letter to President Donald Trump thanking him and his Administration for developing the plan — a three-pronged approach intended to improve health-care delivery and health insurance in our country.
Bentley mentioned that he is also looking forward to working with the Trump Administration to help Alabama improve Medicaid for its citizens by providing managed care through regional care organizations.
"Secretary Price on Monday, in a meeting with me and other Alabama officials, assured us that Alabama, a state that stood strong and chose not to expand Medicaid, will be given much-needed flexibility to adjust to changes proposed by the American Health Care Act," he said in his letter to the President.
Bentley wanted to make sure Alabama, and the 18 other non-expansion states, was not financially hurt in the health care overhaul.
"Given such assurances, and given some key changes made in recent days to the proposed American Health Care Act, I support the legislation," Bentley continued.
Under the new proposal, Alabama would receive an additional $90 million annually for five year.
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The programs within the College of Education and Human Services (CEHS) span a broad range of Human Services disciplines, including Speech Pathology, Education, Social Work, and more. What they share is a set of core principles that combine service to others and to the community with a high standard of professional excellence.
Just as hands-on "real world" work is inherent to the Human Services professions, authentic hands-on experience is an integral part of the Human Services curricula. Many of our programs place students in field experiences as part of the very first introductory course to ensure that our students' education is grounded in practice as well as theory.
Students in our programs enjoy moderate class sizes and a high level of personalized interaction with their instructors. CEHS faculty members strive to be accessible, approachable and student-centered. Our students report that this close interaction is one of the things they value most about their educational experience at MSUM.
The College of Education and Human Services is comprised of collaborative, community minded professionals who provide rigorous, best practices education to prepare students to meet the social, education, leadership, health and human service needs of our world.


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In 2017, there were 321 police-reported hate crimes against black Canadians.
There were also 204 hate crimes reported based on sexual orientation.
READ MORE: Canada's criminal code doesn't mention 'hate crime' — so how do we hold people accountable?
Those numbers are from a Statistics Canada report, which acknowledges that many hate crimes in Canada go unreported — so the real number of victims is higher.
And the real number of hate crimes in Canada (and beyond) is undoubtedly much higher than the instances of false claims that may gain media attention.
WATCH: Jussie Smollett released from custody after posting bond
Conversations surrounding fake claims of hate crimes arose this week, after Chicago police charged Empire actor Jussie Smollett for filing a false police report claiming he was the victim of racial and homophobic crime.
While the allegations against Smollett have not been proven, Chicago police said at a press conference Thursday that Smollett paid out US$3,500 to stage the attack because he wanted to "promote his career."
Neethan Shan, who works with the Urban Alliance on Race Relations in Toronto, explained false hate-crime accusations fuel groups who are reluctant to accept the problem of hate.
WATCH: Hate crimes against Jewish community increase year over year
"Stories like this can be used as an excuse by people who do not want to acknowledge discrimination or do not want to acknowledge privilege. Stories like this can be used by systems that are reluctant to change," Shan told Global News.
He added instances of fake hate-crime reports are "isolated and rare."
Shan also cautioned against lumping hate-crime cases together — or emphasizing one potentially false case over numerous real ones. He noted actions of one person in a racialized or minority community can get projected on the larger community, but that doesn't happen for non-racialized groups.
WATCH: #FirstTimeIWasCalled — Canadians share their first experience with discrimination
"We get non-racialized folks who might have faked an illness, for example, to fundraise saying they had cancer. An incident like that is not extrapolated to further target or question the authenticity of people's experiences."
Several LGBTQ+ and black advocates also took to Twitter expressing similar sentiments, saying a false accusation should not take away from real instances.
READ MORE: Why it's so hard to stop online hate before it becomes real-life violence
Washington, D.C.-based black queer advocate Preston Mitchum explained on Twitter that the conversation surrounding Smollett's case being linked to others is "one-dimensional."
"I really can't believe this one-dimensional framing that one person who (still allegedly) lied is the reason harm to Black queer people will occur, or that NOW we won't be believed. It's honestly, truly ridiculous," Mitchum tweeted.
"Y'all, where do you live when people have inherently been believed? Honestly. People will discriminate against us because they want to and have power to do so. Our nation is anti-Black and anti-LGBTQ. To place the burden on one person is harmful and disingenuous," he continued.
Chad Griffin, who is the president of the U.S.-based LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, called the Smollett case "devastating & frustrating."
But Griffin noted that those feeling frustrated can channel their energy into creating positive change.
"But I want to ask everyone feeling angry, hurt & disappointed to channel that into productive activism – because there are thousands targeted by hate violence each year who need our help," he tweeted.
Griffin pointed to several recent cases of violence against members of the LGBTQ+ community in America.
READ MORE: 6 steps Canadians can take when they spot hate speech online
Bernie Farber of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network made a similar call — those impacted by this story should look at how they can truly help hate-crime victims.
"Let's look at the attention this has thrown on the issue of hate crimes at a time when we need that attention," Farber told Global News.
"Let's shift the focus and view this as really an opportunity to focus on the real issue."
WATCH: What's behind hate-fuelled crimes in the U.S?
Hate crimes in Canada and U.S.
Police-reported hate crimes in Canada have been inching up slowly for several years. In 2016, they went up by three per cent and five per cent the year before.
In 2017, the number of hate crimes went up much more dramatically — by 47 per cent. The increase was largely driven by hate crimes against Muslim, Jewish and black Canadians.
In the U.S., the FBI tracks hate crimes and found in its most recent report that there are nearly 20 such crimes in the country every day.
READ MORE: In Canada, Jews face more hate crimes, while Muslims face more violent ones
The number of hate crimes south of the border went up 17 per cent in 2017 — a total of 7,175 hate-crime incidents overall.
Of those hate crimes, 1,303 were offences based on "sexual-orientation bias," the FBI report said.
Nearly 5,000 single-bias hate crimes were motivated by race, ethnicity or ancestry, and within those crimes, 48.8 per cent were caused by "anti-Black or African-American bias."