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Office of Climate Change spearheads 'green' agenda sessions in Schools-Regions 4, 5, 6 and 10 to benefit in first quarter of 2017
The Office of Climate Change (OCC), which falls under the purview of the Ministry of the Presidency, in collaboration with the Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN), yesterday, visited three schools in East Berbice-Corentyne (Region Six) to continue its countrywide Climate Change sessions, which are aimed at educating students on the effects of the global phenomenon and Guyana's pursuit of a 'green' agenda.
The team, comprised of staff from the Office of Climate Change and volunteers from the CYEN, delivered 90-minute sessions the All Saints Primary, the New Amsterdam Multilateral and the Manchester Secondary Schools.
During the course of each session, short videos detailing the effects of rising sea levels, importance of water management, the impact of Climate Change on the Caribbean region and Guyana, among other related areas, were shown to the students, after which they were given measures and steps they can take in the home and at school to combat the effects. It was followed by a reinforcement session in which the students were quizzed and given prizes.
Ms. Yasmin Bowman, Communications Specialist at the OCC, in an invited comment, said that the outreach to the region is one in a series of outreaches, which have been planned by Department for the first quarter of 2017. A total of 20 schools were targeted and thus far, 14 have been completed.
"What we have been doing is engaging a lot of the schools in Regions 4, 5, 6 and next week we are going to Region 10. The purpose of this awareness session is exactly what I said, to bring awareness to the students on Climate Change. From the interactions, we have had over the last few weeks, we have noticed that a number of schools and children are not familiar with Climate Change in general or what Climate Change is. Some of them have never even heard about the Office of Climate Change and so we are hoping that once we come to the school, we can bring awareness to the children," she explained.
Ms. Bowman added that the sessions, however, are also aimed at promoting behaviour change with regard to the treatment of the environment especially at a time when Guyana has embarked on a 'green' development plan.
In addition to Primary and Secondary School students, "we would also be engaging nursery level students but their awareness sessions will be done in the form of puppeteering as against the format we used for the Secondary and Primary School children, where we have videos and a reinforcement session and power-point to ensure they grasp as much as possible. What we did not want to do is to use one paint brush to cover everything so we did the awareness in a format where the child could have an appreciation for what is happening," she said.
Ms. Elon McCurdie, National Coordinator for CYEN, said that the organisation wants to focus primarily on climate change and its impacts and to identify actions that youths can take within the communities, schools and homes so that they can help in the process.
"With them being children now and them taking on actions, whether it is at school or at home, they are now heading into a more sustainable lifestyle so that as they get older, these are things that they can use to help Guyana and themselves," she said.
Ms. McCurdie is hopeful that the programme can also be taken to the Hinterland regions and not just the Coastland, to ensure that a concerted effort is taken to combat Climate Change and global warming and to raise support for the path, which Guyana has chosen to go.
Meanwhile, Head Master of the All Saints Primary, Mr. Bassant Jagdeo, who sat in the session facilitated at his school, said that the initiative is commendable and must be taken across the country so that behaviour changes can be achieved for the good of the environment and the country as a whole.
"I really appreciate this and not only on my behalf but the entire school population. The kids are the ones that we have to target and the ones who need to become more aware. I know that a lot of the adults are neglectful in their actions and saving our earth but if we can start with the youths, then we are going to have a positive reward in years to come. This is a very great initiative and we should not only target schools but homes too need to be apart. Parents need to be involved because this starts from the home," he said.
The school has been promoting its own little project in its compound, which sees plants being grown and the students having responsibility to take care of them. Mr. Jagdeo said that this is aimed at inculcating responsibility for the environment in the child so that they can be conscious in their actions.
Caribbean warned to prepare for more severe storms
At an OECS climate change forum, environmentalists warn that frequency and intensity of extreme weather conditions is likely to increase.
OECS member states have been urged to prepare for more extreme weather conditions and natural disasters as a result of climate change.
The warning came from Crispin d'Auvergne, Saint Lucia's Chief Sustainable Development Officer, who was a contributing panelist at an OECS climate change forum in Dominica.
The forum is part of the Vini Kozè (Let's Chat) Series that engages citizens in discussion and debate on development opportunities and challenges facing the region.
According to Mr. d'Auvergne, a 2008 environmental study showed that while Saint Lucia sees an average of one to two Category 4 or Category 5 hurricanes per year, it is likely to increase to four or five hurricanes of that magnitude each year. Citing another study, Mr. d'Auvergne said rainfall in the Caribbean is expected to increase by 25 to 50 percent in the next five decades. These extreme weather patterns will become "the new normal" he said, adding that because the frequency and intensity of extreme weather conditions is likely to increase, the Caribbean should plan accordingly, preparing for more severe natural disasters like droughts, hurricanes and floods.
After Dominica was devastated by Tropical Storm Erica in August 2015, the Minister for Health and Environment, Dr. Kenneth Darroux, said Dominica had never seen a disaster of such proportions in terms of damage to infrastructure and the loss of life. Infrastructural damage was estimated at $1.4 billion. Minister Darroux said the storm caused the government to revisit its land use, policies, and regulations.
The Global Environment Fund (GEF) has been helping to build resilience in vulnerable communities in Dominica through its Small Grants Program (SGP). National Coordinator of GEF-SGP in Dominica, Agnes Esprit, said GEF's intervention is driven by the communities in which it works, and that makes for a more sustainable and people-led approach to projects.
The Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN) was also represented at the forum. Regional Chairperson, Jamilla Sealy, said CYEN does tremendous advocacy, public awareness, and education on the environment and climate change targeted at young people and the general populace. The Caribbean Youth Environment Network was integrally involved in the climate justice campaign that championed the "1.5 to Stay Alive" initiative leading up to COP 21 in Paris in December 2015. Sealy said she is encouraged by the traction which the movement gained.
Master Scuba Diver Kenneth Samuel, who owns and operates Kenneth's Dive Centre in St. Kitts has earned a living from the sea for over 50 years. He started off as a fisherman and transitioned into scuba diving. Now in his 70s, Mr. Samuel said he has experienced the effects of climate change which have now begun to affect his livelihood.
The OECS Public Education Forum Series (PEFS) runs until March 2017. The next forum will be held in Martinique on Feb. 24. The topic for discussion will be OECS Regional Integration with a focus on the free movement of persons, the harmonization of legislation, and investment opportunities across OECS member states.
The forum series is part of the public education component of the Economic Integration and Trade Program of the OECS, funded by the 10th European Development Fund (EDF).
The forum was held at the Fort Young Hotel in Dominica on Feb. 10.
Credit: St. Lucia Times
Climate Change: What about the SIDS? A Youth Perspective
Young people from across the Caribbean are increasingly raising their voices about climate change and its impacts (current and projected) on the region. In recognition of this, Caribbean Climate features an exclusive contribution by 23 year old Dizzanne Billy, who is an active executive member of the Caribbean Youth Environment Network-Trinidad and Tobago, in which she reflects on the role of SIDS in the global climate change discourse. Dizzanne's reflection comes just as Small islands prepare to sign a historic treaty in Samoa
I dare you.
Conduct a simple 'Google Images' search on climate change and what do you see before you? Indeed, visions of melting polar ice caps and stranded polar bears are the predominant insignia for the issue of climate change. Undoubtedly, these matters are cause for great concern and my purpose is not to diminish their salience in any way. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has repeatedly highlighted the urgency of findings which reveal that a large portion of the West Antarctic has disappeared and they have stressed the irreversible nature of this occurrence. Nevertheless, it is pivotal that the communication of climate change exude relevance for its target audience. Images of the polar melt are likely to be met with blank stares and shrugs in the Caribbean, where the closest thing to an ice cap is party ice – huge bags of ice used to chill drinks at parties. Yes, climate change is an overwhelming concept to comprehend, and yes, the multiplicity of its very nature can prove itself complex. However, it is an issue that affects countries everywhere in the world regardless of location or level of industrial activity. However, what we must notice is that in order to effectively get the message out there and attract the most influential people to the cause, it must be communicated in a way that leads the seriousness of the issue straight to their front door.
Due to climate change, the world has witnessed longer and colder winters in some parts, drought-like conditions in others, concentrated rainfall during what would normally be a dry season, and persistent episodes of dry environments during what would usually be a wet/rainy season. These conditions have set the stage for a plethora of what can aptly be described as climatic madness in some countries, specifically, Small Island Developing States (SIDS), a term which encompasses those coastal countries that are grouped based on certain characteristics that they share. These include issues in achieving sustainable development, vulnerability to external shocks and natural disasters, and a highly embedded reliance on imports and degradation of their natural resources, which contributes to the delicacy of their environment.
The severity of the climate change situation for SIDS can be likened to dumping a large bowl of salt in their wounds as these nations are already playing the 'catch-up' game in the race toward development. For instance, water scarcity in Samoa is greatly a result of climate change as water catchments continue to dry up due to increasing temperatures and weather patterns that are progressively unstable. There is a growing belief that in semi-arid countries like Samoa, climate change and meteorological uncertainty has led to increased temperatures, less precipitation, reduced stream flows, increased evaporation from reservoirs, and major depletion of water supplies. Being an island where all watersheds are shared by villages, water governance is crucial but implementation is difficult due to lack of institutional capacity. These are generally the woes of Pacific SIDS and can be mirrored in SIDS of the Caribbean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean and the South China Sea.
A crucial consideration is the nexus between climate change and food security. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), in May 2014, issued a major report which emphasised the causes, effects, and resolutions of climate change, and its influence on food security was isolated as a topic for special concern. Essentially, the accessibility to food, steadiness of food supply, and sanitation of food all fall prey to the afflictions of climate change. To add insult to injury, SIDS are particularly vulnerable to climate change due to their stature and geographic characteristics. Sea-level rise can engulf coastal areas, where for instance in Trinidad and Tobago, most farmers choose to do their cultivation.
Will the day ever come when the climate change issues of SIDS are taken seriously on the international stage? Does the principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities not apply to environmental issues faced by countries of this world? Indeed, developed countries continue to turn to industrialisation as the preferred measure of development, murder forests, and emit toxic chemicals and gases wantonly, but at what cost? Can a process which so drastically diminishes the quality of human life be called development at all?
That being said, I am aware that developing countries have a role to play in dealing with the environmental issues that plague us, but we need to have a platform for our issues to be raised and an audience that is serious about addressing them. That can begin with a simple Google Images search that returns results which reflect the universal impact of climate change. Climate change is, to a certain extent, considered a very real global threat. This global threat requires global action and no action is truly global without the inclusion of SIDS at every level of the discourse.
Climate Policy Goes Hand-in-Hand with Water Policy
Concerned that climate change could lead to an intensification of the global hydrological cycle, Caribbean stakeholders are working to ensure it is included in the region's plans for Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).
The basis of IWRM is that the many different uses of finite water resources are interdependent. High irrigation demands and polluted drainage flows from agriculture mean less freshwater for drinking or industrial use.
Contaminated municipal and industrial wastewater pollutes rivers and threatens ecosystems. If water has to be left in a river to protect fisheries and ecosystems, less can be diverted to grow crops.
Meanwhile, around the world, variability in climate conditions, coupled with new socioeconomic and environmental developments, have already started having major impacts.
The Global Water Partnership-Caribbean (GWP-C), which recently brought international and regional stakeholders together for a conference in Trinidad, is aimed at better understanding the climate system and the hydrological cycle and how they are changing; boosting awareness of the impacts of climate change on society, as well as the risk and uncertainty in the context of water and climate change and especially variability; and examining adaptation options in relation to water and climate change.
"Basically we're looking to integrate aspects of climate change and climate variability and adaptation into the Caribbean water sector," Natalie Boodram, programme manager of the Water, Climate and Development Programme (WACDEP), told IPS.
"And this is a very big deal for us because under predicted climate change scenarios we're looking at things like drier dry seasons, more intense hurricanes, when we do get rain we are going to get more intense rain events, flooding.
"All of that presents a substantial challenge for managing our water resources. So under the GWP-C WACDEP, we're doing a number of things to help the region adapt to this," she added.
Current variability and long-term climate change impacts are most severe in a large part of the developing world, and particularly affect the poorest.
Through its workshops, GWP-C provides an opportunity for partners and stakeholders to assess the stage of the IWRM process that various countries have reached and work together to operationalise IWRM in their respective countries.
Integrated Water Resources Management is a process which promotes the coordinated development and management of water, land and related resources in order to maximise economic and social welfare in an equitable manner without compromising the sustainability of vital ecosystems.
IWRM helps to protect the world's environment, foster economic growth and sustainable agricultural development, promote democratic participation in governance, and improve human health.
GWP-C regional co-ordinator, Wayne Joseph, said the regional body is committed to institutionalising and operationalising IWRM in the region.
"Our major programme is the WACDEP Programme, Water and Climate Development Programme, and presently we are doing work in four Caribbean Countries – Jamaica, Antigua, Guyana and St. Lucia," he told IPS.
"We're gender-sensitive. We ensure that the youth are incorporated in what we do and so we provide a platform, a neutral platform, so that issues can be discussed that pertain to water and good water resources management."
The Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN) is a non-profit, civil society body that focuses its resources on empowering Caribbean young people and their communities to develop programmes and actions to address socioeconomic and environmental issues.
Rianna Gonzales, the national coordinator of the Trinidad and Tobago Chapter, has welcomed the initiative of the GWP-C as being very timely and helpful, adding that the region's youth have a very important role to play in the process.
"I think it's definitely beneficial for young people to be part of such a strategic group of people in terms of getting access to resources and experts…so that we will be better able to communicate on water related issues," she told IPS.
The CYEN programme aims at addressing issues such as poverty alleviation and youth employment, health and HIV/AIDS, climatic change and global warming, impact of natural disasters/hazards, improvement in potable water, conservation and waste management and other natural resource management issues.
The GWP-C said the Caribbean region has been exposed to IWRM and it is its goal to work together with its partners and stakeholders at all levels to implement IWRM in the Caribbean.
"A very significant activity for the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States has been to prepare a Water Sector Model Policy and Model Water Act which proposes to remedy the key water resources management issues through new institutional arrangements and mechanisms that include water and waste water master planning, private sector and community partnership and investment mechanisms," GWP-C chair Judy Daniel told IPS.
IWRM has not been fully integrated in the policy, legal and planning frameworks in the Caribbean although several territories have developed/drafted IWRM Policies, Roadmaps and Action plans. Some of these countries include: Antigua and Barbuda; Barbados; Dominica; Grenada; Guyana, Jamaica; The Bahamas; Trinidad and Tobago; and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Credit: Inter Press Service News Agency


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Clinton sees U.S. at 'moment of reckoning'
Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, who sacrificed personal ambition for her husband's political career and then rose to be a globally influential figure, became the first woman to accept a major party's presidential nomination Thursday night, a prize that generations of American women have dreamed about for one of their own.
Declaring that the nation was at "a moment of reckoning," Clinton, 68, urged voters to reject the divisive policy ideas and combative politics of the Republican nominee, Donald Trump. She offered herself as a steady and patriotic American who would stand up for citizens of all races and creeds and unite the country to persevere against Islamic terrorists, economic troubles and the chaos of gun violence.
"Powerful forces are threatening to pull us apart, bonds of trust and respect are fraying," said Clinton, who worked on the speech until the early hours of Thursday morning. "And just as with our founders there are no guarantees. It truly is up to us. We have to decide whether we all will work together so we all can rise together."
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Clinton radiated confidence, from her pungent delivery and easy laugh to the unusually expressive ways she shifted her tone and delighted in her own best lines. She smoothly acknowledged her own limitations and trust issues as a public figure and forcefully challenged Trump over his claims that he alone could fix America's problems.
And after 25 years in a sometimes brutal national spotlight, Clinton tried to explain who she is and what drives her — from her Methodist faith to her passion for government policy that could mean all the difference for people.
"I sweat the details of policy," Clinton said. "Because it's not just a detail if it's your kid — if it's your family. It's a big deal. And it should be a big deal to your president."
It was one of several contrasts she drew with Trump, who has barely explained how he would carry out his policy goals. And she received help from several Republicans and military veterans who took the convention stage earlier in the evening to warn that Trump was not fit for the presidency and would take the United States to "a dark place of discord and fear," as retired Gen. John Allen put it. Democrats in the convention hall broke out into a booming, lengthy chant of "USA, USA!"
But the most powerful guest speaker of the evening was Khizr Khan, a Muslim-American whose son joined the Army after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and was killed during service in Iraq. Khan, rebuking Trump for frequently demonizing Muslims as threats to the United States, pulled a copy of the Constitution out of his suit jacket.
"Mr. Trump, have you even read the Constitution?" he said. "You have sacrificed nothing."
His words seemed to send a collective shiver through the convention hall, leaving some delegates in tears.
Few recent political conventions have had a night gusting with so much history and high emotion. If elected, Clinton would become the 45th president of the United States, as well as the first to be married to a former president, Bill Clinton, the nation's 42nd. She would be the latest in a long line of Yale graduates and accomplished lawyers to lead the country — but she would also be the first mother and grandmother to be commander in chief, decades after women became heads of state elsewhere.
Democrats roared with passion and pride as a beaming Clinton took the stage after her daughter, Chelsea, introduced her as an American who was inspired by her own mother's impoverished childhood and had faced personal and professional choices that defined generations of women. The two locked eyes and fell into a long embrace as Hillary Clinton patted her back. A moment later, Hillary Clinton waved at Bill Clinton, and he blew her a kiss.
Then Hillary Clinton, who has given only a few major political speeches in her life, delivered her biggest yet. She offered a positive portrait of America that felt like a different country than the nation in decline that Trump often describes and that many voters fear has come to pass after years of terrorism at home and abroad and the growing gap between rich and poor.
"He's betting that the perils of today's world will blind us to its unlimited promise," Clinton said. "He wants us to fear the future and fear each other. Well, a great Democratic president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, came up with the perfect rebuke to Trump more than 80 years ago, during a much more perilous time: 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.'"
Clinton, facing a three-month general election campaign against an unpredictable Trump, who has risen in the polls since his convention speech last week, hoped that her remarks here would not only energize her party but also help her connect with undecided and independent voters who are skeptical of her candidacy.
She nodded toward the political work she still had to do. Praising her rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, she told his mostly liberal supporters — some of whom booed or staged a "silent protest" in the hall, declining to applaud her speech — "I want you to know, I've heard you. Your cause is our cause."
And she acknowledged that many voters still do not relate to her after her eight years as first lady, eight as a senator and four as secretary of state.
"The truth is, through all these years of public service, the 'service' part has always come easier to me than the 'public' part," Clinton said. "I get it that some people just don't know what to make of me," she added before sharing memories of her humble roots and life lessons from church and her mother — particularly, "no one gets through life alone."
Her strategy was to go hard at Trump, repeatedly drawing contrasts between her positions — which are in the mainstream of Democratic politics — and Trump's unorthodox views for a Republican, such as placing tariffs on other nations' goods and possibly withdrawing from treaties and trade deals.
Reciting a litany of unusual and unlikely ideas that Trump laid out at the Republican convention, Clinton drew huge laugh when she said, "He spoke for 70-odd minutes — and I do mean odd."
Clinton, the rare first lady who, like her idol Eleanor Roosevelt, used the job to influence policy and who went on to be a powerful figure, began her quest for the White House nearly a decade ago with her first run for the nomination against Barack Obama.
Back then she presented herself as a steely and even hawkish Democrat who held some views — opposing gay marriage, supporting free trade and championing the rights of gun owners — that she has shifted since her defeat. This time around, she fashioned herself as "a progressive who likes to get things done" — the sort of line-straddling language that makes some liberals dubious of her values and some independents skeptical about her authenticity.
Her convention speech comes 47 years after young Hillary Rodham wound up in Life magazine after she used her commencement address at Wellesley College to reckon with that era's civic unrest and clashes between protesters and police officers.
Her message to the millions of people watching her speech on television Thursday night was similar, as she implored Americans to look past fear and tumult and to choose harmony over hatred. But this time, Clinton was to speak to an audience that is deeply distrustful of her. Some 67 percent of all voters and 74 percent of independents said they do not trust Clinton, in the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
About six weeks ago, Clinton started sketching out rough ideas about what she wanted to say when she accepted her party's nomination. A month ago, discussions with her top policy adviser, Jake Sullivan, and speechwriters Dan Schwerin and Megan Rooney, began to shape the speech, with advice from a variety of friends and former speechwriters. Clinton also sought advice from Obama's much-admired former director of speechwriting Jon Favreau.
The speech often electrified the assembled Democrats with its crowd-pleasing lines about Trump like, "Imagine him in the Oval Office facing a real crisis: A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons."
And the delegates reveled at the end as confetti rained down on Clinton and she playfully swatted at the spill of balloons.
For her, though, the greatest exhilaration flowed from the sense that history had been made and that the lives of future generations would be changed forever.
"Standing here as my mother's daughter, and my daughter's mother, I'm so happy this day has come," Clinton said. "Happy for grandmothers and little girls and everyone in between. Happy for boys and men, too — because when any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone. When there are no ceilings, the sky's the limit.
"So let's keep going," she said, "until every one of the 161 million women and girls across America has the opportunity she deserves.

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Minster FM News
Hand in your Ivory
Published by the Minster FM News Team at 10:16am 31st March 2011.
Twiggy and Julie Walters call on the public to surrender their ivory and protect elephants from being slaughtered for their tusks
Celebrity animal lovers Twiggy and Julie Walters backed the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) Ivory Surrender which launches Wednesday 30th March, encouraging the public to donate unwanted ivory to highlight the illegal ivory trade and protect elephants.
Twiggy said:
"I'm proud to support IFAW's ivory surrender. Ivory trade kills and every piece of ivory represents a dead elephant. Please give up your ivory for elephants."
Julie Walters is also backing the campaign and said:
"It is sad to know that elephants are still being killed for ivory in this, the 21st Century. I am supporting IFAW's ivory surrender and encouraging people to give up their ivory to help protect elephants."
Shockingly, new Ipsos MORI polling shows that more than four in 10 British adults are unaware that elephants have to die before their ivory can be obtained, while almost four million British residents are owners of ivory.
Robbie Marsland, Director of IFAW UK, said:
"We are holding a UK-wide ivory surrender to help raise awareness of the threats facing elephants and to encourage the UK Government to push its pledge to press for a ban on ivory sales internationally. By donating ivory items, people can be sure this ivory will not end up on the market again or have a commercial value, thereby making a positive contribution to elephant protection."
The global illegal trade in wildlife is estimated to be worth £12 billion annually, second only to the illicit trade in drugs and arms. Ivory forms a significant part of this and seizures of illegal ivory are skyrocketing following recent stockpile sales to Japan and China which sent a signal to poachers that it is open season on elephants.
IFAW's ivory surrender is being supported by police forces across the country as well as the National Wildlife Crime Unit and the Association of Chief Police Officers, who are battling to tackle the illegal ivory trade.
Mark Rasbeary, Wildlife Crime Coordinator for North Yorkshire Police said:
"North Yorkshire Police welcomes the IFAW Ivory Surrender. It highlights the existence of a ruthless and illegal trade. There is still a huge demand for ivory that the illegal trade seeks to satisfy; a significant amount is generated throughout the UK. It must be stopped. The general public within North Yorkshire may not be fully aware of how they can help combat this dreadful and needless practice."
Shockingly, new Ipsos MORI polling shows that nearly half of adults in the North East are unaware that elephants have to die before their ivory can be obtained, while almost four million British residents are owners of ivory.
The IFAW Surrender ivory gives the opportunity for people to donate their unwanted Ivory, thus helping a magnificent animal thousands of miles away."
Anyone who would like to donate ivory to the surrender can email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 020 7587 6709.


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Baba Vs. the Black Sheep
Baba Ramdev's fast against corruption is riling the Congress high command even as it attempts to be seen as proactive on the issue. But now the Dayanidhi Maran revelations only proves what we always suspected – that the Congress has spawned a regime that protects, even encourages, black sheep. The events surrounding the spate of … Continue reading


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A solid NBA player, Washington's career has been forever shaded by the ugliest on-court incident in NBA history.
Originally drafted by the Lakers in 1973, the well-muscled Washington, reputed to be the strongest man in the league, was expected to provide plenty of help inside scoring and rebounding, but he languished his first three seasons, averaging never more than four points or six rebounds. Washington's game improved significantly after training with big man guru Pete Newell, and he averaged nine points and nine rebounds during the 1976-77 season.
The following season Washington's game continued to develop but all of that would soon be overshadowed in a game against the Houston Rockets. Washington, trying to break up a scuffle between Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Houston's Kevin Kunnert, saw Rockets player Rudy Tomjanovich run toward him and turned and delivered a punch so devastating that it nearly killed Tomjanovich and effectively ended his NBA career.
Washington was fined $10,000 and suspended for 60 days. Traded soon after to Boston, Washington would eventually resurrect his career. He was twice named to the NBA's all-defensive team, and was an All-Star in 1980.


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Chemotherapy drugs are natural, semisynthetic, or synthetic substances with selective inhibitory effects against
biological pathogenic agents (microorganisms) of humans and animals and against atypical (cancerous) cells.
The majority of chemotherapeutic drugs can be divided into antifungal agents, antiprotozoal, antimicrobial, antitubercular, antileprotic, antihelmintic, antiviral, cytostatic, and other agents.
A fundamental philosophy of oncological combination chemotherapy is that different chemotherapy drugs work through different cytotoxic mechanisms, and that the results of using multiple drugs will be synergistic to some extent.
Because they have different dose-limiting adverse effects, they can be given together at full doses in chemotherapy regimens.[1]
The first successful combination chemotherapy was MOPP introduced in 1963 for lymphomas.
The term "induction regimen" refers to a chemotherapy regimen used for the initial treatment of a disease. A "maintenance regimen" refers to the ongoing use of chemotherapy to reduce the chances of a cancer recurring or to prevent an existing cancer from continuing to grow.[2]
Chemotherapy regimens are often identified by acronyms, identifying the agents used in the drug combination. However, the letters used are not consistent across regimens, and in some cases - for example, "BEACOPP" - the same letter combination is used to represent two different treatments.[3]
There is no widely accepted naming convention or standard for the nomenclature of chemotherapy regimens. For example, either generic or brand names may be used for acronyms. This page merely lists commonly used conventions.
tsoc, mrkr
tumr, epon, para
drug (L1i/1e/V03)
Acute myeloid leukemia, Chemotherapy, Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, Myeloproliferative disease, Cancer


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The Senate has advised the Federal Government to approve the sale of its 40 per cent stake in the power sector to foreign investors due to incessant bailout funds to Electricity Distribution Companies, DISCOs, without commensurate improvement in power supply.
This came as Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, said private investors should be allowed to invest and take ownership of the sector to put an end to the challenges therein, Vanguard reports.
Lawan, who disclosed this in Abuja, while receiving the management team of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, led by the Managing Director, Usman Mohammed, said: "As stipulated in the Power Sector Privatisation Act 2005, private investors should be allowed to invest and take ownership of the sector to put an end to the challenges being faced.
"The 40 per cent holding of the Federal Government as stipulated in the Power Privatisation Act 2005 may also be more beneficial to the nation if it is sold to foreign investors with technical know-how.
"It is not in the interest of the government to keep disbursing bailout funds to DISCOs without commensurate improvement in power supply."
Lawan also assured TCN of the Senate's support on its proposed recapitalisation of DISCOs and the Transmission Rehabilitation and Expansion Programme, TREP.
However, reacting to the development, former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Dr. Sam Amadi, said: "I agree that the government should stop all this bailout money to the DISCOs. It is corruption and illegitimate wealth transfer.
"When we were in NERC, we did same in the belief that the DISCOs will, henceforth, stand on their feet. But they have not. There is no more gain in government more than they would have spent with public commercial entities six years after privatization. It's senseless.
"We have to admit that the experiment failed or has not worked and we should look for a better way to manage the inefficiency. I do not agree that government should go through any process of selling to ordinary investors.
"Government should either commercialise the 40 percent stake and hold it in a public trust and invite private managers to manage that shareholding on its behalf or divest to institutional investors who have competence and financial capacity to manage the assets."
Also reacting, Chairman and partner of Energy and Natural Resources at Bloomfield Law, Ayodele Oni, said: "The first thing I believe the government should do is to address the tariff structure. If the tariff is not cost reflective, I do not think the 40 percent stake can be sold.
"Imagine producing for N2.0 and you are forced to sell for N1.0, which is a loss. Nobody is going to invest in such a business.
"Once this is corrected, I think the next step is to address the issue of energy theft across the sector. Also, they need to look at the transmission network, if it can supply adequate electricity.
"I do not think DISCOs are the right people to sell this stake, if there is urgent need to do so. The DISCOs have not shown that they have the capacity to handle it.
"Almost all the DISCOs borrowed between 70 and 100 per cent capital to buy the 60 percent stake they possess now, through shareholders or bank loans.
"Even after buying, they will not have funds to improve the network. The government is even helping them with bailout out funds. NERC is also helping them out with metering too. It is best we look for international investors that have been tested and proven elsewhere with financial stability, if the stake must be sold."


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Hi again! No, I did not drop off the face of the earth, though it may have seemed like it. Luckily there were a few fairly quiet weeks in the tradeshow customer service world to coincide with crazy in my personal world.
Nothing earth shattering or ground breaking, but a handful of just, "did that really just happen" type moments to share with you, along with a conversation snip it (and if you get the reference, you can be my friend)
Hope your week is going fabulously and enjoy some amazing and amusing interactions from the past month!
Me: What state is your company based in?
Customer: Manhattan
Customer having issues filling out a form on our website: THERE IS A PROBLEM WIT REGISTERING TO DOWNLOAD.
During registration, By mistake due to over sight I selected Norfolk Island as country, Instead India.
I have tried to register using the link, but it keeps telling me that the email is already being used by someone else. However, that someone else is me.
My CEO wants to know how much it would be for someone right off the street?
(this is exactly what a response to a marketing e-mail said)
Hi Love,
I just filled this out and it's telling me I need to pay $30. What does that mean? xoxo
Paraphrased from a voice mail:
So my mom always made me get on the short bus to school saying I was special, and you are on the website as a specialist, so you should be able to assist me, please call me back.
Me: Type abcdef.com in the white bar at the top of your browser and hit enter
Customer: it says nothing found in search
Me: what browser are you using?
Customer: Yahoo mail
(I think I now know what it is like to work the IT help desk!)
Actual conversation snipit – yes, I love my job!


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Tiny Houses
The idea of tiny floating houses is not quite as revolutionary as it was some years ago. That is not to say that we cannot be impressed by the new startups that flaunt their unique take on the concept, often surprising with their refreshingly new interpretations.
One of those concepts was launched by the Spanish startup Punta Del Mar. This collaboration between a local innovation hub and an architecture firm has led to a so-called marina lodge experiment - in the form of a plain, sturdy houseboat solution that will allow users to plug in and plug out when needed. What this means? Well, you get to alternate between plugging in to make it a semi-permanent residence or temporary lodge, fixing it in place in a marina or a hotel waterfront; and plugging out, where it basically functions as a naval caravan that lets you explore seas, rivers and lakes.
The first option is a great solution for hotels, campgrounds or marinas that are looking to add capacity during high season, or even to function as a permanent extension of its accommodation. The houseboat only takes up very limited space, yet provides great comfort to those given the privilege of staying in it.
At the same time, it is a good way of showing that you are concerned with the environment and looking to do well. Although the claims as to how are somewhat fuzzy, Punta Del Mar is dedicated to sustainable boating and employs a green production process that involves the use of recycled, durable materials for building the houseboat.
The second solution might work well for adventurers, retirees and holidaymakers all at the same time. If you opt for plugging out your houseboat, you will be able to use it much like a caravan, only on the water. It can rather easily be transported both over land as well as towed on water, allowing you to quite literally plug and go. This will let you explore the most gorgeous places that our earth has to offer.
After charging the lithium batteries, the fully automated on-board system takes over to create a connected boat. Whether you are controlling it in situ or remotely, all systems on board will be at your fingertips, including safety measures that can detect and fix simple damages. This makes it a 'smart' houseboat, hooked up to an app for its lighting, temperature and sound features.
Measuring some 74 square meters, it offers a rather comfortable living area. This surface area is divided over two floors, making it suitable for 2 persons in its standard configuration. This includes a fancy master bedroom with en suite bathroom on the first level, with doors opening out onto your private deck terrace.
The second level is the designated 'chill-out deck', that can be equipped with comfortable lounge furniture. Guests can sit back and relax, while enjoying great views over the water. It can be accessed through an interior set of stairs, as such easily extending living space outdoors. The houseboat is really playing up this element of outdoor living as it is, since it is keen on letting in plenty of sunlight through floor-to-ceiling windows. All the while, privacy is guaranteed through semi-open cladding of vertical slats.
Punta Del Mar claims that their houseboat is a floating piece of sustainable engineering. Energy consumption is reduced through the use of passive systems, optimising the heat distribution, while water reservoirs are designed to minimise waste. One of the bolder statements as made by the manufacturer is that it is 'fully immersive and environment-friendly', which they explain by saying:
"Visitors seek unique experiences, memorable trips and destinations moving away from mass tourism. This growing concept of tourism is committed to sustainability. Integration with the environment and exclusivity plays a fundamental role. Moreover, getting space from the sea in a respectful manner is an excellent option to increase available space in an innovative and disruptive way."
Yes, most people will claim that it is merely another fun toy for those who have the money to enjoy it, pointing at the extra waste that having it transported will generate. Additionally, even though Punta Del Mar is repeatedly mentioning its focus on sustainability, its exact carbon footprint remains unknown.
Having said that, we are certainly excited about its slick appeal and premise. Mock-up photos showing entire marinas and hotel waterfronts filled with those houseboats are a sight to behold, perhaps offering a sneak preview of what might be a good solution in years to come if the sea levels continue to rise.
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If you had a Ferrari, a BMW and a Range Rover, would you swap four wheels for two?
That is just what South Wales snooker champ Mark Williams has done after passing his motorcycle test.
And the top-ranking snooker man has admitted he was more nervous taking the test than when he was playing for the world title.
The Welsh wizard from Cwm is no stranger to fast toys - over the years his car collection has included a Ferrari 355, a BMW M3, a Ford Escort Cosworth, a Range Rover and currently a Subaru P1 Impreza.
And he has just taken delivery of a new Yamaha R6, which he collected from South Wales Superbikes in Newport this week. Mark picked up the keys for his 160mph flying machine from Bikes UK's regional director Chris Martin - but says he has got some way to go before he can be called a ?real? biker.
"I have to say that I'm really a fair-weather biker. If it looks like rain, I'll take the car," he joked.
The 26-year-old added: "I've wanted a bike for a while and I just decided that I had some spare time during the summer, so why not go for my licence.
"The course lasted four days, and included everything from safety and bike control, to basic maintenance, to revising the Highway Code.
"And of course, at the end of it, there was the test itself. I was a bit nervous ? probably even more than I was when trying to win the world title."
Instructor John Perrett of Barry-based Mactraining, who conducted the course, said: "I don't think Mark could be faulted. He was very attentive, very willing and very capable. I hope he enjoys the freedom he?ll find on the open road."
Mark says he only has a few weeks left to enjoy the delights of his Yamaha R6.
"I need to get down to some serious practise quite soon. I've got the Champions' Cup coming up in Brighton on August 11, the first event of the new season, and once the season starts, I don't think I?ll have much time for the bike - or much else."


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[ Passing references here that include to gay rejection or homophobia in especially establishment Ireland could seem improbable today; but at the official level it's all I've experienced from way back in the late 80s when some high quality gay themed poetry was rejected for publication, to 2015 and at the time of the gay marriage referendum when even possessing a world first doctorate covering gay spiritualities and religion, I was not given space or interview to comment on issues of that crucial time]
I'm in practice for something, already well practiced as
Poète maudit. It's quite becoming my role, though
In this age of declension no need to suck wounds,
Moan and protest it's the public is after my blood.
I haven't been chasing whores around Rome, notes and
Records gone missing. There's more than one kind of whore
And not every theft gets seen to be caught out red-handed
Meaning: I can't hope to snatch back the time, effort and
Almost the virtue lost in pursuit of my rights to a voice
And proper vocation. For this one is left to pursue the trash
Of Sydney and London, often women – 'Brides of Art'
Some might say – though just for good measure, throw in
Occasional unctuous males, pimps to the poncey
Publishing show. And that's an empousa [1] it's clear
Wouldn't have me in print whether dead or alive.
I arouse the censor in every huckster of words
Who lives off state funds and awards for their spit and
Dribble of verse. No poem above thirty lines
For their magazine or else don't use "conduct" or
"Bestow" – such words are by far too "archaic",
They can't be allowed to see publishers' ink.[2] There's
No need to swear to be judged indecent by the rubrics
Of dullards and blockheads all wanting the throne
Of the Caesars itself when it comes to creation.
Any excuse is better than none to swing the door shut
On their incestuous circles busy with nothing.
You're wrong to assume there's a Celtic exception [3]
In the new fangled empires of literary rot. I swear
It's no better round Dublin. You could fashion performance
Obscene as Jim Joyce, but the problem right now is theme
Over words. The local low life, clique, class or whatever
They are, prefers turning the turf and gazing at farm mud
With Seamus, a poet who lacks an emotion the length of
His pen.[4]. But element earth is profound by default so
Suffices to win him a prize. It's only below and to Hades
They won't care to travel. Their poet's corner can't return
One civil line if you suggest that they go there. [5]
Not even bothered to look at or hear it – today
Such things can be called too "religious" – the truth is
You've no right to speak or to live outside their domain.
Then there's the boys. In case you were feeling romantic,
Remember it's only the Irish sod is perfectly sacred.
A poet of Erin who'll sing of his nights with
The girls has no time for one with a fancy for guys.[6]
Puers [7] are still scarcely wanted in verse or in life
In the post holy secular isle of the saints.[8]
It's not as though, speaking apart and speaking in prose,
I can't get the atheists replying, Iris, Alain, André,[9]
The whole who's who of rank unbelief. They will
Give a response but, just as with those in religion, from
The dishonourable club of the failed or the half bards
Expect to hear nothing, their vocation comes ripe with disdain.
Sailing Lake Garda is fine,[10] finding love is still better
But the West holds the same, the familiar obstructions;
Women aren't friends to career or your name but are
Sirens, a promise of downfall. Verse is best when
It serves and accompanies life, so otherwise…silence.
Oh Rollan, why hesitate longer, for you islands
Farthest away. Fakarava! The name means where
All the gods dwell (or perhaps something else to suffice souls
For now).[11] Ireland goodbye, I'm not for your stirring
Of clods, I prefer warmer meetings of earth, sea and sky.
On welcoming sands there's more time for kissing Iuventius'
Eyes by the thousand.[12] That wise child will shake out his curls
When not at our pleasure, in contempt for your world.
[1] To Greeks and Romans the empousa was like a vampire, or image of horror.
[2] These are real objections one can meet in attempting to promote poetry. For the words like "conduct" and "bestow" being too archaic to be allowed publication in modern poetry see the Introduction to my Puer Poems which describes why this poet ceased writing poetry for a quarter of a century.
[3] Theoretically Ireland should be a refuge to any ancient or modern Catullus since it is widely believed Catullus, born in Cisalpine Gaul, was a Celt and some have found his rapid emotional transitions Celtic in feeling.
[4] Seamus Heaney is of course technically proficient as a poet or wordsmith, but arguably offers something closer to the whimsy as opposed to vision on which serious poetry must draw.
[5] Reference to certain outlets in Ireland who weren't recently interested to consider The Hell Passage: Inferno Cantos for Today.
[6] Reference to the dismissive, ill mannered refusal many years ago of the author's Puer Poems by a very heterosexual Irish poet, helping to seal the decision not to write poetry recorded in that collection's introduction.
[7] Puer is Latin for boy and something of a symbol and archetype for things gay but the reference is as much to the poet's mentioned Puer Poems collection loosely built around gay themes.
[8] Ireland is traditionally "the land of saints and scholars" but its religiosity has taken a battering and a degree of secularism kicked in following the excess of ecclesiastical and sex abuse scandals creating cynicism.
[9] No need to give the full names which anyone could guess. André particularly was a very notable writer and politician who took time to answer the poet's questions of French and Irish literature with a graciousness not found among either poets or Christian theologians whose degree of silence over major issues they have refused to consider is rather disgusting as indicated in the feature of my Songs of Puritania blog.
[10] Catullus was very attached to his boat and he had been born at Sirmio on Lake Garda.
[11] Fakarava is an island made famous by such visitors as Robert Louis Stevenson and Matisse. It literally means Vat of Pearls, but since Polynesian gods can be symbolized as pearls, I am assured that local understanding was this island of French Polynesia (Tahiti) was the home of all gods. Many English speaking people however seem determined to think the name of this exquisite atoll simply must be involved with Tahiti's erotic reputation.
[12] Iuventius was the name of Catullus' chief boyfriend. The poet appears to have been bisexual but he promised Iuventius thirty thousand kisses on his eyes.
ALSO ON THE CATULLUS THEME, see Thoughts at Sirmio https://wp.me/p2v96G-148


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The hands are a big factor in first impressions; therefore it is not a female thing to have them well taken care of. Yet, many men still find it difficult to admit that hand care is essential. They would not like to be seen at salons. If you are one of these men, this article is for you. Here you will find advice on how to care for your nails at home.
Nail clippers
Use nail clippers to clip your nails to the desired length. Make sure to cut straight and low. Do not clip the edges of the nails with clippers.
Get a nail file
Use this nail file to smooth over the edges of your clipped nails. It is better to get a paper-based nail file, which is softer and easier to find. Metal files are hard and can cause injuries to someone who lacks in experience, while glass files are too easy to break. Most paper-based nail files come in pink or have flower prints, but if this bothers you it shouldn't take too long to find a single-colored file in a more masculine tone. If possible file in one direction – from the base of the nail toward the middle.
The war on cuticles
Cuticles are the small skin flaps over the base of the nail which left unchecked can grow into unattractive length. They should be either tucked in, or cut out. The best time to treat the cuticles is after bathing when they will be softened from the warm water. Use a spatula, a wooden stick (found in cosmetic shops) or the rounded end of your file to push the cuticle back toward the nail bed. The unnecessary skin will detach itself from the nail and can easily be cut out. To make this procedure easier, rub your hands with moisturizing lotion, which will soften the skin and make the cuticles more pliable. Never bite your cuticles!
Polishing the nails
Using nail polish is where most men draw the line. Don't worry; we will not make you buy nail polish. You can polish your nails into a shine using your paper-based nail file. Most paper-based files have multiple surfaces which are labeled with a number. The roughest surface is number 1 and the bigger the number gets, the finer the surface grows. The roughest surface is for trimming the edge of your nail after clipping. Use the finest surface to polish the whole plate of the nail. Regardless, this polishing should not be done too often.
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New York City says it has spent over $13 million on Occupy Wall Street protests, but the owners of Zuccotti Park can't seem to scrape up the $139,000 in back taxes they owe the city.The city Finance Department told The New York Daily News that Brookfield Properties still owes taxes from 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
"That's obviously ironic," City Councilman Jumaane Williams (D-Brooklyn) noted. "Occupy Wall Street has been talking about economic disparity … and here's Brookfield Properties, which has worked with the mayor to keep the messengers out, not paying their share."
Williams was arrested near the Brooklyn Bridge last month during a massive Occupy Wall Street rally.
Brookfield, however, said they actually owed nothing and blamed the tax bill on a mistake by the city.
"We believe that we have paid all taxes due to the City of New York," company spokeswoman Melissa Coley insisted. "We are in discussion with the city's Department of Finance, and we anticipate that this error will be resolved very shortly with Brookfield owing no additional funds."
In all, the city said it was owed $149 million from about 40,000 entities for unpaid taxes dating back to 2000.
This post originally appeared at The Raw Story.
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Boxwood Cuttings Rooted
My seedlings appear to be doing well. I have way too many seedlings for my shelves but they manage happily. I did check on my boxwood cuttings and they have done wonderfully. They've all rooted and some have tiny little growths on them. I'm so proud of them. I neglected them for a long time keeping the plastic bag over them for a couple of months. They are doing well. I hope by the beginning of spring, I'll be able to take them outside and pot them up. I'll probably give some away since I have so many. My coworkers won't mind if I leave plants on their desk. I just gave one of my coworkers a coleus plant I had. I have tons of coleus now that I have a ton of seeds. She loves it and I hope she won't kill them. As I was walking to work with my coleus in hand, I was calculating the cost for that little plant and I guestimate it to be around $.30-$.40 cents for it and how it would be a wonderful gift to give one. Oh the joys of gardening…I love it!


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Couponing is a great way to save big at the store. But it isn't the only way. By learning the store sale cycles, you can stock up on grocery, household and personal care items when they're at their rock bottom prices. You can also save big on clothing, furniture, electronics, tools and just about everything else if you know when to buy. Here's a summary of some items you can expect to find at their lowest prices in February.
February is Valentine's Day, Chinese New Year, National Canned Food Month and National Hot Breakfast Month. Expect grocery deals to reflect these events. Examples:
- Chocolate
- Cereal
- Oatmeal
- Frozen Waffles
- Frozen Breakfast Sandwiches
- Breakfast Meats
- Refrigerated Rolls and Pastries
- Waffle Mix
- Muffin Mix
- Syrup
- Canned Fruits
- Canned Vegetables
- Canned Meats
- Canned & Packaged Chinese Food
New furniture lines typically become available this month, which means nice savings on the old models. We'll also benefit from the release of new electronics models in January and see nice markdowns on items like laptops, GPS units, audio equipment and the like. And don't forget President's Day on Monday February 17th, when retail stores will be plastering sale signs in every window and offering additional savings with printable or in-ad coupons. As always, I'll have these coupons listed for you on Fridays.
- Furniture
- Home Accessories
- Electronics
- Video Games
- Outerwear
- Clothing
- Boots
- Slippers
- Tools


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In recent news, Unicef UK has introduced a new opportunity for neonatal units to achieve the Baby Friendly accreditation!
This exciting opportunity has arisen for neonatal units following the receipt of a grant to Unicef UK from the Burdett Trust. The £110,000 grant intended to be used over three years is proposed to empower neonatal nurses with the knowledge and skills to promote breast-feeding/breast milk use, to deliver a transformational cultural shift and to bring parents and nursing staff together to care for the babies.
Unicef is looking for six enthusiastic and committed neonatal units to lead the way in improving the outcomes for babies and their families. The six successful units will each receive an implementation visit to help introduce the standards and support the development of the action plan. The action plan will includes relevant courses, a comprehensive package of teaching materials for staff training, ongoing telephone support, help with audit and project management and generous support to cover assessment costs. As an outcome, the neonatal units will show commitment to making the changes necessary to implement the standards and to gain the Unicef UK Baby Friendly accreditation.
Unicef is now taking applications from interested and committed neonatal units, with a view of making a change. They will then select the six to take part in the programme between 2016 and 2019. The application deadline is the 31st March 2016 and is only open to UK neonatal units.
For more information on this initiative please visit –http://www.unicef.org.uk/BabyFriendly/News-and-Research/News/Support-for-neonatal-units-to-achieve-Baby-Friendly-accreditation/


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The New York Times profiles Chinese dissident, poet and storyteller Liao Yiwu, currently living in exile in Germany. Mr Liao's prison memoir, For a Song and a Hundred Songs, will be released in Australia and New Zealand on 22 May.
What is the point of the paperback? (In Australia, where we don't have such a pronounced hardback-to-paperback tradition, this may be better thought of as 'What is the point of the subsequent smaller format edition?')


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(The Root) — President Barack Obama's speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington forcefully articulated an expansive vision of economic justice and racial equality but stopped short of concrete policy proposals needed to turn words into deeds.
"Five decades ago today, Americans came to this honored place to lay claim to a promise made at our founding," Obama began. The president recounted the multicultural composition of demonstrators, who came by planes, buses and trains. In the "shadow of the Great Emancipator," more than a quarter of million Americans gathered to demand nothing less than the fundamental transformation of American democracy.
"But we would do well to remember that day also belonged to ordinary people whose names never appeared in history books and never got on TV," Obama continued. The president stressed the participation of anonymous black and white citizens who supported freedom's cause but would never be celebrated.
Obama quoted Frederick Douglass' axiom that "freedom is not just given" but is the byproduct of social and political struggle. This was an important part of the speech, especially since Douglass stands out as the most important black activist of the antebellum era, one who met with Abraham Lincoln three times and remained both a supporter and critic of the president.
But where were the specifics that would have truly honored the March on Washington? The 250,000 people who gathered 50 years ago were looking for specific solutions, not just soaring rhetoric. Where was the president's promise to sign a series of executive orders that would focus on anti-poverty efforts or increase access to higher education? Or governmental action that perhaps could ease the transition of ex-offenders back into communities or promote jobs programs, especially in economically devastated urban and rural communities?
Indeed, parts of the speech sounded like a roll call of the pivotal events of the civil rights era: demonstrations, violence, arrests, the passage of civil rights and voting-rights legislation. While this acknowledgment is crucially important to educate a new generation of Americans about the sacrifice that was required to end Jim Crow, secure voting rights and transform the nation, it can also create a mythology of the past that prevents us from moving forward. From this perspective, the civil rights generation, led by Martin Luther King Jr., appears so extraordinary and special as to induce fear and paralysis over the possibility of ever matching or exceeding its success and achievements.
The Limits of Progress
"Because they kept marching, America changed," said Obama. "Because they marched, the civil rights law was passed. Because they marched, a voting-rights law was signed. Because they marched, city councils changed and state legislatures changed and Congress changed and yes, eventually the White House changed."
But it's worth asking the question in our own time: How much has actually changed? Certainly, there are more black elected officials than ever, most notably the president. And the numbers of black entertainers, celebrities and entrepreneurs dwarf those that existed in 1963. Yet black faces in higher places were only part of the dream advocated at the March on Washington.
The bad news about the state of black America remains stunning. There are more black Americans in jail today than 50 years ago. The black unemployment rate is higher, and the number of blacks living in poverty remains overwhelming. The aesthetics of American democracy have changed enough to include a black president. This victory, however, is not enough to hide the way in which institutional racism and its reverberations within poverty, violence, segregation, incarceration and illiteracy continue to proliferate.
The Obamas' move into the White House offers a compelling portrait of racial progress and change, but underneath this surface is the harsh reality that racial oppression continues — in fact, flourishes — in many parts of American society.
"On the battlefield of justice, men and women without wealth, title or fame would liberate us all," observed Obama. The president criticized those who "dismiss the magnitude of progress" as "dishonoring the courage" of martyrs including Medgar Evers, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and King.
Obama candidly spoke of the need for vigilance to challenge racial discrimination in the criminal-justice system and new barriers to voting. This was the most powerful part of the speech, since the president has, through Attorney General Eric Holder, connected a passionate call for justice with concrete policy. The Justice Department's efforts to repeal voter-ID laws and wind down the war on drugs' racist impact on black incarceration offer an example of substance matching symbolism.
Obama conceded that, despite significant advances, black unemployment has grown since the march, "even as corporate profits soar." What the president called the "shadow of poverty" continues to negatively shape the life chances of millions of African Americans a half-century after King's "I Have a Dream" speech. But rather than offer to launch a new war on poverty or outline a new vision of a Great Society on the anniversary of King's iconic speech, the president remained silent about how to bridge the yawning disparity between the rich and the poor.
"We shouldn't fool ourselves; this task will not be easy," admitted the president. Obama cited growing economic inequality as the primary threat to fulfilling the promise of democracy envisioned in 1963.
Where Is the Government Action?
The president followed his critique of proliferating corporate power and the ignoring of the poor by chastising the tendency for "poverty to be an excuse for not parenting." This was an unfortunate aside, since it focused on individual behavior and, in the process, continued to pathologize black poverty. Poverty is a result of institutional and system inequality, and the sooner Obama realizes this fact, the closer we will come to formulating policy proposals and identifying government actions to address it (such as signing an executive order increasing the minimum wage of federal contract workers).
A nation rife with political, racial and economic divisions requires "courage" to form coalitions based as much on empathy as on politics. Young people "unconstrained by fear" helped to change America, said Obama. That same creative energy and thirst for freedom is what our contemporary moment requires.
Obama concluded his speech by describing Americans who raise their kids, serve their country and fight to end poverty and oppression as continuing the march. "That's the lesson of our past," said Obama, "in that in the face of impossible odds, our country can be changed."
The themes outlined in Obama's speech were appropriate, but the speech failed to offer up or edge toward any major public-policy proposals, so in that sense it represents a missed opportunity. His acknowledgment of the realities of institutional racism is important but not enough.
The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington offers the perfect moment for the kind of creative risks and strategic gambles that allowed the original march not only to be organized but also to flourish as a defining moment in American history. The president's speech correctly identified the march as a transformative moment in world history whose reverberation transcended color and reached beyond superficial geographical boundaries.
But the demonstrators came to the nation's capital in 1963 demanding new policies and laws to promote social justice. Without the policy and legislative changes that followed, the march would have rung hollow and would not be remembered today.
The dream outlined by King and given force by millions of protesters around the nation 50 summers ago required political action. Our own era requires no less. Moreover, presidents don't have to dream — they can act with the full authority of the executive branch of government. It's time for Obama not just to praise the dreamer but to heed his words by enacting bold policy measures and executive orders that will finally, as King proclaimed 50 years ago, "make real the promise of democracy."
Peniel E. Joseph is founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and a professor of history at Tufts University. Follow him on Twitter. The center will convene a National Dialogue on Race Day on Sept. 12, 2013, and invites all to join in the conversation. Follow the center on Twitter.
Peniel E. Joseph, a contributing editor at The Root, is professor and founding director, the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America, Dark Days, Bright Nights: From Black Power to Barack Obama and Stokely: A Life. Follow him on Twitter.


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We Need Freedom From Religion Not Just Freedom of Religion
by Frank Schaeffer | New York Times best-selling author
What do you think the reaction would be from "respectable" conservative religious and political leaders if -- since 1982 -- over fifty American couples had been convicted of murdering their children in "Muslim religious rituals?" What would Glenn Beck be saying?
Yet according to the New York Times there have been at least 50 convictions in the United States since 1982 in cases where medical treatment was withheld from a child for "religious reasons." And there have been hundreds more cases that weren't brought to trial out of over solicitous "respect" for religious freedom and parents' rights.
And that's just the killings in the name of God done in the Evangelical/fundamentalist and so-called charismatic community where medical care is withheld from children while parents "trust God" to heal them. That doesn't even touch the bizarre world of other American cults, tax-deductable cults that is...
In "The Apostate Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology" by Lawrence Wright in the New Yorker (Feb 14, 2011), [see related articles link below] child abuse is alleged -- in detail and with detailed back-up -- as taking place in the "church" of Scientology. The New Yorker alleges that David Miscavige, the current leader of Scientology is, to put it mildly, a bit over the top:
The defectors told the newspaper that Miscavige was a serial abuser of his staff. "The issue wasn't the physical pain of it," Rinder said. "It's the fact that the domination you're getting--hit in the face, kicked--and you can't do anything about it. If you did try, you'd be attacking the C.O.B."--the chairman of the board. Tom De Vocht, a defector who had been a manager at the Clearwater spiritual center, told the paper that he, too, had been beaten by Miscavige; he said that from 2003 to 2005 he had witnessed Miscavige striking other staff members as many as a hundred times. Rathbun, Rinder, and De Vocht all admitted that they had engaged in physical violence themselves. "It had become the accepted way of doing things," Rinder said. Amy Scobee said that nobody challenged the abuse because people were terrified of Miscavige. Their greatest fear was expulsion: "You don't have any money. You don't have job experience. You don't have anything. And he could put you on the streets and ruin you."
According to the book-length, must-read article (deserving of a Pulitzer) Scientology is not just another organization with an odd leader. The New Yorker also alleges that it breaks up families, forces people to drop contact with those who drop out -- including family members -- and hurts children not least through the "Sea Org" youth training program. The article alleges that this church even uses minors for what amounts to virtually unpaid labor, deprives them of an education, has used forged documents to bolster its founders' reputation... and that's only a start. (Lawyers for the church of Scientology denied the accounts in the New Yorker).
No, my article isn't about Scientology it is about almost all religion in America today.
Take the antifeminist Evangelical "Quiverfull Movement." The name of the Quiverfull Movement alludes to Psalm 127:3: "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed." In other words women must rent their wombs to God, or at least to their patriarchal leader/husbands.
Some Quiverfull leaders don't allow daughters to attend college, as "worldly outsiders" might destroy their faith.
Daughters, they say, should stay at home after they graduate from homeschooling. Daughters should practice being a "helpmeet" to their fathers, training to someday "serve" those godly husbands God will send their way. Some Quiverfull women are not allowed to drive. Others make lists of daily tasks to submit to their husbands for an okay. Quiverfull wives believe that it is their duty to be sexually available to their husbands at all times. If a husband strays because of a wife's refusal, it's her fault. And Quiverfull wives are baby farms, contraception is right out! Plus they must indoctrinate their children.
The Christian homeschool movement drove the Evangelical school movement to the ever-harsher world-rejecting Far Right.
This happened because Evangelical homeschoolers were demanding ever-greater levels of "separation" from the Evil Secular World. It wasn't enough just to reject the public schools. How could the Christian parent be sure that even the Evangelical schools were sufficiently pure? And so the Christian schools radicalized in order to not appear to be "compromising" with The World in the eyes of increasingly frightened and angry parents.
The Roman Catholic Church... as it has tried to make "eunuchs which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven's sake" via a "celibate" priesthood, has had its sexual "ethics" discredited ever since Giovanni Boccaccio called the Church's bluff when he wrote the Decameron in the fourteenth century. Nothing has changed since. Boccaccio's wonderfully ribald satire at the expense of the Roman Catholic Church's gross sexual hypocrisy is as apt today as ever. And the Evangelicals find themselves in the same mess, from the sexual-scandal-mired Evangelical leadership to the nefarious enablers like the so-called Family and its C Street enclave of congressional adulterers.
When it comes to religion in America (and worldwide) we're talking not about "a few bad apples" but about the whole edifice of religion top to bottom. An impartial inquiry into child abuse at Roman Catholic institutions in Ireland found that the top Church leaders knew that sexual abuse was endemic in boys and girls institutions. A nine-year government inquiry investigated a sixty-year period when more than 35,000 children were placed in a network of "reformatories," "industrial schools," and "workhouses." The children suffered physical and/or sexual abuse that more than two thousand witnesses confirmed to the commission.
Church authorities in league with government enablers were placing children in these camps until the 1980s. Physical and emotional abuse was a built-in deliberate feature of these "homes" for young men and women. The inquiry proved that child rape defines Irish Catholicism as surely as the sign of the cross once did. The state-ordered investigation into cover-ups by the Dublin Archdiocese revealed that church officials had shielded scores of priests from criminal investigation over several decades and did not report any crimes to the police until the mid-1990s.
This was much the same behavior as happened in the United States: The Church's leaders spent much more time protecting their institution than their flock, let alone children. For instance, an acquaintance of mine in the Boston area, Cardinal Bernard Law, with whom I'd worked on various Massachusetts "pro-life" initiatives and fund-raising efforts, left Boston for Rome "in a hurry" after he was being investigated for enabling child-molesting priests to remain in ministry.
As a relic of my days as a Religious Right leader -- I have long since changed my mind as I describe in my forthcoming book Sex, Mom and God -- I have a photograph of the two of us (back when Law was a mere archbishop), with Law sitting next to me at the head table at a banquet held by Massachusetts Citizens for Life, where we both spoke. Law was a hand-on-your-forearm political operative. He possessed the sort of smoothness that is achieved only after years of deftly "handling" people in a climb to power. Those sorts of political instincts depend on the practitioner being perceived as a "good guy" and had transformed Law into a glad-handing, remember-everyone's-first-name shell of jovial bonhomie.
After his "fall" Law was whisked off to the Vatican and "reassigned." Then Pope John Paul kept him on as a cardinal! In what has to be one of the strangest (and unintentionally revealing) "defenses" of Cardinal Law, according to a report by National Public Radio, Deal Hudson (a conservative Roman Catholic activist) tried to somewhat exonerate Law by saying that, after all, what Law did wasn't so unusual! National Public Radio's Boston station (WBUR) filed this report: "'There is a particular animus being manifested toward Cardinal Law,' said Deal Hudson, president of Catholic Advocate and director of InsideCatholic.com, two conservative Catholic Web sites. 'When you stand back and look across the United States at all the dioceses and the way this scenario was repeated in so many dioceses and in some cases with even higher levels of abuse cases, I don't think that animus is fair.'"
After rescuing Law from his American accusers, Pope John Paul II made Cardinal Law a member of the so-called Pontifical Council for the Family! According to the Boston Globe, the pope's new "family expert" had, under questioning by the Boston police, admitted that when a priest committed a sex crime, his practice was to only seek the analysis of "therapists" in residential treatment centers before deciding whether to return a priest accused of sexually abusing a child to the pulpit.
According to countless media reports from the Boston Globe to WBUR, Cardinal Law became the first bishop in America shown to have actively participated in the cover-up of child molestation. Despite substantial amounts of documentation that demonstrated his deep involvement with covering up the molestation of children, Law refused to step down as archbishop of Boston.
After he left Boston, there remained a significant number of undisclosed priests in the Boston area who had confessed to molesting children and who -- as I write this -- continue to work as priests. Law declined to disclose the names of these "shepherds."
The forms of child abuse recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)...include slavery, human trafficking, debt bondage, serfdom, forced labor, armed conflict, prostitution, pornography, illicit activities (drugs, genital mutilation of girls). However, these ignore Article 14 Charter of Right of Children which concerns the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
Religious indoctrination should be considered a form a child abuse when it is coercive, cuts children off from the larger society or is promulgated through fear. Be they in Scientology families or Roman Catholics or evangelicals, children are often placed in schools which further indoctrinate the religious views of the church of the parents. Many are also taught not to question -- especially not to question authority figures and this has played in a role in the Catholic Church's many sexual abuse scandals. The New Yorker article details how certain Scientology schools all but make sure their children can't function outside of their cult by stripping them of any contact with the outside world, and that -- according to the article -- is accompanied by brutality every bit as sordid as what the Irish Roman Catholics have been doing.
That's just the tip of the abuse iceberg. The Protestant evangelical/fundamentalist/charismatic "community" is also hoc deep in scandal.
According to the New York Times, (Oct 8, 09) a Wisconsin couple was just sentenced to jail time for failing to seek medical attention for their daughter because they believed in "faith healing" instead of science. Dale and Leilani Neumann, were ordered to spend 30 days in jail each year for the next six years and were placed on 10 years' probation: a disgustingly lax slap on the wrist.
Mr. Neumann, 47, and Ms. Neumann, 41, who live in Weston, in central Wisconsin, had been convicted of second-degree reckless homicide in August. Their daughter, Madeline Kara Neumann, 11, died from untreated diabetes on March 23, 2008. When the girl became ill and could no longer walk or talk, her parents prayed for her instead of taking her to a doctor, prosecutors said.
The Neumann case is hardly unique. One of the most disheartening media appearances I've ever made -- in terms of my being an author and commentator -- was on Court TV a few years ago. I was commentating on Oregon v. Carl and Rayle Worthington, involving fundamentalist parents who refused to give their child medical care on the basis of their trust in faith healing. (I was invited because as a former religious right leader -- long since departed from that subculture -- they thought I'd bring an "inside" perspective.)
The Worthington's fifteen-month-old little girl died (of something easily treatable) surrounded by her parents and other members of their congregation praying for healing. No one called 911.
As far as I'm concerned they used their daughter to try to "prove" a faith-related "point" the way some extremist suicide bombers sometimes use children to carry their bombs. And our reaction to their crime -- and another obscenely light sentence -- should be the same as it would be to an extremist bomber of a day care center.
Would the IRS give al Qaeda tax-deductable status?
Then why does the Roman Catholic Church, which has done so little to make up for the pedophilia abuses, have that status? Why do the Scientologists? Why do countless fundamentalist Protestant schools that are more like madrassas than schools as most of us understand the term? Why aren't parents who kill their children for God not serving life sentences? If The New Yorker article is true, why aren't the leaders of Scientology in jail? Why wasn't Cardinal Law prosecuted?
Answer: Because of our crazy ideas about religious freedom that on so many fronts trump not just common sense but the rule of law.
It's bad enough that we allow parents in the far right evangelical home school and Christian school movements to pour anti-gay, anti-science, and anti-America (God is judging us) garbage into their children's heads. But surely a line should be drawn at murder and/or slave labor, and at bishops and popes who are child abusers and/or enablers.
Why the silence from the right (and from too many people on the left too) about the proven danger that evangelical/fundamentalist Christians of certain denominations pose to their children because of their religion?
Why the silence in "liberal" Hollywood about Scientology's alleged child abuse as reported in the New Yorker?
The state needs to take away tax deductible status from any religious organization where child abuse is condoned (or hidden). This stripping of tax deductible status should apply to the extremist faith healing Evangelicals and pedophile enabling Catholics and to the Scientologists as well. And child abusers should be jailed be they in robes or hiding out behind "respectable" Hollywood stars.
While Americans worry about the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood "taking over Egypt" or "Muslim terrorism" right here at home, we face a far greater actual threat: Unhinged manipulative (greedy and power-besotted) religion invading millions of lives and covering up -- even propagating -- a multiplicity of abuses.
Religious freedom means freedom to worship in the church of your choosing and to believe anything you want or not to believe. But before a child reaches 18, society should protect her or him from people hiding behind our overly religion-friendly laws. Our American idea of open-ended religious freedom is dumb. We need freedom from religion as much as we need freedom of religion.
Frank Schaeffer is a writer and author of his forthcoming book Sex, Mom, and God: How the Bible's Strange Take on Sex Led to Crazy Politics--and How I Learned to Love Women (and Jesus) Anyway
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High-quality print, hardbound, illustrated book that inspires across age groups. This is the riveting story of a boy, Ratan, born in one of India's most well known and respected families. He squirmed when his grandma sent her posh car to school. He flourished in the USA until a phone call changed everything. Ratan Tata transformed his organization into a reputed global enterprise. He chose to give away most of his wealth to philanthropy over being counted amongst the world's richest. His inspiring story is enriched with illustrations that provide cultural reference, nuggets, map and timeline. Namaste,Ratan Tata! enthuses readers across ages, geographies and cultures. This book inspires global citizenship and a growth mindset.
When you buy this book you inspire another reader. For each book sold a copy will be gifted to a rural school in India.
About the Author
Sunanda Verma
Born in Sofia, raised in New Delhi & Fiji, and nurtured in Singapore and Johannesburg; Sunanda is a writer-journalist. In a previous avatar Sunanda was a TV News Producer. She relishes trying to decipher cultural codes of communications of different nationalities, age groups and gender, and channeling them to audiences through essays and stories. Sunanda has co-authored Learner's Hindi-English Thematic Visual Dictionary, and translated more than 15 books from Hindi to English.
About the illustrator
Carolin Spannuth
Born and educated in Hamburg and Freiburg, Germany. Carolin's work as a lawyer advancing human rights and refugee protection has seen her posted to the United States of America, Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Morocco and Switzerland. Passion for art has accompanied her since early childhood. She enjoys illustrating transcultural themes. Carolin lives in small village in Europe.
Published : 2018
Pages : 88
Series : Namaste, Series!
Language : English
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ISBN Number : 9789814782081
Dimensions : 21,7 cm x 11 cm x 15,5 cm
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